Silent Hunter III Community Manual

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Shortcut keys

Not all of the Shortcut keys are mentioned in the game manual.
Table of contents [hide]
1 Quick Keys
2 U-boat controls
3 Weapon management and attacks
4 Camera controls
5 Miscellaneous

Quick Keys

Quick keys for moving to different positions or screens in your U-boat

F1 - Help screen (in all Stations)
F2 - Command room (note that Shift+F2 gives you a "free camera" view of the command room).
Periscopes
F3 - Attack periscope
PgUp - Raise gradually
Ctrl-PgUp - Raise fully
PgDown - Lower gradually
Ctrl-PgDn - Lower fully
Tab - Zoom in and out (1.5x - 6x) also mouse wheel
L - Lock target
KP0 - Take a step back and look at the periscope column.
O - Observation periscope
Insert - Raise gradually
Ctrl-Insert - Raise fully
Delete - Lower gradually
Ctrl-Delete - Lower fully
Tab - Zoom in and out (1x - 4x) also mouse wheel
L - Lock target

On the surface
F4 - Bridge (on the surface only)
Tab - Toggle between Bridge and Binoculars also mouse wheel
B - Binoculars (on the surface only)
Tab - Toggle between Bridge and Binoculars also mouse wheel
U - UZO (on the surface only)
L - Lock target
F5 - Navigation map
F6 - TDC
I - Weapons management
F7 - Crew and damage management
Radio
F9 - Radio room
R - Radio
M - View sent and received radio messages
H - Hydrophone
F8 - View your mission orders
Guns
F10 - Deck gun station (on the surface only)
F11 - Flak gun station (on the surface only)
F - Main Flak gun (on the surface only)
G - Secondary Flak gun (on the surface only)
T - Secondary Flak gun 2 (on the surface only)
K - Captain's log
F12 - External free camera view
Shift-F2 - Internal free camera view

U-boat controls

For controlling your U-boat

Speed control
1 to 5 - Ahead slow, one third, standard, full and flank respectively
6 to 9 - Back slow, one third, standard, and emergency respectively
~ - All stop

Direction control
[ - Hard a' port
] - Hard a' starboard
' - Rudder adminships
= - Set heading to current optics view

Depth control
D - Dive
S - Surface
A - Maintain depth
C - Crash dive
E - Blow ballast (Emergency Surface)
P - Periscope depth
; - Snorkel depth

Miscellaneous
Z - Toggle Silent Running mode
X - Toggle snorkel up and down
Ctrl + F8 - Shown the frame rate.

Weapon management and attacks

Stations
U - UZO (on the surface only)
F3 - Attack periscope (use PgUp to raise, PgDn to lower, Ctrl-PgUp to raise fast, Ctrl-PgDn to lower fast)
F6 - TDC
I - Weapons management
H - Hydrophone

Targetting
. - Next unit
, - Previous unit
L - Lock view to target
N - View recognition manual

Torpedo attacks
Q - Open selected torpedo tube(s)
W - Close open tube(s)
Y - Cycle tubes
Enter - Fire torpedo

Gun attacks
Space - select deck-gun target

Miscellaneous
J - Deploy decoys

Camera controls

For use in the internal (Shift-F2) or external (F12) free-camera views

Up-arrow - camera forward
Down-arrow - camera backwards
Left-arrow - camera left
Right-arrow - camera right
KP7 - camera up
KP1 - camera down
Left-Shift - hold down to speed up camera movement
Ctrl-Shift - hold down to slow down camera movement
Ctrl-left-arrow - camera left alongside
Ctrl-right-arrow - camera right alongside

Miscellaneous
Options Menu
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Options Menu
Sound settings
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Sound settings
Music On/Off
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Music On/Off

Esc - Options
Sound Settings
Music On/Off
Video Settings

Time compression
Numpad + - Increase time compression
Numpad - - Decrease time compression
Backspace - Pause
Ctrl + Enter - Sets Time compression back to 1 (Normal Speed) time compression

Event camera
V - Maximise/restore the Event camera
/ - Hide the Event camera
- View your U-boat from your target

Navigation
Ctrl-LeftClick - Centre (center) your U-boat at the selected point on the navigation map

Miscellaneous
Ctrl-P - From patch 1.1, disable the particle system to fix the nvidia particle bug
Shift-PageUp/PageDn - Increase or decrease the software anti-aliasing (Glare system)
Numlock - In multiplay only, use Numlock to start chat, type your text, then hit ENTER. But be careful: if you hit ENTER 2 times, you fire a fish!
Ctrl-F11 - Take a screenshot.
Shift-F11 - Toggle taking continuous screenshots
Ctrl-F8 - Show frame-rate (FPS) at top of screen
Numberpad Del (decimal point) - Show/hide interface (for screenshots)
Ctrl-Numberpad Del - Remove the orange marker from the ocean surface when submerged