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Originally Posted by irR4tiOn4L

What have pin and barell distortion to do with flat screen monitors and games? Or are you SERIOUSLY suggesting that I should be paying attention to the fact that most CRT monitors display a small amount of distortion due to the way the electron gun propagates light onto the (these days flat) glass screen?

Oh, and - is a lower fov a zoomed image or not?

you need to understand the difference between capturing an image (photography) and displaying an image on a screen (projection) as decsribed before with regard to the virtual world on a two dimensional surface




and ahhh, yes - your CRT monitor...

Originally Posted by irR4tiOn4L

It is indeed a LOT harder, and I suspect harder still given that I am using a CRT which tend to have very dark blacks. Spotting a series of black dots/shapes against a dark blue background on a dark monitor is a challenge to say the least, but I also suspect its about practice spotting which I lack, given that offline missions tend to be much more straightforward.