CamForge

CamForge replaces the view of your player with a complete, data-driven camera rig. Set your Player Controller's camera manager class to CamForge Player Camera Manager, add the CamForge Target component to your pawn, and you have a polished over-the-shoulder third person camera and a first person camera that work out of the box - no spring arm, no camera component and no Blueprint wiring required.

Every camera value comes from a CamForge Settings data asset and is chosen by the state of the view target: view mode (third or first person), rotation mode (velocity direction, looking direction or aiming), stance (standing or crouching), gait (walking, running or sprinting) and optional named action states such as Rolling or Mantling. Rules pick the most specific match, and every change of state blends smoothly over its own blend time with an optional easing curve. Each set controls arm length, camera offset, pivot offset, per-axis pivot lag, rotation lag, field of view and view rotation limits.

On top of that CamForge adds the features action games need: shoulder swap with a smooth blend, target lock-on that keeps both the player and the target in frame and breaks on distance or lost line of sight, occlusion fade that hides or fades walls and props between the camera and the player, a speed-based field of view kick, and smooth zoom from the mouse wheel or a gamepad with a range per view mode. Camera collision pulls the camera in front of geometry and eases it back out.

Stance and gait are detected automatically from the character's crouch state and speed. For full control, implement the CamForge Target interface on your pawn and provide the camera state, pivot, first person location and collision trace yourself, in Blueprint or C++. Events report view mode, rotation mode, state, shoulder and lock-on changes, and the CamForge.Debug console variable draws the pivot, traces, collision and faded occluders.

CamForge is part of the Alpha XP camera collection for Unreal Engine 4.27 and 5.8. Every feature is exposed to Blueprints and C++, it ships with styled HTML documentation, and it is compiled and verified warning-free against clean UE 4.27 and UE 5.8 projects.

Key features

• Player camera manager that computes the final view every frame from a data asset, with
• Camera settings by view mode, rotation mode, stance and gait (most specific rule wins)
• Smooth blending between settings with per-set blend time and optional easing curve
• Arm length, camera offset, pivot offset, per-axis pivot lag, rotation lag, field of
• Third person and first person (mesh socket or eye height) with blended transitions
• Camera collision: sphere sweep on a configurable channel and radius, instant pull-in
• Shoulder swap: left, center and right with a smooth blend
• Target lock-on: soft yaw and pitch toward the target, framing of player and target,
• Occlusion fade: hide occluders for the local player or drive a scalar material
• Speed-based dynamic FOV with min/max speed or a curve, smoothed
• Smooth zoom from mouse wheel or gamepad with a min/max arm length per view mode
• CamForge Target component: zero-code support for any pawn (crouch-based stance,
• CamForge Target interface (Blueprint Native Events) for full control from Blueprint or C++
• Events: view mode, rotation mode, camera state, shoulder and lock-on changes
• Debug drawing with the CamForge.Debug console variable

Blueprint & C++ API

The API is organised into these entry points:

Callable runs when executed · Pure no exec pin, returns a value

CamForge 4

Settings 7

State 11

Debug 1

Shoulder 3

Lock On 5

Zoom 3

Dynamic FOV 1

Pivot 1

Target 4

Events & delegates

Bind these in Blueprint (drag off the object → Bind Event) or with AddDynamic in C++.

Options & enums

Compatibility

One ready-made build per engine version is included in the download — copy the one that matches your project.

Technical details

What's in the download

Quick start

1. Unzip the download and pick the build that matches your engine (4.27 · 5.8).
2. Copy the CamForge folder into your project's Plugins/ folder (create it if needed).
3. Open the project, enable CamForge under Edit › Plugins and restart the editor.
4. Right-click in any Blueprint graph and search CamForge — or include the public headers from C++.
5. Package for your target platform (Windows, macOS).

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