White Knuckle Wide Angle Camera Mod

Adds novel projection techniques to White Knuckle to allow for much greater fields of view with more pleasant distortion profiles. Note, the black flickering present in the bottom left corner of these and other showcase clips are not present in the release build of the mod, this video was taken earlier in development

Features

• Very wide FOV (in horizontal degrees), via two distinct camera projections, see below
• Configurable cubemap resolution, which generally scales the performance to clarity ratio of the camera (higher resolution increases sharpness but is more costly)
• Ability to render behind the player, which typically only needs to be enabled if your ocular venture takes you to such heights of view where gameplay is a secondary concern

Gallery

Walking along the haunted pier and climbing some buildings under stereographic projection at 250° hfov

Entering habitation yellow using panini projection at 250° hfov

Unpleasant distortion visible at the same field of view in the default (perspective/rectilinear) camera projection

Further Information

The default perspective projection of most games applies field of view by taking the vertical field of view as a parameter. Therefore, to compare fairly between the two, you should multiply your perspective fov by your display's aspect ratio.
For example: 90° × 16:9 == 90° × (16/9) = 160° which becomes the angle from edge to edge horizontally of your screen.
Above 140° you should find that stereographic and panini projections map the environment to your periphery with much less distortion.

Changelog

v3.1.0 - 2026-06-25

Fixes

• Compatibility with The Nest update

Changes

• Field of view slider now controls the vertical field of view instead of the horizontal
• Field of view slider is now bounded at a reasonable default maximum for your selected projection

Additions

• Reasonable field of view slider bounding may be turned off in the config, allowing for very cool screenshots and impractical gameplay

v3.0.0 - 2026-06-04

Additions

• Relatively expensive option to synchronize hand rendering to where they are in the world (on by default)
• Azimuthal equidistant and equisolid angle projections

v2.0.3 - 2026-05-28

Fixes

• Mod respects "Disable sprint FOV change" option

v2.0.2 - 2026-04-19

Fixes

• Compatibility with anniversary update
• Parity with vanilla terminal FOV (no longer naively multiplies by aspect ratio)

v2.0.1 - 2026-01-25

Fixes

• Corrected information in the README
• Added correct comparison to the README

v2.0.0 - 2026-01-24

Additions

• Panini projection; a cylindrical kind of view projection

Changes

• Cubemap resolution now offers presets instead of taking an integer, this was done to prevent breakage caused by setting the resolution to a non-power of two
• FOV option now sets the field of view of the major axis of your display, instead of always the vertical axis

Fixes

• View plane now matches the camera bounds, as a result the visible range now expectedly matches the set FOV
• Fixed flickering triangle that happened in the old quad setup

v1.1.1 - 2026-01-23

Fixes

• Camera field of view change speed matches vanilla
• Terminal zoom animation matches vanilla speed

v1.1.0 - 2026-01-22

Changes

• Camera respects field of view slider in settings menu instead of BepInEx configuration

Fixes

• Field of view responds to sprinting and consumable effects
• Field of view scales to fit terminals

v1.0.0 - 2026-01-21

Additions

• Stereographic projection
• Configurable cubemap resolution, defaults to 512px
• Configurable vertical field of view, defaults to 135
• Toggleable backface rendering, defaults off