Local views.lua not working ?

[Weta43]

I want to limit the max field of view in the cockpit to something that doesn't look like I'm standing at the far end of a very long corridor from the instrument panel

I've made folders for some aircraft (Mi-8, Mi-26 & FA18C) with paths like so:

C:\Users\my_name\Saved Games\DCS\Mods\aircraft\Mi-24P

& placed in those folders copies of the views.lua from the equivalent folder in the DCS install - so in the case above the views.lua from C:\DCS\DCS World\Mods\aircraft\Mi-24P

I've then edited the CameraViewAngleLimits line to

CameraViewAngleLimits  = {20.000000,80.000000},

for each player slot & saved.

When I run the sim, the max field of view is unchanged.

 

As a test I also deleted the folders I'd made and edited the views.lua directly in the DCS directory, and these didn't change the max field of view either

(Then I remade the C:\users(...)aircraft\Mi-24P (etc) folders & editied .lua, and put the DCS directory folder back to the way they were originally).

Quite possibly I'm doing something wrong, but from searches that appears to be what the process is supposed to be, and it's not doing anything so perhaps there's a bug.

 

[Rudel_chw]

4 hours ago, Weta43 said:

& placed in those folders copies of the views.lua from the equivalent folder in the DCS install - so in the case above the views.lua from C:\DCS\DCS World\Mods\aircraft\Mi-24P

I've then edited the CameraViewAngleLimits line to

CameraViewAngleLimits  = {20.000000,80.000000},

for each player slot & saved.

When I run the sim, the max field of view is unchanged.

Have you tried to use the server.lua file instead?

 

 

[Weta43]

Hi Rudel,

Thanks, but yes, I'd found that thread before I posted (at least duckduckgo had found it for me :-) - I'd appended (& labelled) the 'view' settings into the 'server' file - but that didn't do anything either (in either the game folders or the saved_game folders).

It really should work from the individual plane's folder in saved games though (that's what those folders are for), so I've posted it as a bug.

If anyone can make it work now though, I'd like to know how...

[Art-J]

Just for the record, have you checked if snapviews are enabled in game options? I believe tinkering with FoV won't work otherwise (although my experience is limited to SP missions and editing one global file - could be the aforementioned server.lua, can't check 'cause I'm not home atm).

[Weta43]

Thanks, but yes they are