Lost shortcuts

#1

So after installing from the shipped cd, it seems I have lost my Lightwave shortcuts the demo had. If I go to preferences to change this, it only says Maya and Default. Any thoughts?

#2

by shortcuts, do you mean pie configs? I lost a reference to a pie that I had to redo after installing the new licence. This happened on both my main machine and my notebook.

#3

i mean like hitting the ‘H’ key was size and now it’s something to do with hiding…

#4

i dont have an option to switch to lightwave keyboard shortcuts. it only says maya and default. on top of that, now falloff and symmetry wont stick

#5

The options in the prefs are only for the mouse mapping. When you installed it should have give you an option of which keymap to install.

If your using Windows, you can find “appmap_lwm.cfg” in the win32 folder on the CD. Drop it into your resrc forlder in your modo install folder. Also make sure “appmap_maya.cfg” is NOT in your resrc folder.

#6

yeah I’m on a mac. I’ve reinstalled about three times now, all three times I’ve clicked on Lightwave during the install. All 3 times it hasn’t worked :cry:

#7

Same deal on the mac, but it goes into the modo package. RMB on it and pick “Show Package Contents”. Drop the file in Contents->Resources.

#8

ahh thanks. I got you so far. The new file is in the resources folder, but the changes havn’t taken affect. any ideas?

#9

You might have a user config overriding the base one from past attempts.

go to:

home/Library/Preferences

and delete “com.luxology.modo”

Make sure all this is done while modo is not running.

#10

Well, still no change.

Some of the tools are acting different than the downloaded version I had. For example: now if I select a polygon and press “t” for move (which works, but the others like ‘h’ for stretch don’t), I have to actually grab the selected poly, the tool handles don’t grab onto anything (they used to).

I’ve done everything you’ve said to so far. I didn’t have any problems with that.

#11

I know WHAT it’s doing. It’s using the default key map. In the default, ‘t’ is element move. It moves whatever vert, poly, or edge is under the mouse. I’m just not sure why. When modo starts up it should scan all the cfg files in its resources directory, then layer your user config in preferences on top of that. Configs are layered so that later loaded configs overwrite earlier ones.

I’ll grasp at straws here for a second. Can you confirm that you only have one copy of modo installed and that it is the one that is running? Confirm the one running is the one that you put the lightwave keyboard config into.

#12

well I just did a double take just to make sure, there is only one install of modo. before I reinstalled the other times I did a search in the finder for modo and luxology and deleted what it found for the closest thing to a clean install I knew how to do. the config file is in the resources folder of the modo package i’m running. and no i wasn’t running the program when making the changes.

I did try to import the config file itself through modo, under config import. but it didn’t seem to fix the issue.

#13

MUWAHAHa! thanks to your help I figured it out.

Here’s what I did. I deleted the com.luxology file you mentioned about. I looked in the contents of the program. I put the appmapp_lwm.cfg in the resources folder. The trick was to take out a config file already in the resources folder. It wasn’t the maya config. The file name is keymaps.cfg

and wholla.

thanks for the help! :bounce:

#14

I should have caught that one. Glad you got it working.

#15

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