How to fly with no cockpit and FOV 90º by default?

[TUCKIE_JG52]

Everybody got silenced?

Well I've finally done some printable instructions, I still haven't found the way to make the no cockpit 90º FOV view as default, and I've been looking into conf.ini and default flight mod files...

On every flight someone has to type on the keyboard Control F1 four times and Av.Pag once.

I'm surprised to get stuck at so simple question, when I could configurate and modify much other options...

[MadBlaster]

you could write yourself a glovepie macro to run in the background when the game is running. you need a trigger action. something like pressing on the wheel brake will kick it off.

here's simple example:

ppjoy1.analog0 = joystick1.x (these would be your peddles as Glovepie might see them, an axis range -1 to 1, but I'm not sure how it would actually see them.)

//90 degree fov macro

if ppjoy1.analog0 = -1 then
key.pagedown=true
key.pagedown=false
endif

so, in this simple example. I press wheelbrake and signal is -1. this causes glovepie to toggle the pagedown key. this action will occur every time i press the peddles. if you want to do "no cockpit" you can put those keys in there too.

so, no more pressing a bunch of keys, but you would still have to run glovepie in the background while the game is running. but you could put it in a dos batch file to start the two programs (il-2 and glovepie) simultaneously. that wouldn't be so bad.

[Artist]

MadBlaster's idea is good... here are two more:

1. The guy who built the cockpit must have used a USB-connected controller-board to connect the levers to the computer... Most probably, this board *also* supports a number joystick buttons (uusually 32). I guess that the fire-button is connected there, too. Connect one big red button to that board and use glovepie or autohotkey as MadBlaster described. Label that button "Press me!"

2. Write a small program that
a) uses DeviceLink to determine if the player has entered the cockpit and
b) then sends the needed key-combinations to IL-2

Artist.