Keyboard Controls/Waypoint Markers

[Red Devil]

Some call it stupidity, others a misdirected finger, but ......

Can the keyboard controls be altered in any way? I want to take 'Fire Torpedoes' off the enter button and move it across to somewhere ' out of the way'. I just loaded her up for a patrol in the Celebes Sea and, in an effort to accelerate time a bit smacked the entry button and emptied all tubes in the sea! Reload game!! Anywhere out of the way, maybe 'F' for Fire!

I reloaded and did the bloody same again!!

A glitch this time. When opening a saved game there is a need to retell the pc that you're on a waypoint marker (if active) otherwise the sub ignores it and runs off on its own.

[quietguy52]

I'll leave it to the "mod experts" here to respond to your keyboard remap questions...

But yes, each time you start/restart your game you have to click the inverted 'V' arrow in Navigation to tell it to follow plotted course... otherwise the ship will continue on rudder amidships.

[SteamWake]

You may wish to look into some of the mods available. Most of them edit out the pesky enter key for obvious reasons.

But yes there is a text .ini file that can be edited to change the key commands. I believe most people edit that line to be ctrl+enter to fire a torp.

Well the search engine is a tad frustrating but I did find this...

Open the commands.cfg file with a text editor and find/edit this

[Cmd313]
Name=Fire_torpedo
Ctxt=1
Key0=0x0D,c,"Ctrl+Enter"

I still recommend looking into modding.

As to the sub not following a plotted course after a re-load well you just have to deal with it, it was a design decision for whatever reason to have it that way. Just as you have to command a speed after reloading or your just sitting still. That was done to avoid object collision upon loading a game.

[aanker]

......... Most of them edit out the pesky enter key for obvious reasons.

....... I believe most people edit that line to be ctrl+enter to fire a torp.....................

Open the commands.cfg file with a text editor and find/edit this

[Cmd313]
Name=Fire_torpedo
Ctxt=1
Key0=0x0D,c,"Ctrl+Enter"

I still recommend looking into modding.
Me too. As long as you (he) have commands.cfg open, he may as well edit this one too then:

[Cmd6]
Name=Time_compr_normal
Ctxt=1,2,6,9
Key0=0x0D,,"Enter"

Usually these are the first two edits most folks eventually learn to do. However - I tested a custom mission for someone recently and wanted to use a stock un-modded 1.5 install and wasted 6 torpedoes trying to return to 1x TC..... LMAO. My modded install is very different than the stock game now. How soon we forget ;-)

Happy Hunting!

Art

[Red Devil]

Thanks to you all for such informative answers. I have done the edit, thanks.

[irish1958]

Does SetKeys work with SHIV?

[Webster]

As to the sub not following a plotted course after a re-load well you just have to deal with it, it was a design decision for whatever reason to have it that way. Just as you have to command a speed after reloading or your just sitting still. That was done to avoid object collision upon loading a game.


its so you dont blindly sail into newly rendered objects or surface in the middle of a task force that wasnt there when you did the save lol.

you reappear "close" to your last position but only within a mile or so margin of error, thats why you never save near land or under water.

you could reappear on that sand bar or deep enough to bottom out.

[jimbob]

Does SetKeys work with SHIV?

What I do is copy the Commands.cfg to Setkeys directory and rename it to
Commands_us.cfg.

Then I open it and have a look what's going on but basically
I do changes to my Commands.cfg manually,
I just use SetKeys to see the hex code for keyboard buttons and
to peek some of the commands etc.

Short answer:
I'm not sure if SetKeys works 100% when saving but it can load the file.

[irish1958]

Thanks for the info, jimbob