Alternative Horse Controls

This mod completely changes the way the horse is driven. You can set the horse several different speeds for walking/running, and it will maintain this speed without having to hold any buttons. This is great for a thrilling walk through the beautiful landscape!

How it works

Acceleration

Your Sprint button (default: controller: A, keyboard: left Shift) or Forward button/stick (default: controller: left stick "Forward", keyboard: W) control spurs. Now the horse has 4 speeds, from slow to fast: Walking, lynx, gallop and gallop. Each press of the Sprint/Foward button increases the speed by 1 point. You can use this during the ride to go to a faster speed, as well as when starting from a place, quickly pressing the Sprint button 1 to 4 times to go to the corresponding speed. There are also two alternative keyboard shortcuts to immediately switch to the speed of gallop and gallop.

From the stationary state:

Press the Sprint/Before button 1 time to go to walking speed.

Press the Sprint/Before button 2 times to jump to lynx speed

Press the Sprint/Before button 3 times to go to the gallop speed

Press the Sprint/Before button 4 times to go to the gallop speed.

Do not hold the "Sprint/Before" button while driving! The horse will maintain its speed by itself.

Steering/deceleration

Your controller's left stick (or keyboard keys assigned to left/right/return) controls the reins. Pull left/right to steer the horse, pull back (slightly or strongly) to brake. You can also use this button when standing still to rotate the horse. (The horse will automatically go forward slowly and turn, and stop as soon as you leave the left stick alone.)

Raising a horse

The horse can be deployed while standing still or at pitch speed by pressing the L3 controller or the ALT keyboard.

More acceleration options

There are two more keyboard shortcuts that you can use to immediately go to the gallop or gallop with the Sprint/Forward button. Note: The second key combination (double tap+hold) works only with the Sprint button by default. If you want to enable it for the Forward button as well, you'll need to add a key binding. Read about it below.

Hold the Sprint/Before button: Halo.

Double-click the Sprint/Before button and hold down the second press briefly: gallop.

To enable a second click on the "Forward" button, add the following commands (under [Horse]!):

IK_Pad_LeftAxisY=(Action=Gallop,State=Duration,IdleTime=0.3)

IK_W=(Action=Gallop,State=Duration,IdleTime=0.3)