Dragon Age: Inquisition - Otis_Inf Photomode Mods (2024)

Versions and compatibility

Features at a glance

The photomode mod for Dead Space offers the following features:

• Camera control: (Also in cut scenes)
  • FoV control
  • Free unlimited camera movement and rotation
• Timestop / game pause control
• Camera paths support ('dolly cam') for defining moving camera trajectories for movies.
• Game speed control (slow-motion, speed up)
• Frameskip
• HUD toggle
• Hotsampling (resize the game window to any resolution)
• Pillarbox/letterbox removal in custom aspect ratios (UW support)
• Vignette removal
• Resolution scaling
• Configurable input interpolation for smooth camera movement/rotation/fov zoom in/out
• Higher LODs
• Higher shadow resolution
• Toggle to disable DOF
• Toggle to disable Vignette
• Configurable keybindings
• Configurable gamepad buttonbindings

How to use

Please see for details how to get started and configure this photomode mod, General features and configuration. This guide will provide additional information for the controls / features specific for this photomode mod.

Configuration

Additionally to the normal configuration features, the tools for Dragon Age: Inquisition also has some additional configuration features:

Camera smoothing options

The camera smoothing options are for when you want to record a video by flying through the game world and control the camera manually, so not through acamera path. Normally the input to the camera system will be used instantly and you see an effect immediately. However for videos it's often desired tohave a smoother camera movement than what's needed when you position the camera for a shot.

The camera smoothing options will give you the ability to control how much of the input you're giving to the camera system is used in future frames so it's creating a smoother experience; e.g. if you set the movement interpolation factor slider to 100 (default is 1), the input given to move the cameraforward is used over 100 frames and is slowly flowing away to 0 after you stop giving input to move forward.

Additionally if you first move forward and then move to the right, with the default setting of 1 the camera will first move forward and then immediately move to the right. However with an interpolation factor of e.g. 100 it'll smoothly move to the right, more in a curve than straight away. This givessmooth movement and rotations of the camera. For the Field of View there's also an interpolation factor, which can be used to smoothly zoom in/out so it's less 'jerky' when you try to zoom in/out.

Try to combine the values for the smoothing factors with lower/higher values for movement and rotation speed to find the ideal setup for your recording. It'slikely you want a higher interpolation factor for movement than for rotation and FoV.

The values are stored in the ini file for next time you start the client.

Image Adjustments

The Image Adjustments tab is the tab where you can adjust some aspects that might influence the image.

Miscellaneous options

Game speed

This controls how fast the engine runs internally; a value of 1.0 is 'normal game speed' and a value of 0.0 is total pause. Use this to create slow-motion effects which help you pause the game at the right moment.

Resolution scale

This controls the scale of the resolution. By default this is 1.0 (100%). The game offers this setting in its menu as well, but it goes to max. 100%. Using this slider you can go to 400%, greatly enhancing the graphical detail but it will degrade the performance

Disable depth of field

This disables the depth of field effect in e.g. conversations and cutscenes

Disable vignette

This disables the vignette

Higher LODs

This increases the detail of elements like mountains, stones, trees etc. further away. It might not be that visible tho

High-res shadows

This increases the in-game shadow resolution from 2K to 4K. I didn't pick 8K because it would make the shadows too sharp.

Information recorded with camera path nodes

When you create a Camera path, each node records the camera location, orientation and field of view.

Saving/restoring camera state

After you've enabled the camera (default with Insert), you can store the current camera state in three slots. The camera state is the current location,the orientation/rotation of the camera and the FoV, as well as other information recorded in camera path nodes, as the system uses camera path nodes under the hood.

By default you save the camera state by using Ctrl + F1 for saving the current camera state in slot 1, Ctrl + F2 for saving the current camera state in slot 2 and Ctrl + F3 for saving the current camera state in slot 3. To restore the camera state to a saved state, press F1 to restore the camera to the state savedin slot 1, press F2 to restore the camera to the state saved in slot 2 and, press F3 to restore the camera to the state savedin slot 3. These keys are configurable in the keybindings tab.

When you disable the camera again, the saved states are lost. If you want to preserve game states after you disabled the camera (e.g. you want to move the character a bit, and then enable the camera again), use a camera path and add the camera states you want to save as nodes. Camera paths are preservedafter you disable the camera.

Controls

The default photomode mod controls are listed below. It depends on the Camera control device setting on the Configuration tab whether the device (e.g. mouse or gamepad) can control the camera.

Mouse

When moving the mouse:

• No mouse buttons pressed: rotate the camera
• Left button pressed: move camera up / down / left / right
• Right button pressed: move camera forward / backward / left / right
• Both left and right button pressed: tilt camera left / right
• Mousewheel: increase / decrease Field of View (FoV)

Keyboard

Normal camera usage

Camera path usage

Miscellaneous usage

Gamepad

Normal camera usage

Camera path usage

Miscellaneous usage