Alternative controls for zooming?

[ZekeRage]

Does anyone know an alternative for using the camera's Zoom besides using the mouse wheel?

I use a Logitech Marbleman Trackball, and while I have a utility or two that emulate a mouse wheel (works on some games and does the trick for browsing the web), it doesn't appear to work for Far Cry 3. I haven't tried looking for/through the controls via the .txt file I'm sure there is, because I've been too busy just playing without the ability to zoom, but any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[ZekeRage]

So I've searched via Google, and I still haven't found anything regarding an alternative to using a scroll wheel to zoom. I also don't want to go around editing files (even if they are just for control). (I also haven't found them). Insight is appreciated.

[thanos999]

why dont you buy a normal mouse to play the game you pay a lot for the game yet you could use a cheap mouse to play it

[ZekeRage]

Personal preference. I've used a Marbleman Trackball for the past 8 or 9 years. It's the mouse I've always used to game with. Takes up little space, allows me to do 180/360 turns with a flick of 1 finger, I don't have to move my wrist at all. I appreciate your "suggestion", but I'd prefer an answer besides "Get a real mouse".

[fatboyfat_uk]

I had the same problem. I've worked around it by using AutoHotKey from http://www.autohotkey.com/ with a script that remaps my Page Up and Page Down to Wheel Up and Wheel Down and it works great.

The script I use is simply:

PgUp::WheelUp

PgDn::WheelDown

[ZekeRage]

I actually stumbled my way to this post: http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/730962-RE-Mouse-Wheel-Dependency/page1 . Unfortunately, that didn't work for me. I'll try the autohotkey thing, though. I'm assuming that they're extremely similiar, but hopefully, it'll actually work in game.

[fatboyfat_uk]

Hope it works for you. It certainly does for me with my laptop and its touchpad.

[ZekeRage]

So I'm curious if you did anything, such as telling the script to run if and only if Far Cry 3 is running? I made the mistake of reversing the script (WheelUp::PgUp), but I fixed it, and it still didn't work. I may have to reload the game with the script turned on prior to the game being up, but I thought I'd check to make sure you didn't do anything else beforehand. Thanks in advance.

[fatboyfat_uk]

I had it running before launching the game, but other than that I didn't do anything. Perhaps the OS makes a difference - I'm running Windows 8...

[ZekeRage]

Yeah, I'm running Win 7 Pro (64 bit). I dunno, I'll fiddle around with it some more. Thanks for the info.

[PotatoeMan]

It’s just a shoddy port as they didn’t put the extra effort of sorting out the menus either. Selling things can be a pain too.

[Drengor]

Originally posted by thanos999:

why dont you buy a normal mouse to play the game you pay a lot for the game yet you could use a cheap mouse to play it

A: I switch from a 'normal' mouse to mousewheel due to carpal tunnel issues. I'm not going back.
B: While there are trackman with mousewheels (and I have and use one at work where I never use the mousewheel anyway), I don't like mousewheels. I prefer a third real button... partly due to large hands, and partly due to having to move a finger off either the primary or secondary button to use it.

[Ratha Wynter]

Has anyone ever figured out how to rebind the mousewheel yet? Ive tried the same autohotkey script as Fatboyfat_UK had posted above, thats the same "script" that ive been trying to use for years in other games and while it works fine in windows, it wont work in pretty much any game. Specific to Farcry 3 it does not zoom the targeting camera, or the large map.

Like some of the other users here, using a Trackman Stationary thats not got a wheel on it. If i had to guess, id almost think that the problem was related to the mouse driver since some people can seem to get it to work and some cant, could be related to windows 8 as well though. Currently im using "Microsoft PS/2 Mouse" under Win7 x64, and having no luck with the following script:

PgUp::WheelUp
PgDn::WheelDown

[Ratha Wynter]

Ive found a couple of possible solutions for everyone. Good luck with them!

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2014-12-18 - Solution 1 - Installed Better Driver:

Downloaded and Installed Logitech Setpoint SetPoint6.65.62_64.exe from http://support.logitech.com/en_in/product/optical-mouse-ps2

Opened Setpoint software. Clicked to install PS2 driver. Rebooted.

My mouse changed from "Microsoft PS/2 Mouse" to "PS/2 Mouse" and a "Wheel" tab showed up in my mouse settings when one wasn't there before. (This almost seems to be the key element that causes AutoHotKey to allow WheelUp/WheelDown to work in games.)

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2014-12-18 - Solution 2 - Added USB Mouse to System:

I plugged a random USB mouse with scroll wheel into my PC. It installed an "HID-Compliant mouse." Just having this mouse installed created a "Wheel" tab in my mouse settings. As long as this mouse was plugged in, AutoHotKey would pass the WheelUp and WheelDown commands to Far Cry 3. Removing the mouse and restarting FC3 caused the game to no longer recognize the script commands in game, even if they still functioned fine outside of the game.

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Relevant System Information:
Windows 7 x64
Logitech Trackman Stationary PS2 Trackball

AutoHotKey Script:
PgUp::WheelUp
PgDn::WheelDown

[Lushmeadow]

I was having this problem while using In-Home Streaming. Turned out I needed to take that little fact out of the equation. On my livingroom pc I have a wireless keyboard + builtin touchpad, no scroll wheel, so there was no wheel option in my mouse control panel. Plugged in a regular usb mouse with a scroll wheel, restarted FC3 because it doesn't recognize driver installations while in game (learned that when uninstalling/reinstalling mouse/360 controller) and now I'm able to zoom both on the host computer and on the computer it's streaming to. 100% sure that's because my host computer didn't have any wheel options so my streaming pc is sending the scroll commands and my host pc is like wat is scroll?

Anyways, plugged in usb mouse with scroll wheel, fixed zooming problem.

also, I have the trackman trackwheel, wired and wireless versions, both have scroll wheels, just never been plugged into the host pc before :o trackball is win