Please refer to this thread I started on a similar topic a while ago.
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=21600
I did the effort to draw a picture in order to better illustrate why the current setup is NOT really realistic.
For simplicity I repost the drawing here.
The red curve is the approximate curve of my TrackIR profile. It indicates the SPEED with which TrackIR transforms my head movement into game. So for a head displacement of x cm I get a displacement velocity of y pixel/s. But as y is speed the displacement ingame obtained for a displacement of x cm is not z pixel with z = k*x (k being a constant factor to translate head displacement into pixel displacement) but it is x0 + k*x^2 so the square of the displacement. You can easily deduce that the further the displacement the quicker the movement I obtain ingame. So being off-centre the slightest head movement, even if it is just because I cannot hold my head that steady has so much more impact than on centre.
So for centre sights you have to fight:
- head shake due to manoeuvering and g-effects
For off-centre sights you have to fight:
- head shake due to manoeuvering and g-effects
- big impact on sight due to slightly unsteady physical head
Your body
does NOT have a different displacement speed wether you lean to the right or not at all.
TrackIR
DOES have a different displacement speed wether you lean to the right or not at all.
This makes off-centre sights much more difficult to aim with than centre sights. If in reality it would have been equally more difficult to aim with an off-centre sight the Germans would have quickly moved it to the centre. Proof that it was no deal at all is that the off-centre position was used till the end.
Proposed solution that should accomodate everybody imho:
- For aiming I lean sideways so that I can see the circle.
- I press a button that "saves" the position as long as I keep the button pushed. I can look around like normally and like in any other plane with no shift+f1. But when I return to forward view I am in the "saved" position as long as the button is still pressed.
- When I am done with aiming I release button and I jump back to cockpit centred view.