This is gonna sound lame, but...

[Kierra]

My dog ate my homework.

Well okay, no, my dog actually did step all over my keyboard while I was in Blender....and god, was it a snarled mess.

He's a chihuahua, so he hit a LOT of keys.

I actually managed to fix most of everything, but one thing so far still eludes me...

How do I make objects I select show a pink outline around them? It's turned off now, and I'd like to turn it back on.

It used to have that set as a default setting, so I just never bothered to find out how to turn it off and back on again. I have no clue what its even called, so I have no idea where to even look in the blender manual....so I was hoping someone here would know how to fix it so I wont have to spend hours scouring the blender wiki going "what the hell is it called???"

And short of punching random keys I have no idea how to fix it....

Thanks!

~Kia

[Paradox]

view -> view properties -> Outline Selected

I didn't even know that there was a hotkey to turn that off

and sorry Kierra, but reading about your predicament had me rolling on the floor for five minutes

[Kierra]

oh thank you! I would have never thought to look there

And yes, once I stopped having a panic attack over my poor blender program, I found it quite amusing too.

Even more so now that I have pink outlines again.

I'm sure as time goes on I'll find other things that have gone haywire that I've missed, but so far i've fixed all the obvious ones.

Thanks again!!

~Kia

[Kato]

Very sorry that you had to go through it, but here's a solution I use:

Save incrementally. Never save over anything. Every time you save, save a new file with a different number at the end. This way you can revert to the most recent save in case anything happens. If you have strict space requirements, then delete the oldest 10 every time you get 20 or something like that.

It works Might not have been a perfect solution to your problem (such as: how long had it been since you'd saved anyway?), but, it works for a lot of things, like if you mess up on something and don't realize until a few saves and a few too many steps to undo later.

-Kato

[Jojon]

My dog ate my homework.

Well okay, no, my dog actually did step all over my keyboard while I was in Blender....and god, was it a snarled mess.

Sorry, but I just have to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fBcjHq9rv0 :7

[Kierra]

LOL cute vid Jojon

Kato:

Yah, I learned the save method after Blender decided to start crashing randomly. Usually it would have been OK, but I had just spent a good portion of time modeling a complicated object and hadn't saved since the beginning. It was either loose quite a bit of work or attempt to unsnarl the mess.



~Kia