Making a custom keymap for Blender

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A full walkthrough of how I make the Hybridkeys custom keymap for Blender. Recorded in 4.0 but still applicable to later versions (latest version 4.5 as of this writing). Also goes into some of the problems with the keymap editor and the default keymap and things to watch out for while customizing your hotkeys. Finished keymap can be found on Gumroad or Right Click Select.

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

00:36 Initial setup

01:22 ALT camera

11:18 Remember to save

12:52 Pie menus

18:34 QWER Transforms

38:22 Extrude

40:27 Object sub-modes

43:51 Python commands

45:22 Mesh Loops

46:30 Animation

58:28 Painting & Grease Pencil

1:04:23 General advice

1:07:19 Readme check

1:07:41 Press NOT Click

1:13:05 CTRL-Y Redo

1:13:42 Finalizing

1:16:29 Test & release


Relevant Right Click Select proposals for keymap editor issues:

  • Unify similar operations into a single hotkey setting: https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/Pncbbc/
  • Remember Preferences window size and position: https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/TBdbbc/
  • Select on mouse Press NOT Release/Click: https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/gpWk/

Bug reports:

  • Extrude expand issue mentioned at 39:02 : https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/141506
  • Disappearing hotkey issue mentioned at 48:22 : https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/118586
  • Restore issue shown at 1:13:53 : https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/86228
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