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About this mod
If you play The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim with an Xbox 360 or Xbox One Gamepad for Windows, you probably have noticed how difficult it is to access your favorites and use the quicksave/quickload features, especially if you are used to accessing hotkeys 1-8 on your keyboard. Kontrol alleviates this frustration.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
Kontrol adds the ability to quickly select between 8 hotkeys on the d-pad of your Xbox 360 or Xbox One controller. This is accomplished by using the four cardinal directional buttons for the first four hotkeys, and then pressing & holding the "shift button" (LB or "Sprint" button) + the same four cardinal directions for the last four hotkeys. This mod also gives you the ability to quicksave, quickload, open the inventory menu, open map, open the magic menu, and auto-run from the controller without having to navigate the regular menus. Simply press LB + one of the previously-unassigned-in-vanilla buttons listed in the image or Details section.
Key Features:
• Expands the default Skyrim D-pad hotkeys. Instead of only two hotkeys, you can use up to eight--all on the D-pad!
• Access eight of your favorite items, spells, shouts and powers with these new hotkeys.
• Ability to quicksave/quickload on the fly. No need to use your keyboard or go through menus!
• Access inventory, magic, and map through the normal untouched cardinal menu (B) or open them directly from the controller!
• Auto-run with the controller for the ultra-lazy gamer who doesn't want to continuously hold forward on the left stick...
• Compatible with other mods, except mods that modify the controller scheme.
• The controller buttons remain relatively the same from vanilla Skyrim -- no learning a completely new layout! I only had to move the Favorites (from D-pad Up to LB + Y) to make room for Hotkey 1!
• Oldrim compatible. No scripts, .esp, or anything that affects save game files, it's just a controlmap.txt edit!
Details
Essentially, instead of only two favorites being accessible by the default Skyrim client, Kontrol adds the hotkeys for favorites, menus, and actions, listed here:
Hotkey 1: D-pad Up
Hotkey 2: D-pad Right
Hotkey 3: D-pad Down
Hotkey 4: D-pad Left
Hotkey 5: LB + D-pad Up
Hotkey 6: LB + D-pad Right
Hotkey 7: LB + D-pad Down
Hotkey 8: LB + D-pad Left
Quicksave: LB + Start
Quickload: LB + Back
Favorites Menu: LB + Y
Quick Inventory Menu: LB + B
Quick Map: LB + A
Quick Magic Menu: LB + X
Auto-Run: LB + R3
The default actions/buttons not listed here remain the same as vanilla.
When you use this mod, try adding your most used spells, shouts, powers, and items to favorites. Then, access your favorites menu (LB + Y) and browse through your favorites. To assign a favorite a hotkey slot (you can have up to eight), simply press and hold the button(s) associated with that slot.
For example, if you have a favorite item such as a sword and want to easily access it by pressing LB + D-pad Left, simply open your favorites menu (LB + Y), browse to the sword, then press and hold LB + D-pad Left for a second until you see a number next to the sword (in this case, the number will be "8", as in "hotkey 8"). Now when that troll charges at you with your bow drawn and you wanna whack it with your sword a few times, press LB + D-pad Left. If you press just D-pad Left, it will equip whatever you assigned for Hotkey 4.
Troubleshooting & Help
+ If you are not noticing any changes when you first use this mod, such as you still only have two buttons that use favorite hotkeys, then browse to your \steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim Special Edition\ folder and delete or rename ControlMap_Custom.txt to something else. If you still experience issues, delete controlmap.txt in \steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim Special Edition\Data\Interface\Controls\PC\. Afterwards, put this mod's controlmap.txt in there instead or reinstall the mod using your mod manager.
+ If you can't stop sprinting when you are moving and use a shift combination--e.g. you are moving while doing a quicksave (LB + Start) and your character won't stop after you let go of the left stick--simply tap the sprint button (LB) again. This is an issue with using the sprint button as the shift key. It's an issue I can't fix on the mod level, you just have to tap the sprint button again. It's a really minor/uncommon issue and not really noticeable. This issue is probably why Bethesda didn't allow more than 2 hotkeys on the controller by default.
+ I will not do any personal requests for customization. If you want to customize, then open up controlmap.txt and learn how to customize it yourself (it's really easy). There are so many gamepad customization files on the Nexus, it's a dime-a-dozen, so it should be easy for you to figure out how to assign keys to what you want.
If you wanna help me out, I'd appreciate it if people got together to get me a lifetime Premium membership to this site. I'd be more willing to create mods here if I didn't have to see ads and whatnot. I mean, other people have patreons and stuff, so I figured I'd shamelessly ask. In any case, I uploaded this to Nexus for my own personal use, but made it public because someone else might like these configurations. Enjoy!
Key Features:
• Expands the default Skyrim D-pad hotkeys. Instead of only two hotkeys, you can use up to eight--all on the D-pad!
• Access eight of your favorite items, spells, shouts and powers with these new hotkeys.
• Ability to quicksave/quickload on the fly. No need to use your keyboard or go through menus!
• Access inventory, magic, and map through the normal untouched cardinal menu (B) or open them directly from the controller!
• Auto-run with the controller for the ultra-lazy gamer who doesn't want to continuously hold forward on the left stick...
• Compatible with other mods, except mods that modify the controller scheme.
• The controller buttons remain relatively the same from vanilla Skyrim -- no learning a completely new layout! I only had to move the Favorites (from D-pad Up to LB + Y) to make room for Hotkey 1!
• Oldrim compatible. No scripts, .esp, or anything that affects save game files, it's just a controlmap.txt edit!
Details
Essentially, instead of only two favorites being accessible by the default Skyrim client, Kontrol adds the hotkeys for favorites, menus, and actions, listed here:
Hotkey 1: D-pad Up
Hotkey 2: D-pad Right
Hotkey 3: D-pad Down
Hotkey 4: D-pad Left
Hotkey 5: LB + D-pad Up
Hotkey 6: LB + D-pad Right
Hotkey 7: LB + D-pad Down
Hotkey 8: LB + D-pad Left
Quicksave: LB + Start
Quickload: LB + Back
Favorites Menu: LB + Y
Quick Inventory Menu: LB + B
Quick Map: LB + A
Quick Magic Menu: LB + X
Auto-Run: LB + R3
The default actions/buttons not listed here remain the same as vanilla.
When you use this mod, try adding your most used spells, shouts, powers, and items to favorites. Then, access your favorites menu (LB + Y) and browse through your favorites. To assign a favorite a hotkey slot (you can have up to eight), simply press and hold the button(s) associated with that slot.
For example, if you have a favorite item such as a sword and want to easily access it by pressing LB + D-pad Left, simply open your favorites menu (LB + Y), browse to the sword, then press and hold LB + D-pad Left for a second until you see a number next to the sword (in this case, the number will be "8", as in "hotkey 8"). Now when that troll charges at you with your bow drawn and you wanna whack it with your sword a few times, press LB + D-pad Left. If you press just D-pad Left, it will equip whatever you assigned for Hotkey 4.
Troubleshooting & Help
+ If you are not noticing any changes when you first use this mod, such as you still only have two buttons that use favorite hotkeys, then browse to your \steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim Special Edition\ folder and delete or rename ControlMap_Custom.txt to something else. If you still experience issues, delete controlmap.txt in \steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim Special Edition\Data\Interface\Controls\PC\. Afterwards, put this mod's controlmap.txt in there instead or reinstall the mod using your mod manager.
+ If you can't stop sprinting when you are moving and use a shift combination--e.g. you are moving while doing a quicksave (LB + Start) and your character won't stop after you let go of the left stick--simply tap the sprint button (LB) again. This is an issue with using the sprint button as the shift key. It's an issue I can't fix on the mod level, you just have to tap the sprint button again. It's a really minor/uncommon issue and not really noticeable. This issue is probably why Bethesda didn't allow more than 2 hotkeys on the controller by default.
+ I will not do any personal requests for customization. If you want to customize, then open up controlmap.txt and learn how to customize it yourself (it's really easy). There are so many gamepad customization files on the Nexus, it's a dime-a-dozen, so it should be easy for you to figure out how to assign keys to what you want.
If you wanna help me out, I'd appreciate it if people got together to get me a lifetime Premium membership to this site. I'd be more willing to create mods here if I didn't have to see ads and whatnot. I mean, other people have patreons and stuff, so I figured I'd shamelessly ask. In any case, I uploaded this to Nexus for my own personal use, but made it public because someone else might like these configurations. Enjoy!