How do you feel about the Zoom at Mission Start effect?

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It does annoy me and the resulting FOV is not useful to me either as I still must readjust.

I would like to be an option before game starts to choose my likely field of view so every time I start to be there! If some time I like to change it a bit further or near to be able to do. No automatic zoom at all in the beginning as it exists:)

Not a lot of time to get the poll out to the people.

Not a lot of time to get the poll out to the people.

Yeah, that's got to have been a mistake when he was setting up the poll options.

Not a lot of time to get the poll out to the people.

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This poll will close on 08-16-2013 at 05:51 AM

Edit your post to remove the time limit...

Edit your post to remove the time limit...

Last I checked, it's 2012. A year isn't enough time to vote? :huh:

ROFL! We all missed that last digit. : D

I want to bring in some facts as I believe it gets not really recognized with the needed attention in the original thread:

 

 

Zoom in to out DCS World 1.2.0 A-10C.txt :

Ten tests of zoom "in" to "out" at mission start with time duration

Tests where made with DCS:World with the default view angle limits and snapviewsettings of the A-10C.

 

 

1a before 1024x768

1b after 1024x768

1 seconds - 4:3

 

2a before 1280x1024

2b after 1280x1024

0 seconds - 5:4

 

3a before 1360x768

3b after 1360x768

4 seconds - 16:9

 

4a before 1400x1050

4b after 1400x1050

1 second - 4:3

 

5a before 1680x1050

5b after 1680x1050

5 seconds - 16:10

 

6a before 1920x1080

6b after 1920x1080

4 seconds - 16:9

 

7a before 1920x1200

7b after 1920x1200

5 seconds 16:10

 

8a before 2560 x 1440

8b after 2560 x 1440

4 seconds - 16:9

 

9a before 3840 x 1024

9b after 3840 x 1024

7 seconds - 15:4 (3x 5:4)

 

10a before 5760 x 1080

10b after 5760 x 1080

10 seconds - 16:3 (3x 16:9)

 

 

15-08-2012

 

-PeterP

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and further:

 

I pull out the 16:9 example - please use my attached screens to compare and bring them to full-screen at you Monitor or use also the 1:1 pixel-size to understand fully what follows:

 

It's like this:

 

on a 16:9 1360x768

the actual zoom level is at the edge what is usable during a mission - you don't want to zoom out any further in normal use as the HUD becomes to fuzzy/small to read properly. - you will end up often to change your zoom/FOV during combat employment.

 

on 16:9 1920x1080

it is OK - HUD is good readable and you can make out details in the terrain without excessive use of zoom/FOV.

 

 

on 16:9 2560x1440

you will have the feeling that your head is in the HUD.

You want to zoom out further to a FOV of around 120° (instead of the default) the HUD will be as good readable as on 1920x1080 but you will profit from the higher immersion and situation awareness - you simply have enough pixel to "spend".

 

 

So I think what the people bugs most is that most of them don't know how to edit the Default [KP-Enter] FOV/set up their own cockpit view - to get instantly to their preferred FOV and they simply wait first once that the image has stabilised and than have to adjust their FOV to a value that they can use.

 

 

That's why I posted this:

Cockpit View Angle settings in the GUI

as it will solve "many problems" with the view at once.

 

Annoying if you use less than 22,5" monitor and resolutions bellow FullHD

Convenient if you use 32" FullHD resolution !

So I like it and not. :)

just plain annoying, bs1 didn't have it.. Please remove it..

Convenient if you use 32" FullHD resolution !

Again, my question which no one has answered: how is it convenient for your automatic refit to take three seconds, instead of being instantaneous?

It's the delay that's the objection, not the automatic refit. The automatic refit, apparently, benefits users with unusual monitors. That's cool. But the delay, as far as I can tell, benefits no one. Am I wrong?