Cliffs of Dover is the Best. (A few screenshots).

[Continu0]

BOBC: You should be able to switch to outside view by F2. But ths has to be allowed by the realism settings...

[mavers92]

I do use F2 then press F10 to get the views to change. F8 is the chase view im sure. I've never really used the padlock views so not sure if these help.

[BOBC]

Hi, this is driving me mental. I cant ad to this screenshot thread until the method is found.
In all the years of flight simming I have never spent 1.5 days trying to get to see the side of my aircraft.

F2 I cant see in the settings, does anyone know what command it is allocated to, and is that in 'game' or aircraft' or 'camera' etc ?

I must have re-allocated that to another key. The only key I allocated anything to was on my joystick, and that key removed the inst panel so I see just some instruments around my view, hit it again and they vanish, again and entire cockpit reappears. so I reckon F2 did that, but thats not of use here, I need to see my aircraft.

Can I check, does F2 for you guys show you your aircraft, or just remove the instrument panel. I reckon F2 default simply removed the panel, on mine anyway.

To get back the default settings I couldnt see an option for that, so I uninstalled via steam. Looked at steam folder and still saw the CoD folder...and in that were config.ini and other stuff.

Not impressed by steams idea of uninstall, I deleted that folder and also emptied my trashbin.

Reinstall CoD from steam, 40 mins of download later.

run it and it still has held onto my throttle allocation, so how did it manage to remember that ?

I need to get back the default settings.

At the moment I can only pan around my aircraft along a circle which is vertical based on aircraft centreline. gives me uside plan view, topside plan view, tail and nose views etc.

They should have had it one button goes external (F8 would seem to be that button) and mouse then moves view around aircraft as if in a CAD program.
I have to hit F10 to get mouse to operate in the external view, thats fair enough I guess, but panning around the aircraft then doesnt happen.

Anyone care to do a step by step on how they exit aircraft and view its side, what the wording is for each button they use and in what menu list it is.

That would solve this.

Continu0<<You should be able to switch to outside view by F2. But ths has to be allowed by the realism settings...>>
I have my sim set to default realism, are you saying I need to make it 'realistic' flight model to get F2 to work ?

BOBC

[mavers92]

F2 is a default key as far as I know for External view. Cant remember the exact location in the settings but its the same place as F8.
The default settings should return the key if you've deleted it. Also check steam apps/common/ and check the documents conf.ini too and see whats there

[BOBC]

mavers92 The default settings should return the key if you've deleted it

Hi, I cant see where one can reset this to default, looked in controls, see no reset to default option.

How is this done ?

WHAT DOES F2 DO FOR YOU GUYS, for me it simply removes the cockpit, I dont see my aircraft,

click scroll wheel mouse down is same as left mouse button after F10 is hit, F10 activates Mouse for external view work, then left mouse button rotates view but over top uto underside, when aircrat flying straight and level.

Not found a way yet to rotate horizontally around it at all.

simple fix to this.
fly your aircraft straight and level, then
talk me through what buttons and so on to hit and in what order so as to :-
a) see the aircraft
b) rotate around it horizontally

what mod are you on when doing so. I also wonder if mods have altered things. I am still with CoD from Steam, yet to mod.

BOBC

[mavers92]

I'll be at my pc bit later and could try this -

If you pm me an email address I will send you my control ini. Save it and then load it, click apply and see if this helps with keys issue.

One for me is a missing button for looking down using keyboard. POV hat ok though.

[BOBC]

Hi,
I have decided to nuke CoD and also Steam as its the only way of starting over, and getting default settings as there is no default restore button.
That is very annoying that there is no easy way of restoring defaults.
I deleted CoD folder in steam, then found and turned off steam cloud restore user settings (steam CoD wording top left > properties>updates tab)
I reinstalled steam then CoD, it said installing to new PC, said if wrong then nuke all but steamapps folder in steam and something else (see steam website) , so did that, still insisted was new pc, so went along with its supplied password,,hate progs like steam !!!
F2 gives me a/c in screen middle, and BINGO !!! F10 allows pan all around it.
SUCCESS !!!
There was I recall a case of getting aircraft into screen centre then F10 again. Also mouse scroll wheel gives pan excluding need for F10 but I prefer F10.

Looked in realism, all is unchecked except clouds on default. No Outside View is unticked.
F12 takes a still image, you hear a metallic ping, and a thumbnail occurs top right, CoD has locked up twice though when doing this.
Screen Capture though in options is Printscreen. I had to make it F12 when I first installed CoD, somehow F12 is now doing so, however F12 is centre view in trackIR so I need to find F12 and alter it, but where is F12 in CoD options.

DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE F12 COMMAND IN OPTIONS ?
I have gone through Options now and F12 is not there, so how do I alter F12 to another key to do stills, I need F12 for TrackIr centering !

I shall probably revert PC to last saved image when all this messing around is over, if CoD keeps freezing up, but I will work my way through the mods first, they may solve that.
Clearly despite latest Steam its still glitchy as a basic install unless all this messing about via suggested and official methods has upset it.

Hope this is of use to others who despite a new install struggle with CoDs external views.

Screen capture by the way goes to different folder in steam depending on location of CoD folder and launcher you are using. best way is do a still then search on drive the CoD launcher is on *.jpg images made that day.

Did this before seeing offer of ini, so will also try that to another copy paste of the CoD folder.

BOBC