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hi, David<br><br>
good up-front agonizing.<br><br>
your modeling suggests discrete lines at the limit of visible areas. it's
good to think about view "volumes" - the <b>areas</b> subtended
by precisely the vectors you've plotted. it depends on how sexy your 3D
program is.<br><br>
also, unless you are going to develop a stereoscopic setup (and i'm still
scratching my head on this one), the "vanishing point" (ie:
where infinity lies) remains on a single point on the
screen.<br><br>
in a side-by-side arrangement, this means that you either "set"
infinity directly ahead of you (which doesn't work for the co-pilot), or
you set it in the center - which doesn't work well for either of
you.<br><br>
i regularly fly with it in the center. only 1 visitor has spotted the
problem. YES, this makes things very much like just flying with an 8-foot
monitor. it would be a good experiment to move the eye the proper amount
to the left or right (within the craft) & observe what happens. i've
done this in train-sim with very good results.<br><br>
as far as <b>what</b> (how much) you see out the window, i still set this
somewhat subjectively. this is usually about .75 zoom - it just
"feels" comfortable compared with real life.<br><br>
i'll be curious about your actual results after your more serious
work.<br><br>
- adm - <br><br>
At 06:17 PM 1/3/2007, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hello, Hope everyone had a happy
holiday season!<br><br>
I have been doing more work trying to understand MSFS Visuals.<br>
If I block off all of the windows except for the two forward <br>
windshields then I have the following viewing angles:<br>
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Alan D.
Mazurka
adm.design@verizon.net <br>
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