dynacam

A Ashita v4 plugin that turns the FFXI camera into a cinematic camera suite. Area-aware zoom profiles, zoning, combat and idle Framing.

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Features

• Zone reveal: a fade-in from black choreographed with an animated zone-name title.

  

• Idle zoom-out: drift to a wide shot while you are AFK, and back in as you return.

  

• Combat zoom: pull in while engaged, ease back out when you disengage.

  

• Extended zoom-out well beyond the default camera range.

• Area profiles: separate distances for City, Outdoor and Dungeon, switched automatically as you zone.

• Battle distance and horizontal / vertical pan speed, with an auto-vertical mode that scales the vertical pan to your current zoom level.

• Zone-in dolly: start a few yalms further out when you zone and glide onto your profile distance for a cinematic feel.

• Cutscene guard: hands back the default camera during events, so cutscenes stay framed as intended.

Install

1. Copy dynacam.dll into ...\Game\plugins\.
2. In-game: /load dynacam.

Settings are saved to <Ashita>\config\dynacam.ini.

Fonts

Cinzel ships with the plugin and works out of the box. You can also drop any other .ttf into <Ashita>\config\dynacam\.

Commands

Command	Effect
/dynacam or /dc	Toggle the config UI
/dc distance <n>	Set a manual zoom distance (turns auto-profile off)
/dc battle <n>	Set the battle distance
/dc on / /dc off	Enable / disable and restore the default camera
/dc status	Print the current state

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Notes

• Run /dc status to confirm the plugin initialised correctly.
• Do not run dynacam alongside other camera plugins!

Credits

• Cinzel by Natanael Gama / The Cinzel Project Authors, licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
• Zone categories are derived from the open LandSandBoat zone dataset and baked in at build time. The plugin needs no data files at runtime.
• Thanks to Hokuten85 and his addon XICamera (https://github.com/Hokuten85/XICamera) for the general idea of this Plugin
• Thanks to the Windower Team for the addon Zonename (https://github.com/azamorapl/windower-lua/tree/personal/addons/zonename)

License

MIT — see LICENSE. The bundled font is covered by its own licence, see above.