(Note: edit game config files at your own risk. I suggest always making a backup of any file you edit first, no matter how trivial the edit). Want to take that epic panoramic screenshot, but can't zoom out quite far enough? Open the Starbound config file (on my machine it is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Starbound\starbound.config", your location may vary based on OS version). Find the line starting with "zoomLevel". It will have a number from 2 to 4 following the "zoomLevel" key. Change that number to 1. Save the config file. Start the game. Enjoy everything being super-tiny and near-unplayable! It's great for taking screenshots, though. Follow same process to set zoom to what it originally was, to continue playing the game. Below is screenshot taken at zoom level 1: http://imgur.com/rpaPAAY You can also increase the zoom above the maximum in the same way for zoomed-in shots, but not much point because you can just use a paint tool to zoom in after the fact. Finally, you can try values even less than 1. Below screenshot is taken with 0.5 zoom level: http://imgur.com/MJpoUIG But keep in mind that: I got like 1FPS on my high-end rig with zoom 0.5, so don't even think about playing the game at this zoom level. I got occasional crashes when below 1 zoom level Below zoom level 1 you will lose details (game will drop every other pixel) and will not be able to recover it (as opposed to zoom 1, which you can then blow up 2x2 in a paint tool to get double the resolution of a game's normal 2x zoom)
as a chronic impulse screenshotter that takes a screenshot at every somewhat interesting moment, lest i forget it, i can't express my love for this enough as a person who spends too much time in photoshop playing around with images, this is pure euphoria Now I can get a super zoomed out version of this
Perhaps, but this was done specifically with taking screenshots in mind. Could there be something like a Photo Camera modded item, which you wear as a tech, and which would change zoom to 1 when you activate it? That would be awesome.
How do you change back to normal, my camera is now stuck either zoomed out to far, or zoomed in to much.
I wonder if you can find a very small planet/moon, and zoom out so far as to see all of the planet at once. Will you see a "loop-around" on your screen? (e.g. the same building being shown twice in different parts of the screen, because the screen is bigger than the planet)? My video card chokes at < 0.5 so I can't really test it, but maybe someone else can.
Sorry let me rephrase. When I set it to something like 1.5, it doesn't look any different then 1. But don't worry, it's fixed now. I put zoom on 3, and for some reason now it is perfect. I don't know why, but it seems to work.
Lol, sorry let me rephrase again. It didn't work for me specifically, but I bet it worked for everyone else. Something was wrong with another zoom related thing so everything was messed up and therefore it wasn't affecting it. Not doubting you though.
I can't find the file info so dose anyone know if there is a mod that dose it. I have looked around extensively and can't find anything.