[Hack] Thirdperson version3: accurate aiming

bitterbanana · Post by **bitterbanana** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:38 pm

After a whole year, I finally fixed thirdperson aiming. I also started over and redid everything in assembly. The code is much smoother and efficient. I'm very happy with the result. As of now, it's compatible with PC only. The CE version will be released with Project Yellow.

Download localised as previous download link gave a 404 error, Snave.

Alexander · Post by **Alexander** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:50 pm

Fantastic.

Before, the 3rd person was just a novelty, and cool to use, but was never really useful, I've been waiting for a functional aiming version to come out ever since I played Halo with your original 3rd p.

Edit: BAHHH!!!!1

dafin0 · Post by **dafin0** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 2:38 am

very nice. good to c you are still making programs

=sw=warlord · Post by **=sw=warlord** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:12 am

sweet nice job i was hoping this would show up somtime as i heard u was improving this thing.
10/10 for the cool app.

xbox7887 · Post by **xbox7887** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:24 am

Glad to see you finally located those values

INSANEdrive · Post by **INSANEdrive** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:07 am

Nice....

( Can ya say what your were doing wrong before...)

dale181 · Post by **dale181** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:19 am

ok so you fixed the 3p acuraccy now can you fix the zoomed acuraccy that you messed up while doing so XD

bitterbanana · Post by **bitterbanana** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:22 am

xbox7887 wrote:Glad to see you finally located those values

I never found them. I had to calculate them myself using one of halo's functions. I needed a function to return the distance between the player and the point of impact of the bullet.

Since the camera goes closer to the player when you're near a wall, I figured there had to be a collision function that returned the distance between the player and a colliding object. So I backtraced what editted the position of the camera point and figured out how it was calculated. I found the function that was used:

float player_getCollision(point* position, vector* up, float* depth, float unknown);

So to get the function to detect collision in FRONT of the player, I inverted the forward vector and set the depth to 100 so it would return the distance between the player and whatever was infront of him. Then I just repositioned the forward vector to point to that exact point. A lot of assembly and math involved. That's about it.

DECOY · Post by **DECOY** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:37 am

Nice!

Can I host a copy over at Halopc.net, or would you prefer I directed the DL traffic to your site?

dale181 · Post by **dale181** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:40 am

bitterbanana wrote:
xbox7887 wrote:Glad to see you finally located those values
I never found them. I had to calculate them myself using one of halo's functions. I needed a function to return the distance between the player and the point of impact of the bullet.

Since the camera goes closer to the player when you're near a wall, I figured there had to be a collision function that returned the distance between the player and a colliding object. So I backtraced what editted the position of the camera point and figured out how it was calculated. I found the function that was used:

float player_getCollision(point* position, vector* up, float* depth, float unknown);

So to get the function to detect collision in FRONT of the player, I inverted the forward vector and set the depth to 100 so it would return the distance between the player and whatever was infront of him. Then I just repositioned the forward vector to point to that exact point. A lot of assembly and math involved. That's about it.

pardon XD

bitterbanana · Post by **bitterbanana** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:33 am

dale181 wrote:pardon XD

yeah, aren't you glad you asked? I tried summing it up, but I'd probably have to write a novel to explain a year's worth of thought-processing.

You can host the file, that's fine.

FBH_Eclipse · Post by **FBH_Eclipse** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:04 am

Very good, i already tryed it in-game a little glichy for some reason when your running around, but besides that i think its better.

Ombre · Post by **Ombre** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:27 am

Sweet, i love you're work banana

Edit: I just tested it, it works great but, as someone said before the master chief is kinda glitchy while moving, there anyway to fix this?

bitterbanana · Post by **bitterbanana** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:23 pm

The glitchy movement is caused by Gearbox's addition of frames per second on Vsync. They didn't do a real clean job of it. If you watch other player's you'll notice that they move the same way.

To fix the problem, just set your video settings to 30fps. There's no reason to go above that, 30 fps is what Halo was meant to be played at, so might as well set it for optimal performance.

HPDarkness · Post by **HPDarkness** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:51 pm

FINALLY!! i like the third person hack but it never had acurate aiming im gonna download this now. hooray banana!

wasserbrunner · Post by **wasserbrunner** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 2:16 pm

woah nelly

a year is a year, a program is a program, but when a year is taken away by a program at bay...u never hear what the program had to say

gj

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 2:26 pm

=o

Bitterbanana is teh bak mb?

Nice job.

Ombre · Post by **Ombre** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 2:31 pm

GametagAeonFlux wrote:=o

Bitterbanana is teh bak mb?

Nice job.

I think he's done about everything possible with the camera though, so will he move onto other parts of halo?

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 2:35 pm

Actually...he did say something about Project Yellow...what could that be?

Itszutak · Post by **Itszutak** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:26 pm

A new kind of food?