Selectors Puzzles Reference — Soft8Soft
Description: How to use Verge3D Puzzles to select 3D objects, groups, animation clips and materials.

# Selectors

The puzzles from this category are used to select 3D objects, groups, animation clips and materials to fit in other puzzles.

## Contents

- Puzzles Reference
  - select object
  - all objects
  - select group
  - select animation
  - select material
  - get by name

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## Puzzles Reference

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### select object

The drop-down contains an alphabetized list of all objects on the scene.

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### all objects

Denotes all objects on the scene so that an operation can be applied to them in bulk.

This puzzle is not iterable, e.g. it can't be used as input for the for each in list puzzle. To iterate over a list of objects, use the get objects from puzzle.

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### select group

The drop-down contains an alphabetized list of all object groups presented in the scene. An operation can be applied to a group of objects in bulk.

What the "group" actually represents depends on your modeling suite. In Blender, this is collection of objects (the most top-level "Scene Collection" is never exposed to Puzzles):

In 3ds Max, this can be either group ("Furniture") or selection set ("Furniture2"):

In Maya, this can be either group ("Furniture") or set ("Furniture2"):

The "select group" puzzle is not iterable, e.g. it can't be used as input for the for each in list puzzle. To iterate over a list of objects, use the get objects from puzzle.

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### select animation

The drop-down contains an alphabetized list of all animation clips presented in the scene. An animation clip is named according to the object to which animation is applied in Blender, 3ds Max or Maya.

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### select material

The drop-down contains an alphabetized list of all materials that are present in the scene.

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### get by name

Selects an entity (object, group, animation clip, or material) given by its name.

The most common use case for this puzzle is dynamic scene loading, when the names of the loaded entities can't be selected via the list-based selectors.

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