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Can someone explain why devs include FOV-sliders without numbers?!
- Thread starter Zukuu
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I mean, its better than nothing. You need *something* to represent it.
Not that the number itself changes much, since basically any developer seems to come up with their own way to calculate the angle (horizontal? Vertical? Does it "zoom" the camera in or out when you change it? etc, etc).
It should be a standard by now that games that need an FoV slider include them, and that the FoV slider have a number associated with the horizontal degrees at which the player can see.
No Man's Sky, a game that came out in 2016 and has received 16 major updates since then, uses an FoV slider that's a percentage out of 100, where 100% is the cap, and even that ends up being a horizontal FoV of like 60 degrees, so pretty much every PC player still has to change the FoV by other means.
I feel like most PC gamers should have a go-to horizontal FoV number. Mine was determined by Overwatch's cap of 103.
Unless you're saying that the norm in the games you play is for the FoV slider to have a number associated with it.
No Man's Sky, a game that came out in 2016 and has received 16 major updates since then, uses an FoV slider that's a percentage out of 100, where 100% is the cap, and even that ends up being a horizontal FoV of like 60 degrees, so pretty much every PC player still has to change the FoV by other means.
I mean, the standard is horizontal. There's only a few wacky games that have decided to go against the norm.
Who are most people?
I feel like most PC gamers should have a go-to horizontal FoV number. Mine was determined by Overwatch's cap of 103.
What games are you playing? That sounds awful.
Unless you're saying that the norm in the games you play is for the FoV slider to have a number associated with it.
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I guess I should have been more clear. You got it right on the second shot - what the OP is posting is not what I'm used to seeing at all.
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Even in this case (which I have never seen), how does omitting a number ""help""?!
It's bad for ANY slider to not have a number next to it, but especially for FOV you already know "your sweet spot" and don't have to guess.
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to be fair different games use completely different ways of scaling FOV. 90 degrees in tf2 isn't the same as 90 degrees in Overwatch. the number is only useful if you look up the scaling to get it as close as possible to your normal FOV
This. it really varies strongly from engine to engine but it should of course still have some sort of value shown in the settings
personally, outside of games that give you really high FOV (>130 HFOV) I just max out the settings lol. gotta go fast
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A good UX will explain if this is horizontal, vertical or diagonal FOV.
I only play on console, I've never seen any of that explained.
edit, or I've just never noticed!
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It's usually horizontal or mixed.
I've never seen a pure vertical one that I can remember.
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Sometimes, yeah. FOV is one of the very few UI elements that is both a slider and a number, so you suddenly have to up and create a new widget for it for whatever menu UI code you have for that option and only that option. Depending on the time you have available, it can suddenly seem not worth it.
It took us 6 years to put it in Strife. :V
(Well okay it was added in when one of the programmers got bored one day, and the Switch port was finally a good reason to push out a patch for it.)
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Thanks for the input! So there might actually be a reason for it.
I'm curious if you wouldn't be able to just make it like the resolution-option (i.e. you swap through the available options)? That would allow to show the number without needing new UI elements.