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As the topic title states, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to bind multiple actions to a single key. In this case, I want to set all of the toggle-able skills to a single key (SPACE). So if I was playing Drow Ranger, I could toggle her Frost Arrows by hitting the space bar. Then, if I played Huskar in the next match, I could hit the space bar to toggle his Burning Spears, without any need to modify my settings.
However, no matter what I try, I can only ever set one ability toggle to the SPACE key. If anybody could give me some pointers on how to go about binding it to multiple actions I would greatly appreciate it.
As a side issue, I've noticed in a few bot games that I will occasionally skip the waiting after hero selection. By which I mean, after I pick my hero, I am immediately taken to my fountain and I can buy items, allocate skill points, move around, etc. Most of the time though, I am forced to sit and wait for the bots to finish their picks before I'm able to do any of those things. Is there a way to always skip the waiting? If not, why does it happen at random intervals?
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you dont, its called hax
You can get software that does it but its against the tac of valve (I think blizz also has this rule) and most games for that matter.
Its kinda cheating dont you think? (aggregating several actions into 1 can only be bad for a game)
That would be like having an awp switch script so you can reload and move faster / noscope ....
to toggle abilities on and off hold alt and hit their hot key (qwert by default iirc)
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You just press alt + hotkey to do that, it's not that hard.
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What keys do you guys use for items??? Out of habit from HoN I bound my items to alt+Q/W/E/A/S/D, but I guess that explains why I cant easily turn a toggle spell on or off.
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I think you can rebind the toggle ability button from alt to space so you just have to press space + w or whatever. It's a bit easier than alt for me. I hate pressing alt.
For items I use zxcvbg
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On March 26 2012 22:13 floor exercise wrote:
I think you can rebind the toggle ability button from alt to space so you just have to press space + w or whatever.
90% sure that won't work. Ctrl/shift/alt should be the only modifiers the game notices by default. For items I use 1,2,3,`,mouse button 4 and space. I use f1-4 for camera hotkeys and control groups.
Alt takes a bit of getting used to but if you keep at it you should be fine in no time.
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On March 26 2012 22:10 Lexpar wrote:
What keys do you guys use for items??? Out of habit from HoN I bound my items to alt+Q/W/E/A/S/D, but I guess that explains why I cant easily turn a toggle spell on or off.
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you dont, its called hax
You can get software that does it but its against the tac of valve (I think blizz also has this rule) and most games for that matter.
Its kinda cheating dont you think? (aggregating several actions into 1 can only be bad for a game)
That would be like having an awp switch script so you can reload and move faster / noscope ....
to toggle abilities on and off hold alt and hit their hot key (qwert by default iirc)
you dont, its called hax
You can get software that does it but its against the tac of valve (I think blizz also has this rule) and most games for that matter.
Its kinda cheating dont you think? (aggregating several actions into 1 can only be bad for a game)
That would be like having an awp switch script so you can reload and move faster / noscope ....
to toggle abilities on and off hold alt and hit their hot key (qwert by default iirc)
Mr.Tortoise, he's not saying multiple actions with one keybinding. He's saying multiple abilities on one key
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ahh well im illetirate then it seems 
i have my slots bound to zxcvbn
altho not often i have more than 4 active slots so its not often a problem.
Anyway to do what he wants ... ie bind one key that usually uses q to space and another ability that uses w to space youd need hax ... just checed and yes, frost arrows and burning whatever are not on the same key by default. Thats why i went down the hax route as youd need to tell soemthing to remap keys that is external to dota
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United States47024 Posts
On March 29 2012 04:06 MrTortoise wrote:Anyway to do what he wants ... ie bind one key that usually uses q to space and another ability that uses w to space youd need hax ... just checed and yes, frost arrows and burning whatever are not on the same key by default. Thats why i went down the hax route as youd need to tell soemthing to remap keys that is external to dota
You can actually bind multiple commands to a single key by putting keybinds in your .cfg files.
I'm just not sure what the exact console command is for toggle autocast.
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On March 29 2012 04:06 MrTortoise wrote:ahh well im illetirate then it seems i have my slots bound to zxcvbn altho not often i have more than 4 active slots so its not often a problem. Anyway to do what he wants ... ie bind one key that usually uses q to space and another ability that uses w to space youd need hax ... just checed and yes, frost arrows and burning whatever are not on the same key by default. Thats why i went down the hax route as youd need to tell soemthing to remap keys that is external to dota
stupid?
He could just change his key everytime he plays another hero.
And you can change this in the cfg for each hero in the game folder.
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Nothing hax against it, it is very common in dota1 and hon. In hon you just use qwer for abilities.
In dota you would use warkeys or similar to custom set the hotkeys as you would like. And itemhotkeys, e.g. ctrl a uses item slot 1 etc.
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On March 26 2012 22:10 Lexpar wrote:
What keys do you guys use for items??? Out of habit from HoN I bound my items to alt+Q/W/E/A/S/D, but I guess that explains why I cant easily turn a toggle spell on or off.
I use QWE(DC)R for skills and TYFGVB for items. At some point I'll upgrade my mouse and change Y and B to mouse buttons.
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On March 29 2012 05:05 Sindriss wrote:
Nothing hax against it, it is very common in dota1 and hon. In hon you just use qwer for abilities.
In dota you would use warkeys or similar to custom set the hotkeys as you would like. And itemhotkeys, e.g. ctrl a uses item slot 1 etc.
I was saying the 3rd party software is hax ... not rebinding in game.
In wc3 you couldn't rebind keys iirc hence the external software. A lot of other games would classify any piece of software that modified memory addresses as hacks.
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the title is kinda misleading. when i think multiple actions to a single key I think of macros. :\ maybe that's just me tho
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Alright, you have to find your cfg directory inside of the steam directory. Usually Programfiles> Steam> steamapps> common> dota2 beta> dota> cfg.
Then you create a text document and add:
alias autocast_all "dota_ability_autocast 0; dota_ability_autocast 1; dota_ability_autocast 2; dota_ability_autocast 3; dota_ability_autocast 4; dota_ability_autocast 5"
bind "z" autocast_all
Replace "z" right after bind to whatever you want to bind it to. Then after that you need to change the name of the document to autoexec.cfg. You must change the extension of the file from txt to cfg so if you use windows7/vista you must enable changing extensions.
After that you can either type "exec autoexec" into console every time or you can add:
bind "F5" "exec autoexec.cfg"
To the end of your config.cfg file (the same directory as where you added autoexec.cfg). That will launch autoexec when you hit f5 which you will have to do every time you launch dota, changing the F11 part will allow you to bind it to whatever you want.
Edit: Forgot to add that you have to make the config.cfg file read only and if you do that you will no longer be able to change settings from the ingame menu.
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Thanks to you, JohnQPublic, I finally got it to work!
I had tried something very similar to what you suggested, but, in all of the scripts that I wrote, I had put quotation marks around the alias name, which I think was messing it up. After removing the quotation marks, it seemed to take this time.
So thanks for all of your help!
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Is it possible to make it like ctrl+q etc etc, just like starcraft?
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On May 10 2012 11:37 GGOPphatpak wrote:
Is it possible to make it like ctrl+q etc etc, just like starcraft?
yeap. but the problem is that some heros have autocastable skills in either Q W or E, so there's no way to make a universal "this turns on my autocast ability" button.
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