(suggestion) Hotkey panel in French
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 5:44 am
Shame on me : after hundreds of hours playing FoG2/P&S games, I've just looked at the Shortcut panel in French for the first time...
I noticed two related issues that are really minor ones as most ppl certainly use the mouse to move/rotate the view.
1) WASD + QE to move/rotate is a torture on a Azerty keyboard
One solution is to use the English layout on Windows10.
2) The name of the keys are wrong for AZERTY
This is not :
1 - Permute affichage LOF
2 - Permute affichage LOS
3 - Permute affichage portée de commandement
but
& - Permute affichage LOF
é - Permute affichage LOS
'' - Permute affichage portée de commandement
To type 1, 2, 3 with these keys, you have to press SHIFT. And it is disabled in the game.
On the other hand, the keys 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 of the numeric keypad (identical on both AZERTY and QWERTY keyboards)...
...allow the same moves and rotations as WASD + QE on AZERTY (and QWERTY ?).
btw the 2 key on the numeric keypad also allows the same camera move as 5 !
All this annoying blabla to suggest a few changes on the keyboard panel that have the advantage to remove the WASPQE torture for those very few ones who wouldn't use the mouse to rotate/move the view and would use a AZERTY keyboard :
I noticed two related issues that are really minor ones as most ppl certainly use the mouse to move/rotate the view.
1) WASD + QE to move/rotate is a torture on a Azerty keyboard
One solution is to use the English layout on Windows10.
2) The name of the keys are wrong for AZERTY
This is not :
1 - Permute affichage LOF
2 - Permute affichage LOS
3 - Permute affichage portée de commandement
but
& - Permute affichage LOF
é - Permute affichage LOS
'' - Permute affichage portée de commandement
To type 1, 2, 3 with these keys, you have to press SHIFT. And it is disabled in the game.
On the other hand, the keys 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 of the numeric keypad (identical on both AZERTY and QWERTY keyboards)...
...allow the same moves and rotations as WASD + QE on AZERTY (and QWERTY ?).
btw the 2 key on the numeric keypad also allows the same camera move as 5 !
All this annoying blabla to suggest a few changes on the keyboard panel that have the advantage to remove the WASPQE torture for those very few ones who wouldn't use the mouse to rotate/move the view and would use a AZERTY keyboard :
btw the possibility of using the 2/4/6/7/8/9 keys of the numeric keypad is mentioned in this string but does not appear in the in-game panel :4, 6, 8, 2 du pavé numérique ou déplacer la souris sur le bord de l'écran - faire défiler la carte
7, 9 du clavier numérique ou flèches gauche/droite - faire pivoter la vue
& - Permute affichage LOF
é - Permute affichage LOS
'' - Permute affichage portée de commandement
IDS_HELP_SHORTCUTS,"ESC - affiche charger/sauvegarder et les options~WASD - déplace la carte (également au pavé numérique 8/4/6/2)~QE - tourne la caméra (également au pavé numérique 7/9 ou les flèches droite/gauche)~up/down - dézoom/zoome~J - permute les options de la minicarte~M - bascule entre vue haute/basse~F1 - affiche l'aide~F2 - Prend une capture d'écran~Shift-3 - angle de caméra bas",