Howdy all. My problem is I don’t like the default Pilot Camera Views (Hat Views) in the Bravo Airspace 787-8.  I don’t care for the positioning or their logic.  I’m perfectly happy with the Cameras in the default Asobo 787-10 and I would like to copy paste the Asobo into the BA.

Can do?  I know you can make custom views, and they are so simple to make it drives one to tears for all the time spent in sims past.

But in this case, I don’t want Keyboarding Magic.  I just want my Hat (left hat actually) to behave in the BA as it does in the Asobo.  Can anyone assist or redirect me to the best solution?

TIA!

-B

If the cockpits are located in the same XYZ position (relative to an specific point on the aircraft), there is a cheat you may apply. Go first here:

(your MSFS folder)\Packages\Official\Steam\asobo-aircraft-b787-10\SimObjects\Airplanes\Asobo_B787_10

Copy the cameras.cfg file and paste it into the Bravo Aerospace folder. It should work. Remember to backup the default Bravo Aerospace cameras.cfg. Hope this helps.

1 hour ago, Luis Hernandez said:

Remember to backup the default Bravo Aerospace cameras.cfg. Hope this helps.

Thank you.  I’ll go give it a try shortly.  That whole “same xyz relationship” may be a deal breaker but swapping a .cfg is an easy enough trick to try!

Thanks again,

-B

5 hours ago, btacon said:

Thank you.  I’ll go give it a try shortly.  That whole “same xyz relationship” may be a deal breaker but swapping a .cfg is an easy enough trick to try!

Thanks again,

-B

That xyz system is a certain distance from the centre of the aircraft. Unless both aircraft are the same length, width and height chances are it probably doesn't work but it never hurts to try.

If that doesn't work you could create a custom view (there are some YT videos about how to create these) and take the xyz values from there and past these in the cfg to set them as a default view. Or else you could just modify the values in the cfg files. I assume x is lateral, y is vertical and z is longitudal distance from that centre. If your view is too low, a slightly higher value might work. I don't know whether these are in meters, feet or xymopotaqs so you might have to experiment a bit.

4 hours ago, orchestra_nl said:

That xyz system is a certain distance from the centre of the aircraft. Unless both aircraft are the same length, width and height chances are it probably doesn't work but it never hurts to try.

Hi Orchestra.  Your observation seems to be the case, for me at least.  I have been watching a few videos on just what you described, setting up custom views and then transferring the xyz coordinates to the defaults.  It can be done, I just didn’t want to do the work myself LoL, but I guess I’m going to have too.  Either that or wait until someone else does it for me. There are dozens of “Better Camera” mods out there…mine is out there too, tho I’ve not found it yet!😎

Thanks to all responders,

-B

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your question, but I've always used the built in custom camera settings.  First thing I do when I get in an aircraft the first time is set up my views to the same custom view number.  Set a view you want and hit ctrl-alt-<number>.  Then just alt-<num> to load it (and you can assign a custom view to any button on your controller). 

So, my custom view 1 is always the forward view and hat up on my stick.  View 1 is left and left hat, view 2 right...  I just always use the same numbers for the initial views, and after a minute or two of initial setup, every aircraft does the same thing. 

You can easily adjust views more as you fly.  Just have the keystrokes handy and stick to the same numbering.  Basically, I never use any default camera angles.  It takes me a minute or two to initially set them up, and then I never have to think about them again. 

 

2 minutes ago, kerosene31 said:

You can easily adjust views more as you fly.  Just have the keystrokes handy and stick to the same numbering.  Basically, I never use any default camera angles.  It takes me a minute or two to initially set them up, and then I never have to think about them again. 

I do the same. However, for some aircraft, I cheat: for example, for the PMDG 737s, I only set up my custom views for the -700. Those are not stored in the Community or Official folders (depending on where you purchased the birds), but the cameras.cfg inside %appdata%/MSFS/Simobjects/Aircraft (or something like that).

When I got all the other 737 versions, I simply copied that cameras.cfg to their respective folders, and it worked beautifully. Maddogs and the Fenix A320 also work with this. I tried the same trick with then iniBuilds A300 (using my custom A310 cameras), but didn't work this time. The only caveat is that you need to start a flight with the "destination" aircraft, so that the folder gets created.