trouble remapping the pipette tool ("Q")

[Diarrhea Jones]

If it matters, last time I played, it was modded (space and K2) and a different mouse.

I really lean on the pipette tool to sample a square (road, power pole etc) to pick up for placement, and I really recall this being mapped to one of my many extra buttons on my logitech hero mouse.

Just bought space age, sit down to play, and non of the buttons on this mouse are pipette. Fine, I'll map it. Not fine, because it doesn't behave properly!

"Q" works fine, both samples a block, and clears the sampled block (default key for both actions). If map a secondary key to to those actions behind "Q" (in my case, "Mouse 5"), it does not consistently sample or clear. It's like the two actions are fighting against eachother, which I could understand since they are in a sense opposites, but then why does it work flawlessly for the "Q" key?

Can someone help me understand what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!

[Morsk]

I have both Pipette Tool and Clear Cursor on Caps Lock and it works.

Maybe you have other things on Mouse 5. I heard it was changed to do "forward" and "back" in some interfaces. Try searching for those.

[Evilslug]

You can use the search function at the top right of the controls menu to see if you've accidentally bound your mouse5 to something that would conflict with the two Q bindings.

If your mouse itself is the problem and the button is not registering with the game correctly, you can likely make a profile for it in your mouse software to change mouse5 input to the C key or something while playing this game.

[Diarrhea Jones]

Originally posted by Morsk:

I have both Pipette Tool and Clear Cursor on Caps Lock and it works.

Maybe you have other things on Mouse 5. I heard it was changed to do "forward" and "back" in some interfaces. Try searching for those.

You are correct, I should have mentioned it was also set to "Forward", which I cleared and didn't seem to help, even after a restart.

I think it has something to do with the "press" / "release" action on a mouse button (vs keyboard which works perfectly), because when I press it, it seems to "grab" the item, but then releasing clears it, I might try a different mouse button to clear and hopefully I can retrain my brain to use it.