Why doesn't the game use server.lua in SavedGames for your cockpit views anymore??

[Snacko]

I'm on a very wide screen, and have to customize my views on almost every aircraft.  For a few months, maybe longer, the views defined for each aircraft in server.lua don't get used anymore.  We have to now put these changes in the game folder for each aircraft's views.lua...  With every patch my changes get overwritten.  So, now I'm thinking I need to make view.lua mods for each aircraft in the install folders/mods folder.   

This is so annoying when it was so easy and working fine in the past..  I thought maybe I could make a 'mods/aircrafts' folder in my Saved Games for the aircraft and put the views.lua there, but alas, that also does not work.

Can this be fixed?            

Thanks,
Snacko

[Rudel_chw]

1 hour ago, Snacko said:

I'm on a very wide screen, and have to customize my views on almost every aircraft.  For a few months, maybe longer, the views defined for each aircraft in server.lua don't get used anymore. 

 

Hello,

I believe that server.lua is only for customizing the basic view parameters .. the same ones that the aircraft has on its own views.lua ... it does not contain the views.

The custom views should be placed on a snapviews.lua file, placed on the same folder as server.lua: that is /Saved games/DCS/config/view

 

On my case, most aircrafts accept the customizations witn no issue, but there are exceptions, for example the F-15E takes Server.lua but not Snapviews.lua ... while the Mirage F1 takes neither Snapviews.lua nor Server.lua 

 

1 hour ago, Snacko said:

We have to now put these changes in the game folder for each aircraft's views.lua...  With every patch my changes get overwritten. 

 

I make use of a Mod Manager to avoid that, like this:

 

 

1 hour ago, Snacko said:

Can this be fixed?            

 

We can report each case as a Bug, but its up to the developers to fix each aircraft ... for example I did this for the Mirage F1:

 

 

Unfortunately, the developer didn't took an interest on the report. 

 

I also reported the case of the F-15E:

 

 

 

I have yet to see if the developer will take an interest on it ... lets cross fingers

Best regards,

 

Eduardo

[Snacko]

22 hours ago, Rudel_chw said:

I believe that server.lua is only for customizing the basic view parameters .. the same ones that the aircraft has on its own views.lua ... it does not contain the views.

Yes, my OP was correct.  I am talking about the Server.lua in the Saved Games folder that lets you adjust the Cockpits CameraViewAngleLimits  & limits_6DOF.  And even the Chase View  LocalPointview...   In the FA-18 I cannot even move my head forward at all with the default limits.   I have used the Server.lua for this for years.  And the FA-18 used to work fine in there.  But it stopped working a few months ago I think...

I hope that someone can tell me what I am doing wrong.  I've been using 'FA-18C_hornet' as the name since the ac came out.  Unless that is wrong now, the server.lua is not being used for these cockpit views anymore...   I hope that this will be fixed!  Here is my code in the Saved Game\Config\View\server.lua

ViewSettings["FA-18C_hornet"] = {
	Cockpit = {
	[1] = {-- player slot 1
		CameraViewAngleLimits  = {80.000000,150.000000},	-- COCKPIT ZOOM LIMITS(keys * - /) (MAX Zoom in, Max Zoom out)
		CockpitLocalPoint      = {3.533,1.156,0.0},
		CameraAngleRestriction = {false,90.000000,0.500000},
		CameraAngleLimits      = {200,-90.000000,90.000000},	-- Maximum head movement angles: left/right, dn/up.  Not applicable for Mi8
		EyePoint               = {0.05000,0.100000,0.000000},
		ShoulderSize		   = 0.25,			-- 0.25 Shifts head left/right, when view angle is more than 90 degrees
		Allow360rotation	   = false,
					-- WHERE: x = back to front (aft-forward axis), y = top to bottom (vertical axis), z = side to side
		limits_6DOF            = {x = {-0.13,0.46},y ={-0.3,0.065},z = {-0.18,0.18},roll = 90.000000},
		},
.....

 

Edited June 24, 2023 by Snacko

[Snacko]

@BIGNEWY

Sir, do you know anything about this issue?  Has Server.lua been abandoned for using to customize the cockpit views in the Saved Games folder?  I remember there was a kind of push to move more modding into the Saved Games folder a while back..

[SuperTonique]

I have the same problem with the Mirage F1.

Since the 2.9 DCS new version, the modifications on the "limits_6DOF" line in the "Mods/aircraft/MirageF1/ViewCmn.lua" file doesn't work any more.

So, now, I'm not able to capture parts of cockpit to create specific interfaces to use with "Touch Portal".

It still works with the AV8BNA and with the A4E-C... 

Is there any other solution to modify the limits of camera view ?

Edited December 6, 2023 by SuperTonique

[silverdevil]

@Rudel_chw hello. i was messing around with my views folder and watched some videos. i saw in a video that the user had a server.lua. i searched for this and i do not have it on my system. i searched Google and came up with this post. is this file only for MP? the name infers this. wondering what effect it has copying someone's as a test?

[Rudel_chw]

15 minutes ago, silverdevil said:

@Rudel_chw hello. i was messing around with my views folder and watched some videos. i saw in a video that the user had a server.lua. i searched for this and i do not have it on my system.

 

The original file should be within your DCS program path, on my PC its at:

C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\Config\View

 

DO NOT modify this file, instead copy it to your Saved games DCS path, on my PC its:

G:\Users\Eduardo\Saved Games\DCS.OpenBeta\Config\View

 

Once at saved games, you can modify the file as you see fit.

 

15 minutes ago, silverdevil said:

is this file only for MP? the name infers this.

 

Yes, I agree that the name is misleading, but no, the file works both on SP and on MP.

 

15 minutes ago, silverdevil said:

wondering what effect it has copying someone's as a test?

 

Unlikely to give good results, unless the other person has the same display resolution and proportions as you do.

[silverdevil]

@Rudel_chw thanks for the answers. my server.lua only has a few planes but thats ok. i can modify after the copy. thanks again.