Hotkey to quickly select important/frequently used objects in a scene?

jeffpaw

Is there a way to hotkey characters, props, nodes, etc... so that you can quickly jump to them?  Navigating with the scene menu is just horrible, I'm really hoping this is a feature.  

Also... favorite paramaters just disappear when I'm using another character/prop.  is this intended?  

LenioTG

Hi jeffpaw :)

Find that item you're using a lot, and then right click and "Create Custom Action". That way you'll put it in the scripts/favorites menu, and you could even make a shortcut for it customizing your workspace ^^

Richard Haseltine

Are you wanting to jump to items within a scene? Custom actions give quick access to a file, such as a prset, rather than having to find it in a content pane. There are commands for selecting particular types of item, but that grabs everything (in the Scene pane  option menu>Select sub-menu). A script can select an item - I have one that may help in this set https://www.dropbox.com/s/z6ceaiasl8ll5u6/RHSelectionTools.zip?dl=0

Favourites are set for the local scene - if you want to retain them save a Scene Subset or Character Preset with the favourites and in future use that to load the figure.

L'Adair

jeffpaw said:

Is there a way to hotkey characters, props, nodes, etc... so that you can quickly jump to them?  Navigating with the scene menu is just horrible, I'm really hoping this is a feature. 

Are you talking about moving between items already loaded in the scene? Or finding items in the Libraries to add to your scene?

 

jeffpaw said:

Also... favorite paramaters just disappear when I'm using another character/prop.  is this intended?  

Yes, afaik. Favoriting a parameter is specific to the object selected. However, there is filter field above the parameter dials. If you need to change a specific parameter on several items, you can isolate the parameter by typing letters into that field. I frequently type "opa" into the field so I can view just the opacity parameters of the selected object(s), (works for both Iray and 3Delight materials.) You can, of course, type the full word, too.

heinzerbrew_f94794efff

Any luck with this? I would love to be able to jump from one character's head to a hand or garment with a hotkey. Was Richard's script helpful for this?

Random

I have a related question. In Poser you can select an object or a body part and then hold down the shirft key and no matter how you futzed with moving around in your scene that object or part remained selected. Is there a key that will do that in Studio?

jeffpaw

TGFan4 said:

Find that item you're using a lot, and then right click and "Create Custom Action". That way you'll put it in the scripts/favorites menu, and you could even make a shortcut for it customizing your workspace ^^

Unfortunately this only adds the item to the scene, it doesn't select it.  

Richard Haseltine said:

A script can select an item - I have one that may help in this set

Looks like the zip files are only for Daz 2 & 3.  Do these work with 4.10? 
Even so I'm out of my league here... Which script exactly? 
Can you briefly describe how to utilize a script to select a particular object in the scene?  Would be very useful!

heinzerbrew_f94794efff said:

Any luck with this?

Not yet lmao.  

 

LenioTG

Indeed it does, jeffpaw!

Then I guess there's no solution yet :(

Richard Haseltine

jeffpaw said:

 

Richard Haseltine said:

A script can select an item - I have one that may help in this set

Looks like the zip files are only for Daz 2 & 3.  Do these work with 4.10? 
Even so I'm out of my league here... Which script exactly? 
Can you briefly describe how to utilize a script to select a particular object in the scene?  Would be very useful!

I wasn't suggesting using the scipts as is, and yes the DS 3 versions did work with 4.x last I tried, but taking them as inspiration - the one for selecting nodes by label, for example, shows a lot of what you would need to select a specific bone of the selected figure(s).