Viewport locked top down

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I just opened Unreal 5 for the first time using the third person template and I can’t use right click and drag properly. I’m stuck in a top-down view, when I drag up, it pulls the camera back down and when I drag down, it does a 360 on the z-axis to bring me back top-down.

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Hey there @NZYM3! Welcome to the community! Looks like the camera may have been put in top orthographic! No worries, you should be able to hit Alt + G to go back to perspective or you can go up to your top left of your viewport and click where it says Top and go to Perspective.

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Already tried that, still happens on Perspective

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Odd. I’ve seen a couple of threads on viewport problems like this, Try reloading the layout like this:

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if that doesn’t work could we see exactly what’s going on? Might point us in the right direction.

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Didn’t change. Unless this is an intended function I’m not sure… literally just opened the program and tried one of the starter tutorials and my camera didn’t move the same way.

I can’t upload a video as a new user so here’s a gif https://imgur.com/a/NGQwcL2

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It’s that’s… really weird. I’ve never seen that movement. Alright, let’s just reset to all the defaults then. So head over to the viewport advanced settings:

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There had to be a hotkey hit that changed a setting, or an input being applied from a different device? (perhaps virtual device?)

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I unplugged all my other USB devices and that seems to have worked. Thanks for the help.