EPTI am a complete noob, I have searched the forum and have drove myself nuts trying to figure it out on my own so I come to you guys. Is there a way to hotkey units so that they will automatically go to a desired number or do you have to do it after they are created manually?
Setting units to a hotkey
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MannyFresh
Canada4 Posts
I am a complete noob, I have searched the forum and have drove myself nuts trying to figure it out on my own so I come to you guys. Is there a way to hotkey units so that they will automatically go to a desired number or do you have to do it after they are created manually? | ||
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fleeze
Germany895 Posts
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suckerfish
United States31 Posts
One thing that I find useful though is to press SHIFT-# to add the selected units to desired hotkey group. | ||
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BlasiuS
United States2405 Posts
select the group you want to add to - e.g. you have a group of 20 marines on group 1 when 5 marines pop out of your barracks, hold shift and drag-select all 5 marines (OR hold CTRL and click any one marine to select them all) re-assign your selected units to group 1 by hitting CTRL + 1. Now you have 25 marines in group 1. edit: wait I'm not actually sure if you have to do that last step T_T | ||
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MannyFresh
Canada4 Posts
I will start to use the shift + hotkey method | ||
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gitcho
Canada19 Posts
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FliedLice
Germany7494 Posts
you dont cycle through every building itself, but through the building types. so in your case tab would swap between your 2 factories and 3 barracks | ||
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Booshack
Denmark15 Posts
Say you are protoss and have your entire army including gateway units and collosi clustered around a nexus with probes in the mix. You select your entire army, then SHIFT-CONTROL-CLICK on a probe in the wireframes to remove all probes from the selection, then SHIFT-CONTROL-CLICK a colossus to remove all colossi. The remaining gateway units can then be control grouped together, and you can make a seperate group for the colossi. Any new gateway units or colussi can then be added to their control grp by using SHIFT as mentioned. | ||
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gitcho
Canada19 Posts
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Thenas
Sweden107 Posts
On May 21 2010 02:19 gitcho wrote: thanks FliedLice (awesome name - lol) & booshack ... so if I have 4 RAX hotkeyed to "9", (2=tech lab, 2=reactor), would I have to press 9, then click on the rax i want right? If i want to build units in my reactor rax fast, it would better to separate it on its own hotkey, right? I'm looking for ways to effeciently build units without mass clicking so i can still build while under pressure situations. thoughts? if you got 2 reactor raxes and 2 tech lab raxes they do not count as similar units and so you can tab between them | ||
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TehPriest
United States16 Posts
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Thenas
Sweden107 Posts
On May 21 2010 02:29 TehPriest wrote: How do you remove units from a hotkey group after accidentally adding them? select the controlgroup and shift click the unit portraits you do not want in the controlgroup and then CTRL + # to remake the controlgroup. I have no clue if it's possible to remove controlgroups alltogether. | ||
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Booshack
Denmark15 Posts
On May 21 2010 02:33 Thenas wrote: select the controlgroup and shift click the unit portraits you do not want in the controlgroup and then CTRL + # to remake the controlgroup. I have no clue if it's possible to remove controlgroups alltogether. Once again CTRL-SHIFT-CLICK to the rescue. This way you don't have to shift click each unit individually, just once for each unit type that doesnt belong. | ||
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Thenas
Sweden107 Posts
On May 21 2010 04:26 Booshack wrote: Once again CTRL-SHIFT-CLICK to the rescue. This way you don't have to shift click each unit individually, just once for each unit type that doesnt belong. Yeah if you wanna remove an entire unit type that's better, I usually don't find I wanna remove all of a certain unit most of the time though. | ||
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