Darkgrid Trainer program - Page 2

On February 15 2012 13:34 NTTemplar wrote:
Requested feature would be to be able to change what the hotkey for something is in the trainer.

I have redone a couple of hotkeys, and all control group hotkeys so when it asks me to e.g. select queens then plant tumor I do what is right, but the trainer gives me a wrong.

On February 15 2012 02:59 FoxyMayhem wrote:
Awesome work man. I've added a link to this thread at the top of the Darkgrid page. In red!

I think it's... interesting that people are asking you to make it compatible with other layouts. It's like watching someone cut off their own leg and practicing running one-legged so they can get really good at the disability Olympics.

On February 16 2012 07:51 Kaitlin wrote:


... but some of us like our own custom hotkey setups

On February 15 2012 23:56 SirPsychoMantis wrote:


Hm, did you try this with version 4? There was a bug with the drop creep, I was using the wrong command since the SC2Hotkeys file has some really odd/legacy names. Or was it the queen hotkey? I can double check that since I have rebound mine to ForwardMouseButton/BackMouseButton

Some of the interesting command names:
MorphMorphalisk/Queen = Inject
ResearchHighCapacityBarrels/FactoryTechLab = Blue Flame
ResearchPunisherGrenades/BarracksTechLab = Concussive shells

Really confused me for a little bit

EDIT: Question for everyone, which keys (O and P) do you bind to which mouse keys?

On February 16 2012 09:49 NTTemplar wrote:


I have swapped which control groups got which hotkeys in the sense that. (without knowing exactly what it use) e.g. ctrl+3 to make control group 1, I am quessing control group 1 in that case is ment to be the control group for queens, but I have changed ctrl+3 to make a different control group (6) so when it asks me to use the hotkeys for queens that is the hotkeys for control group 6 in my case, not whatever the default of darkgrid is.

On February 16 2012 22:47 RonaldTimmins wrote:
Thank you for developing Darkgrid trainer SirPsychoMantis, your program is freaking awesome! Your download and installation instructions are very clear,

I have an idea for Darkgrid trainer and a question:

Idea: I think it would be cool if the user was unable to continue to the next practice command until they have correctly pressed the keys required of the current command. I find that I am not currently not learning anything with the program because I am not practising the correct key combos for the ones I am getting wrong.

Another alternative would be to create an option for "#Time between failure, in miliseconds timeBetweenFailure=". This would allow the user time to process what they did wrong by increasing the time between failures. Currently, I feel there is not enough time between failures to learn anything.

Question: How can I get my forward and back mouse buttons to work in the program? Do I have to set them to P and O somehow?

Thanks for reading and again for taking the time to create this awesome program,

On February 22 2012 22:11 dacimvrl wrote:
i guess this is like some sort of flash cards? try quizlet dot com?

On February 22 2012 22:09 Tictock wrote:
This is a great idea and I'm glad someone took the time to make something like this. I recently decided to try Darkgrid and after a few stumbling days decided to switch as it seems very well thought out and elegant. Teaching my hands to do something new is pretty hard and a trainer like this is just perfect.

This trainer would be a great way to keep my hands learning the new motions while not actually playing a game, however I seem to have a problem with it. The mouse buttons do not respond to the trainer and so I'm nearly locked out from any use of this program. Not sure what to do to fix this.

Since I've been using Darkgrid a lot in team games for the past week I may not need a trainer much longer, but still a cool idea.

On February 28 2012 08:06 bloodorc44 wrote:
Hi, thank you so much for this wonderful program! There is one thing that could be improved, though. It seems that for some reason a few of the control groups are off. I'm using the 'Mouseless P and T" hotkey file, as Protoss. For instance, using this hotkey setup , the correct "Create an observer hotkey" would be "Shift + Y", yet the program has it as "Shift + 5".

Good job however with the program, and much thanks again!

On February 28 2012 19:27 Ch3rry wrote:
Thx for great program. But on my keyboard (MERC Stealth) I can't get pass CTRL+ALT commands (f.ex. Ctrl+Alt+S).
It's showing me that I pressed "S" button only.
My Ctrl and Alt butttons works fine for other Command (and also for CTRL+ALT+DEL).
Anyone has the same problem?

Also it says that Nexus/Tech and Gate/Robo/Stargate main groups are both "O" (one of them should be "P")

On February 28 2012 19:47 Tobberoth wrote:
I personally find the idea questionable. I applaud your effort and it's nice that people like it, more people using Darkgrid would be a good thing as well since it's ridiculously good and it sucks that most of the community don't know about it.

That said, the way to get used to Darkgrid is to use it in SC2, not spam it in a program. if you're at work and can't play SC2, sure... but learning Darkgrid is at the very most a one week process, even if you just play a few hours of SC2 a day, so IMO it feels like a bit of wasted effort.

Great job though.