Change of fov, 1st person, 3rd person.Follow

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Can only speak for myself but I did not answer because I thought you where talking about an Ego shooter (=and on the wrong board therefore)as FOV is not a big issue in EQ. If playing in a group most melee use 1st person, while casters use a view that allows to see the whole group. Only widespread use for 3rd person is travelling long distances.

You don't need a wider FOV. Furthermore I think you should rather visit a tech forum/board.


Edited, Wed Aug 4 09:14:59 2004 by MordenRaspCleric

FOV cannot be changed in the game. That is hard coded in the graphics pipeline as the polygons are being manipulated for the scene being visualized. Easy to change? Yes. I do it my graphic / DX8 / DX9 / OpenGl programs. Versant only made available the F9 key to cycle through various preset scene views. Only way to change it is to offer a FOV and probably other scene offsets as the frames are being drawn in the graphics rendering.

I agree that for me, the standard first person view sucks. Has for five years. It does not have enough peripheral view that other first person shooters have, and I have never found a F9 preset toggle I have been happy with. After five years, I am just used to it, and 'spin' around a lot verifying my immediate space (I need to keep telling my group mates "I am not drunk"!).

One option though : In the normal first person view of the game, using the center scroll wheel on the mouse should move your position back. The amount moved back is variable depending on the amount the wheel is scrolled. Now, having said that, it worked with my old system, but not with my new system. Mouse driver problems. This does resolve the issue of being able to see in the immediate periphery of your space. Very good while fighting to just 'draw back' the view to check for adds.

I hope EQ2 addresses the FOV issue.

I think you got rated down because of one of these:
Someone who didn't know what FOV was thought perhaps that this was patronizing.
Impatience gets rated down here for some reason.

Actually, everything gets rated down here for any possible reason. On several other recent threads many of the 'green names' have been seriously nuked for no reason I can discren. My assumption is that someone is bunched up over some assumed slight and is taking it out like a postal worker throwing a tantrum.

I'll rate you up later, when no one is looking. I don't see where you did anything wrong here.


edit: By the way, one sure way to get rated down is to post about any of the following: begging for gear/plat, talk about buying plat or characters, ask about PLing, talking about the last group of people you trained & KSed, or saying anything bad about Allakhazam's :)

Edited, Thu Aug 5 08:58:52 2004 by Samatman

k. :) Dont understand how it can be seen as patronizing though. I would understand if I was rated down cause I assumed that everyone knew what fov is. But hey.. Im a noob, only played EQ ~1 week, so I should be allowed to ask st00pid questions and make st00pid assumptions.. ;P
Aint there a saying that goes:
'No question is a stupid question'
If you dont ask you´ll never learn. :)




Thx for the info, would prolly never do any of that anyways.
btw, what does KSed mean?
(as I said.. Im a noobie) :)

Yeah, it's a bit annoying that you can not change the FOV in first person view in EQ. If you play SWG, they have a lot more control over what you can do with your FOV in any view. I would think they would probably bring that to EQ2.

Taushar

I am one of those people who cannot play well in any other view than first person. The later Might & Magic games were the ones I played a lot, and the view is similar. But I do turn around constantly and look around, and flip through the views occasionaly, just cannot seem to play using them (probably why I am so bad folling someone when not on AutoFollow, but I can get lost either way, a talent I seem to excel at).