August 6 2011 Development Update - Page 38

Blackdog_kt · #**371** 08-23-2011, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by 41Sqn_Stormcrow

I don't know which TrackIR you have but with my TrackIR I don't have a hotkey that allows to define a different position as centre.

I have following Hotkeys:
F7: Precision moving (basically reduces the gradients of the curves)
F8: Profile (whatever this is. But having tried it it does not work as blackdog described)
F9: Pause button
F12: Re-centre (back to initial centre)

I don't have further possibilities to edit hotkeys with the TrackIR software (I use TrackIR 5 software with TrackIR4 hardware)

These are default settings.

Maybe what blackdog describes works with TrackIR5. This I cannot judge. I have TrackIR4 like so many others and it does not work.

EDIT: No, Manu, also pressing F12 in the way as blackdog described it, does not work. It just puts me back to the default centre position.

And even if it did work: everytime I would look around I would have to repeat this manoeuvre as every looking around slightly shifts the centre to some arbitrary position. So definitely not a good solution.

I however support blackdog that the Ju88 gun sight should be fixed. They may fix the other gunsights at the same time. It should not need much programming.

Ah, i see where the confusion is coming from, it's the bolded part. Well, F12 doesn't return to the original center, it makes your current head position the new center position and centers the in-game view.

In other words, it enables you to move the default center position towards one direction, so that your default in-game view will move to the opposite one.

It worked with my trackIR4 on both trackIR4 and trackIR5 software and it works with freetrack that i'm currently using.

Have a look at this image:

I've used this for ages in pretty much every sim that i had which supported 6DoF. You can center left to shift your default view right and keep the gunsight in view, you can center low to shift the default view up and see over the nose during a landing approach, you can center high to shift the default view down and keep the instruments in sight, you can center to one side to shift the default view to the other if you want to look out the side of the nose during taxi and take-off.

It only takes 5 seconds to do it before take off.

It works.

Blackdog_kt · #**372** 08-23-2011, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by MegOhm

Wow.........New graphics engine did not turn out so well? Guess someone was a little too ambitious..

Hope the remake does turn out well. If it does, there's hope.

Maybe they should have taken a cue from the IL2 1946 UP modders. If CLOD worked as well I would be happy...

Mulitplayer? LOL

Dog fight missions on those worthless dogfight maps just don't cut it.

Not much appeal does it have until we can write a mission on a decent map that my squad mates and I can all jump in and fly some historic BoB ...

Too bad the Planes are such slugs....not everyone wants to do CEM all the time.

Waiting for the patch and hoping...

"I didn't like the previous situation, i don't want to wait for new improvements to correct it so i'll suppose they couldn't do it and stick to a 10 year old engine which has reached its technical limits, i don't like the maps, realism settings and missions people choose to run in their servers and planes are now harder to fly".

Well, there are easy solutions for all of your problems:
1) Stick to IL2+mods
OR
2) Rent your own server, host your own missions and set CEM to off.

Welcome to the forums

furbs · #**373** 08-24-2011, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by joker68

I used to save the position in a manner that would not require me to recenter every way. It's simple: just start the game with trackir running, but WITHOUT the clip. Then, inside the plane, your head will be at the "default" center position. Just use the ins/home/pgdn/pgup/end/delete keys to position your head where you want it to be when you center the trackir, and press F10. This will sabe that position as the new default "center position" for that plane.

That's all. Now you can put on your clip and center the trackir using whatever key you have programmed in trackir software. I use a button on the joystick, because sometimes during a fight you become "off center" in your chair, and so it is faster to recenter without reaching for the keyboard.

You will need to do this for every plane, but just once per plane.
When I started to fly RoF, I used the center position aligned with the sights, but now I'm flying with my head centered in the cockpit and leaning everytime I want to take a "precision shoot". I think this was the way they did, because you wouldn't be flying leaning all the time (most of the planes have the sights off center).

Cheers.

Does that work in CLOD, i thought that only worked for ROF?

Varrattu · #**374** 08-26-2011, 09:28 AM