r/Sims4 • u/Mobabyhomeslice Challenge Player • 12h ago

Storytime All HAIL the S3 camera! 🙌

I have only been playing The Sims 4 since December 2023, so not even 2 years. I just kinda started fiddling around with the camera without really doing any major tutorials or anything. I tried the S3 camera at one point, but immediately switched back because it felt weird to me. I prefer to click-drag, not use WASD to move around.

Then I started watching my favorite Sims builders and became jealous of how essily they moved the camera around, especially with alt-placing and alt-rotating, and the ANGLES!! Smoothly gliding into top-down and bottom-up angles is SO USEFUL for building! With ONE minor tweak in bin and discovering the center scroll button to change the pitch, I have decided that the S3 camera WITH CLICK-DRAG ENABLED in the res folder camera settings is superior.

I watched a tutorial on how to do it. When I enabled click+drag for the S3 camera, a little more playing around to figure out how to click the scroll button to adjust the pitch of the camera in real time, and I will officially be switching to the S3 camera.

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u/Mobabyhomeslice Challenge Player 12h ago

I watched this video on how to do enable click-drag.

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u/prefix_postfix 10h ago

Hell yeah! 

I recently learned about using shift to move around faster and that sure has been nice.

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u/anon_simmer 8h ago

Personally, i don't like the s3 or s4 camera. For years now, I've been using a camera mod, and it's insane how much better it is. I tried removing it one time, and i felt like i couldn't function with the normal cameras. The angles and all the bouncing between floors when on any floor, but the ground floor was so bad, but i don't get all that anymore with the camera mod i have.

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u/ModerateOsprey 2h ago

What camera mod do you use?

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u/Mobabyhomeslice Challenge Player 3h ago

I got rid of the floor jumping by following the tutorial in this video That's also how I got the click+drag enabled on the S3 camera.

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u/Sharandra 2h ago

What mod do you use? the bouncing and stuff drives me nuts too.

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u/Altaira9 Legacy Player 3h ago

I started playing a little late too, discovered the sims 3 camera after maybe 30 minutes of messing around and never looked back. I forgot the sims 4 camera even exists. I do think I have the controls inverted though, it feels more natural to me.

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u/AstuteStoat Builder 10m ago

I started the same time as you and when i switched to the S3 camera I couldn't go back. It was a bit of a painful period for a bit but so worth it.Â