1Wolf Posted November 14, 2010 Posted November 14, 2010 I also posted the below over at the Ubisoft Lock-On forums as I wasn't sure which was the better place to post...here or there I'm working my way up the learning-curve hill for LockOn FC2 and I just had a quick question about Cockpit views. My question is actually two-fold. 1) I'm a little confused with regards to the cockpit views on the key command reference. I've played many flight sims over the years and most have some variation on the following theme: Look Front Look Front-Left Look Front-Right Look Left Look Right Look Back-Left Look Back-Right Look Back Look Straight-Up Look Front-Up Look Front-Left-Up Look Front-Right-Up Look Left-Up Look Right-Up Look Back-Left-Up Look Back-Right-Up Look Back-Up Look Straight-Down Look Front-Down Look Front-Left-Down Look Front-Right-Down Look Left-Down Look Right-Down Look Back-Left-Down Look Back-Right-Down Look Back-Down In many sims they just map the "Look Straight Up" to a Modifier key (Like Shift) so that when you press that key on its own you look straight up, but if you hold it with, say, the look left key...you look Left-Up. Same goes for the "Look Straight Down" key. The the view goes to the specified direction while you hold the key down, you release the key and the view returns to straight ahead. You get the idea. Anyhow, in FC2 I understand that the "Glance" commands will do "most" of what I refer to above. The "glance" commands view that direction while I hold down the key combination, and when I release it, the view returns to straight ahead. Glance Up (Looks front-up) Glance Left (Looks front-left) Glance Right (Looks front-right) Glance Up-Left (Looks front-up-left) Glance Up-Right (Looks front-up-right) Glance Down-Left (Looks Down-Front-Left) Glance Down-Right (Looks Down-Front-Right) These are missing alot of views though. Its missing Left (9 o'clock) and Right (3 o'clock), Left-Up and Left Down, Back-Left and Back-Right, Back-Left-Up, and Back-Left-Down, Straight Back (Check 6), Back-Up, and Back-Down, Straight Up, and Straight Down. Any idea where I can find these missing views? I noticed that are a bunch of "Snap" views that are "toggles"....i.e. They stay in that direction until I hit the KP5 "center view" key. Thats better than nothing for sure, but they are still missing alot of the important views...such as Straight Left & Right. I also see there are a bunch of "Custom Snap Views". Two of these are views cover the areas I'm missing in the "Glance view" (Back Left and Back Right). The name "Custom Snap View" seems to imply that these views are some how programmable or user-definable but I can't seem to figure out how to set those up or modify them. That brings me to the second part of my question... I've printed out all of the keyboard references. However, there are many commands on that reference that I have no idea what they do and the manuals/documentation that come with the game don't seem to cover them at all. I've got a *.pdf for "LockOn FC2 Flight Manual" that covers weapons, aircraft systems, flight, etc. I've got a "GUI Guide" that is a rought guide to the menus and such (But nothing on what the key commands do except how to map them), and I've got a Quick-Start guide which is just about installation. Some of these commands I can figure out by trial and error but some of them...I hav eno idea what they are supposed to do or how they work. Num0-RAlt is "Save Cockpit Angles". What does that do? How does it work? How does one setup the Custom Snap Views? I see that LAlt-C is "Mouse Cursor Cockpit Mode" and it gives me a little yellow-cross mouse cursor but what is there to click on with this cross? Is it used for anything? Z-LAlt-LShift is "Camera Pan Mode Toggle" but it doesn't seem to do much when I press it? Those are just some example questions. I've done some searching here and really didn't find many threads asking similar questions so I'm guessing that I must be missing a document or something silly, or something obvious. I did find one fellow asking almost the identical question but he really didn't get much of an answer, and in the end, just ended up going with TrackIR. Any help on getting my views setup would be greatly appreciated. Trying to dogfight while using a "Hat Pan" is really really clunky...lol. Thanks!
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