Increasing zoom?

[Ceres]

AFAIK, max. zoom is higher ("infinite") in Atlas editor than in 0ad. Can it be increased for the latter? Where would I find code for this? I'm never able during gameplay to look her into her beautiful eyes.

[Yekaterina]

Yes you can. You can create a local.cfg in your config folder. Then type in 

zoom.max = 500;

Or max.zoom = 500;

(Sorry I can't remember which one exactly, just try both and see if one works)

[Ceres]

Thank you! According to \binaries\data\config\default.cfg

[view] ; Camera control settings
zoom.min = 50.0
zoom.max = 200.0
zoom.default = 120.0

However, when I put zoom.max = 1000.0 into \0ad\config\local.cfg, I don't get closer than this:

Is I also put gui.scale = 1.5 there and see its effect in the GUI scale, the file seems to be in the right place. But the max. zoom factor does not seem to have any effect. Shouldn't local.cfg override default.cfg?

 

Edit: When starting 0 A.D. (SVN) with this parameter, where is the local.cfg file stored?

-writableRoot store runtime game data in root data directory
(only use if you have write permissions on that directory)

 

Besides, see there about the GUI scale and there: https://code.wildfiregames.com/D3037

Edited September 14, 2021 by Ceres

[Yekaterina]

38 minutes ago, Ceres said:

When starting 0 A.D. (SVN) with this parameter, where is the local.cfg file stored?

I believe for linux, it is at:

~/.config/0ad/config/

For windows,

Appdata/local/0ad/config

or Appdata/roaming/0ad/config 

(Again, I haven't used windows in a long time so I don't know for sure, but if I remember correctly they were in appdata)

 

You need to create the file by yourself. It is not included by default.

Edited September 14, 2021 by Yekaterina

[Ceres]

I created the file:

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However, when I put zoom.max = 1000.0 into \0ad\config\local.cfg, I don't get closer than this:

Is I also put gui.scale = 1.5 there and see its effect in the GUI scale, the file seems to be in the right place. But the max. zoom factor does not seem to have any effect. Shouldn't local.cfg override default.cfg?

 

The GUI scale change works, but the max. zoom change has no effect.

PS: When I enable the dev overlay (alt+d) and untick "Restrict camera", the zoom works ("endlessly").

Edited September 14, 2021 by Ceres

[Ceres]

When using the "-writableRoot" parameter on Debian, the file ~/.config/0ad/config/local.cfg does not have any effect, but it does without that parameter. However, only the GUI scale (switch between 1.0 and e.g. 1.2) shows an effect. The max. zoom settings does not show any effect when zooming. Here is my local.cfg:

gui.scale = 1.2
zoom.max = 500.0

Any further ideas? Thank you!

[Yekaterina]

Just now, Ceres said:

When using the "-writableRoot" parameter on Debian, the file ~/.config/0ad/config/local.cfg does not have any effect, but it does without that parameter. However, only the GUI scale (switch between 1.0 and e.g. 1.2) shows an effect. The max. zoom settings does not show any effect when zooming. Here is my local.cfg:

gui.scale = 1.2
zoom.max = 500.0

Any further ideas? Thank you!

I think you need the semi-colon sign at the end of each line. 

If it still doesn't work, maybe insert the local.cfg at where you found default.cfg  (0ad/binaries/config)

[Stan`]

zoom.min = 50.0

Is what you are interested in. Zoom max is dezooming not zooming in.

https://github.com/0ad/0ad/blob/master/binaries/data/config/default.cfg#L565

[Ceres]

Oh my bad! Thanks!

[Ceres]

@Stan` When zooming in, it's keeping the screen centre in focus. However, if one is interested to zoom in to a unit or just an area not in the centre, after zooming in, one has to move there (or vice versa). Would it make sense to have a toggleable zoom function, so a selected unit or area is kept in the centre of the screen, even if not originally in the screen centre? (e.g. Alt + scroll wheel)

[maroder]

@Ceres select a unit an then press F to follow it with the camera. Then you can zoom in as much as you want.

[Ceres]

Knowing that this is more than a year ago, I paste below my current test setting (also for other interested players), which seems to work nicely for me:

C:\Users\Ceres\AppData\Roaming\0ad\config\local.cfg

[view] ; Camera control settings
zoom.speed = 256.0
zoom.speed.wheel = 16.0
zoom.min = 0.0
zoom.max = 300.0
zoom.default = 80.0
zoom.speed.modifier = 1.5       ; Multiplier for changing zoom speed

 

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

6 hours ago, Ceres said:

Knowing that this is more than a year ago, I paste below my current test setting (also for other interested players), which seems to work nicely for me:

C:\Users\Ceres\AppData\Roaming\0ad\config\local.cfg

[view] ; Camera control settings
zoom.speed = 256.0
zoom.speed.wheel = 16.0
zoom.min = 0.0
zoom.max = 300.0
zoom.default = 80.0
zoom.speed.modifier = 1.5       ; Multiplier for changing zoom speed

 

I think the game could have 3 presets, like how AOE3 did. Close, Normal, Far.

[Pepre]

Install boonGUI mod and change zoom out distance in Option -> boonGUI to 400 - Further

[Lion.Kanzen]

4 hours ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

I think the game could have 3 presets, like how AOE3 did. Close, Normal, Far.

This.

[Lion.Kanzen]

3 hours ago, Pepre said:

Install boonGUI mod and change zoom out distance in Option -> boonGUI to 400 - Further

I think the point of discussing it on the technical forum is to not have to install a mod and add it to the main game.