Versions and compatibility

Latest version	v1.0.23
Released on	10-mar-2023
Compatible with	Cyberpunk 2077 v1.61, Steam / GoG / EGS versions
Hotsampling via	Running the game in windowed mode
Supports IGCS Connector	Yes

Features at a glance

The photomode mod for Cyberpunk 2077 offers the following features:

• Full, unlimited camera control (gameplay, cutscenes, photomode)
  • Controller or mouse/keyboard control over the camera
  • Field of view (FoV) control
  • Tilt
  • Camera shake controls in both manual movement (for hand-shot videos) and camera paths.
• Game pause / framestep / Gamespeed control
• Camera paths
• CyberLit Custom Light mod
• Lookat control for head/body/eyes in photomode
• Time of Day control
• Game speed control (slow-motion, speed up)
• HUD toggle (Photomode and Gameplay)
• Wetness control on the streets/objects
• Puddle control of puddles of water on the streets
• Configurable input interpolation for smooth camera movement/rotation/fov zoom in/out
• Timestop / Frameskip
• Hotsampling (resize the game window to any resolution)

How to use

Please see for details how to get started and configure this photomode mod, General features and configuration. This guide will provide additional information for the controls / features specific for this photomode mod.

Configuration

Additionally to the normal configuration features, the tools for Cyberpunk 2077 also has some additional configuration features:

Camera smoothing options

Interpolation factors

The camera smoothing options are for when you want to record a video by flying through the game world and control the camera manually, so not through a camera path. Normally the input to the camera system will be used instantly and you see an effect immediately. However for videos it's often desired to have a smoother camera movement than what's needed when you position the camera for a shot.

The camera smoothing options will give you the ability to control how much of the input you're giving to the camera system is used in future frames so it's creating a smoother experience; e.g. if you set the movement interpolation factor slider to 100 (default is 1), the input given to move the camera forward is used over 100 frames and is slowly flowing away to 0 after you stop giving input to move forward.

Additionally if you first move forward and then move to the right, with the default setting of 1 the camera will first move forward and then immediately move to the right. However with an interpolation factor of e.g. 100 it'll smoothly move to the right, more in a curve than straight away. This gives smooth movement and rotations of the camera. For the Field of View there's also an interpolation factor, which can be used to smoothly zoom in/out so it's less 'jerky' when you try to zoom in/out.

Try to combine the values for the smoothing factors with lower/higher values for movement and rotation speed to find the ideal setup for your recording. It's likely you want a higher interpolation factor for movement than for rotation and FoV.

The values are stored in the ini file for next time you start the client.

Shake factors

There are three camera shake factors you can configure to introduce camera shake for normal camera movement: Shake frequency, Shake movement strength and Shake rotation strength. For screenshots these factors are not interesting, but for hand-shot video, e.g. in combination with the interpolation factors, they can give a more natural appealing footage.

The Shake frequency controls how fast the movement and rotation shake factors change direction. The higher the value the faster they'll 'shake'. The Shake movement strength controls the amount of movement shake will be added to the camera location in the up/down/left/right/front/back directions. The Shake rotation strength controls the amount of rotation shake will be added to the camera orientation in pitch/yaw/roll.

The strength will be applied equally among all directions and rotations. Try to experiment with which values work best for the speed you move your camera; a faster moving camera could use a camera shake with higher strengths than a slow moving camera. Good starting values are 1.5-2 for frequency and 0.4-0.5 for the strengths. Setting the sliders to 0 will remove all shake factors from the camera.

Camera paths have their own shake factors.

Environment Adjustments

The Environment Adjustments tab is the tab where you can adjust various aspects of the game world. It has the following layout:

Miscellaneous options

Time of day

Time of day controls the current world time in a 24 hour clock. You can also change the time of day with the keyboard (see Keybindings) which might be easier than flipping back/forth to the client to get the right sun position.

Game speed

This controls how fast the runs internally; a value of 1.0 is 'normal game speed' and a value of 0.0 is total pause. Use this to create slow-motion effects which help you pause the game at the right moment.

Wetness options

Street wetness factor

This setting makes the streets look wet for the amount you specify.

Puddle size

This setting controls how big the rain puddles are on surfaces.

PM Lookat control

The Photomode look at control feature allows you to control the rotation of V's torso and head and where V's eyes look at without moving the camera. This feature replaces the old cheat table, which you don't need anymore. This feature works when you enable the 'Look at camera' feature in the photomode. Once you've done that, enable PM Lookat control and you can start rotating V's head/torso and eyes.

The sliders are pretty self-explanatory, except perhaps the eye lookat point. With the two eye sliders, you control basically where V will look at, relative to your V.

It might be, after enabling PM Lookat control you can't rotate the head. This is because the engine doesn't always pass head location information through the lookat code and the tools therefore can't intercept where the head is located (Yes, above the shoulders, good one!). To fix this, simply rotate the torso a bit, you can then rotate the head.

V isn't made of rubber so normal human body constraints apply, meaning you can't e.g. V's head backwards. Sorry about shattering that dream! When you have PM Lookat control enabled and you switch to another pose, the eyes are likely messed up. To fix this simply move one of the eye sliders a bit and it should all be ok.

Information recorded with camera path nodes

When you create a Camera path, each node records the camera location, orientation and field of view. Additionally to that for this game the camera node will also contain the current time of day and gamespeed. So if you want to have different time of day values per node or game speed you can, just set the value you want in the client on the Environment Adjustments tab and create a camera path node.

Saving/restoring camera state

After you've enabled the camera (default with Insert), you can store the current camera state in three slots. The camera state is the current location, the orientation/rotation of the camera and the FoV, as well as other information recorded in camera path nodes, as the system uses camera path nodes under the hood.

By default you save the camera state by using Ctrl + F6 for saving the current camera state in slot 1, Ctrl + F7 for saving the current camera state in slot 2 and Ctrl + F8 for saving the current camera state in slot 3. To restore the camera state to a saved state, press F6 to restore the camera to the state saved in slot 1, press F7 to restore the camera to the state saved in slot 2 and, press F8 to restore the camera to the state saved in slot 3. These keys are configurable in the keybindings tab.

When you disable the camera again, the saved states are lost. If you want to preserve game states after you disabled the camera (e.g. you want to move the character a bit, and then enable the camera again), use a camera path and add the camera states you want to save as nodes. Camera paths are preserved after you disable the camera.

CyberLit

CyberLit is a custom lighting mod, originally created by Hatti and improved and extended by Otis_Inf. It's part of the photomode mod for Cyberpunk 2077 and allows you to create in-game lights. To get started, open the Cyberlit window by pressing the assigned key, which is by default F2. You can change this in the Keybindings tab

When you've opened the main Cyberlit window with the assigned key, you'll see the window below:

To create a light, please click the Create Light button. This will bring up the light create/edit window as displayed below. Here the light type 'Spotlight' has been chosen. You can choose a different light type at the top.

When you've specified the desired values for the various parameters, you click the Create button at the bottom. This will immediately place the light in the game world, at the location of the camera, facing the direction of the camera. If you're not satisfied with the location of the light, you can check the checkbox Stick light to camera which will update the location and orientation of the light to that of the camear. Once the light is at the right location, uncheck the checkbox.

Here's an example after creating a pink light from the side:

You can create as much lights as you want, however there's one caveat: you can't remove them physically from the game world. You can clear the list of lights in the CyberLit window or delete a light in the window but they're not physically removed from the world. If you want to get rid of a light, you can switch it off with the light's toggle button in the CyberLit window or move it to a position you can't see it.

CyberLit documentation

For the Framed website, Moyevka wrote an extensive guide about the specifics of CyberLit and the various settings for the different light types. If you want to know more about what each setting means, this is the guide for you.

Controls

The default photomode mod controls are listed below. It depends on the Camera control device setting on the Configuration tab whether the device (e.g. mouse or gamepad) can control the camera.

Mouse

When moving the mouse:

• No mouse buttons pressed: rotate the camera
• Left button pressed: move camera up / down / left / right
• Right button pressed: move camera forward / backward / left / right
• Both left and right button pressed: tilt camera left / right
• Mousewheel: increase / decrease Field of View (FoV)

Keyboard

Normal camera usage

Key	Feature
Insert	Enable / Disable the camera
Numpad .	Block / Unblock input to game
Numpad -	Decrease FoV
Numpad +	Increase FoV
Numpad *	Reset FoV
Home	Lock / Unlock camera movement
Numpad 4	Move camera left (+ Ctrl: slower, + Alt: faster)
Numpad 6	Move camera right (+ Ctrl: slower, + Alt: faster)
Numpad 8	Move camera forward (+ Ctrl: slower, + Alt: faster)
Numpad 5	Move camera backward (+ Ctrl: slower, + Alt: faster)
Numpad 7	Move camera up (+ Ctrl: slower, + Alt: faster)
Numpad 9	Move camera down (+ Ctrl: slower, + Alt: faster)
Numpad 4	Move camera left (+ Ctrl: slower, + Alt: faster)
Arrow key Up	Rotate camera up (+ Ctrl: slower, + Alt: faster)
Arrow key Down	Rotate camera down (+ Ctrl: slower, + Alt: faster)
Arrow key Left	Rotate camera left (+ Ctrl: slower, + Alt: faster)
Arrow key Right	Rotate camera right (+ Ctrl: slower, + Alt: faster)
Numpad 0	Pause / Unpause the game
Page down	Skip a few frames when paused
Numpad 1	Tilt camera left (+ Ctrl: slower, + Alt: tilt 90 degrees left)
Numpad 3	Tilt camera right (+ Ctrl: slower, + Alt: tilt 90 degrees right)
Numpad 2	Reset tilt
Delete	Toggle HUD
,	Set Time of Day earlier (+ Alt: slower) 1
.	Set time of Day later (+ Alt: slower)
F6	Restore the camera state to the state saved in slot 1 (+ Ctrl: store current state in slot 1)
F7	Restore the camera state to the state saved in slot 2 (+ Ctrl: store current state in slot 2)
F8	Restore the camera state to the state saved in slot 3 (+ Ctrl: store current state in slot 3)

Camera path usage

Key	Feature
F7	Start / pause playback
F8	Stop playback
F4	Add path
F10	Add node to active path
Ctrl+F10	Replace the active node on the active path
Alt+F10	Insert a new node in front of the active node on the active path
Shift-F10	Insert a new node after the active node on the active path
Ctrl+Home	Go to start of active path
Ctrl+End	Go to end of active path
Ctrl+Page Up	Go to previous node on active path
Ctrl+Page Down	Go to next node on active path
Numpad 1	Select the first path during playback (if any)
Numpad 2	Select the second path during playback (if any)
Numpad 3	Select the third path during playback (if any)
Numpad 4	Select the forth path during playback (if any)
Numpad 5	Select the firth path during playback (if any)
Numpad 6	Select the sixth path during playback (if any)
Numpad 7	Select the seventh path during playback (if any)
Numpad 8	Select the eighth path during playback (if any)
Numpad 9	Select the ninth path during playback (if any)

Miscellaneous

Key	Feature
F2	Toggle CyberLit window

Gamepad

Normal camera usage

Control	Feature
Left stick	Move camera forward / backward / left / right
Right stick	Rotate camera
Left trigger	Move camera up
Right trigger	Move camera down
Y button + left / right stick	Faster movement / rotation
X button + left / right stick	Slower movement / rotation
D-pad up / down	Increase / decrease FoV
B button	Reset FoV

Camera path usage

Control	Feature
Start	Start / pause playback
Back	Stop playback
Left bumber	Go to previous node on active path
Right bumper	Go to next node on active path
A	Add node to active path