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Description:

The F1_View module is a very basic tool that implements mouse-based zooming, panning, and eyepoint adjustments, including the ability to move your eyepoint beyond the limits imposed by Flight Simulator (this feature is good to stroll about virtual cabins of larger aircraft).

This module requires a wheel-mouse (a center wheel that also acts as a center mouse button).

Installation:

F1ViewSetup.exe is a self-contained application that will either install or uninstall the F1_view.dll module to and from your FS2004\Modules folder. If will overwrite earlier versions if a new version of the module is released.

You can use the F1ViewSetup.exe application as often as you like. There may be instances where you may not want to use F1_view if it conflicts with another component that you may have installed.

Note: When using F1_view, and the center mouse wheel is being used, you may need to hold the cursor away from a gauge that accepts mouse inputs, as the center wheel may fire off a gauge action.

Modes of Operation:

Rolling the mouse wheel forward means rolling the wheel away from the user.
Rolling the mouse wheel backward means rolling the wheel towards the user.

Virtual-cockpit:

• Wheel forward moves you forward and wheel backward moves you back.
• CTRL+forward moves right and CTRL+backward moves left.
• SHIFT+forward moves up and SHIFT+backward moves down.
• CTRL+SHIFT+forward zooms out and CTRL+SHIFT+backward zooms in.

While in Pan Mode (when mouse wheel is pressed and held down) inside the Virtual Cockpit:

• Moving the mouse to the left rotates the view to the left.
• Moving the mouse to the right rotates the view to the right.
• Moving the mouse forward, away from the user, rotates the view up.
• Moving the mouse backward, towards the user, rotates the view down.

Cockpit view:

• CTRL+SHIFT+forward zooms the exterior view out and CTRL+SHIFT+backward zooms it in.

Tower view:

• CTRL+SHIFT+forward zooms the view out and CTRL+SHIFT+backward zooms it in.

Spot view:

• Wheel forward moves the view distance forward, and wheel backward moves the distance back.
• CTRL+forward rotates the eyepoint right, and CTRL+backward rotates the eyepoint left.
• SHIFT+forward moves the eyepoint down, and SHIFT+backward moves the eyepoint up.
• CTRL+SHIFT+forward zooms out and CTRL+SHIFT+backward zooms in.

Note: View distance is different from view zoom.

While in Pan Mode (when mouse wheel is pressed and held down) in spot view:

• Mouse left/right rotates the eyepoint right/left.
• Mouse up/down moves the eyepoint up/down.

Top-down view:

• CTRL+SHIFT+forward moves the view distance out and CTRL+SHIFT+backward moves it in.

Note: In this mode you can move your view all the way to outer space and back in.