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Keyboard shortcuts equating to a "phantom" click in space
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E man Industries
SeaChell Productions
#1 - 2012-01-17 16:22:50 UTC
Can a key equate to having the client click in space at a set distance from your ship?

Unsure how to prgram this but....

So pressing a directional arrow would do the equivilant of clicking in space a set amount above, below or beside your ship. The amout to the side hitting the side arrow key clicks may be setable and able to equate to some deg directional change. This would enable pilots to use directional comands to pilot there ship.....though clicking is a better option.
A press of the up arrow should angle your ship up a set amount. All directions are based on current direction of travel.


Example: when the camera is Xm behind the ship a click 5m from the ship would equate to a 10deg direction change. If pressing the -> key achieved the same result it would mean each -> click would turn your ship 10deg. I don't know what x is but sure some smart CCP dev can figure that out. Maybe even a slider to choose how far away the effective click is when i push -> so in an inty i could crank that up.

Using these phantom clicks it may be possible to use directional control? Can CCP have it so a key press equates to a click in space?
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Shovel Bros
#2 - 2012-01-17 16:30:15 UTC
I don't think it'd be against the EULA, but don't expect CCP to work on it. It should be possible to write a program that will send a 'click' from x pixels offset from the center of your screen whenever you press a certain key. As long as it's one command per key press, I don't think you'd be running into issues of being considered macroing.

If you want to write such a program, go for it. But PLEASE don't try to make CCP waste development time on a system that about 0.01% of users would actually use. It's just not something that would add any benefit to Eve at all (besides saving you from moving your mouse and clicking again to change directions).