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Offline nrshida

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AHIII Pilot's Position
« on: March 30, 2017, 02:49:40 AM »
One day, a large box arrived from England containing the old PC of an friend I've never actually met, only through AH. After a lot of fiddling around and acquiring peripherals I was able to get Windows and AHIII installed. Fantastic.

I must say the graphics look fantastic. Self shadowing, the clouds and the water are my favourite bits so far. Very well done HTC!  :salute

Flight model and gunnery seem so far the same to me - of course I'm only flying offline. One very weird thing though is in AHII the gunsight appeared about halfway up the screen and now it seems to be one third from the top. Is this correct or did I mess something up copying configuration files across? Furthermore in the Mosquito (for instance) the zoomed-in view seems to be coupled to the un-zoomed view. I thought they were separate in AHII?

I've tested this on two different monitors now. The older on was 4:3 but the new one is widescreen (1920 x 1080).

Any help / comments appreciated.

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Offline FESS67

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Re: AHIII Pilot's Position
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2017, 03:13:30 AM »
my opinion.  This is AH and so others will most certainly tell me I am an idiot but for what it is worth this is my take on things.

FOV - I used to use 106.  I am now trying 100 and having a good experience.

The gunsight - Have you tried resetting it using the Home key and then F10 to save?  FWIW I have my piper set very high.  I find it better for me with my style of flying / shooting.  I tend to set convergence at 375 to 425
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Re: AHIII Pilot's Position
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2017, 03:31:36 AM »
Your zoom view maybe set so far out that it is the same as your regular view.

Try toggling it and use the bracket keys - (these are default) [ and ] - to increase and decrease the zoom rate.

Let us know if this salves the zoom issue
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Re: AHIII Pilot's Position
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2017, 03:51:26 AM »
They changed the default FOV... you will need to change it top your liking...As Fess said...start from 100...and go back of forth dependent on what you were used to
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Re: AHIII Pilot's Position
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2017, 04:04:14 AM »
Ah FOV? Thanks. Can't seem to find ot on the clipboard. I've looked in Options -> Graphic Detail and Options -> View Options. Is it perhaps in a config file?

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Re: AHIII Pilot's Position
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2017, 04:06:08 AM »
at the first log  on screen  VIDEO SETTINGS

HTC loves to make everything a 3 step process.
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Re: AHIII Pilot's Position
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2017, 04:06:24 AM »
Quote from: nrshida on March 30, 2017, 04:04:14 AM
Ah FOV? Thanks. Can't seem to find ot on the clipboard. I've looked in Options -> Graphic Detail and Options -> View Options. Is it perhaps in a config file?

 go to video setting on the opening clipboard
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Offline nrshida

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Re: AHIII Pilot's Position
« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2017, 04:39:58 AM »
Thank you found it. Can anyone remember what the AHII default was?
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Re: AHIII Pilot's Position
« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2017, 04:46:34 AM »
ignore what was, embrace what is !!!

Popular legacy says 106 equates to AH2.  90 is AH3 default.  I find that too tight, start at 100 and    <------->  from there.


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Re: AHIII Pilot's Position
« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2017, 05:06:17 AM »
Funny I'd settled on 105 through trial and error. Looks about right now. Only the gunsight is still about two-thirds up the monitor. Maybe the seating positions were revised during the update?

Thanks for all the help.

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Re: AHIII Pilot's Position
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2017, 05:33:29 AM »
The pilot's position has been changed for better view to the instrument panel. IIRC Home is the button to the traditional centered view, or "look front" on the stick hat. If you need, you can save that using F10.
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Re: AHIII Pilot's Position
« Reply #11 on: March 30, 2017, 06:59:04 AM »
Ah, Bizman to the rescue. For those that also struggle the Home key indeed goes to the AHII perspective, then you can adjust from there.

Thank you old friend. May you infest the nightmares of a thosand mosquitos  :salute

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Re: AHIII Pilot's Position
« Reply #12 on: March 30, 2017, 07:02:41 AM »
Quote from: nrshida on March 30, 2017, 06:59:04 AM
Ah, Bizman to the rescue. For those that also struggle the Home key indeed goes to the AHII perspective, then you can adjust from there.


Umm perhaps I was not clear enough. Lesson learned.

Quote from: FESS67 on March 30, 2017, 03:13:30 AM
The gunsight - Have you tried resetting it using the Home key ......
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Re: AHIII Pilot's Position
« Reply #13 on: March 30, 2017, 09:19:23 AM »
It's so you can see your instruments better, I too didn't like this because it messed with my muscle memory for SA but I ended up getting used to it.
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Re: AHIII Pilot's Position
« Reply #14 on: March 30, 2017, 09:41:23 AM »
Quote from: FESS67 on March 30, 2017, 07:02:41 AM
Umm perhaps I was not clear enough. Lesson learned.

Sorry Fess you did indeed say that first. I was scanning quickly as I experimented on the AH PC. Just timing. Apologies. No slight intended  :salute


Quote from: JunkyII on March 30, 2017, 09:19:23 AM
It's so you can see your instruments better, I too didn't like this because it messed with my muscle memory for SA but I ended up getting used to it.

We have instruments?  :eek:

How are you Junky, fighting the ACM fight?


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