How to set up Cockpit Camera in iRacing

[@Gr00t]

These are the type of videos iRacing needs to put on the front page of their ui in a setup section.

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks! That means a lot

[@angelorusso9345]

these iracing tutorials are a life saver. There is no bloat information just straight to the point, love it. Keep up the great work man

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks a lot. Happy to hear that and I’ll make sure to keep it that way

[@HickoryHollerCrawlers]

Finally a KZbinr without insane self introduction and a 30 minute video, SOLID WORK DUDE! All info needed was covered in a timely manner

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks, appreciate the comment 👊

[@neil-wilson-borowillow4618]

Great to see these kind of videos back they have always been very helpful for me . Good job David 👍

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks a lot Neil and appreciate the long term support

[@kennyrodg]

Thanks David...Nice to have the videos updated...

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks mate, more to come 👍

[@markopoolo]

We don't see you on here very often David so it's great to see you back posting videos. Long may it continue. I, for one, have missed you 😂

[@Sampsoid]

👋 Thanks Mark. I’ll make sure to keep it up

[@drvegas8485]

Really nice to see you again on KZbin! It was your videos on FOV etc. that finally got my triples setup correctly! Would be awesome to see more on your True Drive, FFB settings.

[@kennylowry9666]

So glad your back at uploading helpful videos. Your old triple monitor video and tips and tricks 1-3 were game changers for me. Hope you can do more of those! Thanks for the help.

[@OldManiRacing-fj4lg]

Nicely explained, simple to follow instructions, very helpful.

[@Sampsoid]

Glad it was helpful!

[@apex_life42]

Thank you so much for this video! Like others have said this type of tutorial needs to be front and center! This has changed my life in the lmp3 car, as I'm on a 55 inch TV at the moment. 🎉🎉🎉 thanks again!

[@Yannick-TV]

Nice video mate. Glad to see youback on the KZbin

[@Sampsoid]

Hey Yannick, thanks a lot mate. Appreciate the long term support.

[@DemolitionMotorsports]

Finally, someone has eased my pain of driving a Ligier, thank goodness. Nice vid man, really, REALLY appreciate it.

[@ThomasHnzHansen]

Nice one. Will come back to this when the new monitors arrive. :)

[@Sampsoid]

Nice! 42” mini-leds…. bam

[@JSPEED981]

Always good content! Would love to see a video on your vrs wheel base settings

[@Sampsoid]

Incoming

[@1976Cordoba]

I was just fooling with this today before I saw this video lol. Great tip on the shift horizon setting - now i need to go back and see if i want to make some adjustments. 🏁

[@Sampsoid]

Perfect timing then. Hope it all works out

[@1976Cordoba]

@Sampsoid YES - My eyes are a few centimeters below the middle so I made that adjustment. Brilliant to see it carries across to each car without needing to set it individually. 🏁

[@jlromano92]

what a lesson mate. so helpful thanks

[@Sampsoid]

Happy to hear that

[@mattcampbell9171]

I dont normally change drive height and such in the black box. Great tip!!!

[@Sampsoid]

Happy to help 👍

[@Teague_races]

Good stuff! I had forgotten about the last saved cam getting autoloaded. I always adjust driver height but maybe should just be saving the car cams 👍

[@Sampsoid]

Glad to hear it helped 👊

[@FaustoLoGiudice]

Nice video man, thanks for the tutorial!

[@secret_one]

I have only seen you race when you are in the same split/stream as Ollie (Basic Ollie). I have enjoyed what I have seen, sorry not much of a twitch fan I am afraid. Thank you for putting this video out, I have always been doing this method. The only theing I do differently is I always set my screen distance to 540mm regardless of how far/near it is actually and then set the fov from that and then do the procedure you describe in the video. Apparently 540mm has something to do with the curvature of the eye when looking at screens. Styrian (Race Beyond Matter) can explain it better than myself. Keep yp the good work. Now subscribed.

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks mate, appreciate the comment. Yeh I was on KZbin streaming for a few years back in the day and use to put out videos here weekly. Well good news is I am back making them and will be streaming here regularly also. Thanks again

[@Daz5Daz]

Are you going to multistream now that it's permitted again? Great video by the way. Straight and to the point.

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks a lot and yes, once I have the streaming pc setup. I don’t want to just send Twitch quality to KZbin but rather a fresh encode at higher resolution and much higher quality. Thanks for the support.

[@mattihelenius2]

Great video! thanks

[@Sampsoid]

Glad to hear that. Appreciate the comment 👊

[@Rene_Bo]

Wow, now i understand why i cant adjust when in car - its done out of car 😂😂 thanks man, this was really helpfull!!

[@Sampsoid]

Hiya, you are welcome and happy it helped.

[@Emily..V]

Love your work David

[@Sampsoid]

Thank you Emily 🙏

[@BlitzinGames]

OMG! I thought that for camera replay only... THX MATE!

[@Sampsoid]

No problem, glad it helped you.

[@MikeBoire]

Thanks bud. Very informative. 👍😊

[@Sampsoid]

Glad to hear that, thanks for comment

[@five0-5281]

Great and informative video. Just found your channel. Subbed 🤙

[@Sampsoid]

Awesome, thank you!

[@HungryYett]

How do I get graphics adjustment in my black box? It’s not there

[@naier02]

Thanks mate, this really helped me!

[@jumuri]

Hello, I used to do the calculations you explained in your web page (moving the vanish Y value, halve number, P x0.3 or smthing like that) is that not necessary now? Thanks

[@Sampsoid]

Hiya, I don’t actually use that nowadays. I just use the shift horizon red line and all works great for me. Let me know how you get on if you try it this way.

[@jumuri]

@@Sampsoid will give a try, thanks for the videos, really help a lot.

[@simracer792]

thanks for the info, i thought the customize only for replay,

[@antoine78150]

Excellent. You just forgot to talk about pitch and vanish Y but may be in the next one !

[@Dan80Racing]

Ace video, cheers

[@Sampsoid]

Thanks a lot

[@gdubia]

Great video, question though....i like to move my driver height up 2 or 3 inches, but i notice when i do that, it changes my perspective in my mirrors as well. Is there a way to adjust the mirrors after I adjust the driver height, like you would in a real car?

[@drivewitheddie529]

yes.. same blackbox you can choose mirros and adjust it

[@harrymorris613]

very helpful, thank you

[@mrgusse]

So does this FOV tutorial superseed your previous one from 4 years ago (which I have followed religiously btw)? I have also always set the static fov in the camera tool to my actual fov, and it seems the fov gets tighter when doing so?

[@bobmills6406]

excellent, thank you!

[@dinorzdriver]

thanks for the video , my ctrl f12 dont work (letf ctrl and right ctrl test not work). i dont know how to

[@alibee1978]

i have problems with seeing my right wing mirror as if i move too far back to get them it doesn't look real on my triples, pile of view on my left but non on the right

[@Billy_Davison]

I am having issues lining up the lines on my triples. I can get them straight with the Vanish Y but it screws up my horizon. any help is appreciated

[@jbeeches1]

Hi Sampoid can you change camera to bonnet cam ?

[@kitmilo]

Great video and really helpful. HAve you done a similar for ACC?

[@garryhorsley2902]

Good choice of t-shirt

[@steve196134]

Thanks David ....

[@Sampsoid]

You are welcome 👍

[@Sile]

None of these videos ever show from the drivers perspective. Would be great to have the camera setup as your eye level, looking at the triple screens. I'm always second guessing where my wheel lines up to the in game dash. So many times where it feels ok, I can't see half the dash. My screens are at 60 degree angles and I sit about 690mm from the screens but I never really feel comfortable. I think I watched a Daniel Morad video where he says to turn on the in game wheel, and to move the camera and seating position to a point where your real wheel matches the scale of the in game wheel, or as close as possible. He's the only person I've seen mention this and I wonder if there's anything to it? I'm never sure if I'm supposed to see the in game dash through the gaps in my wheel, or does the dash sit higher than my wheel? Am I supposed to see the front of the bonnet/hood of the car or not? Should I line up the left & right wings of my GT seat with the in game GT seat? Does that even matter? I think there could be a really in depth video for setting up these factors but no-one ever goes further than the very basics.

[@Sampsoid]

Hiya, thanks for the comment and yes I am sure that is something I can work on for an upcoming video. I’ll however try to explain now how to best line things up. First of all as I mention about your shift horizon, this sets you eye level against your monitor setup, I like to have my monitors and seat position set in such a was that my eye hits my monitor in the centre vertically. For my wheel base I have it so my monitors are a few millimetres above the wheel shaft and thus my wheel rim is very close to my screen. Once the above two things are set and your FOV is set correctly (which knows your eye distance to your screen). The alignments should be pretty close but I always like to adjust the height as sometimes it can feel too tall or too short in comparison to the dash. For distance front and back I always tweak to where it feels my rim is very close to the in sim dash and gives the impression that I am holding the virtual wheel (which my rim has replaced). I would hate the sensation of there being two wheel rims. Anyway hope that helps and again I appreciate the comment and I will work on an advanced version where I use an external pov camera.

[@Sile]

I'll definitely take some of that on board and try to apply it to my set up. Thanks for your time! @@Sampsoid

[@zeahroela]

Since virtual wheel position and size may change for each car and your real wheel is fixed I'd recommend forget about using the virtual wheel as reference. Set your fov, and horizon level (eye height) first then try to match distance and height based on a real perspective. My horizon level is +8 meaning my eyes are up from the monitor center that means I might have more dash to show than if monitor was centered. A good other example is the Spec racer ford car, the dash and wheel is much lower compared to others cars, just look the car from outside to get the perspective, in my case even at +8 horizon I set driver's height in a way as I would see in real life and in that way I contemplate just a little small top portion of the dash display in my 27' center monitor.

[@manuelstesorojr]

I noticed your FOV in the blackbox is 197, while in camera setting (control-f12) the static FOV is 106. What i do is i first make sure that the static FOV in camera settings menu is the same with my blackbox FOV (before i adjust the offset x)- in this case they should be both 197. Does it matter?

[@Sampsoid]

Hiya, thanks for the comment. Static FOV only does something if you change it, when you do change it all it does is change your actual fov but once you change your fov again in graphics settings it is once again ignored. No idea why iRacing leave this setting in but I assume for artistic photos and replays etc. But yes if you change your static fov to 25 (for example) it would be super zoomed in, head over to graphics settings and your fov would be set to 25, once fixed and back to say my 197, static fov would still be 25 but your perspective in the car would be back to normal. Hope this helps

[@manuelstesorojr]

@@Sampsoid i’ll check what u mean later. Thanks for clarifying. 👍

[@bitzieee]

How do you open up the blackbox?

[@mgerim]

How to make the car stationary with the camera, just like in ACC?

[@aldenaudricmatondo5800]

thanks mate

[@SteelRiverSims]

I'm forever changing 'Z' 🤦 Never thought to just adjust driver height in the black box 🤯

[@Sampsoid]

:) Comments like this are why I make the videos. Thanks for the comment

[@DanielFonsecazx]

Help, the editing camera doesn't appear, I press F12 or ALT-F12 and nothing happens :/

[@sendynicaze]

Ctrl+f12

[@Seth-k1k]

Wow. Wish I would have known... I think this is why I'm running few seconds slower

[@MrMarlby]

Are you quite short IRL? Struggling to work out how your FOV is 197 with 1080p (27’?) screens …

[@Sampsoid]

They are triple 32”’s and I’m 6ft 2.

[@MrMarlby]

@@Sampsoid Oh 😂 They didn’t look that big! That’s good to know, I’m on trip 27 and only get about 170 FOV (6’3) so 32’s are on my radar

[@alissonvieira6903]

There is no left or right adjustments 😢

[@HannicaFilms]

This just never works for me, I follow EVERY step and the cam just defaults back...

[@thawhizard6224]

Um... Did you hit save car?

[@HannicaFilms]

@@thawhizard6224 Yes, turns out there was an app.ini file that auto reset the camera every time I got into the car.

[@The124cbr]

I don't quite understand the desire to move your seating position so drastically. The game has been rendered based on you informing it of your location in relation to the screens... I'd be fairly sure it is matching your head quite closely to where it would be located within the car that you are driving, given these cars are all scanned.

[@Sampsoid]

Hiya, yeh it gets it close indeed but everyone has a different seat angle (formula/gt), wheel rim size and variying distances in which there wheel rim is poisitoned from them. My wheel rim for example is less than 2" from my screen, whereas at the Apex sim center where I work the rim is much further back from me but my eye distance is almost the same and thus iRacing wouldnt make any adjustments different.

[@The124cbr]

@@Sampsoid I understand this. IMO the best approach is to turn off the in-game wheel. Yes, simrigs are set once for all cars despite each in game car being slightly different, so you're going to vary from each of those. If you turn off your wheel though, your "view" into the game world will always be from an accurate position accurate, and you'll no longer be concerned about your steering wheel position not matching the display. Short of a small tweak to reveal some in-game instrumentation otherwise hidden behind your actual wheel, I just think you're deviating for no real reason and taking away some of the experience of driving different cars and appreciating the difference of view they offer.

[@adrianmilanesi9143]

IRenting .......................LOL what a waste of time and money 🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂