Remove Visual Effects 4 Dark Mode Mod

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It seems many roads lead to Rome.. depending on the search term you may never find this mod ["dark weapon" "dark effect"],

as I did - searching ["remove" "visual effects" "dark mode" "edges"]. Well, Kudos & Credits!

Anyway, I was

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Roaming from dragonbird's outdated mod (27 June 2013, 6:49AM) to gamefaq forums (this is actually where the idea for this particular mod comes from..)

and after several hours of trial & error...

Both versions keep the DarkSet Bonus (life leech) & remove the visual and audio effects

version one   keep Dark Effects as well (screen greys out)

version two   screen does not grey out when you draw a dark weapon

package  package with different base_scripts.dzip files to simply switch between the moods (vanilla, keepdarkscreen, dumpdarkscreen)

tested with     Witcher2 EE v3. 4 (fresh install & either version one or two)

equipment     any complete dark mode set(including the swords)

just in case

! BACKUp your savegames (documents\Witcher2\gamesaves) and your base_scripts.dzip file (Witcher2\CookedPC) !

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Installation (version one or two; for package installation see file description):

1. Use Gibbed RED Tools (Props! to the Creator; found here on Nexus;) to Unpack your base_scripts.dzip file

(drag base_scripts.dzip file & drop on "Gibbed. RED. Unpack.exe"; a base_scripts folder will be created)

2. Copy the downloaded

- player.ws file to Witcher2\CookedPC\base_scripts\game\player folder

and overwrite the existing file

- combatsilver.ws & combatsteel.ws files to Witcher2\CookedPC\base_scripts\game\player\states folder

and overwrite the existing files

3. ReMove the (now) old base_scripts.dzip file from your CookedPC folder

RePack the (now) modified base_scripts folder via Gibbed RED Tools

(drag base_scripts folder & drop on "Gibbed. RED. Pack.exe"; a new base_scripts.dzip file will b