Mods / Accessibility Tweaks

Category: #Cosmetics #Graphics #Other #QoL #Tweak #Utility
Author: Apache
Side: Client
Created: May 16th 2021 at 6:23 PM
Last modified: Mar 12th at 7:04 PM
Downloads: 6209
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Latest file for v1.19.3:
AccessibilityTweaks_v3.6.1.zip 1-click install


Accessibility Tweaks

A client-side mod made for content creators, and for people who suffer from epilepsy, or similar. This mod give you the option to remove all visual and audiable effects related to rain, hail, lightning, and snow; and completely removes involuntary camera shaking (for instance, when cold, or injured). These effects can be life-threatening for some people, and currently, the game has no way to disable the flashing lights and jittering camera effects... this mod changes that. Also removes the white noise sound effects of rain, and hail. as well as removing the ridiculously loud thunder sound effects.

Rain still falls, and snow still accumulates; only the dropping particles are removed. You'll still see rain splashes in water, and you'll still take damage from the cold. Be warned that disabling Hail will still make hail damage you, and knock you back. It will just be invisible.

Support the Mod Author

If you find this mod useful, and you would like to show appreciation for the work I produce; please consider supporting me, and my work, using one of the methods below. Every single expression of support is most appreciated, and makes it easier to produce updates, and new features for my mods, moving fowards. Thank you.

Feature: Accessibility Hub `(Default Hotkey: F8)`

Provides easy access to all settings, within all features of the mod.

  • - Weather Effects
  • - Text Alteration
  • - Camera Movement
  • - Sound Effects
  • - Colour Correction
  • - Scene Brightness

Feature: Weather Effects

Allows the user to enable or disable specific weather effects. The effects will still affect the world, they just won't be rendered. For instance, lighting will still damage entities, hailstones will still hurt if they hit you, rain will still cause the player to get wet.

  • - Disable Raindrop Particles
  • - Disable Hailstone Particles
  • - Disable Snowflake Particles
  • - Disable Dust Particles
  • - Disable Lightning Flashes
  • - Disable Cloud Rendering
  • - Disable Fog Rendering
  • - Disable Mist Rendering

Feature: Text Alteration

Allows the user to enable or disable the alteration effects made to typed text, within specific scenarios.

  • - During Temporal Storms
  • - While Intoxicated
  • - While Starving

Feature: Camera Movement

Allows the user to control the strength of particular camera effects.

  • - Temporal Storm Glitch Strength
  • - Global World Warp Strength
  • - Perception Warp Strength
  • - Camera Shake Strength
  • - Disable Involuntary Mouse Movement
  • - Disable First Person Item Bobbing

Feature: Sound Effects

The sounds within the game have not been normalised, so some sounds will be very loud, compared to others, even when played at the same game volume. This feature allows the user to selectively choose the volume level for each in-game sound, individually, so that any white-noise can be filtered out. Very useful for sufferers of Tinnitus, or white-noise affected epilepsy.

  • - Change the volume (0% - 200%), and pitch of every sound in the game, individually.

Feature: Colour Correction

Helps people with poor vision, light sensitivity, or colour-blindness. Playing around with the colour settings can give everything a warm, or cool hue.

  • - Choose from different presets to simulate different colour vision deficiencies.
  • - Adjust the colour balance, and saturation of the game scene (Good for screenshots/thumbnails).

Feature: Scene Brightness

Helps people with light sensitivity, and for content creators, compensating for compression rates on YouTube / Twitch.

  • - Adjust the brightness level of the game scene.

 

Version For Game version Downloads Release date Changelog Download 1-click mod install*
v3.6.1 223 Mar 12th at 7:04 PM Show AccessibilityTweaks_v3.6.1.zip Install now
v3.6.0 88 Mar 10th at 5:34 PM Show AccessibilityTweaks_v3.6.0.zip Install now
v3.5.1 377 Feb 12th at 2:34 AM Show AccessibilityTweaks_v3.5.1.zip Install now
v3.5.0 160 Feb 8th at 6:51 PM Show AccessibilityTweaks_v3.5.0.zip Install now
v3.4.1 746 Nov 25th 2023 at 1:44 PM Show AccessibilityTweaks_v3.4.1.zip Install now
v3.4.0 417 Oct 23rd 2023 at 1:56 AM Show AccessibilityTweaks_v3.4.0.zip Install now
v3.3.3 970 Jun 23rd 2023 at 1:16 PM Show ApacheTech.VintageMods.AccessibilityTweaks_v3.3.3_netstandard.zip Install now
v3.3.2 376 May 15th 2023 at 11:06 PM Show ApacheTech.VintageMods.AccessibilityTweaks_v3.3.2.zip Install now
v3.3.1 345 Apr 22nd 2023 at 2:17 AM Show ApacheTech.VintageMods.AccessibilityTweaks_v3.3.1.zip Install now
v3.2.0 396 Jan 15th 2023 at 4:35 AM Show ApacheTech.VintageMods.AccessibilityTweaks_v3.2.0.zip Install now

81 Comments (oldest first | newest first)

💬 ApacheAuthor, Mar 13th at 6:31 PM

chisps, the involuntary mouse movement does work when at low health. But, because I've just changed things, you may need to toggle it on and off again, just to sync the settings. So far as swimming goes, I've looked at the game engine, and it doesn't change the speed of the camera at all. The changes you see are because of inertia within the water. That's not something I can change within this mod. I can't change the way players move.

💬 Luin, Mar 13th at 12:23 PM

Apache Thank you very much :D

💬 chisps, Mar 13th at 12:43 AM

The involuntary mouse movement option doesn't appear to affect camera drift when injured anymore.

Also, is there the possibility of adding a config option for camera slowing while swimming? It's both annoying & somewhat motion sickness inducing. Thank you! This mod has been a lifesaver.

💬 ApacheAuthor, Mar 12th at 7:05 PM

Luin, thank you for the suggestion. This has now been added.

💬 DrBubba, Mar 12th at 6:22 PM

This sounds great, even if I use it ONLY to make bees louder.  Thanks!

💬 Luin, Mar 11th at 12:32 PM

Is it possible to retain the world waviness from storms and intoxication while turning off the involontary mouse movement?
It seems to turn the effects off entirely.

💬 Xaro, Feb 12th at 12:10 PM

Apache Thanks for the fix.

Khana was actually running on Windows, but we had a 1.18.x install and a 1.19.x install running at the same time (using different data folders) so I guess something got messy in there.

Jena_Thornwyrd - A clean install (removal of 1.18.x and re-install of 1.19.3) seems to have fixed it.

💬 ApacheAuthor, Feb 11th at 2:06 AM

I did add a fix in for linux, because it doesn't like folder names with spaces in for some stupid reason. There may be some residual problem with that. It's almost impossible to test though, becuase I only have Windows, and it deals with folders properly.

💬 Jena_Thornwyrd, Feb 9th at 12:02 PM

Xaro Kara , worst case scenario: clean install ?

💬 Xaro, Feb 9th at 10:51 AM

However, Khana is trying to do the same thing in Windows and it did not work.

💬 Xaro, Feb 9th at 10:45 AM

Jena_Thornwyrd - Just tried your fix on Linux and it worked fine for me. 😀

💬 Jena_Thornwyrd, Feb 9th at 10:06 AM

https://mods.vintagestory.at/accessibilitytweaks#cmt-25130 Kara I had the same issue, another player told me that everything was okay on his computer, thus I investigated, and found a fix: you have to find your ModData folder, its emplacement depend on your Operating System and how you launch VS, but once you found it, delete the ApacheTechSolutions folder that should be inside. Thanks DjoDjo ;)

💬 Kara, Feb 8th at 10:10 PM

Pressing F8 does nothing in 1.19.3 version... when going into controls i also dont see the option >.<

💬 Pervy_Sage, Feb 2nd at 9:13 PM

Yes an update would be great please. Damned drifters are annoying af.

💬 Khana, Feb 2nd at 1:21 PM

dyin for the update for 1.19x <3 pleeeeease tell me its in wip?! x

 

💬 Kessem, Jan 29th at 8:16 PM

Apache

Hi there, first of all thanks for the mod :).

I'm having difficulty removing the sound of plate armor walking, I tried disabling every wearable (including plate 1-4) and it is still making the sound. I'm using meteoric plate, in case that matters (assuming that the 1-4 designation related to the plate material?)

Thanks again.

💬 Shava, Jan 21st at 1:16 AM

Small donation sent, and I'm elderly with a limited budget, so it's as much as I can spare.

But this is fantastic!  My vision gets worse every year.

Also, I "outgrew" TLE, so I truly appreciate you making a mod like this, although that part isnt a direct benefit.

tl;dr THANKS!

💬 gibbelblonk, Jan 18th at 6:19 PM

Scene Brightness option is missing.

💬 dreambubble, Jan 15th at 12:38 AM

I have epilepsy- the temporal storms and lightning flashes have been horrible for me, makes this great game almost unplayable. Thank you sooo much for making this!! ^_^ 

💬 Cassy, Dec 20th 2023 at 4:05 PM

Is there something missing as it says it needs missing dependancies? 

💬 Aledark, Dec 16th 2023 at 11:51 PM

Thanks once again Apache :)

💬 osari, Dec 15th 2023 at 1:32 AM

The option to disable first-person idle bobbing seems to completely fix the janky immersive first person camera+body alignment visual bug that's been irking me since I began using the feature! An unintended side effect, but thank you nonetheless! The color correction has also been very helpful for visibility during play.

💬 Pixative, Nov 14th 2023 at 1:33 PM

I spawned and set up my house in a biome that rains like Portland. The constant noise is oppressive for someone with sound sensitivity, and being able to turn just those sounds off instead of muting everything is great. It will also make starvation more tolerable!

💬 DanaCraluminum, Sep 30th 2023 at 11:01 PM

SalK This mod is client side, that means it is only loaded on your side and nobody is forced to download it, you can even be the only on multiplayer server who has this mod and it still will work only for you

💬 SalK, Sep 30th 2023 at 9:56 PM

Is it possible to have different settings for different players when playing multiplayer?

💬 Dralnalak, Aug 24th 2023 at 6:42 PM

Thank you so much for creating this mod. I suffer from video game nausea and my first temporal storm hit me like a freight train. Thanks to your mod, I am able to keep playing and really enjoying Vintage Story.

💬 tRead, Jul 15th 2023 at 10:45 PM

Apache
have you considered adding an option for subtitles?  directional would be amazing, but just a way to read wolf howls etc would be so useful

💬 SpeedRider, Jul 9th 2023 at 8:09 PM

Apache, yes works

 

💬 ApacheAuthor, Jun 28th 2023 at 10:49 PM

SpeedRider, are you saying this this mod does work with the new .NET7 version of the game? I haven't tested it yet, myself.

💬 SpeedRider, Jun 28th 2023 at 7:41 PM

idk if this mod is working for 1.18.6 or if its because I'm using .net7 

nope just needed to put it in the mods folder XD

 

💬 ApacheAuthor, Jun 23rd 2023 at 1:21 PM

I'm hoping this will be fixed in v3.3.3, released today. I've removed some of the more experimental functionality of the involuntary mouse movement. Some of the movement is "knockback" based, which is handled server-side. I can't do anything about it from the client. I was trying to hack a way around it, but obviously it was causing rubber-banding. I've also cleaned out some of the redundant code, and fixed the perception warp issue, when logging back into a server, after disabling involuntary mouse movement. Let me know if this has fixed the issues mentioned here. I haven't been able to detect any rubber-banding while testing today.

💬 RussellMMO, Jun 22nd 2023 at 5:47 PM

Using the involuntary camera movement option causes sever rubber banding issues on both singleplayer and multiplayer worlds after moving 10-20 blocks, and will vary in intensity. I've confirmed this with no other mods active and on a fresh world, and it's also been described on the Github bug report page. 

💬 Wilsonrost, May 27th 2023 at 9:53 PM

Heya, seem to be having an issue with Perception Warp Strength, the slider at 100% seems to be setting it to 100% rather than multiplying it by that value. Friend logged on as awell to confirm that.

💬 dakko, May 23rd 2023 at 3:42 PM

Thank you for your work, Apache. This mod is SO helpful!

💬 ApacheAuthor, May 23rd 2023 at 3:28 PM

dakko, thank you. Those comments were placed before I wrote the disclaimer. They have been noted, and when I have the time to be able to start modding again, I will address these issues. The disclaimer is a part of an on-going issue with ModDB, where mod developers have NO control over what others can post on their comments wall. I have been petitioning for a long time, for mod developers to be able to remove spam posts, stack traces, fixed issues, and other redundant guff that fills up these pages. If we ever have the ability to moderate our own comments wall (or an option to completely remove the comments section!), this will no longer be an issue.

💬 Zaldaryon, May 14th 2023 at 4:13 PM

Update: I tried all the other settings, and I noticed nothing from the camera movement setting is being applied as well.

💬 KuiKuiSan, May 13th 2023 at 5:08 PM

yes, i confirm the comment of zaldaryon, the scene brightness doesn't work too on server in 1.18.3

💬 Zaldaryon, May 13th 2023 at 1:44 PM

Apache the scene brightness is not working anymore on 1.18.2 and 1.18.3. The slider changes nothing now.

💬 JimmyMac, May 13th 2023 at 5:33 AM

Not sure why but since I updated to 1.18.3 the sound effects settings have no effect at all

💬 LoneWolfREM, Apr 22nd 2023 at 10:29 PM

Yay!!! Thank you Apache

💬 Nerdguin, Apr 21st 2023 at 3:01 PM

Glad to see someone is adding this!

💬 r3lik, Apr 9th 2023 at 9:05 AM

really excited for an updated version for this mod! it was a life saver to finally be able to play vintage story with my medical history thanks to this mod, especially grateful to you that I was able to play this game at all with all the shaking and weather effects <3 I will calmly await an update for 1.18 super excited now to try it. cheers!

💬 JunidO, Apr 8th 2023 at 3:44 PM

IAmJade - Because it´s for GameVersion 1.17.4 and not for 1.18.0-rc.2 - but the mod still works

💬 IAmJade, Apr 6th 2023 at 6:24 AM

This mod crashes the client with release 1.18.0-rc.2
It would be awesome if this would be updated.

💬 Kessie, Jan 17th 2023 at 3:28 PM

Apache nods! thankee for the consideration!

Pohl i will for sure look into that as a current alternative tsym for letting me know about it!

💬 ApacheAuthor, Jan 8th 2023 at 1:38 PM

Pohl, thank you for that. I'll check out that mod, and see how it does it. I have been thinking about some form of MobESP for a while now, so it would be a good starting point. :)

Kessie, in future, in a different mod, I'll be looking at input simulation in a lot more detail. I'll look into an auto-walk/auto-sprint feature at that point.

💬 Pohl, Jan 8th 2023 at 3:14 AM

I don't mean to direct anybody away from this mod but

SoloBlood Search for a mod called "subtitles" It looks like it does what you're looking for

Kessie I use AutoHotKey for things like that. It's a whole scripting language but if you search "autohotkey toggle" you should find some easy examples. I like setting up some keys to double-tap to toggle on or off

💬 Kessie, Jan 8th 2023 at 1:44 AM

Would it be possible for this mod to also cover movement? Pressing down W so much ends up painful. ;;

💬 SoloBlood, Nov 18th 2022 at 3:44 PM

Apache I asked in discord is there was a accessibilitysince I have hearing loss.  The sound in the game is crazy and all over the place, which you seem to have handled.  My real problem is that bear and wolves, I can't hear them.   How difficult would it be to make them show up as a red dot on the mini map?

💬 ApacheAuthor, Oct 1st 2022 at 4:52 PM

Not a problem. You didn't misunderstand anything. :) I just hope this is the last update I have to do for a while.

💬 Rhyagelle, Oct 1st 2022 at 4:42 PM

Oh, I see now! I'm terribly sorry for the misunderstanding on my part. Thank you kindly for updating it for us all! We're very thankful! :)

💬 ApacheAuthor, Oct 1st 2022 at 1:11 AM

Rhyagelle, I've spent a loooong time today tracking this bug down, and fixing it. The vanilla bug was masking the fact that I had a similar, annoying bug in my own modding framework. Until the game was fixed, I wasn't able to address it... or even identify it. I'll push a new version as soon as I've tested it fully.

💬 Rhyagelle, Oct 1st 2022 at 12:30 AM

Unfortunately, the issue is still persists with 1.17.4. :(

💬 Rhyagelle, Sep 21st 2022 at 7:29 PM

Thank you Apache for letting me know! This mod's features are a god send to me. I quite literally am unable to play games with bobbing/sway, so having the ability to turn it off is amazing. Thanks again! :)

💬 ApacheAuthor, Sep 20th 2022 at 4:09 AM

Rhyagelle, this is a known bug with the game. I have gone to painstaking lengths to track down, and fix this bug. I've reported it to the dev team, along with the fix. It will be fixed in 1.17.4.

💬 Rhyagelle, Sep 19th 2022 at 4:37 PM

I'm having trouble with it. After installing and setting up my options with F8, it'll work, but if I log out and come back, it's stuck back on default even if the settings are changed in the menu. I've tried completely uninstalling and removing the data from ModData, and then redownloading and installing, but it persists. Could it be something on my end, maybe? 

On 1.17.3, by the way. 

(thank you by the way! I have vision trouble and how dark the game is makes it unplayable otherwise! Your mod is a life saver!)

💬 RogueRaiden, Sep 15th 2022 at 10:53 AM

Wow the menu is amazing! So many options, neatly sorted. Only wanted to reduce the picking sound a little and I can see how this would help a lot of people. Fantastic work!

💬 ApacheAuthor, Sep 13th 2022 at 5:29 PM

Lohn

Thanks, it was a debug switch that was left on. I've made sure the switch is off for the next release.

💬 Lohn, Sep 13th 2022 at 2:57 PM

Hey there, I love the mod - I just wanted to let you know this mod may be possibly leaving a harmony.log file on the desktop because logging is enabled in it. I had to look into it to figure out why I suddenly had this file, and the file mentions modifiers from your mod like "glitchStrength" or "System.Single ApacheTech.VintageMods.AccessibilityTweaks.Features.CameraMovement.Patches.CameraMovementPatches" etc. Thanks for all the hard work! I suffer from vertigo and now I can finally experience temporal storms.

💬 ApacheAuthor, Sep 11th 2022 at 4:38 PM

Adirosa

I took your suggestion to mind, and last night, I spent a while creating a new mod, to make this a reality. Check out https://mods.vintagestory.at/knapster. Easier knapping, clayforming, and smithing, for those with low manual dexterity.

💬 HoosierDaddy, Sep 11th 2022 at 6:46 AM

Adirosa, that was in CraluTweaks, but it was removed for 1.17. Not sure if it was a technical reason or not. I'd ask there if you still are interested.

💬 Adirosa, Sep 6th 2022 at 12:58 AM

Thank you so much for the mod!

I was directed here to potentially request some form of easy knapping for people who cannot do the sort of precision work it requires. My brother's hand goes through strain whenever he needs to knap anything and it makes it unplayable for him. I'm not sure how much work that would involve though, so I just wanted to mention it here as a suggestion.

💬 DollarZone, Sep 5th 2022 at 4:14 AM

Would be great if auditory effects had more visual support, e.g. maybe bees are brighter-colored, or the trim of the screen has a gentle glowing effect when bees are nearby. Just a thought, keep up the good work!

💬 tRead, Sep 1st 2022 at 6:25 PM

My vision is on the decline, so I was very interested in mods like this.  But there are so many more good features in yours!  I especially like the prospect of "Change the volume (0% - 200%) of every sound in the game, individually."  Thank you!

💬 Chrunk, Aug 16th 2022 at 5:01 PM

This mod is crashing on opening the gui on 1.17 rc5, due to an api issue
'Vintagestory.API.Client.GuiComposer Vintagestory.API.Client.GuiComposerHelpers.AddShadedDialogBG(Vintagestory.API.Client.GuiComposer, Vintagestory.API.Client.ElementBounds, Boolean, Double)'
at ApacheTech.VintageMods.Core.Abstractions.GUI.GenericDialogue.ComposeHeader()
at ApacheTech.VintageMods.Core.Abstractions.GUI.GenericDialogue.Compose()
at ApacheTech.VintageMods.Core.Abstractions.GUI.GenericDialogue.TryOpen()

💬 Devestatio, Jul 29th 2022 at 9:30 PM

Apache

Any progress on a 1.17 version? really missing it :(  Tried to use it as is, but it crashed as soon as I used the hotkey for it.

💬 Devestatio, Jul 20th 2022 at 7:57 PM

Apache

 Hi there, your mod was just suggested to me by a member on the Discord, when I asked for a way to turn off the warp effect, as it gave me motion sickness. THANK YOU immensly for maiking this mod and keeping it updated <3  These things should really be included in the base game.

💬 ApacheAuthor, Jul 5th 2022 at 4:21 AM

MissWhitehead,

I'll add this to the list for the 1.17 version. :) As well as thetext and visual changes when drunk, in game.

💬 MissWhitehead, Jun 19th 2022 at 2:14 PM

Hi

As someone who is legally blind this mod has been a god send in stopping the warping in temp storms that really effected my eyes.
I do have one suggestion for a future update, is it possible for there to be a toggle to turn on/off the change of font in chat during a temp storm as i find it really difficult to read so if i was able to toggle it off I could read chat normally, but those who like this effect isn't affected.

Thanks

MWH

💬 MorganS, Jun 7th 2022 at 2:08 AM

Thank you so, so, so much. I'm downloading this immediately. If it has any way for me to make night brighter that'll help profoundly - my vision isn't great, and the second the sun goes down I need to go to bed or the game becomes totally unplayable for me, and some of the sounds are quite painful for me, so this is a lifesaver.

💬 RedPine, Mar 20th 2022 at 12:55 AM

The incessant sounds of loud waves when adjacent to small bodies of water that very much don't have waves, on a calm day - gone!

💬 Butterhai, Mar 9th 2022 at 4:25 AM

yes, thank you so much!


i will call this mod

DrifterBegone

i left the aggro sounds on and muted the idle ones, now i can leave the headphones on

💬 ApacheAuthor, Mar 8th 2022 at 5:22 AM

Buterhai, this should now be fixed in 2.1.1.

emberglow, this should now be fixed in 2.1.1.

Please let me know if there's any other issues.

💬 Butterhai, Mar 7th 2022 at 8:24 PM

i try to use this mod to mute the drifter sounds that slowly but surely make me want to quit the game but it doesnt work, though i am on 1.16.4 and the mod version is for .3, so that might be the reason
please, i am loosing my mind, is there any way i can stop the never ending moaning?

💬 emberglow, Mar 6th 2022 at 4:21 AM

Wonderful mod, but it disables the frost overlay when cold. Any chance of turning that into a toggle so I can turn the frost back on please?

💬 Chia, Feb 11th 2022 at 4:47 AM

very nice, now i can actually see where I am going at night and not getting jumpscared by every animal I see

💬 ApacheAuthor, Jan 21st 2022 at 1:08 AM

RedSpecsGaming, this should be disabled when you disable camera shake.

💬 skurk, Jan 18th 2022 at 2:18 AM

Great idea for a mod!

Could you alter the pickaxe chipping sounds to be lower pitched? It's triggering my tinnitus something fierce...

💬 RedSpecsGaming, Jan 15th 2022 at 7:55 PM

Any chance for adding an option to turn off the low health camera drift?

💬 melodelic, Jan 3rd 2022 at 5:54 PM

Could it be possible to add the twisting of everything during temporal storms? I know the motion is under "Waving Foliage", but it would be wonderful to not have to turn that on and off every time a temporal storm rolls around. Also, I absolutely love this mod!

💬 OpPointBaker, Aug 1st 2021 at 8:59 AM

Would it be possible to radd the ability to educe the volume of ambient sounds individually? I love the thunder but it is happening way to offten and way, way too loud. It makes me jump every time.

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