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A closer zoom with the ingame camera
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Skoomer
#1 - 2017-03-07 08:52:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Skoomer
I always loved the camera in Eve Online. With the old camera, you had the ability to zoom in extremely close. While I don't dislike the new camera, this feature is seriously missing.

The zoom allowed me to create some videos (The Bergmann Federation Spots) that were really appreciated by the community as well as some ingame screenshots I made into wallpaper.

One of my videos was even postet on your twitter page and I'm really honored by that. But then you removed the old camera.

I came back from a break recently and wanted to create a video and wallpapers again. Altough I was able to create some nice shots, the limited zoom is really bugging me because most shots would look by far more cinematic and professional if we had the ability to zoom in closer.

I'm not asking you to bring the old camera back - I'm just asking to allow us to zoom closer with the new one.
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(And while I'm at it, are you thinking about adding a depth of field option somewhen in the future? Elite: Dangerous and Star Citizen did this recently and jesus christ they nailed it.
I always cut out the ships in my pics to blur the background. That just looks gorgeous.
Wolfgang Jannesen
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#2 - 2017-03-07 13:44:13 UTC
Skoomer wrote:
I always loved the camera in Eve Online. With the old camera, you had the ability to zoom in extremely close. While I don't dislike the new camera, this feature is seriously missing.

The zoom allowed me to create some videos (The Bergmann Federation Spots) that were really appreciated by the community as well as some ingame screenshots I made into wallpaper.

One of my videos was even postet on your twitter page and I'm really honored by that. But then you removed the old camera.

I came back from a break recently and wanted to create a video and wallpapers again. Altough I was able to create some nice shots, the limited zoom is really bugging me because most shots would look by far more cinematic and professional if we had the ability to zoom in closer.

I'm not asking you to bring the old camera back - I'm just asking to allow us to zoom closer with the new one.
______________________

(And while I'm at it, are you thinking about adding a depth of field option somewhen in the future? Elite: Dangerous and Star Citizen did this recently and jesus christ they nailed it.
I always cut out the ships in my pics to blur the background. That just looks gorgeous.


Try holding right click while you zoom, I find the game locks the camera a certain distance out unless it thinks you're going for a super close up shot.
Skoomer
#3 - 2017-03-07 16:24:11 UTC
Wolfgang Jannesen wrote:

Try holding right click while you zoom, I find the game locks the camera a certain distance out unless it thinks you're going for a super close up shot.


Its not about that. Its about the focal length. In the past you could zoom in much closer to objects that you can now.
Nevyn Auscent
Broke Sauce
#4 - 2017-03-07 20:01:33 UTC
That is to do with textures, and the level of zoom CCP want you looking at them.
Go to free camera and you can do real close ups and even get nice drive by shots though.
Uriel Paradisi Anteovnuecci
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#5 - 2017-03-07 20:32:00 UTC
I've noticed the same thing, I actually got some nice shots of the Jove corpses in the hive sites way back when, but the new camera can't zoom far enough - that and, at the smallest levels, things start to get distorted and shaky for some reason.

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