Switch views...

[aGorm]

Ok, maybe I'm going mad but I just updated to latest spring and... weridly I now cant switch views with ctrl + middle click. Or ctrl J. Has this been changed for some inexplicable reason? (Bear in mind... I havn't updated for about 6 months so it may have changed ages ago and I never noticed... wiki saus ctrl J/middle mouse is correct though, so I'm wondering if its just buggered up.)

[smoth]

it has been changed to another key binding.

[Neddie]

Not a good change.

[aGorm]

Ahh, so, does anyone know what that key binding is?

[SinbadEV]

uikeys.txt

//
// bind Ctrl+f1 viewfps
// bind Ctrl+f2 viewta
// bind Ctrl+f3 viewtw
// bind Ctrl+f4 viewrot
//

[zwzsg]

The annoying thing being that middle mouse button not being bindabe, you can't edit your uikeys.txt to revert to the old way.

[Forboding Angel]

Not a good change.

It was a good change, it just wasn't a good change from a gamedev standpoint (because we're rather set in our ways ). It annoys the living crap out of me now, but on the other hand I'm glad that the user can't be inadvertently switched to another view without explicitly intending to.

[Beherith]

I LOVE this change, since I scroll by pressing middle mouse, and I hold shift alot and I tended to get cam switches alot from it.

[Auswaschbar]

Code: Select all

function widget:GetInfo()
	return {
		name      = "MiddleClickCameraSwitcher",
		desc      = "^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^",
		author    = "Auswaschbar",
		version   = "v1.0",
		date      = "Dec, 2009",
		license   = "GNU GPL, v3 or later",
		layer     = 9000,
		enabled   = true,
	}
end

-- FPSController          // 0
-- OverheadController     // 1
-- TWController           // 2
-- RotOverheadController  // 3
-- FreeController         // 4
-- SmoothController       // 5
-- OrbitController        // 6
-- OverviewController     // 7
	
function widget:MousePress(mx, my, button)
	local alt,ctrl,meta,shift = Spring.GetModKeyState()
	if (button == 2 and (shift or ctrl)) then
		local oldcamstate = Spring.GetCameraState()
		local newcamstate =
		{
			mode = (oldcamstate.mode + 1) % 6, -- exclude overview and orbit
			px = oldcamstate.px,
			py = oldcamstate.py,
			pz = oldcamstate.pz,
		}
		Spring.SetCameraState(newcamstate, 1)
		return true
	end
	return false
end 

That lua widget has only slightly more characters than the sum of the posts complaining about the removal.

[smoth]

I LOVE this change, since I scroll by pressing middle mouse, and I hold shift alot and I tended to get cam switches alot from it.

this

[Forboding Angel]

I LOVE this change, since I scroll by pressing middle mouse, and I hold shift alot and I tended to get cam switches alot from it.

this

Yeah, that's why I agree that it was a good change. It jsut drives me nuts tho when I'm testing cause I'm springloaded to the ctrl+middleclick position.

[KingRaptor]

Ctrl + Backspace also cycles between the camera modes.

[aGorm]

Thanks... finaly I can check out my tank from more than top down view... (Now I just need to figure out how to script, but thats a whole new thread)

aGorm

[zwzsg]

Thanks for the widget!

[Pxtl]

Agree on good change, and that we need bind-access tot he mouse buttons. Have we got Capture and Rez in teh default keybinds yet?

[JohannesH]

Have we got Capture and Rez in teh default keybinds yet?

Nope they dont default to anything. I use q for both.

[Satirik]

I LOVE this change, since I scroll by pressing middle mouse, and I hold shift alot and I tended to get cam switches alot from it.

well every real spring players love this change, changing camera mode is fuckin useless for players

[SirMaverick]

That lua widget has only slightly more characters than the sum of the posts complaining about the removal.

There wouldn't be any complain if the widget would have been provided at the time the change was made. :)

[lurker]

That lua widget has only slightly more characters than the sum of the posts complaining about the removal.

There wouldn't be any complain if the widget would have been provided at the time the change was made. :)

Do you honestly believe that?

[AF]

Why would people have complained about the change if they were handed a widget that fixed everything back tot he old way on a silver platter?

Its like complaining you want compensation for your broken leg AFTER winning a major court settlement into the millions, or complaining you want cake while holding a plate full of it.....