A small help/present for arrow gamers !

[luftwaffe.be]

Hi guys ! I have a small present for the arrow users of the FH comunity( so WASD go away  ). In the first releases, I didn't pay much attention to the fact one could free look in his tank, due to the fact it was more conventional to rotate the turret to observe the landscape.

however, with the arrival of more slow turreting tanks, this might come in handy. However, devs assigned it to a for arrow user unconventional place: left CTRL !

If you want it to be more in hand reach do this :

go to documents/bf2/profiles/0001(or higher if you use multiple accounts).

you will find a file called: controls.fh. open it with wordpath

under LandPlayerInputControlMap find :
ControlMap.addKeyToTriggerMapping c_PIMouseLook IDFKeyboard IDKey_LeftCtrl 0 0

you can change it to a more conventional keys or simply add a line ending with 0 1 like this:

ControlMap.addKeyToTriggerMapping c_PIMouseLook IDFKeyboard IDKey_RightShift 0 1


there are 2 rules though :
1) you can't use the same key as crouch(i assume it conflicts with static MG
2) if you alter anything else, be sure it doesn't conflict with controls.con, or it won't work!

cheers

LUFTY

[Ionizer]

Can't you just change it in the ingame options menu?  I'm sure I saw an option to change the mouselook key in the controls tab.  Or does it not work?  Anyway, I'm sure this will help someone, so thanks for sharing.

[DLFReporter]

Can't you just change it in the ingame options menu?  I'm sure I saw an option to change the mouselook key in the controls tab.  Or does it not work?  Anyway, I'm sure this will help someone, so thanks for sharing.

You can. Did it for my planeview.

[luftwaffe.be]

you can't for tanks, it is undepended from an ingamemenu, unless i didn't found it out.

[Dukat]

I'll look into this. Left CRTL is the shit.

[Kubador]

Freelook is also available for AT guns now - isn't that awesome?

[Ionizer]

By the way, I checked, and changing the button in the option menu doesn't work for Tank/AT gun freelook.

But this does.  Only difference is, I used Right Ctrl, because Right Shift is my crouch button.  Thank you.  I'm sure to use this more often now.

[luftwaffe.be]

always glad to help 

[Fritz_Fraghof]

This is fantastic. Thank you so much for working it out and sharing this. I use the other side of the keyboard and this is a godsend. Now I have a better chance of seeing those infantry creeping up on me. lol.

[trakpin]

just set this up, but used V instead and nothing happened, V doesn't appear to be used in controls. am i missing something here? got the right line.

[trakpin]

well, figured out why it's not working. the line change is back to LeftShift 0 0 so it's not saving for some reason, even tho i did, or the game is resetting it . there another way to get mouse look?

[luftwaffe.be]

just add this line

ControlMap.addKeyToTriggerMapping c_PIMouseLook IDFKeyboard IDKey_V 0 1

right under it.

[trakpin]

still not working, either just pressing the key or holding it down

[luftwaffe.be]

does it conflict with controls.con ? you must make sure it isn't assigned there. Try it first with some other keys see if they work.

[trakpin]

does it conflict with controls.con ? you must make sure it isn't assigned there. Try it first with some other keys see if they work.

yeah, there is: ControlMap.addKeyToTriggerMapping c_GIVoipUseLeaderChannel IDFKeyboard IDKey_V 0 0
i'll have to find another key to use, tho i'll be dammed if i know which