EVE Online Zoom Gripe July 19, 2007
Posted by Wilhelm2451 in EVE Online.trackback
Can somebody explain to me why, in EVE Online, zooming in and out when using the scroll wheel is inverted from every other application I use?
No, really. This is one of the little quirks of the game that actually annoys me.
I seem to recall that Planetside had this same little quirk at one point. Is this a science fiction game feature?
Anyway, if you know how to fix this in EVE, let me know.
Fascinating, I never noticed. I’ve played some games where mouselook is the opposite of what I expect…I try to look down and my character looks up…but there’s always an option to invert the mouse.
I looked through the settings and .ini files, but didn’t see an option to invert scroll behavior.
Thats a good point and something thats kind of bothered me too. Its a subtle effect but it makes me feel less ship-centric.
Totally immersion breaking. ;)
But seriously, post it if you get a fix.
Icelanders….jeesh
Seems to work proper to me… If i want to zoom out i roll the wheel away from me and if i want it to zoom in i roll the wheel towards me. How is that backwards? I think it works great and to flip it your way would be a bit bizarre.
Well, as I said above, every single other application I try, graphics, games, or what not, does it the other way.
But to take your example, we’re viewing from the camera, so rolling the wheel towards you should pull the camera back. That seems to be the logic everybody else is following.
I should dig out the Microsoft UI guide, because I would bet that the recommended zoom control convention is the opposite of what CCP is doing.
“Seems to work proper to me… If i want to zoom out i roll the wheel away from me and if i want it to zoom in i roll the wheel towards me. How is that backwards?”
It’s backwards from every single other game I’ve ever played.
I played lots of flight sims so I always invert the mouse so back is up and forward is down. I always invert the mouse – but my friends who’ve never played flight sims don’t. Pushing the wheel forward to zoom in goes along with this, as pulling the wheel back to zoom out. Plus the idea of scrolling “forward” equals zooming “in” since you move forward. Scrolling “back” would move the camera back, i.e. zoom out.
I guess you’re thinking of moving the actual entire environment, not just moving the camera. So moving the wheel back means you’re pulling the scene closer to you.
But usually the paradigm is that of a camera, to the point games even use the word “camera” in the settings.
It’s YOU who are the oddball! All you backward zoomers! :)
I’m so used to the zooming in EVE that it’s all the games that feel awkward to me – not EVE! Would be nice though to be able to switch between the two. CCP, you listening?
It doesn’t really bother me either way. The inverted scrolling feels normal in EVE and non-invertedness feels normal in any other game. The only time it felt a bit awkward was when I started playing again last week. It only took me about 5 seconds to get used to it again and then I was fine.
Hah, I feel vindicated! Somebody else decided that this was worth a post!