We need more FOV in triple screen setups

The display seems to have too much zoom when using a triple display system. eg: Zooming right out only reveals the top row of gauges in the c172.

We need an FOV slider to set the base FOV (before Zoom is applied). Like the widescreen setting in FSX, or some sort of value in the main.mcf that we can tweak . The FOV values in the main.mcf seem to only reflect the current "in game" zoom settings the user has set in each view, so we would need an additional "base" value.

I originally got around this by following the Triple Screen setup instructions on the FS2 Steam Community guide, but only setting up a single screen (and setting it's FOV), but this now breaks the control hotspot locations on the screen in the Aug 26 beta.

BTW, these Community Guide triple screen instructions work fine if your left/right monitors are at 90deg. It doesn't seem to make sense with any other angle as each display rotates around the roll axis independantly.

Ah yes. I am a huge fan of FS2 in VR (on the CV1), but I also want to "simulate" a cockpit and use my Saitek instruments from time to time. This is where I use the triple screens, and at the moment, the zoom factor doesn't zoom out enough to cater for super wide screens.

This is my P3D setup

Augmented reality with the headset AND use your hardware. Maybe one day.

Quote from IPACS Support

Did you try our tutorial here for setting up triple screen:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/fi…s/?id=738066887

Some users reported, they were quite happy with this setup. We have to fix the mouse cockpit interaction with this mode, but we want to know if its actually what you were looking for.

Thanks IPACS,

If you look at the photos of my setup above, you will see that my left and right screens are at about 15 degrees to the center screen.

When I tried this approach with my monitors and set the "z_axis_offset_in_degree" to, -15 and +15 respectively, each display seemed to bank around the roll axis independently rather than one central axis shared across the 3 screens.

So it seemed to be really only useful if my left and right monitors were at 90degs.

Was I doing something wrong? Would nVidia Surround bezel correction cause problems?

Here is a copy of the settings I used .....

<[list_tmsettings_separate_3d_view][separate_3d_view_list][]
<[tmsettings_separate_3d_view][element][0]
<[float64][x][0]>
<[float64][y][0]>
<[float64][w][0.333333]>
<[float64][h][1]>
<[float64][field_of_view_factor][1]>
<[float64][z_axis_offset_in_degree][-15]>
>
<[tmsettings_separate_3d_view][element][1]
<[float64][x][0.333333]>
<[float64][y][0]>
<[float64][w][0.333333]>
<[float64][h][1]>
<[float64][field_of_view_factor][1]>
<[float64][z_axis_offset_in_degree][0]>
>
<[tmsettings_separate_3d_view][element][2]
<[float64][x][0.666666]>
<[float64][y][0]>
<[float64][w][0.333333]>
<[float64][h][1]>
<[float64][field_of_view_factor][1]>
<[float64][z_axis_offset_in_degree][15]>
>
>

Thanks for the info.

I don't suppose you could suggest the correct value for 15deg screens?

In any cae, if we can get the mouse hotspots working again, I will probably be happy just to use the single screen version of this (and use the FOV parameter) like I did before the beta update.

Thanks again for the info.