Side monitors "stretched"

[Frosties]

As stated in my earlier thread im experimenting with multiple monitors.

 

I have three monitors as my "cockpit" and a fourth one as helios.

I got the setup good, but somehow my two side monitors seems to be stretched out.

 

The aspect ratio is correct to my knowledge, but whatever i test the stretch effect wont go away.

[BHawthorne]

You need to setup multiple custom cameras to fix the distortion

[Frosties]

Any suggestions on how to do that? or is it not worth the effort?

[PiedDroit]

It's effortless, there is already a sample file in DCS, it's in 3cameras.lua (you might need need to modify it a bit if you have a 4th screen):

_  = function(p) return p; end;
name = _('3 Screen');
Description = 'Configuration with 3 identical monitors each with its own camera'
Viewports = 
{
    Left = 
    {
         x = 0;
         y = 0;
         width = screen.width / 3;
         height = screen.height;
         viewDx = -1;
         viewDy = 0;
         aspect = screen.aspect / 3;
    },

    Center = 
    {
         x = screen.width / 3;
         y = 0;
         width = screen.width / 3;
         height = screen.height;
         viewDx = 0;
         viewDy = 0;
         aspect = screen.aspect / 3;
    },

    Right = 
    {
         x = screen.width * 2 / 3;
         y = 0;
         width = screen.width / 3;
         height = screen.height;
         viewDx = 1;
         viewDy = 0;
         aspect = screen.aspect / 3;
    }
}
UIMainView = Viewports.Center

When the viewDx parameter is set to 1 (or -1) the views are adjacent to each other, if it's less than 1 (ex: -0.9 and 0.9) they will overlap a bit, etc.

 

There is also a lot of stuff at the end of this file but I never tried it ("displays" table etc).

Edited February 15, 2015 by PiedDroit

[vladibeast]

I've just spent an evening trying to get this to work with my 4 monitor T-shaped config.

When I finally got it setup the way I like, I found out the perspective in combination with track-ir made it look awful. if I look only slightly left my wing would be in full view on my left monitor and if I looked a little more left I would see my tail..

 

Basically I think you only want to use this if you use 3 monitors without trackir..

Be warned :)

Maybe spend your evening flying in stead of fidgeting around with disappointment at the end.. ;)