[HELP] Trying to mod cameras.dat

Quagmire · 12-01-07, 12:55 AM

Man am I out of my league! I am trying to add the ability to move around the deck of the sub from the ROW camera mod into the TM 1.7 cameras.dat. I hate having my feet nailed to the deck!

Anyway I tried using the S3D editor and I am completely confused. I see the dummy_cam_conningdeck entry but how do you add the freecam item to it???

THANKS!
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Quagmire · 12-01-07, 11:26 AM

Aww come on. I know somebody is an expert at this. Sergbuto? Leovampire?
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Ducimus · 12-01-07, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Quagmire

Man am I out of my league! I am trying to add the ability to move around the deck of the sub from the ROW camera mod into the TM 1.7 cameras.dat. I hate having my feet nailed to the deck!

Anyway I tried using the S3D editor and I am completely confused. I see the dummy_cam_conningdeck entry but how do you add the freecam item to it???

THANKS!
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It's not easy. At least, i dont think it is, because im not all that familar with the exporting and importing of data chunks with S3D yet. I was looking at this last night and i *think* i have an idea of what they did, but i really can't say for sure.

Suffice to say, i think i understand why some parts of the camera (such as the career room) were fixed. I beleive they canabalized other nodes for the parameters they wanted, and moved them into the deck view, OR the imported new chunks altogether.

Nodes have to have a unique ID. This much i know.

On a noteTotally unrelated to the bridge view...

I was working on my own idea for a camera mod, and learned somethign else. What I want, is the object view, to ONLY be on the players sub. NOTHING ELSE. (this way you can look at your sub while beign depth charged, but being unable to cheat and look at what the destroyer is doing on the surface.

I tried to hack that functionaliy into the freecam view, but if you look at the object view, it instantiates a new node to fix the camera onto. ( you could call it a nested node i suppose). Without that node it won't work because the camera has nothing to attach itself too.

Ducimus · 12-01-07, 11:13 PM

Some good news. I amanged to get the moveable bridge view back. Testing it now, but it looks like its working. Basically i canabalized the radio room free view for the functionality (what radio room? isnt used in Sh4), and made it a child of the conning tower bridge view, and removed the other conflicting parameters.

Quagmire · 12-01-07, 11:35 PM

Great! That is exactly what I was trying to do. I am looking forward to your work.

I too tried my best to understand that S3D thingy. I can change existing values just fine but its the whole import/export thing that has my mind blown!
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De@dMe@t · 12-01-07, 11:44 PM

Sergbutos camera mod runs fine in 1.4 and doesnt mess anything up, plus it ran alongside the old 1.3 row camera version 2 and actually sorted the locking up in the office that stopped you looking at medals properly ect. just thought id mention it

Ducimus · 12-02-07, 12:01 AM

I expanded the view on the office a tiny bit. Testing it on my career game now before i post it.

12-01-07, 12:55 AM	#1
Quagmire Watch Officer Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 335 Downloads: 52 Uploads: 0	[HELP] Trying to mod cameras.dat Man am I out of my league! I am trying to add the ability to move around the deck of the sub from the ROW camera mod into the TM 1.7 cameras.dat. I hate having my feet nailed to the deck! Anyway I tried using the S3D editor and I am completely confused. I see the dummy_cam_conningdeck entry but how do you add the freecam item to it??? THANKS! . __________________ The day publishers figured out that they could sell flashy first person shooters to teenagers in numbers greater than sand on a beach was the day that quality simulations died. --Col. Tibbets UBI SHIV Forums I guess they should have made SH4 an open boat where we run around inside and shoot each other a 1000 times. They seem to handle those games with numerous patches. --Longam UBI SHIV Forums A sad day has dawned...

12-01-07, 11:26 AM	#2
Quagmire Watch Officer Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 335 Downloads: 52 Uploads: 0	Aww come on. I know somebody is an expert at this. Sergbuto? Leovampire? . __________________ The day publishers figured out that they could sell flashy first person shooters to teenagers in numbers greater than sand on a beach was the day that quality simulations died. --Col. Tibbets UBI SHIV Forums I guess they should have made SH4 an open boat where we run around inside and shoot each other a 1000 times. They seem to handle those games with numerous patches. --Longam UBI SHIV Forums A sad day has dawned...

12-01-07, 11:35 PM	#5
Quagmire Watch Officer Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 335 Downloads: 52 Uploads: 0	Great! That is exactly what I was trying to do. I am looking forward to your work. I too tried my best to understand that S3D thingy. I can change existing values just fine but its the whole import/export thing that has my mind blown! . __________________ The day publishers figured out that they could sell flashy first person shooters to teenagers in numbers greater than sand on a beach was the day that quality simulations died. --Col. Tibbets UBI SHIV Forums I guess they should have made SH4 an open boat where we run around inside and shoot each other a 1000 times. They seem to handle those games with numerous patches. --Longam UBI SHIV Forums A sad day has dawned...

12-01-07, 11:44 PM	#6
De@dMe@t Loader Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: colchester uk Posts: 83 Downloads: 141 Uploads: 0	Sergbutos camera mod runs fine in 1.4 and doesnt mess anything up, plus it ran alongside the old 1.3 row camera version 2 and actually sorted the locking up in the office that stopped you looking at medals properly ect. just thought id mention it __________________ FX6450 X6 3.9GHZ, 8GB DDR3 RIPJAWS, MSI GF760GTX OC. MSI 890FXA-GD65.

12-01-07, 11:13 PM	#4
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	Some good news. I amanged to get the moveable bridge view back. Testing it now, but it looks like its working. Basically i canabalized the radio room free view for the functionality (what radio room? isnt used in Sh4), and made it a child of the conning tower bridge view, and removed the other conflicting parameters.

12-02-07, 12:01 AM	#7
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	I expanded the view on the office a tiny bit. Testing it on my career game now before i post it.