Moving your head in cabin view.... future

[JWE75]

FS19 it's great and it will be for a long time..... But when we do get the next version of FS I really hope they could add peek/moving your head side to side function in the game. This would be great and very practical element for the game, especially for us who play ONLY with cabin view. Ability to peek on the side in different situations like you can do with Headtrack camera...

[Doc3d]

If you’re on pc there are a few mods that give you that option. I think quick camera as well as VCA(umm..vehicle control add on? I might be wrong there, not on my puter atm) but I know it adds both follow the steering wheels as well as a quick snap to for instance 45 degrees as well as backwards by keybinding.

[michaelr]

Yes, completely agree. I use cabin view/first person the majority of the time too and miss this feature tremendously. Simply having a peek left/right and look behind control you could assign to joystick buttons/POV hat improves the gameplay a lot.

On pc the mod QuickCamera does this for single player, but very few multiplayer games have this crucial mod installed. This is why it should really be in the base game for all to enjoy.

I hope we’ll see more feature updates to FS19 where small things like this could be added. If FS21 is more than a year away, it should not only be DLCs that improve the current game.

[redglasses]

Ya this would be really nice to have, I can never see the bloody scale read out when I’m in my puma.

[Noraf]

Just got to love track-ir

That being said, should jou replicate that, you need 6 axes free....

[PrincessJessi84]

what Noraf said ^^^ track-ir is nothing short of amazing.. being able to lean this way or that while in cab adds so much more to the in cab playing

[gordon861]

Only problem with TrackIR is that it's so expensive and still based on very old technology, version 5 is 10 years old.

Considering we are now in the era of 3D tracking VR headsets, isn't it about time a new system was developed that took advantage of this tech to track your head movements without including the screens? But NaturalPoint seem happy to just sit back and rely on what they produced all those years ago, rather than moving forward.

[PrincessJessi84]

idk about any tech debates gordon861.. but I do know that the trackir lets me play fs in a way that I cannot otherwise.. I personally have no complaints about mine

[Noraf]

And the principle behind vr tracking is pretty similar to track-ir.
There are several options to track-ir too, a few of them utilize a webcam not sure if they can track in 6 ways though, as track-ir with a pro clip does.

[michaelr]

Just got to love track-ir

That being said, should jou replicate that, you need 6 axes free....

Yes, but it wouldn’t need to replicate track-ir 100% for me. I’m happy with just 3 camera turns (left, right and behind). In fact the look behind is the one I use most with QuickCamera and it’s not even an axis, just a preset degree turn of the camera as response to pressing a button.

Basically just:

• Hold down button1 = Peek 45° left
• Hold down button2 = Peek 45° right
• Hold and let go button3 = Flip camera 180° (to see behind tractor)

I’m guessing it could be done in 1 or 2 lines of code, so it probably takes longer to explain the feature here than it would take for someone at Giants to implement it.

[iwan073]

I’m on PS4, not PC. But I find it hard to play when I turn my head around. Hard to see my tv that way.

Might try installing some mirrors on the couch. Not sure if the wife approves though

[hpmc13]

You can build an IR-headtracker for around $25. There are tons of tutorials/build-guides out there.

[neverusedaweeder]

Track-hat is a very cheap alternative to track IR, I think it cost me around $50, having head tracking took this game to another level for me.

[this_is_gav]

I’m on PS4, not PC. But I find it hard to play when I turn my head around. Hard to see my tv that way.

Might try installing some mirrors on the couch. Not sure if the wife approves though

When I had a TrackHat you adjust the sensitivity to mimic turning your head, so you't not rotating your vision 180 degrees to see 180 degrees, you might only be rotating your head 30 or 40 degrees left or right.