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Adding New Key commands

Postby romaruk » Sat Jun 25, 2005 4:49 am

Hi All

I have seen that in some of the aircraft addons, they give you new views etc and opening doors.  How can I add new commands to FS2004?????

This has probably been asked a thousand times but it would help. ;)
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Re: Adding New Key commands

Postby FS_Pilot » Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:05 am

If you go to Options, controls, assignments you can change any of the keyboard or joystick assignments to whatever you want. A lot of addons set their own assignments through their installed software which may or may not be changed. Have a read of the FS2004 help files  or the addon help files for more details.
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Re: Adding New Key commands

Postby dave3cu » Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:59 am

Doors are already assigned.

Hold the shift key down and press E (Shift+E). This will toggle the main exit (#1) open and close. If the a/c has additional doors modeled, (shift+E), release, then press 2 or 3 or 4 (top row numbers, not numpad).

Other common key combos used to make things move/open are Water Rudder (shift+w), Tailhook and Wingfold. These last 2 are not assigned by default so you'll have to do that in Options>Control>Assignments. Assigning (shift+T) and (shift+F) works fine.

These special assignments should be explained in the downloads' included readme.txt or other documents.

As for views, some simply replace the view(s) seen using the normal view commands, numpad or POV hat switch. Others require that you have an add-on like Active Camera (payware) or F1View (freeware) to move beyond the limits of the default view commands.

Again, the downloads' documents should explain.

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Re: Adding New Key commands

Postby romaruk » Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:57 pm

Many thanks for the info.  Very helpfull

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