An F/A-18C Lot 20 Cockpit that Looks and Feels... Right (56° FoV)

[Bowie]

An F/A-18C Lot 20 Cockpit that Looks and Feels... Right (56° FoV)

 

The Mk.1 Eyeball - is a 1X instrument.

It sees in 52.5 MIL's, or 52.5 ft. @ 1,000 ft./1° of angle.

If one sees less, they are zoomed in with a reduced FoV(Field of View); more, and they are zoomed out with an increased FoV.

 

And this is not about realistic relativity, but scale and proportion.

Take a picture with a 1X lens, and that image will show a 52.5 MIL view regardless of the image size, postage stamp to jumbo-tron, or viewing distance, 30" or 30'.

52.5 MIL's.

 

To simplify DCS, the FoV of the A/C have been increased to allow panoramic viewing, reducing the need to pan.

But it is no longer 52.5 MIL's, more like Twice that.

This bends the image and reduces the size of objects, near and far, to get then to fit in the single Arcade view.

Flat 52.5 MIL human sight requires that one point their nose in the direction of the new view - Pan.

 

The difficulty lies with determining what is a 52.5 MIL view, if desired, from a user perspective.

Subjective analysis - of how known things should look, in relation to other things, at understandable distances.

 

F/A-18C Lot 20: (56° FoV)

Save a 'RAlt+num0' cockpit view angle to get it implanted in the User 'SnapViews' file.

With Notepad++, open C:/user/"user name"/Saved Games/DCS.openbeta/Config/View/SnapViews.lua.

(make a copy first and rename it. e.g. "SnapViews - OEM.lua".

Find the new "FA-18C_hornet" section.

Change (copy/paste):

SnapViews["FA-18C_hornet"] = {
[1] = {-- player slot 1
    [1] = {--LWin + Num0 : Snap View 0
        viewAngle        = 56.000000,--FOV 60.000000, 56.000000, OEM 63.000000 "FA-18C_hornet"
        viewAngleVertical= 0.000000,--VFOV
        hAngle            = 0.000000,--    (Snap Center)/(Cockpit panel view in)(-30°)
        vAngle            = -30.000000,-- Cockpit View -30.000000, OEM -15.700000
        x_trans            = 0.015000,-- Cockpit View In_Trans 0.015000(60/56°), OEM 0.130000
        y_trans            = -0.017000,-- Cockpit View Up_Trans -0.017000, OEM -0.008300
        z_trans            = 0.000000,-- Cockpit View Rt_Trans 0.000000, OEM 0.000000
        rollAngle        = 0.000000,
        cockpit_version    = 0,
    },

...
    [13] = {--default view
        viewAngle        = 41.000000,--FOV 44.180000(60°), 41.000000(56°), OEM 63.000000 "FA-18C_hornet"
        viewAngleVertical= 0.000000,--VFOV
        hAngle            = 0.000000,--    (View Center)/(Cam View Dn-Slow)(-30°)
        vAngle            = 0.000000,-- Cockpit View  Angle   0.000000, OEM -15.700000
        x_trans            = 0.015000,-- Cockpit View In_Trans 0.015000(60/56°), OEM 0.130000
        y_trans            = -0.017000,-- Cockpit View Up_Trans -0.017000, OEM -0.008300
        z_trans            = 0.000000,-- Cockpit View Rt_Trans 0.000000, OEM 0.000000
        rollAngle        = 0.000000,
        cockpit_version    = 0,
    },

 

Set the Options/System/External field of view to 56° as well, for 52.5 MIL External viewing.

 

For the Logitec Extreme 3D Pro, with 4 stick head buttons and a hat:

UL (JOY_BTN5) = "camera view down slow"

UR (JOY_BTN6) = "View Center"

LL (JOY_BTN3) = "view left"

LR (JOY_BTN4) = "view right"

Hat (JOY_BTN_POV1_x) = default pan function

 

This provides:

(UL) Instrument Panel view (-30°), w/ additional down views.

(UR) Gunsight view (dedicated)

(LL) Fast Pan - left (over the shoulder from Gunsight view)

(LR) Fast Pan - right (over the shoulder from Gunsight view)

(Hat) Pan - from any view or location

 

Pilot Views - from the F/A-18C Lot 20 Cockpit: (56° FoV)

Give it a try.

 

Bowie

Edited 5 hours ago by Bowie

[Kdrum]

Does this apply to all size monitors?

[Bowie]

3 hours ago, Kdrum said:

Does this apply to all size monitors?

Of course.

Postage stamp to jumbo-tron, at any viewing distance.

52.5 MIL's.

 

Bowie