{"id":161,"date":"2012-02-11T16:19:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T21:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2012-02-11T16:22:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T21:22:32","slug":"maya-hotkeys-for-blender-2-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/11\/maya-hotkeys-for-blender-2-61\/","title":{"rendered":"maya hotkeys for Blender 2.61"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rigging Dojo Link<\/a>! The interest was in the Maya hotkeys for Blender<\/a>. It’s funny because earlier in the week I had a discussion with a coworker about how hard learning Blender is for users of other software.<\/p>\n

I’ve had a newer version put together by the wonderful and talented Rob Garlington<\/a> sitting in my inbox for the past few months, but between moving across town, starting a new job, and getting engaged, I’ve been very lax in blog updates. For the interested, I’ve posted his updated file here:<\/p>\n

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Blender2MayaHotkeys_2.61.zip<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

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It’s a shame that Rob’s setup can’t be added to the main Blender distribution; I think that having “familiar” hotkeys and navigation would go a long way towards swaying users of other packages to give Blender a try and show them that integrating it into any pipeline has its benefits. (I put quotes around “familiar” because the only software I’ve been using longer than Blender is Lightwave<\/a>, so Blender’s hotkey setup has always made sense to me.)<\/p>\n

The following are Rob’s installation notes.<\/p>\n

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Install (Note this has only been tested on Windows 7)<\/b><\/p>\n

Full Functionality Install: (to fully take advantage of the keymap changes)<\/p>\n

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  1. Start Blender and open the ‘startup.blend’ file included in the ‘Blender2MayaHotkeys_2.61.zip\\config’ folder. Then go to ‘file\/save user settings’ (or press ctrl + U) to save this file as the default scene, then close Blender. (This will setup a special directory under your ‘Users’ folder.)<\/li>\n
  2. Go to the folder C:\\Users\\’your name’\\AppData\\Roaming\\Blender Foundation\\Blender\\2.61 (note that the ‘AppData’ directory may be hidden, but it is there nonetheless and you’ll need to unhide it). Extract the contents of the Blender2MayaHotkeys_2.61.zip archive into the 2.61 folder (overwrite files as necessary).<\/li>\n
  3. Open Blender again and it should all be setup. To ensure it’s working, if you go to the ‘Input’ tab under ‘file\/user preferences’ you should see that ‘Maya Advanced’ is loaded into the filter section.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Partial Functionality Install: (Some mouse selection features are missing with this method)<\/p>\n

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    1. Simply open the startup.blend included in the ‘Blender2MayaHotkeys_2.61.zip\\config’ folder. Then go to ‘file\/save user settings’ to save the scene as the default.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Rigging Dojo Link! The interest was in the Maya hotkeys for Blender. It’s funny because earlier in the week I had a discussion with a coworker about how hard learning Blender is for users of other software. I’ve had a newer version put together by the wonderful and talented Rob Garlington sitting in my inbox […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,70,13,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d","category-blender","category-maya","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sugarandcyanide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}