The Evil Within 2 FOV changer + ultrawide fix
Added 2022-10-27 17:59:37 +0000 UTCThis solution was created in response to a personal request from someone quite picky about the extent of FOV sliders in games. That said, as I looked into extending the in-game slider of up to 90, I found that the request was justified even by the common expectations in that the game would not even reach 90 and often stick to less for the general view.
The path to the solution wasn't as simple as adding to a slider, as there was another obstacle in the code preventing from doing it the easy way. After I took care of that and went for the testing, I noticed the cutscenes being limited to 16:9 at 21:9.
There was a trainer for the pillarboxing removal by susahamat, but I saw that it had to be updated for each game version and that it was covering just a few specific aspect ratios. Moreover, susahamat is no longer active and it made sense for me to have everything in a single trainer, so I relatively quickly produced my own fix that removes the bars for any aspect ratio and hopefully for any game version.
In the end, we have an old-style trainer that shows you the current FOV and lets you manipulate it in real time. The same goes for the cutscenes that come and go in a button press. This works so well as a demo for a YouTube video, if someone were to make one!
