But, of course, the camera doesn’t zoom out very far – even when you scroll out as far as you can go, even when you go into your interface settings and set the maximum zoom to the end of the slider.

Fear not: you can go beyond the values that slider offers you; you just have to enter a console command to do so.

There are various commands that will give you the desired effect; the one I use is:

That will let you scroll out much, much further than the interface settings will give you. How much further? My zoom, let me show you it:

Click the image to see a larger version, making it clear just how much you can zoom out. Hope this helps?

This post was written by Siha at Banana Shoulders.

Increasing Your Camera Zoom