10. Rotate the craters after hitting (or missing) the target - with a custom height
Mod: Rotate the craters and view them from a custom height
By Frankie
Link: None. Open the VIEWS.ASM file. Then follow the code hack shown.
Description:
I've managed to adjust the height of the weapon overhead view and to make the overhead view pan left and right. Which view you say? You know after your bomb hits the target, resulting in crater or a series of craters? That View! Well, now you can pan left and right slowly or fast. Plus slight zoom-in and zoom-out.Now I share the secret of my latest Tornado hack. The Rotatable Overhead View. See the image below! In the standard Tornado game, once your bombs hit home, you were looking straight down at some craters. The view was static.
Now with my hack, I can swivel (rotate) left or right around the centre of smoking craters of what used to be the target. I can also zoom in and out but the zooming actions are very limited. I am also higher up compared to the standard game's Overhead View height, and I am looking not straight down at the craters, but rather at an angle.
It would be very useful to zoom out MORE so that I can see the rest of the enemy airfield, especially if the mission was a multi-plane coordinated attack and various targets were damaged or hit
The default Overhead View height was 500. I changed it to 600. No reason why you can't edit the value and make it 800! That would give you a better bird's eye view of how well the Squadron's strike of the airfield was.
In the screenshot below, I changed the VP_PITCH 384 value to -110. This accounts for the angled look down in my modified Overhead View. Makes this a bit more dramatic, eh Sparky?
See line 2657's "call AdjustWpnTrack"? Ah, that my friend, is the key that allows me to rotate left or right once I am in Overhead View! This is a true Frankie Tornado innovation. So the view of what's left of my target is no longer static, I can rotate the view and enjoy the results of my handiwork.
Next, see that lie 2656 "call AdjustWpnZoom"? That's the zoom-in and zoom-out controlds. Or Shift-key and zoom-in and zoom-out faster. However the zooming is very limited - almost useless. I am trying to find a way to ZOOM OUT MORE! That would be more useful.(edited)
With my hacks so far, when you go to the Overhead Weapons View (key v), you will head the bomb explode as it strikes home. Then you can rotate around the craters and from a higher up height so that you can survey the damage done by your Squadron. Tally ho! I hope you enjoyed this as much as I enjoyed discovering it.