How convert to camera FOV from diagonal FOV?

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Hey all. I need to set the camera’s FOV to a certain value, but that value is given to me as the ‘diagonal FOV’. And Unity’s cameras FOV is ‘vertical FOV’. So I need to do this conversion. I realize it means using the aspect ratio, right? or somehow getting the view frustum?
Does anyone know the formula for this?

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I believe this should work, its just some trigonometry:

var diagonalFOV : float = 100;
private var camAspect : float;
private var diagonalRatio : float;
private var verticalFOV : float;

function Start () {
	camAspect = camera.aspect;
	diagonalRatio = Mathf.Sqrt(1 + Mathf.Pow(camAspect, 2));
	verticalFOV = (Mathf.Atan(Mathf.Tan(diagonalFOV*(Mathf.Deg2Rad/2.0))/diagonalRatio))*Mathf.Rad2Deg*2;
	
	camera.fieldOfView = verticalFOV;
}

I have tested this so it doesn’t give errors though I’m unable to test if it is the correct output angle, so hopefully my maths is correct!

Scribe