rFactor 2 Mirror Adjustment Guide

One of the first things you should do before driving is adjust the mirrors.
They don't tell you how, so someone has to.

Controls explained

Mirrors are adjusted using Ctrl, Alt and Shift with the seat adjustment controls, Fore, Aft, Up and Down.
When using Ctrl and/or Shift it doesn't matter if you use the left or right one.
When using Alt, use Left Alt if you find Right Alt does not work. This is to do with your Windows region and keyboard settings. If you want Right Alt to work I'll leave that up to you and google search.

Adjusting Mirrors

* = the text that appears in the rF2 message box.

• ALL MIRRORS, REAL AND VIRTUAL

* Mirror Position: 0 / 0
Shift + Fore = move mirrors left
Shift + Aft = move mirrors right
Shift + Up = move mirrors down
Shift + Down = move mirrors up

* Mirror Size: 0
Ctrl+Shift + Up = zoom out
Ctrl+Shift + Down = zoom in

• LEFT DOOR MIRROR

* Left Mirror Params: 0 / 0
Ctrl + Fore = move mirror outwards
Ctrl + Aft = move mirror inwards
Ctrl + Up = zoom out
Ctrl + Down = zoom in

• RIGHT DOOR MIRROR

* Right Mirror Params: 0 / 0
Left Alt + Fore = move mirror inwards
Left Alt + Aft = move mirror outwards
Left Alt + Up = zoom out
Left Alt + Down = zoom in

• REAR VIEW MIRROR / MONITOR

* Center Mirror Params: 0 / 0
Ctrl + Left Alt + Fore = move mirror left
Ctrl + Left Alt + Aft = move mirror right
Ctrl + Left Alt + Up = zoom out
Ctrl + Left Alt + Down = zoom in

• REAR VIEW MIRROR / MONITOR PHYSICAL POSITION

* Mirror Physical Pos: 0 / 0
Shift + Left Alt + Fore = move mirror right
Shift + Left Alt + Aft = move mirror left
Shift + Left Alt + Up = move mirror up
Shift + Left Alt + Down = move mirror down

Extra Options

There is a few more options in the player.json.
Disclaimer- I take no responsibility if you get software or hardware problems in regards to advice given here. Backup any files before making changes.

1.
"Rearview Independent":false,
"Rearview Independent#":"Whether width (horizontal FOV) can be controlled independently of height (vertical FOV)",

Unless you really want or have to change this I would leave it alone.

2.
"Moving Rearview":3,
"Moving Rearview#":"Whether mirrors respond to head movement in cockpit (0=none, 1=position-only, 2=FOVonly, 3=both) - add 4 if you want to IGNORE head-tracking movement",

If you set it to 0, the image in the mirrors doesn't move when you move the seat but you lose the ability to move all mirrors together: shift+seat doesn't work.

3.
"User Vehicle Data":true,
"User Vehicle Data#":"0=save with user mod data (in CCH files), 1=save separately (in all_vehicles.ini)",

The all_vehicles.ini is where every vehicle installed has their FOV, seat, mirrors, FFB multiplier and installed upgrades data stored. All the things you don't want to setup every time you load that car.
The mod data CCH file has data more related to career stats.
So make sure User Vehicle Data is set to “true”. Yes I know it says to use “1”, you can put 1, it just gets changed to true.

4.
"Rearview Cull":false,
"Rearview Cull#":"Whether to cull objects in the rearview based on visgroups in the SCN file",

"Rearview_Back_Clip":0.0,
"Rearview_Back_Clip#":"Back plane distance for mirror (0.0 = use default for scene)",

If what you see in the mirrors seems to be sparse and objects suddenly appear and disappear then the two settings above should help you.
First off, we don't want to be culling objects so make sure you have “false” for the rear view cull.
The back clip is the distance in metres that can be seen in the mirrors. I have mine set to :1000,
So that is 1 kilometre, which looks so much better than the default and isn't a big fps hit, at least with me.

[justposted]

I couldn't adjust my right mirror. Looked in settings for the key binds for aaages. Finally searched and found this. What a hero!

[Davide Belli]

The only Sim that needs to adjust the mirrors manually. In VR it's a pain. Anyway thanks for the guide.

[fedor]

The mirror's ar ar load of crap every other sim no need to to anything .the control options here don't work what is fore , aft this is not a boat sim what ia wrong with up ,down , left and right is hard to tell when it dose not work.There is no safety rating so it don't mater if crash because you cant see behind

[Gutterman]

Interesting, who is running this game? Such greatness wasted.

[marcw]

All of that is fine, but if you cant find the button you assigned to a thing cuz they WONT provide searchable text or key search ( i have 4 devices to use for various key bindings and no way to figure out what I did 6 months ago... ) whats the point ! They seem t o have used AMS1 code as a basis for this. Its really frustrating and when I asked in an email ",,,it isnt possible...", Doh !

[kmanitou81]

wtf

[ProudTiger]

The left and right door commands do not work.
Please remove mirror adjustments ,they ruin the sim.

[AfarNUFC]

I don't get this. When I move my seat up/down forward/back, the mirrors move with it. I don't use the CTRL or Shift key at all. Is there no way to stop this happening ?

[< NEW PLAYER >]

thanks

[roseglas]

it would be great if there was a manual to know which and what buttons to press (without guessing) to set handbrake, or adjust view(s) etc. very frustrating to just screw up all the time and not know where to look for instructions?