topic Improving Undo experience in Maya Modeling Forum

Improving Undo experience

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 05:44:34 GMT

Today when performing multiple undo's, I have to click Ctrl+Z every time, meaning, if I want to go 50 steps backward, I need to hit Ctrl+Z 50 times. This is... bad. A better experience will be to just hold Ctrl+Z once and run the undo's backward until I release.

Re: Improving Undo experience

stuzzz — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:10:17 GMT

Hi,

This does not make sense to undo until release the hotkey. Actually it's quite unsafe.

What you need is a little script with a for-loop

Re: Improving Undo experience

yaki.pasandiLTPNP — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 16:12:57 GMT

I tend to disagree as this is common behavior in almost every software I've work with my entire life.

One example is Blender. Great undo experience and they also provide you with undo history.

To me it makes much more sense then hitting ctrl+z 50 times to go back 50 steps.

Re: Improving Undo experience

mspeer — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 20:11:50 GMT

Hi!

I agree with @stuzzz on this.

There are multiple reasons why this would not be a good idea (less control, stability, time required to undo all steps,...)

An undo history makes much more sense here.

Even if there is no Undo history shown in UI you can access this with scripting and as suggested by @stuzzz it should be possible to undo a specific amount of steps with a custom script.

However even with this solution there is one major drawback, while this can work good for undoing simple edits, it can take a huge amount of time when more complex operations have been used like Retopologize.

In many cases it's way faster (and more stable) to delete unwanted edit nodes or load a previously saved scene.

So there are some solutions to recover a previous state with the need for hitting undo multiple times,

but of course almost everything can be improved.

Please add new feature requests for Maya here:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-ideas/idb-p/968