I have many controls mapped to my trusty Thrustmaster joystick, but can't figure out the following in 2024 and would appreciate any guidance?

 

- How do I set things up in 2024 so that the hat switch SMOOTHLY pans around the external view or the internal cockpit the way it does in XP12 or MSFS 2020?

 

- What command can I assign to my joystick to simply flip between "external view" and "basic cockpit view" the way the "Backspace" key on the keyboard currently seems to do?

 

These two solutions would immediately and immensely improve my quality of life in 2024. 🙂

 

Thanks!

 

Steve

This worked for me. Also turn off "Freelook Momentum" in the camera settings from the top handlebar/toolbar

This might be a duplicate of what JonathanC has but this helped me:

https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/581432-external-pan-view-setup/

I realize this is for MSFS2020 settings but I found that MSFS2024 has the same settings.

Hope this helps

56 minutes ago, Republic DC9 said:

- What command can I assign to my joystick to simply flip between "external view" and "basic cockpit view" the way the "Backspace" key on the keyboard currently seems to do?

I mapped "Cockpit/External View Mode" to a joystick button.

Good luck

44 minutes ago, JonathanC said:

This worked for me. Also turn off "Freelook Momentum" in the camera settings from the top handlebar/toolbar

Thank you so much for this! You made my day.☺️

Regards

8 hours ago, JonathanC said:

This worked for me. Also turn off "Freelook Momentum" in the camera settings from the top handlebar/toolbar

Thank you!!!

 

 

what I dont understand is their Analog/digital setting and why you cant modify it.

Here we have look down as analog and look down left as digital

They should all be analog.

As long as it works.

Same settings I was using for 2020. Never knew about the Freelook speed though. Will have to change that in 2020 also.

Edited November 22, 20241 yr by Ron Lefebvre

how do you manually assign "hat switch down-left" input to a view command? and by manually i mean selecting that command without actually having to push it on your controller? i cannot accurately press my hat switch down-left and let go without also briefly hitting hat switch up or hat switch down and MSFS always tries to assigned ALL of those commands at once.

1 hour ago, dresoccer4 said:

how do you manually assign "hat switch down-left" input to a view command? and by manually i mean selecting that command without actually having to push it on your controller? i cannot accurately press my hat switch down-left and let go without also briefly hitting hat switch up or hat switch down and MSFS always tries to assigned ALL of those commands at once.

I had the same problem. then I realized all I had to do was just wiggle the hat switch around 'till I found the bind I wanted, at the same time I had to keep my eye on the bind box until my choice came up. It seemed fairly easy.

22 minutes ago, TomCYYZ said:

I had the same problem. then I realized all I had to do was just wiggle the hat switch around 'till I found the bind I wanted, at the same time I had to keep my eye on the bind box until my choice came up. It seemed fairly easy.

didn't it not try and select all of the directions when wiggling it?

Nope, the one I wanted seemed to popup fairly quickly. Soon as you see it ,stop. I just start by moving the switch in the general direction I wanted.

3 hours ago, dresoccer4 said:

how do you manually assign "hat switch down-left" input to a view command? and by manually i mean selecting that command without actually having to push it on your controller? i cannot accurately press my hat switch down-left and let go without also briefly hitting hat switch up or hat switch down and MSFS always tries to assigned ALL of those commands at once.

This is actually pretty easy to do, but there's zero documentation of the easy way. 

On the controls menu, select the controller you want to use, and then find the command you're looking for, and click the gear icon to the right of that command. 

That should bring up a page listing every assignable button, axis, and POV hat with that controller, so just scroll down until you find the one you're looking for (it'll be "POV" with an arrow pointing the relevant direction), then just click the box to the right of it, which should then show a check mark.

Edited November 22, 20241 yr by ndts

6 minutes ago, ndts said:

This is actually pretty easy to do, but there's zero documentation of the easy way. 

On the controls menu, select the controller you want to use, and then find the command you're looking for, and click the gear icon to the right of that command. 

That should bring up a page listing every assignable button, axis, and POV hat with that controller, so just scroll down until you find the one you're looking for (it'll be "POV" with an arrow pointing the relevant direction), then just click the box to the right of it, which should then show a check mark.

oh, great to know. will try this out. i knew there had to be an alternate way!

Does anyone know how to stop mouse panning in external view? I have my Elecon trackball settup to work in the cockpit but not outside. Thankyou from Jim.

 

9 minutes ago, BIGSKY said:

Does anyone know how to stop mouse panning in external view? I have my Elecon trackball settup to work in the cockpit but not outside. Thankyou from Jim.

On left side is a listing for Mouse. Find the command that is associated to the mouse movements and eliminate them (gear icon). Remember the names of the commands you are removing, and program them onto a hat. The same hat that you use for panning in the cockpit, use it for external view. Also use the same hat for panning in the slew mode view. Also use the same hat for panning drone views.

The commands are different for these 4 modes (cockpit, external, drone, slew). It makes no difference. Assigning all the panning movements for all 4 modes onto the same hat.