
Is it over? Oh my gosh, there it is! Hey guys, how’s it going? It’s UnderMyCap, and welcome back to another video. Today, I’m going to teach you how to use all of the Maker Pen tools. This is part two, and in this part, we are going to be covering all of the select features. Without further ado, let’s get straight into the video! There we are, I’ll just pick that up. Hey, welcome back to the tutorial world! Today, we’re going to get straight into the select tool. We want to pull out our Maker Pen, so I’m going to pull mine out of the pack. If you haven’t watched the first part of this series, definitely make sure to check it out in the description below and in the info card because it is very important. Now, without further ado, let’s get straight into using the select tool. So let’s pull up the Maker Pen menu. I’m going to detach it right here and just put it out here to show you what it looks like. Okay, so as you can see, this is the Maker Pen menu, and the select button is right next to the create button. So we’re going to click that, and that’s going to start the tutorial. When you actually click the select button, you’ll see a whole bunch of options pop up on this side over here. Now, the select tool is really good if you want to copy and paste items, group items, or move a certain number of items in general. You can select multiple items instead of just one singular item. So we’ve selected the select button. Let’s exit the Maker Pen for now; I’m just going to close that. When we actually grab the select tool, you can see we can select multiple items like this, and they start to group together. You can see there’s one massive highlight around the section that we’ve selected, and we can actually deselect as well. Now, a really cool feature of the select tool is that if you hold down your trigger (if you’re in VR), you can actually pull up this little yellow globe and select everything in that area. If you do the same thing again after you have a selected area, you can see it turns slightly red. It’s really hard to show you on this, but it’s slightly red. Now, I’m deselecting everything. This is good if you just want to get rid of a few things from your selection. For now, let’s just select all the plates, and I’m going to deselect the table so you can see all of these items are selected. Now, as you notice, once we actually select all the items, there is a little button that pops up that says “options.” So let’s click on that. One thing in this menu is that you can actually make an invention to display on your profile. That will be covered in another video, but that is one way you can also use the select tool. Okay, so going back to this menu, once we’ve actually selected the items we want, we can do a number of things with them. You can see in the selectable functions, we can actually copy all the items and paste them in a different area. So let’s go ahead and do that right now. We’re going to hit copy. You’ll notice a few other things pop up: we have the clipboard and we have paste recent. Basically, you can see what’s in your clipboard; this is what we’ve recently copied. Let’s just head back out of that, and to get out of that, we’re just going to click on the tools button at the very bottom. Now we can also paste recent as well, which allows us to paste everything that we’ve selected again. If we click “paste recent,” you’ll notice that my Maker Pen now has all of the plates we copied before. So if we close this menu, I can now place a whole bunch of plates everywhere because we just copied them from the tool. This video is going to get very hectic very fast with all of this stuff! Oh my gosh! Now we’ve also got a few more features of the select tool to cover, so let’s go through that. Before, when I was showing you how you can hold the trigger down to select items all at once using that yellow ball and the red ball, you can actually change the size of the selection if you’re doing fine work or more detailed work. If you click on this little button here, you have a whole bunch of options. “Precise” is obviously very small. “Small” makes sense and goes all the way up to “large” and “analog.” I don’t know what that is, but let’s see what it is right now because I want to learn what this is. Okay, “analog” is just a very big yellow ball—very, very big! So analog is probably the largest option available. Let’s place this back into the world again, and then these settings over here don’t really change; they’re just the general settings. But that is the main function of the select tool for now. Let’s say I create a few shapes with the Maker Pen. I’m going to just make a whole bunch of squares. You can see that it’s very random, so they’re all currently in one container right now—all these squares right here. What we can actually do with the select tool is if we select certain amounts of those items—if you can see that tiny purple options button appears—you can click on that and you do have a few other options. “Split shapes” will basically split the shapes out of the container. If we click “split shapes,” you can see a few items—I’m not sure if the camera will pick it up—but this square here is actually not in the same container as these other squares. So you can actually split the containers open. We’ll talk about containers in a different video. But they are in two separate containers right now because we split them. If we go back to the options item here as well, we can center on pivot. The pivot is essential for knowing where we need to rotate an item. So if it’s not centered, you can re-center it using the select tool. If you did enjoy the video, don’t forget to leave a like, smash that bell, and subscribe. You can check me out in-game; my name is UnderMyCap. I would love to teach you all of this stuff, and I’m really happy with the positive feedback we received on the first video. I’m looking to continue this series, but I hope you have an awesome day, and I’ll see you in the next video. See you!
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