CFS3 Views

The latest Air Battle game from Microsoft! Running on an entirely new platform, CFS3 is raising it's fair share of problems & opinions - Good & Bad!

CFS3 Views

Postby Oz » Sat Apr 05, 2003 2:59 pm

I can stand the stutters, and the terrain, and the so-so frame rates, and even the cockpits. But what i cant stand are the views. MS put so many exterior views into the game, but not one of them is good (or at least like FS or CFS2) I hate the fact that when you start to move around your aircraft, theres no key that will let you go back to the normal view. In all previous versions of flight sims, the keypad was used to automatically switch to that certain view, now in cfs3 that just moves the exterior view around. So to get it back the way it was, you gotta take the long walk..Ive got a Sidewinder joystick with twist action and a hat switch to move your perspective. With FS, i used to move the hat switch around a bit to get some looks of the plane, and then i pressed 2 on keypad. Its not that easy with CFS3. I tell ya what, i bet the beta testers for CFS3 were Fighter Ace fans and so they didnt even notice. While i was 'exploring' in the cfs3 folder, i found an xml file called viewui. Its got the properties for all the views in the game, i was wonderin if anyone would wanna take a look and maybe play around with the numbers (im not good with these codes and such) Heres some of the data on the file:

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Re: CFS3 Views

Postby Smoke2much » Mon Apr 07, 2003 10:32 pm

Sorry mate, can't help you with that either but I thought it was about time someone replied.  I never use the views anyway, if a WW2 pilot didn't have it I don't use it.

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