Camera Scroll Speeds

Felix the Cat · Post by **Felix the Cat** » 03 Jan 2006, 04:17

The Overhead (TA) camera scrolls at maybe double the speed of the others. In the Total War style camera in particular (the one I use most of the time), the slow scroll speed is very annoying.

Is there any way to speed up scroll speeds?

hrmph · Post by **hrmph** » 03 Jan 2006, 04:58

hold shift

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 03 Jan 2006, 07:20

Even then it goes slower than it should at default.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 03 Jan 2006, 08:05

Ctrl dose that too...

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 03 Jan 2006, 08:07

Ctrl is supposed to slow it down...

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 03 Jan 2006, 08:13

It dose? Let me check

Doh!

Zenka · Post by **Zenka** » 03 Jan 2006, 09:53

use the minimap then. (And shift does speed it up, doesn't it?)

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 03 Jan 2006, 10:09

Even with shift its still not fast enough and holding shift all the time is a pain, so is using the minimap.

Just increase the speed, probably 1 variable needs changing.

smartie · Post by **smartie** » 03 Jan 2006, 15:28

The rotation speed on the total war camera is also way to high.

AF · Post by AF » 03 Jan 2006, 15:28

Felix the Cat wrote:The Overhead (TA) camera scrolls at maybe double the speed of the others. In the Total War style camera in particular (the one I use most of the time), the slow scroll speed is very annoying.

Is there any way to speed up scroll speeds?

I thought that was because in settings you could change the scroll speed for cursors and the sides with the mouse? I find spring slightly slower than what i'm used to in TA but not that much, and shift held makes it faster. You must ahve your settigns setup much faster than mine though.

This could make for a new slider to the sliderfest in the settings program

Lord JoNil · Post by **Lord JoNil** » 03 Jan 2006, 16:10

And the point of rotation in the Total War camera is way to far ahead when zoomed in. It should be at the camera position. Not 200 m in front of it as it is now.

// Lord.JoNil

Felix the Cat · Post by **Felix the Cat** » 03 Jan 2006, 21:59

hrmph wrote:hold shift

I appreciate the high regard for my intelligence contained in this statement.

In other words: I'm not a retard, dumbass. I'm talking about scroll speeds while "shifted".

Smartie also has it nailed as to Total War camera rotation speed. It's quite... exihilirating... rivaling even the greatest of extreme amusement park rides.

hrmph · Post by **hrmph** » 03 Jan 2006, 22:27

Felix the Cat wrote:
hrmph wrote:hold shift
I appreciate the high regard for my intelligence contained in this statement.

In other words: I'm not a retard, dumbass. I'm talking about scroll speeds while "shifted".

Smartie also has it nailed as to Total War camera rotation speed. It's quite... exihilirating... rivaling even the greatest of extreme amusement park rides.

Then maybe your dumbass retarded self should have noted this,

Pxtl · Post by **Pxtl** » 03 Jan 2006, 23:37

Accept that nobody cares about the non-TA camera angles and give up. Witness the "monthly topic rotation" treatment that the almost-but-not-quite-useful free camera gets.

smartie · Post by **smartie** » 04 Jan 2006, 02:06

Hell No! I can't even use the standard TA camera anymore. The rotational overhead camera is perfect because it lets you look across the whole battlefield while also managing an area up close and in detail. I couldn't play dawn of war last time I tried because it only lets you look at one tiny area of a time. Other camera views are great and a good Total war camera would probably be just about as useful as the rotation overhead and easier to manage.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 04 Jan 2006, 02:15

FPS camera all the way!

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 04 Jan 2006, 02:30

I don't care much for the Total War or FPS cameras, but if Rotatable Overhead got axed, there would be bloodshed. I like the conventional TA-style camera, but I cannot use it anymore because I keep trying to tilt it upward to scan the map =)

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 04 Jan 2006, 02:36

Caydr · Post by **Caydr** » 04 Jan 2006, 03:15

I use TA style all the time. I only use FPS to take glamour shots and that kind of thing. Anyway, my point here (surely I must have one....) is that I find it works fine as is, but a slider to control scroll speed would certainly be a top 10 most-wanted feature IMO.

edit: oh, don't forget about pushing the middle mouse button, eh? If you push and release the middle mouse button, it does the crosshairs thingie and you can hold down shift for much much faster movement than you'd get just as the side of the screen holding shift down. I think you can also hold down the middle mouse button to do something as well....

Doomweaver · Post by **Doomweaver** » 04 Jan 2006, 03:40

I would use the TArotatable, but it's got some problems which makes it really hard to play with;

You can't move it outisde the play area.

When you Control-C it puts the commander unde the camera, rather than
into the center of the view.

When you zoom it moves up rather than backward.

What I essentially want is a TA camera that is at a sharper angle to the terrain, so that I can actually make out hills while the camera is still. Because for those of us who don't have shadows, the detail in the heightmap is invisible.

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