╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[little sluice]

Hmm perhaps it's like payday where the reticle is a part of the overall sight's texture / mesh?

[frozen anvil]

I checked some meshes, there were no glowing bit

[lavish lichen]

Figured I’d ask here too. When merging localization manually does it matter the order in which it the added files are put in at the end of the English lines? I’m planning on tackling a DB automerging + throwing into vanilla DB tool

Like say merging content mods like mutant loot and itemization localizations if it matters which comes first in the merge process

[empty helm]

thanks I'm looking for the G36 drum mag, where did you find it ? You used a command or it can be found in game ?

[spark plinth]

It can be found in game in NPcs

[spark plinth]

if you want to spawn it:
XCreateItemInInventoryByID GunGP37_MagLarge 0 1 1

[tidal dragon]

was there a mod for faster shader compiling?

[crimson laurel]

faster? no removing? yes

[vital coyote]

if you put this in your engine ini you can skip it, but i recomend letting it run every now and then by changing the 0 to a 1

r.PSOWarmup.WarmupMaterials=0```

[tidal dragon]

i dont skip it

[vital coyote]

helps alot when needing to restart constently but faster no

[cobalt hamlet]

i'm seeking traductors for my next mod i will release tomorow (i already have english , french and probably RU).

If someone can do his own language DM me please, thanks a lot.

[desert valve]

what do you need a 🚜 for? 😛

[cobalt hamlet]

tractor translators, dont matter x)

[hallow sand]

Yo I hope someone does more voice lines, I'd love to try my hand at some

Or some dog sounds, I have 3 huskies WHO LOVE to howl.

[vital coyote]

cover me im hiding!

[hallow sand]

"There I was, down x18, low on ammo, dick in han" - someone cuts in "you've never even been to one of those fuckin labs you liar"

[lavish lichen]

Complete English overhaul that replaces the VAs with ones with Slavic accents lol

[desert valve]

why is jump not an EActionType? o.O

and more importantly, how can i trigger an EActionType

[merry mountain]

EActionType.Trigger()

do you already made a UHT & CXX Header Dump?

with ue4ss

[desert valve]

yep

thats where i found the action type, but its not leading me anywhere 😄

[spark plinth]

am i moving the 2x and 4x closer on all AR416 rails?

[cobalt hamlet]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1313285567009656842 need feedback and testing 🙂 hope you will all enjoy it

[hallow sand]

OMFG YES THANK YOU

[torpid halo]

@spark plinth I think that the 2x being on that closer position is a bit too close, makes it too big on the screen

[merry mountain]

lol falling is one but jumping isnt wut

[spark plinth]

your're the first to say that, everyone else is asking for closer.

[desert valve]

its super weird

[spark plinth]

streaming in vc working on the mod
https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1030235336216940704

[torpid halo]

@spark plinth oh, I mean, I played with it on that closer position, its just kind of huge lol but I guess thats a personal preference

[merry mountain]

we would need to find the method/s that accept it as parameter

[spark plinth]

it is, it takes a lot of real-estate on the screen but for some that is more "realistic"

[desert valve]

yeah searching my ass of right now, only found the other way so far

[desert valve]

to get notified on consumable use

[torpid halo]

that is true

[merry mountain]

by hooking into some callback that happens when they are used i guess

[desert valve]

sadly "consume" is used quite often in our line of work

UItemUsageComponent has ConsumeRequiredItems()

[merry mountain]

Function /Script/Stalker2.InventoryNew:OnUseItemHoldTriggered

[magic geyser]

Not sure what you mean by asking how to trigger an enum

[desert valve]

i want to trigger an action, the enum just holds all actions

[merry mountain]

you obviously dont trigger the enum, the action it is lol

Function /Script/Stalker2.EjectedMagazine:OnHit
wut, when does this trigger, on magazin hitting the ground or what 😅

[desert valve]

when i throw the empty mag at you

[merry mountain]

now im not sure if he even drops mags

i have to look

[magic geyser]

unreal event

[desert valve]

yeah they collide like 900 times per second with the environment and cause hell of a raucous

[magic geyser]

only way to know is through collision flags

isn't there a collision debug in the test build? or maybe showdebug might suffice, don't remember

[magic geyser]

Eh, doesn't hold an action for jumping :p

[desert valve]

i dont actually wanna jump, im just confused why jump is not in there 😄

[merry mountain]

he never drops mags btw

[spark plinth]

Working on the mod here due to some not having access to the other vcs
https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1007675356272148581

[desert valve]

whos he?

[merry mountain]

skiff obviously

[desert valve]

o.O i have seen tons of my mags roll around the ground

[merry mountain]

hm

maybe i dont have the type of mags he dumps on the ground idk

[merry mountain]

my default ak , pistol and viper mags never get droppen somehow

[desert valve]

default ak

[topaz cape]

ak mags definitely drop

[desert valve]

maybe this is settings based or sth?

[merry mountain]

maybe, i cant get him to drop any mag, regardless of what i do

[desert valve]

reloading seems to do it

/s

[merry mountain]

yeah never for me

he just puts it away and has a new one with ammo in it

maybe this is not a thing in 1.0 😅

im on middle difficulty

[vital coyote]

would be cool to have a modder role you can get acces to a mod making vc so no cancer just learning shit

[desert valve]

this is more for like doors and shit to check if you have the key and remove it etc.

[merry mountain]

i would not use installation support vc for that

[lavish lichen]

What’s your effects quality at the mag could be a physics particle?

[merry mountain]

ultra, everything at max

[summer silo]

Oh the fact you can't edit CoreVariables, ObjPrototypes and AISettings files like you can the files in folders is infuriating

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

[desert valve]

/Script/Stalker2.InventoryNew:UIInventoryItemAction 🤔

[primal robin]

Does anyone know the quest id for Deceive the Deceiver? It’s bugged out and I want to just end it so I can drop the quest marked PDA. Also is there a way to unmark items as quest items?

[vital coyote]

https://rentry.org/S2QuestIDs

[primal robin]

I looked through that list and did not see that quest listed. Is there a way to output the quest ids via a console command?

[vital coyote]

hmm

[hot wasp]

anyone able to tell me how to make music mods work? Either I download one or make one it doesnt seem to work at all. I made a simple one to replace the main music and the song i put in with the id of the main song just gets replaced with the og one as soon as I fire the game up.

[vital coyote]

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

[desert valve]

uhhh i triggered an inventory sort

one small step for me

and a small step for everyone else too

[vital coyote]

inventory deff needs tlc

[lavish lichen]

How did you trigger it?

[desert valve]

    local inventory = FindFirstOf("InventoryNew")
    inventory:UIInventorySort()

with lua in UE4SS

now how would one get all the items currently in the inventory 🤔

[vital coyote]

have you messed with the bp mod loader thing? i was told its can do similar things to how the ue4ss works but less intrusive

[desert valve]

i have 0 unreal engine experience so im sticking too lua right now, but im sure what is learned here can later be used there

[vital coyote]

simple comand mod add "/Game/Mods/HUDToggle_P/HUDToggle_P.HUDToggle_P_C" and it loads your stuff

[desert valve]

you skipped straight to the last step

lol

[vital coyote]

heheh yeah i havent made anything with it but the flashlight mod and faction identification works with it

[vital coyote]

and for sure just figured i would tell ya about it

feel like pple with biger brians then i can do some cool stuff with it

[desert valve]

@cyan stirrup needs to give us a leason in how to use the blueprint stuff

[crimson laurel]

whats tlc

[vital coyote]

"tender love and care" like saying it needs work

[crimson laurel]

meh all i think it needs is the buttons like in gamma

ah and organization sections

[vital coyote]

yeah the sorting tabs in anomaly are usfull

[crimson laurel]

would be fun if someone made rig-backpack like in tarkov

alternative gameplays

fun to change stuff out sometimes

[vital coyote]

yeah for sure

[crimson laurel]

not to make it standards, just to change it out when u looking for something different

[vital coyote]

ohh yeah, my modpack for anomaly is pretty vanilla. and when i feel like switching things up i just have diffrent modules i can turn on

[crimson laurel]

not sure if its going to happen but am surprised nobody doing/did the redux magazines already

[vital coyote]

one for tacticool guns with mags, one for winter, rogelike ect

lots of things that go inot that

models animations, hud stuff, stocking the stores, matching things to the guns

[crimson laurel]

models? for what tho

[vital coyote]

mags

[crimson laurel]

they already exist

[vital coyote]

its there when you unload but its not an item you can pick up

either way its alot and we dont have tools

[crimson laurel]

idk i think if someone wanted to do it they could do it already

[vital coyote]

lmao sweet summer child

make it 🙂

ive been using my free time to learn

[crimson laurel]

doesnt need animations, models are already there, hud is already there, stocking the stores aint that hard, the only problems is the BP, which ion know much about tbh

[crimson laurel]

what u think i been doing 😦

[desert valve]

cant get the inventory to give me its damn items

[vital coyote]

hell yeah man 🙂 lots of stuff tho, been taking it one step at a time. something cool tho a game that is on the same engine and has all the rig and inventory and tarcov gameplay can be hacked into the same way you do with s2

[crimson laurel]

arena breakout infinite is in 4.26

[vital coyote]

i dint know what im looking at but was able to get into grayzone warfare and was gunna look at incursion red river

[crimson laurel]

didnt find a way to get the aes key

and get it on fmodel

[vital coyote]

i pulled grayzone into fmodle

[crimson laurel]

grayzone still looks like shit imo, hopefully with dev it gets good

[vital coyote]

^

friend bought it for me tho and it has all the systems

[pulsar geode]

negative, all birds are currently dispatched

[crimson laurel]

grayzone hud gives website vibes

[vital coyote]

for sure

xD

[crimson laurel]

glassmorphism

grayzone ui be like

[vital coyote]

ue4ss works with 4.12 To 5.3 breakout is Unreal Engine 4.26 it should work but i would be verry cairfull with anticheat

is it on steam yet?

[crimson laurel]

nah

[vital coyote]

ill install it and try if it was :/

im not puting any tencent launchers on my pc lol

[crimson laurel]

should maybe come this month or something

they said they would actually launch the game before the end of the year

[vital coyote]

you have it installed rn?

[crimson laurel]

yah

[vital coyote]

one sec

find this folder but in arena

should be the same filepath binaries win64

send a screen shot

[oak mesa]

Is there a mod organizer for stalker 2?

[crimson laurel]

vortex

[vital coyote]

hold up

[crimson laurel]

tbb didnt find nun

[vital coyote]

Mo2 for S2
https://github.com/ModOrganizer2/modorganizer-basic_games/pull/167/commits/0ce0d2f636050f7280c60875a13ece0c1502323a

Install a portable instance of Mo2

Download that .py file and place it in \modorganizer2\plugins\basic_games\games

[vital coyote]

hmm can you show me the game folder

[crimson laurel]

win64?

[vital coyote]

chinesegameorwhateveritscalled-Win64-Shipping.exe you wold be what your looking for

where that is

[vital coyote]

one of these one should "launch" without anti cheat but the game wont actually start you will only see a splash or something \

maybee

[oak mesa]

The reason why I am asking is because there's one on nexus

[vital coyote]

would be easier if i just had the game

[vital coyote]

yeah saw that hope he didnt rip rages thing

looks like it should work tho

[oak mesa]

I'll try the one on nexus

[vital coyote]

same file path same file

[oak mesa]

Got it

[crimson laurel]

none allow you bc u need to launch it through the launcher

[vital coyote]

now i need to crack it

[neat thistle]

How to add new items to spawn in destructible stashes such as med boxes etc.?
Once I add new structs in, for example, DestructibleStash_Food_Experienced with new items, game 100% get crash on start saying that my ItemGeneratorPrototypes.cfg is fucked.
How to avoid it? Does anybody know?

[gray stream]

You dont need a mod organizer for Stalker 2 because most arent actually mods. They are just config edits. I would highly suggest just merging everything into one file or make your own with everything you want

[vital coyote]

^ agree

[crimson laurel]

are u structing it right

[neat thistle]

Yep

I double checked struct.end's

Seems like amount of items is just hard coded, lol

I tried to replace sausages etc. with new items - it's working

Trying to add new - fuck me

Tried to add just in the same struct, tried to add new groups of structs with items inside - still nothing

[crimson laurel]

i mean if mutant generator works then it has to work

havent really messed with generators yet i think

item generators tht is

[neat thistle]

Maybe if you create new entry it's working just fine, but if you edit existed one, game doesn't like it

Idk

[crimson laurel]

could be

dont even know how the subitem category works

clueless on that

[desert valve]

im giving up on lua for now, everything is fucking userdata and you cant do shit with it

its basically raw memory as far as i can tell

[neat thistle]

oof

[desert valve]

headers say its float CellSize and lua says userdata and shrugs

[desert valve]

BandageHealing2 : struct.begin {refurl=EffectPrototypes.cfg;refkey=BandageHealing2}
   ValueMin = 0
   ValueMax = 0
struct.end

this isnt working either

[summer silo]

Bro why do item weights work and everything else doesn't

[atomic jacinth]

not sure what you mean, there are mods that change CoreVariables / ObjPrototypes.

CoreVariables was basically the first mod.. day night cycle and stamina cost changes.

[desert valve]

there is a way to change values in custom files that will not cause conflicts

[atomic jacinth]

ObjPrototypes very similar. stam cost changes.

[desert valve]

but its not working with every file

[atomic jacinth]

oh do you mean like dynamic via lua?

[desert valve]

this works just fine for example: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/514?tab=files

but if i try the same thing with the bandages i just posted it isnt working

[atomic jacinth]

ah you're talking about adding struct references to add additional params.

[desert valve]

well in general changes structs, but without having to override the entire file

more like a little patch

[atomic jacinth]

also this is a good way to 'hide' your changes and then result in the same problem just expressed differently and have it so people don't know wtf mod is modifying things.

it''s a super great way to end up with mods that conflict without explicitly understanding why

[desert valve]

well instead of having problems with the same config it will happen when 2 mods adjust the same struct

which is way way less likely

[vital coyote]

for real tho

thought the gun was just ass or the hits werent registering

yall ever shoot through a light bush and find out it is a titanium wall that only the enemy can shoot through?

[torn haven]

i hate it when they are above you and can shoot thru metal plates on a fence

[vital coyote]

super annoying

[bright wasp]

Anyone aware of a way to get one of each weapon without typing in every consel command?

[peak pendant]

Hello everyone. Please tell me where the textures and inventory icons for the armor are located. In which archive? I can't find it. Thank you.

[naive widget]

Stalker 2

[eternal bramble]

anyone cooking up a Diamond Exosuit reskin? love this thing but hate the monolith colors lmao

[peak pendant]

I plan to change the colors of "Spark", but there is a problem with the archive, I did not find the armor texture.

[vital coyote]

think thats it

[eternal bramble]

sadge, something about wearing a monolith suit around everyone is just weird to me, not that its ever mattered before but yeah just would like it to be a different color and lack the knowledge myself

[peak pendant]

Thanks, I'll look there.

[vital coyote]

says its in pakcunk16-windows.utoc but you can load them all at once

not seeing all the guns here tho

[worn jackal]

I'm looking for a mutant loot mod, any feedback on a mod like this?

[vital coyote]

yee

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/389

would turn off auto updates tho

if an update brakes it you will have to wait for the mod to be updated to get into your save

[worn jackal]

Works tho?

[vital coyote]

been keeping it vanella "with some tweeks" myself but heard pple like it

[worn jackal]

Idk man I miss the skinning

And killing mutants gives nothing

[vital coyote]

same

[crude heart]

#╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message in case you were looking, this is for the mesh textures

[worn jackal]

What tweaks do you use?

[vital coyote]

should be up to date https://rentry.org/TravesCurrentS2modlist

not a whole lot

[peak pendant]

You saved me a lot of time, thank you.

[worn jackal]

Damn you got a whole ass list

Appreciate it bro

[crude heart]

In FMODEL you can select all paks and hit 'load' to load them all at once, then go to the content tab to search for tags like armor, spark, mono and try to find the textures that way

[worn jackal]

Brooo I always get confused about the factions and shoot the wrong dudes

That's a life saver

[vital coyote]

haha nw man

and its sooooo good

not on nexus yet but the channel is linked

no hud with that. muh mursion

[worn jackal]

Thank you man

[vital coyote]

o7 fuck yeah stalker. i usualy update that for my stream when they ask so if i add anything it will be there lol

also made this if you wanna get deeper into modding https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1312154196383895702

[worn jackal]

Oh shit send me your stream channel

I'll show up to support 🫡

[neat thistle]

Does it mean ammo at the bottom won't spawn having 'Weight=0' ?

[vital coyote]

ohh thanks man! not sure the rules about self promo here i only pay atention to the s2 modding lol but all my shit is linked on my profile or there is a easter egg on all my sites that have my link tree xD

[worn jackal]

Followed ya! I will see you around 🙂

[vital coyote]

thanks homie

🙂

[eternal bramble]

if you ever get around to it and figure out how to reskin the exos id love a simple recolor of the diamond suit

[peak pendant]

I got help finding the Iskra armor textures, but for now I want to try retexturing the Lavina Trophy, changing the color of the tape to blue - this serves as a training exercise to understand how to do it correctly. If I can figure this out successfully, then I might be able to do something similar.

[vital coyote]

havent read through this my self yet but may be usefull for ya https://github.com/windelicato/stalker2_modding_tutorials/blob/main/Tutorials/virtual-textures/texturing.md

[chrome cliff]

looks like yall are close to adding models and animations soon

[deep ridge]

anyone fix schizo yet?

[bright wasp]

Gonna cross post here: Can someone who is playing 1080p 16:9 share a screenshot of their inventory and PDA screen (Upgrades)? Looking to better understand how the UI scales on smaller screens.

[deep ridge]

for me it was ignorable for a while but its like every 5 seconds in game now so its driving me nutz lol

perhaps working as intended lol

[vital coyote]

curious on this, the changes i made in my engine.ini work when i put them in just fine. ive seen a few pages sugest similar any reason why?

[vital coyote]

sure

[atomic jacinth]

you can test yourself by setting to windowed mode and adjusting the view

[gray stream]

By the time these things are figured out the sdk will be available

[bright wasp]

This is why we pay you the big bucks. Thanks! ❤️

[high bay]

Has anyone made a 3rd person mod yet? Surprised I haven't seen one. I know Skif's animations look dorky as hell, from seeing his shadow run like a doofus.

But still, It's like one of the first things modded into a fps lol.

[bright wasp]

Haven't seen one but im sure its around the corner. Or at least some way to view your character

[unreal glacier]

are there any mods that can fix the HUD positioning on ultra wide resolutions

it seems locked to a 16:9 orientation

[vital coyote]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/552

[unreal glacier]

Thank you!!! 🫶

[vital coyote]

o7

[orchid star]

Ultrawide is love, Ultrawide is LIFE
I just bought the 3423DWF and the zone is prettier than ever

[vital coyote]

i want one bad, i like flight stuff from time to time would be soo sick with head tracking and everything

[rotund badge]

So, anyone have an issue where FModel literally extracts the completely wrong file?

[supple hare]

it always extracts "last" file according to load order, so if there are two mods with same file, it will extract from the last one

is there a solution for mod cfg files being cached in save files? CoreVariables.cfg got cached and I can't get the game to pull a new one

[deep ridge]

anyone think maybe the increase draw distance has to do with npcs being heard from a long way off and that causes schizo?

just a hunch because I can hear people I know are in the area but are very far away and im thinking perhaps that is the culprit

[arctic patrol]

Yep 100

Wasn’t an issue prior to Alife mods ,started using ones that increased spawn distance significantly, starting hearing tree people in the distance

[spark plinth]

Someone already changed gun textures, can that person please ping me? I’m in the process of also doing that.

I need to make that EN2xScope black instead of tan.

[grave kite]

https://i.imgur.com/GNI291K.png thats messed up gsc

[vital coyote]

[grave kite]

https://i.imgur.com/9hY06xU.png they had pepsi in the game at one point . bunch of prototype leftovers in the files

[cyan stirrup]

There’s a pretty detailed nods model in the game files too

[spark plinth]

GSC like to tease it seems.

[floral herald]

Has anyone had any luck using the "XRemoveEffectFromPlayer EffectPrototypeSID" command ive got a permenant psy effect on

[barren timber]

problem with completing the quest "The Assault on the Duga" maybe someone encountered it and solved it? I am following the storyline of the ''Varta'' faction. I reached the stage in this task where you need to gain a foothold at the checkpoint and killed all the monoliths and nothing else happens. There are a couple of buildings nearby, but they are dead ends and you can't interact with the doors, and the task progress stopped at the point where you need to gain a foothold at the checkpoint, although I have already fought off the crowds of monoliths and there is not a single hostile soul within 300 meters of me. I saved at every stage of this mission, loaded saves, went to this point 5 times from different stages but nothing changes. I watched other people's walkthroughs of this mission and everything is fine for them and the mission is updated at the point where nothing happens for me. I downloaded the mod to the console, tried to skip this stage with the command ''XEndQuest E07_MQ06'', but nothing happened, I tried the command ''XEndQuest E07_MQ05'' and friendly NPCs on the mission became hostile and they cannot be killed. What command should I enter to skip this particular stage of the mission and move on?

[peak pendant]

There is the first success, we managed to change the texture of the unique "VAL", initially it had a yellow ribbon, now it's blue)

[vital coyote]

fuck yeah man thats dope! pluss the blue dose look super good

[peak pendant]

This mod still needs to be finished, not all icons have been changed, maybe later I'll post it on the nexus or in this GAMMA discord

[vital coyote]

deff post it, you put the work in why not. i would put it on nexus most defiantly

[unreal glacier]

do u think any mobility enhancing mods, like the ones that let you climb ledges or vault taller objects, could break the intended way of navigating?

Like, maybe you sequence break

[arctic monolith]

hey guys - i've done a few UI mods on nexus, but am still struggling to solve the unpak and repak of .json files. have we found or recorded somewhere a solid method of doing so? uassetgui and zentools have been giving me trouble. trying to recolor stat bars and remove hint pop-ups for hold breath.

[void owl]

Did you get it working yet?

[arctic monolith]

i played with that too and wasn't having any luck 😥

i'm but a measly graphics dude

[void owl]

I had to bang my head against it a couple times to get it working. The guide on the GitHub is not super great. Was planning on making a more visual guide for STALKER but I haven't gotten around it

[arctic monolith]

but you did have success with jsontoasset? eventually?

[spark plinth]

Listen, it’s 2 am and if you have time I’ll get off my bed to get mine working

[void owl]

Just woke up, I'll get to the office and at some point I'll get to it

Lol no no it's normal human times for me, can't spent too much time with stalker mods rn

Let's talk later, I'll make sure to tag y'all's when I'm ready

[spark plinth]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1312992178896633926. will go Brrrrrrrr after that

[bold trail]

Could you tag me when you achieve it? thank's a lot

[spark plinth]

I would recommend just following my mod thread.

[bold trail]

how

[spark plinth]

There the post https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1312992178896633926 tick follow on top of your screen

[fervent merlin]

I randomly got recommended this video and it reminded me of you modders…

https://www.youtube.com/live/C1pjPv3WJyo?si=BXIzrpnlJ7CRTgwr

You guys do some great work. Keep it up, and thank you for it. 07

[hexed bane]

anyone willing to help me , why i get this msg when i click "first install init" on gamma ?

[summer silo]

This is stalker 2 chat.

[smoky stirrup]

you lost me on #5. do we go into UE5 in explorer and make the folders or do we import the file/folders in UE5 or do we construct the files in UE5 or? i dropped the file sysytem in UE5 directory in explorer and it doesnt show up in the UI. sucks to get lost this early on 😦 btw the content folder in install directory is full of importenat folders im sure, so "empty". what? specifics.... edit, i think im on to something. THIS folder "UE_5.5\Unreal Projects\DiscordTutorial_001\Content"

[plain arch]

is it possible to mod these left overs into the game. are there any models for the jackets ak and binos etc

[wicked wind]

Are there more such images? How did you found them?

[half willow]

I checked with procmon yesterday, the Engine.ini file doesn't exist by default, but the game still tries to load settings from it, so if it finds the file it just loads the config from it anyways.

[umbral swallow]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/170 this in tandem with A life mods will make the tree people sound like very distant mumbling, and it fixes the issue that you hear them through walls, with this it has natural occlusion

[orchid wharf]

From the day i reached garbadge i havent seen sunny weather in my game it is rainy and cloudy all the time is their any bug or the game is like that do we have any fix for this ??

[void owl]

Did you install Dynamic Weather mod ?

[grave kite]

just some leftover stuff in files

[compact furnace]

Almost like that UI design more

[unreal glacier]

Does anyone know if "Simple ModLoader and Console Enabler" works with Lyall's "STALKER2Tweak?"

[raw crest]

it is like modern SoC Ui, and current one looks like modern CoP UI

[raw crest]

how did you load it in high quality?

[grave kite]

https://i.imgur.com/rYM3DPb.png

[unreal glacier]

Tourist's Delight?

[ember notch]

Finally getting it to work after hours of suffering

thanks so much for the tutorial

[void owl]

Man I wish the game had spay paints for weapons for DLC instead of getting the same camo pattern on guns and armor

[half willow]

M9 Blue Gem next?

[hallow sand]

Morningggggg

[last spire]

cheeking their breeky

[hallow sand]

Someone make an animation so we can all slav squat

[last spire]

so whos gonna make a mod to disable the doors auto opening and closing?

didnt know we live with poltergeists now

[hallow sand]

"Must have been the wind"

Todd howard made his way into this game somehow

Had an idea, opened the files to find it, lost my idea and what it was about

GOD DAMNIT LMAO

[crimson laurel]

uh

[torn haven]

u mean when u sprint into a door ?

[hallow sand]

I think he means when that shit opens/closes as if a poltergeist is near

its almost as if if you sprint towards a door but stop, the gamke thinks you're still running at it

and opens/shuts it

[torn haven]

i only notice the doors auto closing when i sprint thru them

[last spire]

walk up to one and walk far away from one

they auto open and close

zone is fucking w/ u in real time

i call it the gentleman anomaly

[hallow sand]

we can't import assets into game files until teh SDK is out right?

I was also wondering if I can find where their monolog/dialogue is, can I add a ton of lines for NPC's to say?

Wasn't someone wanting emissions to last longer/red sky affect? I thinmk I found a way to do that

[azure mortar]

Can you share how you got jsonasasset working 🥺

[spark plinth]

Once they are available later today. They’ll be on here to explain.

[hallow sand]

I can't wait for this class.

what is the x7 armor called in the files? I cannot find it.

the black version

XCreateItemInInventoryByID Battle_Dolg_End_Armor 0 1 1

Nvm found it 😄

[2] = DutyArmor_4_E1_NightVisionUpgrade Wait, the game does have nightvision.

Just not GOGS

[half willow]

wdym

[hallow sand]

I'm in the armor files of the game, there's upgrades for duty armor for nightvision

[half willow]

scroll down

you're in the obselete section

[summer silo]

I mean, nightvision was always part of the helmet in the og games, lol

[hallow sand]

OH

[hallow sand]

I didn't know that lol, how do I see the obsolete section?

[half willow]

1 sec

[hallow sand]

or how do I know that's what it is

lmao

So editing the armorprototypes.cfg won't really do much then?

[lusty hemlock]

Can anyone tell me which Variable in which config file changes global prices?

[half willow]

nevermind

i misunderstood the config

[compact furnace]

That interview with IGN about A-Life in Stalker 2 is funny as hell

[half willow]

in UpgradePrototypes.cfg you also have:

   ID = 546
   SID = DutyArmor_4_E1_NightVisionUpgrade
   Text = Night Vision
   Hint = Installing NVD.
   Image = Texture2D'/Game/GameLite/FPS_Game/UIRemaster/UITextures/Inventory/T_xleb.T_xleb'
   BaseCost = 1000
   EffectPrototypeSIDs : struct.begin
      [0] = DutyArmor_4_E1_NightVisionEffect
   struct.end
struct.end```

So theoretically you could add the EffectPrototypeSID to another piece of armor and see if it works

[compact furnace]

But does that armor have Night vision in game? Before adding it to another armor

[half willow]

That armor is unobtainable in game

it's npc only

[compact furnace]

I haven't seen any armor, duty or otherwise, that I can actually buy and upgrade like that

[hallow sand]

Yeah but It seems to be in the game file, so wco

[compact furnace]

What if you cheat it in? Can you apply any upgrades?

[hallow sand]

could we console it in?

And see if we can up

[half willow]

yeah, worth a try

[hallow sand]

yeah

Ill give her a shot here in a sec.

already messing wit hthe X7 suit files

[half willow]

I'll fuck around a bit after work

so see ya in 3 hours

[hallow sand]

ill try a bit here shortly too an keep you posted

I'm a retired disabled vet, I got nothing but time LMAO

[compact furnace]

Is there another mention of "_NightvisionEffect" in any other file? Seeing as that kinds needs to be it's own thing to even work

[hallow sand]

in upgrade prototypes

and the actual armor upgrade files @compact furnace

There's literal meshes and NPC's with NVG gogs too

so those are in the files too

Just feels they didn't implement a lot they meant to

[half willow]

not to burst your bubble or anything

[compact furnace]

Yeah but for the effect of Night vision to work, we'd have to have some kind of system that allows the use

[spark plinth]

I just clocked in, c ya in 7 hours

[half willow]

but DutyArmor_4_E1_NightVisionEffect is NOT defined in EffectPrototypes

[spark plinth]

[half willow]

so it most likely will not work

[compact furnace]

That's what I meant, without the effect it'll never do anything

[hallow sand]

Damn.

[lusty hemlock]

But wouldn’t there have to be some post processing references to the actual NVG effect as well?

[hallow sand]

I suppose IF they had the intent on implementing, it could be there.

[compact furnace]

Since they didn't actually put it into the game, I guess that was not even started

[half willow]

I bet it was, most likely cut out

cause some files have it and some don't

[lusty hemlock]

Isn’t this endeavour then already doomed? None of the core functionalities are there and neither do we have the tools to work on whatever scraps they did leave us

[hallow sand]

Oh yeah, I was just saying i found it interesting as an upgrade in the files

[compact furnace]

Unless there's some way to write it in on a modding level that we have access to, yes.

[lusty hemlock]

(I missed the beginning of the conversation tho)

[half willow]

It's probably just left in as a visual upgrade for the NPC's armor, the Duty guys do run around with nods strapped to their heads

[compact furnace]

Did anyone check how the drunk screen effect works? Maybe that can be used as some kind of template to add a NV ?

[compact furnace]

Explains why the armor isn't available for players, which is already sad

[spark plinth]

You on to something here

[hallow sand]

Someone removed the drunk affects with a mod, so we could easily see what they did

[half willow]

                  EffectSID = DrunknessPostProcess
                  RemoveOnTransition = false
               struct.end```

[compact furnace]

Just thought that if that has values we could edit, maybe there's a way to have it increase brightness like the drunk increases saturation, seemingly anyway

[half willow]

   SID = Drunkness
   MaterialPath = MaterialInstanceConstant'/Game/_Stalker_2/Materials/PostProcess/Drunkenness/PPM_PostProcess_Drunkenness_Inst.PPM_PostProcess_Drunkenness_Inst'
   HDRMaterialPath = MaterialInstanceConstant'/Game/_Stalker_2/Materials/PostProcess/Drunkenness/PPM_PostProcess_Drunkenness_Inst_HDR.PPM_PostProcess_Drunkenness_Inst_HDR'
   Priority = 17
struct.end```

[orchid wharf]

no i havent install any weather mod

[spark plinth]

@empty helm thanks for helping naming the mod.

Moth’s Weapon System Overhaul

M.W.S.O. for short. c:

Is it worth me buying the Ultimate edition now or just wait till it’s separated?

[sand vault]

When SDK drops, I want to make a ghost train mod as a type of psi attack. Imagine you're running down the train tracks at night, and you see a light ahead, and it grows bigger, and you start hearing the sounds of a train grow closer, until it hits you and blasts you off the track. Make it look like a glowing semi-transparent passenger train.

I also want to make it so you can use the train tracks as a way to travel across the map. Put a guy on one of those track carts like they had in the Metro games, and let you catch rides with him when he comes by. Make it so he's at certain areas during certain times of the day, and is persistent in the world.

[spark plinth]

[sand vault]

I have so many ideas for this game. Probably gonna need a lot of help figuring it out.

[spark plinth]

All I want is a really good Alife mod and persistent quests that cycle.

[sand vault]

I also want to make a persistent reputation and mission system with Stalkers you meet along the way.

This is the idea I had for the reputation / mission system.

[sinful cypress]

UH, this would be a lot to do! Reminds me a bit on "Reputation"-Mod from Fallout
Hope you can get this done

[sand vault]

Yeah, it's a lot. It'll be possible with the SDK, but not easy.

And I've never modded UE. All of my experience is in Creation Engine and Redengine.

[sinful cypress]

I also never used UE until now ^^
Did mostly Robco-Patcher and (sure) xedit + CK and NifSkope etc.
"Stalker Universe" is new for me

[sand vault]

Yeah, I used Nifskope, XEdit, WolvenKit, GIMP, MI Setup Builder, etc..

[amber halo]

Hello everyone. Please someone can help me? I wanna make mod for stalker 2 but have no knowledge.
How to load uasset to UE? Change texture of some mesh?
How to add\change translations\texts?
Already get knowledge about FModel, and unrealpack but that's all... 😦

[little sluice]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/262?tab=description

[amber halo]

It is possible to add new meshes? with textures etc and spawn somewhere in game?

[half willow]

Why would you if you can just ||mod it in||

[spark plinth]

Didn’t we all agreed that there is a risk in that later one?

[half willow]

Yeah was joking (gsc dont sue me pls)

[crimson laurel]

such a cool mod i found, reduce hunger and increase hunger 😈

[merry mountain]

right now all stalkers that you meet, that are in random squads, will just be deleted when you are out of range so that only makes sense after they fix alife

[spark plinth]

Welp

Now I can mod the new guns too

[half willow]

-$80

[spark plinth]

Sike, 109, they don’t discount that you already own the game.

[half willow]

https://c.tenor.com/5ZrVvn7Cdk0AAAAd/aboba.gif

[desert valve]

i would have taken the approach we figured out yesterday... 🏴‍☠️ but you do you 😄

[crimson laurel]

theres a risk if you publish it

the 2 editions is mostly to support the devs not bc omg new items 😈

[spark plinth]

I did mostly in support

[half willow]

yeah you would probably recieve some very strongly worded letters

[sand vault]

The journalist mission for the base game pre-order only gave me two stashes, Garbage and Swamp. Is this normal? I didn't get it when I first started the game because my pre-order status was broken on Steam. They enabled it when I contacted support, and the mission started when I was already halfway through the game.

[half willow]

nah they should be paying you for what you're doing with the game ngl

[spark plinth]

[crimson laurel]

should i make a mod where u get glass shards from breaking bottles and windows 🧐

and wood from planks and shit

🤓

[half willow]

bruh is making minecraft

[crimson laurel]

yea

how are u gona craft shit later

[spark plinth]

Base building In GAMMA 2?

[sand vault]

What's the approach?

[crimson laurel]

crafts gna need glass 😈

or bartering

[half willow]

Stalker Bedwars inc

[crimson laurel]

u get wood/metal in gamma and shit so

[sand vault]

Get rare mutant materials from killing mutants and breaking down artifacts to use the materials to make endgame gear.

[crimson laurel]

glass is a plus

[raw crest]

why changing RT to True is not enabling HWRT?

[half willow]

hwrt is not implemented

only software rt

[raw crest]

you are joking right 🥹 what about r.lumen.reflection.hardwareRT

[half willow]

i am not joking

we had this discussion here like 2 days ago

you'd have to recompile the game to add hwrt

[raw crest]

[crimson laurel]

https://youtu.be/W1__k5Rkh6c?si=tIvCmcCK1DGaeZvy&t=32

lumen vs hardware

here shows a 4090 lost 20fps with hardwareRT

from 90 to 70

[mellow prawn]

Hi

[crimson laurel]

maybe once the game is optimized enough they could add the option

[desert valve]

i think so, i though there was one before them, but not sure anymore

[mellow prawn]

Where do I find Shay's Living Zone discussion ?

[desert valve]

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

[mellow prawn]

thanks

[desert valve]

youl have to search for yourself 😛

use this link and a little creativity: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dlH18CWkIuBjdzZJbeuH0pFcji3JNdv336uHq1KsDR0/edit?usp=sharing

[raw crest]

tbh i would take that trade off, like they are already forcing botched software RT on us that destroys game's performance, let me pick something

[mellow prawn]

Is there a console command to REMOVE an aquired blueprint from the inventory ?

[last spire]

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

[spark plinth]

Hey @half willow did the whole making mods supper compatible work at the end?

I want to give it a try today

[umbral swallow]

https://www.ign.com/articles/stalker-2-dev-gsc-game-world-explains-for-the-first-time-what-went-wrong-with-a-life-20-and-why-it-was-removed-from-the-games-description-on-steam

[hallow sand]

Ayoooooo?

[crimson laurel]

asbestos is cancerogenous dont wear it

[hallow sand]

The X7 is now upgradeable 😄

Upgrade comparison to vanilla (minus like a +15 to psy in the file from me lol)

[amber halo]

I did like in tutor, but can't see copied uassets in UE

[mellow prawn]

Yeah I posted about it in the Upgrades mod on Nexus yesterday lol

[hallow sand]

Oh fuck LMAO

[mellow prawn]

You can also replace the upgrades on the bugged SIRCA DLC suit and SSP-100 wit the Spark versions to make them upgradable

[half willow]

yeah it did, but i still need to figure out a way to merge the dlc provider files

[hallow sand]

Have you been messing wit htrying to add more pgrade slots?

[mellow prawn]

also add Sprint naturally to exos without sprint by replacing their upgrade trees with the exos that have upgrade trees

[amber halo]

Can someone help please?

[hallow sand]

I assume we can't do much with adding until sdk

[half willow]

I can help you with it if you need help later, just shoot me a dm or @ me

[mellow prawn]

I explained how in this post :

.

I tried fixing the bugged stamina regen upgrade in the Zircon armor yesterday, but it gave me an error. Thats something to do wit hthe upgrade effects file.

[eternal sapphire]

Is there a specific reason you are making it a DLC?

[sand vault]

If you make it a DLC, you don't have to worry about conflicts between mods

It only edits the portion of the cfg file you're making the changes to.

It's a nice system

[half willow]

Yes, that way all of the files are being loaded into separate folders and the config files just link back to the original config file instead of completely overwriting them

[sand vault]

Herbata is the goat for figuring it out.

[eternal sapphire]

It doesn't have to be DLC for this.

[half willow]

From my experience it does as long as you want to append lines to the base config files like UpgradePrototypes.cfg, if you want to append lines to files not in the GameData folder directly, like for example GameData\ItemPrototypes, then you can just rip any .cfg file right into there and it will work

[mellow prawn]

Seems like the upgrade EFFECTS file needs to be tweaked to add those. I havent started messing with it as I dont have an unpacked file for that lol

[untold pilot]

Are NPCs still shooting at player through walls or is that fixed?

[eternal sapphire]

I have been testing this for several days and updated my mod with the working system. The files don't have to be in DLC, its actually easier to keep them near their sources.

[half willow]

gimme

[sand vault]

How lol

Yeah, I'm curious

[eternal sapphire]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/389

[half willow]

I have:

[void owl]

I will! Still at work

[half willow]

will take a look in a sec

[void owl]

Can't wait to be done coding at work so I can go back to coding at home

I know this is not coding, but I'm just tryna be funny

[void owl]

Then go checkout Dynamic Weather mod (shameless self plug)

[desert valve]

it works even without DLCs, but not with all configs for some reason

[eternal sapphire]

I learned the files still need alphabetical load order when packed, idk how them being in different folders would change this. for example: my file with the mutant edits was called "MutantLoot.cfg" but wouldn't edit snorks until I named it "ZzMutantLoot.cfg"

[half willow]

wait, that actually makes perfect sense

UE5 loads files in alphabetical order, and the last one loaded is always treated as the most important, thus winning any conflicts

damn

I'll have to recheck this

[desert valve]

same, might explain why the bandage thing wasnt working yesterday evening

nah turns out i already figured that out yesterday and called it ZBandageNoHealing.cfg

still doesnt work though

[amber halo]

Guys, is it possible to exit existing textures? I cant load it to UE 5.1 ? Where can be problem?

[mellow prawn]

What file do you edit for weapons and armor upgrade slots ? and whats the process for doing it ?

[orchid wharf]

yes i have installed that now let's see how it goes

[sand vault]

Is there a console command to set max framerate, so I can limit framerate while using framegen? The ingame menu limit doesn't work.

Ah, it's t.MaxFPS =

But still doesn't work.

Did anyone ever get the stash inventory menu window size increased?

[desert valve]

theres a mod somewhere

[desert valve]

have you set framgen to auto?

[sand vault]

Auto?

You mean in engine.ini?

[desert valve]

ingame settings

[crimson belfry]

Enabling framegen also enables Reflex, which automatically limits fps a few fps below max refresh rate

[desert valve]

found it https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/515

[sand vault]

I'm running AMD framegen

[crimson belfry]

Nvm then

[sand vault]

It won't let you limit framerate

Works well, really well actually, but that's the issue. Can't keep Gsync working with my 100Hz monitor when my FPS is hitting 120+.

[crimson belfry]

Try Afterburner/Rivatuner to limit your fps then, or directly on driver level

[sand vault]

So, I just disabled it and am running DLAA, limited my monitor refresh rate to 75Hz and can hold that. Don't need upscaling or framegen apparently.

With the STK2 - SPF mod, the game runs great now even without those enabled.

Every so often I dip into 60-70FPS range when I hit a settlement, but it only happens for a second, and then it jumps back up to 75FPS. That's good enough for me for now.

[half willow]

https://github.com/herbatka/ZubrCaliberChange/tree/dev

But making custom upgrades is pointless as of now, we still haven't figured out how to get the technicians to upgrade them:

You can give it a shot

If you figure it out, you'd be making a huge impact for a lot of our mods

[azure mortar]

Fr, I'm almost as excited for this tutorial as I was for release of stalker 2

[thorny yacht]

Has anyone played around with outdoor brightness. We all know how you adjust nights in gamma. Bright, slightly bright, slightly dark and dark nights. Right now outdoors are too bright. Playing around brightness and gamma settings doesnt cut it. I want to be scared as fuck at night but now its just like walking during the day its kinda meh

[pearl zodiac]

you want your daytimes to be nighttimes?

if you're looking for "darker" days go find a moody reshade on nexus lol

[thorny yacht]

No no, i want to make nighttime great again. Like really fucking dark

[pearl zodiac]

might be your monitor then

turning down gamma for me makes the game pitch fucking black at nighttime

so i would check your monitor too

[thorny yacht]

my monitor is fine, im playing gamma and nights are actually dark

[pearl zodiac]

you do know these games handle lighting totally different right

[thorny yacht]

yes and thats why i am asking

[pearl zodiac]

i gave you some help and you threw it away

so good luck

[thorny yacht]

everyone here have the same brightness in every video or screenshot

[pearl zodiac]

[eternal sapphire]

If anyone is looking for a project set this to true and go talk to a tech. In CoreVariables.cfg

[thorny yacht]

I tried reshades brother. Its not cool

[vital coyote]

Word just curious on why some say to put it in to the other one over making an ini

[vital coyote]

It just loaded this time. Last time I opened it it looked like a potato. I need to get proper software for 3d files

[raw crest]

Weird, it is still potato for me

Someone else said potato models are for when nanite does not work and fallbacks to potatos

[compact furnace]

So if we somehow disable nanite, we will travel back to 2007?

[vital coyote]

My game crashes like how the world ended in 2012

[raw crest]

More like 1996

[compact furnace]

Id love to see what Stalker from 1996 looks like, thats a vibe

[raw crest]

Because potatos are like 20-30 poligons lol

[half willow]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-stalker-shadow-of-chernobyl-shadow-of-chernobyl-chornobyl-chernobyl-gif-3707974255428954678

[thorny yacht]

sdalger oblivion is probably the closest candidate

[vital coyote]

Apocalyptic vibes on steam, it runs on gzdoom

[compact furnace]

Please someone make it happen

[spark plinth]

As long as it works with my mod. It’s gucci.

[raw crest]

I modified TAA based on what those optimization guys from Thread Active or whatever it is told me

Results are atrocious

Left is modified TAA and right is Xess, his eyes disappeared with TAA

[crimson laurel]

ima look

[spark plinth]

[vital coyote]

[raw crest]

I cant believe how i managed to achieve blurry AND dithery look, usually it is one or other

[summer silo]

GUYS

Actually give me a second..

I had to shrink the vid from 480mb to 70mb

[half willow]

BRUH

[summer silo]

IT CAN LOAD

LOOSE FILES AFTER ALL

[raw crest]

Your game loads 30 time faster than mine

I wait 5 minutes to open the damned game

[summer silo]

Ryzen 7 9700x and RTX 4080s on 32GB's of 6000mhz ram

But yeah

IT LOADS LOOSE FILES

WHAT THE HELL

AMBULANCE

Out my window wtf happened there

brb

[thorny yacht]

Marked one WHAT THE HELL!!??

[desert valve]

o.O mines way faster than that

[lean oar]

I was wondering that lmao

[desert valve]

i though the video stopped

lol

[gusty olive]

@leaden dagger https://www.ign.com/articles/stalker-2-dev-gsc-game-world-explains-for-the-first-time-what-went-wrong-with-a-life-20-and-why-it-was-removed-from-the-games-description-on-steam

In short, optimization issues ahead of launch forced GSC to shrink the area around the player in which A-Life 2.0 works. It is supposed to extend much farther in virtual distance terms than it currently does, but to get Stalker 2 into a decent place performance wise across PC and Xbox Series X and S, the developers had to reduce this distance. Then came the bugs on top.

OH MY GOD its almost as if they had to gut alife for consoles like ive been fucking saying since day one

FUCKING TOLD YOU SO

[ripe flame]

Working on UI, and there's a lot of misplaced objects. How can I move this by 1 pixel to the right? This is Content\GameLite\FPS_Game\UIRemaster\UITextures\Inventory\Equipment\T_equip_background_right.png

And I've found referring to it here (Content\GameLite\FPS_Game\UIRemaster\Inventory\W_EquipmentSlots.cfg):

  {
    "Type": "Image",
    "Name": "BackgroundRight",
    "Outer": "WidgetTree",
    "Class": "UScriptClass'Image'",
    "Properties": {
      "Brush": {
        "ImageSize": {
          "X": 11.5,
          "Y": 680.0
        },
        "ResourceObject": {
          "ObjectName": "Texture2D'T_equip_background_right'",
          "ObjectPath": "/Game/GameLite/FPS_Game/UIRemaster/UITextures/Inventory/Equipment/T_equip_background_right.0"
        }
      },
      "Slot": {
        "ObjectName": "HorizontalBoxSlot'W_EquipmentSlots_C:WidgetTree.HorizontalBox_833.HorizontalBoxSlot_4'",
        "ObjectPath": "/Game/GameLite/FPS_Game/UIRemaster/Inventory/W_EquipmentSlots.28"
      }
    }
  },

Increasing "X": 11.5, did nothing.

Tried to add to "Properties" this for testing, also nothing:

      "LayoutData": {
        "Offsets": {
          "Left": 100.0
        }
      },

[raw crest]

I wanna upgrade my cpu so bad, I'm using 85$ 1600AF from 2019 but 600$ GPU from 2022

[lean oar]

What about your storage?

[raw crest]

1TB M1 ssd, 16GB ram

[eternal sapphire]

This just works or???

[summer silo]

IT JUST WORKS

[lean oar]

M1? You mean m.2?

[raw crest]

I should say i wait for shader complications(warmup version)

[raw crest]

Ah yeah

[summer silo]

shader complications

[raw crest]

mine is complication

[eternal sapphire]

Whelp off to test every variation of "CustomLocalizationDB"

[summer silo]

PFFFFFF

[raw crest]

After every watch i wait 40 minutes for full compilation

[summer silo]

I don't think it loads base gamedata cfg's

[lean oar]

Jesus wtf

[raw crest]

i will snatch the first 5700X3D i see under 180$

I don't live in US so i don't have access to micro center

[spark plinth]

This is a crime against humanity!!!!

[lean oar]

No proper resellers in your area?

[raw crest]

I hope they don't force feature parity... It will fuck all of us over

[half willow]

and you gave them $109

[spark plinth]

Worth it

[raw crest]

I'm can buy from US ebay so I'm waiting for it

[spark plinth]

Well, technically I gave them 170

[half willow]

💀

[lean oar]

I'd have gone for the collectors edition if shipping wouldn't have cost me a damn leg to where I live

[raw crest]

I wonder is it is possible to refund the first purchase by talking with Steam support

[spark plinth]

Shhhhhh, we will mod the heck out of it to make it what it should have been.

[spark plinth]

Will do that

[lean oar]

Who knows, GSC could potentially also fix it themselves

[half willow]

https://tenor.com/view/mahsa-a-foundation-gif-26962201

[spark plinth]

One can dream

[lean oar]

Exactly haha

It's about having faith

[frank summit]

Hey folks. I've been working on the gamerguides database for this game since launch and thought you lot would be the best to ask - should item IDs be added to pages? i figure they might be useful for modders, but have to assume most of you know item IDs like the back of your hands 😛

[summer silo]

Okay so we can load almost anything loosely

[spark plinth]

My only concern is nobody has a concrete clue on what the heck the “multiplayer” will look like and how that will effect modding as a whole.

[spark plinth]

W

[summer silo]

These seem to just not vibe with any attempt tho

Can't update values in them without a complete overwrite within a pak file
Which sucks tbh

[raw crest]

Yes spawning them will be easier by command console

[lean oar]

That's certainly a concern yeah, given that they want to release modding tools you'd think it be entitely separate

[spark plinth]

#SDK2025

[half willow]

You can with the DLC method 😉

[summer silo]

Wait..

[raw crest]

Have you seen multiplayer of CoP, probably something similar

[frank summit]

sounds good. will see what i can do

[summer silo]

Loose DLC

Genius

[half willow]

if you get that shit to work

[summer silo]

On it

[half willow]

im going over to your house

[gusty olive]

"noooo they would not do that, gutting features for console performance? NONSENSE!"

[summer silo]

DO NOT

[half willow]

and bringing you a cold żubr

[spark plinth]

If that works, I can probably add custom attachments already

[summer silo]

I don't drink normal beer

[spark plinth]

[half willow]

Fine you can have this then

[summer silo]

Look. Łomża cytrynowa or nothing.

[half willow]

Ait

Deal

[lean oar]

The cytrusowy

[half willow]

the cytr-ussy

[spark plinth]

https://tenor.com/view/bonk-bonk-go-to-jail-gif-22036129

[summer silo]

SteamPlatformProviderEngine has to be packed

[half willow]

yeah

that one obviously

but the DLCGameData\moddir doesnt probably

maybe hopefully

[ripe flame]

Will "DLC" approach work for those who didn't buy DLC?

[half willow]

yes

[summer silo]

Hey so uh you can just uh, have all of them with one id

[half willow]

thats not new news

i know

[frank summit]

alright, started adding it to ammo - copying and pasting this into the console should give you one 9x18mm PST bullet
XCreateItemInInventoryByID A918D 0 1 1

[summer silo]

oh

lol

Well I didn't

[half willow]

delete this ss

[summer silo]

Time to see if the truth will set me free

[raw crest]

Thank you for your service 🙏

[frank summit]

No worries. You'll need to download a mod to get access to the console but it should be handy, especially for weapons 😛

[raw crest]

Did you load the DLCs

i want the Monolith Seva

From Ultimate edition

I should have bought ultimate when it was 20$ last year I'm a dumbass

[summer silo]

Look two years ago the Ultimate Collectors edition costed $190

In Poland

Am dumbass too

[raw crest]

I live in Turkey for certain time each year so i had chance to buy it for 20$, i decided 10$ is enough

[half willow]

YO

IT TOTALY WORKS

LOOSE DLC WORKS

[raw crest]

What does it mean, explain it for us newbies

[summer silo]

WAIT
DOES IT?

[raw crest]

You don't need repack for mods?

[half willow]

you dont need a .pak file

for the dlc dir

just for the content provider

XD

[raw crest]

So just drag and drop cfgs to folder and it works?

[half willow]

you just rip it

[half willow]

yessir

[raw crest]

Ok so, can you check if it has same save blocker similar to DLCs

[half willow]

sure can

gimme a sec

[desert valve]

should behave the same

[raw crest]

Imagine downloading mod and then your save requiring it to play with that save wouldn't be optimal

[spark plinth]

Fam, we gotta cook this month like you have no idea

[half willow]

it works like that in a lot of games already

[raw crest]

Really? Most moddable games like Bathesda's don't have that requirement

[half willow]

nah fo4 def gives you a warning if youre missing a mod you previously had on the same save, it still lets you load it tho

but if the mod adds new content and you happen to have it in your inventory

then guess what

ctd

[raw crest]

It would suck tho. I wouldn't download a single mod unless I'm 100% sure i want it till the end of my current run if that was the case

[lean oar]

not necessarily, they are a bit more robust than that but you will def fuck with your save if you keep adding and removing mods during a playthrough

[ripe flame]

There are mods that only tweak textures though.

[half willow]

yo we BING CHILLING

I loaded the save no problems

[summer silo]

I still can't replace CoreVariables..

[spark plinth]

Welllllll, I tell you what, my mod works well with saves if you follow my uninstall instructions. XD

[half willow]

we in

[raw crest]

No like imagine you are downloading dildo gun for funsies then your save refusing to work without dildo gun

[crimson laurel]

@eternal sapphire not even a single mention of disassemble beside corevariable

[lean oar]

also this

[half willow]

gimme

[crimson laurel]

🧐

[eternal sapphire]

I have done as much testing as I could on this for missing items. If you get rid of them its not an issue. I haven't tested this long term but there is a proper uninstall method.

[summer silo]

Imma try one more thing first

[half willow]

anyone knows of some kind of cli tool to edit files within a .pak file without unpacking it?

[raw crest]

Lets say you add deluxeDLC and then remove it from your game, you can still make it work by deleting items?

[eternal sapphire]

You would have to sell them to a trader and wait till they reset inventory so it doesn't break slots when removed. and then uninstall

[half willow]

or rather, does anyone know if the repak tool has a public repo?

nvm found it

[ripe flame]

We need a mod that adds "Delete item" in right click menu.

[lavish lichen]

So far there's no exception handling on corrupted/removed item slots, so the only workaround is save editing which isn't possible yet

[raw crest]

I can already imagine thousands of people bricking their saves because of this, we will need some tool to solve it

You all, modio works with adding files to games on the run without restart, is not possible to use whatever loading it uses for current mods?

[summer silo]

Yeah, no, this doesn't work

DefaultConfig_Herbata : struct.begin {refurl=../../GameData/CoreVariables.cfg;refkey=DefaultConfig}
  // frequency in seconds
  SID = DefaultConfig_Herbata
  Priority = 1
  SkyLightUpdateDeltaTime = 2
  RealToGameTimeCoef = 12
  // Stamina
  StaminaRegenStateCoefs : struct.begin
    [0] : struct.begin
      StateTag = EStateTag::Sprint
      Value = -1.1
    struct.end
    [1] : struct.begin
      StateTag = EStateTag::SlowRun
      Value = 0
    struct.end
    [2] : struct.begin
      StateTag = EStateTag::Run
      Value = -0.65
    struct.end
    [3] : struct.begin
      StateTag = EStateTag::Aim
      Value = -0.25
    struct.end
  struct.end
  // / Player consts
  FOVDefault = 100.0
  CutsceneFOVDefault = 100.0
  DialogFOVDefault = 100.0
struct.end```

[eternal sapphire]

I mean... Its a pretty simple and not uncommon uninstall procedure for game mods.

[summer silo]

Unless..

[half willow]

chief

thats not how you're supposed to do it

gimme a sec

[summer silo]

https://tenor.com/view/show-me-the-way-father-chuck-blood-and-treasure-tell-me-the-way-let-me-see-the-way-gif-26852926

[raw crest]

Is it not possible currently?

[half willow]

this is gonna look stupid as fuck but try ripping this:

   bGSCEnsure = false
   bStartWithMenu = true
   bAllowDropOnClick = false
// Inventory consts
   InventorySPDrainCoef = 0.024
   InventorySPOverweightDrainCoef = 0.05
   InventoryPenaltyLessWeight = 50.0
   // Falling consts
   StaminaFallingDamageCoef = 0.5
   bShowBrokenGameDataWindows = true
   PathToBrokenGameData = C:\STALKER2.sym\git\s2gamebuild\Saved\BrokenGameData
   TriggerDebugDrawDistance = 5000.0
   // frequency in seconds
   Priority = 1
   SkyLightUpdateDeltaTime = 2
   RealToGameTimeCoef = 12
   // Stamina
   StaminaRegenStateCoefs : struct.begin
     [0] : struct.begin
       StateTag = EStateTag::Sprint
       Value = -1.1
     struct.end
     [1] : struct.begin
       StateTag = EStateTag::SlowRun
       Value = 0
     struct.end
     [2] : struct.begin
       StateTag = EStateTag::Run
       Value = -0.65
     struct.end
     [3] : struct.begin
       StateTag = EStateTag::Aim
       Value = -0.25
     struct.end
   struct.end
   // / Player consts
   FOVDefault = 100.0
   CutsceneFOVDefault = 100.0
   DialogFOVDefault = 100.0
struct.end```

[spark plinth]

Mmm yes, code we hope everyone coming here understands.

We all speak Stalker in here

[summer silo]

That didn't do it

[half willow]

what file did you save it as

[summer silo]

CoreVariablesCustom.cfg

[half willow]

[ripe flame]

try adding zz?

[sinful cypress]

add

[void owl]

Wait did we just realize we can load loose cfg files?

[sinful cypress]

yeah

[void owl]

I'm trying to catch up

[half willow]

dont think that zz will make a difference in a DLC packed mod

[summer silo]

Some can be loaded loose
Some can't

[void owl]

[spark plinth]

https://tenor.com/view/when-the-coding-when-the-coding-when-the-coding-is-when-the-meme-gif-21749595

[half willow]

now I feel like it's just the CoreVariables

Cause I got mine working

and I couldnt before

[sinful cypress]

the /ref ones?

[ripe flame]

@eternal sapphire
Can you please write a step-by-step guide on how you did it in Monster Loot for UE/Stalker 2 newbies like me? That would help a lot. Thanks!

[dark grail]

lmfao

entitled af

[magic geyser]

Are you changing the LaunchConfig to DefaultConfig_Herbata?

[spark plinth]

Petition to have a modding vc channel?

So we can help each other easier?

[half willow]

pls ❤️

[spark plinth]

Also, for the peeps that are visual learners (including myself)

[summer silo]

Stalker 2 dedicated vc overall would be nice

[spark plinth]

That’s kinda what I meant, missing a vc for the Stalker 2 category

[half willow]

wait what the fuck

[molten cargo]

bEnableHip=True

[summer silo]

Congrats
You unlocked the secret Hip follower.
Its a floating hip bone from a bloodsucker.

[molten cargo]

Whoever replaced the font and cursor with the og stuff 🫶

[sinful cypress]

#╟🎮stalker-videos📹 message

Thx whoever found this out, great

[ripe flame]

Did you use {refurl=?

[sinful cypress]

idk what that means :p
I just copied the code from the original cfg and created a new .cfg with those lines and removed the healing from bandages

[spark plinth]

You have to do a reference to call back to the cfg you want it to edit.

[sinful cypress]

ah wait

[ripe flame]

You can avoid overriding the whole cfg by using refs.

Look at Mutant Loot's ZzMutantLoot.cfg:

Blinddog : struct.begin {refurl=BlindDog.cfg;refkey=[0]}
   ItemGeneratorPrototypeSID = MutantDogGenerator
   struct.end

That's it. Modfy or add only what's needed

[oak plinth]

Hi!
Dont work with "No Sprint Cost" and "Jake's Longer Days"
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/140
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/44
Tried various options with ZZZ

Can anyone help?)

[smoky stirrup]

anyone know a good tutorial how to set up UE5 to open uasset files for S2? ive followed a few but... not works. or just an app to view uassets, i pretty much need some info from one right now.... i think..

[cobalt hamlet]

I tried with DynamicItemGeneration and it seem that is not working , did you have to put Zz right behind the name of the files @ripe flame ?

[ripe flame]

I am still trying to wrap my head around it. Getting there/

[compact furnace]

I think my game is starting to kick the bucket, Icons for savegames are not correct anymore, sounds from an underground area keep playing despite me being outside now and the mission that I turned in at the duty bartender does not update in my PDA despite having received my rewards

Could mods even cause this?

[ripe flame]

Will be hilarious if turns out frequent quick saves get corrupted like in OG Stalker.

[cobalt hamlet]

i will try with zz stuff

[compact furnace]

I think thats whats happening here

[spark plinth]

We have someone who has that will be giving a small class on how to later today.

[vital coyote]

ohh fr thats sick

[cobalt hamlet]

Not working even with zz

[ripe flame]

Let me know it it worked

Damn

[vital coyote]

when where and is it open?

[ripe flame]

Are you sure you don't need ;refkey=[0] in first struct?

[cobalt hamlet]

yep i added it to try now ^^

[merry mountain]

you need to merge them, they edit the same file

[ripe flame]

Also not sure about [*], Maybe replace with [0]?

[cobalt hamlet]

hmm in my original files it was a[*]

[ripe flame]

It could be right. I am just looking at how Mutant Loot did it:

MutantFleshGenerator : struct.begin {refurl=../ItemGeneratorPrototypes.cfg;refkey=[0]}
   SID = MutantFleshGenerator
   ItemGenerator : struct.begin
      [0] : struct.begin
         Category = EItemGenerationCategory::Junk
         bAllowSameCategoryGeneration = true
         PossibleItems : struct.begin
            [0] : struct.begin
               ItemPrototypeSID = MutantBlood
               Chance = 0.5
               MinCount = 1
               MaxCount = 2
            struct.end
            [1] : struct.begin
               ItemPrototypeSID = MutantMeat
               Chance = 0.6
               MinCount = 1
               MaxCount = 3
            struct.end
            [2] : struct.begin
               ItemPrototypeSID = MutantHide
               Chance = 0.3
               MinCount = 1
               MaxCount = 2
            struct.end
            [3] : struct.begin
               ItemPrototypeSID = FleshEye
               Chance = 0.7
               MinCount = 1
               MaxCount = 1
            struct.end
         struct.end
      struct.end
   struct.end
struct.end

[cobalt hamlet]

MutantLoot dont use a SubItemGenerator

in my case i use the SubItemGenerator

[sinful cypress]

So, all I did was copy those lines in my new cfg, create the folder and drop the cfg in.

And it works.

Will try this refurl stuff youre talking about also

[cobalt hamlet]

there is the origianl files

[ripe flame]

And it worked?

[sinful cypress]

yes

[spark plinth]

The person is called Ace. I ain’t pinging em since we whelmed this chat yesterday evening and today morning, trying to get them in here. He will write in here when he is ready.

He also plans on doing a tutorial for everyone to follow

[vital coyote]

ohh nice yeah ace knows his stuff

[ripe flame]

This is so much simplier and cleaner.

[magic geyser]

You are missing a ItemGenerator key in the second struct, btw

[cobalt hamlet]

Yep @ripe flame not working even with ItemGenerator

[cobalt hamlet]

you mean, this :

   ItemGenerator : struct.begin
      [*] : struct.begin
         Category = EItemGenerationCategory::SubItemGenerator
         PossibleItems : struct.begin
            [0] : struct.begin
               ItemGeneratorPrototypeSID = CL_ISPFNPC_Patch
               Chance = 1
            struct.end
         struct.end
      struct.end
   struct.end```

[magic geyser]

Yeah

[cobalt hamlet]

even with ItemGenerator is not working

maybe the path in refurl is not good ?

[ripe flame]

Just wanted to say if the path is correct

[cobalt hamlet]

The files is placed into the same directories of DynamicItemGenerator.cfg

so the path seem to be correct

[desert valve]

sounds from an underground area keep playing
that happens all the time though

[magic geyser]

show me the {ref...} of the itemgenerator again, please?

[magic geyser]

the patch generator

ty

oh, ok

[cobalt hamlet]

btw PatchGenerator is a new thing not created yet in Dynamic

[magic geyser]

first struct is not an item generator

(and thus not a sub item generator)

ref should be {refurl=../ItemGeneratorPrototypes.cfg;refkey=[0]}

eh, might not work

[amber halo]

Where to find declaration of items ? Like name and description?

[cobalt hamlet]

i tried a bunch of different configurations and it seem that no one work 😦

[sinful cypress]

Like this?

[magic geyser]

At this point, I'd try to make something that I'm are pretty sure it should work (maybe overwrite the DynamicGenerator completely). Loose files is something not fully understood, some files still don't work for unknown reasons.

[cobalt hamlet]

I already overwrite the DynamicGenerator for my mod

and it work good

[magic geyser]

Using loose files?

[raw zealot]

Unpopular opinion but devs should first fix what they promised when they where marketing this game first and then interviews to magazines.

https://www.ign.com/articles/stalker-2-dev-gsc-game-world-explains-for-the-first-time-what-went-wrong-with-a-life-20-and-why-it-was-removed-from-the-games-description-on-steam

[amber halo]

Hey, any tutorial to work with translations\descriptions?

[ripe flame]

Wrong chat for a rage bait

[desert valve]

🤦‍♂️

[ripe flame]

Don't feed

[desert valve]

realized it to late 😄

[merry mountain]

||stupid people|| : game studios only consist of developers

[raw zealot]

Crazy how facts are rage bait these days

[vital coyote]

community managers and pr folk dont know how to code. plus sometimes its good to step away from a screen and ware a diffrent hat from time to time

[merry mountain]

you obviously dont realize that game studios also employ other people then just devs

[raw zealot]

Or should players expect modders to make gamma 2 and fix it.It was literally listed in steam as a game that has a life 2 included

[desert valve]

what is this marketing you are speaking of, never heard of it

[ripe flame]

Guys, please, let's stick to modding here. It's hard to look for valueable info after these rants 🙂

[merry mountain]

does not exist

its all fake news

[raw zealot]

Ye departments dont communicate they dont have their own channels.Mate you sound like the only job you ve had in your life is walmart get lost

[desert valve]

i though that is all done by chatgpt anyway nowadays

[vital coyote]

lol ohh yeah just came here to argue

[spark plinth]

I agree, while the conversation may have pertinence to modding in some way, in hopes of it not cluttering the chat, maybe #╓☢stalker2™-chat-not-gamma-keep-waiting ?

We try to strictly keep this chat to modding discussions

[merry mountain]

yeah if he does not gtfo just ask the mods to remove him from the channel

also they should not allow people with newcomer role in the first place

[vital coyote]

i dont think he has to gtfo lol i just saw that turning inot a brick of text pluss newbies wanna mod too

[merry mountain]

if he does not want to talk about making mods he should

[vital coyote]

agreed

[merry mountain]

newbies are free to remove that role, if they cant even do that, they probably dont have the mental capacity to mod 😅

[vital coyote]

ohh ive been in the server for so long just lurking and peeping anomaly mods untill now i didnt even know there was like a react role or anything.

[merry mountain]

my guess at this time is , when they release the sdk it will be a disappoinment becauuse we already long ripped the game into pieces and it wont offer us much more

[vital coyote]

was gunna sugest that exact thing xD (a react role that is)

[desert valve]

you have to be more positive my dudes

[vital coyote]

proper debug without jank will be nice

it exists they just dont want us to have it rn lol

[merry mountain]

if they wanted to give us debug tools, they would have not removed them again

instead they could have just said :: here you go, some debug buiild for moddiinig before we release the sdk

would have even gotten them great attention

[spark plinth]

Considering we can already modify their encrypted files. We already have the potential to do anything.

It’s just a matter of trial and error

[merry mountain]

thats what im saying

at the point of them releasing the sdk in an unkown future, we willl have figured most stuff out already

without their help

[desert valve]

which of you lovely peoples wants to show me how get one of those delicous blueprint mods going i here so much about

[vital coyote]

i agree they should just give it to us instead of treating modders with kiddie gloves, my assumption they know their updates are going to break stuff in the begining.

[merry mountain]

they could have just told us stuff tho, then they could have saved us from much work

[vital coyote]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1312903265419264051

[spark plinth]

Same boat as most of us. We waiting on Ace to come in here and teach us all how they did it.

[vital coyote]

pple in here know things

[merry mountain]

either get blueprint loader mod or ue4ss and load the blueprint?

[desert valve]

yeah waiting for him to publish to github 😄

[desert valve]

its more the stuff before that step

[merry mountain]

for the blueprint loader mod its a straight command you can use to load them

[pliant edge]

guys, Im not a modder and don`t have much info on how things work. but at the current state of the game, what is modding limited to? like what is possible to mod in? guns, equipment, systems idk

[vital coyote]

the dev for the hud hiding mod is in there too

[spark plinth]

Wrong blueprint in my brain

[merry mountain]

you mean building a blueprint or what do you mean

[desert valve]

i dont know the terminology, but yes, i guess so

[spark plinth]

Anything that doesn’t involve encrypted files.

[vital coyote]

think its all made in ue

[merry mountain]

not sure, i dont do blueprints, only Lua stuff with ue4ss

you can also use C++

[vital coyote]

then exported

[desert valve]

didnt get far with lua, everything is userdata

debugging that stuff is torture

[merry mountain]

idk, most stuff is not actually

[vital coyote]

and yeah can load scripts like that into the game as well, was gunna look into a simpe twitch intergration by running a comand by hotkey intergration one day when i have the time

[pliant edge]

encrypted files are where more complex things/systems could be modified?

[merry mountain]

thats not true, most of the files we change are in fact in encrypted files, they are encryption using an AES key

[vital coyote]

^

aes is the encryption key

[main wing]

new patch dropped dudes

[vital coyote]

o.o

[desert valve]

indeed