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: +A

Select None

Deselects all nodes in the current View.

Keyboard shortcut: +D

Select Invert

Inverts the current selection: selected nodes are deselected, and those that weren’t, are now selected.

Keyboard shortcut: +I

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Select Children

Selects all child nodes of the currently selected nodes.

Keyboard shortcut: +C

Above: Material #3 Selected

Below: Select Children selects the child (Map #0) as well.

Deselect Children

Deselects all child nodes of the currently selected node.

Select Tree

Selects all nodes in the current material hierarchy. This includes all material, sub-material, and map nodes in all hierarchies that contain any selected nodes.

Keyboard shortcut: +T

Above: Material #3 Selected

Below: Select Tree selects the entire material tree.

Parent topic: Slate Material Editor Menu Bar