In Warcraft you can make one hotkey group (or control group) of up to 12 units. You can also add all units of the same unit type (that are on your screen) to a group by holding ctrl then using your left mouse and double clicking one of the units of that unit type (for example one footman) to add all the unit types (all the footmen) on your screen to your group. Second is to select one unit and if you want to add another unit to that selection (or group) press shift and left click the unit or units you wish to add to the group. Meaning use your mouse and create a box over the units/buildings you want selected together.

There are really 2 ways to select multiple units/buildings (so that you can later make them a hotkey).įirst is to simply box click. In Warcaft you can select up to 12 buildings or units at one time. While at first this may seem hard or burdensome to do, overtime the below will all become muscle memory and you can do it in less than a second. Without hotkeying your units or buildings you are putting yourself at a significant disadvantage in that you will be must slower than your opponent who utilizes hotkeys.

Hotkeys are critical in properly controlling your units and buildings. Everything described will be based on if you are using the original hotkeys of the game. I'll have to do some testing to see if i can get it running though.This page will concentrate on how to hotkey (keyboard shortcut) groups of units or buildings together and how to properly manage your hotkeys or groups of units/buildings. It would be limited to detecting only letter keyboard keys because spells cannot define 1, 2, 3 or f1 etc for hotkeys.Įdit: I had an awesome idea that doesn't consider any of these things above and yet it could potentially add 8 more clickable buttons for a player. I dunno tho I'm not gonna test it cause i have no use for only detecting keyboard keys anyway.

It might be worth testing but is probably not worthwhile. This might cause the unit to be unable to do much of anything except for abilities that have no cast times(defend, manashield, etc), but it'd allow for getting complete control over all letter keys.Īnd for the metamorph idea i'm unsure if it would hold any dice at all because the keys would be instant while the metamorph is still going on like crazy and the non-stop metamorphing might just game crash lol but its an interesting idea. If you periodically used Metamorph that has new abilities with hotkeys for every letter key(each has 4-5 abilities that are instant) and a timer.

Another Idea that is running through my head is.

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