Ted Turanski Posted March 7, 2021 Posted March 7, 2021 I'm relatively new to DCS. Have about 30 hours on the TF-51D. I think that the scenery is beautiful, but I don't have much time to look at the scenery while I'm flying. In the new Microsoft Flight Simulator you can pause the action, go to an outside view, and then look around all you want. The only PAUSE for DCS that I know is to hit ESC - but then I have not been able to look around at the scenery while it is paused like that. Does anyone know of a way to look at the scenery in DCS without having to fly the plane at the same time?
Rudel_chw Posted March 7, 2021 Posted March 7, 2021 You could use the "Active Pause” keybind (Left Win + Pause, if I remember correctly). For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
Exorcet Posted March 7, 2021 Posted March 7, 2021 In DCS the Pause Break key is the default pause button. Use that to look at scenery while the game is paused. Awaiting: DCS F-15C Win 10 i5-9600KF 4.6 GHz 64 GB RAM RTX2080Ti 11GB -- Win 7 64 i5-6600K 3.6 GHz 32 GB RAM GTX970 4GB -- A-10C, F-5E, Su-27, F-15C, F-14B, F-16C missions in User Files
rforce Posted March 7, 2021 Posted March 7, 2021 (edited) Yes „Active Pause „ left Shift and Win-Button +Pause you stop flying, but time goes on !! so you get Radio Messages and other that is important for missions Edited March 7, 2021 by rforce AMD Ryzen 3900xt 96 Gb DDR 4 NVIDIA RTX 4070ti
imacken Posted March 7, 2021 Posted March 7, 2021 To look at the scenery while flying, you want to use the DCS Pause key which - as pointed out above - is the Pause/Break key. In Pause, all view options are available including external and there you can look around zoom in/out etc. until you want to return to the mission. No controls are active in Pause, just views. Using Active Pause can be helpful under certain conditions as all controls are usable, BUT remember that all world/mission events are still going on, and that can be dangerous! For looking at scenery (and to give you a break!) Pause is the way. Intel i7 12700K · MSI Gaming X Trio RTX 4090 · ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-A Wi-Fi · MSI 32" MPG321UR QD · Samsung 970 500Gb M.2 NVMe · 2 x Samsung 850 Evo 1Tb · 2Tb HDD · 32Gb Corsair Vengance 3000MHz DDR4 · Windows 11 · Thrustmaster TPR Pedals · Tobii Eye Tracker 5 · Thrustmaster F/A-18 Hornet Grip · Virpil MongoosT-50CM3 Base · Virpil Throttle MT-50 CM3 · Virpil Alpha Prime Grip · Virpil Control Panel 2 · Thrustmaster F-16 MFDs · HTC Vive Pro 2 · Total Controls Multifunction Button Box
MAXsenna Posted March 7, 2021 Posted March 7, 2021 I'm relatively new to DCS. Have about 30 hours on the TF-51D. I think that the scenery is beautiful, but I don't have much time to look at the scenery while I'm flying. In the new Microsoft Flight Simulator you can pause the action, go to an outside view, and then look around all you want. The only PAUSE for DCS that I know is to hit ESC - but then I have not been able to look around at the scenery while it is paused like that. Does anyone know of a way to look at the scenery in DCS without having to fly the plane at the same time?There is no similar drone view in DCS as far as I know. Unfortunately.Cheers! Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk
imacken Posted March 7, 2021 Posted March 7, 2021 What do you mean? Hit Pause, F2 and look around with the mouse and TrackIR. You can also zoom in and out with the scroll wheel. Intel i7 12700K · MSI Gaming X Trio RTX 4090 · ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-A Wi-Fi · MSI 32" MPG321UR QD · Samsung 970 500Gb M.2 NVMe · 2 x Samsung 850 Evo 1Tb · 2Tb HDD · 32Gb Corsair Vengance 3000MHz DDR4 · Windows 11 · Thrustmaster TPR Pedals · Tobii Eye Tracker 5 · Thrustmaster F/A-18 Hornet Grip · Virpil MongoosT-50CM3 Base · Virpil Throttle MT-50 CM3 · Virpil Alpha Prime Grip · Virpil Control Panel 2 · Thrustmaster F-16 MFDs · HTC Vive Pro 2 · Total Controls Multifunction Button Box
MAXsenna Posted March 8, 2021 Posted March 8, 2021 What do you mean? Hit Pause, F2 and look around with the mouse and TrackIR. You can also zoom in and out with the scroll wheel. Yeah, but whatever you're looking at is in focus. I might be wrong, but I believe OP asked for something like in MSFS. You can fly around like a ghost without an airplane. And I believe it's called drone view.Cheers! Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk
Repth Posted March 8, 2021 Posted March 8, 2021 (edited) F11 by default is your free camera view. Use LCtrl + F11 it center it around your aircraft. Use your center mouse wheel to control forward and aft movement and speed. Use the pause/break key to pause the simulation, Left Win + Pause/break for active pause. Edited March 8, 2021 by Repth 1
Ted Turanski Posted March 8, 2021 Author Posted March 8, 2021 Thank you to all of you who responded to my question. I am completely new to this forum, -my question above was my first post. I enjoy DCS and its TF-51D very much, and I think that the people of this forum are going to be a great part of the DCS experience for me. Nice to meet you: Rudel_chw, Exorcet, rforce, imacken, MAXsenna, and Repth. With your help I was able to look around at the scenery after pausing the TF-51D. Part of my problem was that my keyboard did not have a pause key. When I looked at setup key assignments the pause function had been assigned to the pause key that I did not have. I added the CapLocks key to the pause function. Now I am able to pause the TF-51D with my CapLocks key and look around at the scenery. Putting all of you comments together I was able to deduce that DCS might have a PAUSE function all of its own. Thank you for your help, and I will be looking for you on the forum. -Ted Turanski, Lake City, Michigan, USA 2
Repth Posted March 8, 2021 Posted March 8, 2021 You're welcome Ted and welcome to the Forum! Glad we could help :).
MAXsenna Posted March 9, 2021 Posted March 9, 2021 Welcome! I learned something too! Thanks! Sent from my MAR-LX1A using Tapatalk
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