Is not news that CloD has the poorest camera POV control for non HeadTracker users of current "flight games" - no much different of the old IL-2:46 pre-MOD.
Games like BoS or DCS came with "special" snap views for all corners of cockpit - including instruments in engine naceles and fuel gauges installed on wings and more important allow users customize this "snap views".
Besides snap view for look around il-2:46 style, CloD has only one "special" snap view: Glance at Dashboard, a instant view with FOV 30º of instrument panel that allow check then at glance - (EDIT) work OK for Spitfire, but not so well for Hurricane, since don't show Directional Gyro in this plane, and even worse, in Beufighter don't show temperature instruments. Opera resume, only one angle is not solution for different planes.
Unfortunately this "Glance at Dashboard" view don't show the magnetic compass. I already find "workaround" this limitation using NewView, NewView+TrackIR, or "mouse view lean" with Joy2Key.
But another and "easy" to set a "special" snap view in one joystick button:
In Joy2Key select the joystick button and in "Mouse" tab set the button (e.g. joyb2) for move mouse cursor all for left and press the scroll wheel and right mouse clicks:
- Can add move up too, help a bit in Spitfire.
In Clod Controls > Snap View > set the same button (joyb2) for "Snap down 45º" and in Camera set the same button (joyb2) for "Field of View 30º".
In Camera set scroll wheel (mouse middle) click for "Camera Control in Independent Mode"* and mouse right click for "Hold to Zoom Camera" - probable is already assigned in this way for default.
That's all. When press and hold button joyb2 mouse middle and right click is pressed and hold, mouse cursor move for left, camera POV "snap" 45º down and FOV is changed for 30º, allowing see the magnetic compass and set Course Setter parallel lines "Red on red".
See at 7:08:
* "Independent Mode" is the CloD - limited - click on controls ("click'pit"), pressing and holding mouse middle click allow mouse cursor move camera around without need press F-10.
At start of mission press F9 once for change from Pan to Span View mode, this is required one time per game session.
Need test this "special" snap view with TrackIR, but I hate this thing, the "floating" POV leave me sick even watching YT videos using this device.
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