Hi folks,
sry for being here only sporadic the last year, ... but as you might figure out by my signature
my machine broke down again last year and I have to rely on "foreign support" for getting
connected to the www at all.
Therefore I ask right out, since I don't have the possibility to search deeper by myself here
and/or on other sites.
QUESTION:
Is there a way - in game - to center your cursor(crosshair) ?
After clicking on a symbol for i.e. docking to quickly return the cursor to the center of your view esp. with/after "Toggle Mouseflight" (Toggle mouse flight - option in controls menu)
for better/more direct aiming and steering.
Any advice - even if the answer has to be: "can't be done with the FL-engine at all"
would be appreciated.
edit:
Hmm, nobody answered so far.
Another reason for my question beside improving the cursor navigation/switching between menu-browsing and steering on "traditional" mouse/keyboard control-interface ...
it would/could improve, or in essence, enable joy-flightstick control for FreeLancer al all.
There are some joysticks around, that can be programmed to be used instead of mouse for moving the cursor - resp. your "game charcter", let it be a person or a ... ship.
I've tested some with good results on movements, view control and acting.
BUT ... the main problem is to get the cursor back or at all to the center of your view, since the cursor is on start up on most screens placed somewhere on the sides or in one of the corners.
Once the cursor IS in the center of view, it will always return to it on using a joystick, since the stick, acting in moving the cursor instead of the mouse, returns to the center position by itself, taking the mouse cursor with him.
I've been googling around a bit about this, but all I found so far where some threads in coder forums about programming own games or additions or ... anything in visual basic and other stuff for implenmenting in certain or own (?) games or ... somewhere for use in windows.
Well, ... coders techno babble I - unfortunatly - am a total noob about.
Perhaps some of the to-coding-better-than-me-knowns around here have a clue, ... or idea.
