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Title: Planes look distorted
Post by: Mickey1992 on December 13, 2002, 10:39:57 PM

Anyone else see this?  If I look at planes in the regular cockpit view, they seem fine.  These two planes are heading in the same vector as I am.

Title: Planes look distorted
Post by: Mickey1992 on December 13, 2002, 10:42:23 PM

But, without any of the planes changing their heading, if I look out of the front-left of the aircraft (keypad 7), they look distorted as if they are turning.

Title: Planes look distorted
Post by: OIO on December 14, 2002, 12:05:56 AM

Its the lavochnik warp field bubble.

:p

Title: Planes look distorted
Post by: Mickey1992 on December 14, 2002, 10:04:18 AM

:)   I should have mentioned that I see it with all planes.  I thought at first that it was something screwy with my grahpics card so I never worried about it.  But now I find that it does it on my new PC too.

Title: Planes look distorted
Post by: Innominate on December 14, 2002, 10:23:37 AM

It's perfectly normal.

It's a bit of a fisheye effect caused by displaying a larger field of view than you get looking into the monitor.

So the edges appear to bend a bit.

Title: Planes look distorted
Post by: funkedup on December 14, 2002, 10:54:03 AM

The mysteries of perspective.

Title: Planes look distorted
Post by: lord dolf vader on December 15, 2002, 09:33:47 AM

can part of it be that you have moved your views and really aren't lookin at them from the same point ?

Title: Planes look distorted
Post by: ALF on December 15, 2002, 09:53:40 AM

It is the fish-eye lense effect we get when trying to display a larger field of view than can be realistically placed on a screen that takes up a smaller view angle.

Try and look at the moon at the 45° angle...it looks all squished.

Title: Planes look distorted
Post by: Pooh21 on December 16, 2002, 01:56:03 AM

Thanks for bringing this up, never noticed it til now. Last night was attacking lanc bellys looking up at them and they distorting all over the place, couldnt get a good shot in. Then I realize its just some dweeb monkeying with his rudders. Only it came clear after he turned 180 and gave me freebies on his drones.