solved Default zoom

[BrzI]

I can set the default Zoom for a mission (LAlt + Numpad0). But I want to set a default zoom factor for an aircraft so that it works any time I spawn in it.

It seems like this issue has been present for a long time. Lots of posts but none of the suggestions work for me.

I have played with the default view section in the main AND saved games section of the config/views folder. Tried various combinations along with chekcing-unchecking the enable user snap views option.

Nothing works for me. I have to customize the default view and Zoom factor everytime I start a new mission. This used to work for many years but I stopped working quite a while ago...

Is this a bug or if not - coudl somebody suggest what I could be doing wrong ?

Thanks

[virgo47]

I always set Snap views for all my planes, one of them is the default view. In each plane and position, it is this one from Saved Games\<your-DCS>\Config\View\SnapViews.lua:

	[13] = {--default view
		viewAngle		= 98.839722,--FOV
		viewAngleVertical= 66.589050,--VFOV

I believe there were problems when the viewAngleVertical was not set, which happened between some updates. There were some cases when the zoom used for some planes at the start of the emission was not what was set there, but I haven't encountered the problem for some time.

What I do - once is enough - I press View Center binding (check the keys, I don't use defaults anymore), then I reposition the camera and set the zoom I want, and after that press Save Cockpit Angles (this one is RAlt+Num0, BTW, I'm not sure what your action is for LAlt+Num0). This saves the current view as the last-used snap view - or, if you used View Center as the last one, the default view.

I also manually copy the same thing to [14] for VR just to have it consistent. I believe that one is used not only for VR, but also for head-tracking.

So, to save "default zoom" you actually need to set the default view.

Questions:

1. What was the name of the action you used to save the zoom?
2. What was the plane?
3. In the mission file (check it as a zip archive), are there any settings with baked in views? That's quite often the problem, even some ED's missions have that.

[MAXsenna]

I'm sure LAlt + Num0 was a typo.

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[virgo47]

19 minutes ago, MAXsenna said:

I'm sure LAlt + Num0 was a typo.

That's why I prefer names of the actions, there is no confusion there. But I understand that it's easier to just write the key combo.

[MAXsenna]

That's why I prefer names of the actions, there is no confusion there. But I understand that it's easier to just write the key combo.

Depends.
Is you want to teach users the key combo, there's no other way, and if users are using the wrong one.

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[BrzI]

I actually extracted the view .luas from the mission and replaced them with the core DCS .luas and finally got the views I wanted.

Looks like the baked in views were the culprit.

Thanks

[virgo47]

5 hours ago, BrzI said:

...and replaced them with the core DCS .luas and finally got the views I wanted.

It is best to remove the baked in views completely. Otherwise you're forcing those views onto the player. When you want to adjust views later, it will not work for that kind of missions. If you share it later, people may be confused why it doesn't work.

The views get baked in when you "prepare" the mission in the ME (kind of pre-fly it) - this does not happen when you just launch it from ME.