While checking out my empire in camera mode, I accidentally pressed shift-alt-f instead of ctrl-alt-f to get out of flying camera mode, and it disabled the mouse camera. The mouse arrow came back and I could select units and give orders to units; I didn't try but I'm sure that I could change city builds as well. I couldn't find any reference to this on the forum, so I thought I'd post it.

This left me able to zoom in and out and move left and right with the arrow keys, but not able to move the map by going to the edge of the screen with the pointer.

This way, you can, especially by using satellite camera (alt-f; works while in flying camera mode) play from basically any point of view you want as long as your computer can handle displaying multiple units and cities.

The only drawback is that after a battle (successful or not, stack selected or not), your view gets reset in some respects, and you can left-click on a city, which brings up city noises but you don't actually go into the city screen and so you cannot assign specialists.

This last problem makes me wonder whether there is a way to reassign which plots the population of a city are working from the main screen... does anyone know?

I hate to reply to my own thread, but I just looked around there is a thread called "Flying Camera mode in 1.52?" where they mention the mouse camera but don't say what it does... apparently it is just shift-F. Anyway, its a nice feature.

sounds useable with a large area, I try it out later. There is a edit button you can try ;)

I thought that maybe the view could be preserved following combat by disabling combat zoom, but that didn't work. It's a shame as the altered perspectives can look really good.

maybe there is some way of doing this. But Im to lazy to look trought the ini file :P

How do you activate flying camera mode? I can't remember.

You have to enable the flying camera (make it equal 1 in the ini file), then you press ctrl-alt-f. To disable mouse camera once you are in flying camera it is alt-shift-f, not just shift-f as the post in the other thread said.

You have to enable the flying camera (make it equal 1 in the ini file)

Right, but I can't remember what parameter you have to change to =1.

I believe it is "set camera flying"... you can do a search for "camera". That should find the right parameter.

Nice, thanks.