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"Reducing stretch in high-FOV games using barrel distortion"

by Daniel Buckmaster · in Torque 3D Professional · 01/20/2015 (4:09 pm) · 3 replies

Just found this artice on the gamedev subreddit. I've always noticed Torque has problems with distortion around the corners; this might just be the default FOV settings, but it might be nice to keep a high FOV without the visual artifacts. Wonder if anyone's interested in porting this effect to T3D!
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    Duion
    #1
    01/20/2015 (5:00 pm)
    Didn't notice this as an issue so far, but Torques default FOV is very small, I think it is 60 or so.

    Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
    T3D Steering Committee
    #2
    01/20/2015 (9:23 pm)
    Actually you're totally right - I defaulted it to higher in t3d-bones, and that's what I'm remembering haha. The small FOV works better for the tiny windowed version the engine starts in by default.

    Duion
    #3
    01/21/2015 (4:04 am)
    You can set it slightly higher and it still is fine, but after a certain number it starts distorting very heavy.
    Some games today have FOV from 90-110 and those are indeed not very nice in Torque.