Isn't the SU9 beta out now so you could check if that's currently in there or not?

I also hope it is included in SU9 beta as well! Looking forward to a reply from the beta testers.

Edited April 2, 20224 yr by Pugilist2

20 minutes ago, Phantoms said:

Isn't the SU9 beta out now so you could check if that's currently in there or not?

I use FSUIPC so my game would crash if I tried. I also don't want to end up having to reinstall the sim when the beta is over. Finally, I'm really - really selfish and would end up doing the beta just for the fixes, and not to find bugs.

22 minutes ago, WestAir said:

I use FSUIPC so my game would crash if I tried. I also don't want to end up having to reinstall the sim when the beta is over. Finally, I'm really - really selfish and would end up doing the beta just for the fixes, and not to find bugs.

It's ok, I don't run the beta either. But in the beta release notes was this:

21. Added an optional settings to camera.cfg files allowing to change the distance between the external camera and the plane

This is great news! Won't be able to try it out myself for a month or so unfortunately.

Apart from the lack of native DISTANCE to aircraft (which is not the same as zooming) another inexplicable removal was the extremely handy spot view where instead of the camera keeping the same angle towards the aircraft, the camera followed the aircraft but allowed it to turn without the camera also turning. So for example you could focus the spot view on a runway during approach, on base leg, and when the aircraft turns to final, the camera would still be facing the runway and also on the aircraft, rather than slavishly sticking rigidly to the wing side view of the aircraft.

I have no idea why Asobo keeps removing what were extremely useful features of legacy sims. They seem to remove features like this for utterly pointless reasons. I'm all for improvements, so the drone is great. But just because you've invented a drone view doesn't mean other established views are now somehow invalid.

As for the zoom/wide angle view, both while in external view and in slew mode, who came up with the idea of have a completely ridiculous over-wide angle? Why would any intelligent person do this? How did such a silly view get past quality control? Someone, somewhere, must have said "oh I LIKE that view. We'll keep that!" Nuts.

Glad this was addressed and fixed!

Has anybody actually tried it and what line do you change?

On 4/4/2022 at 8:37 PM, Pugilist2 said:

Has anybody actually tried it and what line do you change?

That's exactly also my question...

The cameras.cfg file basically doesn't contain any section on external cameras because the user cannot save his/her own external camera view and then modify (as we do it with cockpit views).

So, nothing has been fixed or addressed?

Still unable to change distance to aircraft for standard external cam, right?

1 hour ago, Carlosx said:

So, nothing has been fixed or addressed?

Still unable to change distance to aircraft for standard external cam, right?

Please read the preceding posts in this thread.

8 hours ago, cobalt said:

Please read the preceding posts in this thread.

Yeah, I have, hence my post.

Apart from some mentioning in SU9 release notes, nothing has changed, or has it?

10 hours ago, cobalt said:

Please read the preceding posts in this thread.

Thanks, I have read this entire topic several times and note your repeated insistence that the Showcase view can perform the same task.
It cannot.
I also note that the Vote topic at the FS forums has only 68 votes, so I can see why Asobo have not done anything.
Indeed, nothing has changed.

Edited December 12, 20223 yr by Reader

On 1/10/2022 at 2:00 PM, cobalt said:

You said external view. I described external view. If you want to exclude use of the drone, that's your problem. Good luck.

Can I use the flight controls, throttles, etc while moving the camera, like in external view, in drone mode? No? 

Can I pan the camera around the aircraft with 1 axis movement, like in regular external view, while in drone in drone mode? No?

So maybe Drone Mode isn't as powerful as you're pretending it is, and you should stop hijacking threads to promote it.

16 minutes ago, WestAir said:

Can I use the flight controls, throttles, etc while moving the camera, like in external view, in drone mode? No? 

Can I pan the camera around the aircraft with 1 axis movement, like in regular external view, while in drone in drone mode? No?

To control the aircraft while in Drone view, press "C" (default bindings)

To pan the camera around, set Drone Lock Mode to On

I have got used to using Drone cam, but I still cannot understand the zoom system. It feels like zoom settings are all over the place, even within a single aircraft. I have set InitialZoom= 0.35 manually in all cockpit views and that seems to take care of that. But I cannot get the external views to be consistent. Is there any way to set the default zoom for the External and Showcase cameras? I found that setting them to +/- 64 gives me a FOV that is consistent with the cockpit camera, but it's annoyign to have to do this every flight. Have I set up anything incorrectly?