RED FACTION ARMAGEDDON (FPS) 1ST PERSON MOD

FPS MOD FOR RED FACTION ARMAGEDDON

Installation:

Dl.dropboxusercontent.com

backup table.vpp_pc and misc.vpp_pc to be able to uninstall mod.

place BUILD folder into your game folder and overwrite. all done.

Uninstall:

restore original table.vpp_pc and misc.vpp_pc.

Features

FOV is 80 for all views. 1st person is only when on foot. Theres some clipping sometimes and unfortunately it was too hard to make weapons constantly visible without bugs, but nothing too big. Theres no weapon visible when zooming.
All vehicles are 3rd, but ive centered camera directly behind them and slightly above.
tested on 1.01

do whatever u want with it, just give me credit. enjoy

made by SlaveOfSelf

thnx to UberMonkey for spreading info how to unpack and change fov.

Optional:

u can change things urself if u dont like it, just follow instructions how to unpack and repack below or on:
Forums.steampowered.com

Gibbed.Volition packer included,

use any word editor (preferably notepad++) to adjust fov, camera x,y,z and distance values in both camera.xtbl inside both table.vpp_pc and misc.vpp_pc file then repack. aint hard.

Originally Posted by UberMonkey View Post

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Do-it-yourself mode instructions:

I got the tools from here: Forum.xentax.com

You can find a link to the latest version through the official RF:G modding forum too, but only to uncompiled source. I've re-uploaded the compiled tools for anyone who doesn't want to bother registering at the forum linked above:
Dl.dropbox.com

They're command line only and contain no help files (yay!). Basically it works like this... create a new folder somewhere and extract everything from that zip there. Next copy your misc.vpp_pc and table.vpp_pc files into that same directory from:
"[SteamDirectory]\steamapps\common\red faction armageddon\build\pc\cache"
Then you'll want to open a command prompt (start->all progs->accessories->command prompt) and go to the folder in question.

From here, type this:
Gibbed.Volition.Unpack misc.vpp_pc misc
and this:
Gibbed.Volition.Unpack table.vpp_pc table
You should now have two sub-folders called "misc" and "table." In each one there should be a file called "camera.xtbl" which you can open in something like notepad++ (or just notepad, but I think that would be pretty hard to work with).

You will see a number of "" tags, each followed by something like "normal_crouch". Anywhere after this you can create a new line and add something like:
65
Which would set the FOV for this camera state to 65. Note that some of the views (sprint, some of the exo suit stuff) already have an FOV defined with this command, in which case you should change that number instead of adding another line.

Once you're done, save both camera.xtbl files and enter these two commands in the command prompt:
Gibbed.Volition.Pack -version=6 misc.vpp_pc misc
Gibbed.Volition.Pack -version=6 table.vpp_pc table
You should now have updated (and much larger... try using -c before -version=6 to use compression mode if you want, didn't work for me) table.vpp_pc and misc.vpp_pc files in the directory where the pack/unpack utils are located. Copy these back into:
"[SteamDirectory]\steamapps\common\red faction armageddon\build\pc\cache"
but remember to make backups of the original files from this directory first!

Run the game, and if everything worked you should have changed the FOV values.

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*Vehicles: I haven't messed with Vehicle FOV's yet... spent all my time so far messing with modding stuff and haven't made it to vehicles in the game. However I see several FOV referrences in the vehicle.xtbl file (also found in both misc.vpp_pc and table.vpp_pc, so you probably have to edit both) that look like:
40
So you could probably search these files for "" and change every instance to a number you like. I'll try this out once I get to some vehicles but it seems like it should work.