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A lightweight BepInEx plugin for Gold Drill that provides two independent and configurable hotkeys for hiding or restoring:

• VCR Mode UI
• Photo Mode UI

Useful for screenshots, video recording, and obtaining clean views without the game UI.

Default hotkey:

F2

Press F2 to hide:

• VCR Mode UI
• Black camera border / camera-hole overlay

Press F2 again to restore them.

Default hotkey:

F3

While in Photo Mode, press F3 to hide:

• Previous photo button
• Next photo button
• Back button
• Photo Mode control bar background
• Bottom separator / decoration lines
• Photo Mode custom mouse pointer

Press F3 again to restore them.

This provides a clean photo view without the controls or custom pointer.

F2 = Hide / restore VCR Mode UI
F3 = Hide / restore Photo Mode UI

Both hotkeys operate independently and can be configured separately.

Two release packages are provided:

• Plugin Only
• Full

• Gold Drill
• BepInEx 5 x86

Gold Drill is a 32-bit / x86 Unity Mono game, therefore:

BepInEx 5 x86

is required.

Do not use the x64 version.

1. Install BepInEx 5 x86 for Gold Drill.
2. Extract the Plugin Only archive into the folder containing GoldDrill.exe.
3. Start the game.
4. Use F2 or F3.

The plugin should be located at:

Gold Drill
└─ BepInEx
   └─ plugins
      └─ GoldDrillHideUI
         └─ GoldDrillHideUI.dll

The Full package already contains the required:

BepInEx 5 x86

No separate BepInEx installation is required.

1. Extract the Full archive into the folder containing GoldDrill.exe.
2. Start the game.
3. Press F2 to hide / restore the VCR Mode UI.
4. Press F3 to hide / restore the Photo Mode UI.

BepInEx will automatically create its configuration and runtime directories on the first launch.

After the game is launched successfully for the first time, the plugin creates:

BepInEx\config\com.fusheng.golddrill.hideui.cfg

The default configuration is similar to:

[General]

## Key used to hide or restore the VCR mode UI.
# Setting type: String
# Default value: F2
VCRModeToggleKey = F2

## Key used to hide or restore the photo mode UI.
# Setting type: String
# Default value: F3
PhotoModeToggleKey = F3

Controls the VCR Mode UI hotkey.

Default:

VCRModeToggleKey = F2

Controls the Photo Mode UI hotkey.

Default:

PhotoModeToggleKey = F3

Example:

VCRModeToggleKey = H
PhotoModeToggleKey = P

or:

VCRModeToggleKey = F4
PhotoModeToggleKey = F5

Restart the game after changing the configuration.

If an invalid key is entered, the plugin falls back to:

VCRModeToggleKey = F2
PhotoModeToggleKey = F3

Common Unity KeyCode values can be used, for example:

F1
F2
F3
F4
F5
F6
F7
F8
F9
F10
F11
F12

A
B
C
...
Z

Home
End
Insert
Delete
PageUp
PageDown

Each function currently uses one independent single-key hotkey.

Press F2
↓
Hide the VCR Mode UI and camera border

Press F2 again
↓
Restore

Press F3
↓
Hide the Photo Mode controls,
buttons, decoration lines,
and custom mouse pointer

Press F3 again
↓
Restore

The two UI toggles operate independently.

To build the project you need:

• .NET SDK
• Gold Drill
• BepInEx 5 x86 installed in the Gold Drill directory

The project references the following assemblies directly from your local Gold Drill installation:

BepInEx\core\BepInEx.dll
GoldDrill_Data\Managed\UnityEngine.dll

Game files and game assemblies are not included in this repository.

Set the environment variable:

GOLDDRILL_DIR

It should point to the folder containing GoldDrill.exe.

PowerShell example:

$env:GOLDDRILL_DIR = "D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Gold Drill"

Then build:

dotnet build -c Release

The compiled plugin will be located at:

bin\Release\net35\GoldDrillHideUI.dll

The game directory can also be specified directly:

dotnet build -c Release -p:GameDir="E:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Gold Drill"

On Windows, the directory can optionally be saved as a user environment variable:

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable(
    "GOLDDRILL_DIR",
    "D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Gold Drill",
    "User"
)

Restart PowerShell, VS Code, or your IDE after setting the variable.

GoldDrillHideUI
├─ Plugin.cs
├─ GoldDrillHideUI.csproj
├─ README.md
├─ README.zh-CN.md
├─ LICENSE
└─ .gitignore

Contains the plugin implementation.

Contains the build configuration and references the required assemblies from the local Gold Drill installation.

English documentation.

Chinese documentation.

Open-source license for GoldDrillHideUI itself.

Target game:

Gold Drill

Tested environment:

Unity:   5.6.7
Backend: Mono
Game:    32-bit / x86
BepInEx: 5.4.23.5 x86

The plugin is designed around the current Gold Drill Unity GameObject hierarchy.

Future game updates that change UI object names or hierarchy may require an updated version of the plugin.

Normal users require:

Gold Drill
+
BepInEx 5 x86
+
GoldDrillHideUI.dll

The Full package already contains the required BepInEx files.

To remove GoldDrillHideUI, delete:

BepInEx\plugins\GoldDrillHideUI

The configuration file may also be removed:

BepInEx\config\com.fusheng.golddrill.hideui.cfg

If the Full package was installed and no other BepInEx mods are being used, BepInEx may also be removed.

Do not delete the entire BepInEx folder if other BepInEx mods are installed.

If the hotkeys do not work, first verify that the plugin exists at:

BepInEx\plugins\GoldDrillHideUI\GoldDrillHideUI.dll

Then check:

BepInEx\LogOutput.log

A successful launch should contain an entry similar to:

Loading [Gold Drill Hide UI 1.0.0]

The log should also show the configured hotkeys.

If GoldDrillHideUI does not appear in the log, verify that:

• BepInEx 5 x86 is being used
• BepInEx loads successfully
• The DLL is inside the correct plugins directory
• The supported 32-bit Mono version of Gold Drill is being used

Gold Drill uses an older Unity / Mono runtime.

The plugin therefore targets:

.NET Framework 3.5
net35

The project uses:

Microsoft.NETFramework.ReferenceAssemblies

to allow modern .NET SDK versions to build a .NET Framework 3.5 plugin.

Compiled packages are available from the GitHub Releases page.

Typical release files:

GoldDrillHideUI-v1.0.0-PluginOnly.zip GoldDrillHideUI-v1.0.0-Full.zip

Requires an existing BepInEx 5 x86 installation.

Includes the BepInEx 5 x86 files required by Gold Drill.

GoldDrillHideUI's own source code and plugin binaries are licensed under the:

MIT License

See the repository root:

LICENSE

for the full license text.

The Full release package bundles third-party open-source software:

BepInEx 5.4.23.5 x86

BepInEx is not part of GoldDrillHideUI and is not relicensed under this project's MIT License.

BepInEx is distributed under its own:

GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 (LGPL-2.1)

The BepInEx files included in the Full package are taken from its official release and retain the applicable license and copyright notices.

BepInEx:

https://github.com/BepInEx/BepInEx

GoldDrillHideUI is an unofficial community project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the developers or publishers of Gold Drill or by the BepInEx project.

All product names, game names, trademarks, and registered trademarks belong to their respective owners.

The software is provided “AS IS”, without warranty of any kind, as described in the MIT License.