Keyboard Layout
Below you will find a listing of all keybinds specific to XWA. Some additional keybinds have been added to both XWAU and TFTC. Keyboard bindings cannot be rebound to different keys, this is an unfortunate limitation of the XWA engine.
Video Game Keyboard Database for XWA
The below site shows you all the default Vanilla XWA controls. You can visit this site directly by clicking here.
Ingame screenshot of all vanilla controls.
Additional Controls added by XWAU and TFTC
Player craft controls
CTRL + L: Toggle Landing Gears
K: Toggle SLAM System
Player Camera controls (works both with and without VR)
Arrow keys: Lean left/right/up/down.
SHIFT + Up/Down: Lean forwards/backwards.
CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + Right/Left: Adjust Field of View (FOV)
CTRL + F: Cycle between predefined FOVs
SCRLK: Toggle Mouse Look
Game Speed Toggle
CTRL + Q: Toggle fast time compression on/off.
CTRL + A: Toggle slowmo on/off.
General DDraw Engine controls
CTRL + I: Toggle Inertia movement
D: Switch between Dynamic Cockpit and regular HUD
CTRL+ALT+END: Turn off all HUD elements including the targeting reticule.
CTRL + D: Toggle Laser Illumination on/off
CTRL + H: Toggle Cockpit Holographic Displays
CTRL + Right/Left: Adjust aspect ratio
CTRL + Up/Down: Adjust global scale
CTRL + SHIFT+ALT + Up/Down: Adjust stereoscopy strength
Post Processing Controls
CTRL + ALT + A: Toggle Bloom effect
CTRL + ALT + O: Toggle SSAO/SSDO
CTRL + ALT + P: Toggle Indirect Lighting when SSDO is active
CTRL + ALT + N: Toggle Normal Mapping
CTRL + ALT + G: Toggle Greeble effect
CTRL + ALT + F: Toggle FXAA
CTRL + S: Toggle Shadow Mapping (Toggle Raytracing in Tech Library)
CTRL + T: Toggle Target Box
VR Controls
CTRL + Left/Right: Change the scale of the reticle.
SHIFT + Left/Right: Change the depth of the reticle.
ALT + T: Reload TrackIR
GUI Depth Adjustment
CTRL + SHIFT + Up / Down: Adjust Targeting Computer GUI Depth
CTRL + SHIFT + Left / Right: Adjust Text Depth -- This should be above the Targeting Computer Depth.
SHIFT + Left/Right: Adjust Aiming HUD Depth.
VR Configuration
SHIFT + Arrow Keys: Adjust POV
Period/Dot Key (Double Tap): Reset POV in SteamVR
SHIFT + Period/Dot Key: Reset POV
CTRL + ALT + S: Save current VR parameters to vrparams.cfg
CTRL + ALT + L: Load VR parameters from vrparams.cfg
CTRL + ALT + R: Reset VR parameters to defaults.
Lens Distortion Effect
CTRL + ALT + B: Toggle Lens Correction Effect ("Barrel Distortion Effect").
CTRL + ALT + Left/Right: Adjust K1 Lens Distortion Coefficient (fine-tunes the effect)
CTRL + ALT + Up/Down: Adjust K2 Lens Distortion Coefficient (bigger effect, start here)
Window Scale
CTRL + Z: Toggle Zoom-Out Mode (allows you to see all the corners of the screen)
CTRL + ALT + Shift + (+/-): Adjust Zoom-Out Mode/Concourse/Menu scale
Screenshots
CTRL + PRINTSCREEN: Take Screenshot during gameplay
ALT + O: Take Screenshot in Tech Library
Debug
CTRL + J: Reload CockpitLook.cfg
CTRL + W: toggle Textures (only in Tech Library)
CTRL + ALT + D: Toggle SSAO/SSDO in Debug mode
