Camera mod...Closer radar screen tweek

[Canonicus]

LukeFF...not quite sure what posting a screenshot would accomplish considering its the same file that you have.

And your right....when I compared the two files I could find nothing different accept what I already changed to the AngularAngle to get the closer view. (Anvart doesn't touch that value )

I suspect that Anvart is making use of some other program (Hex Editor?),to accomplish the changes in his mod.

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by Canonicus

I suspect that Anvart is making use of some other program (Hex Editor?),to accomplish the changes in his mod.

That's what I figured. Hopefully Anvart will step in here and help clear up the confusion.

[panthercules]

Originally Posted by Canonicus

I like the fact that Anvart found a way to get the camera to be in the proper postion when you first go to the screen...... That's a minor adjustment though and you would have to make changes anyway if you panned the camera. Takes all of a few seconds.
(Note: There is a way to make the camera fix on the screen and not move...if anyone is interested.)

I think the angle to the PPI screen is a little too shallow for my tastes and Anvart's stock mod doesn't get you close enough...I prefer a more heads down angle, (like the stock view), and to be a bit closer.

Please don't take my observations as a cut on Anvart's efforts..he's done some nice mods...I use a few myself.

Check my post above - I thought the view with Anvart's file was a little too far out as well, so I changed the AngularAngle from his (stock) 75 to 65, and it did the trick for me - see screenshot below at 65 and compare to the one in the post above that was at 75:



That was at 1280x960 resolution. I could probably have gone a bit closer, but I wanted to make sure I could still use the knobs at the bottom - 50 was way too close for me, but maybe 60 or so might work.

[panthercules]

Setting AngularAngle to 60 with Anvart's tweaked file worked well too - see below:



Also, below are screenshots of the radar settings for the stock 1.4 file and Anvart's tweaked file, so you can compare the differences:

Stock 1.4 cameras.dat:



Anvart's tweaked cameras.dat (after I changed AngularAngle to 60):



Hmmm - interesting - I don't see any differences here - must be somewhere else. Will keep looking. [edit - the Ascope screens were the same too - haven't found where these changes were made :hmm: ]

[Canonicus]

I'm a little perplexed myself....looks like Anvart hasn't made any changes to the Camera file, yet his mod does what it does, regardless.

How can there be visible changes and those changes not be reflected in the values found in the only dat file that effects the view of the Radar screen? :hmm:

The changes he's made come from some other program....or there's another file his mod is using.

Would be interesting to know what that might be. Perhaps Anvart will share his secret?.....

Or... like the question... "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop? "......the world, ( or the SH4 modding community, in this case), may never know.

[TaggedYa]

While updating the cameras.dat tweak file to work with 1.4 I found a bug in the cameras.dat file. The section that is labeled Radioroom Radar doesn't effect the PPI, it effects the A scope. The section labled Radioroom Radar_AScope effects the PPI. The 1.2 tweak file just used the labels from withing the file and thus perpetuated the bug.

The reason you all couldn't see the changes that were made was they were mislabeled. You weren't actually looking at the changed areas.