Simple suggestion: mouse wheel

[Elias_Maluco]

I always wondered why we cant assing the mouse well to any control in M&B. I always use the well in games. The weel could be assigned to "next weapon" (a "previous weapon" command could be a nice addition too), "zoon" or anything, of course. Why not to use the weel? Is just a another input and its very handy.

 

[jrawlings]

I've used the mouse wheel to zoom the main map back and forth. This is with vanilla M&B, I didn't do anything to the game.

 

[quixotecoyote]

You already can assign the mousewheel in the controls menu

 

[Elias_Maluco]

Really? Hmm, then why cant I? Ive tried several times, it never worked. You are talking about pressing the mousewheel (which is actually mouse button 3), or spinning it? I know I can assign mouse button 3 to controls, but when I try to assign wheel up or wheel down, nothing happens.

 

[DaLagga]

You're right. You can't assign the mouse wheel to anything. Mouse3, yes...but not the mouse scroll. I always use this feature in all FPS's to switch between weapons, and found it annoying that i couldn't use it for the same function in M&B. I completely forgot about that...thanks for pointing it out Elias.

 

[jrawlings]

I'm spinning the mouse wheel to zoom up= zoom out, down= zoom in.

 

[Elias_Maluco]

I'm spinning the mouse wheel to zoom up= zoom out, down= zoom in.

Strange, I cant do that.

 

[DaLagga]

Me either.

 

[Volkier]

Neither can I.. I have no idea how you managed to assign the mouse wheel in the controls ::\ (although yes it works for zoom in / out - but I would prefer to have it switch weapons etc instead ::\)

 

[elMerda]

Extremley strange, I have successfully added the "mouse wheel" into the game; changing the 'view outfit' command to the mousewheel instead (it's much easier XD). I'm sure this can be done to many other things.

 

[Kissaki]

The zoom with the mouse wheel only works at the map screen. At least, that's how it is for me.

 

[quixotecoyote]

I'm going to guess it has something to do with the mouse driver and version of windows., Because I can assign the wheel witout a problem to either buttton 3 or the scroll

 

[Talon68]

I agree with you there. It is a little frustrating having to move your hand over to the [ and ] keys to switch weapons.

 

[okiN]

Personally, I have switch weapon bound to the "E" button and switch shield to the "Q" button. Works well enough.

 

[Elias_Maluco]

I just discovered that I can use the wheel to zoom up and down at the world map, that means M&B "knows" I have a mouse with wheel. But I still cant assign it to anything in the controls menu. Im using Windows XP, my mouse is a "generic" optical mouse using Windows drivers and I never had any problem assiging wheel_up and wheel_down to controls in games, I do it all the time in FPSs.

 

[Apex]

I made a thread about this a few days ago and got the same response: "It works for me, so I don't know." It's not me. I have three computers with varying hardware, Windows versions and mice, and none of them can bind MWHEELUP and MWHEELDOWN in options. I've polled everyone I know that has the game (3 or 4 people I've infected with the M&B flu) and none of them can use the wheel either.

I, too, use the wheel for weapon changing in other games and would like to see this looked into. For now I have the switch keys set well enough, but I would like to use the wheel and free that prime key real estate for other functions.