Better First Person

Play Risk of Rain 2 from your survivor's eyes. You see your own body, arms, weapon and items, the camera stays steady, and your weapon gets out of the way when it would block the view.

Features

• Eyes camera. The camera sits at the front of the head, so you never look through your own face, and it never goes into walls. Looking down moves it a little forward, so the neck and collar stay out of view.
• Weapon out of the way. Railgunner holds her rifle lower, and any survivor's arms and weapon can be lowered the same way. Weapon parts and item displays that still cover a big part of the screen (sprint jumps, falling) fade out smoothly and come back when the view is clear.
• Proper field of view. Set the horizontal FOV you want. Sprinting and scopes still widen and narrow it like in vanilla, and mouse sensitivity stays the same.
• The body follows your view. Your survivor always faces where you look. Walking backwards plays the backpedal animation instead of turning around.
• Steady camera. Running bob, melee swings and Acrid's gallop are taken out of the view. Moving, jumping and turning are never delayed.
• Shots go to the crosshair. You aim from the eyes, in single player and in multiplayer.
• Small muzzle flashes for your own weapons, so firing doesn't flash half the screen.
• No hat brims in your eyes. Headgear and eye glows (Captain's cap, Bandit's hat, Operator's eyes, head items) are hidden in first person.
• Hands off. First person comes back by itself after respawning and on the next stage, and the game's own camera takes over for the drop pod, cutscenes, death and spectating.

How to use

Press O during a run to switch between first and third person. The key can be changed in the settings.

Settings

Everything is in the game's Mod Options (Risk Of Options) and can be changed while playing.

For every survivor, including modded ones:

• Weapon Lowering turns the arms and the weapon in them down around the shoulders, in degrees. Railgunner starts at 20.
• Camera Height raises the camera above the eyes, in centimeters.
• Head Path is only for modded survivors whose head isn't found: the path inside the model to look out of.

Compatibility

• Client side: only you need it, other players can play without it.
• With CustomEmotesAPI the view switches to third person while an emote plays, so you can see it (can be turned off).

Feedback

The game log (BepInEx/LogOutput.log) has a line for every survivor you play in first person: where the eyes were found and which parts are lowered and faded.

Changelog

1.1.2

• Weapon sway: on fast turns the arms and the weapon trail behind a little and settle back smoothly, instead of being locked to the screen. Weapon Sway sets how much, 0 turns it off.
• The body is turned once per frame, from that frame's view, and the arms aim from the same frame: no more jitter of the arms while turning fast.
• Effects that go off in the middle of your own body, like the flash of Huntress' blink and of the teleport on her special, are hidden in first person (Hide Bursts At Your Body). So are the flashes the game draws over your own model, like Huntress reappearing after her blink, which lit up her eyes right at the camera.
• Glowing weapon parts made of several pieces, like Huntress' arrow cluster on her special, fade as one piece and get out of the way sooner. When a skill switches them on, they stay hidden until measured, so they don't flash up in front of the eyes.
• While a skill moves the whole body (Huntress' Arrow Rain and glaive throw, Mercenary's dashes, Loader's charged punches), your body and weapon are hidden instead of passing through the camera. Primary attacks keep them visible, so melee swings stay on screen. Hide Body During Skills turns it off.
• The first person key reacts while other keys are held (running, sprinting). During the drop pod or a cutscene it switches whether first person comes back afterwards.

1.1.1

• Captain's coat and body (his model has the head separate) count as the body now: his gun stays visible and only fades when it covers a big part of the screen.
• The check that the screen coverage measurement works no longer gives up by mistake when big meshes are around the camera.
• Skills and rides that widen the game's field of view (Enforcer's dash and shield) widen first person only as much as sprinting does, scaled by Sprint FOV Effect. Scopes still zoom in fully.

1.1.0

• First public release.
• Uses the game's own camera: cutscenes, the drop pod, death and spectating show the vanilla view, and first person comes back afterwards.
• Weapon lowering for every survivor, on by default for Railgunner.
• Headgear is hidden in first person: hats, caps, glasses and eye glows that would sit in front of the camera.
• The camera never sits behind the eyes, also for faces that stick out of the head's shape (Operator).
• Rides that keep the body in view (Enforcer's dash, ziplines) stay in first person; the drop pod and rides that hide the body show the vanilla camera.
• The first person key always reacts; it is only ignored while typing in the chat or the console.
• Aiming from the eyes in multiplayer as well.
• Faded weapon parts are hidden on the game's no-draw layer, so they stay hidden reliably.
• Camera height per survivor in centimeters.
• Old settings are carried over and settings that no longer exist are removed from the config file.