Terraria

[Malart]

I got toddmd2's Terraria profile a few weeks ago, but while it was functional, there were some things about it that I felt were a bit lacking. First of all, there was no quick grapple button, and no auto selection button either, which is a godsend when using a controller so that you can quickly switch back and forth between your weapon and placing torches/using tools. the mouse was also painstakingly slow, which made selling things/rearranging my inventory and basically anything but actually mining or attacking very tedious for me. I've been slowly modifying it over the course of a few weeks, and with one exception, I've arrived at something I think is pretty comprehensive. anyway here goes. (first post, if you couldn't tell already.)

note: There is no Throw command, but the only time I've ever had to throw an item was to summon the Wall of Flesh, so I didn't bother keeping it in there.

Unshifted controls

Left Stick - Move (I had the problem of falling through wood platforms all the time if I didn't push the stick almost perfectly horizontal, so I set it up to where you have to push the stick 2/3rds of the way down or more in order to register a down push. this way when you're fighting on platforms you won't fall through accidentally and take fall damage.

Right Stick - Aim Cursor

A - Jump

X - UNMAPPED/Toggle Red-shift (I'd recommend that you put 'magic/ranged switch' here. The command is already made, and I have it set to the second inventory slot at the moment, and this already
shifts to the config meant for easy ranged weapon and magic use.)

B - Healing potion

Y - Mana potion

R Bumper - quick grapple

L Bumper - turbo quick grapple. this makes climbing long mineshafts (hellevators) before you get wings a whole lot easier. you can just cling to the wall with your grappling hook, position your cursor just above you on the wall, and hold the button down to repeatedly grapple over and over again to climb up straight walls. you can experiment with where on the screen to position the cursor and actually get moving pretty fast.

Start - Inventory

Right Trigger - Attack/Use tool or potion

Left Trigger - Auto-Select (this means that when you hold this down, your character will auto bring out the tool needed for what your cursor is on. If you hover over wood, you'll be able to use an axe instantly. If it's dirt or stone, it'll be a pickaxe or drill. You will still have to manually bring out your hammer if you are trying to break down background walls, however, because anywhere you mouse over that is background or doesn't have anything to break there, it will select torches/glowsticks. You'll also still have to manually select you Wrench/Wire cutters for wiring things. Upon releasing it, you'll default back to whatever you had selected previously in your quickbar.) **EDIT** I just found out that holding this down while clicking on things in your inventory will automatically put them in the trash. If you have an NPC shopping window open, it will auto-sell what you click on.

D-Pad - Left and right will scroll left and right on your quickbar, while up and down will do scroll up and down in your crafting screen.

Left Stick click - Interact (talk to NPC's, open doors, stuff like that. I like this the least, but I had nowhere else to put it for easy access. If you have a better place to put it, let me know in the
comments)

Right Stick click - Pressing and holding this down will enter the Blue-shifted controls, and make the Left stick a much faster mouse. Like the other shifted controls, it's not necessary to play the game, but it does make some things easier. once you get practiced with it, you should be able to switch to Blue so as to get your cursor where you need it to go quickly, then release the right stick and get fine-tuned movement back.


Blue-shifted controls(click and hold right stick) - for use in the inventory/shop screens

same as unshifted, except that the left stick is a much faster mouse cursor. one could use this to very quickly get the cursor from your character to anywhere on the screen, then return to the unshifted controls for fine tuned mouse movements. makes rearranging your inventory take half as much time.

Red-shifted controls (X as a sticky/toggle)

same as unshifted, except that the right stick now functions as a radial attack stick, a-la Geometry wars and similar games. pushing the stick in a direction while a ranged weapon is equipped will fire in that direction. as I said above, I recommend that you assign the command 'magic/ranged switch' to the X button in the unshifted profile, which switches to your second inventory slot. (where you would store your bow/gun/magic of choice.) I've also changed the right trigger from attack to jump, so that you don't have to stop attacking in order to be mobile.


I realize that's a lot of stuff to read, but oh well


UNSHIFTED
pinnacle terraria unshifted.jpg

BLUE-SHIFTED
pinnacle terraria shifted-blue.jpg

RED-SHIFTED
pinnacle terraria shifted-red.jpg

**UPDATE**
I tweaked the radial attack a bit to make it easier to aim. Unfortunately, Pinnacle doesn't allow you to set a circular boundary for the mouse, so aiming is still gonna be a little difficult.

[toddmd2]

Thanks for taking the time to mod my profile. Admittedly, I didn't get far into Terraria before moving on to some other game so some of your more advanced features are lost on me, and I still think you can't beat keyboard/mouse when it comes to inventory manipulation.. I have been thinking about getting back into it recently because I did have a ton of fun in there and haven't tried it since the latest patch. Looking forward to seeing what you came up with.

[Malart]

Thanks for making the original profile; I doubt that I would have gotten back into it if it weren't for that. I had gotten really used to using controllers for PC games, and I hated having to use the mouse and keyboard on Terraria. I was also looking for a fun game to test Pinnacle out on, and I used your profile for at least a few weeks before I even thought to mod it. Let me know if you have any problems with it or any suggestions on how to make it better. This the first non-Xpadder profile that I've worked on, and I never got into the more advanced stuff with that program because it's much harder to set up correctly imo. Looking through your profile is actually how I figured out how the profile making part of Pinnacle works . I would probably been pretty lost otherwise. I still wish I had a better button for interacting with doors and NPCs though. I just didn't want to make yet another shift, because at that point I think it would start interfering with the rest of controls, with me accidentally pushing a shift button and doing the wrong thing.

[Pinnacle [Errol]]

Malart so why don't you post your profile for others to enjoy.
I also have the game and would've really like to use your profile with all those elite functions.
At least I won't have to make a profile, I can depend on at least one from you guys.

[Malart]

Holy crap i didn't actually post it lol.

**EDIT**
There. I totally meant to do that.