BIG DISCOVERY - halo 2 fov

smellylobster · Post by **smellylobster** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:22 pm

The field of view is very very small in Halo 2. Shadowkhas just discovered that altering the fov in halo can be done by without using a trainer. It can be done by modifying the MAP file.

So what does this mean? A simple change to a hex value can increase the field of view for halo 2.

If someone has a halo2 mapfile, I would love to take a stab at it. This will work.

maca_§ · Post by **maca_§** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:46 pm

Nice find

Excal · Post by **Excal** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:33 pm

Yeah, I noticed it was a LOT smaller. Kind of a reason of my downfall in halo-skill.

HunterXI · Post by **HunterXI** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:46 pm

Yeah, the camera angle does feel kinda small...

Excal · Post by **Excal** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 7:47 pm

Yeah. BTW, Hunters are fucking huge in Halo 2, lol.

smellylobster · Post by **smellylobster** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:30 pm

GAEM4573R51337 (it's a name) sent me a halo2 mapfile and I searched for the FOV, and found it.
Expect a better Field of View soon.

Spartan III · Post by **Spartan III** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 9:08 am

Hopefully third person too?

smellylobster · Post by **smellylobster** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:36 pm

thirdperson was not a simple value to find. It's a one byte value of either 0 or 1. FOV's unique value of 1.221730471 allowed for easy searching. This won't happen anytime soon.

Excal · Post by **Excal** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:54 pm

smellylobster wrote:thirdperson was not a simple value to find. It's a one byte value of either 0 or 1. FOV's unique value of 1.221730471 allowed for easy searching. This won't happen anytime soon.

I assume your talking about your Halo PC/CE FOV Mod?

smellylobster · Post by **smellylobster** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:54 pm

yes, I was.

Well, I've finally done it. Check this out

http://files.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=21752

Excal · Post by **Excal** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:55 pm

Wow. Thats amazing. I can't wait to test it out!

HunterXI · Post by **HunterXI** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 8:53 pm

Holy shit - and I'm getting a modding bawcks soon!

r0x!

maca_§ · Post by **maca_§** » Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:55 am

Thats frikkin awesome!
GJ.

Spartan Foods · Post by **Spartan Foods** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:41 pm

so thats what was feeling so weird about Halo 2..

awesome job dude!

Spartan III · Post by **Spartan III** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 5:37 am

I just wanna confirm that the exact same method works on the Halo 1 Xbox cache files.

smellylobster · Post by **smellylobster** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 3:08 pm

yeah I figured it would work for halo1 xbox, but the field of view is already a perfect 90 degrees. I guess if anyone greedy for 100 degrees could use it.

Wait a minute...I thought the FOV on h1xbox wouldn't be 1.221730471 since it's 90 degrees which is 1.57? What value did you look for?

HunterXI · Post by **HunterXI** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 4:15 pm

Meh, 100 Degrees won't get you much further than 90. Best to go for 135, at least.

EqUiNoX · Post by **EqUiNoX** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 4:23 pm

HunterXI wrote:Holy **** - and I'm getting a modding bawcks soon!

r0x!

what the hell is a bawks?. anyway, yeh, i will have the same, cus I am just gonna use my old Xbox to do it..., but that looks really cool...

HunterXI · Post by **HunterXI** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 4:26 pm

Equinox wrote:what the hell is a bawks?. anyway, yeh, i will have the same, cus I am just gonna use my old Xbox to do it..., but that looks really cool...

Bawcks = Box. It's a re-wording, under the same pronounciation.

The only thing that sucks about using your old 'Box for modding is that we won't be able to play mods together

EqUiNoX · Post by **EqUiNoX** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 5:14 pm

yeh, that is a downside...but hey..what the hell, i could always buy a new NIC if I really wanted to play with you...