Keyboard and Mouse Rebinding

Learn how to customize your PC controls for this colorful 3D platformer.

Changelog

March 3, 2019

• Updated Badge binds in ESDF section

Finding Keyboard.ini

The Keyboard.ini configuration file specifies all of your PC bindings in one place. This includes your mouse bindings.

You can find the Keyboard.ini in:

<HatinTime>\HatinTimeGame\Config\Gamepads\Keyboard.ini

For Steam, the full path may look something like this on a PC:

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\HatinTime\HatinTimeGame\Config\Gamepads\Keyboard.ini

TIP: save a copy of your original Keyboard.ini file before your make any modifications!

Keyboard.ini Structure

The Keyboard.ini file is broken up into different sections to help group together relevant information.

Backup your Keyboard.ini file before making any changes!

The sections are:

1. Identification
   
2. Buttons
   
3. Binds
   1. Actions
      
   2. Menus
      
   3. Badges
      
   4. Hotkeys
      
   5. Movement and Camera

Identification

Identifies what this controller-type this file represents within the game. Do not change!

Buttons

Defines all of the possible buttons available for binding. Even if a key isn't used, it is still listed in this section. The below section Key Bind Codes provides a table of all the button codes available, as defined within this file.

Do not change!

Binds

This is where in-game controls are associated with button codes. The basic composition of these binds are as follows:

+Bind = <Hat_Game_Control>
ButtonID = <Button_Code>

With this as the basic template, the following placeholders are replaced:

• <Hat_Game_Control> - A code of a control within the game. Creating your own won't do anything, and removing a bind can cause unintended consequences.
  
• <Button_Code> - The code associated with the key to use, and outlined in the Key Bind Codes section below.

With every bind you can have one or more ButtonID codes defined. This is especially inportant with the Movement and Camera bindings. Out of the box, the game supports WASD and the arrow keys for player movement, as defined by the Hat_Player_MoveX and Hat_Player_MoveY bindings.

The Movement and Camera bindings have a special way to identify keys for moving in the negative/opposite direction. This is done by adding a minus(-) before the ButtonID definition.

This code shows how to define moving forward and backward using just the arrow keys:

+Bind = Hat_Player_MoveY
ButtonID = 38
-ButtonID = 40

Here, button code 38 is arrow up, and code 80 is arrow down.

Key Bind Codes

Mouse

Name	Code
Left Mouse Button (LMB)	1
Right Mouse Button (RMB)	2
Middle Mouse Button (MOUSE3)	4
X1 Mouse Button	5
X2 Mouse Button	6
Mouse Wheel Up	256
Mouse Wheel Down	257

Numbers

Note that the number keys are different from those found on the Numpad.

Name	Number Code	Numpad Code
0	48	96
1	49	97
2	50	98
3	51	99
4	52	100
5	53	101
6	54	102
7	55	103
8	56	104
9	59	105

Alphabet

Name	Code
A	65
B	66
C	67
D	68
E	69
F	70
G	71
H	72
I	73
J	74
K	75
L	76
M	77
N	78
O	79
P	80
Q	81
R	82
S	83
T	84
U	85
V	86
W	87
X	88
Y	89
Z	90

Navigation

Name	Code
Arrow Up	38
Arrow Down	40
Arrow Left	37
Arrow Right	39
Page Up	33
Page Down	34
Home	36
End	35

Punctuation/Symbols

Name	Character	Code
Add	+ on Numpad	107
Subtract	- on Numpad	109
Multiply	* on Numpad	106
Divide	/ on Numpad	111
Decimal	. on Numpad	110
Semicolon (;)	;	186
Equals	=	187
Comma	,	188
Minus	-	189
Period	.	190
Slash	/	191
Backslash	\	220
Tilde	~	192
Left Bracket		219
Right Bracket	]	221
Quote	'	222

Function Keys

Name	Code
F1	112
F2	113
F3	114
F4	115
F5	116
F6	117
F7	118
F8	119
F9	120
F10	121
F11	122
F12	123

Other

Name	Code
Enter	13
Space	32
Escape	27
Tab	9
Backspace	8
Pause	19
Caps Lock	20
Num Lock	144
Scroll Lock	145
Left Shift	160
Right Shift	161
Left Control	162
Right Control	163
Left Alt	164
Right Alt	167
Insert	45
Delete	46

My ESDF Setup

Below is the entire "Binds" section in my Keyboards.ini file. In addition to using ESDF for movement...

• Menu paging uses W and R for left and right, respectively.
  
• Interact is the Q key.
  
• Mousewheel zooming was swapped so that mousewheel up zooms in, and vice versa for mousewheel down. This has the unfortunate effect of inverting the scroll direction in menus.
  
• The C key can be used for crouching in addition to the original binding.

[Binds]
; Actions
+Bind = Hat_Player_Jump
ButtonID = 32

+Bind = Hat_Player_Attack
ButtonID = 1

+Bind = Hat_Player_Interact
ButtonID = 81

+Bind = Hat_Player_Crouch
ButtonID = 162
ButtonID = 67

+Bind = Hat_Player_Share
ButtonID = 87

+Bind = Hat_Player_CameraSnap
ButtonID = 4

+Bind = Hat_Player_ZoomIn
ButtonID = 256

+Bind = Hat_Player_ZoomOut
ButtonID = 257

; Menus
+Bind = Hat_Menu_Confirm
ButtonID = 1

+Bind = Hat_Menu_Cancel
ButtonID = 2

+Bind = Hat_Menu_Start
ButtonID = 27

+Bind = Hat_Menu_PageRight
ButtonID = 82

+Bind = Hat_Menu_PageLeft
ButtonID = 87

; Badges
+Bind = Hat_Player_Ability
ButtonID = 65
ButtonID = 160

+Bind = Hat_Player_AbilitySwap
ButtonID = 2

; Hotkeys
+Bind = Hat_Hotkey_Up
ButtonID = 49

+Bind = Hat_Hotkey_Down
ButtonID = 52

+Bind = Hat_Hotkey_Left
ButtonID = 50

+Bind = Hat_Hotkey_Right
ButtonID = 51

; Movement and Camera
+Bind = Hat_Player_MoveX
ButtonID = 70
ButtonID = 39
-ButtonID = 83
-ButtonID = 37

+Bind = Hat_Player_MoveY
ButtonID = 69
ButtonID = 38
-ButtonID = 68
-ButtonID = 40

If you copy and paste this into your own Keyboard.ini file, make sure you only replace the [Binds] section!

As always, may sure to backup your Keyboard.ini file befoer you make any changes.

Invert The Mouse Y-axis

You may have noticed that using the "Invert Y-axis" option within the game's input settings doesn't do anything. This is due to that only applying to controllers and not the mouse. So how can we invert the mouse?

It may seem complicated, but the steps are fairly straight forward:

1. Enable the Developer Console under Games Settings > System Settings.
   
2. Start or continue a game.
   
3. Press the ` key to pull down the Developer Console.
   
4. Enter

   invertmouse

   and hit Enter.
   
5. Close the Developer Console and your mouse's Y-axis should now be inverted!

[Kay]

pressing left control to dive/crouch was so annoying, thanks

[LC-DDM]

It'd be nice if there were a way to remap the console key.