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done this before but now can't find it, so... posting this so i can find it again from an old remedy talk. max payne level design scale. his house before and after they realised you can't just build shit at real-life scale and expect it to work as a level. i am always pulling this out for folks

a lot of folks think this is strictly a third person camera accommodation but it isn't (though that is always a factor when you make that type of game), and it also isn't just about movement speed or pace or anything to do with what type of game you're making, it's "3d space on flat screen" problems

Can you say more about your experience with this realistic scaling? What is happening?

Could you make like the camera "smaller" like an eye somehow?

Camera will basically have only field of view which you control, other than that - it's just a geometric shape that defines what will be seen by player. It all comes down to the size of the stuff you see.

also has absolutely nothing to do with visual style. doesn't matter how realistic you're going

funniest version of this I can recall was in gears of war, where the handles were about at cole's head height

There must be a more technical term but I call it "subjective fov". we don't normally realize how, optically, we have a massive fov, enhanced by the fact that our brain accumulates information over time. But we can also selectively zoom in on things.

I believe this is why on certain scenarios, even 4K resolutions at living room distance may seem insufficient when they generally should be. I wonder what would happen if we brought foveated rendering to flat screens.

And more to your point, I wonder if room scale problems could be fixed with panini projection.