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LeBlaque

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Thanks for the help recv'd on this forum so far. As a prior RB3D player years back, I'm trying to "unlearn what I've learned."

There was a feature in RB3D whereby in the upper right corner of screen you could activate geometric shapes which would give you the pitch and roll attitude relative to the ground (e.g. I'm pointing upwards to the sky like the space shuttle or am doing an 120-degree wing-over :faint:).

Is there a feature such as this in BHAH? If so, I can't find the proper keystrokes.

Regards,
LeBlaque
 
Hi, LeBlaque
There are several instruments available, like compass, altimeter etc.:
press F5, then press Strg+1
Now, there should be an instrument, like the compass
when you press Strg+1 again, it will change to the altimeter
You can change it, until you get the instrument you wanted.

If you want more inst, you press Strg+2 - now you can switch through that one, until you got what you want.
You can do the same with Strg+3 and Strg+4 and so on.

When you press Strg+(Number) often enough, the instrument will disappear.
You can take each inst. with your mouse and move it were you want.
If you have a nice collection now, but want them to be off (in a fight, for example), just press F5.
May sound a lot of info, but like anything else, it's learning by doing, and after a while, you'll see, how great this sim is.
Have fun.
Olham:rapture:
 
Another method to determine your spacial orientation is to have a look! I know it kills the realism, but if you hit F4, you can cycle through several external views, the first one being a view of your own crate.
 
Check-out the STICKY OFF Tips & Cheats #11 for all the Key Commands

As a RB3D man of long ago

You'll Find the HUD (F5) a bit of an imersion killer, but the printed part, features the ONLY ammo counter in the game

( Z ) is where the gauges get their info, that seeming jumble of numbers contain everything

Float View = Chase view, or darn close

Short Bursts are Manditory, you can't rearm PERIOD
Your Guns CAN jam due to heat ( No Unjam Key)

And Do check-out Trackir. Trackir was made with OFF in mind
( or it just seems that way )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AO0F5sLdVM
 
LeBlaque,

With OFF being a total converison of CFS3, this left the design team with no choice but to use the worst view control system for Situational Awareness ever ever put in a filight sim.

Now this is just my opinion, but starting with RB all the way up to Falcon 4, you could use the padlock and the view keys to keep a eye on who you dogfighting and keep good SA along with knowing how your airplane is orientated to the ground.

But with CFS all the way to CFS3 the veiw system sucks for SA. Instead of each view having its own key stoke, you must cycle 4 or 5 views with one key/bottom. Then you add that the Player to target view is really Target to Player view . And I am not sure if there is a true Player to target view and you got the worst ever view system.
 
icuucme37 said:
LeBlaque,

With OFF being a total converison of CFS3, this left the design team with no choice but to use the worst view control system for Situational Awareness ever ever put in a filight sim.

Now this is just my opinion, but starting with RB all the way up to Falcon 4, you could use the padlock and the view keys to keep a eye on who you dogfighting and keep good SA along with knowing how your airplane is orientated to the ground.

But with CFS all the way to CFS3 the veiw system sucks for SA. Instead of each view having its own key stoke, you must cycle 4 or 5 views with one key/bottom. Then you add that the Player to target view is really Target to Player view . And I am not sure if there is a true Player to target view and you got the worst ever view system.
Click to expand...

If you have no Trackir - and we firmly recommend that anyone seriously into flight sims buys one - we even fixed the Trackir Drivers for CFS3 on Vista....OFF + Trackir is the intention

Then best to use PAN view and snap view - you can toggle between them.

Also you can padlock any item from the pit view and your pilots view will lock to that item - please check out the CFS3 keyguides etc and even if you look in the key allocation section in CFS3 you can pick up these key strokes.

The only thing missing in CFS3 is 45 degree up snaps....so yes lacks 45 degree snaps...

I used to fly solely with snaps and padlock - before I had Trackir - and its fine within reason because we now have Trackir

But my recommendation.....buy Trackir it will be the best purchase you ever make for your flight simming experience.

Have I mentioned Trackir?

HTH

WM
 
Hey, Baywing (and LeBlaque)

"Strg" is the lowest left key on my keyboard. How's that called on yours?
 
Thanks all. Will probably stick with pan/snap-back views and the padlock view for awhile until I can hide enough cash under the matress to purchase TrackIR...

Regards,
LeBlaque
 
Aside from the FACT: Once you use trackir, you'll find that any game you own, that won't support trackir, will gather dust !!!

The views in OFF, are identical to the views in CFS3

which are . . SCHITTY :kilroy:
 
Hello,
it is usually MY part to rant about the CFS3 view system, however i miss the mouse for panning the camera, like in IL2.

The RedBaron view keys also were nothing to write home about, primarily the panning camera around the own plane.
All keys available in RedBaron are present in OFF, the original CFS3 keystrokes can easily be adjusted to much quicker action via one key - just edit the "Mine" control settings.

Views from own plane to enemy, and vice versa is just one key away, and it keeps the enemy in view like in RedBaron. You can toggle forward through the enmy planes, and back. As well you can target friendly planes, or look at your plane from their point of view like with enemy planes.
You have to get used to editing the mine settings file, so no double keys a.s.o., but apart from that it's easy.

Much better would certainly be TrackIR ... but money can be a problem sometimes :amen:

Greetings,
Catfish
 
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