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

I didn't suggest to turn it on its back..

 

My mouse does not like being put on its back, it shines a really bright light straight into my eye in revenge. I like the idea of pressing the RMB to initiate the cursor so it shows up on screen though. I'm the same as OP I have what I need and have no need for a cursor to pop up without invitation.

 

On my system I always have chat apps open in the background, and when there is a group notification or something that app would try to become the activated/front app for a second. There are other apps that does similar things such as the Windows notifications. When this happens in AC the mouse cursor will appear and it is a bit annoying. After I switch to VR the cursor is now a big yellow circle which is even more annoying than before. I would definitely like to see some manual way to hide the cursor.

 

Im curious how you use your mouse when it is upside down in the middle of driving and you want to open a different app on screen, make adjustments to an existing app, or use the pit menu for instance.

Your suggestion is terribly impractical and nothing more than a bandaid fix when there exists far more elegant options.

Just because someone suggests a very small quality of life feature doesnt mean you need to play super mega defense and shoot it down instantly.

 

I can't add much to what has been said already, except that I do vote for fixing the mouse cursor once and for all. The way it is right now is quite annoying.

 

A movement threshold would be the best way. I really woulnd't like having to flip my mouse. First because annoying red light all over my room, second because it would easily fall from the desk. If Stefano think this isn't worth his time, then let him decide that. He doesn't need his minions to decide it for him.

 

Can you show me where I said to put it on its back??

Super mega defence??

Come on man.

My thoughts on it were surely there must be a way to set up his desk/mouse so it doesn't get moved around, perhaps buy an extra piece for his setup or make a separate place for his mouse or many other solutions that are possible..

 

E.g. a software solution that will then work for thousands customers. It has to be done just once by developers (and is probably a pretty simple feature to implement, heck, we don't even need a GUI setting for it, some mouse_hider.ini entry will be good enough) as opposed to everyone individually coming up with different ways to isolate the mouse from the wheel vibrations.

 

Well it doesn´t matter how you put it, it´s just that most mice have automatic brightness control and will shine very bright if reflected light is not detected which can then reduce lifetime of LED or laser light (unnecessarily).

+1 to original poster, wanted to suggest the same thing myself, if it doesn´t take too much time for the Lord (he´s following PCars2 thread ATM, if you did´t notice ;-) ).

 

Yeah I know how a mouse works.
Now show me where I said to put the mouse in any position other than it's correct orientation.

Isolate your mouse from the vibration does not mean turn it on its back, it means do what thousands of other sim racers do and set your gaming area up in such a way that your equipment doesn't interfere with each other, it's a pretty obvious thing to do.

Like I said in my third post though, more options are never a bad thing, espically for the retards that can't seem to set up their play area properly.

 

I don't think that people who have their mouse on the same table as their wheel are necessarily retards, otherwise we'd have a lot of retards out there (myself included). And even people that do have their special cockpits are not very likely to create their own little tables just for their mouses simply because AC will make the cursor appear every seconds.
Each to their opinion, but I'd say it's more a (likely easy to fix) fault of the software than a fault of all the retards like myself that didn't make their desks and rigs in a way that avoids this.

 

Hmm I thought I was going insane, based on responses I first got. Nice that some agree too.

Movement threshold inside .ini file would be lot better and simpler, than the suggestion on topic title. Of course this doesn't concern people who have racing rigs and maybe weakest wheels (not sure if I had this problem with G27? Been a while since I had that). I will never be able to get racing cockpit anyway, as long as I live in this apartment. My PC is not dedicated to sim racing. Perhaps different kind of mouse mat (soft/dampening) would do the trick? I have good quality Corsair gaming mouse pad I quite like (for FPS gaming) but it's of hard material, which doesn't really absorb vibrations any more than table itself

I guess I could try gluing some soft materials in the bottom of it, although it's 2-sided (other one for faster mouse movement). Probably will if there won't be other fix

 

Ah there you go. Just get a new desk or sim rig. There' your practical solution.