Post by Hook on Jan 22, 2018 15:00:54 GMT -6
Setting / RE-Setting, your UT99 MapVote Hot Key! (aka MapVoteLA13)
* to open the votemenu mid-game use the following keybinding: "mutate bdbmapvote votemenu"
1) Setting your MapVote Hot Key manually for the first time ...
IMPORTANT: This is done in YOUR Player Install of UT on YOUR Home Computer! (Not on a server)
Go to your UT System folder - (usually at)-> C:\UnrealTournament\System
Open the User.ini file. <-(open with notepad or other text editor)
Scroll down to the [Engine.Input] section.
Find an open (not used) key that you want to use to launch the MapVote Window.
For Example, if "X" is the key you choose, make it look like this:
X=MUTATE BDBMAPVOTE VOTEMENU
Save the User.ini and close it.
That is it - done!
Now, if you chose the "X" key for you MapVote hot key for example, the next time you are playing UT in a server that uses MapVote, or specifically MapVoteLA13, whenever you hit your "X" key, the MapVote window will pop up for you to use and vote for maps.
OR
2) RE-Setting your MapVote Hot Key manually ... (to another key)
As with the above instructions...
Go to your UT System folder - (usually at)-> C:\UnrealTournament\System
Open the User.ini file. <-(open with notepad or other text editor)
Scroll down to the [Engine.Input] section.
Find the key that is currently set to launch the MapVote Window.
For Example, if "X" is the key that is currently set, like this:
X=MUTATE BDBMAPVOTE VOTEMENU
Find a New open (not used) key that you want to use to launch the MapVote Window.
For Example, if "A" is the New key you choose, make it look like this:
A=MUTATE BDBMAPVOTE VOTEMENU
Then go back to X=MUTATE BDBMAPVOTE VOTEMENU key and delete the MUTATE BDBMAPVOTE VOTEMENU part so it is just X= now.
Save the User.ini and close it.
That is it - done!
Now, if you chose the "A" key now (instead of the "X" key) for your New MapVote hot key for example, the next time you are playing UT in a server that uses MapVote, or specifically MapVoteLA13, whenever you hit your "A" key, the MapVote window will pop up for you to use and vote for maps.
EASY SQUEAZY!
3) Setting your MapVote Hot Key in the (pop up) MapVote Welcome Window ...
When you join a server using MapVote, a MapVote Welcome Window MAY pop up, IF it is set to do so by the server admin.
If the MapVote Welcome Window is Not set up to open, you will have to wait until the MapVote window opens automatically at the end of a map game to configure your MapVote hot key.
Then you will need to click on the "Config" tab at the top of the MapVote window.
The server entry MapVote Welcome Window Shows to a new player that we Have MapVote first of all.
Then it is also there so that a First time player can easily set up their MapVote Hotkey, IF they have not set it up already.
(If you don't have a hotkey set for MapVote, it forces the hotkey set up window out first)
In this hotkey set up window, type in the key you wish to use for your MapVote Hot Key to open the mapvote window in game.
And that is it.
This hot key is now saved into your User.ini file so it will now work on Any MapVote server.
FYI - Back when our {CMM} server didn't have the welcome window pop up, I had a few players complain about not being able to vote for maps, mid-game.
Yes, you can set up a hotkey as soon as the first map is done when Mapvote pops up on its own, but most new players just didn't get it without telling them in detail how to pick your hotkey.
Soooo, I set up MapVoteLA13 so the Welcome Window comes out when a player First joins the server.
Plus, the Welcome Window gives some Good and Important "custom" Server Information.
4) EDIT: Another Way to do it In Game... - by Nelsona (posted in a reply at HOH)
I think (this) is useful to know:
Press TAB, write - SET INPUT x mutate bdbmapvote votemenu - after this press Enter
Now just press x key.
ENJOY!!!
NOTE: This Hot Key set up post was posted in 2 locations...
1) I posted this "on its own" also in the New "PLAYER HOW TO" forum for quicker reference!
2) In the "SERVER HOW TO" forum as a Reply to the MapVoteLA13 Explained thread.
(If you edit one - Edit the other!)
* to open the votemenu mid-game use the following keybinding: "mutate bdbmapvote votemenu"
1) Setting your MapVote Hot Key manually for the first time ...
IMPORTANT: This is done in YOUR Player Install of UT on YOUR Home Computer! (Not on a server)
Go to your UT System folder - (usually at)-> C:\UnrealTournament\System
Open the User.ini file. <-(open with notepad or other text editor)
Scroll down to the [Engine.Input] section.
Find an open (not used) key that you want to use to launch the MapVote Window.
For Example, if "X" is the key you choose, make it look like this:
X=MUTATE BDBMAPVOTE VOTEMENU
Save the User.ini and close it.
That is it - done!
Now, if you chose the "X" key for you MapVote hot key for example, the next time you are playing UT in a server that uses MapVote, or specifically MapVoteLA13, whenever you hit your "X" key, the MapVote window will pop up for you to use and vote for maps.
OR
2) RE-Setting your MapVote Hot Key manually ... (to another key)
As with the above instructions...
Go to your UT System folder - (usually at)-> C:\UnrealTournament\System
Open the User.ini file. <-(open with notepad or other text editor)
Scroll down to the [Engine.Input] section.
Find the key that is currently set to launch the MapVote Window.
For Example, if "X" is the key that is currently set, like this:
X=MUTATE BDBMAPVOTE VOTEMENU
Find a New open (not used) key that you want to use to launch the MapVote Window.
For Example, if "A" is the New key you choose, make it look like this:
A=MUTATE BDBMAPVOTE VOTEMENU
Then go back to X=MUTATE BDBMAPVOTE VOTEMENU key and delete the MUTATE BDBMAPVOTE VOTEMENU part so it is just X= now.
Save the User.ini and close it.
That is it - done!
Now, if you chose the "A" key now (instead of the "X" key) for your New MapVote hot key for example, the next time you are playing UT in a server that uses MapVote, or specifically MapVoteLA13, whenever you hit your "A" key, the MapVote window will pop up for you to use and vote for maps.
EASY SQUEAZY!
3) Setting your MapVote Hot Key in the (pop up) MapVote Welcome Window ...
When you join a server using MapVote, a MapVote Welcome Window MAY pop up, IF it is set to do so by the server admin.
If the MapVote Welcome Window is Not set up to open, you will have to wait until the MapVote window opens automatically at the end of a map game to configure your MapVote hot key.
Then you will need to click on the "Config" tab at the top of the MapVote window.
The server entry MapVote Welcome Window Shows to a new player that we Have MapVote first of all.
Then it is also there so that a First time player can easily set up their MapVote Hotkey, IF they have not set it up already.
(If you don't have a hotkey set for MapVote, it forces the hotkey set up window out first)
In this hotkey set up window, type in the key you wish to use for your MapVote Hot Key to open the mapvote window in game.
And that is it.
This hot key is now saved into your User.ini file so it will now work on Any MapVote server.
FYI - Back when our {CMM} server didn't have the welcome window pop up, I had a few players complain about not being able to vote for maps, mid-game.
Yes, you can set up a hotkey as soon as the first map is done when Mapvote pops up on its own, but most new players just didn't get it without telling them in detail how to pick your hotkey.
Soooo, I set up MapVoteLA13 so the Welcome Window comes out when a player First joins the server.
Plus, the Welcome Window gives some Good and Important "custom" Server Information.
4) EDIT: Another Way to do it In Game... - by Nelsona (posted in a reply at HOH)
I think (this) is useful to know:
Press TAB, write - SET INPUT x mutate bdbmapvote votemenu - after this press Enter
Now just press x key.
ENJOY!!!
NOTE: This Hot Key set up post was posted in 2 locations...
1) I posted this "on its own" also in the New "PLAYER HOW TO" forum for quicker reference!
2) In the "SERVER HOW TO" forum as a Reply to the MapVoteLA13 Explained thread.
(If you edit one - Edit the other!)
Quote Kelly: I kick myself in the butt for not making this simpler on the v2 version. It ought to be mutate mapvote and that's all. It would be an easy fix if someone ever decides to reopen mapvote for a v3.
Quote Nelsona: Wheew ! Sorry if is bumped a bit.
Why so complicated because might be more simple ? I learned from Bots to follow the shortest road.
Enter a game, press TAB and type there ...
set input [key] mutate bdbmapvote votemenu
Works in any version, latest words added doesn't have effect anyway if aren't necessary.
[key] means a single character typed in console.
Want tester commands ? Let me know. Or maybe some of them aren't recommended in public forums.
Why so complicated because might be more simple ? I learned from Bots to follow the shortest road.
Enter a game, press TAB and type there ...
set input [key] mutate bdbmapvote votemenu
Works in any version, latest words added doesn't have effect anyway if aren't necessary.
[key] means a single character typed in console.
Want tester commands ? Let me know. Or maybe some of them aren't recommended in public forums.