Emote Hotkeys

Hello,

I'm very new here, I actually bought this game on steam launch... so hello

I enjoy this game very much and I found the emotes (like many others do) to be very special and they add a lot of character to the game...

Anyhow, I thought this damn things on the hotbar must be rebindable, so I researched and I found nothing on the matter, except a very old thread where people complained about it not being in the settings...

It turns out, you can change the hotkeys for the emotes!

To do so, go to your steam installation and find this folder:
Steam\SteamApps\common\King Arthur's Gold\Base\Entities\Common\Emotes

In there, 4 files:
EmoteBubble.as
EmoteHotkeys.as
EmotesCommon.as
Emoticons.png

Make a backup of EmoteHotkeys.as

Open EmoteHotekeys.as with notepad.

Find this piece of code: (In the file it's all in one line and spaced a bit further apart, but you should find it nonetheless)

Following this, come all keys up to 9, always in the same style of code...

Now just change this part:

to whatever emote you like...

Heres a list of the names for the emotes (you also find this in EmotesCommon):

Spoiler

skull
blueflag
note
right
smile
redflag
flex
down
frown
troll
finger
left
mad
archer
sweat
up
laugh
knight
question
thumbsup
wat
builder
disappoint
thumbsdown
derp
ladder
attn
(a small arrow pointing upwards) pickup
cry
wall
heart
fire
check
cross
dots
cog

Then save the file and test it...

Can someone please put this list in spoilers, I failed to do so...

(Also, please excuse any grammatical and spelling errors I've probably made, English is my second language)


I hope this works for you guys too

best regards,
Peasantflayer (but on the battlefield and on Steam also known as Feebles)

 

Hi,

Thanks for moving it..I wasn't sure where to put it myself^^

Hmm the clientside thing is interesting... I must damit I don't know if it shows the right emote for other people, I'll ask around next time I'm on and see if it actually works...

Spoiler

oh, and thanks for the spoiler command

EDIT:
so.. I asked around and it seems to be working.. I tried it on 2 servers and I got responses that matched my emotes... I'm not 100% sure though... so if anyone tries this please report if it works for you too...

Thanks,
Peasantflayer

 

Yeah, its working for me too. Big thanks for discovery!

 

Hi,

I'm glad this is so well recceived

Usually, I'm not much of a modder/fixer... I just dug through the files a bit because I was curious and thought that something like hotkeys shouldn't be to hard to change...

But, well lets see if I find something else in the future ^^

until then, see ya on the battlefield

 

Holy shit. Get this guy a fucking medal.

 

@ Rocinante:

Oh, the flattery! I think I'm blushing a little bit

 

This was just what i was looking for.
An awesome trick and also a well written guide.

Thanks for sharing.

Another benefit from this trick is that you can increase the amount of keys that you want to use for emotes.
You can do this by copying one of the else-if-blocks to extend the row of else-if-statements like so.

Spoiler

...

} else if (controls.isKeyJustPressed( KEY_KEY_9 )) {
set_emote(this,Emotes::cog);
} else if (controls.isKeyJustPressed( KEY_KEY_R )) {
set_emote(this,Emotes::right);
}
}

Note: Remember not to lose the last bracket in the process.
In this case i randomly tried "KEY_KEY_R" and it seemed to do the trick, but i'm sure with some experimenting you can get about any key from your keyboard to spam emotes. Haven't been doing KAG modding so not sure where/if the full list of keys can be found on this site.

 

has this changed? instead of "attn" in the coding to change, it says "emote_1" I changed that to "blueflag" to test it, and it doesn't work? someone help I really want these D:

"
if (controls.isKeyJustPressed(KEY_KEY_1))
{
set_emote(this, emote_1);
}"

 

Thank you so much