Ship's Wheel Camera

[Agesilaus II]

Title says it all pretty much. I think it would be cool to have a view from the Ship's Wheel while sailing.

 

Thoughts?

[Leviathan]

This was discussed before. On some ships it would be fine but on others you wouldn't be able to see anything because of the location of the wheel. The best we can do is use the zoom function we have now and zoom all the way to the deck. I'll do this often to add some immersion.

I believe admin has mentioned we may get some hotkeys for different views in the future but the developer for that has been busy working on other things.

[Agesilaus II]

Oh my bad...thanks!

[Leviathan]

No worries. Many people have mentioned their desire to have alternative views and this further shows interest in that.

[Destraex]

The view I was interested in was captains map room / cabin view

[maturin]

I cannot consider this game finished until there we can snap to various panoramic viewpoints on the decks and rigging.

 

At the very least, we need the following:

 

• Main masthead
• Maintop
• Quarterdeck (weather side)
• Forecastle

 

These views are no only much more immersive than the floating camera or gunnery view... some of them are much more useful. It's nonsense that I have to look through my own ship in order to focus on the horizon or up at the sky. I can't imagine a single advantage to the default perspective has over a masthead view, which allows you to swivel the camera around a stationary point, with a better view of other ships and your own sails alike.