I have a weak stomach, and Minetest & FPS games aren’t healthy for it. How do I minimalize the effects of motion sickness in Minetest so that I can play for the longest time?
Be aware of your surroundings, ie there’s more than the screen around you. Reduce: Mouse sensitivity, animations, (visual) stressors.
What so you mean by “there’s more than the screen around you”? Of course there’s more than the screen around me! How couldn’t it be? Reality isn’t just screens.
As I suspected, reducing animations should help, not counterwise…
Mouse sensitivity low [check] Low animations [gonna do]
What are visual stressors?
I didn’t mean surroundings in a ‘Screens are bad’-way and more in a ‘Sometimes focussing too hard on a screen while not moving yourself can produce motion sickness’-way.
Visual stressors can be mobs, lag (Imagining movement that has not been displayed yet can be nauseating), unfamiliar controls and point of view.
This is not a very grounded list and it is probably not like motion sickness in its intesity is forever.
If I have to move while I play, I guess I’ll have to play only on phone… I’ll have to wait some years until the controls on phone are good…
Thank you about visual stressors! You are being very useful! ^^
- Don’t play fullscreen
- Take gravol
- Slowly build up tolerance
What’s gravol?
I’ll try without full screen, even it being… Small
“Build up tolerance”. It doesn’t work like that.
It actually can work like that, but only to a limited degree.
My wife used to get terrible motion sickness from Minecraft but adapted over time to the point where she can play it at least.
For me the biggest difference in many/most games is adjusting the FoV setting. Higher FoV helps a lot for me. Borderlands in particular defaulted to FoV 75 and was unplayable without adjusting it up to 90-100 instead.
Is there how to change that in Minetest? What’s FoV?
FoV is “field of view”, the angle from left to right of the world as displayed on your monitor. In my experience you want it around 90-100 degrees, but your preference may vary. I think my wife needed it very low along with a low mouse sensitivity while she got used to it.
What’s gravol?
I’ll try without full screen, even it being… Small
“Build up tolerance”. It doesn’t work like that.
Turn down the special effects and take breaks.
I don’t get motion sickness so I don’t really no what else would help
