Timesaving: Hammer's shortcuts.

Trying to put together a comprehensive list of shortcuts for hammer, I myself don't know all of them, and use even less.

Tool selection, these are the most important by far:

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Action:	Shortcut:	Notes:
Select	Shift+s	Mouse click on selected object changes mode
Magnify	Shift+g	Defunct, never ever used this.
Camera	Shift+c	Defunct due to easy navigation without it
Entity tool	Shift+e
Block tool (new brush)	Shift+b
Texture application	Shift+a
Apply current texture to selection	Shift+t	Requires a brush to be selected and for the texture application window to not be open
Overlay tool	Shift+o
Clipping tool	Shift+x	multiple times to change mode - white side stays, red side is deleted
Vertex manip	Shift+v	multiple times to change mode
Group selected	ctrl+g
Ungroup selected	ctrl+u
Toggle group ignore	ctrl+w
Toggle texture lock	shift+l
Run map	F9

3D viewport navigation, also incredibly useful for getting around your map quickly:

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Action:	Shortcut:	Notes:
Pitch	up/down keys	rotation
Yaw	left/right keys	rotation left/right
'Sidestep' left/right	a/d keys
Forwards/backwards	w/s keys/mouse wheel
Center on currently selected object	shift+ctrl+e
Lock view to mouse	z key	Feels wierd, I never use it but it mimics the camera tool
Toggle fullscreen 3D view	shift+z

(Using the camera tool is a waste of time because these navigational keys work all the time as long as the mouse is over the 3D view)

Entities:

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Action:	Shortcut:	Notes:
Tie to entity	ctrl+t	brush based only
Move to world	shift+ctrl+w	brush based only
Open properties	alt+enter

Manipulation:

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Action:	Shortcut:	Notes:
Transform	ctrl+m	Opens a precise rotation/scale/translate popup/
Snap slected to grid	ctrl+b
Snap selected to grid individually	shift+ctrl+b
Toggle auto snapping	shift+w	Be careful with this!
Override auto snapping	alt+drag
Clone selection	shift+drag
Select multiple	ctrl+click	First, just click then after that hold ctrl for every new entity/brush
New vertex pair	ctrl+f	With a midpoint vertex pair selected only
Flip selection horizontally	ctrl+l
Flip selection vertically	ctrl+i
Increase/decrease grid size	[/]	[ reduces the size and ] increases it.
Increase/decrease grid size	alt+a/alt+s	alt+a reduces the size and alt+s increases it.
Center 2D view on selection	ctrl+e
Toggle 3D view manipulation	x key
Hide selection	h key
Hide unselected	ctrl+h	Can be more useful than cordon!
Unhide all	u key
Toggle radial cordon	c key	Makes hammer lag up a ton, always the same radius around the camera, virtually useless feature.

Texture application, with the texture application window open:

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Action:	Shortcut:	Notes:
Apply slected texture to face	right click	keeps current x/y scale and offset as well as rotation.
Align texture to selected along common edge	alt+right click	Incredibly useful, like the previous except it leaves no seam along the join - excelent for rounded corners, displacements and rotated brushes
Select face normal	alt+right click	Displacements only, 'face normal' mode only. Changed direction of motion to parallel to the normal of the face you selected, works on any brush, not models
Scale displacement adjust radius	alt+left drag	Drag up/down to change scale

Misc:

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Action:	Shortcut:	Notes:
Open Valve developer community wiki	F1
Create prefab from selected	ctrl+r	Make sure the selected stuff is at the origin!
Check map for problems	alt+p	lists 'problems' in a popup window
Toggle FPS counter in 3D view	o key
Toggle bounding boxes in 3D view	i key
New map	ctrl+n
Open VMF	ctrl+o

If there's any I missed or you'd like further explaination of them just say!

 

Awesome

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These form the upper boundaries of skill level in hammer. Master as many as possible, especially the shift tool commands, and your speed will vastly increase.

 

That's funny, I use the 'z' for navigation in the 3d view all the time, as I can keep my left hand on the keyboard near the other shortcuts, and my right hand on the mouse. And I find wasd+mouse navigation quite normal, it's just like noclipping around the map.

One correction: You've got "Move to world" as "ctrl+w", when it's actually ctrl+shift+w.

Three other things I find essential for navigation in the 2D views: mousewheel zooms, Ctrl+mousewheel zooms all the 2D views at the same time, and hold down the spacebar and drag to pan around.

There's also list of shortcuts on the valve wiki here: http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Hammer_Hotkey_Reference

 

Increase/decrease grid size [/] [ reduces the size and ] increases it.

I would also add Alt + A and Alt + S, since those are both left hand commands, I find them very useful compared to [ or ], which requires me to a) move my left hand across my keyboard or b) take my hand off the mouse.

 

I had it as ctrl+shift+w which is what hammer says but then boojum said it was just ctrl+w. I tried ctrl+w and that worked for me.

 

Here is a printer friendly version in a pdf. Youme, feel free to use this in the original post. All notes were excluded as they wouldn't fit all on one page (sorry ). Well here's the Link

 

Added - Toggle fullscreen 3D view | shift+z

 

Awesome list. Going on my wall

I use z:mouselook all the time too. Personal preference, I guess

And maybe this topic is somewhat verboten, but ctrl+shift+c to use the 'carve' tool...?

 

Wow, good job! This is going to save me alot of time in the future. I need to remember to print this once I get my regular computer operational.

 

:O Bumping this! Saved me so much time!

 

Missed this post previously.

/bookmarked

 

You forgot Alt+e when in vertex mode. It opens the vertex scaling dialog.

 

Necrobawmp much.
I don't think that he will be updating this

 

Ya maybe not but you never know someone may see that and it will help them!

 

True, true.

 

Hey wow! I never would've noticed this without the necrobump! Thanks for your necro-skills Mr. Happy!

 

Why not just sticky it?

/thread

 

Its already stickied...

 

You missed quicksave!!
Ctrl+S

It's the only hotkey I use, and I use it alot. Like every minute or so