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Studio keyboard shortcuts

Every hidden keyboard shortcut built into Studio, pulled straight from the game's code, not a wiki guess.

Studio has a full set of keyboard shortcuts that never show up in any menu. I pulled these directly out of the game’s own input handling code, so this is the real, complete list, not a guess. Keep this open in a tab the first few times you pose a scene and most of it will stick.

F tap once Home hold down Ctrl+Z press together

Selecting & moving objects

F

Frame selected. Snaps the camera to look straight at whatever you've selected.

C

Snap to camera. Moves the selected item to sit right in front of your camera.

W

Move gizmo. Same key as Blender, if you're used to that.

E

Rotate gizmo.

R

Scale gizmo.

Q

Toggle the gizmo's axis handles on or off.

J

Toggle the axis translation mode (local vs. world space).

K

Toggle the axis center mode.

V

Hold while dragging to snap the movement to a single axis.

Delete

Delete the selected item(s).

Ctrl+D

Duplicate the selected item(s).

Ctrl+S

Save the scene.

Ctrl+Z

Undo.

Ctrl+Shift+Z

Redo.

Multi-select & hierarchy

Ctrl+Click

Add the clicked item to your current selection, in the viewport or the workspace tree.

Ctrl+Click

Click an already-selected item again while holding Ctrl to drop just that one from the selection.

P

Hold while selecting a second item to attach it as a child of the first.

O

Hold while selecting to detach an item from its parent.

X

Hold while selecting to copy an item along with its full hierarchy.

Camera: quick resets & presets

A

Reset the camera to its default position and angle.

Numpad 5

Reset just the camera's rotation.

/

Reset the camera roll (tilt) back to level.

;

Reset the field of view back to default.

H

Jump to the next saved camera.

0–9

Load camera preset 0 through 9.

Camera: flying around (hold these)

←↑↓→

Pan the camera left, forward, back, and right.

Page UpPage Down

Pan the camera straight up or down.

HomeEnd

Move the camera closer or further away.

Numpad 2/4/6/8

Orbit the camera: pitch up/down, yaw left/right.

.

Roll the camera (tilt the horizon) right or left.

=]

Narrow or widen the field of view, like zooming the lens itself.

B

Hold to temporarily freeze all camera controls, so you stop nudging it by accident.

Menus & system

F2

Open or close Studio's own shortcuts menu (this pauses the scene while it's open).

F11

Take a screenshot.

Esc

Quits straight to desktop. Not a menu, not a confirmation, just closes the game.

Careful with Esc. It doesn't back out of a window or open a pause menu, it exits Studio entirely. Save first (Ctrl+S) if you've been reaching for it out of habit.

None of this needs a plugin. It’s all built into Studio; most of it is just never surfaced anywhere in the UI. If you install GlobalSearch or Radial Menu, a lot of these same actions get a visible button too, but the keys above always work.

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