XpertsDroneCam

Xpert's Drone Cam

The DroneCam allows you to join a multiplayer game as a drone, flying around, following, orbiting, and tracking a player or enemy. It works with un-modded, vanilla servers and MP games as well as modded ones. You simply join the game, enable the drone cam and then become an omnipotent spectator. Handy for tracking the Valheim action from a completely independent vantage point.

Built for Xpert Malfunction and shared to the community.

Requirements

• BepInEx 5.x
• Valheim (Unity 6 build)

Installation

Place XpertsDroneCam.dll in your BepInEx/plugins/ folder. If you are using the Spout or NDI streaming features, see the Streaming section below.

Overview

When the drone cam is active your character becomes invisible to other players, is protected from damage, and does not count toward enemy difficulty scaling. You can fly freely around the world, follow a specific player from behind, orbit a player or point of interest, or set up a fixed security camera that tracks a moving target.

If the player you are targeting goes through a portal to a distant part of the map, the drone will automatically teleport to follow them.

Commands can be entered in two ways:

• In-game console type dc followed by a subcommand, e.g. dc follow player Xmal
• Chat window type /dc followed by the same subcommand, e.g. /dc follow player Xmal

Player names that contain spaces must be wrapped in quotes in both the console and chat, e.g. dc follow player "Big Viking".

Key Bindings

| Key | Action |

|---|---|

| F8 | Toggle drone cam on and off |

| F7 | Toggle between free-fly and the last tracking mode (follow, orbit, or security) |

| Left Click | Point at a player and select them as the tracking target, using the last mode and settings |

| T | Point at an enemy to set it as the look-at target. Press again on the same enemy to release. Press while pointing at empty space to clear the current enemy target |

| W | Fly forward |

| S | Fly backward |

| A | Strafe left |

| D | Strafe right |

| E | Fly up |

| Q | Fly down |

| Left Shift | Hold to fly faster |

| Right Mouse Button | Hold to look around with the mouse |

| Left Arrow | Rotate left |

| Right Arrow | Rotate right |

| Up Arrow | Pitch up |

| Down Arrow | Pitch down |

| Mouse Wheel | Adjust distance or orbit radius |

| Alt + Mouse Wheel | Adjust camera height above target |

| Ctrl + Mouse Wheel | Slide the focal point up or down |

| Alt + Ctrl + Mouse Wheel | Adjust orbit speed |

|. (period) | Cycle to next player target |

|, (comma) | Cycle to previous player target |

Full Command Reference

All commands are entered as dc in the console, or /dc in chat.

Commands Table

| Command | Subcommand | Parameters | Description |

|---|---|---|---|

| help | | | Show command help in chat |

| on | | | Enter free-fly mode |

| freefly | | | Enter free-fly mode |

| off | | | Exit drone cam and return to normal camera |

| hud | | | Toggle the HUD on and off |

| snap | | | Snap drone instantly to current player target |

| players | | | List all players currently on the server |

| follow | player | (name) [distance] [height] [smoothing] | Follow a player from behind |

| follow | enemy | (name) [distance] [height] [smoothing] | Follow the nearest enemy with the given name |

| orbit | player | (name) [radius] [speed] [height] | Orbit around a player |

| orbit | enemy | (name) [radius] [speed] [height] | Orbit around the nearest enemy with the given name |

| orbit | pos | [radius] [speed] [height] | Orbit around the point you are currently looking at |

| orbit | speed | (deg/sec) | Change the orbit speed while orbiting |

| security | player | (name) | Fixed camera that tracks a player |

| security | pos | | Fixed camera that tracks the point you are looking at |

| targetenemy | | | Lock look-at onto the nearest enemy |

| targetenemy | (name) | | Lock look-at onto the nearest enemy with that name |

| targetenemy | clear | | Release enemy look-at lock |

| stream | on | [spout\|ndi] [width] [height] | Start