╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[desert valve]

no patchnotes though

[spark plinth]

I’m talking about the skel stuff and some other things

[merry mountain]

iim either staying at 1.0 or just copy the entire game, just in case they do something to break compatibility with Dev Build & Debug Tools

[half willow]

@summer silo new patch

[vital coyote]

last time i think it was an hour or 2 b4 we got the log

[magic geyser]

https://steamdb.info/patchnotes/16611355/

[vital coyote]

ty ty

[crimson laurel]

another patch

crazy

[vital coyote]

feedback? i thought yall were gamers

[half willow]

fucking finally

[vital coyote]

all my homies hate input lag

tf

[crimson laurel]

23GB UPDATE

gyatt

[cobalt hamlet]

LOL it's not possible

for thoses minors fixesq

[crimson laurel]

every update they dropping a whole new game of data

[eternal bramble]

looking for help to merge these two mods, i havent been able to get it to work myself https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/445?tab=posts and https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/596 (Project Itemization and Better Progressive NPC Loadouts)

[cobalt hamlet]

they put new shit and fixes without notify people

[raw crest]

I didn't know it had both Smoothing and Acceleration

[vital coyote]

which is why i think they havent given mod tools out yet

[crimson laurel]

honestly 23gb for this update is wildly large

[vital coyote]

no matter what i need this in my ini

bEnableMouseSmoothing=False
bViewAccelerationEnabled=False
RawMouseInputEnabled=1```

[merry mountain]

pretty sure they wont do that for the next few months

[crimson laurel]

nice branch

porcupine

[vital coyote]

agree

[raw crest]

Man this is crazy to think they thought this was good idea, 90% of the players have to use AMDs FSR to play this damned game and they ADD stuff that adds input lag on top of that

[vital coyote]

ohh shit but this is here

[crimson laurel]

ion think am absolutely sure the modding tools will only come after the hotfixes

[vital coyote]

that is a good thing for modders

[crimson laurel]

how do u even get that information in steamdb

[merry mountain]

why would 90% of players use fsr, AMD marketshare is very tiny

[raw crest]

Only 4xxx can use Nvidia FG

[eternal bramble]

FSR ass cause it stops working when you pull up your PDA, DLSS is just better

[vital coyote]

yeah i fucking know right the dead zones the need for frame gen, mouse smoothing without the option to turn it off?

must be realy trying to give you that drunk slav feel

[raw crest]

All other Nvidia users can only use AMDs

[merry mountain]

framegen is not the same as DLSS which can be used by other cards

[vital coyote]

they need to rename their frame gen and not keep it the same as the upscalers

[spark plinth]

Oh boi, crossed finger from mods not breaking too much.

[merry mountain]

just run iit without FSR / DLSS & Framegen, do you plebs do not have a 4090 ? 😛

[crimson laurel]

ah i understand why it's 23gb tho

basically youre reinstalling the whole .pak

[raw crest]

Mate unless NVIDIA did go back on their words(which i havent heard as such) and added frame generation support for 3000 series, all other non-4000 series cards are using AMD's FG

[crimson laurel]

so if they change every .pak in the game, u basically need to reinstall the whole game

[vital coyote]

i have a thirty series -_- think i saw that technicly dlss fg will work on my card if nvidia didnt block it

[merry mountain]

youu can just use DLSS upscaling without framegen

[desert valve]

even with it and all the DLSS and FramGen i would still call it barely playable

[merry mountain]

i have everything at ultra and turned DLSS & Framegen off, looks nice and runs nice

[raw crest]

Yeah but FPS is bad for us pleps so most use frame gen

[merry mountain]

i hate how DLSS & Framegen looks

i cant stand it

[desert valve]

the 1% lows are just atrocious, no matter what

[vital coyote]

yeah looks like they touched ALOT of the pak chunks

[raw crest]

Just use AMDs, if you have baseline 60fps you don't even notice it is on most of the time

Or you can use custom AMD FG by modding .dll

[vital coyote]

ohh yeah i use it and if a game dosnt have it that runs bad on my smol cpu i use lossless scaling app. still lame tho

[nimble heron]

wtf is up with these random patches out of thin air?

[raw crest]

Lol i remember i accidentally turned on driver based frame generation and then in game frame generation, so 75% of my frames were fake. Moving mouse felt like playing through streaming service with shitty Bluetooth controller for first 20 hours of the game

[rustic granite]

so is these still necessary in the engine.ini ?

[umbral swallow]

No

[vital coyote]

not sure havent played yet but dont think so

take it out see how it feels if not put it in after

[umbral swallow]

They literally set those as default, whats so hard to understand

[rustic granite]

anyone can confirm this if they have played after 1.0.3 ?

[umbral swallow]

bro

Its either enabled or disabled, there is nothing in between

Patchnotes say its disabled now

So no need for ini

SINCE ITS OFF BY DEFAULT NOW

[rustic granite]

so you don't need it then ?

[vital coyote]

good that most be awefull input lag isnt that bad for 3rd person but for fps i cant stand it

[vital coyote]

dont be a cunt

[vital coyote]

should be

[umbral swallow]

Dont be overly sensitive

[rustic granite]

i'm just fucking with you

lol

but thanks

[sand vault]

Damn, big ass patch

Looks like they touched every chunk in the game

[rustic granite]

but doesn't Fsr frame gen cause input lag still

[vital coyote]

im thinking it may be off by defalt tho not sure

[rustic granite]

even with it being default now ?

[sand vault]

FSR framegen causes some input lag, but it's not bad with vsync disabled.

[vital coyote]

think so

[hexed bane]

I have a question for all the people with brain here, modders, people that can help me stay strong and not give up on this game, did they lied to us, did they released a game without feature (a life) that we were so hyped about or its just broken?

[rustic granite]

well vsync off in-game but on in control panel ?

so you mean completely off

[sand vault]

I'm running the game on 3900x / 3080 Ti with STK2 - SPF engine.ini mod, with DLAA on and framegen disabled, and holding a solid 65-75FPS. So, no upscaling and no framegen.

[raw crest]

They removed offline portion of a-life from what i understand

[desert valve]

what a sad sad thing to say

[vital coyote]

roadside panick's mod page explains it verry well

[rustic granite]

bro tbh props to gsc, these are back to back patches

they just need to make a patch that touches onyl performance and shit like that

[hexed bane]

@raw crest so, your thoughts? They lied or just broken and need fix?

@vital coyote ?

[raw crest]

3080 is mid range now

[rustic granite]

think lot of people would appreciate that

[sand vault]

Yeah, 3080 Ti ain't sh-t anymore

Really, it never was. Imo..

[vital coyote]

you dont have to install the mod or anything but read some of the discription kinda tells ya whats up at the bottem https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/210

[umbral swallow]

1. Read chat to get all details
2. They lied about removing a life from steam page, it wasnt for marketing but as damage control
3. The a life isnt in game right now, it was but they removed it due to optimisation for xbox, they made it, very complex system, but its hard to run and the changes they made broke it completely, so they removed it till its redone and fixed

[gusty moss]

Is there anywhere I can download 1.03 cfg files or do I have to extract them myself? 😛

[sand vault]

Games are so demanding, this card could never run something like Cyberpunk 2077 reliably.

[rustic granite]

i changed my mind about the 4070 ti super, that i was planning on getting, gonna get a 4080 super instead

[sand vault]

I'm waiting for 50 series

[spark plinth]

They made it as small as possible for console optimizations. It’s litter all they did. We have some mods that breath life to it but nothing close to what A Life 1 does.

[sand vault]

Probably gonna go 9800X3D / 5080

[raw crest]

Ok so, russian people who had released old hacked builds, according someone, said a-life did work at some point.

But currently the offline portion of the a-life either does not exist.i.e devs removed it, or so bugged we cannot interact with it in any way or shape.

[sand vault]

I've put aside $4000 for my next system

[umbral swallow]

Nah they just removed it and now use simple spawn director that estimates offline spawns, hence why people have issues with spawns

[hexed bane]

@spark plinth are you optimstic its gona reach a heights we expect?

[rustic granite]

probz gonna pay 2k dollars for a 5080

or more

[sand vault]

That's aight

[spark plinth]

Better explanation

[desert valve]

@desert abyss always releases the dumps, but it takes a while, as if he would have a life or sth

[spark plinth]

Me? No, check #1309526198833119303 for a couple of them.

[umbral swallow]

I do believe it will be readded to the game at some point, but not this year

As long as it will be a life 1.1 i am good

[rustic granite]

guess what i don't have the update

[spark plinth]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1311758650733236335 one of them

[rustic granite]

game pass can suck my dick

[umbral swallow]

Gamepass didnt get it yet

In few h

[rustic granite]

i know

xD

[sand vault]

This game takes a long ass time to update

[vital coyote]

TT-TT

[raw crest]

As long as they force their heels on feature parity, i don't expect a-life. They need to do things like cyberpunk and drop support for consoles, especially series S

[sand vault]

Duck my sick

[gusty moss]

I went for lunch only to find new update waiting... Want to make sure I have no cfg conflicts for my merged mods, but Model seems like a pain

[sand vault]

They touched almost every pak

So I'm checking the moment this update is done

[gusty moss]

That's because they are idiots.

[sand vault]

Gonna pull the entire pakchunk0-Windows.pak

[raw crest]

Me when devs bug fix their game:

[umbral swallow]

Learn how game development works and then talk shit

[vital coyote]

yeah update your game without touching files damit

[rustic granite]

as i said before, i think they can wait on fixing a-life for now, that's gonna be hard to hear and tough on everyone that wanted the game cuz of a-life, but they gotta frst work on performance fixxes and stuff like that, before a-life gets re-worked, hence if they re-work a-life i think the games performance are going to drop even more

[umbral swallow]

If you think perf can be fixed you are delusional, they are using 5.1 nanite and pisspoor lumen

Both running like shit

[rustic granite]

yeal well, can only hope

[raw crest]

Dont forget meta humans

[vital coyote]

i fucking hate nanite and lumen the more i read about it

[raw crest]

[sand vault]

It might take a while to fix A-Life. The game has performance issues now, especially CPU limited. People have NO idea how hard it's going to be for them to optimize for something that's likely several times more CPU intensive like A-Life 2.0 will be.

It's gonna be rough

[gusty moss]

You have control of how you split content into paks, most developers (including mine) just lazily put everything in 2-3 paks or let UE4 handle it automatically. So when you want to patch 1 blueprint in a pak of 6gb, you will re-upload the entire 6 gb even for a small change. Does that makes sense to you?

[desert valve]

some of us are cpu limited, and yes, that can be fixed...

[raw crest]

They should just drop a-life 2 and bring back old version

[lean oar]

god I don't wanna have to be the guy that's working their ass of trying to get A-Life 2.0 to not suck performance like mad

[umbral swallow]

The game is split into like 20 paks, cope

And yes it makes sense to me

You can compress the game a lot more with lesser paks

[sand vault]

It'd be the same difference. Any persistent offline system is going to tax the CPU.

[umbral swallow]

Not making it 160gb

[spark plinth]

Some day GAMMA 2

[sand vault]

What they COULD do is make the entire offline system run from a server, and make it so if you want to play the game with A-Life 2.0 enabled, you have to play online, connected to their servers.

That's a potential fix..

But it sucks

[rustic granite]

our mods will still be fine after 1.0.3 ?

[lean oar]

who knows, this might be another no mans sky case, not to the same degree of features missing from release but improvement of final product upon release

[vital coyote]

no

please

[sand vault]

haha

I know..

[vital coyote]

god no

[gusty moss]

Yeah, 32, 29, 16, 10 GB in size on some of the largest ones.

[umbral swallow]

Yeah and i am talking about lumen and nanite, which add delays to cpu and make it bottleneck the system

[desert valve]

the offline system is not the issue at all

[sand vault]

It would take the work off of the client CPU, but it's not ideal. It's possible to get it working, just gonna take time.

[raw crest]

It is the god damned NPCs and their stupid AI that sucks ass. When I'm running in wilderness i get 60fps with native with 6 year old low end cpu

[umbral swallow]

And? If you have issues with that just buy faster internet lmao

[raw crest]

Guys, lets not fight

[rustic granite]

dec

[gusty moss]

I dont have an issue with that, its just plain stupid, thats all.

[sand vault]

I mean, the system generated around the user, so the online system. But I'm talking about how the offline system interacts with the online system. That's the hangup. The CPU has to process all of that information the moment those NPC's come into your radius.

[vital coyote]

who are you where are you from? we have a ubisoft spy here with his always online single player 😠

jk i get what you mean tho

[rustic granite]

you think our mods will still be fine, sicne people said the update touched paks ?

[umbral swallow]

Idk its something i wouldnt care about at all

Better than ubislop games having to redownload everything for new operator skin

[hexed bane]

I haven't found anything there other then explaining what mod do

[raw crest]

You mean engini.ini? Yeah. For other stuff I will remove my mods

[umbral swallow]

Or cod hq lmao

[lean oar]

there's a spoilered section, it's in there right at the bottom

[vital coyote]

ohh wtf? they got rid of it

[umbral swallow]

Go to docs

[vital coyote]

my bad man

[sand vault]

I'm going to unpack the files the moment it's done updating. I'll put a link here for anyone who wants it.

3 minutes

[hexed bane]

@vital coyote mhm, because i think that more and more moders started to belive that its a scam

[umbral swallow]

[vital coyote]

nahh files are there

[umbral swallow]

What files tho

The spawn director ?

[vital coyote]

dude explained it in the discription, was well writen but its gone now

[raw crest]

Is it still on reddit?

[umbral swallow]

Leaked 1.05 debug .exe shows that a life is in fact in 0% functional state currently

And it does nothing its supposed to do

[umbral swallow]

Meanwhile there is spawn director that has 25m radius around player

And you can modify it in cfg

Which all alife mods do

So no, alife isnt in game for now

[hexed bane]

I played for 50hours and the zone is empty

[vital coyote]

here you need day all 1 packchunk 16 for the inventory not to crash

[umbral swallow]

And what do i do with it lmao

[hexed bane]

But i also installed gamma today 🙂

[umbral swallow]

Same

Gonna skip stalker 2 till its working as intended

Then play it in the glory its supposed to be in

[lean oar]

but what dictates "intended"

[rustic granite]

everything the trailers said and mentioned the game to be

[umbral swallow]

The lies gsc have been telling us for the past 2 years

[rustic granite]

that's what is intended

[hexed bane]

Yeah i roamed swamps and around skadowsk today and havent been attacked once in 5h

[umbral swallow]

You know whats funny

Even the spawn director is bugged and half of it doesnt work

And gsc added baindaid fix in 1.01

That removes the possibility to spawn in fov of player

Now its always behind you

[hexed bane]

@umbral swallow its just funny how they removed alife mentioning from steam, thats a huge red flag

[umbral swallow]

So unless you go from A to B without moving camera, nothing will spawn

[umbral swallow]

And they lied about the reason too

Now they are in full damage control mode and appologizing, stating war fucked them

[hexed bane]

@umbral swallow yeah, big big red flag, no wonders why grok not working on any mods for stalker 2 now

[raw crest]

This number decreases every time i see it

It is 80m, no?

[rustic granite]

this is pretty much CB2077, leave it on the shelf for a year or so, then the game is decent

[umbral swallow]

He did few but since he found out the reality there is no point in going further for now

[umbral swallow]

No

[rustic granite]

hoping that's not the case for S2, and they pull up their socks and fix everything the way it should have been

[hexed bane]

Exactly, he is improving gamma again

[umbral swallow]

The director doesnt work and spawns only depending on single value thats by default 25m

And modders set it to like 200-300m

But it does nothing

It just spawns even less

[raw crest]

I'm pretty sure i saw it in modders descriptions that says it is 80 metres by default

[umbral swallow]

So they modify spawn cooldown

And bam you are literally in war

[vital coyote]

yeah could easily just pull the same files and see for yourself dont have the energy too rn

[rustic granite]

for some odd reason Klean enjoys the fuck out of S2 even with the broken a-life

[hexed bane]

@raw crest still mods dont do what we wanted from this system to do, that random bandit gona kill random stalker in zaton

[lean oar]

I mean, I also enjoy stalker 2 a lot, it's a fun game to play imo

[umbral swallow]

Yeah the value is there but it does nothing, its about the "non combat" spawns, 25m are combat spawns when you are actively fighting, but as a life extended dev found out, only the combat spawn value does work, the other values arent applied and only global setting is possible, check his update notes

[hallow sand]

^

[void owl]

bro i hate so much that foggy weather is broken....

[rustic granite]

sam here

[hallow sand]

I'm having a blast, but I also changed the spawns an such.

[raw crest]

You all they said offline portion does not work since day one, it has been 10 days please drop complaining about it in places devs will not read

[rustic granite]

i'll deff do a nerw playthrough once s2 is in great shape

[void owl]

look how good i got dawn and dusk to look

[near bone]

how hard would it be to change the content of stashes in the game?

[hallow sand]

That lookis SO GOOD but fuck.

[vital coyote]

yeah was in the "wait for it to cook" mindset too but the world is verry fun to explore

[rustic granite]

just playing it now so that i get familliar with S again

[hallow sand]

Fog does annoy me

[lean oar]

exactly

[void owl]

it only looks that intense at dusk and dawn

[north wasp]

You're cooking with that weather mod man

[void owl]

here is my issue

[hallow sand]

OH wow that's really good wtf

[lean oar]

they did a fantastic job with the world and how things interconnect, I love it

[void owl]

when the weather changes to or from foggy... it just... goees

[umbral swallow]

[hexed bane]

@raw crest such an urge to defend something that i payed for and its not working, why are you even bothered with me complaining?

[hallow sand]

wait that was audio, I was looking at a still video lmao

[vital coyote]

mostly because this is the working on mods channel not the shitting on s2 channel

[void owl]

The fog, the colors, everything just transitions immedietly into whatever weather comes... I cant seem to find a way to fix it

[vital coyote]

but its a mess dont get me wrong

[rustic granite]

someone do me a fac and DM me when pc game pass gets the update, gonna be away from pc for a while

ty

[hallow sand]

Was there an update?

Just got home

[rustic granite]

yup 1.0.3

[umbral swallow]

We moddin the attitude out of you

[umbral swallow]

Gsc may be able to help

[raw crest]

I always tell people who does not like product, saying i paid for it, to bring it to customer service of Steam instead of doom posting endlessly.

At least do it on the official server where GMs check, peeps there are hungry for this. Mod discussion channel in god forsaken Gamma server is not place for this

[azure mortar]

[pallid pendant]

Hi there everybody. I wanted to ask how hard would it be and if it's possible to make a mod that adds aim offset (deadzone aim or free aim) to Stalker 2, if somebody knows if it is which files have to be modified because I don't know where to begin with to make it

[raw crest]

I still think map is too small

Even though running from end to other takes like 30 minutes

Trilogy made it feel bigger

[vital coyote]

tbf haven't exoplored it all yet feels dense so far all the nooks and cranys and notes and lore building

[void owl]

i would wish

[vital coyote]

but i also had to restart, i gotta play more

[lean oar]

I think most of that Dec is psychological, wherein the trilogy we had these transition zones making all of the areas more distinct from another thus giving the feeling of an overall larger zone.
with the new zone as in S2 everything seems a lot more compact and closer together thus creating the feeling of a small zone.

but I sure would love more of the zone as well ^^

[vital coyote]

bro it felt so wierd jusy walking out of rostoc into the woods east instead of using the road

[lean oar]

absolutely haha ^^

[vital coyote]

in my head i needed to take the road down and go all the way arround

orr just go there

[lean oar]

I think it's just fascinating to see how they stitched it together, especially how it goes against some of the progression you'd think of in the trilogy

[vital coyote]

yeah fr, takes a bit of getting used to

[topaz cape]

i was running around without hud and map recently, just testing stuff, and suddenly came across a checkpoint that looked very familiar and then i walked through and realized that yes, i am in fact in cordon. what a weird feeling

[vital coyote]

just got to cordon for the first time myself sooo dope

[lean oar]

I had the dumbest smile on my face getting to cordon

[topaz cape]

same

felt like coming home

:D

[lean oar]

they certainly nailed the feel of the game

[vital coyote]

same, but i got hit by an emission right when i got past the checkpoint, no cover in the farms and stuff -_- only gripe

not even the tunnel

[lean oar]

oh god yeah had the same happen

[vital coyote]

an emission cover mod deff seams like something that would be nice for some stuff like that wound up adding 5 deaths to the counter looking for cover, took this dope screen tho

[deep ridge]

Do you guys think it's worth switching from notepad++ to VS?

[hallow sand]

Downloaded for new wallpaper ty

[lean oar]

yeah I think making more basic buildings emission proof would be a nice change

[hallow sand]

MORE BUNKERS

[lean oar]

or have more telegraphing on the emissions so you have time to get to safety

[vital coyote]

this one is better imo

[deep ridge]

Lol

[vital coyote]

too dark tho

[vital coyote]

i miss my crows

[lean oar]

same

[void owl]

depends on what you want to do

i use for for different things

[lean oar]

something I'd like to see as a mod at some point would be a sort of magazine integration like the optional mod in gamma, I just kinda like playing with mags personally

[vital coyote]

this is goated in ++ lol

[void owl]

https://tenor.com/view/ken-jeong-community-too-small-to-read-read-reading-gif-5494204

[vital coyote]

hehe i just mean the compare pluss plugin

[gusty moss]

Try beyond compare

[vital coyote]

ohh word

[void owl]

been a while since i use that

ugh i guess im calling it... i have not figured out how to get the WeatherPresetDataAsset into UE.... for now... foggy will remain bugged out

I will now work on the base weathers.

[vital coyote]

dont see it on the plugin admin ill search it up later ty ty

[merry mountain]

what thiis screenshot made with a potatoe

[vital coyote]

i just snagged it off my site

[void owl]

He drew it himself in paint

[merry mountain]

ii guess so

[vital coyote]

fits better in the formating and didnt feel like taking one again lol

[merry mountain]

8k screenshots only please

[ripe flame]

https://winmerge.org/

[vital coyote]

discord will shit istelf

nothing over 10mb

or you die

ooo this looks pretty cool too

[azure mortar]

i miss the 25mb freedom that was there for a short while

[merry mountain]

feels so dense with all the emptyness and lack of npcs due to great alife 2.0

aka spawn npcs 3 meter behind you system

such great iinnovation

[vital coyote]

i have to run a downscale on my game sceen shots just to fucking post em -_-

25 feels right

[tidal dragon]

is the creator of this mod here https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/632?tab=description

[crimson laurel]

u can do that with vs too tho

[vital coyote]

the world the lore and the places, but yea spawns suck

yee i use vs for changing a bunch of lines at once but never messed with it to much

[merry mountain]

@odd seal maybe this dude

[vital coyote]

just stick to what i know

[merry mountain]

maybe he just has the same nickname by coincidence tho

[ripe flame]

Nexus has private messages

[tidal dragon]

looks like him

[half willow]

@summer silo check this shit out:

I know it looks like a win95 program

but it fucking works

[vital coyote]

i fucking love it ❤️

[lean oar]

that's got charme haha

[sinful cypress]

So.....I wasted now 2 hours to make my mods manually as a loose working?

[half willow]

this uses loose files in the DLCGameData dir

so you can just get your files and put them into a folder in DLCGameData\yourmodname

[azure mortar]

looks good imo, as long as it works should be great

[half willow]

and thats all you gotta do

just getting some finishing touches and ill release it

🙂

with docs

of course

[vital coyote]

got a github i can follow?

[half willow]

https://github.com/herbatka/HerbatasDLCModLoader

haven't pushed it yet

but will in like 20 minutes probably

[vital coyote]

yee for sure, ty ty. got some stuff i gotta do so i want to make sure i can find it 🙂

[hallow sand]

Not me already getting shudders at your ghost train idea while I been in that back trainyard a minute

[slow lake]

Does anyone know where to find configs of unique guns like the Gambit and upgrades like rechamber?

[azure mortar]

I don't know about config but I do remember a lot of weapon related pakchunks, they were before pakchunk 30, check between chunk 20-30 using model, maybe you'll find something

i think it was Pakchunk25

and before 25 there was another one that had textures for monolith weapons, i think config could be somewhere around there too depending on how they have the game folders organized

[merry mountain]

russianspyware.exe confirmed

written in fortran

[half willow]

polishspyware.exe *

[desert valve]

should be in here unless its dlc (i think) Stalker2/Content/GameLite/GameData/ItemPrototypes/WeaponPrototypes.cfg

[half willow]

win32 api

it's the only thing i can use to make any kind of ui

[merry mountain]

pretty sure according to russian maps its all the same

[half willow]

https://tenor.com/view/scream-love-poland-gif-10918710646251769391

[merry mountain]

with c#?

[half willow]

c++

[merry mountain]

😵‍💫

[half willow]

yes i know im a masochist

but i was forced to learn it in college

the prof. brainwashed me into using it

[slow lake]

I'll check it out

[azure mortar]

i mean is C++ really that hard compared to c#? Ive only learned enough C++ and python to create maybe an calculator so idk how deep this goes

[half willow]

it's fucking retarded is what it is

not hard

but very frustrating to work in

i used to code in python

and life was heaven

[azure mortar]

but then the fire nation attacked...

[half willow]

but i don't want to make people install python to use the tool

and yes i know i can wrap it etc

but i dont give a fuck

also if my college prof. saw a python project on my github i might as well flee the country

[azure mortar]

https://tenor.com/view/running-man-run-man-running-gif-25921432

[desert abyss]

Sorry I’m edging rn. Don’t interrupt me

[slow lake]

Ah thanks it was here, it's just using a different name

[proper grove]

Have anymod that change rank base npc loadout?

[lusty sail]

Pyinstaller might help with it, just single exe

[half willow]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/302034577902534677/987853153464647761/pokernik1.gif

[slow lake]

Something like this?
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/596

[desert valve]

didnt even touch that much

[eternal bramble]

is there anyway to add this upradeable verison of the x7 via pak files? i tried doing this edit in game pass but cant seem to access the files i need Fmodel

[mellow prawn]

I dunno about game pass lol. I used repak and unpacked the Exoskeleton Sprint mod from Nexus, and did it from there.

[sand vault]

Well, all of the cfg files I checked still match, aside from a handful of lines in DynamicItemGenerator.cfg

Between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3

[ripe flame]

You can also load only modified files in FModel if you have previous and current versions of the game

[sand vault]

Checked all of these

They all match aside from the selected one

[ripe flame]

Also, if you have already unpacked cgfs, you can easily compare two folders in WinMerge

[sand vault]

Ahh nice, let me get that

It'll compare every cfg in a folder?

[eternal bramble]

i just dont have access to the games cfg files with gamepass, i can run mods cause .pak files just over write them. so i was wondering if you could maybe just upload a mod on nexus that makes the x7 suit upgradable for those of us that cant manually edit it

[sand vault]

Thanks, that's a lifesaver.

[desert valve]

https://github.com/CnRJay/Stalker-2-Dump-Files missing 1.0.3 though

[short saffron]

Anyone able to supply wisdom on this white fringe looling through the doc's window? Something with my reflection settings, I'm sure

[sand vault]

That's reflections

They're just low resolution

[odd seal]

Hey, yeah what's up

[short saffron]

this white edge? Think I can mitigate it by raising resolution?

[tidal dragon]

make a thread of your mod

[sand vault]

Are you using ReShade?

[odd seal]

I'm at work so I don't have access to the file rn, I will when I get home 👍🏼

[merry mountain]

you just wanted to bother him so he makes a mod post here?

why tho, its already on nexus

[sand vault]

If you're using ReShade, press Home, go in and disable each shader module one at a time until the white border goes away. Some shaders can cause particles to stack around the border, like film grain, etc.

[tidal dragon]

all good, thread here is much easier to get feedback

[tidal dragon]

cus the mod he made needs feedback and doing here real time is easier

[short saffron]

yeah, but I don't think it's that, I tried disabling effects.

[sand vault]

If you want to keep the effect causing the border, there's a ReShade shader you can use to create a small black border to hide the effect

It's usually Reshade causing that. I've never seen anything else cause it.

Go into ReShade, go to settings, and at the top, under where your ReShade button is set to Home, set Toggle Effects to your END key. Then use that to toggle the effects.

[short saffron]

It's only when a reflective surface passes the edge of the screen, reshade or not. I've been testing with and without reshade

[sand vault]

Yeah, like I said, I've only ever seen that on ReShade, so I dunno.

[candid marlin]

why do some mods say this when i try to unpak them

[short saffron]

I have been tweaking engine.ini trying to improve my reflections, now I'm resetting one value at a time to try to find it

[sand vault]

Try inputting your AES key again

[candid marlin]

where do i get an AES key and where do i input it

[sand vault]

Are you using RePak

Or UnrealPak

[candid marlin]

UnrealPak

also, when i repack mods they wont work in the game

they just dont load

for now just using this to find conflicts manually

i tried some merging tool but it also asked for AES key and i have no clue what or where to find that

[sand vault]

Go Google AESDumpster-Win64.exe and download it. Then open a folder to it in Windows Explorer, and take the Stalker2-Win64-Shipping.exe and drag it over the top of the AES file name in the folder. It'll output your encrypted key for the game.

The reason UnrealPak isn't working is because the game files are encrypted, and it needs your key to work properly

Or, you can just have this key. 0x33A604DF49A07FFD4A4C919962161F5C35A134D37EFA98DB37A34F6450D7D386

[merry mountain]

you can detect conflcits automatically #1310332125597401169 message

[sand vault]

I don't use unrealpak, so you'll have to google how to input the key into it

[candid marlin]

detecting them isnt my issue its mostly when i try to merge them manually, or even trying to make my own mod, they just stop working in game as soon as i touch them

has to be something wrong with my unrealpak

[merry mountain]

just use repak instead

its faster and works better

[sand vault]

Yeah, repak is better

[lean steppe]

anyone have a mod that may increase the amount of mutants that spawn? idk why but the zone feels... empty

aswell, is it possible to make a mod that disables the traveling stash at main base? jw

Pls @ me bc im playing stalker while wondering haha

[sand vault]

Use the key I gave up there and input it into Repak

Then you'll be good to go

The reason unrealpak isn't working is because the game is encrypted, and the pak files have to match that encryption key, or they won't work.

@candid marlin

[sand vault]

Almost any of the A-Life mods. Look on Nexus

[sand vault]

I use this one https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/273?tab=files

[lean steppe]

must just be me then lol. its a warzone rn for the one im using but i get like no mutants

[lean steppe]

eyyy im using that one haha

[sand vault]

I get plenty of mutants.

To be clear, mutants don't spawn in the wild, only around predesignated areas, like buildings, shacks, etc.

[vital coyote]

the notable ones

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/273

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/210

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

[lean steppe]

ahhhh that makes sense. kinda bumming but good to know

[sand vault]

Yeah, it's gonna be a while before the game functions like it should. The open areas feel empty.

[vital coyote]

Alife extended looks good

[lean steppe]

i just need more jump scares. tying to make the game harder, i have a few mods that do that but without SDK i know its gonna be a pain bc all the conflicts

[vital coyote]

Learning to merge em isn’t too hard

[sand vault]

Ya I've just been merging everything

[merry mountain]

also im pretty sure the sdk wont fix the probllem with conflicts

[lean steppe]

i might learn idk. just dont have the motivation yet. im sure ill do it relativly soon.

[vital coyote]

This has the basics tools are always changing tho been updating it while I have the time https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1312154196383895702

[merry mountain]

and its probably gonna be 3-6 months at least untiil we get the sdk anyway

[lean steppe]

in the sense of localization thats the problem. thats what i meant by conflicts. bc atm only one file can have localization

[lean steppe]

ty

[gray stream]

Is using notepad++ with compare better than using repak? Surely doing it manually is better than relying on an automated program.

[vital coyote]

I’m hell bent on manual

[sand vault]

I use both. They do two different things. You still have to compare the contents of the files. But you can just use WinMerge for that.

I use RePak to get the file name, then Notepad++ to compare the contents of the cfgs.

Guys, it's time to poke some smot.

[candid marlin]

cant even get repak to work

[gray stream]

I understand, that makes sense. Notepad++ is incredibly simple for most users

[sand vault]

Why?

[candid marlin]

cuz idk how to use it and it doesnt say anywhere

tried dragging and dropping the pak on it, and launching the repak.exe

[gray stream]

I might start using visual studio again.

[sand vault]

You have to put repak.exe in a folder, then use console to navigate to that folder using "cd" command

Then place any pak you need to list, unpak or repak into that same folder

Looks like this

[candid marlin]

that doesnt seem faster than UnrealPak

[sand vault]

Whatever man, it's entirely up to you.

It works

and it's faster at packing and unpacking

[gray stream]

What are you trying to merge.

[candid marlin]

yeah sry if i come off rude, thanks for explaining everything

[sand vault]

It's simple

Here's how to unpack

[candid marlin]

right now im trying to merge slower medkit healing with consumable rebalance and true stats

[desert valve]

im using this, very easy to use: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/398

[sand vault]

Once you've done it a few times, it'll take you a couple minutes to merge two cfgs. You unpack the mods into folders, go into the folders, open both configs into notepad++, compare the differences using Compare++ plugin (just enter CLTR+ALT+C in Notepad++ with both files open) and then combine the changes from both into one file, put it in a new folder (whatever you want the name of the combined mod to be) and then repak it using the commands I showed above.

[gray stream]

Someone correct me but you cant merge mods that edit different config files.

[sand vault]

Sure you can, you just put both config files into one pak

[half willow]

@vital coyote @summer silo @spark plinth Here it is boys: https://github.com/herbatka/HerbatasDLCModLoader
Readme on the repo should have everything you need to know.

[sand vault]

Maintaining their directory structure

[gray stream]

I will just sit back a learn then

[vital coyote]

https://tenor.com/view/cheekibreeki-cheeki-breeki-intensifies-stalker-bandit-radio-stalker-clear-sky-gif-24295015

[candid marlin]

well the problem is the medkit mod and weight rebalance edit the same cfg

[sand vault]

There's two different ways to merge mods:

1. merging two of the same config files together, given they're from two different mods that change different variables in the same config file.

2. merging two entirely different mods that edit entirely different config files into the same pak file.

[candid marlin]

this one seems to work tho thanks

[vital coyote]

gotta put the changes into one

[candid marlin]

also curious, if 2 mods change the same cfg will the one higher in load order be used or the one lower

will the zz_cfg be used and zzz_cfg be ignored?

[gray stream]

If a mod contains a .pak, .ucas and .utoc can it be merged into a .pak with other mods? Is a pak file similar to a zip file?

[eternal sapphire]

I have a mutant Deer question: ||How many have you seen or kill in your game?||

[hallow sand]

legit... one.

LMAO

[rare quail]

is quick and dirty mod for increasing zoom with 4x scopes possible?

[sand vault]

Yeah, as long as whatever cfg file or pak you end up with has the changes from all of the cfg files you want to merge into it, then you're good.

[half willow]

added this as a release here: https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1313619012386689124

[worthy sparrow]

cannot for the life of me change anything with the loading screens its driving me insaaaaane

[lean oar]

three at this point

[pliant edge]

guys, how difficult is to mod in guns and equipment like NV and binoculars at current state of the game?

[main wing]

||i've only seen one at the burnt forest heli graveyard||

[raw crest]

they are still trying to figure it out i think

[gray stream]

You dont need binoculars just change nohandsfovzoom to 0.2
It is possible to put a binoculars mask on the no hands zoom

[worthy sparrow]

pisses me off the npcs use the binoculars but we can't :'C

[pliant edge]

not that I need, just curious at the modding condition

probably binoculars are going to be in the game at some point, no? they were removed or something like that

[worthy sparrow]

theres a model for them, ive seen npcs use them

[raw crest]

there is binoculars in the first person item models section of the game

specific to player

[broken wren]

Thank u. Its working, i guess. at least first 2 hours everything okay. Keep it up. 🫡

[vital coyote]

for sure o7 my stanby ram was always full of shit

[weak summit]

Is it possible currently to view the character in 3rd person through free cam?

[empty helm]

It's a shame we can't see armors and guns in 3D in upgrade/inventory menus, maybe that's one of the things they will change with patches

[spark plinth]

@raw crest I got the regular version refunded by steam.

W

[raw crest]

oh damn, nice

i will try to do this with another gamei bought unlimited after standard

[spark plinth]

My mod be on fire now

[fallen umbra]

its a mod?

[vital coyote]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1312992178896633926

[rustic granite]

4hrs has passed, still no update for game pass

cunts

[lusty hemlock]

Hey Guys, does increasing Enemy / Mutant / Anomaly damage in DifficultyPrototypes automaticall lead to more suit damage?

[raw crest]

what did you select as refund reason

[empty helm]

man that's dedication

[raw crest]

I doubt they will refund my 2 year old purchase tho lol

[vital coyote]

2 hours 2 years whats the diffrence lol

[fallen umbra]

Yes, it’s a shame that. people with cracked versions are getting it faster.

[raw crest]

MATE what did you select as refund reason? I dont want to accidentally refund ultimate edition since they removed it from every store

[hallow sand]

Is there a way in N++ to move all differences to one document?

nvm i think i got it

[vital coyote]

i think compare pluss may have that funtion

[indigo beacon]

as someone that plays on gamepass ik this way too well... shit always is so late on gamepass

[rustic granite]

@spark plinth just to understand his mod correctly what exactly does it do?, make every attachemnt in the game compatible with the Hk416 ?

[rustic granite]

yup

[rustic granite]

there's no new attachments ?

[fallen umbra]

Mod support is quite disappointing

[indigo beacon]

anyway time to mod the game again slightly hopefully the game is playable now compared to before, or should i just wait for the 1.0.3 update to drop on gamepass

[rustic granite]

wait

[lusty hemlock]

Anyone?

[raw crest]

why did you buy it twice

[spark plinth]

Yes, but only the attachments that can be, we have some limitations.

[rustic granite]

that's what i'm doing, but considering waiting a few months, to see if they fixed the game more

[indigo beacon]

what do you expect, this aint no bethesda, also its not steam with workshop. its completely different. Epic struggles with the same issues, there is a reason sites like nexus exist as well.

[spark plinth]

I bouhgt the regular version and didn't think of buying the ultimate until today.

[rustic granite]

intresting, were you not able to equip most of the attachments on vanilla then ?>.

[rustic granite]

where can i find your latest version of the mod ?

nexus ?

[spark plinth]

I attached everything vanilla plus hidden scopes. ❤️

[rustic granite]

i see

your mod on nexus for latest version

[spark plinth]

#1312992178896633926 message

I haven't made a nexus page yet

[rustic granite]

so this one latest?, cuz i see there is a v4 ?

[desert valve]

wher is my SIG 550 at btw

[lusty hemlock]

How can I reduce durability damage to suits?

[half willow]

chief, can you add me as friend so I can dm ya?

[rustic granite]

mods on nexus

[spark plinth]

yes

[lusty hemlock]

which .cfg file....

[rustic granite]

fuck if i know, i just use a mod that does it on nexus

[spark plinth]

done

[desert valve]

you can change the Armor_Durability in DifficultyPrototypes.cfg

[lusty hemlock]

thanks bud!

[desert valve]

for indivudual armors check ItemPrototypes\ArmorPrototypes.cfg

https://tenor.com/view/palla-deserto-desert-hot-gif-6014273

[tidal yew]

anybody knows if theres a way to change scope reticles? i cant really see the PSO x4 red arrow properly(probably cause of upscaling)

[desert valve]

what the fuck is this supposed to mean:

[vital coyote]

not alot of big stuff in the new update

this may be it but im not sure

[vital coyote]

selecto options and disable mobile will save you many gigs

[desert valve]

what the fuck is the difference between folder and path

[tidal yew]

looks like it but the colors seem inversed? maybe its just for visualization

[desert valve]

how ********** do you need to be, to name sth like that and not explain it

[vital coyote]

accidently leff "not alot of big stuff in the new update" in lol ignore that

and yeah alot of textures are shaders

there is a guide

https://github.com/windelicato/stalker2_modding_tutorials/blob/main/Tutorials/virtual-textures/texturing.md

[summer silo]

Polish community is on the roll and is already fixing Polish translation out there

[vital coyote]

le go pol's

[tidal yew]

i aprecciate it a lot, i have issues seeing other scopes as well so ill learn how to change them as i see fit

thanks a lot brother

[vital coyote]

totaly get it im color blind and alot of red sights are invisable to me depending lol

[desert valve]

same here

[vital coyote]

rel bad in BAS stuff for anomaly

[tidal yew]

i was surprised nobody had a mod for something like that, i lkooked around but no luck. So i was like, fuck it, imma make it myself

[vital coyote]

hehe lots of stuff needs tweekie breekie

i need a project soon may look into sights

[summer silo]

stalker 2 bas when

[vital coyote]

i dont want to deal with busy hands in s2 leave that shit in the past

[tidal yew]

swappable sights, PSO x4 to falcon 8x and vice versa

[desert valve]

did epic get some new servers? nearly saturating gigabit

nvm there it goes again

[topaz cape]

i tried using the thing for rangefinding and it's

not working at all lmao

scale is completely off

[lusty hemlock]

What do BuyCondition and SellCondition in DifficultyPrototypes.cfg do?

[vital coyote]

yeah man i have not goten that far at all but i think the problem most pple have is how the game uses its textures. but i have no hands on yet so i have no clue myself

[vital coyote]

ohh https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1312992178896633926

more sights on more guns

[half willow]

https://tenor.com/view/scream-love-poland-gif-10918710646251769391

[desert valve]

honestly dont know

[azure mortar]

noice, i think this should be pinned, very straightforward tutorial

[desert valve]

even unreal engine itself needs to compile shaders

[vital coyote]

lmao get ready to wait brother

[vital coyote]

its mentioned here https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1309520964782133328

[desert valve]

this is gonna take while

[vital coyote]

sooooooooo long

but when you relaunch in the future it shouldnt be as bad

[azure mortar]

ah nice

[vital coyote]

i also have it linked in my guide thing too its super usfull been putting all inportant stuff like that here

[azure mortar]

hmmm

you wouldnt happen to know how to use the jsonasasset plugin would you?

[vital coyote]

been just watching colecting info and holing on to it hehe

just the link rn

JsonAsAsset
Unreal Engine plugin to allow conversion between JSON to Unreal Engine.
https://github.com/JsonAsAsset/JsonAsAsset/

[azure mortar]

i have been trying, waiting for replies from the plugin developers but its completely silent

[vital coyote]

ace and someone else are making a guide

[azure mortar]

checked this as well as discord server for it

they had one thing not mentioned which was a certain version of netcore needed as prerequisite but no use

[vital coyote]

yeah i havent messed with it either but a guide is in the works so i was gunna look into it when thats out

[azure mortar]

yep

[desert valve]

are you kidding me, after compiling shaders you can create a project

[azure mortar]

wish materials were not this hard to mod, ive been checking other options too, one of which was building custom UE5, but that doesnt work either, and then again somehow people get it to work 🥲

[desert valve]

and it compiles more shaders

😵‍💫

[vital coyote]

yee then you have to compile the shader shader 😛

[azure mortar]

you can never escape shader compilation

[desert valve]

im aussuming i need to do this part? https://github.com/Dmgvol/UE_Modding/blob/main/IntermediateModding/CreatingProject.md#configuring-ue5-for-chunks

changed some settings according to the guides

guess what

some more shader compiling

[tidal yew]

im not crazy right, isnt that super small

[crimson laurel]

what is

[tidal yew]

the red arrow in the middle of the scope

[crimson laurel]

i think it's fine but if you increase the texture settings to medium might be better

[desert valve]

what arrow?

[crimson laurel]

the crosshair

[desert valve]

i know 😄 im just not seeing it

[untold pilot]

Is there a guide somewhere on how to change/replace font in stalker 2?

[crimson laurel]

it's the tetxture settings, it blurs out

[tidal yew]

i might try that but i also want to increase the thickness so ill try to edit the texture

[crimson laurel]

scope textures should be always maxed out

[tidal yew]

no way

why tf is that a thing

[crimson laurel]

its linked to texture settings, it shouldnt be

[tidal yew]

bruh thats fucked up, i didnt know that

[crimson laurel]

from epic to low it's probably divided by 4

i had to increase my texture settings and leave all low cus i couldnt see shit with the scope res

[tidal yew]

im having a mind blown moment now cause it makes so much sense

[crimson laurel]

actually leaving a support message

there we go, left a support request, i would recommend you to do it too if you have time for it, kind of a vital thing

[tidal yew]

jesus fucking christ

on epic btw

[crimson laurel]

totally different

[tidal yew]

i feel like i dont even have to edit the texture anymore now

[desert valve]

oh no i no longer see the Event Graph tab thingy

ah found it

[tidal yew]

thank you a lot for that, i actually dont have to edit the texture now, this feels fine. Ill leave a ticket FOR SURE, i cant comprehend why this is a thing

[vital coyote]

🔥

[crimson laurel]

yeah, it wouldnt even change the performance whatsoever yet it's a vital thing

even on medium it's quite dogshit

[tidal yew]

i imagine the scope texture gets bundled with the other textures?

[crimson laurel]

all textures go down a mipmap

[vital coyote]

oop this looks usfull yoink

[crimson laurel]

mipmap is the same as lod for textures

when u go down a lod u go down a mipmap

or more

i believe when u import the texture in ue5 u can disable mipmaps

but am not sure if stalker2 actually interprets that

[desert valve]

where is the "Launch On" menu?

[tidal yew]

how does that work for retextures like weapon skins? mipmap gets created automatically or do you make only one, like mip 0, and it uses it for all regardless of what setting youre using in game?

[crimson laurel]

unreal does it all, lods too

sometimes its nice to manually do lods but it all depends

[tidal yew]

i appreciate the explanation, thank you for your time, ill leave the channel for actual mod talk

[crimson laurel]

this is mod talk

[vital coyote]

thats what this shit is for lol im writing thigs down keep it going ffs

[crimson laurel]

theres prob a way to edit the .uasset of the scope textures so it doesnt have any mipmaps

just 0

[tidal yew]

ill probably leave my textures on max now since it didnt look like it impacted performance that much, but ill still try to retexture so the arrow is a bit thicker

ill learn something new for once, so im all for it

[cyan stirrup]

Anyone's game doesn't launch anymore after the update??

I mean, it launches and then proceeds to eat the entirety of my RAM

black screen

[vital coyote]

havent tried ill test now

[crimson laurel]

my game crashing a bunch now 😈 even without disabled mods but yeah

barely lets me load

but maybe it's my pc

[vital coyote]

someone in my discord told me 4x days was crashing his game

[cobalt hamlet]

Is that fixing conflict with others mods ?

[desert valve]

how can it take this long to package an empty project

[half willow]

That is the main point of it, yes.
I'm currently writing a full tutorial on how to make mods that use this method.

[cyan stirrup]

first one takes a long time

[crimson laurel]

no clue but yah

[cyan stirrup]

unloaded all mods and it appears to be loading fine now

[desert valve]

can you help with this btw. #╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message

[cyan stirrup]

you can try installing .net core 3.1 SDK

[desert valve]

i did, but maybe it needs a restart

[cyan stirrup]

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-sdk/

[desert valve]

rn im waiting for the packaging to finish before doing anythign else

[cobalt hamlet]

even with Localization Stuffs ? x)

[cobalt hamlet]

Thanks you for your work man , i would convert my mods for sure 🙂

[half willow]

Unfortunatly not, I'm not doing localization myself. You're welcome to try it yourself and see if it works ;p

[summer silo]

Trying to find if any cfg file calls upon CoreVariables to see if I can somehow affect it..

There is how many fucking files?!

[cobalt hamlet]

WorldMap cfg

[summer silo]

And most of them are this weird uniqueid shit

[cyan stirrup]

Herbata that is really nice! Thank you

[summer silo]

I've been trying so hard to get this shit to work..

It wouldn't be an issue if I could just have the game files loose in the GameData folder but it seems the game ignores them
Or maybe the lines become read only and ignore anything after or some shit

Actually no, it's not that cause it would get ignored when packed as well

@half willow wanna know the funniest fuckin shit?
The game apparently ignorers CoreVariablesCustom file as well.
People tried putting variables into it, pack it up, and they didn't work

[half willow]

I'm starting to think that the CoreVariables.cfg file is just bait

and the values are controlled somewhere else

[crimson laurel]

it's not

[summer silo]

If you edit the file itself the values are respected

But only if its packed

[half willow]

well then get fukt xdddd

[crimson laurel]

i believe

u can only use references like that

when u have a .cfg and then theres a folder inside

that has stuff that references it

then it works fine

[summer silo]

Fuck
Zero hits. No file in pak0 references CoreVariables

[desert valve]

how long is long supposed to be?

its been 20min

[crimson laurel]

a bunch

[summer silo]

Depends on your PC.
This process basically compiles every single texture, effect and model so it runs best on your machine.

Without compilation if you launched the game the world would load and look basically empty.
And then you'd see a bunch of objects start materializing from thin air.

But that takes way longer

[desert valve]

my project has a BP and a Widget, why the fuck is it doing anything at all 😄

[vital coyote]

https://tenor.com/view/hamster-wheel-run-gif-10746499

my geuss ^ judging by my experience with ue5 games

[desert valve]

and no indication of progress, what a piece of software 😄

[cyan stirrup]

subsequent packaging happen real quick though

its just the project init that takes a while

[desert valve]

hm not the output i was expecting

oh found it

now the loading part

[empty helm]

Do you think it's possible to remove the white dot and enable body collision ?

[balmy cargo]

Can someone remove the Blind Dog line of sight thing where they run away if you climb on top of something such as a box. It would be more realistic if they all gathered around you barking and snarling instead of running off to take cover. They're blind after all...

[desert valve]

we have lift off 🚀

i was able to follow a tutorial

praise me

now the real fun can begin

[ocean cedar]

Anyone figured out how to get rid of upgrade.cfg formatting messed up message?

[late mantle]

Somebody really needs to make a mod with better ambient noises. Stalker 2 Feels so dead compared to the old ones. I wondered the whole time why the atmospehre wasnt quite there even if the game looked very atmospheric.

[half willow]

@vital coyote Guide updated 🙂
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dlH18CWkIuBjdzZJbeuH0pFcji3JNdv336uHq1KsDR0/edit?usp=sharing

[late mantle]

Just listen to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9-vYCS1CEc

[arctic monolith]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/597

[late mantle]

or that. im realy missing this distant howlings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyB8oQvj5g4

[rare mulch]

this is what I sleep to at night

[desert valve]

why is there only a "remove all widgets", how can i remove just one?

[merry mountain]

by removiing the mod you have that f*cked up that cfg

[ocean cedar]

I mean like a way to make the game ignore it, changes work fine.

[hallow sand]

Gonna need a Winter MOD asap too. Just snowed here in MN XD

[high bay]

anyone notice memory leak improvements with the latest patch?

[magic geyser]

Get reference to the widget and call remove from parent.

[desert valve]

do i need to remove and add the mod after changing sth?

the top part works just fine

the bottom part doesnt do shit on F7 🤔

[magic geyser]

Set this in your blueprint. The auto receive input.

Otherwise no input will be recognized since there's no player controller attached to it.

[desert valve]

may i ask where? 😄

[desert valve]

gotcha, found it

hmm didnt change anything

i could have sworn the "release" part worked once before but now none of the two do anything

[hallow sand]

was someone asking about distorted voices when using helmets etc this morning?

[bright wasp]

Does anyone know what the pen/damage modifiers are for AP ammo and HP ammo? Does not need to be 100%, just roughly what they have seen in the game files?

[hallow sand]

I found a voicemodulatorprototypes.cfg that seems to be that

[magic geyser]

Any "code" inside your widgets?

[desert valve]

just a canvas with a text inside

[magic geyser]

When the widget is active, can you navigate the main menu using your keyboard?

Or move the character, if it's inside the game

[hallow sand]

If anyone finds me a sort of "death" or "ondeath" scenario in the files I'd greatly apprecaite it, haven't been able to locate anything close ot that yet.

I'm off to bed, GL everyone. ^ Just dm me if anyone finds that 😄

[desert valve]

which one? but yes i can move after initial load and after pressing F7

and navigate the menu as well

[magic geyser]

Got it, was just checking if the widget is capturing all input instead.

[spark plinth]

New pre attachment grip on the Clusterfuck

[desert valve]

can i debug this in any way?

[high bay]

Like no carry weight mods work with 1.03

[magic geyser]

Try another key, a letter, maybe F-s don't work for some reason

[spark plinth]

Edited and fixed the SOFMOD Preattachments.

In vanilla, it used to have the 9mm silencer as a preattachment.

[magic geyser]

And use another key for removing the widgets, just to separate things when testing.

[half willow]

HOLY SHIT IS THAT A CUSTOM MODEL?

[magic shuttle]

any modders can bring back emission pills? so dummbbb, running slow and at yantar/red forest with emission, cant avoid death

[crimson laurel]

no

[crimson laurel]

90% its a upgrade that is available in other gun

[spark plinth]

it's an upgrade on the SPAS

[cyan stirrup]

sick

[half willow]

so sick

i fucking love the magpul afg

[crimson laurel]

does it actually

use the animation

[spark plinth]

yes

[crimson laurel]

damn

[half willow]

ajbasfbisaf

[crimson laurel]

i was worried about that

[half willow]

i love you @spark plinth

[crimson laurel]

i love that

cant wait for actual new guns and whole fletched out attachment system

great to have plug and play attachments in ur inventory such as mags, silencers and scopes

but then the rest should be in the technician

great to see

[spark plinth]

as soon as I can do that, I will.

[crimson laurel]

i wounder if it would be possible to make the technician ui

to 3d

(not rn)

[desert valve]

weird stuff, changed key and the remove is working now, the other part isnt

i also CTD very often on load

[crimson laurel]

if you could make technician ui weapon 3d would be really really nice to have a wikipedia with mutants inspections and stuff

[spark plinth]

I'll try to port Tarkov's weapon editor UI

[crimson laurel]

😏

[crimson laurel]

i mean its pretty much tarkov weapon ui but 2d

[half willow]

what a fucking madlad

[crimson laurel]

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

i believe theres like a map of a shooting range

so imagine if the technician had a button that would make u tp to the shooting range or sum

😏😏

[desert valve]

yeah removing the widgets works reliably now, just not showing the other widget

[crimson laurel]

and try the gun out

[magic geyser]

Using the same key (pressed and release both in use)?

[desert valve]

no, separated them (using , and .)

both on released btw

[spark plinth]

wrong one

[crimson laurel]

[magic geyser]

Try using the pressed for both, who knows. Also check if the problem is at spawning the widget, try switching places, use remove widgets on the other key. I don't think we have a way to use logs for now (maybe if you use the dev build? if so, you just need to use the print node)

[rustic granite]

hey guys anyone know if the update 1.0.3 is out for game pass ?

[spark plinth]

@crimson laurel @half willow correct one

I hate Discord decompression.

[desert valve]

same thing, removing works, other key does nothing, something is not right with the widget

ill create a new one, maybe that helps

[summer silo]

Why does this video look like Frame Generation said "Bye bye"

[spark plinth]

Discord decompression.

it looks fine on my end

[summer silo]

WHAT THE FUCK

I just downloaded it and it looks 100% fine

[half willow]

that's not the correct animation for that grip

[spark plinth]

I cant change the animation but I did put the hand in the right spot.

[half willow]

that will have to suffice

[summer silo]

You know this looks like my VR Headset output when it cant keep up with bitrate

Add to it the viewport shaking like there is an earthquake, too

[half willow]

@summer silo did you see my thingie? https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1313619012386689124
I @ you before and you didnt respond

[desert valve]

nope didnt help

[summer silo]

Aye. I passed out and woke up like, 4 hours ago
The mod loader doesn't work for me. Says something about missing cpp dll file

gcc actually

libgcc_s_seh-1.dll

There was one more error as well

[half willow]

huh

[summer silo]

Not like it matters much
What I wanted to do won't work with loose files or reference overwrites like with weight edit

[half willow]

are you trying to build it? or use it from the exe?

[summer silo]

From the releases exe yeah

[half willow]

the fuck

[lusty hemlock]

@spark plinth do you think there’s any chance you can get the angled foregrip for the PKM working on other guns that support grips?

[summer silo]

Missing object libgcc_s_seh-1.dll and missing object libstdc++-6.dll

[spark plinth]

probably

For Clarity:

[summer silo]

"Clusterfuck"

[half willow]

thats from mingw, should only be used to compile the exe, not load it

huh

[summer silo]

Anyway I'm going back to sleep.

[spark plinth]

ask the devs about it

[desert valve]

cant get it to work, but i must give up for tonight, its late

thanks for the help

[magic geyser]

No problem. Sweet dreams

[spark plinth]

thanks for pointing that one out. I had not seen it yet.

[rustic granite]

anyone can confirm ?

[rustic granite]

just got the update nvm

[neat thistle]

Guys, did someone manage to spawn destructible stashes yet?

I changed all values in ItemGeneratorPrototypes.cfg, and I still have some 2 crates which somehow spawn 4 medkits and 3 grenades when I smash them. And it's just impossible with my changes. Like, is it hardcoded somehwere or what? Want to figure out.

[desert valve]

had to try one last thing, something i just realized, when it crashes it always crashes twice in a row and then just works fine all of the sudden

[broken wren]

try undiscovered location, i guess they spawning around u and itemgenerator select value before u punch crate

[desert valve]

i now managed to break the other widget too 😄 definitely time for bed

[deep ridge]

Hey fren's anyone where where saved file data is located?

nvm think i found it XD

[gusty olive]

sooo..... the 416 only has 1 pen right? so its dogshit

[spark plinth]

I think we all agree on that?

[gusty olive]

just making sure

are the customs any better?

[spark plinth]

I mean, through the technicians you can make it better.

[gusty olive]

[spark plinth]

You just want a buff to it?

[gusty olive]

yeah it shouldnt be available 10minutes into the game and it should be a decent AR with lategame potential

as 556 is generally rarer and more expensive

[half willow]

I'll make it way better as soon as we can make technicians apply new upgrades properly 🙂
For now I'm stuck with:

[spark plinth]

I see what you mean, someone is working on changing the NPC weapon spawn to try and mitigate weapon availability and rarity.

[ripe flame]

You need to install this https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-sdk/

NVM, I see you've done it already.

WIP UI. There's a lot to be done, but I am getting there.
Using it for some time already and never coming back to vanilla UI.

[half willow]

im getting ElvUI vibes

[spark plinth]

insta download

[ripe flame]

I think, if everything goes well, I'll release it in a couple of days

[spark plinth]

[ripe flame]

Still need to do the whole PDA and upgrade interface

[ripe flame]

Had to look it up. Yeah, there's a similar vibe.

[spark plinth]

How about an RK-2?

[gusty olive]

sounds good.. it should be on the rarer / late game side like all 556 weapons, and should be used by veteran stalkers, not rookies

[empty helm]

I prefer the magpul RVG but this one also looks good

[spark plinth]

I'm a sucker for RKs

[empty helm]

love the RK6 ok AKs

[dark wharf]

Is anyone working on a weapon damage mod? Especially receiving damage. The AI just full auto's through bushes hitting you for very little amounts of damage but very often (like just 6 shots in a row no missers), instantly giving you the bloody screen making it feel like you're next to death while you're fine in reality.

[rustic granite]

u also making new attachements, or is this already in-game as vanilla ?

[ripe flame]

There’s already like 10 mods that change AI accuracy and tweak stealth. Including one of mine called “Omega”, but it touches much wider range of game mechanics.

[fast shore]

Does anyone knows how to reduce pop in of textures without a big performance hit

Really takes me away from the game seeing trees appear outta nowhere

[sour zenith]

for me, adding
foliage.LODDistanceScale=3
r.ViewDistanceScale=1.5
r.StaticMeshLODDistanceScale=0.5
to my engine.ini fixed most tree pop in for little to no performance hit

[fast shore]

I tried first two commands but it does tank the frames, I would even settle for way less detailed textures in the distance just without pop ins

[spark plinth]

already existing.

ohhh yeah

[wide sonnet]

OMG this looks so awesome

[spark plinth]

I need someone who doesn't have any dlc to test

[little sluice]

Gorgeous

[unreal glacier]

any idea what files the latest update changed

[slow lake]

I made one that gives the NPC's weapons the same damage as the player's, also one with extra damage, it's called Deadly NPC's. There are many others with a lot more changes too

[spark plinth]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1643320/view/4455844537830474965?l=english

[vital coyote]

🔥 🔥 🔥

thanks for the ping

[unreal glacier]

I don't see any details there, just the impact of the changes

[spark plinth]

You want extra detailed? I don't believe they did one.

[unreal glacier]

Basically I'm asking so I can then cross reference the changes with what files my mods change to determine if any need to be remade

I've been relying on this, which is perfect for that, but it hasn't been updated yet
https://github.com/CnRJay/Stalker-2-Dump-Files/tree/main

[vital coyote]

i think you should be fine with this update granted i dont have many mods on rn but i didnt even check to see if any of mine were broken just loaded the game like normal

i will say tho good precaution would be to disable auto updates if you play with any mods that could bust your save if they suddenly stoped working

update could happen and a mod dev could abandon or go on vacation

[peak pendant]

Hi, I encountered a problem while editing armor textures. When I change the texture in any way, or replace it with an existing one (as a test, I replaced the standard SPARK armor texture with the same one, but in the DUTY color scheme) - the texture becomes black and white. I don't understand what the problem could be?
However, when editing weapons or hand textures from the first person - there is no problem, the texture fits correctly. Below are screenshots.

[gentle sapphire]

Is there a guide for making basic mods for UE games? I want to make a mod to modify the scarcity of items in STALKER 2, but after downloading FModel and AESDumpster, and then rooting through the .paks I'm not entirely sure where to start.

[orchid wharf]

after the update my game is not starting guys i am playing on Xbox gamepass are guys facing the same problem ??

[sterile fiber]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1h591i1/game_crash_on_mousing_over_ammo_in_my_inventory/

Guhhhhh

Anyone experienced this

[dark jetty]

WIP. Anyone around who knows how to get virtual texture mods to appear in the upgrade menu? I'm still dumb right now

[peak pendant]

you need to find the texture that is used for the enhancement. As with AR416 - Stalker2/Content/GameLite/FPS_Game/UIRemaster/UITextures/Inventory/Weapons/T_inv_icon_m416.uasset

[dark jetty]

Thanks bro!

[peak pendant]

I saw that you don't have a regular AR416, but a sofmod version - it has a different path - Stalker2/Content/GameLite/FPS_Game/UIRemaster/UITextures/Inventory/WeaponAndAttachments/M16/T_inv_w_m416_sofmod_body_upgrade.uasset

[dark jetty]

Much appreciated. GSC didn't do anyskins for the unique variants except the monolith from what I can tell - so the paths don't exist from what I reckon. Until I figure out how to point the sofmod/clusterfuck/unknown stalker to their own material path this will apply to all of them 😦

[unreal knot]

That is one cursed looking gun

[dark jetty]

this reminds me - I need to report a bug in the upgrade ui. The magazine is rendered above the grenade launcher