Panning and zoom

[sumnersd]

Hi all: Does anyone else experiance this? I start FSX normally,and when I go to outside view, I am at a reasonable distance from my aircraft. Than when I pan either right or left,it is smooth and flowing. When I try to zoom out, I go back to a pretty good distance. Then going in is no problem as well. I taxi to RWY take off and all is well. Panning is a joy,as well as zooming in and out. Now, if I have to reset the flight for whatever reason, then when I go to outside view, it has that fisheye look to it,and I am zoomed i real close. So when I try to zoom out, the view hardly moves. When I change to spot locked, then I can zoom and out normally, as well as pan all around. The one difference is the movement around the plane is quick,and the panning stops like, right now, instead of gliding to a stop. Anyone else out there have this problem,and if so, what was the solution? Thanks S. Sumner

[llivaudais]

People may have a variety of similar sounding problems until they understand how the cameras and view system of FSX works; it's just different enough from FS9 to create confusion. I notice that you refer to "Zoom" all through your comments and never mention "Chase distance" (the actual distance of the view camera from the aircraft). Zooming doesn't MOVE anything - it only changes the field of view/magnification with accompanying distortion.

Zoom (magnification) is just the +/- key; Chase distance is the +/- used with the Control key

Move the camera back from the aircraft while viewing in the 80-100% zoom range. It should look more normal.

Each view has a DEFINED reset zoom level in its description. This is NOT necessarily the same zoom the flight STARTS with; the default zoom level is set by pressing the [backspace] key. A created flight 'inherits' the zoom levels of your default flight; restarting a saved flight keeps the settings as they were.

Panning speed around the cockpit or outside the aircraft is (or may be) also DEFINED separately in each camera... if you don't like the default speeds, change them to suit yourself.

There is an optional "transition" sequence to take you from one view to the next IF the feature is enabled on both the starting and ending views.... the duration is defined in the FSX.cfg; the transition is enabled in each camera definition individually so you might see it going from view a to view b but not from view b to view c.

You won't likely get all the facts and features under your control until you spend time practicing/experimenting with all the various camera setting. The best place to start is with the Cameras and Views description from the SDK.

The ESP version online at MS will do fine...http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc527013.aspx

Loyd

[sumnersd]

When I go to outside spot, in the top right hand corner the text reads "outside spot Zoom 1.00" The view from the back of my plane is about 200 feet from the tail. After a crash, the same view is on top of the tail.