VikingEyes

Viking Eyes — True First Person

A very detailed first-person mod for Valheim. Not just a camera moved into your head: you look out of your Viking's real eyes, your whole body is there under you, and every dip, sway and jolt on screen comes from something that actually happened — a footstep, a landing, a swing that bit into wood, a hit you took.

See Valheim through Viking eyes.

> First release (0.3.0). Eyes, body, movement and combat are in. Many more updates are on the way — > see Coming in future updates below.

What makes it different

Most first-person mods solve where the camera sits. Viking Eyes is about how it feels. Three rules decide everything in it:

• Every motion has a cause. No sine-wave head bob, no canned shake. Each movement comes from a real

footstep, landing, swing or hit, and stops when its cause stops.

• Springs, not lerps. Motion settles with a touch of weight and overshoot instead of lagging behind you.
• What you look at stays still. Gaze stabilisation holds your focus point steady while your head moves,

the way real eyes do — so the world can move without making you queasy.

Features

Your eyes

• The view sits at the real eye point on your Viking's head, not inside the neck, with a neck pivot so

looking down moves your eyes forward and down like a real head.

• A small presence lift that fades out as you look down, so your body sits under you instead of below a ghost.
• A 72° field of view by default (about 104° across a 16:9 screen, adjustable 60–80°) for a natural sense

of scale; nothing ever narrows the view below it. Held items, torches and grass are drawn at a realistic size for your own eyes only — other players see everything as normal.

• Wall collision: pressed against a wall you see the wall, never through it.
• Smooth glides between first and third person — never a hard cut.

Your body

• Feet and legs when you look down, arms that follow your gaze, and a shadow with a head — your helmet,

hair and beard still cast shadows; they are only hidden from your own eyes.

• The body faces where you look while moving, using Valheim's own strafe and backpedal animations.
• Arms that swing too close to the eyes, dodge rolls, your own status particles and your own damage numbers

are kept out of your face.

• Your weapon is held in view: the weapon at the lower right, a shield low at the lower left with just its

rim showing, a torch at the right edge. Blocking raises the shield into a guard you look over. Two-handed weapons keep both hands on the grip.

Movement

• Footstep bob driven by the game's own footsteps: a dip and a weight shift onto each foot as it lands,

deeper for jogging and sprinting, small and slow when sneaking.

• Heavier steps in heavy armour, when over-encumbered, and when your stamina runs low.
• A slight lean when you set off, one small settle when you stop dead, a lean into climbs, and a touch of roll

into strafes and fast turns.

• Landings by fall speed: a push-off on jumps, a springy dip on landing, and a hard drop you feel in your knees.
• Stairs and rocks without step pops.
• Swimming: your eyes ride the waves just above the waterline, with a lift on each stroke — and go under

with you if you dive.

Combat

• The camera answers the hit, not the button. A short camera freeze on contact, then a kick in the swing's

direction, sized by your weapon and what you hit — flesh, wood, stone, ore, metal or earth. A miss only drifts.

• Wind-up leans per weapon class, a push when you block, a lurch when your guard breaks.
• Parries get their own moment: a brief slow-motion beat of the camera (never game time) and a small FOV pulse.
• Taking hits jolts the view away from the blow, scaled by how much health it cost; heavy hits add shake and a blink.
• Dodge rolls tilt toward the dodge. Bows, crossbows and staffs fire from your eyes to the crosshair.

Comfort and tuning

• One master intensity slider and per-layer intensities.
• Presets: Comfort, Natural, Cinematic and Trailer — and you can save your own and share them as files.
• Every value is live in Configuration Manager (F1): change a number and see it on the next frame.
• A debug overlay (F10) shows each motion layer's live output and the last events.

Controls

| Key | Action | |---|---| | H | Toggle first / third person | | Mouse wheel | Scroll out of first person into third; at the closest zoom, scroll in once more to return | | F10 | Feel debug overlay | | Shift + F10 | Calibration view (look back at your own face with eye markers) |

Steps out to third person automatically where Valheim is built to be seen from behind: building with the hammer, at a ship's helm, during emotes and on death. The hoe and cultivator stay in first person.

Compatibility

• Replaces Survival View (same author). The two cannot load together; your Survival View field of view and

height are imported once on first launch.

• Realistic Running: its exertion FOV swings still apply in first person, above the field-of-view floor.
• Other first-person and camera mods are detected at start-up and named in the log. Use one first-person mod at a time.
• Multiplayer safe: everything is local. Other players see your normal third-person animation.
• Built for Valheim 1.0.20.

Install

Install with r2modman / Thunderstore Mod Manager, or manually: put VikingEyes.dll in BepInEx/plugins/VikingEyes/.

Requires BepInExPack Valheim. Configuration Manager is recommended for live tuning (F1).

Coming in future updates

This is the first release of a much bigger plan. Next up: