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Keyboard Shortcuts

Project OutFox has quite a few keyboard shortcuts to make certain tasks easier.

Global Shortcuts

These shortcuts work everywhere in OutFox unless otherwise specified (or used in another section).

F1: Insert Coin

F2: Reload metrics, textures, noteskins & code detector cache (Does nothing in edit mode)

Ctrl+F2: Reload theme scripts (Does nothing in edit mode)

Shift+F2: Reload metrics, noteskins & code detector cache (Does nothing in edit mode)

Ctrl+Shift+F2: Reload overlay screens & metrics (Does nothing in edit mode)

F3: Show debug menu

Scroll Lock: Operator Button (Go directly to the theme’s operator menu screen. Will not work if the current screen doesn’t allow the operator menu button)

~ (tilde): Broadcasts “ToggleConsoleDisplay” globally

PrintScreen: Take a screenshot

Shift+PrintScreen: Take a high quality screenshot (If HighRes Screenshots are off by default)

Shift+PrintScreen: Take a low quality screenshot (If HighRes Screenshots are on by default)

Alt+Enter: Toggle fullscreen

` (accent): Slow the game’s tweens down

Tab: Speed the game’s tweens up

PauseBreak: Toggle “Mute Actions”


Editor Shortcuts

These shortcuts only work in the edit screens.

All Edit Modes

Up: Scroll up one ’line’ (If 4ths are selected, you go up one 4th, if 8ths are selected, you go up one 8th, etc.)

Down: Scroll down one ’line'

F1: Show the help menu

; (semicolon) / PageUp: Scroll up by 4 beats

(apostrophe / single quote) / PageDown: Scroll down by 4 beats

Ctrl+; (semicolon) / Ctrl+PageUp: Scroll up by the number of beats in a measure

Ctrl+’ (apostrophe / single quote) / Ctrl+PageDown: Scroll down by the number of beats in a measure

Home: Scroll up to beat 0

End: Scroll down to the last beat of the chart

. (period): Scroll down to next note in the chart

, (comma): Scroll up to previous note in the chart

Ctrl+. (period): Scroll down to next chosen chart segment type in the chart

Ctrl+, (comma): Scroll up to previous chosen chart segment type in the chart

Shift+Up / Shift+Down: Create a section from where shift was held

Space: Set the start and stop points of a selection

p: Play the selected section of the chart (plays from start if no selection)

Ctrl+p: Play the chart from the start

Shift+p: Play the chart from the current beat

Esc / Start / Enter / Back: Open the edit menu (When previewing the chart)

Esc / Start / Enter / Back: Exit the play mode (When practicing / recording / playing the chart)

Practice Mode

Up: Scroll up one measure (Overrides all other modes)

Down: Scroll down one measure (Overrides all other modes)

Left: Lower the scroll speed

Right: Raise the scroll speed

Course / Mods Edit Mode

Left: Go to the higher snap (8th to 4th, etc.)

Right: Go to the lower snap (4th to 8th, etc.)

Full Edit Mode

F4: Show timing menu

F5: Move to the previous chart for the Song

F6: Move to the next chart for the Song

F7: Lower BPM at current beat

F8: Raise BPM at current beat

F9: Decrease stop length at current beat

Shift+F9: Decrease delay length at current beat

F10: Increase stop length at current beat

Shift+F10: Increase delay length at current beat

F11: Decrease beat 0 offset

F12: Increase beat 0 offset

[: Decreases the music sample’s starting point

]: Increases the music sample’s starting point

Shift+[: Decreases the music sample’s length

Shift+]: Increases the music sample’s length

l: Play the sample music for the song.

b: Open the Background Change menu for layer 1

Shift+b: Open the Background Change menu for layer 2

Ctrl+Insert: Shifts all timing changes down

Ctrl+Delete: Deletes timing segments and shifts the later ones up to the beginning of the deleted areas

q: Decrease the amount of time a column has to be held to create a hold in record mode

w: Increase the amount of time a column has to be held to create a hold in record mode

e: Reset the amount of time a column has to be held to create a hold in record mode

r: Turn off the ability to create a hold in record mode

0-9: add notes to columns 1-10 (holding while pressing Up / Down creates a hold)

Alt+0-9: add notes to columns 11-20 (holding while pressing Up / Down creates a hold)

Shift while creating a hold: Create a roll

n: Switch to the previous note type

m: Switch to the next note type

Ctrl+n: Switch to the previous segment type

Ctrl+m: Switch to the next segment type

Ctrl+Up: Increase the scroll speed

Ctrl+Down: Decrease the scroll speed

Left: Go to the higher snap (8th to 4th, etc.)

Right: Go to the lower snap (4th to 8th, etc.)

Enter (when not in a menu): Open the area menu

a: Open the alter menu

Alt+b: Bake in a random video from the song group

Ctrl+b: Bake in a random video from the song’s group or genre

Ctrl+r: Go into record mode for the selected area

Insert / \(backslash): Inserts a beat and shifts everything after down

Delete: Deletes a note/selection, and shifts the later notes up to where the deleted note/start of deleted section was

Holding Alt when adjusting a value: Use a smaller adjust amount

Ctrl+s: Save (Windows, Linux, Pi, etc.)

Meta+s: Save (Mac OS)

u: Undo the last action

/ (slash): switch which player is being charted for in a couples chart

t: Switch between chart timing and song timing

Alt (during Record mode): Remove notes

Shift (during Record mode): Add rolls

p (During Record Paused mode): Play selection

r (During Record Paused mode): Record from the current beat

Ctrl+r (During Record Paused mode): Record the selection


Gameplay Shortcuts

These shortcuts only work in gameplay screens.

F4: Revert sync changes

F6: Autosync

F7: Toggle Assist Tick

Shift+F7: Toggle Metronome

F8: AutoPlay (+Alt = hide autoplay text)

Shift+F8: AutoPlayCPU (+Alt = hide autoplay text)

F9: Decrease song BPM

F10: Increase song BPM

F11: Decrease global offset

Shift+F11: Decrease song offset

F12: Increase global offset

Shift+F12: Increase song offset


Music Wheel Shortcuts

These shortcuts only work in the music wheel screen.

F9: Toggle between actual titles and transliterated titles.

Ctrl+Shift+r: reload the currently selected song

Ctrl+a-z: Sort the songs by letter and go to the group of all songs that start with that letter.

Ctrl+Backspace: Delete the song from the system. (Actually deletes from the drive!)

Ctrl+Shift+Backspace: Delete the selected chart from the system.