I realize that ZBrush navigation is just something I should get used to, but I never have; specifically, I can’t get fast at releasing alt and releasing the mouse button in the right order. So I set up hotkeys on my Corsair gaming keyboard and assigned them to pan, zoom and tumble. I know others have had issues with this, so I thought I’d explain how to do it. The key, at least with the Corsair software, is to use the “Enable a second macro on release” function.
Tumble: this is the simplest one: just remap a key to the right mouse button.
Pan:
- Create a new macro, name it Pan Release.
- Enable “record mouse clicks”
- Hit record, press and hold Alt, click the right mouse button, release the right mouse button, release Alt.
- Stop recording, and delete everything but Right mouse button release, Pause execution, and Release key Alt.
- Edit the pause to something like 50ms.
- hit OK. The program will complain about unmatched events, just hit okay to continue.
- Make a second macro named Pan.
- repeat steps 3-5 in this new macro, but this time delete everything except Press Alt Key, Pause execution for 50ms, and RIght mouse button press.
- Check Enable a second macro on release, and select PanRelease as the macro to fire on release.
- Hit okay, the program will complain again about unmatched events. Hit okay to proceed.
- Assign Pan to a hotkey.
Zoom: If you were able to get Pan to work, you should be able to work out how to get zoom to work as well, but when you’re all done, Zoom should have 5 steps: 0:Press Alt key, 1: Pause execution for 10ms, 2: Right mouse button press, 3: Pause execution for 10ms, 4: Release key Alt, and your second macro (ZoomRelease, for example) should just have one step: 0: Right mouse button release.
I’ve attached my actions, if you want to use them, but I completely understand not wanting to just trust some file uploaded by a stranger.
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