Cycle transform tools in max?

hyrumark

I've tried searching scriptspot with no luck. I'm looking for a way to cycle between the move, rotate, and scale tools with the press of a single keyboard key. Does anyone know of a script or any other way to do this? I thought for sure there would be a way to map this to a single key in max, but it seems you can only map each tool to a separate key.

I use a Spacepilot, and it sure would be useful to map this to one of it's keys.

MoP

Yeah you could script it quite easily. Have a look in the Maxscript help or turn on the Macro Recorder and enable all the callbacks. It'll show up the relevant commands in the listener window.

hyrumark

Thanks I'll give that a try. I don't have any experience with maxscript - but I guess this is as good a time as any to start!

hyrumark

Hey that wasn't too bad at all, and it works great!

My first maxscript, here it is if anyone else finds this useful. Assign it to a keyboard key, and you can cycle through move/rotate/scale with a single key. I like it for my Spacepilot because I can rest my finger on a single button and get to any transform tool with one or two presses. Much faster than using separate keys in this case.

Place it in "ui/macroscripts", and find it under the "tools" category.
http://www.hyrumark.com/Cycle_TransformTools.zip

pior

Works great!
Just added selection mode to it, it's a breeze!

Psyk0

I'll give it a shot, i have shortcuts for each but this should be faster. Thanks

hyrumark

Yeah if you're primarily using a mouse and keyboard the separate shortcut keys would probably be better. But for something like the spacepilot, I use my left hand for navigating. So my thumb and forefinger use the navigation knob, and I rest my middle finger on a button that cycles the transform tools - so it's faster than lifting my finger to move to a separate button for each tool.