Right now, when you hold the middle mouse button in game, the camera moves like it would on a text document if you pressed the middle mouse button. This is only really useful for scrolling long distances where you cannot instantly move your view from where you are to where you want to go. In other words, its good for a text document, but not a game where you could have just clicked on the minimap in half the time.

At the moment, I can't imagine more than a few players use the middle mouse for camera movement. In fact, I'd be surprised if most could even tell you what the middle mouse button does in LoL if asked impromptu. It's too hard to control. You either zoom past something close, spend way too much time carefully getting the exact distance right, or could have just clicked the minimap faster.

Camera controls are really important for strategy games and those that share a similar control scheme, like LoL. The best camera controls I've ever had to work with were in Company of Heroes, where specifically, holding the middle mouse caused you to scroll the camera opposite the direction of mouse movement the same distance you would have scrolled the cursor - like the grab function when you are zoomed in on an image document.

Obviously, you can just move the mouse to the edge of the screen, and some players may not see the utility of what I suggested over that, but when you play seriously, split seconds matter, and what I suggested is much faster (about 1/3 to 1/2 the time) than panning the camera by moving the mouse to the edge of the screen.

TLDR: Make the Middle Mouse button work like a "grab" tool rather than a scroll tool. It would be much more useful, and work better than normally panning the camera.

good idea man!

Yeah, I forgot to label it as a suggestion though...d'oh. Can't see that there's a way to change that. Oh well. Hopefully a Riot staff member will give it a look anyway. If they do and can change that, please do.

I agree the current middle mouse scrolling is less than useful - I've taken to using the keyboard to scroll. Grab is a nice suggestion.

+1

Same function as HoN and DotA. Mouse3 acts like a "grab" or "hand" tool to pan around rather than a scroll.

i personally think it should center your camera on where you clicked.

maybe that's just me.

How 'bout both then? When you click the middle mouse button the camera centers on where you clicked. And while it's held down you can move it? Kinda like the magnifier on Windows 7.

Yeah, I'm a big fan of the hand/grab tool. I actually didn't know that MMB did anything for camera controls. I think in general it's a terrible button to hit on most mice. There aren't any plans to change this right now, and it would be pretty low on our priority list. I'll keep it in mind if we're ever changing mouse controls and try to slip this in if it makes sense.

It'd be neat if the MMB centered the camera to where i clicked.

Please, please please please fix this. The current mouse scrolling function has a number of errors:

1: at certain parts in the map, in particular very tall terrain like the cliffs around the middle, the camera will get "stuck" and instead center on your champion. The same also happens at other parts in the map. It's very frustrating and has gotten me killed a number of times now.

2: The scrolling thing. It makes no sense and it's very annoying. A couple of times I've had my cursor around the bottom of the screen, making it impossible for me to scroll quickly down, because I couldn't move my mouse far enough to "gain momentum" or whatever.

Make it pan like the original post says, or at least fix the bug where it randomly centers on your hero. I am EU btw., just figured I'd bump this thread since it's already around.

In almost all other RTS I've played, the camera pans correctly, like OP suggested. Panning is my primary way of moving my camera and I seriously can't get back into moving my mouse to the side of the screen.