╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[crimson laurel]

and in the itemgenerator its where like

it generates the items in x stash

[sand vault]

A mod I definitely want to do when SDK drops is a sleeping bag, so you can drop it down in a sewer pipe or a train car, or in the aisle of a bus and get some rest on the go.

[remote crescent]

Hello brothers and sisters I have a sidequest for someone who wants to make a new mod! 😄

[crimson laurel]

if this works then the guys doing the mutant mod they can do the MutantLootPrototype.cfg

because everything itemprototype is being referenced from this

[remote crescent]

@rare ruin Brother, what mod are You working on right now?

[eternal sapphire]

Yoo world record play time!

[crimson laurel]

sheesh

[rare ruin]

None right now but I may look into adjustment on ADS zoom, i know that's a mod already, but I want to see if it can be done without ruining scopes

[remote crescent]

Well if You want, I have like 2-3 new ideas 😂

For new mods :d

[rare ruin]

Is this a result of your 10K in game hours you used timescale with to test despawn timers

[cloud lark]

wdym i am using it and my scopes are fine as of now

[eternal sapphire]

Yup! lol

[rare ruin]

Sniper scopes?

[cloud lark]

yup

[rare ruin]

Could you send a screenshot at all?

[rare ruin]

Lmaooo

[cloud lark]

4 times scope on a ak ok ?

[rare ruin]

Dm me

[rare ruin]

4x may be too normal zoom

I mean a scope that usually takes up your screen

[cloud lark]

lemme check if i have my svd somewhere

gimme a moment

[rare ruin]

Like that if you do have one, take your time

[hollow sluice]

Can I also get an explain 😄

[glass cave]

guys what happend to ARS mod pack ROOM? its no longer here

[hollow sluice]

I THINK its been moved to a different discord due to D R A M A

[cloud lark]

please use the term Modder Wars ™️

[crimson laurel]

farter wars

[teal wing]

Kil

[hollow sluice]

2 stalkers stalkering each other too hard

[crimson laurel]

ok ill try this out

if i can spawn GoldenWatch

we ready boys 😏

[glass cave]

what?

[sterile falcon]

@naive osprey (grotama) has been banned for reason: Another one who advertises and spreads hate around this server.

[rare ruin]

Shouldn't the scope be taking up your camera though?

[glass cave]

what drama? and what discord please? 😄

[cloud lark]

why ?

[teal wing]

I actually am out of the loop I have no idea

[wintry patrol]

Better to not engage

[rare ruin]

Well wouldn't the scope be a bit more usable if you could have the old functionality back? Last I checked people were talking about how it makes certain scopes nigh useless

Because the zoom is so small on your screen because your camera isn't being overtaken by the scope like vanilla

[cloud lark]

you do realize that IRL you do not press your eyeball into a scope right?

[rare ruin]

Yes I do

[crimson laurel]

then you want ur eyeball taken off

unless you using the

whatever the name of the rubber i forgot

[cloud sorrel]

i dont find it fair what you guys are doing i got both sites viewes i wont say more its your right to do as you want

[cloud cipher]

You can press your eyeball in your scope, works for one shot

[cloud lark]

its a 4x scope the stuff inside the scope is 4x the size than when i am looking at it without., in my books thats a working scope

[crimson laurel]

for two until you blind

[rare ruin]

Okay i'm not talking about the 4x then, 4x is fine. Isn't there a 6x or something similar in the game or am I wrong?

[cloud lark]

there might be i have yet to find one though all i have seen so far is 2x 4x and red dots

[teal wing]

Understood 🫡

[cloud lark]

there is a bug with scopes after cutscenes though

maybe you had that happen

[crimson laurel]

GUYS

[void crypt]

@mild fable hey, i thanks for YourMore Side Weapons mod its great, I wonder how hard would it be to implement possibility to place M860 shotgun or just every other big weapons to pistol slot? I would be happy to have Rifle/Sniper in main slots and shotgun in pistol slot.

[cloud lark]

its not mod related though

[rare ruin]

Hmmm

[rare ruin]

Do you have a bit of time to vc? Or would you like my test vaseline pak to look and figure out how I made a new item with new effects?

[cloud lark]

thats one ugly ass watch and its way too heavy 🤣

[rare ruin]

From a first version of the item

[crimson laurel]

nice

[crimson laurel]

my game barely runs for shit

😏

[rare ruin]

You could easily make a roller, but the 3d model may be annoying. Idk if the game reads new models

[cloud lark]

@rare ruin may i suggest changing it so vaseline gives thermal protection for a while? You know because apply after burn.

[remote crescent]

Here's the ideas if You want to toy around cfgs :

• Collimator Sight (the small one being attachable to other weapons like i.e. Vector and/or AR416 - i think the SOTMOD has it)
• Vector mod to be able to change the caliber from 9x19 to .45 ACP (instead 5.45x39)
• Adding more types of ammo like Hollow Point 9x19 / .45 ACP so there's more weapons to deal with mutants effectively 😄

Sent this to a fellow modder, but maybe someone would like to try doing this hard ones

[remote crescent]

GAMMA 2.0 WIP

Or EFP 2.0 😄

[remote tendon]

Can you add new 3d items yet? Or is it just a replacer for another item and different texture?

[cloud lark]

sounds cool, a overall resistance would probably be far cooler anyways. If you buy into Tarkov Logic that is

[rare ruin]

Currently, it uses the medkit model and animations. I do not have any modeling experience. I also don't know if it can read new models yet

[rare ruin]

Yeah, I have a video of it. I think on my look.

Let me look*

[glad abyss]

I would imagine vaseline would protect you from most anomalies, not so sure about lightning though, is vaseline and insulator? haha

[rare ruin]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1309182885756145685/1310684964957847552/S.T.A.L.K.E.R._2_Heart_of_Chornobyl_2024.11.25_-_14.12.49.14.mp4?ex=6746c6be&is=6745753e&hm=7aace929813eab24a6e53cb808fe94098a46222122972856103bfdd334d35ead&

[cloud lark]

Like i said tarkov logic. i mean IRL vaseline isn't really a painkiller now is it

[rare ruin]

Yeah lmao

[harsh jungle]

what happened to the ars modpack?

whole thread is gone?

[rare ruin]

Long story

[harsh jungle]

make it short and tell me

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

[cloud lark]

the question is how easy would it be to rip animations from a game like tarkov and/or make your own animations for a consumable. the former probably being illegal and all.

[rare ruin]

Simply. Drama. Not worth it to dive into, been talked about a lot already. The history is there if you need to look

[crimson laurel]

it certainly does, it doesnt need a sdk to do that

[glad abyss]

Vaseline is more of a preventative than a solution, but yeah it does help with some types of pain IRL, Dry cracked skin for example.

[harsh jungle]

well I cant psychically know so please link

[crimson laurel]

sdk is just a easier built project to manage

[harsh jungle]

I dunno where look

[cloud lark]

but does it make your shot off legs work normally

[glad abyss]

If you apply enough to stop the bleeding haha

[rare ruin]

Yeah ripping anims would be ill.

Technically i'm using a png of норка from Tarkov as well so

[mild fable]

I plan on expanding the mod to all weapons as optional files during the day (after my work hours lol)

[rare ruin]

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

[harsh jungle]

alrighty then

that was all I needed

ty

[rare ruin]

Np

[harsh jungle]

now to figure out how to make a pack like that myself without breaking rules

nah...ill just wait for someone else

[cloud lark]

@rare ruin @glad abyss Fun fact about Vaseline. Its made from an Oil Drilling byproduct. So technicaly we are smearing our body with Dino Jelly.

[rare ruin]

mmmmmm dino jelly

[glad abyss]

Nothing like a nice bath in decomposed giants.

[frozen anvil]

anyone knows what config files make crosshair disappear when running?

[cloud lark]

@rare ruin @crimson laurel since you guys are editing consumables and all... found any variables regarding hunger yet? as in how often you become hungry?

[rare ruin]

i saw a modpack that changes it

i can look into it and see how they do it

[crimson laurel]

no clue

[cloud lark]

or you can link it to me and let me do it cuz i wanna have my 8 hour day spend with other things than eating every 5 min IRL

[rare ruin]

struggling to find it fuck

[cloud lark]

had the same problem i though i saw someting while browsing nexus once and then never found it again

[rare ruin]

lmao we hate it here

[steel musk]

Might be the satiety config in the difficulty options?

[rare ruin]

^^^

that could be it

[steel musk]

Effect_Satiety in DifficultyPrototypes.cfg

Default is 1, Veteran bumps it up to 2

[cloud lark]

hm thats not helpfull enough thats just a multiplier then there has got to be another variable somewhere

unless it accepts values other than 1 or 2

[outer wasp]

i want to cigarette

[cloud lark]

it could also just be how much hunger gets reduced by eating

[queen pewter]

anyone wanna chip in?

[sudden summit]

someone says Unrealpak different version is needed or smth

[outer wasp]

gimme that cigarette man!

[alpine cradle]

HELP
r.LumenScene.Lighting.AsyncCompute=1
r.Lumen.DiffuseIndirect.AsyncCompute=1
r.Lumen.Reflections.Temporal=1
r.Lumen.Reflections.DownsampleFactor=0.25
r.Lumen.Reflections.SmoothBias=1
r.Lumen.Reflections.MaxRoughnessToTrace=0.27
r.Lumen.Reflections.AsyncCompute=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVOwX9WrK_0
Managed to get some decent reflection, but just in some cases, if u change angle, they go very ugly, and the thing the pistol does, every bush tree and grass also does if they in front of a lake....i tried r.SSR.Quality=0, but nothing, when i turn lumen reflections of, it foes away, but becomes much older reflections, and beats the point of makeing them look good, but not artifacting..

[frozen anvil]

sound files audio id wem bnk / this does not include voices. if u really want voices then @ me

[leaden dagger]

That's the current limitation of the Lumen reflection, the black blob thing you're seeing is the lumen reflection scene. Nothing can be done about it unless you're willing to pay a high render cost

[alpine cradle]

meaning ?

[leaden dagger]

The sharp reflections you are seeing are the lumen screentraces that give the high quality look, but it's a screen trace and limited to the same things as any Screen Space effect.

[leaden dagger]

Destroy your fps and vram

[alpine cradle]

what is command to at least fix the view angle thing if not both ?

[leaden dagger]

There's none. The "angle" you're seeing is where the screen space effect lacks data, like an object going off screen

[naive trout]

the view angle isn't fixed its based on whats on your screen

or also any overlays it looks like because it goes away when near your pistol

[formal bronze]

game dev hard

[leaden dagger]

You can increase the resolution of the global distance field, which is what makes up the lumen scene, but just doubling the resolution increases the memory cost by 4 tines

[alpine cradle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMrB9nCSRS0 and this ? its same thing ? cause the bush and water are both on screen...

[alpine cradle]

how ?

[naive trout]

No that looks like a culling artifact

renderer thinks the reflections are covered by the bush

[alpine cradle]

looks extremly borken, i just want to see it fixes, no matter the cost in fps etc

what commands need changing ?

[leaden dagger]

I don't know the command by heart, but it's something like globalDF or GlobalAO, you can search through a command dump

[remote tendon]

Been playing around with Lossless scailing getting 0 input lag or stutters and using 2.3 frame gen.

Im on Epic settings DLSS- Performance
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RTX 3060 12gb
32gb ddr4 ram

https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/

Feels way better than the framegen built into game

Steam

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[alpine cradle]

dump command doesnt work not recognized

which one ?

[leaden dagger]

No I mean look through the command dump of someone. There's plenty around and those are also the commands of vanilla unreal so you can just look around online for them

[alpine cradle]

Unreal Engine 5 Console Variables and Commands i have a list here

but i dont know what to search for..

[leaden dagger]

I gave you both keywords

Make an effort

[alpine cradle]

GlobalAO nothing

[leaden dagger]

I even explained the issue, you could google the damn thing

[leaden dagger]

Try that one, I think the default is already something like 256-4

Try 512

[alpine cradle]

4096 does nothing

distance 0/1/10/100 does nothing

[leaden dagger]

The distance field options need a map reload to apply

[alpine cradle]

none of them do anything, and now i dont know what default values they had...

[leaden dagger]

Well now you fucked up big time. Restart your game and hope they didn't stick around

[alpine cradle]

:))

[leaden dagger]

Off the top of my head, I think it was something like r.LumenScene.GlobalSDF.Resolution but the spelling might be off

[alpine cradle]

its correct written fouind it will try now

4096 crashed the game

[leaden dagger]

No shit

[alpine cradle]

512 works, still looks like sht

1024 crash game

[leaden dagger]

I told you even doubling the resolution was gonna times 4 the memory cost and you went and made it times 12

[alpine cradle]

yeah but its not fixing it so its another command

tyvm for trying to help

still testing..

[leaden dagger]

It fixes the resolution of the fall back of the resolution

That's all

It's not gonna get rid of the line

EVER

[alpine cradle]

r.PathTracing we see

[rare ruin]

what are you trying to do

[alpine cradle]

btw also enabled Ray Reconstruction, just better quality, same issues

[sudden summit]

unpack the .pak it works for other paks but this one gives error

[leaden dagger]

I don't think you quite understand how reflections work

[rare ruin]

do you have repak at all? instead of unrealpak?

i have a batch file with an exe you can just, drag the folder onto and it does it for you

[sudden summit]

using unrealpak bat files u drag pak on them and they unpak

[rare ruin]

@sudden summit you can put these in one directory and try dragging your pak onto the batch

its a different exe

it may work, may not

[steep mauve]

@alpine cradle SSR in all games has this same kind of artifacts (your bush issue in the 2nd clip), the only difference here is Unreal Engine allows for a low LOD off screen scene to be used to fill in the gaps (your tree problem in the first clip). SSR is used over traditional reflection rendering however because its faster.

[alpine cradle]

i know one thing for sure, the engine and computer can process things beeing reflected that are not on screen, i just need to find which of them are, maybe not lumen, also with lumen, i 100% have reflections of what its not on screen, with scopes, they always show exactly what its in the back of me

[leaden dagger]

Things offscreen are the representation of the global distance field for lumen + surface cache. It's a low level representation meant as a fallback when the screen space reflections lack data or fail. Example, this is a global distance field

You'll never get accurate mesh and detail representation because it's a 256x256x256 pseudo 3D texture

[rare ruin]

white phosphorous night vision x-ray goggles mod when

i'm kidding

[devout pond]

Everything was running smoothly until today, when I launched the game and noticed some textures flickering. Has anyone else experienced this issue? Is there any mod that fixes this problem?

[rare ruin]

this happens every now and then, and I don't know if its LOD related or not

[sudden summit]

nope does nothing, smth with the mod I guess idk other paks unpacking perfectly fine

[rare ruin]

what mod even is it

[steep mauve]

Ya this happened to me after a few restarts. I think its due to the shader compilation at the start of the game... eventually after a few more restarts it went away and I haven't seen it ... i expect it will back though at some point though.

[sudden summit]

realistic movement speeds wanted to check the numbers

[devout pond]

Definitely something with the game cause I removed all mods and reverted to default settings, but the issue persists. Dunno what exactly causes the problem.

[steep merlin]

Does the marklane mod lengthen the day night cycle? and also does weight change for ammo meds etc? read the description but cant seem to see it stated

[steep mauve]

Like I said, pretty sure its the shader cache compilation at the start of the game. At some point it just resolved itself for me

[rare ruin]

well I know it's in ObjPrototypes, let me see if I can find that mod's specific stats

[grand sequoia]

If that's on the Sphere, yes.

The entire place is borked on the texture side. I'd bet on the fact that they placed duplicate assets or something and there is z fighting or something. Looked like it at least

[sudden summit]

oh I know where are they I edited the malready to our preference wanted to check what mod did but couldnt unpak

[rare ruin]

if this is even the mod you're talking about, i think its the only one i see

uhhh

i was able to unpack it no problem

[sudden summit]

strange doesnt work for me

[rare ruin]

they changed CoreVar and ObjProto

dm'd you

[atomic lance]

Just leaving the link of the "Alternative Radio" mod here that was taken down on Nexus, in case anybody wants it (Uze 7zip) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aotLMVOI0XV5oM3TCfDkChPhUpRo7TJw/view

[rare ruin]

it was taken down?

[atomic lance]

cant find it no more

[rare ruin]

oh yeah that's crazy

maybe they're re-doing it? idk

[alpine cradle]

😠

stillnothing

[languid radish]

How long does merging with the tool take? I have the Game Pass version of the game and the tool doesn't work with GP. I was wondering if it isn't too big of an issue if someone could help merge my folder real quick?

[alpine cradle]

just turning them off fixes it....but looks like shit

[leaden dagger]

Well yeah you're just removing the fallback

[rare ruin]

it depends on how many mods that you have that are conflicting and if you have at least some shred of patience to sit and use a tool for two configs at a time

[languid radish]

I don't think there's more than maybe one or two of these that really conflict

[rare ruin]

the only thing that I can even think of that conflicts here is probably RG_SensibleGameplayTweaks and the A Life Extended merged with Axxis Stealth

[languid radish]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure those are the only two, potentially the longer days as well.

[neat thistle]

Why it's so fucking hard to add custom icons to this game? 😄 😄 😄

Holy shit

[sudden summit]

no one yet looked into sounds ? storms are too damn loud

[neat thistle]

I gonna kill myself

Jeez

[rare ruin]

hmm, take a look at this guide, let me send it

[rare ruin]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/219

it also has merging info

[shy olive]

i am really overwhelmed (in a positive way!) with the amount of mods available/in the making. Much appreciation to you guys

[languid radish]

that's what I'm working through right now, weirdly enough having issues running the repack

[rare ruin]

if you need a video, here's this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNtWcByccVA

from the same guy, his english is fine, he says it isn't very good, but he's easily understandable

[rare ruin]

actually, here, let me dm you

[tribal wren]

What happened to the ARS modpack?

[kindred lotus]

Has anyone figured out the alife parameters that everyone in nexus is tweaking? Like is increasing the physics distance truly necessary?

[alpine cradle]

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

Says a modder got ALife 2.0 working

not much either than that mostly

[kindred lotus]

For example, there's a parameter that limits max actors range that in vanilla is higher than the default physics distance

[winged hemlock]

Which file has localization texts?

[alpine cradle]

also nice to know there is a no come back zone...so be careful

[kindred lotus]

Which would indicate that the npc spawn does not require physics

[pearl zodiac]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1310675708091301930 and https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1310377824007491584 for that

[rare ruin]

click the dropdown arrow, change it to all, then click load, then hold CTRL+SHIFT+F and then type LocalizationDB

then extract the uasset of that as raw data

[winged hemlock]

@cobalt hamlet I need to find Localization folder in one of the files?

[winged hemlock]

Thanks! I`ll try

[rare ruin]

also fyi, your english is fine, your video is easily understood :)

[winged hemlock]

Thanks, I just hate my accent, it`s too big

[cobalt hamlet]

I told him that he can load all the Paks

[winged hemlock]

Yeah, now I found it

I`m at UE modding for a just 3 days

[cobalt hamlet]

you will manage to find the Localization.ubulk/uassets now

[winged hemlock]

Correct?

[alpine cradle]

Nice

[zealous badger]

help

how to fix this?

[glad slate]

i had to reload a save

bro anyone able to help me get the stuff for modding the googling part that is. im struggling a bit

[rare ruin]

yes that is correct

[rare ruin]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1309520964782133328

[glad slate]

thats what i was lookinjg at it was specifically eh google this idk if its legal part i was struggling withi

we are all good now :)

[sand glen]

What happened to ARS Modpack?

[amber spire]

Go to settings and move fov slider a bit

[rare ruin]

ohhh that part, do you need those still?

[glad slate]

Nope i got it from someone

[mortal lantern]

banned due to refusing to source the individuals responsible for the mods in his pack.

from what I've heard.

[sand glen]

FFS

[crimson laurel]

refusing to source the modders is insanity lol

[teal wing]

imagine gatekeeping a few text edits and calling it a mod

[crimson laurel]

anything is a mod

u can edit a line

[mortal lantern]

They gave him a time limit to upload credits to the mod makers, and he ran out of time.

[crimson laurel]

and its a mod

[winged hemlock]

Does anyone have a .bat file for Unrealrezen packing?

[rare ruin]

quite honestly, even if you don't want to call it a mod, if you're being asked to simply credit the users you learned how to make the edits from in the first place, it isn't that big of a deal, at all.

[teal wing]

real

New game releases always bring out these people

[cobalt hamlet]

https://github.com/rm-NoobInCoding/UnrealReZen

[mortal lantern]

I'm just bummed I'm stuck on v1.6 of ARS cause I didn't download it when I saw it updated to v2. I liked the pack, very convienent, but yeah, he should have credited and sourced from the get-go.

[loud peak]

Can someone tell me where the mutants armor value is in the files?

[rare ruin]

should be in there for each of them

[loud peak]

will check it again

[rare ruin]

not sure what FP is, but it may be what you're looking for. do let me know :)

i actually think my values shown there are edited from Grok's mod

[loud peak]

yes, they'are edited

[merry mountain]

FP is Stamina for some reason i think, because it regens, armor regen makes no sense

[rare ruin]

honestly I wouldn't be surprised if it did regen armor

but FP being stamina makes logical sense in my head, but I wasn't sure, i mean FP makes me of Dark Souls

[merry mountain]

FP is maybe FatiguePoints

[rare ruin]

likely^

[cloud lark]

wait wait wait wait wait whats that

[loud peak]

dogs gut

[rare ruin]

blinddog values, but those are edited by Grok's mods i think

forgot to pull those out when looking in FModel

[cloud lark]

is there a similar looking entry for the actor as in skif somewhere? @rare ruin

[winged hemlock]

I tried many different paths, still not working

[cobalt hamlet]

u miss the key with the correct argument -a AESKEY

and the game-dir is related to Pak folder

[tough mica]

anyone know the location of the headshot sound effect, thought it would be here but not sure. im new sorry.

[cobalt hamlet]

check the Github page all is explain

[winged hemlock]

Checked already several times

It`s not that easy

[cloud lark]

@rare ruin is there a cfg handling the actor?

if so can you send that one to me pls?

[rare ruin]

i can look and see

[rare ruin]

just a shot in the dark, but try removing "0x" from the AES Key in the beginning

i remember another tool through a fit with that in there

threw*

[winged hemlock]

Nah, no changes

[rustic granite]

it's the Roadside panic one, but to me A-Life Extended is much better, includes Maklanes Better Gunfight and Axxi's stealth mod merged with his A-Life mod

persoanlly i hope the updates this week/whenever it comes. fix the sluggish feel when FSR is enabled

get most of my fps from FSR, but it feels like i'm playing on 30 fps (where nvidia and and other apps say i get 80-120) but with FSR disabled it feels so much better but way less fps

[alpine cradle]

im using this atm :
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

[rustic granite]

you have any idea why FSR is so fucked? like feels like 30 fps but it isn't ?

if you know what i mean >?

[rustic granite]

just cuz GSC needs to update it, or is it my end

[alpine cradle]

i dont use fsr, nvidia here

try this https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/27

[rustic granite]

yeah same here, also on nvida, running DLSS and FSR, but with FSR also enabled i get more fps but game feels sluggish, like it feels as if theres heavy input latency, but if it's disabled and only using dlss it feels much better but also then i run at 40-65 fps, where with fsr enabled i run constantly at 80-100

[frozen anvil]

use xess

its better than both

[rustic granite]

i tried multiple of the upsacling methods, seems the only one taht gives me and fps boost is dlss and fsr together

rtx 3060, i5 13600k 32gb 3200mhz ram, btw

[alpine cradle]

i usee dlss DLAA with frame gen on but im on 4090 so cant say

[rustic granite]

what does this do, i read mod descrip, but still not quite sure what it does ?

[rustic granite]

lucky fucker, but still heard the games optimisation is shit even for 4080/4090's

[alpine cradle]

i thikn im cursed with bad luck, but im also blind a lot...

try this

have it read only, make a copy of it, have it open on another screen / phone, so u can see commands, have console enabled, and test in real time which win u fps

[leaden ridge]

@limber rose Try this one

[rustic granite]

this is, a optimizatiopn mod ?, engine.ini file

[rustic granite]

my guy i'm nea to these things 😄

[alpine cradle]

its done for quality mainly, fps after

just put it

in appdata, and put the engine ini there

[rustic granite]

just take in consideration that you're ona 4090 and prob better cpu than me aswell

[rustic granite]

this is my specs

[alpine cradle]

might have 40-50 fps with that, but again read that i sad, and u can make it to 80fps

[rustic granite]

dunno how to do this tbh with you

[alpine cradle]

foliage.ForceLOD=1 (never zero)
fg.CullDistanceScale.Bushes=2 (only lower)
fg.CullDistanceScale.Trees=3 (only lower)

Mate download the engine ini i put there, put it in C:\Users\UR NAME
\AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\Config\Windows

[wicked wind]

Do you think if it's going to be possible, will be there any advantages of porting Stalker 2 to the latest version of Unreal Engine?

And is it overall possible?

[rustic granite]

i have atm with fsr enabled and dlss on quality, 80-100 fps, but as i said FSR makes it feel sluggish, hence fsr isn't that well optimized for UE5/stalker 2, so i heard

[alpine cradle]

thats more than i play lol

[rustic granite]

aight will try

[rustic granite]

can't be? you;re on a 4090

[alpine cradle]

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

[limber rose]

Hi guys! I am app developper I I want to start modding dev with stalker 2 🙂
I saw I need aes key to reverse engineering to get the files wich I want to mod. (repost in good chanel:) )

[raw arrow]

default mags has its own anims when you put off the expansion, seems like a good start to dev a magazine mod

[grand jay]

its obviously FASTPoints like cmon

[merry mountain]

so you use 2 upscaling methods at the same time?

[rustic granite]

yeah it works, somehow. if i only have dlss on at quality, i get 40-55 fps all with medium settings, with fsr enabled i get 80-100 fps but the fsr makes it feel sluggish as if there is more input latency

[alpine cradle]

use the engine

[rustic granite]

going to see now yeah

[worldly gulch]

Hi guys, is it possible to edit the loot Chance for ammo overall? Like just a 10% chance to find ammo on dead body/ stash/ wood crates?

Or is there already a mod which is doing this

[rustic granite]

just dunno how well my pc gonna handle this r.ViewDistanceScale=10

[alpine cradle]

thats why u get the console enabler

and lower in real time

but that specifically is not huge impact

and i think after 4 u cant see any difference

[leaden dagger]

Are you launching in dx12 mode? Most people got a solid increase in frames with just that. I went from 45fps DLAA 100 to solid 60fps with the same settings

[alpine cradle]

yes i have -dx12 in steam launcer options

[rare ruin]

100% this

[rustic granite]

i still trying to figure that out, cuz dunno where to do laucnh options

hence i'm on pc game pass version

[alpine cradle]

exe command directly

[merry mountain]

the game is already dx12 only i think

so that makes not a lot of sense

[leaden dagger]

No, the default RHi is dx11

[alpine cradle]

get msi afterburner, and it says there if u are runing in d3d11 or 12

[rustic granite]

bunga, new to editing/modding. so not slight sure where to edit it so i'm sure it runs in dx12, also dunno how to use the console you are talking about

[fallen umbra]

There is some MOD to Lower the weapon?? Just Lower not holster
I hate to point all the NPCs or go around like a playmobil

[nimble tiger]

yep its dx12 defaulted, at least for me

[alpine cradle]

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

[mild gorge]

hey is there any guide on how to structure the engine.ini correctly with the proper headers being used for various scripts/groups of features? Such as [SystemSettings] vs [/Scripts/Engine.RendererSettings] or even putting stuff in GameUserSettings.ini instead. Just not sure what the PEMDAS of it actually is. Really appreciate any guidance to a definitive answer. Thanks so much.

[rustic granite]

but going to try that engine.ini now, also i have an optimization mod currently, do i remove it or does it not matter ?

[alpine cradle]

i dont have that

u most likely have ~s2optmised etc

leave it there, or take it out if u see anything buggy

but i dont use it

[rustic granite]

~S2optimizedTweaksBASE_v1.67_P.pak, this what i have yeah

alright

[alpine cradle]

just this and that engine

also very important

enable vsying in ur control panel

[rustic granite]

for the game, or global settings ?

[alpine cradle]

the engine has it off , and if its not, disable it in game also

for the game

global settings shader 100%gb might help with shader comp

the console enabler disables shader comp, dunno why, i asked there waiting for answer, but after u done testing, just take the 4 files out until u need again

[rustic granite]

like this

[alpine cradle]

also

[mild gorge]

low latency mode on ultra usually has worse performance than just simply putting it to the "on" setting, fwiw

[alpine cradle]

also pick u rendering gpu

[winter matrix]

not true

[alpine cradle]

might be true

[rustic granite]

?

[alpine cradle]

put latency just on

i think they right

its also single player so yea

[mild gorge]

this is ALSO something where "Adaptive" or "normal" are actually better

forgot where I saw benchmarks of that one tho

[alpine cradle]

vsync u mean ?

[mild gorge]

no, power management for nvidia gpu

[rustic granite]

all i have

[mild gorge]

set to normal

[alpine cradle]

test and see who knows

[rustic granite]

so i download that console, then what?

[mild gorge]

texture filtering set to high performance, afaik there's no difference you can notice and it helps. Also make sure triple buffering is off.

[flint flicker]

Can someone explain what DispersionRadius is in the PlayerWeaponSettingsPrototypes.cfg?

[alpine cradle]

press ` in game and test for better fps if need

[rustic granite]

don't have 2nd monitor

ooh

[alpine cradle]

u can alt tab

[mild gorge]

dispersion is how much something deviates from the center, so a greater radius to your bullets

[alpine cradle]

remember play game in exclusive fulscreen

[merry mountain]

sir this is not bloke server, you wandered to the wrong side of internet

[mild gorge]

bumpety bump pls ty

[flint flicker]

So lower is a tighter grouping? (IE 1 would be SUPER tight)

[rustic granite]

so i just drop those 4 files into mods ?

[mild gorge]

QQ ily

[rustic granite]

then i run ~ ?

[winged hemlock]

Any advice?

[alpine cradle]

dont have the engine ini, from ur game files open, u need to have that read-only (right click on it and propreties), make a copy of it on desktop, and have that one open, so u can copy paste the commands from the engine.ini within the game console (remember in consolo always put SPACE instead of =

[rustic granite]

fml too much, can i stream my screen for you ?

[alpine cradle]

what i said is bread ez

[mild gorge]

engine.ini applies just fine for steam version, idk what the deal is with that misinfo

[rustic granite]

i'm retarded with this i sweatr

[alpine cradle]

yeah but what if he messess up ?

[rustic granite]

i'm on pc game pass

[rustic granite]

hence i wanna stream game for you 😄

[alpine cradle]

https://www.twitch.tv/thebunga_

[grand sequoia]

Really dumb question. Is there a reason for why some mods have a z_ or zz_ and so on added before their name?

Is it just to keep order in the folder, or do the mods load in a specific order?

[mild gorge]

oh my bad, I thought I saw you were on steam up above. Totally went to go and check first, whoops!

[alpine cradle]

i am on steam

[alpine cradle]

order

more ZZZz dominate

[rustic granite]

might if i stream my screen, you run me through this

[alpine cradle]

did u join my stream

[rustic granite]

i did

[wicked wind]

Hi, guys! I'm working on UI overhaul mod for the past few days and have one early (might drastically change) mock-up to share. Any feedback/advises/suggestions will be appreciated.
If somebody has experience with UI/UX design or graphic design overall and is eager to help, I'll really appreciate that. DM me then.
Or if you can code UI in Unreal Engine, it'll be very useful then SDK will be released and UI is ready on paper. Also DM me, please.

Good hunting, Stalkers!

[grand sequoia]

Hey Axxii, mind letting me know which config file did this mod affect?

Trying to make a list of the files affected by each of my mods, and I'm still using this one haha.

[teal wing]

Regular flashlight versus modded shadow caster flashlight

[grand sequoia]

Oh wow that looks wonderful already.

[tribal wren]

looks very nice

[merry mountain]

just look it up yourself? takes like 10 seconds
repak.exe list yourmodname.pak

[wicked wind]

Thanks! It'll be something really good by the end!

[honest glade]

AIGlobals.cfg

[frail plover]

I can code UI in UE5, interested in helping with anything like this eventually. Nice design!

[north wasp]

Need this so bad

[wicked wind]

Saved you. Hope to stay in touch!

[mild gorge]

patiently waiting for something that mythbusts all these configuration options that do nothing
I've found Engine.ini files that set (i.e., overwrite, right?) the same option to True, Enabled, and 1 on each line lol

[rare ruin]

I could attempt to help with design, but actual implementation into code is not my forte

[teal wing]

I’m not going to mythbust it. Most of it is snake oil. The rest doesn’t apply properly.
But.
There is merit in these engine tweaks. Want to know why? Because they’re identical for every unreal game. Including the old engine unreal 4

so basically just go pick literally any other unreal game

and use the same engine.ini

[winged hemlock]

Okay, another problem now

I have .utoc at the end of the line

So I don`t understand what is the problem

[teal wing]

I found it

You need to put your path in quotes

there’s a space

[winged hemlock]

It helped, thanks

But program crashed

[wicked wind]

It'll be really nice! Right now, I most of all need somebody with ideas (what to cut, what to leave, what to add, quality of life, etc.) and who can watch for me, because eyes are getting a bit blurry after sometime of work. Do you want to do some UI Game Design and, preferably, documentation? It'll free up my time to do prototypes

[merry mountain]

most of the engine ini stuff is batshit crazy, like people saying : this fixes this single thing and then they edit 50 lines that have nothing todo with that and one single line that actually has something todo with the matter

[winged hemlock]

Okay second try seems fine

[little sluice]

Huge

[winged hemlock]

But something is wrong, wile size must be at least 60mb

[desert hollow]

code rn 🙀

[teal wing]

This requires a custom memory injection

It’s not supported by ingame commands

[grand sequoia]

I maybe didn't even know that info beforehand?

[grim scarab]

i know load priority is a thing but i know nothing about it, anyone see any issues with how ive stacked these? (or any other comments)

[merry mountain]

thats why i wrote how to do it

[rare ruin]

What kind of documentation do you need? I could attempt to get something design wise done but what sort of design are you looking for? Overall design, including HUD, or simply menus and whatnot?

[little sluice]

Is this using the flashlight mod that's on nexus?
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/221

[wicked wind]

Let's go into DM, don't you mind?

[merry mountain]

there are lots of problems, mutant loot wont work at all like this for example

@gaunt radish ^

[winged hemlock]

Check please, what is wrong with my bat?

[tight ingot]

[merry mountain]

they use UE 5.1 not 5.5, not sure if that is your problem tho

[winged hemlock]

I checked both

[grim scarab]

ok, could you elaborate ?

[merry mountain]

also is _Stalker_2 correct path?

[winged hemlock]

Results are the same

[winged hemlock]

yes

[mild gorge]

in Engine.ini
which header is the correct one, and why?
[/Script/Engine.RendererSettings] vs [Engine.RendererSettings]

[mild gorge]

MVP https://github.com/nonniks/Stalker/blob/master/En_Engine.ini

it's not all "optimal" but it's annotated at least and he probably goes through and updates as he learns what's BS and what needed fixing

[grand sequoia]

Oh awesome, that is the best structured engine.ini I've seen so far

[teal wing]

Why even use headers

[mild gorge]

a ton missing, at this point

[plain patio]

Can I send you a dm? I think I may be of use lemme know

[queen delta]

@loud peak maybe you could know, what value is for bullet drop bc what is now in game is just a unfunny joke

[wicked wind]

Of course you can!

[teal wing]

Neither because it doesn’t do anything to use a header and is only for how

[merry mountain]

you could for example check with this what files are overwritten by each other #1310332125597401169 message

it shows you what mods conflict with each other
depending on load order, whiich is choosen alphabetically, the mod thats comes last will overwrite the fiiles from the other ones#

[rustic granite]

anyone have a fix for FSR frame gen feeling sluggish/have more input latency, currently using a rtx 3060 with fsr frame gen and dlss on, hence i can't use nvidia frame gen, because nvidaa frame gen is only supported on 30xx cards .

[mystic lion]

is there a difference between RunSpeed and SprintSpeed ?

[rustic granite]

using fsr frame gen and dlss because thats's where i get my fps from, without fsr it drops to 40-50 fps

[grand sequoia]

Does a definitive one exist anywhere?

[teal wing]

Sprint is shift , run is W

Walk is X

[rustic granite]

with it and dlss i have 80-95

[mild gorge]

I get weird shit with FSR3 and DLSS enabled, where entire towns will flicker as popins wherever I am lol

[mystic lion]

oh okay thanks you

[merry mountain]

but you say you are using a 30XX card

[rustic granite]

i don't have that as much

[rustic granite]

yes

[winter egret]

s2 has low crouch?

[teal wing]

That’s because FSR3

[mild gorge]

you know what, fuck it, I'm dumping mine cause I got a lot of shit in there, people will yell at me for what's wrong and that'll help me (tysm) and what's missing from others is referenced at least, in part

[rustic granite]

but nvidia dlss frame gen, only supported for 40xx series cards

[tight ingot]

this is just a product of everyone trying to work on their own tbh, ideally you'd want to have other people "proofread" to see what is actually good and what is extremely dumb. Like it reminds me of the TF2 code leak where programmers jsut keep adding more and more comments about the insanity of it

[mild gorge]

well yeah
it doesnt happen when I turn DLSS to fullres (i.e., DLAA)

[merry mountain]

you say you cant use nvidia framegen because iiits only supported from 30XX cards and at the same time say you have a 3060

[rustic granite]

i use fsr frame gen (amd's) and dlss, for some reason i get more fps with those 2 enabled rather than only having dlss on

[winged hemlock]

Icons works and text no, because file is not packed in .pak

Fuck.

[rustic granite]

ooh my bad

[mystic lion]

s2 ?

[teal wing]

It also can occur if you turn motion blur from 100 to 0

[merry mountain]

no

[mild gorge]

Aaah, good to know. Maybe I can set it to 1 and that'd work?

[tight ingot]

low crouch is not a thing

[rustic granite]

nvida fg only supported for 40xx

[grim scarab]

so do you mean that i should reverse the load order? that the ones with ZZZ in em should be loaded last not 1st ? so the ZZZ ones at the bottom ? and thx for the auto check script link

[grand sequoia]

Do you notice a palpable difference in performance with it? What about image quality?

[teal wing]

Use the FSR to DLSS mod

[rustic granite]

i think it's linked above somewhere, will go see if that works.

[merry mountain]

no, what i say is, depending on your load order , some of the stuff wont be working as intended, regardless of how you change the load order, if you use these mods in that way, some mods wont work
so you either need to remove some mods, or merge them either manually or with an automatic tool and then hope that it works as intended and that they dont change the same lines

[mild gorge]

its a clusterfuck of all the optimizers with as little "removed", so there ARE redundancies and bullshit is in there for sure
but I point to where I got some of the "sets" of settings and the jank is a feature, not a bug

[grim scarab]

ok and what was was wrong with the mutant loot pak files? you seemd to comment on those spesificly "mutant loot wont work that way" .. what way ?

[merry mountain]

depends on your card, it only works for 40XX cards

[rustic granite]

nvm

[mild gorge]

I didn't obliterate image quality, and performance is better than if I didnt go in. There are a few settings that are the most important there, im too lazy to point them out. Several guides and stuff already have done that.
Use it to find what settings you don't have. Definitely don't just plug my engine.ini and roll with it.
I have engine.ini paks (this one https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/7), but my engine.ini in config file changes work when I update them, so it's all an ASCII shrug moment

[desert hollow]

doesnt the game have native FSR frame gen?

[rustic granite]

they say there is a lot of problems with it, saves breaking, crashing to desktop etc, like multiple bugs/post regarding that on the mod page

[merry mountain]

as i said now multiple times, the files from Grok_PseudoDog etc. are loaded after the Mutants Parts mod, so they overwrite the changes Mutant Parts does, thats why Mutants Parts will not work

[teal wing]

I know EXACTLY what you’re referring to as I had a 30 series card as well haha

Nevermind tho

[rustic granite]

but you get what i'm saying though

[slender wind]

Any mod makers in chat? Had an idea for a mod that people may be interested in 😂

[teal wing]

Yeah and there’s still weird flickering LOD issues in vanilla

[rustic granite]

as soon as i turn fsr frame gen on, gain a fuck load more fps, but it feels sluggish as if it just fucks input latency

[rustic granite]

yeap

[mild gorge]

my current issue with my config is that textures seem too "flat" and shiny. Probably a combo of light dispersion and AO

[teal wing]

Yeah you can fix that with engine.ini tweaks and ray reconstruction

[mild gorge]

that's just how it'll be

[rustic granite]

but it's playable, wish there was just a way to mitigate the sluggish feeling, like when how smooth it is if i'm only using dlss

[teal wing]

After a few ini tweaks I actually have lower latency with FG on

[mild gorge]

lower your GPU usage, reduce texture size, effects, etc

[teal wing]

Than I did before the tweaks

[desert hollow]

^^^ but Frame gen will always add latency so it can only get so much better

[teal wing]

indeed

but it’s no longer noticeable

I actually have better frame time response than day 1 when I played vanilla maxed out lol

But with FG on

[desert hollow]

i still haven't gotten around to implementing your optimization

[teal wing]

which is clear that the devs simply forgot to change a few values that I normally do for every UE game

[desert hollow]

im tired

[mild gorge]

hey is this in gameusersettings.ini under sg.MotionBlurQuality? or something else?

[teal wing]

No I meant to say if you change from 100 to 0 in game it will stretch and distort the screen

[mild gorge]

Not sure what you mean. In game its a slider?

[teal wing]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-sleep-vaporeon-gif-18613776

[rustic granite]

check your dm's yerts

[mild gorge]

unfortunately the DLSS + FSR3 texture and model flicker/popin keeps happening even if I set the motion blur amount to low ingame.

thanks for the tip though, it was worht a shot

[teal wing]

Oh I meant it’s a separate issue that also causes issues

If I lower motion blur in game , it absolutely wrecks the screen

I have to turn it back up or else I can’t play

[mild gorge]

gotcha

[tight ingot]

ngl half the modding is a bit wasted considering the changes that are gonna come

[mild gorge]

any idea what options would be making things look flat and shiny like this?
in Engine.ini of course

[tight ingot]

don't beat yourselves too much over stuff personally for now

[merry mountain]

i even have that without DLSS / Framegen / FSR

and ii dont use engine.ini tweaks

[teal wing]

This looks like a reflection noise tonemap setting

[mild gorge]

RIP that's horrible. I'm actually pretty sure it has to do with async-related features

[mild gorge]

bless your heart

[teal wing]

Did you have any lumen configs for noise or temporal?

if set to 1 it can cause a matte effect

the temporal jitter should be left default at 0.27

I have no idea what the cvar is

[mild gorge]

my shit got it alllll
any option I found that wasn't mentioned as BS anywhere, I added to my config. Not everything is uncommented

[merry mountain]

wiith DLSS ii dont like how it looks, so i use just DLAA so no upscaling, and run on ultra and its fine. But the flicker is annoying still.
framerate is fine, but im using 4090 so 🙃

[teal wing]

Remove anything that says temporal and try it again

I honestly can’t remember

I’m still at work

[mild gorge]

might it also be r.Lumen.Reflections.HierarchicalScreenTraces.RelativeDepthThickness=0.1?
im thinking the equivalent of "subsurface scattering" but lumen or nanite, might be it too

[teal wing]

that shouldn’t cause matte reflections

[loud peak]

Dropofdistance

[teal wing]

I’ll have to find it when I’m home

[winged hemlock]

This must be 100% correct, but still creates an empty files.

[slate bronze]

can I just edit values from a previous mod in fmodel and it'll be saved?

[blazing orchid]

No and i think thatd be stealing unless you plan on not uploading it

iirc somones mod got removed bc he just altered some values of somone elses mod

[scarlet holly]

can i get some thoughts on a lighting rework?

[livid spire]

:D If anyone wants to work with me to mod this gun into stalker 2 when the mod tools come out I'd be happy to!

[scarlet holly]

https://imgsli.com/MzIyMDA1
https://imgsli.com/MzIyMDA0
https://imgsli.com/MzIyMDA2

[livid spire]

the model is ultimately high poly tho

[woeful crane]

If only his mod was real alife

[slender wind]

Anyone know mods or values that can be altered to give a wider fov on just the arms and gun models?

[remote tendon]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1310377824007491584

[quick rain]

use flawless widescreen

[remote tendon]

Does the GSC Debug tool GUI exist or is that a photoshop?

[woeful crane]

Dev build, I was wanting to see if it was possible to port this tool over to retail, but im dumb as hell when it comes to scripting/coding

[sand parrot]

I’m sure it’s possible

[remote tendon]

If its a dev build it may be in the files somewhere. If not it seems possible looks very much like the default Cybertweaks debug menu for cyberpunk.

[woeful crane]

I thought the exact same thing about the CTDM

I just cant remember where those files got placed its been so long

[remote tendon]

Going to see if i can get the code for the cybertweaks menu and see if its doable to add

[scarlet holly]

so nice to see my mod made it on the recommended list

[woeful crane]

But yeah this tool is epic, because it lets you actually debug the AI, spawn them, change behaviors, etc

[scarlet holly]

i'll update the Mid version just for you

[sand parrot]

Definitely a must find to share

[woeful crane]

If we can get it ported outta the dev build Id gladly haha thats mainly the only reason i went hunting that damn thing was for this tool and to see if there was any files maybe the modding community could use that would work on our retail build until mod tools come out

[remote tendon]

My usmap not working... 😦

[astral yacht]

Quick question, anybody else having an issue with putting an optic on the AS Lavina? I looked a bit online at Reddit, people are saying even though you can upgrade it and put a picatinny rail on it, you are unable to put anything other than the PSO 4x dovetail on it. Wondering if it would be possible to mod it to work as intended (add picatinny optics to the rail on the AS Lavina/Val)

[remote tendon]

Someone was modding something like that further up

[woeful crane]

For this build to be over a year old, the amount of dots you can see on that map dont even do it justice, you zoom in and there's a metric fuck ton, its kinda wild tbh

[astral yacht]

Gotcha, I tried to ctrl+f for it but didnt see

[remote tendon]

Any idea why I can open texture files on fmodel anymore got the same map file as ive used for a couple days

[remote tendon]

Well theres defo something in the current build to do with a debug gui of some sort

[merry mountain]

there are also these commands:
XSetDebugMode
XToggleDebugTool
and some other commands with Debug in the name

[woeful crane]

What would the files related to the debug tool end with? would be a uasset?

because this is what I have in the folder I assume related to the tool

[remote tendon]

First would need to figure out if theres anyway to activate whats already there

[random linden]

What happend to the ARS pack?

[merry mountain]

PtSans is just a font tho
so this does only contain the font used and teleport presets

[woeful crane]

You tell me, I know fuck all when it comes to this stuff, haha, I just know that GSC Debug Tool loads in the dev build and was trying to figure out a way to get it over

[merry mountain]

XToggleAutoSaveEachFrame
ah yes, autosaving each frame 😄

[remote tendon]

I cant access as .map file not working

[fallen umbra]

There is any new about release the mod Tools?

[merry mountain]

no

[bronze monolith]

they haven't even gotten the first patch out yet that fixes the game breaking bugs with the main quest

[woeful crane]

Anyone know if it's possible to get the gamepass exe to load inside x64bg? I also cant process load it either its invisible

jfc, x64bg wasnt running as admin... i need to go to sleep

[rare ruin]

Question, am I stupid, or does "10800.f" mean its a float number?

[merry mountain]

yes

with which i mean, yes you are stupid

no, its a float number

[rare ruin]

so, to my understanding, does that mean, if DespawnItemTimer = 10800.f does that mean it can despawn an item before or after 10800, i don't entirely understand how floats work, I only know the term from cheat engine and that it isn't a static value

[merry mountain]

float is just a number format, if it would be an int for example it could have different sizes and only whole numbers

it means the Despawn Timer is 10800 Units of whatever time format they use

could be ticks, could be seconds, could be realtime or ingame time

[rare ruin]

i thought float meant that it's a range. What the hell was I thinking about? lmao

so its likely seconds, which would 3 hours IRL

be*

[zinc fractal]

Is it possible to add roubles I mean coupons as loot to humanoid corpses / stashes?

[rare ruin]

you need the SID of Koupons, and then you need to add the SID to an ItemGeneratorPrototype that applies to NPC corpses and stashes

[fallen umbra]

It's true, they haven't released a patch yet to fix those game-breaking bugs in the main quest. Honestly, I'm also impatient to see a good proper mods to improve the experience and finish the game properly.

[crimson laurel]

am tryna make like barrels a lootable container

cant find a way

t_t

yet

[rare ruin]

not gonna lie, if I had known you were trying that. That's way harder than it seems

[crimson laurel]

theres barely any lootable containers so

you gotta make more

i want to make like car trunks a container

hoods = engine parts

trunks = random crap

[sand parrot]

Reshade crashes when enabling an effect, anyone know?

[fallen umbra]

GP,Steam or GOG?

[woeful crane]

Thats what its showing

[sand parrot]

gamepass

[weak crow]

Anyone know if there are sub categories to r.RefractionQuality ?

[royal heath]

Wow another bug. Can't enter malachite. Gesus the cluster flufff of this game

Ghost walk it is

[light coral]

Hey modders

Quick question

Can you mod the time it takes for barkeepers to give you new missions?

I'm not asking for you to do it

I just want to know if with your current tools and skills if it is possible

[digital gulch]

if only it was like that we all would be happy

[light coral]

Like, to remove the requirement of waiting for time to pass or to redce it

[digital gulch]

yes

proly a config

[light coral]

Really? Tha'ts all it takes?

Damn if I knew which file that would be I think I would do it myself

And I dont even know how to mod

[digital gulch]

not simple you neeed the right file /find the lines dedicated for it and them create a mod

[light coral]

Yeah thats what I mean

[digital gulch]

but proly anyone who messed with the files thus far could find it quick

[light coral]

The hardest part would be to find the line

[crimson laurel]

does anyone know if theres a console command to get the current position?

[blazing orchid]

Ohhh I gotcha, late reply lol

[dusk rampart]

is there any kind of mod manager yet for stalker2? or is everyone still installing manually dropping the files

[blazing orchid]

I got this set up last night

[livid spire]

I think vortex mod manager came out with mod support for Stalker 2

[sterile axle]

i wanna 3d print this so bad

[meager wind]

has anyone looked into a mod to enable flashlight shadows? i know you can do it with the flashlight customizer one, but that apparently doesn't work with the game pass version and the creator doesn't seem interested in trying

[blazing orchid]

I dunno much about setting up mesh’s for 3D printing, do you have a printer?

[sterile axle]

i have a resin printer

[blazing orchid]

I can send it if you’d like

I just don’t know how to set it up for printing

[sterile axle]

i dont think theres really much to it

i think the only thing i would do is like

seperate certain parts out as if you were putting it together

like for example

[blazing orchid]

I get them being separate but I’ve glanced at stl models before and the mesh isn’t good for rendering

It requires an insane amount of verts iirc

[livid spire]

Ooooo could u send me that

[sterile axle]

yeah, it does have to be insanely high def

[blazing orchid]

Converting this mesh for printing idk much about but I can send you the model if you’d like to do it yourself

[sterile axle]

honestly if you make a model thats like. Super high poly and has all the pieces seperated out with painting + assembly in mind + maybe even putting a screen in it people would pay money for it

but yeah, i would love if you sent me the file!!

[neat thistle]

Cyka. I have UE5.5 now 😄
Is it gonna work fine with Stalker 2 which is on UE5.1?

Or I need to downgrade?

[blazing orchid]

check dms

[blazing orchid]

check dms

Couldnt find the texture or the shader for the screen, could use more digging around to find it but its something prob custom setup with Unreal that im ignorant about

im gonna make my own after I make my own model, I got the mesh so I can have direct 3D references so i can do a project like this

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

[crimson laurel]

oooh lala

[crude heart]

Alright I hate the spark camo someone please dump the spark armor camos and I will make them look like clear sky

[tacit yarrow]

what mod is this?

[harsh jungle]

GSC debug tool

its not a mod, its something you gotta turn on manually

[tacit yarrow]

got it

[harsh jungle]

now Idk how to do that so good luck

[tacit yarrow]

hahaha just curious ;D not planning any alife mods

[harsh jungle]

A life in 2007: world does stuff around you
A life in 2022 (Gamma): A life makes the world around you feal alive
A life in 2024 (Stalker 2): we spawned another squad on top of the player hopefully they find that entertaining

[tacit yarrow]

;D

yeah really is a step backwards - world feels dead

[unique flame]

https://tenor.com/view/dr-bean-dixon-dr-coffee-futurama-themepark-bender-gif-25160461

[harsh jungle]

if it isnt dead its overspawning 2-3 squads over each other

[woeful crane]

Yeah its just part of GSCs debug tool for the dev build that leaked year and half ago

[tacit yarrow]

while I can roll a joint while sitting in a watchtower in gamma, and watch the mayhem and whatever

[harsh jungle]

aye

[tacit yarrow]

but honestly - maybe the combo of the leaked build and the release will be the perfect combo

bc I saw that the guy that made the original AI is still working there

[harsh jungle]

I feel like they just are in panic PR mode and dont actually know what to fix, so they are waiting for the community to tell them

give it a month...ish

[woeful crane]

Thats why I got it, and to verify just how much Alife they had in the game, and if its even remotely the amount thats going on in the dev build, the retail one when they get it turned on is gonna be amazing

[harsh jungle]

honestly im more hyped for gamma update then stalker 2

[tacit yarrow]

wanna know something hilarious about the whole stalker / GSC thing?

[harsh jungle]

at least gamma feels fun

[tacit yarrow]

í was a tiny part of the original stalker

supplied the weapon models

[woeful crane]

Thats honestly cool as fuck, The first stalker was so amazing for its time

[tacit yarrow]

the original pictures of weapons - had access to a fuckton of weapons

most of the weirdo weapons is because i just took pics of whatever was cool in the armory lol - was like 15

anywho they gave me ftp access to upload the pics - and forgot the whole dev team had access

so I got to see all the original monster fanart and monster models

im 99% sure that all of the models in game, is basically the original stuff - maybe wrong - but the bloodsucker on my 2080 looks fucking identical minus upscaling

[tacit yarrow]

yeah felt it was so fucking cool as well, and they did a lot to bring the community together

[harsh jungle]

Alright a joke wont tell itself
Two rookies walk into a controller nest, one asks the other "hey man why did we come here again?"
"for artifacts man! there has got to be some reason all the pro's avoid this place, think of the loot!"
The first rookie takes off running, the second one asks "Hey! Don't you want some loot?"
The controller says "Don't worry, There is plenty of loot from the last rookie!"

[crimson laurel]

anyone knows how to get objUID

[woeful crane]

Bro I had no idea the modding community for Stalker was so huge, Like back when I played the OG game in 20072008, Literally none of my buddy's other than the ones I told them about had heard of it, and then a few days before Stalker 2 dropped I watched a youtube video on Gamma and I was like... WAIT... HOLD THE FUCK UP, I couldn't believe what the community got stalker looking and playing like... I was speechless

[tacit yarrow]

haha

[merry mountain]

there is XShowPlayerCoordinates , but it does nothing for some reason

[tacit yarrow]

lol i'm btw talking about the original community even - the original game had so much hype

that its been a joke in my group with how shitty the final build was

they were promising coop and all kinds of shit lol

even back then

[merry mountain]

Stalker2\Content\Paks\pakchunk0-Windows\Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData\ObjPrototypes

[crimson laurel]

is that an actual UID?

[woeful crane]

That was GSC's first game was it not?

[crimson laurel]

ah yes, yes

[merry mountain]

no thats the folder where you find uids, BlindDog for example would be if you want to spawn a dog with a command for example

[woeful crane]

They built Xray in house too iirc

[tacit yarrow]

but yeah the bones of the game is fucking amazing - always has been. Thats what gives me some hope that this will be the same, because to me, it feels identical to gamma minus minor stuff... like they build a modern version of gamma with all the stuff

[woeful crane]

so they def had their hands full

[tacit yarrow]

and had too little time to finish - but i basically feel the entire gamma skeleton is there

including butcher shop in rostock etc

and i wouldnt be surprised if the AI is ACTUAL Alife 2.0

but atm nerfed to oblivion

[woeful crane]

They'll get it fixed, Shit these guys didnt just spend 15 years and going through a war later to just drop and ball and give up at the finish line

[rare ruin]

this is what I meant, that FOV mod, wouldn't it render this scope unusable?

[tacit yarrow]

agreed wayne

[crimson laurel]

i mean thats SID not UID tho right

i can spawn in itemcontainers

but it doesnt spawn with loot

and i think

"XObjRecalcAllCachedStats ObjUID"

recalculates the cached loot

am tryna do custom item containers

[merry mountain]

oh thats what you mean

[crimson laurel]

yeah

[bitter sluice]

none of the tarkov assests are encrypted and are readily available if you have the game installed. the legality of it is questionable, but anything is up for grabs

some things are pretty baked, and need some work to get them to convert over into unreal, but it doesnt take much time if you know what youre doing

are you making a mod while excluding any profit? youre probably fine. make a game with those assets yourself while inducting profits? legality issues

[mild gorge]

by any chance do you know the options related to tonemapper, and specifically for the r.ToneMapper.Quality option, what the accepted values are? mine is set to 0 so I'm wondering if that might be a part of why everything looks like it's coated in saran wrap
EDIT:
also I checked and switched the r.Lumen.Reflections.Temporal from 0 to 1, and it didn't push it in a better direction idt.
Do you know what these might be?

r.Lumen.Reflections.DownsampleFactor=0
r.Lumen.Reflections.SmoothBias=1

less so the downsample factor, and moreso the smoothbias. Wondering if that might be it

straight up everything has like a white traced outline almost, it's well defined

[crimson laurel]

just dont abuse or tarkov will cry to twitter about being stolen

or do idk, we can make stalker 2 a better SPT (it already is)

[steel musk]

Only post it on GAMMA Discord, they'll never know

[bitter sluice]

yeah tarkov as a single player doesnt work, even with mods for npc interactions of higher quality. the whole idea is having good fun fights, and tarkovs foundation for ai is so soft that it doesnt hold up for that category

[cedar basin]

is it possible to make saves the have the main story finished?

[cunning garnet]

tf? ive never had this with any other mod. i cannot unzip the thing

[steel musk]

That's a .pak, not a zip file

[cunning garnet]

no i know, it came in a zip, and this happens when i unzip the zip

[steel musk]

Oh, gotcha

[crimson laurel]

all stalker 2 needs is a good bartering, looting and crafting system, and other stuff ofc

cus the looting in the base game dogshit rn

u either get bread or vodka

😏

but am tryna work on it

[bitter sluice]

yeah i feel like i just grab a ton of shit, sell all of it and feel nothing

[steel musk]

More weapons, more attachments, a decent economy that makes sense, and proper A-Life and combat AI.

[crimson laurel]

imagine to have a decent gun u actually have to seek out loott

[cyan stirrup]

Gamma 2 is what we all really want lol

deep down

[crimson laurel]

looting was overlooked tho

[bitter sluice]

frankly, that is the orrrignal feel of the games back in 07. anomaly and gamma kinda poisoned the original gameplay design of stalker games

[steel musk]

I'd be happy with more content and enemy AI that I can't just gun down using the starting Makarov

[crimson laurel]

but we can make it possible now

[cyan stirrup]

poison's a word for it. it certainly forked it into something else

imo anyways

[bitter sluice]

yeah i didnt wanna say ruin, because it didnt. the games have always been 'far cry but ukraine'

[crimson laurel]

stalker 2 has a great great openworld now we need to make a good use of it

[tidal dragon]

is the author of CFG merge tool here?

[bitter sluice]

it wasnt until the inception of misery mod that really pushed the open world looter shooter pain-enjoyer vibes

[cyan stirrup]

Speaking of anyone know where I could find the ueasset for all of the faction patches and/or logos?

[bitter sluice]

look in textures/decals/grouping

idk if theres anything like that in there, but if there was it would be there

[tidal dragon]

is the mod for mouse X Y really necessary?

[meager wind]

yeah people forget but the unmodded original games also drown you in supplies and aren't all that punishing when you learn how the shooting mechanics work

[bitter sluice]

Middle of my first play through I had the thought of S2 being a PvP open world extraction shooter and raiding SICCA for artifacts just to get into a player ambush leaving the place

[meager wind]

i hope the planned multiplayer mode (if it's not canceled lol) has ideas like that and isn't just deathmatch modes like soc

but my guess is the mp will never see the light of day tbh lol

[crimson laurel]

in 5 years there will be mp modes with modpacks 😏

BREAD

https://gyazo.com/91212df8001c1e96a5ad8391fbbacba4

WE MAKING PROGRESS

BREAD IS SEARCHABLEE

[bitter sluice]

Considering it’s UE5, a multiplayer mod would be relatively easy. Just have to wait till a wizard appears

[crimson laurel]

dang nobody cares about bread 😦

[merry mountain]

There is a command
XInputActionUnlock IAName IMCName
What you found is of Type InputAction

[teal wing]

https://www.cnblogs.com/kekec/p/17841097.html

everyone should be fully reesearching the things they are putting in their ini

People DMing me their engine.ini and you wish you could see the look of horror on my face at all these horrible suggested values

[twilit ice]

has anyone tried messing around with DynamicItemGenerator.cfg? in regards to stopping every dead npc dropping two bandages, a sausage and a bottle of beer

kinda curious why it isn't touched in grok's consumable and npc drop mod

[teal wing]

i have individually tested thousands of these variables

[crimson laurel]

no but am working on adding more loot and more loot containers so ill be touching all that shit ig

[mild gorge]

u right ty

[bitter sluice]

Unless that bread is equipped with an eotech and an RC2 I ain’t wanna talk about it

[crimson laurel]

i just hope that current meshes that are on the map become searchable

and not hjust the ones i spawn

[bitter sluice]

Are you seeing anything about loot tables? Outside of NPCs how random is the loot?

[cyan stirrup]

you must find bread then

[crimson laurel]

no, its so many fucking of that shit, and i aint understand how it works

[teal wing]

i need to make a list of engine.ini shit to avoid....
never ever use a cvar in your engine.ini that contains any of the following.

• the word scale or scaling
• never change LOD from default value equal to : 1
  • Increasing LOD scaling of any kind can push you across the threshold of vram limit very quickly.
  • Increasing LOD mesh scaling creates issues with anisotropic filtering especially when forced in the driver level at 16x. This, combined with (NVIDIA only) Allowing negative LOD bias in nvcpl, results in exponential performance degradation. Your garbage collector must work much harder.
• the word radius
• dont use HRTF it tanks fps and crushes audio. Due to extra cpu processing in post.. Causes me sea sickness personally, fps loss bad.
• uhhhh i should make a list
  x edits
• do not change ambient occlusion method. The game provides lumen which covers ambient occlusion. Adding additional GTAO on top of lumen creates overhead

[desert hollow]

Yerts optimization guide when

[mild gorge]

I'd pin you so mf hard

[teal wing]

this might turn into it

[tough mica]

i dont understand how to use zentools, can someone help?

[desert hollow]

Against what...

[crimson laurel]

^

[mild gorge]

people's collective knowledge, which suffers at the hands of discord being the worst information tracking and finding system we could've ever found ourselves using this way

[crimson laurel]

i never found a community so collected to do a thing together

[summer silo]

Fancy seeing you here

[teal wing]

hello again

its me, unfortunately

🙂

[summer silo]

Let's just not get onto the topic of which GPU manufacturer is better again

[teal wing]

I actually bought an AMD 6950xt when i was testing Lossless scaling

[rustic granite]

asus

all the way

[teal wing]

I have AMD and NVIDIA gpus in my computer as we speak

I used it to help discover the gsync injection bypass

Which is now an official feature toggle of Lossless Scaling

[summer silo]

I'm sticking with my 4080 Super for now.
Kind of sucks laptop issues forced me into buying a new PC right before 50x series drop

[rustic granite]

i'll probz get myself a 4070 ti super next year, so that i can also use nvidia dlss frame gen instead of the current fsr i use

[summer silo]

I'd wait for 5070 or 5080 to see how much they'll cost tbh

[rustic granite]

above my pay grade 😄

can garuntee you

[summer silo]

I got the 4080S for 1k

[rustic granite]

i'm in south africa and 4080/4090's here cost 25k South african rand

[summer silo]

oof

[crimson laurel]

thats cheap

go buy two rn

[summer silo]

Yeah based on what I know from my friend that lives in South Africa shit is bad

Dude doesn't even have an ID. Just a birth certificate

[crimson laurel]

unless youre elon musk dad u in the shit

[mild gorge]

Increasing LOD mesh scaling creates issues with anisotropic filtering especially when forced in the driver level at 16x. This, combined with (NVIDIA only) Allowing negative LOD bias in nvcpl, results in exponential performance degradation. Your garbage collector must work much harder.

TIL 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭

[crimson laurel]

the world ones arent searchable

fuck

what do i do now

😏

[brave frigate]

can someone please post or send me the link to download the mutant skinning mod?

[crimson laurel]

#1310037284954837063

[teal wing]

yo

[molten void]

I have no idea where I'm going with this but here it is...

[teal wing]

daimie poo

[brave frigate]

thanks!

[summer silo]

Greedy old Toad

[summer silo]

ye?

[teal wing]

1. how many vaporeons i gotta mod in til i hit orange name (my favorite color is orange)|
2. why did you dip from the other place we know each other from

[summer silo]

I'm still in nms server wym

[rustic granite]

xD, yeah nah Saf is fucked, i mean we have had 2 presidents, 1 is a convicted criminal that is president, other one didn't even have a matric certificate and he became pres

so

[cloud lark]

i doubt it but i haven'T tried it yet

btw have you ever found the actor cfg?

[teal wing]

awol*

[cloud lark]

good now have every 100th bread have mold in it.

[crimson laurel]

[teal wing]

you son of a

[cloud lark]

what am i looking at?

[summer silo]

In game editing ui I think

[sick pebble]

Anyone run into issues with their BP mod crashing the game on launch? All I'm doing is rendering an image overlay with it

[merry mountain]

not yet, just a demo window for said ui

[summer silo]

As they say, one step at a time, lol

[merry mountain]

but you might notice that it looks similar

[crimson laurel]

NIGHTMARE FUEL

[cloud lark]

ha i found that in a crawlspace under a truck somewhere and it was right in my face too.

was half burried

[summer silo]

Creepy ahh doll

[teal wing]

https://medium.com/@shinsoj/lighting-features-cheat-sheet-5b81b63b3ab7

[cloud lark]

https://tenor.com/view/laugh-weird-yes-ohgod-gif-8186699

cheats are for losers

[frail plover]

Is this a blueprint mod?

Theorectically could use a menu like that to edit all kinds of stuff if so

[summer silo]

Easiest way to include an mcm like mod tbh

[frail plover]

Yup exactly

[steel musk]

I wish I could see GSC's reaction to seeing just how much fans are progressing in modding S2 despite the lack of their SDK

[sand parrot]

it's insane

[steel musk]

"If we don't release it soon, the fuckers will beat us to it and theirs will be more fleshed out!"

[cloud lark]

if you throw enough weaponized autism at anything you'll get results fast. Thats what the whole capture the flag incident told me. Well The internet Historian told me.

[teal wing]

bro why are people suggesting using XGE shader compiling tf

The XGE shader compile stuff is meant to be for swarm shader compiling with multiple machines

r.XGEShaderCompile=1
r.XGEShaderCompile.Mode=3

[sick pebble]

Don't talk to me or my nasa computer ever again

[teal wing]

why do i keep seeing this in "optimization" guides

bro's potato laptop is not a compute cluster my guy

almost every "optimization" mod on nexus for s2 has this

pure trash

[summer silo]

ELI5 what is xge?

[steel musk]

Just deleted those 2 lines from my Engine.ini

[cloud lark]

i don't know why everyone is hating on good old "compiling shaders" it gives me time to grab a coffee and have a smoke

[summer silo]

My shaders compile in like, 20 seconds after the first time

[sick pebble]

Have you done some benchmarking to see if it's actually a net negative? Just because it's used with swams doesn't mean it's worse than whatever the default is

[teal wing]

its an entirely different kind of shader compilation system called the eXtreme Game Engine

[hardy bloom]

hey im adding some songs to the radio ingame, dm me some songs i should add

[teal wing]

It offloads shader compilation tasks on networked machines across your local network

[next cave]

any particular preferences on genre/era/theme/etc? @hardy bloom

[livid spire]

Has anyone been able to add models into stalker 2?

[teal wing]

@summer silo

[steel musk]

Just timed mine, takes about 48 seconds to compile the shaders

[cloud lark]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUfwy3f3R4s

[livid spire]

IN SUPPORT OF UKRAINE!

[rare ruin]

is this made with the same tool that a lot of cyberpunk 2077 modders use, i can't remember the name, call me a noob 😔

[steel musk]

Just timed the 2nd and 3rd time, one with and without the XGE lines, no difference

[earnest gale]

😬

[teal wing]

why are they adding it to optimization guides

if they have properly tested it

?

[steel musk]

Gotta get that mod fast so they can capitalize on the initial DL craze

[teal wing]

heresy

[next cave]

yeah there's a reason why i focused on ballistics/damage modding

[rare ruin]

some people seriously just throw a question in chatgpt about unreal engine optimization edits

[teal wing]

https://www.cnblogs.com/kekec/p/17841097.html

[next cave]

because a lot of that is much more straightforward and requires less testing

[steel musk]

I'm using the Engine.ini that Grok initially posted in the Pins

[teal wing]

I have spent years testing individual cvars