Setting up Hotkeys in Zbrush

Setting up Hotkeys in Zbrush

Having easy assessable hotkeys for changing brushes in Zbrush is a tremendous time-saver and will make the task of sculpting much more intuitive. Press 'b' on the keyboard to bring up the brush menu. Hold down 'ctrl' and 'alt' simultaneously and click on a brush in the brush menu window. You will see a message just below the top menu “click any key combination to assign a custom hotkey”. Press they key combo you desire to assign. You will need to save your custom hotkeys for them to be available when Zbrush starts back up. Goto the top menu and find Preferences / Hotkeys and click save. Browes to the zbrush startup folder. On a Windows system the default install path is C:\Program Files (x86)\Pixologic\ZBrush 4R6\ZStartup\HotKeys - click the StartupHotkeys.txt file and click save. Agree to the overwrite. Zbrush stores the HotKey assignments as a flat text file. You can also build hotkey assignments by modifying this text file in a text editor like notepad. Here's what my StartupHotkeys file looks like – copy and past this and overwrite if you want to use mine. Or just replace with the provided StartupHotkeys.txt file. - right click on the link and do "Save link as..." //ZBrush Hotkeys [BRUSH:MORE ITEMS,98] // B [BRUSH:STANDARD,53] // 5 [BRUSH:SMOOTH STRONGER,5447795] // Popup+S [BRUSH:MOVE ELASTIC,5054565] // Popup+E [BRUSH:MPOLISH,7151728] // Popup+P [BRUSH:CLIPCURVE,4399203] // Popup+C [BRUSH:CLAYLINE,4399212] // Popup+L [BRUSH:CLAYBUILDUP,50] // 2 [BRUSH:DAM_STANDARD,51] // 3 [BRUSH:TRIMDYNAMIC,49] // 1 [BRUSH:MOVE,52] // 4 [BRUSH:INFLAT,54] // 6 [BRUSH:SLASH3,55] // 7 [BRUSH:FORMSOFTB,56] // 8 [BRUSH:POLISH,57] // 9