pica Posted February 24, 2020 Posted February 24, 2020 1. i am using the mouse for look around, zoom, click buttons. (95 percent of the users do this - for the record, the other 5 percent control views with VR gears) To make this mouselook work, i have to go to the key settings GUI and define every detailed axe and curve, where as turning view left-right is separately handlded from the setting curve look upwards-downwards. the result of this over-engineered value seperation mix is surprisingly bad and a-synchronic, it is hard to look around in DCS. I wonder why this function is not simply taken from the windows settings, which everyone uses by default. In DCS, everything turns to bad. The extremely detailed settings gui is not solving the problems, it creates them. 2.) As disfunctional the internal view around is, as contra-directional is the external view. moving the mouse when using the external view mode for looking at the plane model swaps directions (reverse logic). currently, moving the mouse right, moves the viewed object left (instead of right). Same with up-down. this is against human habtics and totally wrong. looking at and rotating the airplane model should work like a standard 3D-model viewer. where moving the mouse right means turning the airplane model right, same with up or down. i feel uncomfortable handling DCS for these reasons, and it is no fun to dogfight if habtics are inproper. ED: time to re-do this stuff from scratch. 3.) Handling knobs and switches in the cockpit vs. Look around mode with a Mouse: moving the mouse to look around while stopping the move in order to handle clickable buttons in the cockpit requires a clear method. Best method is: click right mouse button 1x to activate look around. Click right mouse button 2x to still the view. DCS allows to assign one right click to activate view, but forgot the re-click and double click function. Instead, it uses the right mouse button for clicking knobs in the cockpit. which is wrong and a nightmare. Here is the top-rules for all flight sims: Never ever use right mouse button to click cockpit buttons, switches, wheels or knobs. Never. The right mouse button should be reserved exclusively for stop-and-go the view around. So how to handle buttons, switches, wheels or knobs? Simple: scroll wheel handles rotatable knobs in the cockpit. both, vertical and horizontal. press buttons: left mouse button click 1x. Switches: left mouse click and drag to its desired position. Please review, overhaul, redo thesel mouse interaction elements of the sim, so people can start enjoying the sim. Do it exactly like X-Plane. No issues there. 4. Views CTRL + Numpad 0 - 9 should allow pre-assiging view sections in the cockpit or external. Numpad 0 - 9 should then call these views 5. Camera position changing cam position in the cockpit is vey slow. Thank you for accepting my critics and i pray you re-do these things for better.
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