Set Camera Distance Higher

[Chiyu]

In the interface options of the game you can set the camera distance to a maximum of 30. With this script you can set it higher than that, but not higher than 50, because this limit is hardcoded since some patches.

/console cameraDistanceMax 50

There is also a way to go higher than 50, but this requires you to restart the game. Open your world of warcraft folder and then go to \WTF\Account\(insert account name here)\(insert server name here)\(insert character name here)\ and open the file camera-settings.txt. It should be like "cameraDistance 24.549988" and you can edit the number, an example would be:

cameraDistance 200

After you've done this, save the file, restart the game and log in with the character where you change the camera distance. But be aware of the fact, that if you try to zoom out ingame, the camera distance resets to your limit (30 or 50 with the script above). However, you can zoom in slowly if 200 is too much. I actually like this for making videos

Have fun

[Szharz]

NICE! ! THanks +rep

[Chumba Wumba]

sweet man i hated the camera distance on the netherdrake ima try this on my wow
+REP

[Sirupsen]

Thanks for making a detailed guide on this!
Also, theres an addon that does the same with fancy interface settings.
Can't remember the name, but It's something with camera, easy find.

[Chiyu]

Thanks for making a detailed guide on this!
Also, theres an addon that does the same with fancy interface settings.
Can't remember the name, but It's something with camera, easy find.

Yeah I know that addon, but I don't think that this is needed, because the change of the camera distance limit is saved on your computer so you just have to use it once. An addon would be a waste of computer resources

[Sirupsen]

Ye, It's much more smart.
I'm gonna do this when I get home.
It looks like you can't zoom to 200 again when you are ingame? Or I just read wrong?

[lavernious]

thats awesome! camera distance is always to short

[Chiyu]

It looks like you can't zoom to 200 again when you are ingame? Or I just read wrong?

That's right. If you changed the distance via the camera-settings.txt you can't zoom out again higher than the limit, so just don't try to zoom out if you are already above the limit

[omgcool7]

lol good i hate trthe nether drake cam to

[Fantox1]

can you tell me how to change it back to normal

[Chiyu]

can you tell me how to change it back to normal

I don't see any reason why you want to do this, but anyways, use this:

/console cameraDistanceMax 30

[Ic3fuzion]

Thanks for making a detailed guide on this!
Also, theres an addon that does the same with fancy interface settings.
Can't remember the name, but It's something with camera, easy find.

It's called Otweak, but can only zoom out 30 yards or something, dunno, it's not so good.

[Sirupsen]

It's called Otweak, but can only zoom out 30 yards or something, dunno, it's not so good.

Narh, it's not that one. The one I knew can zoom to 50.
But that's not what the topic is about. Sorry about that.

[InternetExplorer]

repost....

[whisperofwisps]

You can actually cahnge this in interface options now.