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  • Published 3 Dec 2018

Remap constraint buttons.

Why?

Of course it have sense to map axis constraints to same buttons. But in case of Y constraint on Y button - it was kind of uncomfortable to use. Especially if it need to pres Shift + Y or Ctrl + Y . Even for me 1.9 meter tall man with big hands this Y was to far from " comfort " zone to use it easily. In UV Editor it was uncomfortable key mapping to because in UVs vertical constraint is not Z but Y so I need to use it for a lot but it need all the time move all hand to press this key. And because it is far and it need to move all hand I have to look at keyboard to press exactly Y button, I use Blender for long time but still can't pres this Y or Shift + Y automatically without looking at keyboard...


Proposed.

  1. Add settings to let user remap constraint buttons.

I want to remap this constraint for my self but I cant find setting for this. So first of all I ask not to change it for all users but let me set it to something other than Y . If some user want to remap all the constraint key - let him do this.

  1. Maybe - also remap Y constraint to C by default. Perhaps map Y constraint closer to left hand " comfort " zone by default have much more sense than map it to Y because it is Y constraint.

As always - thanks for reading. Also you can check my other suggestions .

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IIIFGIII
3 Dec 2018

5 Comments

martiner2808

I used axis Y with hotkey C in Blender 2.79, I can confirm it is useful.

tutorial on how to change Y to C

but not in English youtube.com/watch

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frederico4d

blender keys are all over the place, it is a mess, I wish all more common keys would be close the left hand, and I try to do that myself, the default is awful, stuff like that would help alot!

daniellapalme

I've been using it C as Y for a while too. It's genuinely the best !

Oskar

Having the option to change these keys would be great.
You might like my proposal . There is an intuitive way for constraining to X,Y,Z with just one key.

mestaty

can't delete my post