Flying Camera Mode?

[oagersnap]

What does flying camera do, and how do I activate it?

 

[Argh]

It's a new unit. A camera that follows your units into battle, showing their victories to your citizens, and boosting happiness in all cities.

I don't have a clue. Sorry, being silly

 

[Kolyana]

Open your civilization.ini file and look for a line that says:
; Allow Camera Flying
AllowFlying = 0

Change that to:
; Allow Camera Flying
AllowFlying = 1

In game hit ... hmm ... ctrl+f or something like that (been a while) and you can then use the mouse wheel to zoom in and across the map. It's fiddly, but, well ... yeah.

 

[Gemini1706]

Hmmm.. I already use the mouse wheel to zoom in/out. And I did not change anything, it is all default.

Are you sure Flying Cam is just mouse wheel zoom?

 

[Puzzlinon]

No, it's a ground-level view where you zoom around inside your civilization,
using mouse motion to steer and move. It's a bit... goofy, since's it's a fullsize view of your towns and cottages and so on, with these gargantuan warriors standing astride the towns defending them.

 

[Colossian]

Open your civilization.ini file and look for a line that says:
; Allow Camera Flying
AllowFlying = 0

Change that to:
; Allow Camera Flying
AllowFlying = 1

In game hit ... hmm ... ctrl+f or something like that (been a while) and you can then use the mouse wheel to zoom in and across the map. It's fiddly, but, well ... yeah.

Thanks a lot. it works with Ctrl-F and Alt-F

 

[salty]

I get something called satellite mode where everything is flat. ctrl-f just causes my workers to make a fort @#$%#

 

[Kolyana]

Salty ... you muist edit your civilization.ini file first ...

 

[clut]

Salty ... you muist edit your civilization.ini file first ...

... and make sure you close and restart cIV ...

 

[Vael]

I think you also need cheat mode enabled, but I'm not sure about that.

 

[Kolyana]

Nope.


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[salty]

hmm, my civilizationIV.ini doesn't have any AllowFlying = x entries. I added one, and still get the same satellite thing. I have harkonen(sp?) "please don't crash on me" mod installed

 

[Kolyana]

Me too.
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[narmox]

Salty: press ctrl-f not alt-f.

 

[slothman]

Me likes it.
I like going underground and "peeking" up from below.
Almost ramming a mountain and pulling up just in time.
I followed a plane around once.
It was really cool when I looked in a forest where it was undiscovered.
It got eeriely spooky and dark.
I snuck into a mine and watched the train cargo going in and out.
When I was looking at a cow the cow didn't seem to notice the camera in front of her.

 

[Xarlak]

hmm, my civilizationIV.ini doesn't have any AllowFlying = x entries. I added one, and still get the same satellite thing. I have harkonen(sp?) "please don't crash on me" mod installed

I'm having the same problem - none of my xml files have that variable. I even searched both folders (the program files one and the my docs/my games one) for the phrase, and came up with nothing. Should I just add it?

 

[weakciv]

its not an xml file. it is the Civilization.ini file.

 

[CampRadio]

Would it be under Documents,All files or folders or pictures,music and viedeos?

 

[CampRadio]

All it say is Satelite veiw enabled/disabled

 

[TheLastOne36]

you have to edit the file and press Ctrl-Shift-F for fly mode

Crtl-F is just Saterlite mode IIRC.