How do I zoom out?

Question

Is there a way to zoom out in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning? I am a fan of third person view, but I prefer to be a little farther away from my character so that I see more of the area around me. I notice that the mouse wheel moves the camera up and down but I can't find a key that moves it farther back.

I'm playing on PC.

Asked by spugsley

Answer

This is a rather complicated patch, and is likely not supported by EA, but I actually found a way to do this. First, you need to go to this site and download the program found there, called widescreen fixer. There is a .7z file you need to download. You will need a program like winrar or 7-zip to open and extract the files. Extract the files anyplace you like, and then download the file found here called "Plugin.Kingdoms of Amalure Reckoning.rar". Drop the dll file from there into the "Widescreen fixer" directory you extracted earlier, inside the "Plugins" directory.

Now, open the "Widescreen Fixer.exe" in the main widescreen fixer directory. In the dropdown list you should see Kingdoms of Amalur listed:

At this point, click the standard "config" wheel to the right of the drop-down:

Change the game version to the Steam 1.0.1 option (the most recent patch), and then select your field of view options. I have mine set to 90 and it is much better, but you could go even higher if you wanted. Then, set your resolution to the resolution of your monitor (1920x1080, etc.). Save your settings and close this window.

If you click on the "Settings" tab in the main Window Fixer, at the bottom you will see the following dialogue:

You can click your mouse in the box that says "Add" and press a key which will tell "Widescreen fixer" to activate the fix once you are in the game.

From here, start KoA:R from steam. Now, once at the main menu, press the key you set it to above, I believe the default is the "Multiply" key on the numpad. Then, start your game as normal. As soon as you start moving around you should see the field of view move out.

Here are some in game shots of my rather low level mage, with and without this fix:

The default Field of View:

The field of view set to "90" through the widescreen fixer at 1920x1080 with my character standing at the exact same spot looking in the same direction:

It makes quite the difference! I haven't had much time to test if this creates graphical artifacts or not. I did find that one side effect is that your character is a miniature version of themselves when you go to the pause screen, so you can't see your armor and weapons as well when you are equipping things. Since it is turned on via the "Widescreen Fixer" program, it is easy enough to disable if you decide you don't like it. Simply hit the key to turn it on again to turn it off when back at the menu screen, or exit the game and do not run Widescreen fixer this time. You can always just remove the Widescreen Fixer directory if you don't like the use this.

I should say, I can't vouch for the Widescreen Fixer program, I just found it as a part of this field of view hack. Since this is a single-player game, I can't imagine this would raise any red flags, but I certainly don't know that for sure, so use at your own risk.

In addition, as the game is patched, it may stop this patch from working, so I'd recommend monitoring the thread going on with the person who created this, "helifax", here.

Answered by kazzamalla

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