Im not sure if this can help, but there is 1 way ive found that does show the shield on the back, its if the base item is a weapon.
Using the Armory mod ive found that if i had an offhand staff and replaced the visuals with a shield, it shows properly on the back. Maybe if someone can make offhand weapons with the shield property? Maybe that can work? Then we just have to transmog it all which is a bad but doable solution.
Edit: Ive read someone who has found something similar. I do want to note though that this workaround has the shield behaving exactly as intended
no, this doesn't work. if you make a staff with shield properties, it will look like a staff, have shield stats / work like a shield, but be invisible when you sheathe it. so if you use armory to swap it then, it will still be invisible. the armory transmog works on an actual staff because a staff doesn't have the shield flag to make it invisible. if this worked, you'd just be able to use the other transmog mod to swap models. plus if it did work this way you'd have to make a new item for every shield in the game, and any character would have to have dual wielding, right?
But what about a shield that does not have the shield properties but only the animations? I know there are ways to make selected items with swapped animations ive seen it done by Skirbie where they made everyone using a certain weapon use BT4 anims.
But ngl making every vanilla shield a dagger that has no damage or anything that does not replace the actual items might be a messy work around. I dont use the feats/features that synergize with shields but yeah idk. Wont it then be viable if they had the animations as well? Or maybe the stats are the same but then we rely on transmogs (specifically armory since it can make weapons into a shield) to give it animations and a model.
Here is just what I have in my game rn. Jaheira's offhand scimitar transmogged into a shield. I found even the attack animations is a shield bash, i wonder if thats from larian or from the maker of armory.
Its messed up that all my dual wielders can have shields on the back, at least an invisible shield has been released and gives you 2h animations.
Again i have no experience in modding BG3 just spitballing lol
yeah, your method 100% works for a purely cosmetic solution, because even the animations work properly that way. you could even add missing AC and abilities from the shield you want to another item you have equipped via modding, which is pretty easy. the only downsides are, as you've noted, you'd still have to have dual wielding (which can be solved via console), and you wouldn't be able to use shield related feats, etc. oh and you would still be able to use the shield like a weapon. lastly, i have no idea about this, but there may be some other mechanics / calculations involving shields in combat that wouldn't be triggered if it wasn't actually a shield.
personally i wouldn't put that much work into this as one of the community mods at larian said the team is looking into it, so i expect it will be addressed at some point.
Very good point. Maybe they really are too busy. They've built up tremendous, good will. They've earned it. I hope they add this feature to the game because it is immersive. I played with it for a long while and now it's jarring not seeing the shields.
There was just too much clipping with characters' arms and elbows clipping through the shields on the back, and it would have diverted too much effort just to fix this, so they just made shields invisible while worn on the back.
I gave up on Patch 8 now. Whatever Larian did by killing 'Visible Shields' Mod, also 'Customizable Size' Mod as it seems, is not worth Patch 8. Personally I consider immersion as more important than some photoshop. Tried to roll back to Patch 7 version of the game, but now other mods don't work anymore (Dynamic Sidebar, Better UI, Hotbar 2) ... it's a mess. Why oh why were visible shields not part of the game from the beginning, as in countless others games, I don't understand.
Salo has made a short statement about this in the official forum. Thank you for sending in reports with me. Let's hope that something can be done about this in the future.
That is very disappointing. So the speculation is Larian chose a photomode no one wanted over immersion... That's lower than aheavy turd i a toilet bowl. I don't know anyone that plays rpgs so they can take pictures with an in-game photo-mode. We have apps and in-system functions for that anyway. And to read that Larian made shields "invisible in all parameters except weilded so modders can't do anything about is just next level petty and stupid if true.
is there already a working solution available somewhere again? Seeing the "sheated shields" again?
Oh I HATE whoever changed the source code of a release game I bought 2 years ago to break a mod so important (in my opinion) for the immersion of the game - something that should have been in the game (visible shields) from the beginning !!
This is the first game I bought from LARIAN. This reason alone (this mod not working anymore) is enough reason never ever to buy anything from LARIAN again as I would have to assume they would do the same with another game.
Is there any possibility that some modder can fix this? I am willing to donate/pay (paypal? WISE transfer?) 20,00 € to whomever can deliver a working solution for download. (if everyone willing to have a solution, giving a small donation, could be quite the incentive for a modder in the end)
I bookmarked the webpage to check it every weekend for the next few months until I finish this last playthrough.
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Using the Armory mod ive found that if i had an offhand staff and replaced the visuals with a shield, it shows properly on the back. Maybe if someone can make offhand weapons with the shield property? Maybe that can work? Then we just have to transmog it all which is a bad but doable solution.
Edit: Ive read someone who has found something similar. I do want to note though that this workaround has the shield behaving exactly as intended
But ngl making every vanilla shield a dagger that has no damage or anything that does not replace the actual items might be a messy work around. I dont use the feats/features that synergize with shields but yeah idk. Wont it then be viable if they had the animations as well? Or maybe the stats are the same but then we rely on transmogs (specifically armory since it can make weapons into a shield) to give it animations and a model.
Here is just what I have in my game rn. Jaheira's offhand scimitar transmogged into a shield. I found even the attack animations is a shield bash, i wonder if thats from larian or from the maker of armory.
Its messed up that all my dual wielders can have shields on the back, at least an invisible shield has been released and gives you 2h animations.
Again i have no experience in modding BG3 just spitballing lol
personally i wouldn't put that much work into this as one of the community mods at larian said the team is looking into it, so i expect it will be addressed at some point.
Whatever Larian did by killing 'Visible Shields' Mod, also 'Customizable Size' Mod as it seems, is not worth Patch 8.
Personally I consider immersion as more important than some photoshop.
Tried to roll back to Patch 7 version of the game, but now other mods don't
work anymore (Dynamic Sidebar, Better UI, Hotbar 2) ... it's a mess.
Why oh why were visible shields not part of the game from the beginning, as in countless others games, I don't understand.
is there already a working solution available somewhere again?
Seeing the "sheated shields" again?
Oh I HATE whoever changed the source code of a release game I bought 2 years ago to break a mod so important (in my opinion) for the immersion of the game - something that should have been in the game (visible shields) from the beginning !!
This is the first game I bought from LARIAN.
This reason alone (this mod not working anymore) is enough reason never ever to buy anything from LARIAN again as I would have to assume they would do the same with another game.
Is there any possibility that some modder can fix this?
I am willing to donate/pay (paypal? WISE transfer?) 20,00 € to whomever can deliver a working solution for download.
(if everyone willing to have a solution, giving a small donation, could be quite the incentive for a modder in the end)
I bookmarked the webpage to check it every weekend for the next few months until I finish this last playthrough.
Regards