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« on: July 29, 2013, 06:19:07 PM » |
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Currently OA uses Vert-, and compensating with a higher FOV value like 105 isn't optimal for appearance as it makes the weapon model appear low and thin.
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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2013, 01:47:15 AM » |
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Currently OA uses Vert-, and compensating with a higher FOV value like 105 isn't optimal for appearance as it makes the weapon model appear low and thin.
what's vert supposed to mean; vertical? You could make the fov more like a fisheye (which is pretty awesome if you ask me). |
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« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2013, 04:31:58 PM » |
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Basically OA expanding its view like this at FOV 90 settings  |
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« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2013, 05:17:46 PM » |
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That looks quite ugly in comperasion of normal fov, so why do we actually want that?
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« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2013, 06:13:24 PM » |
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Because... this is what OA does right now. Notice how your view is MUCH NARROWER and would be considered a mega failure for widescreen gaming.
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« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2014, 06:32:26 AM » |
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Good news! I was able to hack it in the renderer.  |
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« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2014, 07:44:16 AM » |
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Veeery interesting. Nice job, Fromhell!  Now, how to be sure that will not be abused for gaining unfair advantages over other players? |
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« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2014, 11:53:25 AM » |
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Honestly, seems bad news to me. Isn't that the meaning of FOV; to be able to change the field of view (why else would it exist and carry that name)?
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« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2014, 12:20:32 PM » |
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to me it looks great. might play better at fov 90 16:9 than forcing fov 130 on a 4:3 but trial will tell. at the moment I'm playing with blank bands on each side of the screen and this really looks like it would help the immersion in the game. kudos!
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« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2014, 05:04:05 PM » |
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Now, how to be sure that will not be abused for gaining unfair advantages over other players?
Maybe... if the year were still 1999. Almost every new game has Hor+, and this is the first i've heard of it as an unfair advantage. It's rare to encounter an eyefinity player anyhow. What, you want me to take it out now, leaving less vertical space for widescreen players as before? Isn't that the meaning of FOV; to be able to change the field of view
It's not the same. cg_fov alters vertical FOV. Often the widescreen "support" is to raise the FOV to 105 to compensate the lack of actual 16:9 expansion but it wasn't perfect. I just fixed that workaround by recalculating the FOV automatically for any wider resolution, futureproofing it for the enthusiast surround setups. Similarly I fixed the hud in cgame and the UI in missionpack to be expanding from the middle. I plan to use that expanded area... |
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« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2014, 03:31:21 AM » |
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Now, how to be sure that will not be abused for gaining unfair advantages over other players?
Maybe... if the year were still 1999. Almost every new game has Hor+, and this is the first i've heard of it as an unfair advantage. It's rare to encounter an eyefinity player anyhow. What, you want me to take it out now, leaving less vertical space for widescreen players as before? Sorry, I really have no idea about how modern games (or games in general) deal with this. It's years I don't play "recent" games (excluding cell phone games, most "recent" games I played were things like God of War 2 on PS2 -game dated 2007-, Quake Live -based upon the old Q3A game-...)... and I still use 4:3 PC monitors... |
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« Reply #12 on: February 28, 2014, 01:04:10 AM » |
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Interesting, but why does it mention "hor+" for all Quake series games? For for Q1 and Q2 it seems to refer to unofficial renderers, a such note is not listed for Q3... |
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« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2014, 01:41:56 AM » |
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Perhaps because the user can control the horizontal FOV (with a cvar). |
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« Reply #14 on: February 28, 2014, 03:02:06 AM » |
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Perhaps because the user can control the horizontal FOV (with a cvar). But it seems standard "FOV" setting is not "HOR+". Fromhell just added it to the engine, hence "hor+" was not in original Q3A... |
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« Reply #15 on: February 28, 2014, 05:56:18 AM » |
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Because they used ports, which is a little misinforming. Normal Quake, Quake2 and Quake3 behavior are all Vert-.
Please note that Hor+ isn't a new thing - some '90s games even did this properly, like Battlezone II......way back in 1999, unpatched!
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« Reply #16 on: February 28, 2014, 09:26:08 AM » |
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In any case, if you say it's normal that fps games do automatically enlarge the field of view on widescreen, without limits, okay... I believe you. Could you please however create a clientside cvar to allow to use original behavior, and a new dmflags value to optionally allow server admin to temporarily disable hor+ on the clients (there is already a dmflags which forces all players to see like having cg_fov 90)? Gig from cell phone. |
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