Unlimited zoom for battle camera. For Rome 1, Medieval II and any of their mods. Finished and working! :)

[Dismounted Feudal Knight]

This man's getting a medal for this one if I get it working. I'll give it a look within the next few days if not today.

[AnthoniusII]

This man's getting a medal for this one if I get it working. I'll give it a look within the next few days if not today.

This man is also very helpfull with scripts for mods that need his experties. If you nominate him for a medal you have my own support ..

[kostic]

That's it, it works ! And this mod is just awesome !
Here are some shots I was able to take thanks to @p8q:


Many thanks also to you, @bitterhowl, because without your help the mod wouldn't have worked !

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[bitterhowl]

I'm glad it helped!

Also want to point you at this small tip, I think this way battle animation looks more natural. You can add it into same script as above, just below camera script lines.
Animation-Speed-Tip-(Better-looking-Battles)

[kostic]

Thank you for your proposal, but regarding the speed of the units, I am quite satisfied with my settings.


I often use 0.8 speed to have time to watch my units and better follow my strategy. Except in snowy terrain or in the middle of a forest where the speed of the units is already slowed down.
I noticed that in speed 1.0, when an army is regrouped and asked to move forward, some units go too fast and it spoils the show for me.
Towards the end of the battle, I return to speed 1.0 because the units being tired, they then move more slowly.

[kostic]

Just a small problem: with this mod, you can no longer use the "backspace" key to stop your units: The free and unlimited camera activates and quickly moves away from the unit targeted by the given order.
Moreover, even when I try to change the assignment of a key, the latter is added and does the same thing as the "backspace" key.


I also tried to modify the script file by changing order_alt but I did not find the language that works to assign another key to the free and unlimited camera...


Is there a solution to change this?

[bitterhowl]

Well, I thought how to edit this issue too, but delayed it for future because I use this function now only for making unitcards, not for playing battles.

So, partly I healed it, make the first line of monitor lire this

monitor_event ShortcutTriggered ShortcutTriggered radar dec_scale

This time script will activate after F3 button pressed.

Still camera replacement issue didn't fixed, I tried to comment out ( the line with camera_position command, but in this case there's no effect on free camera zoom.

[p8q]

I can see people are having problems with pressing the button to make the script work. I was wondering which button could be better and it's not easy to choose. That, plus realizing i'm declaring a counter that i don't need, i came with this new improved version!

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declare_counter is_script_ready_to_end




while I_CompareCounter is_script_ready_to_end = 0
end_while

Therefore, I have made this new improved version. Now, you just have to click the "show_me_how" button and the script already works. Then press any button that moves the camera "ASDW" or whatever button, and automatically everything is ok and the camera is unlimited.

Here is the new script:

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script


declare_show_me

camera_restrictions_set off
camera_position -45.866, 303.729, -700.577 0 50 700
camera_position 0, 50, 700 -45.866 303.729 -700.577

end_script

Who was going to imagine doing the code more simple it was going to work better!

I will edit the main first post of this forum with this new update.

If anyone knows how to make the camera comeback to normal position without pressing any camera button, that would be wonderful. So far in docudemons i only found this:

Identifier: camera_position
Parameters: position x,y,z target x,y,z
Description: Immediately places the camera at the specified position
Sample use: "camera_position 0 0 0 0 0 -1"
Class: CAMERA_POSITION

In my second camera_position command i'm trying to bring the camera to a normal position, but it doesn't work and i don't know why. However, I'll leave it like this for further research and improvement.

I hope you guys enjoy this mini mod, i felt satisfaction when i saw someone likes it and the screenshots

[Aerys IV le Grand]

Hi! I successfully installed your mod in Third Age but noticed it doesn't allow to freely pan the camera by pressing one of the mouse buttons?
Thanks for your amazing work!

[kostic]

Your upgrade is working great, thank you ! Now the camera goes into "free" mode as soon as I click on the "start deployment" panel. So I no longer have a problem playing the battle and using the "backspace" key to cancel an order or stop a unit.
Only small inconvenience, the jump in the free camera interrupts the general's sentence and requires using the "home" key to return to him.