Map scrolling

[Blitz4]

Every time I open the map I'm scrolling down on my mouse to zoom out. Is there a way to change the default 'scroll/zoom' when viewing the map?

I tried searching for an answer, but it seems the forums are flooded with posts about the sector zoom design when exploring past sector borders. This thread is NOT about that.

[lock]

Look in your menu setting and locate what you want, it should be a default for it.

[Blitz4]

Originally posted by lock:

Look in your menu setting and locate what you want, it should be a default for it.

Great! Which setting? I don't see one.

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I didn't see a way to do that. There are bindings to set "Sector View" and "Zone View," so you can set keys/buttons for one tightly zoomed setting and one strategic zoom setting. I don't see an alternative to the mouse wheel for fine grain zoom control.

[Blitz4]

Originally posted by ...:

I didn't see a way to do that. There are bindings to set "Sector View" and "Zone View," so you can set keys/buttons for one tightly zoomed setting and one strategic zoom setting. I don't see an alternative to the mouse wheel for fine grain zoom control.

Thanks. Didn't see those there. I would rename "Sector View" because it's too zoomed it to justify it's name. Maybe call it "Visible View" as it seems to only zoom to what you can see around your ship, but even then that's incorrect as I have to zoom out to see everything in radar range - and I also have to center my ship to the right as the ship is centered to the center of the screen and obscured by the non-transparent menu on the left.

Other keybinds:
"Holomap zoom in" and "Holomap zoom out" which is for the default mouse scroll down/num- keys to 'zoom out' of the map.

You definitely helped me. What I found works right now:
Opening Map, then zooming out will take 1.5 seconds to get the Sector View (the entire sector is visible and nothing else). Or it takes 0.5 seconds if you scroll down with two long & rapid scrolls.

Opening Map, then pressing "Zone View", then zooming in will take longer than scrolling to get Sector View as you can't interrupt the slow 'zoom out' animation after hitting "Zone View".

I was going to create a macro using AutoHotkey to simulate a Sector View, but I think it'll be a better experience to increase the scroll wheel speed on my mouse just when playing X4. Good find!

edit:
That's not going to work. The game reads the raw scroll wheel data, thus I would need to edit my driver.

I would like:
* to be able to choose my mouse scroll wheel speed
* to have the center of the map zoom in/out centered in the horizontal visible region of the map (the area not obstructed by the menu in the map)
* to have a new keybind added that is called "Visible View" and shows the area you have visible on the map, more than what is visible in the current "Sector View"
* to have Sector View to show the entire sector
* to have Sector View, Zone View, and "Visible View" to open the map in that view mode automatically, instead of having to open the map, hit Zone View and wait 0.5 seconds