Unreal Tournament: Mouse buttons

chrismortimore · Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 6:40 pm Post subject: Unreal Tournament: Mouse buttons

Using unreal-tournament-451

I can map mouse buttons 1, 2 and 3 and the mouse wheel, but not the side buttons on the mouse. The side buttons do work (they work in firefox, Halflife (under wine) and in UT2004). Has anyone got a way round this?

Cheers.
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RushPL · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 7:39 am Post subject:

Firstly my friend, do not use 451, because it just sucks. The CPU usage goes up on this patch as hell. 436 is quite good. There is also an unofficial binary release for 436 from Ryan Gordon, it has a splash screen fixed, various gameplay smoothness fixes(at lease from what I've observed) and the most important fix - Redirect downloads fix. I'll upload this binary later when I get home.

About the buttons, I have used this tool -> http://www.bedroomlan.org/~alexios/coding_evrouter.html to enforce various key events on my mouse events, for example my extra button in Logitech G1 triggers the End button and thus switches my weapon to a best weapon.

Remember that you have to have your event interface turned on. I also think that it might be possible to hack into libSDL and do this a hard way.

chrismortimore · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 8:25 am Post subject:

Cheers, I'll give the tool a go.

I don't see any performance differences between 451 and 436. On both I get ~60fps on 1920x1200 at 32bit colour with everything set to High (I was quite impressed, given how useless the FX5200Go is). Gameplay is completely smooth on both. The only problem I've had (which is in both 436 and 451) is the tournament match selection thing doesn't scale up to 1920x1200, but that is purely cosmetic. Oh, and the "FindPath()" function in /opt/unreal-tournament/ut doesn't actually do anything so I have to set UT_DATA_PATH manually, but that is nothing to do with patch sets. And FindPath() doesn't work in any game I've installed that uses it.
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sulu · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 11:57 am Post subject:

RushPL

Could you post your config-file for evrouter. This would be rather handy.

I would like to use those side-buttons on my Logithec <whatsoever> mouse for up/down steering of raptors and the like.
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chrismortimore · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 12:53 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I couldn't get evrouter to actually change the events to work with UT (or xev). I decided that xmodmap does enough for me though, because I don't use my mouse wheel ingame, so remap the buttons so the side buttons send mouse wheel events. Wrote a lil' script that does it for me when I run UT now

@sulu: Going by "raptors" I guess you are using UT2004? The side buttons map for UT2004 for me. Sadly my laptop can't run UT2004 that well, and my desktop is far far away, thus I'm settling for the original...

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sulu · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 1:42 pm Post subject:

chrismortimore

chrismortimore · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 2:19 pm Post subject:

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chrismortimore · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject:

RushPL · Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 11:13 pm Post subject:

~/.evrouterrc