Does anyone know the console command for "zooming in" a.k.a. Sniper HUD?

It's not one of the commands you can configure in the keyboard controls menu, and I want to bind it to one of the keys on my joystick. I suppose I could always just write an alias to zoom in on one keystroke and then zoom out on the next, but it would be nice to have a key that only zoomed in for the duration it was pressed.

+zoom

Automagically unzooms when released. Just like +Turbo when bound to tab.

thanks!

Note that if you alias it, though, it loses its magicality. I'm not sure what happens if you make an alias starting with +. I think I'll go find out.

It stays zoomed in. Probably.
If you wanna alias it, you're looking for 'set fov 45'(not too sure on the value, but play around)

Actualy the defalt zoom is FOV 5, highest zoom is .0000000001 or just 1, not sure.

For real fun try set fov 90, 120, 150, or 170.... No one can sneak up on you now!

+ just means it exicutes a command on press and release. so
alias +myZoom "set fov 30"
alias -myZoom "set fov 75"
does the same thing as +Zoom (though it might zoom in more or less I don't remember how much +Zoom zooms

Heh, for a second I thought they released an update containing a new HUD layout for "sniper mode" or something. That would be sweet. Although the mouse still jumps around by too many pixels when looking around in zoomed mode. Bah.

roguelazer's post here:

http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/1/3229#68597

has a very nice mouse-wheel scroll zoom, and I believe the control response aliases will make it easier to aim in zoomed mode.

/me grumbles about rog not siting his sources... seeing as that's my alias.

That's a common sense alias. No citing needed for common sense aliases.

Yeah Eldrad, but I improved upon it. And upon the dampers alias.

Both of which work rather well.

How'd you improve on it... it's identical to mine (you can scroll up to compair them if you want). Yes you did improve on the dampers.

I can't believe you two are arguing over four lines of aliases anyone with a basic grasp of how aliasing and binding works could've written in two minutes.

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Can we get back on topic, or should we lock it?

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Sorry, I meant that to be more tounge in cheek than it came across.
(genka you must be talking about a different alias than us)