How to use free camera

Disclaimer: I have not designed this Tool, I just created a guide on how to use it. Credits for the tool go to Frans Bouma[github.com]
This guide will teach you how to implement an easy-to-use free camera in The Evil Within 2, essential for taking awesome screenshots.

Installation

First Download the Camera Tools ZIP file from here[github.com]. Dont bother that this seems to be for Assassin's Creed Origins, we change the parameters right away. Copy IGCSInjector.exe and IGCSInjector.ini into your [STEAM LIBRARY FOLDER]/steamapps/common/TheEvilWithin2 folder. Open the INI file with any texteditor and change it, so it looks like this:

[InjectionData]
Process=tew2.exe
Dll=TEW2CameraTools.dll

Now we have an updated version of the Injector that is set up to work for The Evil Within 2. All we need to do now is downloading the correct DLL file from here[github.com]. As before, download the CameraTools ZIP file from the link, this time only extract the TEW2CameraTools.dll to the same directory we already placed the other files in.
I recommend extracting the Readme.txt as well, in case you run into any trouble and need help, this should be your first place to look.

In the same directoy, right click on TEW2.exe, select the Compatibility tab, and tick the box for "Run this program as an administrator". Visit your Steam installation path and do the same for Steam.exe. When you are done, restart Steam and ignore the warning, this does not affect you.

You are now ready to go. Start the game and wait a few seconds, then start the IGCSInjector.exe file. Below I have added a piece of code with which you can create a script to automatically start the game and the Injector shortly after another.

HUD Toggle & Timestop

The Injector features a timestop function already, but it does not reliably work in cutscenes. To have better funtionality, download the HUD Toggle from the second link on this[github.com] site. In order have timestop working even in cutscenes, instead of using the Injector's timestop, just pause the game by pressing ESC, then hit CapsLock once to hide all HUD and Menus. Feel free to move around with the free camera and when you are done, just hit CapsLock again to show all HUD elements again. Then you can resume your game as usual.

Controls

You can also find this and more information in the Readme.txt file.

Ctrl-DEL                              : Open / close in-game main menu
Ctrl-Mouse wheel                      : Resize font
DEL                                   : Enable/Disable camera
HOME                                  : Lock / unlock camera movement
ALT + rotate/move                     : Faster rotate / move
Right-CTRL + rotate/move              : Slower rotate / move
Controller Y-button + l/r-stick       : Faster rotate / move
Controller X-button + l/r-stick       : Slower rotate / move
Arrow up/down or mouse or r-stick     : Rotate camera up/down
Arrow left/right or mouse or r-stick  : Rotate camera left/right
Numpad 8/Numpad 5 or l-stick          : Move camera forward/backward
Numpad 4/Numpad 6 or l-stick          : Move camera left / right
Numpad 7/Numpad 9 or l/r-trigger      : Move camera up / down
Numpad 1/Numpad 3 or d-pad left/right : Tilt camera left / right
Numpad +/- or d-pad up/down           : Increase / decrease FoV
Numpad * or controller B-button       : Reset FoV
Numpad 0                              : Toggle game pause (normal game play)
CapsLock                              : Toggle HUD and Menus

Automated Script

Open any text editor and paste the following lines into it:

Set WShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Wshell.Run "cmd /c start steam://rungameid/601430", 0, false
WScript.Sleep 10000
Wshell.Run "[PATH TO STEAM LIBRARY]\steamapps\common\TheEvilWithin2\IGCSInjector.exe", 0, false

Replace [PATH TO STEAM LIBRARY] with... well... the path to your Steam library. Save the file as "The Evil Within 2.vbs" anywhere you want, preferrably somewhere you have it easily accessible. Just run the Script and it will automatically start the game via Steam for you and inject the free camera.

If you want to start the game in Big Picture Mode, just add a

 -bigpicture

behind "601430".



Have fun and take some nice shots! Cheers :)

[Kryos]

Screenshots key don't work (F12)

[Renato]

Thank you very much!

[Saotoshi]

https://sceweb.uhcl.edu/yang/teaching/csci1320spring2020/C-VisualStudio2019.pdf

[Renato]

Hi, could you post the second link again?

[GlaDOS 3.11]

Thank you very much, working on it!

[Saotoshi]

Some tutorials I just googled up:

How to clone the repo: https://docs.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archiving-repositories/cloning-a-repository

How to compile the code: https://octeract.com/how-to-compile-a-c-program-on-visual-studio/

[GlaDOS 3.11]

"clone the github repository and compile it yourself, shouldn't take more than 2 minutes of you know what to do." Any suggestions on how to do that?

[Saotoshi]

As I said in my last Comment, the exe files have been taken down by the author. You now have 2 options: either join his patreot (then you can access the exe files), or clone the github repository and compile it yourself, shouldn't take more than 2 minutes of you know what to do.

[Saotoshi]

No, the author of the mod explicitly states that it is not allowed to host the binaries anywhere else. It seems like you need to join on his Patreot in order to be able to download the binaries. However, since the code is publicly available, you could also just clone the repository and build the binaries yourself.

[Android18]

Hi, seems no link in there anymore
Can you upload in Mega or MF ?