I’m wanting to use numpad (with NUMLOCK ON!) to assign the 10 different cockpit cam views. When I assign the numpad keys in the controls options, it accepts the numpad input, but as soon as I return to the game, they do nothing. Previous bindings were L Alt + number keys along the top, I wanted to replace these by just pressing the numpad keys with logical directions, so 1 would be down & left look, 7 would be up and left, 5 would be straight ahead, etc. I have same setup in DCS and it works very intuitively. Any ideas whats going on here and how I can solve it?
I will add - when I turn numlock off, the numpad jeys act same as the cursor keys for L,R,U,D, but I never turn numlock off as I use the cyrsor arrow keys to move head around cockpit.
Note that the L Alt + number key default bindings are for the custom camera views, so unless you’ve set them up (by moving the camera to the view you want to save, then pressing Ctrl+Alt+Number along the top) then the L Alt + Number combo won’t do anything. These custom cameras are also aircraft specific, so you need to set them up for each one. Once done though that should work (as I’ve assigned Alt + numpad keys to my custom cameras)
If you want just generic look left/down/up/right etc, you actually want to bind other cockpit camera options (such as the “cockpit look ?”) bindings.
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I watched a video from the guys that released the excellent DC6- they just used the numpad - no alt key, just numpad 0 - 9, to switch thru the various cockpit cams. I am familiar with setting up my own custom views using alt + number (NOT numpad), I followed their viseo but my numpad presses did nothing. I’m not looking for generic look left/rught/up/down, thats all sorted.
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I did mine to emulate what I had in XP11, having to just press 0 through 9. If I remember correctly I had to remove all the “in cockpit” camera bindings for set-up and view. Then I set the binding option as CTL-Numpad number, then set each aircraft views as 0-9 for my views. It works real well for VR especially!
Exactly, ALT+number didn’t do anything in my keyboard either, and I had to create the views based on the ones shown in the video. Which is strange since in the video they described the feature as if the views came already preset.
Funny enough I’ve done exactly this only couple of days ago and it works great.
I managed to get it to work like this
Get the view then press left-ctl left-alt plus the number required but not the number on keypad but the number above the keys.
In keyboard assignments I then set my alternate custom camera column to the matching numpad value.
Now I can just use numpad for all my custom views.
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Thanks all, I followed the above, using mouse to move camera to desired position for each camera view, then saving each with L Ctrl + L Alt + number, and mapped numpad in control settings as the alternative keybind for the camera views 0 - 9. Works fine, but as puffy says, it is implied that these views are already set up - maybe thats in one of the keyboard presets you can download and install from them.
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Just realised - these default cockpit camera views are already set up in the DC6, you just have to re-save them to use the numpad, which is really easy. Just press L Ctrl + 1 (number key not numpd…) to set cockpit cam view 1, tweak if needed then save it back with L Ctrl + L Alt + 1, then numpad 1 will call the view back. repeat for the other nine. I must say using the numpad for the cockpit views is far more intuitive, I should have sorted this years ago.