UT99-Hotkeys

A collection of useful hotkeys (.cfg files) for Unreal Tournament

What is this repository?

A place where people can contribute useful hotkeys (or other miscellaneous snippets) for Unreal Tournament.

What are hotkeys?

A hotkey is a keyboard shortcut; a series of one or more commands which you assign to a single key on your keyboard. In UT, you may want a hotkey which switches between teams, for example.

How are hotkeys created in UT?

There are several ways to create hotkey commands in UT:

• In-game

  This method can only be used for relatively simple commands. Certain commands can be chained together, separated by a pipe character (|) although the limitations of this are unclear.

  1. Press tab (or open the in-game console)
  2. Type set input X command where X is your chosen key and command is the hotkey command

• Via your UT settings file

  Again, this method can't be used for very complex commands.

  1. Open UT/System/User.ini
  2. Under the [Engine.Input] section, specify a hotkey command in the format: X=command

• Via aliases

  Aliases simply allow you to give a shorter name to a group of commands.

  1. Open UT/System/User.ini
  2. Add a new Aliases[n] entry following the same format as existing entries
  3. Bind a key (as above) with the name of your new alias as the command

• Via .cfg files

  This is the most flexible method, allowing you to execute multiple commands from a single key. Keys can also be re-bound using multiple .cfg files to effectively create "toggleable" hotkeys.

  1. Open UT/System/
  2. Create a new text file called example.cfg
  3. Edit and save the file, adding commands (one per line)
  4. Execute the command in-game using exec example.cfg (or by binding this to a key as above)

How do I use the hotkeys in this repository?

If the hotkey is in the form of a .cfg file, simply copy that file to your UT/System/ folder.

While in-game, run the hotkey by pressing tab and typing exec example.cfg where example is the name of the hotkey file.

You can also bind this to a keyboard key using set input X exec example.cfg to create your hotkey.

How do I make a key "toggleable"?

A "toggle" is something which switches itself back and forth. A toggle key, therefore, could be used to switch UT's music on/off using a single key.

To make a hotkey toggleable, you need to use multiple .cfg files, and in each file, re-bind the same key to the other .cfg file.

For an example of this, see the "Toggle Music" folder in this repository.