Xray Display not working with object selection - [SOLVED]

[Draise]

I have had a bit of an annoying problem, which really has be baffled, as I have usually had it working.. but now I don't know why it isn't.

Problem: Xray Display mode does not activate the ability to toggle and select objects behind other objects, or within objects.

I used to do this with SI 2013 by default, but now it's not working.

Help?

[Draise]

It seems it works with SI2013, but SI2015, this is not..... wtf!?

[Hirazi Blue]

For completion's sake:
Draise's inquiry on the Mailing List resulted in the following reply by "Autodeskian" Ho Chung Nguyen:

It might be related to refactoring of selection we did for 2015.
To enable to the old selection system, you can set environment variable
XSI_DISABLE_NEW_PICK=1

(Quoted from here)

[Draise]

Ah yes! I forgot to post it here, I have to say thank you, but I've been in a meeting all day.

So yes, it worked, that fixed the problem. Now I can select objects behind objects in Xray view with SI 2015. Thanks everyone.

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set XSI_DISABLE_NEW_PICK=1

For a tutorial on how to add the Environment Variable: learn here

[Hirazi Blue]

While you've edited the title of the thread to include the word "SOLVED",
the explanation given and the accompanying environment variable
somehow feel more like a workaround, not like a solution.
To me, for instance, it's still unclear what the actual benefits of this NEW_PICK are,
in other words what are you "giving up" once you disable it?
;)

[mattmos]

This was posted in the same thread:

The refactoring was done to improve selection response in large/complex scenes (in some scenes, up to 20x faster).
The algorithm was changed significantly so we introduced XSI_DISABLE_NEW_PICK to revert back to the legacy algorithm in case of issues.

[Draise]

Yeah I guess it's a workaround..

I can see the benefits of disabling this. In 2013, eventually my large scenes in textured or shaded mode would take forever selecting objects, many seconds between objects. I had to use layers extensively. I assume disabling it would indeed make everything faster, with only losing the practicality of a dynamic object selector with mouse. It wouldn't have to shift through everything to figure out what you actually selected.
.

Now, if only a toggle.