Aska First Person Camera

A BepInEx 6 IL2CPP plugin that adds a fully-featured first-person camera to Aska.

Features

• Toggle camera with F5 (keyboard) or LB + R3 (gamepad) -- both fully configurable
• Smooth camera positioning anchored to the player's head bone with configurable offsets
• Motion dampening reduces vertical camera shake from combat, rolls, and head bob without adding lateral lag
• Shadow-only body -- player model is hidden but still casts shadows for immersion
• Held items stay visible -- weapons, tools, and shields in either hand remain rendered
• Upper body spine rotation -- arms and held items follow the camera direction naturally, split across two spine bones for a smooth look
• Equipment hiding -- all gear (backpack, cape, quiver, stowed weapons, hair, beard) is hidden cleanly; periodic re-scan catches newly equipped items
• Multiplayer aware -- correctly identifies the local player via Photon Fusion InputAuthority; other players are unaffected
• Pause detection -- camera input stops when the game is paused, a menu is open, or the cursor is unlocked
• Scene-aware -- auto-disables when returning to the main menu and re-discovers references on new sessions
• Experimental lower body mode -- optional config to show forearms, hands, and legs (may have mesh artifacts)
• Configurable FOV, mouse sensitivity, near clip plane, smoothing, and more
• All settings editable via BepInEx/config/com.community.askafirstperson.cfg or in-game with BepInEx ConfigManager (F1)

Installation

With r2modman (recommended)

1. Install r2modman
2. Select Aska as your game
3. Search for AskaFirstPerson and install

Manual

1. Install BepInEx 6 IL2CPP (BE #755+) for Aska
2. Copy AskaFirstPerson.dll into BepInEx/plugins/ inside your Aska game folder
3. Launch the game

Configuration

After first launch, edit BepInEx/config/com.community.askafirstperson.cfg:

Camera

Visibility

Controls

Gamepad chord ordering: hold the modifier (LB) first, then tap the toggle (R3). The mod suppresses the underlying R3 action while LB is held so it does not fire alongside the toggle. Pressing R3 first then LB will fire R3's normal game action.

How It Works

• A Harmony prefix on CinemachineBrain.LateUpdate suppresses Cinemachine's camera positioning while in first-person mode, without disabling CinemachineBrain itself (which would break game state)
• Camera position tracks the head bone with configurable vertical/forward offsets and motion dampening
• Spine bones (Bip001 Spine and Bip001 Spine1) are rotated in LateUpdate after the Animator writes, so the upper body follows the camera direction while legs face the movement direction
• All renderers on the player hierarchy are set to ShadowCastingMode.ShadowsOnly, except items attached to hand bones
• Bone lookups use explicit skeleton paths from the master transform to avoid matching duplicate skeletons inside equipment meshes

Requirements

• Aska (Steam)
• BepInEx 6 Bleeding Edge (IL2CPP build #755 or newer)

Compatibility

• Client-side only -- does not affect network state in co-op
• Works in both singleplayer and multiplayer sessions
• Compatible with other BepInEx IL2CPP mods
• May need updates after major Aska patches (delete BepInEx/interop/ and relaunch to regenerate)

Sunshine / Moonlight (Remote Play / Steam Deck)

If you stream Aska to a Steam Deck or another device via Sunshine + Moonlight, you need mods installed directly in the game folder (r2modman's "Start modded" won't work over a stream).

Copy your r2modman profile to the game folder:

# Git Bash / MSYS2
cp -r "$APPDATA/r2modmanPlus-local/ASKA/profiles/Default/"* \
  "C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/ASKA/"

# PowerShell
Copy-Item -Recurse -Force `
  "$env:APPDATA\r2modmanPlus-local\ASKA\profiles\Default\*" `
  "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\ASKA\"

Then launch Aska normally from Steam -- mods load automatically. Re-run the copy after updating mods in r2modman. To revert, delete winhttp.dll and doorstop_config.ini from the game folder.

Troubleshooting

• Plugin not loading: Ensure you have BepInEx 6 IL2CPP (not BepInEx 5), and the DLL is in BepInEx/plugins/
• Camera not switching: Make sure you are in-game (not on a menu or loading screen) when pressing the toggle key
• Seeing inside player model: Decrease NearClipPlane or increase ForwardOffset
• Jittery camera: Decrease SmoothSpeed for more smoothing, or increase MotionDampening to reduce vertical shake
• Camera moves in menus: This should not happen -- pause detection stops input when the cursor is visible or the game is paused. If it does, please report the issue
• Equipment still visible: New equipment is detected every 0.5 seconds. If something persists, toggle first-person off and on again