Render hotkey

[Kranky]

I've got a little wish for the new version: a hotkey for rendering like in Blender [F12]. When I'm fine-tuning settings and often need a preview, it would be great to hit only F12 to start rendering the master render node. Or is this function already there and I don't know it?

[neuspadrin]

that would be a handy feature. 

[Naoo]

Hi

Yes "F12" my vote too!


ciao
Naoo

[Oshyan]

I don't think there's a single key, but F3 brings up the render window, and Alt-R will then begin a render...

- Oshyan

[rcallicotte]

Thanks Oshyan.

[Naoo]

Hi

F3 or alt-r won't do anything here under OS X
Is this my mistake or a bug?


ciao
Naoo

[jo]

Hi,

F3 or alt-r won't do anything here under OS X
Is this my mistake or a bug?

Different behaviour on the Mac. cmd-1 opens the Render window ( look in the View menu for the shortcuts ), but you can't start the render with alt-r because the Mac doesn't have mnemonics for buttons etc. like Windows does. If you set full keyboard access to "All controls" in the system Keyboard prefs then you could tab to the Render button.

Regards,

Jo

[Kranky]

I don't think there's a single key, but F3 brings up the render window, and Alt-R will then begin a render...

- Oshyan

But in Blender it is enough to press F12. It is much more easier...



Thanks for the information. This is a lot better than clicking trough the program to the render button. But a single "Start render"-key would be nice

[mt_sabao]

yes, i absolutely agree that having a render key would be very good and a time saver.

[FrankB]

isn't this a little exaggerated and insignificant? I mean, click on renderes, choose the renderer you want and hit the render button.
Takes a second to do for me... how much time are you looking to save with the render key?

regards,
Frank

[Tangled-Universe]

isn't this a little exaggerated and insignificant? I mean, click on renderes, choose the renderer you want and hit the render button.
Takes a second to do for me... how much time are you looking to save with the render key?

regards,
Frank

I agree. If you'd say "it would be very convenient/luxury" I'd say it's fine with me, but just for saving time? No.

Martin

[reck]

I think it would be nice to have a render shortcut key such as the Blender F12 shortcut that instantly started the render using your current render settings. Yeah it's only a small thing but it makes sense to have a key to something that's used so often. Maybe F3 could open just the render window (if this is needed) and F4 open and start the render process, or something similar.

[Naoo]

Hi

@ jo: Thank You, that works

But still F12 would be smarter, than clicking again, and again always twice.


ciao
Naoo

[mt_sabao]

isn't this a little exaggerated and insignificant? I mean, click on renderes, choose the renderer you want and hit the render button.
Takes a second to do for me... how much time are you looking to save with the render key?
regards,
Frank

well, that depends on your workflows. i rely a lot on shortcuts, photoshop, cinema4D etc, and when your constantly doing minor tweaks, and rerendering all the time, having a alt+r shortcut is very handy, comfortable and time saving. So i definitely don't see this as insignificant. Minor yes, but not insignificant in my point of view.
for now i keep the render window on "stay open" and have it on the second monitor, so that i don't have to go all the time to the render tab.

[cyphyr]

Is'nt there an option to set up keyboard mapping individually somewhere?
richard
edit: just checked and although we can set up custom keyboard bindings this dose not at the moment include Render options, easily added I'd have thought and my preferance is for F9