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zoom and pan shortcuts?
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:02 am
by buijon
I know i saw them somewhere in the built in tutorials (after struggling for a while) but i haven`t used the program in 2 weeks and forgot. How can you pan and zoom without having to click the tools each time? Isn`t there a keyboard shortcut like PS where you hold Space and drag?
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 6:32 am
by myles
Right-mouse-button drag (no key necessary) for panning around the workspace, scroll-wheel for zooming in and out (Shift right-drag if you don't have a scroll-wheel, and you can set this up to drag a zoom-box around the area of interest). Ctrl right-drag for workspace rotation.
As recently posted by rplate in the Tips & Techniques section, Esc to zoom to the current layer contents (Shift-Esc to selected points), and Home to reset the working view.
I think multi-button scroll mice for the Macs work the same but I don't know the Mac single-button mouse equivalents off-hand.
You can find these in the manual rigt down the very bottom under Appendix; Anime Studio shortcuts.
For actual camera manipulation during animation, hover the mouse over the toolbar buttons. In the pop-up tooltips the shortcut keys are displayed.
Regards, Myles.
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 4:22 pm
by buijon
is there i way i could set it up to make crtl_+ and ctrl_- to be the zooming? And another button to be pan? I`m using a stylus that the buttons are broken on :\
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 11:17 pm
by myles
You can click on the zoom or pan buttons in the toolbar and then left-drag to the left and right for zoom or just left-drag anywhere for pan (or set preferences to left-drag a zoom-box).
You can set up shortcut keys for the zoom and pan buttons by editing the _tool_list.txt file (make a backup first, you will be held responsible for any breakages if you decide to do this).
Short of scripting, I don't think there is an easy way of setting up Ctrl+ and Ctrl- for zoom "jump levels".
Regards, Myles.
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 3:00 am
by bluehickey
Wow, this is great, I was wasting so much time clicking on those icons in the tool bar! I'll have to check out those shortcut tips in the Appendix. (Would have been helpful if they would have listed the shortcuts when you are going through the tutorials.)
Pan and Zoom with tablet pen
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 2:12 pm
by Marieke
I just found out how to zoom and pan more easily with my tablet pen.
You have to click on the magnifier glass in the toolbar, but after that, the top of the pen button zooms in and out, the lower side of that penbutton to pan.
Still have to click the magnifier glass first, but its faster like this than having to click the glass, then the pan-hand, then the glass etc...
Anyone found a way to not even have to click the magnifiing glass? Like in photoshop cmd-space?
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 4:29 pm
by VĂctor Paredes
Do you mean shift + drag right click?
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 4:26 pm
by arfa
Would have been helpful if they would have listed the shortcuts
I put together a cheat sheet a while back as part of my AS study
viewtopic.php?t=12733
It is no doubt missing bits for ver6 but may still be useful