First Person Witcher Senses

First Person Witcher Sesnes

Play in third person as usual. Whenever Witcher Senses are active, the camera switches to

first person, through Geralt's own eyes. When the senses end, it goes back to third person.

- Uses the normal Witcher Senses button (right mouse button, or L2 on a controller), with

hold or toggle, whatever your game is set to. No new key needed.

- The Witcher Senses highlights and color effects work as usual.

- The camera sits at Geralt's eyes and follows his head as he moves. Hair, hood and mask

are hidden, and his shadow keeps its head.

- The body turns with the mouse, and movement is relative to where you look.

- First person starts looking where the third-person camera looked, and hands the

direction back when the senses end.

- On horseback the camera stays in third person.

- Cutscenes, dialogues and menus use the normal game cameras.

REQUIREMENTS

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- The Witcher 3 version 5. 0 (tested with DirectX 12).

- Mods must be enabled in REDlauncher. If the "Mods" option in the game's settings

is greyed out, open REDlauncher, go to The Witcher 3's settings and enable mods.

(This is stored in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\CD Projekt Red\REDlauncher\config\launcher.ini

as  <your id>\witcher3=true  under .)

INSTALLATION

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1. Close the game.

2. Copy the "mods" folder from this archive into your Witcher 3 installation folder,

so you end up with:

<Witcher 3>\mods\modFirstPersonSenses\content\scripts\local\1stperson_senses.ws

3. Start the game. The first start takes a little longer while the game compiles scripts.

Optional: a center-screen reticle while in first person (Ctrl + R). It needs a key

binding (pick A or B):

A) Automatic: right-click Install-Keybinds.ps1 and choose "Run with PowerShell",

or run this in PowerShell from the extracted folder:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\Install-Keybinds.ps1

It edits Documents\The Witcher 3\input.settings and saves a backup next to it

(input.settings.fpr-<date>.bak). Running it again only adds what is missing.

B) Manual: open Documents\The Witcher 3\input.settings in a text editor. Under EACH

of these section headers:

add these two lines directly below the header:

IK_LControl=(Action=FPR_Modifier)

IK_R=(Action=FPR_Reticle)

Keep the existing lines for Left Ctrl and R; the mod expects them.

While Ctrl is held, R does not drink a potion. Left Ctrl still toggles walking, but

now when you release it, and not at all if you used it for Ctrl + R.

"Reset to Default" in the Key Bindings menu removes the binding; run it again then.

CONSOLE COMMANDS (optional)

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Enable the console by adding  DBGConsoleOn=true  under in

Documents\The Witcher 3\dx12user.settings. It opens with the key below Esc

(~ on US keyboards, § on Nordic keyboards).

fprsenses        first person during Witcher Senses on/off (saved with your game)

fprfov 75        field of view (45 to 100)

fprsens 0. 25      mouse sensitivity

fprheight 0. 07    eye height above the head bone (metres)

fproffset 0. 17    how far forward the camera sits when looking straight ahead

fprdown 0. 25      how far forward the camera moves when looking down

fprlead 1. 0      keeps the camera from lagging behind the head while moving (0 = off)

fprreticle        reticle on/off

fprheadshadow    keep the head for its shadow (default) / hide the head completely

fprdebug          on-screen camera readout on/off

Apart from fprsenses, settings from the console reset when the game restarts.

KNOWN LIMITATIONS

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- The switch is instant; the game's usual zoom into Witcher Senses is not shown.

- The shadow's head has no hair, since hair is hidden in first person.

- The game has no real strafe animations, so walking sideways or backwards slides a little.

1. Delete <Witcher 3>\mods\modFirstPersonSenses.

2. If you added the reticle binding:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\Install-Keybinds.ps1 -Uninstall

or delete the two FPR_ lines from each sect