ApolloAdAstra

Thank you for your reply. Sounds like this is beyond my capabilities, and probably not worth learning for this particular case. I'm assuming this would require analyzing assembly code line-by-line. Yes - I tested it with a fresh save that starts you in the pilot's seat in third person - undocked. Then, to test, I did all of the following steps in order: I freshly loaded the game (without mods) Then loaded the save Then gave the game a few seconds to breathe (for good measure) Then entered my command Nothing else The result I saw was somehow even worse than entering it from first person (sitting in pilot's seat in both cases). That is, photo mode was entered, but the camera had all of the following problems: Extremely distant initial camera location - I could see my ship but it was very small due to the distance Incorrect initial camera pan - the camera was not pointed at the ship after initially running the command Incorrect initial camera orientation - the camera was not oriented (rotationally) to match the ship's orientation Very strange camera controls with mouse: Mouse straight up -> pans camera up+left Mouse straight down -> pans camera down+right Mouse straight left -> rolls camera counter-clockwise Mouse straight right -> rolls camera clockwise No ability to move the camera with WASD So it's very confusing as to what exactly is going on. Do you have any advice as to any additional debug commands or Papyrus functions (called with cgf) that could be useful here? Or, alternatively, any idea if any of the game's source files would reveal the actual actions the game takes when a user clicks on "Photo Mode" from the ESC menu?

Hello, I'm facing an issue I've been trying to solve for the past few days and I'm hoping someone with more experience than me may be able to share some insight. What I'm ultimately trying to do is find the correct console command to use to open photo mode, so that I can bind it to a hotkey on my mouse and have instant photo mode access, since I use photo mode quite a lot while playing the game. (insert meme here: "Wait, you guys actually play the game? I just mess around with the files") There does exist a simple command - "showmenu photomodemenu" - which does open photo mode, and it works in most situations. Unfortunately, when piloting your ship, it still enters photo mode but the camera is bugged. The starting point is wrong, the starting orientation is wrong, and the movement controls (wasd) don't work at all, at a minimum. If you have taken any camera-related actions since game load, additional issues occur (inverted/diagonal camera look controls, extremely distant camera starting point, etc.) the next time that command is used while piloting your ship. I can get into the details of which actions cause which additional camera issues if it helps. Again, these issues only occur when running the aforementioned command while piloting your ship - the command still works fine if not piloting your ship, and the normal cameras (when not in photo mode) remain perfectly fine too. Going to the pause menu or the scanner and opening photo mode from there also continues to work perfectly fine. Since the photo mode button in the pause menu (ESC) works great in all situations, and my command works great in all situations I've tested except when piloting your ship, I'm thinking the photo mode button in the pause menu must be calling additional function(s) or command(s) to properly set the camera, in addition to "showmenu photomodemenu". It might only be calling the extra function(s) when piloting (checking some internal function like isPlayerPiloting), or it might be always doing the same thing and it just happens that these extra functions aren't needed in most cases. What I'd really like to do is log all the functions the game is calling so I can find this out. Is this even possible? I've already enabled Papyrus debugging in my ini and am able to get some known debug commands to work, and others not. I haven't been able to find anything that would accomplish what I want though. I've been poring through the game files trying to find clues as to how to do this. I've extracted all the scripts from the ESM file (and decompiled with Champollion) and looked through them to no avail. I haven't been able to find relevant references to photo mode, or useful debug functions that I can get to work. I checked the animations and the interface files (decompiled with FFdec) too. I wasn't even sure if the process of opening photo mode would be a script or an animation or some actionscript embedded in the interface files, so I looked through all of them. Does anyone with more experience than me have any tips on how to do what I want, or to at least get more relevant information from the various debug functions in the game? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please note that I'm not interested in using an autohotkey script or keyboard macro to automate the inputs required to manually open the pause menu and open photo mode. I already tried it and the game requires too much delay between inputs for my liking.