I know that HAC2 had enabled this, as did a tool by a FleetAdmiralBacon.


I have geometry that spans a distance longer than the maximum draw distance allowed by Halo. It's the span of the bridge; on one side is CityScape, the other has a collection of aesthetic buildings with a Covenant Corvette overhead. When in the city, the corvette begins to cull geometry at a linear rate, showing that it's reached the rendering limit for distance.


As this has been done by others, it must be possible. Anyone know how I could start about looking into increasing this?

not that i know anything but i remember a tool that did this, seems i way to start is using "cheat engine" to modify memory addresses. so ya hope fully some who knows how will respond. maybe 002 can make chimera do this? he's already depreciated many functions of HAC2, why not this.

What if you put things that are far away into the sky model?

This chimera script I made a while ago quadruples the render distance. I don't suggest increasing it more than that as weird artifacts might show up.

It's a global script: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/399989043498319872/423149982112022530/render_distance.lua

Theres any none LUA versión of this?

Sapp lua version of Michelles chimera script:

-- Render Distance X 4
-- Quadruples render distance for sapp servers running halo ce/pc
-- Created by H® Shaft, adapted from Chimera script by SBB_Michelle

api_version = "1.10.0.0"

function OnScriptLoad()
	register_callback(cb['EVENT_GAME_START'], "OnNewGame")
	if get_var(0, "$gt") ~= "n/a" then	
		OnNewGame()
	end
end

function OnScriptUnload()
	safe_write(true)
		write_int(0x637D18, 1024)
	safe_write(false)
end	

function OnNewGame()
	safe_write(true)
		write_int(0x637D18, 4096)
	safe_write(false)	
end	

function OnError(Message)
    print(debug.traceback())
end
	

Edited by Slap Happy on Apr 8, 2018 at 04:59 PM
Edited by Slap Happy on Apr 8, 2018 at 05:01 PM

Much appreciated. Do you have any other bits like this?

Idk why you would make a sapp lua script for something that is entirely visual. Also, since you used the same pointer you are now editing a memory address which we don't know what it is on the server executable of halo.

Not to be a butt, but that doesn't strike me as particularly smart.

edit: I said a naughty word.
Edited by SBB_Michelle on Apr 9, 2018 at 01:53 PM

So this function is for writing a new value in the pointer?

I found this very similar to Matlab Code

Edit, lol I ask an none lua versión because i didnt read it was a chimera script

Edited by EmmanuelCD on Apr 9, 2018 at 11:05 PM