Cinematic View

The Cinematic View provides an exterior 3D camera to spectate a player ship during a game in progress. The camera perspective is locked on the first player ship by default, but you can use either the keyboard or the camera lock selector interface to select other player ships, or use the keyboard to move and zoom the camera manually around the ship.

Cinematic view demo

The camera remains stationary while the target ship flies past it, then moves ahead to another viewpoint when the ship moves far enough away. Using the camera lock selector UI, you can also toggle whether the camera tracks both the player ship and its weapons target within its view.

Keyboard shortcuts

• H: Toggle the camera lock selector UI.
• L: Toggle between the locked camera and a free-moving camera.
• J, K: Cycle through player ships.
• W, A,S,D: Rotate the camera around the ship.
• R, F: Zoom the camera in and out.
• ↑, ↓: Pitch the camera up and down.
• ESC, Home: Exit and return to the ship selection screen.
• P: If this is the server, pause the game.