Newcomer / Intro Head Look bug?

[Himmel Tropf]

Hey guys, I'm a newbie here.

Been playing quite a few flight sims in the day, and was upset that the default X52 control scheme doesn't have a 'free look' (as such) as compared to something like DCS A10C where my china hat lets me look around with the characters' head.

I know that there is an option, where I depress the lower trigger (button#whatever) and hold it to allow me to look, but originally when i started using this, it seemed locked in a 'cardinal direction' mode and not 'free-look', ie: really only let me select the left/right MFCD/in-game menus, alter radar granularity, etc... there didn't seem to be a full 360deg function to it.

Now for some reason, i engaged superdrive or w/e the one is that lets me jet around within the system, and now i have a free look with both my china hat and HOTAS throttle thumb-stick and my mouse... before I couldn't look around, now three control inputs allow me to free look... and i'm not depressing lower trigger either, wheras before i had to hold the button to allow the cardinal 'free look'.

Cool, so I can look around in my cockpit right?
wrong.

Now when I enter docks to do some shopping or try to pick up a mission, my mouse cursor has disappeared, it's almost impossible to select anything (because the cursor isn't locked to the centre of my view) and i feel like I've got cerebral palsy, just rolling my head around on my neck, unable to select anything on the screen. I resorted to rolling my head around like a loon and hoping out of sheer luck that the invisible cursor to select docking/outfitting/bulletein board options would drag behind and i could select them. I managed to get a few selected spots within the central docking station menu but there's got to be a better way...

I know there's something in the control settings, but I haven't messed with them yet to personalise my settings, and it seemed as though supercharge/frameshift or some button I used to select that mode has set off this free-look ability that I want, but restricted to a single control input, and I don't want it interfering with my ability to select menu options or interfere with other functions...

So is this a bug?
Have I hit a button that's enabled this free look and now deprived me of easily accessing and selecting menu items?
Is this an issue I can correct in settings, ie: changing the free-look mode, or unbinding the enable or something?

Any help would be greatly appreciated so i can go back to dragging my penniless ass around god knows while learning the ins and outs and further customising my control schemes.

Cheers!

 

[theEmohawk]

Hey guys, I'm a newbie here.

Been playing quite a few flight sims in the day, and was upset that the default X52 control scheme doesn't have a 'free look' (as such) as compared to something like DCS A10C where my china hat lets me look around with the characters' head.

I know that there is an option, where I depress the lower trigger (button#whatever) and hold it to allow me to look, but originally when i started using this, it seemed locked in a 'cardinal direction' mode and not 'free-look', ie: really only let me select the left/right MFCD/in-game menus, alter radar granularity, etc... there didn't seem to be a full 360deg function to it.

Now for some reason, i engaged superdrive or w/e the one is that lets me jet around within the system, and now i have a free look with both my china hat and HOTAS throttle thumb-stick and my mouse... before I couldn't look around, now three control inputs allow me to free look... and i'm not depressing lower trigger either, wheras before i had to hold the button to allow the cardinal 'free look'.

Cool, so I can look around in my cockpit right?
wrong.

Now when I enter docks to do some shopping or try to pick up a mission, my mouse cursor has disappeared, it's almost impossible to select anything (because the cursor isn't locked to the centre of my view) and i feel like I've got cerebral palsy, just rolling my head around on my neck, unable to select anything on the screen. I resorted to rolling my head around like a loon and hoping out of sheer luck that the invisible cursor to select docking/outfitting/bulletein board options would drag behind and i could select them. I managed to get a few selected spots within the central docking station menu but there's got to be a better way...

I know there's something in the control settings, but I haven't messed with them yet to personalise my settings, and it seemed as though supercharge/frameshift or some button I used to select that mode has set off this free-look ability that I want, but restricted to a single control input, and I don't want it interfering with my ability to select menu options or interfere with other functions...

So is this a bug?
Have I hit a button that's enabled this free look and now deprived me of easily accessing and selecting menu items?
Is this an issue I can correct in settings, ie: changing the free-look mode, or unbinding the enable or something?

Any help would be greatly appreciated so i can go back to dragging my penniless ass around god knows while learning the ins and outs and further customising my control schemes.

Cheers!

You can fix it in the settings. I don't use an X52 so can't advise on the specifics, but I can tell you that I have headlook bound to the axis of an analogue stick and can toggle it on or off and that allows me to look all around.

 

[Toffa]

As Emo said.

Alternatively. TrackIr.

Worth its weight in gold/creds.

Toffs
( '-')7

 

[Wood67]

Go into the options for Controller and reset it to X52 vanilla (you might also want to go to the default X52 profile also if you've changed it). By default you can toggle the free lock by pressing the 'E' key on the throttle stick - the big one in the centre of the top spinner. Once you've pressed that you can use the larger POV hat on the stick and away you go. Use 'E' to switch back to normal mode.

It works quite well, but I also went down the TrackIR route after about a week and now use that all the time. So much so that if I'm now moving my head about in other apps and expecting them to rotate!

 

[PGleesonuk]

There is a bug, which I have reported.

You can assign a key/button to toggle headlook.

But it does not work. The headlook (using TrackIR or similiar) is always on in the game.

 

[Himmel Tropf]

Ah cheers for the help guys. I do see that the E-throttle key does the trick. I'm too used to using my china hat from other sims to lay down the $ for track IR but if i was a rich spacefarer i'd have the voice command software and visual assist, the whole 9 yards. Probably the thrustmaster HOTAS too, though the x52 is good enough though plastic eyecandy to the extreme with all the sparkle sparkle.
Cheers!