Select Menu

Command entry:

Slate Material Editor

Menu bar

Select menu

The Select menu is for managing the selection in the current View.

Some menu choices are also accessible from toolbar or navigation buttons, so this topic shows the button alternative along with the menu choice.

Interface

Select Tool: Activates the Select tool. While Select is active, this menu choice has a check mark by it. (Select is always active unless you have chosen one of the modal navigation tools such as Zoom or Pan.)

Keyboard shortcut: S

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Select All: Selects all nodes in the current View.

Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+A
Select None: Deselects all nodes in the current View.

Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+D
Select Invert: Inverts the current selection: selected nodes are deselected, and those that weren’t, are now selected.

Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+I

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Select Children: Selects all child nodes of the currently selected nodes.

Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+C
Deselect Children: Deselects all child nodes of the currently selected node.
Select Tree: Selects all nodes in the current tree.

If the initial selection is a material node, this choice is equivalent to choosing Select Children. You can also initially select a map node, and then use Select Tree to select the whole material tree.

Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+T