How to use the new mod hotkeys

Kushan · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 02 Sep 2007

Yo,

I just spent an hour trying to figure this out and there doesn't seem to be much info on it, so I figured I'd write something down to make it useful to others.

In the latest/last patch, mods now get access to 4 hotkeys.

In the source code, these are defined in DLLInterface.h as

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INPUT_REQUEST_MOD_GAME_COMMAND_1_AT_POSITION

,

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INPUT_REQUEST_MOD_GAME_COMMAND_2_AT_POSITION

,

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INPUT_REQUEST_MOD_GAME_COMMAND_3_AT_POSITION

and

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INPUT_REQUEST_MOD_GAME_COMMAND_4_AT_POSITION

. You can Ctrl+F to find them.

However, you also need to enable them within the game. To do this you need to add a

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GAMECONSTANTS_Mod.XML

file to your mod's DATA/XML folder. The contents of this file need to contain

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Here's the entirity of the file, you can just copy/paste this if it's easier:

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<GameConstants>
<GameConstantsClass>
   
   
   <CNCEnableModHotKeyGameCommands network="client"> True </CNCEnableModHotKeyGameCommands> 
</GameConstantsClass>
</GameConstants>

It's worth notinbg that I don't think you have to set the entries in InputTranslatorConfigurations.xml if you just want to bind some commands in the bindings screen, they'll be sent through as INPUT_REQUEST_MOD_GAME_COMMAND_x_AT_POSITION.

Doing this enables them in the bindings screen:

I haven't figured out if there's a way to rename them from Mod Command x to something more specific.

That's about it really.

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