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Should blender 3d have custom hot keys?
yes
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 80%  [ 4 ]
no
20%
 20%  [ 1 ]
Total Votes : 5

3d artist gallery Andyba
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Posted: December 31, 2008
Post subject: Blender custom hotkeys
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As you know in blender 3d all the hotkeys a coded.
While many users would like to be able to customize their hotkeys in blender, there are many that are against this option.

Are you pro or against blender custom hotkeys?
Why?
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Andyba, 3d artist
skills: 3d modeling, texturing, rendering, 3d character animation, compositing
3d software experience: 3ds max, Maya, Softimage XSI, Deep Paint 3d, Body Paint 3D, Wings 3D, Z Brush
2d software experience: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After effects, Macromedia Flash, Freehand

3d artist gallery redho
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Posted: February 28, 2009
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I think that hotkey customization is a very good feature.
It is very unlikely that someone is against it.


ricky33
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Joined: 20 Apr 2009
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Posted: April 20, 2009
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I am against customising.

Because, I think it will add more confusion.

3d artist gallery Andyba
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Posted: August 06, 2009
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ricky33 wrote:
I am against customising.

Because, I think it will add more confusion.


Can you be more specific who will be confused by the ability to customize the hot keys?
I was never confused by the ability to customize the 3ds max or softimage xsi hot keys. I often customized them so that I don't change my workflow or habits when I jump from one package to another.
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Andyba, 3d artist
skills: 3d modeling, texturing, rendering, 3d character animation, compositing
3d software experience: 3ds max, Maya, Softimage XSI, Deep Paint 3d, Body Paint 3D, Wings 3D, Z Brush
2d software experience: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After effects, Macromedia Flash, Freehand

Qwertos
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Posted: December 20, 2009
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Both the interface and the hot keys should be selected from the user interface designer(s) after usability research so that NO customization should be necessary.
Also, the interface should automatically decide its arrangement based on monitor resolution.

Now for rare cases such as Andyba's (above poster), customization should be possible with settings hidden deep inside the menus.

Hazelnice
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Posted: January 12, 2010
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For me hotkey customization is a good feature.

3d artist gallery Andyba
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Posted: January 29, 2010
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Qwertos, in real production world 3d artists use multiple 3d programs.

I usually use the same hotkeys for many operations in 3ds Max and Softimage. For a professional 3d artist that worked every day for several years with one package it is much easier to spend one hour to restructure all the hotkeys in the new 3d software so that they are identical to those he is used to, than to change his reflexes and then be confused when he switches from the new application to the old one and vice versa.
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skills: 3d modeling, texturing, rendering, 3d character animation, compositing
3d software experience: 3ds max, Maya, Softimage XSI, Deep Paint 3d, Body Paint 3D, Wings 3D, Z Brush
2d software experience: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After effects, Macromedia Flash, Freehand

entropyExplorer
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Joined: 02 Jul 2011
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Posted: July 30, 2011
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Hotkeys are like God's gift to human kind. If you don't use hotkeys you are new to the application. and making em custom is really needed

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