╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[void owl]

i got a mod warning.... well anyways, you can join the Unreal Engine Modding discord

its where i found out how to do all this

[torn pivot]

id need a tutorial with specifics to setting it up for stalker as ive tried in the past with modding killin floor 2 and i gave up as it was so confusing getting things configured.

[compact furnace]

I thought the psy dogs are bad, the cats are 10 times worse wtf

[barren timber]

unfortunately I haven't found a solution yet

[keen nimbus]

Someone answered me with this mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/545

[torn pivot]

cats are tanks, you need expansive ammo for them

[compact furnace]

They just spawn clones so incredibly fast

[vital coyote]

flamethrower is needed

[torn pivot]

oh those are psudodogs bro. the cat doesnt spawn clones.

use grenades to find a blood splatter and nuke that target

[compact furnace]

I just had a pseudo cat spawning clones in this mission I was doing :x

[keen nimbus]

Any way to disable need to hold button on Quickslot 2 and 4? I changed hold to tap in CustomizeControls.cfg but no joy.

[compact furnace]

They even jumped at me when I climbed onto stuff

and made cat noises

[vital coyote]

TT-TT i havent found a mod that does that but i mis the f 1-4 so much

[keen nimbus]

I got F2 and F4 to work for them, but game still requires that I hold them...grr.

[vital coyote]

yeah thats how i play

but its better but not good lol

defalt controles are whack all together

z and x or some shit to lean. tf

[keen nimbus]

Yeah, they are after-thought from console port.

[torn pivot]

that shit is hardcoded, even when you change the control block to tap or press, it still requires it to be held.

[keen nimbus]

Yep, it's what I have done, change the code blocks but no joy.

[torn pivot]

they prioritised the game for console release to be playable while pc gets shafted

loveeeeeeeee it

[vital coyote]

[clear mountain]

[vital coyote]

meanwhile fuck dead zones amr

[open grove]

has anyone had success modifying NPCPrototypes.cfg? I cant get any changes to take effect

[torn pivot]

someone found the dead zone installation package and linked it on the stalker 2 discord for the devs, its like a 3 minute tutorial lol

[vital coyote]

XD

[torn pivot]

add 2 code blocks, setup parameters, done.

[vital coyote]

lol one thing im excited about is the absolute love for stalker and its huge modding comunity "if listened to" is going to be like having a crowdsorced army of people working in unreal 5

[torn pivot]

modders will save the day, fans always do and its annoying that devs sometimes rely on them to do just that, like bethesda.

i hope they fix the performance and release the sdk in due time. as otherwise the game is dead to me personally. i cant stand the chugging.

[compact furnace]

SDK will defo not come out before the official DLC hasnt released

[vital coyote]

same, its pretty abismal on ue5 games. funny thing is tho games made in ue4 (made without all the algorithmic shit like nanite and luman) ported to 5 run just fine for me

[torn pivot]

space marine 2 is the only other ue5 game i know i have, and it runs beautifully.

[vital coyote]

ohh shit thats ue5?

[torn pivot]

yeah. i think the devs prioritisation was on the console release being stable.

[vital coyote]

i chugged a bit in spots but was smooth mostly

[torn pivot]

which is fair cus i mean its easy to get it right on one set of hardware.

[vital coyote]

but thats mostly my baby cpu and all the ai

[torn pivot]

yeah the swarms are very heavy on the cpu

[vital coyote]

that tech is so dope tho

behind the swarms

[torn pivot]

i wish more of the swarms were killable like with world war z.

fire off acharged plasma shot and see no hit markers or dead nids feelsbadman

[vital coyote]

i never played the coop or any thing hord mode on the road map seams like it could be hella fun

ohh thats what i thought

looks like it shares alot with ue tho

fucking Wikipedia links to the movie instead of the engine

[cold yacht]

Without these mods the game starts even with merging mods.

[craggy heart]

Just released v0.1.0 of my mod manager on GitHub: https://github.com/joe-p/unreal-pak-mod-manager

I will release on NexusMods later this weekend. The README contains all you need to know, but to answer the first question you may have: Why use this tool?

The main benefit this tool has over other tools is that it resolves conflicts between mods on a per-value basis rather than regular (or manual) merge conflict resolution. This makes the merge process more robust and able to handle more complex changes. This also means that non-functional changes, such as changing comments or moving lines, will not affect the outcome of the merge. It also does not have any external dependencies since it is written in Rust and able to use the repak library directly.

[vital coyote]

yeah merging just keeps them from overwiting themselves wont crash but if one mod touches the same cfg the others changes wont be there

[vital coyote]

hell yeah man ill give her a spin in a bit and add it to my guide

thats the main reason i never added any other automerge tools

[bright wasp]

Anyone know how world state is being handled (ie, what loot and enemy difficult is being spawned)? Is it based on MSQ progress, time in game, some or of other scoring system?

[cold yacht]

Well, unfortunately I couldn't figure out how to manually merge mods.

[crystal ether]

nice

[vital coyote]

https://rentry.org/TravesS2moddingBible

not to hard

[cold yacht]

Oh, does Mo2 work with stalker 2?

[vital coyote]

link to the mo2 plugin is in there 🙂

[cold yacht]

nice

[vital coyote]

it wont detect conflicts and stuff like normal tho yet"

ill add more to "how to set up mo2"

but its simple if you put the plug in in the right place

[cold yacht]

Well, I'm familiar with mo2.

[vital coyote]

and more tools will be made so ill try to keep the site up to date

[craggy heart]

Nice! Let me know if you run into any issues. So far I've only tested on my own PC

[vital coyote]

will do i have to do some irl stuff first but i deff gunna try it

when i update my guide thing it ill post it herehttps://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1312154196383895702

its got pictures 😛 and videos soon'tm

[slender coral]

Is there a UETools command to print the player's current cordinates ?

[raw crest]

did you decrease radious of visible fog

[static sonnet]

is it possible to make gun mods yet

?

[vital coyote]

not realy

but looks like you can do alot with blueprints

[bronze sparrow]

Does ammo have their own stats in a config file somewhere or is it built into the game?

[scarlet cosmos]

Sound awesome and much needed thanks.
Does seem to insta crash for me with Failed to commit untracked_files: Error { code: -3, klass: 7, message: "config value 'user.name' was not found" } rn even with a few paks

Not sure why it would throw a git like error there tbh

oh ok it does make a repo, make sense mmh

Okay fixed by having a gitconfig file, kinda forgot to restore it since my nvme died this summer

[vital coyote]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/554

pretty sure you already got it all figured out tho lol

but figured i would share

[void owl]

Like using console commands?

[vital coyote]

yeah i was pretty sure there were comands for that already

[void owl]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/164?tab=files

[vital coyote]

but i havent messed with weather stuff

[void owl]

My mod doesnt use cmmands, it adds the weather into the game

i went and fixed the files, added transitions and added chances for them to naturally occur during the game

[vital coyote]

ahh thought you were changing how the current weather looked

thats dope

[void owl]

Yes it was a lot more effort than one might assume, but learned a lot for my next mods

[vital coyote]

hell yeah man, whats next on the docket

[sage trail]

has anyone had issues with .uasset files not showing up in content browser in UE5?

[void owl]

First there is still one elsuive weather which is fogy, this one is just very broken and ugly. After that overhauling the base weathers, then adding a custome weather.

For my side mod there is my difficulty mod:
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/51

I would like to see whatelse i can achieve for it

[sage trail]

im pretty new to unreal engine so im not sure what im doing wrong

[vital coyote]

i was having an issue with that b4 when i was messing around with it and saved it for laiter but i think the texture streaming guide has how to set up your files

[void owl]

you cannot import most uassets since they are compiled and built, as far as i udnerstand

[sage trail]

so its impossible to create scripts as of now?

[vital coyote]

nice ill deff give it a swing after my first playthrough shit is too easy but i wanna experiance the game b4 i fuck with stuff too much

[void owl]

not natively

what uasset are you hoping to import?

[sage trail]

im lost then... ive been trying to create a script to trigger idle and weapon inspections

but i need to import the meshes to make a blueprint

[sage trail]

weapon meshes

[void owl]

https://github.com/JsonAsAsset/JsonAsAsset/

try this

[sage trail]

i dont really know shit about animations or 3d modelling tho

looks interesting ill give it a try, thanks!

[vital coyote]

you can make full on movies in unreal

im exited to learn all this shit

[void owl]

You have more patience than me man.

btw here is a vid, for those interested, of the new weather transitions in action

[vital coyote]

learning stuff for things like xray or creation never realy gave me any translatable skills (deff some tho)

[void owl]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh91daBKMw4

[vital coyote]

i mean there deff are changes ive made. but most of em were addressed in the patch

wich is exciting

[void owl]

Give it a go. My mod is definetly not as tuned as other difficulty mods, but tbh i like mine (obviously biased) much more for hardcore combat

[vital coyote]

yeah thats my biggest thing, alot of people have gone in and overcorected things or fiddled with stuff without much testing "or playing" for example the game becomes a cake walk if you interact with the upgrade system and use artifacts but people day one toned down difficulty

[barren timber]

I installed patch 1.0.1 and started the game. everything was fine I ran around a bit and decided to add mods. I saved the windows folder in localdata (made a backup of it). added Optimized Tweaks S.2 - Reduced Stutter Mouse Fix Improved Performance Lower Latency, ShowItemsValuesAll,4 hours - 2x longer day-47-v0-1-17,Framerate FPS Fix Ultimate Engine.ini (FIX THE SLIDESHOW). went into the game and there is such a whiteness around (I am on skadovska) but if you leave skadovska everything is better becomes but a little lighted all around. deleted the mods from the folder and changed the windows folder from my backup but it did not bring everything back in terms of graphics and now I do not know what to do. help please

[vital coyote]

but most deff actualy sounds up my ally

[sage trail]

are you using UE5.5?

[vital coyote]

well for one some of those will conflict with any engine tweeks. the engine optimisation stuff dose the same thing as fucking with your engine.ini and alot of them have disclamers not to use with other engine tweeks

[sage trail]

Ive installed the plugin but it says JsonAsAsset isnt compatible with 5.5 even though it says so on github?

[void owl]

UE5_1

[vital coyote]

i know for a fact you cant use 2 of them

[void owl]

go back to releases and downoad the older version

[sage trail]

alright

[mystic igloo]

delete engine.ini file if you have one

[void owl]

should be one of two versions down, itll say for which UE5 it works for

[mystic igloo]

see if that works

[vital coyote]

tip you can have multipal if you plan on messing with multipal game files for porting

and you can save on space

if

you dont plan on porting stalker to ios lol

and android ect

[sage trail]

thanks

might as well just delete 5.5 then

[vital coyote]

yee havent gotten to the part of making ue5 shit but i sure as hell know how to install the bish

still have to continue with dem tutorials

[sage trail]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-zMkzmduqI&t=1285s

i watched this one a few days ago when i started

its pretty cool

[vital coyote]

nice! ill check it out. i found one series that seamed cheesy but helpfull hold up

[sage trail]

also 5 hours long

[vital coyote]

haven't finished it tho

well thats fine lots of info lmao. but why ive been doing it in small stents

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9qixi858Ag&list=PLIn-yd4vnXbjWeYqU7epakdnVzoysMToy

[sage trail]

yeah ive tried a few tuts that were quite overwhelming

[vital coyote]

this was the playlist i was watching

[barren timber]

Yes that helped thanks. so what caused this problem? combining Framerate FPS Fix Ultimate Engine.ini (FIX THE SLIDESHOW) and Optimized Tweaks S.2 - Reduced Stutter Mouse Fix Improved Performance Lower Latency?

[sage trail]

youtubers doing gods work teaching 100 $ masterclasses for free

[vital coyote]

ive learned photoshop, primier, clipstudio paint, soney vegas, and so much more for free.

menwhile the government is still hunting my ass down for the money i owe them for not wanting to learn english 5 instead of ps on my "graphic arts collage corse"

lerned more on youtube then a year in college

[vital coyote]

imo add the stuff you like and works for you to your ini yourself

[autumn birch]

Question from a noob who just want's to adjust some values in a pak file of a mod. I guess editing the parameter I'm interested in and just saving the file doesn't reallly work right?
As I failed to run the game after saving my changes

[sage trail]

yeah like 70% of my skills are from yt lol

[sage trail]

you have to repak it

[buoyant blaze]

why the fuck are my mutants tinted?

[autumn birch]

thought so

thx

[buoyant blaze]

is this a common issue or a mod issue?

[sage trail]

https://github.com/RiotOreO/unrealpak

use this

[vital coyote]

oop wrong link im still editing it

guid https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1312154196383895702

[sage trail]

yeah good guide, would be cool to have it pinned for future purposes

[buoyant blaze]

do not use unrealpak it does not keep folder structure of mods

[vital coyote]

this tool is goated

[buoyant blaze]

yes, repak is better

unrealpak is not correct

[sage trail]

i have not had any issues

you just have to know what you are doing

[buoyant blaze]

if you use the provided bat files to unpack a mod that is a single config file, it just unpacks that one file without any folders it was supposed to be in

[vital coyote]

i have herd some people having issues with file structure with cirtian tools

[sage trail]

i just use fmodel to figure out the file structure its not that bad

[vital coyote]

i think the issue they have is you can set it up right but it dosnt pack the same

[spring coral]

Hey everyone!

For those who have the "cached pak" issue, where the game seems to load old pak from memory, even if the pak has been deleted or settings in it have changed. It seems like a rare issue, but it just happened to me.

I managed to fix the issue by packing my mods using "uncompressed" method. In fact, the UnrealPak "pack" method has a -compress option which is mostely used by most modders. When removing that option, and packing the mod uncompressed, the "cached pak" issue is gone.

[buoyant blaze]

we are talking about a guy who knows nothing about coding or fmodel or file structures, to you its not a big deal, to these people its another 30 minutes spent here getting snarky replies from gatkeepers who get upset about you using chatGPT to write code

[sage trail]

bro chill

[vital coyote]

tbf this chat is super nice and suportve, i stuck away from the gamma discord for a while because of cancer when doing anomaly stuff

[desert valve]

im so tilted, my mousewheel is broken, and we have now achieved the stage where it scrolls completly without input and the new one should have arrived days ago

[sage trail]

are you using logitech?

[desert valve]

you cant do anything if stuff keeps scrolling all over the fucking place 😄

[desert valve]

sadly, yes

[buoyant blaze]

your first mistake was not having a spare g305 at the ready

[sage trail]

i had the same issue

all you can do is go to g hub and deactive the middle mouse

its so annoying

[buoyant blaze]

Most people here are very supportive, yes, but there's still the odd particulate every once in a while who thinks you don't deserve to ask questions about how to work on your own mod configs.

[desert valve]

this is my 3rd g pro wireless that failed (superlight this time) and instead of bying the superlight 2 i went back to zowie now, maybe it will work a bit longer

[buoyant blaze]

I've just been using g305 again and again

[sage trail]

lol i just got the superlight 2 a couple weeks ago its pretty good

first light mouse ive ever used aswell im never going back now

[buoyant blaze]

I bought some AAA rechargables with the smallest capacity and smallest weight

[desert valve]

yeah same

[desert valve]

i have an adapter from AA to AAA in my mouse at work to get it a bit lighter xD

[craggy heart]

Ah whoops glad you got it working! I forgot to update the signature in one place. Next release all the commits will from from Strelok so if you don't have a git config it won't complain

https://github.com/joe-p/unreal-pak-mod-manager/pull/2

[vital coyote]

ohh yeah i had one cunt here tell me im a fake modder because i had the audacity to say "modding the engine.ini"

[desert valve]

i doubt "The Zone" is a valid email address 😛

[vital coyote]

glad i stuck it out tho was gunna write out the server again seams to be the hub for s2 modding rn

[torn pivot]

editing a text file is considering modding now? 😛 /s

[buoyant blaze]

I have a high tech adapter solution called "a ball of tinfoil"

[vital coyote]

am i modifying that text file

😛

[torn pivot]

see the /s i sneakily added. i know its modding. changing parameters :d

some people are just idiots man. ignore them.

[exotic lagoon]

Flashlight customizer mod

[vital coyote]

lol im not reddit enugh thats the not the first time that /s got me xD

[torn pivot]

fleshlight customiser mod? yes pls

[exotic lagoon]

Check the mod page comments. Some settings do that

[buoyant blaze]

the one that makes me add shadows to the flashlight? Is this a shader problem that a restart might fix or do i have to dump the mod?

[exotic lagoon]

Check the mod page comments

[buoyant blaze]

guess its time for me to run shaders on EPIC

goodbye my sweet FPS

[vital coyote]

what is fps? do they hurt you?

i run my games with that turned all the way down

life is to fast

[desert valve]

@vital coyote you dont know how i can change the ctrl+numpad 6 hotkey of UE4SS by any chance?

i have no keypad 😦

[summer silo]

Man. For a second I thought the game started to load loose files.

[vital coyote]

no but i think there is another way

[summer silo]

No such luck unfortunately

[vital coyote]

let me look that up for now ill dm ya my usmap

[torn pivot]

i want to remove the shitty 50 screenshot binds from uetools. i change the ini but it doesnt change ingame lmao

[crystal ether]

where can i find unreal engine script modding tutorial for this game

[desert valve]

didnt find anything in the settings.ini that comes with it on first glance

[vital coyote]

your totaly right some pple have 60% and i should put in a way to do it without

if there is

[buoyant blaze]

the day we load loose files is gonna become a national stalker holiday

[torn pivot]

use symbol keys on the keyboard, as those are unused.

[craggy heart]

Lol fortunately git doesn't complain about it

[autumn birch]

Thx for the tip, really intuitive guide and I succeeded in my task

[vital coyote]

hell yeah

[desert valve]

yep, very helpful 🙂

[gusty olive]

didnt grok make a mod that rebalances medkits or am I crazy

[vital coyote]

i think so, you mean like minimizing loot drop chance?

[gusty olive]

no i mean make it so medkits dont insta fullheal

likle a balance mod

[vital coyote]

ohh yeah i rember seeing a slower healing mod

[sage trail]

not grok

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/49

[torn pivot]

im making a hardcore difficulty mod as the games too easy now. too many meds on corpses and food that heals you? blyat!

[vital coyote]

^

[sage trail]

i have like 100 medkits in my stash lol

[vital coyote]

cant walk anywhere without tripping over peperoni. game is a sausage fest

[vital coyote]

found it!!!

its in that mods folder

also seams to be the only place ive actualy found documentation on the keybinds to do things

only reason i knew ctrl kp6 was the key was someone on here

[desert valve]

there are a hell of a lot of input actions that dont do anything o.O

[loud mica]

Has anyone messed around with UpgradePrototypes.cfg?
I'm attempting to allow the Cuirass exo to be upgrade with sprint. Doesn't look like I can add another upgrade to the tree, but I'm trying to add another effect to one of the upgrades. As of now I'm not able to get it to show up in-game.

I can send before and after snippets of the section of the .cfg I'm trying to edit if anyone thinks they may be able to help and wants to take a peek at what I've done.

[vital coyote]

yeah ik this is a powerfull tool but dont know much about it yet

have been able to hack into other games to for future ports

[open grove]

Im getting this error for a few files after removing the mod I have been working on and I cant figure out how to fix it? I am installing/uninstalling using nexus and I reinstall the mod, even with this file no longer inlcuded, the issue goes away. Any idea why it wont uninstall clean?

[vital coyote]

same method ue4s and aes dumper

[open grove]

I tried launching the game from steam and verifying game files, issue persists

[torn pivot]

broken formatting probably means structs. are missing maybe due to the latest patch.

thats strange tho

[open grove]

its only an issue after removing my mod. works fine with the mod installed

[vital coyote]

if you use something like the consol mod or the flashligt mod they ignore the mods folder and you can see their files in the pak folder

have anything in there?

[desert valve]

the deeper i dig into the game files the sadder i get, there is so much shit in here they obviously wanted to have in the game but ran out of time

[vital coyote]

binoculars

they are there

think i saw a mini map too

[desert valve]

PDA bestiary and statistics page

[vital coyote]

^^^^^

yeah saw that

i fucking love reading lore stuff

[open grove]

Faction Identification . . .

[vital coyote]

is that in the game files?

thats always been a mod in anomaly

[torn pivot]

what did your mod change?

[open grove]

I found a bunch of references in files for it today. though it could be for other uses

[vital coyote]

ahhhh would make playing without a dam crosshair doable

[torn pivot]

i think they used previous titles gamedata layout as a template to work from as we have nvgs, a life, and many others features which were in the orig trilogy which are not present.

[open grove]

I am trying to mess with the upgrade system for weapons. I was trying to add new upgrades but the NPCPrototypes wont respect new entries in the upgrades lists. Admittedly I did start trying all sorts of stuff to see what would work but nothing did, and now I cant seem to uninstall my changes fully

[open grove]

its really strange because at this point NPCPrototypes.cfg is not in my mod anymore, but I get this error after I uninstall it. No error with it installed

[torn pivot]

it sounds like you edited the main core file as without mod files present there are no changes.

your problem is weird

[vital coyote]

verry

[open grove]

I figured verifying game files and running from steam would have reset anything I changed that I shouldnt have, but alas. Im gonna just run the mod and play for a bit. I couldn't add new upgrades but I was able to totally rebalance the existing ones for my own aims, I'll take it!

[vital coyote]

well

what you can do is find out what pakcunk you changed stuff for was in, move it out of the game folder then verify

not sure if that will work but worth a try

would deff be faster then downloading it all over again

[torn pivot]

just delete the pakchunk and verify and redl the 9gb or however big it is.

sounds like you definately edited and managed to save edits to the pakchunk somehow

[open grove]

I am an overachiever 😄

[vital coyote]

heheh

[open grove]

I will give that a try

[glacial nimbus]

Who's gonna be the Legend that mods in cigarettes, i need a smoke after i pound some vodka lol

[vital coyote]

^

[desert valve]

fmodel can not show me actual decompiled c code though, right?

[scarlet cosmos]

Haha it's okay, it was already pretty funny how I had just started looking into if there was a way to diff/merge mods to check for conflicts and you had released just that an hour before

[thin marsh]

Hello, sorry to bother ya'all, but do we have info about how modding will go ? i heard that the proper tools from GSC will be available for modders at some point soon, will those allow more freedom such as adding new weapons, armors, and actual mods or will we have to just do with PAK files to adjust things for the most part ?

[sage trail]

i doubt what you heard is true but yes an SDK would be a complete gamechanger

[vital coyote]

yeah, we can change most variables and stuff change textures ect with what we have now. using eu5 blueprints has some cool implications and a few have managed to add items to the game. mod tools will be a game changer but i feel no mater what learning the ue5 stuff will be necessary

[graceful tangle]

Has someone found a way to edit XYZ positioning for weapons in hands as it is in classic trilogy? Or is it backed in anim files somewhere?

[torn pivot]

animations.

[thin marsh]

i'm still stuck at the part where GSC told us on their official discord that more information about official mod support would come out soon, if they make it an official thing there will be some sort of tools made available and a will on their part to make it somewhat "accessible"... or so i hope

[sage trail]

i doubt they will release it this early but i would be happy to be proved wrong:P

[vital coyote]

its not that hard rn if you wanna start

[sage trail]

they still havent fixed the game yet its in no place to get mod support in the months to come at least

[vital coyote]

i was under the impression they were releasing them day one, was big sad

[torn pivot]

loooool nah trave

[sage trail]

then they didnt need to fix A Life prob lol

[thin marsh]

would be nice... but yeh with all the current mess to fix they got a ton of work to do

[vital coyote]

haha yeah

[torn pivot]

they said they supporting modding but the sdk is pretty much their hand off version to us, the game needs to be in a better state before they feel comfortable giving us the keys to the mansion

[thin marsh]

another game that will be fixed by modders lmao

[vital coyote]

tbf i dosnt need to be as extream for me to be happy, i just want to see things in my immediate aria for now

[thin marsh]

yeh...

[vital coyote]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/446

this one seams the most promising

[sage trail]

ive heard 50/50 about this one

[desert valve]

why the fuck is headbob not in CameraShakePrototypes.cfg

[vital coyote]

havent tested much but no cpu hit

[thin marsh]

i did a full run of the game and ended it, i am waiting for mods to turn my game into a gamma like experience before i go back in the zone, my first run was a main quest focused one, next one will be a blood and sweat run where i really go and explore everything and all

[vital coyote]

dude i looked for that for a while

[thin marsh]

i'll check it out !

[desert valve]

any findings?

[thin marsh]

got kind of tired of NPC spawning in my back IN A DEAD END TUNNEL

[vital coyote]

there are a few diff versions out they are working hard on it check https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1311758650733236335

[broken wren]

god bless, red color at 1 am anoying

[digital gulch]

#1311758650733236335 message

[sage trail]

i dont think it will ever reach the state gamma is in before modding tools are released

[vital coyote]

no gave up but even asked gpt for help, none of the consol comands work nothing

[sage trail]

maybe a very barebone beta at most

[vital coyote]

i dont even care but ik alot of pple do and wanted it as a project lol

[desert valve]

i cant stand it 😄

[vital coyote]

huh? red color

yeah ik alot of pple do

i like it in games but ive heard some even get motion sick

[thin marsh]

yeh, that's why i am now waiting for modding tools... the game honestly is great but i don't want to explore it all just yet with it in this current state

[vital coyote]

i think its worth tbh ist fucked but im having a blast

was in the same boat "wait for it to be done" but i kept playing

[thin marsh]

i had a blast aswell, knowing there are several endings to get aswell makes me want ot get them all but i'd rather wait to have a proper survival experience

[sage trail]

im just waiting for an official A life fix before continuing

[tawny spade]

hey everyone. I wanted to get into modding stalker 2 to add a Road to Vostok type of gameplay loop into the game, but I have never modded before. I was wondering if anything could point me in the right direction to start learning. I would be much appreciated 🙏 I have UE5.1.1 installed, so I am going to go from here.

[desert valve]

yeah same for me, wanted to wait but kept playing "a little". have 80h now 😄

[thin marsh]

i went through my first full save till the end of the game but without spending much time doing any secondary quest and all, just fulfilled my urge for playing it

[sage trail]

start by editing .pak files to understand the game code before messing with unreal is my suggestion

trave has a good guide

[tawny spade]

alright. thank you

[vital coyote]

i wander mostly

[vital coyote]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1312154196383895702

[tawny spade]

this looks promising. Thank you very much!

[vital coyote]

nw im still learning too but im putting my notes up for everyone 🙂 if you have any sugestions lmk

[rare ruin]

so

does anyone have the SIDs for NPCs?

[vital coyote]

there is a list up somewhere

[rare ruin]

only lists i find are items, weapons, armors, artifacts, etc.

but no npc

[vital coyote]

hmm

[sage trail]

i feel like ive seen one in here

[vital coyote]

i wonder if ue5 has a dumpclasses cmd like doom

[hallow sand]

Oh I got you fam

[vital coyote]

can try this

[thin marsh]

honestly i didn't want to do too much, the game was extremely easy in my opinion even on max difficulty... the only mod i used to make it "easier" was GROK's mutant health balance, simply for the sake of not having bullet sponge enemies... when i put enough lead in a cat to litteraly remove every bits of it's organs but it still runs around... or throw 45, yes 45 grenades right under a pseudo giant to kill him... i'm all for difficulty but via balancing not just "MaKE enEMIes sUPer StrONg, GamE HaRD !"...

[hallow sand]

If they're refered by their names, i sent you it @rare ruin otherwise lemme look a lil more

[rare ruin]

#1310377824007491584 message

i found this, i think this will have to do i think, if it has them all that is

[sage trail]

@rare ruin

i think this is it

[rare ruin]

oop i linked to it as well lmao,

downloading

[sage trail]

lol

[vital coyote]

yeah fr game is uber easy, havent played much but patch seams to have negated the use for the mutant helth feels good so for

one of the only mods ive added myself

[vital coyote]

yoink

[sage trail]

yeah bloodsucker was insane prepatch lmao idk how that went through playtesting

[thin marsh]

definitely...

[vital coyote]

ikr game jurnos played that

[thin marsh]

i still do have a big issue with weight tho, the weight of a few things are beyond ridiculous, reducing mission bound items makes sense from a gameplay perspective, a 12kg scanner is a pain and a very big limitation, but the ammo weight for example is exagerated

[bitter sluice]

can someone whos explored the entire map post a picture of their map?

[vital coyote]

think they toned down the weights.

[thin marsh]

i don't think they changed ammo and consumables tho

[vital coyote]

nahh but there is a mod for that, i personaly dont mind managing weight

pick what you bring

i jusy dont hold onto 500 sausages

[hallow sand]

But they fit so nicely up my... Never mind.

[vital coyote]

i make sure i have 5 meals cause they are everywhere and 20 of each med

[vital coyote]

its got the bumps for pleasure

[torn pivot]

OMFG BOYS, the latest STK2 SPF has fixed the performance in built up areas! MODDERS FTW. ILL ZUK HIS D.

[hallow sand]

downloading it now.

[vital coyote]

STK2 SPF

?

[thin marsh]

i'm all for managing weight too but the ammo weight was just stupid, mostly for rifle rounds from what i saw, medkits are hella heavy too

[torn pivot]

mod for performance fix on nexus, im getting 110 fps in rostok now

[thin marsh]

i know it shouldn't be compared to GAMMA but yeh, i would have like a more GAMMA like experience honestly

[vital coyote]

there are so many lol

[hallow sand]

Soon.

Itll come.

[thin marsh]

i Hope

I Wish

I Pray

[rare ruin]

"there is no NPC named 'x'"

for all of them

maybe i'm using the wrong command

idk

[sage trail]

what command are you using

[rare ruin]

i'm using "XTeleportNPCToPlayer 'x'"

where 'x' is the SID

i need to spawn NPCs in to test a mod

[sage trail]

last time i tried that command it didnt work for me although i was spawning mutants but there shouldnt be a different

might be a diff command but i gave up

[rare ruin]

@shrewd rampart can spawn bloodsuckers

[vital coyote]

here is what the robot says

[sage trail]

did he use that command?

[rare ruin]

wasn't paying attention, I was nose deep into 24k lines of code that I had been troubleshooting for 6 hours with him to work on this mod 😅

[sage trail]

lol

[rare ruin]

i assumed it was that command, as its the one that makes sense

[vital coyote]

which one TT-TT i wanna try

[sage trail]

i think he means this one? https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/9

im not sure either

[vital coyote]

nice, yeah there a bunch i tried looking up what has been updated recently but 7 of em had lmao

[sage trail]

ive personally just been using the top 1 on nexus lol seems to do the job fine

[vital coyote]

i just use my amalgamation of stuff in my own ini

works good but im down to try new stuf f

[rare ruin]

so

the command works

i just spawned a bloodsucker in

[sage trail]

definitely gonna try hte SPF if it does wonders

[vital coyote]

whats the comand

[sage trail]

maybe the sids are wrong somehow ig

[rare ruin]

XTeleportNPCToPlayer NPCSID

[vital coyote]

yoink, ty ty

[rare ruin]

THATS WHAT IT IS

[sage trail]

he said he got this to work

[merry mountain]

XSpawnObjBySID PrototypeSID Rank bDestroyOnOffline Px Py Pz Pitch Yaw Roll

only the first 3 paramters are requiered

[rare ruin]

vi vi vi that is annoying, thank you both

are

are bandits just innately friendly or something

[sage trail]

i think they are most of the time

but then again maybe it has something to do with the rep system im not sure

[desert valve]

bober kurwa!

[spring coral]

Suggestion to admins: Split this channel into 2 channels:

• Modding Support (for questions about how to merge, edit files, essentially newcomers thing)
• Modding Research (for modders sharing ideas, findings, releases etc...)

This channel can get a bit messy some times with a lot of different topics of different kind mixed together. It's hard to filter the content.

@fierce junco @alpine orchid @vale kernel ^

[fierce junco]

I'll pass the message in our chat

[ashen wadi]

Guys which mods for a life are working?

[desert valve]

headbob has to be related to idlesway, i swear it is

[spring coral]

Some news about ALife. A recent patch (either v1.0.1 or 1.0.2) enforced the spawn in the back. ALife Director can now only spawn scenarios outside the player view (aka behind)

[ashen wadi]

I cant decide since the last unnecesary uodate broke sll of them

[spring coral]

If you run in straight line from point A to B, without looking around, you'll encounter NO scenario

[ashen wadi]

Now the zone will feel even more empty

Yaaay

[spring coral]

It looks like devs prefer the player getting constantly jumped on, rather than sometimes see spawn in front of you. All of this is because of the half-baked ALife Director

ALife isn't bugged, it isn't finished. Thus why the POI 5mn respawn timer is hardcoded for 98% of POIs. We will have to wait 6 months to have the real game

[half willow]

anyone knows where the file containing weapon upgrade names and descriptions is located?

[rare ruin]

y'all i am losing my mind over here rn, the itemgenerator this bandit NPC points to is not even FOUND in ItemGeneratorPrototypes

[desert valve]

Stalker2/Content/GameLite/GameData/ItemGeneratorPrototypes/DynamicItemGenerator.cfg

[rare ruin]

are you telling me the 1300+ lines added and edited to ItemGeneratorPrototypes, creating whole new custom generators and all that is a waste because they have this section too

[desert valve]

found this in there:

GeneralNPC_Bandit_CloseCombat_ItemGenerator : struct.begin {refurl=../ItemGeneratorPrototypes.cfg;refkey=[0]}
   SID = GeneralNPC_Bandit_CloseCombat_ItemGenerator
   RefreshTime = 1d
   ItemGenerator : struct.begin
...

[rare ruin]

literally why is this even in here

they already HAVE a generator elsewhere in ItemGeneratorPrototypes, I don't understand

[finite bay]

Really? I've had stuff spawn behind me twice so far in zaton.
Bandit groups of 3

[desert valve]

maybe one generates their gear and the other one the loot?

[rare ruin]

from what I'm seeing they functionally do the same thing

but

[spring coral]

I'm talking about ALife Director (random scenario spawner). Game also have manually placed NPCs, POIs spawns etc...

[rare ruin]

this one is likely for ALife, I guess? the "refreshtime =1d" tells me that

[finite bay]

Middle of a field running away from the boat. On at the edge of swap in the field and the other in a field.
Saw the you have been spotted icon and turned around they were pulling guns off there backs.
I guess it could have been that also.

[spring coral]

yeah looks like it

[spring coral]

Thing is, you won't see them directly in front of you anymore (if you run in straight line). You might think it's in front of you during normal gameplay at occasion (as you might change direction, look around etc...). but technically, they now always spawn in the back

So going from side quest back to main hub to sell stuff = no scenario, because you just run back home

[vital coyote]

added the list of quest id's and npc id's to the guide

[desert valve]

i will let you know there is no sound for walking on PhysicalMaterialType = EPhysicalMaterialType::Bread

[vital coyote]

hahaha bread?

[rare ruin]

highkey lost my mind 💀

okay so

@desert valve you know how you showed me the DynamicItemGenerator

I can't figure out where anything in the game is using the generators put in the normal ItemGeneratorPrototypes.cfg

even the one titled "TraderItemGenerator" seems to point to a TradeTest NPC that's not even in the game

:D

[frozen skiff]

patched dll for debug build exe that GSC shipped with 1.0.2 update, have fun

[desert valve]

what does stuff do?

[vital coyote]

?

im asuming you run the bat and it launches the game

i typically stick away from launching random discord executable files but im hella curios

[frozen skiff]

Gsc shipped test build exe in last update, inside archive is patched dll that allows you to run it and shortcut bat file

[desert valve]

yeah, but in what way does the test build behave differently or what does it allow me to do? 🙂

[frozen skiff]

You can toggle debug spawner in it and console have prompt helper

But inventory is broken xd

[vital coyote]

ahh :/ thats just like the console mod but worse

[desert valve]

interesting, i will have a look at it tomorrow morning!
i have searched for the damn headbob config for 2 hours, i am so tired 😄

came up empty btw.

neither sway nor shake nor sprint have let me anywhere

[vital coyote]

i have a feeling it may be just linked to your player animation like you can see your body your part of your body

[frozen skiff]

You can always read them in notepad first xD

[vital coyote]

heheh yeah true

still wanted to pick your brain on it

[desert valve]

notepad will have trouble opening that dll though 😉

[vital coyote]

brother poped in droped a bat file and left xD

i needed answers

[frozen anvil]

Anyone see the UE4SS flashlight mod? How did the creator find the scene tree for the Spotlight?

[vital coyote]

ive used it but idk any info in the tree he took a picture of

[frozen anvil]

https://share.animistake.com/s/24Cm9Dg35c4mReF/preview

Where does BP_Stalker2Character_C come from?

Intensity was my addition lol

Works

[desert valve]

Stalker2/Content/GameLite/Blueprints/Characters/Player/BP_Stalker2Character.uasset

[frozen anvil]

Is that from scrolling through FModel?

[desert valve]

y

[frozen anvil]

Which pak is that, and how would he have found the ClientRestart hook?

Are people actually just treasure hunting through fmodel?

[vital coyote]

kinda

[rare ruin]

likely unpacked the entire game

[vital coyote]

was thinking of doing that but space

[frozen anvil]

Does unpacking the game just... open it in the editor as if you are a dev?

[rare ruin]

not to my knowledge, no

[vital coyote]

decompresses the game files like a big ass .zip

[desert valve]

{
    "Type": "SpotLightComponent",
    "Name": "SpotLight1_GEN_VARIABLE",
    "Outer": "BP_Stalker2Character_C",
    "Class": "UScriptClass'SpotLightComponent'",
    "Properties": {
      "OuterConeAngle": 80.0,
      "bUseInverseSquaredFalloff": false,
      "LightFalloffExponent": 6.0,
      "InverseExposureBlend": 0.8,
      "AttenuationRadius": 150.0,
      "Temperature": 5200.0,
      "bUseTemperature": true,
      "ContactShadowLength": 0.04,
      "Intensity": 2.5,
      "LightColor": {
        "B": 245,
        "G": 255,
        "R": 255,
        "A": 255,
        "Hex": "FFFFF5"
      },
      "CastShadows": false,
      "IndirectLightingIntensity": 0.0,
      "VolumetricScatteringIntensity": 0.0,
      "RelativeLocation": {
        "X": 0.0,
        "Y": 0.0,
        "Z": 15.0
      },
      "RelativeRotation": {
        "Pitch": -45.0,
        "Yaw": -0.0,
        "Roll": 0.0
      }
    }

[vital coyote]

but if you use fmodle you can just load it all and pick threw it

[desert valve]

do you know how you can search in files rather than names only?

currently doing that via shell in a big data dump

[vital coyote]

like file type?

[frozen anvil]

Howd you find this?

[vital coyote]

only search i know is this

[desert valve]

part of the BP_Stalker2Character.uasset

[frozen anvil]

Which pak is that in?

[frozen skiff]

XToggleDebugTool

[vital coyote]

you know you can load them all right

[desert valve]

i dunno, have them all open in fmodel and i dont know how to see that

[vital coyote]

ohh shit nice

[frozen anvil]

didn't know u could load them all lol

[desert valve]

no like file content xD

[frozen skiff]

the only problem.... inventory - CTD

[vital coyote]

select everything "shift click" and load

[desert valve]

yeah i have, but the search only searches in file names as far as i can tell

[vital coyote]

deff usefull when you need it to, but hella wierd inv is borked

will deff use this how did you find it again?

can do that

[frozen skiff]

GSC shipped it with last update it only required dll patch to bypass dev admin permision check

[desert valve]

your not getting me, i think 😄 i want to be able to seach for SpotLightComponent and find BP_Stalker2Character.uasset

[vital coyote]

ohh like values inside of the file

[desert valve]

right now im doing that with ripgrep which is a bit of a pain

and i cant search in uasset files, my biggest issue

[deft spear]

Is someone working on a mod to add the psychic storm sounds from Gamma and Anomaly? I found them much more oppressive in the older versions.

[vital coyote]

like this sorry im lost xD

[desert valve]

across all files xD

[vital coyote]

ohh ok ok yeah

that seams like a nogo here xD

[unreal knot]

Do I need to change all my mods paths' to:

\Stalker2\Content\Paks~mods
Instead of:
\Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData

Pardon me if this is a stupid question

[vital coyote]

no stupid questions only answers 🙂

[unreal knot]

I meant when repacking, not where to place them, sorry if I wasn't clear :p

[atomic jacinth]

not sure what you mean, are you talking about loose files? the second path is the directory structure inside of a mods pakfile.

[desert valve]

that depends on each file

[vital coyote]

ohh your gunna want to make sure it matches in fmodle

mods shouldnt be a thing so like if i wanted to change this file i would copy where it is

[unreal knot]

I see, well I'm just playing with .cfgs and blueprints for now so

[last spire]

such is life in the zone

[vital coyote]

i havent fucked with blueprints but for cfg's they will have the same file path in fmodle

[last spire]

has anyone noticed that hitting your weapon against crates and breakables reduced its durability, but hitting literally anything else, walls, wood, beams, dead bodies doesnt do jack to it?

[unreal knot]

Speaking of FModel, where's the Mapping file .usmap located at?

[last spire]

maybe theres a way turn that on or its dura hit is set to 0.0 on a per weapon basis

[vital coyote]

you have to make it i have a guide if you like

[unreal knot]

Sure that'd be great

[vital coyote]

im always updating it so more is coming https://rentry.org/TravesS2moddingBible

[desert valve]

apparently the way to go is to export everything to json an than search it via external tools

[unreal knot]

Based thanks <3

[vital coyote]

if you do that lmk how big it is

[desert valve]

stil running xD

[vital coyote]

lmk if there is stuff i should add / change 🙂 https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1312154196383895702

[vital coyote]

rip hd space xD

[desert valve]

you still need to add how to change the hotkey for the non numblock crowd 😉

[vital coyote]

i did

😛

[desert valve]

where 😮

[vital coyote]

ohh wtf suposed to be here

must not have saved it -_- good call

but i figured it out

[desert valve]

export finished, i exported GameLite its about 800mb

[vital coyote]

ohhhh i thought you were doing the whole ass game

[desert valve]

well i wanted to start small-ish

[vital coyote]

might be one of those things you do b4 bed XD

[desert valve]

isnt most of the important stuff in there anyway?

[vital coyote]

looks like it

cfg wise

[magic geyser]

offline alife at work, dunno the logic behind it for now, but it basically switches factions (what to spawn) at each lair

[desert valve]

how do i open the debug shell again?

[magic geyser]

XToggleDebugTool

[desert valve]

to enter that i have to open the debug shell first xD

i remember a config that needed to be changed in order to set the hotkey, is that true for this test build as well?

[magic geyser]

you mean the console, i suppose. press /, no need to edit anything

[desert valve]

/ is shift + 7 for me

[last spire]

the package quest in zaton is bugged now ffs

[desert valve]

its left of the right shift, not working for me though

[last spire]

dialogue wont prop up for completion, instead you ask him about the mission again and it softlocks

[torn pivot]

loads of quests are bugged. i just got to scar in malachites secret entrance and he's aggroed on me blapping me with his weak ass melee and gauss gun, i cant return fire as the game is protecting him with vanishing grenades and blocking me from shooting him. I cant be fucked doing another playthrough to experience the same game breaking bugs so i think imma call it and leave this for a few months.

[last spire]

[torn pivot]

enjoy the shit show people!

[desert valve]

cant get it to open 😦

[shrewd rampart]

Wait people got debug tool to work in-game? 😮

[vital coyote]

this is what homeboy sent

i havent fucked with it yet but seams powerfull

[desert valve]

id love to play with it but i cant open the damn console

[summer silo]

stalker2tweak lets you open the console

[desert valve]

installed UETools now...

[vital coyote]

to save on space uncheck all the ios android stuff

[desert valve]

oh hell ya you can do cool shit

[vital coyote]

will be like 40gigs or some shit

[loud peak]

Does anyone have a weapons spreadsheet for stalker 2?

I saw one in the first days but can't find any

[vital coyote]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/345?tab=description

think this has what you need

[frozen skiff]

can someone pls pack this uasset to pak utoc and ucas mod?

cuz I can't understand how to do it throught rezen, it just crashes with "oh... I can't find a file I had to make bro"

[vital coyote]

rezen?

[loud peak]

I was thinking more on a weapons stats spreadsheet, like dmg, accuracy and so on

[frozen skiff]

yes, UnrealReZen

[vital coyote]

not sure what that tool is

but what i use is super simple

[frozen skiff]

nah it's uasset it shuld be inside ucas

[vital coyote]

ahhh yeah havent fucked with that yet

[frozen skiff]

yeah you used repak and it wouldn't work

[frozen skiff]

oh, have you found the way to fix inventory crash?

[vital coyote]

yeah havent messed with that yet my b

[frozen skiff]

without using full packchunk16 from 1.0.0

[untold pilot]

are there some mods known to cause crash when u get close to town?

[frozen skiff]

nope

[vital coyote]

we need a fucking 7z like program for this shit -_- why so fucking complicated

[fallen umbra]

I’m not sure how to merge these two conflicting mods. Can anyone help?

[vital coyote]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1312154196383895702

that shows the manual aproach lol

[desert valve]

loading is also somewhat borked

[vital coyote]

should be just one cfg you have to change for that

[frozen skiff]

wdym?

[vital coyote]

and only like 2 lines

[fallen umbra]

Ok i will try it thanks!

[desert valve]

just try quickloading and you will see 😄

[magic osprey]

i'm guessing a mod for darker nights would be harder than just cfgs right? i see a lot of files for lighting curves

[vital coyote]

not sure if that worked xD

[vital coyote]

it says its a ucas file

[frozen skiff]

well... it loaded

nothing is broken

[desert valve]

weird, does not work at all for me, game just hangs

and i can only teleport once, 2nd time it loads forever

but is fun playing around with stuff

headbob is definitely not an effect like camera shake

[fallen umbra]

Ok its done , my first time 🙂

[vital coyote]

fuck yeah man!!

🙂

[frozen skiff]

nah didn't worked (

[vital coyote]

haha kk word just got a spur of the moment "what if"

[frozen skiff]

guess we need to restore full packchunk16 to get working inventory in debug mode (

hope the only change GSC made there is trade window fix

[frozen skiff]

packchunk16 backup from 1.0.0 to fix inventory crash https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bhlaRqpicv6iQpU960hVpfsoSkiNcPYW/view

[idle sun]

can someone tell me what this means im dumb

[vital coyote]

i still have a full 1.0 install rn

if you need anything

[frozen skiff]

Alife tab in debug

there is no Alife

confirmed

[desert valve]

yeah saw that earlier 😄

[mint wraith]

the alife tab is the friends we made along the way

[desert valve]

so no friens? 😦

[vital coyote]

nope just a bunch of drunk slavs that spawn behind you and steal all your diet sausage

[half willow]

I'm wondering if there is a way to edit the game .cfg files without completely replacing them (causing compatibiliy issues), so I started digging:

I saw the DLC files refering to ingame files this way:
{refurl=../../../GameData/ItemPrototypes/ArmorPrototypes.cfg; refkey=SEVA_Neutral_Armor}

From what I understand they are using the reference to the ArmorPrototypes.cfg file to create a new entry linking back to it.
Now I'm wondering if it can be used to replace a specific part of the file:

For example, If I wanted to add an additional effect to a gun upgrade, could I use something like:

   EffectPrototypeSIDs : struct.begin
     [0] = DurabilityPos20Effect
     [1] = ChangeCaliber045Effect
     [2] = ChangeAmmoTypesNo919Effect
     [3] = ChangeAmmoTypes045Effect
  struct.end
struct.end```

I've tried it myself but couldn't get it to work, maybe someone smarter than me can try?

[atomic jacinth]

probably need a working flashlight before messing with darkness in the game 😮

[desert valve]

if i understand the refkey mechanic correctly its more of an "extends"

so i does not manipilate the reference but creates a new one

[shrewd rampart]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d4EiByG4LPFOFsgm0pecfYVAtZ4n3Mtsm1rNGYCIboI/edit?usp=sharing
Working on a diff mod and a weapons mod, and most likely will merge in some of your changes to dispersion etc, credit will be given ofc.
Happy to share.

[half willow]

Yeah, that's what I'm trying to figure out

[loud peak]

THANK YOU A LOT FOR THAT <3. check this if you can -> #1310783779337539605 message

[half willow]

Cause theoretically what happens if you have two "objects" with the same names, ids etc. but different values, which one does it choose

[desert valve]

oh i see what you are trying to do

[half willow]

The way I see it:
a) the game fucking dies cause it sees 2 of the same things
b) it uses the last thing it sees
c) it uses the first thing it sees

[desert valve]

d) it gets stuck in a loop (very unlikely)

[half willow]

I've tried it but idk if it's not working because I'm a retard or if it's option c)

[magic osprey]

flashlight customizer lets you add flashlight shadows and inrease the flashlight distance

[desert valve]

maybe try something that easier to validate first? :>

[vital coyote]

oooo is this all base game stats?

[half willow]

I mean what I would love to validate is if the mod even fucking loads when I open the game, but it's not like it logs what is being loaded (i think)

[shrewd rampart]

In-theory most of the relevant ones. Not 100% accurate, but like 90% accuracy perhaps to what's in the game atm.

Kinda going to be comparing different mods, and decide later what I want from the weapons on my own difficulty "mod/pack".

[desert valve]

am i blind or are penetration values missing atm? 🙂

[vital coyote]

word this is a good resorce to have mind if i link to the doc in my guid?

[desert valve]

*guide

[vital coyote]

e

[shrewd rampart]

"AP" I started using abbreviations cause it started being too big of a doc.

[shrewd rampart]

Not at all, go ahead, I'll keep updating it probably.

[vital coyote]

hell yeah!

[shrewd rampart]

Work in progress docs/sheets all around

[desert valve]

ohh "AP Multi"? multi of what? 🙂

the ammo?

[rare ruin]

i am going to get food in me, then suck it up, and re-make my entire mod again inside of the current existing DynamicItemGenerators.

[desert valve]

maybe test with a couple changes first before doing the whole file again :X

[rare ruin]

whole thing all in one go

[shrewd rampart]

Base weapon multiplier for armour penetration, the ammo's are not yet in the spreadsheet, maybe I should make one too.
I kinda still want HP and AP ammo to be useful with the rebalance I am planning for myself.

Usually though from what I've last checked in the files- HP (Hollow Poinnt) increases base damage multiplier, while reducing armour pen multiplier.
Whilst AP (Armour penetration) increases penetration multiplier, and seems to keep base damage?

[last spire]

does the game have regional pricing?

[half willow]

yes

[last spire]

cause shit is more expensive in zaton

first detector sold for 600, now 2000

[half willow]

oh

[desert valve]

i though you meant irl...

[last spire]

ingame yea

lol

[half willow]

hahah

yeah i also thought irl

then idk

but I think there is a hidden rep system

like when your traders are green etc

they should give better prices etc.

[last spire]

its all neutral

[half willow]

it might be

but the values that you dont see could be different

[last spire]

i went out of the lesser zone straight to the 2 ships near swamps

and i see base prices are higher

[half willow]

like for example 0 is neutral rep, and 1000 is friendly, so if you have like 600 it would still show as neutral, but prices can be different (just speculation btw i have no clue)

[rare ruin]

I haven't gotten up still

[last spire]

also, exi, do you know where i can modify weird ball's effect

[desert valve]

yeah well, i wanted to go to bed like 2 hours ago... 😄

not everything turns out the way its supposed to^^

[rare ruin]

That is so damn real

[desert valve]

in my pants

[last spire]

hand it over

its weak, insufficient and frail

[desert valve]

😢

[rare ruin]

Uhhhh let me think

Check ArtifactPrototypes

[last spire]

i have, nothing stands out

[rare ruin]

Let me get back upstairs after i make these chicken sandwiches

[last spire]

i want to increase its damage mitigation as its useless with 1:1 weapon values

[crimson laurel]

damn it has the mod browser ui button but doesnt work

[winged hemlock]

Hello, anyone did Bingo achievment on a new patch?

[rare ruin]

I saw in i think ConsumablePrototypes there was a "WeirdBall" effect, you could check WeaponPrototypes

PlayerWeaponAttributes

Etc.

[last spire]

good call

thanks

[rare ruin]

Np!

[frozen skiff]

at least it has ultrapotato mode

[vital coyote]

you know slap a retro filter on and call it a day

[desert valve]

AArtifactWeirdBall : struct.begin {refkey=TemplateArtifact}
   SID = AArtifactWeirdBall
   Icon = Texture2D'/Game/GameLite/FPS_Game/UIRemaster/UITextures/Inventory/Artifacts/Weird_Ball.Weird_Ball'
   AnomalyElementType = EAnomalyElementType::Chemical
   ArtifactType = EArtifactType::Chemical
   ArchiartifactType = EArchiartifactType::Ball
   Rarity = EArtifactRarity::Epic
   MaxStackCount = 1
   Weight = 0.3
   Radius = 10
   Cost = 12000.0
   DetectorRequired = false
   Strafe = false
   DamageToStaminaCoefficient = 1.0
   DamageToWeightCoefficient = 0.1
   MinWeight = 0.5
   MaxWeight = 5.0
   WeightDecreaseDelay = 0.0
   WeightDecreaseRate = 10.0
   WeightDecreaseAmount = 0.1
   Blueprint = Blueprint'/Game/GameLite/Blueprints/Artifact/ArchiAnomaly/BP_AArtifactBall.BP_AArtifactBall'
   SoundStateTransitionOnHide = AkAudioEvent'/Game/_STALKER2/Audio/WwiseAudio/Events/Artifacts/SFX_Artifact_Idle_Stop.SFX_Artifact_Idle_Stop'
   SoundStateTransitionOnShow = AkAudioEvent'/Game/_STALKER2/Audio/WwiseAudio/Events/Artifacts/SFX_Artifact_Idle_Play.SFX_Artifact_Idle_Play'
   ArtifactTypeSwitch = AkSwitchValue'/Game/_STALKER2/Audio/WwiseAudio/Switches/Artifacts/ArtifactType/ArtifactType-RingOmnipotence.ArtifactType-RingOmnipotence'
ViewOffset : struct.begin
      X = 0.0
      Y = 2.0
      Z = 0.0
   struct.end
struct.end

Stalker2/Content/GameLite/GameData/ItemPrototypes/ArtifactPrototypes.cfg it is

[rare ruin]

Matphong_0

[frozen skiff]

damn without Lumen and with good old coocked light I could get stable 90 fps in this game

without FG

[last spire]

ye ik bout that, but nothing about strike prot or damage reduction

[crimson laurel]

yeh i disabled lumen cus lumen fries my pc

[last spire]

was surprising to learn its chemical tho

[frozen skiff]

we can disable it... but there is nothing instead in game (((

[vital coyote]

yeah no lighting that isnt raytraced -_-

[frozen skiff]

it's not even hardware raytraced

it's fucin screen space software raytraced

[vital coyote]

fuck it amr its a next gen tital

/s

or whatever

[frozen skiff]

and that's why it looks like shit, produces weird light and have a shittone of ghosting

[vital coyote]

i hate it with a firy passion

[bitter sluice]

concrete bath anomaly outside playable area

[frozen skiff]

I have 4070... I wanna my belowed Nvidia RTX

not this lumen ue shit

[vital coyote]

its not even that good looking, not as good looking as smooth fps

[crimson laurel]

you can disable it and still look good, but inside stuff oyu wont get the shadows and stuff, its as if you were outside

[desert valve]

i c, not finding it either

[frozen skiff]

I know, by disabling indirect light

it will looks like static in SoC

[half willow]

wdym I love the lighting

[last spire]

cant see shit in pripyat

[vital coyote]

bro that shit is next gen right der mhm

[frozen skiff]

next genZ

[vital coyote]

totaly worth my pc shitting itself instead of doing normal lighting and having it as an option / addon

[last spire]

https://tenor.com/view/andrew-hussie-insane-crazy-knife-bartys-brew-ha-ha-gif-24652525

u dont get a choice

[vital coyote]

it puts hype words in our ign articals

[half willow]

hell yeah get me more of them rays chief

[vital coyote]

my brain aint big enough to recompile s2 in unreal engine lol

[last spire]

cant find this damn effect for the life of me

this artifact is 100% bait

[crimson laurel]

hardware raytraced would be even worse on lower end rtx cards

[vital coyote]

yeah was reading that

[half willow]

yeah but like just make it a toggle

[crimson laurel]

250gb game instead of 155gb

gimme pls

[vital coyote]

or just do normal lighting and toggle lumen like other games

[last spire]

shoutout to Vortex Dude

[vital coyote]

ever space 2 had it, when im streaming i turn it off for performance, when im not i turn it on for the 10% boost in prettiness

[distant holly]

Does anyone know if adding ref code after the struct.begin or doing it below it has any differences in how they are treated? And does anyone even changes those?

[frozen skiff]

wouldn't cuz right now lightning is broken, default software mode computs a shittone of stuff that game simply don't use, for example it calculates lightning for deformable map meshes

and there is no fucking deformable stuff in game

[shrewd rampart]

I only see the potential for formatting error.

[vital coyote]

wdym the whole game is deformed

[distant holly]

Yeah well hopefully formatting doesn't actually do anything.

[frozen skiff]

that's why polycount x3 when lightning is turned on

[distant holly]

Because new merge tool will reformat whole configuration file when doing the merge.

[shrewd rampart]

As long as it's consistent to what the compiler is expecting when loading the game/checking if valid etc.
I've had cases where a single extra space broke a mod, and I've had cases where a compiler expected a single tab that I deleted after reformatting whole thing to spaces. Kinda been helping out people manually with formatting errors for a few days now, @rare ruin can attest to that I think. lol

If only... the cfgs would be consistently written. If only.

At the very least, if it's not happy with structs, it'll tell you roughly the lines it's not happy with.
But with formatting errors, good luck- it just tells you there is one somewhere. 🙂

Need to test out @atomic jacinth's formatter to see if it breaks or fixes things.

#1311958737027862648 message

[distant holly]

I assumed formatting doesn't matter because of those inconsistencies

[shrewd rampart]

It's totally insane, but if you remove that "inconsistency" -> you get a formatting error because the game is packaged with the expectation that that inconsistency will be there when you load the game. It's insanity, I hope GSC reformats their whole GameData at some point to be 100% consistent to a format we can use.

[rare ruin]

do not remind me of 24k line cfg you and I had to sift through to look for the errors 💀

just for the final solution to be REWRITING my 900+ line additions by hand because the game was crying about it being pasted for whatever reason every now and then

oh yeah, struct 180 and 181 are fine pasted in, oh but this 182? what the hell is this?

[shrewd rampart]

Write 25-50 lines -> save and check it works -> repeat until you reach 900.
In the future don't just immediately go in for a few hours and change things without testing ;P

[rare ruin]

seeing "the files match" is literally insane btw

like how

see but the real question is where in the files do the NPCs that use the ItemGenerators I edited reside

because there is no way there is just one giant cfg of bloat

[half willow]

the files match 😃 👍

[slate locust]

Hey guys, how do you listen to. uasset audio files?

[rare ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/war-vietnam-ptsd-shell-shock-moment-gif-3022747568394546158

[distant holly]

why do I need a 123 gb of free memory to apply a patch

what is this shit

[half willow]

updet 😃 👍

payday 2 did the same thing

[livid spire]

But payday 2 isnt the same game

[half willow]

yeah but its a similar caliber of developers

[livid spire]

Its an entirely different game, this is a very big problem you never need 125GB of free space for a patch, bigger games havent even done this before

AND THIS IS A VERY BIG GAME

STALKER 2 IF YOUR LISTENING, ILL BE AT YOUR DOORSTEP IN 4 MINUTES

[rare ruin]

"stoooooop fightinnnnnnggggggggg"

[livid spire]

WHY DID YOUR PATCH UNINSTALL MY GAME FROM MY XBOX.

I GOTTA REINSTALL 150GB OF “GOOD HUNTING STALKER” ONLY TO FIND OUT YOU CORRUPTED MY SAVE

..I WAS AT THE ENDING OF THE GAME.

🥺 do you know how many hours I put into that?

HOW MANY SCREAMS AND HOW MANY FUCKS AND SHITS AND FUCK YOUS I PUT INTO THAT SINGLE GAMEPLAY.

TO MANY FOR IT TO CORRUPT

[distant holly]

Do you remember the name of the configuration file that you tried to modify? I just tested it and my game didn't seem to care that new configuration file suddenly lost all indents.

[shrewd rampart]

Idk why, but I need 120gb, then another 120gb for it to "move files". So a total of 240 gb is needed. Cursed.

[livid spire]

Not even 76 patches are this bad.

[shrewd rampart]

Add random spaces after some values, and before some structs, and try again?

[distant holly]

probably because your download folder is on a different drive from where your game folder is or something

[distant holly]

by spaces you mean new lines or just whitespaces?

[shrewd rampart]

trailing whitespaces
indent spaces
tab somewhere before a struct etc

If that doesn't break it but breaks it for us, then that's bizzarre.

[shrewd rampart]

@rare ruin do you remember which file had that random tab in the original file? think we found two or three, but I forgot the names.
Been a few days now since workin on that one.

[rare ruin]

i sent it someone, let me see

[distant holly]

Send me the broken version if you can find it

[rare ruin]

UpgradePrototypes.cfg

[distant holly]

Do you have the file itself by any chance?

[rare ruin]

the vanilla one right here

[shrewd rampart]

So in theory if you change all tabs to spaces in that one -> should be formatting error too? iirc I had other changes that modify the upgrades in mine.
Then I had to change just that one or two lines from spaces to a tab instead. (and then it worked).

Let me see if I can find it, that was before I was working in github so I probably don't have a backup of it

[distant holly]

how do I check if file is broken? Will game not load or something?

[rare ruin]

it will say "You have broken formatting in 'x'. Format it?"

'x' is the name of the file ofc

[distant holly]

does it works fine after formatting?

[rare ruin]

clicking yes does nothing, you would have to go and find where there is supposed to be a tab and re-add that for it to pass the check

[shrewd rampart]

#╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message See this too

[rare ruin]

for example, if someone gets rid of that tab, and places spaces instead, which someone may do because its all spaces otherwise, they'd break formatting and pull their hair out until they find where they got rid of a, for whatever reason, needed tab.

[shrewd rampart]

If it does anything it's not saving it afaik because I've done a test where I had a formatting error on purpose, then I clicked format -> then I extracted the file from the game to see "the formatting process" and there was no visible changes from the extracted file vs the mod file I packed with. So... 🤷‍♂️ Means the next user that imports your mod/loads it will have the same error in theory.

[spark plinth]

Hello there, trying to add all attachments to all weapons here. starting with the M860 I got it to use the RU Colli but it's not in the right sight picture.

[atomic jacinth]

configs are 3 spaces per indent, that's why, not 4. not sure where you're seeing 16?

[distant holly]

I legit cannot tell if it's a screenshot from gamma or stalker 2

[spark plinth]

stlaker 2, I know, we got GAMMA too updated with nex gen stuff.

[shrewd rampart]

Ignore that honestly, I am used to 4 spaces being the standard for anything related to C++ (UE Blueprint Structs are btw)
So when you code, it's tabs for indentation, 1 or 2 spaces or none at all to align depending on team environment.
But Stalker 2 cfgs are sometimes 3 spaces, sometimes 2 spaces, sometimes 4 spaces. Inconsistent between files.

[atomic jacinth]

ahh fair, I've seen all the ones I've opened show up as 3.

[shrewd rampart]

Fact, I've not seen it be any different ever since I swapped to VSCode and your CFG plugin.

Before I was using notepad++ and it was inconsistent

[lapis harness]

Hey guys, has anyone figured out if it's possible to move with XToggleFreeCamera or debug camera?

[shrewd rampart]

Check AIGlobals.cfg - For me it's 2 spaces

[shrewd rampart]

Also not sure how much of a difference it means, some cfgs are encoded for "UTF-8", while others for "UTF-8 with BOM"

[vital coyote]

i use the photomode mod for free cam its pretty nice

[atomic jacinth]

look it up online 🙂 there's a difference.

[rare ruin]

quite literally, what did you even do to get this work

[bronze sparrow]

Does ammo have their own stats in a config file somewhere or is it hardcoded into the game?

[cyan basalt]

https://i.imgur.com/MTHzez2.png
https://i.imgur.com/ORJTH3i.png

failing to import some assets to UE

assuming they need to be cooked?

just trying to export artifacts to .fbx

[distant holly]

yeah it does that when I do it by hand

but when merger doing it it works fine

[cyan basalt]

or rather - how DO i cook a ueasset? realistically just trying to extract artifacts to fbx or obj etc

[shrewd rampart]

I am still hellbent on doing the merges manually myself by hand.
But if I were to give in, which one(s) would you recommend?

[distant holly]

I'm currently fixing my one https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1310813942989459517
It works fine if there are no added/deleted lines in conflicted files, but if there are and another mod modifes values after those lines it fails to merge them properly.

So I wrote a serializer/deserializer for config files to fix it, still working on the merging part of two config objects.

[vital coyote]

should make one that opens notepad++ compair lol

when 2 cfgs are the same

[shrewd rampart]

Is this specifically for merging two mods together, or can this also be used to preview changes from what the mod does vs an original file of the game too?

[distant holly]

With deserializer I now have a whole changes history, which mod changed what value in which struct

[vital coyote]

still gotta give it a try im also hellbent on manual lol

granted i keep my game pretty unmodded with only a handfull and only mess with mods temporarily to look at em

[distant holly]

It meres only conflicted configuration files and creates a new mod with only those files, so that they will override those files from other mods. You can merge your mod with itseft by having two copies of it, and it will basically display you the changes between the original file and file from mod.

[rare ruin]

y'all

i'm looking in DynamicItemGenerator

I found the final boss

[distant holly]

Still working on it, be careful when merging mods that change lot of lines

[rare ruin]

what the hell are these tabs here for

[vital coyote]

ahh thats neat i like that, can still do my thang excited to see how it goes

[shrewd rampart]

Think my NPCPrototypes changes around 5000 to 7000 lines. I'll hold off for a bit 😄
It was my attempt at making all upgrades buyable from any technician. Spoiler alert, it did not work. Assumption it's hardcoded.

[distant holly]

can you send it to me? I want to test my merger on it

[shrewd rampart]

Sure, I'd wish I saved all the other versions of it.

[shrewd rampart]

Here's additional info on it.
Brb while I fetch the file

[vital coyote]

see im a dude who likes to make things purdy i fucks with textures and ui files and some 3d things, when im feeling spicy i attempt animation all this code is big brain sheet my smol brain cant mesh with

[clear mountain]

Yeah, I've tested it

[shrewd rampart]

If someone can figure out how to create an enum for ENPCType::AllTechnician instead of Technician then it could in theory work.

[distant holly]

I've reformatted corrupted file with merger and it fixed it

[shrewd rampart]

If you found a way to auto-fix formatting errors. It's time to use your tool too 😄

[clear mountain]

Enums are defined in c++ script, so it is nigh impossible maybe?

[distant holly]

Here's my serializer if you are interested in making a tool just for reformatting. It's in c#

[wanton nova]

Curious quick question. Is it possible to replace audio given this is a UE5 game. Thanks!

[vital coyote]

yes

there are a few mods that do

[shrewd rampart]

This is my last work in progress on the Technician/NPC stuff. I am currently 120gb patching the game, so... can't check how far I got with them last time, all I know is the loading screen is a lot longer with this many array entries. And I think I fixed most formatting errors so in theory it shouldn't even- crash? :).

[wanton nova]

Would you have any sort of write ups? I use to rip Dead By Daylight .Wem files back in the day so Im not too unfamiliar, but I have a great mod idea. I'd like to replace some of the ambiant music with the HBO Chernobyl OST. its too good to not do it hah. Thanks for your response

[spark plinth]

Good news, I got it to work with the AR416

[clear mountain]

good

[vital coyote]

not sure what you mean by write ups but you can yoink files from the game with Fmodle

and would be dank that show was dope

[wanton nova]

Yeah Im familiar with Umodel and grabbing the AES keys, its a matter of repacking. I imagine repacker is all I would need. The next problem is finding the right .wem since they're numbered. I had a look already using fmodel

[vital coyote]

ohh there are a few tools for that simplest one i found works like this

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/398

[shrewd rampart]

Bit too technical for me atm to be working on the tools/scripts for modding workflows 😛
I am trying to stay lightweight and just stick to .cfgs in my free time which will soon expire.
All the technical shit is reserved for paid work only 🙂

[wanton nova]

thanks Trave I appreciate the info.

[distant holly]

Did you added 20k lines to NPCPrototypes or is it my merger not wokring?

[vital coyote]

o7 hell yeah man

[shrewd rampart]

Might've 👀

[rare ruin]

what the hell did you do to get this working I tried for so long in different ways

[shrewd rampart]

I also used regex expressions to delete upgrades/requirements etc.

So theres... tens of thousands of changes in that one .pak file.

[distant holly]

you can download it and open in browser too see what my merged has done to it

[spark plinth]

It only looks weird here, but an acceptable sacrifice.

[torn haven]

have u tried replacing models with more accurate ones and animations?

[shrewd rampart]

Awesome! I love the html preview

[spark plinth]

If I knew how to do that, I would.

[distant holly]

provided to you by github copilot

[vital coyote]

there has been a tone of pple that have tried an you have suceeded, this is great work man o7

[clear mountain]

Did you change stuff inside WeaponGeneralSetupPrototypes.cfg?

[torn haven]

maybe someone can use the models from gammas guns and port them for unreal

[rare ruin]

that is actually so crazy, I tried doing this through attachprototypes, upgradeprototypes, tried making it automatically equipped

[distant holly]

my personal frontend developer

[spark plinth]

I edited WeaponGeneralSetupPrototypes.cfg

[clear mountain]

[2] : struct.begin
AttachPrototypeSID = EN_GoloScope_1
WeaponSpecificIcon = Texture2D'/Game/GameLite/FPS_Game/UIRemaster/UITextures/Inventory/WeaponAndAttachments/M16/T_inv_w_m16_en_goloscope_1.T_inv_w_m16_en_goloscope_1'
Socket = GoloScopeSocket
IconPosX = 155
IconPosY = 9
struct.end

you can change IconPos, wouldn't you

[spark plinth]

yes

[shrewd rampart]

Started using ChatGPT recently the paid version, and it's pretty amazing when you know what to ask for.
Certainly helped me with automating a lot of these changes

[rare ruin]

😩

i didn't even have that config in there damn, that's a great find @spark plinth great job!

[spark plinth]

working on it

[clear mountain]

yeaa its in Stalker2/Content/GameLite/GameData/WeaponData/WeaponGeneralSetupPrototypes.cfg, I found it when I try to add new upgrades

[rare ruin]

i knew of it I just didn't think it would be there 💀

[clear mountain]

well all stuff regarding guns are there

upgrades attachments maxammo

[rare ruin]

there is also weapon prototypes tbf

and in that cfg there's a bunch of attachments and what guns they fit

[clear mountain]

ah yes, WeaponPrototype.cfg

which references general setup

[rare ruin]

wait no not that one

man there's like

5 different cfgs in here I tested

just not that one

it was AttachPrototype is what I was thinking of

[clear mountain]

it just defines attachments iirc

[spark plinth]

I'm only missing moving it in the PDA image

[rare ruin]

it does, but it also defines what fits with the attachment, and if you add the gun to that list, it will add it to the description of the attachment where it tells you what it fits on

[clear mountain]

[clear mountain]

yeah, looks like it's just only for description

[unreal glacier]

Does every member of an enemy squad have a chance to throw a grenade, or is there some group diceroll that happens?