Adjusting FOV incrementally

[Bertram W. Wooster]

Is there any way to adjust the FOV incrementally using buttons/keys?

I know that there are key bindings for three preset FOVs (30°, 70° and 90°) and that there is another key binding to adjust the FOV incrementally using the mouse but these aren't what I'm looking for. I want to be able to bind two buttons on my joystick to increase and decrease the FOV in small incremental steps without having to take my hands off the controller to use the mouse.

Failing that, is there any way to modify the default FOV and/or the three FOV presets, say by editing a configuration file or something similar?

[ytareh]

Same question here !There SEEMS to be a toggle fov key but like several others (Boost/WEP/Rads) it seems 'broke'...

[Bertram W. Wooster]

The 'toggle' FOV key binding isn't broken; it just allows you to adjust the FOV using the mouse. While pressing the FOV key, moving the mouse forward decreases the FOV and moving the mouse backward increases the FOV.

[Lixma]

Originally Posted by Bertram W. Wooster

Failing that, is there any way to modify the default FOV and/or the three FOV presets, say by editing a configuration file or something similar?

I tried altering the values in the conf.ini but no joy.

This is on my wish-list. Customisable FOV for each aircraft.

[Kianoni]

this is one of the things that bullshits me the most..
a quote from the "manual":

Field of View x. Th. ere.are.three.standard.Field.of.View.presets.in.Cl iff.s.of.
Dover:.30°,.70°.and.90°..Th. ey.are.used.as.the.Close-Up.lens.(30°),.the.Normal.
lens.(70°).and.the.Wide-angle.lens.(90°)..Additional.FoV.settings.are.ava ilable.
with.the.Hold to Adjust Field of View.command.
NOTE: Th e Close-up or 30° Field of View matches the picture seen by
the naked eye the best. We highly recommend using the 30° lens for most
screenshots or videos.
However this view is not particularly useful in a cockpit as it greatly limits the
viewable area (which however is perfectly in line with what you would see with
a naked eye without having to shift your gaze). Th e Normal 70° view shows a
larger more useful area but slightly distorts the picture, and the 90° lens shows
an even larger and an even more distorted area of the world. Please be aware of
the distorted dimensions in the Normal and Wide fi eld of views which will render
objects at diff erent distances from the camera with seemingly wrong proportions.

it's just plain wrong.
if you have a 19" monitor and a FOV of 30 degrees it might look like what you would see through a 19" window in real life but it sure hell isn't the same as having a 50" monitor with the same FOV of 30 degrees - it's just a scaled image.
IMHO at least the default choices of "30/70/90" should be configurable and you could choose the best fitting your screen size

[zapatista]

Originally Posted by Kianoni

this is one of the things that bullshits me the most..
a quote from the "manual":...................."
it's just plain wrong.
if you have a 19" monitor and a FOV of 30 degrees it might look like what you would see through a 19" window in real life but it sure hell isn't the same as having a 50" monitor with the same FOV of 30 degrees - it's just a scaled image.
IMHO at least the default choices of "30/70/90" should be configurable and you could choose the best fitting your screen size

you should be able to set those in the ingame options to whatever 3 FoV's you personally prefer to preset (so you can toggle them ingame depending on what you need), eg normal view, zoomed view, or wide peripheral vision view. at least you can in the old il2. if this isnt working now is it a bug with the setup or is the whole feature missing ?

i doubt they removed that, previously you could select values between 30 and 90 for FoV's, you still should be able to do the same now ?

[Buchon]

You guys are editing the wrong .ini

The game is reading the FOV keys from the .ini located in your Steam folder.

Go to ....\Steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover and open the confUser.ini

Search for this :

[HotKey viewSet]
Alt MouseLeft=DashBoard
End=fov70
PageDown=fov90
Delete=fov30
Mouse5=FOV
MouseMiddle=Rotate
F10=StartStop
MouseRight=Len
MouseLeft=Offset
NumPad/=Reset

you can change the keys FOV values there.

[Fusek]

A toggle FOV option mapped to a single button,muchlike IL2 would be nice. This way is very cumbersome in my eyes.

[Kianoni]

Originally Posted by Buchon

You guys are editing the wrong .ini

The game is reading the FOV keys from the .ini located in your Steam folder.

Go to ....\Steam\steamapps\common\il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover and open the confUser.ini

Search for this :

[HotKey viewSet]
Alt MouseLeft=DashBoard
End=fov70
PageDown=fov90
Delete=fov30
Mouse5=FOV
MouseMiddle=Rotate
F10=StartStop
MouseRight=Len
MouseLeft=Offset
NumPad/=Reset

you can change the keys FOV values there.

it's 2011 already and we still have to edit .ini-files? LOL

[rob63]

Have been using San's FOV changer here with great success http://il2fovchanger.byethost7.com/ with IL-2 '46. I really thought that COD would have something like this built in, but oh well. Here's hoping he can make it work for COD.