third person activate

[bobbyskel78]

i've been trying out some third-person mods. it's my umpteenth time playing the game, which i still haven't finished and would like to try a different perspective.

a couple of mods i'm using give the option of the over-the-shoulder view, which i prefer. fighting, spell casting ... all work, minus the ability to activate any object.

the activate icon is showing up, yet far to the bottom of the screen where the activatable object is. i'm thinking this could probably be fixed by tinkering w/ the hud reticle position.

so this is the prob. when the activate icon is visible, it takes a multitude of times, if ever to get the object to activate.

i added a block in the code, which is running in 'game mode'.

if isControlDisabled 5
enableControl5
endif

set myObj to getCrossHairRef
if isActivatable
onControlDown 5
myObj.Activate
endif

well, something like that. deactivated the mod and lost my changes. any who, just not sure why the activate icon is showing up, but the default activate button rarely works.