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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0002239 | FSSCP | graphics | public | 2010-06-26 14:41 | 2012-11-12 16:56 |
| Reporter | Axem | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | no change required | ||
| Summary | 0002239: Field of view weirdness | ||||
| Description | Herra had a neat idea on how to make a skybox using FreeSpace as a renderer. Basically make your background in FRED, then set up a camera system to make the field of view 90 degrees and take 6 shots for the 6 sides of a skybox. However upon trying this, the field of view system doesn't work at all like expected. A fov of 90 degrees is more like 180, while a fov close to 67.5 (67 or 68 since FRED cannot accept decimals) seems to be more inline with what you would expect for a fov of 90. Pics below documenting this. | ||||
| Additional Information | Test pics use Herra's Earth Skybox with a jump node at 0,0,0 for reference. The Camera is at 0,0,0. On the right half of the pic, the camera points at 0,0,200. On the left half of the pic, the camera points at -200,0,0. I do not have a -fov command line argument on. Pics were taken with -res 2040x2040 shrunk down to 1020x1020 FOV45 (default) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/NarfPics/earth_jumpn_45deg.jpg FOV60 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/NarfPics/earth_jumpn_60deg.jpg FOV67 (close to what FOV90 should be) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/NarfPics/earth_jumpn_67deg.jpg FOV90 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/NarfPics/earth_jumpn_90deg.jpg | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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Recommend closing this ticket, as the issue described by Axem was most likely caused by lake of documentation on the wiki at the time. FOV angles in other games (such as BF:BC) specify the horizontal FOV cone, while in FSO the FOV angles specifies the vertical FOV cone. The real issue here is FRED not being able to take in floats as arguments - FSO takes floats on the command-line just fine. |
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Closing per request. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-06-26 14:41 | Axem | New Issue | |
| 2012-11-02 02:14 | z64555 | Note Added: 0014010 | |
| 2012-11-02 02:15 | z64555 | Note Edited: 0014010 | |
| 2012-11-12 16:56 | Goober5000 | Note Added: 0014037 | |
| 2012-11-12 16:56 | Goober5000 | Status | new => closed |
| 2012-11-12 16:56 | Goober5000 | Resolution | open => no change required |
