Requirements
1️⃣ Licensed Touch Portal app on your mobile device (Touch Portal Pro)
2️⃣ The Touch Portal software on your PC. Visit: https://www.touch-portal.com/
3️⃣ Install the latest version of the MSFS Touch Portal plug-in
4️⃣ Install the latest version of the WASM module also from the MSFS Touch Portal plug-in page)
Installation instructions
- Launch Touch Portal Pro and ensure the MSFS Touch Portal plug-in is loaded.
- Unzip the zip archive you downloaded from this flightsim.to page
- For each of the three .tpz files :
- In the Pages tab, click the gear symbol at the top left, then Import Page...
- Browse to the.tpz file and click Open to import the page
- From your (main) Touch Portal page, add a button that will link you to the "MSFS Touch Controls Camera" page
- For more information on how to check out the Touch Portal Guides page
- Recommended grid settings:
- Maximize button space: off
- Group buttons: on
Usage instructions
- With MSFS running, tap the sim CONNECTION button to connect Touch Portal to the sim. The text should turn green.
- (Usally automatic on page load) Tap the STATES FILE button to load the variables needed for this page. The text should turn green.
- Please DM if you encounter any problems.
This Touch Portal page provides
- Quick access to the following camera views
- Cockpit views: Close, Pilot, Landing, Copilot
- Instrument views 1-15
- Cockpit Quick Views 1-8
- External views "Default" and Quick Views 1-8
- Showcase views: Drone and External Views 1-12
- Also includes toggles for Drone follow, lock and focus
- NEW! "experimental" Flyby mode!
- For this to work, it is mandatory to map your drone keyboard controls as follows:
- W: Translate Drone Forwards
- A: Translate Drone Left
- D: Translate Drone Right
- Flyby instructions
- Step 1: from the CAMERA Touch Portal page, enable DRONE camera mode
- Step 2: press the PREPARE FLYBY button, it should change to FLYBY READY
- Step 3: press either FLYBY MY LEFT, FLYBY STRAIGHT or FLYBY MY RIGHT buttons. It should take approximately 6 seconds for the aircraft to reach the camera, regardless of whether you are flying fast or slow!
- Further plans for Flyby mode:
- Investigate auto adjusting flyby camera position for crosswinds, so the aircraft doesn't drift to the "wrong" side of the camera
- Investigate auto adjusting flyby camera position for changes in altitude
- For this to work, it is mandatory to map your drone keyboard controls as follows:
- Known issue (UI): minor unreliability changing views - sometimes needs a second tap to get it working. Not sure if it's a bug with MSFS, Touch Portal or something I can work around - still under investigation...
- Known issue (UI): button status does not update if you change a view using in-game controls. This should be solvable in Touch Portal, but during testing it seemed to cause some issues so I removed that for now.
- Known issue (Flyby): Some head tracking applications may prevent the drone camera from aligning correctly behind the aircraft. I get this when using SmoothTrack + OpenTrack, but I expect the same could occur with TrackIR and others.
- Limitation (Flyby): strong sidewinds will influence the aircraft's trajectory during the flyby, so it may not pass the camera on the expected side!
- Sim options page which may grow over time. Currently contains controls for:
- Simulation rate
- Taxi ribbon visibility toggle
- Pushback controls
- These controls do NOT use the in-game pushback sytstem - instead the buttons directly control the aircraft movement on ground. The movement is not yet as smooth or realistic as I'd like - so I'll try to refine this in the future.
- Planned: refine pushback speed controls (including rotation speed)
- Under investigation: currently if the sim variable PUSHBACK AVAILABLE = 0, my Touch Portal page will respect this and not let you use pushback buttons. However this may be too restrictive - I'll look into it.
Flak 
I needed a view configuration (and also Pushback) to "jump" from one position to another in the plane during Twitch live broadcasts/recordings.
I tested with Fenix A320 and it works perfectly.
Thank you
1 months ago
EddiZ
Excellent
Simply essential for managing and customizing camera views.
I look forward to the evolution of the SIM OPTIONS page
Thanks Flak
8 months ago
Thanks for the review!
I've been struggling to find things that I can add to that sim options page. There are hardly any more variables / events available really. Things I'd like to add but so far cannot are: cockpit tooltips, aircraft names, headphone simulation, various ground services and ATC. Some of these appear to have variables in the SDK documentation, but they do absolutely nothing!
8 months ago
Flak
philbrou
I'm sorry.
In the new Update.file (v0.5.1 - zip) there are only 3 tpz.files but no ini.file
8 months ago
The .ini file is embedded in one of the TPZ files, there is no separate file. Touch Portal handles it during the import. In v0.5 I forgot to embed the .ini file inside the tpz file.
EDIT: after importing the pages you should see MSFSTouchCameras.ini in %appdata%\TouchPortal\Misc
8 months ago
Flak
JuergenKrebs
In the "Camera Page" there is a Button "INI States File". This button doesn't work for me.
I believe that the reason for this is the missing "MSFSTouchCameras.ini" configuration file from which the "variable state definitions" has to be loaded.
So my question is: Where and how can I get this "MSFSTouchCameras.ini"?
8 months ago
Oh I think I missed it from the recently updated package. I'll push an update today.
Edit: done in v0.5.1 - please let me know if that fixes it.
8 months ago
Flak
JuergenKrebs
Great, i use only the camera panel, but this is best i have found. Is it possible to fill the empty places with controls like pan, tilt, up/down, left/right.... to control the drone cam ?
10 months ago
It's something I'd like to do, but unfortunately there aren't any sim variables / events exposed for those camera controls. I did experiment with a hacky workaround but it wasn't any good. Hopefully Asobo will expose more camera control events and variables one day, which would open up some cool new stuff to do with this TP page.
10 months ago
Flak
goSammy1971
is it possible to add sim rate option 5x, 6x ? I really miss this function in MSFS :/ 4x is sometimes not enough , 8x too much.
11 months ago
Sorry that isn't possible, the sim only lets you work in the fix increments of x2, x4, x8 etc
11 months ago
Flak
xjanakt
Can you please add buttons for requesting baggage and catering!
11 months ago
Thanks for the suggestion - I'll take a look to see if this is feasible; it depends on what Events and Variables are available in MSFS. If it is feasible then I'll add it to the "Pushback" tab in a future update and probably rename that tab to something more general like "Ground Services"
EDIT: unfortunately it doesn't look like this is feasible with the current sim events / variables. Hopefully Asobo can make some improvements in the future so I can add this.
11 months ago
Flak
sergey79
Amazing...Very good...could it be possible to add the ATC buttons in the future?.
Again. Thanks
11 months ago
Thanks! I'll take a look at whether I could create an ATC tab. It'll depend on which ATC related sim variables and events are accessible as to whether it would be feasible/useful.
11 months ago
Flak
karloxloma
Funktioniert Super! Dankeschön.
12 months ago
Thanks, I’m glad you like it!
12 months ago
Flak
Bundy