Mods / Salty's Free Look

Tags: #Other
Author: SaltyWater
Side: Client
Created: Jul 1st at 10:28 PM
Last modified: 5 days ago
Downloads: 673
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Recommended download (for Vintage Story 1.20.12):
FreeLook_1.0.1.zip  1-click install


          

Pet the floppa to buy me a coffee!

 

This super tiny mod adds the ability to look around!

Just hold the Free Look key (CAPS LOCK by default):

And you can freely look around without your body following the camera rotation!

You can still maneuver your character with wasd!

It works in the third person modes too!

It probably works with the elk.. have no idea.. did not test it. Let me know in the comments!!

By default you need to hold, but the mod has a single config file that let's you set it to toggle.

 

Also, This mod pairs well with

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(If you like casual strolls here and there)

 

 

check out my other mods here:

SaltyWater

   

Mod Version For Game version Downloads Release date Changelog Download 1-click mod install*
1.0.1 328 5 days ago FreeLook_1.0.1.zip 1-click install

Now with:

Toggle / Hold modes, check configs!!

 

Smooth camera reset.

1.0.0 345 Jul 1st at 10:31 PM FreeLook_1.0.0.zip 1-click install

yay


22 Comments (oldest first | newest first)

💬 SaltyWater , 5 days ago

potoes

check if theres no other key bind to caps lock

💬 potoes, 5 days ago

When I hit caps lock my screen is locked forward and nothing happens when I use the mouse. 

💬 SaltyWater , 5 days ago

beres

It happens to the best of us! 😆

💬 SaltyWater , 5 days ago

osayra

no, u are <3

💬 osayra, 5 days ago

you are amazing

💬 beres, 6 days ago

Can we somehow bind it to something else? Other than that, excellent mod

 

EDIT: I just saw some people claiming it can be done under the controls section, but I don't see an option. Didn't have the game for long, so any help would be highly appreciated

 

EDIT #2: Just to clarify for people who are almost as dumb as me, you have to be loaded into a world, to see the option in the control section. Hope this helped :)

💬 SaltyWater , 6 days ago

ThatGuy69

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Thanks! haha <3

💬 ThatGuy69, 6 days ago

this guy just continues to bring quality mods non stop, do you even sleep?

💬 SaltyWater , 6 days ago

D43VA

Hell yeah sure!

hit me up on discord.

SaltyWater or Nerddogueto. I'm on the VintageStory oficial discord as a modder too!

 

💬 D43VA, 6 days ago

SaltyWater

Very very cool, honestly should be a vanilla feature! I'm one of those people who compulsively hacks freelook and head tracking into any first-person game I play, so this mod is a godsend for me. Speaking of head tracking - would you be willing to share the source code for this mod? Would love to take a look at how you implemented this. Knowing that freelook is possible I'm now 90% sure I can write a plugin that enables true head tracking (camera & player movement fully independent from each other, camera steered by data from OpenTrack, mouse data steers player movement). With your mod, head tracking users have two issues: freelook can't be toggled permanently (have to hold down a key, inconvenient) and mouse movements actually need to move the player as usual instead of moving the camera (camera movement is taken care of by head tracking already, and players need a way to rotate the player character). With your permission, I'd like to take a stab at implementing this based on your code.

💬 D43VA, 6 days ago

VaelophisNyx

It's not exactly native TrackIR support, but I play VS on a triple monitor setup with Tobii 5 head tracking using OpenTrack in mouse emulation mode. X = Yaw, Y = Pitch, modest deadzone in the center for both axes, hotkeys for recentering and pausing tracking on my mouse (for menus), Bob's your uncle. It's shockingly playable this way, honestly miss it when it's not on. Only downside is that freelook isn't independent from movement - which this mod might actually be able to fix :3 Currently testing.

💬 Portokalis, 6 days ago

CRAZY mod, this should be a vanilla feature

💬 SaltyWater , 6 days ago

Calbain

Thanks!!

💬 SaltyWater , 6 days ago

Michaloid

Works best in immersive first person, you can use in the other mode but arms get rendered alone. It's strange. Wouldn't recommend!

💬 SaltyWater , 6 days ago

VaelophisNyx

I don't even know what TrackIR is! 😆

💬 Calbain, 6 days ago

OmegaHaxors Doesn't work very well, the mouse detaches but targeting is still in the center of the screen

DecaByte It shows up in the control menu as Free Look, default bound to Caps Lock

💬 OmegaHaxors [currently restricted], Jul 2nd at 5:47 AM

You should tie it to the alt key, since pressing that key frees up your mouse and allows you to target blocks that aren't nessesarily straight in the middle of your screen.

💬 DecaByte, Jul 2nd at 3:10 AM

Which key is used for it? Looks like you forgot to say in the discription.

💬 Michaloid , Jul 2nd at 1:13 AM

Is this a immersive first person feature or just normal first person?

💬 VaelophisNyx, Jul 1st at 11:59 PM

how big of a stretch goal is TrackIR support ;P

💬 SaltyWater , Jul 1st at 10:42 PM

gamingoninsulin

Yeah! Just hold the key and press whatever directional key you want, the mod only disables the body rotation following the camera direction! You can freely move around!

💬 gamingoninsulin, Jul 1st at 10:37 PM

question how to walking in for example not forward but side ways work just with wasd ? or can you tunr it off with a push of a button for example look good ;)

 

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