G’day lads.
I’ve been watching a few Air Sim streams and figured I’d try it out for myself. The streamer I watch seems to have different views, like a wing view, a view which looks over the dash of the cockpit, etc. I can’t seem to figure out how to replicate that. Is there a way to do it, or has he got some fancy joystick which gives him exclusive access to them?
Cheers
Do you refer to leaning forward/backward/sideways/raising head?
Here’s what I do:
It took me a few weeks to learn and get comfortable with, but this has given me a lot of fine camera control and ability to peek around canopy frames and lean around wings.
However, VR and IR still beat it without competition for ease of use.
Thank you very much! I couldn’t find a single tutorial or post on this topic, so I really appreciate your help. I’ll be sure to have a mess around with these settings.
Best of luck! Only thing I gotta say is keep relative control step to 0% because if you bring it higher it gets unsmooth and hard to use. This was kinda what held me back from using this kind of setup for a long time!
Feel free to ask around or even get someone to do duels with you to get used to the controls.
I’ll keep that in mind! So far I’ve been adjusting my settings as I go along, just jumping into Air Sim matches and adjusting as required. Seems to be an awful lot of fine tuning involved cause when the settings arent right it all feels a little clumsy and disorientating, but I’m sure it just takes time to get used to. I couldn’t have asked for better advice, thanks once again!
It’s a bit of a learning cliff, but once things are setup and you get over the initial hurdle it will feel quite intuitive all around!
Do you fly props or jets? If props, while not Warthunder I can strongly recommend “Requiem Air combat Tutorial Library” on youtube for basic flight principles and WingalingDragon for WT specific things (he has a great tutorial on comms etiquette!).
Speaking of Wing, I recommend the Team Sim LFG discord if you’re comfortable with such. I’m usually fairly picky about my discords, but moderation is fairly decent and responsive so it’s a mostly sim & flying focused environment rather than unrelated dumb topics. If you got questions, people are keen to answer (there may be the occasional bad actor but they usually dont stay too long).
Thinking on camera things with keyboard:
As such, you want these 3 to be like, right next to each other so you can press them simultaneously (hence why I put mine on 1 and 3 - very easy to press at the same time as a and d!)
As a third thing: Using left/right can help with horizontal canopy frames, not just vertical ones. I usually find myself “leaning” left/right while flying my 109s to keep enemies in sight while turning with them.
Before getting into Sim I actually watched a few of Requiem’s video’s to help me get started which has helped heaps, and I’ll certainly look into that discord server!
One thing I probably should’ve mentioned is I’m using the Thrustmaster Hotas Warthog Joystick and Throttle Quadrant to fly, which I bought a few days ago (no rudder pedals yet). I’ve played a couple hundred games of Air RB with mouse and keyboard but figured I’d challenge myself by getting into Sim.
I watched a few tutorials and got my basic controls set up, and I’m honestly very comfortable with how they’re set up now, so no issues there. With those camera keybinds, I suppose its now just a matter of figuring out how to set them up with the peripherals I’ve got.
When you say, “combine looking to the left and looking up simultaneously”, do you mean binding those actions to the same key/control input, or binding them to seperate key’s but pressing them simultaneously?
For me, it’s binding them separately but in a way that lets me press them simultenously if needed or at least with minimal delay.
Sweet, I’ll start setting them up and see how I go. Cheers!
