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Dealing with motion sickness (Changing FOV, 3rd person view, etc.)

By LUST

This guide will show you how to tweak settings to better deal with motion sickness.
It includes:

editing Field Of View
adding third person view
disabling startup and story introduction movies
disabling / adjusting weapon bob
disabling / enabling VSync

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Category: Co-op, Game Modes, Gameplay Basics, Modding or Configuration, Multiplayer, Secrets

Languages: English

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25 Mar, 2019 @ 4:35pm

23 Mar, 2020 @ 10:04am

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Guide Index

Overview

Before you start:

Disabling startup movies:

Disable story introduction movies:

Editing FOV (Field Of View)

Adding a 3rd person view option:

Disable / adjust weapon bob

Enabling / disabling V-Sync:

After the changes:

Afterword:

Related Guides:

Comments

Before you start:

Remember that the choices of your values and keybindings have to be consistent!
It works fine with single player, however in co-op you have to be the host for these things to work.
Before you make changes make sure you save original files on e.g. your desktop. You could however, always 'verify files' with steam to make changes to default ones.

Disabling startup movies:

File you need to open and edit: ''WillowEngine.ini''.
Here's the default location of the file:
C:\Users\(your username here)\Documents\My Games\Borderlands\WillowGame\Config
Find it and open it.

Then search for:

[FullScreenMovie] StartupMovies=2K_logo StartupMovies=Gearbox_logo StartupMovies=NVidia StartupMovies=Loading SkippableMovies=2K_logo SkippableMovies=Gearbox_logo SkippableMovies=Attract SkippableMovies=NVidia

Once you find that part, replace it with the following:

[FullScreenMovie] ;StartupMovies=2K_logo ;StartupMovies=Gearbox_logo ;StartupMovies=NVidia ;StartupMovies=Loading SkippableMovies=2K_logo SkippableMovies=Gearbox_logo SkippableMovies=Attract SkippableMovies=NVidia

Disable story introduction movies:

Open the folder ''Borderlands\WillowGame\Movies''.

Find these files:

Attract.bik Prelude.bik VoG_Transition_Movie.bik

Rename them to:

Attract.bik_ Prelude.bik_ VoG_Transition_Movie.bik_

Editing FOV (Field Of View)

Open ''WillowInput.ini'' file.
Here's the default location of the file:
C:\Users\(your username here)\Documents\My Games\Borderlands\WillowGame\Config

Then find: ''[WillowGame.WillowPlayerInput]''.

Add after existing bindings the following:

Bindings=(Name="F1",Command="FOV 80",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False) Bindings=(Name="F2",Command="FOV 90",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False) Bindings=(Name="F3",Command="FOV 100",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False) Bindings=(Name="F4",Command="FOV 110",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)

Note: FOV values can be changed to any other. Entering vehicle/exiting to menu/exiting game resets fov and 3rd person modes.

In the same file find ''[Engine.PlayerInput]'' line and enter the code before the ''Bindings='' line
(in my case I put it before ''Bindings=(Name="Fire",Command="Button bFire | StartFire | OnRelease StopFire")'' line).

Bindings=(Name="F1",Command="FOV 80") Bindings=(Name="F2",Command="FOV 90") Bindings=(Name="F3",Command="FOV 100") Bindings=(Name="F4",Command="FOV 110")

Note: *Remember that FOV values have to match the other FOV values, in lines you added.
** Here you set F1-F4 to change FOV from within the game.

Adding a 3rd person view option:

Open ''WillowInput.ini'' file.
Find the line: ''[WillowGame.WillowPlayerInput]''.

Add the following at the very end of the ''Bindings='' list:

Bindings=(Name="FirstPersonZoom",Command="advancedbutton bAdvancedButtonAux5",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False) Bindings=(Name="ThirdPersonZoom",Command="advancedbutton bAdvancedButtonAux5 | Camera FirstPerson | OnRelease Camera ThirdPerson",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False) Bindings=(Name="FirstPersonToggle",Command="Camera FirstPerson | setbind RightMouseButton FirstPersonZoom | setbind F5 ThirdPersonToggle",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False) Bindings=(Name="ThirdPersonToggle",Command="Camera ThirdPerson | setbind RightMouseButton ThirdPersonZoom | setbind F5 FirstPersonToggle",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False) Bindings=(Name="F5",Command="FirstPersonToggle",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False) Bindings=(Name="MouseScrollDown",Command="ThirdPersonToggle",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False) Bindings=(Name="MouseScrollUp",Command="FirstPersonToggle",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger=False,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreShift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)

Note:
* Change bindings: Here ''setbind'' is F5. You can change it to any other binding of your choice.
** If you see no bindings, then it's likely that the game has an empty list for bindings. Means you have to either reset them to default (withing the game menu) and then add the code above.

Or

Manually change them before you start the game. Coz if you start the game you won't be able to move your character.

Disable / adjust weapon bob

Find and open ''WillowGame.ini'' file.

Find the following lines:

bWeaponBob=TRUE Bob=0.005

Change those lines to either 'false' to disable or any other values of your choice.

Note: Try playing when you change the above settings first (for FOV, 3rd person view). I personally didn't need to edit / disable weapon bob settings because I no longer had problems with motion sickness. Try that first, because you always can change weapon bob settings afterwards.

Enabling / disabling V-Sync:

Find and open ''WillowEngine.ini'' file.

Find the following:

UseVsync=False

If you want for V-Sync to be enabled, then edit it so it looks like this:

UseVsync=True

After the changes:

Check that your keyboard controls are not erased. That can happen. Start the game and in menu (in settings) just click on 'apply default settings' (can be called something else) and all default keybindings will return.

Afterword:

If you have questions regarding this guide or just got something to say, leave me a comment below

2 Comments

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w 31 Mar, 2020 @ 8:26am

Thank you, the default FOV is awful and gives me headaches.

Friendly Fire 20 Sep, 2019 @ 12:08pm

Does this work for Borderlands 2?

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