Classic Interior Look-Back Camera (with toggle!) 1.0

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Don't know how about you, but when I'm driving and I need to look behind me while in the driver's seat, I look through the rear window instead of phasing my head through the side window (like 0.40 wants you to).
This fixes that problem, reverting the camera behavior to the old one.​

Overview
BeamNG.drive 0.40 updated the legacy driver camera with the new occupant camera system, which changed the default 1st-person Look-Back behaviour to lean out the side window instead of looking back over your inside shoulder through the rear window.​

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Instead of having to manually edit core game files after every update, this mod just hooks the occupant camera class in memory and sets the default look-back direction back to the older style - over the shoulder, interior, through the back window.​

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Features

• (Obviously) Restores Classic Interior Look-Back: Looks over your interior shoulder through the cabin/rear window by default;
• Saves your ears and heart: A quirk of the new behavior of look-back is that upon looking back the audio switches to external audio, which with certain vehicles (loud exhaust, good interior insulation) can be quite a jump-scare. The older type of look-back camera doesn't have that issue;
• Optional In-Game Toggle Keybind: Includes a bindable action ("Toggle Look-Back Mode (Interior / Exterior)") so you can switch between Rear Window and Side Window look-back on the fly (useful when the rear window isn't currently a helpful way to look behind you);
• Persistent Setting: Remembers your chosen mode across game restarts via BeamNG's native settings system;
• (Kind of somewhat) BeamMP compatible: If you load a single-player level with the mod enabled before joining a BeamMP server, then the last camera behavior you have chosen will carry over to multiplayer sessions, although you lose the ability to toggle it as the mod gets unloaded;
  
• 100% Core-File Safe: Does not overwrite occupant.lua or any base game files, ensuring compatibility with future game updates.

How to Toggle Between Interior & Exterior Mode
By default, the mod enables Interior (Rear Window) mode automatically - no configuration needed.
If you want a keybind to switch back and forth on the fly:

1. Open Options -> Controls -> Camera.
2. Scroll down to or search for Toggle Look-Back Mode (Interior / Exterior) and bind any key or button.

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Installation!
Drop the .zip directly into your mods folder (can be found by opening the game, going into the mod manager and clicking Open mod folder). That's it!

Oh and make sure it's enabled.



Disclaimer:
Yes, an LLM was used to help make this.

Disclaimer 2:
I don't plan on updating this mod beyond this stage, mainly because my hope is that this mod will quickly be outdated due to the option of choosing between which look-back camera you want making its way to the base game (as it probably honestly should have right away).