Ship Cameras?

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Ship Cameras?

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I saw Erik have cameras follow ships around on his play through but cannot seem to find where to do this?
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Press L when you have the ship selected
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BigWolfChris wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 12:54 am Press L when you have the ship selected
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There's a camera angles button on the bottom right. When you have a ship selected, the bridge and trailing camera views appear there as well.
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Erik Rutins wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 1:20 am There's a camera angles button on the bottom right. When you have a ship selected, the bridge and trailing camera views appear there as well.
Ah much better thanks that's what I was looking for pressing L just froze the ship?
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Tanaka wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 2:55 am
Erik Rutins wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 1:20 am There's a camera angles button on the bottom right. When you have a ship selected, the bridge and trailing camera views appear there as well.
Ah much better thanks that's what I was looking for pressing L just froze the ship?
L locks the selected unit in center view.
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arvcran2 wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 4:01 pm
Tanaka wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 2:55 am
Erik Rutins wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 1:20 am There's a camera angles button on the bottom right. When you have a ship selected, the bridge and trailing camera views appear there as well.
Ah much better thanks that's what I was looking for pressing L just froze the ship?
L locks the selected unit in center view.
It seems bugged as it just freezes and shutters back and forth?
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If it looks jittery, that means the ship is moving. The camera doesn't quite update its position in sync with the ship.
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BTAxis wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 7:53 pm If it looks jittery, that means the ship is moving. The camera doesn't quite update its position in sync with the ship.
Gotcha thanks!
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Hi,
Don’t want to hijack the thread, but this seemed a good place to ask?
Are you able to rotate the camera up and down in the system view?
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Only the predefined camera angles are available, unfortunately. We can only hope this will change in the future.
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