[D] "Cartesian" Hotkey Setup - Page 4

On April 05 2011 09:39 Shurafa wrote:


Caps Lock, Q, W, S with the thumb on Spacebar.

On April 18 2011 21:06 -{Cake}- wrote:
Something I found handy was to go with a 'modifier' system

So 1-5 are groups 1-5
ctrl + shift + 2-5 are 6-9 recalled with alt + the number
ctrl + spacebar is group 0 (with all hatch/nex/cc on it)
setting camera keys is ctrl + qwer and asdf, recalled by alt + the corresponding key

Now if only I would start using those lovely camera keys xP

I want to change it some more, ideally by moving everything to the right side of the keyboard so that my thumb can hit space, alt, ctrl, and shift as modifiers, my pinky can be on gh as more modifiers, and base everything as multiple stacks on uiop with my other three fingers. That will probably be really difficult to learn though

On April 18 2011 20:55 TeddyBoy wrote:

1 more question Shurafa, what kind of mouse you use?

On April 22 2011 07:03 Fiveaces wrote:
I've been using a hotkey setup similar to this - however, my mouse only has three buttons (and the "middle" button is too hard to click), so I came up with a slightly different solution:

Basic layout:

1QAZ - Unit control groups
2345 - Macro control groups (6 and 7 too, but lets be honest - you're not using 10 control groups)
Space - Attack
TGB - Move, Hold, Patrol (H is stop, I use it rarely)
WER - Majority of spells/abilities
XC : State-changing abilities (Unit morphs, guardian shield, baneling explode, Tank/Viking transforms). These abilities do not require an additional mouse click to activate and thus are more costly to press accidentally... especially baneling detonate. Thus, I force myself to actually move my hand slightly to press these.

Finally, all production build commands are the same as the grid hotkey setup, but shifted over one column to WER/SDF/XCV.

TGB actually feels very natural for movement keys, all easily accessed by my index finger while my pinkie selects control groups. Space for attack is even better: Q-space-A-space-Z-space actually feels better than 1A2A3A to me (Full disclosure: no BW experience :p )

On April 23 2011 04:19 Zapdos_Smithh wrote:
Custom hotkey set-up...so wait a sec...can you have F-keys legally in SC2 like they were in BW? I mean the ones where you choose the camera locations, F1-F4.

The lack of F-keys was honestly one of the biggest reasons why I didn't buy SC2...but if there are F1-F4 hotkeys now...I might be changing my mind there....

Somebody please answer this.

On April 23 2011 04:33 Psycosquirrel wrote:


I know you can set F5-F8 to camera locations, and I'm fairly sure you can switch those with the hero selectors (F1-F4), so I believe so. But you didn't get SC2 because you couldn't set camera hotkeys? Take a step back and evaluate how silly that is. Do yourself a favor and try to test the game a little more before you buy it, cause I somehow doubt camera hotkeys were not the reason you didn't buy it.

On April 23 2011 04:41 Zapdos_Smithh wrote:


They were a big part of it, yes. I played the beta and wasn't a fan of it at the time.

Edit:

Can somebody else confirm that you can have F1-F4 keys?

On April 23 2011 04:47 Ropid wrote:


You can rebind the camera locations to F1-F4 or whatever key you want: TAB, Q, W, E, R, T, etc.

On April 23 2011 16:19 SC2Joker wrote:
Does anyone know if its possible to have your nexus (or cc/hatch) already bound to a key right when the game starts?

for example: say i want it bound to 3. when the game starts i can just hit 3 to go to it.

On April 23 2011 04:11 Fungal Growth wrote:
I was so upset when Blizzard came out with their custom hotkey setup and forget to include the shift and ctrl in the group of keys that can be customizable

However...I did rekey my OS'es keymapping so spacebar is my new shift. The thumb on the spacebar (for us righties) is logically a pivot key...it works so well in combination with other keys and it is a huge waste use it for message notifications (which are impractical to use anyways).

With spacebar as my new shift queueing commands is sooo slick...especially because I'm on grid and a lot of what I want do is on qaz...with the old setup shift + qaz was such a huge pain because you would have to move your ring finger over to cover these keys while pinky held down shift.