I haven't really cared much about the ability to remap keys since it's all burned into my brain with 11 years of broodwar, but one thing I'd happily remap for convenience is CTRL.

My first thought is both the ` and w keys are unused by zerg and very easily accessible for 1-5 and f1-f4 but unfortunately these keys aren't recognized the same way as alt, ctrl, and shift (can be combined with other keypresses for different affects such as capitalization or pasting from clipboard.)

Has anyone found a way to remap this (other than a programmable keyboard) that could be done even in LAN tournaments?

mprs

Canada2933 Posts

September 02 2011 15:14 GMT

I think there is a program that can remap your keys on any keyboard. But it wouldn't be an in-game thing. You would have to disable and enable it every time you enter/leave the game

AxelTVx

Canada916 Posts

September 02 2011 15:14 GMT

You can go to "Menu", then "Hotkeys" and then personalize CTRL to whatever key you want it to be. SC II is different than BW where you can actually customize Hotkeys.

EDIT: If I'm not getting what you're saying in my statement above, please explain further.

JediGamer

United States656 Posts

September 02 2011 15:15 GMT

Doesn't BNET save your key profiles? Or is control not able to be editted I thought it was.

Xinder

United States2269 Posts

September 02 2011 15:15 GMT

On September 03 2011 00:12 Rekatan wrote:
I haven't really cared much about the ability to remap keys since it's all burned into my brain with 11 years of broodwar, but one thing I'd happily remap for convenience is CTRL.

My first thought is both the ` and w keys are unused by zerg and very easily accessible for 1-5 and f1-f4 but unfortunately these keys aren't recognized the same way as alt, ctrl, and shift (can be combined with other keypresses for different affects such as capitalization or pasting from clipboard.)

Has anyone found a way to remap this (other than a programmable keyboard) that could be done even in LAN tournaments?

I rebound it to shift. It's a lot closer and you can use the combos of it and still do things like Shift attack and Shift move.

Rekatan

United States172 Posts

September 02 2011 15:16 GMT

You can't rebind control itself. You can only rebind combinations of control.

For instance I could make control+5 "attack" but I couldn't make "control" moved to the ` key.

ravemir

Portugal595 Posts

September 02 2011 15:25 GMT

On September 03 2011 00:16 Rekatan wrote:
You can't rebind control itself. You can only rebind combinations of control.

For instance I could make control+5 "attack" but I couldn't make "control" moved to the ` key.

Isn't that the point? That you don't have a function to "Ctrl" but lots of commands bound to different combinations? I think there are commands for "Defining hotkey 1-0". I know that for cameras it is like that, at least

Rekatan

United States172 Posts

September 02 2011 15:26 GMT

But you can't make "w+1" for example because W functions differently than control at a fundamental level on the keyboard.

Tezkat

Canada72 Posts

September 02 2011 15:30 GMT

As far as I know, you can't fully remap the functionality of CTRL in your SC2 hotkey setup. Although you can individually remap most of the important stuff (like control group assignment), built in functions like CTRL-clicking units or selecting stuff in the group window cannot be changed within SC2; you'd have to alter that in Windows or use a keyboard with onboard profiles.

AnotherSpork

United States1 Post

September 02 2011 16:18 GMT

#10

Unix and OS X have preferences that allow you to remap control to certain keys (Caps Lock is a popular choice). On Windows, I use SharpKeys to do the job. It claims to be an XP program, but I've been using it on 7 without any problems.

EDIT: And by Unix, I mean Ubuntu. But hey, who uses anything else?

Rekatan

United States172 Posts

September 02 2011 16:47 GMT

#11

There's something other than Ubuntu?!! Blasphemy

The trouble with something like sharpkeys is I can't install it onto MLG computers

I have a feeling I'm gonna be stuck with using a keyboard that has programmable firmware since that will go anywhere.

askTeivospy

1525 Posts

September 02 2011 16:52 GMT

#12

i rebound control to my mouse4 using xbuttonmouse control (probably going to change this to 1 and mouse5 to 2) but i'd imagine you'd have the same problems with mlg and sharpkeys :|

IronDoc

United Kingdom27 Posts

September 02 2011 16:53 GMT

#13

On September 03 2011 01:47 Rekatan wrote:
There's something other than Ubuntu?!! Blasphemy

The trouble with something like sharpkeys is I can't install it onto MLG computers

I have a feeling I'm gonna be stuck with using a keyboard that has programmable firmware since that will go anywhere.

Any chance you can run something as a portable app off a flash drive? I dunno how strict the regulations are.

arterian

Canada1157 Posts

September 02 2011 16:54 GMT

#14

do you have a gaming mouse? Bind it to your thumb button.

Colak

United States87 Posts

September 02 2011 17:08 GMT

#15

autohotkey

in the script you'll want to put somthing like LAlt::Ctrl

Then you can control click units with alt. Ask me how I know

It's not directly within the eula but you probably won't get banned for it. The specific ruling for the eula was no more than one action per key so it's technically fine :D

quaren

Italy19 Posts

September 02 2011 17:11 GMT

#16

On September 03 2011 01:18 AnotherSpork wrote:
Unix and OS X have preferences that allow you to remap control to certain keys (Caps Lock is a popular choice). On Windows, I use SharpKeys to do the job. It claims to be an XP program, but I've been using it on 7 without any problems.

EDIT: And by Unix, I mean Ubuntu. But hey, who uses anything else?

In windows (any version it is as easy as a registry change to remap a key, I have since forever had Caps-lock as a 2nd backspace key, and for zerg this is great when using the backspace-inject method. There are programs that do this in a graphical way, but they are at an OS level so if someone would not need the graves key then it might be worth it.

And plenty of people use plenty of *nix other than Ubuntu.

MacDubhghaill

United States41 Posts

September 02 2011 17:15 GMT

#17

I know a number of people do this type of thing to make using some editors like vi and emacs more streamlined. Most often I see it switching caps lock and ctrl.

If you are on a windows system then you can do this, but note that this changes your layout for your entire system not just in Star Craft. I'm not sure if you can map 'W' to ctrl in particular, but I don't see why you couldn't.

Warning: if you aren't comfortable messing with your registry then you should not do this.
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http://www.kodiva.com/post/swapping-caps-lock-and-control-keys

Ncage

United States91 Posts

September 02 2011 17:24 GMT

#18

I have the same problem.

I've remapped my hotkeys so creating a control group is used with the 'alt' button but I'm used to using 'ctl' as a double click (when you press control and click a unit, you'll immediately select every one of that same unit nearby). If I could just remap everything 'ctl' does to 'alt' my life would be so much easier.

RedFury

Italy85 Posts

September 24 2011 18:46 GMT

#19

I use Keytweak to remap the whole numpad (I'm left handed and I find it comfortable to play with) and some other keys.
The software itself it's great because you can save the profiles so it's easy to switch from one to another (basically default and gaming profile).
However, since it requires the system to reboot after any change I'm wondering if is it allowed on lan tourneys. Can someone with a bit of lan experience tell me if they generally let you remap keys or you should have pre-built layouts (maybe saved on the keyboard)?

Torte de Lini

Germany38463 Posts

September 24 2011 18:47 GMT

#20

Can't rebind ctrl, I fucking tried ):
If you have a Razer mouse, you can bind one of your extra buttons to be ctrl.