Free rome camera

[Frowny13]

This is just a small thing but any chance we could get a free rome camera feature? Like when we're driving along in the exterior view we can detach the camera from the train and fly around whereever. This was in the prologue but not carried over to the full version for some reason.

[Micky Bobby]

I’ve also asked for this elsewhere in the forum. In Train Sim you can press ‘8’ for free roam and use the arrows plus shift to move quickly in order to move the camera to a great drive by view. Press ‘4’ and you’d get a basic auto drive by view. SimRail really needs something like this as it brings so much joy and immersion to the sim! 

[peter]

I would love to have a free Rome camera, too! Something like this:

 

(Sorry, I couldn't miss that 😄 )

 

Edited March 24, 2023 by peter

[Gazz292]

i don't get this 'it'll bring immersion to the sim' thing.

This simulator is about driving and dispatching / signalling the trains. 

how can jumping out of your train at full speed, letting it carry on driverless whilst you fart about on the track side taking photo's result in 'immersion'? 

Immersion means realism, making you believe you really are at the controls of a train or operating a real signal box,   
hence SimRail is more immersive than the other 'train driving games' out there because it won't let you jump out of your train when you are moving (try pressing number '3' to exit the train when moving) 

Even the number '2' external camera breaks immersion, but at least the SimRail dev's knew that and you do not get to see yourself in the driver's seat when you are levitation outside the train holding the camera. 

[Kaito Kid]

The only reason for me to have a freeroam is to take pictures but people need to start thinking that this is not a continuation of any Train Simulator/Trainz series and this is sim is more focused in a more professional/realistic way, I do enjoy a lot BVE for that reason, behaviour and physics are very well implemented and viewing the external train in that simulator is not really that important.

[giBBer8]

A 'nice to have'. 

Edited March 25, 2023 by giBBer8

[Spong]

I say let the people decide. A free roam camera has its pros and cons, as does everything else. However, if many people desire it and the devs are on board with this idea, then it will be added.

People wanted E186 Traxx IC's. These locomotives do not normally run passenger services in Poland, this is mainly done by the EU07. Some people would label that feature as 'unrealistic' and 'not immersive'. However, they're still gettind added in the near future. Why? Because players wanted them. 

You're always bound to get disappointed if you treat everything like it resembles real life. Even Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, one of the most realistic games out there, if not THE most realistic, still has a bird's eye view, a 3rd person camera and a passenger seat camera, just to name a few. Yet I haven't seen anyone complain about the immersion that the game offers, everyone says it's immaculate, even if it has features that cannot be reproduced IRL. 

It's the same here in SimRail. Yes it's one of the most realistic train simulators/games (call it however you want, I couldn't care less), but at some point it WILL have features that resemble  more of a game than a full-scale simulator. Being teleported into the cab in the middle of nowhere when selecting a train is far more unrealistic than having a free roam camera, in my opinion, and we've had that since the playtests. But we go on with it, because at the end of the day, it's still a virtual creation, nothing can ever truly feel like real life.

And if you don't like the damn free roam camera, just don't click the corresponding button. Better yet, unbind it so you never click it by mistake, even.