S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Forest Rebirth

[cold pelican]

Short Description:
Forget the scorched wastelands and barren industrial zones you remember. "Forest Rebirth" is a global graphical modification that completely changes the face of the Exclusion Zone. Nature has taken over. An ancient, wild forest has swallowed the roads, cities, and secret laboratories, turning the familiar world into an impassable, mysterious, and deadly thicket. This isn't just "more trees"—it's a completely new survival experience.
Key Features:
Total World Overhaul: All game locations have been radically reworked. A dense, multi-layered forest now dominates the landscape, turning open spaces into tangled labyrinths and familiar paths into barely visible tracks.
A New Level of Atmosphere: Feel like a speck of dust in a vast, living organism. The rustle of leaves, the interplay of light and shadow through dense canopies, and the fog rolling between ancient tree trunks—the Zone's atmosphere has become even more dense, mysterious, and oppressive.
What Awaits You:
Prepare for total immersion. Every step on an overgrown path, every snap of a twig in the dead of night will keep you on edge. Familiar routes will become impassable, and a stalker's campfire will be a tiny island of light in a boundless ocean of darkness.
This is no longer just an anomalous territory—it is a primordial forest that has become the apex predator in the Zone. Only those who learn to read its signs and accept its new, brutal rules will survive.
Are you ready to become a rookie again in a familiar world? Welcome to the Forest. Welcome to the new Zone.*

**Link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3582897596 **

[idle parrot]

reminds me of the trees from the build

[lusty hawk]

Do you have any comparision screens? Other than the first screenshot I cannot notice a big difference compared to 1.6 foliage. Or maybe I'm blind 🫠

[frosty plover]

When we can get more info about this mod?

[cold pelican]

All screenshots show changes. But here's another thing

[lusty hawk]

Yeah, I meant that screenshot especially https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1424597750011531365/1424597752087576606/IMG_20251006_043759_502.jpg?ex=68e4878b&is=68e3360b&hm=480158e1cfc88e0df2d2682762168cec2914a28901d962db37e23d0ee0a5599d& Here foliage are not looking that much dense. But I get your point 🙂 Waiting for more screenshots!

[lusty hawk]

And that's what we are talking about, it looks dense indeed! Btw. do you plan to make an adaptation to Dead Zone texture pack, or it will be compatible out of the box?

[shy nacelle]

How much does this mod affect performance?

[cold pelican]

No, the mod isn't compatible with the Dead Zone yet. As for adaptation, there aren't any plans yet, but anything is possible.

[somber furnace]

yoooo

https://tenor.com/view/trump-huge-yuge-big-gif-9504101

[cold pelican]

More screenshots

[sterile horizon]

Waiting…

[calm warren]

looks really good, but I can’t stop thinking about how brutal the gunfights are going to be, given that NPCs can shoot through foliage like it isn’t obstructing their vision at all

[cold pelican]

This is mentioned in the description.
And it will be interesting in gameplay

[flat nymph]

All these trees have collisions to them ?

[cold pelican]

Unfortunately not for everyone, I'm trying to solve this problem

[lusty hawk]

Any eta on release?

[cold pelican]

I plan until the end of this week

[shy nacelle]

ignored this question

[cold pelican]

Without using frame generation, the FPS drops by about 5-10 frames, for example, without generation the game produces 60 FPS, with the mod the FPS will drop to 50-55

[shy nacelle]

Not much, cool.

I hope my 4060 doesnt die)

especially my CPU)

[cold pelican]

If you played with More Realistic Forest by PanKotan and there were no problems, there won’t be any big problems with my mod either

[shy nacelle]

Uh...I played with DEAD ZONE

Is it the same thing?

[cold pelican]

In a sense, yes, Dead Zone is also a graphics mod

[shy nacelle]

'Cuz this mod also adds trees and grass

[cold pelican]

Yes that's right

[lime pawn]

So - new tree models?

[cold pelican]

No, the models are the same.

[lime pawn]

So retexture mods like Autumn zone should work with it theoretically?

[cold pelican]

No, and the dead zone is also incompatible

[lime pawn]

Interesting, but how?

[flat nymph]

theyre both doing the same approach and replacing the same assets

or at least similar ones

[cold pelican]

Absolutely right.

[hidden spruce]

Can't wait to try it! Will there be differences between regions in terms of vegetation and tree types? Does this mod add pine and spruce trees or just the leafy ones? Are there any changes in the Red Forest?

[lime pawn]

I see

[cold pelican]

The trees are different, from deciduous to coniferous (pines and spruces). There are changes in the Red Forest, but not too much.

[hushed surge]

I hope GSC put the level editor tools in phase 3.... please do it

[cold pelican]

I hope too

[flat nymph]

Funny thing is that we're still in phase 1

[frosty plover]

Someone tell that this is not possible to edit Levels with trees - only change models like in PanKotan mod, how u did this?

[hushed surge]

oh yeah, right^^ phase 2 is not complete atm

[cold pelican]

In the same way as PanKotan

[frosty plover]

But what is your changes?

[cold pelican]

You can see it in the screenshots.

[lusty hawk]

Curious how you gonna deal with collision issue. In the Cinematic Forest from PanKotan new trees have no collision and NPC are walking, seeing and shooting through them

[cold pelican]

At this time I’m trying to solve a problem with a collision, if I can’t solve it by the planned release date, I’ll publish it in this state and continue to solve this problem

[cold pelican]

Mod release
Link on mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3582897596

[flat nymph]

How's the issue with collisions?

Was it resolved?

[cold pelican]

Not with all trees, but yes

[hidden spruce]

Thanks for the mod! A lot of locations look amazing, just like I dreamed they would. Looking forward to what you can do with a better SDK.

Some technical issues:
1-2: floating disembodied trees in Wild Island and Burnt Forest - a pretty common issue
3: weird LOD issue
4-7: weird placements and slanted trees
8: the electric helicopter field froze my game. I think it should be a separate mod or at least mentioned in the description, since I only expected this mod to change the vegetation, not add new anomalies

Also some feedback: I think the green trees from SIRCAA (screenshots 1-5) don't fit into the Zone wilderness. They are way too uniform and saturated and clean. And some of the trees (screenshots 6-8) are simply enormous, which is fine if you're going for a sci-fi approach, but they're way too big if you're aiming for realism

[flat nymph]

That horizontal tree is hilarious

[hidden spruce]

Funnily enough, I actually encountered a tree just like that in IRL Prypiat once, it had a horizontal trunk and its branches grew out upwards at a 90 degree angle

[flat nymph]

I meant this one. It's full 90 degree horizontal

[lusty hawk]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1424597750011531365/1425471530204135465/20251008151428_1.jpg?ex=68e7b550&is=68e663d0&hm=52aa77489307a2974b784917e7f9fd78289ed2c44d6a0ba3e67235b1ade47273&=&format=webp&width=1521&height=856 WELCOME TO ENDOR

https://tenor.com/view/starwarsmay4-happy-gif-4055237

[simple acorn]

Agreed, they look out of place compared to all the other trees. Other than that it looks great man

[cold pelican]

Thanks for the feedback. I'll fix the issues in an update.

[frosty plover]

Amazing! Need to test!

[frosty plover]

Game became unrecognisable and totally changing atmosphere. Thank you @cold pelican so much, my childhood wish is done!

[candid bronze]

Looks pretty good but I agree with what Mitya said above ^^

[cold pelican]

Guys, if it's not too much trouble, whenever you find any issues with the mod, there's a Discord server listed in the Steam profile. Send screenshots of the issues there, and preferably take screenshots of trees up close. By doing this you will greatly help the development of my first graphic mod

[cold pelican]

Take a screenshot of the map of the place that is in the first screenshot after the video

[cold pelican]

Дякую)

[frosty plover]

Today extra enjoyed of playing this mod

[lusty hawk]

If only there were less these big trees... They dont fit into the Zone (in this amount) in my opinion. But everyone have its own taste. Nice soundtrack in the background btw 🔥

There should me more pines, birches and poplars

[frosty plover]

Here also your pack of soundtrack! Thank you also bro, totally different atmosphere with this ambients!

[frosty plover]

For now its ok, there no proper MODKIT for this. But for me - i liked it, cause i accepted that zone is some kind magic place 🙂

[lusty hawk]

Im not talking about the tree collision. Its known that without proper map editor you cannot do that. But type of trees that foliage generator will spawn is easily changable i think

Take a look at cinematic forest from Pan Kotan, it have collision problems too but offer a bit more realistic aproach to the flora. Sadly it was made very fast and it shows (even worst collision problems than Forest Rebirth)

[cold pelican]

Forest Rebirth + Winter Zone and Dead Zone (PanKotan)

[lusty hawk]

Great mod so far. Especially that you doing comp pack for Dead Zone. But what do you thing about making a variant of your mod with drastically reduced amount of these biiiig trees? In my opinion in this amount they are a bit out of place for the Zone. Especially that they have massive collision issues 🤔

[cold pelican]

Yes, with the next update I will reduce them a lot.

[lusty hawk]

Great to hear that. Cannot wait, for the Dead Zone variant too!

[still jetty]

Привіт! На мою особисту думку, блискавки на гвинтокрилах - на смак кожного окремого гравця, на мою думку ця ідея повинна бути висвітлена як окрема модифікація

Все таки ця модифікація - про прекрасний ліс, а додавання аномалій можна зробити як аддон (окрема модифікація, щоб людина яка полюбляє таке могла його також завантажити, але окремо)

[cold pelican]

Привіт. Дякую за думку, прийму до уваги. В наступному оновленні приберу її.

[still jetty]

Додатково хочу запитати, так як не знаю про модифікацію саме дерев тощо, бачу що у великих дерев, якщо їх оглянути з усіх кутів, є не велика лінія поганої текстури, знаєш, типу йде хороша красива текстура великого дерева, і на не великому місці - коричнева лінія, це проблема з колізією як я розумію?

[cold pelican]

Ні, це невірно вказаний матеріал з текстурою, але я знаю про такі проблеми, і в процесі виправлення
Але проблеми з колізією теж є,якщо вийде - виправлю, якщо ні, тоді потрібно буде чекати коли Zone Kit буде підтримувати редагування мапи гри

[shy nacelle]

Привіт, а ти плануєш добавляти опис своїх оновлень (changelogs) чи ні?А то інколи не зрозуміло, що в оновленні нового

[cold pelican]

Привіт, забуваю додати, декілька площадок куди публікую

[lusty hawk]

@cold pelican Hi, have you reduced the amount od huge trees in the recent updates? And how's going an adaptation for Dead Zone?

[cold pelican]

Hi, I didn't reduce the number of large trees, I just reduced their size. It works with dead zones.

[lusty hawk]

Okay, thought that you gonna reduce their amount too but that's okay, gonna see how it looks. So DZ work with no comp patches etc.?

[flat nymph]

That's awesome that it works with dead zone, didn't know this

[cold pelican]

Yes, it works, here are the screenshots

[hushed surge]

Hi, i notice some LOD issues, some trees in the distance have this ugly 2D model^^

I think it came from these big trees

And when it's windy, the leaves on large trees move back and forth, causing them to slide over the branches. So the leaves move, but the tree/branch remains stationary.

[cold pelican]

Thanks for the information, I'll fix it in the update.