I have a 3rd and 1st person camera modes in my game, but I have 80 camera lense FOV for both of them. Ive never gave too much importance to this and used that value after tests. But now I think this IS important for adding more realism. So, what values are recommended or used in practice?
And finally, Im thinking of changing my skydome object to be rendered by another camera with higher FOV. Is this a good idea? What should I set for this one?
camera FOV in games
Whatever you think looks good. Human eyes vary and are not rectangles, so just play around with the number until it looks good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_field
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_field
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I know, but surely there are some recommended values for 1st and 3rd person camera? And what about the skydome
The sky should be rendered with the same FOV as the rest of the world..
IIRC the COD games default to 60 degress but let you change it from 45 to 80.
Some older shooters used 90, which I liked at the time, but it looks weird to me now.
If you want the screen to be a "correct" 3rd person window, measure the average distance that a person sits from their monitor, and the width/height of the monitor, then use trigonometry to figure out what the angle is from one edge of the screen to the other ;)
Also -- are you currently using vertical-FOV or horizontal-FOV values? This changes the way that wide-screen monitors will behave compared to 5:4/4:3 monitors.
IIRC the COD games default to 60 degress but let you change it from 45 to 80.
Some older shooters used 90, which I liked at the time, but it looks weird to me now.
If you want the screen to be a "correct" 3rd person window, measure the average distance that a person sits from their monitor, and the width/height of the monitor, then use trigonometry to figure out what the angle is from one edge of the screen to the other ;)
Also -- are you currently using vertical-FOV or horizontal-FOV values? This changes the way that wide-screen monitors will behave compared to 5:4/4:3 monitors.
for FOV computing i'm using this simple thing :
float aspectRatio = static_cast<float>(m_WindowWidth / m_WindowHeight);float fovy = 2 * atan(aspectRatio) * 180 / 3.14f;gluPerspective(fovy, aspectRatio, zNear, zFar);
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OK.
Though Ive heard of people using another camera to render the sky with a different FOV.
My sky is currently set to be render behind everything else but is actually small. Should I just scale it?
Though Ive heard of people using another camera to render the sky with a different FOV.
My sky is currently set to be render behind everything else but is actually small. Should I just scale it?
Skydome means a sphere. The camera should be always in its center. What happens if you are inside a sphere and scale that sphere? Nothing from the camera's point of view. Just think about it.
You're doing something wrong, for example not placing the camera in the center.
You're doing something wrong, for example not placing the camera in the center.
a skydome isn't the same as a sphere, it's more of a spherical cap but yeah about the rendering with different camera part.
You might need to eventually, you could for one just render with the same camera as the player is viewing trough. You can then re-use the z-buffer for some fragment rejection (assuming you aren't rendering your sky first). But later when you might want to have reflections somewhere, what's going to happen with the clouds you didn't render trough the player's camera?
just depends on if you really need the whole skydome to be drawn i think
You might need to eventually, you could for one just render with the same camera as the player is viewing trough. You can then re-use the z-buffer for some fragment rejection (assuming you aren't rendering your sky first). But later when you might want to have reflections somewhere, what's going to happen with the clouds you didn't render trough the player's camera?
just depends on if you really need the whole skydome to be drawn i think
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Right, forget that sentence.
So do I rememebr it wrong that a skydome is rendered by another camera with different fov by some?
So do I rememebr it wrong that a skydome is rendered by another camera with different fov by some?
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a skydome isn't the same as a sphere, it's more of a spherical cap but yeah about the rendering with different camera part.
You might need to eventually, you could for one just render with the same camera as the player is viewing trough. You can then re-use the z-buffer for some fragment rejection (assuming you aren't rendering your sky first). But later when you might want to have reflections somewhere, what's going to happen with the clouds you didn't render trough the player's camera?
just depends on if you really need the whole skydome to be drawn i think
No. Not the same camera. IT HAS TO BE IN THE CENTER OF THE SKYDOME. Otherwise you could fly out of it. Unless you make it infinitely big, which is the same as a small dome with the camera centered.
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