Autocamera and autopilot and auto-pause

Autocamera, autopilot, and auto-pause

https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/734

v9. 0. 0. 12, 17 Aug 2026:

- New feature: A cutscene from outside the cockpit of S and M ships looking in. Cockpits of L and XL ships are actually "virtual" and do not actually exist in the game's 3D world.

- New feature: Rebuilt the Target Monitor cutscene system and added these events to trigger the Target Monitor cutscenes: attacker of your ship, docking events on your ship, while spacewalking. Read more in the Target Monitor Cutscenes section.

- Tweak: Rebuilt all the other cutscenes. E.g. increased the variety of views of the subject, better point-of-view cutscenes where the subject is in the foreground, etc.

- Bug-fix: Autopilot: re-enabled "stop auto-pilot" earlier feature. It was disabled by mistake in the last few releases. E.g. autopilot into minefields during ship rescue missions should now stop the autopilot well before the minefield. I.e. without this feature, the vanilla autopilot will send your ship into the minefield as the ship needing rescue is the autopilot's target.

Mod effects

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Automatically sets these camera views on these events: (1) Docking: cutscene, (2) Auto-pilot: cutscene, (3) Player as a passenger: cutscene. QOLs: (1) Autopilot tweaks. (2) Auto-pause on load, save, entry to enemy sector.

(This adds to my history of modding the camera of games: Skirmish autocam in Freedom Force (http://ffx.freedomforceforever.com/manual/modmaking/skXCamera2_doc.htm), then Auto-1st-3rd-person view in Oblivion (https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/21834), then the same in Skyrim (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/27452).)

Requirements

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SirNukes Mod Support APIs mod (https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/503)

Kuertee's UI Extensions mod (https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/552)

ChemODun's Native Hotkey API mod (https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/2181): required for custom hotkeys.

The cutscenes can be stopped by pressing the ESC key, as usual. If the autopilot is still active after 10 seconds or 10 seconds after you close a menu, a new cutscene will play. You can disable this looping behaviour so that no new cutscenes will play after you stop it with the ESC key in the Extensions Options.

Note that your ship is invisible during the cutscenes if you have the cockpit's visibility disabled. (I didn't find a way to toggle the cockpit's visibility automatically so you'll need to enable the cockpit view manually if you disabled it.)

Target Monitor Cutscenes

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The events listed below, in order of priority, play a cutscene on the Target Monitor. The cutscenes play at the interval set in the "Wait between cuts