Difference between revisions of "Keyboard Controls"

Revision as of 03:17, 18 July 2010

Movement

Using the mouse, left click and hold when the mouse pointer-arrow is green to move in that direction.

You can also move around using the arrow keys or numpad on your keyboard.

Melee Combat Controls

Left click on an enemy when the mouse pointer-arrow turns red to attack that enemy with your equipped melee weapon.

With the keyboard, an attack is performed by holding CTRL, then pressing the arrow key for the direction you wish to attack in.

Ranged Combat & Spell-Casting Targeting Controls

Attacking with a bow, crossbow or sling consitutes ranged combat. Ranged combat uses auto-targeting.

To attack:

• CTRL+left click
• press CTRL+UP

To change targets, use either:

• TAB & SHIFT+TAB (spellcasters must use this)
• CTRL+LEFT & CTRL+RIGHT (only with ranged weapon equipped)

To see crosshair:

• Shift+t

To change targeting types:

• CTRL+t (cycles from Evil Targets(yellow), All-Targets(white), Good Targets(blue), Party Targets(green)

Improved targeting for healers:

(don't forget you can edit client.cfg to make a thicker crosshair large_crosshair=1)

• targeted party member name is in green in stats box
• changed good aligned crosshair to blue
• target locking - ctrl-L to lock your crosshair on one target (lock it on the damn tank!!)
• numpad+ also cycles targets (and shift numpad+)
• shouldn't lose target when some party member stands on top of your target
• a locked target (or any party target) can be a little further away than 4 squares before they become untargetted

( you can't hit the next targ button and pick up anyone inc party member that is beyond 4 sq tho - but once they are targetted they can move between 4-7 sq and stay targetted, and if locked, can go out of range and back into 7sq range and be instantly targetted again.)

Spellcasting Controls

Spells (and special abilities) can be bound to the function keys: press Shift+C, then use the arrow keys to highlight the spell you want to bind, then hit the F-key you want to bind to, followed by ESC. You can also bind spells by pressing shift-F-key.

Spellcasting and combat

• binding a spell to F1 will let you cast it with SHIFT+right mouse button, and with SHIFT+arrow key
• binding a spell to F2 will let you cast it with ALT+right mouse button, and with ALT+arrow key
• binding a spell to F3 will let you cast it with CTRL+SHIFT
• binding a spell to F4 will let you cast it with SHIFT+ALT
• binding a spell to F5 will let you cast it with CTRL+ALT
• binding a spell to F6 will let you cast it with CTRL+SHIFT+ALT
• binding a spell to F7 will let you cast it with just the right mouse button
• binding a spell to F8 will let you cast it with CTRL+right mouse button

A good mage technique might be to bind Greater Harm to F8 and Lightning to F7, then cast Lightning at range with right mouse button, and Greater Harm with CTRL+right mouse button when the enemies get close.

Keyboard Quick Reference

There is a Keyboard Quick Reference available that you can download and print out. It covers all of the commands mentioned below and is suitable for use on all three servers. GRAPHIC IS OUT OF DATE, as of EUO 1.2, although most commands are still the same.

Go and turn it into a mouse mat.

Keyboard command list

For best results, TURN NUM-LOCK OFF if you plan on using the keypad!

Binding items to Hotkeys

When in the view, use, ready or similar screens, you can press CTRL+number to bind an item to that number key.

Remapping Keys

Since not all keyboards are the same (eg ` and ~ are dead keys on some layouts) certain functions can be remapped to non-default keys.

To change your keyboard mappings, press shift+r (R). Press ESC at any stage to not change an existing mapping. You can use the shift and/or alt and/or ctrl keys in your mappings.

To reset your custom mappings to the default values, delete keymap.dat in your EUO folder.

Laptop diagonal movement

Additionally, diagonal movement can be achieved without a numpad with the following keys ...

NW  NE
[   ]

SW  SE
;   '

Slash Commands

There is an extended list of Slash Commands here.

Buying, selling and transferring items

While banking, buying, selling or transferring to your player merchant ...

• press space or enter to transfer/buy/sell 1 unit
• press shift-space or shift-enter to transfer/buy/sell 10 units
• press TAB to transfer/sell all units

The exceptions to these are gold & ammo; ammo (and bullets) has a base unit of 100, so pressing shift-space when buying/transferring ammo will move 1000 units. Gold has a base unit of 1000. When moving gold, shift-space will move 10000.

Filtering item lists

When viewing, dropping, banking, or anything that uses the scrolling item list, press one of the following keys to filter to subsets of items:

w: weapons
W: wearables
s: shields
p: potions
u: usables
j: jewellry
f: food
A or v: show everything
U: unidentified
h: hats/head slot
t: torso slot
b: boots slot
l: legs slot
g: gloves
r: rings
n: neck
S: scrolls and tomes 

You can also search for items. Press / and type part of the name of an item to search for it in the list (press esc to exit)

eg:

• to show all your vamp items type /vamp
• to show all your dex items type /dex

The match works on the item's full name - not the list name. Eg some long names in the list are shortened (eg BR is blackrock) - type blackrock, not BR.