Prepping to leave Abraham Lincoln station, moving my HOTAS over to where it’s infront of my primary monitor. KICS thinks I’m asking for ‘chaff’. This shit is getting old. I need to do something.
So I got the idea to make my own ‘voice pack’ (using KICS’ voice for very specific commands, just for me.. no more of her thinking I’m saying “zoom” when I’m not). And this is really the best way to handle this; to make a personalized ‘me’ pack. This one (if it works) would be able to auto-deploy my SLF, and SRVs.
I even figured out that Voice Packs are completely optional (which should’ve been known a long time ago), as I finally got “galaxy map” and “system map” to work (without using KICS). There were two issues that were blocking my attempts;
The keybinds are somehow.. reversed (instead of LALT+M, it had M+LALT for “galaxy map”). And the second thing, is I need to add a small ‘hold down these keys’ delay for the game to recognize the keys are being pressed. VERY happy when I saw the map pop up! FINALLY got it working, without the ‘requirements’ of KICS!! 😀
Getting this working, spearheaded the rest of the commands.
Sadly it’s bedtime, so I’ll get the rest of the commands set tomorrow (as that’s when I’ll be able to really test out this pack). I got so much planned for it. I want to be able to auto-deploy my SLF, and SRVs, tell the mothership to follow me or whatever, and my SRV I want to say something like “SRV Engines”, which would set pips to engines just like the ship.
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Another day, this time I got DMd by ‘Corysia’ (who’s a part of the HCS VoicePacks Discord server(the closest I’ll get to seeing a VoiceAttack Discord server)) who suggested that I install a few plugins, which might make the process easier to set up my ‘command pack’. This came with several ‘lessons’ on advanced VoiceAttack settings (some I actually understood how they work).
She was able to help me with an issue I found, how I say “engines” in the SRV, and it thinks I’m still in the ship. This require coding in VA, to tell it “I’m in an SRV, not the ship. So only set pips to the SRV!”
And it worked great! And, that’s about it. I went back to work setting commands and testing them. There’s still two hurdles that have to be jumped over; persistent selection, and a lack of keybinds. Pretty much both hurdles are related to eachother (and equally annoying).
But what I mean about ‘persistent selection’ is anything that can’t be bound to a key (of having to move the selection bar around). It happens when you’re in the same instance (of the selection not being where you want it after doing it before). This requires setting the selection bar back to where it was. This was especially annoying when trying to make the “board the ship” command (when in the SRV while on Mercury)– the command not being recognized to where I had to use “let me in”. Then trying to set the keys…
1/3 of the time, it tried to open up the cargo transfer option, the other 1/3 tried to dismiss the ship, and the remaining actually went down to the Board Ship option. There were even instances when it refused to go down the menu.
This took so, so much testing to where I said “fuck it, I’ll do it manually”! So instead of it selecting the option, it’ll try to pick it (and I’ll manually select it). Wish I could do a ‘SRV boarding ship’ thing and get KICS to say something while I’m going up.
So I nearly had the pack ready to the point I’m ready to restart getting the mats I need for the Guardian FSD Booster. Made a few extra commands when I needed them.