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Message started by Wigwag123 on Feb 28th, 2010 at 5:20am

Title: Re: Centering my exterior view?
Post by Markoz on Feb 28th, 2010 at 2:40pm
Ctrl + Space is the best way to reset your eyepoint back to the looking forward position. I have my joystick button 2 set to reset eypoint as well. It makes it quick to reset the eyepoint after using the pov hat to move my view around.

Pressing just the spacebar will reset the eypoint the first time (it does on my system anyway), then after that it doesn't do anything because while pressing and holding the spacebar and moving the mouse, you pan your view around, just like using a pov hat does.

In most other aircraft, pressing Num 5 in the VC will put your eypoint looking at the seat where your bottom usually is. However, in the Captain Sim 757 and 767 (not sure on the 727 at the moment) put your viewpoint looking at the cockpit door to the passenger cabin. I think the external and VC Num 5 keypress are tied together.

I have tried to find how they do it so I can set it like default and other add-on aircraft, but to no avail. I even asked some other aircraft add-on developers if they knew how it was done. If they know, they aren't saying. Instead they tell me it is tied in to what is entered in the [CameraDefinitions.n].

I've tried to find out if you can do it in the process of creating the .mdl, but I've been told no you can't and I found nothing in the SDK on it either. It could be tied into the ACE.exe but I have no way of finding out and I don't reverse engineer because it's illegal. Another thing it could be is. It is coded into a gauge. It's amazing what you can do with gauges, but I'm not very good at that yet.

I promise you this though. If I ever find out how to change it, I'll let you all know (Sorry Captain Sim). I have been trying to figure it out for ages. ;)

Hope this helps.

Mark

Edit: The Num 5 keypress in the 727 VC points your viewpoint to the OverHead Panel

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