maya 2015 (..or prior) hotkeys to maya 2016! help please

maze

hi there!

I recently switched to maya 2016... and surprise surprise... I cant seem to use my "user_hotkeys.mel" from maya 2015... in this new version, as they ve changed the interface and it asks for a .mkh file... 

any ideas, solutions  will be appreciated... merci

Bartalon

I believe once you run 2016 for the first time it should generate a .mel file for hotkeys under \\Documents\maya\2016\prefs\hotkeys.  From there you can just overwrite your old hotkey .mel file with the one from 2015 (as well as your userRuntimeCommands.mel and userNamedCommands.mel from the prefs directory).  Make sure Maya is closed before overwriting anything, and of course, back up your files before you overwrite anything

Additionally, the .mkh file seems to just be a combined file containing those same three files userRunTimeCommands.mel, userNamedCommands.mel, and userHotkeys.mel so you could try to hack your own mkh file together to import...

maze

Thanks for answering, yeah I will try to hack away a mkh with my own hotkeys. I saw that I can duplicate the maya setup, Ill use that as a base, should be that long... !

Indik

I also tried to "hack" .mkh file and didn`t suceed. Had to remake hotkeys from scratch. "Great" experience from AD as always

throttlekitty

Did you also select the .mhk set from the hotkey dropdown? I'm still confused as to how to actually merge keys using that, and also ended up redoing everything manually anyway.