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by Daniel Buckmaster · in Torque Game Engine · 09/27/2008 (6:38 am) · 5 replies

I'm sure there's a simple answer to this question. A search didn't help. But here's the problem. ctrl is a modifier key, so you can't bind a function directly to it. What happens if I want to use ctrl for a hold-crouch? Is that too much to ask? :P
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    Torque Owner Taylor Petrick
    #1
    09/27/2008 (7:15 am)
    What happens if you bind it to "ctrl ctrl"?

    Torque Owner Tyler Slabinski
    #2
    09/27/2008 (8:19 am)
    [quote]What happens if you bind it to "ctrl ctrl"?[quote]

    Well... That seems to be a good way to do it.

    Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
    T3D Steering Committee
    #3
    09/28/2008 (12:45 am)
    Doesn't seem to work. I don't get the console error like I do with just binding it to ctrl, but the command still doesn't work.

    Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
    T3D Steering Committee
    #4
    09/28/2008 (10:33 am)
    Aha! An pold forum thread came to my aid - you have to bind to a specific control if you want it to not be a modifier. And for some reason, the name to use is lcontrol rather than lctrl. :P
    So for anyone in the same boat - bind your command to lcontrol.

    Torque 3D Owner Jesse Liles
    #5
    06/18/2009 (12:00 pm)
    Fantastic, thank you for the info. I've been browsing for this answer for quite some time.