Again about an optical zoom in SH3.

[Anvart]

At a forum many people wrote about an optical zoom in SH3 and about zoom mods.
I wish to write my opinion on it.
In file cameras.dat we have parameters Optical --> MinZoom = 1, Optical --> MaxZoom = 10 and ZoomLevels.
1) MinZoom and MaxZoom parameters declare an opportunity of change optical Zoom in game from 1 up to 10.
2) ZoomLevels declares fixed zoom values for different optical objects (it's switched by key "Tab"),
for example, Periscope has ZoomLevels: 1-st = 1.5 and 2-d = 6.0, but you can change these values, for example, 1.5 - 6.0 - 10.0, and it will be mod.
But I recommend to apply a method, which I use very much for a long time (~1.5 years). It is a simple native method not demanding application any mods. You need to appoint mouse wheel to the certain command in Commands_xx.cfg file:

[Cmd70]
Name=Cam_zoom_in
Ctxt=1
Key0=0x05,cR,"CTRL+M.wheel"

Now you can to change zoom from 1 up to 10 by "Mouse Wheel + Ctrl key" for all optical objects.
I do not want to release the mod for this change... therefore copy the highlighted text to your Commands_xx.cfg file.
Dev team has not made the interface for control keys changing,
therefore we are compelled to edit a key file (Commands_xx.cfg).

Best regards.
Anvart
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