Broken Handed Enviro Artist

eyo

Hey there Polycount!

As an environment artist who has recently broken his hand snowboarding (my keyboard hand) i was wondering if you guys would have thoughts on how to work best with just one hand, Ie UI tweaks or whatever for 3dsMax, photoshop and Zbrush. I have started using "Modlock" to help out with some modifier keys (alt, ctr, shift) and I kick up the On Screen keyboard here and there but I am finding things pretty slow.

fearian

Max wise, list out all your favourite shortcuts and stick them in quad menus. You can fit alot of stuff in the quad menus and sub menus - even more if you delve into context sensitive stuff.

Grab a mouse with extra buttons and stick ctrl and alt on the thumb buttons?

MainManiac

Get a razer naga and hotkey the side buttons

ae.

my poor evan ill will nurse you back to health :P

MadnessImport

On screen Keyboard? Just throwing that out there

I would attach a stick to my Elbow/Arm and use that on the keyboard.

sprunghunt

Did you break your fingers? Or your palm/wrist?

I once broke my scaphoid bone and I had no issues with still using a keyboard or mouse

You could also try using a Wacom with lots of custom marking menus or quad menus

eyo

thanks for the ideas guys!

Fearian I think you are on the right track with the multi button mouse idea in 3dsMax. Also I forgot to mention that my main display is a cintiq so i could dive deep into some custom menus.

AE. I WILL take you up on that offer ;-)

Madnessimport, I just can't seem to find the right size of stick!

Sprunghunt, I am not sure the name of it but it is the bone below the thumb, so my hand aches when i try and use any of the fingers :-(

More ideas? please keep'em coming

Frankie

how about getting some of these

http://www.scythe-usa.com/product/input/008/usbfootswitch_detail.html

Bad luck breaking you hand. Every time I've done it it's not stopped me from typing, must be really frustrating.

JacqueChoi

Man, if I broke my hand I'd have to get a girlfriend.

neigan

Can you move the wrist fine? Tape a hook-like object on top of the cast (are you casted), that way you can use it like a finger.
Then bind ctrl, alt, shift to the mouse and you should be able to use almost all keycombinations necessary

Alberto Rdrgz

JacqueChoi wrote: »

Man, if I broke my hand I'd have to get a girlfriend.

oh you nasssty!:poly136:

conte

I hope you'll get your hand back soon

Autocon

sucks to hear, hope your hand heals quickly.

and at least its just your keyboard hand, idk what the fuck i would do if i broke my wacom/mouse hand, probably be fired within the week

eyo

hey guys, ya i am rocking a full on cast, thumb included :-) i cringed as i watched it getting wrapped up. Couldn't imagine if it had been my drawing hand, then i would be off for sure. Until i can use a few fingers i am going to try and keep things in photoshop and Zb for a bit. 6 weeks is not forever or at least that is what i keep telling myself.