The implication prior to 2024 was that multiple windows with individual camera views was not possible given 2020’s base code structure. So new base code was needed to implement this feature and several other of the wish lists. Now that the new base code is supposedly implemented in 2024, it is a mystery as to why Asobo is still dragging their feet on this issue. Perhaps it is because they really never understood the need for it and how users would use it. If you want this feature restored into Microsoft Flight Simulator, please vote for it (although there are over 260 WL’s with 100+ votes ahead of it).
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I and others have asked in the Wishlist several times over the last 4 years to have true separately functioning windows. Explained that you can’t read small numbers on instruments at the same time you need a wide view of the world outside the cockpit. So if you have two monitors stacked one over the other, you put the outside view on top monitor and your instruments in a closer zoom on the lower monitor. And every control in the lower window works like it should just as if it was in the first window above.
FS 2004 had it right. Would think someone at Asobo would have been a flight simmer at that time and also used this feature.
Perhaps Asobo thought that since the resolution capabilities of FS2020 on a 4K screen would make it un-necessary to use the dual monitor approach. Not so, because the width to height ratio of most monitors means that if you set the outside view to be about the right zoom to look realistic then the important instruments will be displayed in a narrower portion of your screen in the space below, so the numbers on some instruments are still hard to read if you also want to look outside in the same view.
So Asobo gives us a second window that is completely useless because it is only an exact duplicate of the first one! How is that going to be used, I ask?
100% agree. Lack of true multi-view capabilities like that in FSX is unforgivable. I thought FS 2024 was going to be better in every way. Not so. Even the multi-monitor setup in MS 2024 is a nightmare. Terrible UI experience. You should be able to click a window as the “active” and then simple use HAT switch or keyboard to make alignments. As is now, you have to go into configuratio, make changes,Save/Exit, see if it worked, Rinse and Repeat until you finally get things right.
I also totally agree that we need multi-viewoptions as in FSX. It was a very simple and clean design. Why can’t it be done again? Asobo, please find a way to address PC user issues as well or you will lose users to other platforms. This is a huge issue. It was one of the main features that made FSX so fun to use.
The original request was for any camera view in any spawned window. If they do that you would be able to have the drone camera looking anywhere you want. However Asobo’s completion of this request seems doubtful as it appears they’ve never understood the reason for having multiple windows as witnessed by the fact that they didn’t carry it over from FSX.
I emailed the creator of Sky Dolly (recording tool) and asked him if he could do this, considering he’s already done a lot of it in Sky Dolly. I didn’t receive a response so assumed the answer was no. I’m not sure the current state of SimConnect would allow/facilitate what needs to be done. Also, doing it external to MSFS would surely have a performance impact.
I request a feature, where you can move your other window in the cockpit independently. This could be by selecting a saved custom view or by moving in the cockpit freely, on the other window. I don’t think you understand how big a feature this would mean for homecockpit builders, as they now could properly set captain and first officer views. By just tilting or expanding the view as you now may do, the view would always look weird for either one of the pilots. This feature would be way more useful than listed, as users have unlimited possibilities to set the camera to. It could be set for a cabin camera, possibly outside the aircraft as well and windows to look outside.
Back in the FSX days, I could open a new window and change the view (say to an external view, under the plane between the gear). This is incredibly useful for landing, or just being able to see your aircraft without switching views. And we could add as many of those windows as we wanted.
I first complained about this when Flight Simulator 2020 was released and in the update schedule that was promised, it was on the schedule to be added and what was done was not like the additional View Windows that was like in Flight Simulator X(FSX)
