RealHecate

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 and only the real Hecate has an outline.

The mod uses only in-game assets and changes no fight or gameplay behavior. It

is purely cosmetic. Telling the clones apart is normally part of the fight so

this mod will make the fight easier.

I hope that this might be useful for accessibility as well as convenience. If

effects like these would help anyone elsewhere in the game, open an issue on the

GitHub page — I will try to help.

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 and is the strongest contrast available for that environment.

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. This

mod cannot load without LuaENVY-ENVY, SGG_Modding-ModUtil and

SGG_Modding-ReLoad -- the environment isolation, the function wrapping and the

hot reload are all theirs.

Thank you to the Hades Modding community. Your work is astounding.

Built by Adicon, with Claude.