Convenience in Multi-Monitor settings

[ops]

Hello,

i like to play both in VR and multi-monitor setup. Especially when using multiple planes, and/or different FoV settings, adjusting the camera setup gets very tedious and requires lots of restarts.

Here a few suggestions for possible feature additions that would help:

 

1) Smaller steps (0.1) for the FoV-Slider

While 1° steps are usually ok, it would be nice to have a more fine-tuned control.

Suggestion:

- add an input box to the FoV slider that is able to work with a decimal (e.g. manual input "61.5" would be possible)

 

2) Ability to change CameraViewAngleLimits, to have a correct centered zoom

When centering zoom, the game will jump to the middle value of CameraViewAngleLimits, e.g. if it's set to 20/140, centering will result in 80° FoV.

It would be great to be able to change the limits (e.g. to 20/102 for a 61° FoV) so the centered zoom matches the default view.

Currently this can only be done by modifying the Views.lua in the installation folder. It would be nice this could be done within SavedGames, similar to the snap views.

Suggestion:

- add support for a Views.lua in the Saved Games folder

 

3) Ability to change viewDx in multi-monitor setup, at runtime, and per aircraft

Changing FoV also requires to adjust the viewDx parameter to get a correct picture. Once you have set your favorite FoV, it needs a lot of guessing, editing file and game restarts to figure out the correct viewDx value.

Suggestions:

- add some way to modify this value ingame, without need to restart (it's only a camera value)

- make it configurable per aircraft, and also per view/snapview

- (maybe) make it possible so viewDx can be defined as a function of FoV (this could solve the weirdness when zooming in on multi-monitor)

 

best regards

[SharpeXB]

21 hours ago, ops said:

When centering zoom, the game will jump to the middle value of CameraViewAngleLimits, e.g. if it's set to 20/140, centering will result in 80° FoV.

It would be great to be able to change the limits (e.g. to 20/102 for a 61° FoV) so the centered zoom matches the default view.

I’m not sure if this is what you're asking for, but the centered “normal” zoom value can be set by pressing RAlt+Num0. This command “save cockpit view angles” will save head position and zoom level per aircraft as a default. 

Edited March 26 by SharpeXB

[ops]

On 3/26/2024 at 3:06 PM, SharpeXB said:

I’m not sure if this is what you're asking for, but the centered “normal” zoom value can be set by pressing RAlt+Num0. This command “save cockpit view angles” will save head position and zoom level per aircraft as a default. 

 

that just saves the default snapview position, and does not work with zoom axis. best would be if the limits could also be set per snap view, to make zooming work better.

(also aware you can fiddle around with y saturation but it's not very convenient)

[SharpeXB]

15 minutes ago, ops said:

that just saves the default snapview position, and does not work with zoom axis. best would be if the limits could also be set per snap view, to make zooming work better.

(also aware you can fiddle around with y saturation but it's not very convenient)

Agree. It would be great to have settings to control this better. Like the ability to just set a min and max FOV with that slider in the Options menu. The max FOV is just too fish-eyed.

Edited April 2 by SharpeXB