Widescreen Gaming Forum

To clarify things: This is not an alternative to other calculators. Other calculators have another purpose. They calculate a new FOV for a new aspect ratio based on a given FOV for a different aspect ratio. So if you have a 4:3 resolution with a FOV of 90° you would get a FOV of about 106° with a 16 ...

Interesting that you see the FOV primarily as a zoom. Yes, lowering the FOV results in a zoom effect, but what the FOV actually means is the field of vision, the angle that the screen shows you of the world. If you have a given window width, then moving further away from the window decreases the ...

Delphium, you miss the point here. The proper FOV doesn't depend on screen resolution or aspect ratio but how wide the screen appears to you (the ratio of physical screen width and viewing distance). The goal is to match the game FOV to the human FOV so that it feels natural and comfortable. For ...

I had a hard time finding the right forum for this topic. None of them really fit. I think this is the closest one.

I'm working on a FOV calculator that calculates the ideal FOV for a given screen width and viewing distance. There is a formula that calculates the FOV as if the screen were a window ...