How can I change my FOV?
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HammerMeister1999
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I'm trying to play Marathon using Aleph One but frankly the FOV is making me feel nauseous with how zoomed in everything is. I've tried looking up an FOV fix but the one fix I've found doesn't work and every time I try it the game doesn't wanna open anymore. Am I doing something wrong? Someone please help me figure this out, I really wanna play this game but I can't stomach looking at it with the default FOV
The easiest way is to make a plaintext file named “FOV.mml” containing the following text:
And drop it in your Scripts folder. Change “108” to whatever number suits you (the default is 90).
However, note that this won’t work with certain scenarios such as Rubicon and Eternal, which specify their own FOVs in their MML. In Rubicon this is in… one of the scripts files; I can’t recall which. Eternal used to specify FOVs for each individual level, which made it impossible to customise the FOV, but this will be fixed in 1.2.1, which will specify a global FOV value in general.mml. In games that specify their own values you’ll just have to find them and change them.
Also note that some people have reported that the default FOV is less nauseous with the classic HUD. If you haven’t yet, you might want to try turning the XBLA HUD plugin off before going through all these steps. (If you want to maximise this effect, you might want to change HUD size to “Largest” as well – this restores the game’s original aspect ratio, which might make a difference for some players.)
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<marathon>
<view>
<fov normal="108"/>
</view>
</marathon>However, note that this won’t work with certain scenarios such as Rubicon and Eternal, which specify their own FOVs in their MML. In Rubicon this is in… one of the scripts files; I can’t recall which. Eternal used to specify FOVs for each individual level, which made it impossible to customise the FOV, but this will be fixed in 1.2.1, which will specify a global FOV value in general.mml. In games that specify their own values you’ll just have to find them and change them.
Also note that some people have reported that the default FOV is less nauseous with the classic HUD. If you haven’t yet, you might want to try turning the XBLA HUD plugin off before going through all these steps. (If you want to maximise this effect, you might want to change HUD size to “Largest” as well – this restores the game’s original aspect ratio, which might make a difference for some players.)
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“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
“If others had not been foolish, we should be so.” —William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.” —Frank Wilhoit
Last.fm · Marathon Chronicles · Marathon Eternal 1.2 · Where Monsters Are in Dreams · YouTube Vidmaster’s Challenge