Performing two operations with one hotkey?

Iconic

I would like to have 'c' hotkeyed to connect for both vertex and edge mode. The UI editor only allows you to use each key once. Can this be done in MaxScript?

I also could not find the command for bridging, and deleting ploys/vertex - which I would also like to bind to the same key, as the 'delete' key normally does.

Thanks

Neox

What is meshtools?

Doing it jeopardy style.

Mark Dygert

Max is a little wonky and gifted all at the same time when it comes to hotkeys.

So each sub-menu has its own set of hotkeys that can override all other hotkeys when "Keyboard Shortcut Override" (back arrow on a key in the menu bar) is turned on and when you are in that particular sub-menu.

For example if you bind cut to P, turn on KBSO and press P it will trigger cut, with KBSO off it will switch the view to perspective.

I think you can assign similar hotkeys to different sub-menu items, so C can cut in edit poly and in edit mesh.

There is another option and that is to do it through scripting but that depends on how comfortable you are with maxscript. I have a simple double tap script that is easy to modify you can check it out HERE. Tap once it does one thing, tap twice it does something else. It's also a good way to recycle hotkeys.

If you wanted to dig into it properly you would need to set up a few if then else statements to check various states and then trigger the right tool, which I think Per128 (Perna) has talked about a few times in various posts... that I can't seem to find right now...

passerby

some maxscript with a few if and than statemeants checking the selection type could work very well.