Someone over on Reddit posted this gif which does showcase an interesting point in alternative projection. The gif below shows comparison from 90 up to 220 FOV with the different approaches, the upper one being traditional.
http://i.minus.com/izHG7M9E62sL2.gif
This could do a lot for Virtual Reality most likely.
How does the current FOV work in UE4?
22 views and not a single comment on this pretty awesome technique…I miss the beta forums now… ._.
This isn’t Reddit. I’m sure when someone has something to say, they will.
To my knowledge UE4 supports the standard parallel projection and the ortho projection (at least in the editor). Other projections result in curving the edges of triangles. The GPU doesn’t have support for curved triangles so the only safe way to do this for wild projections is to render something like a cubemap and then apply the projection to the cubemap. As for VR, UE4 renders a larger parallel projection field of view, and then applies a warp to the output. This is part of the reason it is suggested to use some amount of screen percentage (150% is common) to super-sample a little to get a higher quality warp. The center is typically more under-sampled after the warp, while the edges are more over-sampled.