Free look with Joystick question

[Jimd0586]

So I have my X56 working. Previously I was able to free-look around the cockpit with a POV dial on the stick, but after I loaded someone's stick profile it stopped working. So I loaded it back to that POV button. However, I notice it just changes to a different angle of the cockpit as opposed to moving as if you were slowly moving your head. I hope this makes sense. Anyway, anyone know how I bind the stick button correctly so it controls the head of the pilot in real time as opposed to just changing immediately to a different view of the cockpit from inside the aircraft?

[CBStu]

Well no I don't. Why not start w/ deleting the profile that caused the problem?

[KittyVCAW-1]

I don't have the x56 so i'm not sure what a pov dial is exactly. I looked at a picture of it, I'm assuming you are talking about what I hear referred to as " the china hat". The first week I owned DCS I had this bound to the china hat on my joystick while I waited for trackIR to show up.

 

main menu>options>controls

 

from here you can select a sub menu for different groupings of keybinds. You are looking for "VIEW COCKPIT"

in this sub menu scroll to the bottom, there is a list of controls like "view down, view up, view up-left, ect" this is where I bound my 8 way china to

also in the "VIEW" sub menu (directly above VIEW COCKPIT) there are keybinds for "view up slow, view down slow, view up-left slow ect"

 

I'm fairly positive that's what you are looking for. If it's not get back to me I'll try to help you get it sorted.

[Jimd0586]

I don't have the x56 so i'm not sure what a pov dial is exactly. I looked at a picture of it, I'm assuming you are talking about what I hear referred to as " the china hat". The first week I owned DCS I had this bound to the china hat on my joystick while I waited for trackIR to show up.

 

main menu>options>controls

 

from here you can select a sub menu for different groupings of keybinds. You are looking for "VIEW COCKPIT"

in this sub menu scroll to the bottom, there is a list of controls like "view down, view up, view up-left, ect" this is where I bound my 8 way china to

also in the "VIEW" sub menu (directly above VIEW COCKPIT) there are keybinds for "view up slow, view down slow, view up-left slow ect"

 

I'm fairly positive that's what you are looking for. If it's not get back to me I'll try to help you get it sorted.

 

Jonnie2Bad,

 

Thank you for your response. Actually that's how I ended up binding it. But that leaves me with what describe as static head movements. I bound it to the inverted gray china hat on my stick. So I guess what I mean is, that when I click on the POV button a direction (because it's bound to view left slow, view up slow, etc) instead of slowly changing the orientation of the camera in the cockpit based on my pressing of the button, it immediately takes me to the left or up or right. I would prefer to have the camera pan. I cannot seem to go back to that style of camera movement.

[BuzzU]

You didn't program it right. For views, you have as an example. View left and another for view left slow. The first one will snap to the left view. The second one will pan slow with you controlling it. It's the same for up-down-right.

[Jimd0586]

You didn't program it right. For views, you have as an example. View left and another for view left slow. The first one will snap to the left view. The second one will pan slow with you controlling it. It's the same for up-down-right.

 

Thanks BuzzU. I will check again after work. I swear I set it up as View left slow, etc. ut it snaps right to the view instead of panning, but I will check again.

[Top Jockey]

You didn't program it right. For views, you have as an example. View left and another for view left slow. The first one will snap to the left view. The second one will pan slow with you controlling it. It's the same for up-down-right.

 

This ^

[KittyVCAW-1]

maybe a screenshot of that control bind interface just to confirm you got things where they need to be if you can manage?