To use Soft Selection
- Select
the Select Tool, Move
Tool, Rotate Tool or Scale
Tool.
- Select the components you want to transform.
- Press b on your keyboard.
Soft
Selection mode is turned on.
- Press and hold b + left
or right to increase or decrease the size of the falloff area.
The cursor changes to
a circle representing the size of the falloff area.
- Use the selected tool to transform the
components.
You can also turn on Soft
Selection and modify the Soft Selection settings from
the Tool Settings Editor for all
the transformation tools. Alternatively, you can use the transformation
tool marking menus (for more information see
Transform marking menus).
NoteUnlike the Soft
Modification deformer, which can be used to achieve many
of the same results, Soft Selection does not create
history nodes.