I'd rather change from 1st to 3rd person quickly, without the default long transition, like for example in Fallout 3. Is there any variable in the .ini files to modify that?

Thanks in advance.

seconded....had no clue you could do that never played Fallout the whole growing up tutorial killed my desire to care before even leaving the vault.

No ini tweaks but you could use the http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1661 mod.

Here's the top of my camera section in Skyrim.ini:

[Camera]
; Rotating camera when idle can not be turned off, but delayed.
; 120 seconds is default. Here we go with half an hour:
fAutoVanityModeDelay=1800.0000

; This changes a 3 second journey from third person to first person into 1s.
; The speed is altered in wheel, keyboard F tap and gamepad RS click.
; Higher value faster zooming. Default is 0.8000:
fMouseWheelZoomSpeed=2.4000
; Lower value means lower increments. Default is 0.0750:
fMouseWheelZoomIncrement=0.0320

It works! Thank you very much

Sweet so it even works for my 360 controller?!?!?!

If you want to disable vanity mode use bDisableAutoVanityMode=1

Where have you been all my life!, that's just what I've been looking for, thank you, now I can get rid of the delay variable.

Oops, spoke too soon, this did not work, I copy pasted what you posted to the ini under [Camera] but the vanity mode still kicked in after 2 minutes.

No, vanity mode can not be disabled, just delayed. It was established more than a month ago in the thread where I picked up the zoom thing. I don't really want to post the gamesas forum link since it contains a lot of speculation and bad .ini changes.

Credit for the faster zoom goes to user http://www.gamesas.com/user/749455-iceythe/ and it does work with the xbox 360 controller (I use one myself).

Excellent find. I like the transition between 1st and 3rd person, but it is far too slow and certain instances can make it look like it isn't changing. This combined with inadequate sensitivity of the game to detect mouse-clicks and keystrokes makes it all too common to not be able to switch to the mode you need.

Sweet might give it a shot....obv not a gamebreaker but I know my hardware can handle an instant switch with the settings I run the game at. It hardly taxes my GPU or CPU matter of fact if it was more friendly to tab in and out of I might always have it running.

That's strange. I haven't seen vanity mode since I added that to skyrim.ini under camera.

There's a tweak in the files section on the Nexus which does this AND gets you on/off your horse faster too! Sorry I forget the name and am not at PC: use the search facility on the Nexus or browse by category.

Sorry, I didn't realize that there were INI tweaks for this as I must have missed them fly under the radar.


Or just use the link I posted in the 2nd reply to this thread.

Yup! That's the one. Sorry I didn't check what you linked to (as this thread wasn't about mount/dismount). It's just 3 lines added to skyrim.ini. Very neat