Kingpin camera

[TheOrckenMan]

Can we get a kingpin camera for the advanced kingpin option?!

Edit: I should say I more want a backup camera. Id like it to go outside the cab looking back at the trailer but be fixed dead center. Iv seen a few trucks have such things.

[~{DCMT}~ComaWhite12~]

Well that would defeat the purpose now wouldn't it?
Not sure I have ever seen a kingpin camera on a real truck, but I have been out of the loop for a while.

[Asigion]

You can use the console command "0" to look at anything you want. That is, if you have the developer's console enabled.

[Torg Smith]

As an option I would not mind.

I don't have a problem with backing into it. Soon after ATS came out I would try to back in as close to the trailer center as possible so the trailer would not move when I hit the button to connect it. I was never perfect so it would move a bit, but I kept the movement to a minimum. I think this has made this option pretty easy. I think they have a little give in it as well.

You might try turning the option off and practice backing in with minimal trailer movement on connection. After some practice you should have no problems with the advanced connection option on.

[Lord Pally]

I agree, we need it. Yes no such thing in RL, but you can "Feel" the kingpin to see which side of the 5th wheel you make contact with. I have used the 2 key view, but if you look from one side it looks DEAD on, then flip to other side, and you see your off. And it can be mirrored again when you try again. A small camera shot from just center and above the 5th wheel would be great, and even if you my think its cheating I believe the fact the controls would be reversed would still take some skill to get correct taking the Cheating factor out.

[WinterQueen]

im sorry but as an option, its not needed, if you can learn to reverse a truck properly and make contact wjth the fifth wheel, then theres no need because you can hookup no problem, if you cant reverse right at all, its best not to use the advanced option until you can learn to do it right.

Truckers IRL dont have any aids to help line up to connect to a trailer, its all about skill and knowledge, thats what the game is trying to get ou to use with the Advanced Coupling Option, adding a special camera that allows you to cheat and see how off you are when reversing just defeats the object of the option, thats why its an option, if you cant reverse proerly, dont use the option, if you can, use it, simple.

[Kami102]

Originally posted by Torg Smith:

As an option I would not mind.

I don't have a problem with backing into it. Soon after ATS came out I would try to back in as close to the trailer center as possible so the trailer would not move when I hit the button to connect it. I was never perfect so it would move a bit, but I kept the movement to a minimum. I think this has made this option pretty easy. I think they have a little give in it as well.

Haha I was pretty much the same way. Toggled Advanced Coupling on, and backed in expecting a challenge, but would you know it, nailed it the first try. Was expecting a much more difficult challenge, but all those years of playing ETS2 and now ATS have made it a cinch.

[Asigion]

Originally posted by megadethsteve666:

im sorry but as an option, its not needed, if you can learn to reverse a truck properly and make contact wjth the fifth wheel, then theres no need because you can hookup no problem, if you cant reverse right at all, its best not to use the advanced option until you can learn to do it right.

Truckers IRL dont have any aids to help line up to connect to a trailer, its all about skill and knowledge, thats what the game is trying to get ou to use with the Advanced Coupling Option, adding a special camera that allows you to cheat and see how off you are when reversing just defeats the object of the option, thats why its an option, if you cant reverse proerly, dont use the option, if you can, use it, simple.

I agree, I only mentioned the console command because I watched Squirrel use it. When it comes time for me to play Arizona I will be choosing the Advanced Coupling option and not using the camera.

If at first I don't do it properly then I will persist until I do. That is the way I have always played the game.

[Ornery]

Exactly, the auto attach feature is the "cheat", kinda ridiculous to ask for another cheat IMHO

[Rookie-31st]

Mirrors are your backup cameras. Use them to check alignment

[AdvancedFollower]

Originally posted by ~{DCMT}~ComaWhite12~:

Well that would defeat the purpose now wouldn't it?
Not sure I have ever seen a kingpin camera on a real truck, but I have been out of the loop for a while.

Well in real life, you can lean forward and look much closer in the mirrors, lean out more easily etc. In the game, your field of view is more restricted, the resolution is lower, and unless you have VR or TrackIR, you're more "rigid" and can't look around as easily. So a few extra view modes are not "cheating" IMO, you're just compensating for the lower fidelity of the simulator vs real life.

[Polarlicht]

Wow, a good question on Steam, thats rare!!! Such a cam would be very useful!

[Corey]

I believe the challenge is to having the feeling of being in a real truck, yes? Therefore adding a kingpin camera would be considered cheating in a sense. Those some players maybe would like to see the kingpin grabbing the fifth wheel so a kingpin camera could be enabled "if" you are aligning correctly.

[TheOrckenMan]

Originally posted by Willy.J.K:

You can use the console command "0" to look at anything you want. That is, if you have the developer's console enabled.

0 got the job done! didnt even think of that!

[Jackrabbit_V6/ RSProduxx]

Originally posted by Worldwide Trucking Logistics:

I believe the challenge is to having the feeling of being in a real truck, yes? Therefore adding a kingpin camera would be considered cheating in a sense.

not to mention that coupling up a saddle trailer is so damn easy, it´s not really a challenge... :)

[Gazer75]

I do not see how a camera fitted on the back wall of the cabin would be unrealistic. If its an option on new trucks or not I don't know.
Many vehicles have optional automatic reversing cameras these days.