Hiya.. Is there a way to change Ezdoks default zoom factor? By default the FOV is sort of funky to say the least. Now I know when I hit #2 for edit mode I can use the mouse wheel to zoom and that works great to eliminate the odd FOV, but I want to change the default zoom factor so every plane uses the same zoom factor by default when setting up new cameras. If I use the mouse wheel method there is no way I'm going to have the same zoom factor for each plane as there is no way to gauge the actual amount of zoom applied when editing.

 

So if you can how and what is a good setting? I would prefer the same zoom factor as FSX default which I like a lot. I realize I'll probably have to delete my camera database for the planes and start from scratch but I really want this problem I have with the program solved.

Figured I better post an example of what I'm trying to eliminate globally instead of painfully editing zoom factor for each and every aircraft.

 

This is the default view (Ezdok disabled) for the RealAir Scout..

 

 

This is what the switch panel looks like when I pan around and up to it using the default view.

 

 

This is more or less the EzDok camera matching the default view out over the front. Notice everything out front is much further back and oddly rendered. Almost trending into fisheye territory.

 

 

This is panning up and around at the switch panel using the Ezdok camera.. It's about 5 miles back and totally unrealistic. Every aircraft is affected by this funky FOV setting..

 

Hi Bill,

 

I recommend loading one of the default aircraft like the Maule or Skyhawk, editing the camera views that EZDok includes for those aircraft until you're happy with the zoom, positions, etc, then use the File -> Save Camera Set feature to save all of the cameras (including zoom, position, direction, effects, etc) into one convenient file. If you fly airliners too (I think you mostly fly GA, right?) make a separate set of cameras based on the default 737, because those have more accurate settings for a "tubeliner." Don't forget to set your keyboard shortcuts for each camera before exporting or you'll have to set the shortcuts every time you import the file into a new aircraft.

 

Once you've done that, you can load up any of your addon aircraft and select File -> Load Camera Set, make sure all boxes are checked, and you'll get all of those cameras loaded into your aircraft. Now, since they've come from potentially a very different aircraft, you'll probably have to adjust the position and direction for some of the cameras (for example, if you have a "Switches" camera like I do, your RealAir Scout would need that camera re-aimed to point up at those overhead switches), but they'll mostly be pretty good. Then you're good to go!

 

As for setting the zoom, you can see the zoom while you're scrolling up/down in the #2 edit view in the upper right of the screen, where FSX always shows you that information (unless of course you disabled that in FSX.cfg, in which case you'd have to re-enable it.) I am always able to very accurately set my zoom level to whatever I like, which for me (with WideViewAspect=True in fsx.cfg) is 0.85.

 

Molly

Bingo! You hit the magic bullet I was looking for.. I completely and utterly forgot about the zoom info because when installing FSX I immediately set HideInfoText=1 and I haven't seen that dialog in ages. Forgot it even existed. :LMAO: Seems all default zooms were 0.69, EzDok was using something ridiculous like 0.35. So all I had to do was set my Ezdok zoom to that on one camera (well, 0.68 was as close as I could get it) then just clone camera zoom to all cameras, rinse repeat.. Very easy and exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much!!

I think Ezdok has a .cfg file with all of the default zoom's as well, I can't remember which folder it was in (I am at work now). But I would assume you can just go in and type it in as well... I had stumbled on it doing something else completely, so it does stand out... I want to say I saw it in the gauges config file for each aircraft as a new window definition.

Is there a way to change Ezdoks default zoom factor?

 

Hello

You will find the three default cameras under:

C:\Users\Yourname\AppData\Roaming\EZCA\db\aircraft\

 

default_mid.cam

default_heavy.cam

default_light.cam

 

Open these with your text editor and find the following section, there you can alter the default zoom for each of the three default cameras

[COORDINATE]

ZOOM=26

Figured I better post an example of what I'm trying to eliminate globally instead of painfully editing zoom factor for each and every aircraft.

 

This is the default view (Ezdok disabled) for the RealAir Scout..

 

 

This is what the switch panel looks like when I pan around and up to it using the default view.

 

 

This is more or less the EzDok camera matching the default view out over the front. Notice everything out front is much further back and oddly rendered. Almost trending into fisheye territory.

 

 

This is panning up and around at the switch panel using the Ezdok camera.. It's about 5 miles back and totally unrealistic. Every aircraft is affected by this funky FOV setting..

 

 

 

 

Where did you get that Decathlon ?

Where did you get that Decathlon ?

 

http://www.realairsi...=scout07_buynow

 

Hello

You will find the three default cameras under:

C:\Users\Yourname\AppData\Roaming\EZCA\db\aircraft\

 

default_mid.cam

default_heavy.cam

default_light.cam

 

Open these with your text editor and find the following section, there you can alter the default zoom for each of the three default cameras

[COORDINATE]

ZOOM=26

 

That did it! I saw the same files were in /Virtual_Cockpit also which is what I needed. Just tried it and worked like a charm. Setup an aircraft I had no cameras for yet and it by default went to a zoom of .68 now (after setting the .cam files zoom to 44).. Thank you so much!

http://www.realairsi...=scout07_buynow

 

 

 

That did it! I saw the same files were in /Virtual_Cockpit also which is what I needed. Just tried it and worked like a charm. Setup an aircraft I had no cameras for yet and it by default went to a zoom of .68 now (after setting the .cam files zoom to 44).. Thank you so much!

 

Thanks for that.