How to change camera settings in the new Hogwarts Legacy? Why is the camera so close and how can you change the distance? This may be the question asked in the last few days by one or two players who have bought the new Harry Potter game for the PC, PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series. Depending on which games you have played before, the camera behind the character is sometimes too close for some players and obscures a large part of the view. But there are certainly camera settings that allow you to zoom out and change the distance, right?
Change camera settings?
In the current version of Hogwarts Legacy there are camera settings and you can change, among other things, the camera sensitivity and acceleration but also the field of view. Unlike what some people might know from other games, unfortunately there is currently no setting that allows you to change the camera distance. This affects both the PC version and the console version on the PS5 and Xbox Series. Anyone who plays on the PC can now download and install “camera mods”. There are already a number of camera mods and these not only include mods that offer additional camera settings so that you can zoom in and out if the camera is too close, but can even switch to the first person perspective. A mod with useful camera settings and a first-person view is the mod called “First Person AND Customizable Cameras“.
Camera too close? With this mod you can change the distance
The mod can be found on the well-known mod website nexusmods.com. To install the camera modification, you have to download the mod and the tool “RE-UE4SS” in the description from the website. You then move the contents of the mod to the installation directory (../Hogwarts Legacy/Phoenix/Binaries/Win64/) and can then open the camera settings in the game using the F6 key and change the camera. Similar to other mods for Hogwarts Legacy, the camera mod can only be used in the PC version and not on the console.
If in the future there is a setting in the game that allows you to move the camera further away and adjust the distance to the character, then we will of course add the information here. So far the camera settings are very manageable, as mentioned above, with an FOV setting and a camera speed setting.
