╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[atomic jacinth]

each member, and it defaults to like 100% chance with like a 30 second cooldown or something

[unreal glacier]

Jeez, so a squad of 4 could potentially throw 4 grenades every 30 seconds?

[clear mountain]

100% change. 25(float) sec cooldown, 4.5f sec explode time

[atomic jacinth]

yeah that's why there's a mod to reduce throw chance

[unreal glacier]

I saw those, wanted to try my own hand at tweaking the numbers to something that feels more immersive to me

The first less grenades mod actually broke grenade throwing, so I haven't seen them throw grenades in a few days

read somewhere it had to do with a .f being left out or something

[clear mountain]

maybe check this
TossLocationRadiusOffset = 150.f

would be a less precise throwing if you increase the number

or cooldown to 300sec or higher

[unreal glacier]

oh wow, that'd be nice to change too, thanks

do they roll their chance to throw grenades at the start of the engagement, or after one cooldown has elapsed?

[clear mountain]

I don't know what's the measure of that line

[clear mountain]

know nothing about it

[unreal glacier]

looks like it's measured in F's ||/jk||

[clear mountain]

AttackConditions : struct.begin
StartAttackMinDistance = 1500.f
StartAttackMaxDistance = 4000.f
StartAttackMaxAngle = 90.f
struct.end

[clear mountain]

feet?

[unreal glacier]

I was thinking of some other kinda F, as in how few F's they have to give about killing you on the first try

As you can see, there's an inverse relationship between number of F's and kill probability

[clear mountain]

oh

1.f is one centimeter

so 4000.f is 40 meters

[unreal glacier]

so if you set the max attack distance to like 10000, then they'll be chucking nades for 1 kilometer?

[clear mountain]

100 meters are 0.1 kilometers tho

[unreal glacier]

oh

right, I meant 100000

[clear mountain]

only if they notice you at 1km and dont get despawned it should be

and render and optimization issues blahblah

[unreal glacier]

dang

is there any other factor that limits how far they can actually throw other than the distance at which they'll try?

[clear mountain]

maybe TimeToExplode = 4.5f?

[unreal glacier]

does that start when they throw it or when it hits the ground

[clear mountain]

idk

you can test it with modifying it to 0.001f

[unreal glacier]

oh no

would blow up in their face 🤣

possibly

[clear mountain]

or impact fuze nade

for hardcore gameplay

[unreal glacier]

oh jeez

[rotund kiln]

hello nooby here do i delete current addons before updating the game?

[atomic jacinth]

no you don't

but mods might reverts some of the fixes from the patch

[rotund kiln]

oh ok i just have the mutant mod, weight adjustment mod, and increased melee rage mod

thanks for your help

[gray stream]

okay so its driving me nuts here. Where do you find the editable config files? Everyone just points me to mods. I want the game files please.

[atomic jacinth]

check the pinned post

[spark plinth]

A Vintar without a scope? Rail incoming

[deep ridge]

anyone have experience with creating a .ufont

I was able to change the games consol font, but i want to edit the in game font

its all .ufont and it seems nothing online will point me in the direction other than it has to do with unreal

[shrewd rampart]

Are you adding the rails as an upgrade to the weapon? or preinstalling the rail as part of the weapon prototypes etc?

[distant holly]

What are those asterisks stand for?

[spark plinth]

upgrade like on Lavina

[shrewd rampart]

If you're getting those to work properly, I'll be interested. As there's a huge need to fix the experience of finding a weapon and an attachment just to be "well that ain't compatible" and be disappointed. 🙂

[spark plinth]

AGreed

[shrewd rampart]

Pre-installed, or buyable from a technician?

[spark plinth]

Im setting it up just like lavina. pre installed iron sights and you have to get a technician to install the rail.

[wooden birch]

have u tried with custom attachments?

[torn haven]

shouldn’t you work out gun disassembly before making attachments for guns that don’t allow it game currently coz of issues it might cause idk

[shrewd rampart]

Have you tried to make scopes/rail attachments upgrade by any chance for stuff like weapons that don't by default have it?
i.e putting a red dot on a PM for e.g or skif's pistol or something along those lines?

[wooden birch]

idk if its possible rn

[spark plinth]

If I had the knowledge of using UE5 I would.

Same response to you @shrewd rampart

I can try and self teach but no promises

[shrewd rampart]

Cool, only reason I am asking this is cause I've had problems with getting TechnicianNPCs to actually do more custom shit, and I just wondered if you made a breakthrough by any chance on it. The upgrades list/ranks seem to be hardcoded from my experience of tinkering with it for like a full day.

[spark plinth]

For example, there are two grips in game. I find it odd the devs choose to use them as technician upgrades rather than purchasable attachments.

[compact furnace]

Lack of time for animating putting them on or off?

[spark plinth]

But yes on the under barrel grenade/shotgun launchers?

[spark plinth]

I’ll try do some magic happen

Because they are animated

Just gotta make em an attachment instead

[rare ruin]

@distant holly i was looking at a cfg in notepad++

look what @shrewd rampart saw, specifically around line 14327

[atomic jacinth]

14329 looks odd too. spaces and the tab are on the previous line

[rare ruin]

this is a fullscreen window too

[distant holly]

Nah that's nothing, take a look at this shit. How the fuck do I identify those array items.

[atomic jacinth]

I think it's a set, and saying that the rifle has no attachment compatibilities

I have a feeling they just left in the templates.

[rare ruin]

this stuff is actually kind of crazy tbh

because its even in my cfg here

[spark plinth]

But we will have perseverance!

[rare ruin]

i don't, I've been trying to find out where the NPCs are that use these dynamic generators for like 3 hours now

[atomic jacinth]

[*] is a normal thing in the configs.

[shrewd rampart]

Is this not a template? For referencing when creating other elements.

[rare ruin]

i hadn't seen it till now on this file

[distant holly]

Stalker2/Content/GameLite/GameData/ref/refs.cfg

[robust mountain]

I wrote a Python script to do automated patching of the weather configuration files (to adjust probabilities more quickly). Might be useful for someone if you want to tweak your weather, or need some kind of CFG parsing. Needs Python3. Run with -h to see the command syntax.

[gray stream]

that just has a link to another thread

[atomic jacinth]

correct, and it has all the links to the tutorial on how to start modding 😉

[gray stream]

okay I will have another try.

Oh okay. I understand now. Its a process, not sure if im ready for that rabbit hole.

[robust mountain]

Maybe it's automatic numbering? E.g. first occurrence of * = 1, 2nd occurrence of * = 2? Begs the question why they didn't use that more often, maybe indices are significant for some fields

[atomic jacinth]

it's definitely ordered vs unordered and positional ex: weight effect params is ordered because its scaling up. and only 4 elements. there's a lot of references with numbers that just wouldn't work otherwise

[rare ruin]

i have new found hope for my mod

i found the sids using the generators

[plain arch]

whats the best "alife mod"

[storm tartan]

Any way to revert carry weight? I used 9999 mod yesterday, and even when I remove the mod files the game still allows me 9999.

nevermind 🙂 found the answer in the mods post section on nexus. need to trigger UI weight recalculation by equiping a weight artifact or using hercules.

[versed cedar]

I'll only need one of these pak files to put into ~mod right?

[unreal glacier]

Is this what the devs changed when they reduced repair costs?

I ask because my homebrew edit already had this set to 0.7 and I'd LMAO if the devs just happened changed the base game to the same number I felt was balanced

also what does "bStartWithMenu" do

[shrewd rampart]

The devs didn't touch any base modifiers/multipliers globally, and if they did only just a notch or two in either direction.
They went over each item and adjusted things manually per item, for e.g for artifacts too.

[unreal glacier]

Oh, that's weird, What's that number supposed to be then? Maybe I'm mistaken

[shrewd rampart]

which file is this, and I can check real quick

[unreal glacier]

CoreVariables.cfg

I tried to unpack the game's base files after the 1.0.2 update and that's what I found

[shrewd rampart]

I guess they did for this one, but they've also changed other stuff item by item so 🤷‍♂️

[unreal glacier]

That's wild!

Thanks for double checking, I was definitely hesitant

[shrewd rampart]

Yep, np

[sudden summit]

what this error means ?

this file should be inside Config folder right bit confused as that folder was marked with a gear not folder icon

[torn pivot]

dont worry about what symbols things have.

[sudden summit]

oh so its config folder okay

[shrewd rampart]

Yes, it should be in the config folder.

[torn pivot]

the symbol just means there is a cfg file or something else like a ini in that directory, which changes the iconography.

[sudden summit]

apparently console mod was disabling cache compilation too want to do it once

still cant get console to open for some reason 😦

[torn pivot]

UETools is a bit scuffed, try reinstalling it.

you have to edit your engine.ini with the keybind command chunk that is on the mod description page

otherwise you have no console keybind

[sudden summit]

I dont have engine.ini indescriptiopn it said game.ini ir whatever it was and it was working only stopped after patches

[shrewd rampart]

Wait a minute...

[sudden summit]

so I need to remove it from game.ini and copy to newly created engine.ini now?

[shrewd rampart]

By default tilde should be the console key...

[sudden summit]

yeah but it doesnt work and mod says to add this text to a .ini file

[shrewd rampart]

Fair, if it doens't it doesn't... Add it 🙂

[sudden summit]

now I got mentioned it needs to be engine.ini instead of game.ini as it was pre-patch

[shrewd rampart]

I was lucky enough to where it worked without it

[sudden summit]

anyone using UETools and could advice for sure where do I put it ?

[compact furnace]

Anyone figure out how exactly the mission availability timer works?

[gusty stratus]

is there maybe a mod that shows enemy health bars and factions, like in the old games?

[torn pivot]

follow the description of the mod dude its really simple, you're making shit way too complicated by being unable to read simple instructions

[deep ridge]

Having an issue where fmodel wont let me view a certain file type. all others seem to be working.

new to this and hoping someone might have an idea of where to start

[sudden summit]

I did, it was working perfectly fine and stopped after patches.

it says game.ini not engine.ini

[unreal glacier]

"nextviewmode?"

Does the game have a 3rd person camera

[torn pivot]

its probably a debug feature or for spectating characters during debugging, or is future content ie multiplayer deathmatch spectating.

[unreal glacier]

Yeah, I was thinking the later, but 3rdp would be cool

[azure mortar]

i have a question, is this line really needed? Im trying to use ZenTools but to be honest i have no clue on how to use it. Im trying to copy what manel graca did up there just incase since current attempts were fails

getting this error

[torn pivot]

if experienced modder informs you of something to do, id just do it and not question it when you are inexperienced in the matter and are having issues. try it and find out, what harm can it do?

[azure mortar]

? was that question directed at me

i have done those steps too just in case it was not clear

[vocal onyx]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/27?tab=description anyone got this working without a bunch of ghosting??

game used to crash on prev version now theres just so much ghosting

[untold pilot]

Any known mods that cause CTD when entering poppy field?

[unreal glacier]

Does it matter what order the lines are in engine.ini

like, can I just put r.oneframeframethreadlag=0 anywhere

[lusty sail]

Its font, you can’t preview them in fmodel, if you want use/install font in your system, export .ufont abs rename it to .ttf

[sharp turtle]

Has anybody tried alternating bolt colours like gold, clean, brass and rusty ect ?

[shrewd rampart]

Ok, spent a few hours updating this sheet again.
If anyone is working on weapon mods/values etc feel free to check out:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d4EiByG4LPFOFsgm0pecfYVAtZ4n3Mtsm1rNGYCIboI/edit?usp=sharing
It also includes comparison sheets of: (and I plan to add more... at some point)

• Vanilla vs Realistic Weapons Mod
• Vanilla vs Balance of Chornobyl (Unreleased)
• Vanilla vs Maklane's Better Weapons

[untold pilot]

Is vortex capable of merging mods yet, does it do so automatically?

[hallow sand]

Someone did this with the UDP, they allow you to take the site off the EAGLEEYE and put it on normal UDP, if you look up the m416 extended mod, he's started doing that.

Also he made a mod that makes the sharpshooter m416 an ar10

[unreal glacier]

Damn, there are so many mods for weapons now, I just want one that makes them relatively realistic without completely ruining the vanilla game's balance

[shrewd rampart]

I see where you're coming from.

[hallow sand]

Like in what way? I'm currently setting up my own game file changes based on all the stuff I've downloaded.

[shrewd rampart]

I am making these comparisons and sheets to make my own conclusion on exactly that.

[hallow sand]

It'll make the game challenging, but make guns feel like they do dmg.

[unreal glacier]

Basically if the guns worked realistically then the AK would smoke like 90% of the dudes in the early area in a few shots

I'd prefer to still need to hit them like 5 times in the chest to kill them

[hallow sand]

you have to remember it's 5.45 not 7.62

[hallow sand]

That's how my game runs now!

[unreal glacier]

I know, but they also aren't wearing plates

[hallow sand]

well it was.

I just fresh installed.

[shrewd rampart]

What about headshots?

[hallow sand]

For me headshots take 1 shot with no armor

2 with armor

[unreal glacier]

I think headshots should be a kill except for helmets vs pistols

maybe the really late game stuff can tank some headshots

[shrewd rampart]

Mhm, interesting.

[hallow sand]

If you want, I can help you set that up soonish*

The mods I've installed, and are planning on using to work my own game files It should make the game as you want.

[unreal glacier]

It kinda works like that in the vanilla game, AP rounds were useful in clearing out that warehouse in Garbage

[unreal glacier]

which of the popular mods came the closest, do you think?

[shrewd rampart]

Tbh, when I was clearing the military base and the other base after that area/zone.
I was getting tired of them surviving from clean headshots.

[hallow sand]

So I've used a few, but on top of that I was editing their files myself.

So you won't be able to get the same until im done

[unreal glacier]

I've been using WeaponesRebalance, but tweaked to remove the added durability, then setting my player damage to like 50% to reproduce vanilla-ish balancing

[hallow sand]

Yeah so I downlaoded a mod that makes PEN do extra dmg

to mutants

to help with the tankiness.

[unreal glacier]

basically I don't want a Kiparis that blows everything else out of the water at that point in the game

[hallow sand]

But then I was annoyed because Humans took more too, so what I did was changed mutant HP up A LOT

[unreal glacier]

I think Kiparis using the cheaper 9x18 round makes it appealing regardless

[hallow sand]

And it made the game feel more natural, ak's took like 10 rounds to down a mutant

(but that's because I wanted it)

[unreal glacier]

I feel like it should be the opposite though, pen against humans and raw damage against mutants

[hallow sand]

I feel that like, fleshies for example, could take a lot of dmg cause the'yre just big flesh things

[hallow sand]

No no, fully agree here.

[unreal glacier]

I could imagine a few exceptions, like Chimera or something with tough hide

[hallow sand]

But with the mutant default sponginess the pen helped

that's why I had the pen mod

it was one of the first things available to help the sponginess.

[unreal glacier]

are there any options that make pen do less damage overall but mitigate more armor?

[hallow sand]

Oh yes, there are mods that do that.

That's why I changed the values of the health.

It kept it balanced

[unreal glacier]

Sounds like a headache trying to figure all of that out

[hallow sand]

but then the mod I had downloaded overwrote the pen change really, and made it do more dmg to armor

less to hp

and the expansive ammo did more dmg the less armor

[hallow sand]

I'm learning. but what I did was unpacked the entire packchunk folder on accident

So now what I'm planning to do with this fresh install

is take ALL the mods I'm using now

Unpack them, take their files and combine them manually with my game files

repak all that into am od

and AMYBE upload it as my first every mod thing

If I can do it all right, this might be exactly waht you want soldier.

[unreal glacier]

I'm kinda trying to do that but while keeping them individually packed based on their purpose

[shrewd rampart]

be sure to credit the original authors 😉

[hallow sand]

1000000%

[unreal glacier]

I mean, if starting from scratch, it shouldn't be necessary, no?

[hallow sand]

I ahve all their mods saved in my profile on nexus

[hallow sand]

No I'm using their mods as basically blueprints

so I still wanna credit them

[unreal glacier]

oh I see

[hallow sand]

im taking their ideas, and what they did, but changing all the values to WHAT I WANT for my agme

[shrewd rampart]

Even if you're using their mod as inspiration/references- it should still be common courtesy to give them a heads up with a credit here and there.

[hallow sand]

so I'm using their work, juust putting my name on it

with different values

so crediting is a must in my eyes

[unreal glacier]

fair enough

IDK if I'd ever upload anything, feeling an obligation to keep it updated would be kinda stressful

[hallow sand]

Yeah that's waht I'm gonna have problems with XD

I wouldn't know how to update it after an update lol

[unreal glacier]

I've made and uploaded mods for games before, mainly NMS and DRG

NMS just got way out of hand and I'm terrified to even look at it again

DRG is fairly stable by comparison at least

[shrewd rampart]

Creating a master difficulty mod for myself, and have the exact same thought as you atm.
Not only is it for niche, but it's also going to be designed to my taste and my game design principles/values.
So it won't be for everyone.

[unreal glacier]

I think it's nice to be able to do that

[hallow sand]

Bingo. but with soldier's comments here... It mactually makes me feel like people might want this

[shrewd rampart]

Go for it.

[winter cipher]

I think I am experiencing a schizo event how do I fix this. I had to restart my game because it was doing a bloodsucker scream on repeat

[unreal glacier]

Yeah, I mean, basically flattening the artificial hierarchy they used when designing the weapon stats, putting more emphasis on ammo type and shot placement, but still being arcadey enough to not 2-shot a guy in the chest who's wearing only kevlar

I think having enemies survive headshots when wearing protection can be reasonable if using bad ammo or low powered weapons

and then making mutants require lots of raw damage to kill, incentivising keeping some of the cheaper "ball" ammunition on you for things that would be a waste of AP

ball or HP or some such

sounds kinda like what you were describing

[shrewd rampart]

When am I actually gonna finally work on this, who knows. 😈
Most of my time is mod supporting, analysing, chatting, or getting distracted and procrastinating 😮‍💨
I'm tired, but can't sleep for another 10 hours. Schedule reset.

[hallow sand]

I'm pumped for a master mode!

[shrewd rampart]

Haha... walks into an anomaly -> instantly dies.

Now the question is, should I force silent beeps, for the anomalies... 😈

I remember in Call of Pripyat, on master mode.
You couldn't just tank anomalies, you had to get the appropriate suit to be able to explore it.
I want to bring that feeling back too in this "difficulty" mod.

That means having a battle armour, and a exploration/chemical/suit and swapping between them depending on situation. :]

[hallow sand]

yeah that'd be sick

[hexed bane]

any mod that makes this game survival and lowers the amount of loot spawning around

[hallow sand]

yeah someone just did make that or was talking about that

less food/less meds

look at mods on nexus

sort by release date

[hexed bane]

@shrewd rampartman i am so disapointed by the survival elements on this game that its crazy

[shrewd rampart]

See @grave kite's Modular Hard Mode mod, for economy/loot etc. I am referencing/am inspired by their mod too for my changes in the future.
#1310297745679978496 message

[hexed bane]

@shrewd rampartgot that one installed, still finding like a bunch of meds and things around the world

i have hardcore economy on, everything from that mod, even groks less consumables etc and it still gives so much shit that i will probably play anomaly gamma

[hallow sand]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/573

there you go

[shrewd rampart]

In that case you gotta wait for @rare ruin to figure out loot generators and make a scarcer and more varied loot pool 😉

[hallow sand]

new game required tho

[hexed bane]

@hallow sand fk it il start new game tbh

[shrewd rampart]

I'll have to check this out later in more detail.

[hexed bane]

@hallow sandthis is not just a pak file mod, how to install this sir?

[shrewd rampart]

Oh wtf, you're right... he uploaded the source configs... o.O Instead of the .pak

[hexed bane]

how do i make that work?

[hallow sand]

I got you

sending you it over DM

[shrewd rampart]

You can package it yourself using UnrealPak as described in #╟⚒stalker2™-mod-resources
Or you can give me a few sec.

Nvm Epox got you

[hallow sand]

i already did ffor him 😄

[hexed bane]

you guys are fucking great

[hallow sand]

I think it's too big to send on disc, lemme get your email?

wait nvm

its not hold on

[unreal glacier]

What does the semicolon do in front of stuff?

[sinful cypress]

Is there a way to adjust the Human Healthpoints (NPC only!).
The only solution I found until now affects both NPC and Player

[shrewd rampart]

Comments it out

[hallow sand]

there you go

[hallow sand]

Sent it, should work.

[bronze monolith]

Looking at the folder structure - is there a chance this actually works? old stalker games had the same setup, where they had pakfiles but unpacked files in the gamedata folder would override them

I don't know how much people have experimented with this

[hexed bane]

thank you very much sir

[hallow sand]

np np 😄

[hallow sand]

That could be helpful if true.

I could try that fast here

With my weight mod I just redid

[shrewd rampart]

Have you checked if NPC_HP in Difficulty Prototypes scales only NPCs instead of Mutants?

[hexed bane]

since we are talking about how hard the game is, is there anything that i can make my game even harder?

[hallow sand]

I think mutants have their own set.

They have their own OBJ paramaters

[sinful cypress]

I am on it

[hexed bane]

@sinful cypresshell man, i want someone to make gamma for stalker 2, i will sub montly for it

[hallow sand]

If you guys need to know stuff, I unpacked the ENTIRE packchunk folder with all the shit you need to edit for mods.

On accident XDS

[hexed bane]

oh by the way, i might have asked this before but, is it possible for someone to make like campfire save mod? or wishgranter mod?

[hallow sand]

Campfire save would be easy I feel, couldn't you just edit the Autosave feature to autosave when you sit at a fire?

[hexed bane]

@hallow sandbut not bein able to save anywher else? Well i am not a moder so i dont have a idea 🙂

[summer silo]

Not every campfire can be sat at tho

[unreal glacier]

when editing the engine.ini, does it matter what order the lines are in as long as they're under the correct header?

[hallow sand]

I believe it doesn't matter.

[hexed bane]

@summer silobut what about the feature from gamma, you can save only near campfire or base

[summer silo]

We'd need a way to detect campfires.
Save zones should be simple by detecting the feature that forces your weapon to holster when active. (though this would include moments before some cutscenes)

Can we get modding tools before we start making up crazy mods like that?

[hexed bane]

oh wait, modding tool is not out yet?

didnt they said they gona launch the full mod support with a game luanch

[hallow sand]

I think you can only sit by campfires right? That should be a way to do it no?

[hexed bane]

not all of them tho

in gamma works like a raidus, you need to be like 3 m close to fire

[hallow sand]

Yeah but for the ones you CAN that would be a way to detect campfires.

so you'd make it so when you sit, it autosaves

[hexed bane]

oh yeah

[hallow sand]

but it wouldn't make it save for ALL campfires

[hexed bane]

i want limited saves, and limited lifes in this game 🙂

[hallow sand]

but taht's a super base one.

[summer silo]

The issue with the sitting is that its not limited to campfires. Some spots have a sitting interact just for the view.

[hallow sand]

Oh that's right i forgot.

[summer silo]

Let's wait for them to fix death counter first

[hallow sand]

Wait, is that ubsted lmao?

[summer silo]

It doesn't reset when you start a new game

My first death after patch 1.0.1 was 26th

[hallow sand]

I didn't even realize taht LMAO

[sharp ore]

Is it possible to spawn companions/followers with console commands in Stalker 2?

[untold pilot]

So since Vortex does not merge mods or there is no integration to do it (I presume) everyone is installing and diagnosing crashes manually? Or are there some good tools to figure out which mods cause crashes?

[sharp ore]

There's a tool for detecting conflicts but you have to install mods manually to make it work (not via Vortex)

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

[hallow sand]

Not yet.

[untold pilot]

Yea, ok.

[dire edge]

What are the Ward armors called in the cfgs?

[hallow sand]

Where does the ~Mods folder go again?

just right in the exec folder yeah?

[stark violet]

In your Paks folder

[hallow sand]

oh duh

[desert valve]

i deveoped it using vortex 😮 should work just fine

[hallow sand]

HOW DID HE GET A SIGHT ON HIS AK?

[raw crest]

Can we somehow fix this atrocious SSR implementation with tweaking engini.ini file, why the hell it is so blocky

[quartz wind]

HUD ultrawide fix?

[hallow sand]

Anyone know how to put a site on AK's in stalker 2?

Or can you not put one on drowned?

[unborn elm]

could anyone tell me how to get my hands on the 1.0.1/1.0.2 difficulty prototypes cfg?

[shrewd rampart]

Here's one... "Varta"
BattleExoskeleton_Varta_Armor

[shrewd rampart]

Totally didn't have a hard time finding it...
Really annoying they use different names in code, compared to what they're actually called in-game.

[dire edge]

Neato, was wondering what they were called, since made a mod to give armors more lead containers and slots, and the ward convey one was missing an upgrare

[unreal glacier]

Jesus, some pigs just appeared out of nowhere behind me and scared the crap out of me

I guess the new changes were intended to put emphasis on the jumpscares

[tidal dragon]

what mod are you guys using for longer days and better stamina?

[onyx hinge]

Do someone knows what longer day mod works on 1.02? Even longer days mod seems not to work. Tried to use 4 hour cycle.

[tidal dragon]

there is one but comes with other changes that i dont want

[compact furnace]

Did you merge it with possible conflicts?

[onyx hinge]

Don't think so. Mod last update was on 22 november. Some other people have same issue with this mod. Have to find other one

[hexed bane]

apperantly none of this low loot mods work, i am in zallisya and i have like a bunch of drinks, meds, rads shit from just a couple of stashes

[compact furnace]

What other mods are you using?

[shrewd rampart]

They're tough to get to work. Did you start a new game too?

[hexed bane]

yes, new game too, and i have two of them installed

[shrewd rampart]

Are most of your drinks/meds/rads etc, from corpses you killed- or from stashes you loot- or from scripted events? Curious.

[shrewd rampart]

"two of them?"

[hexed bane]

most of them are from scripted stashes

yes i have the groks balance and less loot one

[shrewd rampart]

They're very likely to conflict, if they both modify lootpools.

[hexed bane]

i should delete the groks one since it doesnt require new start

[shrewd rampart]

Also, stashes use a different loot generation class, than corpses on the ground after you've killed them.
And I don't think many mods yet got those to work properly. But yeah, I recommend testing one loot mod at a time.

[onyx hinge]

Not on pc right now but mutant health mod, optimized tweaks and alife extended vanilla version.

[compact furnace]

One of those is defo conflicting with longer days mod, use the mod merger tool

[hexed bane]

this are the mods i have

[torn pivot]

really, run the cfgmerger. look at your conflicts and either merge them yourself into an adaptive mod, or delete the conflicts after you make the merged mod pak.

[hexed bane]

@torn pivotif you were talking to me dude, thats like you talked to a toddler

hahaha

only what i know is puting them in mod directory 🙂

[devout gust]

Can someone for the love of the Zone make Integral-A's extended mag take 40 rounds?

I love using it but a vector without extended mags feels really cut short

[shrewd rampart]

I see like 3-4 loot-modifying mods in there, I assume they all conflict with each other.

[devout gust]

Or even a drum mag, but I assume that'll have to wait the modding tools

[torn pivot]

that was directed at you but please dont take it like that, that is out of context of what i have said. im just being instructive. its the simplest way to get rid of your issues.

[hexed bane]

@shrewd rampartsome of them are from the same dude that dont have conflicts, only two seperate ones are groks and less loot

@torn pivoti am desperate for a mod that gona make this game hard for me...

[torn pivot]

cfgmerging is very easy and quick. you dont need to be a god like Grok to do this process man

i can do that if you want, i made a difficulty rebalance mod for myself, uploaded that to the nexus, and i made a more murderous version for a guy here yesterday named Ian.

im making my own hardcore difficulty mod, as the game is too generous with healing items.

[hexed bane]

@torn pivoti would definitly need help with this

[torn pivot]

pm me your requirements and i will sort you out. you can be my golden guinea pig and test it for me, and tell me adjustments you want.

[merry mountain]

by unpacking pakchunk0 located in Stalker2\Content\Paks
#╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message

[sand vault]

I just fought a pseudogiant and it was missing its textures. Solid pink. That was the first I've seen of a problem like that.

Let me try reloading without mods..

[desert valve]

lol changing ammo is bugged, the round in the chamber also gets converted. in theory you could convert all your FMJ to AP, one round at a time 😄

[latent rune]

Hello!

Which overhaul / modpack would you suggest for a veteran + minimal hud playthrough?
I tried Maklane's Better Zone, S.M.A.R.T.E.R. 2, Modular Hard Mode so far.
[Plus a bunch of a life, stealth, loot etc etc mods.]

Is there any mod which limits the compas to mark only corpses but don't mark quests, stashes etc?

[hallow sand]

Wish me luck... Just attempted to modify game files to allow a site on a gun it's not supposed to be on.

[sand vault]

Nice, good luck

Let me know how it goes

[wind glacier]

I don't know much or pretty much anything about UE5 engine -> is there any way to edit the intensity of directional lighting, it think the variables are called lux? or does this require configuring the engine and/or blueprint? sorry if im mixing vocabulary here

[sand vault]

I'd like to be able to use the collimator on the Kriss Vector

[crimson laurel]

i made a simple python query search if u want to search for an exact word in ur dumped cfgs, it will create a log file where ur python file is at

[hallow sand]

Well she's launching.

[hallow sand]

IT WORKED

Okay

SO

This might go beyond my scope of abilities but i'm gonna give her a shot...

I have to now get the meshes for aiming and having the site on

cause as of now, it attaches, but there's no actual site on the gun to use

[desert valve]

just use ripgrep? probavly a million times faster 😄

[hallow sand]

Okay so I got the attachment working in the sense it will attach, and not crash your game.

But now I have to make the colam site show up for actual use

[hexed bane]

man, the amount of lose loot in game is just ...

[crimson laurel]

i mean it went pretty darn fast for 100k cfg files

[hexed bane]

definitly gona install gamma

[sand vault]

Oh yeah, it shows in the inventory, but not in game yet, huh..

[hallow sand]

Yup, but that was my first goal.

I'm using someones mod as a reference to waht they changed

[sand vault]

Yeah

[hallow sand]

it's a lot of reading, and I'm VERY new to this lmao

[sand vault]

That's how I got into modding

[hallow sand]

But so far it's going well lmao.

[sand vault]

And scripting/coding

[sage trail]

i dont think thats possible as of now unfortunately

[sand vault]

Just looking at other people's work and figuring it out from there

[hallow sand]

Well someone got the colam for the eagle eye to show up and be used on the normal usp

so im prettty sure it's possible

[devout gust]

While getting that collimator done, would you be able to discover how to do the same on As Lavina? It's a similar process with similar files right?

[sage trail]

you could ask them where they found the meshes then i didnt think it was possible

[hallow sand]

Ive already found them too, well i mean i have mesh files, i dunno what ones they are yet.

I'm still going through all this shit haha

[hallow sand]

It's actually super easy, I will be able to probably do that if I can figure out the rest of this.

[sage trail]

have you tried using them? ive been messing with meshes for a couple days now but i dont think its possible to do anything without a framework from devs

[hallow sand]

I first off wouldn't know a fucking thing about that lmao

[sage trail]

i cant seem to import them to UE5 since we need the actual project

[devout gust]

That would be great please let me know! I tried to fidn out how to do so via Rhino expanded mod but couldn't figure it out

[hallow sand]

second i dunno what meshes they are yet, I'm currently using this mod https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/525?tab=files

as a reference sicne he was able to do it.

[hallow sand]

WeaponSpecificIcon = Texture2D'/Game/GameLite/FPS_Game/UIRemaster/UITextures/Inventory/WeaponAndAttachments/AK74/T_inv_w_ak74_scope.T_inv_w_ak74_scope'
Socket = X4ScopeSocket

Texture2D'/Game/GameLite/FPS_Game/UIRemaster/UITextures/Inventory/WeaponAndAttachments/AKU/T_inv_w_aku_colimscope.T_inv_w_aku_colimscope'

ColimScopeSocket 155 9

Look up those for the gun you want it used on

socket/specific icon

that's the first bit, this is how you get it attached, but the showing up for usse is waht I'm working on figuring out now.

then you fill those into the socket for the gun

[merry mountain]

why do you need python for that 😅
findstr /S "Whatever" ./*

[devout gust]

I see

[hallow sand]

I can detail it better after, so you can know how. it's really just changing a couple lines for the site you want

I just replaced the x4 site with the collam code

and then added the drowned as a 6th weapon

now I just have to change the code below, and I think it will show up in game

[hallow sand]

I think it's possible VIA this way Due to all youre doing is not actually editing the meshes, you're just adding from what's already there and putting another site on it

[torn pivot]

you are in for a nasty surprise my friend.

[hallow sand]

dont tell me that LMAO

[unborn elm]

thanks, but ( and i know this sounds bad ) could you give me a quick rundown how to use this? i really don't know what am i doing here, i just want to change some funny numbers to be more funny

[torn pivot]

we need the sdk or custom tooling, to say the least to get the models correct in the viewport.

[sage trail]

this

[hallow sand]

Wouldn't that be more for if you're trying to CHANGE WHERE the site would go?

not just swapping one site for another in it's place

[torn pivot]

its not as easy as adding a uid to the weapons list for what it can and cant use

[sage trail]

its not just that tho?

[hallow sand]

(I'm very new to coding an anything like this so please don't take this as me thinking i know more, i'm genuinely asking)

[hallow sand]

Yeah, that only handles what you can attach, but if I replaced the stuff for a x4 with the info from the collam

wouldn't taht fill it's place?

[torn pivot]

D301_ATTACHMENT_ARMOURY: my first mod idea on the 21st of november, to implement more items for every gun. i got attachments working as in they will go onto the item, but they dont display correctly and they are very buggy when handling the items with the techs.

No, the viewport displays them wrong.

[hallow sand]

yeah the ingame iventory yeah? yeah it shows it like, off the gun.

[crimson laurel]

idk am dumb but i ditched it already found a nice grep with GUI z.z

[hallow sand]

Are you straight up adding NEW things? Or just making existing ones all work?

[torn pivot]

if you copy the ak74m codeblock for the aks74u to put a pso-1 scope on the aks74u, the scope tube shows where the dustcover is. you cant just simply "move it" with a numerical edit in the cfg files. its a model/animation issue.

[hallow sand]

for w/e gun?

[torn pivot]

we need the sdk or custom tooling to fix the issue.

hence why i put my mod on hold 😦

[hallow sand]

But what about putting a collam site on the drowned ak version

just adding the ability for a site to attach, would that not be possible the same way

[torn pivot]

please carry on trying, if you figure out some unique method i couldnt think of then please illuminate me, i will work with you to implement the attachment armoury and we can share credit and glory.

[hallow sand]

he did the UDP eagle eye collam to regular UDP?

[hallow sand]

Someone already did what I'm trying to do, just with eagleeye/UDP

I'm just trying to emulate them.

for other guns I want

[torn pivot]

who.where? link if possible pls

i will extract their work and find answers

[hallow sand]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/525?tab=files

They added a bonus

[torn pivot]

what is an ar10?

[hallow sand]

Eagleeye collam to UDP

woops

thats's wrong

holg up

[torn pivot]

ar15 is 5.56

[hallow sand]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/502?tab=posts&BH=0

[torn pivot]

ar10 is 308?

[hallow sand]

this one

he made the ar10 308

it's sexy as fuck ingame

he also expanded the rhino

to use attachments

so that's why I was saying I think it's already

being done

[shrewd rampart]

Not to be rude, but Epox if you're linking here- can you remove embeds- espescially if it's spammy-repeated links you've posted here before in a short time? 🙂

[hallow sand]

Sorry, I can do taht. I usually leave them on so people know it's the legit link.

There we go, is there a way I can default it to no embeds?

[torn pivot]

thanks Epox, I will take a butchers.

[hallow sand]

NP Please lemme know, or at least start with adding a collam to the drowned AK

HAHAHA that's what I'm doing currently, or trying XD

[crimson laurel]

has anyone dumped all .cfg files from the newest patch?

[sand vault]

Yeah, just a sec

[shrewd rampart]

No, but a better practice is to copy link to message you've already posted earlier here and post the link to the message, Discord natively supports making it nice and short. Easier on the eyes, easier to read, and not as obstructive.

[sage trail]

Stalker2/Content/GameLite/GameData/ItemPrototypes & Stalker2/Content/GameLite/GameData/WeaponData

[sand vault]

https://github.com/CnRJay/Stalker-2-Dump-Files?tab=readme-ov-file

[torn pivot]

if i can see a golden solution that i can implement and fix my pso-1 issue, i will add every possible attachment to every possible weapon that isnt stupid. ie no pso-1 on hk416. your colim on drowned will be included.

[sage trail]

all he did was change .cfg files there no .uassets in there

[hallow sand]

Yeah I'm editing all of thos already.

[sage trail]

meaning he didnt mess with the meshes

[sand vault]

That's config files from both 1.0 and 1.0.1 to compare

[desert valve]

i would do a comparison, but its not working for me at all :X

[hallow sand]

Oh I thought "mesh" was the term for the site itself

that's why I said mesh

[sage trail]

i think he just chose a gun that luckily fit the scope

[crimson laurel]

but thats up to 1.0.1 t_t

[hallow sand]

Yeah that's all im trying to do too.

[sand vault]

? It's the config files from both 1.0 and 1.0.1 (the patch)

[hallow sand]

use an RU colam on the drowned ak which won't allow it becaus you can't add a rail.

[sage trail]

ah okay yeah thats just trial and error then

[sand vault]

Oh there was another patch?

I didn't notice.

[crimson laurel]

yes theres 1.0.2

[hallow sand]

Well I got the atttachment to allow, I just am working on getting it to show up on the gun.

[sand vault]

Yeah, no idea then

[crimson laurel]

yeah i found grepWin, works just like i wanted to 😏

[shrewd rampart]

Other than quest stuff, I didn't notice any real changes to other things?

[sage trail]

i would love to hear you come up with a solution to that since its quite impossible to edit meshes and 3d models atm without sdk

[onyx hinge]

Will do, thanks

[shrewd rampart]

There might be a position stored somewhere. That you could duplicate the struct for, and reference your weapon to use that position instead of the other one. Just an educated theory.

[crimson laurel]

i want to change itemloot container all over the world so idk if anything they changed might have broken something belonging to that

[shrewd rampart]

I've not looked deep into it myself.

[hallow sand]

How is what im trying to do, different from the guy who put the eagleeye colam on the regular USP?

Tha'ts what I'm confused about.

[crimson laurel]

am trying to make jackets lootable, first off

[sage trail]

because the scope fit without needing to edit the meshes

[hallow sand]

PLEASE. I have looked at them so fucking much trying.

[crimson laurel]

get that batteries and shit from jackets

[hallow sand]

Oh yeah, that shouldn't be too hard here either. it's going from an ak to an ak

[rough grove]

What determines Load Order in Stalker 2? Is it just the naming scheme?

[sage trail]

im trying to find out for a different reason but that sounds interesting

[hallow sand]

I'm basically gonna hope it looks okay.

[sand vault]

Seems like 1.0.2 didn't change config files a whole lot. I'm gonna unpack them and check though.

[crimson laurel]

i found a way to change the loot already, but i havent tried making new containers lootable completely

[sand vault]

It mainly just fixed bugged missions

[crimson laurel]

bet ty

[desert valve]

got it working, python script took 2 minutes, ripgrep 985ms 😉

[hallow sand]

There is, in the attachment file I edited there's what I assume is a h/v number you add for placement.

MeshPrototypeSID = EN_X2Scope_1

there are mesh SID at least.

I dunno if that can help you find them or not

[crimson laurel]

dang thats damn fast, i thought ripgrep was only for linux

[sage trail]

im looking at the rhino expanded in fmodel and seems like theres an .uasset file in the pak so might be a good idea to message him... he somehow messed with meshes and made it work?

[shrewd rampart]

PM me for a reminder, and I can try looking into it later.
Can't be bothered right now and I could be talking out of my ass- kinda not slept for more than 24 hours, so going for a nap 👋

[hallow sand]

I hadn't dove into that file yet, I guess Ill download that one.

Ill toss them a DM too

[sage trail]

will do haha, now get some sleep!

[desert valve]

nah its multiplatform brother

grepWin takes about 4 seconds but you gain a nice ui

[sage trail]

please ping me if you get an answer since i would love to know how he made that work

[crimson laurel]

yeah love double clicking that thing and opening it on vscode

[hallow sand]

Yeah will do! I'm currently dm'ing him now so I hope he gets back fast 😄

[desert valve]

there is something similar for ripgrep, just not quite as nice: https://github.com/vivainio/RoughGrep

[hallow sand]

It seems the "scopemuzzle" sockets (essentially controls the camera position for the optic), are dependent on the actual attachment too. And the only optic socket the rhino has is for the X2 scope. And only optic I found to work right with the socket is the holographic. Trying to use the socket with the red dots basically results in a co-witness red dot. but the red dot is hidden behind the irons.

I dunno if yo uread it, but it seems he might not have had to edit the asset.

[crimson laurel]

yeh not as nice, grepWin Wins

[sage trail]

you're right, im looking at the uasset file in IntelliJ and seems like he just edited a bunch of text, hold on i can compare it in N++ to see what he did

[sand vault]

Unpacking the new pakchunk0

Last time I did this it corrupted the MBR on my drive, had to repair it. Thankfully didn't lose anything.

[crimson laurel]

am scared now

[sand vault]

Well, my system bluescreened wihle I was doing it because I was running something else while it was copying over.

If you're unpacking a big file like that, don't touch anything until it's done

Because the way Repak works, it can absolutely mess up your drive.

[merry mountain]

thats not how it works at all

stop spreading missinformation

[sand vault]

Anyone seen where to enable the Ultimate and Pre-order options in the game files? I pre-ordered the game, but did not get the Journalist mission.

Because all of the config files are there.

I think they can be enabled in DefaultGame.ini

[sand vault]

I msgd you the updated 1.0.2 config files

[sinful cypress]

With Vortex, you can set the loadorder as you want

[vital coyote]

interesting vid on ue and nanite stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M00DGjAP-mU

seams like it could be a bit biased but some cool info in it

[remote crescent]

Yo is there a mod that changes the display of artifacts' stats in different way? Like not saying "weak/medium/strong" but like numbers and not "endurance" but like "stamina regen" or something like that?

[sand vault]

That is interesting. I'm gonna give it a watch.

[thin marsh]

I was wondering if there was any way to remove radio songs, here is why : I have a friend who actually made it into the in game radio songs and i'd like to hear it in game and was wondering if i could edit the list to only have his song play on radios so i can hear it without spending 2 days in front of an in game radio?

[vital coyote]

yeah gives good examples and visuals on lod and how it all works

[vital coyote]

that would be super good to have

but nahh not yet

could replace all the songs with his lol

[thin marsh]

there is one with actual values but due to game mechanics, the values are rounded up so it may sometimes be a bit misleading tho it is better then "low" "medium" and such crappy

[thin marsh]

that's what i want to do essentially just for a few minutes lol

[vital coyote]

haha that is hella dope tho congrats on your friend 🙂 but tbh may be faster just to sit in front of the raido x)

[thin marsh]

i was already sitting in front lol just figured out it maybe there was a way xD

it's a shame we have PDA's but can't use them to listen to the radio

[vital coyote]

yeah miss how anomaly pda works

[thin marsh]

my nokia 3310 could do it... why not a PDA

[vital coyote]

wouldnt use it all the time for my "mursion" but if im doing crafting or inventory ect i like turning it on

[sand vault]

It'll be possible to make custom radio stations and what not when we get SDK

[vital coyote]

plus the dj heavy zona mod was too good xD

[sand vault]

And definitely be possible to link them to the PDA, add a tab to it

[thin marsh]

yeh or just sometimes while wandering here and there questing alone have some background music

[vital coyote]

yee

[remote crescent]

Well I mean I dont want like exact values like 2.4 or 6.8.. It could be Percentage or something... I mean there's gotta be something like that in the files right

[vital coyote]

especially when your returning to lower zones as a geard player not as scary and squishy

[thin marsh]

yeh there's that mod that will tell you values but like i said it might be a little off, for example it will round 0.15 or 0.14 to 0.20 but it is still better

[thin marsh]

yeh, when a couple seconds of inattention singing won't catch you a deadly bullet since you have full EXO lol

[vital coyote]

yeah for sure x)

[thin marsh]

imagine being a random stalker in the lesser zone, struggling to stay alive with his shitty pistol and you hear music blast from a far only to see a fully kitted out EXO wearing stalker jumping and dancing around while shitting on mutants with his gauss rifle while you can barely afford a can of food from Sido (he is a scammer anyway)

[vital coyote]

[sand vault]

The RegionMusicPrototypes.cfg file probably handles that

[formal bronze]

Threat Interactive is so good, very good research. They're researching Stalker 2 performance atm and will release a video about it

[sand vault]

MusicManagerPrototypes.cfg

Oh maybe not, seems like regional music, background music.

[vital coyote]

ooooo shit fr, deff dropping a sub then. hella curious they are verry detailed

[sand vault]

Haven't seen anything about the radio in the cfg files yet

[thin marsh]

may i ask what tool you use to open and change around those files ?

[sand vault]

Repak

[vital coyote]

you mean notepad++ or how to get into the game files

[sand vault]

There's a little howto

[formal bronze]

yeah their story is quite peculiar, they started as a game development company, came across the massive precarious performance state of the industry, transformed into a research group on detecting performance issues and how to solve them, specially in Unreal Engine. They take their time, but they drop bombs

[sand vault]

There's repak

You'll need that to get the AES encryption key from the game executable

[vital coyote]

i have my key here https://rentry.org/TravesS2moddingBible

[thin marsh]

thanks !

[sand vault]

Np

[vital coyote]

thats dope like game dev batman

[vital coyote]

got pictures and shit, still working on it tho lol

[iron steeple]

Oh, I watched his video about TAA before.
Dude is just an Anti-TAA clown who thinks that a sharp shimmery anti-aliasing is a good alternative to TAA, lol

[vital coyote]

broke this stuff down pretty good

[sand vault]

Use Trave's how-to as well. It's way more in-depth. https://rentry.org/TravesS2moddingBible

[vital coyote]

the more i dive into ue stuff and get my hands on things and understand the games ive played on this engine the more i relize these tools one click tools do suck over making it by hand

[sand vault]

Yeah it's not great

[worthy sparrow]

currently experimenting with grass textures, i'm under the assumption any texture related mod is packed in file .utoc & only needs a .pak file named the same thing so thats it loaded?

similar to how bethesda does the archives and the esp

[sand vault]

Be nice to just have an AES plugin for something like 7zip to pack and unpack.

[vital coyote]

fr ^^^

i still havent gotten to learning how to handle the other filetypes besides pak, ie the ones with textures and stuff

[crimson laurel]

i dont think u need to have the .pak file, sometimes it works without them

[quiet scroll]

Guys, I installed the ue4ss to download a certain mod, now I removed it since it was unstable, but game crashes on startup. How do I remove it ENTIRELY?

[hexed bane]

can somebody disable lose loot for me pls 🙂

[vital coyote]

delete the dll

[crimson laurel]

tf is lose loot

[hexed bane]

the loot that is on the shelves, ground, etc

[quiet scroll]

the folder, and both of the unreal engine stalker 2 editor files?

[crimson laurel]

whats the issue with that?

just dont pick it up

[quiet scroll]

...I have none, I only had a folder

[worthy sparrow]

i have a feeling that if its just a normal png (like the cursor for example) it will work outright in just a .pak, but if its virtual textures, and you have to cook uncook whatever the freak in UE5, thats where the textures are packed into a .utoc, which i thing needs a corresponding .pak

[hexed bane]

its issue that i am in first hour of the game and i have enough loot to finish the main storry, and i like imersion

[quiet scroll]

I downloaded the UE4SS thing from this https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1312462191856713858

There was a folder called ue4ss

[vital coyote]

should be in where you installed it next to the exe

[raw crest]

Games looked good before TAA, or at least was less shimmery, nowadays the effects they use are aliased as hell making use of any softening filter as AA necessary

[quiet scroll]

Nope

[vital coyote]

needs to be in this for ufess to even work

[crimson laurel]

no it wont work, utoc is a table of contents, ucas is content addressable store

[worthy sparrow]

weird, i replaced the hud/mouse cursor with a simple png, installed via .pak and it worked

[quiet scroll]

Alright, fixed it, it was the dwmapi.dll

Thanks nonetheless!

[vital coyote]

?

must be a diff thing then

[iron steeple]

I have no desire to argue now. You can just watch this video if you are interested in this question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG8w9Yg5B3g

[quiet scroll]

UE4SS for flaslight cast shadows thingie

It has an ue4ss folder + dwmapi.dll

I removed both of them now

[vital coyote]

ohhh yeah i used the acutual tool for getting your dumomap

didnt know mods use it

[quiet scroll]

Ahh

Right

[vital coyote]

sounds sketch and intrusive

[quiet scroll]

The thing was crashing and shit, so I decided to remove it

[vital coyote]

for flashlight shadows use this

[raw crest]

I watched this when it came out, using new games to discuss lack of TAA doesn't make much sense when said games are made with TAA in mind

[quiet scroll]

I am playing on minimal settings anyways, so the flashlight shadows dont make a difference to me

Just wanted to test if it works

since gsc couldnt make it

[vital coyote]

dont need an unstable injected dll

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

needs the consol

but works good and can turn shadows on and off

and set things how you like em

here is my flashlight preset to get you started

but my shadows are off

just run the comand on the read me to turn it on then save it

will see further too

[iron steeple]

Modern games, modern renderer, modern solution 🤷‍♂️

[steep fable]

Whats the solution for stupidly dark areas. Turn up the Gamma?

[cursive fern]

Does AESDumpster work with the Gamepass version? It's not returning any keys for me, just sat after printing the path

[vital coyote]

games like gohst recon breakpoint did a massive open world without fucking your pc

[raw crest]

You need Aes key?

[cursive fern]

Yeah

[vital coyote]

ps you can just drag and drop the exe onto aes dumper

[cursive fern]

Yeah that's what I'm doing, but it just sits at this screen:

[vital coyote]

but if you need a key i have one in my guid

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

just go to the aes section

may not be there forever for legal reasons but its there now

[cursive fern]

Cheers!

[vital coyote]

o7 good cracking stalker

[raw crest]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/219?tab=files

This mod has the key in files

Grab it before it gets deleted

[rustic granite]

hi gents, apologies. anyone have an idea what variable could cause this. or is this normal ?

[sudden summit]

anyone tried fast travel mod ?

[vital coyote]

someone is working on one

[raw crest]

I wish someone could work on gun inspection animation as well 😔

[vital coyote]

pretty geunus to, spawning an invisible guide

[vital coyote]

think i saw someone trying to do that too

but dont think they were getting it

[raw crest]

I think that someone might be me

[vital coyote]

trying to trigger the idol animation

ohh word haha

[raw crest]

Nevermind no idea what that is

[hallow sand]

like the one that make syou look at you rknife

etc

when you dont move for a minute

[vital coyote]

you know when you are standing doing nothing and you charictor starts fiddling arround

my keybored is all fucked and my dyslexia is a 1000 rn i look like an idot in chat

[raw crest]

I looked at how for example reload animation is being performed, there are keybinds and what it does in input section and in gun animations there are multiple animations for specific guns, but couldn't find what decides which animation to play

[rustic granite]

is this to do with lumen by any chance ?

[sudden summit]

anyone got the new fast travel mod working?

[raw crest]

Black border instead of sea? Looks like SSR not working properly

[rustic granite]

yes it's black

[flint flicker]

Does anyone know the variable to increase deadbodies showing up on the compass?

[rustic granite]

mhmm, SSR you say, i'll have a look if anything related to that is in my engine.ini

[raw crest]

It is Screen Space Reflections, to me it looks like there are faults in implementation of it

[vital coyote]

just responded to you earlier

[rustic granite]

so normal or what

[vital coyote]

yee but not yet

[raw crest]

Depending on what you mean by normal, devs need to fix it

[rustic granite]

check your dm quickly Dec, i don't see anything related to SSR

[sudden summit]

what do u mean working on one, it is on nexusmod already

[vital coyote]

ohh shit its out 😮

[untold pilot]

Is there some mod causing crash when you open backpack?

[sudden summit]

yes but it doesnt work xD

[vital coyote]

ohhhh now i get the question

my b g xD

[sudden summit]

did all as per instruction and nothing happens in game, thats why I asked about it

[vital coyote]

ill have to look nice

[untold pilot]

Yea it works.

[untold pilot]

Press z

[sudden summit]

nothing happens, neither for me neither for my friends

[untold pilot]

Click on a marker on the map then press z or create a marker and then press z.

I am presuming that you followed the instructions.

[vital coyote]

ohh shit

[sand vault]

To be clear, you should be dragging the stalker exe onto the AES exe. Like, directly onto the filename of the AES exe in the folder.

[sudden summit]

foudn the problem

[vital coyote]

i woud fiddle with it but dont feel like messing with uefss stuff

[tidal dragon]

is anyone making the skill mod we had in gamma?

also what kind of scopes goes on the AS Val with the rail? holo doesnt

@rain finch speaking of the granade mod fix, you mention NPC ranks, but where are these ranks? is it a mod?

[raw crest]

do we have mod that unlocks deluxe/ultimate edition loots

[tidal dragon]

It's not a mod, you get what I mean

[vital coyote]

if we do i would love to play my og save again

[raw crest]

🤔

[tepid gulch]

can we use vortex to install these mods or no?

[vital coyote]

i still have the 1.0 installs with all dlc if you need files

[tidal dragon]

You can move your save between game versions

Just look for the folders

[raw crest]

im kicking myself everyday for not spending extra 7$ and get ultimate edition instead of standard, it was way cheaper back then sigh

[rain finch]

It's just NPCs

NPCs have ranks

always have been something in stalker

[vital coyote]

[tidal dragon]

But we have no way to see it right?

[rain finch]

no

but it seems that the grenade mod makes npcs not use grenade at all

[raw crest]

so your game had dlcs, but now it doesnt? what about vice versa

[rain finch]

I don't have time to play stalker 2 or even gamma

[unreal glacier]

is there a way to individually customize the viewmodel FoV on weapons?

[tidal dragon]

Was it anomaly or gamma that we can see their names faction and rank by looking at them?

[rain finch]

needless to say I can't test shit right now

[vital coyote]

vice versa works if you get the dlc afer

[raw crest]

I hope they dont become greedy when they release upgrade package

[tidal dragon]

Because I really have to say some people are dressed the same armor but they are different faction is very annoying

[vital coyote]

do your work thang big dog stalker aint going anywhere

[vital coyote]

tbh i dont even like it, its like "go here for good loot" got better armor and guns that out matched anything base gave me

i just want my save lol

[grand sequoia]

Considering there is a system to play audio via the PDA (voice notes) and that they continue playing while you save the PDA, I'm sure over time someone will come with a way to import your own Radios as notes and play them individually.

[raw crest]

why not add those dlcs back in

[vital coyote]

i dont know how

lets just say the last minute spec change got me hella worried i couldn't run the game, still cant but im having fun so i picked up the game

well thats a lie i can but its spotty in citys

[raw crest]

they are downloaded tho no

should be available

[raw crest]

it is in the game files so we need "unlocker" i guess\

[vital coyote]

like do you have the same files i do

ik the weapons are in there

like in base game

[sinful cypress]

My Mod works, the throw grenades without spamming now

Edit:
But someone released your mod again as a „fix“

[vital coyote]

is that the one that was just posted to nexus

[raw crest]

mine is preorder standard edition

seems like data regarding them are stored here

[vital coyote]

i wonder if just overwiting that with a blank fille would work

[copper kelp]

Can't wait for Stalker 2 to be subscription-based

[vital coyote]

yeah ngl the ult is pretty ptw

[thin marsh]

even the deluxe tbh

[vital coyote]

whatever one comes with the scavenger hunt

[thin marsh]

well i am still standing in front of the radio frantically switching trying to find my friend's track and still no luck, how many damn musics have they put in the game xD

[vital coyote]

hahah i like the music ive heard so far

alot of bangers

idk why pple changed it already lmao

[thin marsh]

oh yeh !

tons of good ones

[vital coyote]

yeah if i had a pda radio -_-

i could here it

i stay away from citys

game shits itself

[thin marsh]

i had the problem too but it seems to have been resolved with the patches and lowering my graphics

[vital coyote]

yeah i need to test this patch out

havent played much

been hereing good things

[raw crest]

nvm i dont undertsand what this script does, it is same for preorder which i have

[vital coyote]

they prob are the same but for the diff tiers

[dusty zodiac]

Anyone know if its possible without actual mod support to change the point at which the Walk transitions into Run or SlowRun when using a controller/analog stick?

not the animations, the actual parameter being called. I'm working on a stamina mod but walk transitions to "Run" on an analog stick at about 2/3 distance to the edge

I can delay the animation until the the outer edge of the analog stick, but can't find a parameter for changing the actual speed/stamina drain transition in objprototype or corevariables

[hallow sand]

Are you taking into account the weight/speed variable?

maybe that's playing into it?

[raw crest]

@rustic granite check the difference

[rustic granite]

this looks very nice, but we still dunno what variable caused it

[dusty zodiac]

Not sure if this would effect what I am trying to do, don't know though. I am trying to drain stamina when the analog stick is pressed forward only at the very edge. I can get the stamina to drain when the player transitions to the Run state, but the run state starts too soon. It seems I can delay the animation with SlowRunThreshold but Slow Run Threshold is not available to set stamina or speed in objprototypes

[hallow sand]

Oh sorry I misunderstood.

[dusty zodiac]

No thanks for the reply anyway!

[vital coyote]

?

[raw crest]

new hotfix?

[vital coyote]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1643320/view/4455844537830474746?l=english

[raw crest]

na this is from yesterday

[vital coyote]

ohh

[hallow sand]

I did just have a really fast download

[vital coyote]

there was a patch yesterday

[hallow sand]

but dunno if it was just a file i was missing or not

[vital coyote]

this one was only lik 500 megabytes

kilobytes*

[grand jay]

anyone knows what that means? or implies?

[raw crest]

seems like they made some changes to win64 exe

[indigo jolt]

Where can I find discussion thread about Shay's Living Zone mod?

[vital coyote]

Check your aes key

[vital coyote]

In the mod posting

[grand jay]

so nothing in prep for major patch or anything i suppose ? just some fine tuning/cleaning up ?

[vital coyote]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1311758650733236335

[raw crest]

seems like it yeah

it is 400kb anyway

next big patch will drop most likely the week after next week

[thin marsh]

wait what how wtf i want my game to look like that !

[raw crest]

thats default(vanilla) look with most settings at low

[grand jay]

great thanks for the info

[thin marsh]

no i mean, the non blurry looking grass and such

[raw crest]

it is 30% sharpness with Xess Native Taa

[rustic granite]

tbf, i did see some posts on gsc discord and reddit that there is a work in progress for next big patch to be released next week friday

but idk

[raw crest]

i hope so

[rustic granite]

yeah would be nice

[raw crest]

I still find armor repair costs too much

[rustic granite]

and to my knowledge it would be more performance improvements etc and shit like that, highly doubt it would be anythign related to npc's or a-life

[rustic granite]

hence i'm running a mod

for that

it's too drastic

[raw crest]

nvm it is TSR

[thin marsh]

It feel like instead of fine tuning a balance, GSC decided to make the game "hard" by making the economy crazy expensive for anything useful and making enemies into bullet sponge...

[thin marsh]

dang it, i played with sharpness a few times but it never looks non blurry

[woeful crane]

Here is shitty but rough evidence that Alife is doing something in the background as far as Al spawning and tracking with us not being in the around. I took that while the intro video was playing

not being arund in the area*

[raw crest]

keep in mind i was standing still ,moving makes it blurry

[thin marsh]

yeh, well my grass and vegetation is always blurry as crap even when not moving :/ and i found that to be on pretty much every modern games where older ones never have that issue

[raw crest]

how did you capture this

[slender coral]

Anyone figured out how to disable auto-lean? Its so dumb.

[rustic granite]

afaik it's built-in

possibly hardcded into the game, but maybe there is a mod

[slender coral]

Cringe

[rustic granite]

that disables it

[crisp wing]

is it just me or are mutant hp mods not working at all even when updated

[slender coral]

No Ive checked

[rustic granite]

then unfortunately to my knowledge, that's a no

[fresh yew]

Oh man, did this small update do something to the A-Life mods?

[slender coral]

Been looking at the paks but i cant find any reference to auto lean

[merry mountain]

They want to publish a Roadmap in December btw

[rustic granite]

guess what i gotta wait 2+ hours for pc game pass to release a fucking 500kb update

[slender coral]

You gotta wait some in game days before it kicks in afaik.

[rustic granite]

wtf

xD

[woeful crane]

Just turned on debugging tool, made sure Xalifewas enabled, loaded up the debug scripts and used windows snipping tool to record that porting of the screen so yit was easier to see them move

while the truck intro was playing

shrugs I dunno im just dicking around, yall are the smart ones here haha

[merry mountain]

thats pretty "fast" for gamepass tho, for some games you wait for 1week+

[rustic granite]

it's so dumb

i mean the first patch i waited around almost 5hrs

just to get the update for pc game pass

[sage trail]

not really sure what im supposed to look at

[merry mountain]

the yelllow dots

[woeful crane]

its pretty much just a rough show of you dont gotta be in the area for the stuff to be tracking in the back ground.. it dont mean much, but like I said, at least something

[merry mountain]

which scripts did you execute?
with XExecuteAdditionalScript console command?

or UE4SS

[woeful crane]

No I used the scripts tab in the debug tool

[merry mountain]

oh so not in the retail build, the build from 2023

[woeful crane]

No

its in this build

[merry mountain]

so you got the debug tool to show up

[woeful crane]

Dude posted the test dll

Yes, Go into your stalker directory and youll see a win-test exe if you are on 1.0.2

[merry mountain]

yes i saw that

[woeful crane]

Its legit

[merry mountain]

but you cannot start it

[woeful crane]

You need the dll and bat file he posted

[merry mountain]

where

[woeful crane]

Goes into your root stalker directory, overwrites teh old dll and launch with bat, and then bring up console and type Xadebugtool or whatever and it comes up

[raw crest]

Are they rendered when you are not looking at them

[compact otter]

Not just 1.02

[slender coral]

What can you do with the debug tools?

[merry mountain]

pretty sure you dont need the bat, it just executes the exe 😄

[woeful crane]

I spawned Alife spawns via the tool and caused a mini war to break out, Teleported across the map, There was a Alife spawn left on the alife map from where I did that, telported back and they were still there, never disappeared

Now are they gonna be "there" when you're not "there" probably not

that Would be hella cpue overheadc

[raw crest]

Interesting, how come they disappear and dont reappear when npcs spawn automatically

[slender coral]

Hmm ok

[woeful crane]

Because i think thats got something to do with UE spawn system I would say,, but I dont know that for afact or anything.

The thing about it is, given what I'm seeing about this current setup, I dont think we will ever see anything like the first stalker put in this engine, I just dont think there's gonna be the CPU overhead for it. I think they fucked up by making it open world instead of sectioned off like on Xray where each area could be self contained. maybe Im wrong, hopefully I am...

[slender coral]

Anyone else got worse performance after patches?

[raw crest]

i think in the old games they existed in other maps as well, game would track them. Someone correct me if im wrong

[compact otter]

There's no reason distant entities can't be simulated in a simpler fashion

[woeful crane]

Well if thats the case that's kinda how its setup here then from what Im seeing. It appears the system tracks a sector and inside that sector are the npcs it tracks and when you get close the engine then "renders' what they were technically doing when you come in the area.

Again, I could be totally wrong tho lol

[winged hemlock]

I`ll post a vdeo about developers tool today, I had time to touch it before a patch which brakes it.

[compact otter]

It's working in the patch for me

[merry mountain]

has the save tab of the menu something interesting?
im trying to uncompress / deserialize the savegames

[vital coyote]

yeah like after leaving a cirtian radius they jist become little dots of data on the map you can find again when getting closer

[compact otter]

With the patch today

[crimson laurel]

wtf was this 500kb update

[raw crest]

some changes to exe, rest are random files got removed and others added

[woeful crane]

What is it now? Im not sure I understand? you want me to check the saves tab?

[vital coyote]

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

[crimson laurel]

thats not it, thats form yesterday

the update was 11gb

[woeful crane]

I would most def make a back up of that particular test exe and dll file because Im sure once they learn that got sent out they're gonna try and remove them.

[frozen skiff]

they deleted debug build which I guess accidentally was shipped with 1.0.2

[vital coyote]

[frozen skiff]

they already did it today

[woeful crane]

Wait, there was a patch JUST NOW that done that

[vital coyote]

:L

[crimson laurel]

rip, it was kinda good 😪 should give us a actual build for modders

[crimson laurel]

with a test map

[woeful crane]

Them fuckin assholes

[vital coyote]

think there is a test map in there

[crimson laurel]

theres a bunch of test maps

[woeful crane]

Does steam update whgile the game is running?

[crimson laurel]

but can u tp to them in the debug build?

[vital coyote]

can prob load it into ue

[raw crest]

no

[frozen skiff]

https://disk.yandex.ru/d/N3E_j-3h8-BkVQ test exe

[woeful crane]

Well mine is setting at a crash screen but steam thinks im playing

Do you need me to save anything for tyall?

[vital coyote]

ooo nice

random exe's to run from Cyrillic websites

[woeful crane]

Doin it liveeee' lmao

[raw crest]

Guys what is the implications of we having access to the debug build

[vital coyote]

the fuck arround tools

[woeful crane]

What is this test map people are talking about and how do I back it uop?

[compact otter]

I don't see any pak files being changed today

the only depot update was removing the test exe

[vital coyote]

i found stuff reffering to test maps b4 but dont remember off the top of my head

[raw crest]

they modified shiping exe as well

[merry mountain]

Test exe and PalCoreApi.dll probably

[raw crest]

200kb

[woeful crane]

uh oh

that means we may be fucked then haha

[compact otter]

sure but maps wont be in the exe at all

I already have the 500kb patch and it loaded fine ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[frozen skiff]

open inventory

[woeful crane]

Okay, good. Ive not let mine update

[frozen skiff]

[woeful crane]

Its a trap XD

[compact otter]

I just copied the Win64 directory lol

[frozen skiff]

yeap you need pakchunk16 from 1.0.0 to fix inventory crash in test exe

[merry mountain]

only the pak or also ucas/utoc? could upload the pak

[vital coyote]

i would drop it here if it wasnt more then 10mb lol

[compact otter]

I assume all 3, they're all linked

[merry mountain]

uff

the ucas is 2,6gb

[compact otter]

Sucks they're adding MP later, that's likely why they're removing the debug tools

[merry mountain]

they removed them because they where not supposed to be there in the first place, they just have bad QS / QC before shipping stuff

[compact otter]

I don't mean removing the test exe, I mean stripping them from the shipping exe

[raw crest]

They need to kill it and switch to coop instead

[frozen skiff]

full chunk

[merry mountain]

its automated removal when they hit build for release

[vital coyote]

soon tm

[compact otter]

It's only automated because they enabled it