NieR: Automata - Otis_Inf Photomode Mods (2024)

Versions and compatibility

Features at a glance

The photomode mod for NieR: Automata offers the following features:

• Full, unlimited camera control (gameplay)
  • Controller or mouse/keyboard control over the camera
  • Field of view (FoV) control
  • Tilt
• Game pause / framestep / Gamespeed control
• Camera paths
• HUD / ring toggle
• Hotsampling (resize the game window to any resolution) / Window border removal
• Pillarbox/letterbox removal in custom aspect ratios
• Vignette removal when camera is enabled
• Motion effects removal toggle
• Invulnerability toggle
• 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 informationfor the controls / features specific for this photomode mod.

Hotsampling

To take screenshots at higher resolutions than your regular gaming resolution, run the game in windowed mode. To get rid of the window border, on the Hotsampling tab, click 'Fake fullscreen'. To switch to a high resolution, select the resolution and aspect ratio you want from the tree on the Hotsampling tab and click 'Set'. You can also select one from the list of previous used resolutions if you switch between a given set of resolutions frequently. If the resolution fits your monitor, the game will add a border, you have to click 'Set' again to get rid of it.

The IGCS client will resize the game window to the requested resolution and the game will resize the game framebuffer accordingly, allowing you to take a shot at a high resolution. To go back to your regular gaming resolution, simply click the 'Fake fullscreen' button again.

The game's resolution changing isn't the fastest / smartest and it'll basically first resize the desktop which results in a black screen for a second or so.The tools will try to resize the window again to get rid of a border and make it bigger than your window resolution. This might not always work if the game is too slow with resizing the game window. It's sadly what I could do..

Timestop / pause

The tools offer a way to pause the game using Numpad 0. This is effectively the gamespeed control, which is set to 0. While most things are paused in this state, flowers and trees are still moving. This is not fixable.

Misc Adjustments

The Misc Adjustments tab is the tab where you can adjust additional aspects of how the image will look and how to achieve better shots. It has the following options:

Game speed

This controls how fast the 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 gameat the right moment.

Make player invulnerable

This is a setting which makes 2B invulnerable in combat. It's great for action shots. Or to overcome that silly intro of the game ;)

Disable motion effects

This setting removes the semi-transparent woosh effects when a sword or leg/arm is moved in a combat action and the HUD is toggled. It also removes the semi-transparentring around the swords, but that's a minor price to pay.

Special-K and reshade

To use high-res texture mods, you need Special-K. Special-K and texture mods is documented here: https://wiki.special-k.info/SpecialK/Custom/FARTo get ReShade working with Special-K, put the ReShade dll as ReShade64.dll in the Nier Automata game folder, together with the ini files and shader folders, like with other games. Then in the Special-K overlay, select under Nier Automata ReShade and run it as Plugin.

Reshade depth buffer

The Reshade depth buffer, required for shaders like Cinematic DOF etc., is available but you have to make sure you select the right one on the 'D3D11' tab in theReshade overlay, which is sometimes not done by reshade. You can test whether the right depth buffer is selected by using the Display depth shader. See this guide for details: https://framedsc.github.io/ReshadeGuides/setupreshade.htm#checking-depth-buffer-access

For a proper depth buffer, you have to set the RESHADE_DEPTH_INPUT_IS_REVERSED global preprocessor in ReShade to 0.

Information recorded with camera path nodes

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

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

Gamepad

Normal camera usage

Camera path usage