Camera Tweak Help!

[Drowchyld777]

Okay. So I got a new monitor for Christmas! Its a widescreen 22" running at highest resolution. So playing Skyrim I have increased my FOV from 70 (what I used to use) to 85. Its a LOT nicer...aside from one aspect! When I enter 3rd person and zoom all the way in (the closest zoom level before 1st person) its kinda far behind my character now! I really really like the closest zoom level to be like right on my character. So I am a bit dismayed. I have spent a while in Google and on the chat channel looking for the value but I can't seem to find it! I see a lot of camera tweak settings but nothing about what setting does what.

 

So I am asking for help from YOU now. I need to know what the value is called. I know it goes in the SKYRIM.INI under [Camera]. I would like to know what the vanilla value is of the setting and if increasing the value (xxx = 1.0 changed to xxx = 1.1) would cause the 3rd person camera to zoom closer or further from the player. I don't need to change anything else like zoom increments or anything; just how many 'ticks' it takes to get from max zoom to 1st person.

[Drowchyld777]

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[Ragicka]

I often wondered about this also, just too distracted to look into it. But your post inspired me to have a look around. This is what I found so far...

 

There is SoS. The author presents some skyrim.ini tweaks that are primarily geared to alter 3rd person over the shoulder pov. But he included some zoom increment settings which look interesting.

 

fMouseWheelZoomMinDelta=0.0050

fMouseWheelZoomSpeed=0.8000

fMouseWheelZoomIncrement=0.0750

 

Reducing the first and third values by half didn't make any difference that I could see. But I'll play with these a bit more and see.

 

The author also included a text file with a long list of additional settings to look into and I have no idea what they do.

 

Looking further afield, I found this setting:

 

fVanityModeMinDist=25.0000

 

This got me a close up view of my characters left shoulder. The problem is that the zoom centers on the cursor. This setting actually zooms slightly past the character for a nice close up view of NPCs and world items before dropping into 1st person.

 

Upping the FOV to 90 helped a bit to get more of my character into the picture. But not quite what we're looking for. This might work by adjusting these values:

 

fOverShoulderPosY=5.0000

fOverShoulderPosX=5.0000

fOverShoulderPosZ=10.0000

 

To center more on the characters face, but it's going to take some experimentation. I just found out about the setini console command so once I get some printouts, I'll tinker with it some more.

 

Hopefully someone who has this figured out will drop in. Until then, we'll just have to roll up our sleeves and get to it. :thumbsup: