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)

Install r2modman
Select Aska as your game
Search for AskaFirstPerson and install

Manual

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

Configuration

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

Camera

Setting	Default	Range	Description
FOV	80	60 -- 120	First-person field of view
MouseSensitivity	2.0	0.1 -- 10	Mouse look sensitivity
NearClipPlane	0.05	--	Near clip plane distance (lower prevents seeing inside geometry)
VerticalOffset	0.1	--	Vertical offset above the head bone (metres)
ForwardOffset	0.12	--	Forward offset from the head bone (metres)
SmoothSpeed	15	1 -- 100	Position smoothing factor (higher = less smoothing)
MotionDampening	0.4	0 -- 1	Reduces vertical camera shake from combat and head bob. 0 = raw tracking, 1 = maximum dampening. Recommended 0.3 -- 0.5

Player

Setting	Default	Description
HeadBoneName	Bip001 Head	Name of the head bone in the player skeleton (Aska uses 3ds Max Biped naming)

Visibility

Setting	Default	Description
ShowLowerBody	false	Show forearms, hands, and legs in first-person. Off = cleaner shadow-only body. On = experimental, may have mesh artifacts

Controls

Setting	Default	Description
ToggleKey	F5	Keyboard key to toggle first-person and third-person
GamepadToggleButton	RightStickButton	Gamepad button to toggle first-person mode
GamepadModifierButton	LeftShoulder	Modifier button held with the toggle button (LB + R3 by default). Set to "None" for a bare button press

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