geneome » Hot Keys http://www.geneome.com Just a guy, into 3D. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:48:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Middle Mouse Button Emulation In Houdini http://www.geneome.com/2008/10/16/middle-mouse-button-emulation-in-houdini/ http://www.geneome.com/2008/10/16/middle-mouse-button-emulation-in-houdini/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:45:00 +0000 Eugene http://www.geneome.net/?p=485 ]]> I wanted to post this for a while as being “for the record” since when I searched for it a while back nothing came up. So, for the sake of the search engines (and those interested) I’ll post my grand discovery. Being an occasional laptop user I have only two mouse buttons unless I bust out the USB trackball mouse. In Houdini there is a bunch of stuff you can do that requires the middle mouse button, so I wanted that middle button without having to go search for external hardware. Behold! The answer!:

Click the left and right mouse buttons simultaneously to get middle mouse button functionality.

(Thumbnail image from Declan Jewell under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License)
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