From the course: Wacom Tablet: Customizing ExpressKeys

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ExpressKey shortcuts for CG programs

ExpressKey shortcuts for CG programs

From the course: Wacom Tablet: Customizing ExpressKeys

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ExpressKey shortcuts for CG programs

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- Rather than search through the menus and click around for all the tools that you use most in your 3D programs, set up express key shortcuts to make your life easier. (cymbals) Now if you have access to the sample files in this course, you can print out the shortcuts. You can also pause the video here to see them. These shortcuts can be set as express keys, or on-screen controls, unless I suggest otherwise, and if you have the Wacom remote, you can program more of these suggestions than you can with just the few express keys on your device. So let's take a look. So with Maya, we'll want things like being able to just play the animation, or selecting either the ancestor or the child of the object you're working on, panning around and zooming, and a lot of these are a little more difficult to just use your keyboard, so setting up an express key is very handy. Now you've got some very similar things: select and move, select and rotate, select and scale. Keep those express keys together.…

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