Camera Options

Discussion in 'Suggestions' started by pendolendo#7123, Mar 31, 2026 at 1:27 PM.

  1. pendolendo#7123

    pendolendo#7123 New Member

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    I would appreciate very much more camera presets and options, and even the possibility to make our own camera presets. One view I most have in mind is a forward-facing view from the nose of the train, roughly at the high at which the driver would be sitting, but from the outside of the train. This would be an extension of the head-out camera, but positioned slap-bang in the middle of the nose section of the train, and stuck in position so it doesn`t get displaced when going through tunnels - a glitch that affects the free camera that moves with the train. This camera enables a greater visual representation and appreciation of the speed a train travels at, and is particularly effective at this on high-speed trains.
     
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  2. stujoy

    stujoy Well-Known Member

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    I’ve been asking for a nose cam for years. They have put it on the trains in Wonders of Sodor but not in TSW. They have always said just to put the external camera there but it isn’t stable, as you say, and gets bounced about everywhere. It needs to be one of the ‘internal’ camera views so it stays where it is.

    The problem now, if they decide to add it, is that there are hundreds of trains that would have to have this dedicated view added to them and I can’t see DTG and third party devs going through all their trains to add a nose cam now. They should have introduced it as a standard view earlier. It could be added to future trains though.
     
  3. Phil47569

    Phil47569 Well-Known Member

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    I like the current camera 4 & 5, a moveable chase camera, what I don't like is how scenery affects it and pushes it in to the point sometimes it just flips out and repositions itself half way along the train when going under one bridge that was just too low for it. Likewise cameras 2 & 3 are nice, not as adjustable but are good, except when something passes between it and the train then it adjusts or zooms in then back out again when the object has passed, really annoying when checking doors on the platform with passengers wandering about.
     

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