VR Horizon Locking Interior Camera 1.0

This mod is now superseded by Enhanced Interior Camera. I recently added VR presets to that mod including a VR (Comfort) preset which is the equivalent to this mod. It allows for much more configuration compared to this mod.

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First of all, congrats to the BeamNG devs for finally adding VR support to BeamNG! VR support, however, is still rough around the edges in many places. For me, it's the lack of a horizon locking feature that is prevalent in many racing simulators that support VR. BeamNG does have horizon locking for when the vehicle rolls, but unfortunately not when the vehicle tilts forward and back.

Why horizon locking? In real life when you drive a car, your head moves independently from the vehicle to keep your view stable with the road. If a VR game does not simulate this fact, it can lead to an uncomfortable and motion sickness inducing experience as the feels like the world is rotating around you rather than just the car.

This mod aims to fully implement horizon locking into the interior camera for a more comfortable and immersive driving experience.

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HOW TO USE

1. Install the mod.
2. Go to Settings > Camera > Driver > Horizon Lock and move the slider to 100%.
3. Change your camera in-game to vr_driver.

FEATURES

• Adds horizon locking to both pitch and roll axises.
• Customizable horizon lock factor. Slide the slider in Settings > Camera > Driver > Horizon Lock to customize the strength of the horizon lock.
• Horizon lock is temporarily disabled when the vehicle is rotated at extreme angles or upside-down. Makes it possible to drive on loops.

HOW TO USE IN BEAMMP
Because of the way BeamMP handles mods, you will not be able to use this mod on servers unless the server includes this mod. However, you can get around this by replacing the driver.lua script with vr_driver.lua. To do so, go to your BeamNG installation directory. Then navigate to lua/ge/extensions/core/cameraModes. Rename driver.lua to driver.lua.backup. Download the vr_interior_camera.zip file and find the vr_driver.lua script and copy and paste it into the folder where you just renamed driver.lua. Then rename vr_driver.lua to driver.lua.

Now you should be able to use this mod in BeamMP.

HOW TO HIDE UI
Unfortunately due to the way BeamNG's camera system works, only the original interior camera will hide the speedometer. Custom cameras cannot hide it. However, you can hide the UI in two ways:

1. Press ALT + U to hide all UI. This will hide everything including the menus. You will have to press ALT + U again to reveal it.
2. Follow the steps in the HOW TO USE IN BEAMMP section to replace your driver.lua file. Please backup your driver.lua file in case anything goes wrong!