Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Modding Broken Visible Shield Mod :( Can you help!?!

My, and other's, favorite mod Visible Shields is broken (this is the same mod found in the BG3 Mod Manager). The Mod developer has not been able to update it Patch 8, I'm posting in hopes someone will re-create the mod.

I'm not a modder and to be honest this should have been in the game without a mod but so it goes.

I second that! Instead of the Photo Mode bells and whistles, I'd rather have visible shields back...

Well Guys....

I reported it to Larian because they changed some parameters and this mod does not work

Unfortunately, I received this reply

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Re: Mod-Visible Shields is broken - PC - [bug] [mods]

BG3 Support <supportbg3@larian.com>

Hi there,

Thank you for contacting us.

We are sorry to hear that you're having some issues with your mods after the Patch 8 release.

This can happen with mods as the mod author may need to make some adjustments to the mod to have it compatible for Patch 8. We recommend that you give it a bit of time, or you can try reaching out to the mod author via mod.io or their own method for communication.

In the meantime, we have left Patch 7 available on Steam and GOG, should you wish to revert back to Patch 7 while you wait. Please remember though that doing this will make your game incompatible with any players who have updated to Patch 8.

We hope that the mod issue is resolved by the author quickly and if you need anything else, please don’t hesitate to reach back out.

Kind regards,
Chantal
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The mod author "Maximuuus" has stated that he can't find a way to fix the problem in the current version, so... maybe it's time to move on to something else with this mod.😰

Subsequent supplement

The mod author "Maximuuus" reply this in mod.io Discussion

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Thanks for your report guys ,I did the same and the answer was something like "try again". But nothing I tried is working, and a few othet modders already tried too


That's also something I tried. I tried to put shields on the hip AND to give them them "music instrument sheathed" property. Unfirtunately it doesn't work either. Looks like everything tag as a shield is now invisible no matter what properties you gave them.

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Nice work.....Larian`s programmer.....Nice work !!👏😒

Just like You Fix [Expert Divination-Prophecy: Delivering Alms] cannot be completed ,Right ?

Oh...You never Fix it even though the game has been on sale for two years and has undergone 8 Patch updates

So Larian completely IGNORED.....
May be Moderator is Blind too.

I got the same reply from them

Hi All

Sorry this mod isnt working.
i had a look with Maximuuus and unfortunately no solution was forthcoming.

Maybe it will get fixed in the future....no guarantees though

Because the reason is Larian changed the shield display parameters

And there is no any scheme can let mod author make it display again in the current version

It's like you cut off someone's foot...Then tell others "Find him a coach so he can compete in sprints again"

Very disappointing. Was a great Mod, rather annoying that this was done on the "FINAL" patch. Wonder what the reasoning or lack thereof was?

I personally think that.....the reason is [Photo mode]

That makes sense, good call. I will miss that Mod if it can't be fixed.

Don`t Miss it Man～ Let Larian know we want [ Visible Shields Mod] , not [ Photo mode ]

This is also what frustrates me, this mod has 20,000 likes on https://mod.io/g/baldursgate3/m/visibleshield and 115,000 Unique DLs in https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/492 , but now so few people have complained about it being invalid QQ

I don't really use mods yet (still enjoying vanilla playthroughs til I get all the trophies on me PS5).
But when I dabbled in them on the PC version I really liked this mod, sad to hear it's bummed out so I've sent a report now too!

I messed around with this in the tools and yeah it's completely whack. Managed to make a weapon that looked like a shield that could be sheathed, but that's all.

It's really unfortunate that it seems like Larian's code is forcing shields to be invisible when sheathed and then Larian tells modders to just "figure it out", even though it seems like there is absolutely nothing modders can do right now. Hope this issue is looked into and patched soon. Having visible sheathed shields is really nice for immersion and character customization.

This is why i had to roll back to patch7 (which a lot of mod archived their patch7 version) to make VISIBLESHIELD worked again...

Larian is there any chance you could give this a look?

For instance I like playing tanky or frontline characters such as my paladin, but having the shield vanish into thin air after a fight feels really wrong for some reason. Had to make a dual-wielding paladin just because of this.

One workaround seems to be just rolling back to the previous patch 7. However, I'm not sure if this is possible for console players (I play on PS5) and Visible Shields seems to be the only mod on consoles with this feature. It also seems that the author might not be able to make it work without your help.

I have 150 hours on my current playthrough, and I swear I'd just start a new one and give my paladin Duelist fighting style if this mod worked properly. The shield vanishing/appearing out of thin air really kills the immersion for me.

Hey there, this issue has been reported to the team and they're looking into it. Unfortunately I don't any other updates at the moment.

Any update on this? Would be really nice if this could get fixed.

Larian please fix this! It's a must have mod in my opinion. Should've been included in the game really, just like DOS2 had!

the july 31 patch did not address this issue.

Please report once again to the team.
Any modification to "EquipmentTypes.lsx" is being ignored

To make shields visible during roaming, it was by modifying a single entry in EquipmentTypes.lsx to make shield attached to a SheathedShield bone.
For cutscenes it was removing the "HiddenDuringCinematic()" attributes on the shield entries in the Armor stats file.

Any modification to EquipmentTypes.lsx is completely ignored ; you can enter weird stuff or even break the syntax and nothing happens. This is clearly a bug or something, this is breaking any mod that edit this file

The last patch didn't change anything, sadly.

Almost 3 month and still nothing.
May be it needs 3 years? Or critical fail 30 years?

this is a pretty constructive post, pinpointing the problem. Larian...please fix this. The Visible shields mod is a must!

It's really frustrating. Even though some players pointed out the possible causes of the problem, the VisibleShield MOD still cannot be restored after Hotfix 34

SALO, your promise to report to the team seems to be just empty words.

See: https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=958862#Post958862

It's frustrating that Larian still hasn't done anything, but someone on NexusMods has provided an alternative.

While this mod isn't perfect, but it seems to be the best solution available right now.

https://www.nexusMods.com/baldursgate3/mods/18667

Perhaps because of this mod, Larian's engineers don't care about fixing the shield display issue (after all, someone else will fix it for them).

Guys do you realize how hard is to stop playing, look over internet and find this thread, then come to post, just to tell you that this is a MUST feature, and even some people prefer this even over photo mode? (Don't get me wrong, the game is amazing) So this is just a fraction of people that really got a punch in the belly when u dropped it, can we get it back? there is no solution yet, and the file is already pinpointed (EquipmentTypes) can we get at least a confirmation it won't happen to downgrade to version 7? it means a lot to us.