Cab View Speed

stouthm

Get over it
I've just noticed recently that when I'm in cab view and the consist is going 70 mph that if I move closer to the windshield the scenery appears to be crawling by even though my speed is still 70 mph. If I sit back the scenery appears to pass by normally. Has this always been the case? I prefer to sit closer to the windshield, you get a better view of the terrain. Is there a work around this?
 
This has to do with the field of view. Moving closer to the windshield in Trainz is actually "zooming" which acts like a telephoto lens on a camera, and you're looking at objects that are farther away from you. Think of that like watching an airplane in the sky. The airplane is actually moving at a couple hundred miles per hour but looks slower because of the distance.
 
First locate the position of the camera (Longitudinal). For this, use "freeinternal cam". This setting is an option located at the upper left menus (can't recall witch one exactly). Once you set it, you will see some small numbers at the bottom left of the screen. When you pan or zoom the camera, those numbers move. There are 4 groups of numbers; left, up/down, longitudinal (zoom) and panning, Select the one that zooms up to the place where you want to be near or pass the windshield glass. Note ALL the numbers on a paper. Close everything and open the config file of the interior of the particular loco. You have to do this in the interior file! Once the config is open for edit in explorer, look carefully and you will see a group of lines under camera heading with groups of numbers separated by commas, the numbers show the position of each camera at the loco. Find the line that correspond to the longitudinal position of what you want to modify and change the numbers. By this method I have reposition most of the cameras in my locos. Slight variation of all this allows for changing the height of cabs when they are wrong from origin. You'll have to play several times with all these points as I did to get the gasp of what each thing does, but it works pretty well.. I wish N3V would have a tutorial on all this.

On this, you are moving the camera. The way you tried to do it, was just moving the zoom, and as you discovered, it does not work.
 
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