how to tilt the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ camera?

[GreatGarry]

Ey com on, you cant be serios, just tell me its a joke having a camera angle like this fixed to the horizontal coordinates... how to tilt the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ camera?

[{lbo} TheFlossyDog]

The important thing is that you remained respectful. Oh...

[GreatGarry]

Would have been respectfull if my eye dont hurt because of this.

[Mite Jergenauf]

Developers have said

martiño [developer] Dec 31, 2018 @ 2:00pm
You can pivot the camera on a point by pressing Q+D or A+E (move laterally + rotate)

But for the life of me I cannot work out how it works or why it works like this, it's actually stupid

[ouzkhan]

But it's not possible to pan up-down. ı need to look like site plan from top view. it is not possible, actually he is right about that. ı feel weird when ı control cam. :/

[Holyvision]

The camera does feel a bit clunky -- a free-movement camera would be nice; perhaps something we can see in the workshop or in an update in the future. I get what others are saying, while you can rotate the camera and "pivot" it when rotating and moving, I frequently find myself wanting to adjust the angle at which the camera is looking downwards but you can only get closer to the ground with the zoom.

As a tangent -- I also wish you could still issue commands and use menus/windows when you have the camera focused on a person or a building without having to ESC back from the camera-focus-mode first. It's a small quality-of-life thing but I like to play the game while up-close and in the action.

[D-Man777]

Oddly, Planetbase suffered from strange camera controls too. When I questioned it the devs were adamant the controls were as they intended and they wouldn't be changing them.

It seems they'll still believe it. Kind of off-putting really. I was contemplating purchasing this, but a Banished-esque game with Planetbase controls is leaving me pretty 'meh' about the prospect.

EDIT: link to aforementioned topic on PB:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/403190/discussions/0/483367798503706430/#c483367798503755862

[Minoes]

The camera is the reason I am doubting to buy. I prefer playing more in a tow down view and not being able to do that could really start to annoy me, or not and I get used to it. Problem here is that I won't find out within 2 hours >.<

[Juicy Lime]

seems fine to me

[cTreK421]

also add the ability to change the camera sensitivity. I want to have a little less zippy camera controls.

[sonvar1125]

I came here in hopes to find the answer to the terrible camera angle. It is really difficult to see what I am doing while building

[BoogieMan]

I agree that the angles can be a bit awkward. When I click on an alert to focus on something it always feels that it's not really centered in view well and is farther away than it should be.

[Gorby]

You can use PageUp and PageDown to change the angle. You still can't get a very good "top down" view but you can change it a little.

[GreatGarry]

i dont even understand wyh someone would limit this, makes no sense for me.

[martiño]

This is an old topic, the camera can now be tilted, you can check the default keys in the help section or in the controls section.