change key and mouse bindings?

[rtayek]

hi, is there any way to use the mouse to control movement? i find the wasd keys sort of a hassle to use and my wife's fingernails make it hard for her to learn to play.

thanks

[PresentTense]

While many of the controls are customizable, this isn't something you can change. I'm not even really sure how this would work - picking the mouse up repeatedly to push it forward again? That would probably be unplayable, as all your movements would be slow and jerky. However, I'm sure if you buy one of those fancy controller-to-PC peripherals, you'll have some options other than keys to move.

[Philibusta]

If you or your wife find it easier to play console-based games, this should help:

Buy yourself (if you don't already have one) an Xbox controller. They plug direct into a USB port on most PCs and you can keybind (err...button-bind?) them to play DDO. With that (and a headset for voice chat so you don't have to switch between controller and keyboard) you're good to go.

[Backley]

I just set my forward and back thumb buttons on the mouse to W and S in my mouse settings program. I also set a button on my mouse to T to toggle mouselook on/off.

[BossOfEarth]

I have forward/back set to my mouse thumb buttons and jump to scroll wheel click. Works great for keyboardless movement.

[donfilibuster]

The gamepad is nice, but if you really must have a mouse there's some gaming mouses with extra buttons that help with this.
My search-fu on mouses isn't good since i use a pad but u might be able to look that up.

[Rinnaldo]

hi, is there any way to use the mouse to control movement? i find the wasd keys sort of a hassle to use and my wife's fingernails make it hard for her to learn to play.

thanks

Yes, there is. Simply hit the button for auto-run (default is R), and then use the mouse to control the direction. You can hold down the right mouse button for mouse look so you can steer, etc.

[silvermesh]

yeah you can pretty much do anything you might want to do with the control settings in DDO, the problem with setting up the mouse to be able to be used for movement is whats been stated. unless you have a couple extra buttons it makes it tricky to get everything on there you really need. my old mouse had "forward" and "back" browser buttons on the side that i had set to move forward and the noncombat interact(E). my new mouse has more buttons but they dont seem to work in games due to the way theyre handled by the software. switched to my off brand wired PS3 controller when my keyboard broke one day and I honestly haven't looked back. gamepads work extremely well with DDO.