2012-11-15, 20:13
CAUTION! I FOUND OUT THAT THE STROBE LAGS QUITE BADLY IN MULTIPLAYER. SO BY APPLYING THIS YOU WILL SEE A GREAT REALISTIC STROBE WHILE EVERYONE ELSE WILL SEE A REGULAR STROBE. IT'S AN ISSUE I AM WORKING ON.
I stumbled upon this while configuring my own strobe. It's still work in progress but I think I will share this utterly invaluable information with you.
Things you need (as far as I got):
LFS Strobe by Tommy
KeyTweak program
You can open Tommy's strobe twice which means that you can load the same program twice and run both at the same time for increased ''realism''.
The basic configuration is already included in the download, you just need to load it up through each of the strobes and save two copies:
1)
- Basic program,
- Horn switch enabled (select what button you want to use to switch horn on/off)
- Select the button for lights
- select the button you use for the horn
- select the starting button to be something thats either convenient or out of the way - I chose Num Lock for reason I will explain later.
-Make sure random strobe is not ticked
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Just a precaution: I selected the ALT key to toggle my horn/siren because the game would tab-out EVERY time i pressed shift with the strobe activated and I had to deactivate it to get back in the game.
So use ALT for that function
2)
- Basic program again
- this time select the NONE option on the Horn Switch, that will disable the horn on that program altogether
- select the SAME key for activating this program as the other one
- select the ''Random Strobe''
- For lights, select the button for Left or right indicator. Alternatively you can select the ''light flash'' button to flash headlights more often.
- char for horn doesn't matter since it's not being used anyway
Save those two setups separately and now the only thing you need to do is load them up in separate instances of the Strobe by Tommy and enjoy a more realistic, fully functional strobe.
If you catch me in game i will show you how it looks
Now I said that I used the Num Lock to activate the strobe. I also use the W/S buttons for gas and brake and a mouse in the other hand so it would seem inconvenient to use this button for anything. And you're right. It's a major pain.
Thing is, this program only allows Num, Caps or Scroll to activate the strove since they have on/off states. And you don't want to use caps because then every time you go to type anything in chat it will be.... in CAPS.
To fix this, download the KeyTweak program. (From here: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-E...weak.shtml )
It's a very small tool that can rebind the keys and their functions on your actual keyboard from Windows.
Changes to any binds/functions are permanent but easily reverted - by changing the key to it's original function from within the program.
So once you get the program, select the Caps Lock button (all buttons show up in their numerical value so select the key that LOOKS like Caps, button 30 that is).
Then use the drop down menu and select ''Num Lock'' function as the new mapping. Once you got it, click remap key and... sigh.... restart your PC. I know, I know - it's a pain to do that but bear with me.
Once you log back into windows, you will notice that whenever you press Caps Lock, the num lock light comes on. num lock still works unchanged but your caps now doubles as num lock too. So no more writing in block capitals. And now that caps has been remapped, it can be used as Num Lock to activate the strobe from the left side of the keyboard while still allowing to type in lower case.
Nobody needs caps anyway, right?
I have also been experimenting with Ash' script for horn 4-5 toggle. It works very well and all, but I'm trying to enhance it still to make it that much more useful.
The outcome of this whole exercise is:
- a cool, realistic strobe light
- a fully functioning strobe at the same time, with an option to switch sirens on/off independently
- all functions easily accessible with one hand in one place on the keyboard
- Still to come: one button horn type toggle
That's it for now Thank you for your patience and attention. Please let me know what you think!
I stumbled upon this while configuring my own strobe. It's still work in progress but I think I will share this utterly invaluable information with you.
Things you need (as far as I got):
LFS Strobe by Tommy
KeyTweak program
You can open Tommy's strobe twice which means that you can load the same program twice and run both at the same time for increased ''realism''.
The basic configuration is already included in the download, you just need to load it up through each of the strobes and save two copies:
1)
- Basic program,
- Horn switch enabled (select what button you want to use to switch horn on/off)
- Select the button for lights
- select the button you use for the horn
- select the starting button to be something thats either convenient or out of the way - I chose Num Lock for reason I will explain later.
-Make sure random strobe is not ticked
---------
Just a precaution: I selected the ALT key to toggle my horn/siren because the game would tab-out EVERY time i pressed shift with the strobe activated and I had to deactivate it to get back in the game.
So use ALT for that function
2)
- Basic program again
- this time select the NONE option on the Horn Switch, that will disable the horn on that program altogether
- select the SAME key for activating this program as the other one
- select the ''Random Strobe''
- For lights, select the button for Left or right indicator. Alternatively you can select the ''light flash'' button to flash headlights more often.
- char for horn doesn't matter since it's not being used anyway
Save those two setups separately and now the only thing you need to do is load them up in separate instances of the Strobe by Tommy and enjoy a more realistic, fully functional strobe.
If you catch me in game i will show you how it looks
Now I said that I used the Num Lock to activate the strobe. I also use the W/S buttons for gas and brake and a mouse in the other hand so it would seem inconvenient to use this button for anything. And you're right. It's a major pain.
Thing is, this program only allows Num, Caps or Scroll to activate the strove since they have on/off states. And you don't want to use caps because then every time you go to type anything in chat it will be.... in CAPS.
To fix this, download the KeyTweak program. (From here: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-E...weak.shtml )
It's a very small tool that can rebind the keys and their functions on your actual keyboard from Windows.
Changes to any binds/functions are permanent but easily reverted - by changing the key to it's original function from within the program.
So once you get the program, select the Caps Lock button (all buttons show up in their numerical value so select the key that LOOKS like Caps, button 30 that is).
Then use the drop down menu and select ''Num Lock'' function as the new mapping. Once you got it, click remap key and... sigh.... restart your PC. I know, I know - it's a pain to do that but bear with me.
Once you log back into windows, you will notice that whenever you press Caps Lock, the num lock light comes on. num lock still works unchanged but your caps now doubles as num lock too. So no more writing in block capitals. And now that caps has been remapped, it can be used as Num Lock to activate the strobe from the left side of the keyboard while still allowing to type in lower case.
Nobody needs caps anyway, right?
I have also been experimenting with Ash' script for horn 4-5 toggle. It works very well and all, but I'm trying to enhance it still to make it that much more useful.
The outcome of this whole exercise is:
- a cool, realistic strobe light
- a fully functioning strobe at the same time, with an option to switch sirens on/off independently
- all functions easily accessible with one hand in one place on the keyboard
- Still to come: one button horn type toggle
That's it for now Thank you for your patience and attention. Please let me know what you think!