Left Console Snap View adjustment
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Can the snap view of the Left Console be moved up? The lower row of controls is partially obscured, such as the EXT LIGHTING Master Switch so you can’t see it in the Snap view during ramp starts. I know most are using head tracking but for those without may prefer a stable view of the console, this might help. My monitor resolution is 2560x1080…not sure if that matters here.
Possible solution? Or will it break something?
I was able to use the instructions in Section 8.4 of the technical manual to make a custom view which shows the entire console. I then took these values and replaced the coordinates in the 3dckpit.dat files for the jet I was testing with. I thought this might break where the “clickable” spots were in the snap view but at least in the Training mission Ground Ops, this seems to be working as I hoped.I only edited two 3dckpit.dat files in Falcon BMS 4.35\Data\Art\CkptArt, one for the F-16B-15 and also the 3dckpit.dat in the root CkptArt folder to test this out.
Here is the original line in the .dat files and my edited version. Only the bolded text was modified.
//guidedview 4 0.000000 -0.004578 0.000000 -90.999969 -52.492168 -0.044651 59.999996 0 10 9000 3 27000 5 18000 7 ‘original left console’
guidedview 4 -0.002915 -0.034861 -0.011900 -82.050301 -67.452042 0.000000 64.999992 0 10 9000 3 27000 5 18000 7 ‘edited left console’ -
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Yes, it broke something
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@bdlmi2018 I think I noticed the same problem on 3440x1440 (widescreen) monitor.
I think the “fov” is defined along the horizontal plane, so with a widescreen monitor effectively those viewports “chop off” a bit that would be visible, along the top and bottom, of a 16:9 ratio screen.
I don’t know any easy fix. Maybe try hand-tweaking the fov number, in those rows (presumably it’s the 59.999 value) to around 80?
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@airtex2019 said in Left Console Snap View adjustment:
I don’t know any easy fix. Maybe try hand-tweaking the fov number, in those rows (presumably it’s the 59.999 value) to around 80?
Initially I thought what I did was working fine as I was seeing the exact screen that I froze on for the custom view, but a later attempt just left me with a screen full of sky and unable to change snap views afterwards.