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Blue Post by Watcher about the removed cameraDistanceMax CVar in Legion

Watcher

Posted 9 years, 5 months ago (Source)

I know that this is a long shot, but it would be very, very nice to have an API call that returns the current zoom level of the camera. I've been making a camera addon "DynamicCam" that people seem to like and it would greatly benefit from this.

I previously was "exploiting" cameradistancemax by setting it to the desired zoom level and then zooming out and restoring the old max after, to ensure that I knew what the zoom level was at, and then hooking calls to CameraZoomIn and CameraZoomOutto track further changes. Obviously, the removal of this cvar makes that not possible and since cameradistancemaxfactor is clamped from 1 to 1.9 (15 yards to 28.5 yards), I can't use the same approach with it.

Not a long shot at all. I'll look into it and see what we can do.
Watcher

Posted 9 years, 5 months ago (Source)

Yeah, but it was maxed much much lower this morning when I took all the screenshots.

Maybe some saved leftover settings getting in the way this morning? It would've taken a new client build to change the camera's behavior, and that definitely didn't happen between yesterday and today. I spent some time playing around with the camera, comparing live to beta, etc., before making that post and taking the screenshot, and it all seemed consistent to me. The slider in the interface options goes from 1.0 at the left edge to to 1.9 at the far right, and bringing the slider to max on a fresh character gives you the exact same view in 6.2.4 Warlords as it does in the current 7.0.3 Legion beta.

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    <div class="md"><p>I know that this is a long shot, but it would be very, very nice to have an API call that returns the current zoom level of the camera. I've been making a camera addon "DynamicCam" that people seem to like and it would greatly benefit from this.</p>

<p>I previously was "exploiting" <code>cameradistancemax</code> by setting it to the desired zoom level and then zooming out and restoring the old max after, to ensure that I knew what the zoom level was at, and then hooking calls to <code>CameraZoomIn</code> and <code>CameraZoomOut</code>to track further changes. Obviously, the removal of this cvar makes that not possible and since <code>cameradistancemaxfactor</code> is clamped from 1 to 1.9 (15 yards to 28.5 yards), I can't use the same approach with it.</p>
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<div class="md"><p>Not a long shot at all. I'll look into it and see what we can do. </p>
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    <div class="md"><p>Yeah, but it was maxed much much lower this morning when I took all the screenshots.</p>
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<div class="md"><p>Maybe some saved leftover settings getting in the way this morning? It would've taken a new client build to change the camera's behavior, and that definitely didn't happen between yesterday and today. I spent some time playing around with the camera, comparing live to beta, etc., before making that post and taking the screenshot, and it all seemed consistent to me. The slider in the interface options goes from 1.0 at the left edge to to 1.9 at the far right, and bringing the slider to max on a fresh character gives you the exact same view in 6.2.4 Warlords as it does in the current 7.0.3 Legion beta.</p>
</div> (<a href="http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/20745744692#18d4nx55c">Watcher</a>)
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