Simple camera question

[bobo11]

Just a noob question here guys, how do I zoom the camera out for a player? I don't like the camera being zoomed in so much, and my map is large, so I need the camera zoomed out for all players.

Cheers

[Pharaoh_]

Camera
Events

Time - Every 0.05 seconds of game time

Conditions
Actions

For each (Integer A) from 1 to 12

Loop - Actions

Camera - Set Player (IntegerA)'s camera Height Offset to Value over 0.1 seconds

The Player (IntegerA) is from (Player - Convert Player to Index) and the whole action is "Camera - Set Camera Field (Timed)".

[Storyyeller]

I don't think that's right.

You want target distance, not height offset.

Also, since using the mousewheel, insert or delete keys causes the camera to revert back to the default, you'll need to either keep applying it constantly, or give the players a chat command. (The ever popular -zoom x)

[ALiEN95]

Im not sure if that is possible ....

[Storyyeller]

Of course it's possible

Here's how the zoom command from my map looks

Jass:

function chatZoom takes integer p, real x returns nothing
    if x<500 then        //set limits on how far the player can zoom in and out
        set x=500
    elseif x>4500 then
        set x=4500
    endif
    if GetLocalPlayer()==Player(p) then
        call SetCameraField(CAMERA_FIELD_TARGET_DISTANCE,x,0)
    endif
endfunction

function FuncChatEvent takes nothing returns nothing
    local integer p = GetPlayerId(GetTriggerPlayer())
    local string s = GetEventPlayerChatString()
    local real arg1
    local integer arg2
   
    // Other chat commands omitted
   
    if SubString(s,0,5) == "-zoom" then
        set arg1 = S2R(SubString(s,6,StringLength(s)))
        call chatZoom(p,arg1)  
    endif
endfunction

// Trigger initialization junk omitted