╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[teal wing]

kiss it

[kindred lotus]

stupid omniscient respawning piece of shit

[pure tendon]

wait wtf am i tripping or does pressing minus on the numpad hide HUD?

[merry mountain]

no it does not, except if you have installed a mod that does this

[nova jetty]

@teal wing also if you know how to add just the mask overlay without using reshade..

[pearl zodiac]

got artifacts on your belt?

[kindred lotus]

yes why?

[pearl zodiac]

take them off

it wont bother you

[teal wing]

the more you know 😉

[cloud lark]

ultimately every mask / Helmet and full suit will need it own mask. i think without SDK thats not possible though

[nova jetty]

I understand, I would like to know how to create it now so I can put it in when we get sdk

[kindred lotus]

what

no way

[mighty compass]

Anyone know how to fix the white bushes i hate those white bush

[timid cradle]

Can someone make a mod to get rid of the hold to select quick use items? I want to use F1 - F4 for all 4 items.

[desert valve]

currently no known way to do that, appears to be somewhat hardcoded that you need to hold for 2nd and 4th key

[stiff canyon]

INVERNO MOD? 😄

[lusty sail]

Crosshair color changing when look at NPC currently unavailable? As I understand it's hardcoded? Red for enemy, mutants, yellow for neutrals

[royal heath]

ok wow, finally after dodging game breaking bugs with console commands i'm at a dead end, richter || is dead || at 100 rad bar, i guess that's it for me... ffs this game, should be straight up illegal to release something this broken

[neat thistle]

Damn. My UE5 stopped cooking after I updated it to 5.5. I only get this overweight stuff instead of my pakchunk255.... Can someone help?

[teal wing]

Downgrade to 5.1

?

[neat thistle]

I tried to google how to downgrade and seems like it's impossible with Unreal Engine 😄

Once you updated, you stuck with it

I even tried to uninstall UE5 tools entirely hoping that there will be an option to choose UE version before you install it, but nah. Sad.

[spiral tundra]

Hello guys... Is there any way or mod to disable auto leaning in corners?

[grand sequoia]

I would love this, I suggested it to the devs in their feature request form

[neat thistle]

I'm doing the same stuff I did on UE5.4 and can't get those results. I probably cooked badly (this is why I'm not able to add new icons still), but at least I cooked. This one is busted, idk.

And fucking no-blender/ue option isn't working either. Fucking hell.

[teal wing]

Extended A Life is trash

Delete it

[nova jetty]

Where are UI files usually located in UE5 games?

[teal wing]

I can’t believe I even tried it

[cloud lark]

no clue

[spiral tundra]

Yeah man...I just want an option to disable it, auto leaning it's fucking annoying

[earnest gale]

whats the main problem with it?

[grand sequoia]

You talking about this one? >https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/273?tab=files

If so, why is it trash?

[earnest gale]

yes

[grand sequoia]

Like I genuinely want to know because I installed it last night (the Alive edition with Axxii's Stealth merged) and I'm getting more interactions in general without the annoying enemy popping 15m behind your back

So I'm just considering it a win

[rustic granite]

anyone here on pc game pass

version of stalker 2

please can you check your game version for me the game itself, what version it is on

[earnest gale]

same here

[cloud lark]

what exactly makes it trash in your eyes? i unpaked it and looked at the changes and they seem to be quite reasonable

[teal wing]

When I was trying to test my config changes. I also tested that. And creatures kept spawning in front of me. It was APPALLING.

I was extremely upset and it ruined my experience a lot

[nova jetty]

Did you get an update?

[teal wing]

Because I have been used to A Life Maybe which fixes a lot of things

[rustic granite]

no i did not

[teal wing]

And A Life Extended just made vanilla WORSE

[rustic granite]

but just curious

[teal wing]

I have further lost faith in the quality of mods currently on nexus

[rustic granite]

want to see if i'm correct about my theory

[earnest gale]

strange, it does not happen to me
i am having a pretty nice experience with extended tbh
maybe i got the perfect mod composition to make it work??

[teal wing]

Having enemies spawn in around corners and stuff

It’s just not fun

I had 3 groups of dogs come from behind a wall

yeah fuck that mod haha it’s trash

no doubt

[grand sequoia]

Interested on that checkconflicts.ps1. Where can I get it? 😛

[earnest gale]

does not happen to me

not perfect but betetr than vanilla

and nothing strange like that happened to me yet.. its been 2 days

[teal wing]

It was happening when I was streaming

Everyone saw it

[grand sequoia]

I really haven't had such experience either. Calling it trash is a stretch, considering people are working with what they have, which is a glorified spawner system either way

[teal wing]

I am very familiar

you know I am

[mighty compass]

@earnest gale i tried extended alive and normal while normal felt empty alive felt good for me too no crazy spawn so far

Yerts need his coffee hes cranky

[teal wing]

REEEE

[earnest gale]

maybe its just that time of the month kek

[mighty compass]

I need me coffee too 🥲

[desert valve]

i did a certain main mission yesterday and now everytime i load a safe my screen is black and my character needs to blink before i can see shit

any known fix for that?

[royal heath]

anyone has any idea on how i can bypass ||dead richter || in the 100 rad bar ? him being ||dead|| blocks me from progressing the story really

[neat thistle]

lol, man. What the fuck do you want if most people are noobs in Unreal Engine in here and don't have fucking SDK?

[proud flare]

Hello, newbie here, someone knows how the .cfg files from paks work? like if u have 2 mods that edit the same cfg, it gonna load both? It gonna load the last one? It gonna read the text on both and try to run everything? what happens?

[neat thistle]

I can't even understand how to add custom icons to the game so I'd be able to add more lootables

[merry mountain]

actually you can change that in CustomizeControls.cfg
it will still show in the UI that both are for F1 for example, but if you put F2 there it works

[teal wing]

every game comes out in unreal and this happens over again :p

[earnest gale]

anyway i messed around with engine.ini and i think i found what seems (at least for my system) a good balance of NO pop in and performance, its not perfect, for perection we have to wait for yerts guide, but i am more than happy if someone wants to try it and give feedback!

(it includes the skip of shader loading, 3D audio, reduced pop in, and mouse shmoothing)

[desert valve]

loads the last one, there are tools to merge mods that make it easier

[desert valve]

i though that didnt work and you would still ne to hold even though you could bind a seperate key?

[proud flare]

good to know

[merry mountain]

yes thats true, you still need to hold, even if you confiure it for tap.
But you can use another key at least

[ember urchin]

Hello guys! Does anyone have a working sprint/stamina mod? All the ones I've found are bugged and infinite. Thanks.

[rare ruin]

In one of the inis, I saw a like HoldInteractionDuration or something like that

Line**

[grand sequoia]

I'm just using this one with a few of my own lines for better reflections (only ssr, no noise filter by lumen). I'm too lazy to make a custom one not knowing what each of the lines does, but this one I'm using is giving me a decent performance boost so I'm happy with it

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/17

[remote crescent]

Hello lads!

[merry mountain]

i dont think so, at least not in the packed cfgs in the paks, i searched for Duration in all of them and then scrolled through all results

[remote crescent]

2 Questions:

1. Is someone working on a mod adding more ammo types (like 9x19 HP/9x18 HP)
2. Is someone working on a fast travel feature like GAMMA (to fast travel via PDA to visited places)

[earnest gale]

mine is based on his with adding some lines, please try it and let me know

[rare ruin]

Hmmm. I'll take a look again. It's either CoreVariables or ObjPrototypes.

[merry mountain]

./CoreVariables.cfg: MinimalSubtitlesDuration = 5.0
./CoreVariables.cfg: // Duration in seconds for which corpses remain always online after exiting the player's view
ObjPrototypes has no Mention of duration at all, only the underlying cfgs for Mutants

[rare ruin]

Ammo likely wouldn't be too hard, models however.... and compatibility with Readable Ammo by @pearl lichen

[rare ruin]

Interesting. I need to try and find it again

I want to go back to working on a mod of mine but I'm lowkey getting doomer mode thinking about it

[remote crescent]

I mean models doesn't have to be somewhat sophisticated. Just add some yellow to the boxes like other ammo calibers 😄
compatibility with readable ammo is more like on the side of JCaleb tho, he can simply work on adding to his mod the icons 😄

[rare ruin]

Like, it's going to be 78+ additions of multiple lines each in .cfgs and that's if it even fucking works

[rare ruin]

I know how he did it but he said he had a script do it, so I'd be interested in what he did lol

[pearl lichen]

compatibility is easy, all my icons are output by a script I wrote, so it takes less than a second to export a new batch

[remote crescent]

So I guess we now only need someone to actually do a new types of ammo for lower calibers 😄

Also like add those special types of ammo to stashes/traders since they're basically a legendary loot 😄

[pearl lichen]

and that they have meaningful differences, IMO
otherwise they'll just pollute the loot tables and you'll have to spend more time finding the correct subtype you wanna run

[craggy pelican]

yep. it wasnt what i thinked off.. this one just loads the dev console... i hope to find an "real" modloader, where i can define which mods to load or not...

[rare ruin]

I'm not proficient in code at all so what kind of script did you write that adds whole letters to multiple pngs.

Idk why but that just blows my mind how it's possible 😭

[remote crescent]

Well the HP should work like in GAMMA, tho in stalker 2 You could check the stats on like 5,56x45 hp or 4,45x39 since they have their hollowpoint (aka anti-mutants) properties 😄

[rare ruin]

Pythonnnnnn

Should I focus on learning python or c++

[pearl lichen]

I used roboto there because I remember seeing it on game files and it turned out close enough to the font

[rare ruin]

Something that's really weird is weapons have a default stat for armor piercing, on top of bullets

[rare ruin]

That makes sense

[pearl lichen]

more useful to learn C++ for Stalker I guess

but tbh just learn what you like, once you understand one language you'll just switch to others relatively fast

[remote crescent]

Ye I know, I guess it works more like a "mod" for a weapon where You get like +10% armor penetration but also 10% faster decay of a weapon (for AP type)

[dusky lintel]

FYI I've had mods installed for like 5 hrs of my play through no mods I'm aware of turning achievements back on. But I'm still getting all achievements.

[remote crescent]

mods doesn't turn off the achievements :v

[dusky lintel]

That's dope I hated starfield because of this

But I 100 percent starfield

[pure tendon]

yo legends i dont have any modding experience but id love to get into doing a quick retexture for the green ammo crate in the game any guidance for a modding hobo like me

[cyan stirrup]

I must be missing something here but I'm unable to write to the console or to the debug screen through blueprints.
Anyone was successful in doing so?

[remote crescent]

Also I'd love to see a mod fixing quick-use of items... 50% of the time, when I use energy drinks they simply doesn't work (also they do not get consumed)

[rare ruin]

if you cancel the animation at all, it will not consume it or give you the buff

can be canceled by starting sprint or opening inventory in my experience

[remote crescent]

The thing is, you can walk/run and still it may not work :c

[rare ruin]

interesting, I haven't had that happen yet, but that is because I've been modding for the past 5 days

I'm still in the fucking lesser zone

[cloud lark]

have yu found the actor.cfg per chance?

[remote crescent]

Well I have almost all the bottom part of the map visited 😄 im 23hrs deep into the game 😄 Only placed I havent visited is Malachite, Duga, Cordon, Zaton (all the south ones 😄

[rare ruin]

i haven't no, but what was the purpose for it again? I may find it elsewhere

[remote crescent]

Currently going for the Yanov 😄

[cloud lark]

hunger settings the picture you had up yesterday of the blind dog has hunger and thirst parameters in it. so my hope was that is true for a possible actor.cfg

[spark pulsar]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/367
Damn look at these banners

They out to compete with Gamma or something lol?

[steel musk]

Isn't actor data stored in ObjPrototypes.cfg ?

[steel musk]

At least stamina costs and stuff are

[rare ruin]

yeah its in objproto

[steel musk]

RegenHungerPoints is my guess for hunger rate

[cloud lark]

well that explains why there is no thirst in game

the regen value is at 0.0

[rare ruin]

yes

[rare ruin]

lmao yeah its a stupid value

the real question is

if i upload a mod giving it back

the amount of shit it fucks with

lmaooo

[steel musk]

Do they even have a thirst debuff/icon coded in?

[rare ruin]

i do not want to sit and create like 15 merges.

@steel musk 99% yeah

let me look

[cloud lark]

can you send me an unmodified cfg?

i wanna test around with the hunger regen value

[cloud lark]

thx

[rare ruin]

hey so

@steel musk they don't it looks like...

[proud flare]

any way to unpack ucas files?

[cloud lark]

if my theory is correct then putting hunger at 0.25 would quarter the current hunger rate which is exactly what i want playing with 8 hour days

[steel musk]

Anything they didn't enable I assume is cut content

[rare ruin]

you know what

seeing this

[steel musk]

I'd assume it's the opposite. Lower regen = less hunger

Since it's regenning

[rare ruin]

I honestly may as well just make a thirst icon and add thirst into the game

[cloud lark]

100 hunger is probably full on starving

[steel musk]

So food decreases it to zero, then it regens over time

[cloud lark]

so regen means the rate at wich your hunger builds

[rare ruin]

^^

damn INTL keyboard setting

making me enter two carets

[steel musk]

I assume the hunger/satiety option in Difficulty also affects hunger rate

[cloud lark]

so if you put it at 0.25 then it should in theory take you 4x the time to get hungry

[steel musk]

Veteran doubles it compared to the default 1.0

[alpine cradle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnqGR3kqgS0 what is this now ? ..............what effect is it ? cause its not lumen...

[cloud lark]

i would assume that is how effective food is at getting rid of hunger

[radiant ledge]

@teal wing hey, remember our discussion about hardware lumen..cvars get invoked just fine in console just fine after applying though so maybe I'm not actually insane 🙂 apart from r.lumen.reflection.hardwareraytracing, this one IS bogus

[steel musk]

Could be. Kinda weird that they use a higher multiplier for less satiety
Effect_Satiety = 2 for Veteran, but 1 for Stalker

[cloud lark]

it could also just be a hunger regen multiplier

[craggy pelican]

...awesome. how did u get Mod Organizer 2 to work with stalker2? i just installed it, and i cant select my game for the new instance -.- thanks

[steel musk]

Set it to 10, get the munchies

[still dew]

Is anyone working on anything or know an easy way in configs or .ini files to rebind quick melee?

[rare ruin]

whoops did not mean to send that here

[teal wing]

I actually have 10 or so hardware raytracing lines in my ini 🤷‍♀️

[rare ruin]

could mean its a higher priority in terms of resource management, at least thats my quick way of understanding it lmao

[teal wing]

I test them at runtime just fine

It was only r.raytracing that was read only

[radiant ledge]

You told me there's no support for them 😭

[steel musk]

So it'd multiply the effects of satiety, which would multiply the stamina penalties when hungry?

That could work too

[rare ruin]

very likely

[teal wing]

unreal 4 has hardware raytracing 🤷‍♀️

it works for any game

[cloud lark]

i think its a simply multiplier same as player damage gets reduced on higher difficulties

[teal wing]

unless the devs lock it down

which then you would get an error such as read only, or similar

Or it simply would ignore

[radiant ledge]

yeah but read only from within an individual config doesn't guarantee a lock from general cvar editing, no? There can be a lock, there may not be one set up for that by devs. Hence me not being sure. Did you test them and find that they do not work? Is it worth it for me to test them? Am I going insane out here? 🙂

[foggy hinge]

I made a plugin to add support for it.

[ionic monolith]

Hi, none of the stamina modes work for me. Even though I only have the longer sprint mod. It still doesn't work. Can someone please advise me how to fix it? Even reinstalling Stalker doesn't help.

[remote crescent]

Someone please make the fast travel mod 😂

[crimson laurel]

who wants some stashes 😏

[steel musk]

Sprinting stamina drain is in CoreVariables.cfg, while jumping/melee costs are in ObjPrototypes.cfg. If you have any other mods that alter those files, your Stamina mod might be losing the conflict

[ionic monolith]

like I said, even though I only had one mod, it still didn't work

[steel musk]

Is it placed in the ~mods folder? There's no reason why it wouldn't work if the mod was created correctly and it's installed in the correct folder

Do you have the Steam version or GamePass? They have different folder locations

[ionic monolith]

yes it is, at first I had more mods. But I tried removing all of them except "longer sprinting" but it didn't work

i have a steam version

[steel musk]

Post the mod's .pak, I'll give a look

[ionic monolith]

I tried many endurance mods, but none worked 😦 https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/48?tab=files

[steel musk]

Everything seems to be in order with that mod.

[ember urchin]

Stamina mod never works for me.

[steel musk]

At least the 50% version

[rare ruin]

progress

@ionic monolith @ember urchin you may have conflicting mods that both edit the same file

[ember urchin]

Nope.

I try Stamina mod only and not work or is infinite.

Every mod i find

[rare ruin]

in this instance, what version did you download for the Longer Sprinting mod?

[ember urchin]

All

[rare ruin]

do you happen to be wearing an artifact

[vital coyote]

still a wip, but i take alot of notes as i learn figured i would put them up for grabs prob will make it a pdf and put it somewhere rn it just covers basic modding and getting into the game through fmoddle https://rentry.org/TravesS2moddingBible

[rare ruin]

two typos @vital coyote

so far

[vital coyote]

yeah im dyslexic as fuck

[rare ruin]

i feel that

[vital coyote]

haha why i stick to textures and not code

x)

[ionic monolith]

I also tried all of them and tried wearing the artifact, and I also tried not wearing it.

[rare ruin]

"the" artifact? there's a ton of artifacts, and some of them will conflict with the stamina usage

[vital coyote]

but yee you see it point it out ill change it x)

[rare ruin]

im regretting putting my nose in trying to figure out the upgrade system

[ionic monolith]

i know, but I'm not using them at the moment

[vital coyote]

yeah i cracked into grayzone, same way i did with s2 thought it would be cool if i could rip their BHS out or something eventualy. been studying ue5 stuff

but head ache

[craggy pelican]

awesome, thanks for this, got it to work now^^ which theme is shown in the pic?

[ember urchin]

It doesn't matter.

[desert valve]

i would love to play more but the headbob is killing me

[lunar tapir]

does vortex handle merging conflicts on the fly? anyone know?

[vital coyote]

havent used it but highly dobt

like 99.999 prercent sure thats a no

but there are tools out there for that

[lunar tapir]

yea the tools for merging dont work with vortex

so its either vortex for simplicity but no conflict resolution, or manual for merging

i guess

[vital coyote]

also no real reason to use vortex atm, and rage made a mo2 plugin if you realy want to use a manager

[lunar tapir]

the mo2 plugin does conflict management?

using loadorder and merging on load?

[vital coyote]

noo totaly diffrent file types

no mod mangar will do that

rn atleast

[lunar tapir]

weird that we have the code to execute it, but it cant be ran on launch dynamically

you would think we just put all the mods in a mod manager folder, it runs the merge and puts the generated one in last on load order and we are good to go

[teal wing]

It requires an entire plugin that would need to be built from the ground up to handle that

[vital coyote]

^

[teal wing]

You can start work on it if you like so we can all use vortex

I’m a bit busy at work to get that going atm

[merry mountain]

id r ather die then use vortex🤢

[vital coyote]

^ x)

[lunar tapir]

lol sure, is there docs on how to make plugins for vortex?

[vital coyote]

there are just tools you can use to merge your mods

without vortex

[teal wing]

So since it hasn’t ever been done before, you would need to make it

[lunar tapir]

yea we just need one that works on the fly to execute Stalker2PakCfgMergeTool and add it to modloader last each run

[vital coyote]

yeah for sure

[teal wing]

or just pack in someone’s thing ig

[junior igloo]

id love my thing packed

[desert valve]

they should now though

https://github.com/Zweite93/Stalker2PakCfgMergeTool/issues/1

[vital coyote]

any way to go to the file without closing your search?

[rare ruin]

it should keep the window open

[vital coyote]

just sifted through thousands of things dont want to loose my placer

[rare ruin]

it just minimizes it

[thorny yacht]

ayo sasha gray playin sdalger 2

[vital coyote]

ohhh ok must have hid behind

nahh it minimized :/

[rare ruin]

hmm...

it doesn't look like it will go anywhere without minimizing

[vital coyote]

there are so many things with "actor" in it TT_TT

there has to be a way

lmao

ohh shit i just pressed shift ctrl f and it pulled back my search when i didnt go back to the directory first

.

right were i left off same file selected

you think if i set this to true i can play on my phone

[royal heath]

well, refunded gamepass, got stuck because npc i needed to talk to for main story to proceed is dead for some reason

such a shame

will wait a few months hoping it will get fixed

[alpine cradle]

another half day with chat gpt of testing, and it comes down to, UE5 is a broken engine, its only good for screenshots, nothing can be done as of now to fix reflections and popins (popins can be reduced but not fixed - testing on stronge pc) until they update ue5, and also devs work on the game engine as well and also tweak their commands, and hopefully make the engine give all the commands that they put in, we just have to think they are anomalies...sometimes it acutally works..

[remote tendon]

Yep we all know this for past week now

[vital coyote]

yeah cant wait for the witcher to come out on ue5 as well

think they want us to read more books

[alpine cradle]

btw, how to activate raytracing or pathtracing, console says its read only in projectsettings

[royal heath]

this makes me really scared for the future of gaming as everybody is moving to this stupid engine ... rip cdpr, the red engine was a fucking masterpiece

[vital coyote]

some things cant be done from the consol but work in the ini iirc

[alpine cradle]

i restarted 200 times in past few hours

+console testing

aslo most of the commands that gpt gives are not recognized, or actually dont exist, or are blocked by the game

[vital coyote]

ahh well ray tracing comands havent worked for me in the past at all alot of the RT comands that gpt pust out are usless because lumen is a diffrtent and has diffrent commands

and yes gpt is a good tool to point you in a direction but not 100%

[remote tendon]

@alpine cradle r.DynamicGlobalIlluminationMethod=1 put in engine file

[vital coyote]

50% of the things it gives back to me do nothingm but there is some good info there, one thing i do is in the prompt tell it to

"can you use what you know about unreal engine and web searches to help me find as many things as you can for me.

in your response to this response can you site your sources if applicable, explain what the change will do, what variables i should try and how i should implement the changes into the ini file."

[remote tendon]

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

[vital coyote]

the cite your sorces thing is helpfull to just learn more about what your learning about lol

[vital coyote]

whats this

im not looking for ini changes rn

cool recorce tho

[remote tendon]

Also untill devs patch the game or give us SDK access we aint going to be doing much fixes other than different configs which act differently on each persons hardware.

[vital coyote]

^ yes

[remote tendon]

was for that bunga guy complaining all week in offical discord too

[vital coyote]

will have alot more controle over things with the proper tools

ohh hahah yeah i was on your side friendly fire xD

[alpine cradle]

already was

latest ini

[remote tendon]

Well you should paitently wait for a patch like the rest of us

[fallen umbra]

Probably a dumb question with an obvious answer:
If I download the Better Physics mod version that includes the merge of:
Immersive Physics + Longer Day 4h + Realistic Speed + No Dialogue Zoom + 90 FOV,

Do I need to delete my .pak files from Mods folder for Longer Days and Realistic Speed since they’re already included in this merge? Or is it just compatibility?

[remote tendon]

To be on safe side yes I would delete the single pak files if your going to use a merger

[vital coyote]

the ini thing is deff cool and worth fucking arround with but we are tuly bumping arround in the dark just stumbling across stuff. there is no guarantee of any line of code that will "fix" the game

[fallen umbra]

Thanks! I knew asking here would get me the right answer. 😊

[loud peak]

sorry but are we playing the same game? more bullets?

[wanton lynx]

has anyone actually fixed AI aimbotting yet?

[vital coyote]

there are mods out there not sure if they fiix

[alpine cradle]

some of them have wallhack also

[stoic portal]

+--+

[loud peak]

there is a guy that has done that. Maklane's Better Gunfights NO Aimbot NPCs it called the mod, I guess

[vital coyote]

one protection artifact and some decent armor nothing hurts me, im playing prety much vanella hard mode

[wanton lynx]

I've played through and never found rad protection higher than medium on an artifact

[left gate]

hey guys, do you know if it would be possible to get the number of markers up, to like 100?`or infinite

[loud peak]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/113

[remote tendon]

I was looking for that other day no luck on finding anything to do with map or markers

[elder pike]

Anyone see this yet?
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/367

So far, it has really good feedback

[vital coyote]

yeah hunting for files in this shit is a bitch, someone mentioned the head bobing while walking b4 which sounded like something fairly easy to hunt down, idc about it but could be a cool project, could not find shit

[mild plover]

anyone got the aes key for stalker so i can view the models for art refrences

[vital coyote]

i mean its on the frount page rn if they realy believe in themselfs they can acheve heavier pockets

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/378

[vital coyote]

ill shoot you a dm

[mild plover]

thanks

[vital coyote]

o7 good file hunting stalker

lol

[vague lance]

Hey guys, I've been working of a simple program that would automatically merge two mods. Would anyone be interesting in testing it? I'm doing some finishing touches and it should be somewhat ready to test. I anticipate some bugs. It's a console program, no gui yet.

[remote tendon]

@vital coyote check dms

[remote tendon]

Im sure someone already made one

[vague lance]

Oh really? Could not find anything.

[remote tendon]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/369

[left gate]

Stalker2PakCfgMergeTool

[vague lance]

Cool! Thanks

[vital coyote]

o7

[remote crescent]

need more bullets!

Can we get to make a thread for ideas for mods? To keep the list fresh

[vital coyote]

that would be cool

[frosty portal]

Any way to move camera using XToggleFreeCamera / ToggleDebugCamera console commands ?

[vital coyote]

the photo mode tool has some cool options

[frosty portal]

can you see your character ?

[remote crescent]

Won't lie, I would love to see a mod that adds side-sights i.e. ACOG + Canted Reflex etc.. that one is missing hard 😦

[vital coyote]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/18

nahh just a floating gun

still dope for looking at stuff and taking screens

[frosty portal]

alright ty great

[remote crescent]

Well i mean you'd look like a normal npc with armor on 😄

[frosty portal]

depends

[remote crescent]

On>

[frosty portal]

there could be no player character rendered

[green moat]

Hi, I have a problem with increasing the weight, the mod for more weight does not work, do you know why? THX

[vital coyote]

yeah your body dissapears when going into free cam

they may have a way to make it work tho im not sure

[steel musk]

You need to “update” your carry weight before it works, so equip an artifact that changes carryweight or armor that does so

[slim ingot]

just wondering is there any way to change weather/time of day with console commands or anything else yet? Thanks.

[vital coyote]

there this should cover it for now im too tired

[vital coyote]

there is, dont know it off the top of my head

[rare ruin]

lmao mobile stalker 2

[rare ruin]

100% will cover it

[vital coyote]

look up "comands" on nexus someone put a doc up b4

[ancient nest]

gonna slide this website into my pins
I wanna get into modding this

[green moat]

I did that, I don't have the artifact and I equip the armor..

[vital coyote]

ohh nice 🙂 i have a TONE more to add to it just been up for way to long

cool thing is when i make an edit it pops up right away

[remote crescent]

.45 ACP HP / 12/76 EXPANSIVE DARTS / 9x39 PPE / 5.45x39 MZHV-13 ...
For the 1st time i see those ammos in trader.. can someone make a mod to make it appear more often? xD (im 25hrs into the game... :v

[slim ingot]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/115
this?

[vital coyote]

yeah i think thats what i saw there are a few up

also some for item ids and other things

im working on a list myself

[noble latch]

u werent to the swamps yet´?

[slim ingot]

k

[flint flicker]

Does anyone know what variables effect loot on a corpse (specifically ammo), I'm looking to tone down ammo spawns but not as much as grok's. (I think it's the itemgenerator prototye config, please correct if i'm wrong)

[vital coyote]

but my notes are all over the place rn

[remote crescent]

i gess not 😄

Im on "Chasing Ghosts" main mission

[noble latch]

So u dont follow the main quest line currently

ahh

[light saddle]

is there any flashlights mod in the works?

[merry mountain]

XForceWeather WeatherType
XSwitchToWeather WeatherType
XSetWeatherLocked true/false
XSetGameTime Hour Minute Second
XSkipTimeHours uHours

[vital coyote]

yes

[remote crescent]

Brother, this is stalker... xD I followed the quest line for about 16-18hrs

[slim ingot]

thanks

[vital coyote]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/221

[light saddle]

not the console one

doesnt work on gamepass

[vital coyote]

ohh then no sorry boss

[remote tendon]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3370986723

[remote crescent]

Does that mean, that after main quest on swamps, the special type of ammo becomes more common ?

[vital coyote]

yoink into the notes, ty ty

[noble latch]

Ahh. i currently have a main mission in Yantar guess after that i either have to go to the Cooling towers or further north

[slim ingot]

one more question actually

I know this would probably break the game to hell and back but can you force a mission to start? like reactivate an old one or something

[vital coyote]

dont

[ancient nest]

i wonder if varibale scopes are doable

[vital coyote]

you wont be able to do the next one

[remote crescent]

I mean... the Yanov (i think it's the one) is the soft lock on good equipment upgrades

[noble latch]

this one saved my ass with the not opening bunker door. I just ghosted threw it

[slim ingot]

i dont care about corrupt saves I just asking if you can do it at all

[vital coyote]

ohh yeah you can, there are comands for it but it will break all of the shit

[slim ingot]

k thanks

[rare ruin]

"you have errors in NPCPrototypes.cfg. You have to fix this manually. "missing struct.end somewhere""

[noble latch]

Just use UE Console to force Quest completion

[rare ruin]

i love how i just

forgot to enter the last struct.end in my edit

[remote crescent]

Well I dont want to use commands, I simply traveled to Yanov to get to the mechanic and that's all, Im actually going to get one more upgrade for my Exo and then Im going for the main quest line til probably SIRCAA

[noble latch]

In the burnt Forest there is a Seva suit to pick up. just letting u know

[remote crescent]

Why would I pick up seva tho? 😄

[noble latch]

U need a certain Psi Protection requirement for the Swamp mission

[mild plover]

i cant get my fmodel to work for some reason even though everything is set up correct

[remote crescent]

Would that be enough? 😄

[noble latch]

No u need atleast 2

[remote tendon]

If you dont want to use console commands and your quest is bugged. Wait for update. We are only trying to help people out.

[noble latch]

I couldnt wait tbh. And i only use these commands when i get locked from the game to proceed so once since i started

[remote crescent]

Mate You didn't understood me, I will use console commands if im forced to, but I wont use CC to get myself skip quests

[remote crescent]

This SSP would be perfect if it wasn't locked behind main quests to upgrade.. I bet You can only upgrade it at SIRCAA Compound

[noble latch]

the only time i got locked from the main quest was on the Wild island when the bunker door wouldnt open

however this only happend after i accepted the quest. before it was fine

[remote crescent]

Im locked on the arena stage 5 so.. i'll probably use commands for this quest ngl

[noble latch]

i just completed it 20 mins ago whats the issue?

dont tell me keep running out of ammo. this was my issue xD

[remote crescent]

No, the issue is that it tells me to wait for preparation of arena so ye 😄 common locking

Some say it's a bug that will last, some say it's locked behind quests

[noble latch]

even after u slept?

[remote tendon]

Yes but if quest is broken you may have to skip it to continue

[remote crescent]

yep

[remote crescent]

If there's a way, i'd love to skip only stage 5

[noble latch]

could be i mean. im much further in the story and i wasnt locked out

[remote crescent]

but if not then it is what it is 😄

[desert valve]

i had to wait forever between 3 and 4 (i believe its locked behind main quest progression?)

maybe there is a similar thing before 5?

[noble latch]

i mean if we put our 3 storys togheter this would explain it

idk why tho cause there is nothing major happening at rostok 😄

[remote crescent]

I FUCKING LOVE SAIGA WITH DARTS ❤️

6 rounds, 5 hits 1 miss

[noble latch]

im just confused why Freedom took it over and Duty lost it. Since i see some Duty scattered around the zone

[remote crescent]

and he's eating concrete

[noble latch]

guess the Ganja just gave them superpowers

[rare ruin]

does anyone know where the fuck I can find the fucking arrays for this cfg

[remote crescent]

True, Duty was kinda strong innit?

[desert valve]

wait there is a scope for it? me wants

[noble latch]

i didnt found a single npc that wanted to explain me what happend their 😄

[remote crescent]

but be careful, if burer puts his shield up, DO NOT SHOOT AT ALL COSTS. darts are shredding even through exo XD I almost died

[remote crescent]

There was a treaty between Duty and Freedom and somehow the Freedom took over

[desert valve]

havent seen that scope anywhere yet, will probably enounter it at some point

[noble latch]

probably hardcoded?

[remote crescent]

I got it at Yanov

[rare ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/please-please-please-no-calvin-payne-house-of-payne-it-was-all-a-dream-s9e10-gif-25639422

i would be so annoyed if it was

[noble latch]

i feel u. I already asked in the Stalker discord gsc. When we will get any news on the MOD SDK

[noble latch]

i want some freaking snow in stalker 2 before the year ends

[rare ruin]

I am trying to make a mod to add all sights for all weapons.

so you could use your favorite sight for any weapon, whether or not it makes sense

[noble latch]

idk if this could work. Placement and such could be an Issue since u cant edit the Attachmentpoint

[rare ruin]

the big if is what i'm trying to test, but I can't even get Lens, known as Linza in the files, to show new upgrades

at most the only thing you can do with upgrades is remove requirements

[noble latch]

i guess there is then a second "Check" in play in the blueprints of the guns

[rare ruin]

that is what I was guessing when @shrewd rampart and I were looking into the upgrade system, dude spent like 8 hours getting everything in place to theoretically work, it didn't.

[noble latch]

have u tried contacting the guy who made the stupid hello kitty mp5 and Counter strike knives?

[rare ruin]

those are just textures, no?

[noble latch]

i guess they are

[rare ruin]

definitely

also a texture

[noble latch]

maybe u can rip the UEASSET out from a scope and struct it like a AK attachment?

like the Mutant parts mod?

[rare ruin]

what does the mutant parts mod do other than make new items and new inventory textures?

[noble latch]

arent they present as a 3d item?

i didnt used the mod yet so idk

i try to keep the game as vanilla as possible until i finished my first playthrough

[rare ruin]

unless somber got a 3d modeler and somehow made the game read new models no, I was on the project for helping him pack the textures in the inventory

it effectively is like this

[noble latch]

ahw crab

[rare ruin]

mod i shelved for now:

old screenshot from when i first started the mod

[exotic token]

Are there any good mod packs yet
Nexus is flooded with randoms posting random assortments of trash

[rare ruin]

if i had to say anything, try looking into grok's, but that's all I know

[noble latch]

How about exporting the AK in blender and attaching a scope, bake - reimport and let it spawn in a stash or something would this be possible?

[noble latch]

ah nvm

we only have acess to the textures

but cant activley spawn 3d models when i understand u right

[rare ruin]

like, creating a whole new weapon that piggybacks off the default one, but with a baked in scope? I mean, you could attempt that, I don't have 3D Model experience, BUT that doesn't mean too much.

[rare ruin]

i don't know of any recorded like, proof of it, but that's just my experience

[noble latch]

Stalker 2 modding is just pain with the current system 😄

Lets just hope they drop the SDK soon.

[rare ruin]

whenever I have an idea, I get hyped, then I realize how much work it takes, and then I realize that it likely is baked in, and then I get doomer mode

[noble latch]

ill just hope the SDK gets better then from Metro Exodus. It was unbarable to work with

[rare ruin]

i have no idea what that one was like

[noble latch]

i can only tell from my experience. Horrible.

[rare ruin]

only SDK i ever had experience with was Hogwart's Legacy

and that shit was ASS

[noble latch]

even the simplest tasks like creatin a basic level was horrible

idk if SDKs in General suck. I just hope it is good

But the Enfusion engine was hella fun

its just to bugged to bother me to proceed modding there

[rare ruin]

this is a long shot, does anyone have any idea what faction the "Diamond Exoskeleton" belongs to?

[remote crescent]

Shit there's so many ideas to what mods could've solved... ;-; wish I knew how to do it and had time for it 😅

[remote crescent]

I would bet it's loners but

[rare ruin]

damn that sucks ass

[rare ruin]

apparently you buy it from Rostok?

[remote crescent]

Shit i was far off

[rare ruin]

THERE IS A FUCKING WIKI?

I CAN'T FIND THAT 😭

[noble latch]

I was just there. There wasnt a Exo armor for me

[rare ruin]

maybe he just got lucky

[noble latch]

Or hes further in the story

many things seem to be behind a Story progression bar

[rare ruin]

the traders work based on generators, but that is also a potentiality

[remote crescent]

There's no wiki just some pages with limited infos

[noble latch]

or this

i mean. i wouldnt have the money anyway

fucking repairing costs keep sucking on my toes

[remote crescent]

Also the exo that would be sold in rostok would belong to Freedom on like 80% chance

Since that lady is selling loners + freedom armors

Like Sunrise/Beril-5m or Wind of Freedom etc.. 😄

[rare ruin]

no idea why this guy is having problems

[remote crescent]

Time to get that SOFMOD that I will probably not use XD

[remote crescent]

It's probably just a normal exo not heavy one

same issue was with Cuirass

[rare ruin]

i also have that one

[ancient nest]

to make mods i need UE5 installed right?

[rare ruin]

depends on the type of mod

[remote crescent]

Welp, my knowledge ends there 😄

[ancient nest]

does the UE5 version matter?

[rare ruin]

i think, as it usually is, it's user error

[ancient nest]

i have 5.4.4 installed

[rare ruin]

you have to have 5.1.1

[ancient nest]

time to install another ue version

[rare ruin]

its rough 💀

[ancient nest]

i dont use UE for college now anyway so i can uninstall 5.4.4

[merry mountain]

is that the trader file?
refkey 0 is a reference to the first element in the file, the first default trader/npc/tech whatever

[remote crescent]

Might be, depends what mods he has implemented and also, that's actually good it doesn't work on other exos xD Just upgrade the exo with servos 🤷‍♂️

[rare ruin]

i think its NPCPrototypes

yep it is

[rare ruin]

well, the mod i uploaded was a new version because I kept getting requests, so now it just. Gives the effect to them all

[merry mountain]

or what do you mean with where do i find the array

[rare ruin]

I don't think its balanced, but its the fastest way of doing it

[remote crescent]

Shiiit.... that SOFMOD tho beautiful... sucks 😦

[ancient nest]

😭

[vital coyote]

yeah takes a while even though its not that big

[remote crescent]

Well Im glad i have the old version, the better one that doesn't break immersion 😄

[rare ruin]

are arrays not the [0], [16]. [17], etc?

Did I misunderstand that? I'm trying to add a completely new upgrade to the list, one that gives the APB rail to the PM (just as a test)

[rare ruin]

i don't think its balanced at all, but I was not about to make one file for each exoskeleton someone requested 💀

[ancient drum]

you need to add it to a weapon first

[rare ruin]

i've done that too, though I am still using the mesh, textures, etc of the apb, let me show you

[merry mountain]

its just numbers for the structs and you can reference them inside the same scope

[remote crescent]

😂

I mean... YOU COULD but.. 😅

Ye.. no point, if I were You I'd make one for all and one for cuirass only 😄

[rare ruin]

I have tried many numbers for the right image

the left image's attachment prototype doesn't seem to have any restrictions

[merry mountain]

what files and llines do you want to change

[rare ruin]

all those are new additions

[merry mountain]

additions are also changes

where do you add them

[remote crescent]

Ok... now im waiting for mod to make this can overheat after at least 50rnds... i just put out 120 into the sky and all I got was a small smoke like from a cig... disappointing 🤷‍♂️

And for a mod to allow turining off the laser... it's fcking annoying ngl but stats are stats 😄

[rare ruin]

i'm trying to make a test to Skif's Gun, to see if I can add just a rail to the gun, via the upgrade system from Lens as of right now.

also I am adding them just at the bottom of the entries

[limpid hornet]

Guys, if you need 3d artist help for modding Stalker please let me know.

[quick rain]

someone should make the lasers blue

[remote crescent]

Ok, nvm i just turned off the annoying dot as a crossair and it's perfect ❤️

[merry mountain]

why would 30 follow 676

[remote crescent]

I need You as an 3d artist to make a model of canted sights like in GAMMA ❤️

[rare ruin]

see, i tried following the number in the sequence, that also didn't work, so I just tried using the number for the actual APB rail where it's listed, I'm just testing things out

[rare ruin]

also these aren't entirely in order by default either

that happens everywhere in his entry^

like it jumps from 362 to 581

[merry mountain]

that are 2 different upgrade paths tho

[rare ruin]

so if I was making an upgrade path for the PM

what number do I use, because it can't be 4, no?

[inland estuary]

ive been doing the knife skins over on nexus, quick question for everyone; im starting on making the firearms black (did the ptm already), would you guys rather see one big pack or separate pages for each gun?

[mint patio]

stamped 1911 I modeled that I'm porting to the game

[rare ruin]

one big pack that you make a zip file for each gun would be the better idea i think

[ripe flame]

Has anyone figured out how to make "Money" variable depend on NPC rank in TradePrototypes.cfg or is it a rock-solid entry without any modifier support?

[rare ruin]

do new models work?

[remote crescent]

XD This game is insane, I keep getting guns out of nowhere.. xD

[inland estuary]

got it!

[lost osprey]

anyone able to help me install a mod?

[rare ruin]

You see the source of my confusion?

[frigid cairn]

sup, is there a way to increase the game's render distance past ultra settings? i need it for screenshots

[vital coyote]

have the consol?

r.ViewDistanceScale

then the value

not sure if it will work in s2 found it online

[merry mountain]

i think multiple peolpe tried and failed, conclusion was it may not be possible right now

but im not in good condition, maybe we can figure something out another day, have not slept in 36 hours and only ate a few toasts yesterday because i did not sleep and eat while modding

[rare ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/kratos-gif-26454802

[brittle pelican]

does anyone know if the roadside panic mod is working atm?

[rare ruin]

damn, you need to sleep, even more than me. That's an achievement

i remember onetime I stayed up a whole week (DO NOT DO THIS)

alright,. after my mod thoughts have been crushed, i think its finally time. to just... play the game

[merry mountain]

at least we now know how to get npcuids , and maybe some kind of item ids

[crisp wing]

Well im thinking some of my mods might be incompatible with mutant loot, dont know which ones it could be though

[vital coyote]

there is a tool on mod db that can find conflicts

sory nexus

[crisp wing]

Oh? whats it called?

[vital coyote]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/290

havent tried it myself yet

[crisp wing]

thanks ima see whats conflicting

[frigid cairn]

i guess it's for ue4

[crisp wing]

maybe get a sense for common themes for what conflicts with it, i mean mutant loot is the first actual added content mod so its a good idea

[vital coyote]

dam my b

[frigid cairn]

i'm trying to make a mod that blocks weather switching (i'm setting it with the trainer) and disables emissions in one package, i figured out the switching part (i just set weights and transition time to 0), but how do i disable emissions? i tried to unpack the mod from nexus but i've got no clue what the author changed there

[vital coyote]

didnt throw back a "not recoohniced for me

yeah its working

verry small amounts \

[frigid cairn]

it works only for foliage afaik

because some of it is non nanite

[vital coyote]

yeah

[frigid cairn]

and i'm interested in increasing render distance of nanite geometry

[crisp wing]

Ok so

[frigid cairn]

such as the buildings in Pripyat

[vital coyote]

ohh god you will melt your shit

but look up nanite spicific values then

[frigid cairn]

doesn't matter, it's for screenshots anyway

as long as i have 10 fps it'll be ok

[frigid cairn]

in the cvars dump?

[crisp wing]

the conflicts are with Groks Mutant HP edits

[merry mountain]

you compare his file with the original file using a code editor / diff tool, it will show the changes

[vital coyote]

ohh no i got that from copiolet

not the most acurate but if you ask it the right way it has been trained on alot of this shit from other neards

[frigid cairn]

had that idea but i dont have original files unpacked

[merry mountain]

you only need to unpack pakchunk0-Windows.pak

[indigo jolt]

Hi guys. Does anyone know if/where I can modify the amount of rounds each ammo pack object placed in the world (as opposed to stashes/NPC) contains? Including those spawned in breakable boxes.
Most likely it's AmmoPrototypes.cfg

[frigid cairn]

all cfgs are there?

[merry mountain]

yes

[frigid cairn]

alright, thanks a lot

[merry mountain]

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

[kindred lotus]

dudes, where can i find an m14

[frigid cairn]

do i need to dump the keys from my exe or they are universal?

[merry mountain]

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

universal

[quick rain]

i wish we could point our weapons downwards

[gentle garden]

someone make loadout mode

pls

im tired of dropping everything to private box then taking 5 bandages 5 medkits each time

[merry mountain]

that takes like 3 seconds

[static sonnet]

is there a way to change animations?

[cobalt hamlet]

anyone find the asset of this armor ?

spark faction , dont find by searching spark

[merry mountain]

not atm

[static sonnet]

alright

[gentle garden]

but it can have a search and filter by category for private box for qol

[chilly oasis]

Guys, where i can find, how to make own mod ?

[merry mountain]

not possible atm

[merry mountain]

#╟⚒stalker2™-mod-resources message

[chilly oasis]

ty

[static sonnet]

is there ways to change the UI?

i wanna simplify it to make it more nice on the eyes, kinda like stalker gamma/ the eft hp system

[merry mountain]

replacing textures is possible

[neat thistle]

What SID regular Stalker and Bandit NPCs have?

[static sonnet]

how limited are we? we seem very limited

[merry mountain]

replacing textures

that need to fit the same space

no way to change the ui layout etc

[static sonnet]

you can't script/code anything in?

[formal bronze]

Yeah, Bluepritns are loadable, Blueprints can call C++ code

But more reversing is needed to understand the underlying code and interact with it

[vapid light]

the game literally has 8k character textures... what the fuck

[formal bronze]

yeah the backpack too, it's 8k lol

[lusty sail]

Why we need so much pixels…

[rare ruin]

they're virtual textures

[north wasp]

Have you checked how fucking godly concrete look in this game

[rare ruin]

which means its not actually taking up much

[north wasp]

I can almost touch it

[rare ruin]

does anyone recommend a ReShade?

[vital coyote]

that could be a good mod to work on a downscailer mod for human textures lol

[lusty sail]

I really want to try scripting but can’t. I understand that we need inject blueprint and trigger it some way but haven’t enough info about all that. We limited only to textures, configs, localizations 😢

[formal bronze]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/304

mod add /Game/Mods/"yourmodname"/"yourModActorname"."yourModActorname_C"

For loading Blueprints

[neat thistle]

Guys, how to spawn stalker or bandit near me? I tried to use these GeneralNPC_Bandit_Heavy and alike, crashing to desktop :/

[fallen umbra]

yep but the NPC looks trash haha

[static sonnet]

is animating really not possible?

[formal bronze]

Technically it is possible I guess, but it's just really hard, impractically hard

[static sonnet]

time to skif my way through this apparently

[low spear]

Ye

[steel cypress]

Good evening, I wanted to know where the location file is, I want to translate the mutant loot mod to Pt

[desert valve]

should be under files

MutantLoot_En_LocalizationDB here https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/389?tab=files

[static sonnet]

a fellow brazillian!

[steel cypress]

yes

[fallen umbra]

its possible to create a mod that give the ability to lower the gun. It makes me really nervous constantly aiming at everyone

[unreal knot]

Press H?

[spark pulsar]

guys anyone knows the line in the engine.ini file to disable shader warmup on start?

[fallen umbra]

Yes, but that holsters the weapon. I would prefer to carry it lowered.

[spark pulsar]

nvm, found it:
r.PSOWarmup.WarmupMaterials=0

[static sonnet]

you'd have to code that in

and animate it..

[slim ingot]

I thought there was a slightly lowered animation but maybe thats just me thinking of something else

[static sonnet]

Well, you have the run animation

[alpine cradle]

https://www.twitch.tv/thebunga_ here we go again....to many anomalies :((

[elder pike]

I believe there is a mod for this on nexus

[prime reef]

r.PSOWarmup.WarmupMaterials=0

[spark pulsar]

ty dudes, already found it

[naive widget]

r.PSOWarmup.WarmupMaterials=0

[low torrent]

man i do hope that gsc manages to implement Hardware RT into stalker 2

quality would be crazy

[warped pine]

udims

they're working with UDIMs and VTs

[unreal knot]

Can anyone send me the vanilla (unmodified) "PlayerWeaponSettingsPrototypes.cfg" and the armor equivalent? Please 🙏

[rare ruin]

Whats going on?

[desert valve]

by this point there a like 4 different merge tools, please be more specific xD

that specific one should be able to generate the files itself i think

maybe the folder is requried? i would try downloading the newest version and try in a new folder

[alpine cradle]

is there anyway to see char stat sheet ? how do i know if an armor (+helmet integrated) is better then an armor + a helmet ?

[crisp wing]

hoping someone adds either AK moddability or an ak12, the sheer dead end of customizablility to the AKs is a bit annoying tbh

[cloud lark]

@rare ruin well i set my hunger regen to 0.0125 and low and behold after letting the game run for oh so many hours at a 8 hour day timescale my character is now very hungry but not dead. it works

[shrewd rampart]

Yep, the technician ranks/upgrades are hardcoded somewhere and they shouldn't be, so I assume its a bug/oversight on their end since they have a cfg for it. Yet changing, deleting, making new arrays/templates doesn't fix it.

[rare ruin]

lmao lets go

[rare ruin]

its so ass

[cloud lark]

Now we need to make food very rare and super expensive and we can finally stop carrying around a convenient store with us and focus on better survival

also we need other food sources like mutent meat

[viscid yacht]

wow

amother pro tip

[cloud lark]

that give you rads

[viscid yacht]

40mm underbarrel counts as instakill

ever if it does not detonate

rofl

[shrewd rampart]

That reminds me, I need to revert my changes, or store them somewhere else cause the only thing NPCPrototypes addidtions did for me is make my saves load a few times slower :/

[rare ruin]

i wonder why? hundreds of lines for each trader

[shrewd rampart]

Try 1200+

[rare ruin]

[cloud lark]

@rare ruin i'd probably set it to 0.025 as to not make it completely obsolete as a system in a 8 hour day but i love that this works. Now help me get thirst to work

[slow sky]

Is it possible to make a lower-res model for NPCs in hopes of fixing hub and large fight fps, or do we need better mod support for that?

[shrewd rampart]

Potentially can be done with LOD commands for Skeletal Meshes, I don't remember if they exist on earlier versions of UE5 though.

Just giving you a lead to look into off the top of my head

[icy drift]

Did someone manage to making this mod work on gamepass ? https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/221?tab=docs
Im having a hard time (command not recognized) sorry for spam

[formal bronze]

Mod author says it's not supported on gamepass

xbox games are a pain in the ass to work with

[honest crag]

Day 2 of politely asking for someone to make a free look mod purely for immersion and gameplay capture purposes ❤️

[icy drift]

Thanks for your reply 🙂
I'll kindly wait

[formal bronze]

I think there is one already, look for Photo Mode on nexus

[quick parcel]

ive got a design document typed up with links to all the mods that i was hoping to merge together. would anyone be able to help me with this process? feel confident i could make a pretty neat little QOL overhaul with the stuff already released to the nexus. just looking for good documentation on how to merge changes from various mods together. all of the changes are .cfg based

[honest crag]

This is cool, but I meant the ability to move your head independently of your body. Like anomaly or tarkov.

[neat thistle]

Is # gonna work for commentaries in .cfgs of Stalker?

[shrewd rampart]

Pretty sure the compilers expect // and I've not tried /*
.inis expect ; for comments

[formal bronze]

I've seen // used as comments

[neat thistle]

@shrewd rampart @formal bronze Thx!

[shrewd rampart]

Tabs and spaces are also extremely sensitive. Use spaces, convert your tabs to spaces. Also careful with it cause a few of the cfgs got accidently left in with a tab here and there, and if you delete/change that, then it won't compile and format error out. So cross compare with original and your modded changes, see compare plugins in your text editor of choice.

Really annoying actually, espescially when using regex and automating thousands of lines of changes just to find there was one tab somewhere in the original and it bricks your file.

[neat thistle]

Damn

[livid spire]

Has anyone attempted to switch models in stalker 2?

[crude coral]

Day 2 of pretending I didn't see this being asked

[radiant ravine]

Yo so what do I have to install to unpack utoc/ucas files

lmao mispell

don't tell me the whole 14gb ue5 thing

I just want to see some shit inside the game

[leaden dagger]

Depends on what you want to do.
Swapping textures you'll need a ue5 install to cook and package your files

[summer lagoon]

There is a lot of camera movement in this game, Im wondering if there is some variables to tweaks that somewhere. We need a mod which reduce or remove some camera shakes.

[radiant ravine]

Just want to check some ui stuff
well whatever tomorrow I'll install it

[leaden dagger]

If you just want to check out the texture fmodel will be enough

Get the mapping file and aes key and check the pins for the modding ressources thread

[radiant ravine]

🫡

[cedar basin]

Can we get an end game save?

Ultimate edition because that matters i guess

[last spire]

question, how do actually start making mods?
do i just edit the actual cfg files in fmodel and then extract it? how would i even extract it?

export raw data?

[gusty olive]

can we just face the reality already that A-life isn't bugged, it just got tuned down to current levels because otherwise xbox would shit itself trying to run this game

[neat thistle]

#╟⚒stalker2™-mod-resources

There's some guides

[last spire]

i figured it out, the guide doesnt cover the actual how to part

[sick pebble]

Anyone got access to Metro Awakening? There's a material I'd like to get my hands on

[violet jasper]

If i have a question about a mod whats the best chat channel to ask in? New to the discord

[sick pebble]

Probably the discussions tab in nexus?

If it's specifically about that mod

[slate orchid]

I'll give my life to whoever can make the svd have a removable scope

[foggy hinge]

It's a customtheme

[slate orchid]

And I'll send pictures of my cat, he's pretty damn cute

[cerulean quiver]

Can anyone help me with the AES idk if it matters but im on game pass

[radiant valve]

Can someone made a mod that disable auto reload?

[cerulean quiver]

about to make one so u can reload while running 💀

[radiant valve]

Even better 😆 🤣

[viral trout]

Are there any commands or ways to change the time/weather that are out?

[exotic lagoon]

Anybody have a link to the mod conflict checking tool? can't find it

[coarse dagger]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/290

[exotic lagoon]

[quick rain]

they shouldve added a ghillie just for immersion

[shrewd rampart]

For the pakmerge, does it just merge two .paks or can you preview it before it does that?

[exotic token]

It merges automatically but gives an explanation to review

you can just delete the pak if you don't like it

[shrewd rampart]

Kinda on the fence of using these tools, I think I'd rather merge it myself to be 1000% certrain of things.

[exotic token]

I'm the opposite
I don't want to do any work, and the merges seem to be almost perfect so far
I'm very happy with the tool

[shrewd rampart]

A preview mode would be nice, just to check. Though I think others have made attempts at an output of changes/conflicts too.

[shrewd rampart]

Sounds good.

[fast shore]

Has anyone found which command changes the viewmodel POV(fov)?

I want to move the arms of the character a little bit forward

[glossy blaze]

They should make a mod to add clear sky into the game ngl

[exotic lagoon]

not a command but you can do it with Flawless Widescreen

BUT muzzle flashes get moved off the muzzle so...

[teal wing]

does anyone know the dfeault flashlight attentuation vlaue? is it 2000?

or 2500?

messing around with adding shadow casting to flashlight

[fast shore]

Thats a bummer, I had a bug in the game where after the cutscene my weapon model has moved forward a little bit. It did get reset after the restart, but I think there should be an option to change it from the console

[next cave]

has anyone figured out what parts of the code govern the brightness/range of the flashlight yet?

kinda tired of the incandescent flashlight

[unreal glacier]

Are there any mods that extend the effects of energy drinks? I remember the ones from OG lasting a bit longer and giving you crazy regen

[exotic lagoon]

Yeah I had that bug too, muzzle flash problem was present there too. seems to be something either the devs or mods will have to fix

[exotic token]

It is in game
Spark is lead by Scar, who is the Clear Sky player character

You run across Nimble too

[inland estuary]

is there a freecam mod? id like to up my screenshot game for the skins im making.

[last spire]

so i just followed groks tutorial, but after checking the mod in fmodel it doesnt seem any of my changes saved, is this normal or?

[teal wing]

ugh it looks so good

[naive widget]

@teal wing can you try fl_state print :: prints current setup or defaults - might be able to get you the default attenuation value

if not i'll load up my save and try it because without a preset

@teal wing All default values

[teal wing]

how do i save load again?

thank you

gonna load up and try

does deep shadows do anything?

i keep messing with it

[naive widget]

AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\SaveGames -- if you have a preset there should be a flsave.csv or something

[teal wing]

but it seems "normal" is the only that does much

[naive widget]

I've just refused to ever save a preset and constantly re-enable each time

Nothing I've seen noticeable myself while flicking them on and off same with Foreground

[teal wing]

hm

do you enjoy the dynamic lights? i cant seem to make it appear actually from the actor view

[naive widget]

I mean I loved x-rays dynamic lights. While I appreciate Lumen and UE5 etc, I also find it to be a buggy mess at times. Idk if the newer UE versions are better on it

(Note: i am not a pro modder or anything, just enjoy tech support)

[teal wing]

lumen is fantastic tech but

on that note

i have a picture saved somewhere of a light casting down a shaft into a tunnel

without ANY gi

doesnt that seem odd

i can find it, but its very jarring

[naive widget]

Was it you that posted the Comparison shot of Windows with / without the big Lighting blur around them?

[next cave]

ok so i found BP_NPC_Flashlight.uasset, but i can't seem to find BP_L_flashlight_01.uasset to save my life

[teal wing]

negative

[next cave]

i was gonna test it but idk where it is

[teal wing]

you gotta download Everything

[exotic token]

there are reshades that allow UI disabling?

I guess you could put hands away

[flint flicker]

Anyone install the bin. audio and can now hear people from far away? constant grunting like drinking?

[naive widget]

Ah it was Pollo #1310700088187945070 message

[next cave]

download everything? @teal wing as in the tools or extra files?

[teal wing]

the program

[next cave]

ok i feel like i'm missing something important here

[modern umbra]

Whomever heard my cry for faster reloads last night and decided to make a mod, I salute you.

[shrewd rampart]

The new UE versions both perform better and have less artifacting when it comes to Lumen, making it easier to setup. Unfortunately 5.1 has native issues to using Lumen, that only gets fixed in 5.3 I believe? Not sure of exact version. But had same Lumen issues on a clients project that Stalker has, and it was resolved later and made easier to configure on a UE5.3 build instead of UE5.1

[exotic token]

how hard is it to update
Is it something you'd expect in a future patch or will we be facepalming for the next two decades

[shrewd rampart]

Depends on the project and the scale of it.
If they use a lot of custom plugins, or outdated/legacy tech -> upgrading is a pain in the ass.
If they use all native UE5 things, and barely any plugins, and only in-house stuff that's easy for them to change. Then it should be easier, still a difficult task. I'd be surprised if they upgrade at all within the next year. It's both a risk and a time sink.
Most games, avoid engine upgrades like a plague because of so many things can go wrong with it, *and usually it does, experienced that already. *

[glossy blaze]

Psh scar was never clear sky he was just a merc, I need more

[compact furnace]

They've already said they needed to make tons of changes so engine would handle Stalker 2 and called it UE 5.1 GSC edition

[shrewd rampart]

Unfortuantely 5.1 to 5.5 is quite a big upgrade, and 5.5 "fixes" the decade old problem of overlapping dynamic lights, with "megalights" although I've not tested peformance metrics on how good it is, eitherway, for them to upgrade- they'd need an extremely good and convincing reason to do so- because both the time sink and the risk of bricking the project version is so high.
The thing is, if they've already started work before hand on an SDK/Editor for editing Stalker 2 on UE5.1 then any upgrades, would also mean to update the SDK which sometimes is tougher to do than upgdating the game project itself.

[shrewd rampart]

In that case, they have a custom source-built engine UE version to work on Stalker 2, and that' complicates to how you upgrade from version to version already.

[proud cloak]

Is there a guide on mod merging? Some off my mods conflict and I would love to fix it myself

[ocean cedar]

this is what i use to merge mods

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

[compact furnace]

Yeah, they mentioned something along those lines, I'm sure if upgrading would have been easy enough they'd have done it for performance, I'm sure they knew how bad this game runs

I'm running a 3090 and a 7800x3D and on Epic settings with DLSS on native 1080p I'm getting 34 frames in certain parts of Rostock 🥲

[radiant valve]

Cpu bottleneck.

[exotic token]

Upgrade game to new engine for more stability and performance
New engine is unstable and has terrible performance
Refuse to update engine to latest patch that fixes issues

🧠

[shrewd rampart]

Welcome to game dev, it's not that easy. 😉

[exotic token]

I'm unironically considering learning to make games

[white sentinel]

It is not fun 😔

[exotic token]

I mod a little for fun

So I'm hoping it's not that bad

[shrewd rampart]

In that case modding UE games, such as Stalker 2 is a good way to start. Because you're more likely to get hired if you have proven modding experience, espescially if you can get formal education on top of it.

[sand parrot]

Impatiently waiting for Russian ww2 weapon mods

[rare ruin]

so I was testing out optimization stuff, and I went to alt tab to discord.

look at what happened 💀
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1311542619569913918/1311555406039879730/S.T.A.L.K.E.R._2_Heart_of_Chornobyl_2024.11.27_-_23.51.24.21.DVR-00.01.52.602-00.01.56.638.mp4?ex=674948a8&is=6747f728&hm=57057a571a0699919c62101712be8387860556b92fe131f49d78790a09038992&

[sand parrot]

Surprise mf

[shrewd rampart]

I see lumen artifacting from Global Illumination in your game btw.
Try r.Lumen.ScreenProbeGather.Temporal.DistanceThreshold=0.015
Let me know if it does anything for you 🙂

[sand parrot]

Thank you thank you, possibly fix shimmering On grass?

[rare ruin]

that was so perfectly timed, now I need to try and fix that.

also in engine.ini or?

[proper grove]

Any mod that fix weather pattern yet?

[sand parrot]

I would love to remove rain, dlss and rain don’t mix in this game

[shrewd rampart]

It's a potential fix for the Lumen GI that looks like you're underwater and sun/directional light is hitting the ground instead, making the GI move all over the place, rather than stay still. Hard to explain. Shimmering on grass is a different issue imho, this might be related to Anti Aliasing settings instead.

[proper grove]

Rain is fine, just that weather change so rapidly

[rare ruin]

if only there was a true fix for this shit

[shrewd rampart]

Not sure if you're able to use the command in-game, if not then try Engine.ini instead

[sand parrot]

I downloaded a mod that lengthens the time by x4 and it’s solid, x3 would be better. Weather lasts a while

[rare ruin]

i think there is only one weather mod, i am loving it, i have my RealTimetoGameCoef set to 6

[sand parrot]

Dynamic Weather? I thought about trying it.

[rare ruin]

is the picture like a hazy sky with a tower

[shrewd rampart]

Is this on Low or High Global Illumination?

[sand parrot]

Gotcha, I’ll check it. Ppreciate you

[sand parrot]

I think fog looks better on medium

[rare ruin]

i will try that out, because i'm still tweaking these settings

[shrewd rampart]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=814y2OPLsX0&ab_channel=BenchmarKing

This video has some nice side by side comparisons.
You can make your own conclusions on what's worth and what's not worth to use.

[rare ruin]

also also

if you guys need an ok farm, sit by the military base, in the past 30 minutes or less i've been attacked 5 times by groups of 5

[shrewd rampart]

I've yet to try RR 🙂

[rare ruin]

though that's with A-Life and Axxii's Sneak

lmao

[rare ruin]

i can't tell if I'm seeing anything or not because I still have zero clue what the hell it actually does 😂

[deep ridge]

I wonder if there is a way to have move speed tied to your mouse wheel in this game or if we need to wait for sdk for something like that

[compact furnace]

Sad

[rare ruin]

you know what's funny

i have an RTX 4080, 32GB RAM, but my fucking CPU is a Ryzen 7 5800x

[shrewd rampart]

3060, 32GB, Ryzen 9 5900x -> Get about same performance as you do, or maybe even better 😛

[sand parrot]

Almost same specs as you, similar results

I have an i7-10k tho

[compact furnace]

Game is just badly optimized, no way around it

[sand parrot]

Patience is key

[compact furnace]

I guess I'll try one of the performance boosting mods later

Maybe turn down a few settings from Epic

See of that helps

[sand parrot]

There’s a few out there, just don’t expect massive gains

[compact furnace]

Like 10 fps in some areas would already be huge

[shrewd rampart]

Mostly a CPU bound game, so any settings that offsets instructions from CPU to GPU, or reduced the CPU intensitivity of those functions, are usually huge wins on their own.

[sand parrot]

Usually around 5 fps, unless you’re okay with your game looking flat and bland

[compact furnace]

I'll take any haha. It's funny because in the wilderness outside of cities I get like 80 to 90 easily, as soon as I enter Rostok and some other safe zones it's over

[sand parrot]

Safe zones are awful

[compact furnace]

Guess I should've mentioned I'm using a mod that makes NPCs visible for more distance and spawns them further away, it's not roadside panic tho

Maybe that affects it as well I guess, but without it my immersion is completely ruined

[sand parrot]

Or try frame gen and latency reducing mods

Probably the best bet as of now

And yea, that’ll affect fps drastically

[compact furnace]

It's fine outside of safe zones, so I guess I'll just do my trading in 40 frames per second

[shrewd rampart]

NPC Logic will be one of the most intensive things for the CPU in a game like this. I doubt they're using AI LODs as they're not native in UE. But who knows, maybe they have some awesome AI devs that do AI optimizations and that might be why they're using a custom version of the engine. 🤞

[compact furnace]

Still not optimistic about getting proper A-Life, how would the console ever run that

[rare ruin]

i believe

all we gotta do is believe

[compact furnace]

I believed when they told me my crippling depression would get better, didn't happen

I believed when they said the economy would be getting better, didn't happen

I believed so much and it didn't happen. How can I trust these Devs?

/s

[rare ruin]

im fucked

[compact furnace]

That's a nice screenshot though, upload it to your PDA so other Stalkers can see how pretty you died

[unreal glacier]

How does the repair system work again? is it like a percentage of the base weapon cost?

So if a 20,000 coupon weapon is at 90% condition, would it cost 2,000 coupons to repair?

[untold prism]

any1 working on a more extreme crate consumable mod I'm using Grok's Less consumables in crates and it's still so plentiful

[unreal glacier]

It's possible they are plentiful as a means to balance the economy

nobody thinks to sell meds bc they always use them, but if you got a surplus, it's fair game

[next cave]

Screenshot reminds me, i miss the really pretty post-emission skies from CoP/GAMMA

Doesn't really feel like the blowout has many after effects rn

[compact furnace]

How cool would it be if the game had some kind of online feature like dark souls with bloodstains but instead you find a corpse with a bit of loot and a PDA describing how they died. Tune that to happen very rarely and all the sudden boom, immersion

[compact furnace]

As cool as the storms are, the foliage does not bend enough in the wind imo, minor detail but it would look so awsome

[torn haven]

thought ur hand was a dead stalker slumped on the pallets

[rare ruin]

LMAO

[hardy bloom]

whats a good economy mod? tired of risking my gear for a artifact that sells for less than the cost of a few medkits

[cloud cipher]

I thought about this the other day, it would be such a cool feature that you could add too, say like a bunch of fellow stalkers die to the same thing, they just add a few more corpses to the pile. It would be a huge boost to the world building

[untold prism]

Modular Hard Mode is great i use Veteran but might switch to Hardcore soon

[hardy bloom]

hardcore?

is that part of the mod

[untold prism]

The Mod has different difficulties, Play the game on veteran mode and install the mod's veteran or hardcore difficulty set

[hardy bloom]

looks great, downloading now

[compact furnace]

I really feel like they missed out on a lot of "preparation" before going out. Like your light needing batteries and so on. Would make taking care of your gear so much more immersive. The repair system is fine but I feel like they could've gone more in depth with gear management

But my God is the world building absolutely phenomenal

[slim anvil]

you have a very sexy name

[unreal glacier]

Does anyone know the formula for repair costs?

[low torrent]

Did you start a new save, I’m p sure it needs it

[unreal glacier]

Is it a 1:1 of the base price multiplied by degradation?

[low torrent]

I feel like the visual quality, world building and engine/rt lighting is nice as a baseline and modding other systems later would be amazing since it’s things we can fix vs remaking the map like was needed in anomaly lol

[shrewd rampart]

except when some of these systems are fucking hardcoded somewhere else... sorry- losing my mind. 🙂

[low torrent]

yeah I’m not saying rn, just gonna have to wait for the modding tools to release ig and see how far we can go

plus whatever it looks like at first probs won’t even be very far compared to what people figure out over time

considering how far anomaly came im always hopeful, obv community made vs company itself but it’s whatever

[rare ruin]

the water on the guns needs a touchup, like what is this

[shrewd rampart]

Once UGCs are able to be done for Stalker 2, it'd be a completely whole different level of flexibility, I pray they use UGCs and SDKs for a inherited from engine source editor.

[low torrent]

Atleast if I decide to learn how to mod for something like stalker 2 it can translate more easily since I’m sure more are gonna flock to UE

[untold prism]

Nah i haven't started a new save and have noticed looting bodies has less stuff

[low torrent]

yeah read the mod page I’m sure they found it required a new save for container loot

[exotic token]

Can weapon ammo type be modded

[shrewd rampart]

In what way?

[exotic token]

I will literally die if I have to use a PKP in 7.62x39 instead of 7.62x54

[last spire]

does anyone know what 'protection: strike' is?

[exotic token]

wasnt that mutant melee

in previous games

[last spire]

i have no idea

never played the previous ones

[shrewd rampart]

afaik it affects any impact, but still yet to test this shit. I.e any physical impact (including bullets).

[exotic token]

oh it's just weapon damage

[last spire]

so its their natural protection against physical hits?