I made this request many years ago, but I'll try again.
There are now so many menu items and so many tools, that the basic keyboard shortcuts aren't cutting it. There are only so many combinations of keys and ways you can contort your hands to run shortcuts. And most of the possible shortcuts are already taken. And with the rise in automated things like streamdeck and programmable mice, being able to further expand shortcuts would be very handy. This also benefits people like myself who build large custom workspaces with custom tools and scripts.
I again propose a system like Cinema 4Ds. In addition to Command-X (or Control-X), or Command-Option-Shift-X, allow hierarchical double-key shortcuts. For instance, to grab the mirror tool in Cinema 4D, you press M then H (M for a mesh list, and H for mirror). This increases the available shortcuts by multiple times and allows easy programmability for other devices.
The current shortcut system is limited to just over 200 shortcuts. That's a lot, and it does cover the most-used tools. But those, combined with double-key shortcuts could easily allow for well over 1000.
Obviously, this would probably kill some current shortcuts, and would require a change in muscle memory, but there would be a lot of gain on the other side.
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I made this request many years ago, but I'll try again.
There are now so many menu items and so many tools, that the basic keyboard shortcuts aren't cutting it. There are only so many combinations of keys and ways you can contort your hands to run shortcuts. And most of the possible shortcuts are already taken. And with the rise in automated things like streamdeck and programmable mice, being able to further expand shortcuts would be very handy. This also benefits people like myself who build large custom workspaces with custom tools and scripts.
I again propose a system like Cinema 4Ds. In addition to Command-X (or Control-X), or Command-Option-Shift-X, allow hierarchical double-key shortcuts. For instance, to grab the mirror tool in Cinema 4D, you press M then H (M for a mesh list, and H for mirror). This increases the available shortcuts by multiple times and allows easy programmability for other devices.
The current shortcut system is limited to just over 200 shortcuts. That's a lot, and it does cover the most-used tools. But those, combined with double-key shortcuts could easily allow for well over 1000.
Obviously, this would probably kill some current shortcuts, and would require a change in muscle memory, but there would be a lot of gain on the other side.
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