DOes this for me to.

Really really like to know if there is a way to disable the auto track feature on zooming in.

Whenever you zoom in using the scroll wheel it automatically zooms in on a ship if its in in a certain radius around the cursor.

It gets bad when you have a solar system with major trade/refinery ships, or in fleet battles where you need to zoom in on a area to micro something.

Needs tweaking.

-edit- A hotkey to disable this should solve the problem. -edit-

Zooming to the center of the screen would be a pain in the ass. I want a hotkey to disable the "lock onto" feature but still zoom to where my cursor is pointed like in supreme commander.

Right, I don't know why they have "Zoom to Cursor" as a toggle; it's useless when disabled. I don't know what it means by "zooming to the focussed object" when it's disabled; it only seems to focus in on the exact center of the screen, regardless of whether there's even anything there.

We want "Zoom to Cursor". We just don't want the auto-tracking that comes with it.

Does anyone know of a hotkey, or a .setting change, that can stop it?

* edit * That's right, Paladin. Supreme Commander did it well... and had no auto-track. ("Grr! Stop moving while I'm trying to aim!!") You're sure there's no fix for it? Is there a way to put it in the suggestion box for a patch?

Set

zoomToCursorLocksOnMovingEntities FALSE

in camera.setting if you dislike the auto-tracking behavior.

Vista:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting

XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Setting

Please note these directories may be Hidden by default. To unhide them, go to your Control Panel -> Folder Options -> View and set yourself to view hidden files and folders.


It's just a "hidden" option so it's not a mod and won't make your game incompatible with other people playing on ICO.

thanks a lot, finally i can play the game without this annoying "feature"

I have to say this...

I love you.

This was one of the more annoying features of the game, when I am waging war on several fronts and i zoom in to issue quick orders.

Will try it tonight, if the wife doesnt attack me first.


*Edit*

Will the auto follow still work when i double click the unit?

kryo, that's got it! works perfectly. THANKS, BRO!

as far as I'm concerned, a simple note in the README for the next version concerning this camera.setting is enough. just so folks know where to go, if they don't like it. we have definitely seen a few people who adamantly don't like it - but we have not seen tons of people complaining. (maybe it's the folks who played SC and know things can be better? shrug) AFAIK, this is the first thread on it.

Rhedd, that's cool. I can especially see folks who want to "experience being there" liking it. In that way it's very cool.

But in the heat of battle, I do *not* want my cursor doing "extra moving" on me... not when my ship and/or the target ship are already moving, thank you very much.

So it's great that Ironclad included a camera.setting so we can turn it off, if we want. All we (who were concerned about it) had to do was ask, and kryo stepped right in.

All is good!

Back to the planetary bombardment!