Swapping Camera Movement Keys for WASD breaks PLAYERCFG.LUA

@Migz_DH wrote:

In the Steam forum, there have been a few threads lately 1 2 3 from people complaining that using the WASD keys or other pre-assigned keys to move the camera doesn't work. As rebinding keys always worked for me previously, I was curious and tried it out today. Indeed, directly swapping WASD for Up, Left, Down, and Right arrows doesn't work. (Edit: Presumably, the same thing happens with Pan Up and Pan Down as well. Edit2: Nope, not true. As Hell_Diguner mentioned below, the Pan Up and Pan Down work as expected after swapping.)

The problem is that the PLAYERCFG.LUA file's "ControlOptions" section doesn't fill in correctly when swapping the camera movement keys for keys which are already assigned to functions (such as WASD). This doesn't happen when moving the pre-assigned functions to keys which don't already have assignments such as the Number Pad keys first, then assigning the WASD keys (or similar) to the camera movement.

Inside of the PLAYERCFG.LUA file, entries should appear like this (example for W as Pan Forward):

{
151,
"Camera_PanCmd(INKE_KeyDown,PS_Up)",
0,
0,
"Pan Forward",
{
87,
},
},
{
152,
"Camera_PanCmd(INKE_KeyUp,PS_Up)",
1,
0,
"Pan Forward",
{
87,
},
},

However, it doesn't. Instead, it's missing the key entry for W ("87,") in the second part and it looks like this:

{
151,
"Camera_PanCmd(INKE_KeyDown,PS_Up)",
0,
0,
"Pan Forward",
{
87,
},
},
{
152,
"Camera_PanCmd(INKE_KeyUp,PS_Up)",
1,
0,
"Pan Forward",
{
},
},

All four camera movement entries miss that second key causing the camera to fail to move correctly.

Of course, by entering the correct key values to PLAYERCFG.LUA, the camera works as intended with WASD, but these players don't know that, and they shouldn't have to do that anyway.

As mentioned above, this entry problem can be bypassed by first assigning the functions to other keys first. Then, assigning the camera movement to the new keys. So, for example, if I move Waypoints, Military Selection, Stop, and Dock to NumPad 4, 5, 6, and 7 respectively, then assign Pan Forward, Pan Left, Pan Backward, and Pan Right to W, A, S, and D respectively, the PLAYERCFG.LUA file fills out correctly, and the camera moves as expected.

So, here are the instructions for two workarounds I've begun writing to players who have this problem:

1. 
   A. Change Waypoints, Military Selection, Stop, and Dock (WASD currently) to Number Pad numbers.
   B. Change the camera movement keys to WASD.
   C. Change Waypoints, Military Selection, Stop, and Dock to whichever other keys you want them to actually be.
   D. Check the PLAYERCFG.LUA file to ensure all of the entries are filled correctly.

2.
A. Change the camera movement keys to WASD while moving the Waypoints, Military Selection, Stop, and Dock functions to where you want them to be.
B. Check the PLAYERCFG.LUA file to ensure all of the entries are filled correctly and correct whatever problems occur.

I hope a solution to this can be included in the patch the GBX team has been working on.

(Oh, swapping the camera movement keys while in a match does nothing until exiting out of it btw. Did you know that?)

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How to reproduce this problem:

1. While in the Main Menu, go to the Options Menu, then the Controls Menu.
2. Assign Military Selection to Left.
3. Assign Waypoints to Up.
4. Assign Stop to Down.
5. Assign Dock to Right.
6. Assign Pan Forward to W.
7. Assign Pan Backward to S.
8. Assign Pan Left to A.
9. Assign Pan Right to D.
10. Try to play a match in either the campaign or Player vs. CPU; it doesn't matter which.
11. You should find that pressing either W or A results in the camera moving forward and not stopping when the key is released. Hit the key again to stop the camera from moving.
12. You should find that hitting any of the WASD keys afterwards results in no movement at all.
13. Exit the game.
14. Enter the PLAYERCFG.LUA file and scroll down to the "ControlsOptions" section.
15. You should find the key number entries missing for the four camera pan stop functions.
16. You should find that the key number entries are there for Military Selection, Waypoints, Stop, and Dock.
17. Add the appropriate key entry to the four broken sections, and save the file.
    A. Pan Forward - "87,"
    B. Pan Backward - "83,"
    C. Pan Left - "65,"
    D. Pan Right - "68,"
18. Repeat steps 10 through 12 to see if the camera works as expected... it should.
19. Exit the match, and go to the Main Menu.
20. While in the Main Menu, go to the Options Menu, then the Controls Menu.
21. Set all of the controls to the default.
22. Exit to Desktop.
23. Boot up the game.
24. While in the Main Menu, go to the Options Menu, then the Controls Menu.
25. Assign Military Selection to Num 6.
26. Assign Waypoints to Num 7.
27. Assign Stop to Num 8.
28. Assign Dock to Num 9.
29. Assign Pan Forward to W.
30. Assign Pan Backward to S.
31. Assign Pan Left to A.
32. Assign Pan Right to D.
33. Repeat steps 10 through 12 to see if the camera works as expected... it should.
34. Exit to Desktop.

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