Held Light Boost

Held Light Boost increases

Held Light Boost increases the radius of player-held lights in OpenMW while preserving the original item’s model, icon, color, value, weight, and remaining burn time.

It is meant to make torches, lanterns, and other carried lights more useful without changing how they look or turning them into new items in practice.

Features

- Boosts equipped player-held light radius by a 1 to 10 multiplier (defaulted to 3).

- Works with ANY hand-held light source.

Technical Details

Held Light Boost works by generating boosted versions of carriable light records at content load time. When the player equips a normal held light, the mod temporarily equips a matching boosted copy with the same model, icon, color, value, weight, and burn condition.

The original light is removed while the boosted copy is held, then restored if the player unequips it before it burns out, adjusting the remaining time to match. If the boosted copy burns out, the original is not restored.

Requirements

- OpenMW 0. 51. 0+

Installation

1. Copy the Held Light Boost folder into an OpenMW data directory location.

2. Add that folder as a data directory in the OpenMW Launcher.

3. Enable Held Light Boost.omwscripts in your content list.

4. Optional: launch the game and adjust the range multiplier under Options > Scripts > Held Light Boost.

Compatibility

Held Light Boost generates boosted versions of carriable light records at content load time. It should work with mod-added held lights when their records are visible to OpenMW and use normal light records.

Only equipped player-held lights are affected. Placed lights, sconces, braziers, campfires, markers, and other non-carriable light records are ignored.

Brighter Torches Lua (OpenMW) by Silrorj inspired the safer replacement lifecycle used here: remove the original item while the boosted copy exists, then restore it if needed.