The Incomplete and Unofficial Guide to /bind (1.1)

CyberKnight7 · 07-20-2005 01:02 PM

Here's one that came up last night. can anyone thinl of a macro that will toggle the FPS display?

/macro FPS "showfps 1 $$ netgraph 1"
/macro fps "showfps 0 $$ netgraph 0"

Is what I currently use, but it uses two buttons.

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Grotus · 07-20-2005 01:38 PM

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Here's one that came up last night. can anyone thinl of a macro that will toggle the FPS display?

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/macro fps "++showfps$$++netgraph" should work.

Darc_Ranger · 07-20-2005 02:10 PM

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I'm sort of new at this, so forgive me if this has already been asked and answered.

I'd like to create a bind that has pauses in it.
Example: I activate Snipe blast, local would see "Target Aquired 'target name' Charging Canon" then a second later Local would see " Canon charged Fire!"

I have a robotic character that i'd like to create binds like this for.

So Is it possible?

/me crosses fingers

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TekTron the only other way to do this is to use two text files.

Snipe1.txt
ctrl+H "+ $$Local Target Aquired $target Charging Canon$$bind_load_file c:\CoH\Keybinds\Snipe2.txt"

Snipe2.txt
ctrl+H " $$powexec_name Snipe power name$$Local Canon charged Fire!$$bind_load_file c:\CoH\Keybinds\snipe2.txt"

To start bind copy this line into your chat window:

/bind_load_file c:\CoH\Keybinds\snipe2.txt

If you story you bind files differently adjust the text files appropriately.

The pause would be manual. Press down on the key would say snipe1 text. Release key would fire blast and say second text phrase.

You could move "powexec_name Snipe power name$$"
to snipe1 after local text and before bind load command if timing is not to your liking.

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ExidorTheQuick · 07-21-2005 04:49 AM

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Now my question...I want to program a key (say Insert) to do a camera reset when I depress the key and camdist when I release the key. If I do

/bind insert "camreset$$camdist 100"

The camera distance gets set, but the camera never resets to the correct starting position.

Can you help me?

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Make two text files:

<ul type="square">[*]zoom_in.txt
INSERT "+ $$camreset$$bind_load_file [path]zoom_out.txt"
[*]zoom_out.txt
INSERT "+ $$camdist 100$$bind_load_file [path]zoom_in.txt"[/list]
Replace [path] with the path to your keybind files. Also, either put the contents of zoom_in.txt into your main keybinds file (and reload it) or type in the bind manually in-game.

I like your idea, so I'm going to use it myself. Thanks.

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ExidorTheQuick · 07-21-2005 05:09 AM

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Anyone know what the maximum number of characters is that a single bind can contain?

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No more than 255 characters in a single keybind. Only the characters between the quotes count. For example:

<ul type="square">[*]/bind b "++first"[/list]
This bind would be considered 7 characters long by the game. If you try to create a bind that's longer than 255 characters, the bind will be successfully made, but the excess characters will be truncated. Naturally, this can cause problems.

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GrandFinale · 07-21-2005 10:25 AM

Fantastic. I know have three sets of 10 binds each on my numberpad that can be cycled through by pressing the "0" key.

I greatly appreciate all the info in this thread!

DJ_Dazzler · 07-21-2005 12:35 PM

I've gone threw this amillion times anyhow i know its possible to bind a key to start a show/start and i'm trying to bind one to my SG's Channel could someone please Help me out if they know it?
I know it should go something like this
/bind numpad1 "showchat$$beginChat /send Ghost Legion[lvl$level:$Archetype:$name(GHOST LEGION)] "
I got everything to workas far as showing my characters information and my supergroup but I cannot for the life of me get it to begin Chat in the CHannel my supergroup created. Could someone help me get it correct? Please and Thank you in advance.

My Supergroup is Ghost Legion, Insane Crusaders of Ghost Legion, Ghost Legion of Liberty, My Villiangroup is Shadow Wraiths.
My Global is @Darklite and @DazzlerDarklite

Blue_Volt_NA · 07-21-2005 01:31 PM

Darklite, are you trying to send something to SG chat, or to a global channel your SG created? If trying to send it to the SG channel, change /send to /sg. Im pretty sure that will send the message to the SG channel without changing the current chat channel you have set.

If youre trying to send it to a global channel:

Thats a bit more complicated, and this probably not exactly what youre looking for. As far as I know, there is NO way to just send a message to a global channel. You actually need to change your chat channel over to that global channel before you do the showchat/beginchat. Unfortunately (I HATE it when there are two unfortunatelys), theres no way to specifically change your chat channel to a global channel through a bind. Instead, you need to do a little trick.

First, you need to create a new chat tab. When you get the initial chat edit screen, look for the global channel your SG created in the display selection area. Add that channel to the tab first. This will do two things: 1. it will give that tab the same name as the first channel added. Second, it will set that channel as the default channel for that tab. Now, when you select that tab, using chat_set a (and clicking on the a on the chat line) will set the chat to that channel.

Now, I THINK that the channel name youre using is GHOST LEGION. So, Ive modified this to use that. If Im wrong, you should have enough here to figure out the rest on your own

So, once youve got that done, use this bind:

/bind numpad1 "tab_select GHOST LEGION$$chat_set a$$ startchat$$beginChat [lvl$level:$Archetype:$name(GHOST LEGION)]

BUT (dont you hate that word) this will leave your chat channel set to that global channel, and youll need to change it back to what ever other channel you wanted.

Thats the best I can do

Volt

p.s. I work for stars

DJ_Dazzler · 07-21-2005 02:07 PM

ya its a global channel, that i'm trying thanks alot i'll try that out when I get back later tonight.

My Supergroup is Ghost Legion, Insane Crusaders of Ghost Legion, Ghost Legion of Liberty, My Villiangroup is Shadow Wraiths.
My Global is @Darklite and @DazzlerDarklite

CyberKnight7 · 07-21-2005 04:37 PM

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Here's one that came up last night. can anyone thinl of a macro that will toggle the FPS display?

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/macro fps "++showfps$$++netgraph" should work.

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Grotus, you are brilliant! Thanks much for this elegant solution!

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TekTron · 07-21-2005 05:32 PM

Thanks to you and the others who answered my question.

I'll use this info for the good of mankind

Golden_Ace · 07-21-2005 05:59 PM

Hope it helped

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EvGen_88 · 07-21-2005 09:00 PM

In a word, yes.

Darc_Ranger · 07-22-2005 08:16 PM

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ya its a global channel, that i'm trying thanks alot i'll try that out when I get back later tonight.

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Darklite_Burst
This should also work without changing the current channel in use.
For example if you were in local you could use this bind to chat in global and still stay in local chat.

Shift+2 beginchat /send "Global Channel" [lvl$level:$Archetype:$name]

I know it look funny without the quotations and the begin and end, but this works.

TekTron

Glad to help.

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Wogiwi · 07-23-2005 04:40 AM

Hi all, I've just spent the last hour trying to find what I need in the many pages here and have come out with nothing so if someone who is reading this can help I'd be very grateful. I'm wanting a bind for speedboost and increase density so all I have to do is click on one key and it will speed boost the target then increase density on same target is this possible? thank you

Also say you have made a BOO BOO on a bind will that bind be over written by adding another to the same key to which you originally used? For example say I used the letter t for teleport bind and I want to now re write it if I do will the original one be over written with the new one? Again thanks J

Golden_Ace · 07-23-2005 02:02 PM

Unfortunately I can find no simple solution to your problem. Try this but I am not confident that it will work you will have to press the numpad1 key twice.

/bind numpad1 "unselect$$team_select 1$$powexec_name speedboost$$powexec_name increase density"

I am more confident on the following but it is a lot more work

Create two bind files called density, and speedboost

Speedboost.txt
numpad1 "unselect$$team_select 1$$powexec_name speedboost$$bind_load_file c:\binds\density.txt"
numpad2 "unselect$$team_select 2$$powexec_name speedboost$$bind_load_file c:\binds\density.txt"
numpad3 "unselect$$team_select 3$$powexec_name speedboost$$bind_load_file c:\binds\density.txt"
numpad4 "unselect$$team_select 4$$powexec_name speedboost$$bind_load_file c:\binds\density.txt"
numpad5 "unselect$$team_select 5$$powexec_name speedboost$$bind_load_file c:\binds\density.txt"
numpad6 "unselect$$team_select 6$$powexec_name speedboost$$bind_load_file c:\binds\density.txt"
numpad7 "unselect$$team_select 7$$powexec_name speedboost$$bind_load_file c:\binds\density.txt"
numpad8 "unselect$$team_select 8$$powexec_name speedboost$$bind_load_file c:\binds\density.txt"

density.txt
numpad1 "unselect$$team_select 1$$powexec_name increase density$$bind_load_file c:\binds\speedboost.txt"
numpad2 "unselect$$team_select 2$$powexec_name increase density$$bind_load_file c:\binds\speedboost.txt"
numpad3 "unselect$$team_select 3$$powexec_name increase density$$bind_load_file c:\binds\speedboost.txt"
numpad4 "unselect$$team_select 4$$powexec_name increase density$$bind_load_file c:\binds\speedboost.txt"
numpad5 "unselect$$team_select 5$$powexec_name increase density$$bind_load_file c:\binds\speedboost.txt"
numpad6 "unselect$$team_select 6$$powexec_name increase density$$bind_load_file c:\binds\speedboost.txt"
numpad7 "unselect$$team_select 7$$powexec_name increase density$$bind_load_file c:\binds\speedboost.txt"
numpad8 "unselect$$team_select 8$$powexec_name increase density$$bind_load_file c:\binds\speedboost.txt"

your will still have to press the key twice

In answer to your second question yes you can make a new bind over the top of an old one.

It occurs to me (because of the second question) that you might not know how to create a keybinds file.

First you already have one called Keybinds.txt search for it on your C drive.
Then make a directory called binds off your C drive (c:\binds)
I would then copy the keybinds.txt to the binds directory
Change the name of the keybinds.txt to Speedboost.txt

Edit your new text file with notepad the end of the file should look like this.

LALT "+alttray"
M "map"
MBUTTON "+camrotate"
MOUSEWHEEL "+camdistadjust"
N "nav"
P "powers"
PAGEDOWN "camreset"
PAGEUP "+camrotate"
Q "+turnleft"
R "++autorun"
RALT "alttraysticky"
RBUTTON "+mouse_look"
S "+backward"
SPACE "+up"
SYSRQ "screenshot"
T "target"
TAB "target_enemy_next"
CTRL+TAB "target_enemy_near"
SHIFT+TAB "target_enemy_prev"
W "+forward"
X "+down"
Z "powexec_abort"

Add the numpad changes right after the N "nav"

It should look like this when your done

LALT "+alttray"
M "map"
MBUTTON "+camrotate"
MOUSEWHEEL "+camdistadjust"
N "nav"
numpad1 "unselect$$team_select 1$$powexec_name speedboost$$bind_load_file c:\binds\density.txt"
numpad2 "unselect$$team_select 2$$powexec_name speedboost$$bind_load_file c:\binds\density.txt"
numpad3 "unselect$$team_select 3$$powexec_name speedboost$$bind_load_file c:\binds\density.txt"
numpad4 "unselect$$team_select 4$$powexec_name speedboost$$bind_load_file c:\binds\density.txt"
numpad5 "unselect$$team_select 5$$powexec_name speedboost$$bind_load_file c:\binds\density.txt"
numpad6 "unselect$$team_select 6$$powexec_name speedboost$$bind_load_file c:\binds\density.txt"
numpad7 "unselect$$team_select 7$$powexec_name speedboost$$bind_load_file c:\binds\density.txt"
numpad8 "unselect$$team_select 8$$powexec_name speedboost$$bind_load_file c:\binds\density.txt"
P "powers"
PAGEDOWN "camreset"
PAGEUP "+camrotate"
Q "+turnleft"
R "++autorun"
RALT "alttraysticky"
RBUTTON "+mouse_look"
S "+backward"
SPACE "+up"
SYSRQ "screenshot"
T "target"
TAB "target_enemy_next"
CTRL+TAB "target_enemy_near"
SHIFT+TAB "target_enemy_prev"
W "+forward"
X "+down"
Z "powexec_abort"

Save your file and make a copy of it called Density.txt
Then replace all the numpads with the density ones. Save file.

Enter the game and type out
/bind_load_file c:\binds\Speedboost.txt

This should get you started on the wonderful world of binds good luck.

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Korban_Dallas · 07-24-2005 01:12 AM

Can some one tell me what is wrong with these???

Toggle to Turn on power and go to tray

/macro Nova powexec_toggleon Dark Nova$$goto_tray 5

Toggle to Turn off power and go back to tray 1

/macro Off powexec_toggleoff Dark Nova$$goto_tray 1

Also i forgot it says it takes 2 args and i gave 4, but im not that good with these...

Golden_Ace · 07-24-2005 03:20 AM

Try this instead

/macro Nova powexectoggleon Dark Nova$$goto_tray 5

/macro Off powexectoggleoff Dark Nova$$goto_tray 1

you don't need the underline between the words

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Korban_Dallas · 07-24-2005 09:22 AM

I tried taking out the underline and still does not work, when i put it in it still says it takes 2 args and i gave 4, and when i put the command line in it go's to tray 5, but does not activate the power and it does not make the Macro Button...

Golden_Ace · 07-24-2005 12:54 PM

For some reason the game does not like the quotation marks used in word. The quotation marks used in a text file seem to work ok. It appears that your macro was originally typed in Word.

/macro Nova "powexectoggleon Dark Nova$$goto_tray 5"
Text file "
/macro Nova powexectoggleon Dark Nova$$goto_tray 5
Word

See the difference?

Sorry I should have checked. I just copied your macros and corrected the underline.

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The_Spy_is_Dead · 07-24-2005 09:08 PM

Quick request:

If I want to bind Recall Friend to T key and have the phrase "[Target] Acquired, Teleporting", what would the bind look like?

Golden_Ace · 07-24-2005 10:17 PM

/bind T "team $target Acquired, Teleporting$$powexec_name recall friend"

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Wogiwi · 07-24-2005 10:23 PM

Thank you Golden_Ace for taking the time out to reply to my question I haven't tried what you have suggested but have it here ready for when I next get the chance to cheers

The_Spy_is_Dead · 07-24-2005 10:35 PM

Thanks as well Golden Ace. I'll need that when I respec in Teleport after I5.

Sorry Tanks got so shafted

Golden_Ace · 07-25-2005 02:50 AM

Anytime guys. Don't hesitate to send me a tell if you have problems.

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