Improved Object Highlighter

See every piece of loot at a glance — and nothing you don't care about.

Improved Object Highlighter outlines the loot worth grabbing: items, chests, bodies, pouches and ore veins; at a range you choose, and quietly hides whatever isn't worth your time. Everything is configurable, live, from an in-game menu.

What it highlights

• []Loose items & plants, chests & containers, lootable corpses, stealable pouches, and ore veins.[/]

  []Optionally highlight enemies you've knocked out, not only dead bodies.[/]

  []A range you choose — spot loot far beyond the game's short focus distance.[/]

  []Every category can be turned on or off independently.[/]

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  Smart loot filtering

  • []Empty chests, bodies and mined-out ore veins are hidden automatically, so a highlight always means there's something to take.[/]

    []A corpse stays lit while it holds anything lootable, including hunting trophies you can't harvest yet (you lack the skill), so you know to come back for them.[/]

    []A creature's innate "weapons" (jaws, claws, fists) and worn armour are ignored, so a genuinely-empty body doesn't light up.[/]

    []Furniture de-clutter to optionally hide the highlight on chairs, benches, beds, ladders and other things you can't loot, so a busy room isn't a wall of outlines.[/]

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    Forbidden / stealing

    • []Items, containers and pouches owned by someone else get their own, fully configurable colour, so you know that taking them is stealing before you grab them.[/]

      []When you focus a forbidden object, the game's focus glow takes on your forbidden colour too.[/]

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      Appearance & feel

      • []Configurable outline colour (RGB) for both normal and forbidden highlights.[/]

        []Configurable opacity and thickness, with a smooth near-to-far distance fade.[/]

        []Stays out of your way; when you open a chest, pick a lock or start a conversation, the highlights step aside just like the game's own, and come right back when you're done.[/]

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        Make it yours

        • []Toggle highlighting on/off in-game with a hotkey (default F1).[/]

          []Choose whether highlighting starts on or off when you launch.[/]

          []With the Shared Mod Menu you can adjust every setting live, in-game (default F2), no restart.[/]

          []Prefer a text editor? Every option is a clearly-commented line in settings.ini, and GAME_DEFAULTS.txt explains each one — and how to restore the game's vanilla look.[/]

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          Installation

          • []Install the UE4SS Experimental build first; this is a UE4SS DLL mod and needs it.[/]

            []Then install Improved Object Highlighter.[/]

            []Shared Mod Menu is optional but highly recommended, as it adds the in-game settings menu (default F2).[/]

            []Enable "Object outlines" in the game's Accessibility settings; the mod builds on this feature and won't work without it.[/]

            []Troubleshooting: Press F10 in-game to log the nearby objects (and why each is or isn't highlighted) to the UE4SS log,  handy if you ever need to report something.[/]

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            Credits

            • []Shared Mod Menu is vendored with this mod — thank you to Tautellini for creating it.[/]

              []All other content is my own work and may not be re-uploaded or modified without permission.[/]