I figured out years ago of how to use mouse look and control the jet at the same time as well as moving camera positions around, here's example of just the camera positioning.



There is literally one file and one line of code in a config file to give mouse look working while still having control. I am not sure if you guys want or need help sorting that out. Leme know

Woooah, astounding video mate!! Let's wait until Cataly sees these replies; it usually takes him a little while to check for news in here but he never misses a reply.

Speaking of which, when recording footage for the LS BF2 Dogfight Tournament Promo Video - youtu.be/ehDY-bQqOCA - I disabled the hud via console command renderer.drawHud 0, right? But me and SW03_Carbon realized that if you do this and switch to first person you will not see the plane's hud as well.

Have you ever experienced this? Not that I need a fix or anything, it was just a curiosity because I really didn't think that the game would also make the cockpit's hud invisible. I thought it would only remove the ammo/health count, the map/clock, the killfeed/chat and so forth.

But yeah, now that I stop and think about it, when you switch to mouse-look the cockpit's hud actually vanishes until you go back to controlling the aircraft and the cockpit view resets back to the middle. Or at least, this is true for helicopters as far as my memory goes.

Once more, happy to see you here mate!
Regards, Staff Officer S_h_a_r_k_93 

Cool I look forward to it. Yeah, I have experienced that drawhud command, it does take Everything away(usually, though sometimes names will still be above players heads/vehicle, I do believe there is a way to take out all the hud accept for the jet hud but I haven't tried that in soo long. I'll need to look into that, but yeah the way I do the mouse look thing, the Jet Hud stays in the center of the screen when looking around which is a little annoying but it works.

hmmm do you mean that the cockpit hud stays fixed on the glass panels of the jet (so you don't see it anymore when you look away), or it stays fixed in front of you no matter where you are looking at, with the mouse-camera?

Anyways after reading your post I realized that the other problemwas indeed the friendly name tags popping up and ruining the footage ... I just had to remove it from our (new) server banner too. This I would be interested to know, if it's possible to also make the name tags stop popping up so as to make them completely invisible, for recording purposes.

Staff Officer S_h_a_r_k_93 

2 months later..........

Hi CrazySaVaunT and S_h_a_r_k_93! mmmmh, sorry for the delay !

well, flying without central hud is problematic, from more than one point of view: no more indication of speed, no altimeter, no more indication of engines power, and how doing accurate shot without sight ????? is annoying to do without, except for a sweet ballad discovery without flying bots trying to get you down : formerly, there was the opportunity to download Bf2Freelook from Kestrel and use it to remove the hud at the mouselook: unfortunately, he only works with 32-bit W machines: nowadays, most of us are in 64 bits, especially useful for new games: for my part, and to skirt the problem, I spawn some airplanes tweaked with the ObjectTemplate.toggleMouseLook 0, with or without the hud to have choise: not ideal but it suits me!

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documents/battlefield2/Profiles/Default/ServerSettings.con

At the end of the file, type this five lines:

nametags.maxfriendlydistance 0
NameTags.EnemyTagFadeInTime 300
NameTags.EnemyTagFadeOutTime 0
NameTags.EnemyTagDelayTime 1000
NameTags.EnemyDotLimit 64

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