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[Sinosauropteryx]

Hi, I'm looking for a mod (or an editable setting) that will let me pan the camera freely during battle, without being locked to a ship or waypoint, and to zoom in on enemy vessels without the camera being tugged away. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[Nick XR]

Checkout the property 'maxCombatZoom' in settings.json.  I set it to 5 personally.

But that doesn't affect panning, just zoom, but it still makes it easier to see what's going on.

[Sinosauropteryx]

Thanks, I know about maxCombatZoom. It's useful but not what I'm looking for. Really I just want an unhindered cinematic camera to watch battles unfold.

[Alex]

You can do this by turning on devMode and pressing F10 a couple of times until it says "free pan", but devMode comes with a bunch of other problems/caveats/maybe crashes/etc so I wouldn't recommend keeping it on, generally.

[Sinosauropteryx]

Noted, thanks. The hotkeys make devmode a bit of a minefield, I'm always opening windows pressing keys out of combat as it is.

If free pan exists in dev mode, it means a mod could in fact exist, right?

[Alex]

A mod could do it, yeah. I think something along those lines is used for the fleet-building tournaments, but I don't know if there's a standalone mod that does this.