How to Optimize Your FOV and Cockpit Camera Settings
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2024
- #schoolofsimracing #iracing
When it comes to in-game settings, these are some of the most important things you need to do correctly. But unfortunately, there is a huge number of drivers that are literally running at a disadvantage because they have the incorrect cockpit camera settings.
So, in this video, I'm going to show you why these settings are so important, and I'm going to walk you through how to set these correctly, for both single and triple monitor setups.
Chapters
00:00 Start
01:59 Why the Correct FOV is so important
05:13 Example: Sense of Speed changes with different FOV
07:05 What you need to do this correctly
09:42 Measuring and calculating the Correct FOV and Angle
12:45 Dialing in your iRacing Camera Settings
20:53 Final Thoughts
26:28 End
Thanks For Watching!
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7 minutes in - I know FOV is important that's why I'm going to find a video that's gets to the fucking point
after days of fiddling around with all the settings i could find, your guide finally helped me to adjust my triples in iracing to absolute perfection. thank you so much. you´re the man. Liked and subscribed.
Honestly the FOV explanation was the simplest most informative and easiest to understand Ive seen yet, the train clip kept it simple and really shows you the consequences of improper settings
This changed my life!!! I'm very nitpicky about having things setup correctly and for the longest time I thought I had my FOV and camera settings set correctly, but something always felt off in each car and I was constantly having to adjust on the fly after stumbling on your video I knew I needed to start over. After following your steps every car feels perfect the view is more realistic and feels great, It literally put a smile on my face. Thanks for taking the time to make this video, anyone who plays iracing needs to watch this its been a game changer for me. Like and subscribed now
I have no shame in admitting that for the first time since I jumped on iRacing in 2011 and got triples 3 years ago I finally have a properly set FOV thanks to you. This is a MUST WATCH for drivers new to iRacing or to triples, so glad I stumbled across this. Thank you, Tommy.
Great video, thank you very much. I am still new to iRacing (6 months), and went through Dave's FOV settings when I started. I think I will go through again and add the other settings you mentioned, and double-check the existing ones. Cheers from New Zealand.
This works so much better than the standard iRacing FOV setup that leaves you with such an odd camera position. I have been following Sampsoid a long time, but I didn't know about his FOV calculator until I watched your video.
Thank you so much. I have been struggling getting into the screen settings all morning and no one else I could find mentioned you had to “pause” the video in order to get the screen to come up.
Thank You for this. Just ran my LM tour race this week and took 10th as the #25 car. This has helped so much.
wow, what a great video! Straight to the point, no mucking around. I had no clue about the offset x, so I gave up on my 46 degree FOV for single monitor, but now I can go back to it.
Excellent video. I'm in iRacing for a week and this changed everything. Having FOV right, horizon set to eye level and individual seating position (car.cam) - i can instantly drive better times and i can do it much more consistently.
The measurements said I need to set things to 180 FOV with a 60 degree angle. That was almost unusable without moving the drivers camera, I lost all the gauges. However tweaking the camera as prescribed really made things pop into place. Great video.
This video was so helpful I had also watched David’s video but the explanations were game changers. It looks and feels so real now
Wow brilliant thanks, just knocked over a second off two combos with out even trying having set this up properly on my triple screen setup. Many Thanks
This really helped me
I got out of rookies as soon as I changed my FOV from your video settings...Thanks man, you have a new subscriber now also
this is probably the most Important information a sim racer could ever need. very nicely done too. thank you
Tommy thank you for this video, picked up a second & I can now see more on the track, Racing Line, Breaking Points ETC.. My FOV was horrible & my angles were off by 20 degrees.
thank you Thomas Brandon you are the greatest help ive had for iracing the fov video ment so much that i have cut a 1.5 off my fastest lap time in all of my cars keep up the good work and ty for the good pointers
Thanks Tommy, this is a great video. I recently moved my rig and revisited this video to make sure my settings were good.
Tommy this video has helped me in two ways I actually see stuff on the track more and see my lines better also has cut time off my laps by 2 whole seconds so thank you for the great content you put out to make us all better drivers.
Oh holy crap! This is an excellent explanation/tutorial. Thank you, Tommy.
At the end when you stated getting your irating pumped up in the mx5 on rookies, I subbed immediately !!
Holy Shit brother you literally just changed my whole racing experience!! I’ve been fighting FOV forever, I’ve watched 15 vids on this subject to NO avail!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Thanks man I forgot when I changed from a DIY desk to a Next Level Racing unit that my screen was now moved so I was off by 11° it changed so much now it feels correct again.
All FOV calculators I've tried have recommended an FOV far too narrow. This app suggested 56° and my comfortable FOV is 85-90, depending on the sim 😂 If I used the recommended setting it would feel like the camera was zoomed in and the rotation point would be messed up. It would also cause me motion sickness.
In my 20+ years simracing I've had everything from small single screens, to triples, to VR and now a super ultrawide. I've tried all the FOV calculators there are and never found a settings that felt correct. I think the issue is they are trying to calculate a correct FOV for a 3d space while working with a 2d medium.
At the end of the day set what feels natural and comfortable to you. Be extra careful with these calculators if you are susceptible to motion sickness.
It really slowed the game down for me like holy smokes. I'm on a single 32" curved and it was a little goofy but just after 4 laps I already beat my fastest lap time. Thank you!
I’m definitely going to have to try this out once I get back in the states next week! It’s been 9 months since I got to race.
Thanks for this, I was having trouble with my turn in points and this really helped.
I'm a big fan of running with a mathematically correct FOV but it is worth noting that for single screen users it's only really practical if you have a large screen that's very close to you.
100%.
Thank you very much I've been doing I sim racing for quite a years but it was all in VR , and I had a three years break , I return to Sim racing about month ago and I decided to do it on monitor, never pay the attention to dial everything like you said in your video, well but curiosity took over today and I did everything like in your video, well my friend it's improved my lap times by half a second in 30 minutes practice I stopped missing apexes, it's still very strange but I know I'm gonna get used to it and it works thank you
Thank you for clearly explaining this and especially how to do the x offset, couldn't figure that out..
I’ve been racing in VR for over two years now and told myself I would never go back to 2D flat screen racing. I watched this video and after accepting the fact that that less fov is better in some cases. This is one of them. I knocked nearly 1 second off my fastest time at Watkins Glen boot configuration and setting fastest lap time for the session on lap 3, I knew I was on to something! Like you said, game changer for sure!
Great video, Tommy! Went from 180 FOV to 165 while bringing my eye from 36" away to 26.5" by pulling the monitor stand away from the wall by 6-8". And guess what...I chopped off 1/2 sec at Mosport in the Merc GT3!
I also had the other settings at 0% as you had said early last year.
Great video. Good presentation and information.
Super thx for the settings. Great work
Dude what the hell?!?! How am I just finding this channel!! God love you.
Thank you for this!
Glad i watched this its made a big difrence for me, thanks
hey tommy i changed everthing just like you said in the video n ran a19.224 at williams grove. my previous fast lap was like 19.7332. so big difference with just changing the fov
Never knew the depth of FOV, thank you for sharing.
When you talked about lining up the vanish Y setting, does the red line need to be eye level, not sure about that step.
When saving the setup for a specific car does it stay saved or you loose when you change for different cars ??
Great info 👍
Hi Tommy! Thanks for your vids they have helped me a bunch! But.. The fov calc single 32inch monitor is coming back with 50°. It feels like I'm sitting on the front wing. Thoughts?
Best FOV video I ever watched. But you don’t mention how important the distance from your eyes to the monitor is. Is closer always better? I would think the closer you can get, the more it will feel slowed down and help you hit your marks more easily when driving.
I can’t wait to do this to my triple monitor iRacing setup. (Still waiting for the monitor stand to arrive). Thank you!
very good video now could you or do you have a video on how to set up the live stream view how do you have yours set up?
Good video! But shouldnt you set orient P to zero before setting vanish y?
I'll give this a try
I've been a VR racer for a few years now and thought I'd never have to set up triples again despite always having them....I've recently decided to set them up again for endurance racing when VR can get quite uncomfortable....especially during summer months....and I'm going to be watching this video whist setting them up again....i only have 24inch (may upgrade to 27inch in new year if I can get on with screen racing again) monitors....can I still get a decent experience with these after being in VR for so long? I have the ability to have my screens right behind my wheel and in front of my wheel base or should I have it a little further back...i.e just above my wheel base?
A big thing that helped me out, especially before when I had a smaller single monitor than I do now, was go drive around the block in my real car and just notice proximity to different things. Then go back to the sim to try to feel out the similarities.
Not being an ass but I was getting confused why all these cars felt sooo different. Problem is race cars don’t feel anything like your normal car in many aspects. Unless you have a GT car at home.
@@alexsp7086 My daily is a car thats in production car challenge so that helps, but it’s less about the cockpit and more about the surroundings.
Thank you Sir
Amazing video, and what a difference to the graphics and visuals. Now feels as if I am truly there! Only issue is my FPS has now dropped from 120 to 53. I run a 3090RTX with an i9 i9-12900k Hexadeca Core Processor and ASUS Z690 ROG Maximus Hero D5 ATX motherboard. Any advice?
Hi Tommy, quick question, have you tried trackir? How would it impact fov settings? Hope I can get some input, love the videos.
Thanks!
My single screen is 57 inches wide and i am 55 inches from it. I was measuring ‘width’ wrong it seems and was using the diagonal size in terms of what a screen is advertised as being. I was using 65” and my FOV was 61 but now with the correct width it is 55. Should I bother reducing my FOV from 61 to 55? Will it make a difference?
Hey Tommy
After following though your awesome setup guide, my dash is now out of focus. This only happened after setting my fov in the camera part.
I run triple 27s and my fov works out at 156. Do you have any tips.
Cheers Todd
Hello, could you help me with a question? I would like to be able to open the image of the side monitors a bit, I have curved monitors and it gives me the feeling that the car doors are very close, what command is there in iracing to be able to solve it? Thank you.
Thanks for this video. I'm coming from VR, and trying to adjust my new 3x32" 1000R setup. And I'm struggle. Will this "numbers" work even on curved screen? Especially that curved (1000R). How do you measure angle properly om curved screens?
One question.
Curved monitor do they up the fov comparing to flat monitor ? (With same size etc)
Thx
I can finally wrap my heads around it.
So you have to do this for every car you use in the game with the camera edit and save it for that car and so on for every car and what do you bye bezel width
Great video, thanks for the information. What would be the optimal screen size in your opinion for a triple screen setup?
Honestly it's all about your budget and what you wanna spend. But I would say the best bang for your buck is gonna be the 27" monitors. That's what I have and I love them.
@@TommyBrandon Thank you for your reply
What about for guys and gals who use visuals while racing like shift lights on the wheel? With settings like these I wouldn't have the in game shift lights or any of the dash. Just curious because I want correct field of view but still want to be able to see my dash. I run more road racing then I do oval and I don't race dirt at all right now if that matters. Thanks in advance for any responses from anyone.
i dont get why cut Vanish y in a half. if i do that it became wrong again. using 23.12 in vanish now to became flat. there is any benefit in cut it in a half?? i dont understand that part
Hi Tommy, what about single monitors that are quite far from the seat ? Calculating my FOV it tells me that it should be 32 degrees, despite using a 43 inches monitor. Of course in this way the track feels much compressed and far from real size/proportions, and the sense of speed is also of course ridiculously slow. Is the only option to get the screen closer to the seat ? If this can’t be done, is there any FOV degrees limit I shouldn’t go below regardless the distance ?
I would say 45 fov would be the min.
what if you have a curved screen . I'm using the Samsung g9 ?
I only get a red line on my center monitor. Help me understand
You do not have to use external fov calculator. ig calculator gives you the same results. and camera settings is only for tweaking the view for each car without changing the fov.
How do u get the dash black box on screen with rpms etc.? I haven't been able to figure it out? Someone told me it's the V key but it doesn't work
just press D on your keyboard
Hey Tommy - I changed my fov for the super formula and now I can’t check left or right. The correct fov also eliminates my side mirrors so not being able to see what’s going on around me is tough sleddings. I just see the black head brace. Any advice on this?
what about for an ultrawide curved monitor?
This was the biggest issue I had when I started. I switched my setting and gained at least .250 on every dirt track.
I can only drive in VR now. Does this apply to VR?
Thanks, this Raymond R Barcomb
@tommy brandon
Do you have any settings for Assetto Corsa Competzione?
the x offset setting a -0.250 isnt to great for single monitor if you need to look left and right, all you can see is the drivers seat / headrest. any tips for single monitor?
I played around with it. -0.080 seems to be pretty good for single monitor
Can you do this with nvidia surround ??
When you do it for each car, do you have to save it as Carcam F1, Carcam Ferrari, Carcam F3 etc etc or is it always just saved as the CarCam default?
Just save each car as car.cam, they are saved in separate folders relating to each car model so same name is ok to use. For testing purposes you could always save more than one set up by using a different name alongside the car.cam, for example high.cam, low.cam etc etc. Each version will be saved in the folder for that car.
I tried this with the mx5 and it doesn't move the head forward or back it moved it side to side. none of the settings move it fwd or back.
So on my single monitor I just reduced my FOV from 60 down to about 45 and gained a second on my nordschlieffe lap time.
Also noticed that it is WAY easy to judge apexes when sizes click in my brain.
I rely on the car's dash gauges most, and am a controller driver primarily (multi purpose pc), I'll give this a shot but when I tried iRacing's in-session calculator, that was the issue I had - no gauges...
Please do everyone a favor get a wheel/pedal combo
I run an ultra wide 49” but in the FOV calculator it’s not telling me to select multi projection. What do you recommend?
@JoshSmith-qm9yc why would it the names on the tin "multi projection" means more than one screen as in triple screen you're using one screen so it won't be avaliable
hey mate thanks for the video..do you do 1 on 1 coaching for dirt oval ? need to get some guidence
This only works for iracing?
We need this for ACC please 🙏🏼
Does this work for acc?
for me its kinda impossible. i only have 1 screen and when i put everything in, i should race at 48° fov. i cant even see my hood anymore with that settings. i even did the thing with putting the camera more to the back. impossible to drive with 1 screen...
does this work for triple curve monitors?
you say you have 32 inch monitors and then put in 22 as the width. A 32 inch monitor is generally 28 inches wide, was this a mistake?
I am curious how this applies to a VR headset setup
my fov went from 78 to 48 and it was undrivable i was at the corner b4 i new it everything was coming to me much faster HELP PLS ?
What about a single curved display that calculator doesn’t include that
I understand how correct fov should be optimal, but on a single screen (unless maybe 32:9) I think it hurts more than it helps. You literally cant see the apexes and exits of the corners
im in vr and settings are sometimes unable to be changed
vr fov cannot be changed because the screen size and position are fixed.
If you have a curved monitor how should you measure your screen
Bit late but it's safe to assume you would measure from the middle of the screen to your eye since that is what you look at, as for the length across you can just google the length
15:03 For me it's Alt-F12 to get the camera controls, Ctrl-F12 does nothing for me. I guess I'm just not that into it.
How about us using VR any advice on fov for us?
VR fov cannot be changed, but the screen size and position are fixed.
I'm not sure how useful that calculator is for someone like me. I have a Samsung 49" ultrawide monitor with a 1000r curve. The ingame calculator supports config of heavily curved monitors, the site you pointed to does not seem to.
with a curved, you probably will be better off using the iracing one since it takes that into consideration
With a curved monitor, you measure to the chord of the radius, not the arc. Put masking tape horizontally from bezel to bezel at eye level and measure to the tape. That's the chord and viewing distance.
Many threads about setting up a 49" as triples. I have my 49" set as triple 15.8" monitors wt 0.0 bezel width.
@@71datsun1 interesting, thanks for that info.
i use 3 32" curved with 1800r and i have not found on loine fov calculator that takes this into account and iracing does a good job of taking the curve into account i have zero warping on my setup , though it does say FOV of 135 but i just adjusted the z and x on camera view to compensate
@@71datsun1 I know this is months later, but do you have any links to the threads you mention? Thanks!
So do I understand you correctly? The settings in this video were made for the Trible setup. The same settings also apply to the single setup??? That doesn't matter at all??, right
same settings apply in single monitor.
@@TommyBrandon Hey Thommy, thank you very much for the feedback and sorry that I'm so late in getting back to say thank you... I watched your 4-part setting tutorial, tried to understand it and implemented it. A deviant, good driving feeling after the conversion.
I can certainly address you again if I have further questions about "perfect", visual adjustments???
Blimey I actually thought this was Stephen Walters the actor
Is David Tucker wrong from iRacing ? This is a quote from a 2023 post "In the camera tool your not driving so you can set it however you want. However if you screen shotted it, then jumped into the car, you would see it reverted to however the FOV calculator is set. In fact as soon as you close the camera tool it reverts to the FOV calculator.
The camera tool is really an internal tool that I cleaned up and exposed to everyone. It has some quirks and this is one of them."
This video would be very informative if it was half the length, cutting down the fill-words and sentences. 8/10