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Enable Edge Pan & Cursor Focused Zoom & Rotation

By Zarr0c

How to enable Edge Panning and Cursor-Focused Zoom & Rotation in Planet Coaster 2.

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Guide Index

Overview

! Update 1: Enable Edge Pan

Warning

Step 1: Close Planet Coaster 2

Step 2: Locate the Correct Configuration File

Step 3: Open the File in a Text Editor

Step 4: Modify Camera Settings

Step 5: Save Your Changes

Step 6: Start the Game

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! Update 1: Enable Edge Pan

Since Update 1, this option is available in the game's settings menu.

Warning

Enabling cursor focused zoom and rotation only works properly if you play with mouse and keyboard. Enabling this will break rotation and zoom on a controller. That means, if you use both, controller and mouse, you can't use cursor focused controls.

Step 1: Close Planet Coaster 2

Ensure that Planet Coaster 2 is completely closed before you continue. This is necessary to prevent the game from overwriting or ignoring your changes.

Step 2: Locate the Correct Configuration File

Open your Windows user folder in the file explorer
Go to
Saved Games > Frontier Developments > Planet Coaster 2
Open the folder with your unique Steam ID, a random looking long number.
Inside, open the Config folder.
In the Config folder, look for the file named Controls_remote.config.xml

Step 3: Open the File in a Text Editor

Right-click on Controls_remote.config.xml file.
Choose Open With and select a text editor like Notepad or Notepad++.

Step 4: Modify Camera Settings

Once the file is open, locate the block that starts with

Its near the bottom of the file. In this block we can change up to two lines to enable the advanced settings.

Enable Cursor-Focused Rotation

To enable cursor-focused rotation change the line

<RotateFocus>Center</RotateFocus>

<RotateFocus>Cursor</RotateFocus>

Enable Cursor-Focused Zoom

To enable cursor-focused zoom change the line

<ZoomFocus>Center</ZoomFocus>

<ZoomFocus>Cursor</ZoomFocus>

Step 5: Save Your Changes

Save the file by selecting File > Save or pressing Ctrl + S.

Step 6: Start the Game

Enjoy building with a little less console-feel on PC!

20 Comments

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r 16 Feb @ 8:59am

Horribly many bugs in the game and it gets worse with every update.

ToyerBugra 27 Dec, 2024 @ 1:40am

Nice guide thanks !

CaptainSwzzer 22 Dec, 2024 @ 7:12am

My god THANK YOU. I literally cant work with center focussed zoom.

Neuromancer2K4 21 Nov, 2024 @ 2:30pm

You saved me ages of ranting at the game....

Gweege 11 Nov, 2024 @ 1:24am

thanks

Kerlwis 10 Nov, 2024 @ 11:09pm

Amazing! Thank you for this guide. It solved it

Zarr0c [author] 9 Nov, 2024 @ 9:43am

@RobCo:
PC2 basically uses the same type of config file like PC1. Just open your PC1 Controls_remote.config.xml and compare it to your PC2 file and try to copy settings over.

RobCo 9 Nov, 2024 @ 7:55am

This is fantastic Zarr0c. Is there a config for the simple mouse drag options from PC1 too? I am used to "Simple Drag Inverted" but in PC2 it defaults to simple drag. My muscle memory is thrown off!

Rusty 9 Nov, 2024 @ 7:21am

For people who want to change the edge-panning sensitivity you can change the number in the following entry ("EdgeSen") in the "Controls_remote.config.xml" file to a number between around -5 and 5 to decrease or increase edge-panning sensitivity respectively (I changed mine to -2, for slightly less sensitive edge-panning, this way you don't trigger the edge-panning as easily when interacting with the GUI):

</Camera>
<CameraSensitivity preset="Custom" version="1">
<EdgeSen>-2.000000</EdgeSen>

Mig-L 8 Nov, 2024 @ 11:57am

Thank you Bro...
Sorry but they give us a fucking Console version of the game...
the scale UI is orrible and too big...

i hope we can make this UI smaller...

thanks again !

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