Changing to map view

[jimkeir]

Hi,

I'm been looking for an event which will switch the current view to 'map' (top-down) view. There are events called:

VIEW_COCKPIT_FORWARD
VIEW_VIRTUAL_COCKPIT_FORWARD

... but all the other view-related events seem to be either cycling or manipulating. This is to match the return values from the "View" system event.

Thanks,
Jim

 

[BASys]

Hi Folks

Jim -
Can you simulate keystrokes ?
If so CTRL+S will do the job.

If you save your .flt
having cycled and set the required zoom level,
that should then give your required view.

HTH
ATB
Paul

 

[ronh]

Have to tried KEY_NEW_MAP? It's an eventid. Says opens new map view. Part of the view system.

 

[Pete Dowson]

I'm been looking for an event which will switch the current view to 'map' (top-down) view. There are events called:

VIEW_COCKPIT_FORWARD
VIEW_VIRTUAL_COCKPIT_FORWARD

... but all the other view-related events seem to be either cycling or manipulating.

What's wrong with "VIEW_DOWN"?

Pete

 

[ronh]

Pete,

VIEW_DOWN makes you look at your seat - but you new that. You also need to send about 50 EYEPOINT_DOWN events also, then you can look out the bottom of the aircraft. Too bad you cannot set the EYEPOINT_POSITION variable. Can FSUIPC do that?

Jim, maybe look at the camera example and have a camera view look down from some altitude.

 

[Pete Dowson]

VIEW_DOWN makes you look at your seat

Oh, does it? Damn. Not in my cockpit it doesn't ... but now you mention it that is probably because I don't have any internal views in FS (I have real ones in the cockpit ;-) ).

Too bad you cannot set the EYEPOINT_POSITION variable. Can FSUIPC do that?

No, I don't know how to get at that.

In FS9 and before offset 8320 can change the view mode directly -- value 5 is "top down". But SimConnect doesn't seem to provide any way of directly setting them.

Pete

 

[ronh]

(I have real ones in the cockpit ;-)

Cool!

The EYEPOINT_POSITION would have been nice if it was free to update. Along with a few other varables. Too many variables are set to No update.

 

[beatle]

The SimConnect_CameraSetRelative6DOF function can set the X, Y, Z, Pitch, Bank, & Heading of the current camera being used in the primary view window. That's what TrackIR uses to move the camera around.

 

[Pete Dowson]

The SimConnect_CameraSetRelative6DOF function can set the X, Y, Z, Pitch, Bank, & Heading of the current camera being used in the primary view window. That's what TrackIR uses to move the camera around.

Yes, nice, but sadly SimConnect omitted to provide any way of READING the current settings for any of the cameras, so if you just want to have a quick look elsewhere, say, then return to whatever view you had before, you can't do it. It works for TrackIR because it is controlling it all the time.

Regards

Pete

 

[jimkeir]

Hi,

The SimConnect_CameraSetRelative6DOF function can set the X, Y, Z, Pitch, Bank, & Heading of the current camera being used in the primary view window. That's what TrackIR uses to move the camera around.

That's what I'm using. Sadly, as Pete says, there's no way to read the current settings. That call returns the current camera mode (2D, 3D, ORTHO) and says that it may change it depending on the angle. To reset the view afterwards you can use an event to explicitly set it to 2D and 3D, but not ORTHO.

It turns out that it seems to reset things properly anyway, I just need to zero the offset. It looked as though it had switched to the 2D cockpit from the 3D one, but it was just the offset making the 3D cockpit appear in the middle distance. Need to experiment a little more - thanks for the answers.

Cheers,
Jim