Project CARS 2 - Field-of-View, Part 2 - Examples of Static and Dynamic FOV 

Paul Keeble perfect, thank you for the clarification. Pinning your comment now.

I think developers should raname that option to FOV multiplier.

Fantastic, well explained. Can't wait to fiddle with it now.

Paul Keeble what do you suggest for maximum speed sensitivity

Math is the absolute worst subject I've ever had to do in my life but I build houses go figure, anyways I'm trying to make sense of all of the new math from above if you take his 58 and mult. By .8 you get the 46.4 that I understand. What I don't understand is after I get that 46.4 (or better yet, my numbers when I figure out mine) where would I put the 46.4? According to the pc2 calculator on their site, my focus would be 33 but all I can get to is 35. What is the equations to do my own figuring?

Eric Bouza my pleasure. Thanks for the support!

bhBlacky82 that's it! Thanks so much.

That's my thought. This movement would be like not wearing a harness/ seatbelt.

Forgive me if this is a stupid question but, will an xbox one s play okay on a 21:9 monitor?

Doozer Looshbag agree

Aardvark892 The blurring around the edges at higher speeds is a setting specific to helmet view and can be changed.

I thought the same, so if 100% means 58 up there is Flat value And there is % damge, ops...

Yup, that's what I'd done. Also raised the seat to get it as you said. Both in order to increase the windshield view as thought it was too small and also to see more of the track just ahead of the bonnet by raising the seat a bit. Now checking out this vid though to see if I need to re-tweak or leave as is.

AeroRacer whoa! I've never heard of that. I honestly have no idea. Did you Google this?

SimRacing604 No, I did not google this yet. I only looked up "Pcars 2 field of view settings" on RU-vid and found your video. Any suggestions?

Ur profile pic is ur expression when typing this comment

When you come into a tight corner in real life, your focus (FOV) narrows. When you open up on a straight it widens. This is the games way of simulating that.

FOV settings would be redundant in VR, there is no need for them.

No bro, it's a %. I use mph too, it doesn't matter what unit it's in, the numbers stay the same.

Nelson Campos thanks for your comment. Yes, if a wider or narrower FOV works for you, go for it. Thanks for watching.

Marco Aurélio all games units change to imperial or metric when you select it. The dashboard display does not. He does have telemetry up so it shouldn't matter to him

80-85 ..works perfect

Have you both tried a lower FOV? It really changes the game. The calculator said mine should be 29 degrees! Fuck that, I have it on 45-55. You do lose that "sense of speed" but it all looks more real. However, I like this setting and will be switching it ON and messing with it.

Mutumba Sowed trudatt

Your real life FOV is ~30 degrees for full focus(this is the zone where you can read, try focusing on something in your peripheral vision and reading without moving your eyeballs), ~135 degrees within your relative focus zone, and ~170 for your mostly subconscious peripheral vision. However with a monitor and an innacurate high FOV you're seeing 90 degrees of FOV within 40-60 degrees of your "real" vision. An accurate FOV means that 55 degrees of your real-life FOV translates to 55 degrees on the monitor.

Frikgeek For me personally, using a single screen, i find that a mathematically correct FOV just doesn't look real or feel right. In AC i use 65 and in pCARS 2 im using 100, and that looks and feels good to me. For me personally a realistic visual sensation of speed is more important than a mathematically correct game world size. With a really low FOV i lose all visual sensation of speed. And i always end up braking late, and it looks like im sitting too high above the tracks surface. Higher FOV visually gives me a far more natural and convincing sense of speed. I would say a mathematically correct FOV is good for triple screen users, but even then the visual sense of speed looks off, in project cars 2. Im wondering what the visual sense of speed is like in VR. Would it be higher than if you used triple screen ? I've watched a few vids and project cars 2 with triple screens doesn't seem to give a good visual sense of speed. But in the VR vids it really does look like youre travelling fast on the straights. What would FOV be in VR ? Around 100 ? It looks like its around that, when the driver is looking straight forward.

The point here is realistically you can see another car on the passenger side beside you with peripheral vision. You barely get to see half of the windshield with these settings, as for sense of speed, how many of these guys telling you what to put your settings at has done anything even similar in real life, muchless the people saying the sense of speed is off? How do you even know? And I know I dont just see my hands, you see a few inches probably about 3-4, up your arm. Sense of speed should primarily be set with a height in the car setting. Obviously smaller vision feels faster but the more focused you are the less fov effects you. So setting the view to what you normally could see in front of you and adjusting the height should be sufficient for people who can really drive in real life. Out of car views dont throw you off because of field of view, being higher makes you feel like you're going slower, exact same thing in real life. Go ask somebody for a ride in a tall vehicle, go 90-100mph and then do it in a car very low to the ground.

pluckyplatypus Sometimes I like to look at the car and spin the camera around on the straights. And yes, I use a controller. I also use the cockpit cam but that's no excuse to have a broken chase cam.

mattoz R chase cam is a joke and so are you. Stfu