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Left-Handed Player Support

Eetsem Childs
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Join date: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 3
07-08-2006 10:08
Please add a tool into the game for configuring the controls so that left handed people can remap the controls to a more comfortable position. For example, I move my WASD to IJKL in every game I play, since WASD gives me wrist pain.
Wanda Rich
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Join date: 22 Apr 2006
Posts: 320
07-08-2006 10:17
I'm also left-handed. I use the arrow keys between the main keyboard and number pad :)
Eetsem Childs
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Join date: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 3
07-08-2006 10:24
I tried that, but it's too much of a hassle to find the home row everytime you want to type, which is pretty frequent in this game.

Hey while we're talking lefties I might as well pimp a little app I wrote to make switching your mouse between left and right handed setup with a hotkey. Free of course.
http://www.yayitsandrew.com/projects.php
Wanda Rich
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Join date: 22 Apr 2006
Posts: 320
07-08-2006 10:38
I'm not sure what you mean, but for typing i just hit return and start.
Riffey4 DeGroot
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Join date: 7 Jul 2004
Posts: 180
07-08-2006 11:26
Not just for lefties... I play all my games with YHFG. This dates back to Quake (1) CTF, so I could have my hand in the middle of the keyboard, middle finger on Y and H and have my index finger free for UIOP, JKL and NM,
Why not give the possibility to change all the keys to your own taste?
Then you could bind ctrl shift 1 to the delete key. or snapshot to the print screen key, or Go to Home Location to the home key...
Eetsem Childs
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Join date: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 3
07-08-2006 13:51
At one point I found the file where the commands are all stored but it was hard to work with and it's only client side which means if you have multiple computers you need to do the same tedius file changes over and over.

I suppose if second life does nothing I can write a little app that changes the file for you.