Caseboard Expanded

Caseboard Expanded

A BepInEx (mod loader) plugin for Shadows of Doubt. Unlimited open cases, a case bar that stays readable however many you take on, and a case board three times the size.

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Part of the Quality of Life and Complete modpacks.

What it does

• A bigger case board: the board is three times its normal size, with room for every pin, and you can zoom out that much further to see it all. Pins and their strings go all the way to the new edges, and stay there when you close the board, save and load. The map is left as it is.
• Carry a group of cards: select several cards and drag them together. They keep their shape while you move them, stop together at the edge of the board and land in the same formation.
• Pins go where you expect: pins and notes stay where you put them, right out to the new edges, and new pins land spaced out in the middle of your view, even when you are zoomed out away from the centre.
• Unlimited open cases: the game stops you at five. Take on as many side jobs and custom cases as you like. You can set your own limit in the config.
• A case bar that scrolls: the game squeezes every case into one row until the names disappear. Case buttons now keep a readable width, and once they no longer fit, the bar scrolls sideways with the mouse wheel or a trackpad.
• The buttons stay put: "No case", the sticky note and "New case" stay in place while the cases scroll between them.
• Controller friendly: the shoulder buttons (LB and RB, L1 and R1 on PlayStation) step through every case in order, and the bar follows so the open case is always in view.
• Pin your cases: pick "Pin case" in Quick Menu (G, or X and Y together on the case board, Square and Triangle on PlayStation), or press Alt + P on the case board, to pin the open case. "Unpin case" takes the pin off again. Pinned cases start with * and stay at the front. You can also pin a case by renaming it with a * in front.
• Newest first: cases are sorted with the newest at the front (or oldest first, or the game's own order).
• Done cases move aside: when a side job is finished or failed, its case is marked "(finished)" or "(failed)" and moves to the end of the bar. Most jobs share a few names like "Theft", so you can always tell which ones are still open.
• Job updates say which job: "Job information updated!" now names the case it is about.
• Optional: one case per murder. When mods such as SOD Motives start several murders by different killers at once, the game only gives the latest one a case. Switch on Murders / OneCasePerMurder and every murder gets a case of its own, with its own questions and answers and the crime scene pinned. A case opens once the body has been found, as the game's own case does, and takes the killer's nickname when the game would give one. If SOD Motives already keeps a case per killer (its SeparateCasePerKiller setting), this stays out of the way, so you never get two cases for one murder.

Config

After one launch, edit BepInEx/config/sm3gm.sod.caseboardexpanded.cfg with the game closed.

Setting — Default — Meaning

Board / BoardScale — 3 — How much bigger the case board is than normal. 1 = the game's own size.

Board / PadMoveSpeed — 2.5 — How fast notes and pins move when carried with the controller stick. 1 = the game's own speed.

Board / ZoomMargin — 0.2 — Extra room to pan and zoom past the board's edge, as a share of its size, so a pin at the edge can be brought to the middle of the screen. 0 turns it off.

Cases / MaxOpenCases — 0 — How many cases you can have open at once. 0 means no limit (vanilla 5).

CaseBar / MinButtonWidth — 130 — Case buttons never get narrower than this, so their names stay readable.

CaseBar / SortOrder — Newest — Newest first, Oldest first, or Vanilla. Pinned cases always come first.

CaseBar / PinKey — P — Pins or unpins the open case while the case board is shown.

CaseBar / PinModifier — LeftAlt — Held with PinKey. None means PinKey alone.

Murders / OneCasePerMurder — false — Every murder by a different killer gets its own case. Off = the game's way: only the latest murder has a case.

Good to know

Pins and the "(finished)" and "(failed)" marks are part of the case name, so they are kept in your save. Removing the mod leaves the names as they are; you can rename the cases if you like.

If you also use Clean Caseboard, its snap (Left Shift, or X on Xbox and Square on PlayStation) lines cards up as you let go, which can look as if they jumped. Set its SnapKey and SnapButton to None if you want cards to stay exactly where you drop them.

Install

Install with a mod manager (Thunderstore Mod Manager or r2modman), or put the SoDCaseboardExpanded folder in BepInEx/plugins. Needs BepInExPack IL2CPP.

Also by sm3gm

All Sm3gm mods are on Thunderstore.

Support

This mod is free and always will be.

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