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In Spectate and Replays, you can zoom out just like in the professional live streams by pressing Ctrl-Shift-Z. You don't need to have Skin Spotlights' Creator Suite to do this, if you don't want to install anything extra.

Also, if you want to have that smooth panning, bind a key to Drag Scroll Lock in Camera Controls under Hotkeys.

The source is this surprisingly hidden video from a rioter which details some other interesting things (one of which unlocks the First Person Camera): https://youtu.be/wxnbfgkZkzQ I'm not sure how the controls compare to the skin spotlights tool for the FPS camera, but that't not the point of this post.

Edit: As /u/Caenen_ rightfully points out, the video does have you add a line of text to a config file to get the FPS camera, and also your keyboard layout will change what the keybind is for unlocking the camera zoom - mine is QWERTY, so the Z key is the bottom left - so it's probably that key on yours too.

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almost 4 years ago - /u/xEffiez - Direct link

Originally posted by baylithe

When you need to add programs to a game to add a zoom in and zoom out to replays, which is something that let's say Halo 3 had in it's Theater Mode, which came out in 2007, shows how far behind Riot is. I get it, it's cool there's a way to do it now, but it should be something that is already apart of the replays instead of a 3rd party application.

Extended zoom exists in the game client itself and has never needed external programs to work :/

almost 4 years ago - /u/xEffiez - Direct link

Originally posted by baylithe

LEC Observers need to have a damn seminar for all other regions on how to observe. You guys are the best.

Aah haha thank you <3