EchoLocation-MM

Explore BONELAB through sound. Your view becomes black, and footsteps, microphone input, nearby sounds and Fusion voices reveal walls, floors and objects as fading dots. Switch to LiDAR to scan ahead, or Sonar to scan around you.

Features

• EchoLocation: sound reveals your surroundings. Optional Continuous Surroundings keeps them visible while you stay silent.
• LiDAR: squeeze the right controller grip twice, releasing between squeezes, to scan the area in front of you.
• Sonar: a continuous scan rotates around your body, with an optional green-scenery/red-objects color scheme.
• Distance colors: circular dots blend from white to blue, green, yellow and red as surfaces get farther away.
• Player silhouettes: actual supported avatar models, including custom avatars. In EchoLocation, running or loud speech reveals players; ordinary walking stays hidden. LiDAR and Sonar reveal players when a scan hits them, then the silhouette fades.
• Footprints and bullets: fading shoe prints from fast movement, tapered bullet trails and brief impact flashes.
• Colored BoneMenu: quick mode and blackout switches, separate scanner settings, and Low, Medium or High performance presets.

Installation

Requires Windows PC BONELAB, MelonLoader 0.7.3 and BoneLib 3.2.2. Standalone Quest/LemonLoader is not supported.

Install with a BONELAB-compatible mod manager, or close the game and copy Mods/EchoLocation.dll into the game's MelonLoader Mods folder. Replace your older DLL and keep only one copy installed.

Getting started

Open BoneMenu > EchoLocation-MM, turn On/Off on and choose a mode. Close the menu to see the effects. The title changes with the mode and turns green while enabled.

• Blackout View: switch between a black background and normal gameplay behind the dots. Menus temporarily restore normal vision.
• Send Pulse / Scan: trigger a scan from the first page.
• Settings > Performance: adjust quality, Continuous Surroundings and its refresh interval.
• Settings > Visuals > Player Highlights > Detection: adjust running speed and loud-voice sensitivity.
• Settings > LiDAR / Sonar: adjust range, scan speed and fade times.
• Settings > General: choose your EchoLocation shortcut. LiDAR always uses double right grip; Sonar runs automatically.

Multiplayer

Fusion is optional. Effects are client-side, so other players do not need this mod. Voice detection depends on received Fusion audio and voice-chat settings. Microphone samples are processed in memory, not saved by this mod.

Scan detail and performance depend on your map, hardware and avatar complexity. Use Low or a slower refresh if needed. The cover is illustrative artwork, not a gameplay screenshot.

Changelog

2.5.6 - Quest support

• updated quest support

2.5.5 - Fusion compatibility

• Checked compatibility with Fusion 1.14.3.
• Gameplay and visuals are unchanged.

2.5.0 - Quest update

• Added one shared build for PC and Quest.
• Improved voice sensitivity and detection.
• Smoothed player and NPC highlight updates.
• LiDAR stays level and follows your direction for each new scan.
• Simplified settings and redesigned the VR voice meter.
• Hid PC-only options on Quest.
• Updated the mod icon.

2.0.2 - Performance update

• Reduced rendering work and sped up nearby-dot checks.
• Improved recovery after resets.

2.0.1 - Impact dots

• Surface hits turn nearby dots yellow instead of lighting the surface.