One Lazy Camera

[jrkilroy]

Hi There,

I'm using ISBoxer with a 5 man team. I am having a screwy camera problem I'm hoping you can assist with. One of my 5 sessions (slot 2) will change camera views, the camera will auto rotate. This is mostly fixable by using a "setview" macro, but occasionally it causes some problems.

I thought it would be a simple fix, that the problem was with camera/follow settings for that instance. No such luck. I verified the settings are the same as on the other 4.

Does anyone know what else could cause the camera to move?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

It's a bug I've seen playing solo without any boxing software loaded, so it isn't a problem limited to multiboxers. The only way I've found to fix it is /console reloadui. If that doesn't fix it, exiting to the desktop and relaunching WoW is the only other fix.

Fortunately, it is exceedingly rare to see this. I think I've hit the bug maybe 4 times in the last 6 months.

[Taliesin]

Hmm, not sure I've ever seen this happen, or I'm just blocking it from memory. I use Keyclone, but I doubt that has anything to do why I might not have seen it [yet].

[Talos]

1 option to use to 'prevent' this:

even though i use /followstrobe from jamba i still often press my /follow macro after each pull or battle.
reason for this is that besides "/jamba strobe on me" i also added in "/cleartarget" and "setview(2)" in the macro.

so after each pull besides making sure follow is on i also clear target (to avoid runaway alts back to the dead mob) and reset the camera to a fixed position.

[SaraiE]

When I first started, I had this problem. It is interesting to note that my account#2 was the problem. This auto camera rotation happens when the toon is hit by mob and i wasn't able to move it or do anything. When I logged off and logged back on, it went away, but somehow, after the ISBOXER release 3.4, it went away, originally thought it was the infamous Error 132 problem.

I still don't know how it was fixed, but i am glad it was fixed...but this only happened on my 5X shammies group. I did not have the same problem with other setup for all other 5X teams.

Weird!

SaraiE

[RobinGBrown]

Are you using click-to-move with 'smart' camera follow? I get a similar problem where the camera decides that it wants to follow at an angle as opposed to directly behind the character. It starts when I interact with an opponent while in melee and the camera isn't directly behind the toon. It only fixes itself when I interact with target from a distance and then the camera swings back to the right angle.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

1 option to use to 'prevent' this:

even though i use /followstrobe from jamba i still often press my /follow macro after each pull or battle.
reason for this is that besides "/jamba strobe on me" i also added in "/cleartarget" and "setview(2)" in the macro.

so after each pull besides making sure follow is on i also clear target (to avoid runaway alts back to the dead mob) and reset the camera to a fixed position.

Are you sure you are talking about the same problem? Here is the way the above bug presents itself:

• User does nothing special, just plays normally.
• After a pull, the main or an alt's camera will swing around to point (usually) toward a cardinal direction (north, south, etc.).
• Using SetView(x) has zero effect on the bug. It will set camera to look behind you but then as soon as you start moving, the camera will swing around to the cardinal direction again.
• None of the other camera options appear to have any effect in resolving the bug/releasing the camera. Console reloads or complete restarts of the affected WoW client are the only known resolution.

[SaraiE]

Well, I just fired up my pally and 4 shammies team. IT IS BACK! When i hit my totem button to summon 4 toems, account#2 is broken again. Jamba spams Saraiee broke follow. When I PiP to account#2 (slot#2), i cannot move her. Console reloadui doesnt work. Log off and on works, but when I hit that toem button to call totems again...it breaks again.

And solution? This only happens for this team. my locky, priests, pallies, etc teams does not have this problem....

Argghhh!

SaraiE

[SaraiE]

Update: Fixed this
Ualaa was helping in ISBOXER chat room! Yay!
We found out that on slot#2 (account#2), the Call of the Elements totem key was causing this, it broke follow whenever I hit this key to call the 4 totems. But, Call of the Ancestor/Spirits or single totem do not cause this problem. So I use Call of the Ancestor.
Slot3-5, the rest of the shammies, they do not have this problem when I put Call of the Elements on the "4" key, the 1 to = actionbars.

SaraiE