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General Category => Unofficial F/A-18 Acceleration Pack board => Topic started by: jay on January 20, 2008, 08:10:16 pm

Title: f - 18 and acceleration cockpits
Post by: jay on January 20, 2008, 08:10:16 pm

Can anyone please tell me why there are no main panel/2d cockpit views in the f - 18 and any other acceleration aircraft?

Title: Re: f - 18 and acceleration cockpits
Post by: virtuali on January 20, 2008, 08:13:07 pm

Quite simple: because Microsoft decided, when planning the product, to do so.

And, if you want my personal opinion, they did the right thing: VC in FSX is finally usable, even more so if using something like the TrackIR, there's no reason anymore to prefer 2D panels.

Title: Re: f - 18 and acceleration cockpits
Post by: fael097 on January 21, 2008, 04:55:54 am

i like VC. the only problem is that it keeps moving when you speed up or slow down, some way it becomes hard to see stuff. and its quite dark to see small black dots in the dark blue water, such as carriers.... and the VC hud refresh rate is like 10fps even when im playing with 60fps, because of this i have to use the 2d view hud over my virtual cockpit... but its all good

Title: Re: f - 18 and acceleration cockpits
Post by: deltaleader on January 22, 2008, 06:22:16 pm

You can turn the head movement off with in the FSX.CFG file... I found some information previously on this, I will try to find it again and post it here.  I hate the head movement thing, seems totally unrealistic or at the very least over exagerated.

Title: Re: f - 18 and acceleration cockpits
Post by: deltaleader on January 22, 2008, 06:23:43 pm

just found it!  Googles my friend! 

http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=177&topic_id=1150&mesg_id=1253&page=

Title: Re: f - 18 and acceleration cockpits
Post by: fael097 on January 22, 2008, 07:14:57 pm

dude you just changed my life.
lol thank you very much  ;D ;D

Title: Re: f - 18 and acceleration cockpits
Post by: SpazSinbad on January 27, 2009, 09:10:44 am

deltaleader, any chance you can repost the "head bob" fix please? The link you supplied does not work. Thanks.  8)

Title: Re: f - 18 and acceleration cockpits
Post by: Ifresh21 on January 28, 2009, 07:01:20 pm

Ya the link is broken- prolly got chopped

Title: Re: f - 18 and acceleration cockpits
Post by: SpazSinbad on January 28, 2009, 07:11:45 pm

Any chance that you have the information to repeat it here please? Thanks.

Title: Re: f - 18 and acceleration cockpits
Post by: Razgriz on January 28, 2009, 07:28:57 pm

I couldn't find anything so here.

Go to your FSX.cfg (Start > Run > %appdata%/microsoft/fsx/fsx.cfg)

Find the section titled

Code: [Select]

[DynamicHeadMovement]
Replace the whole section with this.

Code: [Select]

[DynamicHeadMovement]
LonAccelOnHeadLon=-0.000000
LonAccelOnHeadPitch=-0.000000
RollAccelOnHeadLat=0.000000
YawAccelOnHeadLat=-0.000000
RollAccelOnHeadRoll=0.000000
MaxHeadAngle=0.000000
MaxHeadOffset=0.000000
HeadMoveTimeConstant=1.000000

Title: Re: f - 18 and acceleration cockpits
Post by: SpazSinbad on January 28, 2009, 09:22:43 pm

RazGriz, Many thanks. I'll give it a try. Have to reinstall FSX Accel - it seems to have been trashed by recent ATI Video HotFix. Does this happen with ATI drivers? Anyway... :-)

Thanks again. After re-install and making a backup of FSX.cfg, used WordPad to make the change and ensured that the file was saved as 'text only'. I guess I could have used NotePad but WordPad is right there as an option.

NO more Head Bobbing - great.

Title: Re: f - 18 and acceleration cockpits
Post by: rxwookie on July 14, 2009, 01:19:23 am

Thanks for posting that, it was the last remaining thing I didn't like about the VC's.

RxWookie