Remap Keys?

[Redirect Left]

Is it possible to remap keys in this game? I find it super super irritating getting out of <any game> and then trying to use WASD to move about, and instead OpenTTD spits out lots of boxes for things. So just wondering if its possible to remap these hotkeys, as I always use the bar at the top and my mouse to choose what I want, insteaad of using the keys.

So yeah, is this a possibility?

[PikkaBird]

Did you even look? hotkeys.cfg in the same place as your openttd.cfg.

[Eddi]

there is no GUI for that (yet), but in hotkeys.cfg you can change almost everything.

[Zuu]

Though, IIRC using arrow keys for viewport movement is not configurable in hotkeys.cfg. To change that you probably need to make source code changes and (re-)compile OpenTTD.

If I understand the original question, Redirect Left wants to change viewport movement from arrow keys to WASD-keys.

[Redirect Left]

If I understand the original question, Redirect Left wants to change viewport movement from arrow keys to WASD-keys.

Just movement in general to arrow OR WASD, like many games these days, but if I can only have one or the other, i'll not bother even opening the cfg file, i'll just get disappointed

Did you even look? hotkeys.cfg in the same place as your openttd.cfg.

Not there no, I assumed we wouldn't be using .cfg files to edit basic settings these days

edit: just removed the things that WASD was keyed towards, rest of that file is just tl;dr

[arnaud380]

Hello everybody,

I reopen the discussion because I would like to find a solution to the change of the arrow keys. I play on a laptop and because of my muscle problems on the wrist it is very painful to use the arrow keys.

Thank you

[_dp_]

Have you tried moving the map with the mouse? Probably the main reason why no one bothered to allow remapping arrow keys is that they suck anyway.

[dcraig327]

You can use WASD fairly easily without recompiling the game.

1. Download AutoHotkey v1.1
2. Save all of the below code into a file called openttd.ahk and double click the file
3. If you see a new green letter H taskbar icon, then it's working
4. (optional)To have it auto-run on startup. Press Win+R, type "shell:startup", create a new shortcut to openttd.ahk in that folder that opened up

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; Optional. Reassign the following two keybinds in hotkeys.cfg as they will no longer be accessable.

; [order]
; skip = D
; [railtoolbar]
; signal = S

; This is a AutoHotkey v1.1 script
#If WinActive("ahk_exe openttd.exe")
w::Up
s::Down
a::Left
d::Right
return

FYI, there's a similar program for Linux called AutoKey.