Mouselook + joystick question

[LAW Soldier fd 0]

Howdy,

Just wondering if there might be a workaround or a legit fix to this:

You enter a chopper and hit Num* for free mouselook. When you move your mouse left and out of the screen, your POV pans left to look out the left window. Then you hit F8 to get TrackIR2 to move the mousecursor and you have functional headtracking support, alltho just mouse-emulation, but still.

Then you do the magical mistake of touching your joystick for the tiniest instant, enough for the game to detect movement.

Boom, your mouse free-look is limited to a centered view of the cockpit with the reticule moving inside that box. No side-window view anymore, you can only move your POV up an' down. Could there be any workarounds to this? I'd really love to fly the aircraft with the joystick and be able to have a normal free mouselook enabled.

If there were, it'd be a working trackir solution for choppers and other aircraft. But once you touch that joystick inside an aircraft, you are centered, whether you like it or not.

And, as people have already discussed in other threads, I really miss panning with the POV-switch and then circling the area with the POV fixed in a direction. No auto-center, please :(

Thanks anyway. I really hope there's a solution other than OFP2 when it's done (with native trackir support i read somewhere)

--fd