Revamped over-the-shoulder F5 third-person camera view

• Over-the-shoulder camera
• Hotkeys to move the camera (Default: arrow keys, page up and page down, O to swap shoulders)
• Corrective cross-hair positioning if dynamic crosshair is enabled
• Hide player if the camera gets too close to it
• Client-side only

Download ShoulderSurfing from curseforge or modrinth or build from source

1. Make sure Minecraft Forge is installed

1. Navigate to ..\.minecraft\mods
2. Copy the ShoulderSurfing-Forge-[VERSION].jar
3. Follow the steps below

1. Select Forge as your profile
2. Launch Minecraft
3. Join a world or server
4. Use arrow keys, page up and page down to adjust the perspective (O to swap shoulder)

1. Make sure Fabric is installed
2. Make sure Fabric API is installed
3. Make sure Forge Config API Port is installed

1. Navigate to ..\.minecraft\mods
2. Copy the ShoulderSurfing-Fabric-[VERSION].jar
3. Follow the steps below

1. Select Fabric as your profile
2. Launch Minecraft
3. Join a world or server
4. Use arrow keys, page up and page down to adjust the perspective (O to swap shoulder)

≥ 1.13: Manual: ..\.minecraft\config\shouldersurfing.toml
≤ 1.12: Ingame: Mods -> ShoulderSurfing -> Config (Manual: ..\.minecraft\config\shouldersurfing.cfg)

The API Documentation can be found in the wiki.

Optifine:
1.15: Shaders will be offset because of compatibility issues
1.15-1.16.1: The crosshair will not render in 3pp because of compatibility issues
≤ 1.14: Set "Render Quality" to "1.0x" for Shader Pack "(internal)" and switch back to Shader Pack "OFF"
BetterCombat: Set "Enable 1PP Crosshair" to "false" and "Override Mod Crosshairs" to "true"

Q: Is this client-side only?
A: Yes.

Q: Can you port feature x to version y?
A: No.

Q: Can you port this to quilt, liteloader, rift, etc.?
A: No.

Q: Can you make the player always aim at where the crosshair is pointing at?
A: No, as it would break server compatibility.

Q: Can i add this to my modpack?
A: Yes.

MIT License, Original project by Sabar: Minecraft Forum, GitHub