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Manipulator to allow you to move, rotate, or scale this soft selection (see Figure 3.16). You
also see a yellow-to-red-to-black gradient around the S manipulator. This shows you the
area and degree of influence, where yellow moves the most and black the least.
Grab the cone handle, and drag it up to move the soft selection up. Notice that the
plane lifts up in that area only, gradually falling off. This effect resembles what happens
when you pick up a section of a tablecloth with one hand.
Grabbing the cube handle scales the soft selection, and dragging on the circle rotates
it. After you're done making your soft adjustments, you can go back to that soft selection
by selecting the S on the surface for later editing. You can place as many soft selections as
you need on a surface. Figure 3.17 shows the soft modification adjusting the plane.
Figure 3.16
Creating and
manipulating a
soft modification
Figure 3.17
Lifting an area of
the NURBS plane
