alternative Keyboard layout Neo2

[KarlJohnson]

Hi im from germany and i use the german alternative keyboard layout "NEO2"

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The layout is awesome, but always when i have to reinstall factorio i have to change my keys in factorio to adjust it to neo.
The same problem seems to happen when an update was done.

For me it would be nice if there were more than one default setup for the keys. I think this would be not so much work to develop.



thank u for the awesome game, 2 years ago it was already worth it the price but u make it even better!

[KarlJohnson]

Maybe the mods transfer this topic to "Ideas and Suggestions"
Im sry

[Neemys]

Your saved config shouldn't be reset when you update, are you using website zip ? and remove old version, redownload new one then play ? If yes, before deleting old version, backup the config folder then after you have download the new version and unzipped it, restore the config folder, every key bind as well as options should be preserved.

If you are using ingame updater or steam and your option are reset, there migth be a problem somewhere.

[BenSeidel]

Going from patch 0.14.x to 0.15.x will reset your preferences, but this is the only upgrade so far that has done this. If you delete the game and do a fresh install it will also remove all your preferences, but I don't know of any decent software that does not do this anyway.

The biggest issue I have with the Factorio installation is that the config.ini contains everything - keybindings, videos settings, audio settings, file paths etc, so there is no nice way of keeping your personal preferences separate from your installation (if you have multiple) / computer configurations.

[Neemys]

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The biggest issue I have with the Factorio installation is that the config.ini contains everything - keybindings, videos settings, audio settings, file paths etc, so there is no nice way of keeping your personal preferences separate from your installation (if you have multiple) / computer configurations.

In any factorio installation, there is a file inside named config-path.cfg, this file tell factorio where the config is, it can be used to store config outside installation. This config file tell factorio all config value with the directory where to store thing like mods or saves. In fact, the steam version is by default storing things in %appdata%/factorio folder instead of the game folder (for windows).

You can even provide the config location with a command line parameter. (-c)

For modding purpose, I have multiple installation of factorio to test if it is working the same with my mod, and they all share the same config. I even use a symlink for my mod in the mods folder so it is pointing to my workspace.

[BenSeidel]

Neemys, I have many config files, one for each set of mods, to make loading the game faster. I also play on a couple of different machines, so synchronising the machine configs (graphics settings, thread count etc), with personal settings (key bindings) along with directory settings (save directory) becomes a bit of a pain in the neck because it's all lumped into one file. I have a bunch of bat files to launch the game with the correct locations and settings using the --config parameter.

I wish there is a way to keep your personal preferences (key bindings) separate from the machine config (save directory, graphics settings).

[Neemys]

you could have keybinding settings outside, then your launch script could create the config file you want depending on your machine, just fuse the different file into one config file. Or even juste replace the area you want in config file, it's a plain INI file. But I see what you mean, it will be easier for evryone to have multiple file that could be loaded by the game, but then it will complicate the command line to load each file if they want to keep letting people specify each config file.

[BenSeidel]

you could have keybinding settings outside, then your launch script could create the config file you want depending on your machine, just fuse the different file into one config file. Or even juste replace the area you want in config file, it's a plain INI file. But I see what you mean, it will be easier for evryone to have multiple file that could be loaded by the game, but then it will complicate the command line to load each file if they want to keep letting people specify each config file.

Yeah, I have thought about a "launcher" that would do that... but it's a lot of effort to go to when the synchronise mods to save file was around the corner.
Other solutions I was thinking about doing was to swap out the mods.json file for the configs, but issues cropped up with modifications to various mods, such as RSO. Hopefully one day it all won't be needed and we get a "complete" mod handling solution as well as a --save-directory command, but that is still simulatable by creating junctions in the batch file.