Maya hotkey issue.
polycounter lvl 16
Hello everyone,
really hope some maya user can help me out,
apologies in advance for the long post!
here's my current situation: I want INSERT EDGE LOOP's hotkey to be SHIFT + x, now the probelm is that once that hotkey is assigned whenever I press SHIFT + x I get INSERT EDGE LOOP and SNAP TO GRID as well.
The weird thing is that the SNAP TO GRID remain active so I have to manually deactivate it from the menu on the upper right of the screen.
So here's what I did, I removed capital X (shift +x) from the list of hotkeys assigned to SNAP TO GRID and apparently it worked fine until I restarted maya. Then it starts doing the snap to grid thing. Probably that part of the default hotkeys get restored for some reason.
Anyone know how to solve this?
I know I could simply change hotkey but it's been my hotkey for insert edge loop on xsi, then silo and so I got used to it I guess.
really hope some maya user can help me out,
apologies in advance for the long post!
here's my current situation: I want INSERT EDGE LOOP's hotkey to be SHIFT + x, now the probelm is that once that hotkey is assigned whenever I press SHIFT + x I get INSERT EDGE LOOP and SNAP TO GRID as well.
The weird thing is that the SNAP TO GRID remain active so I have to manually deactivate it from the menu on the upper right of the screen.
So here's what I did, I removed capital X (shift +x) from the list of hotkeys assigned to SNAP TO GRID and apparently it worked fine until I restarted maya. Then it starts doing the snap to grid thing. Probably that part of the default hotkeys get restored for some reason.
Anyone know how to solve this?
I know I could simply change hotkey but it's been my hotkey for insert edge loop on xsi, then silo and so I got used to it I guess.
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by the way I'm using maya 2011:
"thought i could be clever and make the userHotkeys.mel a read-only file. maya still manages to pull up the default hotkeys. wonder where it's storing that old info.
found it. grid snap had x and X. so i changed them both to x so now my X hotkey works. same with the c and v.
~\maya\scripts\startup\hotkeySetup.mel
fixed
hotkey -k "x" -name "NameComSnap_to_Grid_modifierON" -releaseName "NameComSnap_to_Grid_modifierOFF" -isModifier;
hotkey -k "x" -name "NameComSnap_to_Grid_modifierON" -releaseName "NameComSnap_to_Grid_modifierOFF" -isModifier;
original
hotkey -k "x" -name "NameComSnap_to_Grid_modifierON" -releaseName "NameComSnap_to_Grid_modifierOFF" -isModifier;
hotkey -k "X" -name "NameComSnap_to_Grid_modifierON" -releaseName "NameComSnap_to_Grid_modifierOFF" -isModifier;
"
I have the exact same set of keybinds at work(Maya 2011) and at home(Maya 2012); at work they're fine but at home a couple of them reset themselves whenever I close Maya. I did used to have this problem at work and have no idea what resolved it.
One dumb workaround is to find your userHotkeys.mel file in the Maya prefs folder, save your hotkey setup in Maya then open the file in a text editor while Maya is still open. If you close Maya it'll try and save over the binds, but since you still have it open just save the file yourself to retain your keybinds. Basically... never close userHotkeys.mel
[edit] Oh, that's useful! Will have to see if it works for my home install too.