Calculate Angle of View
This calculator will give you the correct distance for your monitor to use the most realistic view.
About
The Pickup Sport UK mod cockpit view's are based on the default NR2003 widescreen viewing angle of approx 65°. What is presented to you on screen as the cockpit view is realistic if you work on the theory that the monitor screen is window into the world you are viewing. In other words if you sit in the cockpit of a car and hold a piece of paper paper infront of you in the same position as your monitor, the part of your view obscured by the paper, is what we present to you in the mod's cockpit view (if you subscribe to iRacing, you'll understand this method already). But the view is not the conventional wide one so will take some getting used to.
This is not the same unobstructed view you get in real life and like the fisheye view presented by default in NR2k3 (and many mods), which is a nice looking, but innacurate simulation of the virtual world view, these mods show the full view from the cockpit based on unobscured 100+ degrees view - but you're looking through a "window" rather than having an unobscured view, so, in order to increase immersion, the viewing angle needs to be correct for the size of monitor versus the distance it is from your face, the mod was built for use on a 24" monitor sitting 416mm from the users face with a little bit of wiggle angle, your setup is unlikely to be the same. Because in NR2k3 we cannot alter the field of view angle much (and not at all on widescreen resolutions), the alternative it to move the monitor, or at least position properly, if you google "kinetic depth perception" and have a read about it and how the brain uses it, we are trying to achieve accuracy for this, which they other mods don't convey too well because of the unrealistic wide field of view.
How to use
Measure the viewing area of your monitor left to right and enter it in box 2 (Horizontal), do the same for the top to bottom measurement and enter it in Box 3 (Vertical) and measure the top left to bottom right diagonal distance and enter that in Box 4 (Diagonal).
In Box 1, enter the distance away from you your monitor presently is, sit in your chair and measure the distance from your nose to the monitor (or get someone else to, that's much easier), click Calculate - if the Angle of View result is within the region of 60-65° then basically don't do anything unless you're really hardcore and want it perfect, as it's about as good as it'll get.
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