Need help on surface snapping

Hi everyone,

I am trying to figure out how to do surface snapping in Nvil. In Silo, I could select a bunch of vertices and have every one of them snap to the target surface, I put up a video to show what I mean: http://youtu.be/xU1Wo7SWqD4

In Nvil, I have a sphere in the scene, and another object with a few faces (like in the screen shot below). So I want to snap those faces to the sphere. I also like to use the tweak tool. I turn on face snapping. It all works very well, but I also want the sphere to be transparent. When I turn on transparency on the sphere, the snapping doesn't work anymore.



So my question is
1. How do I have transparency on and have the face snapping work
2. How do I select a bunch of vertices and have them snap on to the target surface with just a nudge ( like in my video )?

Thanks

My suggestion for now would be to use the retopo mode (toggle retopo mode enabled). Select your snapping target, and in the scene explorer, go to the tab >Retopo Reference List<, hit "Add from Scene Selection". You can make the target transparent. Select the mesh you want to modify, and everyting you do will snap to the retopo reference. What I just noticed is, that the manipulation will be view-dependent. This is someewhat unfortunate.

Thanks Vaquero! I thought about checking out retopo sooner or later, but the documentation is a bit hard to understand for me. I thought that to retopo something, I need to go into edge mode and use the retopo tool in the visual tool, which is not very appealing... I didn't knew it was this easy

miica, you may have the "Edit > Options > Ignore Wire/Transparent Polygons On Selection" on so you can't snap to transparent surface. Also you can use the "Align" tool to snap selected vertices onto surface, subobject mode > Geometry > Common Commands n Tools > Align. See "Help > Contents > Modeling > Vertex Section > Mesh Vertex > Align Vertex" for more information.

Thanks Kun, the align vertex seems to be more precise, I will take a look. I also found the streamline surface align, will play with those later.

I have the 'Ignore Wire/Transparent Polygons On Selection' set to off, but the face snapping still doesn't work on transparent surface

The option should work on polygon snapping now.