LE Extra hotkey menu

[cheezstik]

I'm tired of having to pause in fights and would like to request a mod to make the hot key system better or even just improve the favorites menu if the ui without pausing thing is impossible.

 

Pressing the mouse wheel should bring up the ui but keep the battle going (so no pause). This ui should have a list of weapons, items, spells that can be added by the player. Left clicking an item should equip it to the right hand and right clicking should equip it to the left instead of q. While in main ui,, pressing numbers 1-0 should change the menu to different sub menus that contain different lists that contain up to 9 different items at the players desire. For example, a player pressing mouse wheel then 1 could bring up his weapons, mouse wheel then 2 could bring up his spells, mouse wheel then 3 could bring up his shouts and powers and mouse wheel then 4 would bring up his pots etc. navigating through items should only be possible with mouse wheel and arrow keys to keep the movement keys functional while switching items. To make it even more true to hot keys, pressing 3 should chose the 3rd item in the selected sub menu and pressing 4 should choose the 4th item in the selected sub menu etc.

 

I would make the mod myself but unfortunately I don't know how to make a ui. Good luck to who ever tries to make a mod like this and make sure you post here if you do.

[nosisab]

There are some mods in this line already. Because the way Skyrim was hardcoded most of them mods calls for external programs to allow it. One mod I remember uses Dragon Script and creates a hotkey (default "home" if I remember) that moves whatever is in the right hand to the left hand, perfect to a combo making dual weapons a breeze.

 

A second mod is a script for an external program called Autohotkey (a good program that can help a lot in the lack of a macro able keyboard/mouse). this last is originally meant to make ease the dual casting or auto cast continual spells with both hands, mage driven characters love it.

 

 

Search with the keyword "hotkey" and you'll find them there among other.

 

Edit: for example

 

I use the first mentioned mod in a combo where I hotkey the weapons to the 1 and 2 slots (could be any other vanilla slot or even expanded by mods). The macro calls the slot 2 what puts the weapon in the right hand, next it calls the home key what puts the weapon 2 in the left hand, next the slot 1 is called what equips the main weapon in the right hand and presto, dual wielding at a press of a mouse/keyboard bottom. Although I do it directly from the keyboard or mouse, it could be done in common devices with help of Autohotkey as well. If already dual equipped the macro unequip both weapons, good for brawling. All this without need to open any menu at all.

 

I have some other macros, the second more important is the one dedicated to healling, which calls the fast healing spell to both hands and dual cast it faster can I could hope to do personally.

Edited October 18, 2012 by nosisab