Lean Lantern

LEAN LANTERN

A performance mod. Removes the lantern model, improve the light.

At night in a busy town, almost everyone on screen is carrying a lantern, and every one of those lanterns is a model your CPU has to keep track of and your graphics card has to draw, frame after frame. None of it earns you anything: it is a prop on a hip.

Lean Lantern takes those models out of the picture and leaves the light exactly as it was. Less for your hardware to do, right where the game is at its heaviest, and nothing changes on screen except the lantern itself.

It replaces no game files, so it does not break when the game is patched.

WHAT IT DOES

• []Hides the lantern on you, your pawns, the pawns you meet and every NPC.[/]

  []Leaves the light alone. Same glow, same reach, same flicker.[/]

  []Stops lantern lights casting shadows, which is extra work for your graphics card. Optional, on by default. Few of them cast shadows in the first place, so treat this as a small extra rather than the main event.[/]

  []Infinite oil, off by default, with a hotkey.[/]

  []Brightness and colour for your own lantern, with an ember preset.[/]

  []Nothing is permanent. Switch it off and everything comes back, exactly as the game had it.[/]

  The mod itself stays out of the way while you play: it settles each character once and then leaves them be.

  Where you will notice it: night, towns, crowds, anywhere a lot of lanterns are lit at once. In daylight or out in the wild there is little to remove, so expect little.

  INSTALL

  Needs REFramework. Nothing else.

  Fluffy: Add mod, pick the zip, enable.

  By hand: drop the .lua into reframework/autorun.

  Game already running: use Reset Scripts.

  Everything is in the REFramework menu, under Lean Lantern, and every setting takes effect straight away.

  GOOD TO KNOW

  • []Uninstall any mod that replaces the lantern model (e.g. Adjusted Lantern Shape). Its model is never drawn here, so it would only be loading for nothing.[/]

    []The flame stays where the lantern used to be.[/]

    []Something wrong? The Status panel writes a small report file. Please attach it when you post.[/]

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    CREDITS

    Inspired by No Lantern Model (Crazy Potato) and SuperLantern (xyzkljl1), with thanks to their authors. Both take a different route: a texture swap that leaves the model in place, and a light rewrite for the player alone.

    Lean Lantern is a new implementation, written from scratch: no shared code with either.

    Dragon's Dogma 2 and its assets belong to Capcom. REFramework carries its own licence.