[jdjtcagle]

I started playing around with the FOV toggle on the launcher.
Type "-fov .35 or 50" (without the ") and see how big you are compared to capships, cool: But there is a catch the background are a little  but its worth a look. I think!
.35 I like because I think this is how the capships size should be to fighters.
.50 It gives a better feel to be in the pilot seat and doge beams ect..

Opinions?

[Drew]

this has been known for, like, forever...

[jdjtcagle]

Since I registered in October last year, I didn't find it and I love this feature. So to prevent further ignorance, maybe sticky this so noobies will find it?

[karajorma]

It's a know feature but many people have missed it. I try to never play without turning it on.

[Flipside]

Yes, this is one of those features like the Hi-res maps, everyone so much takes it for granted that we forget to tell people they exist

[J3Vr6]

I like playing at .35 but the only problem I have with it, and this could be in part b/c I haven't played FS2 in a while and I could be rusty or it could be that my computer only played it at 8-14 fps usually, is that when you're dogfighting particularly fast aircraft it becomes a lot harder to keep that guy in your reticle.

[jdjtcagle]

My computer also runs in 8-15 somewhere in there, and yes its should be normal.  If you have a older graphics card, good for some games but not the choice for  really big games (whatever that is) All I'm sure of freespace open on mine is really choppy.

[Solatar]

I run it at .42
Makes things look bigger, but at the same time dogfighting isn't impossible.

[jdjtcagle]

I like!!

[Flaser]

IMHO the recent problem of SCP is the conversion to 32-bit graphics, older cards don't have enough on-board memory.

In other words some of us finally had to realise that our vidcards are not up for the job (there's a reson most games don't use textures with that good quality), though I'm all for the change.

Though to verfy this we would need extensive testing.

The HT&L conversion supposed to ease things - which it does, but the new texture strain makes it hard to know where the hardware problem ends and the coding trouble starts.

That's the reason why I will wait 'til the "official stabile build" before playing around with the field of view.

[diamondgeezer]

Um. So what's the default FOV, then? 0.4?

[jdjtcagle]

.75

[Solatar]

0.75

[Lightspeed]

I run it at 0.39 -- requires more skill and looks awesome

[KARMA]

maybe it's stupid, but with a smaller fov you should also have less polys at any time...

[jdjtcagle]

I going to need that velocity mod to really improve this experience, but the link is dead from the mods selection.
and .39 is pretty awesome

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Flaser
That's the reason why I will wait 'til the "official stabile build" before playing around with the field of view.

Ummm. FOV was in 3.5.5 IIRC.

[J3Vr6]

It's gotta be my framerate then.  Cuz things at .35 or .39 just zip by me too quickly to keep a bead on them.

I like the FOV tag b/c it actually makes the cap ships look like they should be: imposing.  Before you could be right next to one and practically still see the top or bottom of the cap ship, when they supposedly were 100's of meteres tall.