Specmenu not closing, workaround

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  1. Neoony

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    You remember that goddamn menu that pops up when you are in spectator, on the bottom of your screen whenever you press the crouch button? :rage: And usually you cant close it with the same key? :angry:

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    ...forget it!

    NO MORE SPECMENU!! :veryangry:

    That thing called SpecMenu panel, got me really annoyed today :angry:
    So I decided to basically get rid of it >:) :headshot:

    Put into autoexec.cfg in your ...\steam\steamapps\common\empires\empires\cfg\

    If you use SHIFT as a crouch (I do):
    Code:
    unbind SHIFT
    alias cyclerx "specmenuon"
    alias specmenuon "showpanel specmenu; alias cyclerx specmenuoff"
    alias specmenuoff "hidepanel specmenu; alias cyclerx specmenuon"
    bind "i" cyclerx
    bind SHIFT "+duck; hidepanel specmenu"
    If you use CTRL as a crouch:
    Code:
    unbind CTRL
    alias cyclerx "specmenuon"
    alias specmenuon "showpanel specmenu; alias cyclerx specmenuoff"
    alias specmenuoff "hidepanel specmenu; alias cyclerx specmenuon"
    bind "i" cyclerx
    bind CTRL "+duck; hidepanel specmenu"
    Your crouch key will work flawlessly.

    ok, I have a soft heart.. :rolleyes:
    Iam still giving it a chance under the "i" key. But its removed from the crouch key.
    Its still useful if you want to select somebody specifically.
    However it will still not close 80% of the time while on "i" key :s

    Whenever it opens and not closes, from that moment no bind is working at all. Its as if it took the focus completely on itself or what.

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    Of course, huge issues making the bind stay permanently
    Empires has absolutely strange ways of keeping binds....or not keeping.
    And not sure what Clouding is it doing when I got no clouds turned on, lol
    ( in fact Iam currently in offline mode :pathetic: )
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    So as my autoexec.cfg is getting overwritten after creating a game/joining for some empyrean reasons. :pathetic:
    I had to change the bind ALSO in config.cfg AND emp_config.cfg

    Think emp_config.cfg was most probably overwriting it.

    I will only write in SHIFT for DUCK, if you use CTRL just replace.

    emp_config.cfg:

    Find "+duck"
    Replace the line with:
    Code:
    bind_infantry "SHIFT" "+duck; hidepanel specmenu"
    Turns out, there was a lot of outdated shit overwriting my binds here. So I removed some.

    config.cfg:
    Find "+duck"
    Replace the line with:
    Code:
    bind "SHIFT" "+duck; hidepanel specmenu"
    Just to make sure.

    Iam guessing emp_config.cfg is the ingame controls menu?

    If you know of any other places where empires hides its shit, please let me know. ^^

    ProTip:
    Noticed squadleader.cfg?
    Check it and decide if you really want to have "Q" key overwritten by a bind everytime you become a squadleader.


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