Joy2key: for smooth mouse panning

[Andrew_McP]

I noticed the IL2 guys talking about this utility for smoothing out mouse panning. It's not the most user-friendly util I've ever used, but it does seem to work!

 

This is the only place I found the latest version, other links usually lead to the 374 version.

 

http://neteru.tombraiderforums.com/files/jtk379en.zip

 

and this page...

 

http://www.tombraiderforums.com/showthread.php?t=50243

 

...will save me trying to explain roughly what you need to do. The mouse tab is the one you're interested in, obviously. You can set an axis on a spare controller (joystick or analogue gamepad) to be the mouse +/- x, and another to be the mouse +/- y, and tweak the sensitivity. You can even alt tab out of LOMAC, change the sensitivity, then alt tab back to see the change.

 

This probably doesn't make a lot of sense, and it took me a while to experiment and understand this util (especially as I have 4 usb devices attached, which confused me for a while. :-) but it's worth persevering with.

 

Ultimately a mouse is the most intuitive way of moving the mouse around, especially when trying to follow the action (and especially after so much time using it!) But the smoothness you can get with joy2key makes it worth trying to get used to.

 

Andrew McP

[kdittyr]

Yeah, I thought about using this type of thing to create better pans for movie editing. Sometimes the jerky camera moves that people put in aren't the greatest looking things. Good links, thanks

[EvilBivol-1]

Very cool!