Berniyh Posted December 30, 2015 Posted December 30, 2015 I think it would be a good idea if it would be possible to temporarily lock the mouse to a specific control. I.e. on the Huey, when you want to set the ADF you might need to do a lot of tuning to get to the desired frequency. Thus you either have to use a hotkey and constantly press that or you have to look down to the control and use the mousewheel to tune while keeping the camera still. So how this would possibly work: 1. Point the mouse at the control you want to modify 2. Push the "Lock mouse to control" button (i.e. on the joystick or a mousebutton) 3. You can reset your view to normal so you can see where the aircraft is going and what it is doing 4. Mouse input (left/right click to increase/decrease or mousewheel) will go to the selected control even when looking somewhere else. No other control can be modified and selected. 5. Push the "Lock mouse to control" button again to unlock. Now you are able to move the mouse around as normal It might be possible to go one step further and prohibit the use of the "hand" that would operate the control while in the locked state. Like when you're turning a knob using your left hand, you can't operate the throttle (in a fixed wing) or collective at the same time. But I guess that would be a bit much of realism. ;) In the end, I would really like to see such a feature implemented, because that's how you would do it in reality (if you don't happen to have a co-pilot how sets the stuff up). You don't face a control 2mins when modifying it, you might have a short glance just to make sure you pick the right one and then do whatever you want to do while looking straight forward. Also want to add, that I'd like to have a general increase/decrease command that I can bind using the joystick.
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