Going Back To Horizons Can Reset Your Key Binds

thelawal

T
I have noticed an issue with key binds resetting to the defaults. Here is how to replicate it.
  1. Open Odyssey and set you key bindings for at least one of the sections. Close Odyssey.
  2. Open Horizons. Your key binds will be set to whatever is default for your set up not what you left Horizons.
  3. Go to Controls in the Settings. You'll notice that the Preset entry at the top is set to whatever your default preset is.
  4. Select either option at the bottom to leave.
  5. When you open Odyssey again your Presets for each section will be set to the default from Horizon.
It seems that Horizon has no idea what to do with the new StartPreset.start file so it just goes straight default. This is compounded by Horizons overwriting this file as soon as you go to the Controls tab in settings.
 

RikonGB

RikonGB
I noticed in the alpha test there was 2 keybind files in
%localappdata%\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Bindings
Custom.3.0.binds appears to be for Horizon
Custom.4.0.binds appears to be for Odyssey

or at least had to reset all my binds in odyssey Alpha and they were stored in the Custom.4.0.binds
Not managed to stay in game long enough yet to see if still same now live
 

thelawal

T
Appreciate the help but not the same issue. This is not about the files that contain the key bindings themselves but the file that tells Elite which binding files to use. Both Horizons and Odyssey share this file. The problem is Horizons probably expects the entire file to to contain the part of the file name up to the version(e.g Custom in Custom.4.0.binds). But when Odyssey writes to this file it writes each of the file names on a different line. When Horizons reads this it is now looking for something like a preset named:
Custom
Custom
Custom
Custom. There is no such preset because that is not a valid file name so it falls back to the defaults. Then if you go in to figure out why Horizons is not respecting your custom key binds, it writes to the file that stores this info. And even if you cancel it will write whatever the default was since that was the previous preset value.
This is just a guess as to what goes wrong but it seems likely.
 

Bladesteel

B
This is really inconvenient, since switching back and forth is the only real option for exploration in VR until they fix the broken planet mapping UI
 

RikonGB

RikonGB
As mentioned it was in Alpha it had separate files, looks like the patch to Horizons has updated the keybind file to be the same one.

Have you added the issue to the bug tracker https://issues.frontierstore.net/ ? as that's probably best place to start to get it looked into
 
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