Looking around in cockpit

Resjah · Post by **Resjah** » 2006-01-17 03:53

I did a search and nothing related came up soo....

I know that when a player is the pilot of the BlackHawk they can click the left,right mouse buttons to look left and right, i was wondering if this was possible to do in the aircraft as well?

Of course you couldnt use the mouse buttons for planes but perhaps another button, i remember seeing in the control settings that there is an option for F7-F9 i think (correct me if i am wrong, didnt feel like looking) and those are blank, perhaps those could be set as well.

If it is possible to look left and right in the ways said above, could it also be possible to have it be able to look back as well, not completely back of course, i doubt pilots can turn their heads 180 degrees, but to an acceptable limit.

This could solve the problem of only being able to look forward, which i despise so very much. With all these new and more effective AA the community wants, at least let the pilots see the missiles coming, not to mention enemy planes

USAF-Marshall · Post by **USAF-Marshall** » 2006-01-17 04:05

FlyBoy wrote:I did a search and nothing related came up soo....

I know that when a player is the pilot of the BlackHawk they can click the left,right mouse buttons to look left and right, i was wondering if this was possible to do in the aircraft as well?

Of course you couldnt use the mouse buttons for planes but perhaps another button, i remember seeing in the control settings that there is an option for F7-F9 i think (correct me if i am wrong, didnt feel like looking) and those are blank, perhaps those could be set as well.

If it is possible to look left and right in the ways said above, could it also be possible to have it be able to look back as well, not completely back of course, i doubt pilots can turn their heads 180 degrees, but to an acceptable limit.

This could solve the problem of only being able to look forward, which i despise so very much. With all these new and more effective AA the community wants, at least let the pilots see the missiles coming, not to mention enemy planes

This has been brought up a few times and we pretty much concluded that you cant look around and still maintain control of the A/C. No hat switch on Stick or anything, unless I missed a post that came after.

Resjah · Post by **Resjah** » 2006-01-17 04:12

USAF-Marshall wrote:This has been brought up a few times and we pretty much concluded that you cant look around and still maintain control of the A/C. No hat switch on Stick or anything, unless I missed a post that came after.

heh, for some reason the searches never work for me

, unless its title wasnt completely the same.

could you provide a link if possible? just wanna see what was discussed

dawdler · Post by **dawdler** » 2006-01-17 08:03

The ability to provide interaction in BF is limited by the keys that can be triggered (cant add new ones either). For a plane, basicly all action keys are used (or all keys ARE used, I dont know as I rarely fly). For a transport helo, some keys are unused: primary/secondary fire buttons. Thus they can be used for changing the view instead.

You can look back in a plane already though (but once again, I dont know which the key is, lol).

Tacticsniper815 · Post by **Tacticsniper815** » 2006-01-18 05:06

uhh you can look around in planes man

F.N.G. · Post by **F.N.G.** » 2006-01-18 06:51

I thought you could too. wtf? It's like LControl or something. I swear you can. I remember doing it in vanilla BF2. I havent even seen a plane in PRMM, yet, so I guess I don't know.

Post by **Hitperson** » 2006-01-18 09:00

yeah been able to do it for ever.

Why?! · Post by **Why?!** » 2006-01-18 12:15

However there is a serious flaw with being able to look around the cockpit. You lose all control of the aircraft, which completely defeats the purpose of looking around.

Trust me, I have tried every possible workaround I could think of, everything from having your view move around with the movements of the joystick to attempting to match it with some vague unused key, none of it has worked.

The above method of using one of the weapon switches does not work because you require an axis to do full left/right movement. If you have only a button, a rotation left and right will not work. The only axis buttons are already used for flying. Although now that I think of it, I may be able to simply take a weapon bind and just make the camera look up, but because of BF2s hard coded nature that may not even work.

I tried tying the camera view to the joystick movements, but that caused a lot of problems and usually ended up moving the camera when you didnt want to.