Is there a way to lock the external view?

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by spec24

I'm at a loss for words. This is pretty basic stuff. I want to watch my sub but don't have to keep following the thing like I'm some kind of oceanic fly. That one thing is ruining my enjoyment of the game. I'm a kid in a bathtub with a toy sub that I can get in, but I can't get ahold of my submarine. Yikes. Dev's, please add this asap.

Chances are its already 'in there' and just needs to be modded in. Kind of like the depth beneath keel thing.

[SabreHawk]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Chances are its already 'in there' and just needs to be modded in. Kind of like the depth beneath keel thing.

Your absoloutely correct. Thes commands are in the commands cfg, but do not have a key associated with them. But like the depth under keel command, im sure it can be done in the same way. Trouble is I dont have the knowlege of just how. I mean I did do it for depth under keel, but only because some fellow subsimmer here told us how and gave the entries to insert.
In fact the ones for next unit and previous unit are there too, but as I said I haven't the know how to implement them.
Heres how they appear :

[Cmd49]
Name=Camera_on_unit
Contexts=1,12,15
[Cmd50]
Name=Camera_on_next_unit
Contexts=1,15
;Key0=0xBE,,">"
Page=0x34000000,3714
[Cmd51]
Name=Camera_on_prev_unit
Contexts=1,15
;Key0=0xBC,,"<"
Page=0x34000000,3714

[jdkbph]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Chances are its already 'in there' and just needs to be modded in. Kind of like the depth beneath keel thing.

It is in there, but it's broken as far as I can tell. Probably a result of the game forcing you back to a 1st person view as opposed to a "station view" like they had in SH3/4.

There's a work around while on the surface that has to do with using the F2 key to get into a non 1st person view mode (free cam view), then using the mouse wheel to toggle in an out of binocs view, which ultimately dumps you back on the bridge in 1st person mode. Obviously that's not going to work underwater, and as far as I know, there's no similar "mouse wheel" or hot key function for the periscope (or any other non-1st person view) we can use to circumvent the problem.

In any case, the zoom and mouse pan functionality is flaky at best.

JD