fitness88 Posted April 1, 2017 Posted April 1, 2017 I would like to get some opinions as to which aircraft modules offer the clearest cockpit gauges and indictors? Using the VRzoom is not what I want to be doing in order to read gauges/dials/indicators. I have a GTX1080 cranked up and still I find the instrumentation blurry at regular viewing but once I VRzoom it's crystal clear. Thank you.
Astronut Posted April 2, 2017 Posted April 2, 2017 To be honest, VR Zoom is a great help with the current VR headsets. I don't see it as a bad thing at all. But, if you want to fly without using it at all, then you need a cockpit with analogue gauges. The F5 springs to mind, also the Mig 15 and F86. The Viggen is pretty analog too. But really, why is VR Zoom such a problem?
fitness88 Posted April 2, 2017 Author Posted April 2, 2017 (edited) To be honest, VR Zoom is a great help with the current VR headsets. I don't see it as a bad thing at all. But, if you want to fly without using it at all, then you need a cockpit with analogue gauges. The F5 springs to mind, also the Mig 15 and F86. The Viggen is pretty analog too. But really, why is VR Zoom such a problem? Actually what I was trying to find out is whether or not all the modules including FC3 have the same poor visual quality inside the cockpit. My thinking is are some planes more clear viewing of the instruments. As for needing to VRzoom whenever I want to make out what my instruments are indicating, considering I'm glancing down at them constantly makes it an unnatural distraction...kinda like flying with a magnifying glass when you want to get your bearings. Edited April 2, 2017 by fitness88
Bearfoot Posted April 2, 2017 Posted April 2, 2017 I know what you mean, but the problem is that not all instruments are equal even within a single cockpit. So, for e.g., I find the Mirage's radar screen VERY difficult to read, even with cockpit res of 1024 and PD of 1.7 and the mod that "thickens" the font. At the same time, however, a lot of other gauges and readouts are among the best. Similarly, a lot of the Gazelle's cockpit is crystal clear, but some gauges are frustratingly blur --- most especially the main compass, where, even in 4K 2D it would always take a second or two for me to read the numbers, due to all the numbers being printed in the same small size (I've requested a mod that sets the cardinal bearings to stand out, either in bigger print or different color or both). The F5's radar screen is clear enough (given that there's not much information there) as are its gauges, but the a lot of the switch labels are difficult to make out. It would be great if developers explicitly designed cockpit instruments/gauges to be clearly readable at a distance under low resolution. Too late for most existing modules, but hopefully the F-14, Harrier, Hornet, BO-105, etc.? Though by the time some of these come out, we might be in the CV2 or even CV3 generation and this whole problem would have solved itself! In the mean time, we just have to continue flying as if someone smeared vaseline on our visors .... (I also bet there are some artists somewhere who are weeping/laughing that their hundreds of hours of painstaking work is all thrown out of the window because a segment of users regress to 1,080 x 1,200! I know that when I occasionally pop into the 2D 4K cockpit, my breath is taken away by the crisp beauty of things!)
fitness88 Posted April 2, 2017 Author Posted April 2, 2017 I know what you mean, but the problem is that not all instruments are equal even within a single cockpit. So, for e.g., I find the Mirage's radar screen VERY difficult to read, even with cockpit res of 1024 and PD of 1.7 and the mod that "thickens" the font. At the same time, however, a lot of other gauges and readouts are among the best. Similarly, a lot of the Gazelle's cockpit is crystal clear, but some gauges are frustratingly blur --- most especially the main compass, where, even in 4K 2D it would always take a second or two for me to read the numbers, due to all the numbers being printed in the same small size (I've requested a mod that sets the cardinal bearings to stand out, either in bigger print or different color or both). The F5's radar screen is clear enough (given that there's not much information there) as are its gauges, but the a lot of the switch labels are difficult to make out. It would be great if developers explicitly designed cockpit instruments/gauges to be clearly readable at a distance under low resolution. Too late for most existing modules, but hopefully the F-14, Harrier, Hornet, BO-105, etc.? Though by the time some of these come out, we might be in the CV2 or even CV3 generation and this whole problem would have solved itself! In the mean time, we just have to continue flying as if someone smeared vaseline on our visors .... (I also bet there are some artists somewhere who are weeping/laughing that their hundreds of hours of painstaking work is all thrown out of the window because a segment of users regress to 1,080 x 1,200! I know that when I occasionally pop into the 2D 4K cockpit, my breath is taken away by the crisp beauty of things!) Thank you Bearfoot for this very informative thread, it really explains a lot of what I've been trying to figure out. And BTW...I'm with you when viewing in 2D but we all know the trade off is well worth it.
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