How to access the free-camera and take high-quality screenshots

Alan Wake is a beautiful game. Here's how to access the free-flight camera to get the right angles for your screenshots.

*NOTE* Requires a controller!

Enabling the free-cam

1. In your Steam library, find Alan Wake. Right click on the game and select "properties".

2. In "General", select "set launch options"

3. In the box, type "-freecamera" (without the quotation marks).

Using the free-cam in-game

Using a controller, press the right thumbstick during gameplay to enter free-cam mode.

CONTROLS:

LS: move around

RS: rotate camera

LT: slow movement speed

RT: fast movement speed

LB/RB: move up/down

X/B: cycles through regular camera speed

Tips

• You can disable the HUD in the video options.
  
• Alan Wake was originally designed as an open world game, therefore you can use the free camera to find areas of the world that should not be currently rendered.
  
• For example, during the scene in the first episode where you're on the ferry, you can use the free-cam to look around the town as well as explore the surrounding woods and going far enough will result in you finding areas from the late-game such as the dam, the Anderson farm and Cauldron Lake Lodge.

Examples

Here are some screenshots I took myself (spoilers):

[kiper]

@Olly
There is also another way to run it with those parameters
Just create text file using notepad, paste this
AlanWake.exe -freecamera -developermenu and save it as a *.bat file
*name of file. You can put here whatever you like
Is handy because steam launch options will stay clear

[Olly]

@Kiper Thanks Kiper! I will run some tests later this week and update the guide. Hoping the upcoming remaster also includes these debug tools!

[kiper]

You can run it with two parameters so in this case it will be
-freecamera -developermenu
Now is with access to each part of game from the beginning with free camera

[Enchanted]

thanks

[HeavyMetal]

Followed the guide and used a PS3 controller, it works like a charm! (FYI, under Win 10 you need ScpToolkit and its PS3 driver installed to use the gamepad).

[Nikus]

Goddamn that's amazing. Thanks for this

[Krackblame]

Thnak you !

[唔西·迪西]

good

[Antiquarian]

Very good, thank you very much.

[Olly]

@Harmy A controller is required.