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#1

Hey there,

I’m currently setting up my intuos 4 tablet preferences and I was wondering if there is a way to set a hotkey to increase and decrease the rgb and Z intensity so I can assign the hotkeys to the Touchring on the tablet.

I would also like to setup the Draw Size to the touchring but with smaller increments (the [ and ] keys only adjust the size in increments of 10).

And finally (not that I’m asking for much ;)) is there a way to cycle through your brushes using a hotkey?

Many many thanks in advance :lol:

#2

Sounds like you’re going to have to do some macro creation and custom interface and hotkey set up for what you’re looking for.

Just simply record a macro for a +5 or whatever you’re looking for on the brush size and give that macro a hot key. Do the same for the -5.

For the brushes there is a slider inside the menu…I’m not sure how the code inside that works but if you set up the macro and take a look at the .txt file that is created you should be able to see if the slider is doing a +x type function or calling a specific brush. If it is doing things incrementally then you should be able to set up a macro for scrolling through the brushes as well.

Hope that helps

#3

Thanks, I’ll give that a try, should work for all hopefully

#4

K, tried that, can’t seem to get it to work with setting the draw size manually (adjusting the size from 1 to 2 to get a +1 macro), it comes out as:

//ZBRUSH MACRO - Recorded in ZBrush version 3.1
[IButton,???,“Press to run this macro. Macros can be aborted by pressing the ‘esc’ key.”,
[IShowActions,0]
[IConfig,3.1]
[ISet,Draw:Draw Size,2]
]

also manually changed [ISet,Draw:Draw Size,2] to[ISet,Draw:Draw Size,+1] still doesn’t work. Is there a file in the install folder that contains all the hotkey info? if there is maybe I could make the changes to it or at least get an idea of the syntax/language used in the macro’s and adjust the macro file accordingly?

#5

I’m not a coder…i hate the stuff actually. But there is a section in ZBC on zscripting…not sure if that will help any.

#6

Hi Guys,

Hopefully this will help those of you with new Intuos4’s - I’m working on this a bit. I got the touch ring working for smooth brush resize up and down. There was an older brush resize script on the forums which had the source - I updated the zsc for zbrush 3.2 (mac) which I attached. Hopefully will work on pc as well… was getting an interface error on the old script.

This puts an additional set of buttons in Zplugin->Misc Utilities that allow for brush resize up and down. There’s also a slider for the increment value. Then just setup a hotkey in zbrush to these new buttons (cmd-click on the button to store) - I used the “[” and “]” buttons which are default mapped in the wacom preferences. Then you’ll of course need to save the hotkey list (preferences -> hotkeys). Save as default and presto

This solves the first problem. I’m going to take a look through and see if a similar set of buttons can be created for the other settings (RGB Intensity, Z intensity, and focal shift). That would be great to use the center toggle between these 4 settings and then the touch ring to adjust the settings.

All credit goes to Marcus_Civis who wrote the original script…

#7

Ok, completed version 2… This puts similar buttons and sliders in for Z Intensity, Focus Shift, and RGB Intensity… This should allow you to map all the touch ring values to these buttons using the same hotkey mapping and then matching that in the Wacom preference panel.

I also took out the single digit decrement for values under 10… It will now always respond to the slider values.

This version saves but does not yet read in last saved slider values other than brush setting. All the other sliders I believe will be set to the value of your brush increment/decrement value by default. Will try to get this in later…

Enjoy! and please let me know if you run into any other issues.

Josh

#8

:+1:small_orange_diamond:+1: nice.

#9

Ok this one saves the increment settings out as well. Calling this one final unless someone wants something else out of the script or finds a bug. Working great here. Hardly have to leave the tablet now which makes me very happy… Hope you guys find it useful…

Josh

Attachments

Wacom-resize-v3.zip (2.65 KB)

#10

There was one other question above regarding brush selection. It would be great to scroll through brushes, but I don’t see any easy way to do it. I’m working on using the radial menu for brushes which gives you 8 slots for brushes (or more I guess if you use submenus). Again you need to map the hotkeys to brushes directly, easy enough.

Unfortunately, I think I found a bug in the mac driver which I reported to Wacom. If you assign a keyboard shortcut to a radial menu item, it works, but assigning a modified key doesn’t seem to work - i.e. “Command-N” I believe issues a plain old “N” command. I guess if you can find 8 regular keys to map that are unused you can do it now, but most of the regular keys are already mapped. Same behavior in Photoshop as well, so not isolated to zbrush. I know many of the folks over at Wacom though - hopefully we’ll have a fix soon.

#11

I get my intuos4 today, am going to try this out. Thanks!

#12

Anybody experience problems with assigning hotkeys to your wacom after updating to Snow Leopard

i have a Intuos 4 and it works fine for photoshop and other apps,
but i doesn’t seem to work in Zbrush ?

great script you made jblazer :+1:

just wish i could get it to work :smiley:

#13

I haven’t tried this on snow leopard yet, but will load it in the next few days to take a look. Is it in the wacom control panel that it won’t store the keyboard commands or is it in zbrush that the keystroke doesn’t get saved?

My guess is a Wacom driver issue rather than a zbrush issue - like I said I ran into some issues with the current driver on Leopard as well, which has yet to be fixed, and it doesn’t look like there is a new specific driver for SL yet…

I’ll let you know what I find though once I convert my machine over.

Josh

#14

Hey Josh

I think the problem is in the wacom control maybe,
but it saves the keystrokes fine, but they dont have any effect

on the Intuos 4 you can see the shortcuts you make,in the
displays ,but in zbrush they wont work either…

i dont have any problems in maya or photoshop

wierd stuff :smiley:
Dont know if its a 32 bit / 64 bit problem with the wacom drivers

#15

jblazer-thanks for script works great in zbrush 3.5 for me:)

#16

Hi, arsan can you please tell how you get this to work on 3.5 I’ve been trying without success for days, thanks

#17

Hmm,I didn’t do nothing special to make it work with 3.5.Just copy zscript to zbrush/zstartup/zplugs folder.Then I set new shortcut keys in plugin options(they were all “[ ]” set by default).Finally I made new shortcut setup in wacom properties-functions/touch ring-just use the same keys which I set in zbrush before:)

#18

Thank you for your answer arsan I did as you told and now i can change the focal shift. draw size etc… with the touch ring sorry for taking so long to say thanks but I couldn’t remember my pass for this account, I had to retrive it from my old computer HDD Nany thanks :slight_smile:

#19

Thanks Marcus and jblazer.
Works great…fantastic resource!!!

#20

thansk alot! but a quick question how do you change the short keys ([ ]) in the plug-in options? I cant see how to do it