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Title: Setting Keys/Control Post by: Adrian on November 29, 2005, 11:48:48 pm Hi. Love the game. It brings me back to highschool biology class. Sorry if this has been asked before, but how do I set the keys/control.
Having the shift key as the secondary weapon sux. If you hit it 5 times it turns on the windows XP hotkey feature. I can't figure out how to change the control. Thanks. Title: Re: Setting Keys/Control Post by: JonoPorter on November 30, 2005, 12:21:47 am From the Manual.txt in the game folder:
Quote These controls are configurable by editing the keys.cfg file which will be automatically generated in your personal directory for uqm data the first time you start the game. The location of this directory varies per system. On Microsoft Windows systems this is a folder named 'uqm' in the application data folder for the current user. This is usually in one of the following locations: - "C:\Windows\Application Data\" (Windows 95, 98, SE without separate users) - "C:\Windows\Profiles\YourName\Application Data\" (Windows 95/98/SE with separate users) - "C:\Documents and Settings\YourName\Application Data\" (Windows NT/2k/XP) The "Application Data" folder may be hidden. You can tell Windows to display hidden files and folders in the Folder Options dialog, which you can find in the Tools menu of any folder window. On Unix systems this personal uqm data is stored in "~/.uqm". Later versions of The Ur-Quan Masters will include a key configuration tool. In the meantime, the keys.cfg has a bunch of comments in it that should help you set up your joystick and remap key controls to your satisfaction. I could write a program to edit this file if no one is working on it yet. Since its such a simple program, but it would most likely be in C#. Title: Re: Setting Keys/Control Post by: Defender on November 30, 2005, 04:57:00 am On a side note, you can turn off the 5x shift key in the accessibility options.
Title: Re: Setting Keys/Control Post by: Ben1050 on November 30, 2005, 08:16:27 am I could not get used to using the keyboard. I use a PS2 controler and it works great!
Title: Re: Setting Keys/Control Post by: erroneus on November 30, 2005, 10:00:11 pm BioSlayer:
You would be "The Man" for doing that. C# would be nice if you could get it to compile under Linux as well. ;) I run this game under FC4 on my laptop...at work... I'm not sure how the API is different between the two (Windows and Linux) as far as joysticks are concerned, but I find that the control keys file works just fine as the description goes. There are likely to be some tips to be gleened from the source code that's already available I'm sure... but the resulting output from any configuration program will likely be the same for Linux and Windows alike. So my plea is that you somehow make it compatible/portable to Linux. (If not, maybe it will work under Wine...who knows) but the project is multi-platform and it's pretty nice. I'd love to see it continue that way.... and I'd definitely like to have a program for changing controls -- editing with a text editor is annoying. |