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Spectator Camera View Angle Skew

Michael Quinn shared this bug 2 years ago
Won't Fix

I switch pretty often between camera views while building in creative, and often run into an issue where the F8 Spectator Camera's view angle is skewed such that my movement is messed up. Holding Right may make the camera move down and to the right, changing the Yaw will wobble the pitch up and down in a wave-like pattern, and altogether it becomes really annoying to use. Sometimes it gets so messed up that it becomes completely unusable. I believe you can quickly simulate this issue by holding the "Alt" key and moving the mouse while using spectator to intentionally skew the camera. The issue can be resolved by reloading the world, but this is inconvenient at best and usually impractical.

If preventing the skew from happening in spectator is too difficult, perhaps a hotkey could be added to simply reset the skew? Or switching to spectator just resets the skew each time you switch to it.

I've also noticed that sometimes, cycling through Entities or messing with F7 spectator will reset it. Hope this helps!

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Hello, Michael!

Sorry to hear you're experiencing this issue. Would it be possible to please provide a video of what you're experiencing? It's quite hard to fully understand what's going without seeing it. I may be seeing slightly what you're referring to but not as severe as it sounds like you are experiencing. If I am in F8 and for instance, do a 360 with my mouse, I would say the view does not stay level. If I use the right key and hold it as you mentioned, I don't appear to notice any drop-off, in fact, I have got my crosshairs on a line of blocks so I know it's not moving down. I haven't experienced anything that has really made the view do anything unexpected or, that I am in a situation where I need to reload the world.

Some further information and ideally a video would be a huge help if possible. It may be that the reset skew should go to the feedback section but if there is a bug with the spectator as it stands, I can report that if I can reproduce it :)

Kind Regards

Laura, QA Department

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I will see if I can get a video of this issue occurring. For additional context, I have had this happen for a few years now, on both modded and vanilla worlds. The issue can wax and wane in severity at times, and is somewhat unpredictable. Certain actions can occasionally increase or decrease its severity.

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Hello, Michael!

Have you had a chance to record a video of this happening at all? :)

Kind Regards

Laura, QA Department

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Hello, Engineer!

Because there is no new comment from you, and we are unable to reproduce the issue on our own, I will close this thread now as outdated.

If you or any other player will experience this issue again, please make a new thread and provide all needed info there.

Thank you for understanding.

Kind Regards

Keen Software House: QA Department

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