Im a 3ds max artist and learning blender, One thing you can do in 3ds max is select THROUGH an object. I understand that you can do this in blender by going into XRay mode but I would rather just have it on as default, regardless of shading mode, all the time. Is there a way to make blender behave l…

If I had a penny every time someone asked that, I’d be able to buy even you :slight_smile: Here’s a thread with almost 500 posts about it: [image] Decoupling x-ray and limit selection to visible Archive …

Oh, sorry about that. I did search for it before posting but didn’t find anything. Appreciate the info. Thank you.

Oh, no. I didn’t mean you should not be asking that. I meant that so many users already want it, but developers still don’t want to implement it :slight_smile: I am actually happy people keep requesting it, so I am not alone.

I do wonder what is going through the mind of devs sometimes. The number of times i hear a massive majority of people requesting something only for it fall on completely deaf ears is astounding. It’s not a blender-specific issue, Epic is another prime example of it. It’s kind of funny that there ar…

[image] David_Oaken: It’s kind of funny that there are always things that would be SO simple to implement in code as well. never make that assumption

Sorry for bumping this thread, but I stumbled across it again and I’m still really hoping this feature will be implemented someday, so I wanted to bring it back up.

Select through like in 3ds max but without using XRay mode?

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rawalanche (rawalanche) September 4, 2023, 1:20pm 2

If I had a penny every time someone asked that, I’d be able to buy even you

Here’s a thread with almost 500 posts about it:

But for some reason developers still don’t want to do that.

The best you can do right now (aside from using outdated custom blender build) is to use this addon: