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Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider
Ffs
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I can only assume that means you just realised what I was trying to tell you all along.
In order to be able to see aircraft as easily as a real pilot, we need to try and match as closely as possible the perspective that they have on a very imperfect medium - our monitor.
The easiest and probably best way to do this is to simply switch between a wider, more standard 'gaming' field of view setting that is actually very wide, to a much more 'zoomed in' perspective, perhaps to the point of a 1:1 'optically correct' view. At this 1:1 optically correct view, we see what little is in our view, including distant aircraft, as closely as possible to the dimensions with which they appear to our eyes in reality, but we do so at the expense of situational awareness and a wide view (ie, tunnel vision).
By combining these two views and scanning while switching between them, we are able as realistically as possible scan the sky and spot distant aircraft without the aid of a much larger monitor or sitting much closer to it.
Hence why I recommend it, and posit that it is in no way cheating. And YES, some people DO have trouble seeing the dots, more so than others - it all depends on your screen size, resolution, viewing distance etc.
Here is a very useful formula for working out, according to valve, your 'optically correct perspective'.
FOV = ((((screenwidth/viewer distance)/2)tan-1)2)
By use of this formula you will be able to get the FOV, for your viewing environment, that best allows you to approximate the acuity of our eyes in a real aircraft, abeit for only a small patch of sky.
In my case this works out to roughly 22 degrees, making 30 and 70 FOV good compromise values to switch between.
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Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider
Trolling no, seeing another "the dots are too small and too hard to track, so lets make them bigger" thread - yes
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Trolling was the better option out of the two I had in mind.
And again, which just highlights what a douchebag you really are, I never said anything about increasing dot sizes nor do I support it.