Hi,

 

Earlier I posted here a document about how to create cameras without any 3rd party program in FSX. It works fine, and I nly have problems with the "transition" property of the cameras. Based on description of the property:

"When switching between camera views a “smooth” transition is obtained by moving the camera in real time from its old location to the new one. Note that this behavior is only applied if the Transition settings for both cameras are set to yes. If either or both are set to No then the view switch is instantaneous."

 

My experience is that if I set the property to "Yes" on both cameras, there will be no smooth transition, but an unexpected interim view is added for a fraction of seconds. It seems, it is always points to the central point of the aircraft (for me the fuel selector between the pilot seats) and the zoom factor seems to be the zoom level of the tartet view. I link two short videos about the transitions (the interim image is not always visible on the video due to the short time):

• Video with Transition=No
• Video with Transition=Yes
• Sample for the transition image

My camera definitions look like the following:

 

[CameraDefinition.20]

Title = Pilot #1

Guid = {44682264-60A8-4C60-9EC4-3780025FA8AC}

Description = This is the description of the virtual cockpit view.

Origin = Virtual Cockpit

MomentumEffect = Yes

SnapPbhAdjust = Swivel

SnapPbhReturn = False

PanPbhAdjust = Swivel

PanPbhReturn = False

Track = None

ShowAxis = YES

AllowZoom = TRUE

InitialZoom = 0.4

SmoothZoomTime = 5.0

ZoomPanScalar = 2.0

ShowWeather = Yes

XyzAdjust = TRUE

ShowLensFlare=FALSE

Category = Custom

PitchPanRate=30

HeadingPanRate=15

PanAcceleratorTime=0

Transition=Yes

HotKeySelect=1

 

Does anyone has some similar experience? Could it be some interference with other settings?

 

Environment: 

• Windows 8.1
• FSX
• UIAutomationCore.dll is replaced to avoid crashes on Win8

 

Gabor

hi Gabor, I use EZdoc and get smooth transition by having all my camera views set at zoom=1.0.

 

bob

hi Gabor, I use EZdoc and get smooth transition by having all my camera views set at zoom=1.0.

 

bob

 

Yes, I also tried that. However I try to do it without EZdoc. If you check the document I created and referred to in my initial post, you see that many of the EZDoc features can be created without 3rd party product. Both approaches have their pros and cons. Now I am looking for a solution without EZdok. Based on the official documentation it should work.

 

UPDATE: EZdok is unfortunatelly not maintained smoothly, that's why several users don't want to pay the rather high price for it.

The previous setting had been made in the aircraft's aircraft.cfg file. In the user's C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX\camera.cfg camera settings there are two standard cameras with Transition=Yes:

• Locked spot
• Spot

It shows how transition should work. If you change in that file to Transition=False then no transition will be made, the two views are changed without transition.

 

[CameraDefinition.004]

Title = Locked Spot

Guid = {BCA3FDD1-FB83-4BBA-8407-4922A7F0D00D}

Description = This is the description of the spot view.

Origin = Center

SnapPbhAdjust = Swivel

SnapPbhReturn = False

PanPbhAdjust = Swivel

PanPbhReturn = False

Track = FlatChaseLocked

ShowAxis = No

AllowZoom = Yes

InitialZoom = 1.0

SmoothZoomTime = 2.0

ShowWeather = Yes

XyzAdjust = FALSE

Transition = Yes

ShowLensFlare=TRUE

Category = Outside

ClipMode = Spot

PitchPanRate=30

HeadingPanRate=75

PanAcceleratorTime=0

xHotKeySelect=3

hahrg ,

Did you figure out how to use Transition=YES for VC or Outside view switching WITHOUT that intermediate view you spoke of?

I have the same issue when trying to achieve smooth timed view swaps without EZCA or Chaseplane as these are both problematic with TrackIR.

 

His last visit to this site was August of 2017.  I don't believe you will get a response to your necropost.

Personally I tend not to use prefixes like that, and particularly that one, still running XP and all. Give Windows 10 Pro 64-bit a go, as it's great for boxed FSX.

My XP will have to melt into a puddle of goo before I move on. 😉