Rebind middle click (mouse3) to Point-to

[Davidchan]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): Rebind middle click (mouse3) to Point-to, middle click over an object and you will automatically point at it, causing the red arrow to bounce up and down the tile and the chatbox to read out (Your-name) points to (highlighted object)

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): Currently middle click switches active hands. 'PageUp' and 'X' both do this anyway for people who play in hotkey mode, so switching to point-to (what ever the mouse is highlighting) would allow marines to quickly point out objects without waiting for byond to load up the menu to point to objects, something that can often crash dream seeker if you right click a tile with more than 5 things on it.

Because 'switch-hands' is hardcoded to middle click, it's impossible to macro over this.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): Marines will quickly be able to point out Xenos to their comrades, facehuggers, dead bodies, objects of interest or be able to order marines to stand or cover specific areas without going through the laggy byond interface. Xenos too would get some benefit out of this, though they don't do a whole lot of pointing so it wouldn't be much of a change to them.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): Changing the default keybinds, 1 line of code. I believe 'point-to (selected object)' is the exact command used, Paradise has this feature and it's a god send for quickly bringing things to people's attention when they aren't watching the chatbox.

[ErikHanson]

You can change your own skin file to do this, as far as i'm aware.

[Davidchan]

Everytime I tried on baycode it never works

[apophis775]

Or use shift-click?

[forwardslashN]

You can't bind mouse buttons via macros. Would be useful, I guess, but xenos use middle click for their abilities. Also, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't work even if you were able to bind it, since it would ask you for a list of targets or something.

[qsleepy]

I think they have it middle click point on paradise so I dont think it asks for a list of shit.

[Davidchan]

Or use shift-click?

Shift click is examine, not point-to.

As for paradise, what ever the mouse is hovering over gets pointed to. Aka in the lower part of the screen is has the name of what ever your mouse is presently over, thats what gets pointed at. No menu, nothing needs to load, just goes right to point.

[Edgelord]

Or use shift-click?

I quite like shift click as quick-examine. It makes life a lot easier when I'm trying to quickly see what a marine is carrying or how injured a xeno is.

+1 so marines can use mid mouse for something.

[monkeysfist101]

+1 It was odd moving to a server without it. It would be nice for muscle memory's sake.

[DerpinMcDerpDerp]

How is pouncing with middle mouse button going to work if it's for pointing at stuff?

[Steelpoint]

I prefer using the middle mouse button to pounce and throw huggers.

[Egorkor]

Shift click is examine, not point-to.

As for paradise, what ever the mouse is hovering over gets pointed to. Aka in the lower part of the screen is has the name of what ever your mouse is presently over, thats what gets pointed at. No menu, nothing needs to load, just goes right to point.

it is the same too, hover a mouse over something, have its name in the lower left part of the screen under the chatbar.
as for aliens, aliens can use shiftclick for their abilities, and afaik ctrl-click is point-at now. if not, why not hardcode that in?

neutral on the suggestion overall, since my mouse is old, there's no difference for me between the RMB-point-at or MMB-point-at.

[forwardslashN]

+1
Changing middle click for marines/humans to be a point to would be fine.
Ctrl+click is to pull something/someone. Shift+click is examine. Alt+click is to search tile. I would rather not see that changed.

[Davidchan]

How is pouncing with middle mouse button going to work if it's for pointing at stuff?

I prefer using the middle mouse button to pounce and throw huggers.

Those abilities have special code and middle and shift click can both activated or disabled in the aliens tab. It overrides the default switch hands for middle click. It would change nothing for xenos if this was done properly, as the middle and shift click for abilities would override the defaults.

[DerpinMcDerpDerp]

Those abilities have special code and middle and shift click can both activated or disabled in the aliens tab. It overrides the default switch hands for middle click. It would change nothing for xenos if this was done properly, as the middle and shift click for abilities would override the defaults.

Then you have my big fat 1+

[Kerek]

there are several classes that use mouse 3 for spitting. i dont think it could be done effectively imo. -1

[Wubs4Scrubs]

-1

You can already do this easily with a gaming mouse. For example my logitech mouse has software that let's me set up profiles with their own macros. If I set up a profile I could set mouse 3 to like . or something so every time I hit mouse 3 it would hit . and then if you go into the byond macros and set up a macro for . as the key wha-la, you have a mouse 3 macro. I think most gaming mouses come with software like this if you're really interested.

[UnknownMurder]

I use middle click to swap active hand. I can't find a better reason to why pointing fingers is better than swapping active hand.

[phil235]

Implemented. Shift+MiddleClick to point to something.