Batte camera control adjustable?

[apollon]

I hope I can explain this without being too confusing...
In a battle, you can use the mouse to scroll around the map. You touch the left border, and it scrolls left; you touch the right border, and it scrolls right. But when you touch the border above a certain point, the camera will turn instead of scrolling.
Is there a way to reset that point? I would like it to be much higher, or even disable turning with the mouse altogether. I'd much rather just use Q and E for that, and use the mouse exclusively for scrolling.

[apollon]

9 months have passed without an answer. I think a little bump won't hurt anybody. :-)

[daniu]

Well, in the preferences.script.txt, there is a line

ui_mouse_scroll true; # ui_mouse_scroll <true|false>, Allow/disallow scrolling of the map by putting the cursor at the edge of the screen #

Try setting it to false... it does say "scrolling of map", but maybe it's for battles too.

[Django29uk]

i've noticed on a lot of video commentaries the players are able to zoom out their camea to a great height so that they can take in the battlefield in one glance. this seems like a really big advantage. is this something you know how to edit daniu?

[daniu]

i've noticed on a lot of video commentaries the players are able to zoom out their camea to a great height so that they can take in the battlefield in one glance. this seems like a really big advantage. is this something you know how to edit daniu?

Yeah, also in your preferences.script.txt, set the default_camera_type to 2 ("debug").
This is the (ETW) thread I got it from, in case you don't know where your preference file is located, you can find it in there.

[Soul Firez]

debug camera is great for getting a more over view of the battle i think people have been using it online battles can anyone confirm this??

[Venset]

Yes, but the downside of It is If you click on the mini map the camera will go underground, but I suppose that doesn't really matter.

[Cromagnon2]

Yes, but the downside of It is If you click on the mini map the camera will go underground, but I suppose that doesn't really matter.

Yeah that is the bad part. Maybe starting to use location markers will help.

[daniu]

debug camera is great for getting a more over view of the battle i think people have been using it online battles can anyone confirm this??

Yes.
It's pretty much common knowledge so you would be hard-pressed to find someone calling it cheating.
(You're more likely to find people going "whaaaat? you don't use it?" )

Yeah that is the bad part. Maybe starting to use location markers will help.

Are location markers a feature of NTW, as in a keyboard shortcut to jump to a given camera position?
I thought I saw something like that in the ETW manual, but didn't find it again when I was looking for it.

[Cromagnon2]

Are location markers a feature of NTW, as in a keyboard shortcut to jump to a given camera position?
I thought I saw something like that in the ETW manual, but didn't find it again when I was looking for it.

Yes, you can do it by using SHIFT + F9 to F12, to recall them simply press the corresponding F key. I use them mostly to bookmark my flanks.

[daniu]

Yes, you can do it by using SHIFT + F9 to F12, to recall them simply press the corresponding F key. I use them mostly to bookmark my flanks.

Just tried it out, really works! I tried that combination, but with the lower F numbers.
Man that is so awesome, thank you so much.

[Cromagnon2]

Just tried it out, really works! I tried that combination, but with the lower F numbers.
Man that is so awesome, thank you so much.

You are welcome

I have been using the debug camera again, but it seems a little more sensitive for crashes too.