Aska First Person Camera

A BepInEx 6 IL2CPP plugin that adds a fully-featured first-person camera to Aska.

Features

• Toggle camera with F5 (keyboard) or LB + R3 (gamepad) -- both fully configurable
• Smooth camera positioning anchored to the player's head bone with configurable offsets
• Motion dampening reduces vertical camera shake from combat, rolls, and head bob without adding lateral lag
• Shadow-only body -- player model is hidden but still casts shadows for immersion
• Held items stay visible -- weapons, tools, and shields in either hand remain rendered
• Upper body spine rotation -- arms and held items follow the camera direction naturally, split across two spine bones for a smooth look
• Equipment hiding -- all gear (backpack, cape, quiver, stowed weapons, hair, beard) is hidden cleanly; periodic re-scan catches newly equipped items
• Multiplayer aware -- correctly identifies the local player via Photon Fusion InputAuthority; other players are unaffected
• Pause detection -- camera input stops when the game is paused, a menu is open, or the cursor is unlocked
• Scene-aware -- auto-disables when returning to the main menu and re-discovers references on new sessions
• Experimental lower body mode -- optional config to show forearms, hands, and legs (may have mesh artifacts)
• Configurable FOV, mouse sensitivity, near clip plane, smoothing, and more
• All settings editable via BepInEx/config/com.community.askafirstperson.cfg or in-game with BepInEx ConfigManager (F1)

Installation

With r2modman (recommended)

1. Install r2modman
2. Select Aska as your game
3. Search for AskaFirstPerson and install

Manual

1. Install BepInEx 6 IL2CPP (BE #755+) for Aska
2. Copy AskaFirstPerson.dll into BepInEx/plugins/ inside your Aska game folder
3. Launch the game

Configuration

After first launch, edit BepInEx/config/com.community.askafirstperson.cfg:

Camera

Player

Visibility

Controls

How It Works

• A Harmony prefix on CinemachineBrain.LateUpdate suppresses Cinemachine's camera positioning while in first-person mode, without disabling CinemachineBrain itself (which would break game state)
• Camera position tracks the head bone with configurable vertical/forward offsets and motion dampening
• Spine bones (Bip001 Spine and Bip001 Spine1) are rotated in LateUpdate after the Animator writes, so the upper body follows the camera direction while legs face the movement direction
• All renderers on the player hierarchy are set to ShadowCastingMode.ShadowsOnly, except items attached to hand bones
• Bone lookups use explicit skeleton paths from the master transform to avoid matching duplicate skeletons inside equipment meshes

Requirements

• Aska (Steam)
• BepInEx 6 Bleeding Edge (IL2CPP build #755 or newer)

Compatibility

• Client-side only -- does not affect network state in co-op
• Works in both singleplayer and multiplayer sessions
• Compatible with other BepInEx IL2CPP mods
• May need updates after major Aska patches (delete BepInEx/interop/ and relaunch to regenerate)

Sunshine / Moonlight (Remote Play / Steam Deck)

If you stream Aska to a Steam Deck or another device via Sunshine + Moonlight, you need mods installed directly in the game folder (r2modman's "Start modded" won't work over a stream).

Copy your r2modman profile to the game folder:

# Git Bash / MSYS2
cp -r "$APPDATA/r2modmanPlus-local/ASKA/profiles/Default/"* \
  "C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/ASKA/"

# PowerShell
Copy-Item -Recurse -Force `
  "$env:APPDATA\r2modmanPlus-local\ASKA\profiles\Default\*" `
  "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ASKA\"

Then launch Aska normally from Steam -- mods load automatically. Re-run the copy after updating mods in r2modman. To revert, delete winhttp.dll and doorstop_config.ini from the game folder.

Troubleshooting

• Plugin not loading: Ensure you have BepInEx 6 IL2CPP (not BepInEx 5), and the DLL is in BepInEx/plugins/
• Camera not switching: Make sure you are in-game (not on a menu or loading screen) when pressing the toggle key
• Seeing inside player model: Decrease NearClipPlane or increase ForwardOffset
• Jittery camera: Decrease SmoothSpeed for more smoothing, or increase MotionDampening to reduce vertical shake
• Camera moves in menus: This should not happen -- pause detection stops input when the cursor is visible or the game is paused. If it does, please report the issue
• Equipment still visible: New equipment is detected every 0.5 seconds. If something persists, toggle first-person off and on again