Line of sight : Vietnam, surround gaming

[drslump]

Hi,

I rode somewhere that this game mentions Parhelia's surround gaming explicitly on its docs.

Does it make a "fov" transform, like on the Parhelia's surround gaming SDK, or it just expands among the 3 screens like Quake 3?

cheers,
Ivan

[KeiFront]

I havent' tried it in surround gaming yet. But I will give it a try later this day or in the weekend.

From the readme.txt:
"Line of Sight: Vietnam supports custom video modes through a command-line interface. If you have a Matrox Parhelia video card and three monitors you can set up the game so it displays on all three monitors in an extreme widescreen view. To do this use the "-w" and "-h" command-line parameters to specify the exact X and Y resolution. You can add these parameters to the shortcut that starts the game easily."

[drslump]

Hi,

I just installed the game and borrowed the monitor from my brother's PC (he's gonna kill me when he finds out ).
The game is awesome, a bit difficult though but it rocks online.
When in surround gaming it works like UT2k3 or Q3, it's just a 3 times wider screen so no fancy fov algos

I hope someone will do a patch for a popular FPS to use that special fov settings. I just love how the Matrox SDK Surround gamming example looks like

ciao, ivan

[GNEP]

Serious Sam SE now does multiple viewports if that's what you mean...

[drslump]

In case somebody don't know what the "special fov" looks like here is a link to the Matrox demo :

http://developer.matrox.com/content/lev1/zip/MatroxCurvilinearDemo.zip

they called the effect "curvilinear fov". It does run on a single head setup if you wanna check it but don't have 3 monitors.

ciao, ivan