Landing the Mosquito?

[Raven Morpheus]

Originally Posted by Woke Up Dead

At the very bottom of the Controls menu. I use a mouse setup similar to what JtD describes, it works quite well.

Erm, OK, I still can't find it.

All I can see towards the end of the list of controls that adjust the view is the set of Look controls under Snap View and the set of Pan View controls below those.

And I've had a play with Look Up and Pan View Up and they don't work to raise the view up, Look Up doesn't even work unless I press F9 and then it does the same as Pan View Up which rotates the view upwards, rather than moving it straight up as though you were raising your head.



EDIT - I've just read this - http://simhq.net/downloads/air_comba...1_Guide_RC.pdf

It says "Raise with mouse is achieved with the mouse wheel and Activate Mouse Move Mode button pressed" and says this is set under Head Movement, but when I go to look at my controls I have no section marked Head Movement?!

That looks like the readme for v4.11m and I'm getting the feeling that because I run 4.10.1m I'm SoL on that feature. Shame, that probably would have helped, but DBW/TFM wouldn't work for me in 4.11...

Originally Posted by sniperton

You don't need TrackIR for landing. You need it for locating the airport.

Thanks I'll take your advice on-board. I don't have TrackIR though, I can't afford it, nor do I like the idea of wearing a silly hat/headband, that's why I went with a PS3 Eye cam and FacetrackNoIR.

But as I said FacetrackNoIR isn't all that great for me so far, so I just stick to using the Pan View left/right controls that I've mapped to the d-pad style thumbstick on my flight stick.

[JtD]

Are you patched up all the way to 4.12.1?

[Raven Morpheus]

Originally Posted by JtD

Are you patched up all the way to 4.12.1?

No.

I run Dark Blue World mod and The Full Monty Mod and some other smaller mods, and none worked for me in 4.12.1 when I tried updating to 4.12.1 - it kept crashing whilst loading. Apparently that's expected behaviour because patches post 4.10.1m aren't all that mod friendly.

Hence the reason I'm still using 4.10.1m. I might make a 2nd install, clean and patched up to 4.12.1 and do an experiment by setting the relevant keys in that version, then copying them from the 4.12.1 settings file to my 4.10.1m settings file and copy the 4.12.1 .exe over to my modded 4.10.1m install and see if it works still and gives me the 6dof head movement function.

No biggie though, I'll get there eventually, just have to read what you guys have said some more, watch the video posted a few times, make notes and practice some more.

[Raven Morpheus]

Originally Posted by Raven Morpheus

I might make a 2nd install, clean and patched up to 4.12.1 and do an experiment by setting the relevant keys in that version, then copying them from the 4.12.1 settings file to my 4.10.1m settings file and copy the 4.12.1 .exe over to my modded 4.10.1m install and see if it works still and gives me the 6dof head movement function.

Hmm yeah, didn't work. Didn't think it would either.

But what I didn't realise is that the DBW/TFM mods come with a solution available already, this - http://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php?topic=7163.0

I was wondering what that was when I was installing the mods, so just now I installed the "normal mouse" version.

Works a treat as well, now all I have to do is hold down the left mouse button and move the view up and/or the right mouse button to move the view forward/back.

Slight problem though in that I have my rudder trim set to my mouse buttons, will have to unbind them.

This is my usual 110% FOV view -




This is how it looks now I can raise the view up -





Hopefully that will help a little with landings.

Sorry about the size of the pics.



@KG26_Alpha - cool video.