The Leg Thing - Astarion's Act 3 Camera Tweaks

... I'll be honest, I wasn't entirely sure if I was going to do this one 😅 For a lot of reasons, ranging from grad school to "I really, really, really need to keep working on that dialog tutorial I keep mentioning, my g-d,"

But this ended up being a kinda quick tweak, so I went ahead with it anyway between combing through JSTOR articles and kvetching about applications of math. And now, I share it with you!

By popular request, I give you this:

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This mod changes some camera angles/camera motion in the final cinematic of spawn Astarion's Act 3 romance scene, so you can now see the infamous Leg Thing—the little leg hook he does with your character at the end of that scene. This animation is normally hidden by the camera angles used in the vanilla game. This mod changes that!

Now you can see that leg hook in all its glory, no freecam mods required.

... And in fact, this fixes a little "skip" in the animation, which is a vanilla uh... Well, I'd hesitate to call it an issue, considering you can't see it with the vanilla camera angles, but you can see it when using freecam mods. You won't with this mod, though.

The mod also changes the final shot of the scene, to work a bit better with the first camera angle I changed (and also by request from a friend). It'll now show the characters from the side, and shifts the depth of field partway through the shot, to blur the characters. Like I mentioned for Wyll in the description for  Wyll's Act 3 Romance Tweaks, Astarion also deserves some privacy just, because of everything he's been through. The leg thing will still be visible, but I thought it'd be nice to give him that privacy at the end of the scene. The vanilla game tilts the camera away from them in a similar spot, and the DoF edit is designed to mirror that.

Works with all races and bodytypes. It turns out short characters have a unique version of the animation, by the way! Which I've actually not seen anyone post before. Honestly, that's a shame; it's very cute 🌟🎶

I finally got around to making a demo video for this, by the way! You can watch it here:

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A note:

I configured the new camera position, camera motion, and depth of field in the final cinematic manually. The technique I used to do so shouldn't affect the c