[REL] Extended Free Camera Height

[Sturm]

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

[Boris]

Much better Beery, thanks

[Mush Martin]

Beautiful thanks Beery

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[Beery]

Originally Posted by Sturm

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

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.

[Jungman]

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.

[Probex]

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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[CaptainCox]

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

[W_clear]

I need it.Thanks.

[L3TUC3]

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.

[Beery]

Originally Posted by Probex

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.

I'm not sure what to look for in order to do that. If I knew the variable to look for I'd be on it like a shot.

As for it being just as easy, hehe I hope it wouldn't be the same level of easy - getting the mod to give the right maximum height took me something like 5 hours yesterday, LOL. Of course now I'm a bit more familiar with the way the info is arranged it should be a lot easier next time.

[Beery]

Actually I just found the number that controls the camera's ability to get close to objects. The only problem is that it affects the free camera's load time a bit if you set it too close. I'm going to play around with it a bit and see what I can come up with. I think I'll probably set it to about 6ft so that we can get a person's eye view from beaches, docks, etc.

[Carcharadidntdoitdon]

Just wanted to say thanks man I zoomed out so far I could make out the curvature of the Earth

Excellent piece of work.

[Beery]

Okay, hehe that didn't take long at all. Only 40 minutes.

Here's the new camera: http://www.beerymod.com/SH4/BeeryCamera2.7z

This one goes up to the maximum height (2000m) and gets to within 1.8m of any object. So we can now stand eye-to-eye with the folks walking around at the bases.

Hehe, what a difference it makes knowing what the numbers mean.

[Sturm]

Originally Posted by Beery

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.

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.

[Beery]

Originally Posted by Sturm

Do it like I have done in image below. Value you should look is 32bit float...

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