Hey all steering wheel users,
I’m currently using the hood cam for driving, and using the Thrustmaster TX wheel.
I would like to be able to assign 2 buttons to be able to look left and right so that I can see other drivers that may be alongside me especially when going into turns.
Has anybody figured out if there is a Controller Profile configuration that allows for this?
cheers
To my knowledge and from my experience using a wheel on the 360, having the ability to look around the car (apart from the rear view) is unavailable when you play with a wheel.
could kinnect head tracking be a solution?
That will only add about 5 degrees of movement either way, not enough to see what is alongside your car like the original poster is inquiring.
I don’t have my xbox on right now but, you have to change the layout of the wheel to one where it shows something like “switch camera” three times. One of those is to actually change the camera, and the other two will look left and right (one setup is y to switch camera, x to look left, b to look right, and a to look behind). The disadvantage is that in my experience you will lose one or two other functions. Like, if I remember correctly, on one layout you lose a button for the handbrake and on another layout it uses the paddle shifters so you lose manual shifting… So, it’s possible but whether it’s worth it or not depends on what you’re doing.
Switch to cockpit view and when the blue dot behind you gets close check your mirrors or tell them what side to pass you on. Why are you using hood view with a wheel anyway, you get a wheel for the experience?
Because in my experience, my car in real life doesnt have two sets of hands and two steering wheels.
For me, the ‘wheel experience’ in cockpit view is killed by the horrible wheel rotation animation only being 270 degrees. Its very distracting to me, although others seem to not be botheed by it. Also the input lag(while not too bad) also doesn’t help. I prefer hood cam just for the sense of speed. I can judge my braking points better.
Don’t you only get one side view mirror anyway? .
Apparently that is all part of “the experience”, as The Spidie would suggest. He may be on to something.
Fair question, I use cockpit for open wheel. However I don’t feel the FOV in cockpit for other cars is generally indicative or representative of what my focus is while driving IRL. I feel that the cockpit FOV should be set around 1-2ft closer to the windshield to account for what your brain actually determines as relevant (parallax?). Being the screen is static, the game is attempting to display what it thinks is relevant to your vision, but I think more fine tuning of FOV would be required for me to feel its analogous.
So, if one owns a wheel, they should only play for “the experience”; but, at the same time, you tell them to have parts of the HUD turned on? That’s rich.
Oh, and talking to Drivatars who don’t talk back (at least mine don’t) should earn you a few free psych sessions.
hmmmmm. free you say…when they make a bone head move i cuss them out.
Unless someone has physical limitations, I can’t see a reason to spend the money on a wheel than for any other reason but for the experience. When I race F1 2012 I turn off the HUD and rely on the pit crew to communicate the status of the other cars. As far as I know the Forza series does not have that feature so I rely on the HUD for that task. The HUD is one more tool to help me not ruin someones race.
I also have my DOR set to 270 and never notice the other wheel in the cockpit, maybe because the turn at the same rate.
I should clarify that I race on line only, I should not have assumed that the OP was referring to on line racing. Oh, but you already knew that from the nature of my reply.
Quit trolling and comment when you have something relevant to say!
Some cars it is easier to drive from the hood camera, as the cockpit camera is too far back in a fair few cars. I only use the cockpit camera for the cars with a really short bonnet, as in hood view, the hood is just too short to be useful. It is almost like bumper cam with those ones.
I completely agree with this. As much as I would like to use cockpit I just wished they had a view minus the onscreen wheel,
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i cant belive they still havent fixed this. there are only two ways: mapping 3 buttons on the wheel (quick look behind, left and right) or the triple screen ability. You can forget this last option on XB1
Watch these videos. It might help to give some insight to why I value the “experience”. The G’s in the Scuderia was the significant difference between the virtual racing in my basement and the real thing. Basher Boards released their Fanatec adapter after I did the sessions in Vegas. Now I get to race with my Club Sport pedals, which is a huge improvement over the TM pedals. I still miss my Fanatec CSRE wheel with the formula rim. The Lambo video was cut short because I got car sick after a long flight from the east coast and no sleep or food. I went strait to the track from the airport.
