--fov Is Being Ignored?

[mattathin 0]

I'm currently running FlightGear 3.0.0 and using it to run 8 slave computers that use individual projectors to project their image onto a large wrap-around display. I'm using simple batch files to start up FlightGear on each slave. I think I have done all the correct steps and everything seems to be working well except for the fact that the field of view for each image that I have set a specific value for has been ignored and has defaulted to 55 degrees (causing overlapping between all the edges). It seems that when "--fdm=external" (or "--fdm=null") is inputed the "--fov=xx.x" is ignored because I tested it excluding "--fdm=external" and the images were all perfectly calibrated but when you try to fly, each slave goes haywire because "--fdm=external" has to be on. The slaves require different --fov values since the projectors are various distances away from the screen. Any suggestions on what I can do to fix this problem? Thanks.

 

Below is an example batch file of one of the slaves:

C:/Program Files/FlightGear/bin/Win64/fgfs.exe ^

  --fg-root=C:/Program Files/FlightGear/data ^

  --fg-scenery=C:/Program Files/FlightGear/data/Scenery;C:/Program Files/FlightGear/scenery;C:/Program Files/FlightGear/terrasync ^

  --aircraft=f-14b ^

  --control=joystick ^

  --disable-random-objects ^

  --prop:/sim/rendering/random-vegetation=false ^

  --disable-panel ^

  --disable-sound ^

  --disable-hud-3d ^

  --disable-ai-models ^

  --disable-ai-traffic ^

  --disable-real-weather-fetch ^

  --enable-fullscreen ^

  --geometry=1920x1080 ^

  --bpp=32 ^

  --disable-terrasync ^

  --disable-fgcom ^

  --fdm=external ^

  --native-fdm=socket,in,60,,5511,udp ^

  --native-ctrls=socket,in,60,,5512,udp ^

  --fov=50.2 ^

  --prop:/sim/view/config/heading-offset-deg=65.4 ^

  --prop:/sim/view/config/pitch-offset-deg=11.1 

[RichardH 0]

For the F-14 the default fov is also defined in the *-set.xml (or f14-common.xml on the latest version)

 

Look for the following in the f-14b directory:

 

<default-field-of-view-deg>55</default-field-of-view-deg>

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