Script that remaps Keys in Cyberpunk 2077 from qwertz to dvorak and shifts everything one key to the right (to play with ESDF)

README.md

1. Have python installed
2. Download remap.py and put it next to the config file inputUserMappings.xml (Should be in ...\Cyberpunk 2077\r6\config)
3. Open a terminal, cd into the directory with the script, and run python remap.py
4. It should create a new file called inputUserMappings2.xml
5. Now rename inputUserMappings.xml to something else, and rename inputUserMappings2.xml to inputUserMappings.xml

pyproject.toml

[tool.pyright]
include = ["."]

reportMissingImports = true

pythonVersion = "3.10"
pythonPlatform = "Windows"

executionEnvironments = [
  { root = "." }
]

remap.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

from lxml import objectify, etree

dvorak_mapping = {
    # key on (german) keyboard: letter in dvorak
    'IK_A': 'IK_A',
    'IK_B': 'IK_X',
    'IK_C': 'IK_I',
    'IK_D': 'IK_E',
    'IK_E': 'IK_Period',
    'IK_F': 'IK_U',
    'IK_G': 'IK_I',
    'IK_H': 'IK_D',
    'IK_I': 'IK_C',
    'IK_J': 'IK_H',
    'IK_K': 'IK_T',
    'IK_L': 'IK_N',
    'IK_M': 'IK_M',
    'IK_N': 'IK_B',
    'IK_O': 'IK_R',
    'IK_P': 'IK_L',
    'IK_Q': 'IK_SingleQuote',
    'IK_R': 'IK_P',
    'IK_S': 'IK_O',
    'IK_T': 'IK_Y',
    'IK_U': 'IK_G',
    'IK_V': 'IK_K',
    'IK_W': 'IK_Comma',
    'IK_X': 'IK_Q',
    'IK_Y': 'IK_Semicolon',
    'IK_Z': 'IK_F',
}


personal_mapping = {
    'IK_SingleQuote': 'IK_Comma',
    'IK_Comma': 'IK_Period',
    'IK_Period': 'IK_P',
    'IK_P': 'IK_Y',
    'IK_Y': 'IK_F',
    'IK_F': 'IK_G',
    'IK_G': 'IK_C',
    'IK_C': 'IK_R',
    'IK_R': 'IK_L',
    'IK_L': 'IK_Slash',

    'IK_A': 'IK_O',
    'IK_O': 'IK_E',
    'IK_E': 'IK_U',
    'IK_U': 'IK_I',
    'IK_I': 'IK_D',
    'IK_D': 'IK_H',
    'IK_H': 'IK_T',
    'IK_T': 'IK_N',
    'IK_N': 'IK_S',

    'IK_Semicolon': 'IK_Q',
    'IK_Q': 'IK_J',
    'IK_J': 'IK_K',
    'IK_K': 'IK_X',
    'IK_X': 'IK_B',
    'IK_B': 'IK_M',
    'IK_M': 'IK_V',

    'IK_LShift': 'IK_A',
    'IK_Shift': 'IK_A',
    'IK_LControl': 'IK_Semicolon',
    'IK_Ctrl': 'IK_Semicolon',

    'IK_Left': 'ignore',
    'IK_Right': 'ignore',
    'IK_Up': 'ignore',
    'IK_Down': 'ignore',
    'IK_Enter': 'ignore',
    'IK_Backspace': 'ignore',
    'IK_Space': 'ignore',
    'IK_Escape': 'ignore',
    'IK_Tab': 'ignore',
    'IK_Alt': 'ignore',
    'ReportIssue_ButtonGroup': 'ignore',
    'IK_1': 'ignore',
    'IK_2': 'ignore',
    'IK_3': 'ignore',
    'IK_4': 'ignore',
    'IK_5': 'ignore',
    'IK_6': 'ignore',
    'IK_7': 'ignore',
    'IK_8': 'ignore',
    'IK_9': 'ignore',
    'IK_0': 'ignore',
    'IK_Home': 'ignore',
    'IK_RControl': 'ignore',
    'IK_RShift': 'ignore',
    'IK_1_LShift': 'ignore',
    'IK_2_LShift': 'ignore',
    'IK_3_LShift': 'ignore',
    'IK_CapsLock': 'ignore',
}


def loadXML():
    f = open("inputUserMappings.xml", "r", encoding="utf8")
    text = f.read()
    return objectify.fromstring(text)


def ignoreButton(name: str):
    if name.startswith('IK_Pad'):
        return True
    if name.startswith('IK_PAD'):
        return True
    if name.startswith('IK_Mouse'):
        return True
    if name.startswith('IK_NumPad'):
        return True
    if name.startswith('IK_PS4'):
        return True
    if name.startswith('IK_F') and name != 'IK_F':
        return True
    if 'Mouse' in name:
        return True
    if 'Thumb' in name:
        return True
    return False


def remapButton(button):
    old_id = button.attrib['id']
    if ignoreButton(old_id):
        return
    new_id = dvorak_mapping.get(old_id)
    if (new_id):
        button.attrib['id'] = new_id
        print('remapped {} to {}'.format(old_id, new_id))
    old_id = button.attrib['id']
    new_id = personal_mapping.get(old_id)
    if new_id == 'ignore':
        pass
    elif new_id:
        button.attrib['id'] = new_id
        print('shift {} over to {}'.format(old_id, new_id))
    else:
        print('missing mapping for {}'.format(old_id))


def main():
    tree = loadXML()
    children = tree.getchildren()
    for mapping in list(filter(lambda x: x != '', children)):
        buttons = mapping.getchildren()
        for button in list(filter(lambda x: x.tag == 'button', buttons)):
            # print(button.attrib)
            remapButton(button)
    return tree


if __name__ == "__main__":
    tree = main()
    xmlString = etree.tostring(tree, pretty_print=True, encoding='unicode')
    print(xmlString)

    with open('inputUserMappings2.xml', 'w', encoding='utf8') as f:
        f.write('<?xml version="1.0"?>\n')
        f.write(xmlString)

@Gordin has this script ever worked for you? For me, the game freezes on the starting script it seems to fail to load the key binds

@micr0-dev It worked fine when I wrote it 2 years ago... Haven't played Cyberpunk since then.
I'd be surprised if this could crash the game though since it just shuffles existing keys in a config file around. Maybe the game had added more keybinds in the last years and now some keys are bound two multiple things and it doesn't like that. I'm just randomly guessing though, since I haven't played in a long time. Maybe you can even do all the rebinds in the game now ^^ (I'm guessing not though, otherwise why would anyone look at this script...)

thanks for your reply! it does work for some keybinds but not all, some the game doesn't like, I am however running the game via proton on linux so maybe that is messing with it... i will figure something out eventually, for now, I have just been playing with a controller. anyhow thanks! ^^