Hiya!
For the longest time I was always frustrated with how close XI's camera was positioned from your character. Countless epic fights where we get amazing visuals...of NM kneecaps. So I tried to do something about it.
XICamera allows you to set the camera distance. This is different than Ashita's Zoom addon, which allows a greater range of zooming.
I have an addon versions for Windower 4 and Ashita, and they are available on
Github.
Current version
v0.7.10 - Trying to reduce camera jitter close to walls. Added functions to increase camera movement range when locked on.
v0.7.8 - Added ability to adjust camera panning speed. Added camera increment and decrement functions for use with keybinds.
v0.7.6 - Address the battle audio issues. Battle audio shouldn't drop out when camera distance is set further out.
v0.7.5 - KenshiDRK helped with making more resilient signatures. Hopefully it'll survive future client updates.
v0.7 - Fairly significant changes to how I'm adjusting the camera location. Addon implementations for Windower 4/5, and Ashita 3/4. There's a plugin version for Ashita 3.
v0.6 - Ashita 3 plugin fix. Added lua implementations for Ashita
Install and usage instructions are included in the README files.
Windower
//lua load xicamera
//camera|cam|xicamera|xicam
Ashita Addon
/addon load xicamera
/camera|cam|xicamera|xicam
Functions
d|distance ## - Default 6
b|battle ## - Default 8.2
hs|hspeed ## - Default 3
vs|vspeed ## - Default 10, forces vert speed auto calc off
in|incr - Increments camera distance by 1
de|decr - Decrements camera distance by 1
bin|bincr - Increments battle camera distance by 1
bde|bdecr - Decrements battle camera distance by 1
soi|saveOnIncrement - defaults off, saves new camera distance in settings
acv|autoCalcVertSpeed - defaults on, will ignore Vert pan speed settings and auto calc based on camera distance.
br|battlerange ## - default 4. min 0, max 100. Adjusts the range that the camera can be moved when locked on. 100 is about an 180 degree range around the mob. Forces battle lock on.
bl|battlelock <on,off,true,false,1,0> - removes the 180 degree cap on camera movement. 360 degree movement of camera when locked on. Focal point is some midpoint between player character and mob.
I have tested this while running around on my own XI private server and haven't run into issues, but I've not had anyone test this on retail.
I'd really like to thank the author of XIPivot and the author(s) of xiloader as I had no clue how to do any of this stuff when I started out. A huge portion of the code base will look very similar to XIPivot, and many places will look identical. I very much appreciate their work as I couldn't have made this without their contributions to the community.
Thanks
Might need to install c++ distributables
https://aka.ms/vc14/vc_redist.x86.exe
