Currently trying to set up MSFS 2024 Cockpit & Exterior views & finding it quite challenging.
Is there a guide anywhere that covers this?
For instance, in MSFS 2020 , in Cockpit view, I can ‘slide’ the view sideways while looking out the front window at a fixed point, using the keyboard Left & Right arrows. Can’t figure out how to do that in MSFS 2024 yet.
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What plane are you trying to use. I know with PMDG we had to go into the config file and cause the system to think we are outside when loading in.
DC-3, Beaver. Probably all aircraft at the moment.
I think I’ll need to find the setting in MSFS 2020 & figure it out from that. I think it will be a Camera View setting.
Basically trying to slide the view across the face of the dashboard, looking forward. At the moment the view is pinned in the Pilot’s seat & if I press the keyboard Right arrow the view rotates, looking to the right.
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They definitely should have had controls defaulted from FS2020 Keyboard and Controllers. It’s an absolute nightmare trying to work with these new controls, some overlap each other. It’s insane. Probably one of the most frustrating things out of this all!
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Have made some progress - found in MSFS 2020 that the sequence I used there to shuffle the viewpoint sideways in the cockpit was:
Keyboard/Camera/ Cockpit Camera/“Translate Cockpit view right”: use the right arrow. {Left, use Left arrow}
Haven’t got that to work in 2024 yet, there is another drop down menu with several options after “Translate Cockpit view right” & need to find which combo works.
However, did discover that Shift + F1 to F9 moves the viewpoint around in the cockpit
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Have made further progress - picked up from a You Tube video that if you go into Basic Controls at the top of the screen, Keyboard, then down the left hand side, find Keyboard Presets Configuration.
In the General Controls & Airplane Controls there is a category, “Keyboard 2020 Transversal”, reached by arrowing through the options. This, theoretically, transfers your 2020 keyboard settings to 2024.
Currently testing it, but it does give me the sideways shifting cockpit viewpoint using the left & right arrows, that I was looking for.
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These bindings have a been a nightmare to figure out. Maybe someone has figured this one out.
I have always used my mouse in the cockpit as a free-look camera by pressing the right mouse button allowing me to look freely throughout the cockpit. In FS24, the only thing I have found is under Camera → Cockpit Camera and binding the left right mouse click and the picture of the mouse to “Cockpit view yaw axis” and “Cockpit view pitch axis”. The only problem is that the mouse sensitivity is off the charts uncontrollable no matter what I adjust.
Anyone have any other ideas about how to accomplish free-look using the mouse?
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How did you do this exactly?
I’m stuck on setting the camera views. In MSFS2020 I could look at a part of the cockpit and click CONTROL 1 , 2, 3 etc and the view would snap to that part of the cockpit when pressing the number key pad on my keyboard. How do I do this in 2024 ?
It’s still crazy to think that people at Asobo/MS could have imagined changing all the shortcuts and the assignment of keys and other commands on the keyboard and the different controllers and instead come up with something nightmarish to configure.
At no time did they ask themselves the question?
People are used to a configuration (which doesn’t stop anyone from remaping the keys if desired). Moving from 2020 to 2024 it is normal to say that we will find the same touches…?!
It’s a bit like if Microsoft decided to change the copy/paste shortcut. We all know it’s ctrl+c/ctrl+v and it would never occur to the developer to change that
So why reinvent the wheel by giving us a square one???!
There are strange things about Asobo/MS
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“Statistics” for “Aircraft Specifications” or “Aircraft Data” and “pilot book” for “Log Book” are some of the funnier peculiarities of Asobo (?).
The binding procedures are weird, besides that I’m trying to figure out what one keyboard symbol means.
What did they want to say with the word “Transversal” ?
It’s only one example of an unnecessary lack of quality management.
Did the CEO’s ever use their product themselves?
We are going to see how a steadily improving reputation is about to be ruined.
Good luck, bye, walter
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I thought I was the only one screaming about this. It’s not even better, just more complicated. Hate it.
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I got the views figured now. I had to basically delete all the ones that came with the original download and start over. The ones you want are called “translate” which slide the viewpoint in any of 4 directions. I use the arrow keys on my keyboard for those. You would set these up in cockpit view.
Hopefully you did figure out how to delete existing assignments and get rid of multiple assignments to keybindings when that is necessary. You can use multiple bindings for views like look left, 45degree, etc. where one set is for external view and the same set for cockpit view.
I spent all day on this - good thing it was a rare rainy day here so I don’t feel too guilty about it!
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FWIW, still tweaking my 2024 views after 2-3 days of going back to 2020 to see what I had set there! It helps to have screenshots or smartphone photos from 2020 to find what one wants in 2024. What a waste of time but so worth it when the job is done. Whatever. Good flying (when you can).
Having similiar issues setting everything up - most frustrating is just panning using a hat switch in cockpit and in the external view (seem to get it working then it jumps to a snap view ((using the Airbus stick)
So wondering what the correct bind (name) is for the pan views in cockpit and also EV tee Ap view so I can pan (not snap view) left righ up and down?
I have a problem with my camera. When I move my visual it’s too fast and I tried to reduce rotation speed and mouse sensibility but it doesn’t change anything. Any solutions?
Got a point there. Hold on. So I used to set up my cockpit views normally using the cockpit tab of the camera utility. For my wingviews (and other external views attached to the airplane) I also used the cockpit view. Back in MSFS 2020 this was possible by moving your primary cockpit cam far left or right, then heading into the cameras.cfg of the respective airplane and changing the XYZ position to an x value further left (or right respectively), reloading the sim and you were outside the cockpit so you could move towards the wing for example and set up your view there using custom camera keybinds under the cockpit cam section. Worked perfectly fine. Now with the streamed content, I can´t find the cameras.cfg for airplanes, so I tried to figure out a way to set up wind views without editing a cameras.cfg file which was actually possible by moving far right in the cockpit while captain´s position is activated, thereafter opening the cameras menu and selecting copilot there which got you through the cockpit window. YOu could then move towards the wing just like you would move around in the cockpit.
However, some short time after setting up the last perspective, my sim crashed to desktop and since then, whenever I try to load the ini A330-300RR (which was the one I set up the perspectives with), my sim crashes to desktop. After one crash, whenever I restart the sim it will instantly crash even before being able to choose an airplane. I´d like to test whether other airplanes will still work, and whether the whole inibuilds lineup suffers from it or not, or even the whole lineup of airplanes. In the meantime, that´s a possibility to set up your cameras but be aware that this may be bugged and mess up your airplanes. I´ll report back in a few minutes hopefully.
UPDATE: Loading into a scenario now using the xcub after one more crash upon trying to select an airplane and then deleting the folder for the streamed A330 package. Asobo support should also step in there. I think it´s been known forever that people want to have wingviews, so we either need a proper way to do so, or a bug free “glitch” around it.
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In large aircraft like 787,748…,the screen freezed each time when i try to open the cockpit door,anyone got the same issue ?
I’m in Xbox and new to any flying sun but somehow managed, while in cockpit view, to slide the camera out of the plane and have it fixed on the nose, to the side, or even behind far enough to see thrusters. The only issue is it only works on the f16 or f18. I’ve even tried copying the settings but it only works for that plane for some reason. It makes a world of difference though and super cinematic.