How do you walk without holding down W key?

[Issac Brock]

Is there some way to walk around wthout having to hold down any of the movement keys? I thought toggle walk would do it but that only seems to control wether you spint or not.

If there is no way to do it using the games mechanics is there a mod that accomplishes the same thing?

[Der Hexer]

if you don't want to hold a key down to walk around, you can also use a gamepad (Xbox 360 controller works) to run around.
i'm not aware of a mod for SR3 that allows you to press a key to start walking and press it again to stop walking - you may be able to do a macro for this purpose with "autohotkey" or "autoit" on your own. both are scripting tools, designed to control input/output actions for keyboard/mouse/gamepad

[Issac Brock]

Originally posted by Der Hexer:

if you don't want to hold a key down to walk around, you can also use a gamepad (Xbox 360 controller works) to run around.
i'm not aware of a mod for SR3 that allows you to press a key to start walking and press it again to stop walking - you may be able to do a macro for this purpose with "autohotkey" or "autoit" on your own. both are scripting tools, designed to control input/output actions for keyboard/mouse/gamepad

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I may eventually explore the idea of a keyboard macro.

[Der Hexer]

yw, here's a example for a "autohotkey" script

;==========
;---------------------------------------
; Setup key binds - w-key = walk toggle
;---------------------------------------
w::
bActivate := !bActivate
return

w up::
while bActivate
{
send {w down}
Sleep 30
}
send {w up}
return
;==========

running the script (needs autohotkey installed!) and pressing the "w" key is making your char runing until you press "w" again. the script has no checks for working on SR3 only, so pressing the "w" key while notepad/openoffice/MSoffice is the active window, it will send "w" characters to the window until you press "w" again or rightclick the autohotkey in the system-tray and pause/exit the script!

[Issac Brock]

Originally posted by Der Hexer:

yw, here's a example for a "autohotkey" script

;==========
;---------------------------------------
; Setup key binds - w-key = walk toggle
;---------------------------------------
w::
bActivate := !bActivate
return

w up::
while bActivate
{
send {w down}
Sleep 30
}
send {w up}
return
;==========

running the script (needs autohotkey installed!) and pressing the "w" key is making your char runing until you press "w" again. the script has no checks for working on SR3 only, so pressing the "w" key while notepad/openoffice/MSoffice is the active window, it will send "w" characters to the window until you press "w" again or rightclick the autohotkey in the system-tray and pause/exit the script!

Wow. Great stuff. Wasn't expecting that. Thanks for the help.

[Issac Brock]

Der Hexer,

Thanks a lot. This works great. When I hit the w in "works" as in "this works great", the macro took off. I just gotta make sure I stop the macro after I exit the game .

[Der Hexer]

yep that's why i said that the script has no checks at all - it's just the basic idea ;)

[Der Hexer]

if you're running SR3 in directX10/11 mode, this one should work (not sending the "w" key outside of the game)

;========================================
; AutoHotkey Version: v1.1.08.01
; Language: English
; Platform: Win9x/NT/XP/Vista/Win7
;========================================
;----------------------------------------
; Script Initialization Stuff (optional)
;----------------------------------------
#SingleInstance force
#InstallKeybdHook
#NoEnv
SendMode Input

;----------------------------------------
; Create a timer to constantly check if 
; SR3 game is the active process or not
; since we want our remapping to only be
; applied in-game, not outside the game
;----------------------------------------
SetTimer CheckForApp
return

CheckForApp:
; Get the process name of the active window (i.e. Notepad.exe)
WinGet szProcessName, ProcessName, A
if szProcessName = SaintsRowTheThird_DX11.exe
{
Suspend, off
}
else
{
Suspend, on
}
return

;----------------------------------------
; Setup key binds - w-key = walk toggle
;----------------------------------------
w::
bActivate := !bActivate
return

w up::
while bActivate
{
send {w down}
Sleep 30
}
send {w up}
return
;========================================

[Issac Brock]

What can I say but thanks again. It would have taken some time for me to figure out the scripting language well enough to create a script like that. Appreciated.

[Der Hexer]

you're welcome - enjoy your "walk" ;)

[Issac Brock]

Originally posted by Der Hexer:

you're welcome - enjoy your "walk" ;)

This works great. One of the reasons I like it is my eyes get a bit strained after awhile driving around and it's nice to give the eyes a bit of relief plus I find it fun to just walk around and get the lay of land so to speak.

Now for anyone else interested in using this script, I've made one slight change. I may not be clever enough to figure out a new scripting language right off the bat but I'm half decently smart enough to come up with a working methodology for using this script.

Firstly, I changed the "w" key to the "p" key; you can make it any key you like; so now you can both walk around and drive around without the script getting in the way. Secondly I mapped my left control key as "toggle walk" in the games keyboard configuration panel that way you can switch between walk and sprint easily. Lastly when starting an activity or challenge I go into the games keyboard configurator and switch the on foot forward movement key back to w and generally leave it there until I decide to start walking around again.

If anyone else is interested in using autohotkey; open source; here is a link;

http://www.autohotkey.com/

Thanks again Der Hexer, I hope to eventually run through some of the tutorials and documentation and see if I can find other uses for this little utility.