Much needed hotkey for manning the flak guns

[Paul Riley]

As aircraft are becoming significantly more frequent and persistant in my campaign now,a hotkey for quickly manning the flaks would be a neccessity I would think,is there a way to do this?,or maybe it is included in GWX?It would certainly make life a lot easier,instead of having to hover over the man guns button nervously,waiting for...you know what

I can't believe it's not included in the list of keys,I think its probably one of the most important hotkeys I can think of

Thanks.

Look at the Commands_en.cfg file
in the CFG folder.

You can figure out how to assign a HotKey from there.

[FIREWALL]

[Cmd302]
Name=Activate_flakgun
Ctxt=1
[Cmd303]
Name=Activate_A01gun
Ctxt=1
[Cmd304]
Name=Activate_A02gun
Ctxt=1


[Cmd431]
Name=Man_the_flak_gun
Ctxt=1
MnID=0x3F2D0003
Str=2945


Somewhere here ?

[Mittelwaechter]

Read my second posting here:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...=101924&page=7

Maybe the first one either...

[irish1958]

GWX Setkeys will do it all.
http://hosted.filefront.com/irish1958

[Paul Riley]

I have GWX being sent to me,I think I may wait for that

Thanks

[Paul Riley]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

[Cmd302]
Name=Activate_flakgun
Ctxt=1
[Cmd303]
Name=Activate_A01gun
Ctxt=1
[Cmd304]
Name=Activate_A02gun
Ctxt=1


[Cmd431]
Name=Man_the_flak_gun
Ctxt=1
MnID=0x3F2D0003
Str=2945


Somewhere here ?

I'm looking in those files right now,so what exactly needs modifying?
Failing that,i'll just wait for my shipment of GWX,seems lots of people also thought it important to have a hotkey and sensibly included it

[Mittelwaechter]

What hinders you to read my posting?

[Paul Riley]

Sorry mate,no hinders,i'll look into it,I just have a load of windows open at the moment,doing various things

Paul and others,
Below are the two commands for Hot Keys to control flak guns. Go to your commands_en.cfg file and add the last line (as shown below) to each of your sections and save. This adds the key strokes you need. Thus, ctrl F9 will send men to your flak guns and shift F9 will order fire at will.

[Cmd431]
Name=Man_the_flak_gun
Ctxt=1
MnID=0x3F2D0003
Str=2945
Key0=0x78,c,"CTRL F9"

[Cmd419]
Name=AAGuns_Fire_at_will
Ctxt=1
MnID=0x3F180006
Str=1063
Key0=0x78,s,"SHIFT F9"

[BulSoldier]

Arent in gwx already hotkey for flakguns ? I think one was F and the other F11 ?

[Paul Riley]

Originally Posted by von Zelda

Paul and others,
Below are the two commands for Hot Keys to control flak guns. Go to your commands_en.cfg file and add the last line (as shown below) to each of your sections and save. This adds the key strokes you need. Thus, ctrl F9 will send men to your flak guns and shift F9 will order fire at will.

[Cmd431]
Name=Man_the_flak_gun
Ctxt=1
MnID=0x3F2D0003
Str=2945
Key0=0x78,c,"CTRL F9"

[Cmd419]
Name=AAGuns_Fire_at_will
Ctxt=1
MnID=0x3F180006
Str=1063
Key0=0x78,s,"SHIFT F9"

I assume this works fine in stock version?
Many thanks VZ for that

[Paul Riley]

Bulsoldier

I would prefer it to be 'F' personally , nice and simple,and easy to remember

[Paul Riley]

Von Zelda

I tried the flak hotkey hack,and booted my save game back up,and noticed a problem immediately,my engines had stopped,and when I ordered them started again there was no response.I reverted the cfg file back to its original state and my game was back to normal again.

Sometimes i'm sceptical about a lot of these hacks and tweaks,as the potential for ruining a previously stable game is too much of a risk for me,unless of course it has been thoroughly tested by many people.I am thinking this hack was mainly intended for GWX versions of the game,which I don't have.

Thanks anyway.

Originally Posted by Paul Riley

I tried the flak hotkey hack,and booted my save game back up,and noticed a problem immediately,my engines had stopped,and when I ordered them started again there was no response.I reverted the cfg file back to its original state and my game was back to normal again.

Sometimes i'm sceptical about a lot of these hacks and tweaks,as the potential for ruining a previously stable game is too much of a risk for me,unless of course it has been thoroughly tested by many people.I am thinking this hack was mainly intended for GWX versions of the game,which I don't have.

This should be no surprise to the old hands in the forum; never install a major change to SH3 during a game. Always, but always, wait until you get back to port and install between saved games. Try it again when you return to port and have closed SH3. It should then work just fine.