Caseboard Expanded

A BepInEx (mod loader) plugin for Shadows of Doubt. Unlimited open cases, a case bar that stays readable however many you take on, and a case board three times the size.

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Part of the Quality of Life and Complete modpacks.

What it does

• A bigger case board: the board is three times its normal size, with room for every pin, and you can zoom out that much further to see it all. Pins and their strings go all the way to the new edges, and stay there when you close the board, save and load. The map is left as it is.
• Unlimited open cases: the game stops you at five. Take on as many side jobs and custom cases as you like. You can set your own limit in the config.
• A case bar that scrolls: the game squeezes every case into one row until the names disappear. Case buttons now keep a readable width, and once they no longer fit, the bar scrolls sideways with the mouse wheel or a trackpad.
• The buttons stay put: "No case", the sticky note and "New case" stay in place while the cases scroll between them.
• Controller friendly: the shoulder buttons (LB and RB, L1 and R1 on PlayStation) step through every case in order, and the bar follows so the open case is always in view.
• Pin your cases: pick "Pin case" in Quick Menu (G, or X and Y together on a controller), or press Alt + P on the case board, to pin the open case. "Unpin case" takes the pin off again. Pinned cases start with * and stay at the front. You can also pin a case by renaming it with a * in front.
• Newest first: cases are sorted with the newest at the front (or oldest first, or the game's own order).
• Done cases move aside: when a side job is finished or failed, its case is marked "(finished)" or "(failed)" and moves to the end of the bar. Most jobs share a few names like "Theft", so you can always tell which ones are still open.
• Job updates say which job: "Job information updated!" now names the case it is about.

Config

After one launch, edit BepInEx/config/sm3gm.sod.caseboardexpanded.cfg with the game closed.

Good to know

Pins and the "(finished)" and "(failed)" marks are part of the case name, so they are kept in your save. Removing the mod leaves the names as they are; you can rename the cases if you like.

Install

Install with a mod manager (Thunderstore Mod Manager or r2modman), or put the SoDCaseboardExpanded folder in BepInEx/plugins. Needs BepInExPack IL2CPP.

Also by sm3gm

All Sm3gm mods are on Thunderstore.

Support

This mod is free and always will be.

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Thanks for playing.

Changelog

1.1.4

• Page text only, no code changes: Quick Menu comes first in the instructions, the page names the packs it is part of, and the support lines are reworded.

1.1.3

• Pins placed past the old board edge now stay there: closing and reopening the board, saving and loading no longer pull them back inside the old edge.

1.1.1

• Page text only, no code changes: links to my other mods, and "All my mods" now shows the modpacks too. Updated short description.

1.1.0

• The case board is three times bigger, with room for many more pins, and zooms out that much further. Set the size with Board / BoardScale (1 = vanilla). The board picture and the strings between pins grow with it; the city map is not touched.
• Pins and their strings can be placed all the way out to the new edges; the old board's edge no longer holds them back.
• "Pin case" and "Unpin case" in the Quick Menu mod, when it is installed, so cases can be pinned with a controller.

1.0.0

• First release.