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bstapleford 17 Jan, 2020 @ 7:09pm
Insert key not working or am I doing something wrong
I have tried everything. I have made sure to remove all my mods but this mod. I started a new mission in the VR. I placed down a player and then tried to press INSERT. Nothing happened at all. I can edit the properties of my player and add lightsources and emitters to that player using the attributes of the player and not the 3ditor UI.

I then tried to use the INSERT key on the top of my keyboard and it did nothing, I tried using the INSERT key on the NUMPAD keyboard and it did nothing as well. I did this with NUMLOCK on and OFF and it made no difference.

It is as if the insert key is just not recognized. I tried resetting back to the default keys using the pref tab. I also tried adding the ALT key so that I would press ALT and INSERT. Nothing happened. I wanted to try and change the keybind all together something other then INSERT but am not sure how.

It does not appear that this works at all. As of right now it is not working for me. I'm hoping someone else can figure this out or help me to fix this. I really hope i can use this for my missions.

Thank you
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h-  [developer] 17 Jan, 2020 @ 9:53pm 
I wrote this also into the comments, but gonna put it here too; unfortnately that insert key thing is a weird problem I have never been able to repro properly.
But, what should help is going to the 'prefs' leaf, press the 'keybinds' button which at least should open the tool's keybinds window and then press the 'defaults' button. That has been proven to help.

And BE WARNED that currently the tool is a 'bit' broken (IIRC the thing called 'gloabl attach' actually causes a CTD), been trying to get a patch out since the last bug report in the end of November but that lead into a downward spiral of finding more and more bugs and some of them have been really hard to figure out and fix. Add not having much free time into the mix and it's 2 months later, ffs.. :(
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bstapleford 18 Jan, 2020 @ 8:42am 
First let me say thanks for responding back, it is nice to see someone support mods that they make. I tried the "prefs" leaf and then going into keybinds. I press the default button but it did nothing at all. I even tried changing the keybind to ALT and INSERT. This did nothing. I tried to uninstall from steam using the mod manager that is default for ARMA3 and then reloading the mod.

It would seem that nothing I do is working. Is it possible to change the keybind to another key instead of insert. For example could i try making it ALT and "I". I'm wondering if the problem is that my insert key is also a delete key on the main keyboard and on the numpad keyboard it may not be recognized. This is just a thought.

I sure hope you fix this at some point i was really hoping to be able to use this for adding lighting effects to police and ambulance vehicles in the game.
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h-  [developer] 18 Jan, 2020 @ 12:06pm 
That is really weird.
If you exec this code in the debug console what does it return?
["emitterED_prefs", "keybind_insert"] call HNEG_fnc_prefsFetch

It should return [210, false, false, false] (210 means the INSERT key), if it doesn't there's something wrong about storing into the profileNamespace for some reason.

You should be able to change the keybinds from that keybinds thingy, it's probably not the most user friendly system but what you do is you select the action from the list on the left (in this case 'Place an emitter') and then press the key you want to use on your keyboard and select the modifier key(s) you want and click 'apply'. That should be the new keybind now.

Aand noticed that the keybind thing is also a bit bugged as you should be able to press the key and modifier key instead of having to select the modifiers by checking the box but seems holding down the modifier key checks and unchecks the box as fast as the key event can. One more into the bug list then..
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bstapleford 18 Jan, 2020 @ 3:55pm 
So i ran the debug script and it returned this.
[210, false, false, false]

So it must be my computer keyboard, im using a laptop so im wondering if it just doesn't see that keybinding.
I went into the pref tab and then keybnidings and changed it to ALT-BACKSPACE. Hit apply and guess what it works. Not sure why it didn't allow me to change it before but it was working now. I will then load all the mods and see if something changes.
Thanks again for the help.


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bstapleford 18 Jan, 2020 @ 6:18pm 
I wanted to let you know i can confirm the bug for the global attach mode. When selected on an object the game will go CTD. This happens anytime the global attachment tool is selected. I have run the program with nothing but 3ditor running with the same results.

Any way of fixing this or do we need to wait for an update. I'm assuming that a recent update ARMA3 broke it, just like always. lol

Thanks once again
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h-  [developer] 18 Jan, 2020 @ 9:53pm 
There's nothing you can do to fix the global attach thing, I don't even remember anymore what broke it but it most likely a combination of mostly me and some Arma patch.

There's also other things like return from preview breaking things (my fault that was bought to surface by 1.96 game update) so I'd wait for the patch. I may have finally got ahead a little last night so I'm hoping it won't be too long.
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h-  [developer] 19 Jan, 2020 @ 1:23am 
Oh, one thing that came to mind as you mentioned using a laptop, if you exec this code in the debug console (in Eden)
(findDisplay 313) displayAddEventHandler ["keydown", { systemChat str (_this select 1); }]
close the console and then press the INSERT key what does the systemChat say?
I assume it is not 210.
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