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jmquigs / ModelMod

A system for modifying art in games.
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Suggestion: automatic mod to disable legendary trinket effects in GW2 #21

Closed Kidel closed 1 year ago

Kidel commented 3 years ago

Hi. First of all thanks for your tool.

As you may be aware, the most requested thing on the GW2 forums is an option to disable legendary trinket effects. Anet is not against it but they say it's too difficult to do (lol).

Since you already showed how yo disable the Aegis effect, I'm sure it would be possible to also disable the legendary trinket effect (that they claim to be based on a boon too).

I'm pretty sure most people would gladly download the pre-made mod and this would also probably raise awareness on the subject.

jmquigs commented 3 years ago

I do not have any leg trinkets, so, are those the whole body "glow" effect I see on some characters? If so, have you tried using reshade? It seems like it might work better for that kind of thing. Its probably just a shader effect that is applied to the character. But if its a particle effect, those are not possible to mod because they generate a slew of tiny geometry particles of very common sizes and MM isn't equipped to handle that right now. This affects, e.g. the skin on Zodiac armor.

Kidel commented 3 years ago

I'm talking about those effects that stack on top of each other (basically 1 ball for every legendary trinket) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eugJGBeI7do

Should also be only visible with weapon out, but they are buged with mounts so they're everywhere.

jmquigs commented 3 years ago

What is the name of that one? I can try snapshotting it in the preview window to assess the feasibility of hiding it.

Kidel commented 3 years ago

uhm it's not that simple. The preview doesn't show those effects.

Basically if you equip a legendary trinket you get a hidden boon and balls start floating around your character. Some legendary trinkets have a static effect (the bubble is always the same), other ones have a "stacking" effect, meaning that if you equip 1 (regardless of which one) you get some floaty balls, if you equip 2 you get some different floaty balls, if you equip 3 you get different floaty balls and a hge black one in the middle.

The best way to see that effect is to have a character or a friend that has all the legendary trinkets and get the 5 different effects. Or get a friend who has the 3 stacking ones and another who has the 2 non stacking ones.

jmquigs commented 3 years ago

If that is what it takes to repro, it's going to make it very hard to test any kind of fix. When developing something new like this I usually need to iterate a dozen or more times. I don't think I'll be able to work on this, sorry.

From your description I still think reshade is the best bet. Basically modify the shaders to do some kind of pass-through. For the balls it could output completely transparent pixels so that they are hidden. Shaders are not my area of expertise so I don't know how difficult this will be in practice.