ViewFinder

Photo mode and a craftable Camera Drone for Hytale.

Fly a free camera anywhere, or craft a drone and pilot it yourself. Frame the shot, pick your own time of day and weather, blur the background, then press F12. Save a few shots and Viewfinder will fly the camera between them for a smooth cinematic flythrough.

Available in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Ukrainian and Chinese (Simplified). Viewfinder follows your game's language setting.

• Free camera: leave your body behind and fly anywhere nearby. Builders and admins can fly through walls.
• Zoom from 15° to 110° with the mouse wheel.
• Focus: auto, manual or off, with background blur set to shallow, normal or deep. Autofocus locks onto whatever you're looking at.
• Framing guides: rule of thirds, a center cross and cinema bars (2:1 or 2.39:1).
• Your own sky: change the time of day and the weather only for you. Nobody else's world changes.
• Your character: leave a statue of yourself standing where you were, in any emote pose, played once or looping.
• World speed: half, slow or frozen, for when you're alone and allowed to.
• Clean frame: hide the on-screen hints in the menu.

A survival-friendly way into photo mode. Craft it, hold it and click to launch.

• Recipe: Workbench (Tools): 3 Iron Bar, 4 Copper Bar, 2 Light Leather
• Fly it first person (FPV) or watch it from behind in third person (close, medium or far). Switch with /vf view.
• Autofocus keeps the drone sharp in third person, along with whatever you're aiming at.
• Camera feel: Crisp, Smooth or Floaty
• Climb and descend speed: Gentle, Normal or Fast, so the drone rises and sinks like a drone instead of creative flight
• Everyone sees it: spinning props, lean into turns, blinking lights
• Fair play: solid walls and a 64-block range (servers can change it). Double-tapping jump won't drop it out of the sky.
• Right click to land and get your drone back.

1. Left click to save a shot. Fly somewhere else and save another.
2. Pick a style: Cinematic, Smooth, Drone or Snappy.
3. Press Play. The camera flies a smooth route through your shots.

Want more control? Fine-tune the curve, easing, pace (same time per shot or even speed), where the camera aims (each shot, where it's going or the subject), tilt into turns, pauses and repeats (once, back and forth, or loop ×3).

Orbit circles the camera around whatever is in the middle of your view, left or right, in 8 to 30 seconds.

Command	What it does
/vf	Start or stop photo mode (also /viewfinder and /photo)
/vf menu	Open the photo menu
/vf drone	Fly the drone without the item
/vf view	Switch the drone between FPV and third person
/vf help	Show the commands

Viewfinder is built to be safe on servers. Your spot is always restored when photo mode ends, even after a crash or disconnect. Players can't use it to escape a fight, and you decide who gets what.

Permission	Lets players	Default
viewfinder.use	Use free camera photo mode	Everyone
viewfinder.drone	Fly the Camera Drone	Everyone
viewfinder.scene	Set their own time and weather	Everyone
viewfinder.statue	Leave a statue of themselves	Everyone
viewfinder.noclip	Fly through walls	Builder and up
viewfinder.anywhere	Ignore the distance limit	Builder and up
viewfinder.worldspeed	Slow motion for the whole world	Admins
viewfinder.admin	/vf reload and /vf stopall	Admins

Settings file (config.properties in the mod's data folder, apply with /vf reload):

• enabled: turn photo mode off completely
• worlds: which worlds it works in (blank = all)
• maxDistance: how far the free camera can fly (default 64)
• allowDrone and droneRange: the Camera Drone and its range (default 64)
• combatCooldown: seconds after taking damage before photo mode can start (default 10)
• invulnerable: players can't be hurt in photo mode, or damage ends it instead
• hideFromOthers: other players see the statue instead of the flying camera
• allowStatue, allowNoclip, allowWorldSpeed, allowScene: switch features off for everyone

Tip: take viewfinder.use away to make the craftable drone the only way in.

1. Drop the Viewfinder jar into your Mods folder.
2. Enable Viewfinder for your world.
3. Type /vf, or craft a Camera Drone at a Workbench.

• Built for Hytale 0.7.x
• Coming from Shutter? Remove the old jar. Your settings carry over, and /shutter still works.
• Menus, hints, messages and the Camera Drone item are translated into 7 languages. On a server, each player sees their own.

Found a bug or have an idea? Leave a comment. A screenshot and what you were doing help a lot.