Views when flying Phoenix

[Jamin_00]

I heard some other sim offers ****pit view.

Wouldn't this be cool if Phoenix done this too.

Might be worth an email to them.

[GtD]

Hi Ben - I had the same thought last year (or was it the year before that now!) - anyway they replied saying that for various reasons (something to do with the way they render the background) that it would not be possible (which I take as it would basically mean a major amount of work!).

shame though...would be fun to simulate a bit of 'FPV'

[trvo]

From memory when taking photos of the scenery they used a fixed camera rotated around on a tripod base. This is where the pilot ends up standing in the sim. If the pilot position was different to the camera position the scenery would be horribly distorted.

Therefore the same problem will happen if you put the camera / viewpoint on the model.

The only way to do what you're asking is by applying textures to a 3d mesh as the ground which will result in scenery that doesn't look photorealistic.

Brain isn't working today so I hope that makes sense...

Trev

[Jamin_00]

So how about just making 1 map to use with FPV flight.

I will email again

[trillian]

Yeah RealFlight will do it but I think you can only select it if using a digital background and not a photo background.