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Originally Posted by MaxGunz
The parallax effect is probably due to being in right-eye gunsight mode. Switch back and see, it is easier to fly most fighters in centered view. Up close it's even easier to shoot that way, with practice.
Really, in-game since the start I've found the smartest thing to do before maneuver combat is to neutralize trim and avoid hard G's that lead to wingtip stalls or worse. Slip... easiest to avoid in a P-51 with mini-ball gunsight and hardest in the Spits. We NEED a slip indicator in the speedbar to replace what can be felt IRL.
Today, after reading about trim I got a real narsty idea... the same controller that runs the stick could be made to do "smart trim", couldn't it? Or maybe not, having the nose seek to bring the stick to center after some-odd seconds might be a bad thing at times, like when you're just about to shoot! Perhaps a button, like I asked Oleg for back in 2002.
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Since getting TIR about seven years ago, I hardly ever use the Toggle Gunsight button, particularly since 6DOF was introduced in the stock game. The parallax is there from either view in every case, and I assume that it is there as a result of 'artistic license', because it isn't visible in any pictures that I have on hand of existing aircraft (Kinzey's
Detail & Scale series has excellent cockpit photos for each of the WWII US fighters, in most cases including extensive shots of each variant) or my own observations in museums and air show displays.
I like the suggestion about neutralizing trim once maneuvering begins, but I believe that the trim models for these aircraft need to be put in line with the other 'stock' aircraft in the game, or that we get a short-term HUD display indicating your trim displacement every time you make an adjustment (like when you change radiator, PP or throttle), so that you know just where the hell you are in terms of trim state--as I pointed out in earlier posts, a RL pilot would roll in more trim to a pre-set point in anticipation of a dive or increased throttle.
I've also been toying with making a trim box with a 20:1 gearbox on each pot so that I can make the teeny-tiny adjustments to my pots that the game demands (and how is it that one button press of 1/80th of total deflection is so
necessary?) and at the same time make the larger changes for something I'm about to do.
cheers
horseback