I don't know exactly what you're trying to do, but if you're trying to find his loot then try using the tab key. It will highlight any items on the ground. It should work even if the items are behind something, although it may still be a little tricky to spot.
Sorry about the joke there, though a snipe hunt was very tempting.
But to be serious, as TJHooker said the game uses a 2D isometric perspective, so there is only one camera angle.
If you're talking about the encounter just outside of Candlekeep, there's no repercussions if you killed the portly man that you encounter almost immediately on the road. And I think you are attacked by a diseased gibberling right before you come to him. So my best guess is that's what you're describing.
There are some characters who are scripted to walk away and disappear after you speak with them. Such characters will typically approach you, come to think of it.
Now that would require finding the Easter egg item required to become a Lumberjack. No spoilers please! ;P j/k
Wait, what's this now? I must know! lol
Well, it has long been rumored, although I've never had the will or endurance to confirm...
If you speak to all the characters in the game that say "Well, I'll talk to ya if ya want" in exactly the right order and cast Oracle, it reveals the person to actually be a Solar of Gwaeron Windstrom who grants the Lumberjack kit.
A topic in a Baldur's Gate forum about non-existent camer settings is the last place I would have expected to be launched into an hour trawling my HD (on my old PC it turns out) for Peter Aerts fights from.
To be a lumberjack all you have to do is make a dwarven sorceror, put him in plate mail, dual wield nunchakus and then (successfully) cast flare at the dm, while he/she's blinded, duel-class to lumberjack.
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But to be serious, as TJHooker said the game uses a 2D isometric perspective, so there is only one camera angle.
If you're talking about the encounter just outside of Candlekeep, there's no repercussions if you killed the portly man that you encounter almost immediately on the road. And I think you are attacked by a diseased gibberling right before you come to him. So my best guess is that's what you're describing.
There are some characters who are scripted to walk away and disappear after you speak with them. Such characters will typically approach you, come to think of it.
The way to get the lumberjack kit is to change your Major and Minor colors to Plaid.
T'other "Lumberjack Song":