vZoom

vZoom — a feature-rich, smooth cinematic zoom mod for Minecraft Fabric

Table of Contents

• Quick Start
• Controls
• Zoom Math
• Edit Configuration
• Note
• Manually Building

Quick Start

Hold the zoom key (default C) and scroll the mouse wheel to zoom in / out with an effectively unlimited range.

Controls

All keybinds are configurable under Options → Controls.

Action	Default	What it does
Zoom	C	Zooms. How it engages depends on the Activation Mode. While zooming, scrolling the wheel adjusts the zoom level.
Zoom In (step)	unbound	Zooms in by one level per press (same as one scroll-up tick). Only does something while zoom is engaged.
Zoom Out (step)	unbound	Zooms out by one level per press.
Reset Zoom	unbound	Snaps the zoom value straight back to 1.0 (normal view) without disengaging.
Previous Preset	unbound	Jumps to the previous saved preset.
Reload Config	unbound	Re-reads config/vzoom.json live.

How the zoom math works

• The applied FOV is vanillaFov / currentZoom. A zoom of 2.0 halves the FOV (looks 2× closer), 0.5 doubles it (wide-angle "zoom out").
• By default scrolling uses geometric scaling: each level multiplies the current zoom by scrollFactor, so steps feel uniform and the range is effectively unbounded.
• The displayed value is the interpolated currentZoom, which glides toward your scroll target using the chosen easing.

Edit Configuration

Open the settings via Mod Menu (a suggested, optional dependency), or edit config/vzoom.json directly and press "Reload Config" in-game. Every option is editable in the settings screen.

Note

Colors are stored as ARGB integers (0xAARRGGBB). The settings screen cycles a small palette for the HUD color**, for full control (including the panel color that has no screen control) edit config/vzoom.json directly and press "Reload Config".

Manually Building

./gradlew build

Jars are output under v[version]/build/libs/