Euro Truck Simulator 2

[Tommer]

(2012-12-03 18:16)Blade3562 Wrote:  My dad was talking and watching the other day and he mentioned the FOV in cab is way off. We have a close friend who drives truck and when you sit in his can the right mirror is just like in a car, you can see it but have to turn slightly to use it. My dad was like backing up the trailer would be so much easier if you just left the virtual mirror on instead of turning back and forth.

The problem with FOV is, there are two approaches to calculating a FOV.

The first is to consider the entire surface of the screen line a human eye and thus have a wide FOV where you would see your whole cab as you would IRL but because it is shrunk onto a 19inch Screen the perspective looks off and generally weird.

The second approach is to view the screen like a 'window' into the game. The FOV is calculated from where your eyes are in real life around 50cm from the screen but ofcourse your eyes irl are also viewing outside the screen and thus what you see on the screen is only a smaller part of the cab but in the correct perspective

No matter what you do you can't really win I guess

(If that makes sense )