So I'll update you on what I've done so far.
I found out, from a developer's old post on the forums, that to get 3rd person views tankwise on singleplayer could be done by editing gameplayplugin.py, adding the word 'testing' to one of the lines of text, after the word spawnwave. However, since that post, the developers made the file a .pyc file which was humanly unreadable.
So I managed to find an online decompile tool to make the file readable again, pasted that text into a notepad file, added the word 'testing' in the right place and called the file gameplayplugin.py.
Now that's all well and good, but I'm guessing that if I replaced that .pyc file with the .py file in the relevant FH2 folder, the game just wouldn't work. I guess it's got to be converted back into a .pyc file. That's where you guys come in. Please tell me how I could do that.
Better yet, maybe one of the developers could quickly edit and send me another .pyc file that allows for SP 3rd person tank views already.
Many thanks.