Mouse

Map: drag to move the map, click a spot to select the icon there or set a waypoint, wheel to zoom.

Garage and design editor: drag on empty space to turn the camera, wheel to zoom. In *Design editor → Edit layer*, W A S D move the layer (and size, spin or skew it on those tabs).

Photo mode: left drag to turn the camera, W A S D to move it, Q / E down / up, wheel to zoom, right click to exit.

The cursor hides by itself a few seconds after you stop moving the mouse, and comes back when you move it.

Installing

You need Azimuth and the FH2 Mod Platform, which every platform mod ships. Extract the release zip into your Azimuth folder (the one with azimuth.exe), so you end up with:

The zip ships the platform as DWrite.dll only, since Azimuth 1.0.3 no longer loads d3dcompiler_47.dll. If you have a d3dcompiler_47.dll from an older mod, it can stay; it's simply not used.

[!IMPORTANT]

FH2Mouse.dll goes in the `fh2-mods` folder, the FH2 Mod Platform's. Don't put it in `mods`: that folder belongs to Extra Options and holds its plugins, and the mod won't load from there.

Start the game and move the mouse. The first launch creates FH2Mouse\FH2Mouse.ini next to azimuth.exe.

To remove it, delete fh2-mods\FH2Mouse.dll and the FH2Mouse folder.

Settings

FH2Mouse\FH2Mouse.ini (read when the game starts):

| Setting | Default | Meaning |

|---|---|---|

| Enabled | 1 | 0 turns the mod off |

| HoverSelects | 1 | Moving over something selects it. With 0, only clicks do |

| HideAfterSeconds | 3 | Hide the cursor after this long without moving the mouse (0 = never) |

| Debug | 0 | Log what's under the cursor and every click to fh2-mods\platform.log |

Known limits

•"Ⓨ Change time" in the pause menu comes from the *Extra Options – Weather Control* plugin, which reads the controller directly, so clicking it does nothing. Give the plugin a keyboard key (ChangeTimeKeyboard in its EO_WeatherControl.ini) to change the time without a controller.

•The design editor's *Advanced camera* (right stick click) can't be held with the mouse.

•Only the 24 November 2015 build of the game that everyone plays is supported. On anything else the mod checks the game's code, finds it different, and stays off (it says so in platform.log).

When something doesn't work

Look in fh2-mods\platform.log for the lines starting with [FH2Mouse]. If something's wrong, set Debug=1 in the ini, reproduce it, and attach the log to an issue, together with which screen you were on.

How it works

The game's UI library still contains a mouse system, but the Xbox build never feeds it and its hit testing finds nothing. FH2Mouse finds the control under the cursor itself, from the menus' visual tree (including the 9° perspective tilt most menus are drawn with), moves the focus there, and sends the same key presses the controller sends. Pages then behave exactly as they would with a pad. The map, the garage and photo mode cameras, and the decal editor read their inputs through a few small hooks, all made through the platform. Every hook checks the game's code first and is skipped if it isn't as expected.

Building

FH2Mouse builds with llvm-mingw and CMake, with the platform as a git submodule:

This gives build/FH2Mouse.dll, and the platform as `bui