adjusting pilots view point (eye height and angle ) please help

not sure if anyone else is bothered by this but i find that with my setup

using th2go and tir i am looking forward and down, not straight ahead.

lets say i centre the tracker, as i look at the centre of the centre screen.

the game view changes to the middle but looking slightly down,

as if the pilot is too short and a bit sad. :)

to get it right, i look down and centre the trackir,

this then gives me a nice looking forward view when i am doing the same.

unfortunately by doing it this way you loose some of that y axis-down tracking when

you look around the pit and causes a loss of precision.

also the soft centre of the trackir is not mid axis anymore if that makes sense.

(i guess i could make it soft centre in the "up y axis" but thats seems silly.)

eg: i look down a bit, cente the tir, then i look up a bit and i am looking forward in game.

when i look down a bit there is the soft centre,

because i am in theory always looking up a bit with the trackir to look forward in the game :)

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to sum it up, remembering this is with a tir and th2go:

1. i want to centre the trackir and be looking forward, directly at the hud i guess,

exagerating a little i am currently looking down and and or sitting too low.

2. another side effect of this seems to be the HMS is too high, i would like to drop that down a bit too.

3. and while we are at it, let discuss how to move your initial view backwards

as by default the tir sits you very close to the front of the pit,

and even with tir zoom axis disabled, and max zoom backwards in game using / or *, i still want to be further back.

thanks for reading, any advice much appreciated. :thumbup:

This should work:

http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=782125&postcount=3

To change the FOV of yourself to sit back further go to KA50/Config/View/view and open it up, then change this line, the 2 numbers are: 1st one max view... 2nd one min view, mine is set to be closer by default so I changed the 2nd number as you can see.

CameraViewAngleLimits[PlaneIndex.iKA_50] = {20.0, 107.0}

not sure if anyone else is bothered by this but i find

1. i want to centre the trackir and be looking forward, directly at the hud i guess,

exagerating a little i am currently looking down and and or sitting too low.

 

2. another side effect of this seems to be the HMS is too high, i would like to drop that down a bit too.

 

3. and while we are at it, let discuss how to move your initial view backwards

as by default the tir sits you very close to the front of the pit,

and even with tir zoom axis disabled, and max zoom backwards in game using / or *, i still want to be further back.

 

thanks for reading, any advice much appreciated. :thumbup:

3. Jessi1 that's it cheers.

2. solution 2 found in solution 1

1. edited the monitorsetup file

Viewports =

{

Center =

{

x = 0;

y = 0;

width = 3840;

height = 1024;

viewDx = 0;

viewDy = 0.4;

aspect = 3.75;

}

so with standard zoom settings, zooming as far away from hud as possible

centering the tir now makes the view looking thru the hud, as in straight ahead and no longer looking down.

and as a bonus the hms has dropped and is much better positions also.

settings will vary with resolutions and zoom settings

still testing but it's ball park

In control settings you can assign keys to move eye point, for me they are control up arrow for up, control down for down, control left for left, control right for right, shift up for forward, shift down for back.

thanks norm, never tried them :book: :megalol: :thumbup:

but will have a look, thanks.

ggg87, my issue exactly, which values did you set in CameraViewAngleLimits ?

Regards

I like my view closer and it is set at 103, that's the second number. The default is 120 so if you like it further out try 130 and go from there.

This my number with the monitor setup number at 0.2 works best for me: viewDy = 0.2;

Thanks, just made the change in FOV and I´ll give it a spin! ;-)

140 is PERFECT! Thanks. Now on to fiddling with eyeheight to get that helmet targeting going. Thanks a lot!

yes i too have reduced it a little

my current settings are:

in view.lua

CameraViewAngleLimits[PlaneIndex.iKA_50] = {20.0, 150.0}

monitorsetup

viewdy = 0.2

wow you guys like sitting far back huh?