Line-of-Sight Indicators

LoS Indicator Mod for XCOM: Enemy Within / Long War

The LoS Indicator is a mod to bring the feature of XCOM2 back to XCOM EW/LW. With this mod enabled, while moving the cursor around to select a movement target tile enemies that will be visible from that point are indicated graphically on the screen.

The mod contains several configurable variables that may be of interest, see the configuration section below.

Installation

The installation steps are different depending on whether you are installing for Long War or Vanilla EW. EU is not supported (but might work?)

Installation with Long War 1. 0

1. Apply the patch file Sightlines_LW.txt with PatcherGUI 2. Copy Sightlines.u to your XEW packages folder (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\XCom Enemy Within\XEW\XComGame\CookedPCConsole) 3. Add the following line to the bottom of the DefaultMutatorLoader.ini file in your XEW Config folder: arrTacticalMutators="Sightlines. SightlineMutator" 4. Copy DefaultSightlines.ini to your XEW Config folder (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\XCom Enemy Within\XEW\XComGame\Config)

Installation for Enemy Within

Installation for Vanilla EW takes several steps, broken into three main sections.

Enabling Modding

If you have never added any PatcherGUI based mods to your EW installation, you need to take a few steps to enable modding at all:

• []Select "Enable INI loading" from the PatcherGUI "Tools" menu. []Select "Disable Phoning Home" from the PatcherGUI "Tools" menu.

Once modding is enabled, you need to enable mutators. This section is only needed if you have not installed any mutator based EW mods. I am not aware of any others that don't require LW, so odds are good that if you are in doubt, you need to do the steps in this section.

This section thanks to the efforts of Wasteland Ghost, without whose Mutator work most of my mods would not be possible. See https://github.com/wghost/XCom-Mutators, and the included file LICENSE-Mutators.txt for the licensing information for this package.

• []Apply the patch file XComMutatorEnabler.txt with PatcherGUI []Copy XComMutator.u to your XEW CookedPCConsole folder (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\XCom Enemy Within\XEW\XComGame\CookedPCConsole) []Copy DefaultMutatorLoader.ini to your XEW config folder (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\XCom Enemy Within\XEW\XComGame\Config) []Add the following line to the section of the DefaultEngine.ini file in your XEW Config folder (just after XComUIShell): +NonNativePackages=XComMutator []Copy DefaultSightlines.ini to your XEW Config folder (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\XCom Enemy Within\XEW\XComGame\Config)

• []Apply the patch file Sightlines_EW.txt with PatcherGUI []Copy Sightlines.u to your XEW packages folder (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\XCom Enemy Within\XEW\XComGame\CookedPCConsole)

• []Uninstall the old patch. In PatcherGUI, click "Show Log" and find the patch script you installed for the Loadout Manager in the list of installed mods. Highlight it and select "Load Uninstaller". Then click "Apply".
• Reinstall as per a normal fresh installation. You may not need to alter the DefaultMutatorLoader.ini, but ensure the correct lines are already there.

Configuration

The mod contains several configurable variables. These can be modified by changing