Is it possible to have custom controls? I'm a newb, I just bought "The Sims 2" today (a little late, I know), and I just joined today. I hate the controls in "The Sims 2", they just dont work for me. Are there any files that I can edit to bind my own custom keys? Say for instance that I wanted 'Q' and 'E' to rotate the camera left and right, instead of '<' and '>', isn't there a simple text file that I can bind my own keys to commands currently handled by other buttons? I have searched Google and this site, but so far I have come up with nothing... Please help!
Hi Paul, As far as I know there is no way to reassign keyboard assignments except via UserStartUp.cheat (editable with Notepad) you'll find it in C:\Documents and Settings\~~\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Config I never actually made it work for what I wanted (on the US keyboard the `~ key pauses the game ... the same key gives: ` on my UK keyboard and it doesn't pause the game grr ... I gave up with UserStartUp.cheat and resorted to having Windows use the US keyboard by default ... makes it hard for me to enter em@il addresses cos I tend to " when I wanna @ and # when I need a ... ) In short the config file I mention contains by default a self explanatory format line. It is intended, primarily to assign keys to regularly used cheats rather than to reassign key functions. You might consider taking the matter up with geeks at sites like MATY (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/) or http://www.modethesims2.com/ though I wouldn't hold my breath expecting a rush of replies. Your's is the first such request I have come across and my own pleas for help with the /~ pause issue were met with a wall of silence that I interpeted as a mixture of indifference and incomprehension. Many games contains inexplicable omissions and most, so-called, moddable games contain unpredictable areas of unmoddableness p) (or areas that far too few -- ie groups of one -- people are interested investigating. For example a very small group has investigated, somewhat desultorily and signally without success, the construction and consistency of the .reia filetype that contains the movie image idents for the Maxis made neighborhoods on the main game menu.) Lots of words to say: no :( Sorry for late reply ... was up late, playing.
Thank you, I think I understand, but there is only one problem: That file does not exist in that directory. Are you sure that it cant be done in the console, by using a command like: Code: bind j quit Most of the other games that I have written custom config files for (including the use of a two axis, 30 button gamepad In Half-Life 2 ) use a simple text file and command prompt system to preform basic and advanced functions, just llike that one you are talking about, but mine seems to be non-existant...
Ah sorry. My mistake. You'll need to create one (use notepad) but I don't think you'll be able to make it do what you want. One example (part of mine) is as follows: Code: floatProp tvVolume 0.2 # # Cheat shortcuts use the format: # alias [alias definition] "The Cheat Code" "Short Descn" "Long Descn" # alias mon "moveObjects on" "Move Objects On" "Move Objects On" alias moff "moveObjects off" "Move Objects Off" "Move Objects Off" Save that as UserStartup.cheat to EA Games\The Sims 2\Config\ in My Documents and next time you load the game ... The TV will be a little quieter Any plain cheats you enter at the top of the file are applied directly to the game floatProp tvVolume is a cool one for making the ruddy TVs a little quieter (or louder) the scale is 0.0-1.0 #'s are used to REM out lines so can you make notes Aliases (shortcuts) apply an alternative -- usually shorter -- cheat code for the ones already present in the game. With the pair in the example above you can set moveobjects on by typing mon in the cheat console. I am not quite sure how important the presence of text string long and short descriptions is but maybe you can play around yourself. As I said at the outset, that is the only user accessible option to customise the game controls A start up cheat file is useful if you like using the boolprop cheats a lot cos they take a lot of typing ...
