Is it possible to fix and save a camera position?

Smelter57

Smelter57
When I have the external camera position set to just how and where I want it, I can't save it. [where is it]
If I go back into the cabin and out again to the external camera and I'm staring at the back of the RH engine?

How do the YouTubers do it. It takes some time to set up a shot, so I would have thought they have saved preset positions for their takes?
 

Smelter57

Smelter57
CMDR_Cosmicspacehead said:
You can't ... I've requested presets, or saving of previous position, but alas, nothing yet.
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Thanks for getting back to me, I thought that might be the case. :S

I have had a few incidents when passing through the letterbox from close encounters to being rammed up the a_r_s_e. :eek:
I was hoping to have preset camera positions for a quick look around outside the ship before maneuvering, as the radar seems to not show close proximity ships.
 

Archvillain

Archvillain
Make a thread in the Feature Requests sub-forum, and link to it here so we can add our support.

Lots of QoL requests like this get added to the game, but it might take a year or so...
 

Galaxias

Galaxias
Smelter57 said:
When I have the external camera position set to just how and where I want it, I can't save it. [where is it]
If I go back into the cabin and out again to the external camera and I'm staring at the back of the RH engine?

How do the YouTubers do it. It takes some time to set up a shot, so I would have thought they have saved preset positions for their takes?
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Having made a few videos myself I can tell you it can be a nightmare using the camera suite setup. I've missed a good amount of footage opportunities because I can't get into position fast enough (talking about filming here). And there's also quite a bit of re-shoots and editing. I too wish you could have preset camera angles, distance, blur, pilot shots etc. In the meantime one has to make do with what we're given and practice a lot.
 

shreddog

shreddog
This is something that is highly wanted.
Just a few custom camera presets that we can save would be awesome.

Also for VR it would be nice if the already included camera position would align to ship floor.
Going into a view where your head is tilted downwards or upwards is not comfortable in VR at all.
 

Del Boi

D
+1

This would be awesome.

I am quite surprised they haven't implemented something like that already. Having several camera preset buttons would be so simple to implement and very useful.
 

Hank

H
Smelter57 said:
When I have the external camera position set to just how and where I want it, I can't save it. [where is it]
If I go back into the cabin and out again to the external camera and I'm staring at the back of the RH engine?

How do the YouTubers do it. It takes some time to set up a shot, so I would have thought they have saved preset positions for their takes?
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This would be awesome. +1 and have some
** oops, I see I repeated the previous post - sorry but it is an appropriate comment **
 
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shodanx

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Hello from 2022,
Just discovered the free camera
Then discovered it's several keypresses to switch to it and when you return to cockpit, your free cam position is lost.
That makes it really hard to take those intense action hud-free screenshots on the fly :\
Any changes since that thread last seen activity (this thread is google's number one on this subject)

I think the drop in solution is, if you press one of the CAMERA - * keybindings as below
While you are in free camera, it will override that static camera setting with your current free camera settings

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A better camera just means better free advertising for Elite (just saying that in case you need to "sell" the pointy haired bosses on this feature)
 

Wilcott

W
Well shucks... I hate to even mention this, but Im a transplant from SC and the external camera is one area that Im missing SC vastly! Just entering into it in ED blows. C'mon ED Devs. Sadly, Im not active enough to deal with making a post that devs would see or care about. Would still be a huge improvement especially for those that come from and/or alss play SC (dont roast me too much - If I had my way, Id have both games fully merge into one, minus that SC funding model ;-)
 

Archvillain

Archvillain
Im a transplant from SC and the external camera is one area that Im missing SC vastly! Just entering into it in ED blows.
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From day one in Elite the dev's priority with the external camera has been to keep it un-exploitable for PvP combat advantage. (Different ships have different canopy extents, cockpit placement, view obstructions, etc, all of which is designed in as part of their combat characteristics, so the external camera was explicitly designed to be something that could not be used to gain more information during combat). As someone more interested in photography than fighting, I feel you. I don't know if that is still their priority these days (I've been absent for a long time) but I thought you might like some context for why the camera seems like it's designed to throw up roadblocks ;)
 
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