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Camera - Over The Shoulder

This mod adds another camera option to Space Engineers.
Over-the-shoulder is a camera view point that is featured in most modern third-person shooters and action games.
It is also used in film and television, where the camera is placed above the back of the shoulder and head of a subject.

• Pressing "Camera Mode key" [V] cycles between vanilla cameras and the Shoulder Camera. Pressing [F9] goes directly to it.
  
• It still works even if third person camera is disabled, also if spectator camera is disabled;
  
• The camera checks for collisions with the world;
  
• Two different zoom levels;
  
• Controller mode friendly;
  
• Works well with guns and tools equipped;
  
• Works on all screen ratios and FOVs;

• /otscam hold <true/false> - If false, player doesn't need to hold the "Secondary Action key" [RightMouseButton] to zoom;
  
• /otscam zoom <true/false> - If false, the zoom is disabled, the "Secondary Action key" [RightMouseButton] won't do anything;
  
• /otscam enabled <true/false> - If false, the Shoulder camera is disabled. Useful if a server has it but the player doesn't want it;
  
• /otscam collision <true/false> - If false, the camera won't collide with the world. Only available locally, or by admins on servers;
  
• /otscam left <true/false> - If true, camera will be positioned left side. It can look strange because the character use right shoulder to point.
  
• /otscam keybind <true/false> - If false, the camera will not cycle using "Camera Mode key" [V]. It still available with F9 key. Since F9 may not work on server I also added "Alt + V" as alternative to cycle even when keybind is false, must be in first person view.

Example: /otscam zoom true
Configs are saved to mod settings folder, it persists across world saves.

Most games that have this shoulder camera have a level design that helps it not collide too much with the world. Since SE has a lot of freedom it would be up to you the design of things. You can disable the collision with the command, but then the camera would see thru the walls in certain cases (that is why I disabled this feature on multiplayer).
With some time testing, I got used to prevent some collisions myself by moving the camera away from walls.