╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[last spire]

wonder what putting it as 0.0 would do then

or maybe this controls the armor value

[shrewd rampart]

Armor value yup. Even dogs have 1.0 armour I think.

Seems so! Also fuck them for using tabs here.

[last spire]

wouldnt this be the armor value, and strike being a multiplier or something

[shrewd rampart]

FP? Huh... Focus Points? lol. Jk.
F... What else can it stand for. I am not convinced it's the armour value atm

[last spire]

probably not considering everyone has 100 FP

[shrewd rampart]

It's probably stamina-related?

[lunar lynx]

DMs for open funny

[last spire]

could be since mutants have action drains as well

[modern umbra]

Anything in config that points to loot respawns?

[last spire]

psudogiant only has strike protection

[shrewd rampart]

Probably inherits from template/defaults.

[shrewd rampart]

Inherits from MutantBase.cfg

[last spire]

are we sure mutants have armor?

i do recall ppl saying using ap brings their TTK down considerably but i dont see anything armor related

[shrewd rampart]

It's Protection/Strike that is their armour tier/level/multiplier

[last spire]

so putting 0.0 would effectively strip a psudo from its armor?

[shrewd rampart]

Most mods either reduce their HP or Strike Protection, or- both.
For some reason none of the mutants use 2.0

[shrewd rampart]

Yeah, if that's a valid value. But it's unknown exactly by how much the damage per bullet is reduced.

[last spire]

makes sense if you consider weapons having their own pen values like 1.0 - 5.0

[shrewd rampart]

Would like to test that, as one of the things I am doing for myself is rebalancing the damage/calibers/ammotypes etc. To make the game a bit more immersive for myself, and instead of making it easier- just brutal in a fair way.

[last spire]

worst case scenario 0.1

[last spire]

yooo same

using this as a base myself
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/426
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/379

[shrewd rampart]

There's a bunch of mods out there that do all that, so I recommend taking a look at them if you're not sure- just none that I fully want to use on their own 🙂

I am workin on a spreadsheet for myself, if you'd like to copy it and work with it, or collab or something at some point. Might be of help to you. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d4EiByG4LPFOFsgm0pecfYVAtZ4n3Mtsm1rNGYCIboI/edit?usp=sharing

[last spire]

realistically speaking, a psudogiant would have armor in the sense that it has so much layers of flesh that its effectively an carapace, makes sense ye?

[last spire]

this is a great resource thank you

[shrewd rampart]

Far from finished, but I don't have large amounts of time to this, and the time that I do use on these mods usually end up in finding out shit is hardcoded of things I want to do 🙂 Everything else is fine to mod, just takes time to find what you want.

[last spire]

hope the sdk drops soon

[modern umbra]

You and I both. I have a lot of changes I want to make without having to go too far into the file structure and code.

For one, I want respawning loot and more side quests to be given.

[shrewd rampart]

The way I am testing weapon damage on mutants for e.g
Is I set mutant base damage to 0.0, give them a predictable amount of health, and compare how many shots it takes to kill one after spawning one infront of me. For e.g - 100hp, and use a base damage weapon that does 25 -> should take 5 shots to kill with no armor calculation -> add in armour into the fact and it should increase how many bullets take to kill with a weapon that does roughly 1.0 armour pen. That roughly gives you an idea of how much armour means on non armour pen weapons. Balance around that- and then increase armour pen on AP ammo types, and you get something a bit more playable that still requires you to swap between ammo types for different reasons.

[last spire]

you mean those 'radiant' missions traders give?

[modern umbra]

Yeah, those.

[last spire]

i feel you

tbh bit of a shame i cant accept more than 1

[modern umbra]

I want to be able to do two or three a day. Refresh happens every 24 hours in game.

Also, make defense missions for every base, not just Zalissya.

Can use AI to make the radio announcements.

[last spire]

seems solid enough in theory

but a bit off topic, would setting it to 0 be the same as 0.0, have you tried it, does it break smtn?

[shrewd rampart]

I think what happens when you put something to have 0.0 strike protection, is I guess the weapon will do 100% more damage. Since there will be zero armour, but you're going to be penetrating it into negative values.

Not tried it, just using game design theory

[last spire]

maybe its 10% resistance/protection per value

[shrewd rampart]

All weapons have at least 1.0 armour pen, so it expects things to have at least that much.

[last spire]

so 2.5 would be 25% resist

probably not it because that would break the weapons values and its illogical

kinda crazy to think psudos have 4000hp and 40% resistance tho lol

[shrewd rampart]

I feel like they forgot an extra 0 on Gauss btw.
Cause a fully upgraded Saiga-12 does more damage/dps than a Gauss rifle

[last spire]

ive noticed that, saiga is strangely good against mutants in general

[shrewd rampart]

3.0 Armour pen base- is nuts

[last spire]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/967837041100468307/1311484375505829918/image0.gif

[shrewd rampart]

Considering you can combine it with AP ammo

[last spire]

is about drive its about power

how does ap ammo work?

does it just give you 1 flat level of pen or does it depend on the ammo itself

like 9mm giving only 0.5 more pen

[shrewd rampart]

It adds a multiplier to AP on the positive.
HP ammo reduces the AP by a bit, but increases base damage

FMJ has standard multipliers I think

[gaunt lotus]

So wait, what was the findings when using a 1.0 pen weapon on an enemy with 0 armor vs enemy with 1.0 armor?

[shrewd rampart]

Not tested it yet. 🙂

[gaunt lotus]

ah ok

[shrewd rampart]

I gave a logical way to test it if someone wants to test it

I am kinda busy with something else atm

[gaunt lotus]

Im hoping its not some bullshit "If weapon pen >= enemy armor, then deal full damage, if not, deal reduced damage"

[lunar lynx]

DMs for open funny

[gaunt lotus]

Anomaly detector starts beeping

[shrewd rampart]

? What does that even mean.

[celest dune]

Big fat list of most bot commands: https://pastebin.com/raw/b3uBWC8S

[exotic token]

I like the old Misery descriptions of mutant pelts as being measured in layers of kevlar

If that's the case then it would be easy for them to get some pretty hilarious armor capability

[shrewd rampart]

I am just confused as to why there's only 1.0, 3.0 or 4.0 used for the Mutants, where's 2.0 gone?! And why is a Bloodsucker using 3.0 instead of 2.0 armour multi/layer/tier?

[slow sky]

yeah it needs some balancing, thankfully its easy to tweak

i kept vanilla hp but lowered armor of bloodsuckers by just 1 and my saiga kills them in 3-4 shots

[shrewd rampart]

Yup, but fundementally the weapon caliber/progression is also unbalanced, which makes the problem worse than it should be.

[slow sky]

yeah

[shrewd rampart]

I am fine with making it so that AK takes 15 shots (half a mag) roughly to kill a bloodsucker. I think that's fair, and then later on end-mid games weapons could maybe do it in 7-8 from AR and 3-4 from shottys/sniper rifles.
Not 3 mags though. That's bullet sponge territory. Personally I am going to make them deadlier, but squishier- but not to the point they're trivial to deal with. There needs to be a threat still for every mutant. 🙂

[velvet hare]

Hey guys, what tool do you use for unpacking the .pak files? i want to edit some mods, someone suggested "Unreal Pak decoder"?

[rare ruin]

@shrewd rampart bobr, i need your technical analysis

[shrewd rampart]

Mhm?

[rare ruin]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/299?tab=description

this mod of mine, read the description, specifically the warning

[shrewd rampart]

I've noticed you replaced one of the array elements with your AddSprintEffect, what was it?

[rare ruin]

ArmorConditionalEffect

[shrewd rampart]

Is there any valid reason as to why not create a new array element, instead of replacing it?

[rare ruin]

ArmorConditionalEffect checks to see if sprint is possible, then blocks it

so I replaced it with AddSprintEffect, just in case the armor didn't allow sprint innately

[silk urchin]

anyone found a way to rip out nanite meshes?

[shrewd rampart]

Do you know if it does more than just check for sprint? because it's named in a way that's reusable across many other functions.
Did you try putting the armor conditional effect "Last" in the array, and put your AddSprintEffect before it in the array?

[rare ruin]

i checked to make sure, i'll look again

[ancient drum]

I would like to see some kind of a Metro styled balance where it more "you or them".

[shrewd rampart]

Brutal Master Mode is what my cup of tea for game balance is for a world like this one.
Procrastinating on making it a bit.

[modern umbra]

Stilllll waiting on A-Life to be unfucked

[shrewd rampart]

Plenty of mods that make AI more fair nowadays.

[slate orchid]

im just waiting for a mod to let me remove the scope off the SVD ❤️

[modern umbra]

Its just a bandaid. Only online is buffed, but not fixed. Offline remains broken too, and cannot be used.

[unreal knot]

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

[rare ruin]

@shrewd rampart

[ancient drum]

not sure if there is ads point for ironsight

[slate orchid]

[ancient drum]

let me quicktest it

[slate orchid]

❤️ bless you

[shrewd rampart]

I THINK they're vanilla, I hope I didn't modify my original exports.

[unreal knot]

Lemme check, thanks buddy!

[last spire]

metro also had full 24h days so that would be a nice option

without fucking the timescale for everything else

@shrewd rampart seems like anyone can edit your google doc and ur missing sofmod in the unique list

[shrewd rampart]

Not unless you make a copy of it yourself and edit the file on your end. Unless there's a bug.
Sofmod?

[last spire]

the red dot ar416

[ancient drum]

nope:(

[slate orchid]

my guy thank you so much for trying ❤️

its so close

[shrewd rampart]

SID?

Gun_SOFMOD_AR nvm found it

[last spire]

ye that

[shrewd rampart]

It inherits directly from GunM16_ST

So no need to duplicate it, because the stats are basically the same, just it comes with pre-installed upgrades. But the base values are the same.

[last spire]

i see, mb

[shrewd rampart]

np, thanks for checking

[foggy arch]

Anyone know how to restart the "Seek, and You Shall Find mission"

Damn i used XGP to play game at first,nut when i trun my savefile to steam ultimate version,the mission cant not show out

Is that a code can be used for it?

[mild gorge]

the ammo breakables can act as hockey pucks (run into them). ||ex||-Monolith base is perfect for it
when multiplayer comes out, I'd play lmao

[last spire]

methinks that a great mod to make when the modkit drops is one where you get inf stamina inside trade hubs, bit gamey tho

[shrewd rampart]

Are the white outlines around gunns in the darkness supposed to be there, or did I fuck something up in the engine.ini 🙂

[last spire]

i think you 100% borked something

dont recall them having that noticable shader

[shrewd rampart]

Maybe sharpness

[last spire]

whats it at?

[mild gorge]

nanite edge-related settings, no?

[last spire]

good to know

this too

[ancient drum]

what is that

[last spire]

the game was rigged from the start, its not ultra hardcore tacticool realism

stalker 2 is just one big phat rpg, its over folks

no shot playing the guitar is considered a threat

how bad is the tune

[mild gorge]

maybe it's so you can set it to 0

as dumb as it sounds, it makes sense to include with a radius or whatever it controls

[deep ridge]

anyone know what setting changes the npc walking speed?

[last spire]

odds are its all individual

[deep ridge]

sick thanks

[last spire]

wouldnt this control the speed of vaulting animations? or would it be just uphill movspeed

or maybe its just snapping the player from point a to point b regardless of how slow or quick the anims are

[acoustic vortex]

for the longer days mod are you supposed to install all of these or just 1?

oops sorry wrong chat 🥺

[sand parrot]

Is there a fix?

I think it’s dlss and framegen fkn it

[shrewd rampart]

Looking into atm.
Deleted Engine.ini for now.

[woeful crane]

My man!!!! God I wish I wasn't dumb ASF 😂

[shrewd rampart]

I can still see it, but- it's not as prominent.

[sand parrot]

It’s odd, mines like that first one and I have a default engine ini

[shrewd rampart]

I also changed my settings and recompiled shaders. So might have something to do with it

[sand parrot]

Possibly so, you have dlss or framegen on?

[shrewd rampart]

Using:

Texture: High
Hair: Medium
Object: Epic
Effects: Epic
Materials: High

Post Processing: Low-Epic -> Keep changing it.
AA: High
Motion Blur: 0% and Off
Depth of Field: Low
Light Shafts: Enabled
Sharpness: 20%-50%

Upscaling: DLSS
Upscaling Quality: DLAA or Quality
Ray Reconstruction: Enabled
FSR 3 Frame Gen: Enabled

Shading Quality: Medium
Global Illumination: High
Reflections: High
Shadow Quality: High

Clouds: Medium
Fog: Epic
Sky: High
Foliage: Medium
DrawDistance: Far

Just swapped to DLSS/d and RR -> Kinda tanks my performance compared to my previous setttings tbh. Not sure if worth

[low torrent]

I lose around 20 fps w RR enabled

same w a friend of mine

[shrewd rampart]

30 series or 40 series?

[low torrent]

Although yerts reports a 40% increase so

40

[sand parrot]

Hmm, possibly it’s lowering dlss to balanced or performance causes it

[shrewd rampart]

Ok, 30 series here.

[sand parrot]

Same

[shrewd rampart]

I didn't lose or gain any FPS toggling between RR 🙂 But these guns infront of me are probably tanking area FPS. But testing something else with them.

[low torrent]

@teal wing what gpu do u use for nvidia

I consistently lose 20 ish fps

not just in crowded areas

[shrewd rampart]

Ok, time to slowly readd things back into the engine.ini and see what's causing that artifacting.

[modern umbra]

The extended mag for the Vector needs work.

[last spire]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/967837041100468307/1311484375505829918/image0.gif

putting in the work putting in the hours

[modern umbra]

I'll be making a ton of firearms changes when the tool releases.

[last spire]

hot take an rpg warhead should 1 shot controllers

[modern umbra]

Agreed

[crisp bolt]

does anyone know the skeletal mesh for npcs?

[foggy hinge]

Something of an idea.

[tidal yew]

When Anomaly 2

[foggy hinge]

Mutants and stalkers create backpacks when they die in specific anomalies.

[tidal yew]

Would be cool

[foggy hinge]

What if someone made a new context menu option to create a stash with an option that the player could stash items in?

Similar to Anomaly.

Basically using that same functionality from those backpacks but with the player creating them through their inventory.

This should be possible in theory.

I do believe we can add things to the context menus

[cloud lark]

@rare ruin member us talking about scopes and such? Got a different weapon now with higher zoom and it still works fine

I think what you experienced was simply the "after cutscene" scope bug

[cloud lark]

an RPG should delete anything imho. Its a freaking massive grenade

[last spire]

yep

i can only really accept a giant tanking one before going down to some primary fire, and even then if its a headshot i dont care how much layers of flesh it has it needs to be dead

was kinda hoping s2 would have that realistic grounded combat but its a bit fallout 4y

[rare ruin]

okay bet, may look into it then

[last spire]

an easy fix would probably be to make the warhead deal 10k dmg lol

would it be alright to remove the 'f' in this case?

xbone has 4 difficulties or something?

[rare ruin]

@shrewd rampart i am seeing reports that this may be intended behavior (all enemies almost always having exos)

[shrewd rampart]

In end-game perhaps, I thoguht this is happening in earlier game areas- you weren't specific 😄

[shrewd temple]

Is there a way to speed up equip and unequip animations for weapons?

[shrewd rampart]

Very likely no, if it has an .f it means it's a float type in the blueprints/C++ struct which means it expects .double decimal number alongside an f afterwards. Test it, it could be that their compiler deals with it eitherway 🙂

[pure tendon]

I wonder how hard it would be to dsiable death animations and run just the ragdoll?

[fast shore]

Cant wait for modders to bring back ragdoll after death instead of a goofy ahh bloodsucker

[compact furnace]

Both are such a eurojank thing but the ragdoll is way more funny

[cloud lark]

what does the "f" stand for in these variables anyways?

[fast shore]

Float

[cloud lark]

meaning?

[fast shore]

Number with a decimal point

Google what is a float in coding

[cloud lark]

ok but whats the benefit of this?

[fast shore]

It means that the parameter can take from 0 to 0.05 for example. Boolean would mean the parameter is either true or false (0 or 1)

Just math

[last spire]

THE MATH AINT MATHING MAKA

WHO PUTS LETTERS IN MATH

[unreal glacier]

Would anyone be kind enough to paste the contents of an unmodified EffectPrototypes.cfg

Needing it for reference

[merry mountain]

you have it yourself already

[cloud lark]

Pytagoras

[unreal glacier]

I do?

[last spire]

https://tenor.com/view/low-tier-god-meme-mods-gif-14385308006689816010

[merry mountain]

yes what do you think were the game gets it

unpack pakchunk0-Windows.pak

[unreal glacier]

oh thanks

[merry mountain]

it contains all cfgs

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

unpack like that for example

with this key

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

[last spire]

my god you guys have no idea how good it feels to not have to kiss the texture of an item to get the melee to register

man this just rejuvenated my soul

200 units should be the sweet spot

[topaz cape]

feels even better to not have to take the knife out

[last spire]

I KNOW RIGHT

WE USE BUTTSTOCKS IN THIS HOUSE

[topaz cape]

just smash it with the stock

done

[last spire]

very tacticool

[cloud lark]

Tried cutting bread with my buttstock, didn't work

[near glacier]

you guys melee crates? I use buck shots 😎

[topaz cape]

skill issue tbh

[last spire]

i only shoot at crates when the damn melee wont register

its out of sheer rage

not anymore tho, its fixed now

[topaz cape]

one day a crate will contain a grenade and a pellet will hit it and you will regret everything

[last spire]

tbh that would be a great addition to fuck with players

[fast shore]

Has anyone found a way to move weapon viewpoint without external tools

Maybe through the console

[last spire]

ye console should have smtn

[cloud lark]

i have over 150 RGD-5 Grenades in my stash. When ever i see a room full of crates i just toss one in and play loot vacuume.

[last spire]

is there a way to get out of the lesser zone early btw?

[near glacier]

This.... for a post apocolyptic experience, grenades seem to be high in supply lol

[topaz cape]

i was beelining for cordon but crashed, if that helps

[last spire]

i was beelining to sofmod but drowned in 2cm of shallow water and stopped by a 30m tall gate

[topaz cape]

such is life in the zone

[last spire]

https://tenor.com/view/xqc-slam-slam-desk-desk-slam-xqc-slam-gif-19145485

will say, i made the sprint speed lower but the stamina consumption a bit less and it feels great and weighty

[topaz cape]

oh yea, i gotta adjust walk/run speed too

feels way off

[cloud lark]

you can go east through the checkpoint then cut to wildisland and north from there or you can go west into burned forrest. north checkpoint is locked off

[topaz cape]

what's the cfg?

[last spire]

for the sprint?

[topaz cape]

ya

[last spire]

lemee get that 4 u realq

[topaz cape]

got it, cheers

[last spire]

its under movementparams

[topaz cape]

oh hey, that has the vaulting parameters too

[last spire]

650 sprint feels great

[pure tendon]

Im an absolute modding noob but i wanted to give the ammo box a retexture to remove the big ammo icon on the boxes, any idea why i cant see the ammo icon in the 3D viewer?

[topaz cape]

low crouch where GSC???

[last spire]

ye i saw that too

its either a cut prone position mechanic or its like a forced something

maybe exo idk

[true topaz]

Crouch +walk

[topaz cape]

hm.

[true topaz]

They probably just use lowcrouch name for it and likely cut it to not work like OG lowcrouch

[cloud lark]

MI_int_decals_01 lower left corner maybe?

[last spire]

turn this from 0.1 to 2.0 and its doom eternal

https://tenor.com/view/doom-doom-eternal-glory-kill-doom-glory-kill-doom-eternal-zombie-gif-18694440

[cloud lark]

i wanna be able to jump from lesser zone straight to CNPP. MAKE IT SO!

[last spire]

i just killed a flesh in 5 ak shots lol

but to be fair i do have a weapon rebalance and 1.5 dmg in and out soooo

probably hit the head too

ive made the mistake of balancing mutants around 1.0 dealt and taken damage with their healthpools

[pure tendon]

hmm seems to only show the decals like the wood chip, dirt, etc like i said pretty new to the whole thing

[cloud lark]

hm dunno then maybe its stored in a different texture

[pure tendon]

ye thats what i was thinkin too

ill have a look

[ancient nest]

i got fmodel working
(i have no clue what to do next)

[cloud lark]

@pure tendon while you're at it would you mind making a version of the ammo crate that is a bit less neon green and a little closer to IRL crates with a darker green tone?

[pure tendon]

yea absolutely, the color also sticked out to me

[ancient nest]

am i right in assuming that if i want to edit something i should make a UE5 project, create the folders to that file and then create the file and when im done pak the project?

ive never made a mod for a UE5 gmae

[cloud lark]

is there like a CFG that handles the prices of everything or are prices for individual items handled in individual files?

[sudden oxide]

in leaked build it's work as in original, also look at this beauty

[errant imp]

can someone help me? I drunk with professor special vodka and drunk effect dont go away. Can i off this ?

[cloud lark]

have you tried turning it off and on again?

[kindred lotus]

what is low crouch blyat

[errant imp]

If this is for me, i wanna know how turn off effects in stalker 2

[subtle junco]

I cant seem to install UE 5.1, only UE 5.1.1. Where would I find 5.1? Wow, what a convoluted way to get 5.1. Idk why Epic doesn't just make every version available to download through the EGL

just trying to make a death screen replacer

[last spire]

modder pls update to 5.5 /s

[shrewd rampart]

Any idea what could be causing this (see puddle artifacting), modifying engine.ini and messing around with reflections/lumen etc.
And while I can get them to look awesome when at a distance/at an angle. As soon as I get close, shit becomes a blob or a noisy reflection instead. Whether I use Engine.ini or not, this still happens, the only difference is it's more noticable with higher quality reflections in the first place.

[neat thistle]

I was shocked too how difficult to downgrade UE 😄

[summer silo]

That's because the high quality reflection is actually a screenspace reflection.
The low quality ones are from Lumen and they are quite low resolution and quality.
Pushing them higher would shred your performance

[shrewd rampart]

Do you know if there's a way to change the distance at which they happen?

For a more/less noticable blending between the two?

[summer silo]

It's less about the distance and more that screenspace means once the object leaves your FOV it gets replaced

High quality cause it sees the pole

Low quality because its no longer in your fov

[shrewd rampart]

Right... Makes sense. Sighs

[summer silo]

Screen Space Shaders has a similar thing in Anomaly, except there it looks better because reflections just fade when the object that is reflected is not in view

Honestly I'd wish for a way to toggle Lumen reflections off

[shrewd rampart]

I can get it to fade too, but the fading is too aggressive/becomes a reflection with zero charm to it.

[shrewd rampart]

I kinda just did I think?

Let me see

[sand parrot]

r.Lumen.Reflections.Allow=0

[shrewd rampart]

Yep, you're right on that one

Not exactly pretty though, and it introduces jitteriness when the player is moving. That might have to do with the temporal stuff tho, or maybe upscaling methods.

[last spire]

is there a way to disable this dogshit eye adaptation bullshit

i cant see shit inside buildings

[sand parrot]

There is a way

[last spire]

[shrewd rampart]

If you disable it entirely, it'll be like a nuke just went off outside...
I am trying to reduce it (and clamp it)

Try this and see if it's worse or better:

;; Eye Adaptation and Global Exposure Settings
;; [Uses some outdated older UE version CVARs that might no lonnger work in UE5.1+]
r.DefaultFeature.AutoExposure=1 ;Ensures auto-exposure (eye adaptation) is enabled.
r.EyeAdaptationQuality=2 ;Enables high-quality eye adaptation (use 1 for medium quality).
r.AutoExposure.Method=0 ;Uses histogram-based auto-exposure (best for dynamic scenes). 1 = Basic.
r.AutoExposure.SpeedUp=3.0 ;Adjusts the speed of brightening when entering dark areas.
r.AutoExposure.SpeedDown=2.5 ;Adjusts the speed of darkening when entering bright areas.
r.AutoExposure.MinBrightness=0.8 ;Prevents exposure from going too dark.
r.AutoExposure.MaxBrightness=1.2 ;Prevents exposure from going too bright.
r.AutoExposure.Bias=0.0 ;Adjusts the overall brightness; positive values make scenes brighter, negatives darker.
r.EyeAdaptation.LuminanceMin=0.8 ;Defines the lowest luminance auto-exposure will adapt to.
r.EyeAdaptation.LuminanceMax=1.2 ;Defines the highest luminance auto-exposure will adapt to.
r.Color.Mid=0.85 ;Sets the midtones to be more darker <=1 or brighter >=1+ (use subtly)

Ultimately the problem is most interiors have a post process volume that completely makes this pointless, since the one placed in the world has set a higher priority than the global one.

Also I don't remember EyeAdaptation or AutoExposure being this much of a pain in older versions of UE... ffs

[last spire]

i fail to understand why devs these days are so hellbent on shoving every post process in the users face and thinking it wont be ugly, distracting or somethin inbetween without giving us an option to disable all that shit

like are you trying to fucking blind me?

[shrewd rampart]

Technically going from Post Processing High to Low -> SHOULD be doing what you just described, however it's forced on a different layer completely.

[last spire]

it has the same energy as going into ads and the entire screen becoming blurry because of fucking depth of field

like my own eyes already do that u dont need to shove that

[fast shore]

Whats wrong with auto exposure it works like intended

If devs would listen to yall the game would look like tarkov

No thanks

[sand parrot]

Tad bit too bright upon walking outside

[shrewd rampart]

It's also too slow at adjusting from lighter room to a darker room and vice versa. Sometimes even causing ghosting artifacts.

[last spire]

if devs disable a disliked visual effect the game will become tarkov

thats it everybody, he won

[fast shore]

There are some artifacts but for me auto exposure works fine, I do have an HDR monitor tho

[shrewd rampart]

Well I don't, perhaps it does work better on HDR maybe all the devs have HDR and didn't test it on different panels 🙂

[sand parrot]

Lmao, why compare that knock off to this?

[fast shore]

Siri play flight - broke boi

[last spire]

https://tenor.com/view/mods-plinker98-lowtiergod-caption-meme-gif-12333197864584502943

i did it, i solved inflation

[wooden birch]

i miss the hover faction thing wtf is even the point in the crosshair

[last spire]

@shrewd rampart you were correct, putting 0.0 for strike protection strips them of all armor

so its essentially 10% damage reduction per 1.0

[shrewd rampart]

How do you know it's 10%?

[last spire]

i stripped the blind dogs of all armor and they go down in 1 hit from 5.45 to the body, granted i also have a mod making every weapon lethal

i put it at 5.0 and shot them with regular ammo and it took more hits

[pure tendon]

yooo are there LUT's in this game or is resahde the only option?

[last spire]

i dont know for sure but its consistent enough to the point where its a flat % in dmg reduc

[sand parrot]

Thank god

[sand parrot]

Not yet that I’m aware of

[last spire]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/379 i based my own aio on this

probably 2 to 3 hits if you strip them of armor and use this mod

but yeah its fucking great

[sand parrot]

Ima need that

[last spire]

use this too lol https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/426

same author, makes the weapons by player and npcs be 1:1 in dmg and pen

[sand parrot]

I thought about using it

[last spire]

i tried playing at 1.5 damage dealt and taken, lol not happening at the start of the game, so im keeping it at an even 1

bullets hurt, actual prep needed

[sand parrot]

Possibly will download it once more free play mods are added

[topaz cape]

not gonna touch enemy damage values until AI is at least servicable

got lasered in the back of my head one time too often

[last spire]

thats fair, but there is one that removes their aimbot

[topaz cape]

doesn't help much if 4 bandits spawn right behind me and unload their shotguns :D

[last spire]

weird ball users cant relate

[little sluice]

Does it usually take more than 10 min to package a mod in UE5 for something like a single texture swap?

[shrewd rampart]

there are mods to prevent that too

[sand parrot]

Isn’t there a mod that removes spawning from behind?

[last spire]

we LOVE mods

[sand parrot]

I need that one, can’t find it

[last spire]

be honest, am i the only one hating on the firestream anomaly being too wide

[topaz cape]

yea, i'm giving it a few days until the most egregious stuff is ironed out and the official patch is there, i'm crashing too much at the moment to properly enjoy the game

[last spire]

you cant get past it without taking damage or am i just bad

[crimson laurel]

the problem isnt auto exposure is the dogshit bloom

[sand parrot]

Fire hurts even from a distance

It be hot

[lofty cedar]

nope i'm with u

[floral garden]

maklane better shootouts I think it is called

[sand parrot]

Ppreciate you

[last spire]

yeah heat is one thing but its not lava
and the hitbox just doesnt respect the visuals

i promise you, you cant go inbetween 2 firestreams

[sand parrot]

Haven’t came across a lava one yet

[last spire]

the one that spews shit is lava, but im just saying its not lava

my point is the firestream cooks you from too great a distance when you shouldnt even be able to trigger it

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/321 im not the only one it seems

probably gonna merge it ngl

[topaz cape]

oh hey

surely patch soon

[last spire]

i wonder how the patch will interact with existing mods

[topaz cape]

everything breaks

start from scratch

[last spire]

yeah probably but this isnt CE2

maybe smtn survives

[plain arch]

Anyone know if theres a mod for lowered weapons like in gamma

[topaz cape]

it's prolly gonna be fine, we're just fiddling around with values anyway

[last spire]

game lacks proper lowered anims so probably not

[plain arch]

ive realised if you go up against a wall the weapon gets pointed downwards as if its lowerd maybe someone can do something with that

[compact furnace]

I'd assume that stuff that must changes configs and stuff will not break most likely

[last spire]

only some weapons have it 'lowered' lowered

but if you point at an npc the game wont let you shoot, theres an unique anim

[sand parrot]

Click a button and a floating invisible wall spawns in front of your gun

[plain arch]

yeah exactly something like that would be nice

[shrewd rampart]

Surely people already turned off bloom or tried to, if that's the case?

[plain arch]

because having the gun pointed all the time is immersion breaking sometimes

holstering it is nice tho

[last spire]

your shadow:

[plain arch]

yeah true

[shrewd rampart]

PC overheated and crashed while adjusting lumen/reflection/lighting shit... F. ☠️

[last spire]

3rd person stalker when

[plain arch]

3rd person option would be so fire

eventually

there more anim for third person then i thought for the shadow if you look at something like cyberpunk its complety broken

[last spire]

i'm gonna give skif's pistol weight

funny how its 0.0 but has a 30% less weight upgrade module

[dire edge]

So the weight modifications I've merged into the roadside picnic mod doesn't seem to be working, it was prior when I was using the Alife Extended merges, conflict finder doesn't find any conflicts either

[heady socket]

I can cope with all the bugs but the head bob is making me throw up

[raw crest]

what does amount of Zs mean, load order?

[sand parrot]

It’s how sleepy the mod is

[white sentinel]

Style is right

[sand parrot]

It’s probably load order or something

[white sentinel]

Ignore other answers

[raw crest]

I thought i found the reason why some of the mods are not working 😔

[white sentinel]

Remove Z, maybe they are sleeping

[sand parrot]

Wake them up

[cloud lark]

you guys are the worst

[slate jasper]

any way to remove the timer between generated missions? I want grind that shiet

[sand parrot]

Wish you could accept missions from pda

[last spire]

rare item indeed

[white sentinel]

there are generated missions

and they are timed

[sand parrot]

Run here, shoot them, find this

[raw crest]

you all any idea why sprint cost 75 is not working, i feel like only bloodsucker mod works out of all

[cloud lark]

some of your mods might contain the same cfg file that has been edited. you would need to merge those to get them working or find out what mods supersedes which and then decide what mod you can live without.

[slate jasper]

yeah ik, the barman tells me to come back in a couple days. Just let me take another right away 😭

[lusty sail]

I'm trying to do it too xD Can't find decals

[sand parrot]

Probably overwritten by stamina 4th

[white sentinel]

Gotta check the config files

[raw crest]

i dont think that works too, 3-4 knife hits and im out of stamina

[sand parrot]

One or the other

[raw crest]

Are grok's mods compatible with each ohter

[shrewd rampart]

Was there a patch? I suddenly had to accept term and conditions again, dafuq.

[last spire]

u modified lumen, epic is coming for you stalker

[topaz cape]

https://github.com/Zweite93/Stalker2PakCfgMergeTool

[unreal glacier]

I got an idea for rebalancing the medkits: what if the yellow one gave you something like "health regen" for 60 seconds, maybe 200 HP max?

[last spire]

hp is capped at 100, so youd have that as like a pre med option?

[unreal glacier]

So basically, instead of getting health immediately, or even within a short-medium delay, you'd have a longer lasting regenerative effect of gaining 200 health over 60 seconds, helping to offset chip damage from anomalies

[last spire]

kinda like it

[unreal glacier]

Yes

[last spire]

i dont bother using any of the other medkits so id love to see something more than just oh u get healed more cause its yellow

[unreal glacier]

yesss loll

it was so silly how they worked in SoC, they were just the best ones in the game

[last spire]

tbh standard medkits can go down to like 30% of max hp, yellow 50 and blue 80 and start giving them some variance

[unreal glacier]

but having a fundamental difference in how it works would set it apart, as well as having an emphasis on radiation treatment rather than bleeding. all of those changes make sense given the kit's original purpose

I was thinking of making the blue ones work really quick, but with the least HP restored

[last spire]

thanks for reminding me soldiercfm, gonna remove healing from bandages realq

[unreal glacier]

and the red ones can be the middle-lane option with medium restore in a medium delay

I saw someone already made a mod to rebalance consumables and was inspired to do some tinkering myself, so I'll test it out and see if it feels right

[last spire]

ye ik the one u mean

i do wonder if removing healing from bandages removes the ui tooltip as well

i highly doubt it

that premedding medkit would be great in pripyat tho

[unreal glacier]

could always just make them heal like 5 HP or something

so that they still technically "heal"

but not to any significant degree

[last spire]

0.00001

[unreal glacier]

lolll

[last spire]

sooner or later someones gonna make a resource on which game settings can be tweaked and work in an existing save and which ones require a new save

[young temple]

Is that Deabom moe pfp?

[last spire]

quest items require a new save afaik, but only if you remove their quest status, i dont know about quest item weight

[raw crest]

yeah, T-34

[last spire]

and to start, you can modify player and npc base damage and it will work just fine, went from 1.5 to 1.0

[young temple]

Nice

[shrewd rampart]

Heh, part of my career requirements to learn more about it. But I am not sure doing it through Stalker is a good idea so far. Going back to default settings, is actually better than changing it in engine.ini, or I am doing way too much there without knowing the default values they're using. = )

[young temple]

Time to apply to work as dev in Epic to fix Lumen and then leave

[last spire]

"why do you want this job"
"to fix your shitty lighting tech"

[shrewd rampart]

It's more about defaults, and how other devs use them, and lack of good documentation for UE in-general.

Also damn, Stalker 2 saves cache way way way too many things. Like lighting stuff (why?) for e.g had to leave the area and come back just to get the lighting inside to update to new settings then resave again, change settings, and do that again- sighs

[last spire]

you start a new game and thats 32mb of save data

its insane

also id just like to say that i really appreciate stalker 2s prologue being super short and not annoying

[kindred lotus]

what is this

[shrewd rampart]

I had trouble with modding it at first cause of all the cache issues.
Even made a google doc and research about it, luckily managed to resolve it temporarily but I see cache issues everywhere in this game.

[last spire]

makes starting new saves super easy and fast

[topaz cape]

steamdb https://steamdb.info/app/1643320/depots/

[last spire]

inb4 they updated to ue5.5 in a week

[kindred lotus]

ooh interesting

[topaz cape]

also alife 2.0 is living up to its name and the game runs on 144fps on epic

[last spire]

its over

https://tenor.com/view/jover-gif-16964140724042266462

[kindred lotus]

finally, stalker NFTs

[last spire]

limited edition snoop dogg artifact NFT

applies permanent drunk effect

300% max hp

[void owl]

I dont think day time should affect length of weather? Can someone confirm for me if it really does?

[lunar jay]

Damn, I wish there was a mod that adds + one cell for an artifact, that is, you take an artifact in your left hand and shoot with a pistol or UZI in your right + it will illuminate the area

[last spire]

https://tenor.com/view/woody-woody-toy-story-sora-kh3-kh-gif-27223516

with this treasure i summon, BULBA!

[lunar jay]

Ball

[last spire]

ballin

[lunar jay]

I already have 2 of these in my underwear So there is no point in this

[last spire]

yeah but they dont get heavy as u take shots

[floral garden]

my thought is anomaly 'grenades' charge the artifact and have it detonate into its anomaly type :p

[cedar basin]

Anyone with ultimate edition wanna drop some saves

[sand parrot]

I don’t know if it’s linked, but I played in rain forever

[last spire]

might be weather transitions

[void owl]

I think my mod might be bugging at some point, I've had multiple reports of weather's lasting way too long

Latest change I made should further prevent weather's sticking , specifically Rain weather

[floral garden]

if I were to program the game it would absolutely be linked, weather is events based on game time
game time would be 1 IRL minute = 10 minutes originally and I make it 1 IRL minute is 5 that would make the delta for weather events progress at 50% speed, so you would have to change the duration for weather events be half that to compensate.

[void owl]

But I'm still not sure of it's maybe a bug with extremely long lasting day. I play with day length doubled (12h per IRL hour) and I haven't had these issues of extremely long weather's

[void owl]

The in game weather timers are definitely using its own tick time, as far as I know the vanilla weathers lasted from 5 to 12 minutes and it's config values reflected this, not ticking off in game time

[floral garden]

I am playing without any time adjusters for day cycle, but I still have cases where weather can stick around for a looong time, and others it passes by incredibly fast, then again sometimes I open the PDA then close it immediate and the game went from daylight to late evening in one instant. 😉

[void owl]

Are you using my mod? My mod pretty much just messes with weather chances and bigger ranges between mix max depending on regions and so, the changes are not super dramatic

Most of the nicecities of the mod are the expanded transitions between weather

[floral garden]

no, as I mentioned, I do not use mod that adjust times, but generally I would say there are 'issues' with the weather event system and how day cycle progresses

[last spire]

not sure how much it helps, but you can have rainy to rainy, clear to clear, cloudy to cloudy weathers

the only exception is emissions i believe, cant have them back to back

[void owl]

Yes most weather can repeat twice

[last spire]

might be favoring one due to rng or it could be bugged in your save

[floral garden]

got to love those PRNG seed numbers 😄

[void owl]

Emissions are weird, you're guaranteed to have them within 18 weather events of each other. Each time it doesn't get picked it has an increase time to happen until it is forced. But even on vanilla I only saw like 1 emission

[kindred lotus]

fellas, is the mark 1 emr the M14?

[floral garden]

have you progressed the story?

[void owl]

Anyways, if you using my mod, please provide feedback🐱. I unfortunately am only one full time salary man and get like 2 hours max a day to play the game 🙂

[void owl]

Yes. I'm already getting through garbage, cordon, wild island. Doing side quests and stuff

Since my mod I've seen 2-3 more emissions

[summer silo]

Nah.
STALKER 2 UE5.1 is heavily modified and it'll be a miracle to update to 5.5 at all.

Besides, I think I know why they didn't bother

[last spire]

it was a joke, but why

also i think this is skifs pistol

[summer silo]

UE5 tools became increasingly unstable

[last spire]

unstable how

[kindred lotus]

can anyone confirm this pls?

[summer silo]

5.3, 5.4 and 5.5 crash constantly and have ludicrously worse performance than previous versions

On forums people straight up go back to UE4 for game making

[floral garden]

interesting, I've had alot of emissions on my first playthrough, funny thing I found regarding first zone is that you can explore the whole zone an not have an anomaly event, and you can go to the poppy field and pick up the item and the sleep anomaly won't activate ;p

[last spire]

days gone runs well sooooo

[summer silo]

Like yeah, updating to 5.5 could be beneficial for us as the end users.

[void owl]

It's hard to know what bugs are the mods and what is the game

[summer silo]

But imagine the dev side, having to deal with constant crashes and performance issues when developing

[floral garden]

my first playthrough was without mods

[summer silo]

Not to mention making the changes done to 5.1 carry over to 5.5 withouth breaking the entire project

[void owl]

I'm waiting for AI patches before I go vanilla again

It's why I'm trying not to rush the story

[uneven kelp]

please tell me how the Chance line works? The higher the value, the higher the chance of spawning?

using bread as an example
ItemPrototypeSID = Bread
Chance = 0.3
MinCount = 1
MaxCount = 1

[pseudo harness]

just gonna do a second playthrough when A-Life is fixed/added

[floral garden]

that would make the most sense, 30% chance is quite high, which is why you find so much bread

[last spire]

is anyone ingame rn

can someone tell me the value of skifs pistol

[pseudo harness]

7578 fully upgraded

[last spire]

ty

[pseudo harness]

93 % dura

[summer silo]

Did someone actually manage to make Skif's pistol sellable?

[void owl]

Also I'd like to ask if anyone here is using my Veteran to Master Difficulty Rebalance. I know there's a lot of difficulty mods out, but I'd also like to get some feedback on that

[neat thistle]

I have a question : who are these Corpus NPCs?

Can't find info about this faction

Or who that is

[void owl]

I'll eventually place the mod on the #1035807043933720576 forums, once I'm at my home PC

[pseudo harness]

some people dropped it through a bug

[crimson laurel]

no clue

[shrewd rampart]

I tried, just comes back to the same problem. Interiors have Post Process Volumes that override anything we try to do. Works nicely for outside, does not work for the transitions for interiors to exterior though. That'll still happen.

[upbeat latch]

does anyone know where to edit weapon mod costs? it's not with the rest of them in DifficultyPrototypes.cfg

[summer silo]

kek

[shrewd rampart]

mod? Upgrades? UpgradePrototypes.cfg ?

[upbeat latch]

yeah, like scopes and mags

[shrewd rampart]

AttachPrototypes and UpgradePrototypes

[upbeat latch]

thanks

[steel musk]

You can remove its Quest Item status, but it requires a New Game

[shrewd rampart]

Pretty sure you can disable the quest flag on it, that then allows you to sell/drop it

Ah, same train of thought in the same second as Nyamses 🙂

[summer silo]

I wouldn't do that anyway.

[shrewd rampart]

yep

[summer silo]

Skif will just pull it out of his ass during cutscenes anyway

[steel musk]

That pistol is forever in our inventories

[pseudo harness]

they couldve at least added the silencer for cutscenes if you have it

[steel musk]

No wonder they made it so good compared to everything else

[craggy pelican]

would u mind to share it to me? thanks^^

hi, any mod out / or the knowledge on how to edit / extract / read the ingame #Tips, shown during booting time? i like to read them all, but they vanish a way too fast for me 😉 thanks^^ p.s. or just tell me, which .pak file i have to extract...

[slender coral]

Hi!

Is there an argument i can add to a shortcut to launch without shader compile?

[sand parrot]

Says no access

[steel musk]

To the shortcut? No. To the Engine.ini file? Yes, although it's not "compiling" per se, just "warming up"/pre-loading the shaders for better performance, I assume.

[last spire]

Has anyone found out what controls the auto sort feature, the reloading system and the auto leaning mechanics?

[steel musk]

Check the various Engine.ini tweak mods around and Ctrl+F for warmup, you should find the line

[slender coral]

I see
r.PSOWarmup.WarmupMaterials=1
r.PSOWarmup.WarmupMaterials=1
right?

[steel musk]

Correct, change that to 0 and it should skip the initial compile

[slender coral]

Thank you!

[pure tendon]

If any of you modding legends can find the ammo decal on those damn green ammo boxes youll be hailed as a king

[compact furnace]

Same place the medic box decal is in🤡 So sorry, wish I could help you haha, I hate how they look as well

[pure tendon]

wait this went over my head, is ther actually a spot for these decals

i will find this god dammit

[twilit scroll]

can someone make weapon degradation depend more on how rapid the shooting is and not just a fixed value

[steel musk]

That would require a script, similar to how Grok did with GBOOBS

[twilit scroll]

gg

it's joever

[pseudo harness]

what's the current system? Degrades per shot?

[twilit scroll]

yeah

it doesn't matter

[steel musk]

Per shot AND environmental damage as well

[pseudo harness]

doesn't that automatically degrade Full auto guns quicker

[twilit scroll]

no

it makes single shot weapons worse

[pseudo harness]

like stepping in anomalies

[pseudo harness]

true I guess

[twilit scroll]

full auto guns benefit from this system

which I find UNIMMERSIVE

[steel musk]

Full auto guns don't benefit from having lower damage than the Makarov, however

[twilit scroll]

we got a calibre mod for that

[young temple]

To be fair, full auto weapons are made to be able to deal with being fired full auto

Love the videos where they fire the gun untill it breaks.

[topaz cape]

?

[pure tendon]

hm i saw that but didnt seem to see the ammo icon

[topaz cape]

right, it's just an icon, not actual text

[unreal glacier]

is it true that changing that true to false will brick the save

[topaz cape]

or is it? i actually can't remember what the boxes look like

oh wait, that's for the

thingy

small ammo boxes, not the crates

[pure tendon]

yea looks like a flammable icon in ur pic

[foggy hinge]

No, it's a private theme that I only I include in my lists. Unfortunately I don't have plans for making it public.

[topaz cape]

now i'm double confused, this is the small ammo boxes. what the heck is that file up there

[ancient nest]

so where are stalker 2 textures /j

[ancient nest]

looks like a texture atlas

oh the one the person had

looks like calibers?

a decal maybe?

[topaz cape]

it's referenced for the green ammo crate thing, but i've never seen any with one of these on it

[ancient nest]

maybe its the decal on it? or somethign cut?

[true topaz]

Above one is probably just for generic boxes with them slapped on? Like as clutter not something you can break. I dont remember seeing any of them tho

Might be cut as well true

[lusty sail]

I think you want this 🙂

[topaz cape]

wow, look at me paying attention, cheers

[pure tendon]

holy shit that might be it

[lusty sail]

I'm already try to build pak with changed decals to transparent

[pure tendon]

absolutely king man

[lusty sail]

Its soo long

[pure tendon]

well done

[lusty sail]

pakchunk-39.utoc -> Stalker2/Content/_Stalker_2/props/general/gas/Textures/T_int_decals_01_D

[pure tendon]

wonder why they did it that way instead of just the icon on the lid within the texture

[topaz cape]

how the heck did you find that even

[void owl]

I posted this yesterday, but didn't follow the rules so I deleted it lol. I'll post again this evening (EU time )

[lusty sail]

Packages->Search "metalcrate" ->SM_gen_loot_metalcrate_dm.uasset -> ObjectPath click and it show what file used by ObjectPath

I wanted make blue metalcrates like OG from SOC without decals

[topaz cape]

and here i am looking for wood instead of metal

:D

[lusty sail]

Im just looked around clicking on any purple ObjectPath links to find texture with _D ending

And it was successful

57 mins for building pak wtf ue5

[topaz cape]

ah yea, it's here too

i only looked at

good stuff, learned something

[pure tendon]

yea here i am looking and searching for "ammo" no wonder i cant find anything

[lusty sail]

Wanna test no decals mod?

[severe citrus]

How do you instruct S2 to load the mod paks?

[lusty sail]

Here we go!!

[lusty sail]

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

~mods/ folder auto loads it

[severe citrus]

Thank you 😊

[lusty sail]

@pure tendon look at screenshots, it works. 57 mins of packing one texture xD

[severe citrus]

Awesome mod btw. Is it going on Nexus?

[pure tendon]

les goo

[ancient drum]

lools a little cartoonish for some reasone. But i kinda like the idea

[pure tendon]

why so long to pack?

[lusty sail]

Yeah, but if someone could make this metal crates not only spawn meds - it would be awesome

Like OG soc crates, it might be random stuff as ammo, antirads, meds other stuff

[lusty sail]

For immersive I think it would be great, cause big green sign is too casual as for me, so who wants can install that decal remover mod 🙂

[topaz cape]

nice

[ancient drum]

its awesome! Now we need a yellow paint removal mod

[topaz cape]

the shadows make it look cel shaded

stalkerlands 2

[quick heart]

Dunno why but screens look like some telltale game

[severe citrus]

Is that not already in game options? 🤔

[topaz cape]

there's some wooden planks that are still yellow

[severe citrus]

Ahh gotcha

[lusty sail]

Does setting doesn't allow to remove it?

[topaz cape]

the big stash bag has been modded already

[lusty sail]

I turn off and I haven't yellow paint

[lusty sail]

dunno xD

[ancient drum]

wait, there is an option for that?!

[lusty sail]

Ah, I remember, yeah, that wood planks that can be broken

[topaz cape]

ye, those

[topaz cape]

yea, works for ladders at least

[buoyant blaze]

Anybody else run into a constant radiation bug? And no, I don't have any artifacts on me

[eternal plover]

Would it be possible to reupload somewhere? The pinned link expired . Thanks a lot!

[buoyant blaze]

I think I might have to adjust some CFGs just to get rid of that radiation

is passive radiation loss a stat anywhere I can change?

[azure mortar]

never, but just in case, did you try going into a radiation area then getting back out to see if it resets anything

usually bugs like that are fixed this way

[topaz cape]

objprototypes.cfg, line 622

[buoyant blaze]

thanks Ill try both

[buoyant blaze]

you are a bro, that did fix it

nope nvm its back again

back to CFG I go

out of curiosity, how much is a single weak radiation artefact reducing in cfg value?

I think this happened when i installed a artifact rebalancing mod but I havent noticed it for multiple hours because I always had them running

[lusty sail]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/443

Dunno why so long, will try to find out how to reduce that time. Its Blank project, there's no need to build it 1 hour...

[crimson laurel]

first time packing takes a long time the 2nd takes like 1 min

[lusty sail]

Whoah, so second time it will take less time, I hope 😄

What will happend if two texture mods has same chunk id?

[crimson laurel]

no idea, try it out

[cloud lark]

the game will divide by 0 and you will create a black hole

[crimson laurel]

^

[void owl]

Is there any good guides on modifying uasset files? I swear I'm on the verge of fixing the removed weather events from the game to look good enough to re enable then, but I haven't figured out how to cook uasset Files and repack them

[lusty sail]

Does it teleport user to the future where stalker 2 is not bugged and completed as well?

[void owl]

I would even give anyone my modded files for them to try cooking them for me

[cloud lark]

no but it will spaghettify you

[crimson laurel]

you wont be able to change that with uasset files rn

[void owl]

How so? Im seriously curious about it

[raw crest]

You all is there a way to download .obj files of objects in the game

[void owl]

What's the difference between cooking a texture file and a DataAsset file

[crimson laurel]

uasset is just an unreal asset which, u do not ahve access to unless it's images

[coral grail]

Yo, I can't wait for anomaly 2.0, where I can have open world AND join THE FUCKING FACTIONSSSSS

[crimson laurel]

or meshes

[void owl]

I mean I have already unpacked the uasset and dumped it into clear text

Just need to recompile it somehow

But yeah i understand if it's not possible

[crimson laurel]

from my understanding, not possible rn, that uasset is likely a blueprint

and you dont have the raw blueprint file

uasset is just a way for ue to read the blueprint

and other assets

[void owl]

Hmmm okay interesting

[crimson laurel]

but you can probably manipulate the weather on the .pak files

[void owl]

If I'd show you the files I'm talking about, would you be able to figure out if it's really a blueprint? From reading it, I understand it's a DataAsset file from UE, which then references various other files, such like the CloudData, Light Curve, Effects etc.

[raw crest]

What about models

[crimson laurel]

you can try

[raw crest]

Like there is one truck i would like to use for another game as a mod, i would need .obj model

[void owl]

Already did, I'm the author of the (very simple) Dynamic Weather

[crimson laurel]

u can download em

[void owl]

I want to reenable the Light Rain and Thundery weather, and all they are missing are cloud and lighting. I found the files for the working weather's in the uasset and managed to dump and read their characteristics, and just slightly altered them and added their IDs for Light Rainy and Thundery. Now I just need to figure out if it would actually work

[raw crest]

They are not encrypted or anything? Neat

[floral garden]

I honestly would not do that.

[void owl]

https://github.com/Felicheat/STALKER2_Modding/tree/master/zz_DynamicWeatherAssets_P/Stalker2/Content/light/Curves

[crimson laurel]

whys that? but bringing assets from other game u honestly would do that?

[raw crest]

Other modders ripped me apart for suggesting something like that while ago, so i understand not everyone agrees on this. But i personally don't see anything wrong as long as it is not for commercial use

[void owl]

i guess anyone here who would like to take a glance at these files and let me know if its possible to cook them back into uassets, please go ahead :p

[crimson laurel]

they are probably the same modders that rip stuff from tarkov and other games

[cloud lark]

what is it with these people asking for mods that disable anomalies and/or Mutants in Stalker. Like why are you even playing this game in the first place? Go play Stardew Valley or something uuuugh.

[crimson laurel]

for real 😈

[raw crest]

Most stalker mods use guns or animations from other games as far as i can see

[crimson laurel]

i will use placeholder from other games until i make my own that feels original to the game

[floral garden]

wow what a leap in logic put in place there.

[crimson laurel]

leap?

[raw crest]

I wish i could as well, but making a big ass truck with complex suspensions etc takes so much time with little to none prior experience 😭

[crimson laurel]

i mean if youre doing a driving mod, then taking it from this game wont be ur best option, probably

[raw crest]

Not to mention all paid software for creating textures and stuff

[floral garden]

I say I would not personally copy/rip assets to use as a mod in another game, you then make the presumption that I think it is okay to rip other games assets to put into Stalker2.

[crimson laurel]

whatever floats your boat, i accept it

but without ripping assets from a game instead of probably taking 1 month would take 6 months

[floral garden]

there are plenty of creative commons assets, animations and guns

[crimson laurel]

plenty is a plenty stretch

[raw crest]

Most quality models are paid

Unless you rip them too with easy extensions, which actually feels wrong instead of taking them from another game

[floral garden]

I am just stating my opinion, it is fine to have difference of opinion, but yiun decided that because i said I would not do so, somehow that meant it was okay the other way around, which I did not state.

[crimson laurel]

am certainly against stealing assets from people that are selling them, but from existent games, ion mind as long as it's a placeholder or you can't or don't have funds/time to do it

[crimson laurel]

am sorry

[lusty sail]

For me is interesting, what does we need to do in your opinion? Buy it to use non commercial? Or be kind person who always do law-correct things with game assets? Just asking, no argue 🙂

[floral garden]

I didn't say what you can't and cannot do :/ this started with me saying my opinion on it. 🙂

[lusty sail]

As I remember since 2007 when stalker modding was born, no one cares about all this things. Or maybe I not know too deep about that stuff

[crimson laurel]

theres some people that do personal work and they give u the model if u ask kindly, but as i said, some (very few), you still have to work and do animations and other stuff

[lusty sail]

Understood

[rustic granite]

hi, anyone have any idea why bushed and tree's have a gray discoloration to them, but as soon as i get near they turn normal ?

[crimson laurel]

most modding in any games are taken from other games, few are made purposefully for the game

[lusty sail]

Got it

[crimson laurel]

it's likely a bug when changing lods, it either borks the RMA or the diffuse is gone

[rustic granite]

so anyway to fix this

[crimson laurel]

no

[rustic granite]

i already uninstalled the game too

[crimson laurel]

theres a way to fix, wait for sdk or wait for hotfixes if it bothers u so much

[rustic granite]

cuz it's kinda shitty. i've been trying to fix this for quite some time now.

mhmm

alright

[raw crest]

Everyone of them or just few?

[rustic granite]

a lot

[crimson laurel]

and report it to gsc

[rustic granite]

everytime i get near bushes or some trees (not all of em, but quite a few) they turn normal

[raw crest]

Screenshot to see it would be nice

[lusty sail]

Looks like LOD stuff

[crimson laurel]

it could also be your computer that doesnt load the lods fast enough

[barren timber]

Could mods be released for Stalker 2 to change the game interface on a large scale in the next month? for example, in the previous parts of the series you could see pictures of deceased NPCs in their inventories where it was still clear what faction they belonged to and I would like to see something similar in Stalker 2 because it has a positive effect on immersion and creates the impression that the NPCs really live in the world games.

[crimson laurel]

i also have that

[crimson laurel]

that aint got nothing to do with game interface

[lusty sail]

We still haven't instruments for deep modding for now

Only textures, configs, models (?)

[crimson laurel]

are you talking about faction patches tho, what pictures of deceased npcs

[spring coral]

How to change Weapon Viewmodel FOV

Solution 1:
"Flawless Widescreen" software (search it on Google). It's legit, free and awesome.
Don't be fooled by the name, it doesn't require to have Ultrawide screen setup.
I use it since FarCry 3 to change viewmodel FOV for games which don't allow it.

Solution 2:
"STALKER2Tweak" (search it on Google). Similar solution but use ASI/dll file.

[crimson laurel]

oh that at the top, maybe we can have that once sdk comes out, until then its unlikely

but someone working on making the npcs drop their faction patch

[compact furnace]

Does this work for non ultra wide users?

[chrome ferry]

you guys are hopefully the ones to ask, but is it possible to make bloodsuckers spawn less and make room for boars to spawn instead? or is that buried deep in A-life files we have no access to yet?

[spring coral]

Absolutely (I don't have ultrawide screen)

[crimson laurel]

you want a boar to spawn underground?

[chrome ferry]

no i want to see other mutants than bloodsuckers in general. ive seen 3 boars in 40 hours of play and 50 bloodsuckers

guess i should have worded it differently 😅

[crimson laurel]

i havent seen many bloodsuckers myself

unless its dark outside or am in a cave

or lab

[slow sky]

ive seen them everywhere

[compact furnace]

In Stalker2Tweak, do you know if setting the Viewmodel FOV closer to 0.10 or 2 makes it further away from the gun?

[slow sky]

random villages i visit in packs of 2, 3 are spawned when you open a stash (that i found so far), overall a looot of bloodsuckers. The fear of them is kinda weak in this one simple because you encounter them constantly

[crimson laurel]

the only problem i have with mutants specially bloodsuckers is they tank 10 shotgun shells to the face, i didnt add the mod cus i think it will conflict

[spring coral]

I didn't use that solution, but it seems legit. It's on Github & nexusmods too

[chrome ferry]

just encountered 3 around yaniv outside. and 2 around garbage. they are everywhere in my game, but ive got a couple of mods installed , one affecting alife spawn radius

[slow sky]

just drop the armor of bloodsuckers from 3 down to 2 yourself. around 4 saiga shells kills one for me then

[compact furnace]

Yeah Im just wondering because in the Ini file it says that a number between 0.10 and 2 is possible for the FOV but it does not disclaim which one makes the FOV closer or further away

[spring coral]

Try it, you'll get your answer

[chrome ferry]

was just wondering if its possible to force the game to choose other mutants from the spawnpool or if i have to wait for the modding tools

or atleast diversify spawns somewhat

[compact furnace]

Does not seem to work at all for me, atleast the "skip splashscreen option" I set it to true but its still showing

[spring coral]

Try flawless widescreen, it works for me

[compact furnace]

Aight

[crimson belfry]

The higher the number, the further away the gun is

Doesn't seem to work for detectors

[desert hollow]

@drifting tapir i cannot access our thread

[drifting tapir]

Wot

[glass cave]

Can someone please make a mod which plays that woman voice everytime I start the game? 😀 just first 3 senteces

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/s/250mBiJpSV

[slow sky]

maybe try editing ALifeDirectorScenarioPrototypes.cfg

I dont think you can remove scripted spawns yet, like a bloodsucker spawning when you loot a specific stash

but you could try some things, like under "FallbackNPCTypes" you could remove the Bloodsucker entry. from the name it sounds like FallbackNPCTypes will spawn one of its types of monster after some requirements have not been met. removing Bloodsucker from that might work, even if a bit.

Also there seem to be events with "ScenarioWeight" variable assigned to them, you could lower the number there under bloodsuckers

this is just me going through the .cfg really quickly and giving ideas, idk if any of it will work

[void owl]

So no way to cook the files I provided before?? 😦

Im so sad, I just want nicer and additional weather in the game 😦

[cloud lark]

i wish there was something like super emission that lasted 3 times as long and spawned all kinds of mutants even near settlements rattling at the boarded up windows and doors leading to the safezones. all the while lights cutting in and out and massive lightningstorms creating horrific nightmare fuel in shadows.

[slow sky]

i just want zalissya to not bug out and die

[bright sage]

does anyone know what "Armor_Strike_Add" does in DifficultyPrototypes.cfg?

[void owl]

Either add more bullet resistance to amor or increase bullet penetration

Most probably the former

[bright sage]

that was my assumption as well. I guess I set it to something stupid high and see if I notice a difference

[chrome ferry]

yea not trying to change scripted spawns but after reading a bit it seems like connerria had the answers i was seeking. mutants are "zone" dependent. cranking up spawns spams bloodsuckers in LZ. poltergeists in zaton, so far and so fourth. ill just have to join his test team and see whats up 🙂

[lunar jay]

People, I want to install 10+ mods on stalker and start a new game, is it worth doing? After all, a new patch will be released very soon and it could theoretically break my game and mods?

[rustic granite]

rtx 3060 i5 13600k, got a decent ish pc. i would have understood it if i was on a non rtx card or the earlier rtx cards

[cloud lark]

highly doubt any mods will break

[lunar jay]

Why?

[merry mountain]

why should they

the game wont change in any meaningfull way

it will still be the same game

they wont change the entire filestructure or whatever

thats not feasible for a patch

[lunar jay]

Thank you

[rustic granite]

would this help

[rustic granite]

as you can see @raw crest all the grey/white decoloration on tree's/bushes

[merry mountain]

do you use an edited engine ini?

if so, thats the cause for 99.999% of issues like that

[rustic granite]

this is my problem. but stil yet to test and enigine.ini that i got have merged with what qmqz gave me

[rustic granite]

uesed it on vanilla engine too, and have this. but when i first started playing. nver had this issues

that's my problem

[merry mountain]

what do you mean, "used it on vanilla engine"

[rustic granite]

this is what i'm currently goign to test soon to see if it works

[rustic granite]

default S2 engine

i tested it on the vanilla engine of the game the defualt one, had same problems. and multiple other engines,tweaks etc. and i have mates that has the almost exact same hardware as me. and they don't have this problem, even a guy on discord here has a 3070 and he doesn't have these shitty LOD's. so either something is fucked somewhere or UE5 is ass or GSC isn't doing their job, no offence to them or the game but that's the conclusion i have

[merry mountain]

you mean you changed default engine iini and since then you have problems

thats why you should not touch stuff you dont understand

[rustic granite]

no, so on the default engine i have these problems too, with an edidted one aswell, but when i fisrt started playing. like easily the first 15-20hrs i had non of these problems

only started happening what like 2-3 days ago

[merry mountain]

by default there is no Engine ini in the Config\Windows dir

[rustic granite]

and yes, i already verifies/repaired game and re-installed with all default vanilla settings etc

there is for pc game pass

everytime you load the game as new, it creates one, well for me it does

[slow sky]

Anyone knows a way to read coordinates for the teleport function of UETools?

[rustic granite]

even if i delete it and start a game it creates one

for me atleast

[merry mountain]

"showdebug" console command

[rustic granite]

but also fiddle there was a utube video/or reddit i think where a guy said there is major bugs/texture shit starting to happen in-game as soon as you get the mission where you have to go to clear-sky. and that is where i am in the game now...but dunno if that's at all true

[slow sky]

so I have to be in a place to read the coordinates, cant find out coordinates of a place without being there first and noting them down?

[merry mountain]

if its a bug within the game, nothing you can do except waiting for patch

[raw crest]

Ugh i think I'm blind because I just think they are affected by "far" filter

[rustic granite]

yeah idk bro.

[raw crest]

Or whatever they call it

Atmospheric fog

[rustic granite]

those bushes are easily like 10-15m away though

could be that, haven't tried such a line yet

as to my knowledge

[raw crest]

Ok now i see

I was looking at distance trees

[rustic granite]

ye, the distant trees have the same problem as with the bushes, and not even the far distant trees, 15m trees away too

[merry mountain]

yes

[raw crest]

So it started appearing after tweaking engine.ini?

[rustic granite]

i'm pretty sure i narrowed it down that it has to do something with either shadows/possibly lumen idk,LOD for sure, or fog

[rustic granite]

1

[charred mural]

might be a dumb question but i wanna make some changes to a mod, how do i edit the pak file?

[rustic granite]

read the replied message 1

[raw crest]

Check out mod making resources channel

[rustic granite]

so it's one of these issues or all 4, but don't think lumen can cause this

my theory

[raw crest]

Maybe you should try clearing shader cache

Since it was happening on vanilla game as well

[rustic granite]

how the shit do you do that, my game compiles shaders on each launch

but this could work

[raw crest]

Let me find the location of files

[rustic granite]

pc game pass version btw dec

[raw crest]

It is folder somewhere you need to delete

[rustic granite]

ok i'll also look around

[raw crest]

Doesn't matter since you will be deleting all csche

For other games as well

[rustic granite]

ooh, thought it stalker 2's personal shader cache

[merry mountain]

Intro;V(X=340931.38, Y=666722.19, Z=409.60);R(0)
Start_02;V(X=367538.00, Y=595014.00, Z=212.17);R(0)
OldBridge_Hut;V(X=362269.19, Y=589130.19, Z=750.27);R(0)
Zalissya;V(X=401922.22, Y=549398.50, Z=698.31);R(0)
SW_Church;V(X=761943.12, Y=712179.81, Z=2849.92);R(0)
SW_EastTower;V(X=743126.25, Y=764860.44, Z=1989.11);R(0)
SW_FishingFarm;V(X=767872.62, Y=732877.50, Z=1384.00);R(0)
SW_Pumping;V(X=743319.88, Y=736860.38, Z=1887.85);R(0)
SW_ClearSky;V(X=783729.06, Y=756685.00, Z=1621.93);R(0)
SW_BurntFarm;V(X=737051.75, Y=709953.06, Z=1781.97);R(0)
SW_NorthTower;V(X=761805.69, Y=726109.50, Z=1428.26);R(0)
ART_MUSEUM;V(X=1007865.62, Y=36386.11, Z=61790.83);R(Y=348.64)
Rostok;V(X=317827.750000,Y=415159.250000,Z=702.566772);R(0) 

[raw crest]

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\NVIDIA\PerDriverVersion\DXCache

Delete whatever is inside of this

[merry mountain]

Also if you mess with graphic and shader settings make sure to enable shader compile on start if you disabled that, or you will get all sorts of weird effects

[rustic granite]

810 items

[rustic granite]

it is enabled

this a problem Dec ?

[rustic granite]

82 files remaining

[sharp meteor]

Mate, this works!

[rustic granite]

this for the interior lighting ?

[sharp meteor]

Yes

[rustic granite]

and ?

are you not being flashbanged when entering a room/buildings anymore ?

or exiting them

[sharp meteor]

Still a bit, but at least you can see in the interior on a sunny day

[rustic granite]

mhmm, maybe he improves it. but glad it works.

[rustic granite]

you said this could be affected by Far filter, what's the lines for this

guesing it's the fog lines ?

wanna test with that aswell too see if it fucks off

[raw crest]

At first i didn't see black white bushes and i thought you mean normal trees at the background

[rustic granite]

no, the far trees and bushes also have this fucked white/grey decoloration

[raw crest]

If Stalker is open close it and delete, if not just skip this one since this is not related to Stalker

[rustic granite]

alright, it's done

[red urchin]

yooo, this guy just made the flashlight shadows mod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag4t12-ICiw

[rustic granite]

40 files left over from the 810 that was in there originally

[red urchin]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/447?tab=videos

[raw crest]

That's alot of shader cache

[summer silo]

Wait its just a cvar? lmao

[raw crest]

@rustic granite dont forget to do this

[pearl sentinel]

He didnt

[rustic granite]

no my shader compiler is on

[raw crest]

Alr

[rustic granite]

for a second i thought this was CS because of the usp

[red urchin]

wdym

[rustic granite]

anything else

[topaz cape]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/221?tab=posts this mod does it already

[rustic granite]

ooh the distant fog lines, well the fog lines, you know wherei can get them or you have em nearby. wanna see if the fog could be causing issues too

[raw crest]

Some people say the way shadows casted looks off, almost floating in the air but i cannot see it

[red urchin]

oh

i see

[topaz cape]

they are 100% floating in the air

most noticable on roadsigns

[rustic granite]

you can see the float on this one, the Railing, it doesn't cast onto the background, it just sits there

[raw crest]

I think it would be better if you get rid of modded engine.ini file first

[red urchin]

better than nothing I guess

[rustic granite]

currently it's back to default

[raw crest]

You mean you deleted file, because by default there isn't one

Just drag it and drop it to desktop

[raw crest]

Is there a video of it

[rustic granite]

for me there is

[topaz cape]

i can make you a screenshot, i get the feeling it just crashes if i try to record

[rustic granite]

everytime you install the game there is one, or if you run the game it creates one

[lunar tapir]

anyone think its possible to have an icon show up for friendly npc with reticles disabled? so like, if it would turn green, enable custom hud element icon

[raw crest]

Are you sure? When i dropped engine.ini there wasn't one there after running it few times

[lunar tapir]

or like have it enabled but transparent until green

[rustic granite]

pc game pass does it

for me at least

everytime i run the game after i close it there's an engine.ini

or when you install

deleted it at 18:51 and launched the game and exited it and it made a new one

[raw crest]

it might be possible, i saw someone enabling id for npcs that shows on top of them as hud element here

[barren timber]

I have a problem with the compatibility of a mod to reduce the cost of repairs (https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/77?tab=files - Friendly Factions only 20% version) and a mod to change the speed of time (https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/47?tab=files - x4 times version). can I fix this if I haven't encountered any modding?

[raw crest]

alright, so did you compile shaders after deleting them yet

[rustic granite]

yup

[compact furnace]

The even longer days mod also does not work for me, also have 25% reduced repair cost, no idea how those two even clash

[rustic granite]

going to launch now and check @raw crest

[cloud lark]

because they edit the same file

merge the mods

[barren timber]

The interesting thing is that if you download and install the regular version of the mod to reduce the cost of repairs instead of friendly factions, then everything works.

[rustic granite]

will ask my bro to laucn hthe game and just take pictures, not currently at my pc at this moment

[wraith saddle]

thank you its working best now

[vital coyote]

thank god, all i have seen is people making the game easier

ngl if you do the side stuff you kinda over level, im on hard and the game feels hella easy

[rustic granite]

@raw crest

[steel musk]

It's less about damage done and more about Penetration/Armor values. They can 3-shot you if naked, but with a Phys Protection 2 suit, Penetration 1 guns barely do damage

[spring coral]

SVD instead of Saiga D-12 Model Swap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkKLRAYcp8Q

[raw crest]

ugh i have no idea anymore, i hope others here can help you

[cloud lark]

why?

[raw crest]

poor svd

[vital coyote]

yeah im playing pretty much venella and aslong as you use the games systems there is no need to nerf everything imo

[spring coral]

We can now use SVD with ironsight using slugs! 😂

[vital coyote]

besides mutants

[merry mountain]

not atm, later it will be possible probably

[raw crest]

where are models are located?

[rustic granite]

yeah, it's all good, been through a lot of people tryna help me fix this issue but at this point i'm also just over it. i don't know anymore. i alone sat with engine.ini and uses so many variables trying to figure it out but no sucess. so if anyone else has an idea they can @ me, otherwise yeah will wait till gsc decides to help me 😄

[vital coyote]

shits just annoying

[steel musk]

Yeah, you meet Strike Resist 2/3 mutants from the getgo, like Bloodsuckers. Your guns do shit damage

Why they gave mutants armor is beyond me

[raw crest]

lod and nanite would be usualy suspects