1.53 Camera Auto Centering: IDEAD

[zerox]

as an additional option, instead of x amount of seconds delay for re-centering the camera, how about re-centering the camera AS SOON AS the truck starts moving from a standstill.

the idea behind it: when you wait at an intersection, looking out to the side window, waiting for the traffic to clear until you start moving, this would help immensly - the traffic clears, you start moving the truck, camera auto-centers without the need of a button press or mouse movement in the middle of you turning the steering wheel and trying to concentrate on the corner / intersection.

just an idea :) maybe someone else likes it.

[Wolfgang]

Feedback and suggestions for the open beta should be posted on the SCS Forum.

[RickC]

It already does this in 1.53 Beta. It works really well. When stationary, the camera is fixed ie looking out the side, 1 second after you start to move, it autocenters. The lowest setting is 1 second. IRL you cannot move your head any faster, so that is about as realistic as it gets. Also gives the option for more seconds if you desire, up to 5 seconds, or to disable it completely ie as it is now.
It also removes the need for those little top corner mirror mods.

[Zielony]

I was so used to "Smooth interior camera mod" but as this modhas been abandoned, I have had to work around it. I do not like idea of view centering when truck starts to move, I want to have it in the intended way for as long as I keep the button pressed and recenter when \i release.

To accomplish that we need to edit our controls.sii. My look around settings are set up as Q and E for interior look up left/right (slight left/right) and A and D for 90deg look left righ. It looks like this in controls.sii:

config_lines[257]: "mix lookpos2 `keyboard.e?0 | semantical.lookpos2?0`"
config_lines[258]: "mix lookpos3 `keyboard.q?0 | semantical.lookpos3?0`"
config_lines[259]: "mix lookpos4 `keyboard.d?0 | semantical.lookpos4?0`"
config_lines[260]: "mix lookpos5 `keyboard.a?0 | semantical.lookpos5?0`"

to make view auto center after releasing above "look" buttons, simply set up lookpos1 to a negative input of your look around button presses. For me this looks like this:

"mix lookpos1 `! (keyboard.e?0 | keyboard.q?0 | keyboard.d?0 | keyboard.a?0) | semantical.lookpos1?0`"

This way if I press Q, it makes view rotate left. If I release Q, it goes back to center without requiring another button press.