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Viewmodel Guide

By Kio-

Everything viewmodel related.

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Category: Modding or Configuration

Languages: English

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Jan 30, 2022 @ 4:43pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Viewmodel FOV

GPU Driver Antialiasing and Anisotropic Filtering

High-poly Viewmodel Arms (Addons)

Minmode Viewmodels (Addons)

Miscellaneous CVARs

Contributions

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Viewmodel FOV

The bread-and-butter way of changing the look of your viewmodels onscreen.

This is the main CVAR that controls the FOV of the survivors weapons.

cl_viewmodelfovsurvivor

The value can be anything from 0 to 180, with 180 making the viewmodel completely invisible.
Going above 180 will flip the viewmodel vertically, not very useful.

Viewmodel FOV from 51 to 170

The default viewmodels were designed with the default FOV in mind, therefor widening your FOV will reveal areas of these viewmodel that was never intended to be seen. So expect to see "off camera" artifacts when using the default models at a much higher FOV.

Pistol reload "behind the scenes"

When using addons that replace viewmodels anything goes, they may be designed to look good at a variety of FOV's or have flaws just like the defaults.

GPU Driver Antialiasing and Anisotropic Filtering

The in-game Antialiasing[en.wikipedia.org] and Anisotropic Filtering[en.wikipedia.org] settings does not apply to your viewmodels, you need to enable these features manually for Left 4 Dead 2 in your GPU driver configuration.

Here is an example for maximum image quality, but even 2x MSAA should yield noticable results.

NVIDIA

AMD

Currently I have no example image, if you own an AMD GPU and can provide a screenshot of the correct settings don't hesitate to post it and I will update this section.

High-poly Viewmodel Arms (Addons)

In Left 4 Dead 2 viewmodel arms are completely separate from the weapon viewmodels.
The vanilla arms are pretty low-poly, especially noticeable on the fingers of certain cast members.

мяFunreal has made a collection of high-poly viewmodel arms for the survivors, compatible with mods that only change the survivor materials.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2734812331

Minmode Viewmodels (Addons)

A vanilla friendly alternative to reduce the size of viewmodels on screen without changing your FOV.

This works by replacing your weapon viewmodels so it will be conflicting with any weapon addons.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2155758471

Miscellaneous CVARs

The following CVARs are settings that affect the viewmodels in only certain situtations or in a smaller capacity, thus not warranting their own section.

* = Hidden CVAR

Name : Default : Description *cl_tracers : 1 : Enables bullet tracers *r_flashlightmuzzleflash : 1 : Enables muzzleflash effect when firing *cl_viewbob : 1 : enables view bob *cl_viewbob_cyclerate_duck : 0.6 : Speed of view bob while ducked *cl_viewbob_cyclerate_run : 0.4 : Speed of view bob while running *cl_viewbob_cyclerate_walk : 0.8 : Speed of view bob while walking *cl_viewbob_scale : 0.01 : Size of view bob *cl_viewbob_scale_duck : 0.02 : Size of view bob while ducked *cl_viewbob_up : 0.5 : Percent of view bob that is above the eye pos //Viewmodel FOV for special infected (Versus mode) 180 = Invisble *cl_viewmodelfovboomer : 50 *cl_viewmodelfovhunter : 50 *cl_viewmodelfovsmoker : 50 *cl_viewmodelfovtank : 50

Contributions

If there is something missing that you feel should be included in this guide feel free to post a comment and/or start a discussion. Your contribution will be be noted in this section.

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