Quest Shadows

Experimental real-time shadow mod for standalone Quest BONELAB.

Features

• Enables real-time shadows
• Enables hard directional-light shadows
• Quest-friendly shadow settings
• 10 meter shadow distance
• Low shadow resolution for better performance
• Two shadow cascades
• Automatically detects active directional lights
• Rechecks lights when playing

Requirements

• BONELAB
• LemonLoader
• Standalone Meta Quest

Installation

1. Install LemonLoader for BONELAB.
2. Build or download QuestShadows.dll.
3. Place QuestShadows.dll inside your BONELAB Mods folder.
4. Start BONELAB.
5. Load into a level.
6. Give the mod a few seconds to detect the level's directional lights.

Current Version

Quest Shadows v0.1.1

This is an experimental version intended to test whether BONELAB's standalone Quest renderer will accept real-time directional shadows at runtime.

Performance

Real-time shadows can be demanding on standalone Quest hardware.

The current version uses conservative settings:

• Hard shadows
• Low shadow resolution
• 10m shadow distance
• Directional lights only

Point-light and spotlight shadows are intentionally disabled for now.

Troubleshooting

The mod loads but I don't see shadows

Check your LemonLoader log for:

Quest Shadows v0.1.1 loaded.

You should also see:

Global shadow settings applied.

and eventually:

Light scan complete.

If the mod detects a directional light but shadows still aren't visible, BONELAB's Quest URP configuration may have shadow rendering disabled at the render-pipeline level.

BONELAB crashes

Remove QuestShadows.dll from the Mods folder and restart BONELAB.

Planned Features

• Player shadows
• NPC shadows
• Prop shadows
• Adjustable shadow distance
• Shadow quality settings
• Performance modes
• BoneMenu settings
• Spot-light shadow experiments
• Flashlight shadows
• Automatic Quest performance optimization

Credits

Created by Nova.

Built for BONELAB standalone Quest using LemonLoader.