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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Anaxogoras on December 19, 2008, 08:52:30 AM
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There is a file that has your preset views which you can share with another player. I am looking for a decent view setup for the F6F, especially the forward-right and forward-left angles. Little did I know that I would actually like the F6F when I tried it, I just need to find a compromise with the "bird cage" canopy.
Anyone care to share? I've looked around the HTC folder but I'm not yet sure of which file it is...
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Quit your whining dude! sheeeeeeeesh.........
:D
:salute
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all head position files are sorted by name (plane) with .hps extension in the settings folder. in this case: f6f5.hps
can't you adjujst your own views to find one you're happy with?
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Views are dependent on how you fly. If you fly to set up crossing shots you may set the bars in a position a bit lower and to the side for a front/side view, but for "6" type shots everything may be set so your higher in the seat.
The file your looking for is C:\Program Files\HTC\Aces High II\settings\planes\f6f5.hps if you are set in the default file system in XP. If your in Vista your screwed :D No, look at the thread Skuzzy had stickied about "where are my files".
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can't you adjujst your own views to find one you're happy with?
Normally, yes, but I'd like to see how someone with more experience in the F6F does it. A good view setup is more difficult to achieve in this aircraft than others.
The file your looking for is C:\Program Files\HTC\Aces High II\settings\planes\f6f5.hps if you are set in the default file system in XP. If your in Vista your screwed :D No, look at the thread Skuzzy had stickied about "where are my files".
Good thing I have XP! :D
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Normally, yes, but I'd like to see how someone with more experience in the F6F does it. A good view setup is more difficult to achieve in this aircraft than others.
Good thing I have XP! :D
Maybe thats because there are no good setups for this aircraft. And, I find it hard to believe that US pilots would ever settle for an aircraft that had such a crappy view of the outside world. Which begs the question of weather or not the canopy obstructions are overstated.
Kostic
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maybe it's just me but the views don't bother me.
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Vista is easy just click compatibility files and it will bring them all up for you to open :salute
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I fly it a lot, you get used to the views after a while. I think the forward views are pretty good.
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You used to be able to move your head way up and slightly out of the cockpit glass in the F6F but they fixed that. I think I just use the default left/right views in it now.
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I fly the F6F alot ... here are mine from my f6f5.hps ... save your original somewhere and then copy/paste this into the file ... I opened it with "wordpad"
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Let me ask. How many dedicated Hellcat sticks actually get blindsided, due to views, by a con they didn't know was in back of them? It may have happened to me once but even then it was more my fault then the airplanes. Just keep it vertical and/or turning and its not that big a deal. Fly it often enough and the cage is no real hindrance either. I really like the new Hellcat.
Since they fixed the views. :huh
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I fly the F6F alot ... here are mine from my f6f5.hps ... save your original somewhere and then copy/paste this into the file ... I opened it with "wordpad"
Thankyou!
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just wiggle your tail a bit.. you'll see everything you need. ;)
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>> How many dedicated Hellcat sticks actually get blindsided, due to views, by a con they didn't know was in back of them
HT's minor patch fix did improve visibility a bit. Factually speaking the F6F visibility remains abysmal. This feature comes with the F6F it seems. :lol This is one plane where I wouldn't mind it NOT matching the real world plane with respect to its 6 visibility.
Anyone know if a later model F6F came out with a bubble canopy, or at least better visibility on your six?
WT
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Anyone know if a later model F6F came out with a bubble canopy, or at least better visibility on your six?
I actually looked at pictures of the F6F, and it seems like the canopy we have is the best the F6F ever had.
Slapshot's views are an improvement over what I had, and I understand what I was doing wrong. The trick is not to torture yourself trying to minimize the amount of canopy that you see in your views, but rather to ensure that what is obstructed by canopy in one view is visible from another.
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>> How many dedicated Hellcat sticks actually get blindsided, due to views, by a con they didn't know was in back of them
HT's minor patch fix did improve visibility a bit. Factually speaking the F6F visibility remains abysmal. This feature comes with the F6F it seems. :lol This is one plane where I wouldn't mind it NOT matching the real world plane with respect to its 6 visibility.
Anyone know if a later model F6F came out with a bubble canopy, or at least better visibility on your six?
WT
There was no bubble cockpit version of the Hellcat unfortunately.That improvement was reserved for its successor, the Bearcat. The first prototype of the F6F-5 did have a Spitfire-style Malcolm Hood fitted, but this never made it to production for some reason. In fact after the first 900 odd F6F-5s were built Grumman even deleted the rear side windows of the F6F-3, giving it even worse rear visibility.
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You're not suppose to let them on your 6. :rofl :rofl
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I actually looked at pictures of the F6F, and it seems like the canopy we have is the best the F6F ever had.
Slapshot's views are an improvement over what I had, and I understand what I was doing wrong. The trick is not to torture yourself trying to minimize the amount of canopy that you see in your views, but rather to ensure that what is obstructed by canopy in one view is visible from another.
Bingo ... one must move the F6F around more to see certain views than the previous rendition of the F6F.