Camera Views

[Barthandelus 1]

Hi Guys,

Im a stubborn FSX user, but iv decided to have a look at XPlane 10, now that some descent plane have landed for it!

 

I do have a question about camera views in the virtual cockpit, though. Is there an addon that will let me set my camera views? Something like EZdok that FSX has? Iv come pretty reliant on that addon, so something similar for XPlane would be brilliant.

 

If not, how do you guys pan and zoom around the cockpit? I would like to create my own cameras that i can assign keyboard (or better yet, spare joystick) buttons to.

 

Thanks for your advice.

[Murmur 3,944]

I do have a question about camera views in the virtual cockpit, though. Is there an addon that will let me set my camera views? Something like EZdok that FSX has? Iv come pretty reliant on that addon, so something similar for XPlane would be brilliant.

 

Try this:

 

http://www.xpluginsdk.org/pilot_view.htm

[FloB 34]

Great (free!) plugin but not very convenient to set up right - in my opinion. I'm still dealing with some unexpected behaviour now and then and have to enable it again each time I change the plane. So better be prepared for some trouble getting it to work as you want it ;)

I think they should integrate pilot-view features into X-Plane to make it easier to handle and set up.

They're essential features.

 

Flo

[Barthandelus 1]

This looks interesting... Ill give that a go when i get home, thanks!

Do you know if you can save different views for different aircraft?

[Murmur 3,944]

Do you know if you can save different views for different aircraft?

 

IIRC, yes, but not 100% sure.

[FloB 34]

Yes, views and the g-effects are saved per plane.

It's just some general setups that are global (ini-file).

 

Greets

Flo

[Blaze 102]

IMO pilot view takes a bit of getting use to, I don't feel it's as flexible as EZdoc but it does work and since it's freeware I'm not complaining but I would buy EZdoc again if they offered an XP version.

[rojantrojan 17]

Yes I was tearing my hair out trying to work out Sandy Barbour's PilotView plugin. But this video helped me a lot.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvFZXzq6gQ0

 

Hope it helps.

 

Cheers

 

Rhydian

[Barthandelus 1]

Nice one, thanks all!

Spot on, just what i was looking for, and thanks for the video.

[Jim Young 2,356]

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[JonRD463 146]

As of 10.10, you can set your own views for each plane without a plugin. Go to 3D view, then position where you want the view to be with the arrow keys and shift + , and shift + ., then set it with Ctrl + Numpad. Then access the view with the corresponding Numpad key. Transitions are smooth, like EZ-Dok.

 

For example, I've got Numpad 8 set as front, pilot view, Numpad 5 as overhead, Numpad 2 as quadrant/center console, and 7, 4, 1, 9, 6, and 3 as left and right views, respectively in the P&R 777 Worldliner.

[GusRodrigues 1]

Numpad 0 to 9 works.

I use 8 for visual front view, 7 and 9 to foward left and foward right view (approach) and 4 and 6 to the left and right views, 5 for IFR panel, and 0, 1, 2, 3 as required for each aircraft...

set the view witch CTRL + numpad key.

[falopz 2]

guys i do same thing position in front af the insttrument i want to fix (ex gps) pres control numpad 1 and nothing happens,,,i switch view pres numpad1 and nothing,,,,any hint

 

luis

[deetee 164]

The view system works great provided the num lock is on (just checking ;-)) and you don't have a TrackIR activated in X-Plane

 

 

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[Desaix 235]

If you use TrackIR I reccomend to install Pilot View plugin. You can then customize 7 views for each aircraft and still use TrackIR. Only drawback is that you loose the ability to run HeadShake plugin but that's still true with TrackIr direct activation in XPlane.

 

I'd hoped that either the Pilot View developer could implement landing and variable engine effect or that HeadShake developer could implement TrackIR views but it seems both won't do that.

 

Of course if a have to choose my choice goes to Pilot View + TrackIR