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 Tuesday 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 yesterday at 09:32 PM 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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[ac5]

Hi thank you all for your comments.

Yes, MAXsenna the "Save snapviews" checkbox in the settings is checked.

Well, virgo47, even if missions can be done in such a way they remember snap-views,

all of my missions are made by me, except the tutorials, so if they are made by me,

those missions should keep my Snap views, even if said mission set in a way that remember snap-views...

Let's say I play a mission I made. After finishing it, I do a Training mission, complete it

Then I load the very same mission, and often my Snap views are gone, mostly the zoom level of

the default front view.....  Go figure....

 

 

[virgo47]

1 hour ago, ac5 said:

Hi thank you all for your comments.

Yes, MAXsenna the "Save snapviews" checkbox in the settings is checked.

Well, virgo47, even if missions can be done in such a way they remember snap-views,

all of my missions are made by me, except the tutorials, so if they are made by me,

those missions should keep my Snap views, even if said mission set in a way that remember snap-views...

Let's say I play a mission I made. After finishing it, I do a Training mission, complete it

Then I load the very same mission, and often my Snap views are gone, mostly the zoom level of

the default front view.....  Go figure....

Just to be absolutely sure - what works and what does not? Because there was a problem with the default zoom (the zoom after the mission starts, that is the zoom for the default view). This is just another problem, although it has been fixed in the meantime...

Can you at least tell us what is happening with your Saved Games\<DCS>\Config\View\SnapViews.lua file? Does it change when you notice the unexpected behavior? That is - back it up and then compare it (use some kind of diff tool).

Also, does it happen with any other plane? Does it happen on any other map with the same plane? This may be plane-related. In SW anything is possible, so it may be even map-related, but I doubt this one.

To hunt it down, you have to go analytical.