Saving zoom settings

[Ack-Ack]

I wish that we finally get the ability to save our zoom positions so its remembered between play sessions.

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[thrila]

Adjusting my zoom every time i log on is one of those things that does slightly annoy me, my preferred zoom is much, much less than the default setting.

[Randy1]

Ac-Ack, try fiddling with your FOV setting.  It is somewhat like a permanent zoom and for the P38, at least for me, a better forward view.  I have mine set on 92

[bustr]

If it's for the default view I can understand this request. It would free up the player eventually from having to fiddle with the saved zoom setting after shooting at a con he had to zoom to full to make out the con from the clutter. Next time he went to zoom it would start at his saved zoom.

1. - Normal Default FoV.
2. - Saved Zoom Default FoV setting.

Hit Zoom and adjust your default view. Save with F10 now adjusted to keying off having pressed the Zoom toggle key. I'm not sure how smoothly this would fit into the current hps file system for saved head positions.

Here is the Default Head position coordinate plot from the hps file.

---X-Axis---Y-Axis----Z-Axis
Left-Rht..|.Up-Dwn.|.For-Bak
0.000000,0.000000,0.000000 NUM_Key 8

Would a new file be needed for the zoom saved setting, like a zoom depth setting? (zmd) file. Or simply a new column for zoom depth associated for each view?

---X-Axis---Y-Axis----Z-Axis----Zoom Depth
Left-Rht..|.Up-Dwn.|.For-Bak.|.Zoom
0.000000,0.000000,0.000000,0.000000  NUM_Key 8

[Ack-Ack]

If it's for the default view I can understand this request. It would free up the player eventually from having to fiddle with the saved zoom setting after shooting at a con he had to zoom to full to make out the con from the clutter. Next time he went to zoom it would start at his saved zoom.

That's why I would like to see the zoom settings saved between play sessions. 

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[Babalonian]

It does save, my zoom is usualy the way I like/had it, but it does change inadvertently on me often....  phat/stupit phingers.

I think a problem here is because you can adjust/change your zoom with the [ or ] key, even when not zoomed in or in "zoom mode". 

IE:  you're furballing, accidently key the "[" a bit, usually in my case from throwing out check-6s left and right, then eventually I'll hit zoom when I'm ready for it and need it, and surprise snafu zoom is off (so I fondle the "]" key a bit, done), but I'm thinking most players think it's static when not zoomed in and flying around, so you get these "OMG WTF STUPID HITECH, THIS IS BROKEN, WHY DOES IT NEVER SAVE, FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT" when in reality, that's not your/the problem. 

It's saving the variable quite well, at least on my end, but it's the modifying/adjusting/changing when not intended part that is a problem I encounter often and maybe the problem everyone else is frequently having too.

[Ack-Ack]

It does save, my zoom is usualy the way I like/had it, but it does change inadvertently on me often....  phat/stupit phingers.

No, it doesn't save between play sessions.  If you set the zoom and then log off and then log in and up a plane again and hit zoom, it will revert back to default and not the setting you had set it to.  What I would like is if I set zoom at a particular setting then log off and then log back in to play, that the setting I had saved during my previous play session was still there instead of reverting back to default.  AH has never saved the zoom settings and this isn't the first wish for it to be changed.

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