Drone Hide Toggle

Hide Drone in Photo Mode

The drone is forcibly hidden in photo mode. Even if you select "Show Drone" in the photo mode settings, the drone will be hidden regardless. Due to how the mode functions, pressing the aim button (e.g., the left trigger) to move the camera may cause the drone to briefly appear, but it will be hidden again as soon as you release the button.

TPS Mode Detection

The mod can now detect shooting mode even when playing with a keyboard. The drone now appears when entering shooting mode, whether you're using a keyboard or a gamepad. This also works even if you change the shooting mode key bindings within the game.

The changed drone toggle key now persists even after restarting the game.

Changing the Drone Toggle Keybinding

Hold down the drone toggle key (default: \) for 2 seconds. You'll hear an alarm sound, and the game will wait 5 seconds for key input. If you press the key you want within those 5 seconds, you'll hear the alarm sound again, and from then on that key will be the drone toggle key. Holding down the newly changed drone toggle key for 2 seconds will trigger the alarm again, letting you change the key once more, with another 5-second window for key input. If there's no input within the 5 seconds, you'll hear a slightly lower-pitched alarm sound, and the key will not be changed.

Restoring the Drone Toggle Key

To restore the drone toggle key to the default ( \ ), delete DroneHideSave.sav.

The path is "c:\Users{UserName}\AppData\Local\SB\Saved\SaveGames{gameID. find yourself}". ( This is generally where the game's save files are stored.)

Drone Hide Toggle

Hide or show EVE's companion drone at any time with a simple key press. The toggled state persists after changing maps and after restarting the game.  After restarting the game, the drone stays in whatever toggled state you last set it to.

Features

- Toggle the drone's body and its spotlight together with one button — no flickering or mismatched states.

- Works with both keyboard and gamepad.

- Setting is saved and automatically restored when you change maps, reload a save, or restart the game.

- Lightweight: the mod caches the drone reference once and only re-scans the world if needed, so there's no per-frame performance cost.

Why this exists 

My previous version of this mod was built using UE4SS Lua scripting, and it ran into a known crash risk (UE4SS PR #1271, a string-cache use-after-free bug). To avoid that issue entirely, I rebuilt this mod from scratch as a native Blueprint pak — it doesn't touch UE4SS/Lua at all, so it isn't affected by that