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Build Camera
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Build Camera
Switch: F1 → 0 - Sub-mods → Build Camera (on by default).
Big builds are hard to place from your own two feet: the roof is out of reach, the other side of the wall is out of sight. Build Camera lets the camera leave your character while you build.
How it works
- Take the hammer, hoe or cultivator (or another mod's building tool) and stand at a workbench (in its building area). Press H: the camera flies free. Mouse to look, WASD to move, Space up, Ctrl down, Shift faster. On a gamepad: LB + LT switches it, the sticks fly.
- Everything building does works from where the camera is: the build menu, placing, removing, rotating (R, the mouse wheel), repairing, and the other building tools (Wood Swap, Build Materials, Stability Meter, Terrain Tools).
- Your character stands still where you left it. Press H again to come back; it also ends when you take damage, put the tool away, die or teleport.
Range
- The camera stays within 100 m of the nearest crafting station (setting "Camera range"). Epic Loot's build distance enchantment on your tool makes that range bigger by the same percentage.
- While flying, a crafting station near the camera counts for building, as if you stood there: fly to the stonecutter at the other end of your base and build stone there.
- Without a workbench it only starts where building needs none: Epic Loot's Free Build enchantment, a world with "no workbench needed", the no-cost cheat, or a mod saying any station will do (Build Restrictions). The camera then stays within that range of you.
- With the camera off, everything is the game's own: 8 m reach, 20 m workbench area.
Extras
- Flashlight on the camera (switch it with L while flying; angle, distance and brightness are settings).
- Mist clearing around the camera in the Mistlands.
- Pick up near the camera: E picks up items and plants you aim at within 10 m of the camera, and items within 5 m of it are picked up by themselves (when your own auto pickup is on).
- Pieces you remove with the camera drop their materials at your feet.
Replaces Atze's Build Camera
Atze's Build Camera (Nexus only) did the same. Installed together, Build Camera stays off and says so. Its settings (key, speed, range, light, mist, pick up) are copied once. Unlike it, there is no settings window of its own (F1 has them all) and the game's reach and workbench area stay as they are while the camera is off.
Performance
Nothing runs until you switch it on; then one camera update a frame and a look for loose items four times a second.
Settings (F1)
In F1 these are under Build Camera - ..., below the switches.
General
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Camera key | H | With a building tool in hand (hammer, hoe, cultivator) at a workbench: the camera leaves your character and flies (WASD, Space up, Ctrl down, Shift faster). Press again to come back. On a gamepad: LB + LT. |
| Speed | 1.5 | How fast the camera flies (times your walking speed; with Shift times your running speed). (range 0.1 to 5) |
| Camera range (m) | 100 | How far the camera may fly from the nearest crafting station (or from you, where building needs no workbench). A station counts as near for building while the camera is this close to it. Epic Loot's build distance enchantment makes it bigger by the same percentage. (range 10 to 300) |
| Depth below ground (m) | 2 | How far the camera may go under the ground (negative: it stays that high above it). (range -5 to 5) |
| Materials to your feet | on | Pieces you remove with the camera drop their materials at your feet instead of where they stood. |
Light
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Light | on | A spotlight on the camera while it flies. |
| Light key | L | Switches the light on and off while flying. |
| Light angle | 90 | How wide the light shines, in degrees. (range 15 to 135) |
| Light distance (m) | 40 | How far the light reaches. (range 5 to 150) |
| Light brightness | 2 | How bright the light is. (range 0.1 to 5) |
Mist
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Clear mist | on | Clears the Mistlands mist around the camera while it flies. |
| Mist clearing range (m) | 100 | How far around the camera the mist clears. (range 5 to 150) |
Pick up
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Pick up near the camera | on | Use (E) picks up items and plants you aim at near the camera, not only near you. |
| Pick up distance (m) | 10 | How far from the camera you can pick things up. (range 1 to 25) |
| Auto pickup around the camera | on | Items lying near the camera are picked up by themselves (when your own auto pickup is on). |
| Auto pickup radius (m) | 5 | How close to the camera items are picked up by themselves. (range 1 to 10) |
