Camera Momentum

Momentum puts a set of critically-damped springs on the first-person camera, so the view banks, sways, dips and rolls with what you're doing instead of sitting still like a tripod. It's all angle maths - no projection change, no shaders.

Five springs

• Strafe bank - the view rolls into sideways movement.
• Turn sway - lags behind fast look turns and overshoots slightly when you stop.
• Landing dip - dips when you land, scaled by how fast you were falling.
• Sprint lurch - a small forward kick when a sprint starts.
• Elytra bank - rolls into elytra turns like a plane.

Tuning

• A master strength plus its own slider for every effect.
• Max roll caps total tilt so the view edges never clip.
• Reduce motion halves everything and turns off the impulse effects.

Compatibility

Client-side and first-person only. It works through the camera-angle event, so there are no mixins and no change to your FOV or projection - it can't corrupt render state, and it sits fine next to Sodium, Iris, shaderpacks and other camera or FOV mods.

Configuration

Sodium's video settings has a Momentum page with Master, Effects and Limits groups. Also in config/momentum.json.

Client-side, NeoForge 1.21.1, JDK 21. No server install needed. MIT licensed. Free to use in modpacks.