FOV setting

Many of us are set up in front of a TV with a wheel stand.. we can't get any closer to the TV. I hope everyone thought to get physically closer if possible.

 

Yeah...
Using those FOV calculators only suggest to get closer to the screen, if your only variable is the size and distance of your monitor.
Take them as set, and you will see, setting up your seating position may influence your experience as well...

 

Oh do you mean in game seat position? On console we do not have the option to change that, yet..

 

No, I mean your RL seating position, in relation to your screens width and resolution.
You can move your RL seating position, don't you?

 

I have it moved as close as possible to the TV. - So yes I have done the best I can, but 50deg FOV is still too high.

I would have to buy/build a new entertainment center that would allow my pedals to go under the TV. I am actually working on that for after my wife and I move later this year. Has to meet wife's standards of appearance and mine for a sim racing setup.

But until then.. if we (on consoles) could just have more in depth FOV and seating adjustment in game it would do wonders for those of us who can't improve it anymore with our physical setups.

 

I need a 32deg FOV so at 50 minimum, I'm nowhere near. At 50deg I'm totally disconnected from the car and have no feel for where to place it.

I don't get why it's soft limited to 50 though, It would make more sense if the setting was missing entirely. But the fact it's there at all must mean there's some other limiting factor. I can't think that's it's performance related as a lower FOV would mean less track detail to render wouldn't it?

 

I read something about it clipping through the driver's helmet and would cause visual issues on screen but I am not sure if that is true.

 

Would this issue get more exposure if it was moved to the main console thread?

 

ok, makes sense. Would deffo be nice to get an official response though

 

Isn't there a dashboard cam, that can be used especially for your comfort?

 

Yeah that does work better than full cockpit cam but still not there for me

 

If you set the seat position to far back it will show you the driver, but not when you change fov.

 

Agree with all the requests in this thread as I really wish we could have the tools to transform this

..into this:

 

@ZX636 Not sure what I am looking at here as you do not appear to have shown any fov settings used for those vids. Subject interests me and I have read up about fov but without seeing the differences fov makes cant get a grip on it properly. First vid made corners etc look a long way away. Second vid not so much or same?. With the limited fov in console AC I'm not really seeing what I am missing.

 

I'd simply like to do what's shown in this video at 14:41

Tighter FOV values + adjustable "camera"
In the 2nd video of the Sauber C9, It seems that player has a lower FOV and adjusted the "camera" distance (unless my eyes fail me)

 

Too large a field of view would be like driving your road car from the back seat where you would see far more in your field of view than you would sitting in the correct position. Because the field of view is wrong for where you're simulated as sitting in the car, the track and objects around you appear to be moving slower than your brain says they should be which takes a mental adjustment to 'tune out' especially entering a turn

 

Thanks @ZX636 I get it now and yes it would be very, very nice to have that and the seat position thing too. Definitely a +1 for those.

 

A good explanation about fov and why its important

 

Not 'slower', I think I meant faster.....Incorrectly anyway



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