I must be stupid...

[Tony G]

I have been all over the forums in every forum, trying to find out how to set your eyepoint in a VC, as in I want to set it to .75 or .8 when you start. Is it impossible or is it just me! Help.

Tony

[MadMaster]

Do you mean the zoom or "seat position"? I know you can change the position at startup by changing the aircraft.cfg file. You can also hit "shift + enter" to raise the seat and "shift + backspace" to lower and doing it with ctrl also moves the seat left and right or something like that. If that is also what you are looking for.

[Tony G]

Thanks for the input, but I am looking for specific info for how to adjust the VC eyepoint so that it always opens at the same eyepoint. I know how to adjust the 2D. This is for a new model that we can adjust anything we want. Thanks for any input. I am looking for any help.

Tony

[KylePrestwood]

Hey Tony,

Hm... try something along the lines of :

(Views)
eyepoint= XXX.XXX XXX.XXX

This will be in your "aircraft.cfg" file.

Kyle

[heyer]

>Hm... try something along the lines of :
>
>(Views)
>eyepoint= XXX.XXX XXX.XXX
>
>This will be in your "aircraft.cfg" file.

Well, almost...

You need a section called &l;VIEWS&r; in your Aircraft.cfg file containing a line like

eyepoint=44.983391,-1.666052,4.165129

and you need a section &l;VIEWS&r; in your Panel.cfg file containing lines like

VIEW_FORWARD_WINDOWS=MAIN_PANEL
VIEW_FORWARD_DIR=2.0,0.0,0.0
VIEW_FORWARD_ZOOM=0.70

[Zoren]

Thanks...

Tony and I were talking about this last night for our Tutor project. I figured the eyeview for the VC but couldn't find the setting for the zoom to default to a given value on startup.

VIEW_FORWARD_WINDOWS=MAIN_PANEL
VIEW_FORWARD_DIR=2.0,0.0,0.0
VIEW_FORWARD_ZOOM=0.75

Would that only come into effect for the VC or would the 2d also appear at .75?

Donald
VCDG Designer

[heyer]

>VIEW_FORWARD_ZOOM=0.75
>
>Would that only come into effect for the VC or would the 2d
>also appear at .75?

Affirmative on the 2d (but the panel bitmap won't get smaller of course ;-) ).

[KylePrestwood]

Yes, I'm aware that the "Views" is in brackets... I should have noted that instead of parenthesis.

However, when I type in those brackets, this fourm software don't show it.........

Kyle

[heyer]

>Yes, I'm aware that the "Views" is in brackets... I should
>have noted that instead of parenthesis.
>
>However, when I type in those brackets, this fourm software
>don't show it.........

I didn't mean the brackets, I additionally mentioned the lines necessary in the Panel.cfg file.

(But in case you're interested in how these brackets are made just have a look at the [link:www.flightsim.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=html_reference|HTML Reference].)