I'd like to know how to change the view of the camera. I've done some digging around in the MC code, and I found orientCamera in EntityRenderer, which deals with 1st/3rd person view etc. However, I'm not sure exactly how all the camera stuff works, and I don't know how to implement it into a mod. There was a thread on something similar in the past, but the final solution was very unclear and I couldn't figure out how to implement it. Another good resource might me iChun's Sync mod, with the animation when you switch shells, but I can't find where he actually changes the view of the player then. The link is https://github.com/iChun/Sync if you're interested. Also, if anyone knows of any 1.6 tutorials on this, those might not be totally obsolete and a good starting point, as usual.
Thanks for any help!