WATCH_DOGS (WIP)

Be the hacker. Or, sort of. It’s mostly be the vigilante. Thanks to Sad_Gamers great work on the camera, and some mods to make the game even more attractive, you will see WATCH_DOGS like you never saw it.

Required

Optional

Installation

Unzip the camera tool in the Watch_Dogs\bin directory. thats where the Watch_Dogs.exe resides. Once done, you are good to go and you can start playing and shooting.

The Tool

Camera

WATCH_DOGS UTC Camera Menu

2 modes available: Unbounded and Look At Player

Unbounded A.K.A Free Camera

This mode let you freely move the camera around

Keys Movements
Arrow Up Move Forward
Arrow Down Move Backward
Arrow Left Move Left
Arrow Right Move Right
Page Up Lift Up
Page Down Lift Down
Mouse Tilt and Pan
Numpad 7 Roll Left
Numpad 4 Reset Roll
Numpad 1 Roll Right
Numpad 9 Decrease FOV
Numpad 6 Reset FOV
Numpad 3 Increase FOV

Look At Player

This mode will attach the camera to the player. Whatever on foot or in/on a vehicle

Transitions

WATCH_DOGS UTC Transitions Menu

This can be useful if you decide to make some short videos.

Lights

WATCH_DOGS UTC Camera Menu

This is ideal for portraits in low light like night or evening times. 3 type of light temperatures are available: white, warm and cool.

World

WATCH_DOGS UTC Camera Menu

This is where you can change weather and time.

Player

WATCH_DOGS UTC Camera Menu

In this tab, you can swap Aiden with any other main character or even NPC. Tha animation / Poses section allow you to play quite a lot of different animation or poses like standing against a wall, looking at, etc.

Actor

WATCH_DOGS UTC Camera Menu

Here, you can spawn any character available in the game, give them a pose or animate and place them wherever you want.

Rendering

This section will allow you to modifiy the LOD, Anti Aliasing, Shadow and texture map fot the water. If you have a graphic card with enough VRAM, you can activate the Super Render. This will maximize the detail and render twice your actual resolution internally. This means that if your

WATCH_DOGS UTC Rendering Menu

Below, two examples with and without “Super Render”.

Configure

WATCH_DOGS UTC Camera Menu

Self explicit. Here you can change your keybinds. Or at least the ones thare are not fix. The fixes section includes mods previously separately available from the camera author. enable or desactivate them at will.

How To

Motion Blur Shots

Required: ReShade and Real Long Exposure shader configured at like 0.2-0.4 seconds with a start shortcut key.

  • Press F5 to pause the game and F4 to hide the HUD.
  • Activate the camera by pressing Home then Insert to show the UCT GUI.
  • Change the mode to Look At Player. The camera will be positioned attached to back back of the vehicule.
  • Press Static Angles.
  • Change the angles to your preferences in the Ideal Position Offset. First box is for horizontal axe, second is he depth, and third vertical.
  • Change the angles to your preferences in the Ideal Angle Offset. First box is for tilt, second is roll, and third pan.
  • Start the game back but in slow motion by pressing F6.
  • Press your assigned shortcut to start the long exposure.
  • Press Print Screen to save your shot.
  • Press your long exposure shortcut, disable the camera and press F6 to return to the game normal speed.

Note: Tilt, roll and pan are orbital when in Look At Player mode. For better image quality you can also use Cheat Engine Speed Hack when the tool Slomo is active.

Example