Setting: Keyboard navigation gone

wscottart

So, I can see keyboard navigation in the menu along the top, but none of them are mapped to keys. They have all the arrow symbols and I am unable to zoom or move about with the leyboard. When I go to tool settings I can't see keyboard navigation in the list to map the keys. What am I overlooking?

wscottart

Well I reset the interface to default, and just have to rebuild all the favorites and scripts again. Any suggestion for how to back up and keep a good copy of the added scripts and favorites to rebuild after things get corupted again? I seem to never be able to pull up a good saved workspace when something goes wrong.

Richard Haseltine

Are you sure it wasn't just turned off - shift K by default? Window>Workspace>Customise and look under View Control on the left to change keys (right-click>Change Keyboard Shortcut).

The Customise dialogue will also let you export your layout, or you can just use Window>Workspace>Save Layout As. The sesson fiiles (the state on exit, read on start up) are stored in 

%appdata%/daz 3d/studio4/

(or whichever release channel/instance name you are using).

jjoyner

wscottart said:

Well I reset the interface to default, and just have to rebuild all the favorites and scripts again. Any suggestion for how to back up and keep a good copy of the added scripts and favorites to rebuild after things get corupted again? I seem to never be able to pull up a good saved workspace when something goes wrong.

While unexpected hiccups in Daz Studio do not occur often for me, occasionally they do – sometimes due to my explorations/errors and sometime due to Daz Studio/Windows 10 doing something strange.  A few years ago, I got into the weekly habit of backing up all of my crucial files in case I needed to try to recover from something weird:

AppData -  C:\Users\[myusername]\AppData\Roaming\DAZ 3D

DIM Manifest Files - D:\Public\Documents\DAZ 3D\Install Manager\Manifest Files

My Library - D:\ [myusername]\Documents\DAZ 3D\Studio\My Library

Runtime/Support - E:\My DAZ 3D Library -  Elements SE E\Runtime\Support

Note:  C: is my boot SSD drive where I have Daz Studio installed.

           D: is my internal HDD where I have DIM store its manifest files.

           E: is an external HDD where I install all of my content for Daz Studio, Poser, etc.

I keep the backup files on a separate external HDD.  I have used backup files (although not recently, fortunately) to recover from things like losing/corrupting my Scripts menu, Custom Actions, etc.