Clicking a model but only selecting a part inside the model instead

Every time I select a model, such as a tree or building it’ll instead select whatever part I’m clicking on in the model instead of the model itself. This is happening for every model and it’s very annoying.

E.g: Tree model has ‘trunk’ and ‘leaves.’ I select the models where the ‘leaves’ are and the ‘leaves’ are selected instead of the entire model itself.

Is there a way to ‘fix’ this aside from double-clicking the model?

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You can hold Shift + Click the parts you want to select.
You can press Ctrl + A but it’d select everything inside your game.
You can hold Click and select the parts you want to select.
If you can do this, try Ctrl + G to group the parts to a model.

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I know, however, the issue is that every model I select it selects by default the part I’m clicking in the model rather than the model itself. It’s annoying when you select a model and instead of moving/resizing it you end up moving/resizing one part inside the model instead of the model itself.

if you alt + click it selects the part from the model you clicked.
maybe this will work?

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That isn’t normal, the only way this should happen is if you’re using a plugin like f3x.
It has happened to me occasionally while using a mac but not on a pc. It could have something to do with the mouse click or sensitivity settings but that’s a wild guess.

I am using a mac so that might be the issue. Sometimes it selects as it should and sometimes it doesn’t. I don’t use f3x, it’s probably just the apple mouse causing the ‘problem.’

ctrl + alt for selecting various parts in a model
alt for selecting a single part, with a click

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