[REL] Extended Free Camera Height Mod
 

Here it is (this is the latest version):

http://www.beerymod.com/SH4/BeeryCamera3.7z

I have no idea what the maximum height it is (I'm terrible at figuring out hex code) - but it looks like at least a couple of thousand feet. It won't let you get beyond the outer limit of the 3D environment so that's good - I spent a long time making sure it didn't. Basically I got to this through trial and error. Maybe someone who understands hex stuff can tell me exactly how high the camera goes.

Here's an image taken from a bit below the maximum height (before the ground starts doing that weird flashing thing it does when the view gets high):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...earlHarbor.jpg

Original value was 70, yours is 1120. I guess they are using meters.

Much better Beery, thanks :up:

Beautiful thanks Beery:up::up::up:

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How can you tell that stuff? I'm using Hex Workshop and even when I use the converter thingy none of the numbers is anywhere near 1120.

Hehe, I reckon if I knew what I was doing, what took me hours today might have taken only a few minutes.

Online convertors, remember to make it backwards. |00 00 38 42| would be 42380000 = 46 (the speed of our fast Mark 14 torpedo!)

http://babbage.cs.qc.edu/IEEE-754/32bit.html Hex single point IEEE format to decimal


http://babbage.cs.qc.edu/IEEE-754/Decimal.html decimal to Hex single point IEEE format.

It is a goofy format, I barely remember why from Computer Science class. Its format uses a coded mantissa and exponent to make more effecient calculations. Not a true hex number per sey. You can also represent those odd numbers like -9, or stuff like 0.00345 or 3.141526 E^6 power using this format.

Thanks for your mod Beery!


I was wondering whether you could just as easily increase the zoom-in distance as well. I find that I can't zoom in close enought to look at the ships.



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Brilliant just what I needed to follow those "AM6's" around ;)

I need it.Thanks.

Great stuff.

Does this also increase the external camera speed? That's something I'd like very much. Zooming around to get close to anything from the sub is rather slow and using the "next target" button only resets your camera back to the sub once you leave it.

You think its slow even holding down "shift" while in cam mode ?

Do it like I have done in image below. Value you should look is 32bit float. There is usually one space after each variable and the value is next four characters (if the value is 32bit float).
I use Base Converter to convert from decimal to hex value.
http://koti.mbnet.fi/sh3/images/Image2.jpg

Ah thanks so much! I'll take another look at it now that I know a bit more about what I'm doing.

Nice work:up:

They did a better job with PH than Pacific Fighters did, but why did they add those docks to Ford Island?

It's interesting that many of the physical errors in places come from adding too much.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/i...00/g279385.jpg