Fixing distorted virtual mirrors

[villes]

I'm not sure if this has been posted before but yesterday during the club race someone said he was interested. With GP79, my virtual mirrors look scaled and I can't really judge the distance of cars behind me. The solution is to replace the mirror.bmp file that every car in rFactor has. To do this:

• open Paint
• go to Image > Attributes
• change the image size to 2048x128 pixels
• save it as mirror.bmp
• move it to rFactor/GameData/Vehicles (because that's where 79common.mas is located)

It will mess up your regular mirrors though (which can be fixed too but require a lot more work).

[Jos Swarthoff]

I don't have any mirror.bmp in my rfactor folder. :S

also, how do I turn off my real mirrors while keeping on my virtual, they seem connected...

[villes]

I don't know if you can turn off the real mirrors. And you had to move the mirror.bmp file to rFactor/GameData/Vehicles. There's no mirror.bmp there before you move it there (it's actually in 79common.mas).

[Frank Oreskov]

Thank you very much for sharing the info on how to fix the virtual mirrors, that helped a lot

Frank

[Chris Goetz]

Thanks that helped to judge distance in the mirror and provides for much more safety.
Still a little off my actual FOV though.


However after following this tutorial there's a problem with Paint... now:

When a smaller picture was inserted and saved, it was saved with its original measurements. Now there's these measurements forced (2048x128 or if you put it on standard 960x540). Which means I get a huge white frame around the right and/or bottom side.

Please someone tell me how to change Paint's settings back to original, so the size fits the inserted picture automatically when saving it.

Thanks!

EDIT:
As a temporary workaround, pressing "Cutting" under "Image" removes the white background.