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Help With vegastrike.config

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Hi all.

I've just installed PR on my LinuxOS box. I have no joystick, but I want to use my mouse instead of the keyboard to pilot the ship. I've been trying to get PR to recognize my mouse, but it doesn't seem to want to.

According to the manual, I should just use Vega Strike's Program Configuration thingy, and I tried it, but it still won't recognize the mouse in game. Then I tried a number of other settings to see if they work. It seems that the game doesn't recognize any of the settings I put into vegastrike.config. I tried to manually modify the vegastrike.config in /root directory as well as in /usr/local/games/privateer/ where it installed the game, and still nothing.

Any help is appreciated! I'd really prefer using the mouse instead of punching haphazardly at my keyboard while dodging missiles. :)
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Post by loki1950 »

Welcome FattyPants the one to edit is in your home directory its a hidden folder so set your file manager to show then ctrl-h for the gnome one.the file is XML so use syntax highlighting to insure that your edits are valid.if you have problems just post 8)

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Post by FattyPants »

Thanks for the welcome and the quick reply!

Well, I edited the config in the home directory, as you suggested. I saved it. And still nothing happened. Here's what I believe I should be editing, and how I think it should look.

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#set Video GeForce3
#set Resolution 1024x768
#set Sound audio_on
#set Bases big_bases
#set Computer P1000MHz
#set Color full_32
#set Difficulty easier
#set Optimized displaylist
#set Mouse glide_mouse
#set Font normal_font
#set Joystick no_joy
#set PerPixelLighting refspecmap
But none of these seem to be working still. Am I editing the wrong text in the .config?
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Short answer yes :wink: those are comments that are used by the setup utility to show the options. the section you want is further down.Which is why i suggested that you enable syntax highlighting in gedit View->Highlight Mode-> Mark Up->XML you will notice that the inactive lines start with a "#" character that is they become comments.Again if you have a problem just post 8)

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Post by FattyPants »

Which lines of code should I be looking for? I guess it's obvious that I don't have any idea what I'm doing. :?

EDIT: Oh, and I tried GEdit. It apparently won't run for me. I'm stuck with using KWrite.
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Post by loki1950 »

Look for this right after the key bindings

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<!-- #no_mouse
		<bind mouse="0" player="1" button="0" modifier="none" command="FireKey" />
#end -->
<!-- #warp_mouse inv_warp_mouse inv_glide_mouse glide_mouse -->
		<bind mouse="0" player="0" button="0" modifier="none" command="FireKey" />
<!-- #end -->

		<bind mouse="0" button="2" modifier="none" command="ABKey" />
		<bind mouse="0" button="1" modifier="none" command="MissileKey" />

		<bind mouse="0" button="3" modifier="none" command="TargetKey" />
		<bind mouse="0" button="4" modifier="none" command="PickTargetKey" />
		<bind mouse="0" button="5" modifier="none" command="DecelKey" />
		<bind mouse="0" button="6" modifier="none" command="SheltonKey" />
		<bind mouse="0" button="7" modifier="none" command="AccelKey" />
		<bind mouse="0" button="8" modifier="none" command="WeapSelKey" />
		<bind mouse="0" button="9" modifier="none" command="MisSelKey" />


<!-- #warp_mouse inv_warp_mouse glide_mouse inv_glide_mouse -->
		<axis name="x" mouse="0" axis="0" inverse="false" />
<!-- #end -->

<!-- #warp_mouse glide_mouse -->
		<axis name="y" mouse="0" axis="1" inverse="true" />
<!-- #end -->
<!-- #inv_warp_mouse inv_glide_mouse
		<axis name="y" mouse="0" axis="1" inverse="false" />
#end -->
There is also a syntax highlighting available in kwite

i use a joystick so none of those lines is active in my version :wink:

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Post by FattyPants »

Okay. I doesn't seem to me that those lines are active in my .config, either. How do I activate them?

EDIT: By the way, Vega Strike recognizes my mouse, PR does not. In fact, VS recognizes all my personal settings. It just seems that PR has a problem with me. :)
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Post by FattyPants »

WAYHAY!! Got it! :D

Thanks for your patience and your help! I don't know what I did, but it's working now.
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Back up time :wink: Have fun :D

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