Swimming or flyingFollow

Sounds like your pitch down key is stuck to me. Go into your keybindings to see which one that is and then check that. If that doesn't fix it, then I'm at a loss.

That's been happening to me for a while now too. When I first start flying or swimming my pitch is angled down. Once I'm in the air I can adjust the pitch just fine, but it ALWAYS angles down at first.

That makes sense. Still really annoying that I have to touch down momentarily to reset my pitch every time though.

You wouldn't by chance be using your keyboard to turn with?

I've got my right mouse button (RMB) pressed down pretty much non-stop, especially in PvP. Holding down the RMB allows you to change the movement of your character with the mouse. Including the pitch.

I've noticed a glitch where if I'm flying down and I tab out to a web browser, it sometimes locks on auto-run with the pitch down, and the best I can do is hold space to go straight.

Relogging helps, and sometimes a random combination of abilities that affect my own movement can make a difference.

Just my cc in case that's similar to the OP's situation.

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This.

Many mounts have outright stupid camera angles required to fly straight and level (ever try riding a nether ray?)

When you're questing, you're usually wanting to look down at the ground so you can see what you're flying over, and if I'm flying any distance, I've got auto-run turned on, and I'm just letting it cruise ahead. But, I can't do that AND look down at the ground.

Its just like.... IRL, trying to fly a plane that can only fly in the direction you're looking at. How do you ever expect to fly from one airport to another while being forced to look way up in the air? lol.

I want to be able to tilt the camera down so I can see the ground, but yet fly level, without having to touch the ground every small adjustment I make to my camera angle. Even with mouse-turning (this is actually WORSE when mouse-turning!), every time you move the mouse left or right to adjust your heading, you are most likely going to move the mouse just slightly up or just slightly down no matter how horizontal you try to move it. One little hair up or down is all it takes to clear your pitch settings and re-bind pitch to camera angle, and......down you go.

They really really really need some sort of "Camera Angle Separate from Character Pitch" setting/button/whatever. We already have Spacebar/X to control up/down movement while in the air or water; do we REALLY need the camera angle doing it too?

Edited, Feb 19th 2011 5:23pm by Lyrailis

True, but if your pitch is off (even using the left mouse) BEFORE you launch, it takes the camera angle's pitch when you launch. It's a VERY minor annoyance, but it exists.

Did you somehow fail to read my long-ish explanation on how the 3D movement system works?

I'll explain it.....again.

1). When you mount up, the game sets your pitch to your camera angle.
2). When you adjust your camera in mid-flight or mid-swimming, the game sets your pitch to your camera angle.
3). When you break the surface of the water, from above or from below, the game sets your pitch to your camera angle.

These are easily tested:

1). Tilt your camera straight down. Mount any flying mount, fly up with the spacebar. Use your Move Forward method (keybord OR mouse). Your mount will fly straight down.

2). While flying, stop and adjust your pitch with the pitch up/down keys, note your mount will go as you have it set. Tilt your camera down again. Go forward; your mount will fly down.

3). Mount a flying mount, and fly to a body of water deep enough to swim in. Tilt your camera so that you're looking down, then land on solid ground for a second, and use the spacebar to ascend. Fly over the water (you should be flying level unless you bumped your mouse in any direction while holding the right mouse button), and use the X button to descend until you touch the water. Dismount so that you're treading water. Use the Move Forward button; your character will swim straight down. Use your Pitch Up key so that your character swims at an up angle and continue to swim forward. Your character will swim up until they touch the surface of the water, then they will swim straight down again.

Edited, Feb 20th 2011 12:59pm by Lyrailis

I read it. I was trying to be nice about it, but since you aren't getting it: you are wrong.

As I said, I can easily adjust my camera angle in mid-flight. Either one of your settings need to be changed or you're using the wrong mouse button. Simple as that.

Beat me to it. Was finding the link.

Why the hell would you want to do that? Do you enjoy being terrible?

Update:

More testing proves that the camera/pitch is NOT consistent.

What I did:

I used an addon to get the current Pitch, mounted a flying Mount and got the pitch set to 0. This took quite a few tries, as I kept getting anything from -2 to +5. I eventually got right on the 0 mark, and then used the LEFT mouse button to tilt the camera down.

This worked.

I walked a short distance, mounted up, flew straight. Tilted the camera with the LEFT button, mount continued to fly straight.

Then, I landed in water.....err, -26 pitch. Argh.

Also, in several tests, about the 10th NPC I right-clicked on while hovering in the air caused the pitch to get reset again.

This is why I'd rather NOT have the pitch up/down mouse button on the Right Mouse Button. I'd rather bind it to something else I can tap periodically if I want to set my current pitch same as camera angle while mouse-moving.

Edit:

Yup, confirmed.

Update #2: Moving the mouse just a hair in any direction while right-clicking causes both Water and Air pitch to get set at your current camera angle; the game treats them separately.

Update #3: Then again.. this doesn't work either. Argh.

1). Mounted a flying mount, got it set to 0, went into the water, -19 water.
2). Set it to 0, got out of water, mounted a flying mount, -19 air.
3). Set it to 0 while flying, went into the water, -19 Water.

I swear, this is Impossible to fix this.

Update #4:

Water Pitch does NOT save the user's preference. It gets reset automatically upon touching water's surface.

I tested this by doing the following:

1). Get in the water, observed I had a -23 pitch.
2). Used the Right Mouse Button to set it to 0.
3). Used the LEFT mouse button to move the camera so I could actually see what I'm doing.
3). Used X to dive, spacebar to go back up, still stayed at 0.
4). Used the spacebar to climb all the way to the water's surface, and jump. -19 pitch.

Edited, Feb 20th 2011 2:06pm by Lyrailis