Hood View (camera angle)

[Paolosev91]

Polyphony delivered us a lot of updates, many bugs were corrected and so on...
Now, why didn't they change the external view from the roof of the car to the HOOD of the car? It is THE MOST IMPORTANT thing to me, if you want to drive standard cars with a wheel! They don't have cockpit view, so why can't we drive them from the hood?
They are spending a lot of time in solving big problems... this is a very very little one, and can be corrected in... 5 minutes? why don't they do it?
Some cars (very few) already have a hood view and it's very nice to drive from that camera angle with a wheel...
driving from the roof doesn't feel natural with a wheel, don't you think? Driving from the hood isn't the same thing of driving from cockpit view, but there's not so much difference!
I have hundreds of fantastic standard cars that I can't drive because they feel awful with my g25, because of the awful roof view.
Pleas Polyphony fix this, so that we will not need a cockpit view for standard cars!!!! A very simple solution for a very big problem!

 

[exiledfrenchy]

Is it really that easy as you make it out to be? If they did a bonnet view, they would have to model the small part of the bonnet you actually see for every single standard car. If they don't, and the cam is placed at the front, you don't have that much of a difference to the bumper cam.

 

[Menown]

To put a camera on the hood, they would have to program each car so the camera is at the correct height, so hundreds of changes and they would all need testing.

 

[basicchannel]

I can put the PoV on the hood right now in replay. Surely they have this ability as well with their development environment. Also, they've already designed the hood for even standard cars. What do you think you've been looking at?

 

[hsdioce]

I personally like the roof cam, its good for drifting, I can clip the apex of a corner pretty well

 

[JACK_GTR]

I noticed the R33 GTR Skyline has a hood view (well it looks like it to me anyways)

 

[marxlien]

i also hate the roof cam.

 

[Midnight Snacks]

The world may never know.

 

[HumanDestroyah]

I noticed the R33 GTR Skyline has a hood view (well it looks like it to me anyways)

The R33 "Hood/Roof View" is pretty awesome. The other cars with a "hood" view that I can think of off the top of my head are the Mercedes SLS & SLR, and the R32 GT-R.

 

[Paolosev91]

Polyphony could just add the hood view without removing the roof one!
The fact is: I HATE external views... to me, I would only play from cockpit view! It's the most realistic way to play gt5, especially with a good wheel!
Since standard cars lack of cockpit, they could make this hood view available for every car so that people could have fun in driving them, almost like they were premium! (cockpit is better, I know, but if we will get hood view, it means that I will start to use that hundreds of standard cars that I never drive from the first day I bought this beautiful game) only because of the camera angle!

 

[Eezee]

I'm personally having a hard time deciding whether to use the bumper cam or the roof cam. Bumper cam has a nicer hud (which isn't all that important) and you get a really good sense of speed, but with roof mode I can get a much better feel of the car since I can see the outlines of it rather than just being quite sure of where it is with the bumper cam.