Keyboard Shortcuts

Many tools and features in Moho can be accessed quickly by pressing a single key. These shortcuts make working with Moho much faster than the regular method of moving the mouse to a toolbar and clicking a button, and are worth learning to reduce your drawing and animation time. However, all these features are also available through standard user interface elements (buttons and menus), so learning these shortcuts isn't a requirement to using Moho.

Note: these shortcuts are not the same as "menu shortcuts". Many of Moho's menu commands can be accessed through the keyboard - for example, <Ctrl>-S will save the current document. Those types of shortcuts are listed next to the menu item they apply to: just run the program and look at a menu to find the shortcut.

Many of the keyboard shortcuts in Moho are used to activate a tool in a toolbar. If you want to know whether a tool has a shortcut, hold the mouse over the tool, and watch the tooltip that appears. If the tooltip has a single letter at the end (ex: "Translate (T)"), then that key can be used as a shortcut to activate the tool. These keyboard shortcuts are not listed here - just look at the tooltips in Moho if you want to learn these shortcuts.

Some keyboard shortcuts work all the time, and some only apply in certain editing modes in Moho (Draw, Fill, Bones, and Animation): the tables below lists all the shortcuts and when they can be used.

Can be used any time
Key Action
Escape Automatically adjust the view to see everything in the active layer
Home Reset the view to see the overall project
F1-F4 Switch between Moho editing modes
Enter/Return De-select everything
C Select all points that are connected to the current selection
Drag with right mouse button Pan the workspace - hold shift to zoom the workspace
Animation Mode
Key Action
Left Arrow Step back one frame in timeline - hold shift to rewind
Right Arrow Step forward one frame in timeline - hold shift to advance to end of animation
Spacebar Play/stop the animation
Mesh Layer - Draw Mode
Key Action
Delete/Backspace Delete the currently selected points
Spacebar Weld two points together - usually used with the Translate tool
Mesh Layer - Fill Mode
Key Action
Delete/Backspace Delete the selected shape
Spacebar Define a shape based on current selection
Up Arrow Raise selected shape up one level - hold shift to raise to top
Down Arrow Lower selected shape down one level - hold shift to lower to bottom
Mesh Layer - Bone Mode
Key Action
Spacebar Bind points to selected bone
Up Arrow Select parent of current bone
Down Arrow Select child of current bone (only works if current bone has just one child)
Bone Layer - Bone Mode
Key Action
Up Arrow Select parent of current bone
Down Arrow Select child of current bone (only works if current bone has just one child)
Delete/Backspace Delete the selected bone (and any child bones)