release effector pinning hotkey?

#1

hi sorry for this basic question, but I’m used to holding down Q to release effector pinning. But for some reason on a newly installed version of MB, when I’m in Maya control mode holding down Q just gets me out of rotation mode…

#2

When using the Maya hotkey setup the “Q” key is the hotkey for selection mode if I’m not mistaken. You can always edit the text files which define the hotkeys for your chosen setup.

You can locate them here:
X\bin\config\Keyboard

where X is your MotionBuilder install directory.

In your case these are the lines you are looking for

action.tool.character.activate_soft_release = {NONE:QDN}
action.tool.character.deactivate_soft_release = {NONE:QUp}

Pasted from my own file. This sets “Q” as the release button.
Hope this helps.

#3

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