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#### Improving the camera mode

I'm playing quite much with it at the moment, so here are my suggestions after some testing:
-Camera Mode Enabled overlay
This bunch of text is quite interesting while discovering the tool, but at some point I think it should fade out completely or get minimized after a while, so we may focus on our composition, without any distracting foreground (ideally the minimap and search icon would disappear too). Also, without that overlay, I'm seeing a lot of possibilities here for machinima or other video recordings, as the traveling itself is quite pleasant to look at.
-Speed control
While being quite pleasant, that camera movement is very slow, and it would be extremely useful to have additional control over the speed, for example with Shift+Arrows for a faster (gameplay) slide and Ctrl+Arrows for slower (cinematic) travelings.
-Position locking
The default camera always follows our character in game, and it could be interesting (for parties for ex) to have a locked mode, so we could move around the screen freely while the camera stays in place.

Posted 9 months ago by Lemo | Permalink

### Replies

- Re: Speed Control: Like in Photoshop for making something larger or smaller: maybe "Ctrl +" for Faster and "Ctrl -" for slower. (or "Shift +" and "Shift -")
  Posted 9 months ago by The Cat Face | Permalink
- Okay, officially adding another point as the general forum is not for ideas
  -Wide angle camera lens
  The /zoom command (along with its hotkeys) has been restricted according to each location, which generally avoid visual "glitches", but also remove any possibility to create those awesome full street screenshots.
  Then how about making those wide zoom levels available as soon as you activate the camera mode, so it won't influence the gameplay or trouble the Giants, while still being able to have those screenshots?
  Posted 9 months ago by Lemo | Permalink
- And in addition a fisheye lens would be awesome :D
  Posted 9 months ago by Curls | Permalink
- Please please can we have the wide angled camera lens so we can take our own full street pics, it would mean no more awful stitching together, allowing us art lovers to capture the full splendor of our creative endeavours.
  Posted 9 months ago by Faereluth | Permalink
- +1 on a wide angle (full-street) lens. I'll learn a skill if I have to :)
  Posted 9 months ago by Lx’s Ghost | Permalink
- A full-street panorama camera would be excellent! So far we've had some extremely patient staff who helped take the many full street view photos but it would be so nice if we don't have to bug staff every time there's a party or memorable event requiring their assistance.
  Posted 9 months ago by TomC | Permalink
- We'll see!
  Posted 9 months ago by stoot barfield | Permalink
- For some reason, eyeballery on mac goes way faster than on windows.
  Posted 9 months ago by Palindrome | Permalink
- Palindrome, you can change your keyboard repeat rate in Preferences or Control Panel -- it's a little different on every computer and outside of Tiny Speck's control.
  Posted 9 months ago by Jono | Permalink
- Thx for passing by guys :]
  Posted 9 months ago by Lemo | Permalink
- TomC, your phrasing gives me an idea. Perhaps there could be a potion that creates something that looks like those touristy coin-operated telescopes at a location for a while, visible to and usable by everybody. It lets you take picture of the whole street.
  Posted 9 months ago by duien | Permalink
- duien, that's a great idea!
  Posted 9 months ago by Jono | Permalink