how to enable hotbuild with my mod

[Axle]

I made a mod that has a whole bunch of new units, factories, turrets, new everything. And they all work fine, except they don't work with hotbuild ... no letter overlay on their build icons. And with factory or contstruction unit selected, pressing hotbuild hotkeys don't cause them to be built.

So my question is ... how to enable hotbuild with the new units in my mod? Do I add a magic tag to the "categories" key in the units' blueprint? Do I need to hook some particular lua file and programatically add a keybinding for each unit?

Please help me out I can't play my mod without hotbuild I love hotbuild too much!

Alex

[Uveso]

Hello Axle,

i have no clue about hotbuild, so i only view the scripts without testing.

All keygroups with unitID are saved inside unitkeygroups.lua:
https://github.com/FAForever/fa/blob/develop/lua/keymap/unitkeygroups.lua


For adding new hotkeys make a new (empty) file inside your mod:

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YOURMOD\hook\lua\keymap\unitkeygroups.lua

Now, if you want to add a new unit to the T2_Fighter/Bomber hotkey as example, add this to your empty file:

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unitkeygroups = {
    ["T2_Fighter/Bomber"] = {
        "dea0202",
        "dra0202",
        "xsa0202",
        "YOUR NEW UNIT ID",
    },
}


In case you want to add completly new keyactions you need to modify the file keyactions.lua
(same like unitkeygroups.lua)
https://github.com/FAForever/fa/blob/develop/lua/keymap/keyactions.lua


More help can be found here:
http://forums.faforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=13817

Greetings, Uveso.

[Axle]

You sir, are a sir! Thank you!

[edit] and a note for those that might follow ... unit ids must be lower case (or converted to lower case in unitkeygroups.lua)