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Assign right mouse click to space bar

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#1

Hello!
Its been a while i started sculpting in zbrush but only recently i started using a tablet.
My problem is: in order to rotate the view i need to press the mouse right button wich is the key on a tablet pen.
After a while my fingers start to hurt so it would be cool to press space or any other button on keyboard instead of breaking fingers.
Is there any way?

#2

You needn’t press any hotkey at all to rotate an active tool in Zbrush with a tablet. Simply drag in empty canvas space with the tablet, or if zoomed in so there is no empty space, drag outside of inner border near the edge of the canvas.

That said, the procedure for assigning custom hotkeys in Zbrush can be found here:
http://docs.pixologic.com/user-guide/customizing-zbrush/hotkeys/

Keep in mind not all functions/keys in zbrush respond to re-mapping. I’ve never attempted to do what you suggest, so I can’t say whether it works. Remember that your tablet configuration utility will also have a way to remap the functions of the keys on your pen and tablet on a program by program basis, so between the two you should be able to find something that works for you.

#3

Thank you for the reply!
Its much easyer for me to rotate with right mouse though. You need to drag your cursor out of the mesh every time and that is a lot of effort.
So i still wanna do that by space bar but even though i have read everything about hotkeys in zbrush docs, can’t find any way to do what i want :frowning:

#4

Thanx for the reply!
But i still wanna rotate by right click, i find that more comfortable. It takes much effort to move cursor out of mesh every time.
I read pretty much all of hotkeys guides, haven find anything still :confused:

#5

I misunderstood your original post. I don’t think you can map right-click navigation to any other key at present. That’s why it’s called “right click navigation”. The button for rotation is in the transform menu and at various other places in the interface, but does not respond to key reassignment, because it requires mouse dragging within that button, not a one click press.

Your options are:

  1. Get used to the native non-click navigation in the software, which is designed around tablet users. It becomes muscle memory after a time.

  2. Use your tablet configuration utility to map right click to a location on your pen or tablet that doesn’t bother you so much

  3. Try to use a third party keyboard re-mapping utility to move right click function off the mouse and onto a key (unsupported, no guarantee this will work.)

  4. Create a custom panel with the rotate button on it, and map that panel to a key of choice.

Also bear in mind that you already can rotate by clicking on space bar, though not in particularly elegant fashion. Space bar brings up the mini panel by defualt, and the rotation button is on that panel. So press space, then drag on the rotate key on the bottom of that panel. You could create a smaller custom panel limited to only that button, which you can then assign to a key combo of your choice.