Keyboard layout tip

[AceOfThumbs]

The default layout of keys for movement has several problems:

Since you are at the far left of the keyboard, you limit how many keys you can easily reach to those on the right.
Your thumb can only be used for the space bar and alt. Alt might behave a little funny in combination with other keys. For mac users, it's Cmd instead of alt, but same problem. So this means you can only press space with the thumb.
The rows of keys are offset. You can agle your keyboard to make it more comfortable, but it still isn't really right.

I was looking at a gaming keypad, then I realized it was basically a numeric keypad plus a few more keys. So before paying out the $30, I tried binding the numeric keypad for movement, etc. Here is what I am using:

8 is forward, 4, 5 & 6 are left, back and right of course
7 is a toggle for explosive weapons, 9 is rocket
enter is jump, . is crouch, 0 is show scores
+ is hook, - is third person view
1, 2 & 3 are available for whatever you like

I've got other essentials bound to my mouse buttons. I haven't gotten into team messages yet, but I think I will work some menu/toggles out with 1,2,3 for that.

Anyone else want to share alternate keyboard layouts?

[nexbender]

Anyone else want to share alternate keyboard layouts?

I play on an MS Natural, and I'm a typer, so I use ESDF instead of WASD if that makes any sense. SHIFT for laser. Z for zoom. Space for crouch. Mouse 1: Fire. Mouse 2: Jump. Scroll-button: Alt-fire. That's about it. I use scroll wheel for weapons usually, cuz in CTF I have everything else my left hand can reach bound to a CTF-specific say_team and/or sprite. I know I could bind another key to exec a separate config for DM play, but I'm lazy. I suppose for the tourney I'll do it, lest I get my ass handed to me speedily, but otherwise I'm fine with it. Hell I don't even remember where my talk bind is, I just hit tilde and type "say..." everytime. Heh, the only things I have bound on the numpad are my silly comments.

[esteel]

I think my keyboard layout is alternative enough to count..
ujhk for forward back left right
rightalt for jump, space for crouch
(in games that support it v for sneak, b for sprint, x for leanleft, c lean right)
y rockets, i nexgun, g electro, l crylink, f hagar, o mortar, t machinegun, m laser, d shotgun, comma for melee
semicolon drop gun
mouse1,2 attack, altattack
mouse3 scores
mouse4 hook
mouse5 zoom
...

[nexbender]

^^ Now that's freaky.

Turd Flop'n Down M'leg plays with mouse Y axis inverted like a flight-sim. And he's a natural sniper!

[esteel]

You really think so? basicly its just wasd moved more to the right.. i just want to have more keys to the left.. with wasd there are none

[AceOfThumbs]

For full disclosure, here is my mouse set up:

Mouse 1: attack
Mouse 2: attack2 (alt fire)
Scroll button: toggle for machine gun/nex
Scroll Wheel: 5 level field of view adjustment (just added a fisheye level)
Left side button: quick zoom
Right side button: laser

[Psychcf]

mouse1: fire
mouse2: secondary fire
mouse4: zoom (custom w/ FOV tweaking)
mouse5 (press): switch to laser
mouse5 (release): switch back to previous weapon

[iSuck]

I'm a religious WASDian:

WASD-move
Shift-Crouch
Space-Jump
Option-Zoom (non-nex)
Mouse3-Hook (who put it on E, that was annoying)
H-Aimbot
(jk, had you going didn't I)
Q-laser
E-Rocket Launcher (E is THE KEY to rule the all, as is Q)
R-Electro
F-Nex
G-Mortar (I wanted this in a better place, but it's not bad)
V-Shotgun
X-Hagar (I thought "it's beyond backwards, it's my retreat wep")
Z-Machine Gun
C-Crylink (I just moved it while typing, it was on 6 before )

I don't understand why you move it from WASD, I guess you could get more keys on your pinky, but still...

[AceOfThumbs]

The reason I shifted was to reach more keys with my thumb. I have a Mac and the key next to the space bar is the Command key. pressing that in combinations with other keys didn't always work right, so the only key I could reach with my thumb was space.

The only bad thing about moving to the numeric keypad was having to shift my keyboard way over to the left, but I recently picked up a USB numeric keypad for a 4 dollars. You can find them wherever you can buy in notebook accessories. I put it on the left of my regular keyboard and now I don't have to rearrange my desk to play Nexuiz.

[impulse9]

I'm a left-mouser and here is my set:

IJKL - movement
mouse1 - attack , mouse2 - jump (hihi) , mouse3 - bring up laser , spacebar - secondary fire
mousewheel - swap between weapons
U - rocket launcher , O - nexgun , P - mortar , : - electro , " - uzi , { - hagar , } - shotgun