Aren’t the bracket keys [ ] used for modifying the Draw Size in ZBrush?
For some reason, it’s not working for me in ZBrush 2.03 for MAC OS X… is this a bug? or is there some other key to increase and decrease the Draw Size on this platform?
Pressing “S” works to get the Draw Size pop-up slider, but what about an equivalent to the bracket key commands?
Please help…
~K
I was under the impression that the keys were the same, but since I don’t have a Mac I can’t run a test.
However, have you tried the hot key editor?
Thanks for the suggestion, aurick. No, I haven’t tried this Hot Key Editor yet. Cool, I will download and install it. Perhaps that will at least point me in the right direction of the current hot key for it, and give me an opportunity to reassign it. Good thinking!
~K
Hello,
I have a German keyboard where I enter the brackets with pressing the ALT-Key. So I always get the mask tool in ZBrush.
Hot Key Editor is installed but I can’t find the place to change it. I want to use the “,” and “.” for in and decrease the draw size. Is that possible?
Many thanks in advance
Locate the button that you want to change the hotkey for. Ctrl+click on it. Without moving the cursor away from the button, press the new key that you want to use.
Once the new hotkeys are working as you want them to, be sure to save them through the Preferences palette.
The problem is that the draw size is not a button but a slider, Aurick, so CTRL-clicking is not going to work this time because it’ll only replace the “S” hotkey that brings up the slider for draw size.
I figured it out on the mac version. For some odd reason, the 3.2 update no longer allowed you to adjust the draw size with the “[” and “]” keys so I compared the files of the new version (3.2) with the files from (3.12B) and found the answer.
In the hotkeys folder (within the zstartup folder), there’s a file called “StartupHotkeys.TXT”. I opened it up and added the following lines:
[ZPLUGIN:MISC UTILITIES :<<BRUSH,91] // [
[ZPLUGIN:MISC UTILITIES :BRUSH>>,93] // ]
Nice find – thanks for posting, primitivehuman.
Draw Size is a slider, yes. But the brush size incrementation feature is two buttons found in the Zplugin>Misc Utilities menu. You can assign hotkeys to these.
In fact, those two lines of code that you give are simply the results of those hotkeys being assigned.
Found it, Aurick. If one was to go by the guide of default Zbrush shortcuts (outlined here: http://www.pixologic.com/docs/index.php/ZBrush_3_Shortcuts), someone would probably assume its native functionality.
After seeing the shortcut key code, it definitely indicated that it was a plugin, though. I saw it in under “Zdata / Zplugs” (HotKeyDrawSize.zsc).
It would be nice to change the increment to only 5 units instead of 10. I tried to write a Macro, but it records the actual amount in the slider instead of the increment change so it looks to be impractical without an SDK.
Wow, thanks, Marcus. That works perfectly.
The brackets for brush sizes [] do not work for me on my Z-Brush 3.12 on Mac…PLEASE HELP!!
to complete what Primitive Human said, i’m using win 7 x64 and for some reason what PH said didnt work for me and this is because in win 7 (or on my apple keyboard) the numbers 91 and 93 do not equal “[” and respectively “]”
i wanted to assign [ and ] functionality to other keys. what i did is that i went to misc:utilities and looked an the keyboard status line and picked up the numbers for my desired keys. the result was writing this in the hotkey startup text:
[ZPLUGIN:MISC UTILITIES :<<BRUSH,99] // C
[ZPLUGIN:MISC UTILITIES :BRUSH>>,100] // D
works for me.
fail! i was tired as i was reading aurick’s post. i was looking in preferences utilities, not zplugin utilities…
Thanks a million for this. On a Mac, just fixed the text file using [] for the hot keys, restarted Zbrush and it all works perfectly. Yay. Just like the Photoshop keys.