MG_SelectionSet

Click to load MGselectionSet UI.

This button and the popupmenus of it are mainly selecting action concerned.

•	All this set could be listed both in long name mode and shelf mode in Selection set UI. (As shown in the diagram below ) Meanwhile , the custom icons are supported in shelf mode.

•	U could create new selection set very quickly via selected nodes in your scenes.

•	Easy management. All edit action are intuitive.

•	U can retarget the selection set. Transfer selection from one rig to another rig.

•	In long name list mode ,if there are objects in the set not exist in your current scene, invoking the set will select the existed objects and ignore the inexistence then give you a warning report rather than an error.

•	Invoking multiply sets at the same time is supported.

•	Back up selection set with your scenes. U can invoke them very easy later.

MGselectionSet UI is compose of menu bar , case(Folder) bar, mini buttons area and set list/shelf area.

Menu Bar: All features in menu are visitable in main UI or the right mouse button clicking popup menus of UI.

Case (Folder) Bar: U can click on this bar, folder selecting menu will popup (as shown in the left part of the image above.)

Right clicking on the bar, popup menu will appear, just as shown in the right part the image above. "*ROOT" means root folder of MGselectionSet, Project1 and Project2 means the two folders in the root folder.

Create New Folder (Case) : Create new folder in MGselectionSet folder. Here it supports folder display to enable u to organize your selection set.

Open set folder..: Use Windows explorer to open MGselectionSet folder. It is at the location of "My Documents\maya\version\scripts\MGtools\MG_SelectionSet\ ".

：Eval the selected selection set in long name list mode (or just double click the set item in the list). In shelf mode u can directly click the shelf button .

：Retarget the selected set item and select. This feature is base on reference workflow by changing the set members' namespace.

Tips : Right mouse button click on icons

to visit some other features, Read following to know more:

MenuBar Toggle: Toggle the menubar on the top of UI. The same feature could be found in the popup menu of button

(for saving workingspace sake)

Show in Llist: Load selection manager and show the set members in the left list.

Show in Rlist: Load selection manager and show the set members in the right list.

Convert selected sets to shelf: Install selected selection sets to maya shelves.

Convert shelf Selset : Load shelf to set converter. U can convert shelf into MG selection set.

Embed/Tearoff: Determine whether to load MGselectionSet UI in floating mode or being embed into maya model panel.

BackUP selected set with scenes: Back up the selected selection set with your scenes in locator form.

Retarget and select ：Retarget the selected set and select. This feature is base on reference workflow by changing the set members' namespace.

New from selection ..：Create set from current scenes selection. New set window will pop up.Same as button

Delete selected set : Delete selected selection set . U can do this by pressing the "Del" button in your keyboard.

Update selSet MarkingMenu ：Click to update the markingMenu generate by SelectionSet tool. Also, the markingMenu of MGchannelBox will be updated as well.

Assign MG-selSet MM Hotkey ：Open MG-Config to assign a hotkey to MGselSet markingmenu. U can use this key to call the menu that generated and update by MGselectionSet tool .