3rd Person

[AdlerssonSeinRechterNasenPopel]

is there anything so i can look at my ship from 3rd person?

[1Nf@MOu$( Mr.Thorp )]

there is open camera mode. That is how everyone gets those awesome screen shots.

In basic camera mode you can still control your ship. But i bet it would be hard to fly around full time in. There isnt really a 3rd person mode like in a combat flight sim or something. its just cinematic.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Yes, you can activate the free camera mode. Check your bindings. By default it's Alt+Space, if I am not mistaken.

Keep in mind that it is designed not to allow a 3rd person view during combat by making it deliberately limited.

[Planewalker]

Ctrl-Alt-Space for camera
Ctrl-Alt-G for GUI toggle

[Reggit]

And don't forget you also have :

Bandwidth usage - CTRL + B
And FPS counter - CTRL + F

o7

[Reggit]

Oh - and also don't forget multicrew...
Only with other Cmdrs, and only in the gunner role - But it has an actual 3rd person mode!

[Sighman]

Ctrl + Alt + G hides the UI as well.

[funkynutz]

Originally posted by Sighman:

Ctrl + Alt + G hides the UI as well.

You can change that in the camera control options anyway. Ctrl hides the UI for me...

[Lukas+]

Few video games offer the cameras of Elite Dangerous, and from the most difficult mission to the most relaxing photo shoot they are truly a blast.
I think Elite prefers to be played in first person, but the cameras are there and allow you to really see even around corners, although unfortunately you cannot save a favorite camera relative position.

There is, however, a button to attach and detach on the go the camera from your person, or from the ship, or from the SRV, while in game, and a fine adjustment comes out.

I changed almost all the original keybinds, moving them to the right of the keyboard, whereas on the left there is already a mountain of stuff: but they are there.

o7

[Jeebs]

From what I remember, the camera suite was originally a debugging tool so players could take screenshots to help report stuff. People started using it to take fantastic screenshots so it was renamed and kept in as a feature.

It was never intended for the game to be played in third person mode, from what I can tell. You can control your ship some in one of the camera modes, but I can't imagine you'd be able to effectively fly that way in any combat scenario, realistically. You'd have no HUD, no radar, nothing to show you where your guns are pointing, etc.

[m.gregoryd75]

I like to use the camera mode while looking for core mining asteroids. A pretty cool view

[Glyan]

ALT+F4

[Sighman]

Originally posted by funkynutz:

Originally posted by Sighman:

Ctrl + Alt + G hides the UI as well.

You can change that in the camera control options anyway. Ctrl hides the UI for me...

I'm not talking about camera view, I'm talking about in-ship, in-srv or on-foot view. You can hide the UI.

[funkynutz]

Oh you mean the HUD toggle... Got it, my bad