Dawnlight
Dawnlight is a Dusklight mod package that adds optional gameplay, controller,
aiming, boss, and HUD features for Twilight Princess.
Features
- Z item slot: bind a third item to Z, move Midna to the D-Pad prompt, and use the Z slot from the item wheel. The separate Dawnlight Touch UI option keeps the touch controls available when another mod providesthe third item slot.
- Improved item HUD support for extra item slots, including item icons, ammo, oil, bottle contents, and combine prompts.
- Aim Movement and Aim Mode settings with Vanilla, 3rd Person, and Cinema options.
- Touch and gyro aiming support for the modded aiming modes.
- Optional Bullet Time while aiming the Bow during a manual R jump, Flurry Rush after a perfectly timed evade, and a ranged Great Spin projectile.
- Shared Stamina meter for Bullet Time, Flurry Rush, Sprint and the Great Spin projectile, including compatibility with Lazy Tweaks stamina actions.
- Fierce Deity mode with a charge meter, temporary Magic Armor model swap, and doubled sword damage.
- Manual Shielding, R Jump and Sprint quality-of-life options.
- ZR Arrow Modes: fire arrows and triple shot
- Intro Skip new-save mode, enemy HP scaling.
- Hard Mode Settings with separate Regular Enemy and Boss Hard Mode settings.
- Boss Rush Game Mode with the Garden of Twilight hub, individual boss portals, a complete-run portal, Cave of Ordeals access, hardmode arena hazards, save and resume support, and a Return to Hub Midna option.
- Enemy Spawner for some enemies. Work in progress.
- HUD Layout Editor for supported HUD elements, item/text/ammo offsets, button backing, D-Pad arrows and shadows, single-row hearts, round X/Y buttons, and HUD import/export.
- External custom model overlays for Link's outfits, Wolf Link, Sumo Link, the horse, items, animations, and shields, plus shield visibility and eye movement controls.
LLM Disclaimer
Parts of Dawnlight's source code and documentation were created or modified
with assistance from large language model (LLM) tools. LLM-assisted output can
contain mistakes even after review and testing. Use Dawnlight at your own risk
and report reproducible issues through the project's issue tracker.
Screenshots
Dependencies
Dusklight
v2.0.0+
Changelog
v3.1.0 9/18/2026
- Add ZR Arrow Modes: fire arrows and triple shot
v3.0.0 9/18/2026
- Fixed HUD Editor and restored compatibility with Twilight-hd-hud
- prevent enemy Spawner crash in Boss Rush Hub Area
- fix clawshot targets in 3rd-Person und Cinema Aim
- Add Hard Mode Settings for enemies and bosses
- disabled the GitHub update checker in favor of the built-in update checker for the mod-website
- prevent fierce deity mode crashes