╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[crimson laurel]

yeah only fmodel with the usmap

[high plaza]

will visual studio code work?

[worn temple]

yes

[crimson laurel]

no, u have to decrypt it first

if its decrypted then yes

[carmine path]

Gamma 2.0 when🌚

[merry mountain]

with "XStartQuestBySID ND_Debug" you can start a Debug Quest which gives you an svd and does some other stuff , look at Stalker2\Content\Paks\pakchunk0-Windows\Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData\QuestNodePrototypes\ND_Debug.cfg

[worn temple]

check pins

[frail plover]

@keen river I might have found the blueprint for the flashlight

[honest glade]

#📢announcements message

[tame turtle]

If someone has a working usmap please dm me, mine seems to give fatal error in fmodel

[frail plover]

have looked through all the chunks and found this one.

[high plaza]

do i need ue5 for uasset files

[crimson laurel]

no

[frail plover]

pachunk27-Windows.utoc/Stalker2/Content/light/BP/BP_NPC_flashlight.uasset

It is named NPC flashlight so not sure if its reused for the player or not too

But that is the only reference to flashlights outside of the player character BP I can find

Lots of params in there to change

[steep fog]

you guys are unhinged ❤️

[grave kite]

working on a loot quantity reduction for consumables and ammos because i hate myself

[mighty ermine]

Does any1 know, after i install some mods will i still able to get achievements ?

[crimson laurel]

no am not

[honest glade]

can anyone unpack scripts?

[worn temple]

you'll still get them

[high plaza]

man how do i wokr on uasset files

[worn temple]

there's no abnormal file checking for mods afaik

[crimson laurel]

theres a shit ton more of dots, they are smaller too i believe lol

[honest glade]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1213941343332601946/1308549330088493056/Untitled_video_1.gif

[leaden dagger]

Found the flashlight, tho it's driving most of it's values from data tables

[pulsar comet]

nah dude I give up @worn temple

[high plaza]

hhhmmmmmmmmmm

[cunning sluice]

so all i do is unzip the mods into the PAKs/Mods folder and then its good to go?

currently looks like this and i dont think tis doing anything lol

[worn temple]

gamepass or steam?

[cunning sluice]

steam

its so stupid that we have to start seperating lol

[frail plover]

Where was it?

[pulsar comet]

going faaaast

[worn temple]

can try the other version of the stamina mod, it's pretty obvious if it's working or not in my experience

[high plaza]

man who woulda thought trying to mod a flahlight brighter would give me a headache

[leaden dagger]

I'd hasard a guess it's this one
Not too sure as the values I'm seeing are wacky

[formal bronze]

wait isn't that just radiation?

[pulsar comet]

yes lol

[frail plover]

Welcome to game dev haha

[leaden dagger]

You could reference search from the T_flashlight_Cookie texture to be sure

[crimson laurel]

yes but u can see it at the bottom left anyway

[leaden dagger]

Tho it mostly seems to reference a Sel character and not the BP character

[formal bronze]

Might work

might explode

[crimson laurel]

https://gyazo.com/31b700756549e3af7986022dedd11648?token=8c4b13a4a899f924b0fb8b575b229928

look tho

it might be better than default lol

not that one

ofc

[wind glacier]

we need a mod that lets us pick up all three missions/quests from barkeepers etc and/or atleast reduce the cooldown timer on those, dont know what it is

[formal bronze]

Wait. By white dots I thought about the white dot when looking at items you can grab for example my bad

[high plaza]

https://github.com/atenfyr/UAssetGUI would this work for uasset changes?

[formal cloud]

where can i find stalker 2 mod list?

[worn temple]

It probably won't work out of the box

[formal bronze]

Removing the filmgrain from radiation might not be possible until Blueprint modding method is better established

[cunning sluice]

Nexus has some, ModDB has some, just search STALKER 2 and itll pop up

[leaden dagger]

The radiation grain effect is most likely driven by a post process material, you'd need to edit it

[honest glade]

I think I can invert it, but not sure if its the color tho

[leaden dagger]

Yeah modify that one

[cobalt dragon]

#📢announcements message

[formal cloud]

the gamma 2 mod list i mean

[crimson laurel]

use stat unit and stat fps on the console to see unreal engine perf shit 😈

[crimson laurel]

hmmm

[leaden dagger]

Heard you got a usmap file, that true?

[crimson laurel]

thats right

[tranquil minnow]

anyone else having issues with having the spatial distortion around Vortex anomalies and Bloodsuckers being invisible after installing some mods

[leaden dagger]

Is it the one from the leaked alpha?

[tidal yew]

anyone figured out how to make enemies stop popping in and out at range?

[honest glade]

no

[tidal yew]

it's killing me inside lol

[formal bronze]

Intensity might also be changable in the CoreVariables.cfg file

[worn temple]

interesting

Lots of mods going to conflict soon kek

[honest glade]

hmmm

[tranquil minnow]

i wonder if there is a line of code that can enable/disable spatial distortion around objects

[formal bronze]

[worn temple]

How large are unreal units?

[leaden dagger]

Yeah you just have to turn refraction off as a postprocess

[honest glade]

who wanna try this and see what happens

see if the Alife just spawns in outta nowhere

[vagrant walrus]

what does it do

imma try it, fuck it

[supple mulch]

1 cm I think

[honest glade]

I increased the AgentSpawnNavMeshQueryDistance

to 1000

[formal cloud]

where is S2 modlist that Gork posted?

[vagrant walrus]

openin stalker 2 now

[leaden dagger]

That's just the downward query for finding the terrain nav mesh

[honest glade]

this either works or idk.. explodes

[vagrant walrus]

where's gamma 2

[honest glade]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/912827116427554877

[honest glade]

hmmm makes sense

[desert canyon]

damn

unFORTUNATE

[honest glade]

so

[vagrant walrus]

you all crazy motherfuckers

I love you all

[honest glade]

if unreal is using 1cm units

would this be 25 meters min and 30 meters max?

[supple mulch]

.1 meters is a cm right? My smooth brain can’t think rn

[desert canyon]

are those base settings?

[flint flicker]

Should have quest rewards and weight adjustments up in a minute, there is another weight adjustment on nexus that has a good variety.

[vagrant walrus]

Yea

1 mm

[leaden dagger]

Have we identified the characters code names yet?

[flint flicker]

quest rewards will need to be a modified version of Groks mod though, until I can find a different place to adjust quest rewards

[supple mulch]

Yeah that’s right I’m pretty sure, 3000 ue units is pretty close

[vagrant walrus]

im fucking retarded

[desert canyon]

dude just add 2 more zeroes and bump the agents to 120 and see what happens lol

[astral kraken]

I feel like the Medkits and Consumables Rebalance mod is a bit too punishing. Making medkit the only source of healing is a bit rough

[supple mulch]

Two more units would be very very far

[desert canyon]

oh yeah thatd be 2 km

yike

yeah maybe just 1

[honest glade]

we start simple

chill

[supple mulch]

For all we know those values are being multiplied in a script bc that seems way too close, like almost right in your face close

[desert canyon]

sorry lol

im just

excited

[supple mulch]

What other values can you tweak in those files?

[merry mountain]

yes, in some file it has a value of 100000.0 for a distance of 100m according to a comment in the cfg

[frail plover]

What file is that with those Alife params? I wanna look 👀

[supple mulch]

Lettuce have a good peak

[honest glade]

hmm

[honest glade]

some more like luminance

and AI visibility

[worn stirrup]

damn feels good to be able to repair shit

thanks grok

[tranquil minnow]

where is that located? in settings or a specific .ini file

[worldly wind]

how many mods have been released? like real mods?

[supple mulch]

There’s only been config tweaks

[worn temple]

Anyone wanna see if their game explodes?

[leaden dagger]

Would be an .ini, you need r.RefractionQuality=0.
Which goes in the engine scalability settigns

[willow hornet]

@honest glade I try'd modifying the values for Alife and it just would not go

[worldly wind]

oop

[white sentinel]

I am up for it bro

[worldly wind]

whats this do

[ember orchid]

Guys, lemme know when there is Thomas the Tank Engine mod is in

[white sentinel]

I am not even gonna ask what it does

[honest glade]

ok if someone wants to test this, i bumped the Alife spawn and despawn radius

[honest glade]

it didnt?

[crimson laurel]

i like this fov

[worn temple]

Randomly changing alife values to see if something breaks

[merry mountain]

if you want to cheese stashes , XRegenerateItemsInStashes

[willow hornet]

Nothing worked, I was literally with you in voice chat bruh lol

[worldly wind]

@honest glade @worn temple do these work at all or is this just an experiment

[hardy pebble]

Reminds me of Necromunda with its fish eye lense look.

[honest glade]

but these values changed

[honest glade]

its a test

[worn temple]

which files are you working in

[supple mulch]

Maybe ALife is disabled right now?

[honest glade]

which cfg file did you change? cuz this one is the one out of the folder

the main ones

[high plaza]

https://github.com/Archengius/ZenTools i found this to help with encrypted uassets but im lost

[worn temple]

I changed the alife population manager and director

[willow hornet]

Possible that it is handled via blueprints too

[honest glade]

AIGlobals.cfg

[tranquil minnow]

cant find it in either Engine or GameUserSettings

[crimson laurel]

theres a alife enable and disable console but doesnt change nun from what i see

[prime reef]

the devs have acknowledged "there are problems with alife" whether that means its completely dead or not who knows

[leaden dagger]

Well it won't be at 0, obviously

[high plaza]

i try to load uassets in the gui and it says this

[willow hornet]

My bet is it's completely broken and they disabled it until it can be fixed and they patched in a workaround that makes enemies spawn randomly behind you, but who knows really

[supple mulch]

Does anyone know if you can access the source code in FModel?

[tranquil minnow]

seems like its missing on my end, maybe a mod ini version of engine didnt have it, in which section of engine should i place it?, the scalability ini is empty for me

[crimson laurel]

u can access about anythitng ig

[marble isle]

did anyone data mine stalker 2 until now or delved into the accessible code that we know of?

[supple mulch]

Can you show a screenshot I’m not on my pc rn

[crimson laurel]

just did a massacre via console 🤣🤣🤣

[rare ruin]

@worn temple sorry to ping, but I am curious, what variables did you change in your "Longer Sprinting" mod? I was looking at it (to just learn) and I can't see a difference between vanilla and the modded changes..

[twin basin]

do i need to extract the .pak files? ik its a dumb question but i feel like i always screw up modding stuff

[crimson laurel]

look pin

[twin basin]

already did

[worn temple]

   StaminaRegenStateCoefs : struct.begin
      [0] : struct.begin
         StateTag = EStateTag::Sprint
         Value = -0.75
      struct.end
      [1] : struct.begin
         StateTag = EStateTag::SlowRun
         Value = 0
      struct.end
      [2] : struct.begin
         StateTag = EStateTag::Run
         Value = -0.33
      struct.end
      [3] : struct.begin
         StateTag = EStateTag::Aim
         Value = -0.13
      struct.end
   struct.end```
That section

[crimson laurel]

then what do u need exactly?

[worn temple]

In CoreVariables.cfg

[formal bronze]

This reduces Radiation Dots effects to appear so early and so intensely, on higher rads the effect is the same as it seems appropiate, but in lower rads the post process effect is way lower

Needs testing

[twin basin]

like i have grok's .pak files but do i need to extract that with something to somewhere at all or is it good to go

[rare ruin]

okay that's exactly what I thought, but when looking at your pak in fmodel, it says sprint is -1.4. I tried setting my test mod to 0, to test and see how it works, but it had no effect.

[white sentinel]

What have you done exactly

I am currently playing with this

[crimson laurel]

do u want to enable the mod? is that what u want? if so just Add the pak file in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl\Stalker2\Content\Paks\ ~mods (create the ~mods folder if it doesn't exist).

[twin basin]

perfect thank you

[worn temple]

Yeah -1.4 would be default, fmodel might just be showing the original ones?

[leaden dagger]

In an engine.ini placed at : AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\Config\Windows
write:

[/Script/Engine.RendererSettings]
r.DisableDistortion=1
r.RefractionQuality=1

[formal bronze]

I am already seeing mod conflicts. For example my Radiation Dots effect modifies the CoreVariables.cfg file which has so many vars, including stamina consumption for sprinting. If you have a mod for reduced stamina cost and you install RadiationDots effect, it will replace it

[worn temple]

Made alife scenarios more likely to happen, more likely to happen closer, increased number of actors/mutants spawn allowance

[still herald]

Paks~mods or Paks~mods ?

[worn temple]

You could technically move tweaks into CoreVariablesCustom.cfg

but that's just 2 diff files that can conflict

[crimson laurel]

like that

[white sentinel]

It is the first time I saw an aftermath

[still herald]

oh, it ignores the \

[wide cypress]

\~

[tranquil minnow]

i see, if i want to make the distortion visible again i assume from top to bottom i put 0 and then 1

[crimson laurel]

yeah

[rare ruin]

it is very likely, though I'm thoroughly confused as to why my test mod wasn't working, can you take a look at my pak? If you have time, of course!

[crimson laurel]

~a

[leaden dagger]

You'd just clear both lines. The default values aren't necessarily 1

[worn temple]

Yeah I'm running into a lot more events now as well, but I haven't played on it long enough to know if it's just coincidental

[still herald]

any idea why my game ignores the mods?

[worn temple]

Sure, drop it in here with a ping for me

[wide cypress]

need to put two backslashes, first one escapes the second one, so it's written as a text character and not interpreted

[crimson laurel]

it should work

[rare ruin]

let me just make one last test, I want to see if I was being dumb with the value real quick

[tranquil minnow]

hm because i currently dont have those lines and i cant see distortions in game

[honest glade]

if someone testes these two mods and any ends up working, ping me (I'll read tomorrow gn)
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[leaden dagger]

Distortion is also driven by your Effects quality in game

[still herald]

inside:

The only thing different for me is that a drive M for the game, it is not on C

[tidal dragon]

theres no exosuits in this game?

[still herald]

No crash and no error message. Game boots normally

[crimson laurel]

and nothing changes whatsoever?

[leaden dagger]

Reach the end game and find out

[flint flicker]

My changes will have to wait tomorrow for quest stuff, Grok is off and I'm tired of staring at the configs and loading shaders lol

[tranquil minnow]

just tested low - medium - high - epic and no change

[rare ruin]

compling shaders is the death of me

[still herald]

nothing. I can join a channel and share screen. No one else had an issue like this before?

[rare ruin]

makes testing tweaks to mods so tedious

[crimson laurel]

no idea, maybe it's just your perception, looks fien to me

[rare ruin]

@worn temple i am just really stupid LMAO, I forgot that its a Coefficient, its not a straight value, it literally can't be zero mathematically, changing it to 0.1 worked

[worn temple]

RIP

[flint flicker]

@worn temple for you weight mod, easiest fix is hercules

[sterile axle]

for the trilogy not stalker 2

[rare ruin]

i'm dying, thanks for willingness to help though nick!

[crimson laurel]

no he said like the original trilogy on consoles

[still herald]

dos the no weight mod change in the item description? I will install it to test

does it change to 0 I mean

[crimson laurel]

yes the weight mod changes the weight of ammo to 0 at least, it should change the number displaying too

i havent tested it myself tho

[honest glade]

tbh same

[desert canyon]

testing super a life rn, game at least boots up

havent gotten farther then that

will keep you updated

[honest glade]

check @abstract viper mod too

[crimson laurel]

the console uses mod.io for mod browser https://mod.io/g/stalker-soc

[desert canyon]

in my save rn

everything appears to be normal

no frame drops

game didnt crash

we'll see

[crimson laurel]

theres literally 30 mods here 🤣

[worn stirrup]

gamma on console when 😂

[honest glade]

if you see a stalker squad, turn your back to them and run/walk like 50 or so meters, and see if they despawn

[tidal jasper]

did you get this to work?

[rare ruin]

i feel so much more confident now that I realize it was just me being an idiot with math. time to look and see what else there is

[fading wind]

Anybody have any advice on where to start learning how to mod this game

[formal bronze]

Check pins

go crazy

[crimson laurel]

^

[tidal dragon]

man why enemies are damn bullet sponges

[fading wind]

Big bless 🙌

[formal bronze]

Tried Groks rebalance?

[tidal dragon]

no cus i dont play in veteran gamemode

[distant sable]

praise the oh lord grok for fixing bloodsuckers in this game

[honest glade]

what mode u playing? Stalker?

[shrewd arrow]

Hi, quick question

[tidal dragon]

yes, also i mean NPC, not creatures

[crimson laurel]

if someone needs key and usmap just check my profile description

[shrewd arrow]

mods work on gog too?

[crimson laurel]

tell them to check my profile description

[honest glade]

I can maybe make a mod for that tomorrow

[shrewd arrow]

description on nexus mentions steam and game pass only, so, no GOG?

[crimson laurel]

test it

[tidal dragon]

i mean i really notice the NPCs are bullet sponges, maybe its just me

[honest glade]

hmm show me a screenshot of your game's folder

[distant sable]

it shouldn´t be a problem?

[merry mountain]

if you need money for testing, "XAddMoneyToPlayer 50000" in console

[shrewd arrow]

i was checking mods for the game and before i downloaded them wanted to know

[crimson laurel]

i dont think it matters, should be fine

[distant sable]

yup

[honest glade]

the folder layout it's prob the same

[shrewd arrow]

Thanks guys

[honest glade]

and it should work fine

[distant sable]

if it breaks, it breaks

kekw

[honest glade]

if it breaks just delete the mods folder

it's that simple

[crimson laurel]

^

[distant sable]

maybe make backup file for appdata mods

"mods"

[desert canyon]

i got attacked by military and then immediately a firefight broke out between ward and bandits like 10 meters in front of me

[distant sable]

a-live is not even on steampage anymore:)

[formal bronze]

Can anyone confirm if drinking 1 vodka vs drinking 5 vodkas back to back produce the same drowsiness effect?

[gusty olive]

just know that if you disable distortion, anomalies become invisible as do bloodsuckers (completely).

so its not really an option

[worldly wind]

"I was answering that question even before the game was released. It was just an update of a marketing text aimed at newer players to avoid the repetition in text. =)

In no way we were trying to hide it.

Unfortunately, there are issues with A-life right now. We know about them and we are fixing them atm."

-Mol1t

[distant sable]

thanks

[worldly wind]

i think this is prolly the most reasonable explanation

[crimson laurel]

guys 🤣🤣🤣

why is this so funny

[worldly wind]

what is this XDD

[crimson laurel]

audio

from the game

[distant sable]

lmao

[crimson laurel]

nah what?

what the fuck is he yapping

[merry mountain]

to enable slowmo mode use "XSetXRayMode true"

[high plaza]

so uassets are heavy encrypted cant seem to get into them

[crimson laurel]

did u add the damn usmap

[high plaza]

yus

[honest glade]

sounds like a stalker moment

[crimson laurel]

are you sure?

it works for me fine

[crimson laurel]

try opening fmodel with admin

[marble isle]

are you trying a-life mod?

[honest glade]

did you check if they despawn after 50 meters or so

[honest glade]

yes

[high plaza]

i can see this but i cant export into notepad or visual code

[marble isle]

sorry im stupid i wanted to as to Conner 😦

[crimson laurel]

ah

[crimson laurel]

just ctrl c ctrl v

.uasset is compiled directly from unreal engine

you cant edit them anyway

[high plaza]

........ i stg

[desert canyon]

couldnt, killed them all too quickly

[honest glade]

but I was the one who made the mod

[crimson laurel]

unless u make a unreal engine "game" just to save .uasset and .utoc

[marble isle]

letsgoooo

[crimson laurel]

.utoc is table of content

[tranquil minnow]

oh i wasnt planning to, just wanted to get distortion back into my game as i was missing them, figured out the cause though!

[desert canyon]

those fucks did NOT stand a chance against vss

[merry mountain]

lets make an item that enables this for like 15 seconds or whatever and can be bought at the medic

[marble isle]

are you trying the A-Life mod?

[high plaza]

is this c#

[desert canyon]

yeah

[crimson laurel]

c++

[honest glade]

idk if it works tho don't be too excited, @worn temple addon could be working instead

[desert canyon]

havent seen any friendlies yet

[stray sail]

where do we put our .pak folders?

[worn temple]

brand new scuffed alife mod

with even more spawn slots

[crimson laurel]

theres a total of 46k audio media 😈

[marble isle]

yes i am 0 excited, but if he says yes i will feel a little better

[desert canyon]

ill replace the old one and try it

[marble isle]

its just placebo stuff

[tranquil minnow]

figured out the cause of the missing distortion, its the latest version of Stalker Optimizer mod pak, will need to wait for an update

[honest glade]

wait so which one are you running?

[high plaza]

if i configure this how do i inject it into the game?

[desert canyon]

nickmillons

[stray sail]

where do we put our .pak folders?

[desert canyon]

i said i was running super a life

[marble isle]

be proud you started a cascade of a-life mods

😎

[honest glade]

ohh okok

[honest glade]

I didn't trust

[crimson laurel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZrEZMi6X5o&list=PLQyrynUmnHDsB8CHILpZ_9AYXODkaNBQE try this out, maybe it will work

[stray sail]

thank you

[rare ruin]

no problem!

[gusty olive]

show it in action

[honest glade]

I hope it works

[desert canyon]

ill let you know if it works

currently testing

[crimson laurel]

https://buckminsterfullerene02.github.io/dev-guide/ModSupport/NativeLoading.html
https://github.com/Dmgvol/UE_Modding
https://github.com/Buckminsterfullerene02/UE-Modding-Tools

study

[rare ruin]

I know this is a huge shot in the dark, but has anyone happened to find the radio song locations?

[honest glade]

don't think so

[desert canyon]

so far this doesnt crash my game and frame rate is stable

[rare ruin]

i found what seems to be every single line of dialogue in the game :D

[crimson laurel]

radio song no only voices

that

[high plaza]

could i make the code a .pak?

[crimson laurel]

maybe it takes directly from the internet

[rare ruin]

damn, I want to find a song so I can shazam it 😂 I can't get it on the radio in game

[crimson laurel]

no if its utoc its utoc, utoc is table as content meaning, where all assets are cooked and compiled to

[high plaza]

fuck

is this even possible then or is it possible just insanely hard

[crimson laurel]

should be possible but probably hard, idk never tried

we in the testing phase

test out and share ur accomplishments

until we get the SDK

[formal bronze]

Unknown terrain just like the zone

adapt and overcome stalker

[rare ruin]

found the player character's voice files too

[formal bronze]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-cringe-dies-of-cringe-stalker-cringe-stalker-dies-of-cringe-gif-12567984544418047021

[high plaza]

...doesnt help ive never modded before and im incompetent

[crimson laurel]

everyone is incompetent dont worry

[honest glade]

same I never modded too dw

this a first

[eternal bramble]

anyone made anythign to tweak durability rate for gear? i wanna still have to repair it just not as often

[formal bronze]

Same, we seem to be all in the same boat lol

[formal bronze]

Check out nexusmods iirc there's one alreayd

[honest glade]

grok's mod did? I can't remember, but I think it did

[onyx isle]

it did

[rare ruin]

i found the game sound effects, radio may be here

though they are all numbers.wems :D

[formal bronze]

[crimson laurel]

nah its not there doubt it

[formal bronze]

I beliv

[honest glade]

so Imma see tomorrow if I can tweak the AI spotting to make it a bit better, I heard they spot you from miles away

[elder pike]

Some were mentioning eye adjustments being a pain. Well, here's a mod
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/54

[rare ruin]

FINALLY

[crimson laurel]

try simply changing a gun texture

[honest glade]

@desert canyon how it went?

[desert canyon]

ive encountered nothing

[rare ruin]

i found a singular song, idk its usage, but its a song.

[high plaza]

i just want to make the flashlight brighter KEK

[high plaza]

will try

everything is encrypted

[honest glade]

and the mod I posted?

[desert canyon]

havent tried

will do once i get to heap

[honest glade]

I dont have high hopes but

we never know

[desert canyon]

dont think heap is usually this empty

[high plaza]

found skif files

I DID IT BOYS THE MC IS THERE

[rare ruin]

i am not going to continue looking through all those sound effect files, i found a few songs, but oh my god, it exports to my file explorer, and its SO MANY

[high plaza]

something is unhappy im here

[honest glade]

damn imma start tweaking with blender tomorrow too then

[desert canyon]

your alife the game boots up

[obtuse flume]

does grok's list also make damage to the player more deadly too when it comes to both npcs and mutants?

[desert canyon]

will continue to update

[honest glade]

prob, check the description of his mod

[formal bronze]

nice job dude

[obtuse flume]

it mentinos "Changes weapon damage from x0.75 to x0.90 in Hard " in grok's balanced difficulties. Does this apply to both player and npcs? kinda vague imo

[formal bronze]

You targeted that file?

[high plaza]

BOLT

[crimson laurel]

no

[high plaza]

im just poking around

[formal bronze]

Literally make the bolt pink

[crimson laurel]

crazy detail

[obtuse flume]

I'm guessing it just increases the player damage output to mutants and npcs huh?

[crimson laurel]

i believe so

[honest glade]

nah it targets your weapon damage multiplier

[high plaza]

PINK

[obtuse flume]

i wonder how that compares to the npc and mutant damage multiplier.

don't think anyone knows besides grok

[honest glade]

I'm in bed so I can't check

cuz I have the file

[obtuse flume]

cuz right now its either this mod https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/51

or grok's

I have a hard time choosing rn

[rare ruin]

Pepto Boltmol

[crimson laurel]

why did i find this in the game?

[obtuse flume]

ye sounds good

[honest glade]

was watching a streamer play with this mod, he said it feels nice and kinda liked it more than Grok's

[burnt portal]

the less tanky patch is makin my game crash

[high plaza]

arent those OG?

[crimson laurel]

yeh

[high plaza]

i did see older stalker names or renamed stalker 2 folders

some assets open some dont

[honest glade]

they tend to use old stuff as reference and such

[obtuse flume]

I think I might try that mod out. These mods typically are safe to uninstall whenever an update comes right that potentially fixes the issues or breaks the mod?

ik grok's list is safe

[honest glade]

delete it and download again, if it persists, just keep it deleted

[crimson laurel]

yeah but a launch shouldnt have those files anymore ig 🦜

[formal bronze]

[tidal jasper]

ive been playing a few hours with this mod i like it

[honest glade]

these mods are like extra levels of safe

[crimson laurel]

very safe

[honest glade]

meh some do

[obtuse flume]

its a single file and ez to remove at a button too noice...

[crimson laurel]

if it breaks all u need to do is install 155gb again

[obtuse flume]

hopefully gsc gets their shit together and gives us actuall good modding tools

in the year 2025 I would expect lmao

[crimson laurel]

but shouldnt anyway

[gusty olive]

any update?

[crimson laurel]

i found gun patterns 🤣🤣

[marble isle]

wow, you all are already finding A LOT of stuff even if the game didnt release a mod kit!

Wonderful! Maybe we can start modding the first little things easily!

[crimson laurel]

with time we will get there

PKP pattern goes:

byebye

😈

[high plaza]

idek what to do or where to start

[crimson laurel]

just study the links i sent ig

[rare ruin]

@crimson laurel i found the song on youtube, somehow someone made a playlist of every song. https://youtu.be/IFBdw_3OULM?si=HFsK1CBcQYvCUzYS

[crimson laurel]

nice

there we go, UI textures

[honest glade]

well ig tomorrow is time to download the game and mess with textures

[rare ruin]

where did you even find those?

[honest glade]

find koupons

[crimson laurel]

pakchunk16 utoc

[rare ruin]

ahhh

[honest glade]

how big is it?

storage wise

[crimson laurel]

2.5gb

[little iron]

have ~mods folder, mods don't seem to be doing anything though

[honest glade]

not that much

[honest glade]

what's the file path?

[little iron]

D:\Games\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2- Heart of Chornobyl (Windows)\Content\Stalker2\Content\Paks~mods

[honest glade]

hmm

[little iron]

There is no paks folder in the previous stalker 2 path so

[rare ruin]

its supposed to be ~mods inside of the paks folder

[little iron]

yes

it is in the paks folder

[crimson laurel]

GYATT EXOSKELETON ICON GOES BONKERS

[rare ruin]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl\Stalker2\Content\Paks~mods

like that?

[formal bronze]

Look at that chonky boi

[rare ruin]

oh what

[formal bronze]

chonky ass boi

[desert canyon]

i have no clue

[celest fern]

how do i get of this room

[rare ruin]

nvm i forgot discord is dumb and gets rid of the /

[little iron]

You're missing a second content folder but yes

[honest glade]

#╓☢stalker2™-chat-not-gamma-keep-waiting

[arctic monolith]

i've done PS5 controller icon swaps for the dang HUD ButtonPresses but I cannot get UE5 to recook into .uasset files that work

[honest glade]

he's actually not

[rare ruin]

wait

[leaden dagger]

Insert the fuse you found earlier in one of the rooms next to the guy impaled

[celest fern]

mb i thought i was in there

[rare ruin]

there shouldn't be a second content folder

[little iron]

Gamepass version

[rare ruin]

hmm

[honest glade]

huh

[crimson laurel]

have u tried to cook the .utoc in a unreal engine game?

[rare ruin]

oh i know why i think

[little iron]

Yes?

[white sentinel]

Yeah that is a gamepass thing

[arctic monolith]

oh shit so its not repak-ing .uassets into a new .pak, but rather a new .utoc instead?

[rare ruin]

its a shot in the dark, but the paks you're likely using are designed for Steam's file path

which is, as you can see, different from gamepass'

[little iron]

ffs

[crimson laurel]

yeah, .utoc is a table of content different from pak

for utoc u have to compile them directly in a new unreal engine

[rare ruin]

i could try and repak them for you in the filepath for your version? but what mods are you using

[arctic monolith]

and .utocs would end up in ~mods the same way?

[honest glade]

you got game pass?

[crimson laurel]

so if u dont have unreal engine downloaded, start downloading and try out

[crimson laurel]

i believe so

[grand sequoia]

Question for the modders (thank you guys):

Is there a specific reason for why Nexus Mods is being used over ModDB?

[rare ruin]

forgot to send as a reply

[arctic monolith]

beautiful, yeah i've got UE5. thanks for the insight

[white sentinel]

Yeah in gamepass every game starts with game name/content

[crimson laurel]

only nexus is allowed by gsc, from what i know of

[honest glade]

I think it's cuz some guy started uploading there

[rare ruin]

i could try and repak them for you in the filepath for your version? but what mods are you using

[white sentinel]

Just to give you guys an example

[grand sequoia]

What do you mean? Source?

[little iron]

I also have the .ini for optimization

but that's in appdata

[rare ruin]

dm me if you can

[crimson laurel]

i dont have a source but its to monitor what mods people doing, so they dont like give dlcs for free, give preorder content as mods, etc...

[true topaz]

nexus is better long term for anything modpacking related aswell since they have archives and multiple uploaded versions of files

[honest glade]

it should be working as it is

[crimson laurel]

theres 47 attachments in the game

[honest glade]

nice

[crimson laurel]

theres a gauss magazine upgrade 🤣🤣

[white sentinel]

Damn bro, no spoilers

[grave kite]

i assume mods out there already fuck with corevariables.cfg

noticed it contains the dialog fov change

[crude heart]

Okay so after a certain cutscene involving S****r and F***t my viewmodel was zoomed out, my game is set to 110 fov using the gamesettings config. I had my detector out when I went into the cutscene and when I came out, the gun model matched the FOV, so it's definitely possible to raise the viewmodel fov but like I said it just happened randomly after the cutscene somewhere halfway through the game

[crimson laurel]

trying not to give spoilers tho

[formal bronze]

Yeah I've seem them a couple, waiting for my game to download to test out how we can make mods more compatible

because as of now mods that modify online 1 line of a file will overwrite the entire file

[tidal jasper]

this is the #1 thing i want rn i wish i knew how to manually activate that

[grave kite]

yeah i figured as much, packs the cfg in the pack and overwrites depending on who has the lowest alphabet letter

[harsh jungle]

anyone know if this conflicts with reduced stamina usage?

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/52?tab=posts

[crimson laurel]

the thing i want is the way the gun sways when u move ur camera around, i dont like the sway/delay whatsoever

[formal bronze]

No, it doesn't seem to conflict

[harsh jungle]

alrighty

[gusty olive]

u said u were trying it xD

[crude heart]

Looks like this totally breaks zoomed scopes, at least on the SVD, so probably why viewmodel FOV is locked by default

[desert canyon]

yeah, a little after the message i left heap and bandits and freedom immediately spawned in 20 meters in front of me and started fighting

i dont think it works

[tidal jasper]

would still increase the fov ngl

[soft epoch]

which one??

feel like these guys may do the same lol

[harsh jungle]

they arent the same thing

[soft epoch]

for any1 who has used these?

ah thank u tabi

[harsh jungle]

left one is an Ini file, right is a mod

or vice versa

anyways, right one worked for me, do that

[soft epoch]

there sm performance mods i just dk who to pick but i will try that one out, thank u bud!

[harsh jungle]

left one made gravity anomalies, and bloodsuckers invisible completely

which is a bug

[soft epoch]

thats exactly my worry yep

[harsh jungle]

use right one for now

better ones eventually, for sure

[soft epoch]

thank u again! gna hop on inna bit here, was getting groks dmg mod

any others rn that feel like theyre mandatory? Lol if ud call it that

[formal bronze]

Check the list in Pins

[soft epoch]

gotcha. thanks fellers

[white sentinel]

Bro I don't know about this file, but the mod you have uploaded to the nexus makes the skiff schizophrenic. People jump in and out of thin air, I got dange bars coming out of everywhere.

[crimson laurel]

found the deathscreen background that someone hated 😈

[high plaza]

OMG YES FUCK THAT GUY

[harsh jungle]

hue hue trailer image :3

[crimson laurel]

now try to edit it xppxp

[harsh jungle]

yummers says the bloodsucker

[crimson laurel]

ur first mod

[harsh jungle]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1133628131358543932/1197501335579414528/image_2023-07-13_155304219-1.gif

[high plaza]

will try

[soft epoch]

damn id take this over the bloodsucker death screen lmfao

[formal bronze]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-underwater-gif-922906369727670801

[crimson laurel]

i would rather have the buttons centered tho

🦜

[high plaza]

alright what do i do for the death image

[exotic lagoon]

not sure if this is the right place to put this, but im unsure if the damage rebalance grok put out is working properly, or maybe the AK really just does that little damage. normal stalker in nothing but a gas mask took two headshots lol

[brazen nimbus]

Please add Shrek

[formal bronze]

[crimson laurel]

doesnt matter what matters is making sure that u can somehow change it

[soft epoch]

ya^

[high plaza]

wheres the image at

[soft epoch]

christ

lmao

[harsh jungle]

OR THIS

[crimson laurel]

pakchunk16-Windows.utoc Stalker2/Content/GameLite/FPS_Game/UIRemaster/UITextures/DeathScreen

[harsh jungle]

PLEASE

[formal bronze]

Add 1 person behind that couch for every death

[harsh jungle]

CAT JUMPSCARE

[past oar]

Please someone delete that bloodsucker from my game

The casting couch though lol

[crimson laurel]

time to snooze, almost 3 am already 🤣

[chrome cliff]

I'm getting these massive stutters every few seconds even with stutter fixes. would any mods i have installed override the fix?

or am i just cooked?

[harsh jungle]

idk man

[crimson laurel]

just cooked, needs to wait for the optimization hotfixes

my performance is dogshit too

[chrome cliff]

lol alright thanks

[crimson laurel]

its either like 70fps or 10

sometimes am at like 20fps but then i tab off the game and go back

and it goes up to 50 again

🤣

[high plaza]

death screen file is encrypted cant touch it

[crimson laurel]

boy, am saying with unreal engine new game and cooking .utoc there

if you can edit the utoc u can do anything

so its a good try

[high plaza]

damn ill install unreal

[crimson laurel]

yah

[high plaza]

do i need the ue5_1 like the game

[gusty olive]

make a mod to replace it, annoying to look at

[gusty olive]

🤣

[formal bronze]

ye most likely

[frozen yew]

did they rel a SDK for modding?

[formal bronze]

No, but the game is not hard to tweak

Tooling will release shortly, it's what they say

[frozen yew]

nice

thx

[high plaza]

so its unreal 5.1.1

[elder pike]

Here's a cool bodycam mod
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/63

[soft epoch]

its coo but i think not what we need currently! lol

[elder pike]

yet 😉

[high plaza]

working onb it

[crimson laurel]

yes

[soft epoch]

this is in list, is this needed for any mods?

or an option as well? i got s.2 tweaks so idk if this wld ruin it

[crimson laurel]

thts just for performance

[exotic jasper]

kind of a longshot but does anyone know if there`s a unreal engine setting to make water reflections less bright?

[crimson laurel]

no clue

[dense kelp]

After hours of tearing my hair out trying to get my mods to work on gamepass, this chain of yours finally helped me. Hopefully it'll help others, too.

Steam Users: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl\Stalker2\Content\Paks~mods

GAMEPASS USERS: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2\Content\Stalker2\Content\Paks~mods

[pearl lichen]

ty I was wondering where this was located

[little iron]

The mods don't seem to do anything for me, at least not the stanina one

[crimson laurel]

https://www.reddit.com/r/unrealengine/s/iWOKsXLsKl

[dense kelp]

That's so weird. I was having the same issue until I changed the file structure, and now they work for me.

[coral bay]

any chance we could get ray reconstruction ported over instead of the regular denoiser? SH2 did it and it worked great. both UE5 games so im thinking it might just work as is

[fading wind]

wdym b y change file structure

[dense kelp]

So basically I was following the file structure in all the mod descriptions, i.e.

So I was creating a new Paks folder, ~mods folder, and dropping the mods in there

For Gamepass, it's further along in the file chain

[crimson laurel]

oh yeh gamepass might not work

[dense kelp]

But it does work for me

[crimson laurel]

oh good

[dense kelp]

Which is awesome!

[pearl lichen]

so its just an extra content folder before Stalker2

[dense kelp]

Yup!

[crimson laurel]

good to know

[pearl lichen]

I'll update my mod's desc, ty

[slow falcon]

Guys, I'm kind of scared to mod this. 160 gigs is a lot to redownload if I mess up.

[dense kelp]

Sure thing!

[onyx isle]

most of these mods are pretty safe

[crude heart]

Modding in this is dropping files in a folder and if you want to uninstall them you just delete the file. It doesn't edit core files

[slow falcon]

Oh, cool.

[crude heart]

UE pak system is kind of neat like that

[proud umbra]

I woke up and grokibae already released gamma 2

the man never sleeps

[crimson laurel]

it just has priority on the code that it exists under the mods folder

[north cypress]

Does anyone have this damned usmap file? Been at it for a couple hours.... I got the AES key.... just need this stinkin' file...

[crimson laurel]

look at my profile

[arctic monolith]

damn cookin a utoc in UE5 that works is melting my brain

[frozen ocean]

is there a mod to toggle the hud on and off?

[pearl lichen]

I'm still downloading UE5 to attempt the very same

[coral bay]

to turn on ray reconstruction instead of the shitty lumen denoiser add
"r.NGX.DLSS.denoisermode=1
r.Lumen.Reflections.BilateralFilter=0
r.Lumen.Reflections.ScreenSpaceReconstruction=0
r.lumen.Reflections.Temporal=0
r.Shadow.Denoiser=0
r.SceneColorFringeQuality=0"
to engine.ini and place the most up to date nvngx_dlssd.dll with your dlss plugin folder

[arctic monolith]

if you figure it out, let me know

[pearl lichen]

[formal bronze]

Downloading UE5 too

(5.1)

[gusty olive]

why not turn off lumen entirely?

[opaque kiln]

What do I need if I want to edit someone's pak? Like if I only want the repair cost reduction from Grok's rebalance

[coral bay]

cause lumen is nice?

still want RT

nvidia denoiser is just better

[frail plover]

Let me know too. If we can mod stuff this way I'll install UE5 and start tinkering.

[pearl lichen]

you need unrealpak, pinned msg here

[gusty olive]

do u have before/after comparison? idk what this does

[coral bay]

i dont have comparison on hand but someone did the same thing in silent hill.

[north cypress]

Anyone familiar with where/which .pak general text is stored? Trying to fix some grammar issues and add real weapon names.

[slow falcon]

So, if there is no Engine.ini P40L0X says to "use his" what does he mean?

[coral bay]

before

after

[grim bear]

from what i understood you just drag it in

[opaque kiln]

Read the tutorial but it's not making sense to me. Only time unrealpak is mentioned is at the end, seemingly after any edits

[pearl lichen]

when you download the one linked, it comes with 3 bat files, which you can use to drag and drop files/folders into

since you wanna first unpak, you drag and drop your pak into UnrealUnpak.bat

[frail plover]

Where do we add these in Engine.ini? Under [Engine.RendererSettings]?

[pearl lichen]

then when you have made changes, you drag and drop your folder into UnrealPak-With-Compression.bat (or no compression)

[coral bay]

system settings

[high plaza]

does this actually wokr on stalker 2?

[opaque kiln]

Thank you!

[coral bay]

same engine and both use SW lumen so it should. need people to test though to confirm

[pearl lichen]

meanwhile

[high plaza]

bet i can test it

[frail plover]

Working on testing too

[coral bay]

you need to grab updated dlssd.dll files

[frail plover]

Where does the nvngx_dlssd.dll come from/where do I place it

[coral bay]

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-dlss-3-ray-reconstruction-dll/

[high plaza]

where?

[crimson laurel]

the guns are in the first .pak with 6gb or sum like that

[high plaza]

oop thanks

[coral bay]

G:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl\Engine\Plugins\Marketplace\DLSS\Binaries\ThirdParty\Win64

replace the dlss.dll with the most up to date as well

[gusty olive]

interesting cheers
does look way sharper

[frail plover]

booting to test now

[low torrent]

im assuming this is without the quotations when actually entering it into the ini

[coral bay]

yes

[low torrent]

tyty

if i have to cope and use frame gen i might as well make it look as nice as possible

[high plaza]

so i need to turn on dlss or frame gen for this to wokr or what?

[coral bay]

yeah turn on DLSS

[frail plover]

It added ray reconstruction to the options menu

That might've been there before and I hadn't noticed it though

[high plaza]

my dlss option is gone

[frail plover]

Lighting looks a lot better

[low torrent]

nah ray reconstruction wasnt there beforehand

[coral bay]

dope

I'll post on nexus

[low torrent]

i saw someone mention it earlier so i started looking for it

then i couldnt find it lol

[frail plover]

Yesterday this room was full of flickering garbage

And now it looks quite nice

[high plaza]

help dlss dlaa is gone

[low torrent]

honestly might turn frame gen off and just cap to 60

[pearl lichen]

thats wayy better

[low torrent]

they shouldnt be gone

[high plaza]

i dont need dlss or frame gen thankfully

i have stable 60 at 1440p

[coral bay]

mind if i use this in the mod page??

[frail plover]

go for it!

[frail plover]

Frame gen input lag was killing me til I installed this mod https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7 now it feels smooth to play all around

[low torrent]

where does it add ray reconstruction?

thank you

[dense moss]

If anyone is having FG lag I did this in the NVIDIA control panel and I no longer have issues.

[frail plover]

I did this yesterday and it helped but the mod I just mentioned completely erases input lag

[high plaza]

my dlaa is gone and ray reconstruction is gone

[low torrent]

wtf

maybe mine didnt apply somehow

or i forgot to save lol

[dense moss]

I will also download that mod then

[frail plover]

Did you update both the dlls?

[low torrent]

i used dlss swapper

maybe ill manually do it

hm

[rare ruin]

does anyone know how I can make a pak that modifies the same cfg but edits different variables compatible with another that edits the same cfg but is also different variables?

[frail plover]

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-dlss-dll/ here's the regular latest dlss dll

[low torrent]

yeah thats what it swapped it to with the app

but ill manually do it to be safe

[low torrent]

well it automatically put those settings into a catagory in the engine ini

so i know it saved

[warm flint]

Does anyone know what could be causing these white specks? I didnt notice it playing last night but that was before I installed any mods.

[high plaza]

rads

[frail plover]

its radiation

[low torrent]

yea

[rare ruin]

that's radiation

[frail plover]

feature of the game not a bug

[low torrent]

im glad they actually show the rad bar now lol

[warm flint]

Oh wack, guess I just didnt really see it before

[rare ruin]

you can disable it from what I know, but i need to figure out where again

its an ini if i remember

[warm flint]

As long as I know its not something I broke I can get along with it haha, thanks y'all

[rare ruin]

no problem!

[high plaza]

@coral bay got it working looks GOOD

[elder pike]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/64

[rare ruin]

you got your flashlight?

[high plaza]

no im taking a break from that fucking flashlight project it was making my head hurt

[rare ruin]

LMAO, that is so real

[high plaza]

so much bullshit steps FOR A FLASHLIGHT

[rare ruin]

only because of the way they made the light i think tbh

[coral bay]

yay

happy to be of service

[low torrent]

does gamepass ver not work

[tidal dragon]

We got a flashlight mod?

[low torrent]

for modding

[high plaza]

im trying to

[tidal dragon]

It does

[crimson laurel]

rads

[low torrent]

hm i still cant get the ray recon setting to show

i have a 40 series and have nvidia frame gen where the option was for someone else

[rare ruin]

is there a way to make two mods that edit the same file, but have different edits, compatible?

[tidal dragon]

Wrong mods folder path then

[low torrent]

where is the ini located?

[tidal dragon]

What ini? The engine ini?

[low torrent]

yea

[high plaza]

the website for new dlls files is wonky make sure you get the ones on the left page its newest there

[tidal dragon]

In local app data

[low torrent]

yeah thats where i went

wtf

[crimson laurel]

oh? is it better than the one we had before? the freecam and console enabler

[low torrent]

since i used the one from the announcment

[tidal dragon]

Go on pcgamingwiki.com and search stalker 2, will tell all the paths

[low torrent]

ty

well i see the option for ray reconstruction set to false in applied settings cfg but it just doenst show up in game

ill change to true and see if it works lol

[high plaza]

true

lmao

ue5 wont fucking install

[tidal dragon]

I don't think the game supports that

[elder pike]

no clue. i just post updates.

[tidal dragon]

We wait for official updates

I hope we get some crucial hot fix patch soon especially for fps

[pearl lichen]

well I got UE5 but I dunno how to import the uasset

[coral latch]

do i have to put a ~ in the mod folder name?

[tidal dragon]

The goat would be engine update to 5.5 but I Don't think they will ever do that

[tidal dragon]

Yes

[coral latch]

tnx

[arctic monolith]

if its a texture, you can use FModel to export the textures from the utocs as PNGs, then bring them into a UE5 project. which will in turn remake them into uassets

[pearl lichen]

yea ty, I just wasnt hitting save when I imported the image

[coral bay]

Endorse it if you can ❤️ https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/65

[crimson laurel]

export as uasset and put the uasset inside the unreal engine game files, do not try the import button

[pearl lichen]

ok i did it lets see if it works

[coral latch]

Ohh my gaaaahd, the psy dogs the psydogs are insane!! Somebody nerf them by half-ing their health, the are tank! A literal tank

[coral bay]

hmm it is breaking for me now

[high plaza]

hm

[coral latch]

They are killing me in real life ahhhhhhhhhh

[coral bay]

shit is mad noisy. did you change anything?

[wicked marlin]

the ray recon?

[high plaza]

nope just using DLAA and ray reconstruction

[high plaza]

i noticed stalker is mad nosiy by default

[rare ruin]

film grain is on

[coral bay]

no this is like real bad now all of a sudden

mad flickering

[rare ruin]

ooo..

[wicked marlin]

dont get me started on water refelctions lmao

[high plaza]

fr

[wicked marlin]

its bad

[coral bay]

what else is in your engine.ini?

i probs have a conflict somewhere

[high plaza]

i have that game improvment code in my engine ini

[pearl lichen]

I tried swapping the deathscreen, didnt work, so you may need some extra steps to make a compatible uasset

[coral bay]

yeah that's what i have as well

[crimson laurel]

did u cook the .utoc with the paths?

[arctic monolith]

packagin from UE5 now, fingers crossed the utoc works

[high plaza]

do you have a 40 series card

[crimson laurel]

folder structure

[coral bay]

4090

[high plaza]

hm i have a 4080 works fine for me

[coral bay]

let me try again with a different DLSS setting

[frail plover]

2070 super working fine for me

[pearl lichen]

nope, how do I do that?

[crimson laurel]

no clue

[arctic monolith]

if this works, i'll write up a tut

[crimson laurel]

didnt get to study that part

[pearl lichen]

bet

[coral bay]

have you guys went to thicker glass?

like the cubed glass type

[crimson laurel]

glass cubes look dogshit

[opaque kiln]

Looking at your mod instructions: What happens if I don't have an Engine.ini in the appdata/../windows folder?

[crimson laurel]

[crimson laurel]

nothing

[coral bay]

make the file or download the one i have

[frail plover]

can you post a screenshot of this? I'll find something similar in my game and see if its doing the same thing

[crimson laurel]

if u dont have just make one

[opaque kiln]

ty

[worn temple]

Maybe y'all already know this but I haven't gotten CoreVariablesCustom to accept any overrides and I'm convinced it doesn't work, so can't try and minimize conflicts through that

[frail plover]

I was just gonna ask if CoreVariables mods conflict with one another

[worn temple]

Yeah they do

[frail plover]

I have a few and it seems to only load one of them

Paiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin

[worn temple]

They're just hard overrides, not like dltx

[frail plover]

I hate UE5 lol

[wicked marlin]

oh lord

[worn temple]

We could theoretically make a tool to auto-merge

But... I don't wanna

[crimson laurel]

probably because the modders copy pasted the whole code and not just the changes needed? idk

[coral bay]

@frail plover @high plaza

[frail plover]

Yeeesh. Okay I'll look for something like that and report back

[high plaza]

ill look too

also

[frail plover]

Im still in Zalissya so not sure where the nearest place like this would be

[high plaza]

KOALAS

[earnest goblet]

Does anyone know if y can download groks mods without restarting story?

[crimson laurel]

yes u can

[leaden dagger]

No wonder you turned of the bilateral sampling and reflection denoising

[high plaza]

dude youre literally a genius lmao

[coral bay]

that's the lumen variant though

[worn temple]

worth trying, will report back on testing

[leaden dagger]

What do you think handles the reflection in game?

[coral bay]

yes this is replacing the lumen denoiser with nvidias

it's working for some people and not others. trying to figure out why

[leaden dagger]

Yeah, the light accumulation denoiser, not the entire subsystems

[coral bay]

ight let me look

[wicked marlin]

about to try

[leaden dagger]

Flip the temporal to 1 and it should be good

[grand sequoia]

Is there a way to increase saturation?

I just want a tiny tiny little bit more of it on my scene.

[leaden dagger]

Use your nvidia control panel

[obtuse spire]

hey, whatsup.
how would i go about unpacking .pak files to tweak a few values? is this even a thing or do modders generaly dislike the practice? (some do in valheim)
saw some creature health adjustment mod and wanna go for a 40% reduction instead of 50%

[grand sequoia]

I'm using AMD

[rare ruin]

oops, i found easter eggs

[crimson laurel]

check first pin u need unrealpak

[pearl lichen]

#╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message

[obtuse spire]

i didnt manage to unpack the file with that tool

[leaden dagger]

Potato, tomato, Amd should have the equivalent

[rare ruin]

i was trying to locate the WidgetBlueprint but I found the easter eggs instead.

[grand sequoia]

It actually does and I was blind. My bad

[obtuse spire]

i didnt manage to unpack the file with that tool
i'll try again

[mild fable]

Does anyone know where stamina values are located ?

[crimson laurel]

check what jcaleb said, when u drag the .pak it makes a folder

[rare ruin]

what are you looking to do with it

[mild fable]

Either raise max stamina, or boost stamina regen (or both)

[ruby matrix]

Is there a mod that fixes the flashlight so it’s not like a phone light yet

[frail plover]

few of us were trying to figure that out today

not yet

[high plaza]

thats my project

[ruby matrix]

based

I await eagerly

[rare ruin]

its in pakchunk0-windows.pak/Stalker2/GameLite/GameData/ click the packages tab and scroll to CoreVariables.cfg

you will find the // Stamina entry

KEEP IN MIND, its coefficients, not straight values.

[worn temple]

definitely doesn't work kek, to be expected tbh

[mild fable]

CoreVariables, great that's what I was looking for thanks!

[rare ruin]

do you have any idea where WidgetBlueprint may be?

I'm wanting to make a mod that increases the interaction distance for speaking to NPCs and from what I can discern, it looks like it has to do with a blueprint

[coral bay]

@high plaza are ou running this?:https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7

[worn temple]

I haven't really looked into blueprints because I don't know of any meaningful way to modify them currently

[coral bay]

i wonder if this is what's conflicting

[crimson laurel]

@pearl lichen @arctic monolith look at this https://github.com/rm-NoobInCoding/UnrealReZen

[high plaza]

no

[mild fable]

Also I saw that Grok wanted a mod that reduces ammo and grenade weights instead of putting them at 0, which I did. Did someone posted it already or should I upload mine ?

[pearl lichen]

already trying it haha

[coral bay]

mightve found our culprit then

[crimson laurel]

good

[frail plover]

i'm running this with the ray reconstruction

[high plaza]

go ahead

[onyx isle]

i would like this

[rare ruin]

got ya, I can see a bunch of "interactiondistance" and "interactionradius" but changing things doesn't seem to effect speaking to NPCs

[mild fable]

Alright, let me test it first and I'll upload it

[pearl lichen]

it output the files, time to test ig

[coral bay]

hmmm i just tested without ray reconstruction on and it's still doing it. something else is borked i think

[crimson laurel]

@pearl lichen @arctic monolith https://modding.wiki/en/hogwartslegacy/developers/packaging

[obtuse spire]

keeps giving me some sort of critical error when dragging the .pak file onto the UnrealUnpack.bat :/
does this mean the .pak might be encrypted?

[pearl lichen]

rename the file, delete any number characters

[obtuse spire]

oh thanks

[pearl lichen]

its trying to read a magic number, whatever that is, from the file name

I encountered this earlier as well

[obtuse spire]

still doesnt do it. damn...

[pearl lichen]

hmmmm

would you send me the file

[obtuse spire]

sure!
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/41?tab=description
its this mod, took the 50% version of it.
may i attach the file in this channel or is there some kind of rule against it?

[crimson laurel]

its fine

[primal rose]

whats the modability looking like?

[rare ruin]

rudimentary but works

[high plaza]

just coding values atm but were digging deeper

[pearl lichen]

yea doesnt work for me as well

its beyond my minimal knowledge

[primal rose]

really curious what the tools will look like to push pass the surface level

[obtuse spire]

damn, sad. guess i'll stick to the 50% file or look for another option then. would've loved some customized values that are different per mutant.

[fallen merlin]

its just a still image?

[obtuse spire]

tyvm for helping tho! o7

[pearl lichen]

it will probably be similar to the squad SDK if I were to take a guess