BF109 - Can't we just have the gunsight in the middle?

[Buzpilot]

This is not possible, even with two eyes.
Reading this thread (and this forum, and others) makes me think about that guy that was hypnotized to think Porche 911 was faster than any other car (Top gear), you guys are hilarious

Would be better to just make it possible to save a default view for each plane, userfriendly is a key here.
And Shift F1, loosening the straps should not restrict view at all, not realistic.

I would even like it to be possible to save config on each plane.
Using a throttle quadrant, and have to reprogram axis from water to oil radiators each time when changing between some planes is very unpractical

[Lixma]

Originally Posted by Buzpilot

This is not possible, even with two eyes.

You heard it here first.

Stereoscopic vision is impossible. Even with two eyes.

[Buzpilot]

Originally Posted by Lixma

You heard it here first.

Stereoscopic vision is impossible. Even with two eyes.

Stereoscopic vision don't put something inside the sight, to the front window, unless you have your left eye to right of your right eye?

Originally Posted by Buzpilot

Stereoscopic vision don't put something inside the sight, to the front window, unless you have your left eye to right of your right eye?

Someone needs to go back time and tell the Luftwaffe that their sighting system is flawed! They need to know this! Also I'm going to send an email to the department of defense to let them know that their Apache pilots are using a useless aiming device.

[Buzpilot]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

Someone needs to go back time and tell the Luftwaffe that their sighting system is flawed! They need to know this! Also I'm going to send an email to the department of defense to let them know that their Apache pilots are using a useless aiming device.

Ok, I see the Apache pilots stole vision sights from the Lufwaffles?
And Luftwaffles used one on each eye, thats what your telling me?

[Wolf_Rider]

what he meant was "binocular vision". The brain doesn't magically create the l/h half of the reticule, but it does do the (Apache pilot vision) overlay thing quite effectively, same with photography.

the same lack of which made great brouhaha over "the bar"

[Redroach]

Originally Posted by Buzpilot

This is not possible, even with two eyes.

Oh, this is very possible. Just ingest copious amounts of hallucinogens prior to climbing into your plane!

[SQB]

That post before with the two images showing the two eyes, open them in two browser windows, put the right eye on the left and the left eye on the right, makes sure the windows are fairly small and you are sitting a little further back from the screen and the go sort of cross eyed (as if looking at something a lot closer) and then you will ACTUALLY see in 3D what the pilot would have seen if his eyes were there.

Result: You have placed the eyes too far apart, but also, you can see the gunsight AND out the front windscreen. It seems you guys are right! It doesn't look like that picture you keep posting though, impossible to simulate 3d on 2d properly...

[Lixma]

Originally Posted by SQB

You have placed the eyes too far apart...

The 'Right Eye' image is spot on. The fully visible reticle is proof of that. (assuming the dev team have got their measurements correct).

The 'Left Eye' image is a bit of a guess. I had no gauge to measure how far I should shift the view-point to the left with the mouse to accurately recreate what the left eye would, in isolation, see. It doesn't matter so much, though. The picture was illustrative rather than scientific.

....but also, you can see the gun-sight AND out the front windscreen.

That's what I have been attempting to demonstrate (with varying degrees of success ).

It doesn't look like that picture you keep posting though, impossible to simulate 3d on 2d properly...

It's not an attempt to simulate 3D.

It's a simulation of how the Revi reticle would appear to a real 109 pilot with both eyes open.

Currently CoD simulates a Cyclops with one eye open, looking bang down the centreline of the aircraft.

Because of this unfortunate but necessary Cyclopean view we have had, for a decade now, a work-around; the Shift-F1 view.

More recently Track-IR has enabled the player to lean to the right and achieve a similar result. Unfortunately people are mistaking this as reality. People really do think Shift-F1 simulates what a 109/190 pilot had to do just to see their gun-sight.

[Wolf_Rider]

Thanks for being clearer on what you were trying to get across...


some were thinking, if only half the reticule is seen, only half the reticule gets overlayed, hence some of the difficulty you had.