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

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

Anybody?

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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! 

Posted
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?

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Posted (edited)
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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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......

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Posted
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! 

Posted (edited)

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.

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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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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....

 

 

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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.

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Posted
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....
 
 
Bummer! I was really hoping we were getting somewhere.

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Posted (edited)

I've never played some of the default instant missions for P-47 because they override my snap-viewed personal FoV settings. I've read it's beacuse of some leftover file ED put in these missions. Now, If I play my own mission afterwards, i expect the game properly loading my own view settings and for Thunderbolt it does.

That being said, I remember when for a few years we needed to load D-25 and D-30 Mustang missions in correct order to avoid loosing all custom controls, same for clipped and non-clipped Spitfire. I'm glad this bug was fixed eventually. Maybe ac5 discovered a new but similar issue which doesn't go away unless game is restarted?

I do use snap-view customized FoV in my Corsair and I haven't yet experienced missions resetting it to default even though I switch between training and my own ones multiple times. The only time it happened to me was when I switched from American Corsair to British MkIV one, because the latter uses separate camera settings and thus I had to separately customize it as well.

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Hi all, that's the rub...

And yes, virgo 47, it happen with also with any other planes. Although in the case of other planes "DCS" just zooms out the default view

but does not touch the other saved snap views. Much worse with the Corsair, there "DCS" not "just" zooms out the default view,

but it also messes up ALL the other saved snap views! And yes, it happens also on other maps with the same planes, but far less than in

the Marianas maps, both modern and WWII. See screenshots with written on explanations. I also include the Missions.

 

Corsaitr-default-messed-by-DCS.jpg

Corsaitr-default-saved-by-me.jpg

Corsaitr-snap-1--messed-by-DCS.jpg

Corsaitr-snap-1--saved-by-me.jpg

Corsaitr-snap-2--messed-by-DCS.jpg

Corsaitr-snap-2--saved-by-me.jpg

Corsaitr-snap-3--messed-by-DCS.jpg

Corsaitr-snap-3--saved-by-me.jpg

Mig-15-default-messed-DCS-zoomed-out.jpg

Mig-19-default-messed-DCS-zoomed-out.jpg

Mig-19-default-my-save.jpg

Snap-Views-DCS (1).jpg

Snap-Views-DCS (2).jpg

Snap-Views-DCS (3).jpg

Corsair-Complete-02.miz MIG-19-Complete-Marianas.miz

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Posted (edited)
43 minutes ago, Art-J said:

I've never played some of the default instant missions for P-47 because they override my snap-viewed personal FoV settings. I've read it's beacuse of some leftover file ED put in these missions.

Correct. Easy to fix. Open the miz in 7zip and delete the "snapview/view" folder or similar. Save the file and you have your own snapviews. 

I don't remember why they're saved in the first place. 🤷🏼‍♂️ 

@ac5 I just noticed you've posted it in the Marianas WWII forum, that's probably why there's so little traction. It should probably be moved to the view bugs forum as this cannot possibly be a map issue. 

Cheers! 

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OK, probably multiple things are going on here, so it's hard to say what exactly is wrong:

  • Corsair-Complete-02.miz is clean, no baked-in views there. The other mission has Config dir inside it, it can be completely removed (Config/View overrides your views):
    image.png
    This happens when the mission is "prepared" in the mission editor. That is Flight / Prepare Mission (Ctrl+M). Fly Mission alone does not do this and is safe to use.
  • What happens with the Corsair in the clean mission, I have no idea. I didn't understand the story related to your screenshots of the View folder, not sure what happens when and what gets wrong.

So, first step is to be always sure that the mission doesn't have baked-in views. With that, any other troubleshooting leads nowhere and just confuses you. Let's compare only clean missions.

But with the "clean" mission, I have no idea what is going on.

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