Progress.
So I’m about a quarter of the way through blocking out the second of three sections for this SP campaign. But that’s not counting all the rework I’m already planning for the initial section.
I want to take a minute to post about a useful tool that I’ve found. It’s the Belkin Nostromo SpeedPad n52. If you don’t know what it is, it’s basically a programmable mini-keyboard for a single hand. Here’s a pic of the newest revision. The one I have isn’t so snazzy looking, but the layout is identical.
It’s great for mapping because I can consolidate all of my oft-used operations to a single hand, with a single keystroke. I’ve got brush, carve, select, and vertex edit all accessible with my thumb, W A S D for zooming around in 3d, copy, delete, ent mode, center on selected, ignore groups, and some other stuff thrown in for good measure.
It’s been a great productivity boost, and I highly recommend it. There are a number of products out there like this one, so you might have better luck with something different. But when you can ditch the editor shortcuts in favor of a single key, and bundle all of your most used operations so you can reach them with one hand, I say do it. You won’t regret it.