Snaps views resetting

[ac5]

Snaps views resetting, especially with the Corsair and Marianas WWII,

often after a Training mission. but also with other airplanes, especially Marianas modern.

Anybody?

[MAXsenna]

On 8/3/2025 at 3:24 PM, ac5 said:

Snaps views resetting, especially with the Corsair and Marianas WWII,

often after a Training mission. but also with other airplanes, especially Marianas modern.

Anybody?

Snapviews for maps doesn't exist, so I might misunderstand you. To reset for any flyable module, open your Snapviews.lua in Notepad++, find the module and delete its section. To reset everything, just delete the file. 

Cheers! 

[ac5]

23 hours ago, MAXsenna said:

Snapviews for maps doesn't exist, so I might misunderstand you. To reset for any flyable module, open your Snapviews.lua in Notepad++, find the module and delete its section. To reset everything, just delete the file. 

Cheers! 

I did not make myself clear... I am well aware that "Snapviews for maps" doesn't exist,

what I was trying to convey was that my saved snapviews sometimes get erased / resettet / 

reverted to defaults without any intervention from my part. 

Again: this issue happens sometimes with the Corsair and Marianas WWII,

often after a Training mission. but also with other airplanes, especially on the Marianas modern map.

I did not notice this issue on other maps. Hope so it is clear what I mean....

Anybody having also this issue?

[MAXsenna]

15 minutes ago, ac5 said:

I did not make myself clear... I am well aware that "Snapviews for maps" doesn't exist,
what I was trying to convey was that my saved snapviews sometimes get erased / resettet / 
reverted to defaults without any intervention from my part. 
Again: this issue happens sometimes with the Corsair and Marianas WWII,
often after a Training mission. but also with other airplanes, especially on the Marianas modern map.
I did not notice this issue on other maps. Hope so it is clear what I mean....
Anybody having also this issue?

Aaaahh! I completely misunderstood! (Interpreted it as question, my bad).

Make a copy before you start DCS, and check the file creation date/time if somehow the file gets deleted. Or file change date/time to see when the file gets changed.
Never heard if this issue before to be honest.

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Edited yesterday at 04:13 PM by MAXsenna

[ac5]

On 8/5/2025 at 6:12 PM, MAXsenna said:

Aaaahh! I completely misunderstood! (Interpreted it as question, my bad).

Make a copy before you start DCS, and check the file creation date/time if somehow the file gets deleted. Or file change date/time to see when the file gets changed.
Never heard if this issue before to be honest.

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Thanks.. Yes, I always make a copy, and the file SnapViews.lua is anyway always in my file history.

But this does not explain WHY my saved snapviews sometimes get erased / resettet / 
reverted to defaults without any intervention from my part. 

Does really nobody else have this issue? By all means I am not inventing it,

and I am neither a computer newbie or a DCS one......

[MAXsenna]

2 minutes ago, ac5 said:

But this does not explain WHY my saved snapviews sometimes get erased / resettet / 
reverted to defaults without any intervention from my part. 

Of course, absolutely not! I wasn't clear it seems. I left out the important parts. If you can find out exactly when it happens, like starting DCS, starting a mission etc. Then you can provide that to the devs, and they might be able to find out why. 

I have heard about others losing their controls settings, not snapviews. 

Oh, and BTW. The "Save snapviews" checkbox in the settings haven't been unchecked by chance? 

Cheers! 

[virgo47]

Are you sure it is resetting - or is it actually not right in particular missions? Because missions can be done in such a way they remember snap-views. It is mostly unintended, but it's easy to create such missions, and even some ED's missions for their modules had these snap-views baked in.

That is... create your mission with just a plane and try it. Does it use your snap views? If so, then they are not lost, just overridden by the other mission.

Edited 2 hours ago by virgo47

[MAXsenna]

Are you sure it is resetting - or is it actually not right in particular missions? Because missions can be done in such a way they remember snap-views. It is mostly unintended, but it's easy to create such missions, and even some ED's missions for their modules had these snap-views baked in.
That is... create your mission with just a plane and try it. Does it use your snap views? If so, then they are not lost, just overridden by the other mission.

That's also true!

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