Making a sub-group

[danf]

I made a group for "top eyelids" but realized I wanted to move them independently at times. So I selected "top eyelids," hit "G" for group mode, held alt and deselected one eye's cpts. But NOW my "top eyelids" group doesn't select the cpts I deselected at that moment.

 

Is there a way to narrow your cpt selection from a group without altering that group?

[Luuk Steitner]

If you select CPs you can always create a new group from the selection. It does not matter if some of the CPs already belonged to another group. If your other group was selected and you don't want to alter that group, deselect the CPs first.

[danf]

So there isn't an easy way to create a group comprised of some of another group's CPs without selecting them all from scratch? I ask because some areas (like eyelids, which are touching eyes) are difficult to select.

 

On another note- AM: Track looks really cool- are there videos posted anywhere of it at work?

[Caroline]

You can hold the shift key down to select multiple groups of cps, or the alt key to deselect.

 

You can also whittle down the selection by various combinations:

 

Select some, press the period . key to invert the selection, press the H key to hide. You could do this several times, then you can Ctrl A to select all currently shown cps.

[steve392]

Oh I didn't kno you could use the period key for that ,nice

[danf]

Nice point. I'd used hide to make selecting easier, but I hadn't considered it as a selection that other selections can be made within. I'll be using that a lot now.