Creation Kit Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet : V

» Tue Sep 22, 2015 2:48 pm

Hey there ladies and gentlemen, I hope you're all doing well today. My name is Fitzgerald Lewis and this will be my first formal post to the forums. I'm studying game design at George Mason University in Northern Virginia, currently I'm trying to teach myself the Creation Kit with the aid of youtube tutorials and the wiki. As is my usual modus operandi when learning new software, I've created a reference sheet for keyboard shortcuts. I wanted to share it with you as I imagine some of you will find the visual helpful. This is meant to be printed in landscape mode, but allow this to be my first contribution to the forums and I hope it'll help everyone out.

http://s1244.photobucket.com/user/flewis4/media/creationkitcheatsheet_zps54a88443.jpg.html

» Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:44 am

Thank you for this, it will be helpful

» Tue Sep 22, 2015 9:36 am

One of the first things I did when I started using CK a couple of weeks ago was create a hotkey reference page at the CK wiki if you are interested in contributing:

http://www.creationkit.com/Hotkey_reference

I'll check yours out and compare it against what I have there.

» Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:52 am

When I follow the link, I get a bad gateway error. It seems that the same result occurs when searching for the document through the wiki search bar. Do you have a hard copy linked elsewhere?

» Tue Sep 22, 2015 6:23 pm

that's odd. When I do a search for hotkey reference on the CK wiki it just takes me to the page straightaway. I also have no problem following the link. I don't have another location, but I can put the text in a spoiler (including the wiki markup unfortunately, since I'm just copying from an edit page)

Spoiler

==Hotkey Reference==

===File Menu===

'''ctrl+S''' Saves the currently active plugin

===Edit Menu===

'''ctrl+Z''' Undo the previous action -'' be aware that some actions are not undoable and undo will skip past those to the next available undoable action

'''ctrl+Y''' Redo the last undone action -'' this will also skip forward past actions that are not undoable)

'''ctrl+C''' Copy selection

'''ctrl+X''' Cut selection

'''ctrl+V''' Paste current contents of cut/copy

'''ctrl+shift+V''' Paste current contents of cut/copy to their original worldspace coordinates in the currently active cell

'''ctrl+D''' Duplicates current selection

'''ctrl+F''' Find and replace

'''delete''' delete selection

===Object Translation, Rotation, Scaling and Selection===

=====Default Behavior=====

simply LMB clicking and dragging on an object will translate along the X/Y plane (horizontal)

:To translate an object along a specific axis, hold down the '''X, C''' or '''Z''' key while LMB dragging to constrain translation to X,Y,Z respectively

By default you can rotate an object by RMB clicking on it and dragging. The default behavior is to rotate an object on the z-axis

:If you want to constrain rotation to the x or y-axis, hold down '''X''' or '''C''' respectively

Scaling an object can be achieved by holding down the '''S''' key while LMB dragging

:If one or more lights are selected, holding down '''S''' and LMB dragging will scale light radius

:If one or more lights are selected, holding down '''ctrl+alt+S''' will scale brightness

:''There is no option for non-uniform scaling along individual axes

====Gizmos====

'''E''' Toggles Translation Gizmo

'''W''' Toggles Rotation Gizmo

'''2''' Toggles Scaling Gizmo

:While working with room markers and portals the scaling gizmo will have a different

:appearance than it normally would when working with statics. It will have six arrows

:that can be LMB dragged which will move the corresponding edge or face depending

:on whether you are scaling a portal or a room marker

===Rendering Window===

'''A''' Toggles lit/unlit display mode

'''H''' Enter/exit landscape editing mode

'''D''' Deselect

'''G''' Toggle gizmo orientation between local/world coordinates

'''L''' Toggles light radius display on/off

'''M''' Toggles marker visibility

'''Q''' Toggle grid snapping on/off

:'''shift+Q''' Make current selection snap-to reference

:'''alt+Q''' Clear snap-to reference

:'''ctrl+Q''' Toggle rotation snapping on/off

:'''[''' Decrease snap grid size. Lowest available setting is 16

:''']''' Increase snap grid size. Largest available setting is 512

'''S''' Toggles sound marker visibility

'''T''' Moves render viewport camera to a top-down view centered on current/last selection pivot point

'''U''' Toggles occlusion plane visibility

'''V''' Toggles leaf visibility

'''Y''' Cycles through top-down, side, front and oblique camera views

'''shift+F''' Focuses the camera view on the current selection pivot point and frames bounding box extents

'''ctrl+K''' Returns current selection to 0,0,0 rotation values

'''ctrl+P''' Toggles portal selection mode

'''alt+H''' Run Havok simulation on currently selection

'''alt+T''' Toggles tree visibility

'''1''' Cycles selection through visible, ghosted and hidden

:'''F5''' Returns hidden and ghosted objects to full visibility

'''3''' Toggles visibility of rooms and portals and colors them based on their visibility level from green (fully rendered) to red (not rendered)

'''6''' Toggles sky on/off

'''7''' Toggles wireframe display mode

'''8''' Toggles grass on/off

'''0''' Toggles orthographic camera rendering

'''ctrl+5''' Toggles fog on/off

'''F4''' Toggle collision geometry visibility

'''F5''' Refreshes render window

===Navmesh===

'''ctrl+E''' Toggles navmesh editing mode

'''A''' Create triangle/quad

'''D''' Delete selected object(s)

'''F''' Flood fill

'''G''' Edge-Select mode

'''I''' Inverse flood fill

'''O''' Toggle water

'''P''' Toggle preferred pathing

'''Q''' Merge selected vertices to the location of the first selected vertex

'''R''' Delete selected object(s)

'''T''' Triangle-select mode

'''V''' Vertex-select mode

'''W''' Cycles through navmesh view modes

'''ctrl+F''' Find triangle

'''ctrl+F1''' Finalize current cell's navmeshes

'''ctrl+F2''' Find cover edges for current cell

'''ctrl+F3''' Opens navmesh generation dialog

'''ctrl+F4''' Opens advanced navmesh generation dialog

» Tue Sep 22, 2015 2:17 pm

I was unable to locate it, but thank you for sharing your work as well. With that said, what I would mention as the difference between your work and the reference sheet I created boils down to the intention behind my reference sheet is for "commonly used" keyboard shortcuts. Yours seems much more thorough than mine. That being said, they are both helpful in their own rights. Thanks for sharing, I'm looking forward to sharing my work with the community as time goes along.

- Fitz

» Tue Sep 22, 2015 3:17 pm

Thank you and welcome aboard!

I can't work without hotkeys... Maya has spoiled me with marking menus and hotbox...

» Tue Sep 22, 2015 4:27 pm

There is also a list in the ck: http://i.imgur.com/9J6X4R7.jpg