Third-person view

Third person view is a view outside of the player, it can be activated by pressing F5. The feature was introduced in Indev versions. It can be used for viewing the player, making videos, and other uses.

History

 * When Indev 0.31 was introduced, they made the new inventory, when it was open, you could not see the player, just a black square, it was fixed in a later Indev version
 * In the Halloween Update (Alpha 1.2.0) a new feature was introduced, when holding F1 down it hides the HUD, that means pressing F5 and then holding F1 would move the view to the front and hide the HUD, it was removed in 1.3 and now the F1 key now toggles and doesn't show the player's face.

Future

 * In 1.9 pressing F5 twice will give you a face view, pressing F5 three times will go back into first person.
 * In 1.9 press F5 and then F9 will give you a fixed angle on the camera. The fixed view can move around the player, too, the keys to move it are J (left) K (down) L (right) I (up)

Bugs

 * Back in Alpha 1.0.14 pressing F5 gave you a strange camera position in third persion, it was later fixed in Alpha 1.0.15.
 * In 1.9 Pre-Release 5 pressing F5 and F9 while the camera is in a block, it will act as cave/dungeon finder, may be fixed in a future update

Trivia

 * A third person face view can be seen while your Inventory is open