v1.4.2 Fly Drone with Keyboard & Mouse

Fly ANNA Drone Mode with the keyboard and mouse

With ANNA Drone Mode 1.1.0 or later installed, you can fly its drone without a controller:

Keyboard / mouse	Does
Move the mouse	Look around
W A S D	Fly
Q / E	Down / up
Left Shift (hold)	Faster
Mouse wheel	Zoom
R	Back to the car
F or left click	Look at the car
Tab	Hide / show the help
, / .	Previous / next radio station
Esc or right click	Leave the drone

• While you play with the keyboard, the drone's help bar shows your keys and the mouse instead of the controller's buttons. Press a button on the controller and its buttons come back.
• While the drone flies, only these keys and the radio keys work, so they can share keys with driving and the menus. Leaving with Esc doesn't pause the game.
• Every drone key can be changed in Pause > Settings > Keyboard & Mouse, in the new "Drone:" rows. They show only when Drone Mode is installed. The AZERTY preset puts them on Z Q S D.
• The mouse turns the drone at the speed set by "Mouse free look sensitivity".

Installing

Extract the zip into your Azimuth folder, as before. For the drone, also update ANNA Drone Mode to 1.1.0.

v1.4.1

A fix release: the keyboard now works on the screens that used to ignore it.

Fixed

• The race's start screen: the arrow keys now move up and down its menu, just like the controller's D-pad. Before, the screen didn't react to the keys at all.
• Race results: the keys now work as menu keys on the results screen instead of driving keys, so Enter, Esc and the arrows do what the screen's help bar says.
• After restarting or replaying a race: the keys keep working. The game swaps its input over when you restart or replay, and the keys used to get stuck on the old one.
• Screens that check how long a button is held now see the keys the same way as a controller's buttons.

Download

Extract FH2Mouse-v1.4.1.zip into your Azimuth folder (the one with azimuth.exe), replacing the old files. Your keys and settings in FH2Mouse\FH2Mouse.ini are kept.

Using FH2 ANNA? Update it too once its next release is out: it stops taking D-pad down (and C) on the race's start screen, so that screen gets those presses instead of ANNA.

v1.4.0 All Language Translation

In your language

The Keyboard & Mouse page, its tile on the Settings page and the mod's description now follow the game's language. It's translated into Brazilian Portuguese, German, French, Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Polish, Russian and Dutch. Czech and Hungarian stay in English, as the game's own text does there.

• The page's rows come up in the language the game was in the last time you played, so the first launch after you switch languages still shows the old one. The next launch catches up.
• Key names (Space, LShift, PageUp...) stay as they are: they're what the ini stores.

ANNA keys

With ANNA installed, you can use ANNA from the keyboard while driving:

Key	Action
C	Open / close ANNA
I / K	Up / down
J	Back
L	Choose

• C is ANNA's whenever you drive. I, J, K and L are only ANNA's while its menu is open, so a driving key on one of them still works the rest of the time.
• ANNA's own buttons on the HUD show your keys instead of the controller's while you play with the keyboard.
• The keys have their own rows on Pause > Settings > Keyboard & Mouse, which only show when FH2 ANNA is installed.

Changed

• Change camera is now V by default (it was C), so C can open ANNA, as in Forza Horizon 3.

Upgrading

Extract the release zip into your Azimuth folder, as before. Your keys and settings carry over.

If you use FH2 ANNA: your FH2Mouse\FH2Mouse.ini still has Camera=C from the earlier version, so C would both change the camera and open ANNA. To fix it, set Change camera to V on the Keyboard & Mouse page, or change Camera=C to Camera=V in the ini.

v1.3.0 Keyboard & Mouse settings page

Keyboard & Mouse settings page

The keyboard and mouse settings now have their own page: Pause > Settings > Keyboard & Mouse, the new tile next to Controls. The Controls tile is now a square to make room for it.

• Everything that was on the MODS page is here now, and no longer on MODS or MODS > Installed mods.
• Rows are now named after the action ("Gas", "Steer left") instead of "Key: Gas".
• New mouse settings on the page:
  • Mouse hover selects: pointing at a button, row or slider selects it.
  • Mouse free look: while driving, moving the mouse looks around.
  • Mouse free look sensitivity: 0 to 100. 50 is the usual speed, 100 turns twice as fast, 0 doesn't turn.

Keyboard presets

A new Keyboard preset row sets every key at once. The rows below it change while the page is open.

Preset	Drive	Steer	Shift up / down	Clutch
WASD drive	W / S	A / D	E / Q	Left Shift
WS drive, arrow steer (the default)	W / S	Left / Right	A / Z	Left Alt
Arrow drive	Up / Down	Left / Right	E / Q	Left Shift
AZERTY	Z / S	Q / D	E / A	Left Shift
QWERTZ	W / S	A / D	E / Q	Left Shift

Changing a key yourself makes the row say Custom. In the WASD, Arrow, AZERTY and QWERTZ presets, the horn (HonkHonk) moves to H. AZERTY and QWERTZ also move the menu keys that a QWERTY layout puts on Z, Y or W.

Extra Options keys

With Extra Options installed, there are four new driving keys:

Key	Action
[	Left indicator
]	Right indicator
G	Hazard lights
L	Headlights

Each key presses the controller button that Extra Options' own [Bindings] gives the action, so it follows your Extra Options setup. The indicator keys don't change the radio station. A tap is enough to turn an indicator on or off. Holding G for a second opens photo mode, as holding D-pad up does when it's shared with photo mode in Extra Options.

Fixes

• Clicking the left arrow on a key row now goes to the previous key. Before, it went to the next one, like the right arrow.

Notes

• The key rows offer the usual keys and the keys the presets use. Any key you set in FH2Mouse.ini still shows as it is.
• New ini setting: FreeLookSensitivity in [Mouse] (default 50).
• Needs FH2 Mod Platform 2.8.0 or later (included in the zip).

v1.2.2 Free look & Telemetry

New

• Free look while driving. Move the mouse left or right to look around the car. A moment after you stop moving the mouse, the camera turns back ahead. While you drive, the mouse stays inside the game window; use Alt+Tab to leave it. If you'd rather the mouse did nothing while driving, set FreeLook=0 in the [Mouse] section of FH2Mouse\FH2Mouse.ini.
• Telemetry on the keyboard. T turns the telemetry screen on and off, and , / . go to the previous / next page. The telemetry help bar shows these keys. You can change the key on Pause > Settings > MODS ("Key: Telemetry") or in the ini (Telemetry=).

Fixes

• Autoshow photo mode camera. In Buy Car's photo mode, dragging with the mouse now turns the camera and the wheel zooms, as in the photo mode you open while driving.
• "Change time" on the pause menu (from the Extra Options – Weather Control plugin). Without a controller, pressing Y opened Game Party instead. Y now opens Change time, and clicking "Y Change time" in the help bar works too. This is no longer listed under Known limits.
• The in-game update check now points to the right GitHub repository.

Installing

As before: extract the zip into your Azimuth folder (the one with azimuth.exe), so that FH2Mouse.dll ends up in fh2-mods. Your FH2Mouse.ini and key settings are kept. The new Telemetry key and the FreeLook setting use their defaults (T and on) until you change them.

v1.2.1 FH4MP Join freeroam/roadtrip fixed

HonkHonk

If the HonkHonk mod is installed, E honks the horn. It works on whichever stick the horn is on: the left stick, as HonkHonk says, or the right stick, where FH2MP moves it when you play online. Like the Nitro key, only HonkHonk sees it (the game doesn't) and you don't need a controller. You can change the key in Pause > Settings > MODS ("Key: Horn (HonkHonk)"), or with Horn= in the ini's [Keyboard] section. If you're upgrading, your ini doesn't need changing: the horn uses E until you set another key.

Fixed

• Enter didn't accept online session invites. When an invite came in while you were driving, the toast showed "Enter", but only the controller's button joined the session. Now Enter joins too. The same fix covers any other HUD prompt that shared the press with the "Enter garage" prompt.

Installing

As before: extract the zip into your Azimuth folder (the one with azimuth.exe) and replace the old files, so FH2Mouse.dll ends up in fh2-mods. Your settings are kept.

v1.2.0 Keyboard icons

Keyboard icons

While you play with the keyboard, the game shows the keys instead of the controller's buttons. That covers the help bar ("Enter Select", "Esc Back"), the HUD's prompts ("Enter Garage"), the PgUp / PgDn tab pictures and the title screen's PRESS Enter TO START. Press a button on the controller and its buttons come back straight away; press a key and the keys return.

• Your keys: the icons show the keys you've set. Change one in Pause > Settings > MODS and its icon follows.
• Switching it off: use the new "Keyboard icons" row on the MODS page, or KeyIcons=0 in the ini's [Keyboard] section.
• Your own pictures: create a folder FH2Mouse\KeyIcons and put a PNG in it, named like the key in the ini (Enter.png, Escape.png, PageUp.png…). It replaces the built-in picture from the next start, and can be up to four times as wide as it is high.

New keys in the menus

Every button the help bar offers now has a key:

Key	Does	For example
X / Y	X / Y	Return to garage, Stamp, Sort, Filter
Tab	View	Setup manager, Jump to manufacturer, Hide UI, Save
Z / C	LT / RT	Select / Unselect Layer
F / V	Left / right stick click	Advanced camera

Each one has a "Key:" row on the MODS page. They only work in the menus, so Z and C still shift down and change camera while you're driving. If you're upgrading, your ini doesn't need changing: the new actions use these keys until you set others.

Fixed

• Clicking "RS Advanced camera" in the help bar now presses the right stick click; before, it did nothing. The help bar's d-pad entries also press the right direction now.

Installing

As before: extract the zip into your Azimuth folder, so FH2Mouse.dll ends up in fh2-mods. The key pictures are built into the DLL, so there are no extra files. The mod writes the game's copies to mediaoverride\UI\textures\data_bound\FH2MouseKeys when the game starts.

v1.1.0 Keyboard

FH2Mouse is now FH2 Mouse & Keyboard: on top of the mouse cursor, you can now drive and use the menus with the keyboard, with no controller plugged in at all.

Drive with the keyboard

Key	While driving	In the menus
W / S	Gas / brake (and reverse)
← / →	Steer	Left / right
↑ / ↓		Up / down (hold to repeat)
Page Up / Page Down		Previous / next tab
Enter	Enter garage (and other HUD prompts)	Select
Esc	Pause	Back
Space	Handbrake
A / Z	Shift up / down (manual gearbox)
Left Alt	Clutch
C	Change camera
Right Ctrl	Look back
R	Rewind
M	Map
P	Photo mode
, / .	Previous / next radio station
Left Ctrl	Nitro, with the FnFNitro mod installed

• The driving keys feed the game's own controls directly, not a virtual controller. They only work while you're driving, so W in photo mode still moves the camera, and one key can do one thing while driving and another in menus (Esc pauses while driving and goes back in menus).
• The menu keys work everywhere a pad's buttons do, including the pause menu's tile grid, the map, rewind, photo mode and dialogs.

Change any key in the game

Pause → Settings → MODS now has a "Key:" row for every action. Use left/right to pick a key; the change takes effect immediately and is saved. "Keyboard controls" turns them all off. You can also edit the new [Keyboard] section in FH2Mouse\FH2Mouse.ini, which accepts any key and more than one key per action. An existing ini gets the section added the first time 1.1.0 starts.

Play without a controller

• Signing in: press Enter on the title screen. You no longer get "Sign in needed" without a pad.
• If your controller disconnects mid-game (unplugged, flat batteries): no "Controller disconnected" message and no forced pause; just keep playing on the keyboard. Plug a pad back in and the game asks for its A to pair it again, as usual.
• With a controller: it works exactly as before, and you can switch between pad, mouse and keyboard at any time.

FnFNitro

If the FnFNitro mod is installed, Left Ctrl fires nitro. It follows whatever NitroButton FnFNitro is set to, and needs no controller.

Installing

As before: extract the zip into your Azimuth folder (the one with azimuth.exe). This release ships FH2 Mod Platform 2.8.0 (DWrite.dll), which the key rows in the MODS tab need. Your settings and the file names (fh2-mods\FH2Mouse.dll, FH2Mouse\FH2Mouse.ini) are unchanged.

v1.0.1

Fixes

• The mouse didn't work with some frame rate patches. If you'd changed the game's frame rate, FH2Mouse could think the game was a different version and turn itself off. platform.log said "game code at +0x142C5E0 isn't as expected". It now starts normally.
• Photo mode and the garage camera now turn at the same speed at any frame rate. Before, at 30 or 60 FPS, dragging turned the camera 2–4× too fast, and the photo mode wheel zoom went further per notch.
• Clicking a list item or a tab is more reliable at high frame rates. FH2Mouse now waits a set time between key presses, so menus have time to catch up.

New

• FrameRate setting in FH2Mouse\FH2Mouse.ini. The default, 0, measures your frame rate automatically, and platform.log shows what it found ("the menus run at … frames a second"). Only set a number (30, 60, 120, 144…) if the photo or garage camera still turns too fast or too slow. If you already have an ini, add the line FrameRate=0 under [Mouse] yourself. FH2Mouse doesn't change an existing ini.

Install

Extract the zip into your Azimuth folder (next to azimuth.exe) and replace the old files.

v1.0.0

There might be bugs