# Lasso selection mask doesn't work for front vertices

**URL:** <https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/lasso-selection-mask-doesnt-work-for-front-vertices/23550>\
**Category:** Bug Report\
**Created:** [December 16, 2025, 10:17am UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/lasso-selection-mask-doesnt-work-for-front-vertices/23550 "2025-12-16T10:17:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Angelo\_Salamini](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.nomadsculpt.com/angelo_salamini/32/25355_2.png) [@Angelo\_Salamini](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/u/Angelo_Salamini)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 10:17am UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/lasso-selection-mask-doesnt-work-for-front-vertices/23550/1 "2025-12-16T10:17:29Z")

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THE PLATFORM: Windows  
NOMAD APP VERSION: 2.6.3

I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong but when I use the lasso tool the selection goes through the object

regards

AS

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**Author:** ![stephomi](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.nomadsculpt.com/stephomi/32/19583_2.png) [@stephomi](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/u/stephomi)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 11:05am UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/lasso-selection-mask-doesnt-work-for-front-vertices/23550/2 "2025-12-16T11:05:41Z")

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That’s the expected behavior.

“front-vertex” relies on whether the vertex normals are pointing toward the camera, even if these faces are not visible on screens.

There’s currently no option to only filter visible faces/vertex.

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**Author:** ![Angelo\_Salamini](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forum.nomadsculpt.com/angelo_salamini/32/25355_2.png) [@Angelo\_Salamini](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/u/Angelo_Salamini)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.nomadsculpt.com/t/lasso-selection-mask-doesnt-work-for-front-vertices/23550/3 "2025-12-16T21:59:08Z")

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Hi stephomi,

I verified that the brush selection works with visible triangles but lasso not
