Mouse wheel knob work and stuff
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Ohw lol… ok, so I had POV bound to mousewheel (essentially as a “look closer” option) but wanted to be able to zoom in/out further when in satelite view to get to know my surroundings before taxi.
Messed with my settings, mixing up FOV and Zoom in/out, not remembering how I had it before I started messing around.
Ended up with neither option like I wanted, and lost the abilitly to use my mouse on rotaries like the radio volume knobs (still set to “1” in cfg file).Mousewheel back to POV in settings: regained that “look closer” like behaviour. but:
- I start out “zoomed in”
- rotaries don’t react to scrollwheel like they used to
So in short: I’m mixing up FOV / Zoom / Look closer, lost scrollwheel interaction with rotaries and essentially messed up something super easy 8).
Get me back on track please…
EDIT:
so I THOUGHT I had POV bound to my mousewheel…
Counter-intuitively, but now I’ve set both POV and Zoom (Settings>controllers>advanced) to keyboard controlled. Rotaries work again with mousewheel, FOV is still controlled with mousewheel but does start at it’s default value and I’m just gonna use Shift+NumPad 7/1 for my external zooming. Now to keep my hands of it again, now it works… -
Sound like you got it … but yeah there are some weird hardcoded defaults in play, with the mousewheel. Even if you have FOV mapped to an axis … and mousewheel mapped to something else entirely.
eg. I fly with throttle bound to mousewheel as part of my HOJAM experiment… it similarly starts off at the 50% position (ie. about 75% MIL power).
And if you click the mousewheel-button, it still restores default FOV and head-position, as normal. But it also snaps the throttle back to 50% point! lol
(thankfully, press-and-hold the wheelbutton allows moving head position in 6dof … without affecting the throttle.)
It seems these mousewheel behaviors are essentially hardcoded, and changing them is not well supported (except maybe for ‘g_bMouseWheelKnobs’ in cfg).
I expect I’ll need to ditch the mousewheel-as-throttle hack, at some point, and use vJoy if I want to continue flying this way.