How to keyframe selected bones at current angle using Moho 14?

[TheLion]

Hi!

In Moho 12 I was able to add a keyframe to a bone at it's exact current rotation angle by simply clicking on it, using for example the bone transform tool (or by selecting multiple bones and then shift clicking on one of them).
However that does not work in Moho 14 anymore. Clicking a bone without hold dragging the mouse does nothing.
How can I keyframe the rotation of one or multiple bones at the current angle using Moho 14? (And I'm not looking for the freeze all option, I want to keyframe only selected bones)

[Greenlaw]

The behavior of the Transform Bone tool changed in 14.2 because of other improvements made in how bones are keyframed. To keyframe the rotation of a bone with Transform Bone in 14.2, you need to hold Ctrl while clicking on the bone. This is an extra thing to remember, but it's worth it, considering how much easier it is to select and edit a bone within a cluster of overlapping bones now.

If you're using the Manipulate Bones tool, clicking on the bone will keyframe the rotation as it did in 14.1 and earlier. FWIW, if you're animating a character, I highly suggest using this tool instead; it's easier and faster than using Transform Bone. (Tip: you can switch Manipulate Bones to FK mode by holding the Alt key.) One thing Manipulate Bones doesn't do (which I wish it did,) is move a bone. For that, I just tap T to move a bone, then Tap Z to switch back to Manipulate Bones.

Hope this helps.

[Greenlaw]

Wait...sorry, I misunderstood what you were asking.

Here's what I do to keyframe the position of selected bones:

In Keyboard Shortcuts, assign Ctrl+Shift+Q to Freeze Selected Bones. This will keyframe the three channels for only the selected bones, which is what I want when I don't want to use Freeze Pose.

You can assign whatever you like, but this is what my MQC (Moho Quick Click) tool uses. I have the same shortcut assigned to Keyframe Selected Points, which Moho allows because you can only do one or the other at a time. (You'll probably want to uncheck Enable Audio Feedback in Moho's Preferences, otherwise Moho will beep when two shortcuts are shared, which gets pretty annoying.)

IMO, Freeze Selected should be a button in the Timeline, like the new Freeze Visible button. For now, I still prefer using MQC to Freeze selected items. (Tip: The current MQC was created for Moho 13.5, but it works fine with Moho 14.x. I'll be updating the tool for 14.x when I have time.)

[TheLion]

To keyframe the rotation of a bone with Transform Bone in 14.2, you need to hold Ctrl while clicking on the bone.

Hi thank you for the tip with ctrl + click.
It works when I select a single bone, however it doesn't when I select multiple bones.
Freezing multiple selected bones would keyframe position and scaling together with the rotation.
I don't want that, rather I want to keyframe only the rotation of multiple selected bones at their current angle.
How can I do that?
(I just realized scaling and position of the bone transform tool work as before, so this question only relates to keyframing rotation).

It seems to me that being able to ctrl+click multiple bones to keyframe their current angle would be extremely useful for the animation workflow.