Enable free camera movement in options --> Controls
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Originally Posted by Kailure
Enable free camera movement in options --> Controls
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@Roderick
Wow, I turned that feature off so many years ago I didn't even remember the game had a camera action feature. 
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The Free Camera is a great feature. It essentially unlocks your camera from your character model, causing you to do a /playerturn every time you hit the mouse look button. It's one of the best changes around, in my eyes.
And it wasn't even done for convenience. It was done to enable the click-to-move feature to work. I doubt anyone ever used that.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Is that set to Off by Default? I don't think I've ever seen it...
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I know I never turned it off, so it must be.
@Roderick
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Unless you've turned it on and saved a default options file, then yes, Free Camera is turned off by default, just like your mouse look vertical is inverted by default (even if the game calls it "Normal" - it's not normal to move my mouse up and look down). I know this because I used to have to set all of my options manually for each character I made before they allowed me to save a default file.
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Originally Posted by Mr_NoBody
Is that set to Off by Default? I don't think I've ever seen it...
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Actually, it is - for flight sims. Not sure I've ever seen it anywhere else though.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
the game calls it "Normal" - it's not normal to move my mouse up and look down
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@Roderick
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I have a few friends who sill play with an inverted mouse vertical, and I've seen a few games try to invert both the horizontal and the vertical to simulate you moving the camera around a character instead of looking around from the character's perspective. I get neither of those, but that's why the option to swap always exists.|
Originally Posted by Roderick
Actually, it is - for flight sims. Not sure I've ever seen it anywhere else though.
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An inverted mouse vertical is indeed normal for flight sims, because it controls pitch in the same way the stick does, but the stick also controls roll, not yaw as it does in your run-of-the-mill FPS. Yaw tends to be controlled via completely separate pedals. For flight sims, "stick-like mouse look" may be somewhat appropriate, but first-person and third-person games really don't qualify, since I've yet to see one that gives you the ability to roll which isn't some kind of flying craft equivalent.
Then again, the game defaults to giving you keyboard rotate buttons, so I'm probably barking up the wrong tree entirely.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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As far as the inverted Y axis: I'm not sure, but I think it's just "natural" for some people, in exactly the same way that it's totally unnatural for you. I know that I *need* the camera inverted to play a game. I've tried playing games that don't have the option to invert it. I spend the first ten minutes of *every* play session fighting with the camera. After that, I "sort of" get used to it, but if I stop playing for any length of time (even just to make a sandwich) I'll be right back to fighting with the camera when I start again. As a result, I usually don't play games that don't allow y-axis flipping for the camera.
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(And by flipping, I mean that pushing the mouse forward/away from me causes the camera to tilt down. In most games, mouse forward = camera up, thus I tend to think of the way I prefer it as "inverted," even if it is one of the few games where that is the default behavior.)
As far as the Free Camera option, that good to know. I'd seen the option, but didn't have any idea what it did. I might experiment with it later.
Hey guys, is there currently a way to turn off the action camera, and if not, can there be? And by action camera (not sure what the correct term is) I mean that function that twists the camera around to focus on your target.
Many times in the game I find myself trying to pay attention to more than two things at once, so I center my camera in a position that allows me to do so, but once I launch an attack, the thing does a complete 360. I'm sure it may not bother some players, but it'd still be nice to have the option.
Any thoughts?
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