Before anyone asks; no I no longer have a working TrackIR. Sorry, felt the need to get that out of the way; during my search for padlock related posts, I came across one where a poster was very rudely berated for having the audacity to play this combat sim while not owning a TrackIR.
I've owned a TrackIR before and know how awesome a device they are, but there isn't the funds in my current gaming budget to replace it. As well, I'm exclusively an offline/SP player when it comes to combat sims and I've become comfortable with handling views via a joystick hat.
Anyhow, I'm encountering weird behavior when attempting Internal Padlocking. I'm new to this sim, so I'm not 100% confident that I'm doing the procedure correctly, but there's little to no info on it in the IL-2 CloD manual or other fan-made references I've read. I've mapped the Padlock Next and Padlock Previous commands to joystick buttons and are allowing Padlock views in the Realism settings. When I enter Internal Packlock [F4], I don't notice any change from the standard internal cockpit view. I'm guessing that's the expected result. However, when I press the Padlock Next or Padlock Previous command that are mapped to buttons on my stick, I get a split-second minor shift of my cockpit view, but it returns to normal and no aircraft are ever tracked. Now the weird part, when I fall back to a certain distant from enemy aircraft, my targeting sight disappears. Meanwhile, when I close the distance between me and enemy aircraft, my targeting sight eventually reappears.
That just seems wrong to me and feels more like the internal padlock is malfunctioning. The disappearing and reappearing targeting sight does lead me to suspect that some part of the padlocking is working, but not correctly. As I said though, I'm not a 100% I'm doing the procedure correctly, or whether a disappearing and reappearing targeting sight is due to some other game function or feature. If anyone could give me the correct procedures for internal padlocking, or any feedback as to whether what I'm experiencing is normal, It'd be much appreciated.
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