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Camera zoom on some stations

24-10-2007 10:15 PM

havner

TXU New Member

Number of reported issues by havner: 1

Camera zoom on some stations

cam is stuck at bigger stations

Checked this on two stations. Maybe there are more.

Kingdom End, Boron SY. I hit F3 to get external view of it. Then some zoom key (+ or -) and I'm locked to closer look and +/- stops to work.

Trinity Sanctum, Paranid SY. Its zoom in and out range is much smaller then on vanila stations.

I'm not bothered about this as they are far from being serious bugs but maybe cause of this they are easy to fix :-)

Issue Details

Issue Number 44

Issue Type Bug

Project XTM v.7 Tech-Support English

Category Stations

Status Confirmed

Priority 8

Affected Version 0.7.3

Fixed Version (none)

Users able to reproduce bug 2

Users unable to reproduce bug 0

Attachments 0

Assigned Users (none)

Tags (none)

26-10-2007 07:12 AM

Mokonzi

The X Universe Founder

Do you have any other mods or scripts installed?

26-10-2007 10:40 AM

havner

TXU New Member

Nothing. Just 2.02 + xtm 7.3

28-10-2007 09:24 AM

Roger L.S. Griffiths Roger L.S. Griffiths is offline

Terran Scientist

Confirmed - Reproduced issue with Boron Shipyard in Ocean of Fantasy.

I was able to do a smooth zoom in/out on the Equipment Dock but when I tried the same on the Shipyard I got a stepped zoom in (1 level only) and then could not zoom either in or out from that point.

EDIT #2
In addition Split Shipyard has significantly reduced zoom in/out.

Perhaps this could be due to the shear size of the stations and hardcoded limits in the game? Will check this theory against the Asgard when I get a chance (as the Asgard is about the size of the new Boron Shipyard)

EDIT #3
The Paranid shipyard also has significantly reduced zoom in/out, but it is about double (or triple) the zoom capability of the Split Shipyard

EDIT #5
I checked the Asgard, zoom is limited to about 4 or 5 times the Split Shipyard's zoom.

Hope all this helps clarify the problem.

EDIT #6
Also the Argon shipyard has the same problem as the Boron Shipyard.

From this it seems that the larger the station the less zoom capability you have, but this seems to not apply as much to the large ships such as the Asgard.

28-10-2007 04:48 PM

Mokonzi

The X Universe Founder

From what I've found out, I'm sure that the zoom is restricted somewhat by the X3 engine.

To what degree, I don't know. They are big objects.

29-03-2008 05:55 PM

enenra - {SM} enenra is offline

Super Moderator

it's because of the size... if the model of the station is too big, this happens.

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