The Z hotkey has apparently been around since 2014 or earlier. But it is at least something I can remove.
The Ctrl-V hotkey is new, apparently introduced about Maya 2016 or so. This one is apparently hard-coded into the application somewhere. There are four contexts for this hotkey in Edit(Common), Time Editor, Node Editor, and UV Editor. Nothing is listed for the Outliner. I apparently can't turn this off without breaking normal copy/paste functionality it would seem. There is absolutely no excuse or justification for this kind of sloppiness in interface design. You want there to be impediments to this kind of action in order to insure that it's a proper action to take. Copy a scene unto itself? Really? In who's world is that a common or frequently required need? It's just so ironic, Maya desperately needs streamlining of this type at the interface level, but only if it is useful. This is not useful, nor is it logical, or desirable. I've been waiting 20 years for Maya developers to make standard hotkeys for Outliner, Graph Editor, Hypergraph(Multilister before that), Attribute Editor, and Render View. Stuff that gets opened and used a lot! But there are hotkeys for such obscure things as Lock Curve Length? If you are a Softimage person new to Maya, and you are wondering why everybody seems to have peculiar or nonstandard workflows while in it, this is why. I'm about to trash the standard hotkeys for nth time in 20 years. First removed hotkey: Z First new hotkey: Outliner = 8 Incidentally, I'm still waiting for Maya to delete the 40000+ duplicate geometry objects from my scene. If it completes successfully I might be able to recover the scene... next week. Joey -----Original Message----- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Morten Bartholdy Sent: Friday, August 25, 2017 4:46 AM To: Official Softimage Users Mailing List. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list <softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: Re: What were they thinking.... What gems you found there. The lack of logical thinking behind the Maya UI and tool design is appalling - I am greying rapidly these days. Morten > Den 24. august 2017 klokken 23:50 skrev "Ponthieux, Joseph G. > (LARC-E1A)[LITES II]" <j.ponthi...@nasa.gov>: > > > Having been requested to do a project that would be best suited to do in Maya > because of some of the features Maya provides by default, namely fluids, I > have been using Maya several weeks for the first time in a really long while. > > I thought I would share, especially from a Softimage perspective, apparently > Maya has some hidden hotkeys and some hidden commands associated to existing > hotkeys that did not exist in the past. > > > 1. Z key executes Undo. > > a. Its supposed to be Ctrl-Z, not Z, but apparently Z by itself does > the same thing > > b. As a former Softimage user, prone to hitting the Z key very often, > I've been hitting this key a lot this week. > > c. This command is documented, at least its searchable in the hot key > editor. > > d. The command is redundant and inconsistent and makes it to easy to > undo something. > > e. It has the potential to bite you by undoing your work without your > knowledge. > > > > 2. Ctrl-V executes a scene read, of the currently saved scene into the > existing scene > > a. This happens if you are in the outliner > > b. Its basically the equivalent of import scene > > c. It uses the current scene name as the import > > d. If the scene is previously saved it will add a copy of the scene into > the existing scene > > e. I was in outliner, renaming groups for a massively large scene, in > excess of 40000 objects, I forgot to double click an item in the outliner to > initiate the rename of the object name, now it is reading another 40,000+ > objects into my scene. It will be tomorrow before I can salvage it, if at > all... > > f. This command is undocumented, the hot key editor provides no > context for this behavior related to the outliner. > > > > 3. This occurs in Maya 2017. I am sure there are other insanities like > this lurking. Be warned.... > > > Joey > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with > "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
