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Nauseating Camera
JCStormy1
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To be honest, this has been going on for years (since Sims 3) and one would have thought that it might have been addressed by now... it hasn't been.
What am I on about? Cameras that bob and bounce nauseatingly out of windows, off of buildings/apartments, off of multi-storied homes... dang! Even off of tall objects in a room if you happen to be panning in that direction! Is there even a way to stop it; toggle it for those who don't mind the roller-coaster effect when panning/walking through a sim's home?
By the way this is with, and without, mods installed.
What am I on about? Cameras that bob and bounce nauseatingly out of windows, off of buildings/apartments, off of multi-storied homes... dang! Even off of tall objects in a room if you happen to be panning in that direction! Is there even a way to stop it; toggle it for those who don't mind the roller-coaster effect when panning/walking through a sim's home?
By the way this is with, and without, mods installed.
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It is annoying but definitely not nauseating. The workaround is to avoid those things.
Is it? Huh, I never tried that. 😂
Cool, I had no idea flat roof houses wouldn't bounce up and down, great news! I might seriously consider building more houses with a flat roof now. The constant bobbing of the camera is so frustrating, especially when building a house or trying to take screenshots! I've noticed it's really bad in apartments too in live mode. Might consider not living in them anymore after my Sim completes her City Native aspiration. Thanks!
The house that I'm currently in is flat roofed and it still happens. If people like the bouncing around et al, kudos. If people only want to have box houses for their sims, awesome. For them. Make it toggle-able so that people, like me, can turn it off and be able to glide smoothly through their stories.
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I'm using the default camera style, presently.
does it have a foundation?
The roof definitely does it though and the foundation. Maybe there's another factor to it then too.
Yeah, it does have a foundation, and a lot of that new landscaping that came this month (November).
What is the advantage of the default camera over the Sims 3 setting, anyone know?
I'm such a creature of habit that I turned on the TS3 camera the day I first got the game, have never played with the default one.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
just for testing, try building a house with a flat roof and no foundation, with 2 floors and see if it still does it. I've found it doesn't.
There's not much of an advantage other than you can zoom in and out and the camera does it smoothly without you having to tilt it and such to get to an eye level to your sim.
OP, I think there's nothing much you can do other than to be careful while you are on the edges of the house. I feel like using the right hand click and holding it to move around will prevent that from happening rather than using edge scrolling cuz you have better control.
As far as I've been able to tell, the TS3 camera doesn't allow for mouse-wheel rotating. I believe you have to use the keyboard to rotate.
And, @Dekay, thank you for the answer. Been years since I installed the game, I'd totally forgotten there even was another camera control option until this thread popped up. I think I'll stick with the TS3 style camera, I prefer to be the one controlling all aspects of the camera...including the degree of tilt as I zoom in and out.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
Using the unoccupied house in the Pinnacles as example; removing the foundation et al, (and saving) I still get that effect. TBH it's been there for years I just kept hoping that Maxis would have fixed it by now.
You're absolutely right. It was the opposite; the TS4 mouse is the one that doesn't allow me to tilt and rotate. My bad.
On the original house I removed the trees and pools, still did it. Tried it without lights, doors, other objects. Still did it. But try building one yourself and you'll see it won't jump around. I even had a roof on the test house, the kind that is only on the roof and doesn't go over the edges of the walls.
I have not had fun with the bobbling camera since Sims3. I do like multi-storied homes. I created a castle and blamed the bobbing on the lot it fit into in Sims3, by the rushing water fall. The cliff next to it was steep and the camera had issues with it. I surely hoped this would have been cured come Sims4. Nope. No such luck. Ah, me.
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In general I stick to single story homes in more or less flat areas.. even trees and plants obstructing my view of the sims and what they do will bother me though. I tend to just not have my sims live in the places that I know bug me. Good places for visiting, housing sims I rarely if ever play ect though.
Not for you, perhaps, but for people with motion sickness or other conditions, it definitely is. The 'workaround' doesn't always work as they can not always be avoided.