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bblanar

11-10-2006, 01:56 AM

I am currently remapping C4D10 demo to see how close I can get it to XSI in some areas.

In XSI, the camera movements are S+LMB ..etc where as in C4D it is ALT+LMB and so on..It just wont let me assign it to S+LMB , it keeps putting a ~ in or something. If I could get this, I would be in heaven.

If anyone else is kinda in this situation of remapping some of C4D to act like XSI, lets talk.

It seems like the shortcuttable.res file in my prefs would be where its saving my changes, and that I could just drop that in the C4D station at work and update all my settings to that computer, but I'm looking at it in wordpad and it looks like it is just the default. Any Ideas?

thanx

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JDP

11-10-2006, 02:52 AM

All shortcuts that are of the type Hotkey you just need to type in the character and they will work in conjunction with the left and right mouse buttons. Hotkey commands are predefined and you can not define your own, fortunately for you the camera commands are hotkeyable so if you want s as a hotkey for rotate camera just enter s as a shortcut. Now s+lmb will be camera rotation and s+rmb will be camera roll, you cannot change this behaviour. shortcuttable.res is where your changes are being saved so you can dump that in the prefs of your other machine. You can have shortcuts with two key presses e.g s+a, s+b, that was what the tilde was as these are represented as s~a, s~b. If you press u, n or m you will see a menu pop up with some predefined double key shortcuts, these are known as shortcut hierarchies.

HTH,
JDP

bblanar

11-10-2006, 04:00 AM

have you tried what you're saying in 10? im doing this in the 10 demo, and it will only accept CTRL / ALT / SHIFT to be used in conjunction with mouse clicks. Using just 'S' didnt work either, brings up the 'this has been assigned, do u wish to remove the other?' so no dice on that one.

I'll try on a copy of 9.6 at work in a few hours. I have a feeling its a 10 thing.

thanx for the help tho.

JDP

11-10-2006, 05:03 AM

Yes, I have R10 studio bundle and yes 's' is already assigned to "Frame selected elements" so if you want to use 's' with "rotate camera" the answer to 'this has been assigned, do u wish to remove the other?' is yes and then you can assign a new shortcut key for "Frame selected elements", you could use '3' as this is the default hotkey for "rotate camera". Don't be afraid to remove and replace shortcuts, if you feel you have mucked things up just delete the shortcuttable.res from your prefs folder and everything will be back to default, this file is only created and used if you customise the shortcuts and you can always backup the file if you want to experiment and not lose any changes you've made. Oh and by the way, the reason "Frame selected elements" has 2 shortcut keys is that the 'ALT+S' frames selected elements in all views and 'S' frames just in the currently active view, you could leave ALT+S or change it to ALT+3 etc. for consistency. This all definitely works as I've tested it.

regards,
JDP

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