Also the search option. when pressing space the floating menu’s first point on the list is search aslo… so if you press space again, does it not go into search? Will have to dig into the search option. Will admit that in 2.79 it was the most common “shortcut” I used for things like bridge tool. now being under F3, I have to move my entire hand upwards to access it…
Pressing the spacebar now pops up a floating menu version of the Tool bar. If you want to search for a function, press the F3 key, or Command + F in Blender macOS.
The biggest plus for me is of course the “favorites toolbar” in a way allows me to bypass the “search” a lot.
I’ve waited a long time with my move to Blender 2.8 because I read everywhere that lots of functions were still buggy or didn’t work yet. But after recently reading in this Blender developers blog post that a beta version is imminent, I decided to take the plunge, and being used to the previous Blender versions I initally had to search for even the simplest functions in 2.8. But it’s gradually growing on me.
I meant that I’ve waited long for that way of switching between modes in Edit Mode in versions prior to Blender 2.8. As far as I know you couldn’t assign your own keyboard shortcuts to those switches in earlier Blender versions.
It’s just the straightforwardness of having individual keys for the modes in stead of having to keep going the Alt + Tab menu route numerous times during a modeling session. It’s been years since I worked with 3ds Max, but I remember it worked that way too. Don’t remember which keys though, but that might as well be 1, 2 and 3.
Though if you press spacebar once, then hover over the search filed and press spacebar again it will activate it (and honeslty any of the options in that menu… though you might as well just click it… same result
Would be better if they did a double spacebar to access it…
@metin… you have been able to assign 123 to vertex/edge/face select for as long as i can remember. there are scripts on the forums that will do it for you or you can just ctrl-tab while in edit mode to bring up the mesh select mode menu, right click on the component type, that will bring up another context menu which has among other options “change shortcut”. (it will overwrite the existing 123 to switch to the first 3 layers)
Thanks for the info @jandress, appreciated. I didn’t know this.
I did have to return to 2.79 a few days ago, when the 2.8 build of that day turned out to be very crashy. But I’ve returned to new, more stable 2.8 builds in the mean time.