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Marcus Redd - 25 May 2007 09:37 GMT

IIRC, there's a setting somewhere in the old HL engine that lets you muck
about with the field-of-view type thing - so you can make the edges of the
screen start to wrap around, effectively giving you some peripheral vision.

Anyone?

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Ben Cottrell - 25 May 2007 10:33 GMT

> IIRC, there's a setting somewhere in the old HL engine that lets you muck
> about with the field-of-view type thing - so you can make the edges of the
> screen start to wrap around, effectively giving you some peripheral vision.

Because of various exploits associated with FOV, you have to have
sv_cheats enabled. once you do that, the command is simply 'fov' - the
default is 90 (try fov 30 and for a good sniper-like view :) )

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Marcus Redd - 25 May 2007 11:06 GMT

>> IIRC, there's a setting somewhere in the old HL engine that lets you muck
>> about with the field-of-view type thing - so you can make the edges of
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> sv_cheats enabled. once you do that, the command is simply 'fov' - the
> default is 90 (try fov 30 and for a good sniper-like view :) )

Thanks Ben - but isn't FOV just the thing where it zooms in?

I used to have that assigned to one of my zoom buttons on TFC to let me zoom
extra close - "FOV 10" I think it was - but I never really got around to
"cheating" with it coz I kept forgetting I'd assigned it. Sniper Auto-Rifle
plus 10x zoom is a very quick way of finishing off "fatties" (a.k.a. hwg@ys)
btw.

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Ben Cottrell - 25 May 2007 11:37 GMT

>>>IIRC, there's a setting somewhere in the old HL engine that lets you muck
>>>about with the field-of-view type thing - so you can make the edges of
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> plus 10x zoom is a very quick way of finishing off "fatties" (a.k.a. hwg@ys)
> btw.

it does both - using a larger number than 90 will do the opposite of
zooming in :) .. sorta like a "drunk" effect ;)

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Marcus Redd - 25 May 2007 11:53 GMT

>>>>IIRC, there's a setting somewhere in the old HL engine that lets you
>>>>muck about with the field-of-view type thing - so you can make the edges
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> it does both - using a larger number than 90 will do the opposite of
> zooming in :) .. sorta like a "drunk" effect ;)

Ahhhh, excellent! Right, I'm going to try that! Thanks mate, I'll let you
know how I get on...

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Civilian_Target - 26 May 2007 10:58 GMT

> it does both - using a larger number than 90 will do the opposite of
> zooming in :) .. sorta like a "drunk" effect ;)

I remember in Q2 you could change the FOV to whatever the hell you
wanted. I started on 120 which was kinda cool, although tended to result
in things getting very big at the edge of the screen.

I remember trying FOV 359 for a round (yes, that's a full circle of FOV)
and it was like being trapped inside a double edged fishbowl, and you
couldn't see anything in front of you!

Civilian_Target

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