PLEASE tweak the FOV and UI in KH1 and BBS

[Dastanovich]

As you know, with the release of 2.8, DDD received an HD remaster akin to previous games. Unlike said previous games, DDD HD got a much better camera FOV akin to KH2, as well as all of its UI being correctly resized

Unfortunately, Square never gave KH1 HD nor BBS HD the same treatment, resulting in both games (BBS especially) to have closed-in FOV, enormous subtitles (in BBS case it's even worse, as said subtitles are really pixelated), and none of the UI elements except the HUD have been resized

Personally hope both games will receive an in-game toggle to choose OLD or NEW FOV (like how the fan-made Re-Freshed did, or you can just make the camera change permanent), as well as fixing the UI size for BBS, like how the fan-made mod Modern Subtitles did, in order to be consistent with all other games

[Zunnoab #931]

Hopefully some day it will be standard procedure to code UIs to dynamically scale to arbitrary resolutions. I know some games do it, but many don't.

I only know rudimentary coding and can think of ways to do it off hand. Not things like FOV and complicated 3d things,but I can't imagine anchoring UI elements to certain edges of the screen or scaling them dynamically is that bad, if the game is planned for it from the start at least.

[Dastanovich]

Originally posted by Zunnoab #931:

Hopefully some day it will be standard procedure to code UIs to dynamically scale to arbitrary resolutions. I know some games do it, but many don't.

I only know rudimentary coding and can think of ways to do it off hand. Not things like FOV and complicated 3d things,but I can't imagine anchoring UI elements to certain edges of the screen or scaling them dynamically is that bad, if the game is planned for it from the start at least.

As stated, Modern Subtitles did exactly that for BBS and it looks fantastic. Only odd thing is certain letters in the updated cutscene font have their outline cut off (and the outline itself is not thick enough) but other than that, this is how you make it consistent with all other KH games

I desperately need this treatment for BBS. KH1 just needs the subtitle font updated to not be oversized
https://www.nexusmods.com/kingdomheartsbirthbysleepfinalmix/mods/18

[add]

KH1's FOV is perfectly fine, any further and it just looks incorrect.

[Dastanovich]

Originally posted by add:

KH1's FOV is perfectly fine, any further and it just looks incorrect.

Re:COM already has the perfect FOV for KH1, so just use that one

No need to make it as zoomed out as KH2 or DDD

[SoulSlayer]

Originally posted by Dastanovich:

As you know, with the release of 2.8, DDD received an HD remaster akin to previous games. Unlike said previous games, DDD HD got a much better camera FOV akin to KH2, as well as all of its UI being correctly resized

Unfortunately, Square never gave KH1 HD nor BBS HD the same treatment, resulting in both games (BBS especially) to have closed-in FOV, enormous subtitles (in BBS case it's even worse, as said subtitles are really pixelated), and none of the UI elements except the HUD have been resized

Personally hope both games will receive an in-game toggle to choose OLD or NEW FOV (like how the fan-made Re-Freshed did, or you can just make the camera change permanent), as well as fixing the UI size for BBS, like how the fan-made mod Modern Subtitles did, in order to be consistent with all other games

There is a mod for the epic games versiona FOV that allows you to use KH2 FOV in some of the other games. There probably would be mods like that on the steam version or maybe the already existing mod would work in the steam versions

[Dama]

There is a mod called Kingdom Hearts Re:Fixed that does this for KH1 and BBS (as well as other things). Who knows if it will work out the box with the Steam version though. Really hoping all mods will work fine

[add]

square has never changed the FOV, there's no way they're gonna add it lol, at least you can mod it in