autohotkey help keybinding remapping

[captainvideo]

can anyone tell me the simple way to properly use autohotkey to remap the default keys. I am having trouble with the shift and control keys. I think these need to be handled differently because they are modifiers. The other keys seem to be no issue, such as the W,A,S,D. I believe you can just type X::W to make the x key act as the w key. (anykey::any_other_key) these seem to work properly. If you try to just type (Numpad1::LShift) to make the numpad key work like the shift key, it gets all hung up. I suspect the control key may have similar issues.

Really, I just want to play this game and I have no interest in becoming an expert on auto hot key and all the thousands of things it can do. I actually have probably learned a bunch of commands in it a few years ago, and I have forgotten them and I am glad to have forgotten. I guess I will be reading the instructions and trying to figure it out through trial and error, unless someone happens to respond here.

Since anyone who has actually used autohot key for this game would have had to remap the shift key, I am guessing they already have it figured out. As an example to anyone who is also remapping to the numpad, I have this much working so far.
Numpad8::w
Numpad5::s
Numpad4::a
Numpad6::d
Numpad7::q

you can put those commands into an autohotkey script, and run the script and that part works fine, but if you try to do it with the LShift, it causes problems (my character starts running forward without stopping)

If you are working with autohotkey it can also help to bind a key to the command to stop the script from running. I bound F4, with the following command f4::exitapp
Without a command like that, I cannot find any easy way to get the script (remapping) to go back to normal, although I believe there is a way to make the script only work for a particular window....ugh, I am gonna spend more time with this friggin crap than I will playing the game.

[captainvideo]

I fooled with this a little more. I downloaded other programs (keytweak) and (sharpkeys). The keytweak seemed to be registering the wrong key when I pressed 'w' on the keyboard (it thought it was 'q'), so I did not try to implement its remapping. Sharpkeys seemed to recognize my keys properly, but the same exact issue seemed to happen with the shift key. I am thinking it might be because I am using the numpad keys. I am actually not real sure what is supposed to happen when you normally hit shift in combination with a numpad key. I think that may be part of the issue.
with AHK and sharpkeys, if I press the remapped shift key, it seems to get stuck, but it also seems to stick other keys with it.
I saw some alternate method of changing the key functions in AHK involving hooks (no real idea about what that really means), but maybe if I do it that way it will work.

edit: I have played more than halfway through with the autohotkey setup working. I used the lines in above post and the following:

Right::LShift
Numpad3::f
NumpadAdd::LControl
Numpad9::e
Numpad0::Space
f4::exitapp

That puts the shift key (evade/roll) on the right arrow key which I can reach from the numpad. It works fine to remap there (does not work on numpad) I did not remap the upgrade (u) or incident commands 'r' as I can reach over if I need them. This keeps the same general location/association of keys to the default, except for the control key which is now the numpad add key. I just run the script before I play, or usually I have to alt tab out and run it and then go back because I forget. It has been working well enough for me.

I do not expect to come back to this thread and I just edited in this last info in case you are trying to get autohotkey to work.