[REL] Free Cam Tweak

[CCIP]

Want to make cool screenshots like this? :D

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p301/myspb2006/c01-2.jpg
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p301/myspb2006/c03-2.jpg

Free Cam Tweak

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/downloads.php?do=file&id=1554

Features:
-Reduces "clip" distance (allows free cam to get closer to the subs and ships)
-Removes terrain clipping (allows camera to travel through buildings/coastlines)

Now available in two versions - one with a narrow (45) FOV as above, and one with the default SHV (75) FOV.


A very quick-and-dirty tweak, with credit to skwasjer for his silent3ditor tool. Just hoping to save people a little time and digging around files, and help them make nice screenies :)

[Sailor Steve]

Well, now I have two SH5 mods, and may not even get to play it for a few months.
:rotfl2:

Thanks Charlie Charlie India Papa.

[JotDora]

Very nice!

Thanks for the mod!! :)

Greetings from Germany

JotDora

[skwasjer]

So S3D still works? Probably not on all files though... I must warn everybody to not assume S3D is safe to use on any file it 'seems to open'. I cannot confirm the entire file structure is the same, I expect it not to be for several reasons.

But if it works after testing your mod, well then, lucky you! :D

:yeah:


[edit] Just noticed, two controllers in your file have their definition changed it seems, as they can no longer be parsed. Ah the fun begins... let's hope not too many controllers have changed :O:

[Faelon]

Your efforts are truly appreciated but could you release the mod without messing with the FOV?

[CCIP]

So S3D still works? Probably not on all files though... I must warn everybody to not assume S3D is safe to use on any file it 'seems to open'. I cannot confirm the entire file structure is the same, I expect it not to be for several reasons.

But if it works after testing your mod, well then, lucky you! :D

:yeah:


[edit] Just noticed, two controllers in your file have their definition changed it seems, as they can no longer be parsed. Ah the fun begins... let's hope not too many controllers have changed :O:

Yep, S3D works in principle on the same old file formats. However some new controllers have been introduced and there seems to be a whole new file format (which I suspect comes out of their use of Granny3D). However old .sim/.dat/.cam files are still very much openable.

Will update the tweak shortly, but if anyone wants to do it for themselves - S3D is your friend here :yep:

[kylania]

Your efforts are ruly appreciated but could you release the mod without messing with the FOV?

seconded! :)

[sergei]

Good work CCIP :up:

[McHibbins]

Sry doesn´t work for me...

Can´t get the whole external camera to work. F2 doesn´t work. Don´t know why but it seems that SH5 doesn´t backup the realism panel.

[DaWu]

mod without FOV messing plz

[CCIP]

Sorry for the delay guys - updated. You may now choose two versions of the file (in the same zip) - one with narrow FOV, one with SHV default.

[dagamecat]

Thanks CCIP, definitely a download for me now.

[CCIP]

There is a chance of clipping-related glitches with the regular-sized version it seems. So be cautioned about that for now - I will play around with it more and try to get this fixed soon.

[Decoman]

The following might ofc not be related to this mod, but I wanted to mention that I saw the following issue when using this mod:

Night time, the moon located somewhat above the horizon. Looking directly at the moon made it vanish, but the moon reappeared when moving the camera to either side, so that the moon is seen almost at either outermost side of the camera.

[stabiz]

Nice, I like the new FOV.

[Echolot]

Thank you much for the nice mod. Question: Is it possible to make this for the unit cam (next unit, previous unit) too? I use your 1.0 and now i will try the 1.1. I use keybord layout with "," and "." for that cams and want to have this nice look here. Thank you. Greetings from Berlin, Germany.

[CCIP]

Hey, I removed the object cam from the keyboard mod right now since it seems rather buggy at the moment in SH5. I'll play around with it a bit more, and if I get it working, I will bring it back.

[Echolot]

What's buggy with the cams? All fine here.
It takes a while to see all the bugs, i guess.
Sorry for my buggy english.


I am in FPV on deck, hit "," to toggle the cams and with F2 i'm back in FPV on deck. No Problem here.
I use the Keyboard deutsch 0.2 (Ruby).

[Echolot]

I can see the problems now.

[Mark75]

Awesome mod. Thanks a lot for sharing CCIP. I'll try out the alternate version as soon as possible, thanks again :yeah:

[ParaB]

Thank you Sir, very nice!

:salute:

[Ablemaster]

Much better than stock, thanks.

[Dragon81]

I want to inform you about a interesting isue:

[PROB] Flickering at 3D-Models cause of mods? (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?p=1301599&mode=linear#post1301599)

[Pintea]

I want to inform you about a interesting isue:

[PROB] Flickering at 3D-Models cause of mods? (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?p=1301599&mode=linear#post1301599)

Yes, try increasing the minimum clip distance, that's what's causing the flickering.

[letterboy1]

By the way, thanks for this mod!:yeah:

[Juan08]

Pido disculpas por no poder expresarme en Ingles pero.... no lo controlo debidamente. Añoro mucho la camara libre exterior que en SH3 y SH4 acompañaba al submarino fijando la imagen del mismo sin que hubiera que estar corrigiendola por que se escapaba. Le seguía donde fuera y resultaba especialmete espectacular cuando el sub salia o atracaba en puerto. ¿Hay algun mod que lo contemple?. Y si no lo hay ¿seria posible hacerlo?. Mil gracias.

[kylania]

Spanish

Here's the google translation of that:

I apologize for not being able to speak in English but .... not properly controlled. I miss a lot of free outdoor camera in SH3 and SH4 accompanied the submarine setting the image of it to be without any editing by escaping. Wherever I went and it was spectacular when the sub especialmete leaving or moored in port. Is there a mod that provides for it?. And if there is not "serious possible?. Many thanks.

Hopefully a native Spanish speaker will be able to translate that better, but I get the sense he's asking about the external camera locked to the boat? If so, as I understand it it's broken...

Hopefully this is the correct answer:

La cámara externa que se adjunta a la U-Boat se ha roto en Silent Hunter 5 tristeza.

[badaboom]

Wonderful!! Thank You!!

[u177]

:yeah:

[KillerTube]

thank you for the work i needed this lol. :up:

[303_Michcich]

CCIP, any chance of making your free cam tweak mod compatible with reaper7`s excellent UI&Reco Manual mod ? both theese are suberb pieces of work however both change the cameras.dat file...