Could you please make the change, to free camera mode?

[DimaS]

Hello, I am a creative person, and my hobby besides games is creating various videos based on the game. Playing Elite Dangerous I constantly want to make beautiful videos and even release a short movie using the possibilities of the game. But there is one big problem that makes it very difficult to do this. And that is a free camera! Yes, it has the functionality of settings for a beautiful shot, but the camera control seems wrong to me. When I try to turn the camera 180 degrees with my mouse, the camera always tilts, knocking down the horizon line, and there is no way to fix it in the settings! Please, I would really like it to be fixed, because we set the horizon with separate keys, and when rotating the camera we expect the horizon to stay in its place. There is also a suggestion that it would be possible to fix the camera in one position, at that moment to control the character, and the camera being in one place would follow the character. At the moment, we can either fix the camera in place, or the camera moves with the character. These problems seem trivial, but in reality it expands the possibilities in creativity! Thank you
P. S.
Attached is a video I created as a sample

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apbvjd8Vp0I



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[metatheurgist]

Have you tried using a different axis for pitch?

 

[DimaS]

Have you tried using a different axis for pitch?

Exactly for controlling the camera with the mouse? I tried changing something in the settings, but it didn't work. I have buttons on my mouse, and when I press them I change the DPI value, which allows me to make the smoothest camera movements in the game. And it is for the mouse control that I could not fix this horizon problem in the settings.

 

[metatheurgist]

Assuming you have pan and pitch on mouse move, even a surgeon is going to have trouble keeping the pitch smooth while panning with the mouse. So put the pitch on another control, then you can pan the mouse like a caffeine addict and it wouldn't matter because pitch is somewhere else entirely.

 

[aRJay]

Assuming you have pan and pitch on mouse move, even a surgeon is going to have trouble keeping the pitch smooth while panning with the mouse. So put the pitch on another control, then you can pan the mouse like a caffeine addict and it wouldn't matter because pitch is somewhere else entirely.

Possibly even having one of them as just the mouse and the other as button and mouse combo would work.

 

[DimaS]

Possibly even having one of them as just the mouse and the other as button and mouse combo would work.

And it's wildly uncomfortable! That's why I wrote here in the hope that it will be fixed. A free camera is not a spaceship. And the control of the camera and the ship is the same. Yes, I can in the settings to remove the movement of the mouse on the Y-axis. And the camera stops tilting. In fact, I'll be honest. I really want to add to the game video editor like in GTA V

 

[Fizzatron]

As said, I would experiment with the settings to find a better binding/hardware solution than the one you seem to wish to stick with. I have my camera suite bound to my HOTAS joystick, I can pretty much control the speed, pitch, rotation and yaw to create sweeping shots.