rift-mouselooktoggle

What Does It Do ?

Mouse Look Toggle lets you rotate the camera and turn your character without having to hold down the right mouse button all the time. Besides being more comfortable to play, it frees the mouse buttons to activate skills on your Action Bars.

Features

• Adds Mouse Look Toggle key to switch the Mouse Look feature on and off.
• Adds Interract key to activate things directly in front of your character while Mouse Look is active (much like the E key does in Skyrim)
• Additional Mouse Button key binds to activate skills when Mouse Look is active.
• Additional Mouse Wheel key binds to activate skills when Mouse Look is active.
• Seamless integration (where possible): automatically turns off Mouse Look when opening ingame windows like Auction, Mail, etc.

Controls

The following key binds are set by default in the script.

NOTE : the script tries to recognize when the user is typing in chat and allows the controls above to pass through. Thus you should be able to press TAB in the chat window to expand slash commands (eg. /lau => /laugh) and also enter the letter F in chat and other input areas.

Additional keys triggered by mouse buttons (set these in game to your Action Bars).

If you already use the Numpad keys, you can change these in the .ahk script.

To zoom the camera while Mouse Look is active, use Shift + Mouse Wheel.

Installation

1. Download the archive and extract into the Rift Addons folder. There should be a “MouseLookToggle” folder alongside your other Addons.

2. Download and install Autohotkey (from ahkscript.org, newer version).

3. Double click the MouseLookToggle.ahk file to run the Autohotkey script. A little “H” icon should show up in the tray bar. The Autohotkey script will only work within the active Rift game window. If you exit and restart the game, right click the Autohotkey icon in the tray and select “Reload This Script” to make sure it works properly.

4. Enable the “Mouse Look Toggle” Addon within Rift (this needs to be done only once).

Set up the following options in game:

• Bind Target Next Enemy or Target Nearest Enemy (recommended) to another key than TAB. The TAB key is used to toggle Mouse Look (unless you edit the script). Suggestion: unbind X (“dive”) or V (“look behind”) and bind it to Target Nearest Enemy.

• Bind Select Target of Target to another key than F. Alternatively, edit Interract_Key in the script to e and unbind Strafe Right in the key bindings, for a setup similar to Skyrim. (Strafe Left/Right keys are not necessary with Mouse Look mode).

Hint Type /exportkeybindings in the chat window to save your key configuration, log into another character and then type /importkeybindings (assuming you want to use the same hotkeys across all your characters).

Recommended In Game Settings

• Interface > Misc > Auto-Loot By Default
  Essential, lets you loot creatures with the Interract key without having to toggle Mouse Look!

• Interface > Combat > Target Nearest in Front of Player
  Along with Target Nearest Enemy key bind, this is the easiest mode to switch target in Mouse Look mode.

• Interface > Combat > Smart Target
  Automatically pick a near target when using a skill.

Testing that the Addon works properly

1. Double check that both the Autohotkey script and the ingame Addon are active.
2. Place the mouse cursor over a Mail box or NPC and press the Interract key : the Mail or NPC should activate.
3. Again place the mouse cursor over a Mail box or NPC. Now, without moving the mouse cursor type Enter to start typing in chat and try both the Interract and Mouse Look Toggle keys. Both keys should function as expected in chat (eg. TAB should auto-complete slash commands). The Interract key should NOT activate whatever the mouse is pointing to while typing in chat.

Known Limitations

• Moving the Chat Window (or changing the resolution in Video settings): the Chat window UI is no longer recognized by the script and the Mouse Look / Interract keys won’t work properly in chat. To fix this, restart the Autohotkey script (right click in the tray and select “Reload this script”).
  
  When frequently switching between characters to make it less of hassle you may want to use /exportui and /importui to make sure each of your characters has the Chat Window UI at the exact same location (the horizontal size can change, but not vertical).

• Not all ingame UI are recognized yet. It may not be possible for the Addon to recognize the Rift Store. If you are unable to use the Interract and Mouse Look Toggle keys in some of the unrecognized windows, open one that is recognized such as “Abilities”. When one of the recognized windows is active, the Interract key and Mouse Look Toggle key should work as expected in the input fields.

• The script does not work properly in Fullscreen mode. Use Windowed Fullscreen mode instead, or Windowed.

• Shaders / Filters (like SweetFX): if the shader changes the colours (for example Vignette or Vibrance options) it will prevent the script from working correctly. Anti-aliasing filters like SMAA should work fine.

• The Addon communicates with the Autohotkey script by setting a few pixels in a corner of the game window. These pixels do not appear in screenshots if you hide the UI.

Thanks

Mouse Look Toggle for Rift is inspired by pvpproject’s Combat Mode 1.1 script which provides similar functionality for Guild Wars 2.

F.A.Q

Is it safe to use Autohotkey?

While Autohotkey has many legitimate uses it is also being used to create “bots” in various games, including Rift. A “fishing bot” script apparently made the rounds a couple years ago and it appears that Trion World implemented rather crude detection of the Autohotkey as a result.

Quoting January 9th 2013 Patch Notes: “That said, some folks do innocently use keyboard-assistance software while they’re at their computer.” (…) “for the next week or two, until the bot situation gets back under control, use of this software may intentionally be randomly unreliable, up to causing random disconnects.”

This was in January 2013. A Google search of Autohotkey on the Rift forums doesn’t show up any recent posts relating to bans for legitimate uses of Autohotkey. Obviously if pressed, the developers and customer service are going to say something along the lines that “use of unauthorized third-party software is not allowed”.

If you are still worried about using Autohotkey you can compile the script. Simply look for the ahk2exeprogram in your Autohotkey installation folder, it is very easy to use. This will create a new, completely standalone executable that can be run without Autohotkey.