Posted 31 March 2014 - 08:18 AM
First of all great work on everything you guys have done here! I might come and help out when I get some more free time.
Since you guys have such a good understanding of the game, I'm wondering if you know how to customize the hotkeys? I know that for different languages, there are different hotkeys so it should be possible to manipulate them right?
Thanks in advance!
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Posted 31 March 2014 - 09:47 AM
"To know what question we may reasonably propose is in itself a strong evidence of sagacity or intelligence. For if a question be in itself incongruous and begs for uncalled-for answers, it holds, sometimes, besides embarrassing the proposer, the disadvantage to seduce the unguarded listener into giving absurd answers, and we are presented with the ridiculous spectacle of one (as the ancients said) milking the he-goat, and the other holding a sieve beneath."
Posted 31 March 2014 - 09:48 AM
It's for bfme1, patch 1.06 I guess since it's the last (but that shouldnt matter much should it?) and language english
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Posted 31 March 2014 - 10:27 AM
Yes it matters for several reasons. Your case is the easy one though. To modify the existing hotkeys do as follows (you may want to adjust the corresponding description strings as well)
Open '_patch106.big' (your installation directory) with finalbig and extract data\lotr.str
Open lotr.str with your favourite editor (like notepad++).
This file contains the ingame strings, you are allowed to modify anything encapsulated by two ". The character for the shortcut is defined by a pre-put ampersand.
Example:
"Guard &Unit"
This tells the game that 'U' will be the hotkey for guard unit. Do not change the file encoding.
After you have made your modifications, save the file lotr.str and create a new .big with finalbig.
Add the file lotr.str in finalbig with the path data\lotr.str
I suggest saving the new .big as '_patch106CustomEnglish.big'
Copy this file to your installation directory.
// Edit: Moved to BFME1 Modding
Edited by ICT, 31 March 2014 - 10:35 AM.
"To know what question we may reasonably propose is in itself a strong evidence of sagacity or intelligence. For if a question be in itself incongruous and begs for uncalled-for answers, it holds, sometimes, besides embarrassing the proposer, the disadvantage to seduce the unguarded listener into giving absurd answers, and we are presented with the ridiculous spectacle of one (as the ancients said) milking the he-goat, and the other holding a sieve beneath."
Post-modern Shaman
Posted 31 March 2014 - 11:04 AM
Won't this cause OOS issues?
No fuel left for the pilgrims
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Posted 31 March 2014 - 11:11 AM
Won't this cause OOS issues?
No, apparently it doesnt. Think about other languages 
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Edited by ICT, 31 March 2014 - 11:12 AM.
"To know what question we may reasonably propose is in itself a strong evidence of sagacity or intelligence. For if a question be in itself incongruous and begs for uncalled-for answers, it holds, sometimes, besides embarrassing the proposer, the disadvantage to seduce the unguarded listener into giving absurd answers, and we are presented with the ridiculous spectacle of one (as the ancients said) milking the he-goat, and the other holding a sieve beneath."
Post-modern Shaman
Posted 31 March 2014 - 11:24 AM
Won't this cause OOS issues?
No, apparently it doesnt. Think about other languages
I know. Still, I am very wary of these individual edits.
Anyway, I trust in your expertise on this subject.
And welcome, Faramir7!
No fuel left for the pilgrims
Posted 31 March 2014 - 11:37 AM
Just tested it and it worked in a game on gameranger! Didn't went OOS, although I did only play for ~5mins. Will test some more
Ashen Shugar
Posted 22 April 2014 - 03:33 AM
I can confirm after many years of using different hotkeys that it wont cause OoS issues
Posted 29 May 2014 - 05:03 PM
What kinda hotkeys do you need in this game? Only ones i use is ctrl+number and just tag the barracks or somethink. Like number 3 is usually the barracks or the pit, number 1 is army and number 2 in the heroes for example. 
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