Hello there !
I have two questions about in-game camera modes:
1- Which do you prefer in general? Personally I prefer the exploration mode, which is more immersive than the strategic mode and less screwed up than the character mode.
2- How to ruthlessly eliminate the two buttons of the other two camera modes? Putting the game permanently in exploration mode would be a great improvement in my opinion.
Have a good evening everyone!
Iāve always wanted to be able to set āExploration Modeā as the default. Bummer I have to remember to press the ā*ā key at the start of each play session.
exploration generally. But since i Pause&Puppet battles then strategy. Character mode for running around the SoZ overland map ā¦
in hotbar.xml comment out the elements <UIButton name="STRATEGY" and <UIButton name="CHARACTER"
note that thereās a keybinding Numpad * for Toggle Play Mode under options|keymapping|game (but offhand I donāt see how no-key can be assigned)
also note thereās a bit of a bug after Strategymode is selected; after that the game will start in Strategymode no matter what you left the game in. To clear that, select your preferred mode, go into Options and just accept ā that seems to clear the sticky Strategy mode ā @Axe_Edge
one more thing re. Camera ā¦ to get the most out of camera settings you might have to play around with the camera-values in docs/nwn2/ nwn2player.ini
particularly [Exploration Mode Options] ā ;edgeturn - this is not in Options
eg ā
[Exploration Mode Options]
;wheelzoom
Mousewheel_Speed_Min=5.000000
Mousewheel_Speed_Max=20.000000
Mousewheel_Speed_Default=10.000000
Mousewheel_Speed_Current=9.950001
;mouselook
Mouse_Turn_Min=0.100000
Mouse_Turn_Max=2.000000
Mouse_Turn_Default=1.000000
Mouse_Turn_Current=0.955000
;edgeturn - this is not in Options
Edge_Turn_Min=1.000000
Edge_Turn_Max=5.000000
Edge_Turn_Default=2.500000
Edge_Turn_Current=2.820000
;edgescroll
Edge_Move_Min=0.100000
Edge_Move_Max=1.000000
Edge_Move_Default=0.500000
Edge_Move_Current=0.325000
;keyscroll also keyturn and keyzoom-in/out
Keyboard_Move_Min=1.000000
Keyboard_Move_Max=5.000000
Keyboard_Move_Default=2.500000
Keyboard_Move_Current=3.720000
Fade Objects=1
Show Move Cursor=1
Mouseover Highlight Flags=74
CameraMode=1
LeftClickAction=1
Ceiling Draw Mode=0
PossessAsDefault=1
CameraFollowAlways=0
MouseMovement=1
Enable ScreenEdgeCameraTurn=1
Enable ScreenEdgeCameraMove=0
[Strategy Mode Options]
;wheelzoom
Mousewheel_Speed_Min=1.000000
Mousewheel_Speed_Max=10.000000
Mousewheel_Speed_Default=5.000000
Mousewheel_Speed_Current=3.970000
;mouselook
Mouse_Turn_Min=0.100000
Mouse_Turn_Max=2.000000
Mouse_Turn_Default=1.000000
Mouse_Turn_Current=0.955000
;edgeturn
Edge_Turn_Min=1.000000
Edge_Turn_Max=10.000000
Edge_Turn_Default=2.500000
Edge_Turn_Current=5.050000
;edgescroll
Edge_Move_Min=0.100000
Edge_Move_Max=2.000000
Edge_Move_Default=1.000000
Edge_Move_Current=0.955000
;keyscroll
Keyboard_Move_Min=1.000000
Keyboard_Move_Max=5.000000
Keyboard_Move_Default=2.500000
Keyboard_Move_Current=2.480000
Fade Objects=1
Show Move Cursor=1
Mouseover Highlight Flags=74
CameraMode=3
LeftClickAction=2
Ceiling Draw Mode=2
PossessAsDefault=1
CameraFollowAlways=0
MouseMovement=1
Enable ScreenEdgeCameraTurn=0
AutoCenterFreeCam=0
SelectedCharacterCursor=1
Enable ScreenEdgeCameraMove=1
[Character Mode Options]
;wheelzoom
Mousewheel_Speed_Min=1.000000
Mousewheel_Speed_Max=10.000000
Mousewheel_Speed_Default=5.000000
Mousewheel_Speed_Current=3.970000
;mouselook
Mouse_Turn_Min=0.100000
Mouse_Turn_Max=2.000000
Mouse_Turn_Default=1.000000
Mouse_Turn_Current=0.955000
;edgeturn
Edge_Turn_Min=1.000000
Edge_Turn_Max=10.000000
Edge_Turn_Default=5.000000
Edge_Turn_Current=2.980000
;followdelay
Camera_Lag_Min=0.100000
Camera_Lag_Max=2.500000
Camera_Lag_Default=1.000000
Camera_Lag_Current=0.484000
Fade Objects=1
Show Move Cursor=1
Mouseover Highlight Flags=74
CameraMode=0
LeftClickAction=1
Ceiling Draw Mode=1
PossessAsDefault=1
CameraFollowAlways=0
MouseMovement=1
Enable ScreenEdgeCameraTurn=1
Exploration mode
In nwn2player.ini, Iāve got a line CameraMode=1 in the [Game Options] section, and thatās enough to have all games starting in the exploration mode.
I always use Exloration mode. I too wish I would be able to eliminate the other buttons, but Iām a bit afraid of doing that in fear of bugs. @kevL_s If I were to fiddle with the hotbar.xml for this would it be safe you say?
Iāve noticed several times that sometimes at the start of a game, or something like that, there is sometimes a bug that doesnāt let you switch camera modes (I think it happens after a dialogue). Just reloading tends to take care of this.
EDIT: I tried with doing as @kevL_s said and it seems to work, I think. It looks like this now:
It would have been nice though if the two other squares to the right of Exploration mode were removed entirely.
Great ! Everything works, thank you very much.
Such a shame we have no way to rework entirely the UI in the toolset.
Exploration mode by far with camera centred on character, and I never leave it if I can help it.
There is a bug with not saving camera modes properly, for me itāll always remember if I was in character or strategy mode, but never exploration mode. The fix mentioned earlier in the thread does not work for me, but opening up nwn2player.ini and setting Client Mode to 2 does make it start up in exploration mode and stay there until I accidentally enter one of the other ones.
Two ways of doing it; if you try to assign a command a key that is already in use, itāll remove the binding that previously used it. The other is to dig in nwn2player.ini. To disable the camera change key, look for āAction118ā, the default value should be āAction118=64ā. Change 64 to 255 and it will disable it. Note that you have 3 different instances, under [Keymapping_1], [Keymapping_2] and [Keymapping_3], each one for a different camera mode (character, strategy and exploration, respectively).
I play almost entirely in Exploration mode.
There are times when however when differences between my PC and game settings vs what the author is building on make it hard to see some placeable or important plot clue. Iām occasionally forced to go into Character mode to be able to see or maneuver in a tight space or get the right angle to solve the puzzle or find the object I need.
While it is possible to remove these GUI options, unless you are doing this for yourself only, then I would advise leaving them present for those that would like the option to click on them in the GUI.
True. Strategy mode pleases the ones who like to control companions while pausing, and character mode is best for screenshots.
Oh, thatās the default GUI I see now. I like the Divine GUI so I wonāt be able to use this. Maybe I can fix it myself though.
EDIT: Quite easy to fix once I knew what the file was called. However, I just noticed (and that was expected really) that the game still always starts with another mode than Exploration mode. I wish one could force my own module to choose Exploration mode by default, but I guess that is done in the ini file and every player has his own one, and I donāt think I would want to try and change anything else there and players probably have different settings there, so one shouldnāt tamper with that.
I guess Iāll just edit my own ini file then.
This didnāt work for meā¦
This however worked.
Additionally, from the NWN2WIKI:
Setting the default camera mode
There is no ingame option for selecting which camera mode to be use as default when starting the game.
Normally the game will remember the last camera mode used, but this isnāt the case with Exploration Mode. The game will start in Strategy Mode every time.
To make Exploration Mode default you need to edit āClient Modeā in ānwn2player.iniā.
Values are:
0 - Character Mode
1 - Strategy Mode
2 - Exploration Mode
Obviously the game will fail to remember the setting when exiting and reset āClient Modeā to 1.
To prevent this from happening set the file as read only. Make sure to remove this every time you want to change settings.