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Posted - 2006.07.23 11:04:00 -
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 Originally by: JamesTalon
Originally by: Suze'Rain
turn your mouse upside down.
sorted.
I tried. Its incredibly annoying and hard....
Then turn your display upside down....
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Ghoest
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Posted - 2006.07.23 13:24:00 -
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I always use an invert mouse in other games. but it really doesnt make sense in EVE.
Wherever you went - here you are.
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Fennes
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Posted - 2006.07.23 18:05:00 -
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Originally by: Mark A
Of course inverting the GUI mouse movements makes no sense, but I don't think that's what the OP meant. Inverting x/y/zoom when moving the camera (ie with the mouse button held down) is perfectly valid.
At the moment the convention is like you are rotating the object, ie you are grabbing and dragging what's under the mouse (this is more evident rotating your ship while docked. This is the more "normal" convention from 3D modelling packages etc., and resembles the Adobe-style "grabbing hand" drag of Acrobat or Photoshop where you are conceptually grabbing the canvas and pulling it around. However this is the opposite to the "scroll bar" convention where you are moving the view, not the document. Note that in EVE the camera indeed moves the opposite way to the mouse.
So I think there's a decent argument for preferences, although you do get used to it pretty quick.
BTW Microsoft Games did some research on the whole "invert y" thing for FPS (for Halo specifically) and found the population is split almost exactly 50:50. Guess it depends on whether you grew up with arcade games and flight sims or Word and Excel ;).
This is what I was getting at.
It's more than FPS games and flight sims though, it's become the norm for 3rd person shooters. Think Grand Theft Auto, SOCOM, World of Warcraft. All have an "invert mouse" for CAMERA MOVEMENT in the y axis in 3rd person mode.
Eve has a 3rd person perspective. Eve has a camera. Is it really so counterintuitive to move a camera around the same way you do in other games?
Even more to the point, is it really so offensive to bring this topic up? How could people be so offended by the prospect of a checkbox in the preferences?
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Elyagra
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Posted - 2006.07.23 19:36:00 -
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To stop me feeling really confused, by inverting the mouse you mean making it so when I move my mouse 'Up' the camera pitches down?
or the other way around?
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