🎥 Free Camera 3.0
A lightweight, fully client-side cinematic camera toolkit for Minecraft.
Available for Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge on Minecraft 26.1.2 and 26.2.
Fly freely, orbit around your subject, lock the camera in place, follow entities, record camera movement, and create smooth keyframe paths — all without moving your real player.
✨ Camera Modes
🕊️ Free Camera
Detach the camera and explore freely using WASD, mouse, Space, and Shift.
🔄 Orbit
Create smooth rotating shots around your player with adjustable distance and height.
📌 Tripod
Lock the camera in place while controlling your character normally.
🎯 Follow
Follow players, mobs, boats, minecarts, armor stands, and other supported entities.
Includes four profiles:
- Chase
- Side
- Fixed Angle
- Look At
🎬 Cinematic Tools
- Smooth cinematic movement
- Continuous 360° camera roll
- Smooth configurable zoom
- Off, Soft, and Vanilla collision modes
- Camera movement recording and playback
- Keyframe-based camera paths
- Linear and smooth Catmull-Rom interpolation
- Loop, reverse, and ping-pong playback
- Optional cinematic letterbox
- Customizable camera status HUD
🕹️ Controls
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| F6 | Activate or deactivate the camera |
| Hold F6 | Open the radial mode menu |
| F9 | Toggle Cinematic mode |
| F10 | Open settings |
| G | Select a Follow target |
| Z / C | Roll right / left |
| V | Hold to zoom |
| R | Straighten roll, then reset the camera |
| WASD | Camera or mode-specific movement |
| Space / Shift | Vertical movement |
| Scroll | Adjust speed or distance |
All controls are rebindable.
⚙️ Built-In Settings
Press F10 to open the complete settings screen.
Customize:
- Movement speed and smoothing
- Orbit and Follow behavior
- Collision modes
- Roll and zoom
- HUD visibility
- View bobbing and hurt shake
- Recording and path playback
- Cinematic presets
Mod Menu is optional.
🎞️ Recording & Paths
Record your final visible camera movement, then play it back with adjustable speed, looping, reverse playback, roll, and zoom.
Create cinematic paths by adding camera keyframes and choosing their duration, easing, and interpolation.
Files are stored locally in:
config/free-camera/recordings/config/free-camera/paths/
🛡️ Client-Side Safety
- No server installation required
- Does not move your real player
- Does not modify player physics
- Does not manipulate movement packets
- Does not force chunk loading
- Does not modify followed entities
- Cleans up safely after death, disconnect, dimension changes, and perspective changes
Some multiplayer servers may restrict free-camera mods. Always follow the server's rules.
✅ Current Release
Free Camera 3.0.0
| Platform | Minecraft | Required Version |
|---|---|---|
| Fabric | 26.1.2 | Fabric Loader 0.18.5+ and Fabric API 0.145.4+26.1.2 |
| Fabric | 26.2 | Fabric Loader 0.19.3+ and Fabric API 0.154.2+26.2 |
| Forge | 26.1.2 | Forge 64.0.12+ |
| Forge | 26.2 | Forge 65.0.6+ |
| NeoForge | 26.1.2 | NeoForge 26.1.2.84+ |
| NeoForge | 26.2 | NeoForge 26.2.0.28-beta+ |
- Requires Java 25
- Fully client-side
- Server installation is not required
Make sure you download the correct file for your Minecraft version and mod loader.
📦 Legacy Versions
Older releases remain available for:
Fabric
- 1.20.1
- 1.21.1
- 1.21.4
Forge
- 1.20.1
- 1.21.1
- 1.21.4
NeoForge
- 1.21.1
- 1.21.4
Legacy versions may not include all Free Camera 3.0 features.
Developer: Cukkoo
License: MIT
