Adjusting FOV incrementally

[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.

[tf_neuro]

(edited)
I posted something, then I saw that it was already there.

[tf_neuro]

OK, I know that this suggestion has already been posted, I'm just trying to make it easier to set up with a step-by-step instruction set:

- Go to your controls page, Keys tab, Camera Section
- One of the first key bindings from the top is called 'Adjust FoV' or something like that. By default it's bound to 'mouse5', whatever that might be...
- Assign a different key to 'Adjust FoV' (I use Q because I never used it for anything else...)
- Save your settings, start a flight.
- Now hold down your 'Adjust FoV' key (Q, in my case), and at the same time move the mouse up and down to incrementally adjust FoV (no need to hold any mouse key down, just hold your keyboard key and move the mouse)

[Assigning mouseUP and mouseDOWN to keys is unnecessary IMO. One key for Adjust FoV + Moving the mouse up/down does the trick pretty well]

[cmirko]

I know how "mouse movement FOV" works mate , thanks for your reply though.

What I want to do is setup two buttons on my stick to automatically do FOV+ (and FOV-) without moving mouse - but just by pressing one button on my joystick. So I need a detailed instructions how to do what Luffe did in this post.

Originally Posted by Luffe

You can use JoyToKey to get incremental FOV/Zoom in CoD:

http://www.electracode.com/4/joy2key...%20Version.htm

First set up the buttons you want to use to change FOV in JoyToKey.
Set up one for 'Mouse up' and one for 'Mouse down'.

Launch CoD and go to controls and assign each of the two buttons to their own instance of 'Hold to Adjust FOV'. Voilá.

Same procedure to set up an axis, but you will have to assign a key or button to hold down while moving the axis.

in il2 it worked like this:

Originally Posted by Azimech

In IL2 1946 I use the letters I and O = zoom In and Out, and use the freeware tool JoyToKey to repeat 25 times per second the input of the letters, mapped under my buttons 3 & 4 on my MSFFB2. Very smooth and very powerful.

thanks in advance

[ztorm]

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.

Did you try this yourself ? Because, guess what, it doesn't work.

"fov70" is not a variable you can edit, it's a fixed value, like "Rotate".

There is no easy way to fix these FOV levels, and I sure hope they fix that at some point.