minsc, I found your excellent piece of work a couple of months ago. (It's really an add-on rather than a mod.) I have been using it ever since. The ability to give orders to your crew and have them execute completely changes the experience of the simulation. Nothing will make me feel that I am in a wartime environment while sitting in front of my computer, but the sense of being in a true simulation is enhanced. I would recommend that anyone who has a computer capable of speech recognition download this package, go out and buy a cheap headset (that's all you need) and try it. It's lightyears away from clicking buttons or tapping on a keyboard.
I did notice immediately that all the mouse-click commands were off. The dial-setting commands were initally unusable and the buttonbar commands work in the stock game, but not well in TMO and not at all in RFB. I have used two different monitors with two different resolutions. (1336x768 and 1920x1080). The stock settings would not work in either case. It is not just an overscan issue. I found it was necessary to adjust the mapping files, command_bar.csv and dials.csv, line by line in order to get the package to work properly. I'm sure there is a analytical way to determine the correct adjustments, but I used brute force - change a parameter, then go to SH4 and see if it worked. I eventually developed a strategy for doing this more rationally and precisely, but some of my earliest adjustments are a little rough and I never went back and refined them. (By then, all I wanted to do was play the game!)
If you are interested, I would be happy to send you my final operating files. You might be able to understand why the rework was necessary. If it's OK with you, I would also certainly be willing to make my tweaked version of your work available to anyone who wants to use it. It might save you/them a lot of twiddling. Just one caution: the key_commands.csv file is tweaked to my own custom keyboard mapping. You'll have to drop in the stock key_command.csv to use it.
BTW, I have versions which are compatible with RFB, TMO, and OM. The OM version accepts standard American English. Although my crew responds in Deutch, I'm not sufficiently fluent to give orders in a time-critical situation.
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