Key Map

The Key Map screen lets you choose which keyboard key runs each game command. To open it, select Options from the clipboard in the tower, then Controls, then Map Keys. From the main clipboard menu (before you enter an arena) select Controls, then Map Keys. For a step by step example, see Mapping Keyboard Keys.

The screen

• The virtual keyboard - The top of the screen is a picture of a keyboard. When you select a command in the list, its key (and Shift, Ctrl or Alt if it uses one) is shown pressed. When you press a key on your real keyboard, it is shown pressed too, and if a command already uses that key, the list jumps to that command. If the list jumps to a different group, click that group's button and select the command again before you use Set Key or Clear Key.
• The group buttons on the left pick which group of commands is listed: Gunner, Vehicle, Chute, Flight, View and Global. Global and View commands work all the time. Flight, Vehicle, Chute and Gunner commands only work when you are in that position.
• The list with the Function and Key columns shows the commands of the selected group and the key each one uses. None means the command has no key.

Mapping a key

1. Pick the group, then select the command in the list.
2. Choose the new key: click it on the virtual keyboard, or press it on your keyboard. To add Shift, Ctrl or Alt, click that key on the virtual keyboard (click it again to remove it) or hold it while you press the key. A key can use only one of Shift, Ctrl or Alt.
3. Click Set Key.

Each command can have only one key. Some commands, such as firing, looking around and trim, use a single key only: when you select one of them, the Shift, Ctrl and Alt keys disappear from the virtual keyboard.

A key used by a Global or View command cannot be used by any other command. Flight, Vehicle, Chute and Gunner commands can share the same key with each other (for example W is Flaps Raise in a plane and Accelerate in a vehicle). If the key you set is already used by a Global or View command (or, when you map a Global or View command, by any command), the game tells you which command uses it and asks if you want to unmap its old function. Answer yes to move the key to the new command. Inside the Flight, Vehicle, Chute and Gunner groups, setting a key that another command of the same group uses simply takes the key away from that command.

Buttons

• Set Key - Gives the chosen key to the selected command.
• Clear Key - Removes the key from the selected command, so it has no key.
• Fix Key - Opens the Fix Key window (see below).
• OK - Saves all your key changes and closes the screen.
• Cancel - Throws away the changes you made since you last saved and closes the screen.

Fix Key

Some keyboards send different key codes than a standard keyboard. If you press a key on your keyboard and the same key is not shown pressed on the virtual keyboard, use Fix Key:

1. Click the key on the virtual keyboard of the Fix Key window.
2. Click the Fix Key button.
3. Press the problem key on your keyboard. The game tells you when the key has been re-mapped.

Reset Default removes all your key fixes and closes the window. Cancel closes the window.

Default keys

The key commands listed below are the default keys of a fresh install of Aces High. Commands without a default key (for example Mode 1 Select to Mode 4 Select, which change your controller mode) are not listed. If you have re-mapped any of your keyboard keys, this list may not match your setup, and new key commands introduced in future versions of Aces High will have no key: you must map them yourself. Keys introduced in new versions are included in the readme.txt that ships with every version.