🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[placid juniper]

• Detected CPU: AuthenticAMD , F15/M1/S2, 3701.00 mhz, 30-clk 'rdtsc'
• CPU Features: RDTSC, MMX, SSE, SSE2

Initializing File System...
using fs-ltx fsgame.ltx
--found external arch mp_military_2.xdb0
FS: 33700 files cached, 6254Kb memory used.
Init FileSystem 0.679005 sec
'xrCore' build 3312, Feb 27 2008

Initializing Engine...
Executing config-script "user.ltx"...
[e:\steamlibrary\steamapps\common\stalker shadow of chernobyl_appdata_\user.ltx] successfully loaded.
Starting INPUT device...
Loading DLL: xrRender_R2.dll
...Failed - incompatible hardware.
Loading DLL: xrRender_R1.dll

FATAL ERROR

[error]Expression : assertion failed
[error]Function : CEngineAPI::Initialize
[error]File : E:\stalker\sources\trunk\xr_3da\EngineAPI.cpp
[error]Line : 58
[error]Description : hRender

stack trace:
Is this what you're talking about ?

sry for block of text

I'm not super familiar with Stalker modding

Like I said, this worked fine before I wiped my C: drive and reinstalled Windows

[bright wigeon]

Delet you user.ltx

[placid juniper]

Done, still nothing tho

[bright wigeon]

Hum this is weird

Try install the directx pack and the vscode stuff

[placid juniper]

I'm p sure I did the directx pack correctly and idk what vscode is but I just installed it

[bright wigeon]

Hum

I really got no idea now

[placid juniper]

for the directx download, I go to the website linked by AA2, run the installer, it extracts a bunch of zip files and another .exe and I run that right?

if so, I did that

[bright wigeon]

No

[placid juniper]

or do I find one of these zip files

[bright wigeon]

Download the pack from the Microsoft website

[placid juniper]

Right, did that

[bright wigeon]

They got the full package

[bright wigeon]

Oh

I used to got a problem like that when i transfer my game to another pc

But i don't remember how i fixed it

[placid juniper]

when I download the pack from Microsoft website I get an exe called directx_june2010_redist, and when I run that it downloads a ton of zipped files to a directory I specified in the wizard

a ton of zipped files and DXSETUP.exe

[bright wigeon]

Hum you did right i think

[placid juniper]

after googling the problem a bit and messing around with my Stalker directory, I figured it's one file that makes it stop working ?

[bright wigeon]

All you need to do was to execute the main exe

Maybe reinstall your game would help

[placid juniper]

steamapps\common\STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl\bin
and it's d3d9.dll

if I take that out the ENB isn't active, but if I put it back the game won't start

had some threads say to delete it, but that basically just disables the ENB

I guess I can play without the ENB if there really is nothing I can do, but I liked it

[bright wigeon]

Hum, does it work normal before?

[placid juniper]

without the ENB?

Yes, if I run the AA2 installer and just not install the ENB it's fine

But the ENB worked fine before and I'd like to have it again

[bright wigeon]

With enb, before you got your C clean

[placid juniper]

Yeah

didn't have any of this problem

[bright wigeon]

Hum

[placid juniper]

Just ran the installer and everything worked fine

[bright wigeon]

That's probably a problem linked to directx 9 them

[placid juniper]

Some core Windows file must have been deleted

[bright wigeon]

Try to install the full directx package

[placid juniper]

I'm not sure how

[bright wigeon]

D3d9 is the directx 9 dll

[placid juniper]

where do I find the full directx 9 package if not the page I was sent to from AA2?

[bright wigeon]

I mean, is their render

[bright wigeon]

Hold on

https://www.microsoft.com/pt-br/download/details.aspx?id=35

Also @ebon tusk got ani idea?

Thei game are crashing bc of the enb

The d3d9 of the enb on the bin folder can be the problem

[ebon tusk]

are you using an AMD GPU?

[placid juniper]

Nvidia

gtx1080 Ti

[ebon tusk]

try to update drivrs or reinstall them

[bright wigeon]

And remember to do the 32 bits too just to make sure

[placid juniper]

No luck
I'll just not use the ENB
Sucks, but it's not the end of the world

Still the same Stalker

Thanks for the assistance though

[bright wigeon]

The enb you're using, does he is made it for soc?

Soc bin folder is to fragile

[placid juniper]

All I know is the ENB is called "SweetFX" and that the FAQ mentions quote

Windows 10 lacks the full support for DX9, hence problems with running additional ENB and SweetFX libraries. Install DirectX 2010, located here. If it doesn't help, reinstall the mod with non-ENB option.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/autumn-aurora-compilation-mod

This is the link to AA2 if you want to check it out for yourself

I just follow instructions on screen

But I didn't change version of Windows

[ebon tusk]

aaaaa you were using SweetFX?Im pretty sure it uses a new version of DX9 or DX10,that SOC doesnt really support

[placid juniper]

This is what I used on Windows 10 last month

AA2 hasn't been updated in a few years looks like

A month ago Windows 10 had no issues here
Now it does
Maybe Windows got an update that broke everything, or more likely i'm missing a file somewhere from my clean re-install

[strange birch]

Windows update breaking something is probably part if not the whole problem.

[still inlet]

I hate survival mods.
why weapon cleaning kits are super expensive items that vanish after 3 usages, while in real life they are reusable for a long time and rifles have them stored in a buttstock

if survival element doesn't teach you how to survive, what is it good for?

[fiery fulcrum]

It teaches you to suffer

[waxen berry]

My time to shine

NLC 7 introduces repair kits but they aren't expensive, and you can still use a vendor to make repairs

The weapon kit is a one-time purchase, requires a second level artifact

After that you need to purchase weapon or armor repair tools, 5k rubles each but they fix a weapon by a noticeable amount and are mostly for endgame gear (repairing using kits is much cheaper since the more expensive an armor is, the more rubles it'll take to repair it at a technican)

[bright wigeon]

NO

[neon socket]

guys I just found a new way to play anomaly 😱

Also why i am monolith now

Step 1. Start anomaly and activate Debug_ mode

Step 2. Spawn in as Monolith

Step 3. Don't buy anything or accsept any quest

Step 4. Go inside the Sarcophagus

Step 5. Tell the wishgranter that you wish for "World Peace"

Step 6. This wish will remove every human and every mutant and they will not spawn again

Step 7. Use Debug_ Mode to stay alive

Step 8. Infinite Fun.

Enjoy your life as the only alive thing in the zone

[merry forge]

guys I just found a new way to play anomaly 😱

Step 1: Dont.

[neon socket]

Shut up, Idiot.

[wicked kernel]

'spawn in as anomaly'
❓

[neon socket]

sorry Autocorrect

[merry forge]

[neon socket]

anyway peoples.

what is your favorite stalker mod?

[bright wigeon]

CocK 👍

[nocturne eagle]

Anomaly

[ebon tusk]

Hoooo the misery

[bright wigeon]

[neon socket]

I like Anomaly and CoCk is also nice

[bright wigeon]

Good 😎👍

[neon socket]

Yes 😎 👍

[neon socket]

lost alpha/gunslinger

[neon socket]

Thank you, good cat.

[waxen berry]

NLC 7

@bright wigeon or 🔩

[neon socket]

Never heard of it.

I will check it out

[waxen berry]

Black bolt VS white bolt

[neon socket]

I will take the black one

[waxen berry]

Hardcore total conversion mod for SoC, I can safely say that it's easily better than gamma, anomaly and even the vanilla games

That's how good it is, unfortunately you need to make sure that you don't suffer from skill issues before playing it

[neon socket]

Alright

[ebon tusk]

it's a completely new kind of game,a slow paced hardcore survival horror game

[neon socket]

Ok I will check it out.

Right now I have on my Checklist.
-Stalker Lost Alpha.
-Stalker CoC
-Stalker NLC

[ebon tusk]

NLC7 HE 2.3

[neon socket]

Thx

[serene meteor]

Guys. do you reccomend ZRP mod for my first SOC walktrough?

[ebon tusk]

If you can do it vanilla thats how I would recommend it but if the game is giving you trouble due to software issues then use ZRP

[serene meteor]

Thank you! i was thinking about ZRP mod since that keeps it vanilla,but i try to play it without mods then. thanks again!

[fervent flint]

the only other thing is the game doesn't have subtitles but there's a mod for that https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/in-game-cc-and-subtitles-1-00

[ebon tusk]

The game should be in English tbh

[fervent flint]

not necessary per se but it depends

[fervent flint]

well yes and no because (story spoiler) ||Wish Granter voice is not translated most of the time for some reason, at least in my experience||

[ebon tusk]

They aren't,don't worry,but that just adds go the mistique lel,it's not something that will make you get them it's not necessary

[fervent flint]

yeah I know, though I personally prefer subtitles in games anyway

[normal fox]

Yuuup, I loved the mod

[waxen berry]

I have the mod because sometimes it's hard to catch what the NPC is saying

[waxen berry]

Yo

Gonna commit a sin and install Anomaly again just to see how bad it is - again

Any mod recommendations? Old World is out of the equation because it actually fixes the game and I want to experience it the way it was "intended to be played"

[fervent flint]

you could go a step further and play the GAMMA modpack to spice things up

since that's the trending thing these days

[ebon tusk]

Broomsticks and Sharpsticks

since you don't want to fix it

[waxen berry]

Too big

[waxen berry]

30 gigabytes? Hell no

[bright wigeon]

Trending thing? Dude right here we still worship 17y old games we are far away from trending stuff

[fervent flint]

I know: But he was looking to play Anomaly, which is the trending thing except with GAMMA nowadays

[bright wigeon]

And also @ebon tusk and @lunar kettle doctrined me to never user hd models anymore, so it's even more vannila

[bright wigeon]

He will play old world addon, pure vanilla

[waxen berry]

Nope

Kind of ruins the point

[bright wigeon]

Them don't play anomaly

[waxen berry]

Nope

Gonna play it to test how bad it is

[bright wigeon]

Ew ew ew

Bolts on you

[untold dock]

Hey guys, everytime I try to download anomaly from mod DB I always get these data errors. I've downloaded it 3 times already and tried unzipping with both winrar and 7zip. Does anyone know what to do here???

[bright wigeon]

Try the anomaly discord bro

[untold dock]

Yeah you're right

sorry

[merry forge]

it look's corrupted or something

you downloaded it again?

[untold dock]

yes, 3 times

for some reason it always downloads them corrupted

[merry forge]

im assuming your drive has enough space

is your drive corrupted?

i had that on one of my drives

where downloaded .zips and such would just show as 0bytes

[untold dock]

Dont think so, its a brand new nvme. Every other zip I download works fine

[merry forge]

idk im lost

[untold dock]

Yeah no worries

Ill try and download it from a different browser and mirror

[merry forge]

thats probably it

browser or something got corrupted somewhere

[waxen berry]

Live Syak reaction:

[bright wigeon]

absolutely cursed

[plucky topaz]

are there any multiplayer coop mods for stalker anomaly, cuz like i wanna explore the zone with a friend

[waxen berry]

No

[ebon tusk]

Keep an eye on X-ray multiplayer extension

[fiery fulcrum]

It’s mostly arcade tho

[waxen berry]

No other alternative

[ebon tusk]

The released stuff they have that is horde is just a teaser
XRME is supposed to be pure coop in stalker they're still working on it

Gave an update a while ago I think

[hot yew]

Hi, is there any mod that improves the graphical quality for the original STALKER game and modernises it, but doesn't alter the vanilla/ZRP experience?

[upbeat vapor]

No

[ebon tusk]

Aside from Absolute Nature and Absolute Structures,I would say you don't need anything,game holds up by itself

[upbeat vapor]

Wait for @bright wigeon Edition

[ebon tusk]

The Absolute Nature and Absolute Flora are really the only ones I recommend if you wanna keep it as vanilla
of course there nothing more vanilla than vanilla itself which looks amazing

[hot yew]

Okay, thank you for the recommendations, I'll check them out! 🙂

[neon socket]

Is there a way to modify the vanilla game files to make changes to the game ?

[ebon tusk]

Check pins you'll see the tools and tutorials to unpack the games files,learn LUA to preform modifications, on most stuff that's what you need

Note that the tools that are used to decompress and recompress the games files are not the same tools to recompress and decompress from other fork engines,aka,don try to use them to decompress the files in anomaly or ogsr for example

[bright wigeon]

👍

[tidal creek]

howdy guys, anyone have a clue where to find the Radiophobia discord?

A rat bit my toe two in-game days ago and I'm going to die

I need a doctor

[ebon tusk]

Don't think radiophobia has one

[shrewd bay]

Co-op mode mod

[ebon tusk]

there are a lot of theoriticals and mods under work,it's very very hard so please have patience

[shrewd bay]

Ok

[bright wigeon]

[tidal creek]

thanks. looks like I'll die

no pointers for the discord?

[ebon tusk]

Ask around the C-Con discord they are sages

[tidal creek]

Thanks! luckily I'm in it. 😄

[ionic dune]

FYI vanilla and ZRP experience are two pretty different experiences.

[timber minnow]

guys i am playing SOC where do i find strelok group stash ?

its not anywhere on the map

pls help

[ebon tusk]

in one of the ||wall pipes climb inside,its the one with a ladder inside||

[timber minnow]

wdym ||wall pipes||

[timber minnow]

wait i was supposed to talk with mole ? i think his dead cuz i didint talk to him

[ebon tusk]

youre supposed to either talk with him or loot his corpse if he's dead

[timber minnow]

Is he here ?

game not letting me screenshot

[bright wigeon]

Did you find the underground level?

[ebon tusk]

search around see if you can find him,he's around there,and around the level changer to agropom underground

[timber minnow]

No. Last thing happened is the army pushed some with helicopters so i went to help then killed them all now none of my teammates are left

[bright wigeon]

Hum

[timber minnow]

this sucks man. they shouldnt let some important characters to die

[bright wigeon]

Did you saw that broken walls in the west? Theres a bunch of trees in a straight line, search there and you will find a manhole open, enter there

I will mark in your pda hold on

Here marked one go there

[ebon tusk]

even if he dies it doesnt matter as long as you loot his corpse,as well as there is a marker pointing you to him,a message will play telling you about agropom underground

[timber minnow]

Ok ty. Too bad I can’t interact with him, since it helps with immersion

[timber minnow]

Thanks for the troubles

[timber minnow]

btw i made it into the tunnels and i didnt check his body cuz i couldnt find it. its not gonna be a problem right ?

[ebon tusk]

I never played it where I didnt go get his body but I dont think so?as long as you know hwere the hideout is you should be fine,and we already told you the hideout so

[timber minnow]

my teammates just die too quickly lmao

[ebon tusk]

strange bc even at higher difficulties its the stalkers that always win the engagement

[timber minnow]

lmao i am playing normal difficulty

[bright wigeon]

you can change the models, but stalker is stalker

[ionic dune]

It is going to be a problem, as not speaking with Mole does not update Strelok stash quest properly, then even if you find the flash drive you still won’t get quest to talk to Guide after searching Ghost’s corpse, so true ending is unachievable.

Without bug abuse.

[ionic dune]

FYI reverse bent knees bugs only appear with modded models where authors didn’t fix bones correctly. That ain’t an example of “stalker is stalker” cause this never happens with any of vanilla models.

[bright wigeon]

The bone are alright i already saw that with the duty ps-5 too

And in ghat case is a result of a a directly drag of a explosion

Models don't respond right in such cases

[ionic dune]

There’s a hard limit at default models. Knees never bend backwards.

[bright wigeon]

If you say so

[ionic dune]

This only happens if you don’t set joint limit in actor editor.

[bright wigeon]

Kkkkkkkkkkk

I saw that a lot of times dude

Chill

A broken models is a broken model and a bug is bug

What would you gain on defend that?

https://youtu.be/FjvDc-xEuR0
Weird sh!t happens all the time

[ebon tusk]

Hm so it doesn't happen for when you are playing the false ending,I mean,you get markers and everything for the rest of the length untill you meet ||the wishgranter||?

Try to go to the anomaly server and post your log crash file,they'll be able to help you much better
If you have trouble finding the link go to their moddb

[waxen berry]

Got tired of gunslinger tbh

Probably gonna give CoP a go without any mods

Gunslinger is too unbalanced, changes too many things and removes some of my favorite weapons

[broken vine]

using a very short path, all lowercase letters i.e. 'c:\anomoly' fixed random crashes for me

[inland quest]

Hi. I'm playing Stalker SOC with AA 2.1 and AWP and have run into this error after having 0 problems. It's strange because I'm actually able to walk around the "crash zone" but if I get to close it crashes and I get this fatal error:

FATAL ERROR

[error]Expression : fatal error

[error]Function : CInifile::r_section

[error]File : E:\stalker\sources\trunk\xrCore\Xr_ini.cpp

[error]Line : 342

[error]Description : <no expression>

[error]Arguments : Can't open section '€Ujjã …9€¦¢–¢ D1Y©U¢D1ª UU)d1¨'

​any help is appreciated, thanks

[bright wigeon]

Try sgm

[waxen berry]

Tried sgm + gunslinger, worst mistake of my life

[bright wigeon]

https://youtu.be/m5twbY3Mwo0
Try this

[ionic dune]

Think of the game’s plot as two storylines — secret lab storyline and Strelok storyline

Secret Lab storyline is Nimble’s Flash Drive —> Sid —> Agroprom docs —> Barkeep —> X-18 Docs —> Barkeep —> X-16 Docs —> Barkeep —> Brain Scorcher —> Pripyat —> CNPP (South) —> Wishgranter —> False Ending

Strelok’s storyline is
Fox —> Seriy —> Mole —> Strelok’s Stash —> Ghost —> Guide —> Doc —> Pripyat Stash —> Closed Door in Sarcophagus —> Monolith Control —> CNPP (North) —> True Ending

[ebon tusk]

hmmm I see I see,thanks for explainign

[neon socket]

does the guy who made bs mod take commissions to add guns to the mod?

[ebon tusk]

the what mod?Bullsht mod?

[neon socket]

haha i don't remember the name i think it was called boomsticks

[ebon tusk]

a BaS,no

there are already too many guns my good sir what more do you want!?!

[neon socket]

is there any modders that hade made addons for bas?

[neon socket]

I want that gun from the fallout 4 mod the chinese one

[ebon tusk]

no gun for you

[neon socket]

I have rations and artifacts 🙂

[ebon tusk]

your artifacts are bad and your rations spoiled

[neon socket]

in the zone mutated expired food tastes better my brother

[ebon tusk]

thats why you dont get better,eating radiation isnt good brother

[neon socket]

Its not bad but not great either

[neon socket]

hi

Help?

[bright wigeon]

Nah

[merry forge]

[rough stream]

is there a way to get actor shadow in SOC

like a mod or command line

[bright wigeon]

Get actor?

[rough stream]

seeing your on shadow

I tried this

https://github.com/OGSR/OGSR-Engine/releases

well this does have actor shadow
but what files does it

can you show me

[waxen berry]

Anyone knows the exact download size of gamma?

[ebon tusk]

17 for anomaly and gamma is like 32-30 gigs

[waxen berry]

Already have anomaly

Debating whether I should download gamma or not

Dev looks like he actually knows how mod development works but 30 gigabytes isn't easy to download

Wouldn't have downloaded nlc right away if it was that big

[ebon tusk]

mhe,its still anomaly

[waxen berry]

I had some fun with anomaly...

...after installing god knows how many mods

If gamma is even just 50% better than my current modded anomaly - which isn't a hard bar to pass - it should be worth trying

[ebon tusk]

anomaly is hardcore survival realism and I dunno if youll like it
and like you said 30 gigs is

[waxen berry]

I don't really care about a game's genre

Darkwood could be considered a hardcore survival game

And NLC is definitely a hardcore survival game, though with a lot less focus on realism

[ebon tusk]

just warning you,its nothing like NLC dont expect that

you'll focus more on equipment,and weapons,taking care of your weapon as tho you would bed it

[waxen berry]

I know, I meant that I'm used to hardcore survival games

[neon socket]

Any modders taking weapon commissions?

[bright wigeon]

Commissions?

[neon socket]

Yes commissions it means you pay them and they do a task for you

Like a weapon mod

[bright wigeon]

Eww

I fought where doing mods for fun

@ebon tusk is this true?

[ebon tusk]

I have never heard someone paying to make a mod,unless youre talking about cheats

[merry forge]

paid mods

[bright wigeon]

Humanity restored 👍

[merry forge]

just ask them to make something and they might do it because its fun

[bright wigeon]

Yeah😎

Also, where zap?

[merry forge]

out with his wife and daughter (his life hasn't gone to shit yet)

[bright wigeon]

[bright wigeon]

I think we are done with his background bro, make his npc record on our server
Like
Guns and spawn place, we can make the dialoges later

[merry forge]

gun gun

[bright wigeon]

[neon socket]

Well I have to pay them in order for them to make a mod

It's like asking someone to do work for you for free

[bright wigeon]

But it's exactly want I'm doing

[ebon tusk]

I have never seen a modder getting paid for a mod that wasnt a really big project like Entropy Zero 2 or wasnt a cheat

[neon socket]

Ah so you're also looking for someone to do work for you

[bright wigeon]

No, I'm working for free

I do mods for fun

[neon socket]

That's because they wanted to make that mod out of their passion

[ebon tusk]

exactly

[neon socket]

I'm sure you wouldn't find my request fun

[bright wigeon]

Probably no i don't want more guns

[neon socket]

Then you see my point

[bright wigeon]

But theres people who might do that for free

I'm just not the dude looking for this kind of challenge

[neon socket]

While mine they probably wouldn't do it for, It's better to ask someone willing to work for money

[neon socket]

I'm just looking for modders free or not I don't know how to implement games that would make it compatible with bas or any other good mods out there

I'm just insisting on paying if they are interested due to money

[bright wigeon]

Theres already too many deeper gun mods out there

[neon socket]

Perhaps there is

But I want a specific gun that hasn't been added I've been using it in fallout 4 for quite some time although I can't immerse myself within the world it's just goofy Futurama commonwealth

[bright wigeon]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/misery-the-armed-zone
This one is the best but i personally not like too many taticsl attachments

I like a good variety of guns on my game but not too many floofly stuff

[neon socket]

Right I'm just sick of m4 and ak

I want something more different that's hasn't been touched in stalker yet

Not sure how alive moddb is but hopefully they see I'm willing to pay a 100 bucks

[bright wigeon]

Everything was already touched on stalker

Anomaly and gamma got new animations and stuff too

[neon socket]

I'm talking about guns that are hasn't been added yet I see they have Howa so far

[bright wigeon]

Talk with @austere bison

[neon socket]

The main dev of gamma?

[austere bison]

Yes

[bright wigeon]

He is cool

[bright wigeon]

That dude wants to pay for new guns

[austere bison]

https://tenor.com/view/kto-lbow-hi-hello-hi-there-gif-25347432

[neon socket]

Hello there.

[austere bison]

I don’t do guns porting

I don’t have time for this sorry

[bright wigeon]

[austere bison]

Even paid. Money isn’t the problem

[neon socket]

Well that light dimmed out quickly

Right Well Its understandable you are busy with your amazing mod

[austere bison]

Porting guns, the main issue is having the gun model and the animations

And usually the problem is the animation

So you need an animator

[neon socket]

So if I had the model and animations you would port it in for me?

Or your gun porter friend

[austere bison]

FIREBREATH might take commissions based on how much you give him and based on the gun and required work

[bright wigeon]

Take a look what a i made grok, seva *gopnik

[neon socket]

Hmm I see I'm gonna have to do more research on him I don't know what he has made nor what he is capable of

Wait Isn't it the guy who made sassy shotgun

Nvm not the same guy but seeing his Aug it looks pretty high quality

Do you know where I could contact him?

[waxen berry]

Seva + trenchcoat

Ultimate drip achieved

[bright wigeon]

[austere bison]

UMP reanimation, Tommy gun as well for instance

[austere bison]

Search for him in the anomaly discord

But he’s very busy currently, not sure he will answer

Which guns do you want to port ?

@neon socket

Otherwise in the gamma discord we have several people experienced in simply porting guns and adding existing animations to them

[dusty dawn]

anyone know a call of pripyat mod that just adds guns

[ebon tusk]

Shocker ahahahhaa

[neon socket]

It would be the QBZ191 that's the gun I was referring to in fallout 4 modding community

[ebon tusk]

I dont understand why youre willing to spend money to add that gun to CoP

[neon socket]

Because I like it

[ebon tusk]

guud enuff

if one has money

why not use it

[neon socket]

Well money is the way to have someone work on a pointless mod sort of

[ebon tusk]

could always try and learn how to do it yourself

[neon socket]

Because if it were to be done for free it would be me asking " Hey can you add this gun because I like it? "

[bright wigeon]

People really do that and It's ok to ask

That community is really chill

We like to work for free if we got time

[neon socket]

I have no idea where to even start, I think the issue wouldn't be the model nor animation more like porting and make it compatible with other mods while also having feature such as inspect, check mag and so on.

[merry forge]

no you dont

[neon socket]

That's nice to hear but the chances of someone doing for free is pretty low, I'm just going from common sense

[neon socket]

A mod that is solely only beneficial to me

[bright wigeon]

Stalker is about random people on chernobyl and we like it
We dunno what cummon sense is

[neon socket]

Haha true spirit in the zone

[ebon tusk]

well thats why there are guides on the internet and ppl to ask,model porting has to don with skeletons,something youll learn as you learn how to work with 3d models in blender for example
why not try to broaden your horizons and learn 3d modeling as well as how to port models into a game,this way youll be able to port any gun you want and even may share the knowledge with those taht dont even know where to start

[neon socket]

I don't even know where to find a tutorial that allows you to that, Also probably need to learn some programming

If I'm not wrong most of these weapons mods had their own feature that isn't in stalker

[ebon tusk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEULhJL3pTI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTfIo_bezqw

[bright wigeon]

Me either but talk with people on moddb, two weeks ago i didn't know how to work with blende and with help of a friend now i create my own stalker custom models

[ebon tusk]

as for the programming here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMacxZQMPXs
stalker uses LUA which is a very easy to use scripting language

if you have any questions try and ask ppl who know,for example,in discord servers,in reddit,in chat boards

[neon socket]

Lol I meant in general porting the model, I also tried to hire a freelancer who claim to work for stalker 2 but he was banned from the platform due to the political conflict between U and R

[neon socket]

Very nice

[ebon tusk]

to port a model you need to know at least the basics of working with blender
once you familiarise yourself with blender ask around the anomaly and C-Con server and ask how to do it

[neon socket]

3d modelling isn't as easy as it seems, If I'm gonna model that gun I'm gonna have to learn blender 2 or 3 months really depends how fast I learn which isn't the case I also forget very quickly which is a big disadvantage within modelling

I like wasted already a month just to get blender flow decently for me when it comes to shortcuts and layouts one thing I hate about blender they always change which key does what and also changed the term of certain features which makes finding what you need much more difficult

[bright wigeon]

You don't need to model the gun dude, you will only port it to ogf

[ebon tusk]

see the stuff I linked is only to get you familiarized with blender itself,Im not saying go make the QBZ yourself,use a free to use model,use the Sandstorm model,get a model,try to port it and have it use the IL animation

[neon socket]

Well learning myself to make animations wouldn't be an issue, If I could only find out how to make the port compatible with other mods and actually make it use the features that the mod has that's what I'm currently looking for it's like a expansion or dlc for the mod

[bright wigeon]

We call that "addon"

[ebon tusk]

well there we have it
learning LUA isnt that hard and you can always ask for help from either the guy thats working on it or someone else
we only win by having more modders with more ideas modding

[bright wigeon]

All you need to do is study the mod scripts and understand what they are doing

[austere bison]

Existing animations should work

[neon socket]

If I can get my hands on the model and it's existing animations then simply it would be all set

[austere bison]

Looks like any m4 base though… I would never understand gun nuts I guess

[neon socket]

It's kind of like the Mutant

[austere bison]

Imo with BaS there are enough guns already

[ebon tusk]

https://open3dmodel.com/3d-models/3d-model-qbz-95-chinese-assault-rifle-2_46102.html
like this one?

[neon socket]

Well I'm talking about the 191

[bright wigeon]

I didn't know how many aks are out there until i played cop weapons pack 💀

The world has too many ak types, like, really too many

[neon socket]

Yeah it bas feature the whole eft roster of guns

[ebon tusk]

???
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/low-poly-qbz-191-2ade5a1f7f0842fa968e235f780b1e34

[bright wigeon]

I like the armed zone too

[neon socket]

A bit too low quality

[bright wigeon]

Bc you need to put textures on her

[ebon tusk]

go online and type QBZ191 free model download and BAM!magic happens

[neon socket]

I'm trying to have the quality to he on par with these other mods tho I'm not really requesting them to make the models More like doing the porting and features

[austere bison]

For the base model you need to rip it from a game or buy the model from websites

Usually models cost about 40€

But then you need to convert the textures to stalker format

And rig the gun for animations

[neon socket]

That's what I'm currently doing, I have the arma 3 model it's currently untextured it doesn't support UV yet although there's a few inconsistencies with that model so there's that right now I'm trying to get the fallout 4 version, it's much higher quality and if I'm not wrong toounx had shared her reload folders in the Patreon for anyone to use

[austere bison]

It will be easier to rig the gun to use existing animations

For stalker I mean

[neon socket]

Could work however I don't know wether of these animations are high quality

Kinda want reloading and such be on par with the popular gun mods if you catch my drift

[waxen berry]

@austere bison Since you're already here I might as well ask some questions regarding Gamma

1. How big is the download size not including anomaly itself?
2. Do I have to redownload everything after an update?

[ebon tusk]

I told you man,50 including anomaly and you'll have to download the grok installer that automatically configures a MO2 instance as well as autodownloads all the mods from moddb

[waxen berry]

What about the update?

[ebon tusk]

the mods are automatically updated

[waxen berry]

I hope I won't have to update a 30 gigabyte modpack every time an update happens

So only the individual mods are updated? Nothing else is redownloaded?

[ebon tusk]

the modpack is modular meaning that if one file is updated then that file will be redownloaded and it will be switched to the updated version

[waxen berry]

Can I stop downloading in the middle or do I have to install the entire mod in one go?

Aka, can I resume and pause downloading it after installing 50 addons?

[ebon tusk]

the modpack is a series of smaller mods all packaged into one pacakge thus if you stop the download it'll stop and clean the download of that individual file you were downloading and when you open the installer again it will scan the folder and start downloading from where it stopped

[waxen berry]

Nice, so like a torrent

I might try to download the whole thing while studying for my exams so I'll have something to play during summer

[ebon tusk]

I wont be waiting that much for the trashcan review

[waxen berry]

Worst case scenario, I'll find it to be 'generic', which isn't that bad since my library is really lacking 2018+ games

[waxen berry]

Not enough NLC elements

[bronze pagoda]

Anyone got the tl;dr on Anomaly vs Gamma or whatever its called for what's in the mods?

[ebon tusk]

no thank you

[bright wigeon]

Based

[vivid kiln]

I'm playing Anomaly, what exactly does this mean? I do not know of any unit of measurement that is H/mm2.

[bright wigeon]

Eww

[vivid kiln]

I suspect it maybe has something to do with force, but I don't know.

Maybe it is mistranslation, since Н is Cyrillic N

[pale swift]

Newtons per millimetre squared

It's a moronic system, what the hell does +480 H/mm2 mean to the average person in a video game...

[bright wigeon]

[bright wigeon]

Eww

[ebon tusk]

but it is realishtik and immeshive

[waxen berry]

Gamma is anomaly but better, no further comments

[bronze pagoda]

Got it, thanks!

[waxen berry]

To further explain this, even though I said I won't, anomaly has a lot of flaws that Gamma tries to address. The game is, overall, the same but better balanced.

Anomaly is a standalone game, gamma is a modpack for anomaly containing over 300 mods

[bronze pagoda]

Oh its a mod for anomaly, I didn't realize that. Thanks for the explanation!

[waxen berry]

Modpack for anomaly, there's a difference

It contains 300+ mods along with some that you can't get on their own without going to the source code

[bronze pagoda]

Ah

[waxen berry]

It's basically an automated mod downloader

You download a setup

Run the setup in a fresh anomaly installation

And let it directly download the mods from moddb and github

[neon socket]

Guys, who play EFP?

V4.0

[solemn osprey]

Doesn't it mean force applied to an area? Or in this case i guess it applies that much force against incoming bullets, claws, fists/paws,shrapnel or explosive pressure

mT is one that i don't understand for phychic resist on meds like psy block

Or at least i think its called mT i cant remember

[waxen berry]

Okay but do we look like scientists?

How much damage is 500 H/mm2 supposed to reduce? How am I supposed to know?

[ebon tusk]

Hes complaining BC these mesures tell you absolutely nothing and make it harder to make a build

[lunar kettle]

I usually would like more detailed ways of telling you what an item does but i gotta agree this is pretty moronic

[austere bison]

1. Download in total is about 25Gb including Anomaly. About 10Gb without anomaly.
2. No, updates are 60Mb. Unless you perform a full update, which will update every addons in the pack if new versions are available. This thus then depends on the updated addons in that case. Large addons don't get updated a lot anyways.

[waxen berry]

Just 10 GB?

Damn

[austere bison]

12 actually

[waxen berry]

Eh, even if its 15

Thats still relatively small

[austere bison]

what takes a lot of space is when it's extracted

in total you need 70Gb or so

[waxen berry]

The original 2 gigabyte launcher downloads everything, yeah?

[austere bison]

Yes

you need anomaly though

just read the how to install channel

[waxen berry]

1.5.2 fresh installation no mods?

[austere bison]

just read the how to install channel

[waxen berry]

Read it, didn't understand the last bit

[ebon tusk]

heeeh,to be fair,with 357 mods,its almost impossible to avoid this

[waxen berry]

Do I place the launcher inside a new folder in a fresh anomaly installation or in a separate folder?

[austere bison]

- INSTALLATION -

First your need to make 2 different folders at the root of your drives (C:/, D:/): one will contain GAMMA, and the other will contain Anomaly. Don't make these folders in Downloads, Program Files, Documents, Desktop. For instance use: C:/GAMMA and C:/Anomaly. Do not use special characters in any of the folders ([-, etc)

1. Extract S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly 1.5.1 using 7Zip (not winrar) in a new folder ( C:\Anomaly).
2. Move the 1.5.2 Anomaly Patch zip to the Anomaly folder C:\Anomaly (next to bin, gamedata...), right click the archive, extract here using 7zip, accept files replacement.

You should see changes151to152.txt next to the bin folder in your Anomaly folder if the patching is successful.
3. Launch Anomaly 1.5.2 once and reach the main in-game menu. Exit the game.
4. Extract GAMMA RC3.7z using 7Zip to a new folder.
5. Go to the C:\GAMMA RC3\.Grok's Modpack Installer folder.
6. Be sure to right click and "Launch as Admin" G.A.M.M.A. Installer.exe and click “Allow Powershell scripts”.
7. Click “Launch MO2”. Ignore the error message. Click Browse and show the C:\Anomaly folder. Exit MO2.
8. Click “Download G.A.M.M.A. data” and wait until it is done.
9. Click "Full G.A.M.M.A. Installation”.

• You can launch a new desktop by pressing Windows Key + Tab, then click New Desktop at the top and move the installer window and the black window there. You'll thus be able to use your computer normally during the long installation.
• If you need to close the installer during the process, it will resume where it was left next time you launch it.

10. When the process is finished, close the installer, go to your Desktop and double click the G.A.M.M.A. shortcut. An error message should appear, click OK, you should have #358-mods-in-mo2 . If not, you'll crash on game start.

Can’t find the icon? Simply create a shortcut of C:\GAMMA RC3\modorganizer.exe, then paste it on your desktop.

11. STALKER GAMMA is now ready to run. Select Anomaly (DX11) in MO2 and click Run. DX9 doesn't work. AVX generally has worst performances unless you have a 12900k or 5950x CPU.

If you crash on startup be sure you have #358-mods-in-mo2. Make sure you updated the game to 1.5.2 properly (1.5.1to1.5.2changes.txt in Anomaly folder). Launch the installer and click Download GAMMA data (big middle button) and then Full GAMMA installation. Doing it more than 2 times within 1 hour will get you flagged as a bot by moddb.

12. Check the tips below:

[austere bison]

you clearly didn't read the install channel :o)

[verbal yacht]

are there any mods for Call of Pripyat?

[bright wigeon]

What mods you want dude?

Gun mods
Quest mods
Gopnik mods

[verbal yacht]

graphic mods

isnt anomaly a mod?

[bright wigeon]

Ew anomaly

Anomaly is standalone and freeplay

[verbal yacht]

ah ok.

[bright wigeon]

Try gunslinger or cop remake mod

[verbal yacht]

what are some good graphics mods for cop?

[bright wigeon]

I dunno any bro

Cop remake is the vanilla graphics wirh huge improvements

Like really great

But my pc can't run it

[verbal yacht]

what specs do you have?

[bright wigeon]

Intel iris xe
16gb ram
I5 11gen

[verbal yacht]

is the iris xe better than my 1050ti?

[bright wigeon]

Sorry, i mean my one is not better you videocard is good

You should try the mod but is very unstable

I get the link for you hold on

https://www.moddb.com/mods/remake

1050ti is a good video card dude

[bright wigeon]

Take a look
https://youtu.be/H3xCkkA5lp8

[verbal yacht]

ill take a look

[bright wigeon]

👍

[verbal yacht]

but its not broken or anything right?

[bright wigeon]

I dunno dude

I never use it

My graphics are vanilla

[verbal yacht]

ill try

[bright wigeon]

👍

[verbal yacht]

eh nvm

[ebon tusk]

lmao

[bright wigeon]

Average cop remake player lifespan

[verbal yacht]

i probably cant run stalker 2 on this pc

[ebon tusk]

specs?

[verbal yacht]

i7 2600, 8gb ddr3 (2 sticks of 4, MB only has 2 slots) gtx1050ti 4gb OC, 500gb ssd crucial mx500

[ebon tusk]

you cant

[bright wigeon]

Stalker 2 requires I9
128gb of ram gtx3095ti
And you need to pray for monolith to get 15 fps on ultra low

[verbal yacht]

i steal military quantum computer

[bright wigeon]

Good job, now you can play on 1280x720 low 😎👍

[verbal yacht]

i steal 5 of those

[bright wigeon]

Good, 1366x768 on mid low

[verbal yacht]

listen, I got Biden in my basement, NASA is going to deliver me one of their super computers in exchange for the old man

[waxen berry]

The Old man when he finds out the door was unlocked so he didn't have to cannibalize the German minister

[verbal yacht]

defense minister to be precise

[bright wigeon]

Hold on i will sell this information to the Chinese intelligence

[verbal yacht]

can I get a cut?

[merry forge]

can i cut you

[bright wigeon]

Fine by me
get this guy to the concentration camp.. i mean re-education camp

[verbal yacht]

cut as in part of the money

[merry forge]

yeah we know

[bright wigeon]

Theres no money you capitalist
Only glory in serve the great China

[bleak geyser]

Gunslinger files on moddb seem to be old, I did find the unofficial discord tho. But there is no info anywhere what the mod does except those sweet, sweet animations

[ebon tusk]

download the files from gunslinger
its a installer that will install the newest version along with optional mods if you so choose

[bleak geyser]

No way! Good to know! Currently replaying SoC with OGSR:GA and it’s a blast. Too bad there is no standalone gunslinger for SoC and CS

[ebon tusk]

I say that it is a godsend

[bright wigeon]

There's a gunslinger project for soc but it was not released

[ebon tusk]

I rue the day it is released

[bleak geyser]

How come? And I don’t get it. How come OGSR has Gungslinger but SoC vanilla does not? Different engine?

[bleak geyser]

Yeah…

[ebon tusk]

Gunslinger Ports have this very bad habit of porting every little thing that base Gunslinger has without really thinking balancing
so they port problems with Gunslinger along with the bad parts
and I expect the same to happen with SoC,bc in the stalker community,there cant be something as simple as a animation replacer it always needs to overshoot

[bright wigeon]

Soc runs in a 32bits engine too unstable, they need to make adjustments in the bin

[bleak geyser]

Right? All I want is better gun models and animations. If I want I’ll install graphical mods too

[bright wigeon]

The first hd models for coc was even canceled due too many crashs

[ebon tusk]

SoC GA uses the OGSR engine yknow

[bleak geyser]

Since CS doesn’t have Gunslinger I went with OWR or whatever it’s called. Basically vanilla game but better anims. Actually I installed a mod pack that improves the graphics and animations but it’s vanilla and gameplay is unchanged. Not sure if it was Clear Sky Shoc or Xpress modpack

I’m open to suggestions tho

[ebon tusk]

OWR3,and yhea its basically the only purely animation mod I have found
Im doing a playthru of SoC with it and both Absolute Texture packs and the OGSR engine

[bleak geyser]

Wait, you can install OSGR over SOC? Don’t need a prepackaged modpack?
What is the point of OSGR? x64 bit engine, additional quests and what else?

[ebon tusk]

OGSR Engine updates the engine of SoC and adds a few new effects,makes it more stable and expands the A-Life

it breaks the progression tho

[bright wigeon]

too many engines

[ebon tusk]

I am able to get a IL the first time I get to the 100rad Bar,a SGI the second and a GP37 as well as a Vintar and an Exosqueleton the third

all in the span of a day

and getting an AK at the start of the cordon is unfair

[bleak geyser]

Agreed. Last time I played SoC was like a decade ago and it seemed very odd that I could get such crazy guns so soon

[neat dune]

CatDad Joe#5801 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[bleak geyser]

Well damn, it looks like the best way to go is to install owr and some graphical mods and that’s it. Otherwise it messes with the balance of the game

[ebon tusk]

the OGSR engine is a cool thing to get on a second or third playthru,but I wouldnt recommend it for first playthrus yhea

[bleak geyser]

Oh no worries, played all of them on release, I’m 32yo. I will never forget booting up SoC for the first time, what a game, what an experience

[bright wigeon]

sunrise seva 😎

cardan need to be stoped 😎

[neon socket]

I am currently in talks with the man who made the qbz191 model meanwhile I need to ask wether if stalker gamma features multiple running animations such as tactical Sprint and normal sprint or is it just a normal sprint with a different animations depending on the animator?

[bright wigeon]

Did you ever played stalker?

[neon socket]

Haven't played it for long so I don't remember It's been a year or a two since I played it

[neon socket]

guys any suggestions for tc mods for stalker cs and soc ??

[rustic flare]

Alone in windstorm

[analog idol]

Hello! I've been playing anomaly and I ran into a problem. I'm doing the Clear sky mission where I have to kick renegades out of the swamp. I clear the first objective, I don't hit any friendlies, my goodwill is at 75 and after I leave the camp, a group of clear sky attacks me

[waxen berry]

Do you have any mods installed?

[analog idol]

No, it's vanilla anomaly

[merry forge]

you're in the mods channel

[ebon tusk]

Anomaly is a mod tampico

dont confuse them

[merry forge]

he isn't talking about anomaly

you ape no one said anything about anomaly

[ebon tusk]

he is

[merry forge]

he literally said vanilla clear sky

[ebon tusk]

he literally said vanilla anomaly
he was doing a mission for Clear Sky the faction

you mongaloid

[analog idol]

I was talking about anomaly..

[ebon tusk]

[analog idol]

[solemn osprey]

Might need to disable dynamic faction relations?

Were you playing as clear sky? Or just doing jobs for the faction?

[analog idol]

I was doing a job as a Loner

[solemn osprey]

Yea dynamic relations is wierd sometimes like...

When I started off as freedom ecologists declared war on freedom

And it stayed that way for a long ass time until they recently called a ceasefire after i killed a duty member for a job along with like 2-3 monolith who were randomly in the truck cemetery right before i killed the dutyer

Now ive been doing jobs for them trying to build up my rep but freedom keeps going negative even if theyre mostly neutral to me lol

[analog idol]

Yeah, I was thinking of messing around with the difficulty settings too. Set the durability decrease to half maybe and other stuff. Anyways, thank you for the advice!

[bright wigeon]

Anomaly
Vanila

[analog idol]

Well, not modded anomaly. You know, there are mods for anomaly too

[bright wigeon]

Theres no vanila anomaly

Don't put those two words together

[analog idol]

Anomaly is a standalone game

Maybe it's made from the original stalkers

[bright wigeon]

GET OUT

NOW

[analog idol]

Ok

[analog idol]

[true summit]

im playing on my pc and downloaded the first 3 stalker games and i was wondering why it feels like my bullets are missing ive tried all difficulties and it still feels the same on soc any help would be very helpful

[bright wigeon]

That's the stalker gunplay at start

Pmm, ak-74u, toz they are all very bad

[true summit]

thank you i didnt know if it was gonna be like cod and every shot hit the dot

[bright wigeon]

But try the toz at close range

Avoid unnecessary combats

[true summit]

also i have just made it to A>P>I

[bright wigeon]

Find a mp5, is the best gun, low damage but you can trick headshots easily

[bright wigeon]

What?

[true summit]

agroprom research institute

[bright wigeon]

Did you find the strelok custom ak-74?

Is on his hideout

That gun can hold until the middle of the game

[true summit]

i keep dying in a hallway

[bright wigeon]

Keep trying until you get 👍

[true summit]

creepy as heck video plays

and dude instakeels me

[bright wigeon]

Is in a hallway with ventilation tubes, you will find a tube one with a ladder climb and get the ak

[true summit]

thanks for not spoiling the story i gotta say with like 20 hours playing this game im hooked on my first play through

[bright wigeon]

😎👍

[true summit]

if any of the devs ever see this thanks for this awesome game

[solemn osprey]

This but tbh sawd off shotgun is actually good if you control the engagements and lure enemies up close

[bright wigeon]

Just in close range, long range she is terrible

[solemn osprey]

I think i used it for like the first 40% of the game

[bright wigeon]

Soc vanilla?

[solemn osprey]

Yea

[bright wigeon]

If you say so

[solemn osprey]

No srsly it really did me well

Once i got a tr301 with a scope (cant remember where i got it, probably freedom base) though i did about 40-70% with that then discovered the absurd power of the vss

Im probably biased, i like using shotguns in a ton of different games so its what im comfortable with, especially after being turned off of the ak74

[languid rock]

someone please help me mod stalker i cant figure it out

[true summit]

I did it i killed the guy that gives you flashes in the hallway in agroprom research institute jeez my heart was racing

[neon socket]

Nice you killed the controller

[true summit]

thank you i didnt know the name and i forgot to read the pda for the info before i saved

[neon socket]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfYoIrrF66E

[neon socket]

yeah when the monster came in I got scared lmao

Best memory playing stalker

[true summit]

its my first play through and i hate to admit it but i might be scum saving because i dont wanna lose the progress i have made after 10 trial and errors

[neon socket]

Same here, stalker is hard sometimes

[round nova]

Autumn Aurora 2.1 vs Radiophobia3 for shoc?

I played couple of hours of autum aurora but I don't like that the colors are washed out

Its a good mod tho

I cant stand the vanilla gunplay

[waxen berry]

They're both different mods

[ruby citrus]

western gamers when guns aren't pretty
(that is the only thing that matters in games)

[waxen berry]

I have many, many problems with vanilla stalker

The biggest one isn't related to the gunplay

[round nova]

I know but idk what should I play on my third playthrough

[round nova]

The next one is probably AI. It sucks. They shoot thru walls

[waxen berry]

CoP or CS

[round nova]

[ebon tusk]

What game are you modding?

Which I mean

[waxen berry]

What are you modding*

Anomaly exists

[ebon tusk]

he is asking here I assume he is modding the stalker games

[waxen berry]

I'm here and I never even bothered downloading the original trilogy

That reminds me, who's Strelok?

[ebon tusk]

silly jokester

[true summit]

found Strelok's groups stash this morning, the armor and the gun are nice

[round nova]

Strelok is

[still inlet]

I installed gamma and I don't like it. It looks and feels worse than my humble setup of anomaly + few addons. I don't get why it is so hyped.

Maybe I had too high expectations because of some videos I watched

[oblique hinge]

gamma is your average muh massive overhaul anomaly addon pack

[still inlet]

Especially I don't like the dynamic tonemapping mod bundled with gamma. It made without understanding of tonemapping and butchers the picture by mindless manipulation of r2_sun_lumscale_amb/hemi values

[still inlet]

Yeah. It feels like its goal is just to stuff more mods into one setup

[waxen berry]

Or maybe nostalgia is making you judge it harshly

[still inlet]

I played anomaly this year and had a lot of fun yo

I mean in 2022

[waxen berry]

I've played anomaly first years ago, garbage mod. Addons can't save it. Gamma knows how game design works and it makes anomaly better, not by a 'huge' amount, mind you.

[bright wigeon]

@austere bison say the word bro

[neat dune]

HxE#8662 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[waxen berry]

Don't ping the dude every time someone mentions gamma

@still inlet What the hell? Dude, don't swear. This is a Christian stalker server

[still inlet]

Regarding game design, anomaly has a ton of sliders to tune it into more vanilla stalker experience without survival nonsense

[bright wigeon]

He is the king

[ebon tusk]

If you really want it to try and be like olden and golden days get Old World,just messing sliders doesn't cut it,you need to literally cut stuff from the game

[true summit]

found streloks hideout and got the ak and the outfit from a crate

[waxen berry]

That leaves you with little to no content since a lot of the mod is built around those mechanics.

I don't hate anomaly because it's different, I hate it because it just sucks.

[true summit]

in agroprom

also bought my first gun

[ebon tusk]

And both old world and gamma are simply Total Convertion packs,they aren't completely new games,sure they change A LOT but at the end of the day it's still anomaly with the same problems anomaly has

[still inlet]

Well, my goal was to pew pew while running for artifacts around 30 maps. Anomaly can give it to me

[ebon tusk]

Anomaly isn't very different to begin with,there are tons of Freeplay Forks,which is why we should demand more from it

[waxen berry]

Anomaly's artifact system is one of the worst ones I've seen

[ebon tusk]

OP2.2 has 64 maps and even more artifacts
300+ hours in fact hahahahahaha

[still inlet]

if you mean a ton of useless artifacts, then I agree. containers are interesting as idea, but too heavy to be fun

[waxen berry]

The containers isn't even an original idea

It came from Misery, which Misery itself copies from soup mods

Soup mods made the containers good because you can store up to 8 artifacts in each one, and the artifacts are almost always good in the mods

Here's an example

[still inlet]

well, you know how gamma could be good?
have you seen those skyrim modding guides? articles that list a ton of skyrim mods, with brief descriptions and explanations why you need it.
so you go through the list and install what you want.
and people are happy to see those guides and follow them.
funny, manual installing of mods could take as much time as gamma installer, because how slow moddb servers were on me lol

gamma modding guide might be good indeed

[waxen berry]

There is already a list like this though?

Grok made a community mod list

[still inlet]

where

[waxen berry]

Here @still inlet

[austere bison]

Outdated though

[waxen berry]

Better than nothin'

It's updated enough to mostly work, no other option besides this

[ebon tusk]

still brainstorming ideas for that mod Im supposed to make

But it's been fun

[waxen berry]

Soup mods:

[austere bison]

But yeah I started there @still inlet and made that curated list. Then made basically wabbajack and a modpack for anomaly. And continued making new mods afterwards

[ebon tusk]

no need to tell me,I know where I get my sources

[austere bison]

Agreed

[waxen berry]

Bro invented wabbajack for Stalker

[still inlet]

thank you for the list for sure

I can only appreciate that

[austere bison]

I don’t get your point but ok

Anomaly is very cheesable. Gamma isn’t

I mean anomaly has so many flaws concerning the progression….

[waxen berry]

Personal preference

[austere bison]

Expert tools in Cordon green stash > I don’t get how anyone can vouch for that

[waxen berry]

The average gamer believes that game design is entirely subjective so...

[still inlet]

I think there are two categories of people: ones want everything prebuilt, other don't because it's a mixed bag of stuff you want and don't want in the same setup.
I just tried the thing and it is not my cup of cocktail. no offense intended

[ebon tusk]

Game Design is neither entirely subjective neither Entirely Objective

you gotta balance your shit bro

[austere bison]

Ah it’s fine don’t worry . I’m just curious about what you expected. I mean gamma improves every aspect of anomaly

[waxen berry]

That's why I said 'entirely subjective'

[austere bison]

Basically anomaly+++ with a focus on craft and repair

[austere bison]

Yeah also it makes me laugh when some people tell me I « only » balance stuff. Well some people are paid more than you and me every month simply to balance values for LoL

[waxen berry]

Grok, question

Pump action shotgun only, viable or not?

[ebon tusk]

True,they should be fired

[austere bison]

You can finish the game with pump actions only yes

[still inlet]

well, I certainly didn't expect that dynamic tonemapping addon that cranks r2_sun_lumscale_amb so high that it erases baked GI (hemi lightmaps) from reality and makes indoors look flat and overlit. anomaly didn't go that far.

[austere bison]

Just use slugs for mutants or buckshot and AP slugs in the head for big enemies like Exo Monolith

[austere bison]

Well the lightning in buildings is delicate. Because having pitch black interiors while it’s basically 12h00 sunny day outside is unrealistic

[true summit]

just curious grok and hxe do you think i should keep playing vanilla stalker on first play thoughts i have the first 3 base games and gamma installed but wanted your advice

[austere bison]

So I opted for something that makes the game fully visible when it should be.

[ebon tusk]

You should

play the Original games before getting into mods such as these

[austere bison]

There are like tons of graphics addons everywhere. Also judging gamma solely on graphics is a bit weird.

[still inlet]

hemi lightmaps handle that rather well. there is enough light, and with pretty falloffs to keep interiors from getting pitch black, except maybe some corners. and for corners you have artifical lightsources anyway

[austere bison]

If you can bear the original games wonkyness and dated graphics (not necessarily a bad thing, played many retro fps recently) go for SoC first at least imo

[austere bison]

I know that well. I think it’s a matter of preference, screen preset, and simply my weathers not being perfect

[ebon tusk]

If you think the textures are a bit eh,I have some mods that should be good for most of the stuff you look at in SoC

[true summit]

that is what im doing but for some resoasons it looks better in my recordings than on my screen

[austere bison]

But the issue is : having very dark shadows outside

Like a stalker can hide in plain sight in the shadow of a single tree

At least my weather and configs avoid that. Gameplay > graphics

[ebon tusk]

It's not as bad as you say tbh,most stalker have very bright contrasting clothes,the only ones that don't are loners and bandits but bandits you only see in almost deserted spaces where they'll take cover in white concrete structures and loners you will almost never fight

[still inlet]

finish original games first for sure, and in the order they came out. call of pripyat is good on its own and offers a plenty of hand crafted quests, which are in my opinion rival quests you might encounter in RPGs

first two games are quite short and don't require much time to beat.
call of pripyat is longer, but it's fun to play

[ebon tusk]

Call of Prypriat requires less time to beat than both CS and SoC tho

[true summit]

im sorry if i was posting in the wrong spot but thank you this seemed like the only place people were talking about stalker

[ebon tusk]

[waxen berry]

NLC:

[ebon tusk]

So not

Do not

Never

[waxen berry]

YES YWS

[ebon tusk]

Nooooo

[still inlet]

I don't mind offtopic as I am not a moderator, and moderators probably don't care too much as long as it is not furry gifs flood

[waxen berry]

They don't even care about that

NozAr's existence says otherwise

[ebon tusk]

Не надо

[true summit]

he not?

[ebon tusk]

Don't

[still inlet]

??

[true summit]

lol

[ebon tusk]

Don't ask

[waxen berry]

Russian mod for stalker

NLC 7

[ebon tusk]

now that he started he won't shut up

Being the mallet around so he shuts up

[waxen berry]

@still inlet Would you like to know more about the best mod for stalker?

[still inlet]

not really, except it has goth catgirls

[odd inlet]

can someone tell me what should i do in this very situation? (vanilla clear sky btw

[true summit]

i was watching my recordings i did of my gameplay and the image looks way better than on my pc screen

[ruby citrus]

Try deleting user.ltx

[young fable]

Is it possible to port vanilla CoP weapons to Anomaly .Ik its kinda dumb idea

[ebon tusk]

Yhea you can do it

[odd inlet]

unlucky

didnt work

[odd inlet]

why wont you just play the old world anomaly mod or CoC

[young fable]

experimenting, i guess

because i kinda bored about BaS and Anomaly weapon

[merry forge]

then use the old world addon

[young fable]

you right too,but you know its modding you can do whatever you want

[bright wigeon]

Hummm that's kinda hard bro, the original cop database on anomaly was overwrite by the author to reduce the game size

You will need to extract all the weapons meshes and files related and still cannot work, bc some systems are reworked

Like the outfits that now is got two parts one for the guns and one for the dissembleb gun parts on drops

[merry forge]

but someone literally has done it for you

[bright wigeon]

Yeah old world is a alternative

Also i gonna do this too o just need to know how to repack my gamedata

[young fable]

ok then, but what about adding npc like soc npc models

i tried it but it always crash

i wanna bring back SoC variant into CoP

[bright wigeon]

I think this is possible but, you will need to make or link the model to a outfit bc in anomaly the npcs drop his outfit

[young fable]

nah not anomaly in Vanilla CoP ik theres mod for it but its has many camo texture

[ebon tusk]

You're gonna have to fix the models to port 1.0 models to xray1.6 I think

[bright wigeon]

Then you got two ways to do it

Find the gameplay.xml and change the models
Or create a xml with your new squad based npcs add their ids to the simulation section of spawns

Also you can create a new important npc but it's too much work

[young fable]

just regular npc at all like roaming around zone

[bright wigeon]

Then just find the gameplay.xml in the gameplay folder and change some models

The models are duplicate so you will be able to change then without loses

Also you should create new portraits for the new npcs but that is kinda trouble

[young fable]

screenshoting, but you can make pose potraits in blender

example

[bright wigeon]

I like to make them in game just like my php

But the hard thing is too put them in the portraits dds, the create a data for them in the plugins and then assigned to a npc or make the usable by the player

[round nova]

Is the Old World addon good?

[ebon tusk]

yes

[ebon tusk]

yes it is

[round nova]

The gunplay is the same or it's changed?

[ebon tusk]

The balance is changed to fit OGs and it uses OWR3

[waxen berry]

@ebon tusk Is it me or do we never get any gameplay questions not related to the gunplay?

[round nova]

the artifact hunting is like from SOC or COP?

[round nova]

gunplay is one of the main mechanics

[waxen berry]

It's the main component in every single game but it isn't the most important one

[ebon tusk]

CoP

[waxen berry]

Stalker has a hell of a lot more important gameplay mechanics than gunplay

[round nova]

okay

do I need MO2 to install it?

[waxen berry]

No, drag and drop

[round nova]

hmm thats good

[round nova]

easier to install on Linux

just drag and drop and play

[merry forge]

fake

[round nova]

what

[ruby citrus]

weird

reinstalling it is then

[merry forge]

linux user

[round nova]

[merry forge]

no.

💀

[round nova]

yes

[odd inlet]

still doesnt work

[round nova]

Maybe some files are corrupt

Redownload it

[odd inlet]

i did

[round nova]

Then idk

[neon socket]

[error]Expression : <no expression>
[error]Function : CInifile::Load
[error]File : Xr_ini.cpp
[error]Line : 789
[error]Description : fatal error
[error]Arguments : Attemped to override section 'up_sect_fourtc_trg', which doesn't exist. Ensure that a base section with the same name is loaded first.

stack trace:

anybody knows the reason?

[ebon tusk]

Which of the games are you playing

[neon socket]

anomaly

[ebon tusk]

Go to their moddbs page and join their discord,ask there

[neon socket]

i did and nobody answered yet smh

[ebon tusk]

Well anyway,are you using any mods for anomaly

[crisp swallow]

everytime i go outside and look at the foliage my fps goes like this. in suburban areas/cities its flat. how to fix?

[bright wigeon]

Ask that in the anomaly server

[olive light]

try reduce the grass sise, grass shadow and render distance

[olive light]

dont be rude with our komrad

[olive light]

your GPU usage is in 100% try reduce the graphics settings

[ebon tusk]

not being rude just the truth,the anomaly server has a whole page dedicated to fix this kind of issue and they know more and can help a lot faster than we

[olive light]

[crisp swallow]

where iz that tho

[ebon tusk]

In the same page you downloaded th mod off of
The moddb page

[merry forge]

NICE GUN! WHERE'D YOU GET IT? THE GUN STORE??

[neat dune]

Tampico#1776 has been warned

Reason: Capital letters

[polar crane]

does anyone know where i can find Black Spray Artefact?

[bright wigeon]

?????

[polar crane]

From anomaly

[bright wigeon]

Ask in the anomaly server them

[waxen berry]

What do I need the SDK for?

If I'm editing vanilla stalker games and maps, do I need the SDK?

[bright wigeon]

You only need the unpacked game files

[waxen berry]

So only AXR toolset?

[bright wigeon]

Axr is for coc 1.5
Every stalker game got it's own unpacker

[waxen berry]

Epic, I'm going to rebalance CoP

I'll call it... call of balance

[bright wigeon]

Nah, why not join us on cocK?

[waxen berry]

What even is cocK about?

All I know is its a mod for CoC

[bright wigeon]

A big mod compilation, I'm currently making new models with @young fable and new npcs, also new quests

Is my vision of coc

[waxen berry]

So basically

Anomaly but better

[bright wigeon]

No misery, no hd models, only arsenal overhaul and stop weapons with very basic attachments

[waxen berry]

Grenade launcher?

[bright wigeon]

Theres much more life improvements too, and it got the docx + lost to the zone quest so expect very fidelity to the og games

[bright wigeon]

👍

[waxen berry]

You might want to make a YouTube channel to track the progress and post short gameplay footage

[bright wigeon]

I already got

[waxen berry]

Send

[bright wigeon]

https://youtu.be/xpejDpJmL_g

Theres some tests with the hd models, but in the current beta i completely cut bc they are really bad to mod

[waxen berry]

Now all you need is a monolith suit + teenchcoat

Drip

[bright wigeon]

Hum i dunno i already got the cs-1 monolith

I currently reworked some models to be similar to the soc models

But maybe i do

Look the community section to see some new models

[crisp swallow]

Shush

[bright wigeon]

Pls bro activate your windows

[crisp swallow]

Dont windows shame me

Im offended now

[bright wigeon]

Just buy the windows bro, MS is here in the walls watch in us right now they gonna make s2 a xbox exclusive if we fail with them

[bright wigeon]

@waxen berry look i made it, monolith trench coat suit

[young fable]

Is it just texture or model inside of the coat

[bright wigeon]

No i delet the bandit model so i could put the monolith front kevlar, legs and the gas maks

[young fable]

So its model then great

[bright wigeon]

it took me a lot of eforts to make the armuture work but here we go the monolith trench coat suit

[still inlet]

imagine, in gamma there is no way to buy armors, nobody sells 5.56 ammo, and technicians don't repair armor. muh hardcore lol, who even likes that

also player can't take naps whenever he wants

omg

[waxen berry]

That's a smart system

The alternative is letting the player abuse the hell out of emissions and farm artifacts, see call of pripyat

Technicians sell good bullets but only when you gain reputation with them

They don't sell armor and weapons because, again, the alternative is easy access to expensive gear

[still inlet]

you are not allowed to sleep because you will be able to skip the time
you are not allowed to buy ammo, weapons and armor because otherwise you will buy them
200IQ design, awesome ideas with perfect execution. don't talk to me or my wife's son ever again

hey, another awesome idea: restrict players from sleeping, because they will skip nights and won't be forced to play in the dark

[waxen berry]

• Sleeping will make you skip time, which could cause emissions, which could spawn artifacts, which could give you money, which could make you more powerful with zero effort
• buying weapons and armor would allow you to easily cheese through the game because of how easy it is to make money in both gamma and anomaly.l

You don't want difficulty? Don't play the mod. It was advertised as a hardcore game, don't play a game that specifically says it was meant to be hard then cry about it being hard

[still inlet]

omg I don't care about munchkins

flip off with that

[waxen berry]

?

[still inlet]

literally remove ability to shoot from the game, because I can easily kill enemies with bullets

omg

big brain time

remove the ability to play the game, because eventually I will win if I am allowed to play

[waxen berry]

• casual console player

[still inlet]

why did you introduce yourself?

[waxen berry]

Why did you randomly complain about a mod that wasn't made to appeal to you?

[still inlet]

I don't complain, I comment on it, so people know what it is about.
the mod is quite hyped around, and there is place for different perspectives

[waxen berry]

You comment and make it one sided without stating the reason

Practical and theoretical experience are different

I'm giving people the actual reason behind said system because stalker fans are braindead and would believe anything we experienced people say

[still inlet]

of course I am done playing it, because somehow I didn't like it removed half of original aspects of the game

[waxen berry]

So you don't like it because it isn't like the original?

[still inlet]

reread again

I don't like it because it removes too much stuff

I am wondering why it did not remove more

becuaseI still can buy ammo and kill enemies

feels easy enough

just not fun

and this is where it got weird

the mod supposed to make the game harder, but it is still easy

it is just boring with all gear obscured behind new rules

the survival aspect of the game is a failed child of arbitrary thoughts.
I can't take a nap, wow so fun. if it is a morning and I want to play at night, well, bad luck, have to wait for an hour, or whatever is daycycle length in real time is

in a single player game

a single player game that suddelny feels like MMORPG

because of all restrictions that do nothing but waste my time

and you even call me a casual for that?
really, does it take any skill to play it like that?
it doesn't take any skill, reflexes, quick thinking or anything like that.
just sit and wait if you want some time to pass

[waxen berry]

• only plays in the Southern legions as a loner

Honestly both the vanilla games and anomaly/gamma suck

They have a lot of missed potential

[young fable]

well it works

[still inlet]

agree. thankfully, even flawed games can be fun to play, again and again

[round nova]

Its just grindy

And full of bs items

[round nova]

Difficulty =/= not being able to repair armor

[waxen berry]

You can repair armor though

[round nova]

My bad then

Difficulty =/= not being able to buy a gun and armor

[waxen berry]

That's not difficulty, that's balancing a mechanic

Anomaly gave you the ability to purchase stuff and it resulted in a big economy and progression issue

[round nova]

Bs mechanic

[round nova]

This is bs too

[bright wigeon]

@north halo

[waxen berry]

Why?

[round nova]

Zone is full of weapons

But you cant buy them

[waxen berry]

Balance

[round nova]

They could balance it other way

Sleeping too

Just make emissions less frequent when you sleep

[waxen berry]

Like?

[round nova]

turn down the sell price

[waxen berry]

Doesn't really do much since you still get a decent amount of money from quests

[gentle dagger]

Hello, does anyone here know how to create a ogf.world file like the BaS Akm

*?

[still inlet]

agree, gamma should remove quest rewards in the next updates, otherwise people will be able to accumulate money

gamma's way of resolving balance issues: just remove a thing that causes issue

good idea: remove all trees so players won't exploit them as covers in gunfights

4000 IQ idea