Hello everyone,
it would be so great, if I could use the “dot” on my keyboard as a hotkey.
I use it in all other softwares, too (always for increasing brush size) and would like to have a consistent standard through all my applications.
Is there a possibility to use it?
When I try, I just get the message it wasn’t done…
Thanks…
I suppose that key is reserved but I can’t think what for. ZBrush sees the Delete key as the same key.
You could try editing the StartupHotkeys.txt file, if you wanted to try. (If you’ve stored some hotkeys this should be in the ZBrushData\ZStartup\Hotkeys folder.) Before you open the file, assign some other hotkey to the thing you want to use, and store it, so that you can edit the right bit, then change the number to 46. So, for example, the enlarge Draw Size button that’s in the Zplugin>Misc Utilities would become:
[ZPLUGIN:MISC UTILITIES :BRUSH>>,46]
As I don’t know why the key is reserved, make sure you change it back if you encounter any problems!
Hi Marcus,
great it worked! Now I can really increase the brush size with “.”
For me an important help
If you say it is at the same time deactivating the delete key:
I can’t remember if the delete key has any function in zBrush…
So I hope I can use it that way.
All the best…
Hello Marcus,
is there maybe maybe also a way to address the letter Ö for hotkeys which are in the German Keyboard?
I tried to find out the “number” of that key, but did not know which.
Maybe it was once forgotten in the key library? 
When I assign the Ö manually it tells that it was successfully assigned, but after some minutes it’s lost and replaced with the “~” sign.
Many thanks again
By the way, the delete button still works properly and the dot hotkey, too 
The delete key is needed to delete hotkeys.
Hi Alexx,
ZBrush uses key codes when identifying hotkeys. These can vary with different keyboards, so they won’t always correspond to what ZBrush thinks they are. It’s also possible that ZBrush will ignore certain keys. (For example, on the UK keyboard ZBrush thinks the @ key is the tilde. It won’t work as a hotkey because it’s used to pan the document in wrap mode.)
You can find out the code that ZBrush uses for a particular key by looking at the View Keyboard Status slider in the Preferences>Utilities sub-palette. (It’s the second slider from the top.) Clear it first so you know which slider it is - pressing the Spacebar should give a value of 32.
Don’t use Ctrl, Shift or Alt when looking at the slider. Those keys will just complicate things. If you want, you can add these modifier keys to a key by just adding their numbers to the value for the key:
Shift = 256
Ctrl = 512
Alt = 1024
Thanks for the tip about the Delete key. Very useful!
HTH,