Take a 1-3 inch wide stick and hold it out in front of your nose how ever far away you beleive the canopy bars are in your ride. Do this while standing at one end of a room or looking out the window. Line it up with either a corner of the room or something like a telephone pole.
When you focuse on the far corner or pole with the stick held inline with your nose. You will see the far object between two blurry sticks with a space about half to 3 times the width of the stick between them depending on how far away the stick is. Added to this will be whatever clear periferal view to each side you normaly see.
Now move your head slowly to one side until the stick lines up with either eye. You now have the image of a blurry stick in one eye with it's perferial view working to either side. The unblocked eye apperes to look around the stick into the area blocked to the other eye. What it is really doing is seeing into the blocked area of the other eye with it's focus arch that we call sterioscopic vision.
You are asking for Hitech to emulate that sterioscopic one eyed vision arch when looking with two eyes while one is blocked by vertical canopy bars. Our current emulation of what the pilots sees can be replicated by closing one of your eyes.
If Hitech were to emulate what you want, he would have to blurr all of the cockpit interior to first achive the far distance focal length. You may have noticed while you were holding the stick in front of your face and looking past it to see far objects, the stick in all of it's visual itterations was blurred. Then he would need to give you a toggel for A. far distance blurred cockpit with all of the vertical bars reduced to two translucent pixelated ghost lines and B. focused interior cockpit to read your instraments with the world past the cockpit bars blurred.
This would look and work like heck while your vision would still be monocular due to the limitations of your monitor. Our vision is limited to looking through the eyepeice of a video camera by our current technology when it comes to looking past vertical bars. The canopy pillers are their correct width. Current technology limits us to looking at the inside of the canopy from the eyepeice of a 2D camera in a rotating ball in place of the pilot's head.
5-10 years maybe computers and 3D technology will give you a visual immersion revolution in gameing like TrackIR in 2D has given us today. Wouldn't a more honest request be for a toggel to make your canopy bars invisible knowing the current limitations of technology? Dosen't IL2 have that toggel option??
