The Select menu is for managing the selection in the current View.
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Slate Material Editor > Menu bar > Select menu
Some menu choices are also accessible from toolbar or navigation buttons, so this topic shows the button alternative along with the menu choice.
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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+Q
- 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: Shift+PgDn
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: Ctrl+T
Above: Material #3 Selected
Below: Select Tree selects the entire material tree.