On Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:24:29 +0000 James Turner wrote: > My *personal* feeling is that unless it's something the > 50% of users use > *each flight*, it shouldn't be a keybinding. So flaps, trim, CDI/HSI heading, > fine, but things to change view distance or FoV seem unnecessary to me.
Just sticking in my 2p worth... I would say I use z/Z almost every flight. It can be useful for "cheating", as Thorsten said, but more usually as a means of adjusting performance. Often airports are in or near very scenery-intensive areas and reducing visibility can help a lot in making the sim run usably for take-off, whereas once you're up and away it's nice to be able to open the view back up again for cross-country flying. Maybe if that happened automatically somehow this would become unimportant, but for now I think a lot of people rely on it. I can't believe you're suggesting removing the FoV keybinding though! I've used that for "zoom" in 3d cockpits for about as long as we've had the things, completely essential in my opinion. I know it's not strictly speaking "zoom" but it works, and is very quick and natural to use, too. Could it be a mouse/joystick binding? Yes - but these are much harder to remember and differ widely on different setups. Cheers, AJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
