MAX .kbd Keyboard shortcuts like Maya

[dougr]

I am a Maya user begining to use MAX. I would love to have Maya keyboard commands in MAX. I know MAX will save .kbd files of shortcuts and key commands. I was hoping someone could tell where I could possilbly download .kbd files for MAX.

Thank you in Advance.

[thenice]

You're in luck. By going to Customize > Customize User Interface you can hotkey just about anything (under Keyboard), creat new tab panels and menus and build custom Quad Menus. You can also hotkey or menu MAXscripts. This is how lots of my stuff works. I wrote my own Merge tool and just replaced it in the menu.

[kary-1]

Hey Brandon how did you customize your merge tool?

BTW: Thanks again for putting up the scripts to hotkey Pivot Point transform's, their on my extra mouse buttons now and make modelling a lot easier.

[kary-1]

Er... that's how in the sense of "what did you change" not how in the sense of "how to do it" (not that I'd object to hearing that too .

[ob1]

Whats the hotkey for Arc rotate?

[thenice]

My little Merge2 macroscript looks like this:

macroscript Merge2 category:"BlurScripts"
(

mfile = getMAXOpenFileName()
mergeMAXFile(mfile) #prompt #select #noRedraw
m = filenameFromPath (mfile)

selectionSets [m] = selection

)

I stick it in the UIMacroscripts directory and then in Customize > Customize User Interface > Menus I add it to the File menu. I've also added to the main menu. I've got XRef tools, menus for working with Reactor, Crowd and Stitch. It's all customizeable through simple macroscripts or hardwired commands.

ob1: Zoom, Arc Rotate and Pan are hardcoded to keys + middle mouse button.

Zoom - Cnt+Alt+MMbutton
Arc Rotate - Alt+MMbutton
Pan - MMbutton
FastPan - Cntl+ MMbutton

[ob1]

In reply to:

ob1: Zoom, Arc Rotate and Pan are hardcoded to keys + middle mouse button.

Zoom - Cnt+Alt+MMbutton
Arc Rotate - Alt+MMbutton
Pan - MMbutton
FastPan - Cntl+ MMbutton

Thanks Brandon, sometimes the simplest things take the longest to work out.

[yuchung]

Finally someone brought this up...

I've been trying to optimize the EPoly shortcuts since forever. It seems that MAX doesn't support the plugin-shortskeys toggle like previously with EMesh. What I want is simply to use same keys for different functions, depending on the context.

Examples: C for create for all SOs but also change to camera view with the same setting, or L for left view and collapse, regardless of the current SO.

Seems this is not possible without some MAX script. But all what I've accomplished to date is to set the keys 12345 to the SOs.

Can anyone help, please?