hexeez wrote:
Yes if you first press F9 (toggle camera view) twice only. This would get you to the rear camera view with rotating camera (camera always stays behind you in this mode).
After having selected that mode then you can manually zoom in or out using the numpad1 for zoom out...and numpad 7 for zoom in. Actually it seems that I get to zoom out further using this method than with my mouse. Also, by pressing the F9 button 6 times (total) will bring you back to the default 1st person camera view from which the mouse wheel becomes standard zoom and the numpad 7 and numpad 1 will not work in that view. There no other way that I know of without using the F9 option.
Yeah this is the option I was talking about. The problem is that the camera is always facing forward and raises or lowers along a vertical axis like the camera is behind you on a pole; so when you use the mouse to look upward, it doesn't actually rotate the view upward, it instead raises the camera up but you're still always facing forward- so you can't look up or down with the mouse. It makes for possibly a good periscope of sorts; you can stand at the bottom of something, then "look upward" and it will raise the camera up to the hilltop where you can see what's up there, like a periscope.
But it really makes running along hills and such very difficult. I'm used to moving the camera along the planes, as when moving up a hill I will point the camera view upward parallel with the plane of the hillside- probably like everyone else does in the 1st person default.