Is it possible to make the battle camera go up higher?

[mrtwisties]

I've noticed that when I'm in a battle where there's a huge temple, I can move the camera up the temple's spire, then fly back out over the battlefield at a great height.

I really like this perspective. I can see everything. Is there any way of modding the game so I can achieve it without having a temple in every battle?

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

I know what you mean, and I wish you could too, but I don't think there is any way.

[Pharnakes]

Yes, you can edit something in the prefrences.txt, something like max zoom and min zoom, IIRC. I'm not sure cause I've never done it, but give it a try.

[mrtwisties]

I was so excited.

But I had a poke through the preferences.txt, and then through the forum postings about preferences.txt. I haven't found anything like max or min zoom settings.

I'm wondering whether I could script some sort of camera bookmarks...

[Pharnakes]

Hmm, IDK. Sorry for giving you false hope.

[TiFlo]

Hi mrtwisties,
Maybe this is what you're looking for : into preferences.txt, find the line CAMERA_FOV:75.000000 (or whathever the number here is). This controls the battle camera zoom out. Mine is set to 85.000000, so further than vanilla. I don't even remember what it originaly looked like...