saburo 0 Posted May 12, 2009 Salute! Question about TrackIR - a minor inconvience if anyone has a trick for it. It seems after I've looked around, following enemy planes, whatever, when I look back my "center," I.E. looking down the gunsight has shifted - it might be close but usually off - so when I am tracking an enemy and maneuver for the shot, when I shoot I miss. Of course, F12 is a quick center, but a lot of times the other hand is busy on the throttle so sometimes it's clumsy to step outside the immersion to press a key to make sure my eye and the gunsight are lined up. And there's also the F-key which is a zoomed in view looking directly down the gunsight (not in Camels) but there's no Tracking in this view and I'd rather be able to sweep my head around as need be, rather than F-key back to the tracking view. There was an online flightsim sim I tried which had it so when your view got close to the center, gunsight area it would just kinda shift to where it needed to be - and just a little bit more head movement to clear out of it while looking around - seemed to work fine. No such thing, near as I can tell in OFF. So, does anyone have any tricks or suggestions for TrackIR or OFF which would allow the immersed player to quickly and efficiently get his "view" looking straight ahead, down the length of the guns, rather than as it is presently, sweeping the view center and hoping you're lined up and not going to waste valuable ammo while shifting the view to down along the sight? Thanks - any insight would be greatly appreciated! -sab Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
griphos 0 Posted May 12, 2009 Well, you can set the null zone a little larger in the profiles settings. This might allow you to recenter when you get your head facing straight ahead again. This would also mean that you would need to turn your head a bit more to get things turning in the sim. But I just map that F12 center key to a joystick button. Easy to just hit it when I think I'm off. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sitting_duck 3 Posted May 13, 2009 Hi there Not going to embelish on what is already been said, but if you dont have a joystick with a ton of keys you can assign to all the various commands off needs, highly suggest getting one. Not even going to suggest a stick, cause this is pretty much geared to personal prefernece,,,,womanfly2 just had a post asking for suggestions, so may want to read up on that. and, if you dont already know, in the window that you edit the profile you are using, you can change the keys for center, and disable, and if you deselect the "lock" box, then you can map the keys for center to your joystick. catch up with you Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
saburo 0 Posted May 13, 2009 Thanks for the tips, everyone - I'll give 'em a try. Salute! -sab Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Olham 164 Posted May 13, 2009 (edited) Two things, Saburo 1. Best put that "re-center" command on a joystick button easy to reach - you need it often. 2. Forget about gunsights. Do some QC dogfights, not for the fun, but to "learn to see", where your gunfire goes. There is a center point; you see best with two-gun crates, where the tracer lines come together. Once you know, where this is, you can even learn to do good deflection shooting - without gunsights. Maybe it's more feeling than knowing. Edited May 13, 2009 by Olham Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
