Editor Hotkeys

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Please note that this article was originally written for Age of Mythology. It may need to be updated to conform with the Age of Empires 3 editor.

Want to know hot to make your own custom hotkeys? See the Custom Hotkey Guide! The Age of Empires 3 scenario editor is said to be mutch speedier than AOK's and will let you string down a map fairly quickly. There have been tons of hotkeys implimented to the editor to help you create your map. A hotkey is a keyboard command that shortcuts to an action. Here is a list of the hotkey commands in the editor. Note that I've discovered a few hidden features as well. An asterisk(*) = means the hotkey opens a hidden feature.

Table of contents

6 Elevation and Lighting

7 Change Player

8 Painting

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Main

*e = Shortcut to Editor Commands
t = Paint Land
o = Place Unit
*alt-o = opens place object menuv
*r = Opens Roughen Settings
*control-shift-s = Quick Save - saves the game as a quicksave game (evan in scenario editor)
control-shift-q = Brush size square
*control-shift-h = Brush size hallow square
*control-shift-r = Brush Size Rectangular
esc = Clear Menu/Blank Menu
*control-s = Save Scenario Browser interface (useless - no way to reload browser)
control-L = Load Scenario
control-a = open Animation Viewer

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Brush Size

1=
2 =
3 =
4 =
5 = [Changes brush size]
6 =
7 =
8 =
9 =
*alt-mouseclick-move = Change Brush Size

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Camera Controls

alt-shift-c = enable free camera control
ctrl+a = pitch up
ctrl+z = pitch down
page up = move up
page down = move down
+ = zoom in
- = zoom out

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Interface Hotkeys

control-y=redo
control-e = elevation
control-p = Paint
control-a = elevation sample
control-s = smoothen
control-r- = roughen
w = paint water
c = paintcliff
f = paint forest
control-u= move unit
control-t = Triggers
control-i = Camera Tracks
*alt-r = render Obstruction Manager (doesn't work)
*alt-c = Disable Camera Rotation

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Brushes

[ = circular brush type
] = rectangular brush type
*control-mousedown = Increase brush size
*control-mouseup = decrease brush size

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Elevation and Lighting

*ctrl-, = Raise elevation 1 tile
*ctrl-. =lower elevation 1 tile
*//sun orientation
*y = Increase sun inclination
*shift-y = Decrease sun incliniation
*alt-y = Rotate Sun Clockwise
*alt-shift-y = Rotate Sun counterclockwise
please note, changing lighting settings are not saved with your scenario. However, you can change sun inclination to "highlight" elevation, making it easier to see and easier to work in detail with it

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