Wish: Select Points by brushing - visible only option

Serengeti (Rhino WIP)
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Can you please add a “visible only” option for the selection brush?
It would make it useful for big meshes.

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Does using CullControlPolygon help at all? If you’re talking about making SelBrush not select mesh control points that are behind shaded areas, then CullControlPolygon might help. When enabled the backfacing control points are not drawn and won’t select.

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I second this request! I’m working with large mesh files, and I’m very impressed with the paintbrush selection tool inside the extractmeshfaces command, however I wish there was a toggle to only select visible mesh data.

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Hi Brent - yeah, I see… I don’t know if that is an easy thing to do, I’ll add it to the list though, thanks.
http://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-35034

-Pascal

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So, this was in 2016, although I still haven’t found a native button that does this. If you still have the problem I solved it with _CullControlPolygon . A simple Macro that worked for me looks like this:

! _-Select _Pause
_PointsOn
_-CullControlPolygon Cull=Yes _Enter
_SelBrushPoints _B=100 _Pause
_CullControlPolygon

Hope you still don’t have the problem, but if you do, maybe this helps. / Linus