How do I move the camera in the VAB?

[Adam Strangelove]

I can't find anything in the controls and don't want to sit through however long the tutorial is for a single piece of information. I feel completely hamstrung I can't move the camera around.

Like RMB moving the camera around a fixed point works, but WASD to actually move the camera somewhere useful doesn't? Thanks.

Edit: After a couple unhelpful ♥♥♥♥♥ and a few very helpful human beings, it looks like Free Camera is not available in the VAB in KSP2. I also did check the tutorial, and it isn't there, because it's not possible.

[Shardik77]

Don't be lazy, follow the tutorial, it's literally one of the first things they teach you.

[noobiedoobedoo]

same issue for me. Can't figure it out. haven't tried tutorials yet though so might be on me

[Crescens]

Middle click?

[Adam Strangelove]

Originally posted by Shardik77:

Don't be lazy, follow the tutorial, it's literally one of the first things they teach you.

This is the opposite of lazy, I'm seeking a single piece of specific information and I know other veterans of KSP are going to have the same problem, and this will exist out on Google when they come searching in future. I understand you weren't there at the beginning with KSP but one of the foundations of that community was doing things to help each other. I'd rather leave this thread for all time to answer a question for someone who comes after me than just satisfy myself quietly, alone.

Sorry the Steam forums have poisoned your brain.

[Adam Strangelove]

Originally posted by Crescens:

Middle click?

This is vertical movement, and helpful to know! ... but I am used to having free movement around the VAB, unless time has rotted my old brain and free camera never existed? This is helpful, thanks!

[Adam Strangelove]

It looks like at the moment there's no way to do free movement around the hangar -- as an option you can set the view type to Blueprint and then use the middle mouse to move the vehicle around to see it off-centre, but there's no way to do it in the 3D view that I can find. WASD does nothing and as soon as you right click it re-centres you to the original "core" part you set out, even if you're working on sub-assemblies (click the flag to switch the launchable part) you don't seem to be able to move your camera perspective off the "main" component.

And to the whiny little baby who said it was in the tutorial, mate, it ain't and you're wrong, and you clearly didn't even do it.

[Kenny the Rocket Scientist]

Hold down right click and move the mouse around. That's it. Same as in KSP 1. Don't have the mouse pointer over a part when you do it.

Just for the record, all of the camera view controls for the VAB are answered almost immediately in the tutorial. There's literally even a short 2 minute tutorial SPECIFICALLY regarding moving the camera around in the VAB.

[John]

The tutorial in Training Center is teaching you :D

[Kenny the Rocket Scientist]

On a related note, I can't get the camera to move around outside of the VAB. Like when on the launch pad or in flight. Right click doesn't do it like before. I can switch modes, but that just snap changes the angle. Even hitting tab for mouse free-look (meaning you don't hold down a mouse button) it's not working.

Wondering if there's some function I'm missing or if there's an input conflict with one of my other controls that it's thinking is a mouse. (Though it's odd that it works in the VAB.)

[Kyle]

^ People are misunderstanding the question. We want to move the camera side to side in the VAB, not up or down, or rotating around the rocket. Horizontal movement. No, it is not in the tutorial since there seems to be no way to do it.

The best workaround is to use middle mouse to click on a part. They do need to add WASD functionality to allow us to move the missing directions though. It's Early Access, I expect them at some point. It's just a QoL issue that's needed for massive rockets.

[Kenny the Rocket Scientist]

Alright. Checking the tutorial on launching, it is just hold down the right mouse button to rotate the camera on the rocket view. I do exactly that (just like in KSP1), and it straight up is not working. Period.

Fun. Didn't expect standard view controls to be broken.

[Adam Strangelove]

Thanks kindly for trying to answer Badgerspin, but as Kyle says there's no free camera in the VAB anymore. And John, it's not in the tutorial, I did check just in case I was wrong and it's not in there -- because you can't do it anymore.

Re: Camera movement

There are way more camera modes now (V) and some of them don't make sense to me intuitively based on the name, and they seem to be locked for user control.

[Nexius583]

Originally posted by Adam Strangelove:

Thanks kindly for trying to answer Badgerspin, but as Kyle says there's no free camera in the VAB anymore. And John, it's not in the tutorial, I did check just in case I was wrong and it's not in there -- because you can't do it anymore.

Re: Camera movement

There are way more camera modes now (V) and some of them don't make sense to me intuitively based on the name, and they seem to be locked for user control.

Apparently when you make a middle button click, it centers the view on the selected component, much like in CATIA v5. Hope it might help, I struggled for a while.

[Adam Strangelove]

Thanks Nexius583! Yes, it centres on that part, but if you try it on a sub-assembly part it either doesn't work or immediately snaps back to the "main" craft if you touch RMB.

[Flamin_Squirrel]

Originally posted by Badgerspin:

Alright. Checking the tutorial on launching, it is just hold down the right mouse button to rotate the camera on the rocket view. I do exactly that (just like in KSP1), and it straight up is not working. Period.

Fun. Didn't expect standard view controls to be broken.

Hi Badger, I had the same issue and found the solution: the camera is fighting your controllers (joystick, throttle etc). If you unplug them I expect you'll be fine. No ideal if you've got lots of controllers of course.