╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[peak pendant]

I have a similar problem, I want to change the visual of the legs in the spark armor, but it also changes the NPC model in this suit :D

Unfortunately, I don't have enough experience yet, but it seems that this happens because of this part of the texture, I don't know what it is for, but when you replace it, the structure changes, it looks different. I assume that this is somehow related to the alpha channel. Also, if you paint this square, for example, red, then the white texture on the screen also changes to red. But I haven't figured out how to fix this yet.

Perhaps some settings need to be set in UE for correct display. However, I don't know what exactly needs to be changed.
Therefore, textures where this fragment is initially missing are applied normally, without visual artifacts.

[rare ruin]

It's been a few days since I was last in here. How is everyone doing. Any new modding breakthroughs?

[spring idol]

id assume it has something to do with them being UDIM textures

they probably use the top left tile for something else

nvm im cooked

if they were udims there should be seperate textures for each tile

but maybe unreal cooks them into one

[little sluice]

Oh lol looks like we had similar ideas, though yours is more of a CAG-style HK while I'm just repainting the furniture

[spring idol]

it looks like a udim "SizeX": 8192, "SizeY": 8192, "PackedData": 1, "PixelFormat": "PF_DXT1", "FirstMipToSerialize": 0, "VTData": { "NumLayers": 1, "NumMips": 12, "Width": 8192, "Height": 8192, "WidthInBlocks": 2, "HeightInBlocks": 2, "TileSize": 128, "TileBorderSize": 4, "LayerTypes": [ 5

[dark jetty]

No surprise there. It's fairly popular look. Painting the unwrapped textures is annoying though. I'm thinking about just moving this into substance.

[little sluice]

Yeah definitely I've just been painting in bright colors the areas I want to change in blender texture paint, then using that as a mask in GIMP. I loved Substance Painter, until it got Adobe'd

[summer silo]

Where is Low Crouch GSC?

Where is it?

[dark jetty]

may need to pick your brains later. I'm off to bed for now though. Looks good,dude!

[rare ruin]

the low crouch is the stalkers you met along the way

[summer silo]

https://tenor.com/view/champoy-el-risitas-kek-issou-etu-gif-17837830

[little sluice]

Yours as well!

[tidal yew]

If i wouldnt get ghosting artifacts on my holos and red dots while having FSR3 fframe gen on, i would definitely pick it

[summer silo]

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

"The six million polymesh scene rendered 50% faster without nanite."

[crude heart]

This engine being built for slow camera panning 'cinematic' games on controllers and scene previews but most FPS games are action oriented. It's time to just start saying that unreal engine is not for FPS games, it's an engine for moviegames

[summer silo]

They should've stayed on Unreal Engine 4..

[spare imp]

who knows how to mod Stalker 2?
I am a VFX artist and would like to improve many effects
But I have no idea how to make mods. As I understand it, there is still no SDK, and this complicates the process

[spring idol]

its an engine , it can be anything it wants it's up to the users of the engine to optimze and remove bloat features they dont want if they are knowledgable enough to do so , which most arent

[deep ridge]

has anyone come up with any clever ways to combine the texture files required for some mods?

hate having a big wall of duplicates in the folder

[warped estuary]

Yes. FModel incorrectly retrieves textures of models with variations in the form of pouches, backpacks and other equipment. The UVMap of the model does not match the texture that FModel retrieves from the game files. In theory, you can fix the texture, but it will be corrupted after injecting to the game

[crude heart]

Sadly this isn't the case. Not only is UE5 completely built around these techniques like TAA and nanite but there are no alternatives. This is why that guy "threat interactive" is on a crusade to try and build alternative rendering systems into UE5, because the problem is that UE5 doesn't give users an option between blurslop and a more traditional rendering pipeline. A game like stalker 2 would have benefitted greatly from being built around long view distances and baked lighting and other anti aliasing options

It makes sense right, why prebake lighting instead of using these new lumen technologies to have raytracing light the scene, but the technology is just not there yet especially for the vast majority of gamers

[spring idol]

https://mnml.jp.net/i/hdrca.png

its almost like the developers have access to the entire engine source

[crude heart]

just build your own rendering pipeline bro

[spring idol]

Hence why im saying its an engine and the users of the engine can do anything they want to it, but its either not time efficient to do so or the know how isnt there

[little sluice]

I need S&box or Valve to let 3rd party devs use Source 2 so not every game from now on is running on either Unreal or Unity

[royal folio]

Anyone knows how to change the upper limit of what carry weight effects can provide?
seems like the "unencumbered" limit is 90kg (the green bar) and total weight is 140kg, which is less than I want with hercules + 5 carry weight artifacts on you
Answering my own question: it's in ObjEffectMaxParamsPrototypes.cfg, list is under MaxEffectValues : struct.begin

[last spire]

he dont bite

[spare imp]

i want f

[wicked wind]

Hi! SDK isn't available yet, so it's impossible to add VFX, how we usually do it. If I remember correctly, GSC said that they would say something about modding in December.

[little sluice]

Which effects? I know things like muzzle flashes are just 2D sprites so those can definitely be edited with what's available now

[wicked wind]

But what can you change? Only texture itself or values inside Niagara too?

[little sluice]

Probably just the textures, everything is super basic stuff like swaps for now

[lyric hedge]

UV map is the issue here, not the texture.

[wicked wind]

It doesn't do much then. Without tweaking values for new texture, changing something doesn't make sense

[plush solstice]

Hey all, apologies if this has already been asked before, though I did some searching and asking around (before being told to ask here!) and had no luck.

Is anyone aware of how to merge mods together while using the Gamepass version of the game? I've got the AES key sorted, as well as the Game's location down, but it still keeps searching for the wrong filenames as it's looking for the Steam files, not Gamepass'.

[unreal knot]

What tool are you using?

[plush solstice]

Sorry, I should have opened with that.

I've just been using the Simple Mod Merger that's packaged with Vortex, but I'm happy to use something else if it works!

[summer silo]

I think the easiest way right now is just installing mods manually.

Vortex has issues removing mods

[plush solstice]

I've noticed that and I've not had any issues manually doing it myself.

[summer silo]

Mod Organizer 2 has "basic" support but its also mostly just dropping a pak file in and out rn

[plush solstice]

It's more just the merging I don't know how to do.

[summer silo]

Mod Manager wont help you with that I'm afraid xD

[plush solstice]

Wait, I'm so sorry.

[unreal knot]

Some of them require you to open them up and manually change the paths. I can't speak for Vortex since I don't use that one but I can guide you to this nifty little guide Trave made https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1312154196383895702

I think most people just manually merge the mods using Notepad++ or something like that (I use VSC myself but I use that for work so)

[plush solstice]

Simple Mod Merger*

I'm operating on too little sleep and too much work!

[plush solstice]

I'm fine with using Notepad++, I just didn't know I was actually able to open the PAKs for myself! I'll have a look at that link, thank you.

[unreal knot]

Haha yeah we all went through that don't worry mate. That guide will go through every step of the way, you'll need an packer/unpacker (the one Trave lists is really good)

[plush solstice]

Thanks mate, I'll check it out!

[unreal knot]

The error @tiny sonnet was having?

^

[untold pilot]

Ah, I launched the game without mods and the normal font seems to be there. I assume its fixed.

[unreal knot]

I had it when patch 1.0.2 came out and I fixed it by removing all mods from, removing the ~mods folder altogether and cleaning up anything that the game might be loose loading

Stuff like Mutant Loot or anything that interferes with the game's localization need to be updated between patches or it'll break

[foggy hinge]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1h6b8wz/gsc_accidentally_included_a_debug_mode_with_patch/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

You can downgrade your game version, just an FYI

Ahh

NVM you can't use it regardless

I would love to play around with the debug menu, but sadly GSC has remotely disabled it. You can't launch it, even if you downgrade. And if you use the cracked PalCoreAPI.dll DRM binary from back when people cracked the leaked build in 2023, it says that the game files are not valid. So yeah, just sad that GSC won't let us mess around and have fun with the game.

[merry mountain]

i dont need to, im on 1.0 and i have the dev build exe and dll

[foggy hinge]

Oh damn

[merry mountain]

and other people can also still use iit

[foggy hinge]

I haven't been keeping on on the debug menu

But what does it include?

I wanna try and use it myself.

[merry mountain]

you just need the exe, the dll and pakchunk16 from 1.0 i think

[merry mountain]

alls the menu points you see in the video / screenshots

minus Alife which is empty

[foggy hinge]

Ahh, so just the ALife one is empty?

[merry mountain]

but you can view alife stuff on the map

[foggy hinge]

That's low-key ironic af

[merry mountain]

map has different modes to show lairs, radiation patches, anomalys, alife etc

[foggy hinge]

Enlighten me, what're Lairs?

[merry mountain]

lairs are locations where NPCs and Mutants can spawn

[foggy hinge]

Just safezones/areas NPCs consider home?

Ahh, okay, that makes sense

[merry mountain]

on the lairs tab you can see which lair is currently occupied by which faction / mutants

and what is the cuurrent state, eg. defensive, normal etc

[foggy hinge]

Makes sense, the debug menu would be real helpful rn NGL

[north wasp]

Nexus is fucked up since last night what's going on?

[half willow]

fucked up how?

[north wasp]

For example

[half willow]

oh

[north wasp]

Nothing uploads

[foggy hinge]

I saw someone mentioning the three clouded zones above, like in this pic. Does the debug have a teleport option to them?

[half willow]

And here I was thinking it was only my mod failing to upload

good to know

[north wasp]

Nah it's been like this since like 8pm GMT yesterday

[foggy hinge]

Nexus has been on and off with its site for about a week now

Gotta just give it time

[merry mountain]

yyou can fly there, there is nothing interesting tho, nothing spawns there and if you dont have godmode you diie of radiation

[drifting tapir]

@merry mountain can u dm me the test exe? would like to use it for spawn tests.

i have the 1.0 palcore.dll and pak

[foggy hinge]

Whack, definitely gotta be something planned for it then

[merry mountain]

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[drifting tapir]

the yandex link is dead

[merry mountain]

ill upload it to gofile

[merry mountain]

https://gofile.io/d/2JJWjp

[drifting tapir]

thank you so much!

[summer silo]

Wait is it actually still working?

The reddit post says it got disabled

[merry mountain]

which post are you talking about

[summer silo]

This one

[merry mountain]

they removed the dev exe and the palcore dll, and if you dont have the correct pakchunk16 your game crashes on opening inventory

[eternal sapphire]

How would I use this? Can it work with 1.0.3?

[summer silo]

I would love to play around with the debug menu, but sadly GSC has remotely disabled it. You can't launch it, even if you downgrade. And if you use the cracked PalCoreAPI.dll DRM binary from back when people cracked the leaked build in 2023, it says that the game files are not valid. So yeah, just sad that GSC won't let us mess around and have fun with the game.

What was in pakchunk16? 👀

[eternal sapphire]

16 is UI textures I think

[merry mountain]

idk about that, mutliple people used it with the exe, dll and the packchunk16 from 1.0 after it was removed (you can also use it without pakchunk16 from 1..0 but it will crash on opening inventory)

[summer silo]

I assume no one has that shi backed up

[merry mountain]

they removed the files with the next patch when they realized they shipped the dev exe

[eternal sapphire]

Do you also have the other parts? ❤️

[merry mountain]

there was a google link for the pakchunk files i think

[summer silo]

Makes you wonder if the dev exe caused performance issues due to logging and debugging features being on, lol

[merry mountain]

its multiple gb

[merry mountain]

i added the dll to this link

[foggy hinge]

I kinda doubt it TBH

[eternal sapphire]

Any tips on how to use this? Like how would I load saves?

[merry mountain]

#╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message
Pakchunk16 files

[merry mountain]

you dont, you make new game in another save slot as far as i know

[eternal sapphire]

Ahh I see, not much use to me atm then.

[merry mountain]

oh and put a .bat file in your main stalker dir , where Stalker2.exe is located

start "" "Stalker2\Binaries\Win64\Stalker2-Win64-Test.exe"

[summer silo]

With debugging "on" programs can get hella slow.

[foggy hinge]

Haha, I know

But with how slow the game was already

It probably wasn't a measurable difference.

[merry mountain]

i notice no drop in performance i think

but i use 7950X and 4090

[foggy hinge]

But ImGui is ideally pretty lightweight

It's meant to be

And if I had to guess, the debug menu is just a compiled menu of console commands to execute

All tidied up and whatnot

[merry mountain]

it can do stuff for which there are no console commands

they can just access any anything in the game source and execute it as they wish

we could in theory build something silimar with the help of UE4SS, but it would be a pain to do so

[summer silo]

Man f off xD
A 4090 costs as much as my PC costed me, and it has a 4080 Super.

[merry mountain]

yeah the build was like 3000€ with ~2000 of that for the gpu

[summer silo]

[merry mountain]

but its not only for gaming

i also do lots of ai stuff so i needed much vram

AMD gpu would have been cheaper(only half the cost), but they are not as good supported for the different AI libs

and i dont wanted to need to constantly mess with stuff not working because its an amd gpu

[summer silo]

I remember how you needed a specific DLL file to make Star Wars Jedi Academy work on old Radeon GPU's

Okay yeah, needed an atioglxx.dll to even run the game XD

[hallow sand]

has anyone found like an ondeath scenario or anything for when NPC's die (humans) I was kinda close I felt last night but still no dice.

[thorny yacht]

Anyone tried that mutant bear chimera sound replacement, might try it out later. Sounds creepy as fuck

[hallow sand]

listening to the video now

I use the predator click/roar for bloodsuckers

[thorny yacht]

Not sure if he managed to add to attack some sounds

[hallow sand]

yo that is EERIE as fuck

it fits so well

[thorny yacht]

Isnt that present in gamma but kinda lesser clicking?

[hallow sand]

I haven't played gamma in a hot minute, so not sure.

[thorny yacht]

I think in gamma bloodsuckers have that predator clicking sounds. But fucking OG bloodsuckers with heavy breathing behind my back always gets my hair up. Stalker 2 not so much. Might add that one too

[hallow sand]

reshades are saved in the appdata section of stalker 2 files right?

[hallow sand]

The predator one sends shivers dow nmy spine... Walking and then you hear the click and your heart SINKS

Plus i Have it so 4 can spawn at a time, I figure they'd hunt in pairs, as mates

[thorny yacht]

Have to wait for alife wizards to replace snorks with bloodsuckers and i think they aleady did that but cant find the file. You cant pick up a dime without one getting up to you

[hallow sand]

Snorks are better in my version, my lil mod pack has adjusted a lot of those parameters thanks to other mods.

Im just trying to get a fucking ondeath cfg so I can do this for HUMAN npc's who die "XResurrectNPCAsZombie NpcUID" and make a zombie mod like I used when I palyed gamma

Any HUMAN npc that dies gets rezzed as a zed.

woops, adjusted my run speed lower, but acidentally made it 3200 LMAO I was zoomin

[drifting tapir]

roadside already does this

[merry mountain]

pretty sure you cant do that with a cfg, you would need to use ue4ss for it for example

[drifting tapir]

oh wait no it does the opposite i misread

[foggy hinge]

eah, this would require a blueprint setup

Or some sort of programming, I.E. C++

I mean

[merry mountain]

you dont need blueprints for ue4ss but yes, you would need to make a lua or c++ mod

[thorny yacht]

aw shittttt

[foggy hinge]

You might be able to use a CFG file by applying a zombie effect on an NPC after death

But ehh

Thta's a headache to figure out

[foggy hinge]

Ooh, does UE4SS not load blueprints?

[drifting tapir]

whats wrong with snorks though i like them.

they are skill check enemy that arent too annoying

[merry mountain]

no what i say is that you dont need to use blueprints, not that it cant load it

[foggy hinge]

Lua would be easier though honestly.

[foggy hinge]

Ahh, okay I got y a

[thorny yacht]

Bro this chimera bear

[foggy hinge]

I think personally imma wait till the SDK to make any sort of prorgramming/script mod

[hallow sand]

Someone mentioned I could try to just find the ondeath in the cfg someplace, and add the console command and see if that works

[hallow sand]

told oyu lamo

[foggy hinge]

The only ondeath relevance I found in cfg files is ActorNeedsDestroyOnDeath

[hallow sand]

what's the best engineINI mod? Just need a simple one.

[hallow sand]

Where abouts was that?

[merry mountain]

they use their guns tho, so they behave not that different from the regular npc , just slower and moar groaning , and they also attack their former friends

[foggy hinge]

DeerAbilities.cfg and FaustAbilities.cfg

[hallow sand]

I want that 😄

I gave zombies 7700 hp

And a big HS multiplier.

[drifting tapir]

Emission zombification would be cool

Not possible with current spawn system though

[foggy hinge]

Check HumanAbilities.cfg

[thorny yacht]

Can we add guns to chimeras?

[merry mountain]

why tho, whats the reason to make enemies you need to spend 1000 shots to kill or whatever

[foggy hinge]

   SID = SQ04_C01_OnNPCDeathEvent_BlindDogs_1
   NodePrototypeVersion = 1
   QuestSID = SQ04_C01
   NodeType = EQuestNodeType::OnNPCDeathEvent
   LaunchOnQuestStart = true
   EventType = EQuestEventType::OnObjDeath
   TrackBeforeActive = false
   TargetQuestGuid = B9677594434BFA77E09082B8901A4A2D
struct.end```

[hallow sand]

Because zombies need headshots to kill silly

1 headshot kills zombies

but they sponge body shots

like an undead would

HOPEFULLY eventually someone gets the limb removing mod for this, so then itll be even cooler

[merry mountain]

you could hook into OnEmissionStart or OnEmissionFinish and then do stuff

[hallow sand]

shooting off their limbs

[foggy hinge]

Seems like a lot of ondeath stuff is utilzied in quests.

So you would need to create a separate quest to handle zombifying dead humans

[hallow sand]

Would you be able to hook into taht and spawn zeds during the emission too you think?

[hallow sand]

That's a bit out of my scope I think, I could take a wack at it tho

[drifting tapir]

It will feel cheap because rn every single npc in spawn bubble reliably finds shelter, in current game.

[hallow sand]

WAIT. What if you modified the Corpseremoval time, and made it the zed spawn instead?

[hallow sand]

But you could ujse that to spawn zeds during it instead.

[drifting tapir]

Yeah definitely

[merry mountain]

you cant just remove the variable and replace it with a function

[hallow sand]

You want these ingame? Cause taht's how you get hellhounds.

[hallow sand]

not remove, but make it so the timer is longer, and then you add the command to rez them as a zombie

(I'm very new to this stuff so I'm sorry if I'm asking stupid stuff <3)

[thorny yacht]

Nah man m good Just getting stupid ideas for time when SDK comes out

[hallow sand]

ALSO

If ANYONE was wanting to change or add to DOG NOISES, ambient or not. I have 3 huskies WHO LOVE to talk and can try my best to get you audio files of them.

[foggy hinge]

Yeah, there's probably no way to make NPCs zombies rn with configs

I'm just not seeing how it is possible

[thorny yacht]

Now that guy explained how to do it, i might start looking for some crazy ass sounds to be added to different mutants

[hallow sand]

I appreciate you looking friend ❤️

[merry mountain]

probably, but if you choose random locations it will probably spawn them also on objects or rooftops if you let the game determine the Z, and if not determining Z they would end up inside objects or buildings we cannot access

[hallow sand]

That's a good point.

[half willow]

cmon man, you can't just say that and then proceed to not send pics

that's criminal behaviour

[merry mountain]

so we would probably need to kill all zeds automatically after some time or else youu would have them stuck in stuff until you are far enough away for them to despawn

[hallow sand]

There hahaha

[half willow]

[lean steppe]

Is there any way to reduce loot that’s around the zone? I know you can reduce loot in stashes and bodies, but in general because I still feel like picking up meds is super easy

Or is that not really feasible yet?

[merry mountain]

yes, the loose loot is split up in ~80.000+ cfg files

have fun

😂

[lean steppe]

Fml 😭😭😭😭

Maybe I’ll let somebody that actually knows what they’re doing deal with that lol

[summer silo]

Are you for real

[lean steppe]

Sure, a little self-control would make it less abundant in technicality, but I’m a goblin so every time I see something to pick up I wanna pick it up and I end up with 100+ bandages every fucking time lol

[spark plinth]

Good morning fellas, how we doing?

[merry mountain]

yes, look into Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData\SpawnActorPrototypes\WorldMap_WP

The filenames are uids or whatever and there is no differentiatiion between zones

[lean steppe]

That sounds awful to edit

[frank summit]

seems all of the grips, ironsights, lasers, muzzles and rails aren't actually implemented, since spawning them just gives me dummy items

[merry mountain]

i also could not find the coords for the region polygons, so i made a tool to sort the files by making my own zones on the map extracted from the game

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With this you can sort the cfg files by regions you can define on a map loaded in the browser and exported to json

[hallow sand]

those are the upgrade path items.

Been trying to get it so you can put a toprail on an ak_74st

[half willow]

wait let me guess

[hallow sand]

and special item attachments

[half willow]

This technician cannot install this upgrade.

[hallow sand]

Yeah, but I tried to circumvent that with a "preattached item" thing

and have them come with it pre attached but that didnt work either

and ayeah the tech can't install it

[frank summit]

Ahh, I see

[half willow]

I swear every time i try to do something about it I am one step closer to putting a slug through my head

[hallow sand]

i can change the sockets on the ak, but a colim site doesn't attach teh same way the x4 an up sites do

[hallow sand]

SAME/ this was all i could get so far

[sinful cypress]

Was someone meanwhile able to find a way to edit the soundfiles?

[hallow sand]

for w/e reason... the m416 has skeleton bones for the iron site attachments, but they didn't do that for the ak, that was my next try.

[half willow]

Good "morning" to you too

[hallow sand]

was gonna put it on the rear ironsite bone but that wasn't there

[half willow]

probably because the ironsights for the ak are baked into the base model

and in the hk they are treated more as an attachment rather than a piece of the gun itself

[ancient drum]

wait how do u unpack the models actualy Fmod gives me a error when iam trying to do something with a models

[spark plinth]

[merry mountain]

do you have the usmap in fmodel ?

[half willow]

lol, the hotfix for my mod-as-dlc tool on nexus got flagged as suspicious content

[spark plinth]

It’s suspiciously too good

[ancient drum]

ohm i have missed that. Thanks!

[half willow]

I'm guessing that nexus auto-flags .dll files, I reached out to them via email and provided my virustotal scans, still kinda weird

[spark plinth]

All we gotta do is find a way to use the json or decrypt the skel file. I find tutorials on 5.0, 5.2, 5.3 on wards but not bloody 5.1.

[half willow]

5.1 is the middle child that just exists, but noone wants to talk about

[spark plinth]

If someone can find a way to get VArest working on 5.1 I could do it.

[half willow]

Yeah, I only realized that you're American when you tried to call me at 3 am

[spark plinth]

[half willow]

holy shit I think someone just figured out how to add upgrades to technicians

[spark plinth]

_>

[half willow]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/679?tab=description

im looking at the files

blud just added literally ALL possible upgrades to every NPC that is flagged as a Technician

the original NPCPrototypes.cfg file has 24077 lines

[spark plinth]

But did they edit a uasset file is the question?

[half willow]

and his has:

102135 lines

[half willow]

no

[spark plinth]

Okay, at least we now know we can mod in upgrades without editing uasset files.

[half willow]

isn't .uasset an Unreal Engine resource file?

So you'd have to decompile it first

[spark plinth]

We’ve tried so many ways to decrypt it to make edits and cook it back and nothing has worked so far.

[half willow]

I doubt that you'll be able to without an SDK

[spark plinth]

^^^

[void owl]

[spark plinth]

I tell you there full tutorials on every other version except 5.1

[void owl]

https://tenor.com/view/despair-suffer-suffering-sad-sad-quotes-gif-14270258133567956444

I'll give 50 bucks to whoever figures out how to decompile WeatherPresetDataAssets and cook them again

[spark plinth]

Funny enough, I’m hitting up fiver to see if someone knows.

[void owl]

It's a DataAsset made by GSC im sure... Cannot find any references anywhere

We need to craft a PrimaryDataAsset and the enums structs they use...

[arctic patrol]

Can anyone explain what barriers to modding in scripts exist? Does it require more dev tools made accessible or files etc?

[void owl]

We cannot modify or add things that cannot be referenced by what's already existing

[spark plinth]

https://tenor.com/view/kill-me-drink-bleach-gif-22890796

[void owl]

Would be nice if any GSC dev would come out and say, "actually you can just foo these things by doing bar"

But they are quiet till sdk comes out

[arctic patrol]

In laymans terms? I am layman

[azure mortar]

one can only imagine the power of SDK 🤤

[bold apex]

We can see and change some settings in the files, like if it says 'MinimumThrowDistance = 10,' we can edit that number. But there are probably other settings, like 'MaximumThrowDistance,' that aren't listed in the file but still exist and could work if we figured out how to add them. The tricky part is we have to guess or look through special files to find out what these hidden settings are

[half willow]

layma balls on your face

[arctic patrol]

Right Thank you, makes sense, and the dev tools (SDK) make this much easier? What is the likely hood GSC will release them

[bold apex]

An SDK would let us open the game in Unreal Engine's developer environment, making it much easier to see and understand how everything is put together. It also gives access to 'Blueprints,' which is like a drag-and-drop way of coding—a visual system that many Unreal developers use to create and tweak game features without needing to write a lot of code

When they'll release is a good question. Usually it takes time to prepare because many developers used third party software in the development that the user is not licensed to use so they have to be "cut out" in a sense

[arctic patrol]

Would A life in its previous iteration (call of Pripyat or clear sky) even be able to be modded over even if the tools are present, or there’s not enough information at present to make a guess?

[void owl]

Anything's possible

[half willow]

nice rebrand you got goin, doing Lukash next?

[neat thistle]

lmao

Seems like you can't add new stuff to stashes in ItemGeneratorPrototypes.cfg

Even my magic which was working with destructibles isn't working with them

Does anybody know the way?

[half willow]

I know a way to add items to the preorder stashes

but like specific items in specific chests

not like random items in chests

[neat thistle]

I need them all 😦

And I want to add there custom items from my mod

Somehow game just don't like when you add any new items to spawn somewhere.
The only .cfg which didn't fuck my brain - DynamicItemPrototypes (NPCs loadouts). So smooth.

And this one... oh boi

[hexed bane]

lets gooo someone make a campfire saves mod 🙂

[robust dragon]

Hey guys, I have been wanting to make some of the highly requested textures I see on nexus (AKM-74 with wood) but I can not find any tutorial regarding how to setup FModel for S2, any pointers to atleast get me started on figuring this out?

[ripe flame]

Stalker 2 has way less campfires per km2

[little sluice]

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

[little sluice]

True but you run like an olympic athlete compared to the base games

[meager mist]

Did anyone made mod for better headlamp?

[little sluice]

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

[amber halo]

Hello guys, is it possible to add new texts not using LocalizationDB.ubulk ? Stalker2

[hexed bane]

@ripe flame base saves, campfires and maybe outposts

[half willow]

you can add text like this if that's what you mean:

[amber halo]

No, i want to add with localizations. But LocalizationDB.ubulk is too big, maybe some way to include Localization2DB.ubulk or somethink like that?

[half willow]

That I can't help you with

@spark plinth

Kurtis the 🐐

[spark plinth]

W

[half willow]

any1 knows if UETools has some teleport commands or something

[spark plinth]

I’ve been given some ideas to try later when I get back.

[twilit scroll]

can someone mod dr mom vaseline into the game

[crystal ether]

how to show image in widget

[twilit scroll]

anyone remember what the stash window extender mod was called

[merry mountain]

Stalker 2 Console Commands for Teleports:

XTeleportToPlacesOfInterest SID
XTeleportNPCToSpawn NPCSID
XTeleportNPCToPlayer NPCSID
XTeleportToObjUID ObjUID
XTeleportTo XCoord YCoord ZCoord
XVideoTeleportPlayerWithFade Distance
XTeleportPlayerWithFade Distance
XTeleportPlayerInForwardDirection Distance Delay

[main wing]

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

[twilit scroll]

thanks

[paper elm]

It works on stashes now?

Only loot windows last I checked

[half willow]

@spark plinth it fucking works shagfiausdfha

[hallow sand]

did you add an upgrade path that wasn't there before 😮

[half willow]

Yes

[hallow sand]

WHAT. Soooooooo we could add a toprail to something we couldn't before? Or not taht detailed?

[half willow]

And an entire recaliber weapon effect that changes the caliber

i can change it to .308 if i want

i can do anything

im a fucking god

[hallow sand]

omfg, how did you get it to work?

[tidal yew]

does grok's modlist work on the new version? on the economy and difficulty fix attempt mod it says that compatibility with the mutant parts mod is not covered or something like that, just wanting to make sure before i stick to it

[hallow sand]

need me my colim on akdrowned

[half willow]

pushing to github in a sec, will link

[hallow sand]

BASED

[spark plinth]

Getting my mod going today again

The list of things to do just grows by the day

[spark plinth]

We still don’t have a socket to reference. But who knows

Will try when I get back

[void owl]

Awesome! Let me know hermano!

[merry mountain]

https://suno.com/song/2591d012-4987-424c-a6b8-a59894be3cff
Song about missing Alife 2.0 in Stalker 2

[smoky stirrup]

not sure if my FModel is working properly. is the AES key the same for S2 1.0.0 as it is for 1.0.1?

[desert valve]

no

new mouse is here no more ghost scroll wheel

[crimson laurel]

yes

[desert valve]

do you still have the pakchunk16 laying around?

[cobalt hamlet]

Hey hello there 🙂

any breaktrough into the modding ? especially with locs stuffs ?

[lavish lichen]

I’m trying to see if I can get a localization auto merger made to make it easier on the user end

[merry mountain]

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

[desert valve]

thanks, do you happen to know how to manipulate settings for the test build? i want to change my input.ini but it doesnt respect the same AppData folder as the shipped game?

[smoky stirrup]

i just checked it and it was the same. dunno what youre saying.

[desert valve]

hm, im sure someone had an issue because it changed, maybe im misremembering

[vital coyote]

great video, think i heard they are working on a s2 video soon

[merry mountain]

idk

[crimson laurel]

they dont use much of nanite tho

from what i know of

[desert valve]

you cant even open two separate projects in unreal?

[merry mountain]

your pc would explode and open a blackhole to another universe

[azure mortar]

https://tenor.com/view/future-ram-ranch-gif-18120355

the world with working jsonasasset plugin

[spark plinth]

No kidding

[desert valve]

cant even get my widget to render anymore 😄

[frozen orchid]

any difference between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3?

[desert valve]

nah, they just patched for the fun of it /s

[azure mortar]

from a video ive seen less vram usage, but idk

[azure mortar]

lmao 💀

[frozen orchid]

i meant regarding to mods

what does it afect

which ones get broken

[spark plinth]

None

[desert valve]

i know 😄 they changed some configs but my mods all still seem ok

[frozen orchid]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/664

[summer silo]

If you disable nanite weapons stop looking like weapons

[half willow]

[warped minnow]

Ello I need some help, I created a mod pack and I been testing it and trying to get all of the mods that i have inside it to work properly I got most of them working but the GOD DAMN A-LIFE MODS never seem to work and couple small mods don't work either, Would anyone have some tips or advice or even help me out with all the issues I would appericate it

[hallow sand]

So a lot of it is broken, I've had it working one time, then zone is dead silent, I can't figure out wtf it is.

I manually mashed the best a life mods together and tweaked some stuff myself and i think i'm getting someplace. But it's so fucky

[warped minnow]

Same I been trying to figure it out as well, I tired different A-Life mods to see if they worked SAME SHIT, I don't know if it's the load order or the mod just does not wanna work

[hallow sand]

I know it's not load order for me, I resorted to manually getting my shit together, an now I have a small mod pack that semi works, I tested a mod forExi and some of my changes bled through, had a pack of like 10 wild dogs assault me lmao

[merry mountain]

Alife was just your imagination all along #╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message

[warped minnow]

I noticed that the load order seems to effect the mods by a mile, this might be a shit example but I have like 200 to 300 mods installed for fallout no matter where the mods load order is they work fine

[hallow sand]

No no, it was the friends we made along the way.

[vernal prawn]

is there a mod that removes the detection indicator?

[hallow sand]

Yes but i also used the base game settings for that

[warped minnow]

Yes i think

[merry mountain]

sorry i traded them in for artifacts

[hallow sand]

Oh we remember 🙂

https://tenor.com/view/kill-stab-thinking-arya-got-gif-14033550

[warped minnow]

Would anyone be down to test ma mod pack and see if they can find issues that i can fix

Also i heard that merging mods makes them work properly and fixes conflicts ???

[hallow sand]

Yes but don't do too many at once.

[warped minnow]

Yea figured you get even more conflicts lmao

[hallow sand]

Ive had like 100% success when doing 1 to 1 merges and some 1 to 1 to 1 ones

but i stupidly did my whole folder and yikes lmao

[warped minnow]

hahaha

[twilit scroll]

can someone mod in the MGS5 smoking for time pass as a mod, with the music and actual ingame time skipping

[hallow sand]

gopnna jump ingame and see if my a life stuff is up, if it works ill send you my mod pack and you can kinda see what's in it.

[warped minnow]

Like when it comes to modding I know what I am doing but trying to slove issues becomes a PAIN in the ass 😭

[hallow sand]

And a joint replacment for those of us ganja enjoyers

[warped minnow]

Aight

[hallow sand]

I'm learning to mod and problem solve XD

[warped minnow]

https://next.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/collections/yovclx

this one is mine

[hallow sand]

gamma got me into it in the first place so it's funny im back here

[warped minnow]

same

hahaha

[hallow sand]

we got a lot of the similar ones

[warped minnow]

Oh really

https://tenor.com/view/bruh-gif-17563483835665589874

[hallow sand]

I'm using a lot of those regular ones ( non hardcore ones) and ive made my own difficulty.cfg on mine, still working on the kinks though.

I was also using roadside panic

[warped minnow]

i keep switching between shays and panic

[hallow sand]

But it seemed to break not last update but one before, so I manually merged their suicide version and Shay's living A life

[vernal prawn]

didn't know! thank you

[warped minnow]

but none of them wanna work but I when i see streamers having shays working makes the game more alive and playable

[hallow sand]

Did you stay in one spot for a lengthy time?

once you do that, it becomes lively again.

It's cause of the new way they spawn, won't be in front, only behind. So if you don't stay in one area to let it sort of "catch up" it kinda stays empty

[warped minnow]

No cause I been trying to make the day pass for shays to work but I can't tell if it will work and not

[hallow sand]

Yeah try sitting in one random location, an you should start to get some things going on.

I was fucking with mods in note++ and had the game running and started getting fucking clobbered

[warped minnow]

With this one, i know it's a lot to ask but you would be alright to point out which mods I should get rid of that doe the same shit ???

[warped minnow]

LMAO

I wish that happened to me

[hallow sand]

Here, check dm's in a sec. I compressed my lil mish mash of mods to send. you can test it out, and then you can compare the alife settings with your stuff if you'd like

[warped minnow]

yes please

[spark plinth]

Just in case, if I get answers:

#1313936931431649421 message

[desert valve]

@magic geyser we figured out the "invisible" widget

and by we mean i mean Pamplemousse

[hallow sand]

Check DM's, just be prepped, there's a lot XD

Like of enemies, hen you run into em.

Also i had to redownload my main menu changer, the new updatem essed that up

[magic geyser]

What was the issue?

[desert valve]

me

following the tutorial i decided "what the fuck is BulkChunk, Manual sounds good for now"

[spark plinth]

[desert valve]

and then i proceeded to not set the chunk for the widgets

only the blueprint

which is why it worked but never rendered shit

[spark plinth]

Awesome you figured it out

[desert valve]

i didnt, Pamplemousse came to the rescue (not mentioning him to not bing him again)

[low pendant]

@frozen anvil Could you make the same file for the voices, please? 👉👈

[drifting tapir]

Im unable to replace consumable prototypes with refurl and refkey

[arctic patrol]

Giga chad moders special request incoming, can you increase the size of bandit booty on npc models by 200%? In addition can you make soiled underwear a loot-able drop from bandits?

[drifting tapir]

in custom cfg in itemprototypes folder

   SID = Bread
   EffectPrototypeSIDs : struct.begin
      [0] = BreadHealing1
      [1] = BreadSatiety2
      [2] = RemoveDrunkness10
      [3] = VolumeRadiationAddOnce
   struct.end
struct.end

if this replacer worked, it would give bread a radiation effect (+25 rad points)
But im unable to make it work. New item added through the cfg work fine - i can add a "bread2" to th game, while Im failing to replace the item itself

[pale idol]

is it possible to just edit a cfg or some other text file to make scopes able to be fit on different guns without having to touch 3d modelling?

[spark plinth]

… what the actual heck?

[pale idol]

https://tenor.com/view/f15e-droping-gbu12-gif-4412475547722831009

[drifting tapir]

weird. I managed to make it work now.

All i did was separate my mod into two cfgs, with one cfg adding new consumables and the other cfg replacing items in game

[indigo jolt]

Guys, anyone knows how to change the number of cartridges you get from single ammo pack found in the world?

[desert valve]

anybody happen to know how i import one of the game header files into UE?

[drifting tapir]

even weirder - the replacer doesnt work if it is not named a specific way.

it works when the file name was ConsumablePrototypes_Custom.
It did not work when the file name was Conner_ConsumablePrototypes

Now testing with file name ConsumablePrototypes_Conner

[drifting tapir]

yep it works

[unique prism]

are there any a-life experts in here? do we know what exactly breaks quests and settlements when editing a-life?

[merry mountain]

you just need to manually edit **thousands **of cfg files
all loose loot is configured in ~80.000 cfg files that just have uids as name
Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData\SpawnActorPrototypes\WorldMap_WP

[indigo jolt]

Thanks, that's what I was suspecting. I'll see if I can automate it.

Hopefully we will be able to script these things later at runtime.

[vital coyote]

you will find alot of discussions on that here https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1310377824007491584
https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1311758650733236335

[merry mountain]

they are also not sorted by region

everthing is just in one folder

😄

[indigo jolt]

I don't care about it. I just want to globally reduce loose loot, either removing objects or reducing their "quantity".

[merry mountain]

You can use this to sort them into Folders corresponding to regions you define
#1310014674267541545 message

[indigo jolt]

It's just a matter of writing a script for mass modification based on some preset, then running this script whenever new update comes up. Unless a better approach is found.

[mild fable]

Is there a mod to have a "money item" ?
I would like to evaluate how hard it would be to create something duplicated from the blueprint USBs, that once you loot you earn something (in this case, coupons) and the item disappear

[indigo jolt]

Usually such mods are made with runtime scripts. There's this ue4ss thing that supports some kind of Lua scripting, but I don't know much about it.

[drifting tapir]

Unfixable without source code

1. game has no de-aggro mechanic. Enemies do nto reset aggro until despawned
2. Quest hubs will lock when player is being aggro-ed, and quest npcs may either not spawn or be stuck in aggro state, therefore being unable to deliver quest dialogue.
3. Game occasionally does not reset npcs and hubs after aggro ends, causing a softlock state until player reloads the game.
4. Outside of this aggro issue, Director alife spawns might possibly block quest npc spawns, although this issue is unverified and unreplicated, since vanilla game itself has issues with missing npcs regardless of alife tweaks

[indigo jolt]

Another problem is I guess those thousands of spawn records are "executed" at new game and then stored in save games, considering that the game seems to persist the state of every location you visited.

I wonder if it is done for the entire world or just the region (or section of region) as you're entering it for the first time?

[unique prism]

oh i guess this makes sense, never seen a de aggro

[drifting tapir]

this is unfixable because it is a nested set of interactions in the vanilla game itself.

So it is not so much that alife tweaks actually break quests, but it makes vanilla game issues so much worse.

like the game literally relies on the 80m despawn distance to prevent quests from being broken, since there is no de-aggro at all

[indigo jolt]

The level designers at GSC were crazy generous with 12ga buck placement.

[unique prism]

this game really need an SDK

[frozen orchid]

Soon tm

[indigo jolt]

Flashlight distance is not in any CFG's I assume? Otherwise someone would already uploaded a mod for it

[vital coyote]

i increased mine with the flashlight editor but its loaded with the modloader as a blueprint so im not sure how it works

[indigo jolt]

How to change ammo weight? Editing value in AmmoPrototypes didn't work

[sinful cypress]

AmmoPrototypes is correct, I am pretty sure

[merry mountain]

there is a mod, you need ue4ss to uuse it

[sinful cypress]

Wait, there was an ammo weight mod, take a look at the cfg it edits

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/45

[mortal lantern]

Have there been anymore huge breakthroughs on the mod making department as of lately?

[desert valve]

i rendered a string in Stalker 2 with a blueprint mod, which, i would argue, is the biggest breakthrough yet /s

now i even rendered an array of strings

although it does not fit the screen yet

you can see we are making great progress here

[celest cliff]

just picked up a new threadripper cpu and im looking to tank the system with some over the top "a life" spawner

[ripe flame]

WIP UI Overhaul progress. PDA screens.

[frail plover]

Good stuff!

[slow lake]

Hey everyone, I wanted to change the mag capacity for the Gambit, so I made another magazine, and kept the extended mag the same, if I drag and drop from inventory it works fine, but if I use the quick attachment menu it doesn't change the mag and the gun will stop working until I take it out again, any idea how to fix that?

[arctic monolith]

looking amazing! glad you're sorting it out

[cloud aspen]

It wasn't a few hours ago

[half willow]

That "second" took a while, but here it is:
https://github.com/herbatka/ZubrCaliberChange

[desert valve]

what is the blueprint equivalent to this UE4SS lua code? FindFirstOf("InventoryNew") 😄

[hallow sand]

NP I was helping someone with some questions anyways 😄 Cna't wait

[proper grove]

Any mod that allow inventory check when sitting at campfire?

[hallow sand]

can this remake the tree and add seperate things even without a slot or is it still stuck at that range?

[half willow]

Well, theoretically you could add your own slots, maybe I'll play around with that in the future.

[hallow sand]

I'm about to play around nowq lmao

[hallow sand]

I assume it still can't attach something without a skeletal slot right?

[half willow]

Don't think so, not really my cup of tea

[hallow sand]

I'm still gonna fuck around and find out XD

[half willow]

That's the spirit

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/695
Just released it 😉

[hallow sand]

downlaoded so I can endorse 😄

[indigo jolt]

Which one? I have the one that adds shadows

[merry mountain]

oh its not ue4ss

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

[nimble cypress]

what tool do i use too unpack paks?

[merry mountain]

repak for example https://github.com/trumank/repak

[indigo jolt]

I put my AmmoPrototypes.cfg in the wrong folder, that's probably why it didn't work.

[hallow sand]

This is fucking amazing

[half willow]

[hallow sand]

Hey guys, I fucking did! I got a site on the top of the DROWNED AK!

[half willow]

[twilit compass]

Cursed

[north wasp]

I see no issues there

[hallow sand]

If I can get the name of the socket where the rear site is, we might be cookin

[spark plinth]

I might have a breakthrough on adding sockets sometime this week

You’ll be the first to know

[hallow sand]

Oh shit.

That's fantastic news

I'm gonna give it a go with herbata's thing

too

[warped minnow]

https://tenor.com/view/omg-oh-my-god-wow-gif-11411674

[hallow sand]

They have prefab building assets in their files, we will be able to add stuff pretty fast with sdk

[warped minnow]

Nice

i'm still struggling to get this load order done right

😭

[slow lake]

Hey, since you have more experience with attachments, did you had any issue with the quick attachment menu not switching your attachments?

[broken forge]

Is there an sdk coming?

[hallow sand]

no on just for future

Or well I mean there are tools coming yeah

I just dunno when

[lusty sail]

Any new progress in UI editing or mimicking it with pseudo blueprints? Or some other news with UI modding?

I’ve tried to edit some, but was failed…

[spark plinth]

Yes, the issue is that the animation references are on a separate file (I haven’t really looked into it yet I want to resolve the sockets first). We could assign existing animations match the scope and grips you add to a gun that didn’t have one for it. For example, if I copy paste the under barrel shotgun socket into the 416 that doesn’t have one. At least it will be in the correct spot. Then I will reference the correct animation to work with it.

[spark plinth]

https://tenor.com/view/skeletor-one-day-mad-pissed-gif-16945426

[slow lake]

Thanks, that's what I was thinking, but I been unable to find the animations references. It still works if you drag and drop the mag on the gun, so I'll leave it as that for now

[merry mountain]

in 3 - 6 months maybe

[warped minnow]

I don't understand how this game is being so difficult with the load order makes no sense

[spark plinth]

I suggest to follow my mod thread. I will tackle animation right after Sockets to keep you posted.

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

[slow lake]

I'll follow, I was just trying to fix the Gambit magazine capacity and I don't want to destroy anyone's game

[hard briar]

Hey is load order determined by alphabetical order? Also anyone recommed using some mod manager?

[spark plinth]

Believe it or not, Steam cloud saving after a crash due to a mod breaks people’s saves more than they realize.

Turn that thing off and your saves will be saved more. Pun intended

[broken forge]

thank you chad question answerers

[spark plinth]

zzzzz at the start, that’s it

[hard briar]

so the z's make it load later?

[spark plinth]

Yes

[merry mountain]

yes alphabetical

[spark plinth]

Ask here

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1312273909722251335

[lusty sail]

Isn’t it just ui texture editing?

I talked about manipulating UI widgets, not textures, thought maybe someone figured out how to edit widgets or add new, cause with ue4ss I just found how to change vector2 and opacity of widgets with live view but it’s not enough.

Also tried your method with JSON renaming to uasset with widgets, but game don’t want to startup after that 😂

[clear mountain]

@half willow so how did you make technicians upgrade what you made?

[supple hare]

I invite everyone interested in how ballistics and damage work in this game to check out this https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1314012739173093490

[desert valve]

before we go to bed tonight, let's pray for all the poor people who earn their living with unreal engine & visual studio
may their lives be short, so that their suffering may end
amen /s

[foggy hinge]

Has anyone made a syntax extension with VSC for CFG files yet?

[thick sinew]

do the mods in nexus need to be in the same patch as of right now or can i just go oonga boonga?

[hard briar]

Hey so i was going through Jakes Modified Zone and noticed one of the time and wieght optional files had ALifeGridVisionRadius in Core Variables decresed, which I thought is weird. Im not sure if this is a bug given I am very new to modding. Anyone know what is going on?

[half willow]

NPCPrototypes edit, you gotta start a new game for it to work tho 😦

You can check it out here: https://github.com/herbatka/ZubrCaliberChange

[lusty sail]

Syntax is called Property or Properties

[foggy hinge]

It's not the right syntax though, basically.

It doesn't identify struct.begin/ends and comments.

Also some other things and whatnot

[lusty sail]

Notepad++ do exactly what you described, vsc in my case works perfectly

[foggy hinge]

It works fine for the most part but errors and correctios won't show up for improper syntax and proper opening/closing structures.

It's still not the right syntax for this use case though.

[half willow]

Yeah, for some reason mine treats ; as comments instead of //

And it pisses me the fuck off

[foggy hinge]

Yup, my exact reason why I asked if anyone made a proper syntax extension for it yet LUL

[clear mountain]

so new game was the key...

[half willow]

I don’t think that anyone will bother with that, the cfg files seem to be generated by UE after you create shit in their gui

[clear mountain]

very sad it is

[half willow]

So no one really ever interacts with the .cfg files directly

Unless you’re us and you don’t have the sdk

[hard briar]

wait theres a better way than notepad++

[bright wasp]

Prob a dumb question but even/when the SDK comese out would it still make sense to know C++ or Blueprint?

[half willow]

It will make even more sense

Basically the entire code for structs is meant to be written in c++

At least that’s what I saw when researching structs online

But it seems rather easy

No advanced c++ knowledge needed

[bright wasp]

Basically completly new to programming, would i be shooting myself in the foot by leaning more into Blurprints over raw code?

Structs?

[half willow]

Code structure is what it is

[hard briar]

yea its a concept in c++

[half willow]

Used to keep data linked and shit

[hard briar]

wait their basically a class with public instance vars?

[bright wasp]

Gotcha. Makes sense.

[half willow]

Here it works kinda like an auto variable

They use it for everything and it also fucking drives me nuts

Oh you need an array? Struct.begin

Oh you need a single value? Struct.begin

Oh you need a 20000 line list of random ass variables? Struct.begin

[clear mountain]

me learning UE

quite simple it seems for now

[half willow]

Yeah that’s just simple c++

[foggy hinge]

We mgiht be using blueprints in the SDK

Well

[desert valve]

me learning UE: build, wait, start game, wait, load, wait, CTD, repeat

[foggy hinge]

Blueprints will be a optional choice, but C++ should generally be used for more advanced programming

[bright wasp]

what are you using to learn? have other programming experience?

[clear mountain]

I bought a UE book in local language(korean) and try to reproduce steps written in the book

[rare quail]

Fellas did anybody found line with value for the max pop-up distance of them loot dots?

[hard briar]

is there memory or time performance cost associated with this? Padding could be issue.

[clear mountain]

also have an bachelor in CS, if that helps

[willow monolith]

Is there a mod that allows weapon reloads to pickup where they left off?

[orchid carbon]

Hey guys I have this very strange bug that I fixed with no FOV zoom during ADS except for scoped weapons, I'm trying to see if there is some scoped weapon mod that could help me out. After doing Sircaa my ADS seemed to be rendering around 30fps but then once the animation finishes the render fps is normal. Unfortunately I played through Sircaa thinking it might fix its self but it didn't and now I have zero saves from before the bug occurred. If I make a new game the ADS bug does not occur and the animation runs at my raster fps. Can someone point me in the right direction to see where these zoom settings are and if there is a mod that could maybe help me out with this issue that remains for my scoped weapons?

[half willow]

Of course there is, they try to optimize it using bskipref but that causes issues when trying to refer to a nested struct

[foggy hinge]

Overwriting Game Values w/o Directly Editing CFG Files

A solution to anyone wanting to make edits to any .cfg file without even touching a single thing in those files, which retains full compatibility with other mods while implementing your changes. This is the solution I shared with Somber for Mutant Loot, which has proven to work.

You can make edits to existing cfg files without overwriting the existing cfg files by creating your own .cfg file, naming it whatever you want. Note that file names matter and there is some quirk that needs more looking into, but the current idea is that files are loaded alphabetically, so any following cfg file after will overwrite previous cfg files. I am not really sure if this is the case yet, but it seems to be that way. Ideally, just name your cfg file with the prefix of ZZZ_ to sort it last.

The way we can overwrite specific values is by creating a new structure copying the original cfg structure, then deleting and editing specific values you want to tweak. We need to specify the new structure to reference the original cfg file, along with its structure ID, which is normally the text right before : struct.begin, as in this example below, it is Blinddog. You should still place the files in the folder the file you overwrite originates from, but it is possible to reference cfg files outside of the files by using {refurl=../ObjPrototypes/Blinddog.cfg.

Blinddog : struct.begin {refurl=BlindDog.cfg;refkey=Blinddog}
   VitalParams : struct.begin
      MaxHP = 60
      RegenHP = 0.02
   struct.end
struct.end

After that, just pack your files up and install like any other mod, and profit. You now have tweaks made to cfg files without actually editing the games original cfg files.

[half willow]

bskipref basically skips any refer calls to the struct and returns 0 instead of the value it saves memory because the engine doesn’t have to keep it in memory. It’s basically read once and don’t change it kind of deal

[clear mountain]

I liked Herbata's approach where you put files in DLCGameData

[half willow]

You don’t even have to pak them

If you use my dlc method you can rip em as loose files

[foggy hinge]

Loose files works outside of your mod loader though?

[half willow]

Not for all files

[dreamy marten]

I'd love a mod that allows the player to get into cut areas, such as the Generators
or the CNPP

[foggy hinge]

Mm, it's probably best to just repak them then. But this method is just more simpler if you want to get straight into it and not have to rely on anything else.

[half willow]

Only for the ones that are In folders inside the gamedata folders, at least from what I’ve tried

[still dew]

Ok, how hard would it be to convince one of you to have medics stock like psi block and stuff

[clear mountain]

I'm working on to find whether traders can have 7.62 ammo or not

[half willow]

Buy me flowers and we’ll talk

[gusty forge]

Anyone can point me to database unpacker for S2? I really gotta fix traders having jackshit and having almost none of it aswell across the board and seems nobody made a mod about traders yet.

[clear mountain]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/482 is this what you want?

[gusty forge]

Damn i am blind i guess. Or more likely couldnt find anything through googling due to sheer amount of gaming journo trash posts.

I guess it will do, just was thinking for few seconds about how badly unbalanced its gonna be. Then again trekking across whole Zone just for one trader stops being fun the fifth time you do it (Red Forest dude lol)

[clear mountain]

anyone know how to unlocked the locked door via command input?

[half willow]

well not unlock but UETools_ghost works

and later UETools_walk to turn it off

[half willow]

There is a fast travel mod too

[lone lantern]

Does anyone has edited saiga to become full auto?

[gusty forge]

Anyone found mod or atleast file to edit to change that each anomaly spawns maxium of one artifact at the same time? Artifact farming is... painful tbh, especially given spawns are actually mostly random. Speaking of artifacts, anyone has a recommendation for any kind of UI mod that would show me current stats of my character? Really want to know how much the artifacts or pills actually help you 🫠

... and speaking of helping, max stat limit removal anyone?

[gusty forge]

Tempting, very tempting. If i have to go to Wild Island one more time, i am gonna start culling the population.

[clear mountain]

What's the measurement of FireInterval = 0.1?

is it second or tick time

[foggy hinge]

Usually never is tick I believe.

Intervals on a tick basis are very intensive on performance

So most likely seconds.

[clear mountain]

guess so, thanks

[finite bay]

any idea if its possible to remove the safe zone restriction some place's have that force you to put your gun down and not letting you shoot anyone inside it?

[unique flame]

Does anyone happen to know the abbreviation for the Spanish (LATAM) language?

[foggy hinge]

Pretty sure it's es

es-ES

es-ES: Spanish (Spain)
es-GT: Spanish (Guatemala)
es-HN: Spanish (Honduras)
es-MX: Spanish (Mexico)
LAS: Latin American Spanish

[unique flame]

Well, in the game, I think only two characters are used, except for the Chinese one, which uses three. I imagine it would be LAS.

[foggy hinge]

I think it would just be ES.

[rare ruin]

I am so glad to finally be finished with the first version of my mod holy, so many lines changed over the past week and a half.

[bright wasp]

Does it need to be a dupe of the whole file or just the structs you're modifying?

[bright wasp]

Are the two cloud covered areas the CNPP?

[foggy hinge]

Just the structs/variables you're modifying.

Blinddog : struct.begin {refurl=BlindDog.cfg;refkey=Blinddog}
   StaminaPerAction : struct.begin
      Crouch = 0.02
      Walk = 0.01
      Run = 0.015
      Sprint = 0.1
      Climb = 0.5
      Jump = 20
   struct.end
   
   VitalParams : struct.begin
      MaxHP = 6000
      RegenHP = 0.03
   struct.end
   
   MovementParams : struct.begin
      WalkSpeed = 600.0
      RunSpeed = 600.0
      SprintSpeed = 600.0
      ClimbSpeedCoef = 0.6f
      JumpSpeedCoef = 1.f
      AirControlCoef = 0.1f
      BaseTurnRate = 30.f
      BaseLookUpRate = 40.f
      AimTurnCoef = 0.8f
      AimLookUpCoef = 0.8f
      CrouchSpeed = 150.f
      LowCrouchSpeed = 100.f
      RunDiagonalBackCoef = 0.6f
      WalkDiagonalBackCoef = 0.6f
      WalkBackCoef = 0.6f
      RunBackCoef = 0.6f
      MoveBackCrouchCoef = 0.6f
      MoveBackLowCrouchCoef = 0.6f
   struct.end
struct.end

Here's an example.

[clear mountain]

Here's the Integral part which is redefining FireTypes referenced from TemplateSMG

so you don't have to bring all the structs from the reference but have to set all variables inside struct

[foggy hinge]

What differs this from just overwriting existing values is by specifying the new SID.

[dreamy marten]

yeup

im exploring the Generators area and seeing the amount of stuff, items, stashes, and paths in there, I am more and more disappointed in the amount of cut content from this area

there are items to loot, enemy spawns, beautiful scenery

I even found a unique armor!

[bright wasp]

@dreamy marten ||Generators are part of the main story||

I imagine the other two areas with the clouds are the DLC areas

[dreamy marten]

they barely are

||In the main story, Generators is nothing but a series of corridors with fights||

[bright wasp]

||True, the outdoor area before them is pretty cool where you need to run between the psi-storms but|| I agree. In general most of the labs feel pretty linear. A bit of a miss there.

[dreamy marten]

the actual area is nearly entirely cut content. There are ways through, two in fact, if you use console commands and some uetools ghosting

[haughty burrow]

how hard would it be to change some of the mods in the suggested mod list. I like some aspects of them, and dislike others. Would this be as simple as opening the mods in a text file and deleting some things? Im guessing not but i have no clue

[clear mountain]

How would load order work if we put mod files in DLCGameData?

[spark plinth]

The DLC method injects the load order as a reference, essentially only changes the specific lines you want changed. Making it possible to have some one else’s edits the same file, not necessarily the same lines.

I answered thinking you’re talking about Herbata’s DLC method.

It still functions alphabetically

[eternal sapphire]

I think its also important to be clear that this "DLC method" isn't the only way to have standalone mods, like @foggy hinge has talked about.

[iron steeple]

I wanted to ask:

1. What specific improvements have occurred in Lumen from 5.1 to 5.4/5.5?
2. How much has FPS improved?
   I watched a DF video half a year ago, and there was a pretty big difference (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ZZTlJt9K8).
3. How difficult and long would the process of transitioning such a large project as Stalker 2 from modified 5.1 to conditional 5.4 be?

[foggy hinge]

Megalights is being introduced in 5.5, significantly reducing the stress and resources needed for millions of lights in a single scene.

https://youtu.be/hzcsKvrF-Ho

5.5 also introduced some new issues, but there is also a lot more functionality and improvements over 5.1 with 5.4 and 5.5.

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/unreal-engine-5-4-is-now-available

With many developers targeting 60 Hz experiences, we’ve invested significant effort into improving rendering performance in UE 5.4; this includes refactoring the systems to enable a greater degree of parallelization, as well as adding GPU instance culling to hardware ray tracing, which also now benefits from additional primitive types and an optimized Path Tracer. Further optimizations have been made to shader compilation, resulting in a notable improvement in project cook times.

[clear mountain]

Does it work?

[spark plinth]

Like I mentioned in Yerts mod. The devs were rushed to update to 5 from 4 in a short notice. And now they are stuck trying to optimize a unique build of 5.1. Is it worth it to update to a later version of 5? Yes. Are they? Probably, but no time soon.

[foggy hinge]

Working fine with my mutant changes.

I'm still experimenting with a lot of stuff and figuring out new ways to work with these files.

[clear mountain]

I've made ZZZ_Penetration_Upgrades.cfg with a sample code

ArmorPiercingPos08Effect : struct.begin {refurl=EffectPrototypes.cfg;refkey=ArmorPiercingTemplate}
   SID = ArmorPiercingPos08Effect
   ValueMin = 0.8f
   ValueMax = 0.8f
struct.end

// UpgradePrototypes.cfg
GunPM_Upgrade_Barrel_1 : struct.begin {refurl=UpgradePrototypes.cfg;refkey=GunPM_Upgrade_Barrel_1}
   BaseCost = 3550
   EffectPrototypeSIDs : struct.begin
      [0] = ProjectileSpeedPos20Effect
      [1] = ArmorPiercingPos08Effect
   struct.end
struct.end
~```

but it doesn't work for me, though

[foggy hinge]

Are you overwriting an existing structure?

[clear mountain]

Yes, those are no new SIDs

[foggy hinge]

Remove the SID variable from the first one and see what that does.

[clear mountain]

ah, ArmorPiercingPos08Effect is new struct

other than that upgrades are not

[foggy hinge]

Mm, that's what I am still figuring out. I would separate the two structures and put them in their own cfg file under the same folder you're referring to in the refurl

Maybe see if that works?

[clear mountain]

gonna try that rn

[foggy hinge]

I'm still trying to figure out why my ADSFOVModifier values aren't overriding the default ones.

[clear mountain]

No luck, sadly

[foggy hinge]

It seems to be kinda picky on what it loads.

[clear mountain]

yeah

[merry mountain]

XOpenDoor DoorUID
XUnlockDoor DoorUID

[clear mountain]

oh thanks

[merry mountain]

for Hubs

XToggleHubDoors bLocked Radius

[clear mountain]

I just killed all the guards and it resetted the door state in malachite

[foggy hinge]

Does this work if you put these directly into the files themselves?

[clear mountain]

lemme check

it works after I remove refurl and appended this GunPM_Upgrade_Barrel_1 : struct.begin {refkey=GunPM_Upgrade_Barrel_1} BaseCost = 3550 EffectPrototypeSIDs : struct.begin [0] = ProjectileSpeedPos20Effect [1] = ArmorPiercingPos08Effect struct.end struct.end

so I guess it works if I put this directly

[foggy hinge]

Ah well yeah if you are making a completely new upgrade and effect you wouldn't need to use a refurl and refkey

[clear mountain]

nah you see I am modifying a existing upgrade

but somehow referencing the very cfg file with refurl makes game crash

but that's another story

[foggy hinge]

Ohh, okay.

[gentle sapphire]

Anyone know of a mod similar to groks economy fix that works with latest patch?

[foggy hinge]

Lemme see what I can do rq

[clear mountain]

these two are my cfg files, doesn't work with refurl starting with ./ or without

[foggy hinge]

So which part of this is problematic?

The entire thing, or something specific with the files?

[clear mountain]

Those are not able to be loaded, every single upgrades are not affected

[foggy hinge]

Oh, so also when the cfg files you are makign are in the same directory as the ones you're overwriting, they don't need the ./

[clear mountain]

I know, I tried without ./

[foggy hinge]

You just need to specify the file name.

Ah okay

My bad

[clear mountain]

np

[foggy hinge]

This is where the syntax extension for these would come in handy so I can see if there's any typos.

[clear mountain]

I've put all of these in original files to test them, and replaced refurl=UpgradePrototypes.cfg; to "" and it works

very weird isnt it

[sinful cypress]

You can make it the same way as I did with my Bandage Rebalance.
No need to make it complicated

[foggy hinge]

Huh?

This?

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/694

BC if so, yeah it's the same thing that's being done with these too.

[clear mountain]

I have a hypothesis, shouldn't I put these directly in GameData folder?

[summer silo]

You can

Refer to this video https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1309182885756145685/1313526956171591690/ohmygod.mp4?ex=67526f0e&is=67511d8e&hm=89359f5a3d0edd087276dddb93dd88cef128596521f1f4ad4fca1b9633804739&

[foggy hinge]

So loose files can be loaded.

Well that's really good to know

[summer silo]

Not all of them mind you, lol

CoreVariables can't be loaded like that for example

[spark plinth]

Some day, some day

[foggy hinge]

Mmm

So what limitation is there that we do know then with loose files? Just things not in a subfolder in GameData?

Or has anything else been tested other than CoreVariables in the root folder of GameData?

[summer silo]

https://tenor.com/view/doctor-who-dr-who-matt-smith-throne-shrug-gif-5136242

[clear mountain]

fuck you unreal engine or GSC who made this, I was right

This is the way I took, and it finally worked

[summer silo]

You're like, two days late to the party

[clear mountain]

well at least I now am at the party

[summer silo]

True dat

[sinful cypress]

Rant - Bandage Rebalance

[foggy hinge]

Ahh

Okay

Lemme check it out

[sinful cypress]

I am at work - no nexusmods allowed ^^

[foggy hinge]

So you're copying the entire effect into a new file and just overwriting the original one.

My concern with this way though is compatibility, since you're overwriting all of the changes from the original effect.

Anything loaded before your mod will be overwritten by this.

That's why I was looking into the way I am sharing since it is only editing very specific values.

[foggy hinge]

See if making these edits directly to the original files does anything

BC I can't even get it to work

[clear mountain]

I already solved it by making two subfolders named UpgradePrototypes and EffectPrototypes

[foggy hinge]

Ahhhh okay

Interesting to know that's the solution

[clear mountain]

with new cfgs putting them directly into GameData didnt work, interestingly

[sinful cypress]

Stalker2\Content\GameLite\Gamedata\NEWFOLDER\yourrenamed.cfg
this works

[clear mountain]

yeah that's how I did it

[foggy hinge]

Mm, so maybe just putting them in your own named folder works.

For organization

So like RagesMods

[summer silo]

https://tenor.com/view/phineas-and-ferb-i-know-what-were-gonna-do-today-i-know-what-were-going-to-do-today-gif-27359053

[clear mountain]

yeah, very interesting

[sinful cypress]

Thats how I do it, just the .cfg, no .pak

[clear mountain]

also packaging that works too

[half willow]

I couldn't get that to work myself, but maybe worth a revisit

[clear mountain]

AP1_1-4_Main\Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData\EffectPrototypes\AP1_EffectPrototypes.cfg
AP1_1-4_Main\Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData\UpgradePrototypes\AP1_UpgradePrototypes.cfg

this is my files and dir

[half willow]

yeah this should be fine

I tried \Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData\Herbata\herEffectPrototypes.cfg and \Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData\Herbata\herUpgradePrototypes.cfg and that wouldn't work

[ripe flame]

When I copy uassets to a new UE 5.1.1 project called "Stalker2" with exact same path, I cannot see them, and re-cooking gives an error ...".uasset has malformed tag".

How are you guys able to load original game files in UE?

[raw crest]

Is there a mod that disables emission starting and radiation sound from the mission notification, it threws off me everytime

[half willow]

I have an idea for a weapon upgrade mod and want to get your opinions,
I am thinking of making a mod that would add upgrade paths for low tier weapons, like the HK416, AK-74 or the AKS-74U.
These upgrade paths would make these weapons more useful in later phases of the game, offering similar stats to the weapons you get later on, like the G36/Kharod or Fora/Dnipro.

[foggy hinge]

IDK how adding new weapon upgrades will go but maybe.

[half willow]

Already got that under my belt

[foggy hinge]

If you can pull it off that'd be interesting to see.

[half willow]

Already did

[foggy hinge]

Does the upgrade tree dynamically adjust to new upgrades?

Like

So

[half willow]

yes.

[foggy hinge]

The AK74M has three barrel upgrades, it automatically shows a new upgrade properly?

[half willow]

yep

[foggy hinge]

Can you show an example, I wanna see this. I was actually curious to doing this myself and giving it a spin.

[half willow]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/695

there's a screenshot there

[foggy hinge]

Ah, well shit haha

Huh, nice.

Wonder what the limit is. 😅

[fierce kiln]

Whats up with the mod posting channel doesnt work?

[half willow]

Honestly I doubt there is any kind of hard limitation for it

You can probably just add as many as you want as long as they fit on the screen

[fierce kiln]

Nvm works now

That was wierd

Zone works in mysterious ways....

[half willow]

I was also playing around with making fully custom ammo as in new calibers

[foggy hinge]

Any luck there? I'm sure it's possible

[half willow]

Made a .50 Beowulf for testing but can't figure out how to make enemies spawn with the ammo

[foggy hinge]

Look at the ItemLootGenerators file

[desert valve]

any of the unreal engine crackheads in here know what this line means:

Add an InteractionType.h enum to engine space
from here: https://github.com/Kein/Stalker2

i was not able to add anything to "engine space" visual studio always choose to ignore it

[half willow]

Include "InteractionType.h" ?

[desert valve]

well yeah, but where do i find this engine space he refers to

[half willow]

no clue

[ripe flame]

Sounds fun. Make them available at mid game technicians and some parts requiring blueprints, that will be balanced approach.

[half willow]

Exactly what I was thinking

[ripe flame]

Btw, do you know the solution?

When I copy uassets to a new UE 5.1.1 project called "Stalker2" with exact same path, I cannot see them, and re-cooking gives an error ...".uasset has malformed tag".

How are you guys able to load original game files in UE?

[smoky stirrup]

damn there are some good and long ambient tracks up in \Stalker2\Content_STALKER2\Audio\WwiseAudio\Media.

this one pretty sweet 545382296.wem

[half willow]

no sorry chief 😦

[half willow]

What a catchy name

[desert valve]

why do the plum retextures not look anything like the fruit

what am i missing here

e.g. https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/668

[half willow]

Thats what the color is called by russians

[desert valve]

ohhhhh gotcha

[half willow]

Plums in Russia be different

[desert valve]

i was googling about other meanings for plum etc.

could not find anything xD

looks sick though

[ripe flame]

All black is much sexier

[spark plinth]

anyone can tell me what is the PX of this?

[half willow]

nah, I'm a sucker for the plum

also bakelite

[ripe flame]

I've created this template for myself

[ripe flame]

Use 1920x1080 as base

[spark plinth]

[ripe flame]

Rather, use this.

Gray area is a "only bg image" zone, so Nexus text is readable

[smoky stirrup]

anyone know a way to search multiple files at once in FModel? like "filename" "filename" "filename" "filename" etc.

[sand parrot]

Need a Romanian AK retexture

[spark plinth]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/709

[half willow]

beautiful

[hallow sand]

morning

We already have a multiplayer mod

WHAT THE FUCK LAMO

[spark plinth]

Where at???

[desert valve]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/708 very sus!!!!! would not recommend trying that out

[crimson laurel]

u cant download anyway

[hallow sand]

I live the fuck around and find out life bb

[crimson laurel]

no video proof no nothing

[quick heart]

It was only a matter of time, UE was made for multi

[crimson laurel]

??

[hallow sand]

I'm waiting for it to get out of quarentine then gonna see how legit.

[hallow sand]

I knew it would happen, just idndt think
THIS FAST LMAO

[proven talon]

Does anybody have any good resources to start mod crafting for stalker?

[sinful cypress]

Check the pinned

[proven talon]

Aaaaah the channel was hidden for me for some reason

Thanks!

[desert valve]

and this: https://rentry.org/TravesS2moddingBible

[drifting tapir]

Has anyone managed to add entries to effectprototypes.cfg with the refurl method? I cant make the refurl method work for cfg files directly in the gamedata folder (such as corevariables, objprototypes, and effectprototypes)

Any ideas? Maybe the effectprototoypes_custom.cfg has to be in a "effectprototypes" folder?

[drifting tapir]

Okay i looked up earlier chat files and it seems like making an "effectprototypes" folder is the way to go. Seems the problem is game wont read custom cfgs in gamedata file itself 👍

[arctic yew]

hey sorry but can someone help me with changing the load order for mods ?

[sinful cypress]

Sry, I use Vortex for this

[half willow]

Does changing the load order in vortex even work as of now?

[sinful cypress]

It works for me

[half willow]

huh

i wonder how it works

does it just change the names of the .pak files?

or does it do some kind of dark wizardry

[half willow]

nexus autoflagged it cuz it has a .dll in the archive

dude has to send an email to [e-mail] so they manualy review it

had it happen to me with the mod loader

[granite sierra]

Or it could just be sketchy af lol.

[clear mountain]

hope this helps ❤️

[hallow sand]

I've seen like 8 mods have this happen and they were all uploaded safely once nexus got back to em, an herbata's just had it happen too.

[drifting tapir]

Yeah this is great for my consumables mod.

i cant seem to get it to work on corevariables or ai globals tho

[sand vault]

I have another idea for a mod when SDK drops. Something to actually use broken weapons for. If you repair broken weapons and hand them out to stalkers, it'll build a reputation with them, and they will continue to leave items for you in your chest as you play the game after that. It'll start out as simple items, like ammo, medkits, psi blockers, etc. but eventually they might drop an artifact or even a weapon in your box for you. So it doesn't get messy, make it so you can only do this with a few NPCs at a time.

[half willow]

scav chest from tarkov basically

[arctic patrol]

why would random stalker not just steal your shit from your box

[arctic patrol]

Give the mod a 50/50 chance for them to steal your stash items

[worthy sparrow]

i'm having some issues packaging my mod in UE5

it's telling me i don't have the windows SDK required

googled that, downloaded the windows SDK, tried to force update inside UE5 but it still says i don't have it, like the log hasn't changed

[sand vault]

Why don't they now? It's sitting right there, after all.

[sand vault]

Yeah, that could be an option. The reputation system could work both ways, with the ability to hunt down stalkers who steal from you and get your stuff back.

Here's another idea I have, this one for gambling, dice and card games in the zone

[molten cargo]

What in the world am i reading

[proven talon]

Bro crafting up fallout in stalker

[steep ruin]

I just saw the multiplayer mod on nexus, what are the chances this isn't a virus, even if its not its weird to drop something big like that without even talking about it

[worthy sparrow]

they made their account today

[granite sierra]

Or it could just be a virus. It's uploaded by an empty account with no information, no release of code, nothing.

It's incredibly sketchy lol

[unreal glacier]

what's UE4SS

[topaz cape]

:D

[steep ruin]

The mod just got deleted

[merry mountain]

also the mod is not just under review, like some other mods that contain executables, it was deleted

[verbal patrol]

anyone know if theres been discussions of adding mask effects to the game?

[topaz cape]

has been done via reshade already

[verbal patrol]

or being able to move while having the backpack open

yeah i know but it doesnt detect the existing hud and is a weird overlay

[unreal glacier]

Ahh, I see, I should have been more thorough with my question to make it clear that I was hoping for a simpler explanation in the context of how it's being used in S2. I will endeavor to communicate more clearly in the future.

[granite sierra]

probably a bitcoin miner

actually another discord I'm in, someone looked into the files in a VMware, it scrapes data.

so surprise surprise, it's fake.

[wet vector]

Hello guys!
When i download a mod from nexus mods i need to unpack the zip or just move the zip to the folder?

[sand vault]

Follow the instructions on each mod description page.

Unpack what's in the zip/rar/7z and place it where the mod description page says to place it, typically in the "~Mods" folder within "\S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl\Stalker2\Content\Paks" but some mods go elsewhere.

[raw crest]

Does it work on Stalker 2, is it similar to extended scripting for Fallout games

[raw crest]

Take the .pak file (or other files) inside of the zip and put it to your "~mods" folder

[desert valve]

got https://github.com/Kein/Stalker2 to build (with help) btw, but cant package anyhing with it

same config works in an empty project, but not in there

[spark plinth]

We need the cooking encryption code. Which changes every update they make.

[desert valve]

o.O

didnt need anything like that before

why would i now? 🙂

[spark plinth]

They liked to be special with their unique 5.1 build.

[desert valve]

im confused

i could easily package my blueprints and load them

now i have project with a couple of c++ classes

why would it that be any different? 🙂

its not like i want the files in my mod anyway

[ripe flame]

How do you open vanilla exported uassets (from FModel) in UE project?

[little sluice]

What kind of assets?

[haughty burrow]

im trying to figure out the merge tool, but i dont see a way to open the run.bat with a text editor, anyone know what im doing wrong?

[ripe flame]

Any uasset

[little sluice]

You can't really, you'll have to export the asset (eg .png for textures) and then reimport them in UE5 and "rebuild" the asset by matching the properties of the original uasset

[desert valve]

had to turn on "cook everything", didnt have to do that before

but now it works

[little sluice]

Have you seen this guide? https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/262?tab=description

[spark plinth]

Awesome!

[ripe flame]

This works, yes, but I am working with UI and there are like 300 image files already being exported and tweaked. If I need manually check every image’s uasset content for settings and then manually apply them in UE, it’s a nightmare.
What I need is the ability to dump uassets into UE, so they keep their settings

Let me rephrase: has anyone managed to open Stalker 2 in Unreal Engine?

[little sluice]

Hmm well if it's UI I think you can just dump the images all in UE and not touch the asset settings, since they should all be default DXT1 images. You would still need to match the names and file structure of the UI images you want to replace, but you can do that in explorer

[ripe flame]

It’s already been done. I was asking about keeping uasset settings for exported files

UE does weird things to images on import. Random compression, random LOD properties, so you have to go through files manually

And half of the time just play guessing game of matching checkboxes with cfg values, which names sometimes aren’t even close

[cosmic ingot]

Does anyone here know if its possible to stop doors to hubs from locking while aggroed, and along with this, possibly remove the red threat texture from the compass. would it be in obj prototypes, im looking around.

[desert valve]

3 days of nothing but work and unreal engine and i finaly did something ingame except displaying text

what a journey

would not recommend

[drowsy pike]

reposting this from the stalker discord, anyone familiar with this? Google doesnt seem to have much on it happening to pak files

[vital coyote]

yee been taking a step back for now but figured i would take a ground up aproach when it comes to working with ue, found a tutorial that takes you step by step through making a small movie sceene. figured it would familerize myself with ue in genneral and give me a bit of what i would need for custom mutie's one day. (been wanting to bump my 2d art to 3d for years )

ue is deff a headache

[merry mountain]

use repak instead

[drowsy pike]

that works, thanks! just curious, does unrealpak have a history of not working for random pak files?