Hey that's really helpful! Thanks a heap dude

As I have discussed with fox, there are a few things you need to know when using this fantastic mod.

The sniper rifle scope will clip through your view when using a wide FOV. Turn on "small weapons" to prevent this.

Azareal's unstretched HUD mod is actually a mutator, so you can't use this in single player campaign. If you are playing multiplayer, you would have to make sure the server is running the mutator as well. Basically the mutator works but only under specific conditions. I would like to know if Azareal is willing to release the source code so he can collaborate with fox on a client-side, all in one solution combining the FOV fix, gun position fix and HUD fix.

16:9 vs 4:3 comparison[puu.sh]

Hi there.

First up, it's Azarael, not Azareal :P

Secondly, I've received a PM regarding a request to use the source code of the HUD fix mutator. It's nothing big, so do what you need to do with it, and drop me a credit if you do.

Thanks!

OFF TOPIC:

First off, thanks to fox for his great modifications. Especially for restoring the global TAUNTS to UT3 through his foxMod.

What I'd love to have is a modification for UT2004 that restores the global taunts to UT2004 Multiplayer (same as what you get when you play UT2004 Instant Action).

I'm aware that a large majority of people that played online preferred not to hear TAUNTS going, and I get that, but hear me out.

I have many custom voicepacks that I ported into UT2004 and I run my own LAN server where friends & I play and we'd like to be able to hear the TAUNTS going in UT2004 Multiplayer the same as what you get in Instant Action. There's just too much dead air & the atmospheric vibe seems lost in UT2004 Multiplayer.

It would really be groovy if fox made this type of modification for UT2004 like he did for UT3, but of course, that is his discretion.

Good day to all.

Whoops! You're right, I always mix up my As and Es - fixed the descriptions. :)

Also, good to know on the source code, thanks. I'm not sure when I'll look at this again, but I'll give it a shot when I do. It should be possible, but I'm not 100% certain without digging around a little more.

As for the Sniper Rifle clipping bug, it actually turns out there's what appears to be a rendering bug when altering the weapon's displayed FOV (literally a "DisplayFOV" var in the weapon class, which I just auto-calc like the player's FOV) on weapons that are rotated for rendering - such as the Sniper Rifle, which is actually rotated 90* before being rendered on-screen. At a 32:9 aspect ratio, the Sniper Rifle ends up near the center of the screen half-way through the camera. Many weapons exhibit this behavior, but they're nowhere near as noticable as they're typically only rotated a few degrees at most. For reference, this is the same scaling method I used in UT3 (which does not have this issue), but that handles its first-person weapon rendering a little differently.

I spent a while looking into this with another developer, but we both unfortunately came up empty-handed. As a workaround, I could at least add an option to disable auto-scaling above a certain rotation threshold - but it'd be nice to fix for real.

After proper hor+ widescreen extension, the weapons feel huge regardless so playing with Small Weapons is a must and we never see the sniper clipping.

This is just a FYI while on the topic of bug reporting:
Azarael's HUD Fix has an issue where Assault Rifle's grenades are scaled incorrectly and dipping into the launch power meter.

http://puu.sh/h8O1D/2ffaad445f.jpg

Brilliant mod. Thank you.

Excellent work! It works perfectly (tested on 3369 and 3369-64 bit .

Sorry for necroing but how do i change the settings in the console? I tried the User.ini step following the readme but it didn't work and i don't want to use the Mutator because that doesn't work in online games that don't use the Mutator also my resolution is 1920x1080 just in case.

Hello,
Let me know if this works for you!

i used this on the gog version of ut2004 and now my fps are 35 - 40 :S

Originally posted by BRDEMPSEY69:

OFF TOPIC:

First off, thanks to fox for his great modifications. Especially for restoring the global TAUNTS to UT3 through his foxMod.

What I'd love to have is a modification for UT2004 that restores the global taunts to UT2004 Multiplayer (same as what you get when you play UT2004 Instant Action).

I'm aware that a large majority of people that played online preferred not to hear TAUNTS going, and I get that, but hear me out.

I have many custom voicepacks that I ported into UT2004 and I run my own LAN server where friends & I play and we'd like to be able to hear the TAUNTS going in UT2004 Multiplayer the same as what you get in Instant Action. There's just too much dead air & the atmospheric vibe seems lost in UT2004 Multiplayer.

It would really be groovy if fox made this type of modification for UT2004 like he did for UT3, but of course, that is his discretion.

Good day to all.

AFAIK anyone who 'installed' your voicepack/skin can hear/see it. If you want your server to force ohers then you need to add the stuff to the inifile.

this mod give me some fps drops for some reason, anyway to fix it?

no one has this problem?

Have to necro this because there was no reply to Alfredox123's post while this is exactly the issue with this "fix": it gimps your fps and introduces hiccups in performance. I don't know the cause for this but I'm quite used to playing UT2004 with 400 fps instead of 100 with stuttering so I think I'll just keep playing with the original FOV settings.