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Camera problems

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I play a lot of total war warhammer as well as Eugen's games (steel division, wargame series) and I've gotten very used to how the camera functions in those. I'm been trying to get the camera in zero-k to work the same way but I just can't do it, or if it does work there's some other problem.

If you haven't played those games, basically:

You zoom in and out with the mousewheel

clicking and holding middle mouse button allows you to rotate the camera and change the angle

WASD moves the camera (I got this to work, although it doesn't in COFC for some reason)



The rotatable overhead camera is pretty much what I want, but it moves incredibly slowly and the usual setting to speed it up (camera scroll I think it's called) doesn't make any difference. For some reason it works with other cameras but not this one. This would be perfect for me but the slow camera scroll just makes it infuriating.

The total war camera doesn't allow you to rotate it as far as I can tell.

COFC doesn't allow rotation with middle mouse button, and the command to roatate it (alt plus MMB or whatever) doesn't work properly for me. The camera just jerks around but doesn't rotate smoothly (i.e. it isn't controllable)


Any idea how to fix any of these problems? If I could either increase the scroll speed in controllable overhead, or get rotation to work in total war or COFC I'd be happy. I really want to like this game but at the moment I just can't get past the camera.

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COFC doesn't allow rotation with middle mouse button, and the command to roatate it

It's ctrl+mmb. Jerking around instead of proper rotation sounds like one of the reasons it's not on by default.

Perhaps there's some tolerance or speed setting that you have which is either over nine thousand or way too small. Very slow Rotatable Overhead rotation sounds like that.
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You can edit hotkeys to get WSAD. Here is a general guide on hotkeys:

Edit springsettings.cfg (while the game is closed) and add this key for overhead scroll speed. https://springrts.com/wiki/Springsettings.cfg#RotOverheadScrollSpeed

I've made the camera pan setting affect more cameras for the future: https://github.com/ZeroK-RTS/Chobby/commit/76b49f0ce929a6de6a6b18aa390756e76834d2c5
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5 years ago
That's fantastic thanks!

Just to be clear, I didn't have any problem remapping the hotkeys, it's just that they don't seem to work for COFC. I remapped the camera movement to WASD and it works for the other cameras, just not for that one.

One more thing: I don't suppose there's any way to get the rotating overhead camera to zoom in on the cursor the way it does in COFC? I can definitely live with it if I can't but I just thought I'd ask.


In any case, I have to say that patching in a feature (even such a minor one) based a request from one new player is pretty amazing and I'm seriously impressed at your dedication to the game =)
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