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Help!!! Camera going nuts and I can´t play!!!

October 31, 2009 11:49:25 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

I right click anywhere on any level of the map the camera and whole screen spins around about 220 degrees.

I have had sins for ages and this has just started happening. Does it sound familiar to anyone or should I re-install?

This is the same on Entrenchment and standards Sins with no mods on Vista 32. Played previously with no problems.

no idea how to fix it but for now I cannot play the game as I cant accurately move ships around - very annoying!

 

edit - I hav re-installed and tried a different mouse - same problem. Screen rotates clockwise 220 degrees with every right mouse click - what has gone wrong? How do I fix this????

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Reply #1 October 31, 2009 8:05:18 PM
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Hm, never had this happen to me. You do mean left click, right? Cuz right clicking lets you rotate your camera angle. Anyways, my hunch is that you changed something in the game settings. I believe when you reinstall Sins, your player profile, achievements, and game settings will be the same as before since they are in a separate folder. It is in C:\Users\[Your Username]\App Data\Local\Ironclad Game\Sins of a Solar Empire. You could delete this folder (could back it up first) at the risk of starting fresh, or you can just try to reset all your game settings in game.

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Reply #2 November 1, 2009 12:14:37 AM
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No, when I right click anywhere on the game for anything the camera spins the screen clockwise.

I have cleared everything out of my folders, mods, save games, all settings have been defaulted and the game fully restored and it is still doing it!

I have the latest patches installed... no idea what to try next and I can find any support contact details anywhere....

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Reply #3 November 1, 2009 9:47:41 AM
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I have copied the default camera settings from the folder in AppData/Local/Ironclad Games/Sins/settings:

TXT
Version 34
secondsPerZoom 1.000000
minZoomPowerConstant 100.000000
maxZoomPowerConstant 5000.000000
zoomMult 1.000000
slowZoomMult 0.200000
transitionTime 7.500000
transitionSplineExtension 0.500000
baseRotationSpeed 5.000000
maxRotationSpeed 50.000000
rotationDragRate 10.000000
baseStrafeSpeed 5.000000
maxStrafeSpeed 50.000000
strafeDragRate 10.000000
strafeDistanceToTargetScale 0.050000
noFreeRotateMinVerticalAngle -89.000000
noFreeRotateMaxVerticalAngle 89.000000
noFreeRotateHorizontalSnapBackBaseSpeed 2200.000000
noFreeRotateMinHorizontalSnapBackSpeedMult 0.100000
cinematicStartDistMult 5.000000
cinematicStopDistMult 9.000000
shakeMaxDuration 4.000000
shakeMinDuration 0.500000
shakeFrameTime 0.030000
shake_xtrans 10.000000
shake_ytrans 13.000000
shake_ztrans 9.000000
shake_xrot 0.010000
shake_yrot 0.018000
shake_zrot 0.010000
destabilise_xtrans 0.040000
destabilise_ytrans 0.040000
destabilise_ztrans 0.040000
destabilise_xrot 0.001000
destabilise_yrot 0.002000
destabilise_zrot 0.006000
translationReductionFactorForFighters 0.300000
defaultRecenteringFactor 2.200000
entityRecenteringFactor 1.000000
zoomSpeedTargettingThreshold 0.750000
gravWellZoomMultiplier 1.250000
iconZoomTolerance 75.000000
zoomToCursorLocksOnMovingEntities TRUE
zoomToCursorSnapsToEntities TRUE
frontEndHorizontalOffsetPercentage -0.300000
frontEndVerticalOffsetPercentage 0.200000
frontEndVerticalDegreeAngle 15.000000
maxDistanceMult 5.000000
distanceToEntitySnap 100.000000

Can anyone spot any errors amoingst that as this camera is really killing my Sins exp here - completely unplayable for now

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Reply #4 November 1, 2009 8:00:39 PM
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Something like this happened to me before, but corrected when I reset all the controls to default. But it sounds like you need to contact support. If you go to the forums and then the Technical page, at the bottom you can Pm/email Zoomba, Kryo and Yarlen. Try that they may be able to help

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Reply #5 July 11, 2012 1:06:08 AM
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Was having the same problem.  Was using a 5 button mouse, I plugged in another mouse did the same thing.  Went into my mouse options and changed it to a 3 button.  Problem solved.  Hope the same works for you!

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Reply #6 July 11, 2012 2:51:04 AM
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I also know that for me, I always have sins in a windowed mode, and if I move my mouse off the screen and right mouse click, then the next time I move the mouse back to sins, it thinks I still have the right mouse button pressed.  All I normally have to do is right click again on the sins screen to remind it that I'm in charge.

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