camera height

ChielScape · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:43 pm Post subject: camera height

altering the camera angle was easy, both to find and to mod.
however, changing the values of the Defaultmaxcameraheight and Defaultmincameraheight didnt have any effect whatsoever, even though they are right above the angle-tag, so they're obviously involved.
anyone knows anything about them?

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ChielScape · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:07 pm Post subject:

Bump!

this is the piece of code i talked about:

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//These are the primary camera settings
//****CHANGING ANY OF THESE VALUES WILL AFFECT CINEMATICS*****
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DefaultCameraMinHeight = 120.0 ;The minimum height of the camera relative to the terrain.
DefaultCameraMaxHeight = 400.0 ;The maximum height of the camera relative to the terrain.
DefaultCameraPitchAngle = 55 ;The pitch angle of the camera off top down view.
DefaultCameraYawAngle = 0.0 ;The direction the camera faces by default.
DefaultCameraScrollSpeedScalar = 1.0 ;How much faster or slower all scrolling is.
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//****DO NOT CHANGE ABOVE VALUES *********
//****PS: These values haven't been changed since original Generals anyways, this is an educational message.
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

P.S: yes, i know it says "do not change above values"

EDIT: forgot to say that the "400" and "55" are modded values. originals are 300-something and 37,5.

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raminator · Commander **Joined**: 04 Oct 2005 **Location**: Bierkasten

since cnc3 uses xml which were converted to encoded inis for the demo...
this will not work...i tried it myself... =(

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ChielScape · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 6:42 am Post subject:

the defaultcamera pitch angle does work.
originally, it was 37,5. increasing to 55 made the camera look upon the battlefield from a more streight-down angle.
this proves that the ini file is read by the game.
its just the camera-height that i cant seem to adjust.
however, as it might be the case the XML file has a higher priority, where could i find it?

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lolopde · Civilian **Joined**: 13 Mar 2007

Now that the game is out >> Anyone found a way to change the max camera height???

Evil · Civilian **Joined**: 30 Mar 2007

which file we are tolking here about? ant still if changed values doesn't work, maybe someone found a solution? because after playing supcom for a while its too hard to get used to this kind of zoom

lolopde · Civilian **Joined**: 13 Mar 2007

I think that you have to modify the gamedata.ini AND the Map.inis because each map seems to have its own "height-configuration".

Mighty BOB! · AA Infantry **Joined**: 05 Oct 2005 **Location**: USA

I was afraid it was on a per-map basis... >_<

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lolopde · Civilian **Joined**: 13 Mar 2007

Is there a tool to modify the *.map-Files without the worldbuilder?
I found an instruction to change the max camera height in BFME2 (and Tiberium War uses the same engine...) He changed the values with FinalBIG in the gamedata.ini and then also in the Maps with the worldbuilder. It seems to work...but we have to wait for the worldbuilder Sad

... or is there any other way to edit the *.map-files???

ChielScape · Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject:

it might be a per map basis, but unless i get the full game i cant try. i was supposed to recieve it, so i'll wait untill it arrives.

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Evil · Civilian **Joined**: 30 Mar 2007

its more than five days its availible on p2p networks.. Strange that you guys dont have it yet.. Rolling Eyes