FOV settings

[FS~Phat]

There are 3 default zoom levels that work ok for me. Its not what im used to but its usable. Otherwise the only other way to get custom zoom is to map a key and use the mouse which is obviously pretty clumsy! (what on earth were they thinking! Its not a turn based RPG or RTS!) Ive mapped the default FOV zooms to X52 throttle mouse wheel down(zoom in)/up(zoom out) and click for default zoom.

PS editing the ini defaults doesnt work.

[ATAG_Doc]

You have to set it up using "Hold To Adjusts Field of View" in "Camera" tab then use your mouse to zoon in/out.

[FS~Phat]

I got this mouse emulation program to work with the saitek SST software.
I created a macro in the saitek SST software with 8 key presses as a macro which emulates moving the mouse. The more macro key presses the more it zooms in or out.

mapped num pad keys 8 & 5 (mouse up/down) to my x52 throttle mouse wheel and the mouse click button on the throttle for hold to zoom.
Can now zoom in and out to any FOV with 1 hand and dont have to take hands off HOTAS! Throttle Mouse wheel click resets to default zoom!
You could use this same approach with any joystick key and its mapping software to create the same macro and get the same effect.

You could even program in default custom FOV by running the macro for shorter or longer and have as many FOV's as you want mapped to as many of your HOTAS buttons as you want to use. (or multiple presses of only 2 button macros could achieve the same effect)

Again not perfect but i got used to it pretty quickly in testing this afternoon!

http://rhdesigns.browseto.org/mouseemulator.html

[skarden]

Yep this is almost exactly what I do, except I can do it all within the T.A.R.G.E.T software for my warthog controller, as said it does depends pretty heavily on what HOTAS software you use and what it can do but it does work quiet well, for me at least anyway.

I definitely recommend to try it if the normal 3 FOV set up doesn't work for you and your controller software can do it.

[ATAG_Snapper]

Originally Posted by skarden

Yep this is almost exactly what I do, except I can do it all within the T.A.R.G.E.T software for my warthog controller, as said it does depends pretty heavily on what HOTAS software you use and what it can do but it does work quiet well, for me at least anyway.

I definitely recommend to try it if the normal 3 FOV set up doesn't work for you and your controller software can do it.

I'll have to try that with my Warthog - sounds good. Thanks!

[Jatta Raso]

if you use JoyToKey you can have a progressive zoom in/out by assigning 2 Joystick buttons to those 2 tasks. then if you assign a third button to reset views, you can zoom in or out at will, and back to default view with a key press.

[_79_dev]

What I did with my X52 was:
1. I set one of pads on the yoke as a mouse, so any movement of mouse is controlled on the pad.
2. I set "ctrl" key as "hold to zoom" in il2 controls
3. Divided slider for 3 bands, and mapped "ctrl" key to lowest band

So basically if I have slider on the bottom position it's like having "ctrl" key pressed all the time, to control zoom fov I just use pad up and down. Whenever I don't need it just moving slider back up and I have my mouse back.

The only reason I did like that was because I mapped my controls from scratch, I can use ctrl key as another pinkle switch or mode so it gives me more options to use buttons on the yoke.

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by ATAG_Doc

You have to set it up using "Hold To Adjusts Field of View" in "Camera" tab then use your mouse to zoon in/out.

but you dont know what exact value you have set it to then, do you ?

what we need is a simple method, like in the old il2 preferences to set a specific FoV value for the screen size we have, and then assign it to our preferred keys or hotas buttons. eg right now for my 27' monitor i want "normal" to be set to 50 or 55 degrees, and keep a zoomed and a wide view on the other buttons, which afaik you still cant do (eg setting the 60 or 55 FoV assigned to a key or hotas control)

it is a quality control issue by luthier not to include features in CoD that previously worked well in the previous il2 series, while he is focusing instead on trying to reinvent the wheel on the big problem issues with little time to do so.

[jayrc]

I'm using joy-to-key set up to push the hold to adjust field of fov combined with a mouse down action, this gives you 4 field of views at the click of a button on my joystick, you could probably make joytokey cycle field of views also, it's a great program and it has allowed me to set up a mic button on my stick also, something teamspeak hotkeys wouldn't do, give it a try.~S~

[Roblex]

I use JoyToKey to get variable zoom using the the hat key on my JS. From downloading the program, having never used it before, to having it fully working took about 3 minutes (and 1 of those was waiting for IL2 to start ) Basically two entries in JoyToKey setup and two in IL2 COD settings.