Small wish: Add "press RMB to show/hide" into mouse_hider.ini

Because RMB isn't used in AC much (or at all?) at least not in this situation.

And because FFB shakes my desk, bringing up the mouse cursor all the time It's small thing, but would be nice to have this option. Or if some modder can do it somehow?

Usually the mouse cursor is useless anyway, because I always use same apps since forever now. If driving is stopped I press just ESC --> Exit to pits/Exit game or Ctrl+O to restart the offline race. Rarely I have need to change my apps during driving, but the cursor keeps popping up.

Could this be .ini option in mouse_hider.ini?

[SETTINGS]
MOUSE_RMB_HIDESHOW=1 (0 by default)

Something like this maybe? Which would just override normal mouse hider. And in the pit menu and ESC menu cursor would always be shown. Then remember last setting, during driving. I've tried every possible mouse_hider.ini setting and I can't make it so, that cursor wouldn't pop up by FFB shaking the desk/mouse.

Edit: Or simply threshold value for minimal mouse movement, that would show cursor

EDIT 2: User Schnipp discovered solution to this! There seems to be keybind to show/hide mouse which is ctrl+F8. So you can rebind this into your mouse for example, with 3rd party mouse software. I don't know if this feature has been recently added, but I never knew about it. Assuming many others don't either. Too bad the thread got locked so many won't see this, but anyway solved my issue... I just rebind it into mouse middle button.

 

Rotate your mouse on the back. Problem solved, without losing time of devs worth more than you paid for the game xD

 

Unpractical. With triple screen it's just faster to move it to the furthest left/right edge of my displays. But you know what, that's unpractical too. Also this seems fairly small request, what you said could be said about any community wishes/suggestions/feedback about any game. But ok

Also might be more complicated to do than it sounds (which I'm 100% fine with), but that's up to devs to decide. Not you. Self proclaimed forum police / "stop pestering devs with your constructive ideas, look at me Dev i'm cooler than this guy cos I'm not asking anything" people make my head hurt

 

Fliping your mouse which takes about half a second is unpractical? This solutions have no flaws! Damn, it have compatibility with every sim on the market. I just can't understand how it is more practical for you to waste hour or maybe more with testing of dev work time for such minor feature, when they could work at for example to implement brake temps to more cars.

 

It is way faster to just quickly shove my mouse to the side, so cursor doesn't pop up in my direct vision and distract the eye while driving. What I've been doing past 3 years, and (very mildly) annoyed by it every time. Sure, if it would require lots of dev time, then it wouldn't be worth it. Again, I have no clue how hard this would be to implement, (nor you). To common man it sounds like few lines of code, recognize RMB keypress as trigger for hide/show, instead of timers, like now.

Also currently I play AMS, Dirt Rally, R3E and ETS, none of them have this issue. Cos they don't have overlay app system (which is a great, and quite unique thing), so why would they have mouse cursor popping up in driving view.

 

it was inevitable someone would say turn it on its back, i almost did!!
Op could set up his rig in such a way that his mouse is isolated from the vibrations you've had 3 years to come up with a solution..

 

Are you really annoyed that you have to move your cursor to the side? Think how annoyed must be @Lord Kunos when he read, that someone want him spend time because user is tired of moving mouse to the side once when he start driving. I really understand why Stefano sometimes gets angry on simracers.

 

I don't have space for simrigs, I race with my work desk. Pretty expensive/good desk, which is mainly for work use. However not sturdy enough to prevent T500 from vibrating it. Lowering DPI to minimal prevents it, but not very practical... timers in mouse_hider.ini aren't helping, you can speed up the vanishing of the cursor, but not increase movement threshold for it. (Having threshold minimal movement value would also do the job)

Also, it completely depends on how much work this would be.... improvements (or how reasonable they are) are not measured by the size of improvement, but work-improvement ratio.

 

A movement threshold before it appears would make much more sense.

 

Yeah it would, I thought SHOW_INTERVAL does that, but it doesn't

 

Again, just flip it over, coursor won't move a single time. I am doing this, trust me.

 

So there's no possible way whatsoever that you yourself could come up with a way to isolate your mouse from vibrations? How do others that use a desk manage?
Not trying to belittle your idea but it seems it'd be simple enough to solve that problem on your own end without having kunos code it into the game..

 

I have no clue.. but I've seen others complain about before this, not in this thread though. In a thread about mouse_hider.ini settings. It's a small thing, but I don't get annoyed/complain that easily and yeah it bothers me slightly tbh... I rarely even suggest any features on these forums, posted over 1600 messages and ones containing complaining/wishes are extremely rare, cos I hate negativity and the usual "the angry videogame nerd" type of rants (if you seen that from Conan O' Brien show). Usually I avoid wishlisting, especially cars/tracks type stuff. For example when some complain that some new car color isn't 100% right, or some dashboard knob has too low polygons (saw that one somewhere) I think ok who tf cares... or when people were complaining about the new HUD nametags, so many things where I just shake my head about things people complain about/pay attention to.

I really thought this would be good/cost effective idea, that some others with shaky desks have thought of too, but I guess it isn't then...

 

Na man your idea is good, can see how it would be a pain. My replys were just initial reaction posts.. More options is never a bad thing..(unless it's pcars ffb, scoop knee anyone!!)

 

I don't understand why you guys get so upset by someone asking for a simple feature to be implemented. I would like to have it too because you're required to use the mouse with this game and having the cursor popping up into your face while racing is distracting. Yes, you can flip it over, but having a game option helping with that would be nice.

 

No one is upset man, you say it's simple to add this feature but it's also simple to set your mouse up so it doesn't get moved by vibrations..
Nothing upset in that!!

 

And yet you tagged him to make sure he will waste even more of his time (according to you) by checking why he was tagged? I'm pretty sure he is annoyed for people tagging him for such a bs reasons like yours.

 

Yep, my bad, I'm sorry.

 

Look guys, only reason I asked this is cos I thought it (might) be pretty easy to add. Not because it's super relevant, just nice to have when hotlapping, testing setups, restarting a lot for some other reason. In long race it's no big deal to flip/move your mouse

For example I would see much more useful the ability to switch AI aggression/level without leaving the track/offline session (like you can do in AMS). So you could adjust it, without having to reload all assets (cars/tracks/skins). But it sounds like more complex to add, because it doesn't really fit anywhere in current on-track UI. So that is why I've never asked for it

 

Also when you flip your mouse it might become prone to falling down from the table. Especially if you're using one of those rigs which usually have a rather small table for the mouse to sit on. My mouse's back is smooth, so it will likely slide off the table in a long race.