╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[spring coral]

Poor scope zoomer coomers cannot understand the chad Iron Sight enjoyer

[steel musk]

Or just create different mutant tiers, so further away you go from Lesser Zone, the more armor mutants have

[vital coyote]

agree^

[rustic granite]

as in the lines in engine ?

[raw crest]

no like settings that affects such things

[rustic granite]

ooh

[spring coral]

The model itself? /Game/_Stalker_2/weapons/sniper_riffle/sr_svd/AnimMesh/SM_wpn_svd_SM_offset.SM_wpn_svd_SM_offset

[lunar tapir]

theres no way to change the texture it loads to something else in a different position, and then change the cfg to have it alpha until it would go green naturally? seems like its within the scope of current mods. This would not allow crosshair at same time as it it hijacks it, but this mod would be for people who dont want a crosshair in the middle anyhow so its a decent compromise

[rustic granite]

well for what it's worth all my in-game settings are medium except foliage and environmentl is high and epic, and using fsr frame gen with dlss quality

and yes i already tried on different upscaling methods

[crimson laurel]

maybe in 1h

or 30mins

they merge the release candidate to public

[nimble tiger]

pleasebegood

[raw crest]

is that the full location

[spring coral]

check it out

[cloud lark]

cool, when freeroam, when Co-Op, when Faction Stats, when Stalker rankings, when when...

[spring coral]

Sorry that was the path in the cfg files. In paks, it's Stalker2/Content/_Stalker_2/weapons/sniper_riffle/sr_svd/AnimMesh/SM_wpn_svd_SM_offset.uasset

[barren timber]

What do you think will happen if I try to combine these mods?

[raw crest]

hey man i will send you DM about something

[cloud lark]

https://tenor.com/view/smg4-mario-black-hole-sucked-into-black-hole-supermarioglitchy4-gif-26442379

[topaz cape]

everything will explode, use https://github.com/Zweite93/Stalker2PakCfgMergeTool instead

[mental tusk]

Is it possible yet to edit the stats of upgrades at technicians yet? I want to be able to increase carrying capacity in a way where you actually have to work for it and do it again with new armor. Feels less cheaty than just increased carrying capacity overall.

[barren timber]

I've only seen a mod that changes the properties of artifacts

[merry mountain]

thats not how you combine mods

[cloud lark]

the best way in my eyes to combine / Merge mods is to unpak them both open the conflicting files in Notepad++ and manualy merge the values you want and then repak

[merry mountain]

you cannot change position of UI elements atm

[slate orchid]

Fuck yes..

[rare ruin]

to anyone that uses my "Exoskeletons Allow Running" mod:

[vital coyote]

dose yours look like this too? sometimes i feel fmodle gets wierd

[rare ruin]

looks like an LOD problem

[barren timber]

For some reason I can't set the path to the game. The instructions say that you need to set the path in the run.bat file, but when I run this file, the command line tells me that I must set the path.

[rare ruin]

i know nothing about modeling though

[vital coyote]

ahh gotcha gotcha yeah all these tools are new to me

[rare ruin]

right click the .bat file, and open it in notepad, or notepad++

then change the text that says replace_me :) with the path to your game.

[rare ruin]

yeah from what I can see it looks like it's loading in the low poly model meant for LOD from far away

[raw crest]

how do you find these files in fmodel easily, you open each pak one by one? 😭

[topaz cape]

you can load all paks at once

[topaz cape]

this is what it looks like for me

adjust the path for you obviously

[rare ruin]

click where it says multiple, change it to all, then click load

[barren timber]

Yes, I already figured it out thanks to your hint, thanks

[rare ruin]

you can also ctrl+shift+f to open a search window

[neat thistle]

So how do I use S2HOC_LocEditor? I located localization files, what's next?

[vital coyote]

ohh hell no been looking for guns for a while, their file structure is soo wierd and all over the place

just saw someone else post it

[rare ruin]

you must drag the exe onto command prompt, then type -to-json and then drag the "ubulk" onto command prompt

[vital coyote]

ohh yeah and yeah you have to load all the packs

for the guns @raw crest

[raw crest]

ok i found this but.. how do you view them?

[tight herald]

Any advice on extracting .utoc, .ucas, and .pak files with ZenTools?
I've tried several methods, but I always encounter the same issue: it opens the containers but doesn't extract anything, or it only produces a PackageStoreManifest.json (which is empty) and a ScriptObjects.bin. HELP!

[vital coyote]

ohh depending on the file just double click

test it on the stuf Animmesh

[vital coyote]

you dont even get a line of code?

like that?

just blank on the right?

[raw crest]

yes, it says failed on the bottom

[vital coyote]

make sure your on the right version of ue5

[rare ruin]

okay so

ue5_1

[raw crest]

it is not 5.1?

[rare ruin]

AND

you're missing the usmappings file

[neat thistle]

Damn. It's not working for me somehow...

[rare ruin]

so click settings, enable "local mapping file" and then point to where you install that usmap file

[raw crest]

sorry for newbie question but where do i use this file

[vital coyote]

no your good man

[raw crest]

ok let me see

[rare ruin]

my bad, was typing it out lol.

[rare ruin]

let me see if I can re-open it

[barren timber]

wow they are already adding new content to stalker 2. a start has been made https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/445

[vital coyote]

https://rentry.org/TravesS2moddingBible#your-aes-key

i have pictures lol

still a wip but gets you set up with fmodel

[raw crest]

ok i managed to view them

[rare ruin]

i shelved this project a few days ago

[raw crest]

they look like cube

[vital coyote]

yeah thats "normal"

the mutant ones look goofy

some dont but it depends on the file, im still learning so idk what the diffrences are yet

[raw crest]

ok i need to open meshes, but why they look low quality

similar to svd you sent

[vital coyote]

can try to extract them and put them into another program. ive always assumed fmodel just has a slimmed down little vewer

also may not be totaly compatable with the s2 stuff but this is just speculation

[raw crest]

i think all vehicle models are missing

[merry mountain]

cig confirmed

[raw crest]

there was a truck that had broken wheels that i want to see in Icarus base

they stole our binoculars

[vital coyote]

s2's stuff seams all over the palce the thing your looking for may be in a totaly diff place

there are reffreces to the guns alone in like 5 other places

could alwayys run a search aswell ctrl+shift+f after all the pak's are loaded\

[raw crest]

it is cool to see they are using old game objects from triology lol

[crimson laurel]

they aren't all over the place

[raw crest]

this is the old bunker door right?

[raw crest]

I couldn't find meshes for them. I think they might be hidden somewhere intentionally

[vital coyote]

or its like in the map data

and it just calls for the textures and stuff

still have some tutorials and stuff to watch but i installed unreal engine, gunna fuck with some stuff soon

im a noob so take what i say with a grain of salt lol. but i went into free cam and went away from my body pretty far to test load stuff. and some cars and trucks didnt despawn like trees bushes and items

[bold vapor]

what is moddability of unpackable files vs COP's ltx/script files? Same, less, more?

[vital coyote]

they went low poly like the rest of the terrain geometry

[rare ruin]

looks like it

[vital coyote]

well ltx is like a script extender type deal if i have it right. would need mod tools to have extra funtionality like that

[raw crest]

I'm kinda salty i cant find vehicle meshes

They are so high quality for not being used for anything

[cloud lark]

please don't add vehicles to stalker...

[raw crest]

I was checking them throughly and seems like every part of them are modeled, even suspension springs and small bolts that hold them

[velvet hare]

Yo guys so i made a small mod with UE5.5, now when i try to cook/package it UE5.5 shows me that it cooks over 500 files, wich is wrong, how can i select to only cook my mod files? im new to this 😄

[rare ruin]

it has to be 5.1.1 first off

and also

you should be creating a project named Stalker2 with no template, just a default blank space

[bold vapor]

im just asking what is relative moddability rn of S2 vs cop at launch? is it same?

[vital coyote]

no

[rare ruin]

S2 is heavily limited

[vital coyote]

we are all brute forcing shit, mod tools give you extra ways to modify things, we dont have the tools yet

[raw crest]

they only have stuff like this

[vital coyote]

looks like a dirt donut

[merry mountain]

hype hype

[rare ruin]

🤨

[velvet hare]

Ok the mod is nothing much, it auto load console command for simple mod loader, so ican rebuild it in 5.1.1 thats no problem

So remove UE5.5 install 5.1.1
create new blank project named Stalker2 (remove Starter folder)
rebuild the mod
?

What about the Visual Studio version for the SDK? it warned me 2022 was not the recommended version

[rare ruin]

yes pretty much, also. I do not have experience with VS

[rare ruin]

🤨 what are those

[cobalt hamlet]

hey , what's this, yes ?

[rare ruin]

this is funny to me

[velvet hare]

UE told me to install VS for the SDK

[rare ruin]

they called this thing Kvass

[merry mountain]

the last large one, 25GB mod for xbox
from modio
for some game with radiation and anomalys

[crimson laurel]

thats because those models dont actually use baked materials, they are made with shaders

[rare ruin]

Kvass to my knowledge is just a kind of fermented drink, I COULD BE WRONG THOUGH

[rare ruin]

oh XSX is Xbox Series X

[raw crest]

at least if they had truck with grass materials...

instead of random tires

[crimson laurel]

they do have

but the are all separated part by part

they*

[raw crest]

I only have found materials so far, where are they located?

[crimson laurel]

they are there because ive spawned them in to make hoods and trunks as loot containers

[rare ruin]

does this mean, this tanker has Kvass in it in the lore?

[raw crest]

unless im blind, i cant seem to locate them

[crimson laurel]

well maybe if u go back instead of being in the textures folder u might find

[rare ruin]

trust i'm looking too

i don't see them

[merry mountain]

debug cat mod is best mod, it contains CoolConfig.cfg

Tratata
Bla-bla-bla
Ultrapowerful configs here

[raw crest]

it is only textures and materials

no meshes

[crimson laurel]

Stalker2/Content/_Stalker_2/vehicle/land/SM_veh_niva2121_hatch_01.uasset

[rare ruin]

literally what the fuck is this cfg 😭

[crimson laurel]

thank me later

[merry mountain]

its just a test upload to test the modio mod browser

some of the mods contain real assets tho

the large 25gb xbox one for example

and also some smaller ones

13 Mods in total

[rare ruin]

oohhhhh I see

[raw crest]

@rare ruin where is this man

[rare ruin]

oh bruh

its

click the "land" folder

then click packages

i forgot fmodel is very annoying with that

[raw crest]

AH WHAT THE HELL WHY THEY ARE IN PIECES

[rare ruin]

that's common^

[crimson laurel]

because they are likely randomly generated

because theres 2 parts of each

or most

[rare ruin]

not too sure on that

[merry mountain]

sadly nothing really interesting, they all just contain textures and materials

[crimson laurel]

one newer and one is more borken

broken*

[rare ruin]

in rookie village there is a car where there is a car in the older games on the road

the same one I used in Gamma to stay hidden from Fleshes 💀

[crimson laurel]

idk, they do use generators to build npcs so

[raw crest]

I will need to combine them part by part like lego ugh

[rare ruin]

that is true

[crimson laurel]

prob much easier to build cars than npcs

generaveltely

[mint wraith]

lol that nobody has automated this. days ago some dude was like "simple, chatGPT could do it" lmao.

[velvet hare]

How can i install a previous verion of UE? Epic only shows me the option to reinstall 5.5?

[merry mountain]

there are already multiple tools that do this

and it in fact is so simple that chatgpt can write the code for it

its not hard to do

[rare ruin]

alternatively use WinMerge

[velvet hare]

@merry mountain you seem experienced, could you help me? 😛

[mint wraith]

link reqd

if there's tools why are we still doing this song and dance

[vital coyote]

ohhh you can do it from epic

[merry mountain]

#1310813942989459517 message
this for example

[rare ruin]

the fuck

[merry mountain]

keep in mind, merging mods automatically without knowing what you do can lead to unexpected behavior and crashes

[mint wraith]

thanks, good to see theres a tool

[cloud lark]

is there ways to automate it sure but i like to check every value manually to make sure i get what i want

[velvet hare]

Thx mate!

[ocean cedar]

I do manual since its easier to keep what i want and see exactly waht they did.

[vital coyote]

can even have multipal versions of ue5 installed

[vital coyote]

also do this

[cloud lark]

thats way i am to blame not some software

[merry mountain]

you can also check for conflicts using this for example
#1310332125597401169 message

[vital coyote]

select options

unless you plan on making s2 for ios you can save some space

[velvet hare]

ahh yeah good tip thx 🙂

[vital coyote]

nw, 🙂 been watching some tutorials,

[velvet hare]

First try making mods for me 😄

[vital coyote]

same'sh i made a few for anomaly but that was just changing textures / ui and tweeking some scripts. gunna try to make some actual mods since having ue5 knowlege seams to be alot more useful

but a fuck tone more complicated

[mild gorge]

anybody see this before?

[nimble tiger]

Artifacts like that are a possibility that your GPU might dieing, probably not tho , more like a game bug

[rare ruin]

it uhhhh looks like Stalker 2 was originally going to have physical money?

[ocean cedar]

we were supposed to get alot thing like NOD's

So much cut cotent it hurts.

[merry mountain]

Physical money is for plebs, real stalker pay with coupons

[cloud lark]

i pay in Compass Artefacts.

[lusty sail]

Tried to replace some sort of DataTable with similar parameters names from FModel... But it seems doesn't work, I looked for flashlight and found some sort of presets for the light sources dunno...

[ocean cedar]

Would've been funny to find cursed bread artifacts,

[merry mountain]

i pay using blood from my enemies, just extract it using the blood extractor and sell it to the scientists at yantar

the scientiist may be a little bit bald tho, and he may posses psy abilites

[bold vapor]

zone should be barter system base money is bullet casings

[cloud lark]

https://tenor.com/view/bloodsucker-stalker-soc-gif-1857946332790238330

[ocean cedar]

Also cant wait till folks can add stuff like snail mags to the pm

[velvet hare]

you trying to modify the flashlight?

[merry mountain]

bottlecaps only real currency

[lusty sail]

Yep

[velvet hare]

there is a mod for that allready, im trying to make an addition for it

[lusty sail]

Isn't this a console mod?

[cloud lark]

Can we have the Batsymbol as Flashlight? I feel like thats a Mod that needs to be uploaded to Nexus asap

[merry mountain]

yes its xbox only

[velvet hare]

yes it is, im trying to make the console autoload settings on startup since you cant save presets on GP version

[velvet hare]

? no xD

[merry mountain]

he doesnt get it

[lusty sail]

Dude like to play with words I like it

[velvet hare]

console mod as in you use the console to control it ...

phh

lol

xD

[lusty sail]

XD

[nimble tiger]

Quick question, is it save now to use some ai mods like extended, or daytime length tweaks?

Few days ago I removed them cause there was a discussion about some quest secondary quest givers won't spawn, or something like that

[rare ruin]

i seem to have no issues with it so far

[velvet hare]

so youre trying to make a GUI for it?

[lusty sail]

No, I try to make it like pak mod without console commands etc. Just trying to figure out how it all works with other resources than textures etc.

[nimble tiger]

Me neither then, but then I was confused like maybe there was something but I couldn't see it because of that stuff.

And since I didn't see it I wouldn't even know something is borked😂

[merry mountain]

i mean, stuff will also break without these mods, especially later in the story

npcs just wont appear, or get stuck somewhere, doors wont open etc

[rare ruin]

what you don't know can't hurt you

LMAO

[nimble tiger]

Yea that's what I'm aware , glad Im only at garbage region and taking my time until patch

[vital coyote]

do you have an overclock running?

[merry mountain]

im also only at garbage or rostok, mainly because when i "play" i restart the game like every 2 minutes to test stuff 😄

[nimble tiger]

Fair enough, gonna enable the ai at least again, I'm tired of reckless spawns right behind me

[nimble tiger]

Sounds like my never finished Skyrim runs

[willow hornet]

Did we manage to mod weapon damage?

[vital coyote]

think there are a few on nexus

grock's balenc thing dose too i think

[willow hornet]

From what I saw editing these values did not change anything

I could be very wrong tho

[merry mountain]

at least the game starts ultra fast if you disable shader compile and the startup videos, if you ignore the epilesy warning its just a few seconds to main menu on NVME SSD.
And loading is also very fast

[nimble tiger]

Im using maklans overhaul and it looks like it works, at least the tooltip values have changed

[ocean cedar]

your difficulty also affects weapon dmg btw.

[nimble tiger]

Tru tho, load times are not really an issue

[wild ridge]

Has anyone figured out how to create new tabs in pda?

[lusty sail]

DUUDE XD I changed curves

[willow hornet]

Interesting

[vital coyote]

pretty sure you would need mod tools for new tabs lol

[willow hornet]

Is that the flashlight?

[lusty sail]

But when you look at objects closer to you - flashlight became normal

When far - it become with my values of curve

[winged hemlock]

[rare ruin]

what is pustshka

or i guess the sounded out spelling would poostshka

[winged hemlock]

dummy battery

[rare ruin]

Ah

[winged hemlock]

or just dummy

Not my mod, from russian site

Maybe author will post it on Nexus

[wild ridge]

Sorry for offtop
В войс пойдешь?

[winged hemlock]

нееее, у меня немецкий

занятие

[wild ridge]

А, пон. Хотел спросить, разобрался ли в возможности прописывать кастомные эффекты использования предметам. Пытаюсь сделать телепорт(

[nimble tiger]

Yeah it was directly noticeable at least in the UI, since skifs makarov is not stronger then some weapons anymore

[willow hornet]

I se some people have already started making new items, that's nice

[wild ridge]

Translation for chat: I wanted to ask if I figured out the possibility of writing custom effects for using objects. I'm trying to make a teleport(

[nimble tiger]

Or some smgs are stronger then 556, or upwards ammunition weapons 😂

[little sluice]

I'm trying to replace a texture and I'm following the pinned instructions, but my UE5 project is still packaging after 7 hours? What am I doing wrong?

[winged hemlock]

Там ничего сложного

[merry mountain]

there is a teleport command with a video effect btw

[winged hemlock]

EffectPrototypes.cfg либо ObjEffectMaxParamsPrototypes.cfg либо PostEffectProcessorPrototypes.cfg

Либо всё вместе

[wild ridge]

It's funny, but bread has a hidden intoxicating effect.

[wild ridge]

Понял, буду высматривать

[merry mountain]

if you want to try

[winged hemlock]

Where find?

[merry mountain]

XVideoTeleportPlayerWithFade Distance

[winged hemlock]

Console command? Or can be executed from config?

[merry mountain]

it teleport you the specified distance in the direction you are looking

[ember urchin]

Hi guys, i have dumb question... but how works mods order in folder? Is it important? Or why some mods have "zzz_"?

[merry mountain]

console command

[winged hemlock]

Yes it`s important

[merry mountain]

configs can execute console commands tho

[nimble tiger]

The more z are used the later the pak is loaded

[merry mountain]

(not all of them obviously, like, not all cfgs can do that)

[winged hemlock]

But it`s better when your folder looks like this

I have >20 mods, and all non-blueprints are merged and packed in one pak

[merry mountain]

it loads in alphabetical order

[winged hemlock]

for some reason game need empty .pak files for blueprints

So I don`t delete them

[merry mountain]

yeah if your mod only contains textures you also need pak

[ember urchin]

Okay and how do I know the correct order?

[merry mountain]

even the "offical" mod for xbox has an empty pak, and it just contains textures and materials

[merry mountain]

you determine that yourself, if nothing contains the same files that overwrite each other, it does not matter, if they do, you need to order them in a way that the mods you want to overwrite these files are loaded last

#1310332125597401169 message

you can also merge the conflicting files either manually or automatically

can lead to weird or unexpected behaviors tho if done incorrectly or you dont understand what you do

[rare ruin]

hey so

@merry mountain i need your eyes

can you tell me why they have two entries for the same type of ammo, but different chances and counts?

[merry mountain]

idk, you have a 10% chance to get 10 rounds , and a 30% change to get 10-15
so you either find 10-15 rounds, or in case the 2 one triggers 20-25 in total

that way they can do it more granular

[rare ruin]

ohhhhhh okay I get it now.

[merry mountain]

then saying its 10-25

[little sluice]

How come my UE5 project is only generating the base .paks and not the pak chuncks I want? There should be files labeled pakchunk300 or something here:

Here are my settings

Even my asset audit sees it yet it's not generating the chunk I want? (300)

[wild ridge]

Change chunk id mb?

It must be more than 1000

[lusty sail]

I used this tutorial #╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message

[little sluice]

I did several times, first it was some huge number in the 7 digits, but when assigning the texture asset to the primary asset, the number kept capping at 300

[wild ridge]

You can use this guide

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/262

[lusty sail]

And all works

[little sluice]

Yeah I was following those

[lusty sail]

Then you don't need assign chunk id manually

Only in Label asset

[wild ridge]

And why you create label in Gamelite directory, not in Content?

[vital coyote]

this guid is realy good thank you fro sharing

[little sluice]

It is in content, it's next to gamelite

[wild ridge]

Apply recursively not needed i think

[little sluice]

Alright thanks lemme try removing the chunk assignment from my texture

[lusty sail]

Maybe, but it doesn't ruin my pak so I leave it like this 🙂

[little sluice]

Nope, still not generating

[wild ridge]

You can check this page. It is on Russian, but i tried to create and collect as more guides as I can. It is offen has a link to original page
https://ap-pro.ru/forums/111-uroki-sovety-voprosy-i-gaydy-po-sozdaniyu-modov/

[wild ridge]

Voice?

I want to see the screen through the demonstration

[vital coyote]

nice yeah im puting all this stuff in my notes aswell ty ty!

[wild ridge]

Does anyone know how to spawn an NPC/start a dialogue by using an item?

[little sluice]

Appreciate the help but I think I will put this off cus it's taking too long for a very simple mod (death screen swap)

[wild ridge]

I decided to create a manual teleporter. It should work rather "crutchy" - when activated, create an invisible NPC-guide and start a dialogue with him

[wild ridge]

Welcome to stalker modding in the early stages. But I'm glad you tried at all, because it's a pain in the ass at first)

[vital coyote]

even tho the tools will deff make things easier, i deff still think learning all this stuff is worth while

[little sluice]

Thanks, this actually makes me miss wolvenkit and unity, unreal was a mistake

[vital coyote]

eu5 is a terrable bandwaggon -_-

be road to vostock and make s2 on godot

[little sluice]

S&box can't come soon enough, once we have Source 2 with Unity-style UI then maybe devs won't have to choose between Unreal or Unity

[vital coyote]

yeah i am a noob at this shit but that stuff dose look cool

ive been compiling shadars for 30 min lol

[little sluice]

Source 2 is still the only modern game engine with actual level design tools

[vital coyote]

yeah im super excited for sorce 2 stuff. been folowing all the data mine stuff. the sorce engine is so dam good. was suprized ass all hell when i learned titan fall 2 was on sorce

it looks good and runs well

[wild ridge]

Only first time)

[vital coyote]

ohh yeah ik

just swapping my version out

[wild ridge]

F

[ebon swan]

can someone help me rip a texture using fmodel?

[alpine cradle]

i know its not best place to ask, but does anyone know why im streaming in 1440p, and i have no option for it ? my highest res option for viewers is 720p, BUT after i close stream, the vod is in 1440p. wtf twithc ?

[wild ridge]

What texture?

[little sluice]

Yeah and the Northstar's cannon projectile uses the HL2 crossbow bolt''s code with new effects

[ebon swan]

energy drink

[vital coyote]

nahh im also installing 5.3 because i want to "barrow" some stuff from grayzone soon™

these tools to crack into ue5 games are super powerfull. could prob take the monkey dude from wukong and shove em in if you realy wanted too.

[wild ridge]

this one?\

[vital coyote]

had access to the "nvg update" gray zone wouldnt shut up about for a year 5 min after it was posted

[slender coral]

Is it possible to alter the audio tracks for the radio stations or make additional channels?

I assume SDK is needed for that but I thought i should ask to be sure.

[wild ridge]

you can change the contents of the radio. Not sure about adding new ones, but the existing ones can definitely be replaced with others. Russians have already made a mod

[ebon swan]

yeah, i was gonna rip that and the model because i wanted to make a texture replacement mod

just a small mod to change the look of the can

[wild ridge]

Stalker2/Content/_Stalker_2/items/consumable/Textures/T_cns_energy_drink_D.uasset texture here

https://dropmefiles.com/R1qeq

Texture without compression

[ebon swan]

legend

[slender coral]

Thats cool! Gonna add some Ukranian Black Metal, for sure.

Im new to UE5 modding, can you point me in teh right direction? Wich .pak contains the relevant data?

[wild ridge]

pak 0 i think

[frank plinth]

Hello, I'm making a mod to make the APB automatic and give the mac10 semi-automatic. The mod works but I get the broken formatting in weapongeneralsetupprototype.cfg error on launch. Not sure what I can do to fix it, can someone help?

[wild ridge]

In fact, it will be easier for you if you go to the "Archives" tab and set the Loading mode to all

[slender coral]

Is repak the best method for packing/unpacking or can you recomend any other tool for good work flow?

I've alrdy set up simple pwrshell .bat for repak

[wild ridge]

Stalker2/Content/_STALKER2/Audio/WwiseAudio/Event/Ukrainian(UA)
If I remember correctly, here is the path to the voiceover/radio files

But it will be easier for you to look here and see how the Russians dealt with all this, what tools they used and what exactly they replaced (instead of the names of the replicas there are only numeric numbers, it is difficult to navigate)

https://ap-pro.ru/forums/109-gotovye-mody-stalker-2/

[uneven river]

Heyo, im new to modding but have some experience with Unreal Engine also software development. I managed to aqquire the AES key from the games exe and had a look at the games contents via FModel. So far i extracted all content from the game (raw uasset files) and was wondering If i can have a look at Blueprints and meshes etc in Engine. I created an example project and copied the extracted content over. Had to fiddel around with the config files and can at least build the project and run the editor with the content. But im struggling to actually get the engine to understand the uasset files. I´ve read the game was built with a custom version of UE 5.1, so i have a non source build of UE 5.1 to use for the example project.

So heres my question: How do you actually import the games uassets into an example project to fiddel around with that stuff?

[wild ridge]

The problem is that when editing files you put an extra tab. This is very important, because the formatting is lost. Wait, I'll send you a fragment of the guide now

[slender coral]

@wild ridgeThanks for such an elaborate answer. Really helpful. 🫡

I think i got it from here.

[robust yew]

@ancient nest sorry for ping, how did you get past no main quest coming up after In Search Of Past Glory?
(shit wrong chat, my b, but don't wanna re-ping you)

[vital coyote]

for real nike got some good info in their noggen

[ancient nest]

uhhh

[wild ridge]

Click on the last line of that SID where it FIRST says “struct.end” and press Enter.

IMPORTANT: IN NOTEPAD++, CLICK VIEW > SHOW SYMBOL > SHOW SPACE AND TAB

This will create a new line directly below “struct.end”, but you should see arrows leading to your line. This is because Notepad++ automatically indents with Tab and you must clear it and press Space to the end until you return to your position in the line.

Tab breaks the formatting of the config file, so spaces are needed for indentation.

Full guide, may be useful for understanding
https://ap-pro.ru/forums/topic/10365-kak-sozdavat-novye-predmety-v-stalker-2/

[ancient nest]

XStartQuest E09_MQ01 for spark

i think

[frank plinth]

thank you

[robust yew]

New objective: Check Faust's body too far I think, I'll try and find a full list of quests and test from there

[ancient nest]

E08_MQ01 probably then

[wild ridge]

As far as I understand, the most that can be done now is to change the textures. In any case, so far I have not even come across changed meshes, not to mention blueprints.

Where is this damn patch?! AYYY

[merry mountain]

Spawning an NPC can be done with a command, starting a dialog when consuming an item , not sure if thats possible atm
XSpawnObjBySID PrototypeSID Rank bDestroyOnOffline Px Py Pz Pitch Yaw Roll
only the first 3 parameters are needed, if you dont supply the other ones it spawns next to you

[robust yew]

That one's A Minor Incident according to https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gy8az5/if_you_stuck_this_might_help/ - I tried Once More Into The Breach but that's for the ward oops

[vital coyote]

i feel nikred is making a fast travel system by using guides 😛

[ancient nest]

E08_MQ05

or 04

[wild ridge]

Thanks

[bold vapor]

why no sleeping bag mod - needs more access to make?

[ancient nest]

cause its not needed lmao

[bold vapor]

f that i sleep where i want

[robust yew]

That was the one, thanks! 🙏

[ancient nest]

you dont need to sleep at all
and when u want to skip time ur at most 5 mins away from a bed

[bold vapor]

camping simulator mod when

[merry mountain]

you can sleep with a console command

[wild ridge]

Making an invisible NPC sounds simple:
You don't need to create a new function, you don't need to draw a new interface.
There are just a few questions to solve:
How do you make it invisible? How do you spawn it and kill it after the dialogue ends? How do you bind the spawn to the "Use" key in the item inventory.
We have very little information about implementing triggers using engine tools yet...

[merry mountain]

so if we figure a way to execute commands on item consumption, you could make something like that

it would not be drop to ground and use, but better then nothing

try the following command
XStartSleep

have not triied it myself

[bold vapor]

I made my own sleeping mods in cop, but i guess s2 doesn't have the script level access required yet for modders?

i will do it if it can be done

still d/l game tho

[merry mountain]

there are ways to load blueprints now, and quests for example can start commands on their own / on start etc

[bold vapor]

i have no clue about blueprints, whats a good learning resource? need to get up to speed on new engine i guess xray is rip

[merry mountain]

but im not sure if its possible to put new quests in the files , put commands in them and then maybe trigger the quest on item consumptioon or something

[merry mountain]

idk about bluepriints, google about Blueprints in Unreal Engine

[vital coyote]

lmao favorite part of this guide

[slender coral]

Presuming you have access to the sdk:
Could some of the phys/static clutter models be re-used to add more items (e.g cigarette pack) to the economy? Or would it be easier to make new meshes etc. from scratch?

[vital coyote]

i just got done waiting 6 fucking years to get in and now im out again

[wild ridge]

Dont understasnd you

[sturdy herald]

it do be true

[bold vapor]

you just want to reuse meshes, just make new item and copy mesh link over. That is how i'd do it in cop at least, not sure what's the diff ehre

[wild ridge]

Do you mean, can we use the physics behavior model for new objects? The developers made several presses, the behavior of which depends on the size. Or do you want to add a new object? Then you can give it a new texture (we can do that) and give it the old model (for example, loot with mutants when placed in the world now looks like a sausage, I think)

[bold vapor]

do we have to d/l some UE5 stuff to get modding and unpacking files?

trying to get ducks in row while wait 50 hrs for game to d/;

[wild ridge]

SDK for windows

[errant gyro]

you cant import cooked assets into an unreal engine project. Cooked assets are assets extracted by any means from a built Unreal Engine title

[tidal yew]

Anomaly 3 coming out

[wild ridge]

FModel: https://fmodel.app/
Unreal Engine 5.1: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US (installed via EGS)
If the engine refuses to pack the archives, citing the absence of the SDK, install the following:
SDK for UE5.1 for Windows: https://developer.microsoft.com/ru-ru/windows/downloads/windows-sdk/
.NET 3.11: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/thank-you/runtime-desktop-3.1.24-windows-x64-installer

[merry mountain]

depends on what you want to do, for CFG stuff no, just something to unpack the paks and repack

[tidal yew]

Anomaly 2 just dropped for stalker 2

[wild ridge]

STOP CREATING DAMN PREVIEWS, DISCORD
Sorry

[merry mountain]

just click on the small x to remove them

[lusty sail]

It's true, I've waste half a day waiting to restart...

[wild ridge]

Hmmm?

[bold vapor]

ok. eventually want to do major gameplay changes, but for now mostly .ltx-equivalent stuff

[merry mountain]

next to the previews if you hover over it, it gives you the option to close them

top right corner

[wild ridge]

But i dont have preview, only after sending(

[slender coral]

Yeah, sorry for dumb phrasing.

What I mean is. Lets say i wanna have a wrench as an item i can trade, have ion my inventory etc.. Could the static clutter wrench model alrdy in s2 be used for that?

IM just trying to gage how fast it will be for modders to add new stuff to the economy (even if just "junk")

[merry mountain]

yes you remove preview after send

like thiis

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/thank-you/runtime-desktop-3.1.24-windows-x64-installer

[wild ridge]

Oh, I see, thanks

[wild ridge]

What...

[bold vapor]

you just need to find the link for that mesh somewhere in an available file and copy it, right? not sure it'd be available though, might be buried in protected files...

[wild ridge]

Damn, when I used it, it deleted all the attachments.

[merry mountain]

yes you can reuse stuff

[wild ridge]

AAAA! Got it, that's it, thanks

[slender coral]

OK, I see. Thanks for awnser!

[bold vapor]

are any current mods utilizing blueprints or is it mostly just unpack/repack configs?

[wild ridge]

second

[merry mountain]

a flashlight mod does i think

[vital coyote]

https://tenor.com/view/girl-spinning-waiting-bored-chair-gif-12572632970262008618

that and the photo mode one dose too

wich is great for testing things

[slender coral]

Im new to UE5 so i dont know, but it looks like its mostly .cfg edits. Though, ive seen Mutant Loot that piggybacks of the collar quest item code to inject new drops from mutants.

I think that mod even adds custom 2d art.

[bold vapor]

ok i have no clue how to install this sdk, what's the best how-to link? fish out of water here

[merry mountain]

no blueprints needed for that tho

[slender coral]

There is no SDK yet. I was just specualting for the future, sry,

[lusty sail]

Okay, flashlight datatable doesn't work, only Inner and Outter curves, but I didn't find intensity and color...

[bold vapor]

whatever's needed for ue5 editing

[merry mountain]

thats why they needed to use a blueprint for it

[slender coral]

@bold vapor #╟⚒stalker2™-mod-resources Here you can find some tools. You basically need a packing/unpacking tool and notepad++ (with compare) to edit cfg.

[lusty sail]

Ye, I've found a few BP's

But there's a lot of custom classes inside so trying to recreate same thing in ue5 now - is wasting time

[bold vapor]

so if im just doing config/scripting not models, dont need anything more than a repack tool for now?

[vital coyote]

ohh shit its your guide, lol ty ty

good stuff easy to follow

[slender coral]

If you just wanna change values, yes. I tihnk so

[ocean cedar]

Theres also an autorepacker now on nexus makes it alot easier.

[bold vapor]

i want scripting too. anything worth doing needs like .script equivalent work

[slender coral]

I think blueprints is the term for UE scripting. thats not accesable yet, afaik

[bold vapor]

this?
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/332

[bold vapor]

i am so confused, other people saying we have BP mutant loot or w/e

[slender coral]

Yeah ill be quiet now

xD

[slender coral]

Download the Mutant Loot mod and check it out. Unpack it and check the edits.

[little sluice]

Finally I got UE to work, here's the mod in case anyone wants yet another new death screen: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/454/

And thanks to @wild ridge and @lusty sail for the help

[sturdy herald]

get ready to wait even longer

[neat thistle]

Looks much better than vanilla

[ocean cedar]

they ever give a date on those tools?

[vital coyote]

fuck.... i cant wait

[bold vapor]

jfc why is packing so complicated i have aes and notepad editing the stuff wtf is going on here

[ocean cedar]

i have one where you just drag it

want me to send it to ya?

[bold vapor]

si

[neat thistle]

Guys, working on localization, what's my next move when I extracted and opened LocalizationDB.json? I erase everything and put my localization or I erase everything, but localization I gonna work with? Or something different?

[bold vapor]

so i installed unrealpak-main in a folder with the nexusmod and edited the reunpak.bat for the monster loot.pak file, and it did nothing when run

[ocean cedar]

its literally a drag and drop

[neat thistle]

👆

[ocean cedar]

i.e. drag the pak to the stalkerpak and it unpacks, drag a folder and it paks.

[bold vapor]

ok it worked tyx100

opened mutant loot.cfg
this is going to suck learning an all new engine

dont have full game d/l yet, so i cant tell what they altered, but i dont see anything UE5 specific, just cfg files

i do see this, maybe wrong:
Blueprint = Blueprint'/Game/GameLite/Blueprints/Characters/Monster/Final/BP_AI_Blinddog.BP_AI_Blinddog'

[worthy sparrow]

im right there with you

ive been trying to do this all day

[worthy sparrow]

what does this mean

[errant gyro]

in unreal engine when you make a new project and add say a image, in the project's content folder that uasset is raw (not cooked) when you build a mod and have a .pak that image within .pak is now cooked meaning locked in a sense if extracted from the .pak it can't be open anymore in an Unreal Engine project
so think of source code your project has it but the .pak doesn't

[worthy sparrow]

oh

gotcha. thats......well

thank you for answering

[errant gyro]

there's ways to add cooked assets to a UE Project but it's super buggy

[frank summit]

hey folks 👋 has anyone been able to find the game's map texture? I've been digging through files and found a few, but none that match the one used in game

[bold vapor]

i dunno, i dont see anything in the mutant loot.pak that's not just a cfg, maybe that blueprint reference above is just how every file is, idk

[ocean cedar]

thats cause most mods we have right now are mostly cfg changes and texture replacements.

[worthy sparrow]

ok i was reading uasset search history

[worthy sparrow]

hey bestie......

[vital coyote]

wow!!! just found a game changer for preformance, im getting so many frames for the first time in ue5 for ultimate performance all you have to do is delete everything! should work for you

[quick rain]

someone make aa mod so i can put a red dot on the gabion XD

[worthy sparrow]

im so determined to figure this out tho

[bold vapor]

reading through mutant_loot.pak:
there are itemgenerators in itemgeneratorprototypes.cfg
this lets you slap items into other items when triggered
they added one for each mutant, eg, MutantDogGenerator
they added quest items in questitemprototypes.cfg for various loot items eg
DogTail
just reused "Sausage" mesh for ingame rendering (someone was asking about that earlier wrt wrenches)
then add this to the blinddog.cfg
ItemGeneratorPrototypeSID = MutantDogGenerator

[raw crest]

I had ass FPS on this terrain

I will never understand it

[vital coyote]

shit delete more

[raw crest]

Like 40fps on empty shit wtf

[vital coyote]

xD

lol need more preformance

[bold vapor]

i think blueprint references are just in vanilla files, not utilized by modder

what system specs?

[velvet hare]

anyone willing to help setup my shit for developing mods and explaing some stuff? im done with my mod but it fails packaging everytime, google cant help here lol

[raw crest]

Guys have we found anything about mutants sleeping or eating dead stuff in game code

Similar to old A-life

[ocean cedar]

ive caught a few sleeping around but mybe a scripted event?

[bold vapor]

looking at dog.cfg right now, nothing but combat, but i don't think that was in dog.ltx in cop either, buried in scripts or protected files

[lusty sail]

Any tutorials how to inject UI Widgets or etc?

[raw crest]

No idea haven't seen one at all

[ocean cedar]

Ive encoutered them in garbage sleeping the vehicle wrecks and one over by chemical plant.

i even got a green indicator before they woke up

[raw crest]

Ah shit now I'm trying to find that one photo where XM40 type gas mask were on top of grave(cross) near scientists bunker in SoC

That would be good as deathscreen

[worthy sparrow]

like it wont repak for you?

[raw crest]

Have you seen them dragging and eating stuff

[ocean cedar]

That i have not, I have seen them fight other mutants but it was a psidog and fleshes,

[patent barn]

Does anyone know if theres a mod that mixes dialog languages yet? I liked in the original trilogy how voiced dialog between the player and npcs was in english, but dialog just out in the world, during fights and such was in Ukrainian. I mostly just miss the bandit lines tbh, but since Im streaming the game I wanted important dialog in english.

[bold vapor]

game looks pretty moddable, idk why people were saying it wasn't, lots of configurables, just dont know about script level. anyone with full game files unpacked, can you tell if we have .script equivalents?

[little sluice]

~~I think that's included in here: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/108~~

Or no nevermind it's not

[bold vapor]

if you have gamma files, it's probably in there. i forget folder structure

[raw crest]

Yeah it is different grave

[bold vapor]

search the main folder for "photo" or somesuch

[teal wing]

Why wouldn’t the game be moddable? It’s unreal engine

you could even argue the game itself is just modded default unreal

[bold vapor]

people were saying it was unmoddable because unreal engine.
also when i've asked people said it was "not close" to cop's .ltx and .script moddability

[teal wing]

bleh

[bold vapor]

idk, i'm just getting into it

[floral geode]

who said that 😄 game had mods an hour after release lol

[raw crest]

Do you think unreal engine could achieve similar level of modding similar to kinda open source x-ray

[teal wing]

These devs unlocked basically every engine file for us

[bold vapor]

idiots on the internet bruh

[teal wing]

It’s up to us to figure it out

[bold vapor]

i am happy to see that it at least has full .ltx equivalence to cop. still waiting to see about .script

[proud cloak]

Any ideas why I could be encumbered even though I set the minimum weigh to way above?

[teal wing]

Other recent games like gray zone warfare have it completely locked down

You can’t edit any files at all

And they let us edit everything in stalker

the devs really do care

that is a conscious decision on their part

[raw crest]

What we cannot do with these files?

[teal wing]

uh

[raw crest]

What is limitation

[teal wing]

Unreal has been around for over 20 years

start there

🙂

[teal wing]

If you’re just getting in to unreal there’s 20 years of YouTube vids and articles online

[proud cloak]

Just made my own merge, maybe I messed up somewhere?

[teal wing]

If this is your first unreal game….. then I’m sorry.

[bold vapor]

all ive seen from mods so far is .cfg changes though, or copy-pasting already-scripted engine abilities, i haven't seen if we can, say, add something to an item that lets us break into the sleep_ui_dialog

and edit the sleep system code

[raw crest]

No i mean, what is missing from moddability(is that a word) of x-ray in stalker 2

[teal wing]

Unreal technically would be extremely MORE moddable. Just because we don’t have the tools right now doesn’t mean it’s not

[bold vapor]

like my #1 thing every time i reboot stalker is to customize health system so sleep regens health but not meds

[teal wing]

If you’ve worked in unreal you know mods are a core feature

[bold vapor]

must-do

[teal wing]

they’re called plugins uwu

Devs add mods to their unreal to help make game features

we just backwards engineer it

[bold vapor]

there's mods and there's mods though

[teal wing]

if they give us an SDK that’s just easy mode

[topaz cape]

why the heck am i getting a shitload of z-fighting all of a sudden

[bold vapor]

adding all new features is another level that gamma has but cfg files won't allow

[teal wing]

We have right now a bunch of gamer nerds who suddenly discovered unreal modding

And they don’t know anything about it

And they only edit cfg values and call it good

because that’s all they know

[raw crest]

I'm kinda hoping some big projects from community but I'm not sure if it would be possible, like shitshow like changing engine version to newer ones

[bold vapor]

engine version change is not happening i doubt much

[raw crest]

Sad

[bold vapor]

devs are too busy putting out fires

[teal wing]

The current engine version is so fucking old I would hate the devs if they never update it

I expect it to come within years

[bold vapor]

probably stalker 3 will

[topaz cape]

oh it's the location apparently lmao

[bold vapor]

clorsky

[teal wing]

Gray zone warfare just updated to Unreal 5.4

🤷‍♀️

It’s not that hard anymore. It just takes less laziness by devs

[raw crest]

Probably after they release all DLCs maybe they could, but they said they modified huge part of 5.1 to call 5.1GSC

[teal wing]

from my experience 😉

[bold vapor]

devs didnt even get alife working, lets set expectations

[teal wing]

tru

here I am huffing cope

[bold vapor]

[raw crest]

Only reason i want engine upgrade would be performance based on DF's foundings

[exotic token]

To be fair, the Alife dev literally joined the army

[bold vapor]

i expect them to tune up performance over a few patches, new releases usually are rough

[bold vapor]

create alife
destroy irlife

[teal wing]

I can list 100 reasons why I want the upgrade

[teal wing]

Performance after my tweaking has been absolutely flawless in every way. Maximum fps at all times

I don’t think they need to change performance at all

I actually have opted to increase my graphics

I have added additional effects due to the game not looking good enough

[bold vapor]

the game was so badly rushed out, they can fix a lot
just look at default gamma (brightness not mod) setting, lacking keybinds, etc, just give it a couple months

balance is jsut jacked

[raw crest]

I don't think this game should require this much cpu power, considering more technically advanced games required 2-3x less

[floral geode]

game runs like doodoofart for me on an i7-10700k with performance mods once I encounter npcs so it would be pretty sick if they did improve performance, because this paired with a 3080 is not a super old system

[teal wing]

Im chilling at 30% cpu use

Try my ini

[bold vapor]

i dunno lots of ai heavy games i've played have hard cpu loads. i'm just upgrading my cpu because i got a sick ass deal on a 5900x

[raw crest]

I tried potato inis and it did jackshit to cpu usage

[teal wing]

Eh

Mine increases quality

[tender elm]

yo can someone verify that CoreVariablesCustom.cfg is part of the default unmodded install?

and does it overwrite variables without having to modify them in CoreVariables.cfg ?

[teal wing]

And fps

[raw crest]

My gpu still hovers around 60-70%

[raw crest]

I would agree if AI was actually good

[teal wing]

Gpu at 100% cpu at 30% so I got headroom

[raw crest]

Trilogy had more impressive moments with dumber ai

[floral geode]

yeah my frames dip like crazy even with 5 dogs in front of me 💀

[bold vapor]

badly optimized ai takes a lot out of single thread performance and acts dumb too

[teal wing]

No dips ar all

[floral geode]

well yes people with good systems don't get dips

[teal wing]

Everyone who used my ini said it’s better than any other one lol

nah i got mid range

👍

[bold vapor]

whats midrange here

[raw crest]

Stop yapping gimme the link

[teal wing]

It’s in the place we were all discussing it yesterday

[raw crest]

I will check it out tomorrow

[floral geode]

I wasn't

[bold vapor]

im calling my rig low-mid at this point 5700x/5700 xt/32g

it should run medium but poorly i think

[raw crest]

Me with 1600AF and 6800XT

I'm so fucking cooked

[floral geode]

for me low rig would be stuff like an 8th gen intel and a 2080 💀

[kindred lotus]

?

[raw crest]

Where

[neat thistle]

Nexus is dead or what?

[kindred lotus]

bitch do i look like a crystal ball to u

[nimble tiger]

im sorry but do i need to install axxis stealth mod too if i already have the merged extended ai life mod with axxi?

[bold vapor]

1600 is pretty garbage ya. even 5700x is getting dusty these days

[teal wing]

check my history to find it

[neat thistle]

Oh. It's just lagging, not dead. First it duplicated my reply and then didn't want to refresh the page 😄

[raw crest]

Grab a 5700X3D for 200ish

[neat thistle]

oof

[bold vapor]

5900X on sale @$200 microcenter rn black friday gogogo

am4

[raw crest]

Last time i checked on eBay 5600X3D was pricer than 5700X3D

[floral geode]

#1310377824007491584 message their engine.ini tweaks

[teal wing]

i bought my 7800x3d for $279 usd on amazon a few months ago

now is not the time to buy a cpu

[exotic token]

Old GPU/CPU prices are batshit crazy
No idea who is paying top dollar for old used shitpiles

[teal wing]

anything more than 279$ and i wouldnt buy it

[raw crest]

I don't think i trust one core performance of non 3D 5xxx series

[teal wing]

X3D gang

rise up

shredding thru stalker2

200fps

max settings

[raw crest]

I wish 7000 series wasn't price of a kidney

[north wasp]

[teal wing]

it wasnt

if you bought it msrp

$279

[raw crest]

Ram and MBs still pricey

[teal wing]

32gb for $100

[bold vapor]

i have am4, i don't think i'm getting much better than 5900x without paying double

[teal wing]

B650 for $180

[raw crest]

I'm pretty sure 5700X3D is better than that in games

[teal wing]

i actually bought two 7800x3d

might resell it now that its like $600 lmao

[bold vapor]

5900x has higher single thread rating on cpubenchmark.net, not sure what this is about

[teal wing]

thats double profit right there

[raw crest]

I got my current motherboard for 85$ in 2020, it is goodish one. Cant pay more than 100$

[bold vapor]

anyway, gpu is my main killer, i'm just hopping on 5900x due to deep sale

[desert valve]

those sites are utter ********

[raw crest]

Mate no

5700X3D

Is better

In games

Pls listen

[teal wing]

I don’t get why they sell em for more tbh they aren’t worth buying the expensive ones

[bold vapor]

have one blow up on you and take out half your stuff, it sucks

[desert valve]

depends on what you are doing with it, but mostly true

[teal wing]

lol I’ve had several computers blow up on me

it happens

humans make shitty tech

[floral geode]

I have never had that happen neither to me nor any person I know

[teal wing]

I have several computers in my room right now

I also work with computers probably 100x more than the average person

[exotic token]

There's that one site that's run by an intel fan boy that gives hilariously wrong reviews

[raw crest]

https://youtu.be/ss7WEmRtsoE?t=28m49s

[bold vapor]

ok ok i will reconsider

[teal wing]

I like to use that site because it’s funny reading his angry rants

[exotic token]

🧠

[raw crest]

I think it is just AMD hater, he has bias boner for Nvidia as well

[bold vapor]

how dis then?

[raw crest]

I want it

Now

[desert valve]

i (for some reason) have intel stock, so buy intel pretty please 😙

[bold vapor]

amd 4 life

[teal wing]

eh intel is dead especially considering the bankruptcy issues recently

[raw crest]

Sell it and buy AMD, it is on sale

[teal wing]

I’m good

[desert valve]

nah they are gonna rule again one day

i have to believe

[raw crest]

Are you the dude with 700k inheritance

[bold vapor]

i bought it, it's gone, too late

[floral geode]

my whole life I've been using intel, but hell nah after that 13th/14th series (nvidia still superior tho btw)

[raw crest]

That bought Intel stock, only for it to dip 30% next day

[exotic token]

Nah

I mean Intel its getting its ass beat, yes

But its competitors will literally explode when Taiwan gets invaded

[versed hare]

Is there a recommended guide for merging? Trying to optimize a list of mods I'd like to try to merge for rebalancing.

[raw crest]

Mate can you send me the link

[bold vapor]

just google "5700x3d buy microcenter"

in-store only tho

[raw crest]

Those assholes blocked my country

[desert valve]

that would be a nice problem to have

[merry mountain]

yes, Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData\CoreVariablesCustom.cfg

[raw crest]

I thought it is german website

[bold vapor]

well you'd have to get a plane to america to buy one i guess it's over

[raw crest]

I thought this is German, what is wrong with me

[merry mountain]

there are no microcenter in germany lol

i think not even on this Continent

[bold vapor]

might do

[raw crest]

I confused it with some other german website that sells 5700x3D

Or 5600X3D

[merry mountain]

many sites sell these so yeah lol

[bold vapor]

pissed my cpu and gpu no longer match. bought 5700x/5700xt just for meme

[raw crest]

Suspicios

from China

[exotic token]

Wtf
My 6800XT was more

[merry mountain]

more cores more better

[desert valve]

you probably mean mindfactory

[desert valve]

more cache more better 😉

[floral garden]

only if the game is loaded with code that absolutely hate cache optimization. 😉

[raw crest]

They sell it on German Amazon as well

[floral garden]

which honestly is quite typical for games to be.

[desert valve]

is this not an unreal engine game? 😛

[merry mountain]

it does not matter that much, only a few percent extra in games for the 7950X compared to the 7950X3D and the not 3D one clocks higher and so is better for workstation workloads, not by much tho , so either that or this whatever

[floral garden]

it is not an 'Unreal' thing :p

[exotic token]

Unreal devs then

AAA slop engine

[desert valve]

well 7800x3d has identical gaming Performance, would rather have that

[floral garden]

of any engine this is true, not defending Unreal in that sense, it has its pros and cons, just like others. 🙂

[desert valve]

dont need it for anything but gaming though

[merry mountain]

yeah i choose that because its better for my dual use, i have lots of programs open at the same time and also do lots of local AI stuff

together with a 4090

the moment when you have a 4090 and realize you are still gpu poor

AI community moment

buts its better for playing games then a 3090 so i did not go the 2 3090 route

i could also put in a 3090 with the 4090, but then i would also need a new powersupply

and i dont want to touch the f*cking cables ever again

i hate cable managment inside PCs

[floral garden]

"what is the worst that can happen?" fizzle sound

[desert valve]

then your doing it wrong 😉

[bold vapor]

ze germans have us covered guys

dunno there's a big enough difference between 5700x and x3d to be worth it to me, thought 5900x would be big upgrade, guess not, probably won't bother

[vital coyote]

dude shit is so pricy rn its insaine

[floral garden]

I am curious about what is causing those lows, I never get that low FPS on my system unless it is a very rare occasional stutter which happens going from one zone to another really fast(crossing heap in a straight line from cement factory to Rostov)

[bold vapor]

lows is usually loading stuff

[floral garden]

yes, but they talk about constant low stutter in certain situations

[tender elm]

Thanks @merry mountain. Looks like Jake's longer days mod adds a field there to overwrite the day length coefficient and seems to work, but when i tried adding some extra fields for my own mod they didn't seem to overwrite the ones in CoreVariables.cfg

i removed his mod before testing to make sure it wasn't overriding it.

[bold vapor]

insufficient ram requiring constant reads, not sure, or just a really suboptimal pathfinding or other ai subroutine, can be a few things

i heard there's a mem leak rn in s2, so might be a common issue due to ram/vram always maxed out

[merry mountain]

there are even multiple mem leaks 😄

[floral garden]

true, but I have had fun at chemical plant which spawns 'endless' new AI and the corpses pile up really quickly when you have killed everyone else as they will spawn in and not react for a few second so you can just endlessly pile the area

[bold vapor]

it's not that pricey. A good CPU in early 2000s was $650, do inflation, it's about the same now

*gpu

[floral garden]

my Ahtlon system in 2004 was..700USD MSRP or so I believe

for the CPU alone

[bold vapor]

what were you doing with a 700 cpu in 2004?

[floral garden]

working

[last spire]

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

[bold vapor]

i got a 2500k for like 200, was enough

[floral garden]

2500k was released in 2011 though so quite the gap in market segment.

[bold vapor]

ah memory is borked

whatever it was, 2ghz something amd

[floral garden]

no worries, happens to me many times, to me the ATI 7000 series might as well have been 10 years ago as well. 😉

[bold vapor]

athlon xp 2ghz thingy (oc'd to 2.2) 200-250

chaos theory good times

old men talking about their megahertz

[rustic granite]

since you seem to know much about gpus (i think), would you say an 4070 ti super is decent

[bold vapor]

this is epic settings 1080:

(who plays epic settings ever, give me medium germany)

[merry mountain]

depends on context, for gaming only?

[rustic granite]

yes

[merry mountain]

and is also somewhat depends on country because of availability and prices etc

[rustic granite]

wel compared to the 3060 12gb i have now

in SA it's around 17k Rand

[bold vapor]

whatever you buy, if it's for more than 1-2 years get vram upgraded

i mean if you hold gpus for like 3-4 years, def get max vram

[rustic granite]

hence maybe going for the 4070 ti super since it's a 16gb

Palit GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Infinity 3 OC 16GB GDDR6X

• Graphics Clock: 2340MHz
• Boost Clock: Up to 2640MHz
• CUDA Cores: 8448

[merry mountain]

not sure about prices and availability in south africa, its a decent "mid range" card, although i find ~940$ for midrange gpu rather pricy

and also i did not look much at those cards

[bold vapor]

i woudl do 24g for a high end card

[rustic granite]

u thinking i'm a rich bitch 😄

[bold vapor]

how is 4070tisuper midrange rn?
midrange is "i can play medium graphics at 2k" or something

[bold vapor]

id do at least 16g at this point

[merry mountain]

because my go to was either used 3090, 4090 or a 7900XTX, but i did not choose the 7900XTX because of bad availabilty of AMD GPU support for AI libs
7900XTX is only half the price of a 4090 tho 🙃

[rustic granite]

well from this what do you think, since my current gpu cores are 3742 or something

[rustic granite]

yes the 4070 is 16gb

well this is an SA website, but take a look

https://www.wootware.co.za/palit-geforce-rtx-4070-ti-super-infinity-3-oc-ned47tss19t2-1043s-16gb-gddr6x-256-bit-pcie-4-0-desktop-graphics-card.html

[bold vapor]

wtf brand is palit

[rustic granite]

it used to be Gainward

[bold vapor]

wtf brand is gainward

[merry mountain]

both are fine brands

[rustic granite]

nvm

[bold vapor]

asus/msi/giga/asrock/sapphire/xfx/pny, idk what's best best, but those have been around decades

[merry mountain]

gainward also exists for 40 years

[rustic granite]

just a side note potato, palit brand is decent, it's got good cooling and lightweight. been using palit brand for what maybe 7+ years now, neevr ever gave me problems with any gpu

[bold vapor]

alright, never heard of either of these before

[rustic granite]

but still Fiddle, you think it's a good upgrade from a rtx 3060 3743 cores towards the shown above card

[bold vapor]

the pic i linked above says it's 223% better, but idk their results are a little funky, might be drunk, they're german

[merry mountain]

it will be a decent upgrade yes, and if you dont need the old card and can sell it you can make some of the money back.
You can maybe get a 7900XTX from AMD for a similar price, which has more VRAM and will probably be faster in games that dont use raytracing

[clear mountain]

Is there any way to add upgrades on a certain gun? I came up with an idea of progressive penetration upgrade with new blueprints

[bold vapor]

how does gun make higher penetration, that's usually ammo

[merry mountain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRPtpOqDPbA @rustic granite

[floral geode]

you wouldn't get it

[merry mountain]

i think not atm

[clear mountain]

damn, so no xml or json files for guns(and upgrades)?

[merry mountain]

there are cfgs related to upgrades and attachments, but i think noone has gotten it to work to add attachments to other guns or change upgrade paths

[mint wraith]

barrel length

[floral garden]

We can probably go into a 1000 page book on everything that is factored in for maximum penetration, short barrel, long barrel, ammo load, projectile material, weight, wind resistance. ;p

[bold vapor]

sure, that makes sense i guess, it wouldn't be progressive really

[clear mountain]

I feel some aspects are hardcoded inside then, thanks for helping

[bold vapor]

gun modding system is just a disappointment, maybe ue5 will let people bring in a proper system

still 2011 in gscland

[bold vapor]

sure, 1 of those is gun related, and it's not progressive

[floral geode]

I think it's pretty cool, also the bf2024 weapon mod wheel is a cool addition, just wish there were more attachments/upgrades but that can easily be fixed by mods

[real marsh]

hello guys, just got stalker and started getting mods because why not.
here goes question: to edit parameters of the PAK file, "example mobs dmg", can i just edit it with any note book app or do i need to "unpak, edit, repak"? asking because i edited one file and game doesnt start with edited file "basically edited dmg number"

[floral geode]

depends on the pak from what I've found, some are easily openable by notepad and some you need to unpak

[merry mountain]

what do you mean with it does not start, does it crash?

[real marsh]

can i post links to the mod page here? in anyway its "TheRealMaklane" mod which edits mobs a lil bit

[merry mountain]

proper way is to unpack the pak, make changes, repackage the pak

[real marsh]

when i start the game, after i revert file its starts just fine

[floral geode]

I wish they used more colours for this

[frank summit]

Still on the hunt - has anyone been able to find the game's map texture, or have an idea of where it might be? I've been digging through files and found a few map images, but none that match the one used in game. The ones I found had text all over 'em.

[merry mountain]

#╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message
for a mod you want to change
repak.exe unpack modfile.pak
change file / files
repak.exe pack modfolder

[real marsh]

thanks, ill check it right a way

[floral geode]

I'M sorry how do you run this? I went for the .msi version, installed and and now I have the repak.exe which doesn't do anything when clicked

[unreal knot]

Can I spawn enemies using UETools? I need to test some stuff

[merry mountain]

i did just use the zipped version, regardless, you execute it from powershell or cmd with the commands i wrote

[floral geode]

ahh okay, thanks!

been using unrealpak but that one doesn't always work

[merry mountain]

console command
XSpawnObjBySID PrototypeSID Rank bDestroyOnOffline Px Py Pz Pitch Yaw Roll
you only need the first 3 params, if no coords provided iit will spawn next to you

[unreal knot]

Let me test that, thanks!

[merry mountain]

yeah i have seen people having problems wiith unrealpak with some mods, repak worked for me everytime these people struggled

[unreal knot]

What does 'Rank' entail in this scenario? I'm trying to summon a Blinddog

[merry mountain]

im not sure if it matters for mutants, just use 1 for rank

[prisma cave]

anyone know where to get the detector rebalance for s2

[merry mountain]

never heard of such a mod

[unreal knot]

Not working 🤔

[floral geode]

modular hard mode right?

[prisma cave]

im not sure maybe @floral geode I just saw soursweet earlier talking about having the different types of detector only being able to detect certain tiers of anamolies

[merry mountain]

probably wrong mutant name, i spawned Boars and Dogs with it

[floral geode]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/88 this introduces that but with artifacts 🙂

[prisma cave]

good looks

[floral geode]

I use all of the modules from this, amazing mod

[prisma cave]

I thought they were saying something about using the gamma discord for it

no for sure I use most it already

[remote tendon]

The devs patch theyve worked on for a full week

Modders will make this game right! 🙂

[unreal knot]

Could I bother you to check the command you used? I'm looking at the ObjPrototypes and Blinddog is just... Blinddog haha

[floral geode]

ah epic photoshop time

I trust the devs 🙂

[proper grove]

Hypothetically speaking, is it possible to isolate each map section and divide them with connection point like in the og. The extra processing can be use to simulate A-life to full extent?

Tdlr: is "reject open world, return to original" possible in ue5?

[remote tendon]

Master photoshop xD

[frozen skiff]

so... we have a numeral lables for artifacts effects mod? #╟📸stalker2™-media message

[remote tendon]

Could split them into single "levels"

[vital coyote]

i know i have a form of color blindess but is it just me or are text on websites that use colors like this and red like imposible to read, i always have to highlight it first to actualy know what the hell it says

[floral geode]

yup it's really hard for me aswell

[vital coyote]

just looks like a blurr

[merry mountain]

Blinddog in rostok
XSpawnObjBySID Blinddog 1 0

[vital coyote]

hahah yea like i know its words there but no clue wtf it says

[unreal knot]

Ok that worked

I was missing the 0

[merry mountain]

can be 0 or 1

not sure what it is for, maybe for despawning the Mutant / NPC if it gets out of render range

[unreal knot]

thanks for the help :)

[vital coyote]

is the update out?

[merry mountain]

spawned lots of bloodsuckers, snorks and chimera in rostok

[remote tendon]

No was just joking around at the lack of speed the devs are taking on bringing the first hotfix out right before a weekend where no fixes for the next patch will happen till next week

[vital coyote]

ohh shit got me all excited, even tho the next update dosnt look like it has any thing that exciting in it

thought they were gunna release that today

[merry mountain]

something happend that the engine does not like, got memory leak and my RAM was filled up 😄

[merry mountain]

yeah nothing exciting, it just fixes some gamebreaking bugs in the main story

and some of the memory leaks

[real marsh]

with unpacking editing and then repacking it worked, but dang it took me time to understand how to use repak

[merry mountain]

why tho, its 2 commands 😄

one called pack and one unpack 😄

[real marsh]

because i never edited anything that way

[merry mountain]

at least it works now 👍

[real marsh]

when i understood how to use it yes it was easy, usually i use programs like creation kit and so on so its like completely different

k its time to start the game for the first time

[merry mountain]

this one?

[crystal ether]

nice

[tawny spade]

Dynamic Dark Zones is something that could be really interesting. Changing areas such as Garbage or Swamps could turn into locations where if you were to die you would lose all of your equipment that you brought in, but they might have better rewards or missions that require you to enter them in order to complete. This is something that could be affected by different AI faction wars that control the zone or lack there of being that mutants could be the dominant force in them also. Being that guides are the only way to fast travel through the zone this would force a stalker to plan his trips through the zone accordingly avoiding these changing areas or doing missions within them.

[mint wraith]

anyone have a link to the other modding discord?

[queen delta]

If anyone want I made some changes to artifacts visibility so they are visible at all time as it was in ShoC or CoC modification. Ping me if someone want to test it

[merry mountain]

posting links to discords is not allowed

it will get autodeleted by a bot and the user gets a warn automatically

to prevent spam

[teal wing]

Oh wow like turning it into an extraction shooter?

[tawny spade]

Yeah. now that I think of it have you ever heard of the game currently being made called road to vostok. that developer is doing the same gameplay loop in it

[merry mountain]

i played the demo

it is really really bad

[tawny spade]

yeah it's super early, but the gameplay loop is cool

[vital coyote]

road to vostock is goated, routing for that dude 🙂

[tawny spade]

lets get it in stalker. would be sick!

[teal wing]

Yeah games are just so easy to make now with unreal. Adding new massive features is just 1 click now a days in 2024

Like that game bodycam made by a 17 year old

[tawny spade]

maybe add like a souls like mechanic or a expiring insurance so you have an opportunity to get your stuff back

[merry mountain]

and make them pay real money for it

[tawny spade]

really? that is really cool

[merry mountain]

and add micropayments

[teal wing]

there are plenty of unreal plugins on the store that do this

[tawny spade]

could something like that really be added to stalker?

[teal wing]

With one click? Yeah

[clear mountain]

wow

[teal wing]

unreal store has thousands and thousands of drop in feature plugins

[clear mountain]

I cannot grasp how does upgrade work

[tawny spade]

umm wow, I guess we let the modders cook for a while and see what craziness comes out of it

[clear mountain]

since we cannot see source code of S2

[merry mountain]

they dont just magically work with your custom game logic lol

[tawny spade]

a force overwrite when you die in the Dark zones would be diabolical but cool

[honest mountain]

pls let me know if you fix this problem because I got the same one

[teal wing]

In comparison to how it used to be, it’s basically one click bro.

[merry mountain]

its not tho

iits way easier then 10 years ago sure

buts its not one click

[teal wing]

okay how many clicks is it

mister Redditor

?

[merry mountain]

people that have no clue about this will think its super easy

[little sluice]

I literally just made a new project from scratch and double checked I followed all the instructions on the virtual textures guide.

I also made sure my exports folder was outside my project folder, my project name was "Stalker2", and my pakchunk IDs were above 1000. Not sure if any of those helped but it worked

[teal wing]

let them

maybe they’ll start to figure stuff out themselves

[tawny spade]

so what you are saying is a dumbass like me could figure this stuff out. hmmm

[merry mountain]

they never do

[tight pebble]

Can we have a Mod that makes 1010 Days of real time equal 3 days of Stalker time and when you upload it, you call it SMO Mod?

[teal wing]

That’s exactly the point my friend. Nothing is stopping you. Go mod 💪

[tawny spade]

well then

[clear mountain]

maybe I can change the value of upgrade

but I can't seem to make a new upgrade?

[tawny spade]

i might wait until stalker gets that full mod support I keep hearing about but I would love to make my own gameplay loops

[lusty sail]

What the

[merry mountain]

do you not use Creation Kit for Stalker 2 Modding?

am i doing something wrong

[lusty sail]

It looks like fallout/oblivion stuff

[merry mountain]

because it is obviously

stalker 2 is just reskinned fallout 4 basically