WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:05.120 Now that you have an understanding of how to customize the Blender interface and are 2 00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:09.160 familiar with many of the user preferences, let's jump back into the user preferences 3 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:13.900 and take a look at how to customize various hotkeys within Blender. 4 00:00:13.900 --> 00:00:17.560 So to customize hotkeys, you're going to go to your user preferences and then underneath 5 00:00:17.560 --> 00:00:21.420 the input panel, you can see your different hotkeys here. 6 00:00:21.420 --> 00:00:26.000 So these are all the different sections that we have available to switch through. 7 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:30.760 There's obviously quite a few of them, but let's just take a look at something simple. 8 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:35.760 So if we wanted to say change the hotkey that you use to rotate the 3D view, which by default 9 00:00:35.760 --> 00:00:41.120 is just middle click and drag, if we wanted to change that, we would first go into the 10 00:00:41.120 --> 00:00:42.240 3D view section. 11 00:00:42.240 --> 00:00:46.680 So we'll toggle this down and let me just expand my window so that you can see this 12 00:00:46.680 --> 00:00:48.840 a little better. 13 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:52.120 And we can, first of all, we'll toggle this back. 14 00:00:52.120 --> 00:00:55.980 I just had looked at it previously, but this is what it should look like by default. 15 00:00:55.980 --> 00:00:59.500 So if we toggle down 3D view, we can then see all the different sections within the 16 00:00:59.500 --> 00:01:05.180 3D view, such as global 3D view, object mode, mesh, curve, armature, et cetera. 17 00:01:05.180 --> 00:01:08.820 And in this case, if I wanted to change how to rotate the view, this is going to be under 18 00:01:08.820 --> 00:01:13.940 3D view global because no matter what editing mode I'm in, it's going to be a global option. 19 00:01:13.940 --> 00:01:17.720 So I'll toggle this down and we can see all the different settings here. 20 00:01:17.720 --> 00:01:20.900 So we've got our rotate view right here. 21 00:01:20.900 --> 00:01:24.140 So first of all, I can enable or disable this. 22 00:01:24.140 --> 00:01:28.700 I can also delete it by hitting the X if I want to just remove this entry completely. 23 00:01:28.700 --> 00:01:33.280 Or to edit it, let's just toggle this down and we can see that this is the actual path 24 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:38.660 for the code that it's using because you can actually, this is the Python path basically. 25 00:01:38.660 --> 00:01:41.500 Next we have the mouse button that it's using. 26 00:01:41.500 --> 00:01:43.580 So this case it's middle mouse button. 27 00:01:43.580 --> 00:01:48.580 And we have, whether it's a press, release, click, or double click, the actual key is 28 00:01:48.580 --> 00:01:49.980 listed here. 29 00:01:49.980 --> 00:01:53.260 And then we have modifier keys right through here. 30 00:01:53.260 --> 00:01:57.820 So I could either, if I wanted to say change this to the left mouse button or something, 31 00:01:57.820 --> 00:02:03.100 I could just click this and then click again and it would be left mouse, or you can change 32 00:02:03.100 --> 00:02:04.400 it here. 33 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:08.000 So in this case, I'm going to leave this at the middle mouse button and I'm just going 34 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:09.380 to add a modifier key. 35 00:02:09.380 --> 00:02:11.860 So we'll just add in the alt key. 36 00:02:11.860 --> 00:02:15.620 So now if I go back to the 3D view, if I middle click and drag, it doesn't do anything. 37 00:02:15.620 --> 00:02:20.340 But if I middle alt, middle click and drag, then it rotates around as expected. 38 00:02:20.340 --> 00:02:23.460 So pretty simple to change most any hot key you wish. 39 00:02:23.460 --> 00:02:27.740 Let's just reset this back to default, which by the way you can also do. 40 00:02:27.740 --> 00:02:30.620 If you just click restore right here, restore is an option. 41 00:02:30.620 --> 00:02:34.780 If any of the hot keys within this section have been edited, if I click restore, that 42 00:02:34.780 --> 00:02:37.920 will restore them back to default. 43 00:02:37.920 --> 00:02:40.700 So you can see all of our different hot keys here. 44 00:02:40.700 --> 00:02:42.820 There's obviously a lot of different ones. 45 00:02:42.820 --> 00:02:47.460 If we get out of the 3D global, we could go into say object mode, which is the mode that 46 00:02:47.460 --> 00:02:48.460 we're in by default. 47 00:02:48.460 --> 00:02:51.780 Again, I'll talk about these here in a little bit, but you can see all the different hot 48 00:02:51.780 --> 00:02:53.540 keys for these. 49 00:02:53.540 --> 00:02:58.620 If you want to add a custom hot key, you can simply click add new, and then you toggle 50 00:02:58.620 --> 00:03:01.520 this down and you can set the Python path. 51 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:06.180 So this gets a little bit more complicated, but basically you find the, as you can see 52 00:03:06.180 --> 00:03:12.540 in the tool tip here, the Python path is the key map item.id name. 53 00:03:12.540 --> 00:03:18.100 And so if we look at any one of these, such as join, you can see that it's object.join. 54 00:03:18.100 --> 00:03:23.860 And this gets much more complicated, but you can find these various ways for the different 55 00:03:23.860 --> 00:03:28.380 objects, such as, for example, if I go to say smooth shading here and I hover over it, 56 00:03:28.380 --> 00:03:36.980 you can see my Python tool tip is bpy or blender python.ops.object.shade.smooth. 57 00:03:36.980 --> 00:03:47.940 So if we were to go back to our user preferences and in this add new, this is going to be object.shade.smooth. 58 00:03:47.940 --> 00:03:52.340 And if I just set this to, let's just say, control shift s. 59 00:03:52.340 --> 00:03:53.340 Whoops. 60 00:03:53.340 --> 00:03:54.500 No, not control shift s. 61 00:03:54.500 --> 00:03:56.060 That's save file. 62 00:03:56.060 --> 00:03:58.820 Let's just do control alt s. 63 00:03:58.820 --> 00:04:00.980 That is also save file. 64 00:04:00.980 --> 00:04:01.980 How about this? 65 00:04:01.980 --> 00:04:06.740 We'll just do, how about alt shift s? 66 00:04:06.740 --> 00:04:07.740 Should work. 67 00:04:07.740 --> 00:04:11.860 We'll set it to alt s and then hit alt and shift. 68 00:04:11.860 --> 00:04:12.860 There we are. 69 00:04:12.860 --> 00:04:16.700 So now if I have this object and I want to shade it smooth, it should do alt shift s 70 00:04:16.700 --> 00:04:18.500 and it will shade it smooth. 71 00:04:18.500 --> 00:04:22.660 So if you want to add the custom hotkeys that aren't already there, that's how you do it. 72 00:04:22.660 --> 00:04:28.060 You first find the tool path, then you set the key and any modifier keys that you want. 73 00:04:28.060 --> 00:04:31.260 And then of course you'll save your default configuration. 74 00:04:31.260 --> 00:04:35.180 Or if we don't want this, we can just click delete and it will remove that hotkey. 75 00:04:35.180 --> 00:04:37.380 So that's it for editing hotkeys. 76 00:04:37.380 --> 00:04:41.980 But now real quick, let's take a look at a very easy way to add hotkeys. 77 00:04:41.980 --> 00:04:46.700 What I've just showed you was a little bit cumbersome, but also very good because it's 78 00:04:46.700 --> 00:04:52.340 very, very precise and you can do absolutely anything you want with the hotkeys basically. 79 00:04:52.340 --> 00:04:56.020 But in most cases, if you want to just add a hotkey very quickly, you don't want to have 80 00:04:56.020 --> 00:04:57.620 to go through that entire process. 81 00:04:57.620 --> 00:05:02.540 And sometimes you may even want to add a hotkey that's only a temporary one for a specific 82 00:05:02.540 --> 00:05:04.420 project that you're working on. 83 00:05:04.420 --> 00:05:08.160 You can actually add hotkeys simply by right clicking on the tool. 84 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:12.200 So for example, going back to the smooth shading, if we want to add a hotkey back for 85 00:05:12.200 --> 00:05:17.480 the flat shading, I can simply right click on it, choose add shortcut, and then maybe 86 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:21.800 I'll just hit Alt Shift and F and that will add in the hotkey. 87 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:27.080 So if I hit smooth now and then Alt Shift F, it will set that back to smooth shading. 88 00:05:27.080 --> 00:05:33.680 And if we take a look at our 3D view global hotkeys now down at the bottom, it has given 89 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:36.640 it should underneath object mode. 90 00:05:36.640 --> 00:05:41.200 We should now have one for shade flat as you can see here. 91 00:05:41.200 --> 00:05:47.040 So it's done the exact same thing as doing it manually, but it's obviously added it much 92 00:05:47.040 --> 00:05:48.040 quicker. 93 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:53.000 Now the reason that I showed you how to do it step by step manually beforehand is because 94 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:57.320 there will be some cases where it's not really possible to do that. 95 00:05:57.320 --> 00:06:02.980 So for example, if you wanted to say add a hotkey for some of these options down here, 96 00:06:02.980 --> 00:06:10.020 such as maybe switching the limit selection to visible to on or off, if you right click 97 00:06:10.020 --> 00:06:12.620 on this, there is no hotkey for this. 98 00:06:12.620 --> 00:06:18.040 However, you can find the data path here by saying use occlude geometry. 99 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:20.540 So by doing it manually, you can add a hotkey for this. 100 00:06:20.540 --> 00:06:25.600 But since this is not a normal command, then sometimes you can't do that. 101 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:30.520 And so for most tools, adding the hotkey via right click works great, you can change or 102 00:06:30.520 --> 00:06:32.660 remove shortcuts that way as well. 103 00:06:32.660 --> 00:06:34.820 But other times you have to do it manually. 104 00:06:34.820 --> 00:06:36.540 So that's why I showed you both. 105 00:06:36.540 --> 00:06:38.700 That's it for editing hotkeys. 106 00:06:38.700 --> 00:06:41.800 Very extensible, but a little complicated at times. 107 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:44.600 But again, you can set a hotkey for basically anything. 108 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:46.180 And so it really works quite well.