3 hours ago, dresoccer4 said:

UPDATE: well guess what, I loaded up MSFS2020 to try again and now, unexplainably, IT WORKS! I'm able to save and load custom cockpit views per usual. 

I'm thinking that possibly loading different planes in a single playthrough caused issues. I loaded up the CRJ first thing and the cameras are behaving just ifne now. I'm not sure if this is what was causing it but I'll keep a look out and report back. Either way, MSFS2020 def has some bugs deeps down...

I have had this problem intermittently.  I also find that going in and out of dev mode can mess up the camera saving sequence. 

I have found best thing to do is make sure you are not in dev mode, quit the sim, and restart it (maybe like you did) - all should be good then! 

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1 hour ago, flyinion said:

The one thing that drives me nuts about the custom views is they don’t save exactly how you had the view when you save them. I.e. get the view perfect with for example the A320 (FBW or default doesn’t matter) where the bottom of the PFD is right at the bottom of the screen and save it. then when pressing the keybind for that custom view after CTRL-Spacebar to reset to default it will actually move forward and down slightly vs where I saved it. So now that perfect PFD alignment is off and stuff is off the screen. I used the A320 in this example just for ease of describing one scenario but any aircraft I save a view in does something similar. 

yes this happens to me too. i spent about 10 minutes thinking i was going crazy when setting a perfect custom view, then when it's recalled it's slightly off. I've noticed this sim does this sort of "gaslighting" with quite a lot of little things and it's enough to drive you mad sometimes

I agree that when you load different planes, that does seem to mess up the views. I did notice this now that you mention it.

My other complaint is that sometimes when you pan up or back in the cockpit to set up a different view, it sometimes zooms out the scenery as well. I really hate when this happens and I have not figured out how to stop this. I think if the zoom level in settings is 50, then panning in or out of the cockpit should not change the scenery zoom, but sometimes it does. I'm not sure the 50 even matters or should matter.. Sometimes I like to sit back in the cockpit to get a more inclusive perspective of the  whole cockpit but not zoom the scenery as well.

This post have help me a lot, I do not remember who published it, but I copied it and saved it.

Camera Settings MSFS

Here's a step by step:

1.  Go into Options > General > Camera (NOT the in-flight Camera Menu) and make absolutely sure that Height, Horizontal Position, and Zoom are set to 50!  These are the global values and if they're not set to default (50), all of your future custom views will not save correctly.  This is probably a bug because it's counter intuitive to apply global changes all over again when trying to save a view; but it is what it is.

2. In Options > Controls, search for the command "VFR Pilot View Save" and assign a key binding.  By default, this command is unassigned... I assigned it to Ctrl + Alt + V.

3. Make a note of your controller assignments for  "Reset Cockpit View".  Default is Left Ctrl + Spacebar and/or "F" (I also have it assigned to the trigger on my joystick).

4. Load the aircraft of your choice and use the translation, look, and zoom controls to position the camera exactly where you want it.  When you have what you want for a default view, press the "VFR Pilot View Save" binding assigned in step 2 (Ctrl + Alt + V in my case).  Now, every time you press the "Reset Cockpit View" button(s), it will go back to this view and will NOT alternate to other intermediate views with subsequent presses... yay!

5.  Now that you have a default view defined, custom cameras may also be saved the same way using the associated key bindings... default is Left Ctrl + Left Alt + Numpad 0 to 9.  These views are recalled using the corresponding "Load Custom Camera #" commands... default is Left Alt + Numpad 0 to 9 

6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 to set individualized default and custom views for each aircraft you own.

7. To save yourself a lot of pain... never, ever, EVER change the global settings in Options > General > Camera again... forget those settings even exist... they are evil !!!

 

OBS! There can be an issue with third-party aircraft that don't already have a custom cameras.cfg file defined. 

To prevent crashes, try to save at least one custom camera for that aircraft before attempting to change the default view.

This is fantastic....a couple of additional things I noticed I needed to do to get this to work was to set the Camera settings in the Menu to all DEFAULTS first rather than just 50-50-50 for Height,horizontal position and zoom.  And to be able to transition from external view to internal cockpit I also bound the same RESET COCKPIT VIEW key/trigger to TOGGLE COCKPIT VIEW.  

 

Some third-party aircraft that don't have a default VFR pilot view pre-defined will crash when executing the "VFR Pilot View Save" command.  For these aircraft, a custom view must be created and the CAMERAS.CFG file must be edited to convert the custom camera into a default view.

The CAMERAS.CFG is a standard text file and the edits are very simple; but the biggest challenge is finding the correct path.

For the MS Store version on MSFS, the path is:

--drive--\Users\--username--\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\SimObjects\Airplanes\--target aircraft--\CAMERAS.CFG

Here's the step-by-step:

1. Load up your desired aircraft, position the camera where you want it, and save it to a custom camera (default is Left Ctrl + Left Alt + Numpad 0 to 9).  Any will do, but for this example, I'll save my desired view to Custom Camera #1 (Left Ctrl + Left Alt + Numpad 1).

2. Exit the sim and navigate to the CAMERAS.CFG for the desired aircraft (see the path above).

3. Open CAMERAS.CFG with Notepad or your favorite text editor.  Depending on the circumstances, there may be several camera definitions, or there may only be one.  The definition you want to edit has a Title that corresponds to the camera you defined in Step 1.  In my case, I saved to Custom Camera #1, so I want to edit the definition with Title="1".

4. Edit the following 4 lines in the definition (substituting "1" for your custom camera # as necessary).  Don't worry about the definition's sequence number ([CAMERADEFINITION.#]) or Guid... they're fine as they are and shouldn't be changed.

[CAMERADEFINITION.0]
Title="1" "Pilot"                                                                              <Change to "Pilot"
Guid="{B7C50B63-1029-49E0-A831-0EF6257F1D77}"
UITitle="1" "TT:GAME.PANEL_CAMERA_PILOT_VFR"              <Change to "TT:GAME.PANEL_CAMERA_PILOT_VFR" 
Description=""
Origin="Virtual Cockpit"
Track="None"
TargetCategory="None"
ClipMode="Normal"
SnapPbhAdjust="None"
PanPbhAdjust="None"
XyzAdjust=0
ShowAxis="NO"
AllowZoom=1
InitialZoom=0.35
SmoothZoomTime=5
BoundingBoxRadius=0.1
ShowWeather=0
CycleHidden=0
CycleHideRadius=0
ShowPanel=0
MomentumEffect=0
ShowLensFlare=0
PanPbhReturn=0
SnapPbhReturn=1
InstancedBased=0
NoSortTitle=0
NodesToHide=""
Transition=0
Category="Cockpit"
SubCategory="Custom" "PilotCustom"                                            <Change to "PilotCustom"
SubCategoryItem="None" "DefaultPilot"                                          <Change to "DefaultPilot"
InitialXyz= 0.05, 0.1, -0.8
InitialPbh= -4.719444, 0.005864, 0.00041

5.  Save the file and go enjoy your new default view.  Note that the Custom Camera you used to temporarily save your default view in step 1 is now available again to save a different custom view.

I hope this is helpful.

4 hours ago, Ixoye said:

This post have help me a lot, I do not remember who published it, but I copied it and saved it.

Camera Settings MSFS

Here's a step by step:

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I hope this is helpful.

thanks for this interesting post. i'll try out these tips later today 👍