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Old 04-20-2012, 08:18 AM
Wolf_Rider Wolf_Rider is offline
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Originally Posted by irR4tiOn4L View Post


And no, narrower FOV does not make 'dots' bigger. It makes those aircraft that would otherwise be 'dots' still appear as aircraft models, making it more realistic (and easier) to spot them.

A 'dot' is still a dot (ie pixel), except now it might not appear until 5 or 6km instead of just 3 or so.
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It probably isn't all that important a point though since the size in pixels of an aircraft is larger with a smaller FOV anyway, and all that will happen is that we lose a small amount of model detail (no biggie).


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And lastly, and I can't overstate this, at the end of the day that really is how big and easy aircraft are to spot for real pilots.
and there it is again... bigger and easier




and some more...

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So would you support clamping down on monitors larger than 20 inches or using lower resolutions too, because it is an 'underhand' way of increasing dot sizes?
yes,
its a very underhanded cheat and I pity them


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What decreasing FOV actually does is make many aircraft that would be very small models or dots still appear as models -

MUCH more realistic portrayal of spotting very distant aircraft than simply looking for tiny dots.
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