#Rfactor 2 fov update#
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#Rfactor 2 fov tv#

The only problem is often the height is too high. For balance and feel of what the car is doing I find this invaluable and way way better than any other view. Which means effectively a point just the other side of the windscreen. The start point I make is from the position of my wheel IRL, then if my screen is 3 feet away from me (my set up is actually less than that, more like about arms length) then I should see on the screen what would be 3 feet away from me in a real car. I've been wrestling with this for a while and tried various configurations. Triple curved 32's? Now that I'd like to see IIRC correctly Samsung curved tv's are designed with a 10 foot radius but I don't know what effect it would have to sit 48' away like I do. They aren't curved much and I think the curve is designed to work further away than I would sit in front of my TV. With the adjustable seating position, I sometimes move towards the middle of the car to bring the rear view mirror into play and to reduce the screen taken up by the pillar.Ĭurved screens won't make much difference would be my guess. IIRC the only one I can see them on is the Lotus 49 with it's narrow cockpit and close mirrors. With my 'proper' FOV I can't see the side mirrors on a street car. On my old 42' screen I'd have to use a narrow FOV setting because the 'window' I'm looking through, the tv, is smaller but the same distance away. The bigger the TV, the wider the FOV and the higher the 'proper' setting.

#Rfactor 2 fov tv#

And, the further from the center of the picture the greater the displacement is for a change of FOV.Ĭlick to expand.Size of the TV does change things if it's the same distance as your old TV. Remember, these pictures have the car in the same spot, and if you look at those gantry risers, it's quite a bit of difference. FOV can fool you in many ways.Įdit: Imagine if you drove without a cockpit there (bumper view), for the sake of discussion, then it would really stand out. If you also change camera angle, which then give you correspondingly bigger changes in perspective, it will become even more evident. This difference is a lot more evident at speed, where the track at the lower FOV (higher magnification) will seem to move faster towards you. However, if you look at the overlaid pictures, you'll see how the change in focal length makes quite a difference. If you look at, say, a car's fender and a track's white line, the two will line up relative to each other at different FOVs.

To make it clearer what the effects of the different FOVs are, I've taken Johnnypenso's examples and made overlays with some width reference lines. The views are in order of my native 40 to 50 to 60 to 70. Below you'll see what changing the FOV does in a static image. Assetto Corsa uses a vertical FOV as opposed to a horizontal FOV so the numbers are lower but for me, the calculator says about 35 and mine is set to 40. This is a popular FOV Calculator Punch in a few paramaters and it'll tell you what the proper setting is for your setup and the game you are playing. Note what you can and cannot see in the cockpit and outside the car and it's usually far more limited than what you are used to in most racing games. You can do an interesting experiment by holding butting your thumbs together and holding your forefingers up in front of your face and matching the size of your screen in your usual gaming position, then going out to your car and replicating it in the real world. Of course in your own game you can use whatever you feel comfortable with but a 'proper' FOV is that which matches the field of view you would have if you were sitting in a real car but your vision was limited to the size of your tv screen.

#Rfactor 2 fov series#

There will be a lot of players coming from Forza or the GT series that are used to an exaggerated and large Field of View (FOV) setting and may find some videos on the internet about Project Cars or other racing sims that appear to be too wide relative to what they are used to.

#Rfactor 2 fov update#

Update May 4, 2015: Video from Alan at VVV regarding FOV and view adjustments from Project Cars