CFML files are your keymapper save files and also the name of the code used in those files. CRS created this code and it is XML based and really easy to learn. All CFML files that are used by the game are contained in the CFML Folder in the ww2ol\data folder. They cannot be in any subfolders or any other folder and be recognised by the game. If you do not have a CFML Folder, don't panic, just means you haven't run the game and changed a keymap [which is when the game creates the folder]. you can either simply create a folder named CFML in the ww2ol\data folder or run the game and go into the keymapper and change something. CFML files can be opened and edited with notepad or dreamweaver [or other html type program]. The CFML Folder also containes a file called global.calib, this is your calibration file for your joysticks and mouse.

 

How the game uses CFML files

     The CFML filing system is a tiered proprietary file system, meaning there are three basic files for control of a vehicle. default, category, and the specific vehicle. the defaults are hard coded and not shown as a file in a folder. What's contained in the CFML Folder is only what is changed from the defaults. If a function is not listed in the CFML category or specific vehicle file, the defaults are used. now a proprietary system means the functions assigned in a specific vehicles CFML will override the same assignment in the category cfml while the functions assigned in the category cfml override the hardcoded defaults.

     I know this sounds a little confusing but it's really not, think of it as an overlay where the same functions get covered over when you place a file overtop of another with the specific vehicle being on top, the category being in the middle, and the defaults being on the bottom [and not shown in a cfml file, so if there isn't a header for a function it means it's set to the defualts]. What shows through will be mapped to that specific vehicle. One thing to remember is that you have secondary buttons or keyboard axes for most functions, so you need to be aware that you might only be overriding one side of the two keymapper collumns. [the how to is explained further down].

Below is a highly simplified (i didn't use all of the functions) visual representation to help explain, we'll say we chose a truck to drive in game. Here's a really basic idea of how the game decides what is keymapped for it, let's say we chose to spawn the british laffy truck and in the keymapper we had mapped the truck ALL file {the map for every truck) like this..

And that we specifically mapped the Laffy this way...

remember, i do not show all of the code for the defaults just to keep it simple...

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