Windrose UE4SS

Windrose_UE4SS

Windrose UE4SS community overlay for unreal-shimloader. Mods should depend on this package rather than-unreal_shimloader directly.

What this package does:

• Bundles an updated version of UE4SS (built 2026-03-31). The package ships ue4ss.dll, the bundled stock mods (ConsoleCommandsMod, BPModLoaderMod, etc.), and the supporting Lua helpers.
• Forces UE4SS into UE 5.6 mode and sets the right offsets. Windrose ships on Unreal Engine 5.6, which UE4SS's auto-detection fails on. Without this override UE4SS aborts at startup with Failed to find EngineVersion. The bundled UE4SS-settings.ini has [EngineVersionOverride] MajorVersion = 5 / MinorVersion = 6 and [Hooks] FExecVTableOffsetInLocalPlayer = 0x28. Windrose-specific overrides are flagged with; Windrose tweak.
• Removes the bundled CheatManagerEnablerMod. A.shim-removed tombstone file prompts shimloader to mask the directory.

Manual installation

Install an experimental build per the RE-UE4SS install guide, then copy this package's overlay/UE4SS-settings.ini, replacing the one it ships with.

How it works

Every file at relative path X is registered as an override of Win64/X, taking precedence over the standard mod-dir/pak-dir/cfg-dir mappings. A file named.shim-removed registers its parent directory as masked, which short-circuits all file detours and filters the directory out of UE4SS's Mods/* enumeration.

Layout

overlay/

├── ue4ss.dll overrides Win64/ue4ss.dll

├── UE4SS-settings.ini overrides Win64/UE4SS-settings.ini

└── Mods/

├── mods.txt overrides Win64/Mods/mods.txt

├── mods.json overrides Win64/Mods/mods.json

├── BPML_GenericFunctions/ bundled mod

├── BPModLoaderMod/ bundled mod

├── ConsoleCommandsMod/ bundled mod

├── ConsoleEnablerMod/ bundled mod

├── Keybinds/ bundled mod

├── LineTraceMod/ bundled mod

├── SplitScreenMod/ bundled mod

├── shared/UEHelpers/ shared Lua helpers

└── CheatManagerEnablerMod/

└──.shim-removed masks Win64/Mods/CheatManagerEnablerMod