Overview
For anyone looking for a way to remap “Tab”, here is a guide to help.
WARNING
Rebinding “Tab” will unmap the default function ingame that swaps/cycles between currently selected units types. (I never knew “Tab” did this until this year)
And at present I am not sure as to fix it or if manually adding a hotkey/event in the xml file is an option to customise it.
How To:
First go to:
(Documentsmy gamesAge of Empires 3Users3) for Asian dynasties
(and I’m assuming Users and Users2 are for vanilla and war chiefs respectively.)
Edit the xml file (for me it’s called ‘NewProfile3’) in notepad.
Find (ctrl-f) for desired object to rebind to “Tab”.
As an example; for me, I want to rebind Idle villagers to “Tab” so I look for “Idle Villager” and should find:
<KeyMap>
<Name>Find Idle Villager</Name>
<Event>v</Event>
<Action>bind</Action>
So I to change
<Event>v</Event>
to
<Event>tab</Event>
then save.
Load, or reload the game and try a match to see if it worked, but it worked for me
and in options it shows “Tab” mapped to idle vils.
