Free cam external view and view following bombs

[Gunfreak]

Having scoured thr options. I have not found any free cam view. All views are locked to a unit (ship, plane, gun, vehicle)

 

I've also not found a view that follows dropped bombs, rockets or torpedoer. 

 

These views really help when making vidoes of missions.

[IckyATLAS]

Just hit F11 and you will free the camera wherever was your position.

Sorry this is for IL2 GB. I did not check.

Edited July 26, 2022 by IckyATLAS

[DD_Crash]

There is a bomb view (might be F6)

It is F6

Edited July 26, 2022 by DD_Crash

[Gunfreak]

Sorry I thought I was in the cliff over dover forum. I got here though Google and ended up here. And thought this was clod part of the forum. 

[343KKT_Kintaro]

6 hours ago, Gunfreak said:

All views are locked to a unit (ship, plane, gun, vehicle)

 

 

In the Dover series of flight combat sims, missions need to be open directly from their corresponding folders, following their category. For example, a dogfight mission would need to be open from the correct folder, "Dogfight". You have navigation access to the mission folders directly from the menus in the game, I think it's close to the upper left corner. Once you have selected one mission out from the correct folder, you'll need to select one specific aircraft for every spawning in the game. If not, you might spawn in the mission with no selected aircraft, this is: in external view mode only, with no control at all of any specific aircraft.

 

  

2 hours ago, Gunfreak said:

Sorry I thought I was in the cliff over dover forum. I got here though Google and ended up here. And thought this was clod part of the forum. 

 

 

You definitely are at the official forum of "IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover - Blitz"... AND "IL-2 Sturmovik: Desert Wings - Tobruk". Both games constitute the so called Dover series. Should you need to put it in French, you may say this series is la crème de la crème of all combat flight sims, at least in the survey-type category.

 

[Sokol1]

8 hours ago, Gunfreak said:

Having scoured thr options. I have not found any free cam view. All views are locked to a unit (ship, plane, gun, vehicle)

 

I've also not found a view that follows dropped bombs, rockets or torpedoer. 

 

These views really help when making vidoes of missions.

 

IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover - Blitz (and Tobruk DLC) has no "free camera" neither camera following bombs, rockers (AFAIK none of the  aircraft present in the game carry rockets - historically correct) and torpedoes.  

In the FMB (Full Mission Builder) you have the camera object, that you can place some through mission for have fixed view angles, but without control of then after place, can adjust their height, if I remember correct from 1 meter to hundreds.  Direction I am not sure...

But don't use many cameras, because is PITA navigate through then in the mission, is  used the same command for objects, planes... became a tedious process, some mission templates have more than 1,000 objects.

 

In my experience, if want use fixed cameras, make the mission, save, then open again in FMB and place the cameras, because game engine show the objects from the last place to the first, so the access to cameras became less pain.

Edited July 26, 2022 by Sokol1

[Buzzsaw]

This is something we will look at for TF 6.0.