Stuck in Free Camera Mode

Kotona14 wrote:Hi
Did you try pressing TAB again to get out of it?
TAB enables AND disables the free camera movement mode. You only have to press TAB twice to disable.
Hope it helped.

nurbeidir wrote:

Kotona14 wrote:Hi
Did you try pressing TAB again to get out of it?
TAB enables AND disables the free camera movement mode. You only have to press TAB twice to disable.
Hope it helped.

Yes... of course

Pressing tab once, twice or even holding it doesn't disable it.

cat2006house wrote:Hello,

You can use WASD for scrolling the screen and the "wheel" to rotate (the middle mouse button can also let you zoom in and out. And, I suggest you should check in-game settings to enable "edge scrolling". But I still have to look into the problem deeply to understand what's going on (I don't quite understand your problem actually).

nurbeidir wrote:

cat2006house wrote:Hello,

You can use WASD for scrolling the screen and the "wheel" to rotate (the middle mouse button can also let you zoom in and out. And, I suggest you should check in-game settings to enable "edge scrolling". But I still have to look into the problem deeply to understand what's going on (I don't quite understand your problem actually).

Edge scrolling is not a problem I only explained how I made use of the controls before.
But oki I'll try to explain it on a different way

<,  and >.  keys rotates your screen... 360 degrees. Got that yes?
Well, my A and D keys did the exact same thing, they let me rotate in circles without pressing anything else.

In order to move to the left, right, front or back I used my mouse, either with edgescrolling (full screen) or with the right mouse button (windowed)
So basically I only used the WASD keys and mouse movement (no clicking) to move and rotate on the same time through the game.
---
Now: Keys to move around | Mouse to move around

Before: Keys to rotate | Mouse to move around
Like this:

^
and I want that back, but I don't know how.

cat2006house wrote:Hello,

Okay now I understand your problem, but still I don't see why you can WASD or arrow keys to perform these actions. In default, if you want to rotate the screen, you should use "," and "." (or concidentally < and >. Well they are actually the same set of keys) keys (that's what is shown when I move my mouse to the buttons for rotating (the buttons shown in your picture). No one can or will use A and D to rotate the screen (Just like no one can use W and S to lower or raise camera height, players can only use Q and E keys). If you have a look at this, you will understand what I am saying. May I ask how you can do that?

nurbeidir wrote:

cat2006house wrote:Hello,

Okay now I understand your problem, but still I don't see why you can WASD or arrow keys to perform these actions. In default, if you want to rotate the screen, you should use "," and "." (or concidentally < and >. Well they are actually the same set of keys) keys (that's what is shown when I move my mouse to the buttons for rotating (the buttons shown in your picture). No one can or will use A and D to rotate the screen (Just like no one can use W and S to lower or raise camera height, players can only use Q and E keys). If you have a look at this, you will understand what I am saying. May I ask how you can do that?

A friend of mine isn't able to use those keys like I was either, so I'm starting to doubt myself.
On the other hand... if it was never there I wouldn't have noticed a change right? I remember pressing a button that led into my screen zooming in quite far - it suprised me. Then I noticed the wasd keys performed different actions than before.
I did show that friend the rotating though (circling over your land going up and down is quite fun lol) so I'm pretty sure I was able to do so. 
But how... I have no idea... it just worked that way. I didn't know it itsn't supposed to work like that.

The controls just feel weird to me now


EDIT: Ctrl + W/A/S/D lets you rotate but I'm 100% sure I did not have to press Ctrl to get it to work!

cat2006house wrote:Hello,

Sometimes a key will become "sticky": it acts like being held (or pressed) but in fact no one's pressing it. I experience this glitch in Minecraft (this time the problem key is Shift) and everytime I restarted the game and the game works again. Afterwards, I realise it's so dumb of me to restart the game because I could press Shift (to "unlock" the key) to revert to normal setting. So I think that's the problem. The cause of it is that Ctrl becomes sticky.

nurbeidir wrote:

cat2006house wrote:Hello,

Sometimes a key will become "sticky": it acts like being held (or pressed) but in fact no one's pressing it. I experience this glitch in Minecraft (this time the problem key is Shift) and everytime I restarted the game and the game works again. Afterwards, I realise it's so dumb of me to restart the game because I could press Shift (to "unlock" the key) to revert to normal setting. So I think that's the problem. The cause of it is that Ctrl becomes sticky.

That could be it, but then it never 'unstickied' upon (game&PC) restarts which is kinda weird then.

cat2006house wrote:Hello,

This happens to me sometimes. The shift key is sometimes "sticky" even though I restart my computer.

nurbeidir wrote:

cat2006house wrote:Hello,

This happens to me sometimes. The shift key is sometimes "sticky" even though I restart my computer.

Oh ok o:
I've got the sims for a couple of days now and during that time I have restarted my PC at least 10 times or so.
Also, I haven't noticed Ctrl being sticky outside the game.

I guess this will remain a mystery then!

Dracos66 wrote:Have you tried deleting the userPresets.package file from your "My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims3"? You'll have to reset your resolution and/or any other options like whether to launch the game in window mode or full screen, but it should reset the free camera mode.