Target visibility

[adonys]

The main problem is game's FoV.

If you look in game with the 30 FoV, you'll see the aircraft at the correct real-life size. Problem is, we're using the 90 FoV most of the time.

to solve this, they need to scale the models to appear in 90 FoV as they appear in 30 FoV.

Also, aircraft models should be rendered at longer distances than they are atm in game, instead having them replaced by dots.

[Flanker35M]

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This..the FOV. I fly most if not all of the time with wider view so I can easily glance at the gauges. Maybe the FOV should change only your distance withing cockpit, not the actual zoom and then tune the LOD/whatever accordingly. Frankly I have never understood the need to give us a "zoom" when IRL you can not do that..but this is propably one of the gaming vs realism compromises.

[6S.Manu]

Originally Posted by adonys

The main problem is game's FoV.

If you look in game with the 30 FoV, you'll see the aircraft at the correct real-life size. Problem is, we're using the 90 FoV most of the time.

to solve this, they need to scale the models to appear in 90 FoV as they appear in 30 FoV.

Also, aircraft models should be rendered at longer distances than they are atm in game, instead having them replaced by dots.

This could be a good solution and I was talking of it with my teammate about this last night. As you see in the opening post a 109 at 3km would appear 8 times bigger at 39 FOV (50mm, human eye) than at 70 FOV (normal view in IL2, the 90 FOV is the wide one).

It would be nice to use degrees as ratio unit, but I don't have the possibility if not making real photos...

There will be problems with the real speed perception but it should be an improvement nonetheless.