RealHecate
Marks the real Hecate when she splits into three, so you can tell her from the clones.RealHecate
Tells you which Hecate is the real one when she splits into three.
The real Hecate will have a red glow under her and a red outline. The two clones will not. There are options to disable either the glow or the outline, and to change their colors.
Works in the ordinary fight, in the Rivals fight, and in Dream Dives. Hecate and her clones already have red outlines during Dream Dives, so the clones' outlines are removed there and only the real Hecate keeps one.
The mod uses only in-game assets and changes no fight or gameplay behavior — it is purely cosmetic. It does make the fight easier, since telling the clones apart is normally part of it.
Settings
The config file is Adicon-RealHecate.cfg, in your profile's
ReturnOfModding\config folder. Every setting is also on the RealHecate
panel in the modding overlay.
Edit the file with the game closed — Hades II rewrites it from memory on exit, so changes made while it is running are discarded.
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
Enabled |
true |
Master switch. Set to false for vanilla. |
GroundFx |
true |
Show the glow on the ground. |
GroundFxColor |
Red |
Color of the ground glow. |
GroundFxScale |
3 |
Size of the ground glow. |
Outline |
true |
Outline Hecate's silhouette. |
OutlineColor |
Red |
Color of the outline. |
OutlineThickness |
6 |
1–10. The game's own elite outlines are 3. |
OutlineOpacity |
1.0 |
0–1. The game's own are 0.8. |
CloneVanillaGroundFx |
true |
Whether the clones keep vanilla ground effects including their shadowing and the glowing symbols on the floor. |
HecateVanillaGroundFx |
true |
Whether Hecate keeps vanilla ground effects underneath the added glow. |
StripCloneDreamOutline |
true |
Dream Dive only. Takes vanilla outline off the clones so the real Hecate is the only one outlined. No effect outside Dream runs. |
Colors for GroundFxColor and OutlineColor:
Amber Ember Violet Gold Teal Cyan Green Magenta Red White
Red is the default because it is roughly the complement of the arena's cyan floor, which is the strongest contrast available there.
How it knows which one is real
Every split in the fight goes through one function, UnitSplit. It is called on
the real Hecate's own enemy table and records the clones it creates as
enemy.SplitIds[newObjectId] = true. So the real one is whatever UnitSplit was
called on, and the clones are exactly the keys of that table.
Her ObjectId never changes for the entire fight — not through phase
transitions, not through repeat splits, not through Polymorph or Dark Side, and
the phase-interlude clone wipes are type-scoped so they can never take her.
Confirmed in game across three splits of one encounter, all reporting the same
id. That is why the mod has no re-detection logic: mark her once and it is still
the right unit three splits later.
Full citations, file and line, are in the header comment of src/main.lua.
Compatibility
Modifies no game files. It edits EnemyData tables in memory, attaches art that
already ships with the game, and wraps exactly one function (UnitSplit).
Nothing is written to your save.
Credits
Hades II is by Supergiant Games. This is an unofficial fan mod, not endorsed by or affiliated with them. The icon is a cropped in-game portrait.
Built on ReturnOfModding / Hell2Modding, with
SGG_Modding-ModUtil and SGG_Modding-ReLoad.