Tilting the Sims 4 Camera up and down?

"Jessa_Dakkar;12551526" wrote:
Ohh, nice. I saw a review yesterday from someone who had it and apparently didn't know there was an option to do that. I really hope so or a lot of storytellers will be upset, and people who like to showcase builds.. and sims, and pretty much most everyone. I used tilt all the time.

That's the problem with a lot of reviews. People don't know about things, can't find them, then report that it's a major flaw, when in fact they are incorrect. So I hope people actually read multiple reviews before making decisions about buying things. Anything, not just games.

If you're in the Sims 4 controls (not the Sims 3 reverted controls) and you hold CTRL and the left mouse button, you can adjust the camera to any angle. It's a little annoying to have to revert back and forth between the two, but it works.

What I had to do was go into game options - camera - and check the sims 3 camera mode box. Then to tilt the camera up/down I hold down ctrl button, then hold down the right mouse button, and move the mouse around. At first it was a little weird but I got used to it after a while and have no problems :)

I had to ask the same question before ;)

"lynny;12570258" wrote:
If you're in the Sims 4 controls (not the Sims 3 reverted controls) and you hold CTRL and the left mouse button, you can adjust the camera to any angle. It's a little annoying to have to revert back and forth between the two, but it works.

Thank you so much @lynny. This worked beautifully

> @ladybastilla said:
> I believe that if you go into Game Options --> Camera and Controls you can get "sims 3 camera" and use left mouse + mouse movement to fix this. I had to enable that to make the camera spin for me.

Oh thank you for that! I've been struggling with the camera, it was one of the few things in the game that I was not liking.

This will work if your scroll wheel on your mouse is clickable. Go into Options Menu. Select "Game Options". Select "Controls & Camera". Enable "The Sims 3 Camera". Now in the game while you moving the mouse forward or back, click down on the scroll wheel button as you move the mouse. This will tilt your screen down or up.

On a relative side note, I think it's completely moronic that they didn't keep the controls in the middle bottom of the screen, accessible at all times like they were in Sims 3. But the Powers That Be decided we had been using the UI wrong all these years and hired someone who obviously doesn't have a history playing the game to hide the controls in the upper right corner. YIPPEE.

Edit: rofl I want to be the person who sits around and thinks up every non-curse, negative word to put in the "PLUM database". *rolls eyes... It's just sunshine and rainbows around here. Too bad this game isn't.

Oh! Thanks for telling me how to do this!

Besides going into the game settings you can also toggle back between sims 3 camera and the new camera this way:

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@SimsVIP Also, hitting Ctrl+Shift+Tab will toggle the camera modes on the fly."

I find hot keys extremely helpful when I remember them.

i have to hit tab every time a new lot loads because the angle is too high. so i hit tab reposition the camera with mouse as i like and then hit tab again to exit and the camera drops to a lower better position

You can tilt by holding the middle button on the mouse down and pulling mouse forward or back.