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Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider
who is being rude??
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Do you REALLY want me to go quoting what you said that was rude, presumptuous and just plain off? I have so many better things to do! Here's a couple just in your last post:
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Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider
what you are really doing is just looking at yourself in a mirror and making the judgement based on who you see there ... "jerk"? ineed
this is just another can't spot the dot whinge thread - pure and simple
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You'd best trust me on this though; there are things YOU said that upset me. Not a mirror reflection of myself, not my own mind. YOU came across as rude when you asked over and over whether I knew what fov and mm specs in photography were, whether I knew what LOD's were, and by suggesting I needed to be re-educated on how LOD's work. Don't divert responsibility for that, because ultimately you did all that intentionally because you failed to see past your own points.
Take your 60 fov assertion for example. Its just astounding that you can ram it in my face as if everyone's monitor sizes and viewing distances led to the same fov setting. To then call me whiny for suggesting I DON'T see aircraft as easily in a game set to 70 fov on a 20 inch screen a meter from my face that occupies just 25 degrees of my vision as I do in real life is just - well, breathtakingly arrogant. By the way, 39 fov is what the OP said was normal for his screen (lucky OP!). On my 22" CRT at a viewing distance of 1m or so, its actually about 25 fov (ouch!). Small monitors need smaller fovs.
Just ponder this - if you look at my posting history, do I seem to anger easily? What do you think it takes to make me upset or angry, apart from what I've just told you, that is?
Finally, why don't you try and find when I last participated in a so called "can't spot the dot whinge thread". Heck, try and spot when I whinged at all that the dot was hard to see! I tell you what, I won't be whinging if I can't see a dot! I will switch to the correct 1:1 fov for my monitor and simply spot the aircraft as close to the way I would in reality as I can get. It seems to me that YOU are the one whining about my suggestion to reduce fov when spotting.
Anyway, let's let bygones be bygones and try and reach some amicable conclusion.
To that end, I wonder about your use of 'zoom', as distinct from fov. Could you elaborate how we can zoom in a game without reducing the fov? Is there a rendering function other than fov used for this purpose?
The suggestion that aircraft be rendered larger than other objects at the same fov as in MS CFS was intriguing although I don't know how that looks or is possible. I will look at videos of MS CFS to enlighten myself, and perhaps that's the best overall solution.
But if Cliffs of Dover and IL2 don't already do that, then in the absence of another solution I can only say that switching back and forth between 1:1 fov's for a person's monitor setup and 70/90 fov for situational awareness is simply the last best solution.
It may be that you are concerned that this suggestion may be regarded as 'cheating' if either people use smaller fov's than 1:1 (say 20 fov when 40 fov is realistic on their monitor setup) and thus effectively zoom their view or if most people stay at the wider 70/90 fov. To this I can only say that it is a valid concern, however, it is really no different than the advantage someone with a 50" plasma a metre from their face has over me with my 22" CRT, and given that it results in reduced SA, it is outweighed by need. Perhaps its also about self control and voluntarily doing what is realistic.
In my case, however, even 30 fov is a wider presentation than what I would see in reality.