Monitor Distance

[Keyinator]

How does the calculation with monitor distance work and what does "Match at XY" mean in that case?

[DPI Wizard]

Check out the video on the front page if you haven't

 

[Keyinator]

Helped me alot.

But how would you compare viewspeed to monitor distance and 360°? (from one calculation it matched arround 60% Monitor Distance. Is this right?)

[DPI Wizard]

Viewspeed v1 is around 70% monitor distance, and viewspeed v2 is around 75% monitor distance but changes a lot when converting between different aspect ratios.

The difference with the viewspeed conversion is that they change a little bit depending on your conversion, while monitor distance is fixed.

[Drimzi]

Edited January 28, 2018 by Drimzi

[Skwuruhl]

On 1/9/2018 at 8:24 PM, Drimzi said:

Viewspeed v2 doesnt care how wide your monitor is, it will give the same result regardless as the image within the 1:1 portion of the screen is unchanged. The monitor distance method on the other hand is going to depend entirely on your monitor size, as it is a percentage of the width. Someone with a 4:3 monitor is going to get drastically different results compared to someone else with triple 21:9 monitors.

This is why I would prefer doing distance match in terms of vertical just like Battlefield does. It makes it so 133% match is always the same thing just like 73.34 vertical FOV is always the same. Wizard already made their videos and stuff with horizontal though so I don't expect it to be changed.

Regardless you can get around this by converting between "resolution base distance match" and "16:9 distance match" or whatever you want. An example to achieve 75% 16:9 match with a 16:10 monitor:

16/9*0.75 = 16/10*x

x = 0.83

or with a 21:9 monitor:

16*0.75 = 21*x

x = 0.57

The calculator has a dropdown of 5% increments so you'd either have to round to the nearest %, do your own calculations based on 100%, or @DPI Wizard would have to change it from a dropdown to text box thing

 

Also worth pointing out that any given match distance is a matched circle with the given radius. Examples with 25% horizontal:

Not the best examples since I didn't bother to line the circles up with an enemy but still show what I mean.

Edited January 13, 2018 by Skwuruhl

[DPI Wizard]

7 minutes ago, Skwuruhl said:

The calculator has a dropdown of 5% increments so you'd either have to round to the nearest %, do your own calculations based on 100%, or @DPI Wizard would have to change it from a dropdown to text box thing

It's a dropdown because it would probably confuse a lot of people even more if it was an empty box. But I'm almost done with a simple mode of the calculator, so I'll make it an input box in the advanced mode.

[Skwuruhl]

4 minutes ago, DPI Wizard said:

It's a dropdown because it would probably confuse a lot of people even more if it was an empty box. But I'm almost done with a simple mode of the calculator, so I'll make it an input box in the advanced mode.

You could have it default to 75% (since that's what CS:GO and Battlefield use) or 0% (CoD and Titanfall) in greyed out text like you do with default FOV.

[DPI Wizard]

Just now, Skwuruhl said:

You could have it default to 75% (since that's what CS:GO and Battlefield use) or 0% (CoD and Titanfall) in greyed out text like you do with default FOV.

That's exactly what I've done

Here's the simple mode:

Hoping to launch this tomorrow.