Attention movie and wallpaper makers!

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Originally Posted by Average Joe

Yes! The 'fat-and-wide' head-on battleship pics look more realistic than stock BB'! Very neat.

That IS a stock BB

See, the reason they don't look like that in the default game is that the default game has a fairly wide, even slightly bent FOV, which doesn't really give you a sense of scale. Pictures you see of real BB's, on the other hand, are generally taken by pro photographers who know how to use the right lens to give a sense of scale.

Yea, I, too, was amazed at how good they look too. For comparison - they're taken with a 10 degree FOV (default is 75). That's roughly the equivalent of the UZO's zoom. :hmm:

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KS:
http://simhq.com/_air3/air_116a.html

The SimHQ guide is actually using IL-2 as an example, and I might even recommend you try your hand at IL-2 movies if you feel like it - IL-2 is MUCH more movie-making friendly than SHIII (because it has better camera controls and a great replay feature).

In SHIII though, most of the same things apply except that you learn to improvise as you go.
I use the payware version of Fraps; but you can get away with using the trial one, or, like Type941, you can even use the older Fraps 1.9, but there's some tricks to using it effectively which Type941 probably knows more about than me. I actually prefer Fraps 1.9's smoother frame rate, but it only shoots the top-left side of the screen, making things a little tricky...