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MSFS Reading Cockpit Camera Position/offset

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MikeNolan

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Hi,

Does anyone know if it's possible to read the camera position when in the cockpit view mode, or the offset of the camera from default view (xyz)? There are some camera simvars vaguely mentioned in the SDK but no real information is provided.

I'd like to read the 'head' position of the pilot in VR & non-VR in an aircraft, with the intention of updating an Lvar when the pilots 'head' is outside the airframe so I can pass this on to Wwise & adjust the wind sound accordingly. I'm working primarily in C++ with the Gauges API (wasm) & SimConnect if required. Any help would be appreciated

Thanks
 
dobroDude

dobroDude

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Did you ever have any luck with that? I'm trying to do the same. Seems like the simvars listed are only the eyepoint position defined in the CFG, not real time.
 
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sal1800

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I think I may have some ideas about this. I was looking deeper into input events to understand how they work, and there is a way to bind to any of the sim events and read the raw value. This could mean that we can read EYEPOINT_UP, EYEPOINT_DOWN, etc. when they change. That by itself is useful, but not the entire solution because it still does not seem possible to simply read the value of the camera position from a simvar. If I can get a example working, I'll post it.
 
dobroDude

dobroDude

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That’s genius. And it could be the full solution. Just bind the LEFT and RIGHT values and store them in one double, and same with FORWARD and BACK. How do we read values from an event? And I’m wondering if this is the same eye point in VR…
 
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