Newcomer / Intro How to export control settings?

Basaltfeuer · Dec 12, 2015

As Horizon can be seen on the horizon (huehue) i am wondering if it is possible to export my actual control settings ... couldnt find anything via search function, any advise?

Thanks!

Para Handy · Dec 12, 2015

Basaltfeuer said:
As Horizon can be seen on the horizon (huehue) i am wondering if it is possible to export my actual control settings ... couldnt find anything via search function, any advise?

Thanks!

If you mean your control bindings they are in a file called "custom.binds" which lives in the folder Users/***yourname***/AppData/Local/Frontier Developments/Elite Dangerous/Options/Bindings/

Dommarraa · Dec 12, 2015

You shouldn't need to export them, but I always keep a copy of mine on Google drive as backup

Basaltfeuer · Dec 13, 2015

Thanks a lot and feel repped

badtrip · Dec 13, 2015

Guys i got to ask something about this.

One of my friends just sent me his settings.
Bun under options/controls i dont see the setting bindings there.
Its just not appearing.

Am i doing anything wrong?

Para Handy · Dec 13, 2015

badtrip said:
Guys i got to ask something about this.

One of my friends just sent me his settings.
Bun under options/controls i dont see the setting bindings there.
Its just not appearing.

Am i doing anything wrong?

Look under the directory tree I gave in post #2 - "custom.binds" is there or if not there in a "virgin" setup, it gets written there when you change the bindings in the game options. If you are pasting your friend's "Custom.binds" file in there then:
When in the game Options/Controls menu there will appear a drop-down item "Custom" - (along with the default items such as "mouse and keyboard"), select the "Custom" and then "Apply".

badtrip · Dec 13, 2015

Thanks for the reply but thats my problem.
My friend sent me his configuration file named as cmdrname.binds

I pasted that this way to that folder.
Today i tried to use his binds but the drop down menu does not contain his keybind file at all!
So i cannot change it from the game menu.

MalcYorks said:
Look under the directory tree I gave in post #2 - "custom.binds" is there or if not there in a "virgin" setup, it gets written there when you change the bindings in the game options. If you are pasting your friend's "Custom.binds" file in there then:
When in the game Options/Controls menu there will appear a drop-down item "Custom" - (along with the default items such as "mouse and keyboard"), select the "Custom" and then "Apply".

Para Handy · Dec 13, 2015

badtrip said:
Thanks for the reply but thats my problem.
My friend sent me his configuration file named as cmdrname.binds

I pasted that this way to that folder.
Today i tried to use his binds but the drop down menu does not contain his keybind file at all!
So i cannot change it from the game menu.

Should have worked but check it isn't marked as a "hidden" or "system" file - also check the first line of the file contents should be:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

the next line says:

<Root PresetName="Custom">

The name there might be different, if so that is what will appear in the drop-down list

I can't help much further than that I'm afraid.

Dommarraa · Dec 13, 2015

If he has a different controller to you, then it wont appear

badtrip · Dec 13, 2015

Thank you.
I changed right now the presetname.
Hope it works

MalcYorks said:
Should have worked but check it isn't marked as a "hidden" or "system" file - also check the first line of the file contents should be:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

the next line says:

<Root PresetName="Custom">

The name there might be different, if so that is what will appear in the drop-down list

I can't help much further than that I'm afraid.

badtrip · Dec 14, 2015

OK i tried that yesterday.
Its intresting i wasn't even able to access the controls menu.
It simply didn't enter that menu.

I tried to rename the
<Root PresetName="Custom">
into any preset name. It didnt work either.

I quit!

Para Handy · Dec 15, 2015

badtrip said:
OK i tried that yesterday.
Its intresting i wasn't even able to access the controls menu.
It simply didn't enter that menu.

I tried to rename the
<Root PresetName="Custom">
into any preset name. It didnt work either.

I quit!

If you can't get to Options / Controls from the main menu in E D then you need to raise a ticket with support.

If you can get to that menu - select one of the preset bindings (mouse + yoke would do) - then change a couple of the settings in the list - then click apply - that will create / overwrite the custom.binds file. You can then edit that file in notepad, pasting-in the contents of your friend's binds file.

Remember - if his file includes reference to any hardware that you don't have (a particular joystick for example) then E D will not recognise that custom.binds file. i.e. it rejects it if there is a reference to something it doesn't see on your system.

If none of that works then you really need to raise a support ticket.

P.S. If you are using steam then the options file structure might be in a different location - I don't know about that.