Two views on different screens, e.g. Cockpit and Fly-By View

[think nice things]

Hi,

I've two monitors and like to have on a main monitor the cockpit view and on the second monitor another view (say a fly-by view).
I read through README.multiscreen (and various other websites) and managed to configure fg to use a single window on screens but with a single view.
I'm running fg 2018.3.2 as it comes with debian unstable.

Is far as I understand, I've to configure two cameras on my single window, isn't it?
Unfortunately, I'm a bit lost on how to define the two cameras.

I'd be happy if I could get any hints / examples on how to configure the cameras.

Here's the configuration which I've set up to use the two screens.

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<PropertyList>
  <sim>
    <rendering>
      <camera-group>
        <window>
          <name>wide</name>
          <host-name type="string"></host-name>
          <display>0</display>
          <screen>0</screen>
          <width>2960</width>
          <height>1024</height>
          <x>0</x>
          <y>0</y>
          <decoration type = "bool">false</decoration>
          <fullscreen type = "bool">true</fullscreen>
          <overrideRedirect type = "bool">true</overrideRedirect>
        </window>
        <camera>
           ...
       </camera>
        <camera>
           ...
       </camera>


[Torsten]

This is the config I used for our FSWeekend setup a couple of years ago:
https://sourceforge.net/p/pmpt/fsweeken ... config.xml
It makes use of quite a few screens and cameras and the alignment of the monitors relative to the master perspective.

For your original question to have different view types on the screen: I don't think this is possible.

Torsten

[think nice things]

This is the config I used for our FSWeekend setup a couple of years ago:
https://sourceforge.net/p/pmpt/fsweeken ... config.xml
It makes use of quite a few screens and cameras and the alignment of the monitors relative to the master perspective.

For your original question to have different view types on the screen: I don't think this is possible.

Torsten

Thanks Torsten, this helped a lot!
Btw. it is possible to have different views on one screen.
Set configuration for having a small region of the screen on the bottom right with a different view is:

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<PropertyList>
  <sim>
    <rendering>
      <camera-group>
        <window>
          <name>main</name>
          <host-name type="string"></host-name>
          <display>0</display>
          <screen>0</screen>
          <width>1680</width>
          <height>1023</height>
          <x>1024</x>
          <y>0</y>
        </window>
   <camera>
     <window>
       <name>main</name>
     </window>
          <view>
            <heading-deg type = "double">0</heading-deg>
          </view>
   </camera>
   <camera>
     <window>
       <name>main</name>
     </window>
          <view>
            <heading-deg type = "double">0</heading-deg>
            <!-- 20, 0.21, -3, 7 -->
            <!-- 0.21, -2, 10 -->
            <x>0.21</x>
            <y>-1.8</y>
            <z>6</z>
            <pitch-deg>3</pitch-deg>
          </view>
          <viewport>
            <x>980</x>
            <y>0</y>
            <width>700</width>
            <height>400</height>
          </viewport>
   </camera>
        <gui>
          <window>
            <name type="string">main</name>
          </window>
        </gui>
      </camera-group>
    </rendering>
  </sim>
</PropertyList>


[wkitty42]

(sorry I didn't manage to post a screenshot...)

post screenshots to hosting sites like imgur and then post the image link in bbcode img tags here...