Instructions for assigning zoom view to a single axis

[Roblex]

Originally Posted by Attila

@Roblex
Pfffffffffffffff, don´t works for me!
I did it like you said in your post, except that i changed the buttons! I used button 8 and 11 on the joystick and on joytokey i editet on the button 8 and 11 too!
Is this wrong?!
In game the only thing that is happening:
the cursor runs up and down, no in and out zooming!

If the cursor is running up and down then JoyToKey is working as that is what you told it to do; simulate the mouse being moved. The thing that makes this work though is that you then tell COD 'That button I am using to simulate moving my mouse is also the 'Hold To Zoom' key' so now COD sees the mouse being moved while the 'Hold To Zoom' key is engaged and you get Zoom.

Check you configured COD to show buttons 8 & 11 are both the 'Hold To Zoom' key.

[Sokol1]

Originally Posted by Roblex

That button I am using to simulate moving my mouse is also the 'Hold To Zoom' key'[/I] so now COD sees the mouse being moved while the 'Hold To Zoom' key is engaged and you get Zoom.

Check you configured COD to show buttons 8 & 11 are both the 'Hold To Zoom' key.

Roblex,

You use "Hold to ZOOM Camera" instead "Hold to Adjust Field of View" command?

Here I notice that "ZOOM Camera" zoom only inside cockpit, a few degrees.

"Adjust Field of View" zoom IN maybe to 100 degrees or more - that make targets more visible, and OUT to some excessive negative value (totally useless).

Here my JoyToKey setup:

http://i50.tinypic.com/2rrwbbr.jpg

I use a key (Alt) to "Hold to Adjust Field of View", so need hit this key and HAT UP or DOWN to ZOOM.

This is because I use HAT to panning around (mouse view), I buy a TrackIR but dont gotten used to it: years and years of HAT use.

In JoyToKey I assign HAT to do mouse movements (X and Y), and the same HAT movement to press "Mouse Middle" for "Camera Control in Independent Mode" function,
so the mouse cursor dont walk across the screen in game.

In CLoD setup I delete all HAT assignments for Pan and Snap Views since I consider these methods to control view too crude.

I suppose that you use TrackIR to panning view, so need only HAT UP and DOWN to control ZOOM.
You clear Pan View HAT assignments in CLOD setup?

Sokol1

[Roblex]

Originally Posted by Sokol1

Roblex,

You use "Hold to ZOOM Camera" instead "Hold to Adjust Field of View" command?

Sokol1

No. 'POV 180 Joystick+POV' and 'POV 0 Joystick+POV' are both set as 'Hold To Adjust Field Of View' I don't use the hat for view as I use TrackIR

[SharpeXB]

I discovered something else. In order to make your analog stick act like a mouse ie zoom faster when you push it far and zoom slow when you only push a little, set the slider in "analog acceleration" In my case I set it for 4
Otherwise your stick will just act like a button and zoom in and out at a constant rate.

[SharpeXB]

Is there any way, in a config file perhaps, of limiting the zoom out so it doesn't stretch to infinity?

[Sokol1]

Originally Posted by SharpeXB

Is there any way, in a config file perhaps, of limiting the zoom out so it doesn't stretch to infinity?

SharpeXB

I dont find solution for this - is default of CLoD, if you adjust FOV with mouse same stretch ZOOM happens.

As paliative I put in JoyTo Key a lower value to HAT down, to slow movement of ZOOM out, that make this more controllable.

Some players programn only ZOON in JoyToKey, and FOV 70 (or 30/90) to HAT Down instead ZOOM out.

In joysticks with advanced progrmming sofware, like CH or Thrustmaster I think that one can program a time for HAT dow press, limiting ZOOM out.

Sokol1

[Bearcat]

If you have an X-52 you can do this without J2K using the SST SW by setting your Ministick Axis to Mouse X or Y and the scroll switch to a modifier like ALT. Then go into CoD and set ALT as the "Hold to Adjust Field of View" button.

When you get in the sim press your scroll wheel switch and use your ministick accordingly. I have my scroll wheel swithc set to M for my map in modes 1 & 3 but mode 2 is combat mode on my X-52.
Thanks for all the help on this..