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Viewfinder Walkthrough – Chapter 4 (Levels 1-5)
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Stuck in Viewfinder? Check out our Viewfinder Walkthrough to complete levels 1-5 in the fourth chapter, including optional challenge.
Welcome to the Into Indie Games walkthrough for Viewfinder. This guide covers all the optional challenges in the game along with the standard levels.
For information on Viewfinder beyond this walkthrough, check out the official website here.
Chapter 4
Take the train from Chapter 3 to make it to Chapter 4.
This walkthrough post covers Levels 1 to 5 in Chapter 4 of Viewfinder. For Levels 6 to 9, check the next part of this walkthrough of Viewfinder!
Level 1.1
(The teleporter for this level can be found by entering the Hub World building and looking to the right.)
In these levels, you will encounter the ‘violet infection’, which is completely immune to both photography and place pictures.
Begin by going left and then down the stairs to find a blue battery. Put it on the teleporter pad up the stairs. Note that as it is a blue battery, you cannot duplicate it by taking a picture of it.
Return to the area where you found the blue battery and take a picture of the floor it was on, capturing as much ground as possible.
Now go to the gate with the blue infection, and place the photograph of the ground to the side of the infection. This photograph won’t overwrite the infection, but it will give you plenty of ground with which to go around the gate and retrieve the blue battery beyond.
Put the battery on the pad to proceed.
Level 1.2
Most of this level is made up of the violet infection. The teleporter is beyond a very narrow metal grate near where you start.
Ignore the teleporter for now and proceed through the only path in the level. At the end of it, you’ll find a picture on three wooden boards. Align the boards to realize the picture.
Grab the Rubik’s Cube and go back up the stairs, to the little inaccessible platform with the chair and table on it.
Get up the platform to find a photograph on the table. Pick it up and apply it on the patterned wall opposite the platform.
This will allow you to go through and access the camera film in the area inside. Pick it up.
Now return to the area where you started this segment, and aim your camera at the teleporter. Take a picture of it.
Place the photograph at the edge of the violet infection, so that you can access the teleporter and move on.
Level 1.3
Look opposite the red light bulb to find a small flight of stairs going down.
Go down these stairs and then access the room with the red light bulb. Pick up the photograph hanging from the rope and go back up the stairs.
Go right from the red light bulb and you’ll find a platform located beyond a ‘window’ of sorts. Use the photograph in your hand to build a bridge to that platform and retrieve the next photograph.
With this photograph go back to the place where you started this level, i.e. near the first red light bulb. Standing a little to the left of the red light bulb, aim your photograph at the platform directly ahead of you.
The photograph will obscure the platform, but that’s alright because the platform is made of violet infection. Apply the photograph to create two more platforms for you.
Now go around to the platforms you just made and hop across. On the second violet platform, you’ll find a camera film. Pick it up.
Take a picture of the black-and-white platform next to you and apply it on the other side, so that you can pass on to the platform with the teleporter.
Use the teleporter to conclude this level.
Level 2.1
(The teleporter to this level is immediately to the left of the first teleporter).
In this place, almost everything appears to be blue or violet. Turn around from where you start and make your way to some cardboard boxes with a note on them.
Look to the right to find a battery above you. Take two pictures of the red battery.
Now return to where you started this segment, aim your battery photograph at the violet infection cage, and place the photo so as to cause the battery to drop onto the pad.
Do this for both batteries (it might take several tries to get the positioning right) and use the teleporter to proceed.
Level 2.2
Take a picture of the ground, covering as much area as possible.
Then, place the photograph directly below the platform with the cage on it.
Now take a picture of the sky and go up the stairs to where the cage with the battery is. Place the sky photograph on the cage, so that it covers all the ground below the battery.
Go back down the stairs and you’ll find that your battery has safely landed on the ground you created beneath the platform.
Pick up the battery and toss it onto the teleporter pad. Then, use the teleporter to move on.
Level 2.3
Go to the telescope and point your camera at the violet infection wall just to the left of the passage.
When you take the picture, it’ll be of the area beyond the wall, i.e. the lever, the teleporter, and the platform they’re on. Place this photograph where convenient.
Hop on to the platform, pull the lever, and step on the teleporter to move on.
Level 2.4
From where you start, take a few steps back and look at the teleporter and its battery pad. Take a picture that includes both of them.
Now go to the lower floor, where there’s a blue battery in a cage. Place the photograph you have so that the pad comes directly beneath the battery.
Use the teleporter to move on.
Level 3.1
(This level is optional, and it can be accessed by going up to the middle floor and looking at the teleporter immediately right when up the stairs).
Look left for a pedestal with a film on it. Go behind this pedestal while facing the cage and take a picture that includes both the film and the cage with the battery in it.
Place this image to the right of the cage and pick up the black-and-white duplicated film (NOT the original color film).
Return to your previous position and take a picture that includes both batteries and also the color film.
Place this image at an accessible area to the left of the cage.
Pick up the black-and-white duplicated film and take a picture of any of the batteries. Place the image somewhere.
All in all, you should have at least four batteries now. Pick up each of them and put it on the battery pad for the teleporter.
Use the teleporter to move on.
Level 4.1
(The teleporter to this level is NOT the one on the middle floor next to the window – that one goes to Level 6. For the teleporter to Level 4, which is an optional challenge, go to the other side of the middle floor from where you climbed up the stairs.)
From roughly where you start this level, take a picture of the (gap-filled) path ahead of you, leading to the blue teleporter. Do this from the side, not directly straight ahead. Make sure it also includes some of the ground you are standing on.
Place this picture so that the photograph path is parallel to the real path, but not overwriting the real path, and also allowing you to jump to the photograph path.
This way, you should be able to zig-zag your way to the teleporter by hopping alternately on the photograph path and the real path.
When you get to the teleporter, use it to move on.
Level 5.1
(This is another optional level. For the teleporter to this level, go out the door on the middle floor and look immediately to the right.)
Pick up the photograph on the table. Put the photograph in the photocopier as many times as you can, so that you have 7 photographs in your hand in all (1 original, 6 copied).
Begin by placing one photograph rotated so that the battery is upright.
Then, place a second photograph so that there is a path leading to the battery (of course, make sure you don’t overwrite the upright battery).
Pick up the battery and place it where convenient.
Now place another photograph with the teleporter upright.
Place another photograph so that you have a path going around the metal fence and up to the teleporter. You can also place multiple photographs, as you no doubt have extras.
Place the battery on the pad and then use the teleporter to move on.
The remainder of Chapter 4 is covered in the next part of our Viewfinder walkthrough. Head on to the next part of our Viewfinder walkthrough here!