Default Pilot Head Position is not "looking" at the HUD, in F-18(I have TrackIR)

[GROND!]

So, in default, the pilots head is not "pointing" at the HUD, is there a way to fix this, or custimizing the default head position?

[Insônia]

1.
Did you mean, looking slightly lower? by default, DCS set a view angle in between gauges and HUDs (a negtive vAngle), so regular player can see both of them in same screen w/o adjustment.

2.
Or you accidentally saved a custom view to the default.

if you have problem with 1:
you can manually edit C:\users\<user name>\saved game\DCS\Config\View\snapview.lua, under <aircraftname> the no.6 entry (comment as "snap view 5") , set the v vAngle to 0.0, the default center view will become completely straight.

if you have problem with 2:
Just delete the file i mentioned above it will "reset" all view to default.

[GROND!]

Thank you for answering but in that file there is no F-18 section so I cant edit them

[Insônia]

please give *detail* about your "problem" at least a screenshot.

PS. Fix path typo "C:\users\<user name>\saved game\DCS\Config\View\snapview.lua" hope you did not go to "wrong" folder

[Troll Norris]

He does not have made his own snapviews so the snapview file does not exist there yet.

Please, send us the screenshot because without that is IMO impossible to understand your problem. Defaultly all views are just a bit tilted down to be able to see gauges and HUD at the same time. It is intentionaly because the low FOV caused by display dimensions. For VR players the default view is straight foward, just like IRL.

[Raymo]

rctrl+rshift+numpad2,4,6,8 for up, down, left nd right and
rctrl+rshift+numpad / or * for forward and backward

[MoFoViCioUs]

I totally messed up my cockpit view for the first time yesterday. I was playing with custom snapviews without enough knowledge of what I was actually doing. My pilot's viewport was way in front of the cyclic and to the right. If I looked left or right (in TrackIR) it was totally distorted and stretched.

As I had no views saved as such, I just defaulted the file in question, snapview.lua.

To do this, go to the main install (not the saved games directory) >> \DCSWorld\config\View\ and copy the file sitting in there called "SnapViewsDefault.lua" -
Now paste that file into C:\users\<user name>\saved game\DCS\Config\View\
Finally delete "snapview.lua" and then rename the pasted file, "SnapViewsDefault.lua" to "snapview.lua". Voila!

[xvii-Dietrich]

For most modules (F/A-18C included), there is the ability to "Save Cockpit Angles". I think the default key-press is "RAlt Num0".

So, what you can do is move your head/TrackIR to the position you want, and press that to save the default centre position.

For real-precision, you can pause the TrackIR, then use the "RCtl Rshft Numpad" combinations suggested by @Raymo, and use the "LAlt C" to change the first direction. Then save that position with RAlt Num0 and then unpause your TrackIR. The next time you centre your TrackIR it should snap to that position.