X-Camera

Current version : 2.4.2 (January 18th 2023)

Numerous bug fixes

Added the ability to orient a cameras on the X-Plane Aircraft Carrier and Frigate

Added a backup and import from backup

Added additional camera paste functions that allow you to insert a copy of a camera below or above the current camera

Added full copy paste support for categories that match the functionality of the camera copy and paste functions

Added a setting to optionally change the mouse wheel behavior on a circle camera to zoom rather than move forward / back

Added an ability to import a camera file directly from the operating system file system

Added a Check for Updates function

Added an indicator in the View ID drop-down if the view id is currently assign to one or more cameras.

Added an Always On Top option to the popped-out mini control panel. This is only available on the Windows OS.

Added a new dataref “SelectedCamera” that allows you to see which camera is selected and to selected cameras even when they do not have an assigned view ID.

Circle Cameras will now move with hat switch inputs

Added an option to optionally reverse the mouse Y axis in a circle camera so that its behavior more closely matches the X-Plane circle view

Added a new Traffic Display window that will show you the TCAS traffic near your plane and allow you to select them when in AI Perspective mode

Added support for disabling X-Camera if you enter VR mode.

Added a Level Camera option to the Create Orbit dialog

Added the ability to select the next camera with the same View_ID when View_ID’s are duplicated to create a camera set

Corrected annoying visual glitches that occurred when you switch from an external camera to an internal cameras

Added disable wheel zoom for both internal and external cameras

Adopted new X-Plane 11.5 TCAS API

Registered dynamically created view select commands with the datareftool

Added a refresh targets menu item so you can edit the targets.csv file and reload it without having to restart X-Plane

Changed the default range from medium to large when creating airport cameras

Fixed some spelling errors in messages

Fixed a bug where a copied camera set did not persist between plane loads

Added an error message when the terrain probe fails while aiming a target

Added a mouse look speed factor on the setting dialog.

Added the ability to see and remove duplicate view ID assignments in the “Display View ID Assignments” dialog

Removed some TrackIR log messages that were not errors and that caused some user confusion

Made Retain Mouse Look Position and Temporary Positioning the default options when creating the very first camera

Added new datarefs to support the ability for Lua script developers to apply special camera effects as camera offsets that get applied on the camera and any transitions. Also added a ScriptID which is a number > 0 that any script can use to determine if their special effects should be applied to camera(s) assigned to that script id.

Added an additional 50 cameras to a category. Now it is 150 per category

Added an optional Transition delay

Made it possible to have both Camera Axis and View Axis enabled at the same time. View Axis behavior will take precedence for camera pitch and yaw if both are on

Added a motion axis dataref along with a sample Lua script that demonstrates how you can change the camera axis assignments for different cameras

Added an option when creating airport cameras to disable tracking cameras in stands and runway cameras

Enhanced the camera names for airport sign cameras. They now are named in a way that you might have a clue of knowing where they are on the airport.

Added a movement smoothing factor. Any value over 2 will invoke camera movement smoothing similar to what you have in the default X-

Plane camera system

Added a setting to disable voice messages, like “Unable to find View ID”

Added code so that smooth and linear transitions from an internal camera will start from the last camera position. This should improve transitions with add-ons like head shake, XPRealistic, etc..

Implemented a Circle View Camera

Implemented a fixed height AGL Camera

Implemented the ability to use the right mouse button to do a mouse look on all three operating system platforms

Fixed an old bug that caused X-Plane to default to a forced FOV if you exited X-Plane while on X-Camera was enabled and was on a camera that had the FOV forced to something other than the X-Plane default

Converted airport creation to the new framework and enhanced the ability to manage your airport files

  You can now create an airport camera file for any airport with in 10 NM of your aircraft position. You no longer need to be parked right at the airport to create a file.

  You can now open any previously created airport camera file that is within 10 NM of your position

Add support to update community files on X-Plane start is a separate thread so that happens automatically with no impact on performance.