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Welder Eyestrain Reduction
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Type: Mod
Mod category: Other
Tags: NoScripts
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13 Jan, 2021 @ 12:50pm
18 Feb @ 2:17pm
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Welder Eyestrain Reduction

Description
Reduces the intense flickering of the light produced by the welding tools.
[...] after 3 hours of welding I do find myself looking away from screen or looking at it from corner of my eye.
-- Xocliw, Public Relations, Keen Software House, 2014[forum.keenswh.com]
You don't need to be extra photosensitive to feel discomfort from welding for any period of time.

The brightness and other effects remain the same, but the strobe-like flashing has been toned down significantly.

Compatibility:
Overwrites the WelderContactPoint and ShipWelderArc particle effect.
Overwrites Welder, Welder2, Welder3, Welder4 HandItems.

Also available on mod.io for Xbox![spaceengineers.mod.io]
19 Comments
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Vinny 25 Jul @ 4:47pm 
Broken, it now flickers more than it did previously. Though still less than vanilla so clearly it's trying to do it's job but an update must have broken it.
Skallex 9 Jul @ 1:46pm 
It still blinks for me. This is the only mod I have enabled and I double checked that it is active. Would appreciate some help. I need a mod like this or I won't be able to play this game because of epilepsy.
So stupid of the devs to have such obnoxious particle effects.
Therizinosaurus 8 Apr @ 8:36am 
any way to remove the sparks too? or make it 90% less to make the game playable for people with photosensitive epilepsie
titaniumweasel 17 Mar @ 3:17pm 
as a former irl welder ....its incomprehensible to me that nobody ever watched 5 mins of youtube vids of how/why/what about welding to know its a legit concern to look at ...lightning, and how that might be not a fun experience. THANKYOU FOR THIS MOD! now i can feel less stupid welding ingame, doing something you never do irl, look at the lightning lol.
Vox Serico  [author] 18 Feb @ 2:34pm 
@PaleMemories @nonya0992 I've identified the problem as the Light* settings in HandItems.sbc and applied a workaround. This may impact other mods that affect the hand welders.
The eyestrain reduction has now also been applied to the ship welding block.

@Nitro Copy the mod's "Particles_B_overrides.sbc" file from (...\steamapps\workshop\content\244850\2360788836\Data\) into ...\steamapps\common\SpaceEngineers\Content\Data\ to make it work for you on servers without the mod.
Doggaebi 19 Aug, 2023 @ 8:25pm 
my hero, thank you for this mod.
nonya0992 11 Aug, 2023 @ 6:13pm 
@PaleMemories I have the same issue. The welder seams to pulse every second and thus still provides a strobe effect. The majority of the brightness is gone which is nice but that strobe effect still is not good.
Unknown 9 May, 2023 @ 4:48am 
this situation has really been a problem since the existence of the game, and although I mentioned it on the game forums, it still hasn't been solved. Thanks for the mod.
YungPro 24 Apr, 2023 @ 7:42pm 
Gorgeous
PaleMemories 10 Apr, 2023 @ 2:38am 
This mod is great! I have been having an issue where instead of a continuous light, it blinks off once every second or so leading to a slight blinking effect. Is this a bug, or do I need to fix something on my end?