Post #149921 by Tiki-bot on Tue, Mar 29, 2005 11:36 AM

3DS Max installs with default hotkeys for a few basic functions, probably 50 of them or so. There's a really simple hotkey assignment menu where you can assign any key or combination of keys to any of the thousand or so commands in the program. Plus, you can reassign those default keys if you like. You can then save that to a .txt file and can take or send it anywhere.

In my experience, probably 80% of users don't heavily customize their hotkeys, but it really sppeds things up once you settle into a certain way of working. This is where PS drives me nuts. I spend as much time clicking on and adjusting tools as I do actually doing the work. I honestly don't know how people can work effeciently by always having to travel clear across the screen every couple of seconds to click on some button, then all the way back to the work area to again find some detailed spot where they were working before (3D work is very painstaking like that). It sounds silly, but it's really not when you consider that you have to go back and forth to the tool area hundreds of times in a day of work.