HELP: How do I invert the mouse wheel zoom axis?

I re-installed War Thunder after many months, and have to re-do all my controls. While I have now figured out and re-set settings to how they were before, I am stuck on one control.

For both Ground and Air, my mouse wheel is set to the zoom axis (which is what I want). However, the default setting for this is scroll up - zoom in and scroll down - zoom out. I want this to be inverted as that is literally how I’ve played this game all the way back since 2016. When I go to the settings for this, I’m unable to actually set the mouse wheel values in the “Increase value”/“Decrease value” fields. When I click on these fields to assign a button, my mouse wheel scrolls in either direction are not recognised. Two images below to show what I mean.

The last image is of the “Zoom in Hangar” setting (in “Common”), where the default “Increase value”/“Decrease value” fields have “M.Wheel Up”/“M.Wheel Down” as I want to do for the Zoom axis setting. How do I replicate that for air and ground zoom axis?

I’m using a Mac and a external Logitech bluetooth mouse (though I doubt this is the problem since I’ve played on the exact same Mac with the exact same mouse before without issues).

Any help would be appreciated!



Easy, hold your mouse upside-down … ^^

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I know you’re joking but I literally played a low tier Air RB game just now doing just that.

Click on increase and scroll up, click on decrease and scroll down. If thats not the way you want it then switch them, click on increase and scroll down, click on decrease and scroll up. It might be written as something different to default, but along as you entered your scroll up/down in the increase/decrease field it should work. You can also set an ‘enable axis’ key, like on Windows ‘control/CTRL’ key enables the zoom function/axis for ‘+’ and ‘-’ keys.

sadly that imput isnt detected an its still an issue a year later

Doesn’t the “invert axis” setting work?

no it only works for buttons not for the scroll wheel

It works for me, i have Zoom axis (Air) set to “CTRL + M.wheel Down” / “CTRL + M.wheel Upp” and checking the “invert axis” does change them around (at least for air).

“M.wheel Down” this part already dosent work
if i want to bind the scroll wheel and “press a button” dialog comes up nothing happens if
i turn the scroll wheel

This works for me as well, it shows up as normal when i bind it, do you perhaps have this setting on:

If yes, then try setting it to “None” and then bind the zoom to the scroll wheel with the key bind option.

nothing happens if i set it to none
it still does not let me rebind the mouse wheel

but if i use that setting it works but there is no way to invert

Could you send a screenshot of how it looks when you try to key bind the “Zoom axis (air)”?

Edit:
Also, try turning off the “Autodetect Axis” at the top to see if that helps.

it also does not change anything tried both off and on
somehow the scoll wheel is not a button nor an axis
its seams to be its own thing only working when a scroll wheel is specified

it also seams to be global effects anything that can be bind to the movent/ Mouse wheel
or the opposite kinda i cant bind the mouse wheel to anything unless i use the setting above


this works but cant be inverted

and this does nothing when the scroll wheel is used

Works without issue for me, so it might be something specific for your setup perhaps.

How does it look when you click the “Assign Button” button?

You say “nothing happens” when you try to assign the scroll wheel, does that mean it takes you back to above screen or quite literally nothing at all?

its like if i would disconnect the mouse or keyboard the assign button screen will just stay on forever waiting for input

Then i would bug report it here (just search a bit first so that you don’t report something that is already reported and known about): (Gaijin.net // Issues)

A guide on how to report bugs can be found here: ([Navigation] Technical Knowledge Base | War Thunder Wiki)

Sadly it’s one of those bugs which doesn’t get Fixed for a Very Long time given they don’t Impact the “main game”
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/z9fkG27OFXkS

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/7eN2FsWpXoCk

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/trW0YhPeX5Mx

Well, one has at least been sent to devs, and it also had a work-around :)
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Yea tried that didn’t work either

Like I can set it yes and it does say mouse wheel
Up and down
But it Still doesn’t move whatever it is supposed to move if the scroll wheel is used

So it’s most likely a bug with the game NOT detecting said mouse imput has buttons and not just a simple Visual glitch