Free camera problem

[[Krogoth86]]

After changing the free camera scrollspeed in the settings.exe I cannot move the camera anymore. It just moves to the starting point and stays there. I still can "look around" but no longer tilt or pan the camera in any direction. How to solve this?

[trepan]

Edit your registry/config. The free cam speed range
is not the same as for the other cameras, and the
gui config program does not take that into account
(the free cam speed is based on spring map units,
as is its gravity, etc...)

[[Krogoth86]]

Hmmm - ok where do the settings get saved to (for Windows systems)? I already searched for a file and let regedit look for something saying "Spring" but I did get no results which had something to do with the settings...

EDIT:
Ah - found it now. Must have skipped it last time...
I'm going to play a bit with those options now...

[[Krogoth86]]

Ok - could someone please look up his CamFree settings in the registry? I cannot point out which option really is responsible and which value it should have...

You should be able to look it up at:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SJ\spring

Please list all the CamFree entries i.e. their values. Thanks in advance...

[rattle]

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SJ\spring]
"CamFreeEnabled"=dword:00000000
"CamFreeInvertAlt"=dword:00000000
"CamFreeGoForward"=dword:00000000
"CamFreeFOV"="45"
"CamFreeScrollSpeed"=dword:0000000a
"CamFreeGravity"="-500"
"CamFreeSlide"="0.5"
"CamFreeGroundOffset"="16"
"CamFreeTiltSpeed"="150"
"CamFreeAutoTilt"="150"
"CamFreeVelTime"="1.5"
"CamFreeAngVelTime"="1"
"CamMode"=dword:00000001
"CamTimeFactor"="1.0"
"CamTimeExponent"="4.0"

[[Krogoth86]]

Thank you. Unfortunately this didn't fix the camera being stuck. I'll try to reinstall Spring and hope this will resolve that issue...

[trepan]

Default settings are at the top of the file:
https://spring.clan-sy.com/svn/spring/t ... roller.cpp

[koshi]

Someone please give me the real value range of CamFreeScrollSpeed and a reasonable default value so I can fix it in SpringSettings

edit: ok, default value is 500. Is there a specific reason why this in contrast to other ScrollSpeeds is saved as float? Also does anybody know if the settings handler cares if it wouldn't be saved as float, but integer?

[Tobi]

The registry settings handler may choke on that; not sure tho, I don't know how floats are saved. (I do know string vs int does matter there tho..)

[[Krogoth86]]

Well I now did reinstall and this also didn't solve the problem. Any more ideas?

[koshi]

did you try to delete the reg key and start off from defaults?

as a reminder: i would still like a valid range for CamFreeScrollSpeed values

[[Krogoth86]]

I deinstalled it, deleted the registry entry I mentioned (i.e. the entire directory), rebooted and then installed again. Still the same problem with an only rotatable free camera...

Are there more registry entires I should erase?

[[Krogoth86]]

Small update:
There really seems to be something wrong with the gravity or the like because I recently had moved the camera near a cliff and switched to the Free Camera and it started slipping down the hill...

[rattle]

I'm having the same issues.

[[Krogoth86]]

I actually solved this some days ago by deinstalling and rage deleting pretty much any Spring related entry in the registry. It worked again after reinstalling but as it were quite a lot of entries I cannot say which were the necessary ones...

[LordMatt]

rage deleting pretty much any Spring related entry in the registry.

lol

[Vadi]

Yay registry

[rattle]

I solved it by getting rid of all FreeCam related entries, no idea which one the settings tool borked but it wasn't gravity or the move speed alone.