Mousewheel zoom broke.

[anjenthedog]

So my mousewheel zoom suddenly stopped working. I'm locked into a following view, as if I was zoomed out ~10-15 feet from my player. Everything else works as normal. I can pan around the character, the cameras follows (ie it's not locked in one direction) , mouse buttons stlll work. Anyone know how to interact with mouse settings? It's not evident in my earlier saves nor on a couple of other characters. Something got gummed up and although I've searched and searched for console commands that might alleviate it, I can't find anything. (or have missed something)

 

I realize that I can open an old save and redo everything that got me to that point in the character development, but I leveled up five times in the "outdoors" while never doing a cell transition and would prefer not to have to do it all over. In addition, this happens from time to time, and wiping out hours of game play because the mousewheel goes south is getting rather old. it's not as if the mousewheel seized completely. It sill works in menus just fine. It still works outside the game just fine. Just not for zoom in skyrim for this save.

 

thanks

[anjenthedog]

Update, kissing someone didn't fix it (sometimes does when camera breaks) Mounting and dismounting horse didn't fix it (sometimes works). Sleeping and then waking didn't fix it (also sometimes does). Sitting in chair didn't' fix it (sometimes does).

 

What did fix it is using a forge. So...it appears to have been an intentional disabling event. There's virtual "dead air" when it comes to mousewheel disabling, and I suspect I know why. I read a post somewhere along the lines months ago while perusing the net looking for something else, in which a mod author asked others how to intentionally disable the mouse. At the time, I was only a couple weeks in and although I recall the post (I have an uncanny ability to store "trivial" content but not source in my noggin), I can't cite the post because it was months ago and thousands of web pages ago, and the post was simply one in a thread.

 

Now all I have to do is fix the missing crosshair that the same person disabled (yes the box is checked)

 

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