Short cuts (hotkeys)

[huzman 445]

I depend a lot on the shortcuts (hotkeys) of the game. I have learned a lot of them from the vanilla SC4D, but I can't find the ones for NAM, SAM, CAM and other ones. Do they exist?

[APSMS 1,893]

There are no custom shortcuts.

Use the default ones (the NAM simply overrides what the shortcuts originally link to, but contains no custom shortcuts in and of itself). The rest have no shortcuts whatsoever, though to be fair utility of LOT-based shortcuts drops dramatically once you start using extensive Custom Content, after which point I find only the network/other tools shortcuts handy. I don't plop enough schools to justify a shortcut for just one lot, but I have more than enough roads to lay, and setups complicated enough that a few extra keyboard shortcuts (like one for monorail, for instance) would not be remiss.

Although keyboard shortcuts are theoretically something that we can mod, the resource keys (as I understand it) used to map the physical keyboard key (and associated game flag) to an actual game-lot or network tool are missing. It has been the desire of many, I think, to have a OWR shortcut, but there is no way to identify from the thousands of keyboard shortcut possibilities available to us, which one actually maps to which specific key, nor is it, IIRC, easy to identify exactly how to link the said shortcut to the desired lot/tool.

Maybe the resources are easier to identify in DLL format, but I doubt it (they may be easier to hack through, though).

[matias93 7,535]

IIRC, @simmaster07 found some way to access the key strokes with the DLL, I think on the same way as cheats. Maybe 'rewiring' some of them to point to note useful tools wild be possible?

[NCGAIO 562]

21 hours ago, matias93 said:

IIRC, @simmaster07 found some way to access the key strokes with the DLL, I think on the same way as cheats. Maybe 'rewiring' some of them to point to note useful tools wild be possible?

In part Hotkeys can be defined / modified directly in Simcity_1.Dat -  since 2003 "DATGEN hotkey"

- Hot Keys in SC4

How do it ...

 - KEYCFG File format.

 

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EBINA  old samples 

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### RTMT Roadtop Lots Avenue
                [ Alt ] + [ 4 ] "Build RTMT Roadtop Bus Stop Avenue x2"
                          [ 4 ] "Build RTMT Roadtop Bus Stop Avenue"
              [ Shift ] + [ 4 ] "Build RTMT Roadtop Subway Station Avenue"
[ Control ] + [ Shift ] + [ 4 ] "Build RTMT Roadtop Bus and Subway Station Avenue"

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Note: SC4 running in window mode or news OS (WDDM) observe system hotkey.

[huzman 445]

Thanks folks ! I looked into the files posted for downloading and that's waaayyy out of my league.

On 3/24/2017 at 8:12 PM, APSMS said:

Use the default ones

I Guess this is enough, for the time being.