Fish Eye Pilot Views? Um, no.

[Stevecat]

New to DCS so sorry if this topic has been beat to death.   Got the F4U and the K4 Warbirds.  I really don't want to play them anymore because the Fish Eye camera views suck and it doesn't look like there's any real way to fix it without learning to code.  Hate to go negative right away but this should be pretty easy to resolve, no?  If the lowly IL-2 can handle pilot views to scale, shouldn't DCS?

[MAXsenna]

New to DCS so sorry if this topic has been beat to death.   Got the F4U and the K4 Warbirds.  I really don't want to play them anymore because the Fish Eye camera views suck and it doesn't look like there's any real way to fix it without learning to code.  Hate to go negative right away but this should be pretty easy to resolve, no?  If the lowly IL-2 can handle pilot views to scale, shouldn't DCS?

Do you have headtracking? If yes, stop or pause it. Then hold down the RCtrl + RShft keys, and zoom in and out with the Num/and Num*, or Num- keys depending on your keyboard layout. To go up/down/sideways use Num2, Num4, Num5 and Num8. When you're satisfied, you can save with RAlt + Num0.
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[Tom Kazansky]

I remember the days I had played DCS in 2D and I had to press numpad 5 each time I started a mission to get rid of the initial zoomed out view.

Later I learned to adjust the view like @MAXsenna described above but I still had to press numpad 5 to get to this saved view from the initial zoomed out  view at mission start. Don't know if this is still relevant.

edit: IIRC there is an additional keybind that resets the zoom in DCS. I can't remember whether I had to press that once, too. Just give it a try. (I will when I'm back at my PC)

Edited July 12 by Tom Kazansky

[MAXsenna]

I remember the days I had played DCS in 2D and I had to press numpad 5 each time I started a mission to get rid of the initial zoomed out view.
Later I learned to adjust the view like @MAXsenna described above but I still had to press numpad 5 to get to this saved view from the initial zoomed out  view at mission start. Don't know if this is still relevant.
edit: IIRC there is an additional keybind that resets the zoom in DCS. I can't remember whether I had to press that once, too. Just give it a try. (I will when I'm back at my PC)

Yeah, that's true. Num5 centres and resets to the Saved view, and Num Enter resets the zoom.

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[SharpeXB]

6 hours ago, Tom Kazansky said:

IIRC there is an additional keybind that resets the zoom in DCS. I can't remember whether I had to press that once, too. Just give it a try. (I will when I'm back at my PC)

“Zoom Normal” returns you to the value you set with RAlt+Num0. Snap View Saving needs to be enabled for this to work. 

[MAXsenna]

“Zoom Normal” returns you to the value you set with RAlt+Num0. Snap View Saving needs to be enabled for this to work. 

Thanks Sharp! Forgot to mention that one needs to enable Snapviews saving.

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[Tom Kazansky]

1 hour ago, SharpeXB said:

“Zoom Normal” returns you to the value you set with RAlt+Num0. Snap View Saving needs to be enabled for this to work. 

Thanks for clearing things up and refreshing my memory.

[Stevecat]

he4y guys thanks for the help and replies.  Again I don't want to be a weenie on my first post.  I don't have head tracking set up here yet.  I used it for IL-2 with no fisheye problems there.  But actually I went back to the normal keypad views.  I know  numpad 5 and Enter and returning to the normal view.  Just not used to the fisheye when using the zoom slider.  Hopefully it can be improved at least to the level of IL-2.

[SharpeXB]

Yeah I don’t know why DCS has that distorted wide view. If you’re using an axis for the command you can set a limit with the saturation in the response menu. 

[Hiob]

45 minutes ago, SharpeXB said:

Yeah I don’t know why DCS has that distorted wide view. If you’re using an axis for the command you can set a limit with the saturation in the response menu. 

because, DCS simulates how a real zoom lense system would work. Opposed to a "scaling" approach operating more like a picture zoom in a photo-app e.g.
Wether this is a good approach or not I'm not judging.
When staying in "reasonable" limits, the problem with the distortion is bearable imho. Part of the problem is that some default views are unrealisticly far zoomed out. 

[SharpeXB]

6 minutes ago, Hiob said:

because, DCS simulates how a real zoom lense system would work. Opposed to a "scaling" approach operating more like a picture zoom in a photo-app e.g.
Wether this is a good approach or not I'm not judging.
When staying in "reasonable" limits, the problem with the distortion is bearable imho. Part of the problem is that some default views are unrealisticly far zoomed out. 

I don’t see what the difference between that and what any other game or sim does with its FOV. No other game I know of has such a wide limit, they usually have this set to some reasonable value.