FFXIV in 3D is AMAZING

[Shipp]

Eyefinity looks very fish-eye camera to me. The clouds and surrounding landscape tilt and swirl towards the middle. Is it that noticeable while you're playing, or is it only something you really pick up in the screen shots?

[Molly_Millions]

Eyefinity looks very fish-eye camera to me. The clouds and surrounding landscape tilt and swirl towards the middle. Is it that noticeable while you're playing, or is it only something you really pick up in the screen shots?

nope no fish eye effect, not even in the screenshots. lol

[Shipp]

nope no fish eye effect, not even in the screenshots. lol

There is definitely warping of the screen in the thumbnail:


It's not as noticeable when I blow it up, but you see the fish-eye effect quite clearly in that picture. The clouds are all stretching to the center, and even the gate of the left hand side is slightly leaning. After blowing them up, I doubt I'd notice it on my monitors, but it's definitely in the thumbnails posted on the last page.

[Molly_Millions]

There is definitely warping of the screen in the thumbnail:


It's not as noticeable when I blow it up, but you see the fish-eye effect quite clearly in that picture. The clouds are all stretching to the center, and even the gate of the left hand side is slightly leaning. After blowing them up, I doubt I'd notice it on my monitors, but it's definitely in the thumbnails posted on the last page.

I still don't really see it, but it might help if you take into account the configuration of the monitors. Generally the two on the sides are angled towards the player a bit, forming sort of a \_/ shape. Maybe what you're noticing is a very slight compensation for that.

[Shipp]

I still don't really see it, but it might help if you take into account the configuration of the monitors. Generally the two on the sides are angled towards the player a bit, forming sort of a \_/ shape. Maybe what you're noticing is a very slight compensation for that.

Ok, that makes sense then. If I printed that picture out and folded the portion that I'm seeing look skewed, it would look normal since it's compensating for seeing it at an angle instead of head-on. Thanks for explaining that!

[Molly_Millions]

Ok, that makes sense then. If I printed that picture out and folded the portion that I'm seeing look skewed, it would look normal since it's compensating for seeing it at an angle instead of head-on. Thanks for explaining that!

Having said all that, mine aren't set up that way (due to a cheap stand) :P I don't really notice when I'm playing though.

[Shipp]

Having said all that, mine aren't set up that way (due to a cheap stand) :P I don't really notice when I'm playing though.

Yeah, like I said, I wouldn't notice while playing after I blew it up and scrolled the screen.

This is mainly what I was talking about though, red line is the horizon line and the black lines show how everything look stretched:


Angling the monitors would fix that though, I didn't stop to think about that. Plus shrinking a picture that spans over three monitors to less than 10 inches is obviously going to show warping like that when it wouldn't be noticeable at full screen.

Edit: Fixing image since I uploaded the wrong one.

[Rydin]

There is definitely warping of the screen in the thumbnail:


It's not as noticeable when I blow it up, but you see the fish-eye effect quite clearly in that picture. The clouds are all stretching to the center, and even the gate of the left hand side is slightly leaning. After blowing them up, I doubt I'd notice it on my monitors, but it's definitely in the thumbnails posted on the last page.

Thats because it isn't a super wide screen view.....
the 2 side monitors are your peripheral vision views.... So the monitors would ideally be angled inward slightly....
When you make it all one screen shot, it looks weird... because your angled side views are now flush with whats in front of you

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I still don't really see it, but it might help if you take into account the configuration of the monitors. Generally the two on the sides are angled towards the player a bit, forming sort of a \_/ shape. Maybe what you're noticing is a very slight compensation for that.

Seriously? did you really have to say exactly what I was saying while I was typing it? You psychic preemptive douche....
Nah, but seriously... thats what it is... I was saying the same thing

[Gramul]

There is definitely warping of the screen in the thumbnail:


It's not as noticeable when I blow it up, but you see the fish-eye effect quite clearly in that picture. The clouds are all stretching to the center, and even the gate of the left hand side is slightly leaning. After blowing them up, I doubt I'd notice it on my monitors, but it's definitely in the thumbnails posted on the last page.

It just has an exaggerated field of view that comes from elongating the screen past the normal size. It's completely normal for any 3D program.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_o...in_video_games