PhotoFrames

A decoration mod for Shadows of Doubt that lets you keep the pictures you take and the news you read. Print a photo from the in-game camera, or clip a story out of a newspaper, and hang either on a wall as a framed picture or a paper cut-out that you can see in the world. It is purely cosmetic. It does not change cases, evidence, or how citizens behave, and everything you hang is kept with your save.

Features

Print your photos. Every photo you take with the in-game camera can be printed from a Photos app on the cruncher in a home you own. Open the app, browse a ring of your most recent shots, pick one to preview it large, and print it. The printed photo goes into your inventory as a held item, ready to hang. You can reprint the same shot as many times as you like.

Clip newspaper stories. While you are reading a newspaper, you can cut any single story out of it, a headline article or an advert, and keep it. A small prompt at the top of the screen shows which story is selected; step through them and clip the one you want. The clipping is rebuilt cleanly on real newspaper paper with the paper's own masthead, date, and type, sized to the story like a real cut-out, so it reads perfectly instead of being a dark, angled snapshot of the page. It also works with newspaper stories surfaced by other mods, since it reads whatever the page is currently showing.

Hang them on the wall. Hold a printed photo or a clipping, face a wall, and right-click to hang it where you are looking. Photos get a simple dark frame; clippings hang as the bare paper. Look at one you have hung and right-click to take it back down into your inventory, then hang it somewhere else. Build a whole board of them.

Kept with your save. Everything you hang is stored in the save itself, not a separate file, so it survives saving, quitting, and loading, and it travels with the save through Steam Cloud like the rest of your game.

Works with PlacementPlus. If you also run the PlacementPlus mod, its precision placement works on photos and clippings too. While you position one with its placement key, you see the real picture or article following the item instead of a blank sheet, and when you set it down it becomes a proper hung frame.

Controls

The photo keys and the newspaper keys can be rebound in the config file.

Printing photos. Sit at a cruncher in a home you own, open the Photos app, select a shot, and press Print. There is also a quick key (default K) that prints your most recent photo straight to your inventory while you are out in the world.

Clipping newspaper stories. While holding a newspaper:

• Next story: K. Previous story: J.
• Clip the selected story: L.

These only do anything while a newspaper is in your hand; the rest of the time K and L are the photo keys above.

Hanging and taking down. Hold a photo or clipping and right-click while facing a wall to hang it. Look at a hung one and right-click to take it back down.

Compatibility

PhotoFrames is cosmetic and self-contained. What you hang rides the normal save, so it persists without any separate file, and every change is wrapped so a problem cannot crash your game. It does not alter cases, evidence, or citizen behaviour, and it runs alongside other mods. If PlacementPlus is present it adds the preview described above; if it is not, nothing changes.

Requirements

• The BepInEx IL2CPP pack, listed as a dependency.
• Keep the game on its current version. The mod is built against the live game build.

Config

A config file is created the first time you run the game with the mod installed, at BepInEx/config/Kropath.PhotoFrames.cfg. You can rebind the keys, choose whether the Photos app appears only on your own home crunchers or on every cruncher, set how many recent photos the app lists, and turn the newspaper clipping and the PlacementPlus preview on or off.