How to get key out from the pot?

[Dragool]

To avoid spoiling I'm choosing my words carefully: I'm playing one mission where I need to get key out from the pot. I can pick up the pot, rotate it with mouse button 3 and I can see key inside, but I don't know how to get it out? I've tried every button of the keyboard, no luck There is no instruction on the training mission either how to do it. OS is Win7, if that makes any difference. Pls help, I wanna get back robbing and thieving

[Xarg]

If we assume this mission features said pot at the start of the level, on a horizontal plane that is... elevated compared to the player at start, then you probably need to just carefully move the mouse around once you have the pot, and by carefully, I mean slowly. You want the "frob highlight" to move from the pot to the key, and with some careful mouse movements, you should be able to achieve this in a relatively short period of time. This would be easier if the pot in question was breakable, no doubt, though you might encounter issues with how the key would react to the containing pot breaking.

[Dragool]

Yea, talking about same mission I got it, dropped the pot to ground upside up, and then I could pick it up from there. Thanks.

[grayman]

I never had that problem, except for the last time I tested, just last week. I was finally able to do what you did, which was to frob the key when the pot was upside-down.

 

There's probably some frob distance thing going on there, and when the key is closer to you than the pot's origin, it becomes frobable.

 

Edit: Nah, never mind. The problem is not being close enough to frob the key. As you approach the pot from any angle, it highlights. Most players will probably try frobbing at that point, but the key isn't going to come out. Move closer until the pot un-highlights, and--though you might not be able to see it--the key highlights. At that point, frobbing gives you the key.

 

Since folks will probably persevere and eventually find the right frobbing distance, I suspect this isn't a serious problem.