track playback and record (fraps)

[BillSwagger]

I'm trying to use the F3 fly by command to capture the plane as it passes and continues.
In Il2, if i press F3, it will set the position of the camera and the POV will remain stationary until i press another button. I've recorded some tracks and now i want to record them with fraps so i can post them to video but there is one problem.

On play back, with manual view control off, fraps seems to reposition the camera, so instead of getting an extended pan as the plane passes, i get a series of short repeated passes until i stop recording where the camera pov remains fixed again. Its as though fraps keeps pressing f3 on its own, and also seems to overide the fact that my manual view control is shut off. It does this with manual view control on, but i thought recording a track with a stationary camera would work, but apparently not.


I've check in the fraps folder and there is no .ini file to adjust so i think there is something in il2 that might need to be adjusted.

Any help would be appreciated.
thanks


Bill

[AndyJWest]

Hum, an odd one. I've only ever really used FRAPS to record video once, so don't know any details, but as a suggestion, try reassigning the 'Fly By View' command to another key. By default FRAPS seems to only use F9 to F12, but maybe it is bugged.

Are you using the latest version of FRAPS? I only downloaded mine the other day, and it is version 2.9.9.

[Pigeon_]

I don't think it's caused by fraps. Try playing back the track without running fraps.

I think changing the playback rate (making the time go faster or slower) influences this F3 view in the way you describe. Don't know how to fix it though.

[BillSwagger]

its definately caused by fraps because it doesn't happen unless i'm trying to record.
recording the track with in Il2 is not a problem.

It isn't until i want to convert it to video that this F3 function gets in the way, even with manual views turned off in play back.

The fix has probably something to do with the frequency setting of the F3 key. I was looking for a way to change the interval in which the f3 resets the pan view, so then i could just make the pan time long enough to get the shot i need.


anyone who knows how to do this, please help.

thanks

Bill

[AndyJWest]

I don't know if you've tried what I suggested earlier, reassigning the command on the F3 key to another key, but by the sound of it that may not work anyway.

I noticed odd behaviour with F3 type pan views myself, when running another program in the background (in this case my prototype autopilot/instrument panel app). Sometimes it seemed not to reset the viewpoint at all, so the plane would just disappear into the distance. This suggests that maybe the problem is not with Fraps, but with IL-2...

[Retrofish]

It seems to be framerate related.

Fraps' default recording framerate is 30.

If I set the framerate to 60 then the F3 cam stays put when recording.

Why this would affect the flyby cam is a 'mystary'. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-indifferent.gif

[MAXMHZ1959]

[HookView]
MouseLeft=Len

[HookView Config]
AzimutSpeed=0.1
TangageSpeed=0.1
LenSpeed=1.0
MinLen=1.0
DefaultLen=20.0
MaxLen=3000.0
Speed=6

Determine the Fly-By view. FOV is not changed.
The distance between camera and plane is changed.

It starts at MaXLen and moves to MinLen (closest point between camera and plane. Speed should be obvious. It's hard to explain in words. experiment with the values.

The same parameters control the camera behaviour in 3D Cockpit. ("Num5" - look straight ahead e.g.

[BillSwagger]

thanks for all of the replies.

there is also

[HookFlyView]
TimeFirstStep = 2.0
deltaz = 10

that also seems to deviate time and distance of the pan depending on the settings.


Bill