Camera Settings are Being Lost

After the patch to 4.01 I've noticed that every time I log into my team the camera settings are lost. Camera1 is zoomed all the way in and level to the ground, which is definitely not the way I like to play. I have a key for setting camera one, and every time I move my team I reset their cameras to those settings - it makes it easier for AOE if they are all lined up perfectly.

As an experiment I dumped the following into the character config.wtf files:

Code:

SET cameraView "1"
SET cameraDistanceA "12.0"
SET cameraPitchA "25.0"
SET cameraYawA "0.000000"


And that worked, but next time I logged out those settings were lost.

I presume you're just not writing them back these days, any chance of a fix?

[lax]

I presume you're just not writing them back these days, any chance of a fix?

That's not my fault, it'd be WoW's if it doesn't store those settings. ISBoxer only changes your Config.WTF at the moment you Export to Inner Space (if you click Yes and agree to changes it proposes), otherwise the only thing it is capable of doing is directing it to use a different file (e.g. Config-MyCharacter.WTF)

Seeing as I rely on being able to set my camera position to quite a steep angle for ground AoE, I took a look into this.

Turns out the camera settings are no longer being loaded from either the per character or per account config-cache.wtf files, but they are loaded if you put them in the Config.wtf file for the whole game install. The only problem left is that they still get wiped from that file when the game exits (not on a /console reloadui or logout though).

You could set the file to read only to stop WoW messing with it, but that's inconvenient when you want to save changes you made to settings in game.

The fix I'm using is to leave the file writable by WoW, and let it wipe the camera settings every time it exits, but have a batch file append my camera settings back into the Config.wtf, before WoW is launched again.

This is the contents of my batch file:

Code:

copy /b D:\WoW1\WTF\Config.wtf+D:\WoW1\WTF\camera_settings.wtf D:\WoW1\WTF\Config.wtf
copy /b D:\WoW2\WTF\Config.wtf+D:\WoW2\WTF\camera_settings.wtf D:\WoW2\WTF\Config.wtf
copy /b D:\WoW3\WTF\Config.wtf+D:\WoW3\WTF\camera_settings.wtf D:\WoW3\WTF\Config.wtf
copy /b D:\WoW4\WTF\Config.wtf+D:\WoW4\WTF\camera_settings.wtf D:\WoW4\WTF\Config.wtf
copy /b D:\WoW5\WTF\Config.wtf+D:\WoW5\WTF\camera_settings.wtf D:\WoW5\WTF\Config.wtf

saveview setview 4.0.1 cameraDistanceA cameraPitchA (for google)

[lax]

Seems like it would be easier to just build it into an Addon or a macro..

Code:

/console SET cameraView "1"
/console SET cameraDistanceA "12.0"
/console SET cameraPitchA "25.0"
/console SET cameraYawA "0.000000"

Only trouble is the patch broke a lot of the console commands too. The only ones that have worked for me are SaveView() and SetView(), and you can't give position values to them, they just work off the current position of the camera.