How do you change the keyboard controls?

[MainMan B]

I don't use WASD keys, and it should be possible to change, one should think.

[clumsy_catbird]

I asked similar here several days ago, including that I have a physical disability and nobody bothered to answer.
I've posted on the official website around 2 hours ago but only 2 out of 7 questions have been answered since Friday anyway.

I will reiterate.
Due to nerve damage I am unable to use many game's keyboard configurations such as WASD.
Nor have I found a suitable controller.
I am however, able to cope very well using a modified keyboard along with shifting significant workload to Forward on Right Mouse Button (game providing).

Could somebody please try to find a configuration file and try swapping the functions of W and RMB?
If so, I will buy the game and try to make a key mapper UI - open source of course.

[Tanidar]

You can try to edit C:\Users\<your name profile>\Documents\my games\Sherlock Holmes - Crimes and Punishments\SH7Game\Config\SH7Input.ini to make controls suitable for you. Unfortunately there is no reference on how to edit this file.

[clumsy_catbird]

Thank you Tanidar. I also thank Artyom Kravchenko from Frogware for a personal email as such.

I have edited such ini files for several games that use the Unreal Engine 3.
In rare cases binding RightMouseButton to MoveForward conflicts with something hard coded or crashes on load.
In the case of "Mind: Path to Thalamus" I ended up editing all associated files in ..\Engine\Config as well as ..\UDKGame\Config before the game would stop overwriting the final load.

Could somebody please test mapping RMB to Forward to see if it loads and persists without crash.
If so, I will follow on as per my previous post.

Thanks in advance,
Greg

[Tanidar]

I tried to modify the inputs binding MoveForward to RightMouse in SH7Input with no success.
But modifying the string in <steamclient>\steamapps\common\Sherlock Holmes - Crimes and Punishments\SH7Game\Config\DefaultInput.ini did its job.

You can change:
.Bindings=(BindID="MoveForward", Name="W",Command="Axis aBaseY Speed=1.0", bConfigurable=true, Discription="$Settings.MoveForward")
to
.Bindings=(BindID="MoveForward", Name="RightMouseButton",Command="Axis aBaseY Speed=1.0", bConfigurable=true, Discription="$Settings.MoveForward")

[clumsy_catbird]

Thanks for that.
I've purchased the game and will see what I can do.

[Sato]

why do new games mostly will bring the player to use wasd? before 10 years up left down right was the normal way to control a game. the keys there are free in space and you cant find them blind
at wasd you must always look down if you leave control once

ok in this game it is not as hard as in other games but that you have to handle it in normal gameplay is somthing i dont want

please offer the opinion to change the keys in the next game or at a patch in this game

me feelings are than much more positive for the gameplay