FarGaze

Far Gaze / distant view

Turn toward the scenery and take a clearer look at the world of Hollow Knight: Silksong.

Features

• While Hornet is standing still, press the Far Gaze key to turn toward the background and smoothly clear its blur.
• Look up or down to move the camera without interrupting Hornet's turned-away pose.
• Customize separate keyboard and controller bindings. Choose toggle or hold mode.

Installation

Choose Install with Mod Manager on Far Gaze's page. The manager installs the declared BepInExPack Silksong and ModMenu dependencies, including ModMenu's own requirements.

For manual installation, install those packages and ModMenu's listed dependencies first, then place FarGaze.dll in BepInEx/plugins/FarGaze/ under the game directory.

Controls and settings

The default keyboard key is B. On first connection of a controller type, the default is pressing the left stick (L3 on PlayStation, LS on Xbox).

Open Options → Mods → Far Gaze to change the keyboard binding, controller binding, or input mode. Each controller type remembers its own binding. A binding that conflicts with a game action is rejected without replacing the current one.

• Toggle: press once to enter Far Gaze, and again to leave.
• Hold: stay in Far Gaze while the key is held.

Far Gaze can only start while standing still. Walking, jumping, attacking, or taking damage ends it. A normal exit plays the turn-back animation, and background blur returns smoothly. The mod does not alter save files.

Compatibility and credits

Version 0.5.1 uses BepInEx 5 and was verified with the Steam release of Silksong, build 22479045. Keyboard and PS4 controllers received the most testing. PS5, Xbox, and Nintendo-style controllers have their own prompts and bindings.

Controller prompts come from xelu's Free Keyboard and Controllers Prompts Pack, released under CC0. PlayStation face-button prompts use the game's own icons.

Chinese description

After standing still and pressing the look-ahead button, the bumblebee will turn around and look at the background, and the background blur will gradually fade away. You can still move the camera up or down when looking far away, and the bumblebee remains in a back-to-back position. Supports customizing keyboard and handle buttons respectively, as well as two modes: click and long press.

Select Install with Mod Manager on the page, and the manager will automatically install BepInExPack Silksong, ModMenu and the latter's dependencies declared in the manifest. When installing manually, please install these dependencies first, and then put FarGaze.dll into BepInEx/plugins/FarGaze/ in the game directory.

The default keyboard key is B; when connecting a controller for the first time, the default key is pressing the left stick (L3 for PlayStation, LS for Xbox). Keys and modes can be modified in Options → Mods → Overlook. Conflicting keystrokes are rejected and bindings are remembered separately for each controller type.

• Tap: Press once to enter, press again to exit.
• Long press: look into the distance when pressed, exit when released.

The Overlook can only be entered while standing; walking, jumping, attacking, or being hit will end the Overlook. Normal exit will play the turnaround animation, and the background blur will be restored smoothly. This module does not modify the archive.

The current version is 0.5.1, using BepInEx 5, and has been verified on the Steam version of "Silk Song" build 22479045; focusing on testing the keyboard and PS4 controller. The controller prompt image uses xelu’s CC0 material package; the PlayStation face button prompts use the game’s own icons.