Hi, 

 

I always use the Virtual cockpit and when I need to use the over head panel I am not comfortable at all tilting the view, the perspective makes the most far buttons almost unusable and I need a vomit bag if I have to use it few times in a short timeframe.

 

My question is : how can I assign to it a single key stroke in order to pop it up the 2D of it with a certain specific zoom ? 

 

If I keep on pressing the " A " key I can see it clearly but I need all the times to tweak the view in order to have it zoomed and centered in order to view it all. Definitely not user friendly.

 

Thanks in advance 

 

 

My question is : how can I assign to it a single key stroke in order to pop it up the 2D of it with a certain specific zoom ? 

 

There are no 2D panel views in the 777 apart from small pop ups (like those for the CDUs and screens).

 

 

 

If I keep on pressing the " A " key I can see it clearly but I need all the times to tweak the view in order to have it zoomed and centered in order to view it all. Definitely not user friendly.

 

I think I used to tap the A button three times, which will put you in the same spot each time. Now, I just use the method that you don't like, so I might not be remembering it correctly. No extra work was required for me. Perhaps you don't have the appropriate WideViewAspect setting in your FSX.cfg?

EZDock camera or similar. Or you could go as far as TrackIR

Uh well, first, thank for the answer.

 

Yes I have the wide view enabled and the VC is correctly stretched over a 27"  16/9 video @ 1980*1024 32 bit.

 

I do not have the Ezdok camera, I just use the mouse + space bar to move the visual. When I look at the overhead panel I can easily see and use the bottons on the bottom-left of the panel but the ones in the center or worst in the right side are barely visible and above all there is no way to spot the switch position. Yes I can zoom but the bad perspective is still there.

 

It would be nice to " save " a certain camera angle, view and zoom. I know there is the possibility to fiddle with xml/txt camera files but such sort of reverse engineering is a painful process. X,Y,Z values with no referral point ..is like shooting in the dark

 

I was hoping some of you already had this done....  ^_^

Mark,

 

What happens if you use <ctrl>+<space> after loading the overhead panel view? This should reset any view to its defaults.

My question is : how can I assign to it a single key stroke in order to pop it up the 2D of it with a certain specific zoom ?

 

Hi, Mark,

 

Open the aircraft.cfg file for each of the three 777 versions w/ notepad.  Back up each one before you modify it.  Find "[cameradefinition.3]" which should be titled "Overhead Lower Panel" (this is the camera view for the main part of the overhead panel).

 

At the end of that entry, just before the beginning of cameradefinition.4, type "HotKeySelect=2" (w/out ").   Make sure you don't leave a blank line between this entry and the entry on the previous line.  Also make sure that, in FSX>Controls, "2-D Cockpit View" is set to F10.  This will make F10 give you the overhead panel view.  You will lose this as a shortcut for the 2D cockpit view, which you don't need.  This will give you a view of the VC overhead -- as Kyle said, there is no 2D overhead popup.

 

You can also make F11 show a downward looking view of the CDUs, throttles, lower center DU, etc., by finding [cameradefinition.5], "CDUs and ECL," and adding "HotKeySelect=3".  You will lose F11 as a shortcut to "locked spot view" but there are other ways to get to that.

 

You should be able to modify some of the parameters in each cameradefinition entry to change the zoom and precise location of the view.  But even without this, you will only have to adjust the view to how you like it once per flight.

 

Mike

Much appreciated, I'll give it a try during this week end.

 

Thanks mate / guys 

Hi, Mark,

 

Open the aircraft.cfg file for each of the three 777 versions w/ notepad.  Back up each one before you modify it.  Find "[cameradefinition.3]" which should be titled "Overhead Lower Panel" (this is the camera view for the main part of the overhead panel).

 

At the end of that entry, just before the beginning of cameradefinition.4, type "HotKeySelect=2" (w/out ").   Make sure you don't leave a blank line between this entry and the entry on the previous line.  Also make sure that, in FSX>Controls, "2-D Cockpit View" is set to F10.  This will make F10 give you the overhead panel view.  You will lose this as a shortcut for the 2D cockpit view, which you don't need.  This will give you a view of the VC overhead -- as Kyle said, there is no 2D overhead popup.

 

You can also make F11 show a downward looking view of the CDUs, throttles, lower center DU, etc., by finding [cameradefinition.5], "CDUs and ECL," and adding "HotKeySelect=3".  You will lose F11 as a shortcut to "locked spot view" but there are other ways to get to that.

 

You should be able to modify some of the parameters in each cameradefinition entry to change the zoom and precise location of the view.  But even without this, you will only have to adjust the view to how you like it once per flight.

 

Mike

Answered, Thank you Mike777! Works flawlessly!

Michael