Cockpit Views

Snap views allow you to set a preset view position in the cockpit, that you can then access at the press of a button. This can be an incredibly useful tool to create custom views that you can quickly for your radar / targeting screens; even for those with headtracking / VR setups this can be a valuable addition to your workflow in the cockpit.

Basics

Please note that by default customizing your snap views is turned off, and you can only make use of the default snap views: please refer to the customisation section below to edit the specific .lua file to enable setting custom snap views in your cockpit.

In total there are 10 (customisable) snap views that you can setup and utilize in any given cockpit: changing a default snap view will permanently save the new view for that particular module. Each of these 10 snap views is bound to one of the numeric keys on your numpad (so numpad 0 - 9 accesses a different snap view).

We can use the following default commands to manipulate the snap views:

Custom views

To setup a custom view ensure that the snap view functionality is enabled: this can be done by going to the following path:

\DCS World (OpenBeta)\config\view\View.lua 

Be aware that when we are working with a .lua file we want a text editor that does not mess with the structure of the file itself: using the default notepad is a bad idea as this will mess with the structure of the file. I would advise using notepad++.

In this file we want to look for the following line (likely to be at line 13, but you can copy the line below and use CTRL + F to search for it):

UseDefaultSnapViews = true

and we then want to change that to be

UseDefaultSnapViews = false

so that we can use custom snapviews. Please note this requires you to quit out of DCS and restart it if you have it open in the background.