Increasing max zoom level

[tofi]

Just leaving this here in case someone still plays but gets annoyed by the zoom.

Of course do this at your own risk, but worst case scenario, you have to download the game again. (Or just make a safety copy of the file.) Also keep in mind this is for the steam version of the game,

• Open the Config.meg file in your "Universe at War Earth Assault/Data" folder with something like Notepad++.
  
• Search for "<TacticalCameras>" (without the quotation marks). It should be on line 42167.
  
• This section is plain XML, it controls the way the camera works. You can experiment with other stuff I'll just explain the increased zoom level.
  
• Look for the "<Distance_Default>" tag, this controls the default zoom level. Below that is the maximum and minimum zoom level. For me 700 seems perfect. Around 800-900 some graphical glitches start to happen. You might be able to fix it by changing something else here. I didn't bother.
  
• A few lines below should be the "<Use_Splines>" tag. This needs to be switched from "yes" to "no" again without the quotation marks. Without this the above won't work.
  
• Save the file and check if it worked.

This game should really be rereleased with some polish and balance/mod support.

[tofi]

While playing with these values I noticed that you do need to keep the character count of the file the same otherwise the game crashes on startup. So if you change a value from 1000 to 800 you'll need to add a space character somewhere (at the end of a line for example). Same if you change it the other way around, you'll need to delete a space. (Thankfully the devs left a lot of random spaces at the end of some lines so you can keep the clean look.)

This is also important for the above. Since you're changing the "yes" to "no" in the <Use_Splines> tag you'll need to add a space somewhere.

[Elensar]

I get a run time error and crash when I do any of this and it's really annoying because the game is unplayable zoomed in so far....

[tofi]

Sorry for the delay. I've uploaded my Config.meg. Try renaming or moving yours and replacing it with this one. I do get an error when I start the game saying that games for windows live won't work (I'm guessing because of the modified file). But you can just press enter when the error message pops up and it'll work fine.

www[.]mediafire[.]com/file/v47u5gcalk6ezdp/Config.meg/file

You might need to zoom out with the scroll wheel the first time, not sure.

[Elensar]

Originally posted by tofi:

Sorry for the delay. I've uploaded my Config.meg. Try renaming or moving yours and replacing it with this one. I do get an error when I start the game saying that games for windows live won't work (I'm guessing because of the modified file). But you can just press enter when the error message pops up and it'll work fine.

www[.]mediafire[.]com/file/v47u5gcalk6ezdp/Config.meg/file

You might need to zoom out with the scroll wheel the first time, not sure.

That's great thanks I'll give it a try when I get home.

[Elensar]

Originally posted by tofi:

Sorry for the delay. I've uploaded my Config.meg. Try renaming or moving yours and replacing it with this one. I do get an error when I start the game saying that games for windows live won't work (I'm guessing because of the modified file). But you can just press enter when the error message pops up and it'll work fine.

www[.]mediafire[.]com/file/v47u5gcalk6ezdp/Config.meg/file

You might need to zoom out with the scroll wheel the first time, not sure.

OK that improved the zoom a bit, I get the same error as you described but it doesn't matter the live part of the game is gone anyway so... thankyou.