OldPoint

A freely rotating overhead camera for Project Viewpoint's 3D renderer. The classic top-down view of vanilla Project Zomboid, but in full 3D, with rotation around your character and smooth zoom.

How the camera deals with buildings

The hardest part of a 3D overhead view is keeping walls and roofs from hiding your character. Here's how OldPoint handles it:

Hiding upper floors. When you're on a lower floor or in a basement, roofs and their side slopes, floors above, and the doors, corpses and objects on them are hidden. Player-built structures and some unusual roofs are handled better now.

Nearby tall buildings count too. If you step into a room and a tall building next door blocks the view, it's included in the upper-floor hiding as well.

Wall cutaways based on room visibility. Which wall segments to remove is decided from the game's own room visibility state. A segment that blocks the view is hidden in full, along with everything hanging on it.

Rooms and furniture

• Furniture in other rooms that blocks the current room's floor or far walls is hidden.
• Furniture in the current room that covers your character turns translucent.

Performance

• The search for what to hide is spread over several frames and reuses existing model fade and cutaway data.
• Expect some stutter the first time a scene loads; it smooths out once resources finish loading.

Installation

1. Subscribe to and enable Project Viewpoint, ZombieBuddy (2.3.0 or newer) and OldPoint.
2. Do the one-time ZombieBuddy setup described on its page.
3. On first launch, and after any Java file update, allow OldPoint to load in the prompt that appears.

Load order: place OldPoint after your other Viewpoint add-ons. After updating the mod, fully restart the game.

Controls

Switching into overhead view the normal way resets the camera to the vanilla heading and a 30° tilt.

If you've rebound any keys, use your own bindings.

Settings

Under Mod Options → OldPoint you can set: - camera distance limits; - separate key bindings; - tree outlines; - a white outline on your character when they're hidden behind something (off by default).

There's also an optional vanilla fixed camera, which disables rotation but keeps zoom.

Known issues

⚠️ Still in development. Complex buildings, some openings and curtains, shaders and certain mod combinations may still cause visual glitches or compatibility issues. Hiding for complex buildings, player-built objects and modded models is still being refined, as are cutaway effects in general.

Feedback

Send bug reports to 502979327@qq.com and include: - console.txt or logs.zip; - your mod list and load order; - the name of the shader pack you use; - steps to reproduce the problem.

Credits

Thanks to ellu and norkus, the developers of Viewpoint, and to Zed, the author of ZombieBuddy.

OldPoint is an independently developed Viewpoint add-on.