I've been looking around for this for ages, but what little I can find on the subject is not useful at all...
It must be really annoying for those people who use WASD for the camera, or who are used to a specific hotkey setup to be forced to use the hotkeys the mapmakers set, so my questions are:
1. Is there a way to have custom hotkeys for each map the same way we have custom hotkeys for the base game?
2. Is there a way to change a hotkey ingame? I always assumed that this wasn't possible because the hotkeys are tied to the buttons, which means that even if we could change the buttons then all the units that used that button would have their hotkeys changed.
3. Is there a way to define hotkeys based on their position on the units ability card?
I'll try to answer these to the best of my ability.
I'm assuming that you're asking if you (as the player) can change the hotkeys for custom and arcade games just like you can change them in normal melee games. If this is the question, then yes, it's possible. You can save as many hotkey profiles as you want under your StarCraft II account, and then whenever you play that map, you simply load the profile you want. You would have to manually configure them while in that particular map, then save it to a profile to load them back up again whenever you play that map. You would have to create profiles for each of the games you play though. However, I have noticed some problems doing this; sometimes it doesn't load them correctly because when editing the hotkeys in-game, you cannot have conflicting hotkeys (two buttons with the same key), whereas in custom games or arcade games the map creator can set them to be conflicting through the data editor, so you just have to be careful when messing around with the hotkeys of custom games.
I'm assuming that you're asking if you can change your hotkeys in-game. Yes, this is completely possible for almost any StarCraft map. I'm not sure what you mean in the second sentence of that question, so you might need to re-explain that as I may not have answered the question.
I do not know if it is possible to make the buttons default to specific keys in EVERY command card, BUT I do know that you can manually input them all in when you put the command cards together in the data editor... that is a lot of command cards though... It may be possible with triggers, but I'm not very good with triggers so I couldn't tell you for sure.
Hopefully that helps, if I didn't answer the questions fully, just let me know and I'll try to help you out.
I've been looking around for this for ages, but what little I can find on the subject is not useful at all...
It must be really annoying for those people who use WASD for the camera, or who are used to a specific hotkey setup to be forced to use the hotkeys the mapmakers set, so my questions are:
1. Is there a way to have custom hotkeys for each map the same way we have custom hotkeys for the base game? 2. Is there a way to change a hotkey ingame? I always assumed that this wasn't possible because the hotkeys are tied to the buttons, which means that even if we could change the buttons then all the units that used that button would have their hotkeys changed. 3. Is there a way to define hotkeys based on their position on the units ability card?
Thank you in advance for the help provided.
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I'll try to answer these to the best of my ability.
Hopefully that helps, if I didn't answer the questions fully, just let me know and I'll try to help you out.