Forged Alliance Forever

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Hello, thx for the solid information provided here.
So far my keys are working just fine, with two minor exceptions. Unfortunately I was unable to figure it out myself.

1)Since the Mole (Cybran scout) has no direct fire weapon, it stays unselected if I use my key for "all direct fire units on screen".
Is there a way to exclude or include all land scouts to the selection?

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['Select Land Direct Fire Units on Screen'] = {
action = 'UI_SelectByCategory +inview +excludeengineers DIRECTFIRE MOBILE LAND',
category = 'Custom Keys'
},

2)And I like to remove the fighter/bomber from "all airfighter in screen", since they are shitty AA units.

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['Select Air Fighters on Screen'] = {
action = 'UI_SelectByCategory +inview AIR HIGHALTAIR ANTIAIR',
category = 'Custom Keys'
},

Just add 'SCOUT' to your first one and do '-BOMBER' to your second.

JoonasTo wrote:Just add 'SCOUT' to your first one and do '-BOMBER' to your second.

thx for the quick reply. I tried..

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action = 'UI_SelectByCategory +inview +excludeengineers DIRECTFIRE MOBILE LAND SCOUT',

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action = 'UI_SelectByCategory +inview AIR HIGHALTAIR ANTIAIR -BOMBER',

..unfortunately its not working me. did you use that?

Removing categories doesn't work with this method, you have to use something called smart select. Then you could remove SCOUT from query 1 and BOMBER from query 2.

However there already exists solutions to your problems.

There is a select all fighters key built into FAF that removes bombers and experimentals. If it's not working for you then it means I made a mistake somewhere.

In the latest version of ui party mod, I made a select direct fire onscreen mod and fixed that exact SCOUT issue. And some other units.

Thx for the info and solution.
The key you created works nicely-will use it. Would be nice to have that same function with '+inview' as well, if it is no problem
I will check out UI party now...

svenni_badbwoi wrote:Thx for the info and solution.
The key you created works nicely-will use it. Would be nice to have that same function with '+inview' as well, if it is no problem
I will check out UI party now...

You can make an inview version. Just copy paste and add.

Anihilnine wrote:You can make an inview version. Just copy paste and add.

I dont like being spoon-fed, but didn't find what I was looking for in the game.prefs.
I tried ['key'] = 'select_anti_air_fighters, +inview' but that is wrong I also looked for lua-files where 'select_anti_air_fighters' is defined, but had no luck. Could you give me another hint?

Yeah my bad, it wasnt that easy to work out. I had to search github for "select_anti_air_fighters" to find the code for how it was implemented.

This is it:
['select_anti_air_fighters'] = {action = 'UI_Lua import("/lua/keymap/smartSelection.lua").smartSelect("AIR HIGHALTAIR ANTIAIR -BOMBER")',

Your should do:
['select_anti_air_fighters_onscreen'] = {action = 'UI_Lua import("/lua/keymap/smartSelection.lua").smartSelect("+inview AIR HIGHALTAIR ANTIAIR -BOMBER")',

Hmmm, why doesn't the scout work though? Do they have to satisfy all the demands for that to work?