How can I do this?

[rich12545]

Pan within a 2d panel.

 

[DaveB]

In FSX Rich.. you can't to the best of my knowledge. You couldn't really pan in FS9 in 2D although additional views were often added matching POV hat positions giving the same effect.

ATB
DaveB

 

[falcon409]

In FSX Rich.. you can't to the best of my knowledge. You couldn't really pan in FS9 in 2D although additional views were often added matching POV hat positions giving the same effect.

ATB
DaveB

Exactly, a 2D panel is just that. . .2d/nondimensional, no way to pan a flat plane. That's why as Dave mentions, views were used to give a similar, although broken, effect.

 

[Lane Street]

You can do this, as you could with FS9, only a different procedure.

Look in C:\Users\your name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX for the cameras.cfg and open it with Notepad.

At the top you should see something like...

[CameraDefinition.001]
Title = Cockpit
Guid = {B1386D92-4782-4682-A137-738E25D1BAB5}
Description = This is the description of the cockpit view
Origin = Cockpit
ShowPanel = Yes
SnapPbhAdjust = Ordinal
SnapPbhReturn = False
PanPbhAdjust = Ordinal
PanPbhReturn = False
...

Change both Ordinal entries to Swivel and you can pan the 2D panel.

Play with changing the 2 False entries to True and see what you like.

Also, and I didn't test this, you might add...

PitchPanRate=30
HeadingPanRate=75

...to that [CameraDefinition] and test different values.

cheers,
Lane

 

[rich12545]

Lane, that works a treat. Thank you very much. It was easy in FS9 to add one line to the cfg file but I couldn't figure it out in fsx at all.

 

[falcon409]

Lane, that works a treat. Thank you very much. It was easy in FS9 to add one line to the cfg file but I couldn't figure it out in fsx at all.

I guess I don't quite get it. Apparently I took your question literally, which wasn't really what you were asking. I tried the settings and went to an aircraft that has a 2D panel to test. The only thing that pans (as I had already guessed) was the background. Why is that necessary?

 

[Paul Domingue]

2d panels are exactly that as stated above and at best you can pan right, left, up and down. Camera definitions create a 3d environment that can rotate the view based on the camera location which can be anywhere in a 3d cordinate system.

 

[rich12545]

I guess I don't quite get it. Apparently I took your question literally, which wasn't really what you were asking. I tried the settings and went to an aircraft that has a 2D panel to test. The only thing that pans (as I had already guessed) was the background. Why is that necessary?

Maybe I should have elaborated. I fly in the virtual cockpit 80% of the time. The other 20% I want to see more scenery so I go to the 2d panel, hit w a few times (actually I have this setup on one hotkey on my joystick), and it's all scenery. All of my flying is low and slow or bush in a ga or bush type aircraft. This fix allows me to pan around while in the 2d cockpit (without the actual cockpit).

 

[napamule]

You can use the hat switch (coolee) on your joystick to change OUTSIDE view direction. If you don't have a joystick you can use NUMPAD keys (with Num Lock On) to change OUTSIDE view direction. The 'side' view position will depend on the cfg's (Views) setting.
Chuck B
Napamule

 

[falcon409]

Maybe I should have elaborated. I fly in the virtual cockpit 80% of the time. The other 20% I want to see more scenery so I go to the 2d panel, hit w a few times (actually I have this setup on one hotkey on my joystick), and it's all scenery. All of my flying is low and slow or bush in a ga or bush type aircraft. This fix allows me to pan around while in the 2d cockpit (without the actual cockpit).

Got it. . .I used to do that when I was first learning to fly in the sim so I had a better field of vision.