# Why does my new axis mapping to change WASD to ZQSD not work in game?

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-does-my-new-axis-mapping-to-change-wasd-to-zqsd-not-work-in-game/499621>\
**Category:** Community & Industry Discussion\
**Tags:** axis-mappings, unreal-engine, editor, UE4-27, question\
**Created:** [February 18, 2022, 4:34pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-does-my-new-axis-mapping-to-change-wasd-to-zqsd-not-work-in-game/499621 "2022-02-18T16:34:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![anonymous\_user\_e8d18fd51](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/8/5/28502927f1d97ba1051b3b47ccfe17233bf41ef0.png) [@anonymous\_user\_e8d18fd51](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/anonymous_user_e8d18fd51)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2022, 4:34pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-does-my-new-axis-mapping-to-change-wasd-to-zqsd-not-work-in-game/499621/1 "2022-02-18T16:34:39Z")

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Since I have an azerty keyboard instead of a qwerty one I’m trying to remap wasd to zqsd for the in-game playing in Unreal Editor 4.27.2.

I’ve started a new blank c++ project with starter content. Then I went to Project Settings → Engine - Input → Axis Mappings.

This is what my new axis mappings look like:

 ![4rOGq](https://d3kjluh73b9h9o.cloudfront.net/original/4X/6/e/b/6eb92ee920cbc1cc3f9d83ca8490f190b11d1644.png)

However, no matter what, when clicking Play, the camera movements will only respond to wasd and completely ignore the axis mappings which I put there. I build, compiled and tried restarting the editor but to no avail. What am I missing?

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**Author:** ![Tuerer](https://d1ap1mz92jnks1.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.unrealengine.com/tuerer/32/1008648_2.png) [@Tuerer](https://forums.unrealengine.com/u/Tuerer)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/why-does-my-new-axis-mapping-to-change-wasd-to-zqsd-not-work-in-game/499621/2 "2022-02-19T14:07:31Z")

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I don’t know the reason why this happens in the engine, but I know that French layout have exactly these symbols swapped. Do you have French language installed in your system? Maybe it interferes with the engine somehow?