Disable Camera rotation or rebind it

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I just picked up SoaSE:T on Steam and have been enjoying it but the camera rotation on right-click annoys the ever-loving poo out of me because a lot of time in the heat of the moment, I'll right click some units somewhere and accidentally skew the camera out of whack.  Then while I'm trying to re-align it, the over-sensitive thing keeps squirming this way and that like a greased pig on roller-skates.

Can I rebind this blasted command?  Or is there a camera reset button?  I've been Googling and looking everywhere for how to do this, but most of the threads on it are from 2008 and offer no answers.

Thanks!

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

In the options there is a key binding tab that I think works for the mouse too. I'm pretty sure it (along with tons of other things, many of which don't have hotkeys by default) can be found there.

That said, what are you going to change it too? Camera rotation is a pretty important part of this game, you'll want to make it something pretty easy to click.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

just came over this thread, because it's the first one on google.

Unfortunately the second one contains a solution.

Thank you Baleurion to share it ! Still not really playable because the camera view starts in an unusable angle ...

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June 13, 2012 11:57:24 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

[...] In rebellion.camera.setting

in C:\Users\Baleur\Documents\My Games\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Setting

baseRotationSpeed 0.000000

maxRotationSpeed 0.000000

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

I realize this is a very old thread, but I wanted to reply to it as I did find the way to change the mappings for this. If someone could sticky this for future users that would probably be good as I'm sure there are other people wondering about this.

 

Navigate to the folder in C:\Users\YourUserFolderHere\Documents\My Games\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Settings

You'll note this is exactly the same as the previously mentioned step. Here's where we diverge and actually fix the problem. Open up rebellion.uimappings.setting   You'll want to right click it, open, click the bubble that says "Select a program from a list...", and click ok. Now find notepad, and UNCHECK "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file"

The two entries that you want to locate are: CURSOR_BUTTON_1 and CURSOR_BUTTON_2. Their code should look like the following:

CURSOR_BUTTON_1
NumMappings 1
Mapping
Device "MOUSE_BUTTONS"
DeviceInputID 1
isAltDown FALSE
isCtrlDown FALSE
isShiftDown FALSE


CURSOR_BUTTON_2
NumMappings 1
Mapping
Device "MOUSE_BUTTONS"
DeviceInputID 2
isAltDown FALSE
isCtrlDown FALSE
isShiftDown FALSE

Once you have found these two entries, what you want to do is change "DeviceInputID 1" and "DeviceInputID 2". Just swap them. Now, CURSOR_BUTTON_1 should have "DeviceInputID 2" and CURSOR_BUTTON_2 should have "DeviceInputID 2". If you want to completely disable the rotate camera functionality, just remove "DeviceInputID 1" from either one (I think, not tested so use at your own risk!). Personally I think you should keep the rotation functionality just in case you wanna peer around something, but having it on right click WAS very annoying.

I hope this helps anyone else who did endless amounts of google searching as I had done. Enjoy!