First Person for Exploration with Better Controls and No Detection by Enemies (a Workaround)

[Elkatar]

It's not a mod in the normal sense of creating a mod. It's using two exisitng first person mods together with no coding added or changed, the First Person Mode mod by skacikpl and Absolute Camera mod. It gives you first person view, not noticed by mobs, and much easier movement controls than with skacikpl's mod.

 

The workaround in the title is a workaround for the difficult movement in skacikpl's mod. Skacikpl's mod provides the no detection portion. And Absolute Camera mod provides first person and much easier movement although still a little awkward. And it mouse pans all around 360 degrees, not limited to about 180 degrees as in skacikpl's mod.

 

The short version of how to achieve all that is simply load a save, use skacikpl's mod, save the game as a new save, load the new save, and use the Absolute Camera mod.

 

But the long version helps more so: First install both mods. I installed Absolute Camera first then First Person Mode by skacikpl. Then load a saved game, go in first person in skacikpl's mod. Then go in no detection mode with skacikpl's mod. Save the game as a new save. Then reolad that saved game and use Absolute Camera mod to go into a first person mode. It moves the camera up and forward a bit, so it simulates a first person view. In the Absolute Camera menus to get first person set Camera Mode to Normal, Y=4 and Z=1 and X=0 in the section for exploration.

 

Now you can play in first person with better controls and no detection by enemies (they don't attack.) Apparently the no detection portion of skacikpl's mod carries over to the loaded save even though the first person view portion does not. It doesn't work automatically after exiting the game and reloading the save. So you have to repeat the steps each time you enter the game.

 

The controls for first person in the Absolute Camera mod are a little awkward but not nearly as difficult as in skacikpl's mod. Also the camera may be a little too high for some players in the Absolute Camera mod when in first person.

 

If someone can try this and verify the features mentioned. I just found out about it by accident a few hours ago.

 

First Person Mode:

 

http://forums.cdprojektred.com/forum/en/the-witcher-series/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt/mod-discussions/65917-first-person-mode

 

Absolute Camera:

 

http://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/856/?

Edited January 17, 2017 by Elkatar