arb65912 Posted August 2, 2022 Posted August 2, 2022 Hello, Golden Nugget here, lol (as per @IronMike ) Loved his reply. First of all, I hope this is the place to ask as I do not want to mess up the structure of the forums and rules. I made a super simple mission for landing practice based on TRAINING mission. In Mission Options I have check marked "External Views" and F10 View Options. After I fly it and save Track and Play Track, I cannot go to external view (F2). What I am doing wrong? Thanks a lot!
IronMike Posted August 2, 2022 Posted August 2, 2022 On 8/2/2022 at 1:27 AM, arb65912 said: Hello, Golden Nugget here, lol (as per @IronMike ) Loved his reply. First of all, I hope this is the place to ask as I do not want to mess up the structure of the forums and rules. I made a super simple mission for landing practice based on TRAINING mission. In Mission Options I have check marked "External Views" and F10 View Options. After I fly it and save Track and Play Track, I cannot go to external view (F2). What I am doing wrong? Thanks a lot! Expand F10 view options, means map only. You need to either also select "all" or "own ac", etc to enable F2 view. (In your mission options.) For beginning ticking all is probably best. Hope that helps. Heatblur Simulations Please feel free to contact me anytime, either via PM here, on the forums, or via email through the contact form on our homepage. http://www.heatblur.com/ https://www.facebook.com/heatblur/
arb65912 Posted August 2, 2022 Author Posted August 2, 2022 These are the options I have and F2 does not switch to external view in saved track. It has to be something very simple I am missing. Thanks, Mike!!
IronMike Posted August 2, 2022 Posted August 2, 2022 On 8/2/2022 at 1:57 AM, arb65912 said: These are the options I have and F2 does not switch to external view in saved track. It has to be something very simple I am missing. Thanks, Mike!! Expand Check this post, bud. Make sure your normal default options have external views enabled as well. Specifically when having "use this options in all missions" selected, your normal settings trump the mission settings. The linked comment also explains how to enable external views in a track, when they have been disabled in the mission itself. Heatblur Simulations Please feel free to contact me anytime, either via PM here, on the forums, or via email through the contact form on our homepage. http://www.heatblur.com/ https://www.facebook.com/heatblur/
arb65912 Posted August 2, 2022 Author Posted August 2, 2022 Thanks for the help, Mike. I will play with that.  Golden Nuggets needs special care, lol. 1
arb65912 Posted August 2, 2022 Author Posted August 2, 2022 No luck. The walkaround from linked thread did not work for me. I have all checked (External Views), in General Settings and in ME. Flew, saved the track, played the track, no external views. Is there anything you need me to attach to investigate? The linked thread says that it is a bug, should I report it? It is not a very bad deal breaker, but I would like to see what I did wrong during flight also looking from outside.
IronMike Posted August 2, 2022 Posted August 2, 2022 On 8/2/2022 at 11:02 AM, arb65912 said: No luck. The walkaround from linked thread did not work for me. I have all checked (External Views), in General Settings and in ME. Flew, saved the track, played the track, no external views. Is there anything you need me to attach to investigate? The linked thread says that it is a bug, should I report it? It is not a very bad deal breaker, but I would like to see what I did wrong during flight also looking from outside. Expand Sure, attach the track and I will take a look. Also found this thread, a guy in there says that you need to restart DCS after saving the track, then you can switch. TBH I havent used external views in tracks since ages, because the tracks we watch, we watch specifically to see what the submitting player was seeing. Heatblur Simulations Please feel free to contact me anytime, either via PM here, on the forums, or via email through the contact form on our homepage. http://www.heatblur.com/ https://www.facebook.com/heatblur/
arb65912 Posted August 2, 2022 Author Posted August 2, 2022 Mike, thank you very much for continuous help but restarting DCS did not work for me. Looking at the threads you linked, it seems that it is a bug. I will take my time this weekend and report properly. And really, it is not that important, I can see all I need from inside the cockpit, if it is a bug though, why not to report, right? Thanks again!!!!!
arb65912 Posted August 2, 2022 Author Posted August 2, 2022 Now, you want to hear something? It is fixed!!! HOW? I have no slightest clue. The only thing I can think of is that I run 2 monitors setup and sometimes I use only one. Maybe switching to two without shutting the PC off caused it? I will never know but just to be safe when doing what I was doing, shut the PC off and turn back on. All is working now (external views) in track right after the mission and in saved track as well.
IronMike Posted August 3, 2022 Posted August 3, 2022 On 8/2/2022 at 9:19 PM, arb65912 said: Now, you want to hear something? It is fixed!!! HOW? I have no slightest clue. The only thing I can think of is that I run 2 monitors setup and sometimes I use only one. Maybe switching to two without shutting the PC off caused it? I will never know but just to be safe when doing what I was doing, shut the PC off and turn back on. All is working now (external views) in track right after the mission and in saved track as well. Expand Aaah, the gold old restart PC fix. Well, you know how they say, sometimes the simplest things solve the most complex issues. Glad you got it to work! Happy flying and reviewing. BTW: if you watch Tomcat tracks, avoid using the Jester menu. Better even, host your own server and watch the server track instead of the client track. Jester and Multicrew, combined with how tracks work in DCS, make them usually go bananas when combined. Heatblur Simulations Please feel free to contact me anytime, either via PM here, on the forums, or via email through the contact form on our homepage. http://www.heatblur.com/ https://www.facebook.com/heatblur/
arb65912 Posted August 3, 2022 Author Posted August 3, 2022 Yes, just as simple as that, restarted with my "regular" configuration and all is there. As a side note, that external view was basically to see the AOA in F-16C on approach and landing which since viewed once, does not need external views option except when one wants to see some cool replies. Thanks for the tip on Tomcat (I do not have it yet, but it is a planned purchase in a very near future = this weekend.
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