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Un-hotkeyable keys?

ZBrush Usage Questions
#1

I’ve noticed that there are certain keys that don’t work to assign as a hotkey for something. It will say it recorded the function, but sometimes not save despite storing hotkeys.

I’ve hotkeyed the Fkeys, but F10-12 don’t seem to stick - only up to F9. Is there a reason for this or is something going wrong?

As a request, it would be nice if hotkeying functions that toggle showing something, for example the timeline, would by default work as a toggle. I can hotkey that to show up, but not press the same key for it to go away.

One day in a future update, I would also love it if Zbrush had a hotkey editor window in a way to allow you to view a keyboard showing what is assigned to what, and what keys can not be used at all. This would be a handy cheat sheet and way to remember that awesome hotkey you set but forgot, as well as allow users to more easily share nice setups without having hotkeys be hard to find out/learn what is what.

~Cliff

#2

There are lots of interaction bumps in zbrush. Autohotkeys may somehow reduce them.
But it doesn’t help with macroses repetitive invocation if you bind them to key+modifier. So you better find all bumps and glitches before start to build your config.

Here is a small Autohotkey bind i made to use F# keys:

; ZBRUSH REBIND
#IfWinActive, ahk_class ZBrush
{
: : Send 0 return ^: :
Send ^0
return
!: : Send !0 return +: :
Send +0
return
!F1: :
Send ^{F1}
return
!F2: :
Send ^{F2}
return
F12: :
Send ^{F12}
return
return
}