MapImprovements

Map Improvements

A BepInEx (mod loader) plugin for Shadows of Doubt. A map that is easier to read and quicker to open.

If it makes finding your way easier, please leave a like on its Thunderstore page. It keeps me motivated to make more mods. Donations are welcome too:

Part of the Quality of Life and Complete modpacks.

What it does

• Bigger icons: shops, businesses and buildings, your own marker and the markers for people and objects you track are three times the size, so they are easy to spot at any zoom.
• Persistent map: buildings already drawn stay drawn, across floors and while the map is closed, so the map no longer redraws every time you change floor or open it. New information, such as a blueprint or a newly explored room, still updates that building.
• Icons for useful machines: vending, cola, snack and cigarette machines, coffee machines, El Gen machines and police automats get their own icon, so you can find a drink or a sync disk machine at a glance.
• Control rooms on every floor: a control room shows its camera icon on its own floor, and a faded one on every other floor of its building, so you can see from anywhere in a building where its control room is.

• Bodies on the map: once a body has been found, a marker shows where it lies: solid on its own floor, faded on the other floors of its building (or on every floor when it lies in the street), so you can find a crime scene again from anywhere.
• Opens zoomed out: the first time you open the map after loading a city, it shows the whole city. After that it keeps the zoom you left it at (Map / StartZoomedOut).
• Zoom out 2.5 times as far: the map zooms out to two and a half times the vanilla distance, so you can see far more of the city at once (Map / ZoomOutFactor).
• Tracked people stay visible: markers for people you track on another floor are no longer faded almost to nothing (Icons / TrackedOnOtherFloorsOpacity).
• Plays nice with other map mods: if another mod already resizes your own marker, that size is kept.

The map draws the whole city as you zoom out, two and a half times as far as before:

Bodies and control rooms show through the floors: solid on their own floor, faded on the others. On the left the body lies on the street and the control room is upstairs; on the right you look from floor 5.

Config

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

Setting — Default — Meaning

Icons / PlaceIconScale — 3.0 — Size of shop, business and building icons (1 = vanilla).

Icons / PlayerIconScale — 3.0 — Size of your own marker (1 = vanilla). Left alone when another mod already resizes it.

Icons / TrackedIconScale — 3.0 — Size of markers for tracked people and objects (1 = vanilla).

Icons / FurnitureIconScale — 3.0 — Size of the machine icons. 0 = no machine icons.

Icons / FurnitureWithIcons — VendingMachine, ColaMachine, ... — Which furniture gets its own icon, comma separated.

Icons / ControlRoomsOnAllFloors — 0.45 — How strong the faded control room icon on other floors is. 0 = off, 1 = not faded.

Icons / BodyMarkers — Found — Which bodies get a marker: Found (once the body has been found), All, or Off.

Map / ZoomOutFactor — 2.5 — How much further out the map zooms (1 = vanilla, 2.5 = two and a half times as far).

Icons / TrackedOnOtherFloorsOpacity — 0.75 — Least opaque a tracked person's marker gets on another floor (0 = leave the game's fade alone, 1 = fully solid).

Map / StartZoomedOut — true — The first time you open the map after loading a city, it starts fully zoomed out.

Map / KeepDrawnBuildings — true — Keep buildings drawn across floors and while the map is closed.

Map / MaxDrawnBuildings — 3000 — How many drawn buildings are kept.

Install

Use Thunderstore Mod Manager or r2modman and install as normal. BepInEx is installed automatically.

To install by hand:

1. Install BepInExPack IL2CPP version 6.0.755.
2. Put SoDMapImprovements.dll in BepInEx/plugins/MapImprovements/ inside your existing BepInEx folder.

Feedback

Found a bug or have an idea? Post it on the official Shadows of Doubt Discord: https://discord.gg/shadows

Also by sm3gm

All my mods are on Thunderstore.

Support

This mod is free and always will be.

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