🔩┃trilogy_modifications

[blazing lichen]

peak..

[blazing lichen]

i need to play..

[rancid swallow]

Yo @blazing lichen not sure if it's same guy but I think used to play console day z RP

[blazing lichen]

Ayo on Xbox??

[rancid swallow]

Yep

[blazing lichen]

Yeah think I'm the guy haha used to play a ton of Xbox dayz

My gamer tag is same as my discord name

[rancid swallow]

I remember you being a cool guy and wanted to say cheers good to see you enjoying another quality game

[blazing lichen]

Thank you I appreciate that it's good to see you here

[placid mauve]

Hi there!
Does it mean that GSC will turn the multiplayer master server off after remaster release?

[upbeat coral]

the servers are managed by GameSpy
not GSC

[rich gate]

live Jekan reaction

[ruby citrus]

gamespy literally doesn't exist anymore

[viscid viper]

How legit is Stalker 2 OldConcept?

(prob not by much)

[ruby citrus]

not a lie, dezowave is a real modteam

[viscid viper]

i've heard little updates recently about the mod

[ruby citrus]

not only did they develop lost alpha but for the longest time they were the only ones in possession of x-ray 2 and trilogy builds before that

[viscid viper]

i also heard of the commotion of the devteam of dezowave hoarding source code or something

yeah that

[ruby citrus]

yeh they did, same thing when they were developing lost alpha

i'd guess they're being secretive now because they don't want the leaks to happen again

the initial x-ray 2 leak lead to them abandoning the project for a little while

[idle matrix]

they aren't sharing much news but its in the works

[ruby citrus]

they returned to it immediately after though

[ruby citrus]

also

[ruby citrus]

chymo you are not real

[upbeat coral]

do I look real?

[rich gate]

Czech language

based af

[wind scaffold]

You know, its funny. Here, in Russia, generation of gamers always annoyed that something isnt translated on russian or wasent ported on PC. Now i see same picture from different sight.

I could tell you "just learn language, it would be useful", but it is useful if you know english. Russian is only useful for untranslated stalker mods or when you have conversation with russians.

[cinder oxide]

lowkey true

I'm not sure how much learning Russian could even improve your own language like some people say

Learning German was very useful for understanding English despite being a native English speaker

So maybe it's more useful for languages closer to Russian

I can't really comment on it though because I haven't formally learned Russian

Only know it through osmosis (e.g. growing up with my mother speaking it)

[upbeat coral]

I wouldnt mind if the mod wasnt translated
I just wouldnt play it...
But why would someone released a translation where half of the text (and also like 90% of context to the whole story) isnt translated

[ruby citrus]

WHAT THE FUСK

[shut veldt]

Imagine not naming your stalker, also that looks like the scope on the gauss rifle

[ruby citrus]

not like there's roleplaying in this game

[shut veldt]

A man can pretend, also Its so that I have different names for different save so its easy to separate them (I have like 6 save files in anomaly)

[ruby citrus]

i'm a woman 💅

also holy shit i do not plan to re-play this

seen enough

[shut veldt]

Im talking about myself, you self centered human

[shut veldt]

Fair, I wouldnt replay gamma

[ruby citrus]

i still wanna find expert tools before uninstalling though

maybe an exo too

no way they added aug to gamma

[ruby citrus]

found expert tools

it's OVER

[opaque heron]

It ain’t over until you complete all 3 main quests

Reload

[ruby citrus]

there's literally no content

[opaque heron]

Which faction did you pick?

[ruby citrus]

freedom

[opaque heron]

Monolith sin, unsig, renegade bandit have no good quests

[opaque heron]

If you want a fun experience and you are new to gamma, I would play as a merc

Your enemies are loners, duty, and the usual, but when you do brain scorcher, loners will be chill with you

And you get the 3 main quests

[ruby citrus]

they seem to be identical to freedom then

[opaque heron]

Loners is also fun but you will have mercs as a enemy

Play as a loner if you want a good challenge yet want main path

Merc is harder at the start but gets easier

Pic

[ruby citrus]

i've been able to set goals for myself in regards to upgrading weapons but now that i've got the tools there's not much to do

problem is gameplay is getting boring too, every problem is solved with a shotgun+sniper rifle

explosives if you're feeling spicy

[opaque heron]

Pics

[opaque heron]

Did you beat the main quest before? Or are you getting burnout before then

[ruby citrus]

i am really not interested in anomaly's writing/questdesign, i has nothing

[opaque heron]

I recommend the redone mod if you want your actions to have meaning

[ruby citrus]

dialogues are EXTREMELY subpar and the living legend is just a rehash of soc+cop quests

[opaque heron]

Real

But $0

[ruby citrus]

i have enjoyed like 2 sidequests but only because they had a funny twist, like the one beard gives you to kill a giant burer, they last 5 minutes though

[opaque heron]

Drinking himself to death

[ruby citrus]

every game is $0

[opaque heron]

Got kaboomed

[ruby citrus]

besides, there are like 30 good total conversions for stalker (with proper stories even)

[opaque heron]

That isn’t gammas strong point yeah

1.0 should have a redone story

Grok said

[ruby citrus]

i doubt grok's writing skills

and questmaking for that matter

[ruby citrus]

i just now realize, this is such a weird issue

it can be kinda fixed simply by making sniper ammo more expensive than everything else

right now it's extremely cheap and thus saves you a lot of money, making sniper rifles the most effective choice

[opaque heron]

You playing hard/survivlist?

The 2 difficulties

[ruby citrus]

veteran/survivalist, yes

i expected it to be much harder, but it's like, not? maybe because i'm playing it after OLR 3

[ruby citrus]

satisfying to look at

[shut veldt]

I did not know you can get that much carry capacity in gamma

is that because of one of those skill thingies?

[ruby citrus]

lemme check

it is high, but i think it's mainly due to costume and artefacts

[ruby citrus]

37 from suit, 41 from backpack, 5 from titanium grid, 18 from mutant pelt

and i'm not even overdosed on cocaine

[shut veldt]

Dayum

[ruby citrus]

not even the highest i can get right now, i can upgrade the backpack and the grid, then get +weight artefacts

then exo of course

[ruby citrus]

oh right i don't use fasttravel

that's why it's so high prolly

[shut veldt]

I did not know this was possible

[ruby citrus]

hehe

those are like 30% weight artefacts too

[shut veldt]

and im already struggling with my 70kg weight cap

[ruby citrus]

craft da grid

and get a suit

and upgrade it maybe

you can also overdose on cocaine occasionally, it's not that expensive to craft

[shut veldt]

I guess I was just being stupid all this time struggling to carry 5 suits for an armour trade(I dont need them, I just like collecting suits)

[ruby citrus]

samesies

hmm i kinda wanna upgrade the aug

but i already have a fully upgraded sig

well

"fully"

[shut veldt]

I miss being able to stash 12 different weapons and armour I found that I know I wont use while playing gamma

[ruby citrus]

dkjdjdjk

oh also 2 pkms on yanov

[shut veldt]

my stash already caps at like 5 weapons in gamma ;-;

[ruby citrus]

buy a blue box

or craft it

it's can hold 400kg

[shut veldt]

I did not know that

useful information, not that I will be using it

I already deleted gamma a few days ago

[ruby citrus]

ohh

now is the perfect time to download nlc 7 then

or op2.2

or olr 3

[shut veldt]

sounds like a lot of commitment

[ruby citrus]

yuuup

OP is 700 hours

[shut veldt]

I cant sink that many hours into a game

except gta 5, thats different

[ruby citrus]

never played a gta game 💅

[shut veldt]

you do you

[ruby citrus]

i actually kinda wanted to try 5

maybe 4 too?

though i'm probably gonna do rdr1-2 first

seems more narrative focused

[shut veldt]

yeah, those are fun, would reccomend ngl

[idle matrix]

red dead games definitely have much better stories

[viscid viper]

obligatory "ew gamma 🤢"

[shut veldt]

wow that is... weird

[opaque heron]

This is with the hdr sun intensity down by .20

[sick sand]

I love it when the sky looks like it's flashbanging you constantly... Are you actually comfortable with that amount of overexposure?

[fallen furnace]

Whenever I see games or mods that have the sun absolutely blob out like that all I can think is
‘And I thought my astigmatism was shit’

[opaque heron]

Mainly i don’t know how to fix it so I accepted it

I know it’s from the in Game HDR settings, I use default.

[upbeat coral]

have you tried the lumscale commands?

[sick sand]

Ah, I thought it's intentional... Hope you'll manage to fix that, lol. That would be a deal breaker for me if a game looked like this

[minor plaza]

My brother in christ you do not need a game this realistic.

[upbeat coral]

Wdym realistic?
People usually dont spend time putting bleach in their eyes and then staring into stadium lights from 2 meters away

[opaque heron]

The tonemapper is what causes the stadium light effect, most options have that glare like here with the uchimura option

The uncharted 2 option has the least, as shown here

[opaque heron]

The difference is crazy

[rich gate]

Bros are still playing the buzz words like Gamma or Anomaly, yet I now play IWP

[upbeat coral]

gun slop is stull gun slop...

[upbeat coral]

Holy Kino

(ignore the dead mercs, they got in the way of my fotografing session)

[cinder oxide]

which mod?

Oh wow you made your spreadsheet a lot nicer

Good stuff

Damn bro actually played Dollchan

[upbeat coral]

DCE

[opaque heron]

I figured out why my bloom is ass, the default option was 1000

550 looks best I think

[ruby citrus]

think i'm done with gamma

bought&upgraded an exo, raided rostok, gameplay feels pointless now

[upbeat coral]

The Exception time

[upbeat coral]

DCE has Cartographers Place

so peak

[idle matrix]

Is that LA DCE? Or something else

[upbeat coral]

Dead City Epilogue

I would never play another version of Lost Alpha after the disasterous trainwreck that was Directors Cut

[idle matrix]

Lol

Okay good to know

[upbeat coral]

wow
it doesnt hurt to look at anymore

altho I do think the contrast is bit over the top

[opaque heron]

Trying to still fix it where it’s sunnier yeah

Bit too dark, I think 650 looks good after testing

[rancid swallow]

When you download GAMMA, how do you delete it once you're done?

[upbeat coral]

Through MO2

Click the instance button in topleft corner and delete the instance

After that delete Anomaly too

[rancid swallow]

thanks, I've used MO2 with Anomaly, and it's a good program.

[upbeat coral]

Yeah its cool

[ruby citrus]

just delete the folder?

[rancid swallow]

Ya not super experienced with modding or the most technically gifted, so just didn't want a ton of mods to get stuck on the pooter once I'm through. sometimes it'll go to folders hard to find, like when I added mods for Arma 3.

[upbeat coral]

to be fair when using MO2 on top of another mod its already more folders than necessary

[upbeat coral]

name of the mod is Dead City Epilogue

[ruby citrus]

is it that clear sky mod

[upbeat coral]

No

[rich gate]

Kruglov posting

[upbeat coral]

depresso

I love how in every CoC fork the NPCs face wrong way when sitting

and nobody bothered to fix it 10 years later

[rich gate]

Funniest stuff indeed

so, I gave agroprom documents to duty, what did they give me?

SV98....

[rich gate]

scoped TOZ

[upbeat coral]

First ride on the ferris wheel is on me

and yes
it does actually move

I love DCE

[wild rock]

time to raid the CNPP and finish chapter 1 of Anomaly

I used the debug menu since I hate grinding in Anomaly

[ruby citrus]

what's the point of playing it then

[shut veldt]

Enjoying their inner tarkov fantasies

[ruby citrus]

isnt tarkov's gameplay also grinding

[shut veldt]

Enjoying their inner tactical shooter fantasies

[narrow hound]

lmao

[shut veldt]

Making money in anomaly is easy though ngl

I could get 22k just for doing jobs in the cordon

Not even that hard

I already got 100k rubles at day 10-ish

[ruby citrus]

making money in gamma was easy as fuсk, considering it has a stricter economy anomaly should literally be a cakewalk

[shut veldt]

The only thing preventing me from raiding the brain scorcher is the fact that I cant just straight up buy armour and weapon in gamma

[viscid viper]

any freeplay mod that includes stcop 3.4 and above? besides A.R.E.A. and a Call of Chernobyl mod

[upbeat coral]

why would you want the worse mod genre with the worst versions of STCOP?

[viscid viper]

because i'm someone who thinks the whole identity of stalker is gamma and anomaly and someone who thinks that vanilla is trash/s

[upbeat coral]

well STCOP for CoC got discontinued with 2.8.0.7
and since freeplay modders are too busy adding random garbage I dont think anyone has added it

there are some freeplay-ish mods and few story oriented CoC forks that seem to use the newer versions

such as Dollchan 8 (CoC fork), The Exception (freeplay-ish) and Dead City Epilogue (freeplay-ish)

[viscid viper]

why would you even name a mod "Dollchan"

[upbeat coral]

weird people idk

the mod is good tho

weird people make good mods
thats just how it works

[ebon tusk]

a species made that mod
weebs

[wild rock]

Story

[upbeat coral]

Series of loosely tied fetquests*

[stray quartz]

Hey guys, I was trying to install some mods and I'm having a few issues. I'm running the vortex app as it seemed the easiest way to do it and installed these 3 mods. However, the game fails upon starting a new game (it boots to the menu it crashes while loading into the game). I'm not super experience in modding that's why I decided to just go with vortex, any idea why this might be happening? I'm running the game on steam in case that helps.

[viscid viper]

same

i'd rather have gmod in stalker tbh

strelok's mod

[upbeat coral]

conflicting mods
basically they all try to overwrite the same file

[ebon tusk]

why are you using vortex for SOC?

[stray quartz]

I've tried to install only the weather and gameplay but it seems to fail to launch anyway

[stray quartz]

It seemed easier than doing it manually, it asked me to replace some files I couldn't find ^^"

[ebon tusk]

1. are you sure you have turned on view hidden files
2. are you sure all these mods are compatible with SOC and your game version
3. are you sure all these mods are compatible with each other

[ebon tusk]

if you are unsure of either of the 2 or 3, then most likely the answer is a flat dont use those mods

[stray quartz]

I checked the compatibility with each other but not with the game version, thanks I'll look at that

[little plover]

You’re best off using either JSGME or MO2 providing you can get plugins for MO2 for said game. GME is old but probably the best mod enabler for the OG games.

[stray quartz]

I think the mod I wanted most isn't compatible with the version of the game I have so I guess I'll stick to vanilla

[stray quartz]

Is there a mod that works with the latest version of the game that allows me to increase the carry weight?

[young fable]

For what? Trilogy or Anomaly?

[stray quartz]

Trilogy

[young fable]

Maybe

[stray quartz]

I found a guide online that had some gamedata but it crashed my game everytime I tried to launch it

[young fable]

Simple solution is unpack the game files using DB unpacker

By Rammaken

Then go to configs\creatures\actor.ltx

Open the ltx using notepad++

[stray quartz]

https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker-call-of-pripyat/addons/stalker-database-unpacker-v12

Is this it? I assume the carry weight part is the same as I found before, there's a carry weight entry in a specific folder and then 2 entries in that actor.ltx

[young fable]

Yeah

But you can use AXToolset

[stray quartz]

Ohhh I found a reddit page for that tool, thanks!

[upbeat coral]

In CS and CoP you got carry artifacts

[stray quartz]

I know if this is a bit of cheating but I'm a loot hoarder and I've spent more than 1.5 hours going back and forward hauling loot to the nearest seller

And unfortunately the unpacker didn't work for me, it wasn't able to extract the files I needed for some reason

[upbeat coral]

You dont need money anyway
The games are very easy

[stray quartz]

Yeah I haven't had any trouble so far, but still, I would really like to increase the carrying capacity xD

[upbeat coral]

How dare you play the game differently than I do

[stray quartz]

Also, my shooting is really bad in this game for some reason (the bullet deviation is insane tbf) and I would love to carry as many bullets as I can

[ruby citrus]

please i beg you play mods with actual stories

[upbeat coral]

The humble CTRL+SHIFT key combination...

[upbeat coral]

What?
You didnt like Chapter 2: Mortal Sin?

[stray quartz]

Yeah I find myself kneeling 90% of the time, still, without a scope I fail like 70% of the shots xD

[upbeat coral]

Skill issue ngl

Just stop using shittу early game guns

[wild rock]

Already finished Incubator and Dollchan 8 Infinity

time to destroy Sin(Stalker Anomaly)

[shut veldt]

Sin storyline kinda mid ngl

[viscid viper]

is that vanilla?

besides the waifu portraits

[wild rock]

yes

[viscid viper]

install the femboy monolith and female snork mod

it will be complete after that

[narrow hound]

[upbeat coral]

The whole storyline ass

[ember kindle]

The UNISG chapter tho

[viscid viper]

[insert negative comment about anomaly]

[cinder oxide]

The worst part of true stalker story is orders of magnitude better than the best part of anomaly story

[upbeat coral]

Ass

[ember kindle]

Real. It's so goddamn bad lmao. Takes 20 min max

[little plover]

Is there anyone even left to kill in the zone? Looks like you have most of the population as companions.

[wild rock]

Sin and the remaining Monolith forces

And yes,I'm playing as Duty

Because I prefer Duty over Freedom

[little plover]

Heh, dooty. Mercs>everyone else.

[upbeat coral]

Its not like the factions have any character left

[sick sand]

Darkwood ost...

[sick sand]

Your screenshots are so weird. There's a clear lack of global illumination or something like that, I know very little about graphics so I don't know the exact terminology. Everything looks like it absorbs 100% of light, like the light doesn't reflect from objects... If something isn't directly under the sun – it's pitch black... How did you even do something like that?

Maybe it's just shadows being too dark?

[upbeat coral]

Absurdly high contrast probably
Combined with shaders

[cinder oxide]

Just got a crazy lag spike in Zaton during an emission in RttZ

Anyone know why?

[upbeat coral]

no

[opaque heron]

Tbh no clue still trying to fix it

[opaque heron]

I have contrast on its default value for Nividia driver settings, gammas in game settings, and the HDR settings.

Still trying to fix it lol at least it looks better then its pure default settings

[steel relic]

SRP for Clear Sky spawns a random enemy after using a sleeping bag

Had the same problem with ABR

[upbeat coral]

I wouldnt recommend using the optional features from SRP

bugfixes only

[wild rock]

time to take on the UNISG(Stalker Anomaly)

[upbeat coral]

[narrow hound]

[upbeat coral]

Omg
Cat

[hasty helm]

[upbeat coral]

Omg
Cat

[ember kindle]

Omg where

[ember kindle]

[upbeat coral]

[cinder oxide]

This is such a goated emote

[upbeat coral]

Truth

[wind scaffold]

Hell... Anime in stalker. Out slav guys would be surprized.

[upbeat coral]

Dollchan is also a Russian mod

[young fable]

total military death

[blazing lichen]

[upbeat coral]

TOZ34
KVNO

[young fable]

overpower weapon ngl

[upbeat coral]

truth

[cinder oxide]

The goat himself

[upbeat coral]

TS models?

[shut veldt]

never realised those are supposed to be pouches on the skat

[young fable]

Yes

[upbeat coral]

Kino

[opaque heron]

8am agroparm

[sick sand]

Not sure if you changed any settings but it looks much better on these screenshots. Still a bit too dark and that shining on the edges of some trees is weird but other than that looks okayish now

What's your objective in general?

[opaque heron]

Still trying to find the sweet spot, trying Dlaa Lite for fuller leaves

Before and after

[sweet sun]

EE got me excited. I didn't even play Stalker 2 and probably won't.

[upbeat coral]

hi Revolucas

[sweet sun]

Hello

[idle matrix]

Can't beat SoC the GOAT

[cinder oxide]

CS does in aura

CoP in gameplay

[sweet sun]

I like CoP but only because it's better to mod. SoC spaghetti soup.

[cinder oxide]

HoC in price lol

Nah HoC will be goated in like 1 year trust

[idle matrix]

Yeah you definitely miss some of the gameplay enhancements in CS and CoP when playing SoC. But as an overall experience it's still my favorite

[cinder oxide]

If they added CS balance and upgrades I'd agree

CS don't mess around

[sweet sun]

SoC is unmatched in atmosphere. But CoP with all level maps unbeatable.

[cinder oxide]

HoC exploration is my favorite vanilla experience

[sweet sun]

I haven't played HoC yet.

[cinder oxide]

Nearly every interior open

[ebon tusk]

Revolucas sounds familiar wait a minute

wait around you the guy that made axr toolset and hosts coc x-ray as well as working on OXR?
Great job dude

[sweet sun]

I am Alundaio

Misery 2, CoC, tools, other crap

[ebon tusk]

It's good to have you here dude

[sweet sun]

Yeah news of Enhanced Edition peeked curiousity

[cinder oxide]

Goat alert holy shit

[sweet sun]

If they break modding tools for EE I'll try to update them or make new ones.

[sweet sun]

What non-graphic mods would you like to see most in EE?

[upbeat coral]

Game of Souls

[sweet sun]

What is Game of Souls?

[upbeat coral]

A global story modification

Sadly suffers from stability issues

If GSC upgraded the engine, improved stability and more or less kept the visual style
The mod could really benefit from that

If its even possible to port it, that is

[opaque heron]

The bloom persists, but less

[fallen furnace]

WOE

BURNED RETINAS UPON YE

[viscid viper]

realistic

you wouldn't look at the sun

[upbeat coral]

Looking at sun doesnt cause this at like 6pm

[lean elbow]

Hey guys, was thinking about replaying the trilogy. Any good mods that give a vanilla+ experience without making the game too hard and unforgiving?

[upbeat coral]

Wooden addon for SoC is really nice

[young fable]

SWR

[upbeat coral]

Clear Sky is perfect as is

[upbeat coral]

And for CoP probably Absolute Nature 4 with some upgraded engine like IX-Ray or Open Xray

[young fable]

Its not consistent without any mods too

[upbeat coral]

Peak Sky

[young fable]

AXRay

IXRay didnt work properly

[upbeat coral]

Works for me

Also I like IX-Ray more so

[young fable]

Me running IXRay (The clear sky version didnt work)

[upbeat coral]

Well Clear Sky version is still in early beta

Like 0.6 I think

While CoP version is Release 1.2

I havent tried the SoC and CS versions
Only CoP since its the main one

[somber tendon]

Hey friends,i know thats off topic,but my question is never selected by GSC! Hahaha. So,do you think that the devs are going to improve stalker 2s ragdolls and death animations on future patches? Because i think that they are too “robotic”! 😄

[upbeat coral]

We should go back to the Clear Sky backflips when you kill someone by hitting the head

That was so peak

Especially with guns like SVD

[idle matrix]

Unironically yes

Ragdolls have gotten so boring in modern games

[upbeat coral]

No I actually like the backflipping renegades

I love trilogy ragdolls

[lean elbow]

Does the new zrp mod remove the bloodsucker eyes? havent seen anything in the changelog

[upbeat coral]

ZRP removes a lot of seemingly random stuff so I wouldnt be surprised

[lean elbow]

it also makes so npcs spawn with a delay.. unless its something pc/win11 related ;d

never had those problems before on older pc

[upbeat coral]

Sounds like an unecessary change ZRP dev would make

[lean elbow]

ugh cant find a fix. might as well remove zrp and look for something else

[lean elbow]

i remember there was a mod that only fixed bugs but forgot the name 😭

[upbeat coral]

You could use OGSR engine to fix some bugs

But new versions of that are kinda poopy ngl

Also Wooden addon compatible

So thats cool

[upbeat coral]

water

[fluid pier]

still water

[upbeat coral]

its not still

it dynamically appears and disappears depending on the ingame weather

isnt that peak (yes it is)

water

[rich knot]

It's 2024 brain rot 🥀

[upbeat coral]

I know
It gave me opportunity to talk more about how great IX-Ray is
So I did

[young fable]

AX-Ray better

[upbeat coral]

depends

[last hemlock]

help it keep saying this, (i have other browers but i didnt open them)

[sick sand]

Since you guys are talking about all these different cool engines... Should I use one of them for playing mods instead of using the original game engine? Going to start escape from the zone again (A mod for CoP) so wonder if it's possible to play it on one of these engines

[upbeat coral]

probably not

[little plover]

Different engines use different call backs to them for different things like animations, textures etc. Mods can be adapted to be used on different engines but if someone hasn’t done it already then it’s up to you to do it on whatever your preferred engine is, just hope it’s an open sourced one and you can learn how to do it yourself.

[idle matrix]

god bless OP-2 running fine on my new system

I would have been devastated if I had to start over or something

[upbeat coral]

Not just that but often modders edit the engine themselves to better suit their needs

[lean elbow]

anyone playing/played global war?

[civic pewter]

No, because the the levels have to be compiled for the engine, me and someone more tested the IX-Ray with Valley of Whispers and a other mod and the IX-Ray 1.2 crashes, but the engine admits mods as Absolute Nature 4

[sick sand]

Got it, got it

[upbeat coral]

To be fair VoW is much more than just the map

Even mods like the Lokator map work fine on IX-Ray

So I think the issue is elsewhere

[upbeat coral]

@pine willow I summon thy

[civic pewter]

According to our tests, the problem was in the shaders, the other who tried a mod that was configured as "DLC"' of CoP and it crashing for him

[upbeat coral]

Yeah IX-Ray does change shaders and a lot of other stuff

It changes the games visual in many ways

[sweet sun]

@civic pewter like shaders used on the level geometry, the ones stored in the .lvl? you can change/remove ones that crash. For example i recall a crash with one of the labs when porting to CoP that can be fixed by removing reference to dx8 shader

[sweet sun]

It's true if making levels, you need the same binaries as used in game if the abstract classes had changes to them. But if not, if no changes were made to data structure, then it may be possible to hexedit chunk headers to match version of a known working level. But this is pro hacker stuff. And even say if they changed a class to add new stuff, you theoretically can fix spawn chunk in level binary manually. Anything possible if you know how. Might have to mod this way if they changed too much in EE because they probabaly aren't giving us a new SDK.

[little plover]

Aye, a good example of that would me TheMrDemonized with modded exe's, dude's worked some black magic with that old engine.

[upbeat coral]

Ehhh

I meant stuff like The Exception
It had many changes to xrGame file

[sick sand]

Are there any mods that were made specifically for these open source engines or nobody even tries?

[idle matrix]

Dreamcatcher was built on IXRay

[upbeat coral]

Many

I mean
Most custom engines are open source

Only exception I can think of is CryRay

But CryRay is garbage anyways

True Stalker for example was built on Open Xray (with many edits tho, to adapt Gunslinger)
Secrets of Cordon uses Advanced Xray
And The Exception and Dead City Epilogue both use STCOP engine

And also like every SoC mod ever has an OGSR port
Which is also open source

[idle matrix]

OP Engine isn't open source either but that's a pretty purpose built one

But it is why forks of OP are built on 2.09

[upbeat coral]

[civic pewter]

IX-Ray Engine Paradox Weather Unit:
https://youtu.be/ClH2M9BoAGE?si=nVi7eumv9ViwYxVz

[upbeat coral]

Oh nice

Ive seen it on their github sole time ago but didnt expect an announcement so soon

[sweet sun]

Is that a new thing or enhanced version of Oswald's PWU mod?

[upbeat coral]

Its regular PWU adapted for the IX-Ray engine

It looks really great with those IX-Ray improvements such as water reflections

They also plan an Atmosfear 3 port from what Ive seen

[young fable]

Nimble wake up! The Mercs. attacking the village

[dry snow]

Lies no enemies on the map

[young fable]

...are you sure?

[dry snow]

Ahh, whod you shoot

[young fable]

the Mercs

goddamn i had to reload the autosaves because Fanatic dead

along with anyone inside the rookie village

[narrow hound]

Sleepy

Curled up in a ball, like a cat

[dry snow]

Sounds like youre the danger here

[young fable]

I killed 335 stalkers

58 bandits

Wait no

226 bandits

[unborn ledge]

wind of time keeps crashing again.... smmhhh.....

[viscid viper]

Are there any story mods where you play as Monolith

[upbeat coral]

Winter Sniper

Also Story of Cat

[orchid berry]

Sultan

Sidorovich

Owl

[frozen citrus]

i must know

does CoP mods work on the enhanced edition?

[fluid pier]

nope

[frozen citrus]

ok

[cloud umbra]

guys

it seems like that the db unpacker doesnt work that well with the new enhanced editions

[cloud umbra]

did shader files always appear like this after unpacking?

[odd sonnet]

yo
anyone knows how to upload new mods to Steam Workshop?
Or is it just not available at this moment?

[fallow sedge]

WIP removing all AI-upscales / extensions from Enhanced Editions.

[fallow sedge]

that's precompiled for consoles

[fallow sedge]

not yet

normal gamedata editing works, will probably need to xrCompress like with mod.io

[cloud umbra]

Wdym

[odd sonnet]

yeeeah

i'm just curious if i can upload config mods

kinda did some redesign

[viscid kite]

May I post some my old works?

[fallow sedge]

this is original UI

instead of AI slop

so that you can play with e.g. grass shadows and achievements but without the horrendous texture downgrades.

[fallow sedge]

that looks nice

[cloud umbra]

I see

[fallow sedge]

You can upload config mods yes

[cloud umbra]

Im hoping that the source code for the enhanced edition leaks

[odd sonnet]

i guess i'll need to do it via mod.io if i get it correctly

[fallow sedge]

No, mod.io still bans configs.

But Steam Workshop will allow it.

[odd sonnet]

bruh

[fallow sedge]

So this is gonna be a PC only mod.

Man UI in LotZ in general is so wack.

I'd recommend also making this not so stretched.

[odd sonnet]

true-true

i want to fix all interface things
but for now i'm just curious to upload this one thing just for testing

[fallow sedge]

for now no uploads :( i'm also making my stuff in gamedata and preparing to ship when possible

[odd sonnet]

i get it
then we'll wait

[fallow sedge]

what i want to test:

1. unupscaled textures
2. pc textures w/o censorship (will probably not pass moderation but worth a try)
3. original non-stop / s.t.a.l.k.e.r. drink & no red cross censorship

man i think steam workshop has potential to unscrew this ai slop edition lol

[gleaming flume]

So true

I think CoP looks "fine", but ShoC and CS is butchered.

[blazing lichen]

ong man CS is so blurry

[fallow sedge]

Not as much HuD, the new UI elements. It's VERY clear they were not made by a designer.

[blazing lichen]

i loaded up cs ee this morning and i felt scar needed glasses man

[gleaming flume]

Idk, I haven't played yet, I had issues.

[blazing lichen]

i wonder if they used alot of SRP changes to fix CS for EE

[fallow sedge]

no, they didn't use any at all

they fixed some of the stuff from vandeley vids

[blazing lichen]

💀

[fallow sedge]

it's a russian yotuuber and he made a vid when lotz released showcasing all the new bugs and issues

where gsc / mataboo didnt know the game and screwed up

and THOSE got fixed

but most of the legacy bugs still remain

[blazing lichen]

man thats so bad lol

i think ill stick to the og with srp or maybe wait and see if srp gets ported to ee

[fallow sedge]

wtfff is this

[blazing lichen]

💀

[fallow sedge]

GSC already had a UI element that is BUILT around being a list

couldn't they reuse this for mod load order

[jagged swallow]

Is there no way to uplaod workshop mods yet?

[fallow sedge]

n

[twilit storm]

How to install Weapon Reanimation CS on a new clean sky?

[odd sonnet]

still waiting for the steam workshop...

🫃

[upbeat coral]

You dont

[upbeat coral]

Geez those are some of the ugliest our of place looking icons Ive seen in a game

[odd sonnet]

naaah icons are fine

but the general design...

[cinder oxide]

Steam workshop would not work for most of the good mods

In fact the only story mod I think would work with it is Spatial Anomaly

[spiral relic]

Does anyone who understands modding think it will be easy to translate the game? I want to translate it into Portuguese

[upbeat coral]

Dont think so
That changes binaries
Cuz Atmosfear

[upbeat coral]

Thats just a matter of extracting the packed gamefiles and changing the text

The process itself is simple
But very time consuming

Unless you do a sloppy AI translation
In which case there will be mistranslations because of missing context and shit ton of inconsistency in characters names

[dusky inlet]

make a bunch of custom .ogg files of u or ur friends speaking and name them the same things as the game names the character voices files

[urban moat]

Any tools available yet? I could start modding the UI elements for 32:9 and such.

[upbeat coral]

You dont need tools for that

[jolly bramble]

how do i get SoC to not be a blurry mess???

[upbeat coral]

by playing the original...

[ancient widget]

I might be a dumb question, but how can I add "mod" to steam workshop for the enhanced edition, I can see what there are already some "mods" but how can I upload one by myself?

[fallow sedge]

https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/3484803585/831588553791132121/

[odd sonnet]

wha...

but anyway thanks!

i'll try it

[fallow sedge]

chinese community is on its own level

[odd sonnet]

but i like them 😭

[cursive gust]

Is there any way to fix the blur yet?

[cinder oxide]

Download standard edition

[cursive gust]

hehe

[cinder oxide]

It looks pretty good outside of that blurriness ngl

I might go through SoC again, although I might also just play OGSE

[blazing lichen]

I gotta try ogse

[fallow sedge]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3484952134

Can someone test if this works

For me no workshop mods get applied after subscriptions

[upbeat coral]

Yes

[lusty oriole]

need subtitle mod pls

[tidal dune]

How soon do we think we’re gonna see mods ported? Is it hard?

[sweet sun]

What mods are you expecting?

[austere cedar]

ZRP EE

[sweet sun]

CoP still needs smart terrain loop fix

its why it stutters more than other two games

[austere cedar]

I bet it won't be fixed

[sweet sun]

No I think I'm the only person who knows this issue

[austere cedar]

Did you fix it for CoP

[sweet sun]

Yeah first fixed it in Call of Pripyat Reborn mod and its fixed in CoC. CoC would definitely not be able to run without the fix, haha.

I could do EE fixes like that. very simple.

[austere cedar]

I guess we will see couple of official patches for EE soon

[civic pewter]

Is not related to the EE but...
IX-Ray Engine 1.3
Wanderer
Another Side
Legend Returns 1.0
New Project
the next patch of OLR 3.0
VESSEL

[sweet sun]

My first mod will be a script that deletes EE and reinstalls OG

[blazing lichen]

Based as hell

[azure tinsel]

interestingly, looks like models are still getting precision crushed even if the .ogf itself looks perfect (at least in Shadow of Chernobyl)

( i purposefully went very high poly to test if this was still happening)

[austere cedar]

sig 5k also has terrible grip

i mean hand position

[rough jetty]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3485034732

[fallow sedge]

hey, im author of the original soc version. how did you get it to work wtihout copying and pasting the changes manually?

[fallow sedge]

i packed the changes but it just ignores em

hm

[rough jetty]

Hi i just pack in db and rename to gamedata.pack and upload

[fallow sedge]

So you did not use xrCompress provided by the devs? Thanks!

What do you use for db packing?

[rough jetty]

I use this
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jawzgBiLQzvazZMpn1mFsaLx2cZOBvvn/view

Btw guys anybody know what xml file storage font type this?
Some letter is missing
Load menu ** ** ingame bottom msg

[fallow sedge]

Continuing to unscrew EE: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3484981145

[fallow sedge]

And more: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3485141462

[austere cedar]

Bravo

[nocturne phoenix]

For CoP anyone know how to increase carry weight?

[orchid berry]

Wear an Exoskeleton and use Goldfishes

[nocturne phoenix]

Im in beginning of game where do i get exoskeleton i want it now

[orchid berry]

Nimble

[nocturne phoenix]

Wheres nimble at

[orchid berry]

Skadovsk

[nocturne phoenix]

Oki

[orchid berry]

[nocturne phoenix]

Ima just wait to i guess

[narrow hound]

Nimble my fimble

[quaint ingot]

Bro

This ain't Fallout to use command cheats

[patent bear]

There's some old free play mod for the OG trilogy I'm struggling to find now, it's like an updated Call of Chernobyl designed to maintain the vanilla tone, weapons, lighting etc. It might have been an Anomaly mod pack. Hasn't been updated a few years. Anyone know which one I'm talking about? I think it's on moddb

[austere cedar]

For Shoc ?

There is Freeplay Start by Xiani

@patent bear

[shut veldt]

nuh uh

TGM
TMM 1

[rough jetty]

Anybody know where am I can change font?

[patent bear]

whole trilogy, it was some free play mod that combined all the maps. I feel like it was an Anomaly mod pack to make it feel more vanilla, but can't remember the name

[blazing lichen]

call of chernobyl

anomaly came much later down the road

[austere cedar]

CoC was first huge freeplay mod

[sweet sun]

Bangalore spent years importing SoC/CS levels to CoP SDK and renamed thousands of waypoints, add new ones, new smart terrains, etc. to work with CoP dynamic gulag. I had to overhaul gulag_general.script and smart_terrain.script to optimize it for mass simulation. But this is the basis of break through in CoP modding. Bangalore is an unsung hero, he did the manual labor.

[upbeat coral]

[austere cedar]

🫡

[blazing lichen]

[sick sand]

Are you talking about call of the zone? That's the obvious one, if you mean "CoC but better"

[patent bear]

Not that one, more recent one

[patent bear]

Might be this but don't think so, idk that feels warmer

It's deffo like Call of Chernobyl but more modern, but hasn't been updated a while. I feel like it's an Anomaly mod pack

or like a total conversion for Anomaly

[blazing lichen]

Forgotten zone ?

Old world addon or custom?

[patent bear]

Old World add-on!!!

Thank you that's it

I know it's outdated as hell but I want to check out a vanilla free play overhaul, that seems to hit the balance I'm looking for

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/old-world-custom-v10-153

this looks cool might give it a try

Planning to give these Enhanced Editions a play then go back to some type of free play mod until S2 is more ready in another 6 months or so

I think I'm mainly waiting for 3 things in S2

• A-Life fixed
• NVGs
• Binoculars

then I'll give it a go, hopefully by then all the bugs are quashed and performance optimised too

[ebon tusk]

just play Xiannis Freeplay or CoTZ

[patent bear]

Does Xiannis cover just SoC regions?

I want a vanilla like mod that includes all 3 game areas

But all vanilla-like freeplay mods seem old

slash not maintained

[sweet sun]

Heresy! Nothing is better than CoC unless there is a mod with a superior acronym like Pripyat Unified: Shadow Years

[austere cedar]

OWA best

[patent bear]

I assumed CoC is mad creaky since it hasn't been updated since 2016 and Hella freeplay mods build on what that does, does it hold up still. I heard it feels kind of empty

[austere cedar]

Coc can now be played on OXR

But we need content for it

[sweet sun]

It's vanilla-esque

Doctor X questlines has favorable appeal for it.

[patent bear]

I do think all the modding makes people kind of lose sight of what GSC were trying to do with the OG games, so I like checking out mods that feel as if they're true to the OG vision

Everything else is fun fan fiction imo

Almost different games entirely really

[sweet sun]

Yes, Misery has turned stalker into a survival sim and everyone replicates.

[austere cedar]

Same I prefer vanilla freeplays, no fancy textures, models, weapons, artifacts...just vanilla stk

[patent bear]

Like the OGs were tough FPSes with some basic survival mechanics not the mad hardcore survivalist simulation many spin offs go into

[sweet sun]

That reminds me of a thing they wanted me to implement to Misey 2. Changing seasons, game loads cromms autumn textures for fall, there are snow textures I think someone made years ago too.

[austere cedar]

Seasons would be awesome though

[sweet sun]

Stalker was inspired by F.E.A.R. lets move in that direction. Psychic thriller, horror, etc.

[patent bear]

once S2 is all patched up with A-Life, NVGs and goggles can't wait to check that out thoroughly, then we can see what GSC were going for with the OG trilogy at that point

but going to take longer than I hoped given 6 months after release they're still patching bugs and adding stuff from the OG trilogy

[sweet sun]

I think I had a working prototype, it would rename the textures folder based on date.

[patent bear]

yeah that'd be cool

What happened with Misery 2?

did the dev get burned out

[ebon tusk]

ehh, it was a trend before, it was a trend during and it will keep being a trend, its the specific kind of survival taht is characteristic to Misery that grates on people
just like how NLC difficulty can also be grating

[sweet sun]

Misery 2.0 is actually based on Massive Simulation Overhaul, a mod I and Trojanuch made for early CoP. Nicolai Aaroe likes to take all credit since he is a marketing mastermind. Trojanuch was basically the designer, he worked on configs and told me what to implement. All scripted changes I did. I can't remember why but Trojanuch and I had a falling out most likely due to mod direction. Trojanuch retired from modding after one of the later iterations.

N aaroe also pissed me off too

So I grabbed Bangalore and made the mod we wanted to make.

[austere cedar]

Good call

[sweet sun]

They found new people, did okay. It's a great influential mod but never was my cup of tea.

[patent bear]

Which mod did you make?

[sweet sun]

Nothing nobody ever heard of

[patent bear]

NLC?

[sweet sun]

Just some little mod called Call of Chernobyl

[austere cedar]

[ebon tusk]

NLC, usually regarded as one of the hardest and most influential mods in stalker modding

[austere cedar]

Never heard of it

[patent bear]

ah I thought NLC was short for something and I'd have to search something else

[rough jetty]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3485225855

[patent bear]

well grats on the book then lol I just read the Call of Chernobyl update like an hour ago

[orchid berry]

Yeah, I heard Never Love Clowngirls is a decent mod. Weird name tho

Like, what's even the plot?

[sweet sun]

bloodsuckers in lipstick

[austere cedar]

[vagrant lodge]

🇧🇷 🌏 HI!!!! stalkers!!!

i tested Clear Sky's unpacker and it worked with current mods for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl – Enhanced Edition
However, I would really like to understand the correct and official way to create and pack mods specifically for this version.
Should I study or use something like the X-Ray SDK or another specific toolset?
My main goal is to learn how to:
►Properly create mods for the Enhanced Edition
►Understand the required format (such as .pack)
►And if necessary, how to pack or repack mods into the correct structure
🙏
Are there any official documents, tutorials, FAQs, or guides that explain how the modding system works for this edition? Any help would be really appreciated. Thankkkkssss
ps.: i have 3 mod for old version.

[grave finch]

Hey does anyone know where my mods went? 🤣

All my mods are gone, they were working yesterday just fine but now none of my mods load into my games

[austere cedar]

Mod Io ?

[sweet sun]

Its based on 1.6 source backported to SoC and CS. So use any CoP unpacker.@vagrant lodge

There is not and will not be new SDK

https://youtu.be/uQbja7E8m5Y?feature=shared
Needs EE port

[austere cedar]

[dusky hare]

any way to unpack the Soc EE?

[ruby citrus]

New Level Changer 💅

[dusky hare]

nvm i found it you just have to use the Clear Sky: Game Database Unpacker

[grave finch]

Yeah, for console anyway

With the new remaster

[vagrant lodge]

humm Ty!Now that I understand the Enhanced Edition is based on CoP 1.6 and compatible with its unpacking tools, I’m trying to learn how to actually create new mods from scratch for this version.
What I’m looking for is:
What kind of game files or systems can we mod in the Enhanced Edition?
Is there a standard mod folder structure we should follow (like gamedata/config, scripts, etc.)?
Are there any recommended tools or editors for creating or editing mod content (e.g. maps, NPCs, dialogs)?
And is .pack required, or can we just use unpacked folders?
Any tutorials, guides, or examples from current EE mods would really help. I'm happy to learn and experiment — just need the right direction. Thanks again SIR! (sorry my english)!

[blazing lichen]

I wonder if this means we can port cotz

[carmine veldt]

Anyone tried merging some weahter mods? Tried CGIM 2 (merging level_weather.script from CGIM and vanilla), bloom is so strong that sky is essentialy a white bright canvas. Guess, it's a shader issue. Any help?

[upbeat coral]

Why port CotZ to a new version of Xray thats somehow worse

[blazing lichen]

True lol

Wa just a thought

I'm gonna try ogsr tonight

[upbeat coral]

Ewww

[blazing lichen]

??

[upbeat coral]

New OGSR sucks

And new OGSR engine sucks too

And OGSR ports of mods suck too

[blazing lichen]

What's the last "best" ogsr

I don't mind just ogse

[upbeat coral]

Only good OGSR related project Ive played was SFZ

[upbeat coral]

Before they removed all cool guns you wont see in many mods and started using goonslinger

C-Con spreadsheet has a link to it

OGSR "Legacy"

Ive heard Rearmed for Legacy is also good

[blazing lichen]

I'll take a peak at that as I wanted to try that and ogse

I'm finally feeling stalker again

[upbeat coral]

The goldsphere is waiting

Dont escape from the zone

You should return to the zone

[blazing lichen]

[upbeat coral]

Set out on the Journey

To find the creature in the mist

Become its messenger

Have a run in with the bad company

end up alone in the windstorm

walk the path in the mist

and find yourself in the valley of whispers

where the legend returns

to withstand the wind of time

[blazing lichen]

[upbeat coral]

Ive run out of puns
Sorry

[blazing lichen]

Naw you good haha those were good

[upbeat coral]

Now play Valley of Whispers

Its really good trust

Basically a CoP DLC

Perfect to kickstart that stalker engine

[blazing lichen]

I agree

[upbeat coral]

If you get stuck ping me
I should still remember some of the stuff

[upbeat coral]

Some more IX-Ray stuff

Outfit addon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv3Jb6HG7D4

And dialogue focus
Where background gets blurred and the NPC gets focused
Could be really cool with some changes to the dialogue window position

And a new screenshot from DrombeyS
Probably using the PWU port

[ruby citrus]

bruh what's with the font

[idle matrix]

I was about to say something about it that would have gotten me Wolf'd. I mean I guess it was changed for readability I assume but it clashes with the rest of the interface so bad

Oh wait that's a mod not EE

Looks similar though

[upbeat coral]

Standard font used by IX-Ray
No idea why they did it

Its probably the only change in IX-Ray that I dont like

[austere cedar]

What is outfit addon

[upbeat coral]

An addon for IX-Ray that adds more suits

Not released yet afaik

[austere cedar]

Ahh neat

[upbeat coral]

Cant wait for IX-Ray 1.3 where we get all these awesome addons as well as a better engine

I mean
Paradox Weather Unit
Atmosfear
Outfit addon

I LOVE IX-RAY

Once I finish my 40Kot journey I will change my name to IX-RAY SHILL with some fancy font

[tall valley]

is there any mod that use IX-Ray?

[upbeat coral]

Dreamcatcher

[tall valley]

Incubator?

[upbeat coral]

But thats a fork of 1.0 iirc

[upbeat coral]

Nope

Thats regular Xray
With some original edits

[tall valley]

Yeah,I played Dreamcatcher,awesome graphic

[upbeat coral]

Yes

[tall valley]

when we can expect it?

I mean,IX ray in some of the mods?

[upbeat coral]

Soon

Theres a lot of upcoming projects on it

Like the second Alone in Windstorm

Another Side

vivients next mod

Also Mawraks next mod

He made Sins of the Legend and Sins of the Scholar

SotS runs on IX-Ray

Forgot about that

[civic pewter]

Wanderer would be better than Gott Mitt Uns and Attribute

[upbeat coral]

Well Gott Mitt Uns was extremely mid

And Attribute is just unfinished

So its not a strong competition

[civic pewter]

I hope that one day VIVIENT Team complete it, there is a lot of cut content in the files of the mod

[upbeat coral]

Doubt
It will end up the same as Contract for New Life

[sweet sun]

Figure out how to uncensor geometry yet?

[civic pewter]

there's a mod, i think

in the steam workshop

[sweet sun]

Was just curious what the actual fix is, how they do it.

I mean how metaboo is making stuff invisible

[civic pewter]

because mataboo edit the levels via X-Ray Engine 1.7, they made the changes on levels without a SDK

[austere cedar]

engine hack to not display some props ?

[sweet sun]

SurDno said simply changing level name made them return. Out of curiosity I looked at exe with Ghidra and didn't see anything obvious, no level name comparisons.

Interesting to see all their newly added code they conveniently prefix MTB

[austere cedar]

so we can get it back ?

[cloud umbra]

did they modify the way they encrypt the DB files?
COP unpacker doesnt seem to work on all files

[sweet sun]

Which files? I unpacked CoP and SoC seemingly fine

[idle matrix]

Oh my god

[neon socket]

i cant get CoP complete to run

it is what it is

[fallen furnace]

Isn’t CoP complete very unfinished or am I going insane

[neon socket]

idk i stopped trying

CoP doesnt need that much tbh

aside from a fov ddl

[rough jetty]

I think Console playe got Mod.Io we PC user got Steam Workshop

[rough jetty]

Anybody can help me with this?

[austere cedar]

I have GoG version, i must use io too

[rough jetty]

Oh I see

[austere cedar]

Tried it ,but no mod shows up when I subscribe

[cinder oxide]

Dreamcatcher has a legendary aura

Didn't know it was on IX

[upbeat coral]

Truth

[cinder oxide]

I've gotta stop pausing stalker mods and resuming weeks later

Some of these stories are rather difficult to keep track of

[upbeat coral]

Yeah

[azure tinsel]

messing around with the AKS74U model, fixed up the shading and polishing up the texture some (mostly on the dust cover so far but other bits too)

[sweet sun]

COMPLETE? I can't believe people even still mention this extremely outdated mod. It hasn't been relevant and even when it was released it had huge backlash on GSC forums for being crap;.

[azure tinsel]

here's how the shading compares, it's really busted on the original. i'll probably add some of the details from the texture onto the model but i didn't wanna re-rig it yet so i just edited the normals on the rigged EE model in Blender

[austere cedar]

I wish more people improved vanilla assets and corrected them

Good work, hope you keep it up

[azure tinsel]

haha thanks! i did work on the Nightdive quake 2 remaster a couple years ago so it's not my first rodeo 😆

[austere cedar]

Oh nice so exeprience is on your side

[azure tinsel]

i've done tons of stuff for STALKER in the past but it's not super on style with vanilla and i kinda wanna do something that actually is this time around

[austere cedar]

Great, hope we see more

[keen salmon]

Chymo, comfort me :(

[upbeat coral]

All will be good
GSC will go bankrupt again and Grok will have his router confiscated by the government

[rough jetty]

Guys any idea why main menu background black, I change the video, but I don't get it why black?

[upbeat coral]

What mod?

[rough jetty]

this is not workshop mod I just change video that's all

[upbeat coral]

What video?

[rough jetty]

mp4 1920x1080 60fps

[upbeat coral]

[rough jetty]

I mean main menu background video

[upbeat coral]

Well for the trilogy games its not a full video
Its short clip that only takes mall portion of the screen
Also afaik all the UI stuff in stalker has a default size of around 740p and then gets stretched

[rough jetty]

that's kinde sucks

[upbeat coral]

Also the videos should be in a ogg or ogm format iirc
Something like that

[rough jetty]

The original background video is 4k and mp4

[upbeat coral]

The fuсk

You mean EE
Or S2 or...

[rough jetty]

EE

[upbeat coral]

Youre telling me they have it as singular 4k MP4 file?

[rough jetty]

yep

[upbeat coral]

Instead of an image and two small videos

They fuсking butchered that shit

Nobody ever let Mataboo and GSC touch any game

[rough jetty]

But they did DX12 port just for AMD FSR so yey i guess 😅

[upbeat coral]

Anyone who thought forced FSR on a fuсking 2007 game is a good idea should get fired

[rough jetty]

I think it was a business decision with AMD

But I agree with you

[upbeat coral]

Crazy to think AMD had anything to do with this piece of shit demaster

God I fuсking hate GSC now

[cloud umbra]

its not forced

[upbeat coral]

I love spreading misinformation online

[cloud umbra]

DX12 is a requirement for newer consoles like the series X/S

FSR works on DX11

[crystal canyon]

The game was likely ported over to DX12 as early as the Xbox ports came out

[rough jetty]

And I don't undurstend why they still insist on the db file system

[crystal canyon]

I mean. That's what the engine supports.
Replacing a renderer is somewhat simpler than remaking an entire file compression system.
Plus a new file format could make modding harder

[upbeat coral]

I dont see why you would expect them to change something of such magnitude in their half assed port

[rough jetty]

Maybe it's just my OCD that if I'm doing something I'm putting effort into it

[upbeat coral]

Yeah dont expect that from people who didnt even edit the levels to remove stuff from them

[rough jetty]

Intresting thing if I use -nointro launch option I don't have Intro video okey, but I stuck on loading screen lol

[idle matrix]

You'd need a full remake to do something like that basically

Which I'd be for over this

[azure tinsel]

this shows nicely the difference texture wise (though i still need to do a bunch more work to it), fixing up seams, better highlights on edges/improving sense of depth, better lighting etc

[austere cedar]

Already looks much better

[azure tinsel]

yeah being able to paint on the model helps a lot with making the texture suit the geometry better, modern tools and workflows help a lot 😆

shame they didn't pass over the textures like this for the remaster but hopefully i can get most of the weapons done eventually

here's the WIP files if anyone wants to check it out ingame

[rough jetty]

Dude there is a full Hungarian text in the Clear Sky EE files and they don't t put on retail version cuz few line missing oh and I found Hungarian voice files, so hopefully I upload today if I done with missing words

[austere cedar]

It looks better without touching the style and art. Smooth

[sonic lagoon]

that looks amazing great work

[young fable]

wait i know you

i saw you in Gamebanana page

[rough jetty]

What is limit? I try upload 836mb

500 is max or what?

[ebon tusk]

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/4202490864588145731/

[rough jetty]

but there is 1gb mod on workshop, how?

[quaint ingot]

What I know is, Steam Workshop has 2GB limit on mods

[rigid spear]

That's insane! What are you using to scuff up the metal like that?

Also I'm trying to make a mod to fix the scopes on the weapons in the trilogy. (Make them widescreen instead of stretched)

If anyone has any idea how I can, I'd really appreciate it

This would be my first mod, so I have no idea how to start

[ebon tusk]

change the textures of the scopes directly

[rough jetty]

Guys there is modding community server or we have this channel only?

[upbeat coral]

There are some decently sized servers about various mods but not for ee

Cuz EE stinks

And doesnt have an SDK

[rigid spear]

Yes but uh how
I know how to do the Photoshop side of things, but idk how to mess with the game files themselves

[ebon tusk]

unpack em, do it directly, put the files and file structure into a gamedata folder, pack that and upload it

check pins

and ask surdno

[rigid spear]

@fallow sedge hello friend!

The Senior Moderator above asked me to contact you regarding mod making!

[rigid spear]

Wait, the original trilogy's SDK doesn't work with EE?

I thought EE was basically like a modpack over the base games

Now I'm even more confused as to how to make mods

No wonder the workshop is so empty

[ruby citrus]

no not really, it's a console port, remember, they had to change things

[rigid spear]

True, true

[rough jetty]

Any idea why "Mods load order" dosent work?

Okey i found what was the problem if I made patch mod for some mod I need same name it like the original .pack file

Like if original file name is test.pack I need name it my patch test.pack too

But "Mods load order" still not working

[azure tinsel]

ah it's all just hand painted with basic round brush, very simple approach really

[young fable]

https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/addons/beermans-marked-one-weapon-reanimations-revised-version

the mod has been released now

[fallow sedge]

https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker-call-of-pripyat/addons/stalker-database-unpacker-v12

[upbeat coral]

Well only large mods require SDK really
Its used to make stuff like maps and particles and such

[rigid spear]

Still damned cool

[rigid spear]

So from what I understand,

• I use that unpacker
• I find the relevant files and edit them
  And then how do I repack and upload to the workshop?

[fallow sedge]

SteamCMD + xrCompress

[rigid spear]

Well, hopefully SDK gets released soonish. They're still patching EE it seems

[upbeat coral]

doubt we will get an SDK adapted for EE when Mataboo didnt evne kno how to use one, let alone adapt it

[fallow sedge]

^

[rigid spear]

Yikes

Well I hope the fans can reverse engineer one (if one is even worth it tbh)

[rigid spear]

I think I'm doing something wrong. I pointed the tool towards db0, set it to SoC(WW) x64 and it didn't do anything

Sorry that I keep pinging you btw. If you'd rather I leave you alone I understand 😢

[fallow sedge]

Are you trying to unpack EE?

It's not SOC(WW) it will be CS/CoP

[rigid spear]

Ah ok!

Yay it worked!

But I feel like there are files missing

Or maybe the game has fewer weapons than I expected

[upbeat coral]

around 30 I think

[rigid spear]

According to the unpacked files, there are only 4 scopes in the game

[upbeat coral]

well theres PSO and Susat
not sure what the rest is

unless you mean scope textures

[rigid spear]

Scope textures, yes

Lmao I listed the file names and Wolf was like "no"

[upbeat coral]

yeah screw Wolf

[rigid spear]

Lmao yeh

Spoken like a true Renegade

[upbeat coral]

not really
not enough slurs

[rigid spear]

What's weird to me is that looking at the scope textures, they already seem squished as if they're for 16:9

But apparently not squished enough????

[rigid spear]

Before