╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[spring idol]

and supports alot of different ways to make things

[viscid socket]

Kinda goofy! Sounds interesting though

[knotty fox]

I fuckin wish it was that easy 😂😂😂

[sick pebble]

@flat ridge As someone working on a UE5 project it's not "shit optimized" that's just mean to throw shade like that

[blazing orchid]

im new to this can anyone help : (

[spring idol]

like idk um

[frail plover]

do you have the .usmap file?

[flat ridge]

Yeah I agree. Also DLSS and FG have kinda ruined gaming to be honest, yeah they're good functions, but are implemented bad by developers, and developers seem to rely too much on them nowadays so they just slam em in the game and avoid any good optimization lol and call it a day.

[sick pebble]

@blazing orchid you need the stalker mappings.usmap file

[blazing orchid]

uhh i think i do one sec

[knotty fox]

Degraded textures for Stalker 2 sounds needed 😭😭😭😭

[sick pebble]

Apply it in fmodel settings @blazing orchid

[flat ridge]

Maybe I was too strict with calling it shitty, but it's not great.

[viscid socket]

Thats my feelings exactly. It started as a blessing, a way to just get some frames back from rt. Now devs see these and went "oh, no need to optimize?" and its all gone to shit it makes me cry
Mh wilds wants to use them too... Im going to cry lol

[sick pebble]

It's hard af to get a UE5 game at this scale running well

[flat ridge]

I agree 100% with what you said

[viscid socket]

Oh I'm sure!

[knotty fox]

Especially it is dependent of AI

[spring idol]

why do we need such bloated engines in the first place

[sick pebble]

I'm surprised it runs as well as it does tbh

[flat ridge]

totally understandable

[ocean cedar]

maybe cutting the zone into zones might've helped?

[blazing orchid]

uhh i have the file idk where to apply it in fmodel

[viscid socket]

I'm not saying its easy at all, and i am being very understanding and patient with gsc. The global state makes this game EXISTING a miracle.

[sick pebble]

@blazing orchid in settings

Tick use mappings config

Or something to that effect

Then point at the file and yell go go mappings file

[knotty fox]

The UE5 engine depends on more technical equations that's why it runs like shit. It's the ARK effect all over again just give it like 3 months or 5 they'll have optimization top notch

[ocean cedar]

Also the fact they lost data after getting one of their servers bomed. Or was that a rumor.

[frail plover]

Enter your path to the file

[blazing orchid]

ohhhh i see

[torn leaf]

anyone know the link to the mutant loot mod?

[frail plover]

It's still WIP

[ocean cedar]

@torn leaf https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1310037284954837063

[viscid socket]

I feel like the UE5 engine has so much fucking potential
This game does look STUPIDLY good, like holy fuck good. Ive turned off my hud and just existed at times because it looked like a fucking real video.
I feel, however, like these games are being used to test the engine before it gets properly optimized as an engine. I'm sure in a few months, modders and GSC alike will make it run great though

[torn leaf]

thank you thank you

[ocean cedar]

just wait a bit since the modder is cooking with some good sauce,

[frail plover]

just those engine tweaks I sent and that mod have made the game run and look so much better than day 1 before anything came out. its only going to get better from here.

[viscid socket]

We are so fucking back

That's my thing as well

The game at launch was the baseline
It will literally ONLY get BETTER

[spring idol]

"more technical equations"

man really thought inverse square root was hard

[viscid socket]

For me, math is hard..
I could never be a game engine ;~;

[spring idol]

i love it when people with no idea what they are talking about make takes

[blazing orchid]

making progress but now im nott sure what to here now

is it better to load it into unreal, rather than saving the mesh

[frail plover]

you have your AES key too?

[blazing orchid]

ye

[bitter sluice]

Make sure you have the right UE version and the AES key set

[blazing orchid]

do i have to hae 5.1 even tho i hae 5.3 already

[bitter sluice]

Yes

[viscid socket]

I try to learn why i dont like something to not be an dumb

[spring idol]

people seem to forget that 90% of the calculations we do in relation to SDF's and geometry math literally has physical dedicated hardware on chips to perform now , thats how often its used and its been that way since like 2001

[bitter sluice]

Game has to calculate 2-2*4, I lost 47 fps

[blazing orchid]

all i have to do is install 5.1? i cant remember what discord page or github tut lays those steps out if any

[frail plover]

You don't need Unreal for Fmodel

[bitter sluice]

In Fmodel you have to select what version of UE you will be using

That is what I’m referring to

[blazing orchid]

oh yeah i did that

[viscid socket]

God..
Id make a bad game engine AND a bad pc
Im bad at math and have no dedicated math chips
Life is unfair

[bitter sluice]

Go into your settings, make sure the file extension of the asset you’re exporting is right

[viscid socket]

They told me i could be anything

[sick pebble]

What were you trying to do?

[blazing orchid]

yee just did thatt bout to check blenders import capabilities

[bitter sluice]

Anything UE related should have a plugin somewhere on the web

[blazing orchid]

one sec

[ocean cedar]

Also found out where the upgradeprototype was referencing its values from.

[blazing orchid]

So i do 3D art and having the actual 3D mesh as a reference instead of going off of non-orthographic *2D images * and even then 2nd guessing myself on modeling it accuratley, im gonna 3D model and texture my own gilka detector for portfolio purposes like this guy

[bitter sluice]

Don’t worry tarkov man I get what ur doing

[blazing orchid]

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ZeRX4X

(not mine but gonna do one like this with the gilka)

[bitter sluice]

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[blazing orchid]

ooooooo nice! im new to the series so im not sure which that one is off the top of my head

[bitter sluice]

Currently having an issue with directories and importing them back into unreal. They don’t have an actual location visible in fmodel

But I’m yoinking tarkov EXPS3 and replacing the in game holographic with it, or at least attempting to

Given up like 5 times now

[topaz mantle]

Yo, so not 100% sure its possible, but could someone possibly make a mod to make bloodsuckers a bit more noticable? My shit eyesight makes the already hard to see things nearly impossible

[blazing orchid]

Ive been wanting to model the Zenit 45 degree grip for a while now

[bitter sluice]

If you have unity assetbundle, it would take you 30 seconds to get the obj and textures into blender

Literally dumb easy

[blazing orchid]

Oh yeah thats how I got my references for the stims in tarkov

pullin up the uvs lol

left is mine, right is BSGs

they packed every UV together for game purposes, mines seperate for rendering

[bitter sluice]

Yeah this has been an issue for me in transferring to unreal

[spring idol]

fbx is alot nicer to work with

[bitter sluice]

Especially because of the glass. Think ima just disassemble it, hack it together, and throw it back in

[viscid yacht]

ZAG FOR DAYS ONLY BITCHES USE AHF1

[bitter sluice]

fbx I had issues with the model not updating in game. Swapped to gfl and now my paks don’t work and crash on start up

[bitter sluice]

Nah blue blood only ur trippin

[viscid yacht]

Also jfc pulling tarky assets out of unity 2017 and shoving them in Stalker UE5 just feels perfectly jank enough

[blazing orchid]

I wanted to do Zagust but wanted to do different color bc I was already doing SJ6

I have a buddy in russia who helped with the russian translation for the cards

[spring idol]

anyone got the code for army warehouses armory door

[blazing orchid]

I dont know shit about game dev other than modeling and texturing, i wonder how hard it would be for somone to swap out models for scopes n stuff

grips might be harder i imagine

[spring idol]

depends on the attachement system they made for the game but i have an incling that its just models parented to the base weapon

so it wouldnt be too difficult

[frail plover]

They're using sockets (GOOD) iirc

saw people talking about it the other day

[blazing orchid]

Im excited for mods like that

[bitter sluice]

I’m getting there #╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message

Still just having pak issues

And glass

[frail plover]

I really wanna make a mod to add a weapon upgrade to the AK74 and AK74U to convert them to 7.62x39 ammo with unique magazine models too

[bitter sluice]

Grips would be much easier

[frail plover]

That ammo type is in the game for ONE GUN

[sand parrot]

Could you add the U dot for holo

[blazing orchid]

Does UE require thickness on the object for glass to shade properly

iirc it cant just be a plane

[bitter sluice]

No it’s more so tarkovs mesh is baked so you just end up applying the uvmap on top of the glass unless you remake it yourself

[blazing orchid]

Ahhhh

[bitter sluice]

The crosshair for sights are fairly separate so it should be easy enough

[blazing orchid]

If you need UV help lmk

[sand parrot]

I’m sure it would be a fun thing to mess around with, I would love to see glow sights on pistols and such in the future

[bitter sluice]

Once I get the model changed in game, I’ll start worrying about the texture sides of stuff. For now, I’m still trying to get the paks to properly load/export/whatever

Fmodel doesn’t show the directory of the mesh outright, you have to search for it. Idk why it’s hidden from plane sight but I have an assumption that’s what’s causing my issues

[sand parrot]

That’s unfortunate, surely support will get better

[blazing orchid]

im ignorant when i ask this but isnt it bc of blueprints?

[sand parrot]

I’m just trying to get my game running solid and looking good

[bitter sluice]

I have no idea, I’m learning as I go. I have access to the mesh in and outside of unreal, but following similar tutorials of texture modification, I need to match the directory paths. When I do so, it seems that either: no change in game is made, or the game crashes at bootstrap

Which is why I initially wanted to wait for someone else to have a “method” first but my hard-headedness has been a heavy fault

[blazing orchid]

it may be because of how the mesh - texture assignments are named either for substance painter or for unreal or both and need to match, you should be able to edit a UV directly without changing names or UV assignments (take this with a grain of salt im ignorant on unreal)

[sick pebble]

Are you exporting a completely new mesh from UE to your pak?

You'll need to match all properties of the original like compression etc

[errant gyro]

Releasing soon....

[ocean cedar]

now if we can have PDA's out while walking id be the happiest stalker.

[spring idol]

i like how nothing in this game poses a threat to you

anomalies

nah just walk through all of them

the only one that actually scares me is the flash bang anomaly that tracks you

xD

[bitter sluice]

Yeah this might be the issue then. I’ll attempt to get more precise on the details and see if that helps

[spring idol]

remember getting caught in a gravi anomaly in shoc or anomaly

instant regret

[naive trout]

for the electro ones I read a tip about unequipping artifacts and on the second one I ran into it seemed to help so.... try that?

[ocean cedar]

Wish we had an encylopedia in game about the anomlaies.

[spring idol]

i dont use artifacts theres no point lmao

they are useless here like they are in gamma

xD

[naive trout]

oh dang lol

the only one I've been using is the anomalous ball one because it seems to have no downsides

just stand still and take less damage?

[steep dagger]

Has anyone created a mod that adds the free-zoom?

[bitter sluice]

Idk this setup making me gains

[naive trout]

is that the sniper AR variant?

or still using the base one?

[bitter sluice]

SOFMOD found it Zaton

[deep ridge]

just found a setting "can be knocked out" wondering if anyone messed around with this at all yet? its in ObjPrototypes.cfg in the first section where you can edit things like distance from npc to interact

[naive trout]

Ohhh ok

1 pen hurts the AR so much

I hate the way they've balanced guns lol

[bitter sluice]

Yeah it sucks using when you have to bring 1200 rounds everywhere with you

Was using it just for mutants and the Val for exo bums

Because late game it’s like a mech anime

Everyone has one

[zealous badger]

can anyone help me? My stamina is not replenished

what i should do

[ocean cedar]

What mods?

[zealous badger]

only this mods https://discordapp.com/channels/912320241713958912/1309182885756145685/1309296332216995852

[ocean cedar]

try water/energy drink and see if it gets up or check weight.

[unreal glacier]

Would anyone happen to know how to force a "long" recompiling of the shader cache?

[zealous badger]

i tried, energy get up stamina. but if i run or jumping my stamina not replenised

Demo here

if i load early save until I drank with the stalkers everything is ok

It's time to a switch healthy lifestyle

[spring idol]

delete your shader cache

:?

its in appdata/local/stalker2

[steel girder]

it’s over

[unreal glacier]

what is it named

I thought I had deleted both of the relevant files

but neither got regenerated

[zealous badger]

One more question. How to use artifacts without harming yourself. No matter what armor I wear, the radiation still rises even for T1 artifacts

[steel girder]

Find the artifact that removes radiation?

idk

At least that’s what I was doing in other stalker games

[spring idol]

the zubr 19 is so busted

we love the ammo dupe bug

tbh how do you fuck up a trade screen so bad

[tender elm]

some suits will have radiation protected slots, the slot will glow green. the one suit i found so far had to be upgraded to do that.

otherwise, the slug artifact will absorb weak radiation. spawns in toxic areas.

[neat vigil]

what's the utoc that has the anomaly files in them cuz i want to edit the Lightning Ball anomaly

[topaz mantle]

Vision impaired person here, was wondering if anything can be done to make the bloodsuckers a little easier to see, my awful eyesight makes them near impossible to spot :/

[blazing orchid]

Gonna have to make my own screen shader but im excited for that

just fuckin around with rendering it bc its a sexy model before i model it myself

[cinder comet]

Anyone know what to modify to allow different optics on guns? Im pissed that the val has a rail but can't mount a reflex or holo

[queen delta]

Oh btw huys have you encountered already random weapons giveaways?
I was running last night around some random electric pole and game gave me two broken weapons

They respawned in my inventory

[barren crypt]

Sorry this might be a stupid question but is the ~ nessesary before the mod folder?

[spring idol]

one thing i mad hate is how if you drop one bullet on a friendly faction member they all go hostile on you

yes it is

[queen delta]

Like from inventory? XD

[barren crypt]

Oh, it dose not work otherwise?

[spring idol]

i meant shoot myb

[blazing orchid]

I’ve had this happen to me, it gave me a pkm but idk when or how

[spring idol]

like if you catch them in a firefight and you nick their toe they all go apeshit

[queen delta]

Ah, yeah that's stupid, previous games had mercy system

[queen delta]

you lucky

[blazing orchid]

I can barely find ammo for it and it’s not very viable tbh

[queen delta]

I understand, still great weapon for fun

[blazing orchid]

What’s the best performance mod?

[queen delta]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7 I use this

but some use Engine.ini

[spring idol]

softlocked at yaniv feelsbad

[queen delta]

https://tenor.com/view/pirate-kill-them-all-pirata-matalos-a-todos-matalos-a-todos-pirata-gif-15217348

[vital coyote]

found this off a redit post for ue5 engine ini

r.Shadow.Virtual.Cache.MaxMaterialPositionInvalidationRange 15000
r.RayTracing.Culling 3```

anyone try this yet?

[spring idol]

got the gauss gun

[unreal glacier]

Did you? Will it help FPS?

[vital coyote]

game seams totaly dependent on cpu, im looking for cpu related stuff. havent tried it yet. gunna do a litte more digging and ill get back at ya

for me thats my bottle neck

[unreal glacier]

Same, 4080S and can't get stable frames, feels bad

[vital coyote]

yeah unreal engine 5 is just ass, you need a devolpers pc just to run it lol

[sand parrot]

First one got me a frame second did not do anything

[spring idol]

probably because the game isnt using ray tracing '

its using lumen

[sand parrot]

Mines utilizing both

[spring idol]

and has hardware fallback enabled

so if you dont have rtx it reverts to software ray calcs

[vital coyote]

ahh well yeah, unfamiler with this stuff but figured lumen is raytracing soo potato patato

[sand parrot]

Ehh, very different kinds

[vital coyote]

````Based on the provided search results, Lumen is a hybrid rendering technique that combines software-based ray tracing with other acceleration structures. While it does employ ray tracing, it’s not a traditional hardware-accelerated ray tracing (HRT) approach like NVIDIA’s RTX technology.```

just going off of what im looken up sorry mang

[spring idol]

"anyone tried this ini tweak yet" mfers be like

While it does employ ray tracing, it’s not a traditional hardware-accelerated ray tracing (HRT) approach like NVIDIA’s RTX technology.

it literally says it right there

[vital coyote]

why have a modding section when ima get insulted when talking about modding

[spring idol]

because you arent modding

[vital coyote]

ok i referr to your judgement ohh lord of the mods where should i start. be my sherpa

[spring idol]

why dont you just use the console enabler and start toggling these settings in game in real time

[vital coyote]

i have it and i havent even launched the game

was curious to see if people who knew more then me knew about these first ohh dear mod lord

[blazing orchid]

I do 3D rendering shit but not in unreal, in some examples ive seen its hard to tell the difference unless youre specifically looking for them

[fast shore]

Changing few lines in a config isnt modding bro, no offense

[topaz cape]

you're literally modifying a configuration file, what else would it be

[spring idol]

i always wanted to try it but i cant see much advantage to it over just using eevee

[vital coyote]

oh i am sorry i have ofended thee

[fast shore]

Well modding is about sharing what you modified right

Thats how I see it anyways

[blazing orchid]

Cycles gang

[fast shore]

I changes some values using pak tools but i aint a modder lol

[spring idol]

@blazing orchid one of the renders i did with eevee

[blazing orchid]

Woahhh i love the hand held camera track

wtf it keeps getting crazier

that looks real asf

[spring idol]

was less than a second per frame new eevee is real good for stuff like this but cycles is better obviously

im just impatient

[blazing orchid]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHxotcL102Q (this doesnt account for colorgrading let alone colormanagement)

[spring idol]

no postfx

[vital coyote]

thanks man, normaly i dont talk in this discord for reasons like that. but everyone has been super friendly b4 now on this s2 stuff

just trying to learn

[blazing orchid]

What software do you composite/colorgrade in?

[pure tendon]

How hard would it be to make a sprinting while reloading mod ?

[queen delta]

They made it intentionally so there should be a value for that

[bitter sluice]

Could be as simple as a 0 to a 1, could be as complicated as nulling animation frames specifically when reloading so it doesn’t cancel out

If I have time later today I’ll give it a look

[pure tendon]

i know nothing about it so id thought id ask the experts

just kinda noticed it being a massive downside to encounters

[bitter sluice]

My current impression after playing through the game was sprinting was too fast and walking was too slow. I’d really like to balance them out in those directions, so I’ll probably look at reloading while sprinting while I’m at it

I doubt I’ll release anything but if at all it’s easy I’ll be sure to just post it here or something

[dim turret]

Can mods cause UE5 crashes?

I’m getting

unhandled_expections_violations 0x0000000000000000000000
Crash
Even with no mods loaded or engine ini tweaks

[steel musk]

At the current stage, where "shelters" from Emissions are a bit iffy, reducing sprinting speed has the potential of softlocking you by dying to emissions because you literally can't get into a shelter fast enough

[unreal glacier]

Does anyone know a solution to the PDA screen overlapping with the actual model when using Flawless Widescreen's FoV fix?

[spring idol]

davinci resolve , or just blenders compositor mostly

[spring idol]

the fake auto exposure was done in blender compositor

[bitter sluice]

Check windows event viewer. Update your gpu drivers. If you’re still having issues, lmk if you’re on intel

[bitter sluice]

I mean maybe, but if I’m dying to an emission from lack of shelter that’s me being dogshit at that point

[steel musk]

Not really, since emissions are RNG and things that you'd think would count as shelters sometimes aren't. Really depends on where you are when it hits

[bitter sluice]

What I mean is, the amount of sprint speed I would reduce would be colloquial to me actually dying to an emission or not. If it happens, I ain’t plan for it and sprinting 7% faster won’t help

And Tbf, out of my entire play through I had more scripted emissions than I did rng

But I suspect that being the day time modifier I had installed

[dim turret]

I’m on Amd brb imm check my systems

[junior saffron]

It looks like 'alternative radio' got taken down seconds away from downloading it.

[wild ridge]

Well. it was predictable

[summer silo]

I had like, 4 emissions that happened naturally as I explored.
One hit me right before hitting the Dark Valley X-18 building
I had to sprint away from it to hide back at Detention Center

[foggy hinge]

Where's the localization of the game stored?

[spring idol]

[neat thistle]

What do you mean?

[foggy hinge]

Modpacks aren't going to fly so easily like they do on ModDB, on Nexus

[raw crest]

I wonder if it would be possible to resize it to PDA's screen

[unreal glacier]

I thought I saw someone who had that

[winter matrix]

The lock for ARS is not necessary tbh, when everything is make in rush..

[foggy hinge]

WDYM? It's a modpack for Anomaly

[winter matrix]

Exactly , it feels like some butthurt get touched and needed to make drama about. Horrible

[rare ruin]

:D

[raw crest]

I wish we had an open source mod loader and website like nexus that isn't nexus

[brazen kite]

Gratz!

[foggy hinge]

Just don't use peoples mods without asking.

[rare ruin]

Thank you!

[brazen kite]

What mod? I might check it out if I need it

[rare ruin]

Exi's Social Distancing is my most downloaded mod

[brazen kite]

Thats honestly super helpful, will download now. Thanks!

[rare ruin]

No problem!

What's the drama going on

Bruh, why?

[foggy hinge]

Perms are perms, you still need to ask.

[strong ether]

Imagine locking mod from modders that did not ask gsc permission to mod game in first place

[winter matrix]

Comedy

[strong ether]

Anyways, got my own server runing to keep modpack out of this BS

if someone want to join

[foggy hinge]

It's not asking GSC for perms on taking someones mod and packing it into your own

It's an honorary system and needs to be respected.

[winter matrix]

It's not even mods roflmao so far

[thorn grove]

yo boys, there is no estimated time about when KiT will be released from GSC?

[dim turret]

My drivers are updated but i got this event "The AMDRyzenMasterDriverV27 service failed to start due to the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified."

[foggy hinge]

Mods = modifications

[strong ether]

SOMEONS mod change 2 lines to get 90 kg weight??

[foggy hinge]

Modifications = changes made to a game

[strong ether]

Ask permission for that

[foggy hinge]

LUL no you can make the same changes without taking someone elses mod

[winter matrix]

Wanna bet ?

[strong ether]

neither did them without gsc permission in first place

[foggy hinge]

GSC has literally openly said they support modding and heavily rely on the modding community

Soooo

Take what you will IG

[strong ether]

And then I got closed for packing all in one so there are not many confuses and got almost blocked

[foggy hinge]

You redistributed someones mod without asking for perms

This is on every mod page on Nexus

I recommend checking it if you want to redistribute mods

[junior saffron]

What exactly was included in the pack? I'm confused on what's going on. Was it just a merge of .cfg edits or more

[strong ether]

Okay, lets put it this way then. I didnt used their mods, i just see what they done and made my own corrections?

Can I post mod then?

[foggy hinge]

Then that's fine

If you referrenced a mod and learned to mod from it then that would mostly be fine bc you're not taking their edits and making it your own

[rare ruin]

It's hard to really call anything using someone's mods when it's all just cfg value edits you can do yourself. When exactly does it become "not their mod" anymore.

[foggy hinge]

That should have been clarified from the get-go

[strong ether]

I have my own ballistics, my own alife, only mod that I use is that stealth mod and grok stuff and I did credit them

[thorn grove]

make that easier > ChaTgpt give you all the config changes, if they want they can sue OpenAI

[rare ruin]

At least for S2HOC for now

[raw crest]

Has there been a mod that fixes campfire light and changes it from static light source to dynamic one

[strong ether]

Anyway, I wish you all best, including credits to all mods that I reconfigured and made corrections to make them work. Also sorry for not writing credit for 2 lines change of text that someone done!

[spare crest]

That Roadside Piknik mode isnt avaible, is still in internal testing ?

[queen delta]

I mean you can download it and break your game yourself

I did this I am happy

[winter matrix]

Lol these mods are so rude

[thorn grove]

is there AI/A-Life mod that work better then vanilla?

[queen delta]

Well the Roadside pickinic is kind of working but no 5b version

I mean, it works for some

[modest hearth]

i have two mods that are conflicting, both .cfg files, how would i go about merging them?

[queen delta]

Unrealpak, then follow the guide somewhere here posted earlier

I could writ it down but I wish to play s2 more

[queen delta]

https://github.com/Dmgvol/UE_Modding/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file

[thorn grove]

grok make pinned for stuff no?

GSC KIT WEN

[queen delta]

Yeah I just related to this

[sick pebble]

Anyone figured out how to access SFX for weapons? Only finding dead ends with this AKAudioEvent stuff

Figure I can export it but getting it back into UE is gonna be the hard part. Might have to chase that C++ import uasset method

[covert ingot]

Hey I am trying to learn which mods conflict with one another but since they are all .pak files and there isnt a ton of information about what will conflict with what, I dont really know if they are. I recently added the mod ALife and I noticed that the longer days mod seems to be back at vanilla again... but there was no mention of that in the compatibility list so in the mod page
Was wondering if someone could provide some insight

[queen delta]

I just mentioned it above

[thorn grove]

well only hope to wait ToolKit from someone that will check what is in and automatically merge/give you information about difference or conflict

[covert ingot]

oh may bad sorry, I just popped in here to ask the question so I didnt see that. Thank you!

[desert valve]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/290 helps with finding conflicts but there is automerging now: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/326

[modest hearth]

the file merge tool is quarantined btw

cant download atm

[desert valve]

you can download it from the github release page

https://github.com/Zweite93/Stalker2PakCfgMergeTool/releases

[covert ingot]

is it safe? Why was it quarantined on Nexus?

[topaz cape]

standard practice with executables

it's safe, you can check the code on github yourself

[pure stag]

Hey am I able to drop a link in here for Stripe's group to help continue his modpack or is it gonna get flagged

[covert ingot]

oh ok that makes sense. I never considered that and now that I think of it, I have never went to a mod page that new so that completely makes sense

[merry mountain]

Discord Links get auto removed and you get a warning

discord server links i mean

[pure stag]

Just trying to find a way to get some people over that may not be aware of the situation in case they still wanna help

[neat thistle]

Is it possible to spawn specific items to your inventory?

[desert valve]

i think i saw a mod for that

[merry mountain]

Console Command "XCreateItemInInventoryByID PrototypeID ObjUID Count Durability"

there are also these

XSpawnItemNearPlayerBySID ItemPrototypeSID
XSpawnItemInCoordinatesBySID ItemPrototypeSID Px Py Pz

for the inventory command you would first need to figure out the id of the player inventory tho

[hybrid willow]

what happened with the ARS-modpack ?? it dissapeared from the list

[neat thistle]

Thanks!

[pure stag]

I'll dm u

[hybrid willow]

thanks

[unreal glacier]

are there any good mods for rebalancing penetration? IDK why 9x18 has better pen out of the Kiparis than 9x19 does out of the MP5

[queen delta]

I mean there is Maklane overhaul but I dont know if he had changed pen

[heavy oasis]

Where is the AI life thread in here

Can't find it

[unreal glacier]

what does armor piercing actually do in stalker 2

[spring idol]

yooo you can upgrade to sprint with the liberty exo

[hybrid willow]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1310189778934829106 this one ?

[merry mountain]

you can also get nightvision on some armor that includes a helmet

[sand niche]

Hey guys, posting this here for visibility I suppose. I've noticed a large majority of players implementing console commands to try and fix bugged quests on Nexus, Reddit, etc.

But using commands like XStartQuest or XDKFinishQuest means that you have to manually initiate every follow-up quest using the quest ID, as they do not initiate in proceeding order when using those console commands; not ideal.

I haven't seen it mentioned much so your use case may vary, but I was able to sidestep a softlock very early on with Richter by using XResetQuestBySID. For reference, the missions was "A Needle In A Haystack" or "E02_MQ02".

I had returned from Squint with the sensors but neither NPC would give me the dialogue option to hand in the sensors and proceed. The conditions of the quest were already met in my case, so all I had to do was stumble through the same dialogue and viola, I was able to proceed to the next quest naturally; no more entering console commands. Again your mileage may vary but ultimately worth a shot if you've no other options.

[ancient drum]

exactly what is described

[void crypt]

u mean its piercing armor of enemy?

[wintry patrol]

#📄rules
Rule #7
No advertising

[unreal glacier]

There are several methods for modeling the behavior and I'm interested in which one S2 uses

is it a gradient, a gate, or just raw extra damage

[young stone]

Can someone give me some impression on what these ALife fix mods are like?
I'm probably going to install one for the last third of the game here.

[unreal glacier]

IIRC S1 just used raw extra damage

[finite blade]

Would like to get some info too if possible 😅

[unreal glacier]

So does penetration in S2 negate damage reduction, or cause the weapon to do X times more damage, or do bullets do limited damage unless penetration actually meets the threshold for bypassing armor

[lost sky]

Anyone know if the PDA screen is framerate locked or just has really bad performance?

[ancient drum]

it's work similar way as in a CS and COP. Its not an extra damage, there is something like
Dmg = raw damage - armor *(1-pen)

[mystic star]

what's with the visual noise on the screen? is there a mod to fix this? everything looks like it's hair

[molten cargo]

Wabbajack, the modlist will have a file, the file tells Wabbajack what mods to grab from the Nexus, installs them, sorts them, etc. Its how you install big modlists for Skyrim in just a day.

[foggy hinge]

Yeah, I am aware.

I am a Wabbajack modlist author

[molten cargo]

Ah ok, wasnt sure. For the longest time this community was using JSGME instead of MO2, so now that were finally using Nexus instead of Moddb, i have tears in my eyes.

[tidal yew]

hey guys a friend told me to come here and ask about an a-life tweaks mod

[sick pebble]

Hey man how'd you associate the IDs to their names? I'm looking at SFX_Grenade_Explosion.bnk trying to see how it's associated with the named audio in the Media folder but none of the IDs in there are found in the bnk

[foggy hinge]

Haha, no yeah hopefully either Wabbajack adds support for Stalker 2 soon, or the Nexus app comes out soon

[molten cargo]

Hoping for MO2 support aswell

[sick pebble]

Well ask away

[foggy hinge]

If you're in the MO2 server, I already made a plugin for Stalker 2 for MO2

[tidal yew]

he doesn't speak english so he wants to know how to get it

so he asked if i can do him the favor to get instructed

[foggy hinge]

#780602041482346566 message

[tidal yew]

do you know how i can gain access to that channel?

[sick pebble]

It'll be this mod https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/210

[tidal yew]

alright thanks lots

[sick pebble]

nps

[tidal yew]

sorry i dont really play this game so im not into full context but thanks lots

[sick pebble]

Nothing to be sorry about haha, sounds like your mate has a dope friend

[loud peak]

Can someone tell me wich file modifies the % of jamming a weapon?

[twilit scroll]

welcome to UE5 gaming

[pliant hollow]

welcome to fuck optimization, you can use dlss to fix your fps

[crimson laurel]

mine is much worse dont worry, your frames just odnt render fast enough so it skips completely rendering frames

😏

[sand vault]

PlayerWeaponSettingsPrototypes.cfg I think

This line DurabilityDamagePerShot = 4.76

[desert valve]

goddamnit i "accidentaly" overwrote my existing Engine.ini and now my AA is flickering like mad

https://youtu.be/KR1K-r_UBKg

[sand vault]

Each weapon looks like this

[crimson laurel]

258 mods already, thats 43 mods a day 😏

[sand vault]

Yeah, it's popping off. Probably half of them are trying to do the same thing, but the competition is necessary to stimulate progress!

[crimson laurel]

but then we have mods like this 😏

[sand vault]

Ooohh

II want that

[crimson laurel]

[finite pelican]

Where did the ars mod pack go?

Did something happen?

[desert valve]

and about a third by now is just combinations of other mods 😄

[crimson laurel]

interesting to know that the pda is actually still shown in the widescreen monitor, i cant wait for a reanimation

[sand vault]

And ReShade packs lol

[desert valve]

yeah forgot about those 😄

[crimson laurel]

and skins for the knives

[bitter sluice]

[crimson laurel]

whats with knife reskins 😭

[sand vault]

I'm using ReShade, but only for contrast sharpening and to mess around with LUTs and FILMDECK.

I don't mind some of the reskins, like that OD green one up there.

At least animation modding will be "easier" in this than in Cyberpunk 2077.

Not to say that animating is easy in the least

[crimson laurel]

as an actual 3d artist the knife texture is 😈 🔥

[loud peak]

but that changes how faster it breaks each time you shoot the weapon

[crimson laurel]

but i accept your decisions and opinions

[sand vault]

I haven't done any 3D modeling since I was trying to port armor from FromSoft games into Skyrim

[summer silo]

Still wondering if we'll be able to update UE to higher versions..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3lgFFgEcr4

[sand vault]

Years ago

[crimson laurel]

maybe they update it themselves, lets see

[sand vault]

I hope so. Not sure yet what that will entail.

[crimson laurel]

i believe they started making in ue4

and transitioned to ue 5.1

[summer silo]

Yeah, but it's a heavily modified 5.1

Updating to 5.5 would mean having to redo the modifications I think

Which would be worth it since meta humans were so optimized in between that they now weight like 60mb instead of 1gb apparently

[crimson laurel]

maybe it doesnt necessarily mean it needs to be rewritten

[stark shale]

ARS Modpack gone?

[summer silo]

https://tenor.com/view/guess-well-find-out-jacob-dutton-harrison-ford-1923-we-will-know-that-gif-13924432661313918615

[sand vault]

What's ARS

[queen delta]

@loud peak

maybe this will resolve your question

[crimson laurel]

thats the animations

[sand vault]

Hmm, not sure. I'm still digging, I'll give you a holla if I find anything.

[crimson laurel]

i still think the bullet jamming

its still too low

we need other type of jamming

[stark shale]

dm who?

[sand vault]

Ohh jamming, not durability. I'm braindead right now.

[crimson laurel]

did u still not find it?

i know where it is

Stalker2/Content/GameLite/GameData/WeaponData/WeaponGeneralSetupPrototypes.cfg

//Jam
JamType = EJamType::Jam
MinJamChance = 0.0
MaxJamChance = 4.0
MinJamDurabilityThreshold = 0.8
MaxJamDurabilityThreshold = 0.1
WeaponJamParams : struct.begin
[0] : struct.begin
JamChanceCoef = 0.0
FullJamTime = 0.0
struct.end
struct.end

[sand vault]

Ahh there it is

[crimson laurel]

theres a jamtype so... maybe soon we can add other type of jamming

[sand vault]

@loud peak

[crimson laurel]

did u guys see other jamming other than the bullet casing getting stuck?

[sand vault]

I haven't yet

I'd like to see things like squibs, etc.

[digital gulch]

dit it hapen to any of you guys that out of nowere one of your weapons is swaped by a diferent weapon you didnt had

[sand vault]

Imagine your gun blowing up in your face haha

[queen delta]

Well they could add weapon exploing when bullet didn't fired out of barrel

[sand vault]

Yes!

[foggy hinge]

Anyone make a program to play midi files for the guitar?

[queen delta]

Yes

[foggy hinge]

Or know of one?

[sand vault]

I was standing idle, and suddenly my shotgun turned into a sniper rifle

And there were two random sniper rifles in my inventory

[crimson laurel]

we need stalker 2 to become very weapon realistic 😡

we need an animation for when u clean ur weapon

:3

[digital gulch]

was gonna pull my shottie and that sniper appeared instead

i was like wtf

[sand vault]

Yeah, this. A squib would be awesome. You fire, round gets jammed in barrel, fire again.. boom.

[sand vault]

Same thing happened to me

[digital gulch]

had to load a prev save just to make sure i wasnt going nuts

[pure stag]

If since a lot of people are waking up wondering where ARS is feel free to dm and I'll get you hooked up

[sand vault]

Exact same sniper rifle

[digital gulch]

okay glad i m not alone

guess its a bug

oh well

[sand vault]

Something is getting wonky in the variables between the shotgun and that rifle. I bet there's a bad var somewhere in the cfg's. Seemed to only happen when I was standing idle for a while while holding the shotgun.

[crimson laurel]

report the bug

[sand vault]

Yeah I did

They have over 20K reports already

Wow

[crimson laurel]

🤣🤣

[sand vault]

That's gonna be a lot to get through

[crimson laurel]

mol1t been silent for 4 days already

where the heck is the gsc answers!!

[topaz cape]

i'd rather have them work instead of doing pr stuff tbh

[neat thistle]

How to add custom icons to the game?

[crimson laurel]

you know, studios dont only have devs

[stark shale]

yeah the no man sky approach

[topaz cape]

yea, but what is he even supposed to tell us? "yea everybody's hard at work, we'll let you know when we've got something"

[stark shale]

just sit down. compile all the reports you get and get to work on fixing the game

[crimson laurel]

idk answer our questions so we know we being heard exactly

[loud peak]

THANK YOU

[sand vault]

It's less to do with telling us things, than hearing what we have to say. Because as it is, we're beta testing this game for them right now, whether anyone likes it or not.

[crimson laurel]

public relations is also a job

[sand vault]

And a lot of people are not just testing and reporting, but actively fixing it for them.

[crimson laurel]

mhm

[loud peak]

Please, can you share/dm me the file? ❤️

[crimson laurel]

what file?

[loud peak]

WeaponGeneralSetupPrototypes.cfg

For some reason my Fmodel doesn't show it

[sand vault]

xowny's STK2 - SPF Experimental release has 95% fixed the performance issues I had on start. I have zero issues going into settlements or being around large groups of NPC's anymore.

Completely stable FPS with no noticeable visual degradation

[topaz cape]

dunno, if there's nothing to say then there's nothing to say. patch this week, we'll see how it goes. "keep the feedback coming we love hearing from you" is such a useless statement.

[loud peak]

dude, you don't know how much you just blew my fucking mind right now

😄

[sand vault]

I need to dig into these tools more. That's FModel? I downloaded it but haven't used it yet.

[loud peak]

[crimson laurel]

yes

[sand vault]

Nice, I'm about to check that out.

[crimson laurel]

just a total of 500k packages

[sand vault]

Wish we had a GUI for RePak to do batch processes with it

Actually, wouldn't be hard to write a script to do that

Then just make it a Windows context menu option

Using a regedit

[crimson laurel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRz-pqJq_40

this is something similar

u will get with stalker sdk

very likely

[sand vault]

Oh sh-t. Ty

That's gonna be cool

Can't wait for sdk

[crimson laurel]

stalker already has the whole mod.io integrated i believe

at least all the ui and plugin is there

so i assume mod support will come once the hotfixes are done

https://mod.io/g/stalker-soc

[foggy hinge]

They use it for console support mostly I believe

Nexus Mods will still flourish with mods posted there

Most likely people will stick to it bc of mod managers and just generally better mod posting support

[crimson laurel]

well yeah but nexus will become obsolete because u gna have the mod menu in the game itself

[foggy hinge]

Mm, no not really

Nexus will be the more dominate site for mod hosting for S2 on PC

Mod.io will just be a way for SOC offering support for mods on console

[crimson laurel]

why would that happen when u can post in one place and it works for all platforms

[foggy hinge]

BC people do the same thing for Bethesda games

There's also more control of managing your mods on PC using Nexus or something that's not Mod.io directly tied into the game

[digital gulch]

but this is for SOC not HOC

[foggy hinge]

Mod managers serve a huge purpose

[crimson laurel]

but bethesda doesnt use ue5 that has a sdk that helps you with mod posting already

but lets see

[foggy hinge]

So does Bethesda games XD

[sand vault]

We'll see. Either way, both sites will be useful. Most casuals will continue to use Nexus.

[crimson laurel]

ik, but it shows that they will open a mod menu in the game itself

[sand vault]

But I think a lot of people who want to do more will go to mod.io

[foggy hinge]

Mod.io is plug and play, mod conflict resolution will be hard with it

[crimson laurel]

idk how modpacks will be, if you can actually like

make a modpack that customizes all the mods

to your liking in a sweep

with mod.io

[foggy hinge]

Nexus already has support for that

[crimson laurel]

how many people use nexus vortex

[foggy hinge]

They're working on a new app, with the lead dev of Wabbajack making a modpack/list compiler that sources all mods from Nexus

[foggy hinge]

A LOT

You'd be surprised.

Just go look at how many downloads collections get

[crimson laurel]

i mean if thats the case i can see it yeah

but can you actually like customize the settings of the mod

through that?

[foggy hinge]

100%

[crimson laurel]

interesting

[foggy hinge]

Create patches, organize priority load orders, which we're actually already dealing with in pak files

Pak files are prioritized based on alphabetization

My mod with zz-groks-mutant health will be overriden by zzzz-other-mutant-mod

And you need a way to manage this

[crimson laurel]

with modpacks i can see nexus being used but for plug and play ig mod.io can also be used

[foggy hinge]

Yeah, plug and play for consoles will be fine

Hopefully they sort out some sort of load order management for mods in the game.

[wooden pilot]

stalker2 shadow of csgo

[crimson laurel]

that actually looks good

damn

[sand parrot]

Need help, crashing when applying an effect on reshade pc gamepass

[crimson laurel]

how the hell did u inspect the knife tho

[wooden pilot]

just idle anim

[crimson laurel]

ah

[prime reef]

Add knife skins as collectibles that sell for a bunch lol

[crimson laurel]

its sad that they deleted the suggestion channel

L

[topaz cape]

i can imagine why though

[crimson laurel]

do u guys think a mod that makes looting like tarkov possible would be acceptable? so you would be able have a very complex craft system

[radiant ledge]

you know what's kinda funny? I read, write, and speak both Ukrainian and Russian, later being my native tongue due to being born in Moldova (long story about the the whole family line, forget it, doesn't really matter), and the UI prototype screens are in Russian. It's not shocking or anything, UI designer most likely just speaks russian in his head and is more comfortable with it on a day-to-day, but damn if it is kinda reckless of him to leave this in the files like that...I just know people will blow it out of proportion and use it against him or GSC as a whole. And that's sad.

[crimson laurel]

i hope not

[sand parrot]

Doubt it

[radiant ledge]

I deleted most Ukrainian TG "news feeds" from my account because of the amount of useless drama they're constantly peddling, and I can just super-easily see those vultures raise a shitstorm for clicks over this...sometimes people are massive a-holes. So yeah...anyway, sorry for the off-top.

P.S. I revived my PC! Dunno what happened to it last night, I just popped the CPU out and back in today and it booted right up. Weird.

[wide kestrel]

any help on locating the proper .exe for dumping the AES would be helpful (im using a gamepass copy of the game if that makes a difference)

[crimson laurel]

u need the key?

[wide kestrel]

yea odds you just dm me it and save me the trouble ?

[crimson laurel]

you can easily find it on the internet but

[wide kestrel]

i was looking, every article I found with reference to it has been removed

[merry mountain]

its even on this discord

[bitter sluice]

@blazing orchid update: found a different program to export tarkov meshes that go straight to glb instead of obj, this subdivides the glass pane in its own submeshes in blender instead of it being baked together as one

[merry mountain]

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

[gaunt bay]

Lol....

[digital gulch]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/310

this one gets a thumbs up

[azure mortar]

@bold apex you wouldnt happen to know how to get uassets exported from an unreal engine game to work inside ue5 editor would you?

i managed to finally extract one of the utoc files, it generated a lot of uasset files, looks like raw data that one would see in any unreal engine project, so i thought theory wise maybe it should work

but even after restarting the editor and making some changes the uasset files dont load in

[radiant ledge]

In 20 years of tinkering with PCs, building countless desktops for friends and family (granted I don't work in PC repair and tinker with them just as a hobby) , I never had one just suddenly refuse to boot with a CPU detection error code, refuse to boot after clearing CMOS, and then get back up as if nothing ever happened by me just plopping the CPU itself out and putting it back in...guess there's a first time for everything ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[bold apex]

You should be able to drag it into Unreal Engine (Empty folder inside a project) - but the Engine has to be the same version as the file. So it's gotta be one of UE.51's versions

[azure mortar]

ohh

is the versioning that strict for unreal engine?

[bold apex]

Aaaaand you need the right plugins

If they used any

Which they probably did

[azure mortar]

they definately did lol

theres a plugin folder innit

[bold apex]

If i remember correctly there's a feature call "Migrate" somewhere in UE. Can't remember where but you can probably google ya way to it.

[young stone]

Is there a mod already that makes the lasers look at least a little more acceptable?

The current version is horrendous.

[bold apex]

Might be able to import it through that

[azure mortar]

ty ill check that one, maybe it will help

[bold apex]

Lasers are shader and therefor material based. I'm fairly certain we can't access that stuff yet

[young stone]

I am about to Brian Killme myself

[bold apex]

https://tenor.com/view/drink-juice-refresh-it-is-what-its-is-playa-sip-gif-17436001

[umbral linden]

@wide kestrel I messaged you how I figured out how to do it. pretty much treat it like any other unreal engine game with encryption, with gamepass you might not be able to copy the executable out being a protected windows store app, you would need a different source for the exe or some sort of windows store bypass/save process from memory or possibly mess with permissions in windows.

[bold apex]

I got some dumpfiles from the exe, that I got from another modder on her if you want

[barren crypt]

I hope someone make a hunger adjustment mod. Skiff eating like a pregnant woman is annoying

[grizzled igloo]

what happened to ars modpack file?

[bold apex]

Still haven't quite figured out what hunger does exept stopping you from sleeping

[fierce talon]

I am wondering the same thing

[loud peak]

if I'm not wrong, it makes you less spongy to enemy damage. So it increases the player's damage intake

[stiff pine]

I hope to God someone makes a mod to go prone. It's so important for immersion shooters and no games ever have it lol

[merry mountain]

he deleted his post and made his own discord 🤦‍♂️

[neon sedge]

Apperantly he didnt ask permission from mod makers so they will delete his stalker 2 mod posting unless he asks for those permissions and credits them. At least thats what i read this morining on his mod posting

[fierce talon]

nah, I heard they banned the mod here

[blazing orchid]

What’s ARS

[stark shale]

It is value changes to some config files

[winter matrix]

yep its been banned

[normal tinsel]

wtf

[stark shale]

its not like anything was created from scratch that was taken or apprehanded. He just made it easier for people that don't have much time to get the most changed withouth having to merge a bunch of different mods themselves

[fierce talon]

I get that but all those "mods" are just config files and it's all changing every day so it's not really an issue at this point, AR Stipe said he would make a credit list later when he would have time, also he never claimed he did it all himself! also he is making a lot of changing to those config files so it's not like he is copy pasting other people's "work", still it's ridiculous what mods did, purely out of spite, say or think what you want

Mods are free, always were and always will be and whoever can do whatever they want with them, also its not like all other mods have a "you can use my mod but give me credit in your work" written on their mod page

Just get out of here, I don't support dictatorship and what mods did goes against freedom rights

[stark shale]

yeap

[winter matrix]

still people rather complain instead of working together and make the game better. genezis msg above is corect, there were absolutly plan to give credit to people , just cause he tried do his best in rush he didnt do it

[fierce talon]

exactly, he literally made it for people to enjoy multiple mods, whats wrong with that...

[winter matrix]

i dont get the part where i rather complain instead of working together

[stark shale]

its people thinking that because they did config changes its their property now and nobody else gets to use it

[fierce talon]

some people are bad or way too selfish, thats just life

[neon sedge]

Yea i agree with you all the way. Its shame his mod posting went away. Because it was really good "modpack" . And im still using the 2.0 a life

[stark shale]

dm me

funny enough it is not even a written rule that you have to credit every single person that made config changes that you took inspiration from in the rules for stalker 2 mods
Add to that that changing some numbers in a config file is no reason to credit someone in the first place. Its not they created the config file from scratch.
Credit to GSC for creating the config file that we can edit lol

[gusty olive]

nice phase 4 bro

[lunar plume]

@stark shale hypothetically for a friend... how does one find this mod pack

[fierce talon]

just DM us 😉

[void crypt]

is there mod that lowers price for ammo in traders beside Grok rebalance? still pretty pricy

[stark shale]

you would probably need to edit that in the config file yourself.

[void crypt]

im too noob for that, thanks tho

[teal wing]

I honestly wish I was so selfish and self centered to dare call ini and cfg editing “mods”

[signal flicker]

where has the ARS modpack gone from the mod posting page ?

[merry mountain]

was deleted

[signal flicker]

how comes ?

[mild fable]

Hey that's my mod lol

[stiff marlin]

Any way to get further updates for the modpack?

[heady tundra]

всем привет, есть мод на сталкер 2 для постоянного показа HUD ?

[teal wing]

nope

[azure mortar]

@bold apex i dont think i got .uassets to appear even after getting 5.1 unreal engine 😦

[unkempt canopy]

You can do that while respecting the others , especially if you take their work , even if its a single line changed

he used their mods to advertise his and then doesnt even credit them ? lame dude

[azure mortar]

would be nice to somehow atleast get a full unpacked library of textures and materials so they can be changed

[unkempt canopy]

Right, he is gonna make a list , of course

People complained so thats that , we didnt do it cause we were bored

And thats enough , send the word to anyone in your server

if they keep coming here and spam the discord server they get banned

End of story

[teal wing]

[unkempt canopy]

there are many workarounds , we gave him 1 day to change or make smth or whatever, he chose to tell us he doesnt do that

ok , understandable, have a good day then

[alpine cradle]

I want to make trees (mostly) and plants have fps same as the game, by default, if u look at a tree moved by wind it has 24-30fps, so do plants. and its very annoying. added theese but didnt do it :

t.FoliageTickRate=-1
t.ForceUpdateRate=-1
foliage.ForceLOD=0
t.MaxFPS=120

If anyone know of any other commands that might fix it pls share. tyvm

[cloud lark]

Has anyone found variables as to how often you get hungry? I'm kinda sick of carrying around half a convenient store with me all the time because every second bend my guy gets the munchies.

[cloud sorrel]

where did the ars modpack go ?

[azure mortar]

i dont think ive gotten hungry other than sleeping or taking a drink other than water

[alpine cradle]

BEST MOD PACK :
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/348?tab=description&BH=3

And to complete it until creator probably updates it :
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/208

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/84

[azure mortar]

maybe its based on those variables?

[teal wing]

I have

[merry mountain]

what are you trying to merge, one of them is not a textfile lol

[cloud lark]

then you musn't be playing the game at all my dude wants to chomp on something every 5 minutes

[pearl zodiac]

are you playing with any mods?

[azure mortar]

💀 damn your skif could prob eat teh entire zone

[cloud lark]

yes but none of them relate to food or consumables

[pearl zodiac]

you sure?

[cloud lark]

yes

[pearl zodiac]

no difficulty balances?

[cloud lark]

no

[pearl zodiac]

hmm

interesting

[azure mortar]

ive probably not noticed it, always got bread, some sausages and cans in inventory

[merry mountain]

in base game without mods you get hungry constantly

you have lots of food tho

and you cant starve

using certain items also increases your hunger

[void oak]

Random question but, did STALKER 1 SDK allow map making/custom maps?

If so - you all think Stalker 2 SDK will do the same?

[pearl zodiac]

i believe someone said they found files that relate to hunger affecting how much damage you take

so it might have some effect

[cloud lark]

yeah i'd rather have food be scarce and cost me tons of koupons instead of having to haul around a truckload of cans and sausages to go from one place to another. i play with 8 hour days so i kinda wanna simulate hunger for that time frame. I usually eat 2-3 times a day. not every hour

[merry mountain]

yes when you are shot, but you wont starve if you dont eat

[pearl zodiac]

yeah not at all

[cloud sorrel]

does somebody now where the asr modpack went

[lunar plume]

Your also not running around the zone all day. I'd be eating alot more often with that much physical activity

[blissful geode]

ars left? welp guess I gotta find a new modpak

[formal bronze]

I think you can decrease the amount of Hunger that rises with actions (like using medkits, bandages, running, etc.)

[odd galleon]

F convenient modpack

[tiny lantern]

I wish someone would make a mod that allow us to adjust the interactive-icons (the big white dots), I'd love to either be able to turn them all off completely, or at least be able to set their display distance to super short and then still very low transperancy.

[crimson laurel]

crosshairs?

[crimson laurel]

i believe u can disable "targeting reticle" if thats what u want

[arctic grotto]

He means the dots indicatign something can be looted or interacted with, doors/lootables

That are over trunks, bodies, bags etc

[crimson laurel]

thats exactly what it is i think

targeting reticle

[arctic grotto]

Nah

Separate

[tiny lantern]

targeting reticle is the crosshair

[worldly wind]

tried asking in s2 chat and just got a reply from a literal "Fucking Retard", does anyone know if theres a mod that would help with audio issues, specifically emission/ambient sounds turning off completely?

[crimson laurel]

why are there two options for the reticles

den

dang

oh yeah my bad

[teal wing]

lmfao

[blissful geode]

had this issue too

[teal wing]

real talk though I’ve experienced this. It seems like the audio buffer is getting overflow

[elder vapor]

what happend to the ARS mod pack

[worldly wind]

i saw several audio mods on the nexus but they seems like they actively make this issue worse or cause other issues

[teal wing]

They do indeed make it worse. The “ray traced audio” is horrible

[kindred lotus]

anyone know what this does? Mutant_AttackCooldown

[teal wing]

HRTF has been around for many years. You can even add it to Minecraft lol

But it crushes and kills audio quality and perf

[willow carbon]

Most people that put mods on the nexus dont even try their mods before they publish them

[teal wing]

Absolutely

[worldly wind]

"i have no idea if this works"

i saw that a lot in the first day or two

[teal wing]

I was just about to say I think it’s just excited players thinking they found something. When in reality those of us who use UE every day know…. Not to do them lol

[cloud lark]

the name would suggest the cooldown between mutants being able to execute an attack

[kindred lotus]

i would think so, but could also be the timer between spawns

[cloud lark]

depends on the context it is used in

[kindred lotus]

because NPC_AttackCooldown = 1.0 also exists

[willow carbon]

also does every game need to have thousands of dogshit reshade presets ;_;

[kindred lotus]

its under difficultyprototypes.cfg

[teal wing]

Yes

[worldly wind]

what are some mods on the nexus you certainly shouldnt use? i just keep thinking that there must be some HUGE tradeoff these performance mods are failing to mention, like "meh, the eye adaptation is 3x slower but its not a performance downgrade, so fuck it"

[cloud lark]

i wish Nexus would make a category for reshades and keep them out of my normal mod browsing

[willow carbon]

its just preset eitherway.. site's called nexus mods

not nexus presets

[teal wing]

That’s the problem man I browse through nexus and I see engine ini edit number 635326.
So many changes that people clearly didn’t try, and if they did, they don’t know what it’s even doing.

Basically anything that changes LOD is a no

HRTF is a no

Anything with the word “Scale”

Or “Scaling”

[cloud lark]

even time scale?

[teal wing]

They’re all just bad suggestions that significantly worsen performance

[worldly wind]

the time scale mod was another big one with the "i didnt even test this :)" right in the description and they warned it could cause issues with emissions and scripted events

[cloud lark]

it doesn't though

[worldly wind]

thoughts on Roadside Panic then?

[cloud lark]

Swear to god if 24h days wouldn'T mean i'd be able to move to every place in the zone in one day i'd be playing that but 8 hour days finally lets me get from a to b at a medium distance without seeing the sun rise and sink 5 times over

[merry mountain]

you will soon be out of meds

[teal wing]

I downloaded all the A Life mods and cross compared each change they make.
Roadside panic is significantly less advanced than the first A Life mod that was out, A Life Maybe.
A good choice would be A Life Extended

[fierce talon]

so posting a mod among all others is now advertisement, got it 🫡

[teal wing]

But I personally suggest just comparing them each and packing your own mod

“Mod”

[fierce talon]

thats fair, but I still think you could handle it differently, like explicitly demanding AR Stipe to make a credits list

[cloud lark]

And so it begins, it started with a single line edit and ended in total annihilation. Welcome to the Modder Wars.

[weak crow]

not sure if solved but here if you wanna use no warmup replacement
[SystemSettings]
r.PSOWarmup.WarmupMaterials = 0
for the engine.ini

[fierce talon]

probably because it is insignificant in the current moment where all mods are just configs files, all changing on daily basis and you making a "horse out of a mouse" problem

[merry mountain]

thats what they did, he said he wont , so it was removed
#╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message

[worldly wind]

its funny, i think to the layman Panic seems like the much better mod due to their description and apparent research they present, whereas putting "A-Life maybe i guess i dont fucking know" in the title caused me to sort of just immediately assume it wouldnt work. As for Extended, i just assumed it made very similar tweaks to what i already had so i just didnt bother looking at it

[formal bronze]

Thanks ma dude

[unkempt canopy]

so did he , he could have just put the names there or at least say , thanks and credits to all the modders involved etc

instead he chose to be arrogant and refuse directly , ok then

[unkempt canopy]

we gave him 1 day , and he said he wont do it

[teal wing]

Personally I would use A Life Maybe as it has actually provided the best experience for ME personally. It was the most “immersive” and none of the spawns or gameplay made me question it

it was released a week ago. And the new A Life mods have all been worse than it

either too much cpu or too many enemies or bugs

it should feel like Stalker. And that one felt like stalker

[fierce talon]

its literally config files and there is no "law" that says you must credit other people free work, even though that might be the rule for the GAMMA server

[cloud lark]

But @teal wing don't you member the good old days where everything was fighting everything at every corner and the performance was shit because of it in the OG games? No? Yeah me neither.

[teal wing]

Ah yeah I remember playing Battlefield—stalker!

[cloud lark]

So A-Life Maybe is a goodn you say? maybe i'll try that one out have not touched A-Life edits as of yet

[teal wing]

It’s my favorite thus far

[fierce talon]

he is not aware of this ultimatum whatsoever...

[formal bronze]

It is an unwritten rule that exists across all modding communities and extends beyond that

[cloud lark]

if its unwritten maybe someone should find time to make it a written one. Just a suggestion

[glad abyss]

Common courtesy really... Give credit where credit is due, even if it is a simple CFG edit. Easy enough to add a name to description.

[fierce talon]

sure, but people should be reasonable enough to know that a common config file changes can't be even considered as a mod or any serious individual work like that, it's just ridiculous

[fierce talon]

its not due, its funny 😄 the moment we are talking about new scripts, textures, actual now content made by a mod maker, that's a whole different situation

[cloud lark]

Its the Wild West of modding atm. Someone finds a Nugget in a .pak and suddenly there is claims everywhere. I better get me a Winchester and quick.

[vapid light]

ALFA MODMAKERS don't care about all that crap

[worldly wind]

out of curiosity, did you try all three versions of Picnic?

[glad abyss]

Only thing funny about any of this is how many people seem to be pressed about the situation. lmao

[formal bronze]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[fierce talon]

yes because guess what, AR Stipe was the only one who tried to combine people's work so that it could be used all together which no one else did, people naturally wanted that, and yes he could give credits out of courtesy but I still don't think you banning him was justified taking into account that we're talking config files here 😄

[cedar bone]

Wasnt the "mod" he didn't credit only like two lines of code?

[cloud lark]

I was the OG modmaker for the LvL 60 Legendary Lords Mod for Warhammer Total War 1 and i put in the description of the mod what file i edited. Never in all the years since then have i been credited in any other mod that does legendary Lord LvLs or Skill points per level. I'm still alive.

[glad abyss]

I didn't ban anyone.

[fierce talon]

i am not saying it was you

[tidal yew]

anybody know of a good mod for skipping the year long shader compiling?

i added one but it obv doesnt work

[tidal yew]

ban me please

idk what for but just do it

[sand vault]

Wonder how hard it would be to make an artifact powered mobile shelter. Something that can withstand an emission. Make it so each time you use it for an emission, it depletes the artifact you used to power it. Would be another way to use weak artifacts instead of just selling them.

Like, end game type of thing

[molten cargo]

SDK is needed for anything that wild.

[sand vault]

Yeah

Gonna have to wait

[cloud lark]

did they promise the SDK?

[molten cargo]

Think small things, like config edits. Hip Reborn is going to require the SDK too.

[vapid light]

I'm pretty sure distributing config files from the game, even edited, is a breach of the EULA. Did anyone ask GSC for permission to put their mods up for download?

[sand vault]

No

[crimson laurel]

does anyone know the config file where i can play with the loot in the item containers

[glad abyss]

It's been a pain just getting simple texture changes to work currently, a mobile shelter is far beyond reach me thinks.

reply wrong person but w/e

[sand vault]

I don't think GSC cares about that. They want people modding and enjoying their games.

It's the modding communities that keep people playing these games for decades.

[cloud lark]

So Grok? Gamma 2.0 when?

[worldly wind]

I thought i read somewhere that it was an Eventually™ kinda thing

[formal bronze]

Blueprints are currently loadable, Blueprints can execute C++ code, we just need wizardy

[sand vault]

They released a statement a while back saying SDK would release with the game. But that obviously didn't happen.

[worldly wind]

they promised it but no timeframe but im not sure

[sand vault]

It could be a couple months from now, or a year or more. Never know.

I think stability, bug fix and optimization are their top priority atm.

[cloud lark]

I Mean SDK would mean we could even expand the zone no?

[sand vault]

Technically

[pearl zodiac]

depends on how in depth it is

but very likely

[cloud lark]

So i'd guess it releases after all possible Addons/ DLC

[pearl zodiac]

hope before that

They stated before release they would like to get it out with the first Big patch (not this weeks hotfix)

But alas we have no idea the timeframe on that now

[sand vault]

This game is going to be around for a long time, with a lot of support from both the devs and modding communities. I'm excited to see what it looks like in a couple of years.

[cloud lark]

well i'm not a Map designer but if you are one and read this, please add a connection between Zaton and Cordon for the love of God. Thanks

[vapid light]

Yeah and the modding comunity is not an environment of corporate sharks to chase people down for flimsy reasons. You mod the game to share it with others so they can enjoy it, aside from you enjoying the game and the modding process. I made mods for different games and put them up for download, and people stole my stuff all the time. And this was not CFG edits but models and textures. I don't care. This kindergarten shit needs to end

[sand vault]

Adding a bridge won't be hard when SDK is released

[cloud lark]

there is one already and it would lead to a tunnel that is leading to Cordon afaik but ofc its not traversable because why would it be

[sand vault]

Yeah, we'll be able to open things like that.

[merry mountain]

ItemGeneratorPrototypes.cfg has some stashes and what they contain , not sure if that is what you want

[worldly wind]

id love it if there was a way to put everything back where they found it and not have everything so jumbled up compared to how it was in the OG games

it feels like cordon and a lot of early game locations have been completely moved relative to their locations in the OG games and Anomaly

[cloud lark]

they have, but thats easily explained with the zone constantly shifting and changing

[pearl zodiac]

well the anomaly map was never canon

it was all speculation from the other games

[worldly wind]

lmfao, ill give them a wall or building getting blown out, but entire hills and landscapes shifting is wild

[pearl zodiac]

The one thing i hate about the map change is moving AW so far south, considering Freedom protected the barrier...

[worldly wind]

i would have preferred a kinda GTA 3D vs HD universe thing

[cloud lark]

its literally how the zone is described all the way back in Roadside picknick.

[worldly wind]

where the old games are kinda sorta canon

[crimson laurel]

i want to add new items like watches in safes and stuff like that but lemme look

[still dew]

Imagine if this server set up like, bounties for certain modded features in 2 for people to commit to and work on to basically communally make a conversion modpack from the ground up

[cloud lark]

I heard Roler in safes. anyone else smell Tarkov?

[crimson laurel]

type shit

[rare ruin]

I don't know if it is or not, but are NexusMods links allowed if I were to paste one with my mod postings?

I don't want to keep up version control in the threads constantly

[crimson laurel]

just would be more exciting to loot stuff around

at least sometimes u can find a rolex watch and sell for 20k

and in the future

maybe craft stuff

🤣

[cloud lark]

or barter it for a money case?

[crimson laurel]

would it be a bad mod?

[weak crow]

-Tired of compiling shaders? Add this to your Engine.ini in AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\Config\Windows
Remember that any graphic change might need a recompile to avoid issues.

[SystemSettings]
r.PSOWarmup.WarmupMaterials = 0

[rare ruin]

This is really easy to make

[keen nimbus]

Where can we edit the colors/opacity of markers on compass? They are barely visible in most situations for me.

[rare ruin]

BUT the models on the other hands...

[crimson laurel]

yeah

i mean i can take all from tarkov 😭

and other games

[still dew]

I’d kill for like, stages in reloads so when it’s interrupted you can resume like if you just had to pull the bolt back or something

[cloud lark]

nah that kind of stuff got overlooked in the OG Stalkers imho. The zone might hold other valuables other than artefacts

[rare ruin]

I could easily make a new item and replace inventory textures, but 3D models, i can't do

[crimson laurel]

exactly! and have to disassemble all kind of items to be able to craft complex stuff

[rare ruin]

Also adding new items is best done cautiously

[still dew]

Honestly more crafting things would be neat in general

[crimson laurel]

some stuff is so rare that the only option is to craft itt

like some attachments

[still dew]

I hope they release modding tools, has it ever been said whether they will?

[cloud lark]

Craft me a Bedroll so i can make my own camp. Also gimme some chests or Backpacks so i can make my own stashes

[crimson laurel]

yes, all the things is setup already, they just need to launch the sdk

[rare ruin]

The reason adding new items is best done cautiously is last I checked @eternal sapphire's mutant loot mod has reports of your save being bricked if you uninstall it after picking up a new item(s)

[crimson laurel]

rip

[cloud lark]

well that is to be expected no?

[rare ruin]

But i think they are still working on the "trigger" for when that happens

[glad abyss]

You willing to help me troubleshoot? I had energy can retextured but now that I've added inventory images the can textures broken on the world item. 🤦

[alpine cradle]

how to reset engine ini commands all to default ?

[crimson laurel]

just delete it ig

[worldly wind]

where was this uploaded?

[crimson laurel]

mod posting*

[worldly wind]

i never saw it on nexus

[rare ruin]

Actually it isn't. Because I made a whole new item, had it in my inventory, I used it all, saved, and my save was not bricked.

[crimson laurel]

#1309526198833119303

the only thing am not finding is the prototypes and stuff

[rare ruin]

For some reason those steps can brick with Mutant Loot

[crimson laurel]

cus i want to be able to change the generator for stuff you find on the floor

[rare ruin]

I may be able to, give me one sec

[crimson laurel]

wait theres milk in the game?

[cloud lark]

well from my limited understanding, when you introduce a new item with a unique UID to the game and then have that item saved in your savegame and then delete the mod the game tries to call on something it cannot ever find hence bricking the save. Thats my laymans understanding of it

[eternal sapphire]

You cant "consume" mutant parts like that so there's no way to really delete them...

[glad abyss]

no rush

[rare ruin]

Btw @eternal sapphire do you think it has anything to do with the fact the new items use QuestItem structure but are clearly labeled as not?

[crimson laurel]

WHERE THE HELL IS THE MILK AT?

[rare ruin]

Молоко

[cloud lark]

condensed milk

[crimson laurel]

has anyone seen it?

[pearl zodiac]

yeah tons

[rare ruin]

No there is actual milk

[crimson laurel]

i never seen it myself

[eternal sapphire]

Not like that anymore as of new update, and I havent checked it so...

[rare ruin]

I found the texture for it once

[crimson laurel]

but interesting

[rare ruin]

Oh shit really? What did you change them to?

[crimson laurel]

OOOOOH CANNED MILK

nvm

[cloud lark]

well all we need now is sugar and we can craft condensed milk

[rare ruin]

I think you COULD make them a full consumable without the ability to consume them last I checked

[pearl zodiac]

it already is condensed milk

[eternal sapphire]

They are just actually questitem now

[rare ruin]

Oh I see

[crimson laurel]

condensed milk is canned milk but

🤓🧐

[rare ruin]

When I created my item, I made it a consumable, you could do the same but make sure it can't be consumed

[cloud lark]

might just be inconsistend file naming

[rare ruin]

In case that is what's causing the bricks of course

[crimson laurel]

whats the difference between being a questitem and beign a normal item?

[rare ruin]

Or if you want to be funny, allow it to be consumed, but hurt the player with effects or something lol

[eternal sapphire]

Much too late for this, the localization relies on the type info and its quest

[cloud lark]

can't drop or sell quest items

[rare ruin]

Ahhh that sucks

[eternal sapphire]

Thats why I had to change it

[rare ruin]

So you said they're actual quest items, does that mean they are flagged as them and can't be sold or dropped?

[eternal sapphire]

No that part is false, I checked in game

[rare ruin]

Okay good good

[vernal prawn]

just wondering - is Vortex recommended at this time or just manual installation? i tried using a mod that would make skif's pistol not a quest item but it just didn't work

[cloud lark]

using any other mods that change weapons? might be a case of other mod superceeding that one

[errant estuary]

anyone knows what happened with ARS modpack?

[cloud lark]

its gone. Modder Wars and all

[errant estuary]

ah thats bad, was really good one, using it right now

[cloud lark]

i don't even know what it does

never got around to looking at it

[pearl zodiac]

it was just a merge of various other cfg/ini tweaks

[cloud lark]

i see

[crimson laurel]

i should be able to do a new .cfg like LootPrototype.cfg no?

[crisp hearth]

Has anyone looked at how hard it would be to add tabs to the PDA? I want to add a mutants, Anomalies, and artifacts information tab kinda like a Pokédex

[crimson laurel]

ill try 🤓

[cloud lark]

how would the game know to call on it?

honest question

[merry mountain]

sure, it just wont be loaded 😄

[crimson laurel]

they are called by the ID

ill give it a go and see

[cloud lark]

Yes but how does the game know to call the ID

[crimson laurel]

how does the game know how to call the ID in questitemprototype per example?

[rare ruin]

What about with the mod loader tool, or is that only for BP mods

[cloud lark]

no i know how it knows how to call that one, its backed into the code to do so

my question is how will it call on your new cfg

[crimson laurel]

are you sure?

[crimson laurel]

like here

[merry mountain]

its for BP mods, if you just add a random cfg, how should the game know what to do with it

[crimson laurel]

it never mentions where its allocated

lets see

ill give it a go

ill do one item

and try to spawn with console

[merry mountain]

but yes, try out and report back please

[rare ruin]

I wonder if you create a new cfg, call that cfg in another cfg, could it read the new cfg?

It reads whole new entries, so it may be able to read new cfgs?

[crimson laurel]

likely

[rare ruin]

Though LootPrototypes sounds similar to ItemGeneratorPrototypes which is the RNG system for various items

[crimson laurel]

no i want to like

make the ids and weights and stuff

in loot