FreeLook
Hold a key to look around while your character keeps facing and aiming where it was.
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FreeLook
Hold Left Alt and move the mouse to look around. Your character keeps facing, moving and aiming where it was. Let go and the camera eases back.
The view stays within the game's normal camera limits and slows gently toward the edges. The crosshair fades while you look away, since your aim has not moved. FreeLook works on foot, swimming, sailing and riding, and stays out of the way in menus, on the map, in chat and while placing buildings, where Left Alt keeps its normal use.
FreeLook only runs on your own machine. Nothing it changes is sent to other players, and servers do not need it. It does not work while sitting in a chair or lying in a bed.
AI notice
Most of FreeLook was written by Claude Code (Anthropic), which did the heavy lifting on implementation and design. Heads-up so you can judge for yourself.
Settings
All settings are in BepInEx/config/isimp.FreeLook.cfg, each with a description. They include the key, how far you can look, how quickly the view returns and how the crosshair fades.
More
Technical notes and build instructions are on GitHub at
Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.
Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file. In multiplayer, the host and every client need the same mods installed.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: