Why can't we look up to 90°?

[LeoLupinos]

Many little details in this game bothers me, one of those is that when I want to look to something tall, I can't, and I need to move away to be able to see the top, while in the same situation in real life I can manage to look up 90°, even a bit more behind me.

Can SE lift this limitation, please?

@Edit: I played some games that can do it by changing the axis to the camera when it touches the ground, instead of sliding, so that it can look up 90º. I think this should be the solution, works perfect in other games.

[Callinon]

I suspect it's a limitation of camera collision. While your character should be able to tilt their head 90 degrees upward, the camera can't do that because it'd collide with the floor and you'd just end up staring directly up through your character's model.

[LeoLupinos]

I suspect it's a limitation of camera collision. While your character should be able to tilt their head 90 degrees upward, the camera can't do that because it'd collide with the floor and you'd just end up staring directly up through your character's model.

I can't see even with the first-person camera.

[Callinon]

I can't see even with the first-person camera.

I know, but remember it isn't REALLY a first-person camera. The camera perspective doesn't move to your character's eyes, it moves inside your character's head. So the original camera behavior doesn't change, just the positioning.

[Melichoir]

I suspect it's a limitation of camera collision. While your character should be able to tilt their head 90 degrees upward, the camera can't do that because it'd collide with the floor and you'd just end up staring directly up through your character's model.

I suspect its more to deter underwear shots when players wear skirts.

[LeoLupinos]

I suspect its more to deter underwear shots when players wear skirts.

That's definitely not the motive. They could simply make the character model disappear when certain angle is reached, the same as when an object crosses between the camera and the character, the model disappears.

[Melichoir]

That's definitely not the motive. They could simply make the character model disappear when certain angle is reached, the same as when an object crosses between the camera and the character, the model disappears.

Or...Just prevent you from looking up enough. Like is the case currently?

[Halivel]

I suspect its more to deter underwear shots when players wear skirts.

I mean... akhem, but we have items that show you underwear by default even from straight angle without any need to look up:



So I highly doubt that they had anything like this in mind when did this limitation. It's probably just some technical aspect that they couldn't (or didn't want to) avoid.

[Melichoir]

So I highly doubt that they had anything like this in mind when did this limitation. It's probably just some technical aspect that they couldn't (or didn't want to) avoid.

Pardon me if this might come off as blunt, but its not the butt nor the 'front' that is usually a problem. Its the 'undercarriage', so to speak. The camera itself specifically locks as soon as it gets to a certain range to the player model. It's not an issue of it being limited or clipping through the ground, because the camera will 'slide' across the ground up till the lockpoint. And if its an issue of 'making the model disappear', they can do this already by using the First Person View which removes the player model from your personal view. So the limitation seems arbitrary...unless you consider what I said. Consider that some other MMOJRPGs have a similar camera limitation for that specific reason, or the whole 'upskirt' creeper thing in Japan is (or was) a cultural phenomenon (albeit minor one) that theyre not fond of.

[Doozer]

I think there's a setting that raises or lowers your third-person camera, which can make it easier to see high-up stuff. I can't say how much higher because I prefer the default height for my current race, but it might help.