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Title: Triple screen confusion
Post by: gawaterman on January 12, 2018, 07:29:33 PM
Ever since I went to triple screens I seem to be well off the pace and have difficulty even keeping it on the track, both in AC and rF2.
Was just playing around with it and discovered I can turn off Triple Screen in AC and Multiscreen in rF2 and yet I still get all 3 screens being used.
Not only that but the cars seem much easier to drive. I am guessing this has something to do with the fov.
 I assume they still use all 3 screens because I have the screen resolution to 5760x1080, but why then do these sims have this option of Triple Screen and Multiscreen and what is the difference?
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: Gratulin on January 12, 2018, 08:24:37 PM
I've just been through setting my triple screen FOV in AC after getting a new wheel. The results was huge with a big jump in realism.

I started with this article on driving position and set my seat, pedals and wheel at the recommended heights.

http://www.ricmotech.com/v/vspfiles/downloadables/Driver_Position.pdf

I then did the following steps to setup the monitors and AC:

1. I positioned my centre screen as close to the back of my wheelbase as I could. This ended up being right at the end of the wheel base housing due to my monitor stand.
2. I then positioned the height the monitor so that height of my eyes were at the middle of the screen.
3. I measured the distance to my eyes. For me this was 700mm.
4. I then positioned each side monitor so that if I turned my head to look at the centre of each monitor then they were square on to my eyes.
5. The angle of my side monitors turned out to be about 42 degrees.
6. I then fed these numbers into the AC triple app. ie 700mm, 42degrees and the sizes of the monitors.

The result is that I get a perfect FOV for every car in AC without changing any of the driver view settings. I used to have to change the PITCH setting in every car. Now it is perfect using the default set by Aris. Also, I look through the steering wheel at the car's dash as you do in a real car. The sensation of car height is very real. You feel low in the KTM for example.
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: Gratulin on January 12, 2018, 09:03:43 PM
I just realised I didn't really answer your question. The games modify the perspective of the image in the side monitors according to the angle of the monitor and the defined FOV. In AC you set the FOV by entering the measurements mentioned above. If you play with the angle slider in AC you can see the perspective changing as you change the angle.

The result is that you can glance to the side where the rear view mirror is in a real car and see it in the side monitor exactly the same. IF you have set it up correctly.
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: Phil.8 on January 12, 2018, 09:04:12 PM
Yes, I just use the in game triple screen app for ac
 
This may be handy for other games
http://www.projectimmersion.com/fov/howto.php?g=pCARS
http://www.projectimmersion.com/fov/index.php

I read this to work out driving position
http://obutto.com/information/proper-race-driving-position/
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: Wally on January 12, 2018, 09:20:11 PM
Being tall, I sit quite "high" in other words my wheel is quite low. I nowhere near look through the wheel at the dash. I guess I've got used to it, but it's not a very realistic seating or viewing position.


When you guys say you've got the perfect FOV, do you find that you are sacrificing some peripheral vision though? I think it would be good to see some triple screen screenshots, using the same car. How about if we put up some cockpit view screenshots in say the BMW M235i?
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: grat on January 12, 2018, 09:34:41 PM
I remember doing a lot and a lot of tuning. It's not easy. You need to get the right dimensions, angles, and so on. but even then, there is some finetuning to do with your eyes. One lucky thing for me is that they have my own car in AC, with just minor details being different. So every day for a while I measured how things "looked" to me putting my fingers at a given distance from my eyes in my car and then replicate in the game In the end, I was really satisfied.

I second the recommendation that the closer the monitors, the better. 45 degrees worked ok for me. and then you want to match the wheel, the hands of the drivers as much as possible (considering that not all wheels have the same diameter. Finally, pitch is important. I am not very tall and like to seat low, so I was often in the chin of the AC driver. ;)
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: Seanus on January 12, 2018, 09:55:16 PM
...do you find that you are sacrificing some peripheral vision though...

Is 180° sacrificing any peripheral vision?

OTTOH 3x2560*1440 27" 540mm from screens at 62° with all the bezels to add and subtract it comes out to 180° viewable
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: Phil.8 on January 12, 2018, 10:29:11 PM
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1266433353
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: Seanus on January 12, 2018, 11:16:46 PM
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1266464335 (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1266464335)
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: gawaterman on January 12, 2018, 11:30:41 PM
Thanks for the replies guys, will try some of those recommendations in the links, but it felt like to me that without ticking the Triple screen button everything looked just perfect, but will continue to experiment.
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: Gratulin on January 13, 2018, 07:51:07 AM
Thanks for the replies guys, will try some of those recommendations in the links, but it felt like to me that without ticking the Triple screen button everything looked just perfect, but will continue to experiment.
That would be correct if you have little or no angle on your side monitors and the game is set to have an angle such as 45 degrees. When you uncheck the Triple option it would look "correct" in that case.
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: RussG on January 13, 2018, 10:08:13 AM
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1267122606 (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1267122606)
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: gawaterman on January 13, 2018, 11:00:16 AM
That would be correct if you have little or no angle on your side monitors and the game is set to have an angle such as 45 degrees. When you uncheck the Triple option it would look "correct" in that case.
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I do have them at 45 deg
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: Seanus on January 13, 2018, 11:29:12 AM
http://www.edracing.com/edr/FOV.php (http://www.edracing.com/edr/FOV.php)
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: Wally on January 13, 2018, 01:47:15 PM
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1267296926
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: Wally on January 13, 2018, 02:01:09 PM
All fairly similar. Seanus has a pretty wide FOV; I have the narrowest. Phil and Russ are pretty similar.
(https://i.imgur.com/JKfJrIj.jpg)
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: grat on January 13, 2018, 02:26:05 PM
All fairly similar. Seanus has a pretty wide FOV; I have the narrowest. Phil and Russ are pretty similar.
(https://i.imgur.com/JKfJrIj.jpg)
Maybe Seanus's monitors are bigger... ;)

BTW: I do not have a picture handy right now, but it used to look like the other ones. The 45 degree angles let me have good vision of both mirrors, but otherwise it is the same as Wally,... maybe Russ's one is the most similar in total, though I had no wheel like the other two.
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: RussG on January 13, 2018, 05:46:59 PM
maybe Russ's one is the most similar in total, though I had no wheel like the other two.

I like having the wheel with this car as it has the rev lights on it  :)
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: grat on January 13, 2018, 06:41:57 PM
maybe Russ's one is the most similar in total, though I had no wheel like the other two.

I like having the wheel with this car as it has the rev lights on it  :)
Yeah, I know... now (that I am using vr ;))
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: gawaterman on January 13, 2018, 07:14:22 PM
So can I assume you guys are still using the TripleScreen app and that I just need to play around with it more?
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: Phil.8 on January 13, 2018, 07:48:12 PM
in the menu settings I changed to triple monitor and in game I put the numbers into the triple screen in game app.

Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: Wally on January 13, 2018, 08:54:11 PM
I think you really have to use triple screen mode - to get the proper perspective on the side monitors, and to allow for any bezel width.
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: Joe on January 13, 2018, 09:02:16 PM
Here is my in game sceenshot:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1267559639

I followed guideline here which Phil gave me about seating and wheel position:
http://obutto.com/information/proper-race-driving-position/

My bezel corrected resolution created by the Nvida control panel is 5940x1080 and you need to make sure you choose that corrected one in AC with triple monitors selected.

My monitor height is so that my eyes are level with the centre of the screen and I sit 70cm from the screen. can't do anything about that due to the rig but the closer the better. There is a calculator for side monitor angle but the rule of thumb is that the should be angled so that the centre of each of the screen is exactly the same distance from your eyes.

In game just load the triple monitor app and punch in the numbers and it will set the correct FOV for your setup. Then for each new car I load the Onboard Settings app and move the drivers eye position so that the top of my steering wheel covers the onscreen wheel. My physical wheel comes about a third of the way up my center monitor.

Here a photo taken in panoramic mode on phone so not pefect but gives the idea:

(https://i.imgur.com/RUC74ywh.jpg)
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: Gratulin on January 14, 2018, 01:03:32 AM
So can I assume you guys are still using the TripleScreen app and that I just need to play around with it more?
I now just measure everything and punch exact numbers into the App. Once I worked out that I had to be exact with the measurements it was easy.
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: Wally on January 14, 2018, 08:50:17 AM
Here's my view with the monitors moved closer and with the correct numbers punched into the triple screen app. Everything is a bit closer looking now compared to my old FOV.

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Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: Phil.8 on January 14, 2018, 03:08:31 PM
How does it seem on track for you now
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: Wally on January 14, 2018, 04:14:40 PM
How does it seem on track for you now
If that question's for me, not really very different. It's only subtly different to what it was before, but cars will be a bit larger and closer now. But with the monitors closer, it's more immersive.
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: Phil.8 on January 14, 2018, 09:26:26 PM
cool
Title: Re: Triple screen confusion
Post by: killagorilla on January 15, 2018, 11:35:02 PM
That's what it looks like with me (3 24" screens at a distance of approx. 540mm, a fourth screen is on top of that):
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