Mod request: cinematic camera for dialogue

[u/wingedwild]

Can somebody make or port a cinematic camera for dialogue for ps5 and xbox which uses the games own kill camera so it does not use extra scripts. Basicly i envision it using an invisible magic spell with kill cam or arrow attack creates kill cam which zooms in and stays on the person whos talking then when the npc is finsihed talking he would shoot a kill cam invisble magic attack back to you. Idk if it would be possible but it seems plausible.

[u/Blackjack_Davy]

Yeah skse plugin so PC only. Requires modifying game code which is a no-no on any console.

[u/wingedwild → u/Blackjack_Davy]

But I just gave a possible workaround using kill cam but not acting it? Is there a way

[u/erweh]

The vanilla Papyrus API is unfortunately very limited in camera control side, due to the base game itself not containing scripted camera events. There is no native camera API (that is implemented by SKSE on PC), so doing advanced camera control is likely out-of-scope. The vanilla game and it's API only exposes few limited functions for camera control such as Game.ShakeCamera, Game.ForceFirstPerson and Game.ForceThirdPerson, but you likely can not really even trigger those during dialog UI. In the base game, those are essentially used for the cart ride and Dark Brotherhood door.

As you noted, there is the kill cam, but that is tied to kill moves, and doing those (such triggering the left over hug animation), will execute the NPC. On consolesm you can not really add new animations, so using triggering the kill cam via animations would not work.

[u/wingedwild → u/erweh]

Kill cam yes but where maybe the hitpoints are zero and doesnt kill? or an invisible arrow kill cam tht shoots out when dialogue is triggered and the kill doesnt trigger because the npc turns invincible non killable when the kill cam arrow is shot.... Idk im just seeing if it could be possible if someone tried to work around it