creating cameras

Hi All,

how do you guys create those cameras on the ground, that are fixed on the plane flying?

Just like a TV cameras at airshows?

Is there a procedure for creating those?

Thank you!

E.

Hi All,

 

how do you guys create those cameras on the ground, that are fixed on the plane flying?

Just like a TV cameras at airshows?

Is there a procedure for creating those?

 

Thank you!

E.

you can put a truck or something on the ground, hit F7 till it gets to it, then press F5 to track nearest target?

You can put the camera anywhere then press LCtrl + F3, it will follow the selected aircraft.

Check the nearest airport, click on it under the map view(F10) and you can "fly" to anywhere where you want to put your viewpoint in F11.

Then you turn your camera to your plane (best if you put your position on the ground and watching to the sky) and push the ( NUM, ) which a padlock to your plane.

Just start your airshow at an airport. in this case you can stay there and easily do what I wrote above...

PS: if you crash during your flight, the padlock camera immediatelly turn back to the beginning position where locked your plane first. To prevent this, you can follow the show by your hand via mouse.

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PS2: the module MiG-21bis under 1.5.3 is wrong, because it is doing something totally different than what you did before. Mostly retract the gears during the takeoff on the ground or just miss a turn and hit the ground a few seconds later. I don't know why. It is a bug.

One thing though- a lot of videos, including some of yours Amraam if I am not mistaken, the camera is very close to the ground, so you get kind of a childs perpective, looking up and the aircraft rolling by on the runway. Whats the secret to that`:)

With the F11 you can go down really to the ground level.

Awesome guys. I appreciate all your help in this!

There's also a relatively new feature that allows you to have a fixed camera on an aircraft

[LShift + F4]

Move using the same key combinations that are used for in-cockpit 6 DOF movement i.e.:

[RCtrl + Rshift + Num arrows]

[RCtrl + Rshift + Num *] and [RCtrl + Rshift + Num /]

I'm not self promoting, but just for the sake of clarity, you can see it in use in my latest video @2:21

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^^^^

 

Actually, this is the best way:

 

When the mission begins, and you are on the ground, runway, whatever - hit CTRL-F11, and you are now in the "free cam view". Move the camera to wherever you want, ground, air, doesn't matter.

Now hit CTRL-F3 and the camera will start following (tracking) your plane (or whatever object the camera was locked to in the first place).

 

Obviously this is best for track files, but if you "accidently" switch to another viewpoint, as in the Cockpit, F2 view, normal F3 flyby view - it doesn't matter. When you press the F11 key again you will be back to where you placed the camera in the first place.

I would have thought it may only work by using [Numpad .]