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FS2004 Camera add-on for FS2004

arwasairl

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Around 3 months ago, while working on the 747, I found that the current camera add-on solutions for FS9 were very inadequate.

Active Camera, F1 view, and FS Recorder are all products of their time, but they hardly hold up compared to modern camera solutions. It was getting very annoying to have to fiddle with the archaic controls of Active Camera that I decided that FS9 deserved a lot more.

This new camera add-on I call "Dolly". Dolly has the same kinds of features you see in EzDok/EZCA and ChasePlane (although the effects processor has not been finalized yet). So far, Dolly has the current features:
  • Defineable camera sets with custom transitions
  • Keyboard and controller support (yes, that includes Xbox controllers too!)
  • Airport cameras read from AFCAD files
  • Smooth, precise movement and zooming, utilizing FS9 hooks to convert 1/64th steps in the original camera system to float values
  • Defineable camera speeds and weights for keyboard, controller, and mouse inputs for interior, exterior, and static cameras
  • Tilting camera movements
Download Dolly here: https://www.arwasairl.com/dolly/installers/DollySetup-1.0.0.0.exe

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Unlike the 747, Dolly does not require FSUIPC. It can work with and without it. Just note that it obviously cannot support Active Camera, F1 view, or FS Recorder, so those must not be installed for Dolly to work properly.

You can see a demonstration video of Dolly in action in FS9:
 
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Nice to see the continued love being poured into FS9 to help offset its archaic idiosyncrasies compared with the modern sims. Looks like this will be a great tool for moving around the VC. Great work!
 
So it is pretty much the same as DBS Walk&Follow? Which btw. is very easy to handle...
 
Airbasil said:
So it is pretty much the same as DBS Walk&Follow? Which btw. is very easy to handle...
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Not really. It is much more advanced than that, it includes effects and has a smoothing for motion that Walk and Follow did not have. I encourage you to try it out yourself to evaluate it.
 
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