DuckovCoreUtilities

Quality-of-life utilities for Escape from Duckov, focused on inventory handling, item information, loot visibility, combat feedback, and HUD readability.

Features

• Item price display: adds item price information to item UI.
• Storage count display: shows how many matching items are already carried or stored.
• Quality display: highlights item quality in item UI.
• Loot outline: highlights lootboxes and ground items within range.
  • Supports quality-colored outlines.
  • Supports breathing outline effects.
  • Supports separate toggles for lootbox and ground-item outlines.
• Inventory sort buttons: adds compact custom sort buttons near the vanilla sort button.
  • Sort by value.
  • Sort by weight.
  • Sort by value-to-weight ratio.
  • Supports player backpack and player storage inventory displays.
• Auto close backpack: closes active loot/inventory view when moving or when hurt.
• Fade HUD when aiming: fades HUD panels while aiming down sights.
• Bullet-count crosshair color: changes crosshair color as magazine ammo gets low.
• Low health inner shadow: draws a configurable red screen-edge vignette at low health.

Configuration

Feature defaults are defined in code and can be adjusted from the corresponding feature classes:

• LootboxOutlineFeature
  • ActivationDistance
  • EnableLootboxOutline
  • EnableGroundItemOutline
  • UseQualityColor
  • LootboxBreathingEffect
  • GroundItemBreathingEffect
  • BreathingPeriod
  • BreathingMinAlpha
• LowHealthInnerShadowFeature
  • ShadowColor
  • ShadowDistance
  • HealthThresholdUpper
  • HealthThresholdLower
• BulletCountCrosshairColorFeature
  • WarnRatio
• AutoFadeHudWhenAimingFeature
  • TargetAlpha
  • SmoothTime
• AutoCloseBackpackFeature
  • WhenMove
  • WhenHurt
• DisplayStorageCount
  • DisplayItemCountInBackpack
  • DisplayItemCountInRepository

Build

Requirements:

• .NET SDK compatible with netstandard2.1
• Escape from Duckov installed at the path configured in source/DuckovCoreUtilities/DuckovCoreUtilities.csproj

Build:

dotnet build .\source\DuckovCoreUtilities.slnx

The compiled mod assembly is emitted under:

source/DuckovCoreUtilities/bin/Debug/netstandard2.1/

Metadata

Mod metadata lives in:

source/DuckovCoreUtilities/info.ini

Current display name:

Core Utilities