Faces with white pixels in it = active object?

Technical Support Modeling
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Oh hi, I just have a short question…

If I select one face without any tools (like… the tool which appear if I press B, or the tool which appear if I press B 2 times…) so just with the right mouse button, I’m getting a selected face with tiny white pixels in it like this one:

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/4408/questionyi6.gif

But if I use a tool I don’t get those white pixels… what’s that? Is that the active face now? I watched tutorial videos and those white pixel faces never appeared in those videos :confused:

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Basically, yes. Just like you have an active object when in Object mode, Blender also maintains an active face, edge, or vertex in Edit mode, depending on your selection mode.

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and selection modes are border select, the brush thingy etc. right?

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No, I mean selection modes like Vertex Select, Edge Select, and Face Select.

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Ah oki, thanks for explaining buddy! :smiley:

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Well… I forgot to ask 2 questions…

  1. Is it possible to deactivate that?

  2. Is there an irc channel about blender support? I think it’s better to ask such question there instead opening a thread ^^;

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  1. I’m not sure; I don’t think so. However, I believe a setting for that would likely be in your Blender theme somewhere.

  2. Hit #blenderchat on freenode. It’s probably one of the most frequented Blender channels there.

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Ah awesome, I found this channgel!

And again, thanks buddy