Simple command.cfg edit...
 

Ive been trying to edit the command.cfg file to alter the S and D keys due to untimely accidental deaths of my crew (hitting D while at high time comprssion = death)

Anyhow I edited the following

But the game continues to use the default keys :damn:

What am I missing

RFB_v1.51_062308
RSRDC_RFBv15_V395_RC5
RSRDC_V395_Patch4
TMOMapFinal

Have you tried the Set Keys program?

It was written for SH3 but the post below talks about how to use it in SH4. Check out post #4:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...highlight=keys

I've used it in SH3 and it works great. The program makes keyboard mapping a snap. I haven't tried it in SH4 yet. After finding that thread though, I want to give it a try as soon as I get my feet under me with SH4.

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Thanks I knew about that but it should have been just a simple edit.

Evidently though the game is not looking at the Commands.cfg file I am altering because I tried some crazy key combos as well as deleting the keys altogether and nothing changes.

Is there a commands.cfg file in your SH4 folder in the My Documents folder?(not the root SH4 folder)

If so, does that need to be changed?

I thought I've seen a seperate commands.cfg file in the My Documents folder.

:)

LOL I just ran a search on my drive for commands.cfg and there is like at least 4 or 5 of them :doh:

Some with same or similar names.

How in the hell do you know which one the game is looking at?

Make a copy of the default Commands_en.cfg file (or the one from the main mod you are using) and create a JSGME ready file structure for it.

Make your changes and then enable that mod after everything else. This will make your edited file the active/master version.

Other mods are overwriting your changes.

NB - If you have a version in your SH4 folder in My Documents, that version is the 'live' version for your current career. The Commands cfg in the main Data folder is the default version for all subsequently created careers.

That is a question that I would love to know as well.

I while back, I saw in the SH3 community manual that the way to change time compression was to change the values in the .cfg file that is in the My Documents folder. That kinda makes me wonder if the game is looking at that folder, but I definitely do not know. I just wonder if the same thing applies to keyboard changes.

I played around with that in the SH4 folder, but didn't have much luck with it but I added TMO before I could really check anything, so I can't say for sure if that changed anything.

All of this kinda makes me miss SH3Commander and adjusting TC there.:DL

:)

Oh good lord :doh: uhhhh.. sure... Ill uhhh do that.. yea that... uhhh I guess Ill have to look up how.

Thanks danlisa. :yeah:

How do you do that?

:)

OMG!

Modding 101. LOL

@Steamwake.

Your MODs are arranged in JSGME by the order they were enabled. So find the corresponding folder for the MOD (by default in the MODS folder) and copy the Commands_en.cfg file. This file will be the last activated version of the commands cfg and therefore the active one.

@ Both of you.

A JSGME File structure is as follows:

Name of MOD > data > cfg > Command_en.cfg
Name of MOD > data > Textures > TNormal > SpaceStationMoon
Name of MOD > data > etc etc........

See the pattern, Name your MOD and then just replicate the folder structure (or path ;)) to the original files home. Pop your MOD into JSGME's MODS folder and enable.

As bizzare as this may sound but I searched the entire drive and found no instances of "Commands_en.cfg".

Ive manually looked in the folders and my documents as well.

The file aint there :doh:

Oh btw the mod list in the anchor post is the exact order that jsgme has them.

Then just search for Commands. You previously said that you found 4 or 5 instances of it. _en maybe me mixing SH3 with SH4. Dunno.

Either way, use windows search and have the display set to Details, this will give you the Path Locations of these file instances.

There are no instances of "commands_en.cfg" several of "commands.cfg".

But I understand now thanks.

I found an old mod "Keyboard Mod" it was used to mod keystrokes to emulate SH3. Its a pretty old mod and was not in use.

I edited the controls.cfg file in that then installed the mod.

No change :damn:

Yes I checked the file structure.

JSGME even warns me that the commands.cfg was being modified from the map mod (last applied).

No change :damn:

OK, cut me some slack, doing this from memory.

Where were the Command cfg file located when you did the search?

Was there a version in My Documents?

Are you trying to register changes to a file using a mid patrol save location? Have you tried a new patrol/career?

We all have to start somewhere! :88)

Thanks!!! :salute:

:DL

* The 'main' one is in /data/cfg/controls.cfg. The others are stored in mod folders and such.

* No version in my docs.

* Yes tried starting a new carrier.

now even more curious other edits got put back in the config as well as camera changes.

So I just copy / pasted my original controls.cfg (backup) and the camera and other commands are back to where they were so thats the file :yep:

It seems as if the dive and surface keys are bound to some internal code and cannot be changed.

Modding Mod's
 

Hi Mates,
Now I don't use RFB, but if RFB has a Commands.cfg, That is overwriting SH4 commands.cfg, in JSGME. You will need to disable RFB, Change Commands there, & renable RFB to see changes.
Otherwise; as Danlisa suggested, make your own Mod by creating,
Mod name file, Example: (.cfg changes) in that file create a Data folder. In the Data folder, create Commands.cfg folder with changes you want. When you install your new Mod it will overwrite any previous changes introduced by other JSGME changes.

Danlisa;

See post #14 :salute:

Before I have to curse you for making me install SH4, how do yo know that Binary Key designations you have in your OP are correct for the CTRL + Key combinations? As far as I can see they are for the single Key orders i.e S = Surface & D = Dive