camera facing straight down

[Perrigrin]

is it possible to do a macro that would face the camera straight down? I would like a button for that for "minimizing" graphical lag in certain situations on the slaves.

[Heenan]

Massive edit:

I just tested this and it works.

1. Set your camera angle to where you want it.
2. Use "/script SaveView(5)" (or whatever number you want to replace, 1-5).
3. Use "/script SetView(5)" to go to your new view.
4. If you ever want to reset the view back use "/script ResetView(5)"

[Jamien]

I found the easiest way to do it is to set pre-defined camera views.
In the keybinding options menu bind one of your keys on all chars to saveview 1 and 2, then set view 1 to be facing at the ground (save it) and view 2 scrolled out a bit, but still facing the ground (save it). Then overwrite those binds and change them to setview 1 and 2.
It's easy to loot/talk to npcs/etc when you're cameras close to the char viewing top down.

[Glord]

Switch to a predefined view. The rotate the camera as you want.
Hm.. I think that should allow you to switch to something like a diaboII like pseudo-isometric view for the toons... esp. with that mod that allows you to zoom out pretty far from the toons. Will have to give this a try.

[Anemo]

I'm having issues getting this working

I can get it to save and set view's fine but it will not save after I exit WoW. Is this a limitation or is there some other way around it?

It is happening on both my Vista and XP machines using either the /script command or binding keys to set/save in keybindings.

[Mercurio]

I'm having the same problem - always resets after I exit WoW.

This is new with the latest patch. It saved just fine before.

[Xzin]

If you hit it twice it (used to, still should) snap to the view instantly rather than slowly pan to it.

[Anemo]

The snap view thing still works but appears saving doesn't. I guess it is just since the patch which makes me feel a bit better because I could not work out wtf was going on.

[FunkStar]

The snap view thing still works but appears saving doesn't. I guess it is just since the patch which makes me feel a bit better because I could not work out wtf was going on.

[FunkStar]

The snap view thing still works but appears saving doesn't. I guess it is just since the patch which makes me feel a bit better because I could not work out wtf was going on.

Have people ever found a fix for this? I'm using angle down for my druids now as well but have to re-do it every time i startup wow, which is really annoying!

(and sorry for the thread necro, found this thread with search)