╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[hallow sand]

and just modify as I see fit

then save one

[half willow]

Yeah, that's exactly what merging is

[vocal jetty]

im not that deep into yet 😉

[hallow sand]

yeah but there's that merging and then the file merging

so I was explaining the method I like better.

[half willow]

I mean it is the better method, but I don't expect that everyone has the will to sit there and do it all manually when they can just have some tool do a semi decent job and call it a day

[hallow sand]

They're interfering after merge, the only diff between em is gonna be values

[half willow]

Respect tho, I defo wouldn't give enough fucks to sit through 50 .cfg files merging them manually

[hallow sand]

so it's not more than 2 minutes

[vocal jetty]

I think right now theres (hopefully) so many updates and patches coming that I try to keep it simple but I wont give up Ledge grabbing and other useful stuff

[hallow sand]

A lot of these values you can just go input yourself too.

[half willow]

Ledge grabbing is a must 100%

[hallow sand]

Like for ledge grabbing you can set the parameters yourself.

[vocal jetty]

yeah IF you know where to look and what to change you could do almost all mods yourself.. but thats not me 😄

[hallow sand]

Just dl the mod, open in fmodel and see what was changed, then do it for yours and keep copies so you can add later.

I can help ya sometime. it's super easy once you get the hang of it, this config modding at least.

[vocal jetty]

ah nice! thanks!

im still in my first run through so I try to keep it cleaned up as good as i can without losing my saves for the third time

thanks for the quick replies ❤️

[hallow sand]

NP we always like helping

[vocal jetty]

oh if we´re at it... you dont know the solution to my other problem on the fly?
Sometimes I keep getting weapons spawned in my hand... as if the system takes them from random dead bodies

[hallow sand]

lmao

that's game side

they have to fix that HAHA

It's mostly from ZOMBIES I hear

but not a clue

[vocal jetty]

oh NICE.. THATS S2 dev build! yay

yeah theyre mostly from zombs i guess...

out of nowhere.. havent even killed one lately... blam sniper rifle in main hand...

at least its not from my "modding" tries

first time i didnt realize it and sold my fully modded shotty - that was a bummer

[mighty maple]

Anyone saw anything about a freelook mod for s2 ?

I think that's the main feature I miss compared to anomaly

[crimson laurel]

theres freelooking, or my mind just blanking

[half willow]

UETools has a command for it I think

or UE4SS

[hallow sand]

^

Also a photomode

[winged hemlock]

New random stashes + itemisation 2.0 are great (flashdrive spawns always, this is a quest stash).

[kindred lotus]

wtf does this say lol

[high rain]

I can't find the original PDA map in the resources. With clouds and stuff that's on mapgenie and other sites. What's the path to it? It's NOT Stalker2/Content/_Stalker_2/maps/WorldMap/T_GLOBAL_MAP_BASE. Looks completely different.

[merry mountain]

The text in the image appears to be written in Cyrillic script and reads:
"Кто пришёл на химзавод — прийди в п-аку пусто"

Translated roughly to English, it could mean:
"Who came to the chemical plant — come to the empty p-a (possibly unfinished or censored word)."

[kindred lotus]

holy shit! i almost got it right

is the last word possibly vaccuum?

[merry mountain]

what should come to the empty vacuum mean tho

[kindred lotus]

idk. did you use AI?

[merry mountain]

sure not like i have a cryrillic keyboard or whatever to type and try to translate myself
also hard to read

[ripe flame]

You've got it completely wrong

[merry mountain]

the last part, в п-аку пусто also is not correct i think

it jumped from line 3 to 4 while missing a word

[merry mountain]

they could overlay the other stuff on the base map tho

they probably do that

because that makes the most sense

[high rain]

nah. the red forest looks completely different. different angle and color

[ripe flame]

This is Ukrainian, not just abstract "cyrillic", let's start from that.
It says "Хто прийде із Хімзаводу, (той) дрище в будь-яку погоду". This is a reference to a popular weather man on Ukrainian TV back in the days and translates something like this: "Whoever comes from the Chemical Plant, (he) is shitting in any weather"

Doesn't make much sense when translated, original is a rhyme and a reference, once again

[kindred lotus]

i thought they shared the alphabet

[ripe flame]

It's like calling English a latin

[kindred lotus]

Huh. but the letters are latin

[ripe flame]

So do you speak latin or English?

Come on

Don't play dumb 🙂

[kindred lotus]

i'm not saying that, i meant about the alphabet

[merry mountain]

it would still be written in latin letters alphabet

[kindred lotus]

im not saying the ukrainian language is cyrillic, just the alphabet

[merry mountain]

they are cyrilic letters so its not completly wrong and it obviously cannot get a reference to some ukrainian tv host, as most non ukraininans could not either

[ripe flame]

There are similarities, sure, but also there are different letters in alphabet

That's why it's not just a "cyrillic", there's a difference

[merry mountain]

so its better then just :: its some cyrillic nonsense i cant read

[kindred lotus]

oh interesting, didnt know that. now that i think about it there are special characters in spanish portuguese and german for example

so would it be something like that?

[merry mountain]

ÜÄÖß

die from my mighty german special chars

i still dont get why they hired british people for the english voiceovers

its so atrocious

[ripe flame]

Ukrainian alphabet has letters like I, Ї, Ґ, Є, apostrophe, and doesn't include letters like Ы, Ъ, Э that are present in russian

[kindred lotus]

playing it in the original VO is always better

wtf is this letter

[ripe flame]

Д (D)

[icy halo]

Kireina's Zone Enhanced taken down off nexusmods? should I stop using the modpack?

[ripe flame]

Most likely author didn't care about asking for permission

[ripe flame]

You can try Omega https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/367
Or MHM https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/88

These are manual overhauls, not just a bish-bash merge

[winged hemlock]

pussy

[magic shuttle]

any mods that lower controller barriers other than just wasting ammo?

[viral ruin]

Hey guys I uploaded the whole official soundtrack on YT and I'd like to complete it by uploading missing track (such as the one playing in the poppy field). Can somebody help me figuring out how to find the music in the game's files so I can extract it ? thanks

[ripe flame]

Soundtrack is shipped with Deluxe/Ultimate Edition, so I think GSC won't be happy about it.

[viral ruin]

I already uploaded the 50 tracks soundtrack, now I'm trying to find tracks that were missing from it, hence my question.

[ripe flame]

That totally changes everything!

[viral ruin]

Just tell me if you don't want to help

[vital coyote]

should totaly be accessible in Fmodle

not sure exactly what you would need but looking here may be your best bet then you would need to convert the audio

This should guide tells ya how to get into the game files with fmoddle, not to hard https://rentry.org/TravesS2moddingBible

go to 4 in the table of contents "Extracting Assets From Unreal Engine With Fmodle and what you need"

also entire game ost's have been uploaded all the time, worst case is studio may clame the vid and take AdSense but still a cool thing to have up there. good file hunting stalker 🙂 o7

[winged hemlock]

Anyone knows infoportion of weird water quest?

[foggy hinge]

How do you preview models in FModel?

[foggy hinge]

Also, your bible misspells FModel at the start.

https://rentry.org/TravesS2moddingBible#extracting-files-with-fmodle

[vital coyote]

i just double click the file if its something that can be opened in the viewer it will load and then pop up

[clear mountain]

yeah lol it says fmodle

[foggy hinge]

Weird, it opens up the raw data for me

[vital coyote]

lol thx ill fix it x)

[foggy hinge]

Ah, NVM I got it to open now

For some reason though my creature textures aren't proper XD

[vital coyote]

yeah i think its a crapshoot, pluss s2 uses virtual shader textures for alot of stuff.

but i open this as an example alot and its 50/50 i get a high rez looking modle or this ps2 ass thing

[foggy hinge]

LUL wtf yeah, probably just a limitation of FModel in that case.

[vital coyote]

yeah either way prob best extract and put it in something else but i personally haven't messed with that yet. just kind of playing though the vanilla game atm then i will mod the fuck out of it

[topaz mantle]

has anyone doen anything yet to try and change the HP ba colors? I'm colorblind and can't see it at all when it changes 😦

[vital coyote]

i feel that, some games i have no clue whats going on, no color blind specific mods rn what color hud would be best for you?

wouldnt be a rn thing but that would be a fun project to take on.

[topaz mantle]

white, blue, bright green, purple, basically anything lighter color that isnt red or brown for the hp bar

[vital coyote]

yeah im kinda the same but not that bad, for example i cant see the redots in BAS at all and had to lighten the ziver huds helth bar beacuse i couldnt see

what color would you prefer? could also send a screen shot so i can color pick if you like

[topaz mantle]

yeah huds are a huge pain for me, for instance i custom made a full monochrome hud for fallout 4 power armor just so i could see

[vital coyote]

thats dope 🙂 did you post it? stuff like that should deff be shared

[topaz mantle]

might have? its been ages since then lol

i forget what i have and havent poste don nexus over the years

just no clue how to go about doing that for this game sadly

[vital coyote]

haha all good, no promises but ill fuck with it a bit and if i get it working ill post on nexus. and @ you here

ue modding is deff a bitch and im still learning

ive been puting my notes up as a guid tho if you want to get into the game files and look arround

still need to tackle what ima try to do now, packing up asset files

[topaz mantle]

much appreciated 🙂

[vital coyote]

o7 np np, here is this if you want to dig arround yourself #╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message

[summer tartan]

yes, and some arent immortal just take 12 shotgun hits to kill

[elder pike]

Stalker 2 VR 2028?

[steel isle]

anyone else tried to use the Root Builder plugin for MO2 with stalker 2? just locks up MO2 for me and I have to terminate in task manager

[foggy hinge]

Is this common amongst others editing textures following this?

[summer tartan]

we can replace some ingame textures, right? the readable ammo mod replaces textures?

[supple shale]

Wait for Omega, it's just manual downloads of the honourable list? Would I have to download all of that or is it already in there?

[warm sky]

Anyone know where to find a stock Windows Engine.ini? Forgetted my USB key to mod when work is low 🥲

[sinful cypress]

Stock Engine.ini? Should be empty

[warm sky]

No the WindowsEngine.ini in the gamefile

[sinful cypress]

idk exactly what you mean, sry....
Only .ini files I know are located here and the "default" engine.ini is an empty file. (I dont know a WindowsEngine.ini for Stalker?)
user\AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\Config\Windows

[high rain]

I'm looking for it also. Stalker2/Content/_Stalker_2/maps/WorldMap/T_GLOBAL_MAP_BASE is low resolution (12951x12951), it's ugly and it doesn't look like an ingame map. If you try to screenshot the PDA its native resolution is about 2.5 times bigger, it's probably built in realtime from a bunch of 2d assets https://i.imgur.com/TMDep4c.jpeg

[foggy hinge]

Yes.

[high rain]

I stitched together a large number of map tiles I pulled from gamepressure co uk https://i.imgur.com/7Z4uP1Z.jpeg they probably screenshotted too because the real map is about 8 times larger (must be about 32x32k) I doubt anyone screenshoted and tiled full resolution from pieces. mapgenie looks slightly better maybe they went 16x16k. There's a chance a map is generated from gamecode rather than being an actual asset.

[frank summit]

Howdy stalker 🤠 are you also making an interactive map?

[high rain]

IDK maybe. I made fallout london and supraland, both maps in 3d with marker heights https://github.com/joric/maps/wiki/Fallout-London

[frank summit]

'cause screenshot maps are, unfortunately, the best bet. The code makes it seem like the pda map loads several separate Unreal engine scenes and sticks them together

The guy on Nexus mods put the tool he used in the description to get a 4x zoom map, but it took him 10 hours 💀

[high rain]

for now I'm just looking for weapon stats. want to figure out caliber changes and how many shots you really have to spend on chimera

[high rain]

what guy exactly? because this is pulled directly from resources with zero to none labor whatsoever https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/559 it's Stalker2/Content/_Stalker_2/maps/WorldMap/T_GLOBAL_MAP_BASE

[frank summit]

username "donnyjepp", his map is in the images section

[frank summit]

that guy pissed me off too lol changed the colour of the lines to white then asked for donations

this is the 4x zoom map he provided w/ some edits from me, it's pretty damn good quality!

(forgive the lack of pins - unlike mapgenie I'm a one man band 🫠 https://www.gamerguides.com/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl/maps/the-zone-map)

[high rain]

well I ran circles around mapgenie with https://joric.github.io/maps/fallout-london/

[frank summit]

Really impressed by the number of pins on that one for sure

All manual or did you manage to datamine some locations?

[high rain]

None manual rather. All automated. Going manual is a path for diminishing returns.

[frank summit]

Hot damn

Great work

[high rain]

where you get spawn points in stalker 2 resources?

[frank summit]

spawn points for what?

[high rain]

for items. I usually scan through umap for blueprints as in supraland but those guys love using their own data

[frank summit]

ah, I leave the datamining stuff to a friend 😂 more familiar with Unity personally

[high rain]

There are a few markers in MarkerPrototypes.cfg and probably SpawnActorPrototypes but the vast majority is probably still in umap as blueprints. It's just easier to use built in UE map layout rather than something else.

I mean when you add more items on the final stages of development you'd rather just put it on the map in the UE editor than bother with your own formats.

Must be umap and blueprint classes.

[frank summit]

Yeah. I'm sure the devs are busy but I hope they do a GDC talk or QnA to explain how they actually did the map, it's quite an interesting implementation

[high rain]

ok found it! https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/images/111

[frank summit]

Great! I sent some emails back and forth with the guy to get the 4x zoom map, he's really nice

[high rain]

shit it's webp probably recompressed twice

i mean it gives me riff header curl https://staticdelivery.nexusmods.com/images/6944/107085-1732914306.jpg -o 2.jpg

should ask the guy to do 8x )

ingame resolution is much higher really

"Made from about 50 tiled screenshots" poor creature

[frank summit]

I'll try and find the Google drive link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SuOlOrhC8WcjEHx3NBKegrXFIGu3QHLl/view?usp=sharing

3x zoom map with some of the extra clouds cropped out. watch out tho, he left a few icons in the starting area

[high rain]

i'd much rather not crop anything but those clouds are mostly noise. can be upped to square with content aware fill

looks like you sharpened it here https://www.gamerguides.com/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl/maps/the-zone-map and probably upscaled too? I tried upscayl but it fails on 8k images

ok not upscaled just sharpened a bit

by the way screenshots could be better without DLSS/whatever. actually the whole game is like blurred. I remember moving one of the DLSS sliders (Sharpness?) and suddenly the game doesn't look blurred anymore

it's rather their own "postprocessing". With 50% sharpness it looks blurred.

[summer silo]

All AA solutions in the game look blurred because they all are based on TAA (Temporal Anti Aliasing)
It creates a smear on the screen that has no purpose in life other than hiding crappy shader end results, Lumen noise, and Nanite LOD noise.

[crimson belfry]

WIth 66% DLSS sharpening you'll end up with shimmering grass though

Your best bet (in any game actually) is to disable any sharpening and use a decent sharpening shader via reshade

[summer silo]

Not recommended.

From personal experience adding sharpen from reshade quite literally costed me like, 15fps on average.
On a fucking 4080 Super

Something about stalker 2 does not like reshade
Or maybe it was just my PC, configuration, who knows

[real marsh]

hey guys, dumb ass question, but how you guys find and how hard is it to change certain textures in game, example weapons, clothes and tools. i have certain experience with changing fo4 and skyrim textures

[raw crest]

Why not Nvidia sharpen filters?

AMD has one in its software as well, doesn't cost fps

[raw crest]

https://rentry.org/TravesS2moddingBible

Check this maybe you can find something,

Then #╟⚒stalker2™-mod-resources

[covert radish]

Hi 2 question, where can I change stamina regeneration delay after sprinting jumping etc? And is it possible to change what and how many items spawn on the ground? If yes which cfg?

[summer silo]

NVIDIA's solutions dont work in borderless

[amber halo]

Hey, can someone explain to me what means AlternativeEffectPrototypeSIDs ?

What this list contains?

[merry mountain]

items on the ground are split into ~80k cfg files, not all of them are items tho, but its still thousands or tens of thousands of individual cfgs that contain the loose items
pakchunk0-Windows\Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData\SpawnActorPrototypes\WorldMap_WP

[jaunty cloak]

hi guys sorry im new but is some one making a mod were it adds some 7.62x39 wepons? (outside of the already in game pkm)

[covert radish]

80k? 💀 well I guess I don't have that much time

how about stamin regen delay tho?

I'm either blind or it's neither in corevariables or objprototypes

[merry mountain]

thats somewhere in a file, not sure in which one right now

[covert radish]

nvm i think i found it

lemme test if it works

modding support can't come soon enough really

I'll finish the game rn, i fixed most of stupid things with mods but item spawns are still stupid af

hopefully this can be fixed before i want to replay

[merry mountain]

modding support wont help you with that as it does not change how the loose item spawns work

you would still need to sift through thousands of cfgs

and they are also not sorted in any way

[covert radish]

it might give tools to change it faster tho, no?

oh well

[merry mountain]

i wrote a script which lets you mark zones on the map and export it to json

[covert radish]

maybe they can do it then

[merry mountain]

that way you can filter them at least based on approximate location

[covert radish]

ok I'll check it out if i'll ever try to change this shit

[merry mountain]

right now it transfers all cfgs in that folder in a certain location to another folder

that contains also anomalys and other stuff tho

[covert radish]

do you know if it'd work on linux?

[merry mountain]

but you can easily add a filter to just do that to specific items / types

[covert radish]

ok nice good to know

[merry mountain]

with regex

on linux

idk

the tool for creating the zones and exporting to json is just a HTML page which you can download and use yourself

[covert radish]

could you give me a link to it so i can save it for later?

[merry mountain]

the script for sorting is powershell, so either install powershell or throw it into chatgpt and convert to bash or python

HTML & Script : #1310014674267541545 message

[real marsh]

thanks

[covert radish]

still stupid fast

[covert radish]

thanks

[crimson belfry]

1-2% performance loss max at 4k with e.g. qUINT or iMMERSE sharpening.fx

I have never lost 15fps due to a sharpening reshade shader

[crimson belfry]

In the case of STALKER 2 you have to disable the generic depth buffer in reshade since it's massively fucked for whatever reason. If you don't do this, you'll loose performance without using any .fx just by running Reshade itself.

[summer silo]

Good to know

Is there even if I don't use addons?

[high rain]

could anyone with stalker <= 1.0.2 rip the PDA map texture? I'm trying free NinjaRipper (old version) but it doesn't support dx12 and it seems that 1.0.3 doesn't support dx11 anymore. the texture is not in resources, it seems rendered in a game

[crimson belfry]

Yes, just by installing Reshade itself.

[safe dirge]

Хто прийде із Хімзаводу дрище в будь-яку погоду

whoever comes from Chemical Plant shits liquid, whatever the weather is

[summer tartan]

in WeaponData\WeaponGeneralSetupPrototypes.cfg:
TemplateWeapon : struct.begin
//Base info

does this actually affect anything? if I change templates, would that apply to every gun in the game that doesn't overwrite the template?

can you turn that off?

even just looking up and down outside, drastically changes the brightness

[unreal glacier]

Could someone help me understand this

I was trying to do a merge. Does this mean the resulting merge file is no good?

[sinful cypress]

it seems, this .pak with this specific name already exists?
If you are sure, you dont need it anymore and do anyway a new merge, delete it from ~mods folder

[unreal glacier]

I don't have 2 of the same name though

I'm confused

[unreal glacier]

Now I'm getting this

I wasn't getting this before and have no idea why

[indigo beacon]

got a ping here?

[indigo beacon]

BRO YOU ANWSERED TO MY ANCIENT COMMENT LMFAO

[summer tartan]

correct

it was a good comment. need to get rid of that auto brightness

[indigo beacon]

anyway low graphics moment

[summer tartan]

low or high doesn't make a difference

[indigo beacon]

anyway time to wait 20 mins for first time launch shaders (got it on steam now in ultimate preorder from my friend)

[sinful cypress]

Ask the modauthor

[unreal glacier]

I don't think they're in the discord

[summer tartan]

I changed ADS to 0.2s

It's nice

[ripe flame]

Judging by Nexus, looks like first phase of Stalker 2 modding is over (which is chaos and repetition), and we are entering phase 2, which is structuring. Can’t wait for a polish phase, and especially for massive content quality increase when SDK will be available.

[prisma nebula]

Any mod that unlocks all attachments for all the guns ?😭

[lusty sail]

Finally 3-days brainstorm to figure out how to parse cfg's with nested arrays (still need to understand how to parse [*] = ... arrays in structures) and can preview items, consumables, artefacts, weapons. But this still all ItemPrototypes files and structures.

Now maybe need a few days to create features to edit and save back to cfg files and then do some effects editor for items.

[foggy hinge]

Good stuff! This is looking really fantastic!

[ripe flame]

Looks nice, yet to avoid future rewriting, keep in mind it’s best to save only changed items as a standalone cfg that uses refurls (if editing vanilla), and to have ability to directly edit this standalone cfg.
But I guess refactoring is unavoidable as always 🙂

[lusty sail]

No, for sure I want to give possibility create items based on references, to be clear, I want make creation menu with refurl or refkey selecting and adding-deleting properties based on refs to the new item and then it will create new item.

Of course user can save whole file that he opened to review 😄

Or edit it using property fields

Save button for now it's just windows save dialog that save file where you put it by yourself with your own name

[ripe flame]

Gotcha. Well, you are doing great job. Will be an essential tool.

[foggy hinge]

Making a system to create new items definitely shouldn't be hard especially if you have all the variables and structure setup to do it.

I'm very excited to start using something like this myself since I'm doing a lot of new items and whatnot

[lusty sail]

yeah, it's the fundamental basics that I need to achieve now, because I 5 days fucks with my brain to parse all kinds of cfgs with different structures, nested and not nested

Just transfroms all that mess into json

Edit it in tool like json objects and save again like cfg structures (need to refactor, broken for now)

[foggy hinge]

So I'm curious now, since you're basically making something to read these files, could that be made into an extension for something like Visual Studio Code?

[lusty sail]

Hope it will be better than switching between ton of cfgs. messing around with huge amount struct.begin and searching path to icons 😄

Also, upgrades in upgrade tree can be placed in configs?

Because maybe I can do some visual stuff for that after making this item editor

[foggy hinge]

I think?

Might have better luck asking https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1312992178896633926 directly

[summer tartan]

if you can really pull off making such a tool, it should be a full-fledged mod manager, and people should design their mods to be compatible with it
imagine if you could pick and choose mods like reshade, using checkboxes

90% of "mods" for the old games were just modpacks that modify files, without telling you what they modified in those files = resulting in 90% of mods being incompatible with eachother, for no good reason
better to break mods up into individual files and lists of changes
eg. instead of "ultimate weapons pack blabla", you'd have a weapon skins checkbox, a weapon SOUNDS checkbox, and then a series of checkboxes for weapon stats to dynamically generate weapon-relevant files (don't let mods overwrite those commonly-used files on their own)

[foggy hinge]

I don't think making it a mod manager would be a good idea. There is my plugin which does this exact stuff with MO2. You also have Vortex but we don't acknowledge that one.

[summer tartan]

i see this is a different tool, so i guess i meant something different but yeah

[lusty sail]

Too hard and complex for me, mod manager not my skills 😅
I can create some gui staff for things that I understand how it works, but mod managers and all that big data programs is out of my skills and imagination 😢

[foggy hinge]

Yee, more for directly editing game files instead of managing mod files. 😅

[summer tartan]

as soon as i need to combine 2 mods = it's merge city, that's why i never bothered.
people always said the old game was "so moddable"... but in that sense, not really

[lusty sail]

Will see how it would be moddable after sdk

[foggy hinge]

I think for now that's the only way, but once the SDK comes out we'll have a better idea on how to load mods

[lusty sail]

But now we need something beautiful for eyes than hundreds of cfgs in notepad

[summer tartan]

lol

[foggy hinge]

I am very appreciative of this tool you are making though for sure.

Not having proper syntax support and trying to figure out if you have the right amount of struct.end is really annoying

Or if they're even in the right structure

[lusty sail]

And the syntax can’t read tabs 😂

Only 3 spaces

[summer tartan]

@lusty sail it says items editor; is this app for editing items and effects? or can it edit all .cfgs

[foggy hinge]

Yeah...

[lusty sail]

It can read all cfgs, but more focused for item prototypes structures

But

Parser is very sensitive and can misread some lines because of not items structure and will cry for error

[summer tartan]

I'd like to see something like S2 Cfg Modifier, like Modifier.exe for the old games
right now there's a ton of mods like "unlimited sprint" and so on, makes no sense to have them as individual .pak files
you could simply check boxes and generate .pak

i think i will do this exact thing

if no one else has

[lusty sail]

It’s unreal file system, we can’t affect on that dude, if we want one mod with different changes as small mods - we use mergers, or unpack every pak mod and merge by hands (i’ve done this in first days)

[summer tartan]

huh

[lusty sail]

But making some sort of tool as you want…

Too complex

[summer tartan]

doesnt seem complex, its just replacing values in .cfg before packing?

[lusty sail]

We have cfgmerger and conflict checker already

[summer tartan]

yeah, i mean a more plug-and-play version kinda

doesn't seem complicated at all tbh

like cfgmerger just repacks the cfg files, doesn't really do anything... you'd need to find a different .cfg file for everything you want to change
you could have an equivalent tool that takes a stock list of common config files (like 10-15 or whatever) and allow you to edit them with a GUI

[summer tartan]

just saw this

https://github.com/Lyall/STALKER2Tweak/tree/master

this is created with that SDK

it doesn't really look straight-forward... i'd have to find the memory address of the blueprint(?) and figure out how it works

[fading cedar]

all blueprints related objects can be dumped from the global object table

In ue5 it’s an array split into chunks of 65536 object pointers

You can use string references to find the object table and from there you dump all blueprint class objects

[summer tartan]

sounds like a long project for someone who doesn't know C++

[fading cedar]

You’d need to learn x64 assembly and how to use reverse engineering tools too

SDK gen handles the tricky setup but beyond that you’d need to do your own research depending on what you want to do

[summer tartan]

might have better luck using cheat engine or something

[fading cedar]

Just depends what you are trying to achieve

[summer tartan]

main thing is i want to speed up, or change ingame animations that i havent found config files
crouch updown time, aiming sway when walking, few things like that

[fading cedar]

I see

[summer tartan]

it sounds too tricky right now to figure out

[fading cedar]

Well the animation objects in unreal can influence that speed

But there might be some internal code that needs to be changed too

Frankly better done with the SDK even if you track the vars down in ce

[summer tartan]

yeah, did they hardcode the crosshair to move with the speed of the character

even with the official SDK, won't this stuff still be relatively difficult to change?

[fading cedar]

Nah it’s trivial with it

[summer tartan]

ok, i never dealt with this so i dont know what kind of access i have

[fading cedar]

Official SDK is the unreal editor with their changes—it’s what they used to build the game

In unreal you can change anything

[summer tartan]

lol. people will be making a whole new game

[fading cedar]

It’s been like this since the unreal tournament days

Yeah it’ll be interesting to see

[summer tartan]

I just hope there is an SoC project... i mean to make the game play more like that, since personally that's what I want. And I doubt I can make it myself

[fading cedar]

Need the spooky lab sounds back

The lights turning

[summer tartan]

haha

[fading cedar]

And frankly if gsc didn’t release mod tools then folks would build hacked SDKs

It’s been done for other games on UE

Ready or not comes to mind

[summer tartan]

i'd like to hand-place unique NPCs, items, secret locations on the maps, and a few sidequests. in addition to fixing all the shooting/movement mechanics

[desert valve]

any known way to change config values at runtime in a blueprint mod?

[high rain]

holy crap that's 65536x65536 image. where did you get it?

[desert valve]

https://tenor.com/view/magic-gif-26166638

[high rain]

careful what you wish for, that's like a 5GB of tiles, maybe more

[high rain]

one probably doesn't even need ninjaripper to grab a texture. renderdoc or nsight could work just fine

@frank summit ^ 65k maybe overkill and needs 10gb tileserver but it's possible to make a nice 32k x 32k out of this

[frank summit]

👀 oh my

Did you make this yourself or manage to do some magic with the game files?

[twilit compass]

What discord is that?

I thought this was s2 modding discord

[high rain]

invite? can't find it

sorry

this one ? P3YYuzg

it's called stalker discord of chernobyl

last link here https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/7vi24o/stalker_modding_community_discord/

[wide sonnet]

The link is here at the bottom of this message
#╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion message

[high rain]

got it, found the discussion there

[frank summit]

Anything of interest?

[high rain]

not yet. they rendered it. could not yet figure out how

[drifting tapir]

#1311729776066691142 message @eternal sapphire @half willow @high forge impt theory and research on refkey stuff 😄

files used to prove hypothesis.

File with cfg alphabetically above bloodsucker.cfg doesnt work, while file with cfg alphabetically below bloodsucker.cfg works, even though their code is the same

[eternal sapphire]

This is already known, its why my mutant file is called "ZzMutantLoot.cfg"

I have explained this but idk what/if tutorials exist with the info so maybe someone should get on that... lol

[ripe flame]

The question is: if two mods follow the rule by adding zz in front, but both are modifying AmmoPrototypes.cfg;

zzMod1Items.cfg changes weight for A918D:

A918D : struct.begin {refurl=AmmoPrototypes.cfg;refkey=A918D}
   Weight = 0.0018
struct.end

and zzMod2Items.cfg changes DamageMod for A918D:

A918D : struct.begin {refurl=AmmoPrototypes.cfg;refkey=A918D}
   DamageMod = 0.8
struct.end

Are both changes being applied?

[winged hemlock]

Mostly yes, but better merge them manually in one file. I`m still doing it and my game is fine.

[drifting tapir]

Definitely!

I wonder if using refurl struct duplication for some things can cause crashes or bugs.

Because we are exploiting like the game error resolution behaviour to overwrite vanilla files.

[drifting tapir]

No. Only the 2nd.

[ripe flame]

Well, there are mixed results - for different cfgs

So the answer is some in some cases both

[ripe flame]

For example, my mod Omega modifies mutant health using refurls AFTER Mutant Loot modifies mutant's loot using refurls (both referencing same structs), and both mods work.

[drifting tapir]

Hmm can you send your file? I want to test it

[eternal sapphire]

All of these mods add a new item.cfg and it works:

[ripe flame]

Well, adding new items can be done without even referencing existing vanilla cfg
You just create a struct anywhere

[drifting tapir]

If refurl is modifying and not overwriting structs, then the priority order of your cfg in relation to mutant loot would not matter.

Like think about it. Why would the game care whether mutant hp is being modified first, or an itemgenerator is added first?

So it would work whether or not your cfg is alphabetically below zzmutantloot.cfg

[ripe flame]

If refurl is overriding a struct, then it's not a refurl anymore.

[drifting tapir]

Read this ^

Ill test your file, 1 sec

[ripe flame]

Both mods are modifying same struct and it works. That's what is important here. I don't really understand what's your point.
The question was if two mods can modify same struct and keep both modifications. The answer is, as you can see in this case, yes.

[drifting tapir]

my point is that the refurl method we are using is not actually modification. it is duplication of struct.

[drifting tapir]

Can you send me the source for this? i cant unpack this. I want to test with all mutant hp to one

[ripe flame]

If it's a consecutive duplication, I see no problem.

Path: zzzzzzzzzz_MJRamon_Omega_Mutants_P\Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData\ObjPrototypes

[drifting tapir]

try this file with mutant loot. this is your cfg, except all vitalparams for mutants set to 1hp.

[drifting tapir]

in game with only mutant loot and this pak and uetools. bloodsucker can be looted but more than 1hp.

Edit: i tested on save that previously had mutant loot already. Im gonna test on old vanilla save

Edit2: Same behaviour. Tested on fresh save with just the pak above. Bloodsuckers still did not have 1hp.

[drifting tapir]

cfg you sent had wrong structend on blinddog

new test with blinddog structend fixed

[drifting tapir]

this file works and gives bloodsuckers 1hp on new game. Now testign with this file + mutant loot on new game

Okay, test finished on new game with mutant loot + the cfg with fixed structend.

Bloodsuckers have 1 hp, and cannot be looted.

🤷‍♂️

[drifting tapir]

Conclusion: two mods cannot "modify" the same struct.

[drifting tapir]

Is that the player's inventory or the loot found on a mutant 🤔

[eternal sapphire]

That's the player inventory. I know Loners will let anyone join but not mutants yet.

[wide sonnet]

Now the Narknon's custom engine can deal with skeletal mesh, niagara system, animations just fine... his works are impressive

[drifting tapir]

Well yeah. The new items from faction patches, itemization, and mutant loot will not conflict as long as the three mods do not edit or modify the same structs.

But what ramon was asking was is if it was possible for different mods to modify the same struct with refurl, which is not possible.

[drifting tapir]

My point is that using refurl to create new items based on a template is what the vanilla game uses refurl for, so theres no issue with this.

However, what im saying on my theory here, "modifying" base game structs with refurl is a hack of the refurl method, and we cant actually integrate multiple changes to the same struct with refurl.

[ripe flame]

Ah, my bad, thanks!

[drifting tapir]

And there are some bad implications to this, because refurls are not intended to be used to replace the template they are referencing.

Basically, what we are doing when we use refurl to "modify" vanilla structs, what is happening in the engine is that there are now 2 variables with the same variable name. And the code relies on error resolution or priority resolution to decide which variable to use.

It is possible that this method may cause weird behaviour or crashes if used for some structs. Entirely depends on what the game code is doing internally

(Using refurl to create NEW structs like new items and new effects should be 100% safe, because that is what it is intended to be for, and what the vanilla game already does)

[high rain]

managed to combine the entire stalker 2 map into a 32768x32768 100 Mb JPEG https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Bpxfaakw_S6iOnrrx_C157DYMFRqRWzM?usp=drive_link this is how it looks in leaflet with 7 zoom levels 512px tiles https://i.imgur.com/gqApgic.png the tileset is about 115 megs

[drifting tapir]

Np 👍

I think it is important to clarify and document how refurl really works, and possible problems that may come with using it to replace vanilla records.

I lazy and not software background, so someone else can probably document and explain better the info that we discovered >.>

Unfortunately, every reported case of multiple mods allegedly modifying the same struct with refkey happens to be fake news 😔

Community should know that

1. refurl method does not modify structs at all, it makes a struct based on another struct. If both structs are same name, you can make a struct replace its template struct if your cfg is lower in alphabetical order than the cfg containing the template struct.
2. using this method to modify vanilla structs might have potential problems, but non discovered yet.
3. there are pros and cons to replacing cfgs vs replacing structs with refkey method.

4.) Using refkey to create new structs should be completely fine

[foggy hinge]

So for some reason the Bloodsuckers texture can't be converted to a virtual texture because it is not a size of the power of two. I need to enabled Pad to Power of Two for the P2 Mode for it to convert but then the texture has an extra space that is blank. Anyone know why?

[ripe flame]

Well, if this is actually true and there's only one mod that can edit a struct using refurl, we are rolled back. God, I hate merges.

And I don't think that packing a mod as a DLC solves this
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dlH18CWkIuBjdzZJbeuH0pFcji3JNdv336uHq1KsDR0/edit?tab=t.0

[winged hemlock]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/832

[foggy hinge]

My concern with this is the weapon upgrades.

BC I believe they're all intentionally placed inside specific containers

So wouldn't you get duplicates?

[winged hemlock]

I will make changes after I receive some feedback.

[winged hemlock]

There are duplicates in vanilla game already.

[foggy hinge]

Are there?

[winged hemlock]

Only flash-drives has no duplicates.

[winged hemlock]

Yes.

[foggy hinge]

Yeah, that's what I mean.

Unless I'm not understanding what the mod does by Weapon Addons

I.E. attachments?

[winged hemlock]

Yes

[foggy hinge]

Or the flash drives?

Ah

Okay

I would change Weapon Addons to attachments then

[winged hemlock]

I`m ukrainian, so I always translate attachments as addons for myself

[foggy hinge]

Yee, I was just going to say probably an error in translation XD

[winged hemlock]

Okay, changed

[foggy hinge]

Nice.

Looks great otherwise, will consider adding myself.

[junior saffron]

Did you figure it out?

[foggy hinge]

No.

[junior saffron]

It added space needed to reach power of two. You can try resizing in photoshop

Then it should still let you convert to virtual

Just make sure everything looks fine for the other maps

[foggy hinge]

Ah, so opening hte file up directly doesn't have that space.

Maybe I just use it like this and it will work?

[junior saffron]

Sure, you can check, just again when in game check and see if it looks as it's mapped as it should else you can resize

But that's why there was extra space 😁 It may look perfectly fine in game

Depends on the uv mapping

[foggy hinge]

Yeah, hoping that it "just works"

[junior saffron]

[foggy hinge]

So, not sure if this is really taking effect but it does look darker.

[junior saffron]

If you want, send me and I can try to check, it does look different but also not vanilla

Just not as dark as what u showed

[foggy hinge]

Yeah, my thoughts exactly.

[junior saffron]

Alright loading into game, is there a command to spawn creatures? Might have to run fresh

[foggy hinge]

XIDSpawnObjectBySID Bloodsucker 1 False or something along those lines.

[junior saffron]

https://i.imgur.com/rU7vQwn.png

https://i.imgur.com/1qLVxyp.png

hm

Can u send your packaged files

[foggy hinge]

Yeah, one sec.

[junior saffron]

https://i.imgur.com/VjeFUY5.png

[foggy hinge]

HAHA

WOAH

WTF

[junior saffron]

Lmao

[foggy hinge]

So what'd you do to achieve this?

[junior saffron]

I simply just used what you gave, maybe your naming, or you have another file in mods overriting you maybe forgot to delete?

[foggy hinge]

Ahh, maybe

[junior saffron]

im not sure wtf went wrong when i did it, was the texture exported and imported as png? maybe forgot something somewhere in new proj. anyways though, it works ha

[foggy hinge]

Yeah, it was imported as a PNG then converted to a VT.

[junior saffron]

https://i.imgur.com/BcCYTPx.png fixed, I'm looking into if I can fix how dark it is, don't think that is intended? Texture doesn't look that dark

[foggy hinge]

Definitely not intended.

[elder pike]

"Blood Pudding Sucker"

[high rain]

where I get coordinates for the location markers? e.g. for sircaa main building? MarkerPrototypes.cfg only has coordinates for region markers

[frank summit]

Wowza. Very nice work

[foggy hinge]

How can I extract utoc and ucas files easily from other mods?

Specifically for localization files.

[next cave]

so i've noticed that stalker 2 doesn't want to load mods anymore, tried both my own ballistics mod along with FUBAR and where it was showing the modded values just fine before, now the stats have reverted back to vanilla values, checked for conflicts and there shouldn't be any

[junior saffron]

Honestly at a loss, tried numerous things. I looked at a texture on nexus but it had the same issue, infact it wasnt active until i renamed the file properly, so by default it didnt do anything

[foggy hinge]

Totally fine, we'll jsut wait til the SDK

[ocean stump]

hey i just have one question , i made a mod bundle yesterday for myself , i changed a lot of things , put last in the load order and when i start the game , the game decide to change everything back to default in the pak file ... its a new bug or what ? -.- ( 0 conflict with other mods)

[merry mountain]

maybe you packed it wrong so the path inside the pak does not match

[hallow sand]

Can anyone tell me what the mesh is for the sofmod silencer?
[6:32 AM]
I think i messed it up an I'm just trying to replace the mesh for the ru sil 2 to the sofmod one

I think I changed the mesh id an not sure what it is

[ripe flame]

Looking at how it is structured. Have a question: so every new item runs through a check of chance, and potentially can be spawned?

[ocean stump]

"Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData" nothing wrong with the path , its started after the last update .. i pack the modpack first time works , and the next game start rewrite everything .. and tottaly bug out my game

folder names exact same as in Fmodel , so no path issue , i just cant solve this mistery ..

[ripe flame]

@winged hemlock
Why not using SubItemGenerator like this? First you determine chance for a category, then you set weight for each entry - this way only one item per category:

      [7] : struct.begin
         Category = EItemGenerationCategory::SubItemGenerator
         PossibleItems : struct.begin
            [0] : struct.begin
               ItemGeneratorPrototypeSID = ConsumableVeteranGenerator
               Chance = 1.0
            struct.end
            [1] : struct.begin
               ItemGeneratorPrototypeSID = DetectorVeteranGenerator
               Chance = 0.05
            struct.end
            [2] : struct.begin
               ItemGeneratorPrototypeSID = ArtifactVeteranGenerator
               Chance = 0.01
            struct.end
            [3] : struct.begin
               ItemGeneratorPrototypeSID = AttachVeteranGenerator
               Chance = 0.01
            struct.end
         struct.end
      struct.end

[146] : struct.begin
   SID = ArtifactVeteranGenerator
   ItemGenerator : struct.begin
      [0] : struct.begin
         Category = EItemGenerationCategory::Artifact
         PossibleItems : struct.begin
            [0] : struct.begin
               ItemPrototypeSID = EArtifactFlash
               Weight = 50.0
               MinCount = 1
               MaxCount = 1
            struct.end
            [1] : struct.begin
               ItemPrototypeSID = EArtifactSoul
               Weight = 50.0
               MinCount = 1
               MaxCount = 1
            struct.end
...

Also, some already vanilla pre-defined "collections" of items from ItemGeneratorPrototypes.cfg could be used, instead of creating own lists.

[ripe flame]

So, for example, instead of dumping everything into

      [1] : struct.begin
         Category = EItemGenerationCategory::Consumable
         bAllowSameCategoryGeneration = true
         PossibleItems : struct.begin
            [0] : struct.begin
               ItemPrototypeSID = Milk
               Weight = 1
               MinCount = 1
               MaxCount = 1
            struct.end
...
            [5] : struct.begin
               ItemPrototypeSID = EArtifactFlash
               Chance = 0.0018
               MinCount = 1
               MaxCount = 1

You do this:

      [1] : struct.begin
         Category = EItemGenerationCategory::Consumable
         bAllowSameCategoryGeneration = true
         PossibleItems : struct.begin
            [0] : struct.begin
               ItemPrototypeSID = Milk
               Weight = 1
               MinCount = 1
               MaxCount = 1
            struct.end
...
         struct.end
      struct.end

      [2] : struct.begin
         Category = EItemGenerationCategory::SubItemGenerator
         PossibleItems : struct.begin
            [0] : struct.begin
               ItemGeneratorPrototypeSID = ArtifactNewbieGenerator
               Chance = 0.01
            struct.end
            [1] : struct.begin
               ItemGeneratorPrototypeSID = AttachNewbieGenerator
               Chance = 0.01
            struct.end
         struct.end
      struct.end

Of course, you can create your own generators also. Beware that, looks like, you can have maximum of 4 entries per SubItemGenerator, so it is better to add one SubItemGenerator per category in most cases.

[amber halo]

I'm working on a new mod. I need your help!
Mod idea: Make veteran mode something like "survival". The zone is not a place to walk. And each foray is a challenge for which you need to prepare.
Mod goals: Rebalance, more realistic, more hardcore, more interesting. Adding new things.
Needs: Currently, we need people who are interested in the idea of ​​the mod and want to join its development, either through testing or even direct modification of the files. I will listen to any comments and take them into account, if they are lore-friendly I will try to implement the ideas. That is, the mod is being developed through community modding. So write comments here, or in private! I will be very happy.
What's ready? Currently, some rebalancing has been done that needs to be tested and possibly adjusted. In parallel, other parts are being developed.

**Let's make a cool mod for "Heart of Chernobyl" together! **
**Let's give the zone a challenge! **
(Everyone who participates will be mentioned in the "co-authors" of the mod)

[void owl]

Just look into #1309526198833119303 there's plenty of mods there doing similar things

[amber halo]

I am making complex mod, and existing mods can be similar, but not exact. And merge like 50 mods in one, for me not nice. So i decide to make own, with own balance, and as i see, all existing mods not making SoC things... Existing mods can be used only for "checking" the ways to realize something which are not new.

[nimble heron]

nexus moment

absolutely elite servers

[half willow]

most reliable uk based service

[cobalt hamlet]

Actually you cant because ReZen repak things not properly so ZenTools IS not able to unpak it

[vague knoll]

anyone know if Rant - More Mutant Health works on 1.0.3? i feel like they nerfed the shit out of these poor mutants...

i ran to the first bloodsucker and he died with 15 round of ak ....

what a joke

first time it required 3 mags + i shit my pants

[next cave]

I mean yeah they did, spongesucker was just weird tbh, it should still work fwiw

[vague knoll]

maby it was the first bloodsucker that got insanely nerfed? i mean 15 round of ak is joke

[next cave]

But think about what a bloodsucker is/does. It's a fast moving enemy that inflicts serious bleed and turns invisible

Does it also need to be a sponge on top of that?

[vague knoll]

depends how you look at it, experiance stalker like you and i can deal with it easy peasy, only first playthough would be hard

when you learn the mechanics the game become easy,at this point nerf is the worst thing ever...

it become easy+easy = bullshit

[next cave]

Sponginess is an incredibly un-fun way of making it harder though

[vague knoll]

@sinful cypress apologies in advance for pining you here, does your more mutant hp work on 1.0.3?

[sinful cypress]

All good and I wouldn't know otherwise.

[steel musk]

1.0.3 was mostly quest fixes, no? And the issue with mutants was Armor, since all your starter guns only had 1 Penetration, so you did paltry damage

Hopefully we’ll get a mutant variants (weak/average/strong) mod in the future so they’ll remain relevant/balanced as you progress

[next cave]

Oh you know what would be a nasty mutant variant? A psy-snork

[tidal yew]

has anyone done any research on making a magazines mod

[winged hemlock]

Yes

[winged hemlock]

Thanks, I`ll try it when I have time
I also will add conditions to weapons/outfits/helmets for hardcore version of mod

it is better to add one SubItemGenerator per category in most cases.
May I have a full example of 1 category?

[warm sky]

If he wasn't so tough once you learned how to play you would kill him before he even touched you that's exactly the experience I have with the mode that balances his health. With a little extra life he can just disappear from your sight at least once and hope to do something.

[limber rose]

guys, @ripe flame a little tip when you use codeblock with .cfg content, add ini filetype -> ```ini to get syntax highligthing 🙂

[0] : struct.begin
   SID = Default
   
   Constraints : struct.begin
      [*] : struct.begin
         ConstraintType = EAIConstraintType::PrepareForEmission
         MaxCount = 3.f
         Radius = 4500.f
         Duration = 18.f
      struct.end
   struct.end
struct.end

[nimble heron]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/840

Released a new mod
It’s currently in open testing, so I’d really appreciate it if you guys connected and shared any feedback, either in the mod’s page comment section or at https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1316855594900000778

[limber rose]

Hello everyone, I would like to share an other tip .
Bored of modifying your repack.exe command line?
Small tutorial to add pack and unpack commands to rigth click contextual menu on .pak files (unpack) and directories (pack). work with multi-selection.

[spark plinth]

I made the rail mount a detachable item!

No technician needed

[warm wing]

This is awesome! Good work!

[nimble heron]

u guys know where i can find npc sids?

[winged hemlock]

Does GOG version of the game has another path to the files?

Because I see that my mod on stashes is not working on GOG version

[runic heart]

NPCPrototypes.cfg ?

[nimble heron]

not sure it goes for the console but ill look at it in a min

[finite pumice]

Do I have to essentially make a mod if I want to edit item stats because I’m assuming the debug menu for that stuff still is disabled correct?

[runic heart]

Honestly. It's always better to mod it than to change it directly.

[finite pumice]

I don’t want to use mods though. I’ve discovered a way to permanently keep a characters status inbetween multiplatform usage I play on Xbox but I’ve discovered any changes I make will inadvertently alter that save file. Which is then shared across Microsoft’s sync process. My pc can’t run this game

[frozen dove]

Alright @rain finch I need 30 weapon mods by tn

Get to work bud

[hallow sand]

John Cena's anthem whenever bloodsuckers yell

[finite pumice]

For the life of me I can’t figured out how to use a UE5 editor tool the files are encrypted so I need unrealpak but then I also need might need QuickBMS but honestly have no clue how to get to the point of messing with the files themselves editing is straight forward

But getting there is my issue

Trying to locate everything pertaining to items and the character itself nothing more or less

[spark plinth]

https://tenor.com/view/john-cena-you-cant-see-me-gif-9625705

[finite pumice]

I know it’s in those pak files well some of them but isn’t that stuff located in a .ini file?

[spark plinth]

Fmodel has a search feature

[finite pumice]

So would I take those pak files use unrealpak and plug it into Fmodel itself or do I need to archive the files isolate them from the game?

Or can I skip all of that and just directly change item stats without creating a “modified” pak essentially altering the existing files without the need for having an overwrite in mods folder

Because the goal here is what I’ve understood is anything that is on the save file for the game itself if items are changed altered etc it persists across the cloud network on that save without having the ability to mod on console

IE XAffectOnPlayer works way to well on multiplatform usage but that’s the extent of the console commands can honestly do so far from what I’ve found

[runic heart]

You need to point FModel to your game files. Use AES key as well. You can only extract files with it.

[finite pumice]

I thought this game was on UE5 I’m confused

[runic heart]

Or use search function.

[finite pumice]

What’s the AES key I’m assuming that’s already discovered

[runic heart]

Of course. Otherwise we would not getting mods

[finite pumice]

Can you send it or point me to where I can pull it from

[runic heart]

AES Dumpster

[finite pumice]

Kk

[south kayak]

Hey everyone, finally got my mod mostly in shape to start testing in-game, so far I've managed to add a bunch of items, though for now they are for flavour/selling (the first chapter of my mod is similar to Project Itemization mod/Anomaly item philosophy). So far the localization files have been the worst headache, but I managed to overcome it. Here's a little preview of a few of 50+ items I have made (no 3d models yet, only inventory icons and descriptions in EN and UA languages) as well as some things to come when I get the chance to implement them (some familiar items coming back + some new equipment)

[winged hemlock]

Oh, expensive version of Project itemsation

[south kayak]

As a start, at later points I plan to make this into a big one, with new armors, weapons, devices and mechanics added. I mean, here's hoping for the SDK to actually deliver a robust set of tools to make all sorts of content, but for now its a start

[winged hemlock]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/832

[spark plinth]

Looking forward to more weapons. Hoping to see more than just mine. ❤️ The more the merrier!

[winged hemlock]

So, I would need to make adaptation for your mod on release

[south kayak]

I'll gladly help where I can, though its a bit away from the release as I'll still be testing the balance, reworking and tweaking some icons etc. But hope it won't be a big hassle for you!

[spark plinth]

I'll have to work with other weapon mods to adapt their weapons to my crafting table

[winged hemlock]

I need just SIDs

[south kayak]

Gotcha, as soon as I'm ready to release the first version I'll send you the list, they're all named pretty self explanatory, though if you'll need any cfgs to check out the values etc I'll happily provide 👌

[dense saffron]

Is it compatible with mutant loot/project itemization and faction patch?

[spark plinth]

I'm sure they all will try and make them compatible.

[dense saffron]

Yea for sure. It looks amazing though

[south kayak]

I'll try to make it as compatible as possible with many popular mods at the moment, as far as I'm aware it's mostly a matter of merging the itemgenerator cfg and localization files

[zenith delta]

How the hell do yall make mods and not spend 33 years fixing conflicts with the other 507 mods

what the fuck

I couldnt imagine modding this game

[spark plinth]

Team Work Makes the Dream Work.

[zenith delta]

If only the B&S modding community had any collaboration....

what a fucking project this is insane

[south kayak]

I actually was gonna wait for the official modding tools and keep my mod at a concept stage with texts/graphics ready, but at the end of the day I said fuck it and went on hitting my head against the desk, figuring out UnrealReZen and packing the localization files

[zenith delta]

Thats so real im ngl

[spark plinth]

Wait until Grok get's starting on GAMMA 2 and has all these amazing modder's projects to work with.

[zenith delta]

Did he already announce making a GAMMA 2 with stalker 2?

thats nuts

[spark plinth]

I mean, I already cracked their Encryption for my mod. But we all definitely waiting to expand on the SDK

[south kayak]

The most excited I am about is the opportunity to do level design and re/create additional locations for the game, since I've been modding Anomaly in terms of new levels before and way before that I've spent an ungodly amount of time in the creation kit, creating worldspaces to fit the overall theme

[zenith delta]

I spent a good part of 4 months trying to figure out why adding a singular dagger in a b&s weapons back completely destroyed the games shaders and it was because of another mod that had autoupdated in a broken state

great times

[winged hemlock]

I have all mentioned merged in my pack

[zenith delta]

What is this game built on?

[spark plinth]

If ya haven't already found my thread. https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1312992178896633926

[spark plinth]

Unique build on UE 5.1.1

[winged hemlock]

Easy
I even don`t have z in mod names
I merge everything myself by hands

[zenith delta]

Might attempt it after I play the game for a long time if theres mod ideas I have that havent been made already

[spark plinth]

The OG Way of doing things, congrats on making it all work!

[zenith delta]

absolute baller

[deep ridge]

has anyone been able to find any configs that give npcs a harder time seeing you in the dark? i currently have npcs seeing me in pitch black rooms with no flashlight lol

[south kayak]

One of the mods I use edits Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData\AIGlobals.cfg for stealth detection reduction, might be worth checking out

Edit: There are these parts in the config, which might affect the indoors as well

   [0] : struct.begin
     WeatherSID = Clear
     VisibilityCoef = 1.0
     HearingDistanceCoef = 1.0
     FlairCoef = 1.0
   struct.end
   [1] : struct.begin
     WeatherSID = Cloudy
     VisibilityCoef = 0.95
     HearingDistanceCoef = 1.0
     FlairCoef = 1.0
...

[dry beacon]

I seriously cannot wait for the SDK, I think the mods for this game are gunna be phenominal.

I bet adding weapons and the animations into the game is gunna be dead easy with the SDK

This games gunna get insanely good

diddle with the AI a bit hope GSC does some work on it, literally just add like anamoly style radiant quests and you could play the game forever

[south kayak]

I mean, Unreal does come with inbuilt animation editor and many more, so here's to hoping we get a fork of their version as close to the development tools as possible

[dry beacon]

So as of right now that stuff is too hard to add?

or could you download like UE, decrypt the files and then go that way

I dunno what tools are available right now for ue

[south kayak]

Definetely when compared to working in a proper SDK, as far as dissecting the game in the stock UE, don't think that would work for major stuff, since they do use their own uinque fork of the 5.1 engine

[dry beacon]

I see so we are basically boned till the SDK comes out for bigger projects

I saw they did just recently say they are working on getting it out just a few days agho

[south kayak]

Yep, but from what I've seen in their interviews etc, they do strive to bring the modder The SDK used for the game development, although things might change right up until we actually get some kind of editor

[dry beacon]

Yeah I hope its soon I am sure they are busy working on patches atm, I am back on anamoly custom for now, and it would just be nuts to play this style in stalker 2

and its setup for it really, just need to deepen survival mechanics, add some more items, guns, and off ya go and radiant quests

basically it

[bright wasp]

Does anyone know what BaseBleeding does under PlayerWeapons? ChanceBleedingPerShot is obvious but not super clear what the other one is. I imagine it has something to do with MaxBleeding = 100 under Player VitalParams

[deep ridge]

thanks for reply, I did see those particular attributes, I was hoping there was something refering directly to darkness but I think its still limited to weather

[drifting tapir]

i changed my nexus handle and now i cant update my own mod description 💀

[winged hemlock]

Anyone knows infoportion of weird water quest?

[spark plinth]

I’m already ready with my own UE5.1 edits of their build to bring everything I have from Tarkov and Ready Or Not.

Animations included

[deep ridge]

the main animation i want in game is low ready. switching to having it in gamma to not having it in this game feels like something is missing for me for some reason

[spark plinth]

I agree, I will add it if no one does it first.

[high rain]

Here's the entire stalker 2 map in full 64k resolution https://joric.github.io/stalker2_tileset/ can't get better than this https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1hd6me2/stalker_2_map_in_full_64k_resolution/

[fading steeple]

Hey guys did anyone find exo parts textures for various suits?
I managed to find only one of them (a white one, in folder \Game_STALKER2\SkeletalMeshes\characters\sta\sta_05\Textures\exo) but there are more in game as I know.

[sweet moss]

Ya'll think it's possible to replace some of the fixed spawns for bloodsuckers in POIs with other mutants or stalker squads?

[rain finch]

The 507 mods compatibility it’s just the visible part of the iceberg… What takes the biggest efforts is the whole balancing, game design, system making and gameplay loops interconnections

Mods compatibility is « just » checking the files and making sure they don’t overwrite each other in bad ways

Stalker 2 is uninteresting to me atm

Mainly because there’s no alife

[sweet moss]

Fair

[drifting tapir]

!noalife

[celest dune]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1306683555488862319/1309254531602972753/Screenshot_2024-11-21-21-13-12-76_572064f74bd5f9fa804b05334aa4f912.jpg?ex=6740e9cd&is=673f984d&hm=4c16bf5a7fe14ff8f1b81027f51be666771f1c2eb28f8a82498b0e0f436dea10&

[frank summit]

🤌 beautiful. best of luck with the pins mate

[high rain]

I already did the pins. well not most of it but I know what to do from there. you just parse 85k cfg files and cross-reference them

the main issue is quest items, keys, and containers. learned it from fallout london the hard way

[frank summit]

amen 🗿 i've just been pinning notes rather than PDAs n all that

then in the description putting a line like "you get this note when you grab jimmy's PDA off the crate"

[high rain]

oh no I'm not going to type words into it unless it's code

[frank summit]

probably best for your sanity 😂

adding screenshots and descriptions to every pin is... well, i'm not the person I was pre-launch 🗿

[summer tartan]

S2 is uninteresting to me because the mechanical feel is too different

The AI is weird.. the way they move, they'll go into a full combat run to run 10 feet, then slowly stop.. then start looking around. it's not seamless. they look broken

I'm really surprised more people are not seeing this

[hoary jay]

Do we need the SDK release to replace a weapon accessory mesh? I am pretty unfamiliar with UE5 and uasset stuff, just want to replace a the red dots/holos when possible.

[nimble heron]

what an absolute mega mind

[dense saffron]

Lmao. I do like the idea of certain anomalies just one shotting you.

[ripe flame]

How is that a good game design?

[nimble heron]

you know what would be even cooler?
death = auto uninstall script

just to be certain its as realistic as possible

realistic death simulation

[woven dew]

Gamma 2.0 when?

[ripe flame]

With any threat, you have to have 3 things:

1. Ability to avoid
2. Ability to recover using skill (for example, running out of vortex at specific timing)
3. Punishment, yes, but not a drastic one as unavoidable death

[dense saffron]

Because i like hardcore

[ripe flame]

Well, it’s more like suffering

[nimble heron]

uninstall script sounds pretty hardcore i think

[dense saffron]

That sounds horrible

[ripe flame]

How about routing 1000 W to CPU?

[nimble heron]

getting one shot by anomalies sounds horrible too tho

[nimble heron]

ahahahhahahaha

[dense saffron]

Yea but ever heard of to each their own?

i said i liked the idea

[nimble heron]

extreme hi def ultra realism

next step would be hiring a sniper

[ripe flame]

Feels realistic and hardcore

[nimble heron]

death in-game - death irl

maximum immersion

[ripe flame]

Supreme Edition

[void owl]

What do you guys think of the emission changes on the left? Im not a fan of the over the top red tint in vanilla (Pictured right)

my issue is that the cloud vortex over Generators now looks a bit off

[ripe flame]

Bring back my death wave and I will be happy

[void owl]

I mean there still a death wave-ish but i also agree it kinda sucks lol

Its possible to set the death wave a very short duration that does instakill damage, and make it repeat a couple times tho

But weather/environment/atmosphere wise.... Do you think im going in the right direction with changes, or am I losing the plot

I really ended up disliking the emission in this game a lot .... maybe im the only one tho

[ripe flame]

No, red tint makes it more grand and dramatic

[half willow]

terraria blood moon-esque more like

[ripe flame]

I like my Stalker CoP emissions, I want them back

[summer silo]

Hopefully GSC will listen to my ticket 👀

I poked them that sound is often cutting out during emissions and that they shouldn't go instantly red and instead start out more green like in Call of Pripyat

Oh. And I mentioned they should bring back earthquaking :P

[void owl]

Im working on this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B33aITpAA60

you can take a look a bit at the changes here in motion

but this is slighly outdated

also compressed to shit

[summer silo]

Oh my god screen shake

Should probably be more intense but this is a good start 👀

The forced saving mid emission seems to break the audio each time it happens tho

[void owl]

Audio is super borked man.... specially with weather 😦

[summer silo]

And let's not get started on music :T

I feel like a piece starts kicking in and suddenly que silence

[void owl]

you can hear it at 2:42 in my video, the crescendo of the music and then just 🦗

[fierce kiln]

First a life fixes coming in next patch soon according to GSC

They said on main discord little bit ago

Highest priority according to them

[ripe flame]

My 3060 Mobile 6Gb still waiting for its time

[summer silo]

Ooo
Explains why its taking so long

[amber halo]

Hey, can not find any config which can change bleeding causing by grenades, someone know where is it?

[spark plinth]

Does anyone know what year give or take is it in Staller 2? My guess is 2016-2022

Just thinking on what weapons and gear to add to my mod that are relatively new to the year in game.

[stiff plinth]

2021

[spark plinth]

Sweet

[crimson laurel]

green looks like a zombie apocalipse 😈

[spark plinth]

—————
I’m going to be making a list of weapons that I have models and animations for. Some of you already know that I have a free lancer who has done models for BSG and will do commissions for me of any weapon or attachment people would like to see in the mod.

Please note that I will take in any suggestions, but please make sure I can’t already take the suggestion from a game that already has a good model for it

The current games I personally have models and animations from are:

Escape From Tarkov
Ready Or Not

Please drop suggestions in the thread so I can keep track of them:

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

[void owl]

🫰

[spark plinth]

I did another post in the thread, I’ll edit it real quick

[spark plinth]

Edited

[real marsh]

hey guys, did anyone attempt to increase stability of aim yet?

[void owl]

Man i would love to see more "early game" weapons... I miss mosins and sks 😉

[spark plinth]

Porting those from Tarkov

[void owl]

Latest changes to Emission

Yellow fog is not intended. Still wokring on it

But i find that instead of painting everything red tint, adding red fog can compensate for that dramatic effect

[foggy hinge]

If you haven't yet, take a peek at Ultra Dynamic Sky on Fab. That is, from my understanding, the weather and atmosphere system they use in the game.

You can learn a lot from looking at that UE Asset

[void owl]

holy shit thatd be so nice

im using basic UE system and extrapolating data from that to the game

would make making changes so much better

ty ty

So far direct light, fog and sky atmosphere are the easiest to work with since they seems to use basic UE stuff. But clouds and sky light are a bit different

[fading steeple]

Can someone give a hint how to apply tint mask with this parameters to this desaturated texture to make a new one? In Photoshop or GIMP, I just have no idea, googling it didn't help...

[void owl]

Im gonna be needing a bunch of feedback in #1311655930907066461 if any one wants to hop in there

[unreal glacier]

Has anyone discovered what value adjusts the duration Skif can go without dropping his muzzle to low ready?

[spark plinth]

Isn’t triggered by sprinting too? Or you mean the super short low ready when you enter a no weapon zone?

[unreal glacier]

The later, I hate how he lowers his muzzle when I'm still in combat

I just want him to be aiming forward the whole time

I saw someone else asking for a way to put your weapon into some kind of patrol position, like all the NPCs do, almost like sling carry

but I'm referring to the slight muzzle drop that happens after like 5 seconds of not shooting

There's gotta be a number somewhere responsible for that

[spark plinth]

I haven’t looked into that yet. But I did see some references for that.

[unreal glacier]

I need it 😭

[spark plinth]

Thank @sterile vigil for the SVT kit for the mod.

[sterile vigil]

^ This is an SKS btw

not SVT

[spark plinth]

I thought it was the SVT

lol

[sterile vigil]

Neg, SKS

[spark plinth]

Looks great though

Will do it

[amber halo]

Hey, someone can explain how to F*** durability working for weapons?

I set as example for PM and MP5 same value:
DurabilityDamagePerShot = 10.
But for PM it's like 10 shots -9%, or -11% sometimes...
For MP5 its like 10 shots = -11%, or -12% sometimes... but last 7 shots make -12.5% wtf?

[sand vault]

Has anyone been able to get the Veteran rifle to work with a red dot?

[merry mountain]

Discord Search is such garbage

[spark plinth]

It’s my next weapon on the list.

[merry mountain]

Has someone the link to the google docs with all the weapon dura stats etc

[desert valve]

this one? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d4EiByG4LPFOFsgm0pecfYVAtZ4n3Mtsm1rNGYCIboI/edit?gid=473550134#gid=473550134

[merry mountain]

Yes why cant i find a single link if i search for google.com -.-
if i search for docs i find 1 link but not this one

i dont get discord search

thanks

[sand vault]

Yeah, the search function in this thing could be better

[merry mountain]

does the document no longer has the dura values of the weapons? it now only contains dura damage per shot

or am i blind or maybe it was another document, not sure

[sand vault]

Is getting a red dot to work on the Veteran difficult? I think the AS Lavina already takes a red dot, if I'm not mistaken. So should be able to use that to get it working

[spark plinth]

The templatelavina has different allocations to the 2 unique ones. I will be editing it making it the base reference. Since it comes with the rail. It will be fairly straightforward.

[sand vault]

Nice!

[desert valve]

@shrewd rampart made it

[amber halo]

DurabilityDamagePerShot = 10, Weapon_DurabilityDamage = 1, and the fucking calculating also not working...

[merry mountain]

The max Dura is not the same per weapon

so its normal that you dont get the same percent dura loss per shot with same values

[shrewd rampart]

I've not been updating the document or done anything Stalker 2 related fro a while- while grinding on Path of Exile 2, PM me if you need any changes done to it, or investigate something related to it. @merry mountain
These are taken from the weapons cfgs for the player, in order of appeareance.

[desert valve]

is it any good? looks a lot like the first one 😶

[merry mountain]

no im just confused, maybe what i saw was in another document, someone had the max dura of the weapons listed and how much shots until at 0% dura etc

or maybe im bliind idk

[desert valve]

im sure there are mutliple documents floating around

[shrewd rampart]

Roger that, iirc there are multiple durability factors, and scalers. So it makes sense someone has made a document to calculate it.
Think there''s max durability, durability per shot, and then difficulty scaling also affects how durability global multiplier works. Potentially a fourth variable aswell somewhere laying about.

[merry mountain]

yeah probably it was just another document

[shrewd rampart]

It's different, and it's epic. No-life.

[merry mountain]

discord search is just trash at finding stuff again

if i just search "google.com" i literally find not a single link

where are the good old forum days

[desert valve]

i find it with "docs", but its the only one i can find

[merry mountain]

yeah and there where more then one docs link for sure

so idk whats going on with search

and docs is part of docs.google.com, so why cant i find it with searching google.com

[desert valve]

was it this one?

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1h9o0ni/weapon_stats_ingame_make_no_sense_so_i_pulled/

here is the docs link for it:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L6jBHJtw8AZrJZmOiFekiS2YVudHS3rQVGQN-oOaNMk/edit?gid=2000689774#gid=2000689774

[shrewd rampart]

Yeah, that one looks detailed. Nice 🙂

[hazy wing]

Can someone tell me, wtf is wrong here? Im going insane with redacting files for Stalker2, almost every launch i have different error

[merry mountain]

yes thats the exact document that i meant, thanks

[lusty sail]

Someone knows levels of EEffectDisplayType::EffectLevel?
Like Weak, Strong etc. How many levels are? And what affect on that level in EffectPrototypes.cfg?

Because I can't understand how to calculate level of effect display style -_-
Don't know how it's actually calculates in game

[merry mountain]

the levels are part of the effect SID

the number at the end

its stupid

but thats what it is

[lusty sail]

Wait wha :0

damn

[rain finch]

Oh it’s a new tool ?

[lusty sail]

It's 4 levels?

[lusty sail]

+, few days refactored to preview items

[rain finch]

Is it public yet ? Could add it #╟⚒stalker2™-mod-resources

[lusty sail]

Oh, still in dev, it's early dev stage now. Like, maybe 1+ week of developing, still at preview items point, can't save and create new items for now. I just need to make it all work properly.

[teal wing]

[lusty sail]

Okay it looks like this now (if I extract last digits from SIDs)
But I guess it must be not number but levels, like Weak, Medium, Strong dunno

[merry mountain]

yes like the number is translated to Weak Medium Strong by the game

why have they done it that way?

idk

[lusty sail]

Because I saw 20 and 25 for negative effects

[merry mountain]

hm

maybe its ranges

[merry mountain]

that was the consens we came to with some people

[merry mountain]

maybe we are wrong

[lusty sail]

Like valueMin and Max maybe

And if it like 1-5 it's weak, 5-10 its medium and more 10 is strong

But need to test

[merry mountain]

i mean , you can try by changing the effects on stuff to stuff wither other number at the end and same values for min max etc and see how that changes the text value

[lusty sail]

Will try now

[south kayak]

Updating the progress, the 3d models are in the process of creation in advance, so once the editor hits I can easily add the physical element to them all, including new in-depth monster parts and their retrieval

[lusty sail]

So.
If ItemPrototype has property EffectsDisplayTypes with:

1.EEffectDisplayType::Value we'll see number from EffectsPrototypes.cfg from property **ValueMin **and **ValueMax **(if we need always 1 number keeping both the same)
Screenshot, first effect with +1.0

2.EEffectDisplayType::ValueAndTime shows same as 1. but adds at the end of window Duration that must a property in EffectsPrototypes.cfg in effect structure.

3.EEffectDisplayType::EffectLevel shows effect value as level Weak,Medium,Strong and Maximum for the interesting, at the screenshot rows 3-strong,4-maximum and 5-weak are has values like ValueMin&Max = 3,4,5 like it seems, that > 4 is Maximum?

sid_effects_artifact_none_name - don't know why is that, it must be levels with values 10, 20 and 40

Double checked...

Value 5 is Weak... Why.

[lusty sail]

Checked third time. I guess level name Weak, Medium, **Strong **and Maximum just raised for next new bottom element. I guess it's all not reference to the **ValueMin **and ValueMax

[lusty sail]

LMAO, Fiddlenator, u was correct, last digits in the effects SID is the reason xD
from 1 to 4, *ValueMax * and *ValueMin * doesn't affect on that levels names.

If values after SID will be more than 5, there are will be sid_effects_artifact_none_name level name.

1 - Weak
2 - Medium
3 - Strong
4 - Maximum
5 - Weak
6 - sid_effects_artifact_none_name
... - sid_effects_artifact_none_name

[lone sapphire]

So the maximum stats per item are only five and more than five won't be properly registered, is that right?

[merry mountain]

no he is just testing what affects the effect text shown, you can have more then 5 effects on something that show correctly

[lusty sail]

Just make sure that have number from 1 to 4 after SID

[merry mountain]

i dont get why they did it this way 😅

[lusty sail]

like TestEffect1 - will be Weak always
TestEffect4 - will be Maximum alwasy

[merry mountain]

weird design choice in my opinion

[lusty sail]

Agree

I just broke my brain while tried to understood how it works xD

[drifting tapir]

yeah i discovered that a few days ago.

It blew my mind. It is so dumb

[lusty sail]

Me while testing it

[drifting tapir]

the EBeneficial::Positive and EBeneficial::Negative value in an effect determines whether it is red or green in ui

I thing if you want grey display it can be set to EBeneficial::None

[lusty sail]

Yeah, I've already got all that :: stuff

[drifting tapir]

effects with 0 wont display in ui. Need to be at least 0.01

[lusty sail]

Also some stuff:

ConsumableTypes::

EConsumableType::None
EConsumableType::Food
EConsumableType::Medicine
EConsumableType::Guitar

ESortGroup::

ESortGroup::None
ESortGroup::Up
ESortGroup::Down
ESortGroup::Left
ESortGroup::Right
ESortGroup::HP
ESortGroup::Bleeding
ESortGroup::Radiations
ESortGroup::Stamina
ESortGroup::Buff
ESortGroup::Hunger

EItemType::

EItemType::None
EItemType::Weapon
EItemType::Armor
EItemType::Artifact
EItemType::Attach
EItemType::Consumable
EItemType::Ammo
EItemType::Detector
EItemType::Grenade
EItemType::Other

EUISound::

EUISound::None
EUISound::OnShowReferenceTutorial
EUISound::OnShowSplashTutorial
EUISound::CloseInventory
EUISound::UnloadAmmoInventory
EUISound::WearEquipment
EUISound::TakeOffEquipment
EUISound::UseConsumableSausage
EUISound::UseConsumableBread
EUISound::UseConsumableVodka
EUISound::UseConsumableEnergetic
EUISound::UseConsumableWater
EUISound::UseConsumableBeer
EUISound::UseConsumableMilk
EUISound::UseConsumableCannedFood
EUISound::UseConsumableMedkit
EUISound::UseConsumableArmyMedkit
EUISound::UseConsumableEcoMedkit
EUISound::UseConsumableBandage
EUISound::UseConsumableAntiRad
EUISound::UseConsumableHercules
EUISound::UseConsumableBarvinok
EUISound::UseConsumablePsyBlocker
EUISound::UseConsumableCinnamon
EUISound::UpgradeItem
EUISound::RepairArmor
EUISound::RepairWeapon
EUISound::UpgradeItemCancel
EUISound::UpgradeItemModification
EUISound::UpgradeItemSelect
EUISound::DisassembleItem
EUISound::Click
EUISound::SectionSwitch
EUISound::JournalTabSwitch
EUISound::ScrollQuest
EUISound::SystemNotificationObjective
EUISound::SystemNotificationNews
EUISound::SystemNotificationTip
EUISound::SystemNotificationNewArea
EUISound::SystemNotificationNewAudio
EUISound::ItemSelectorGrenade
EUISound::ItemSelectorFireMode
EUISound::ItemSelectorClose
EUISound::ItemSelectorHover
EUISound::ItemSelectorOpen
EUISound::AcceptTrade
EUISound::CancelTrade
EUISound::JournalTrackQuest
EUISound::JournalUntrackQuest
EUISound::MainQuestAdded
EUISound::MainQuestCompleted
EUISound::SecondaryQuestAdded
EUISound::SecondaryQuestCompleted
EUISound::QuestFailed
EUISound::QuestCancelled
EUISound::QuestStageUpdated
EUISound::QuestStageFailed
EUISound::SettingsApply

EUISound::SettingsBack
EUISound::SettingsSlotHover
EUISound::SettingsSlotState
EUISound::SettingsTabSwitch
EUISound::PDATutorialTabSwitch
EUISound::PDATutorialScrol
EUISound::NoteStartPlayAudiologSound
EUISound::NoteStopPlayAudiologSound
EUISound::IdleScreen
EUISound::MainMenuMusicStart
EUISound::MainMenuMusicEnd
EUISound::MainMenuHover
EUISound::MainMenuSelect
EUISound::MainMenuNewGame
EUISound::PauseMenuOn
EUISound::PauseMenuOff
EUISound::AttachSelectorActivateAttach
EUISound::AttachSelectorDeactivateAttach
EUISound::AttachSelectorOpened
EUISound::AttachSelectorClosed
EUISound::AttachSelectorSlotSwitched
EUISound::AttachSelectorSlotHovered
EUISound::AttachSelectorDeactivateAllAttaches
EUISound::MapZoomIn
EUISound::MapZoomOut
EUISound::MapMarkerTrack
EUISound::MapMarkerUntrack
EUISound::MapUserMarkerSet
EUISound::MapUserMarkerRemove
EUISound::MapMarkerMenuOpen
EUISound::MapMarkerMenuClose
EUISound::MapMarkerMenuSwitch
EUISound::MapMarkerMenuDenied
EUISound::SpecificReward
EUISound::PickItem
EUISound::PlaceItem
EUISound::TakeAllLoot
EUISound::Count

UI sounds are very huge, like 100

[drifting tapir]

here the digits at the end of the variable do not matter because these are hidden effects that wont be displayed in ui

[lusty sail]

But can be used in item's pickup sounds, using, clicking

[drifting tapir]

.. but what if you want the effects to display in UI with effectlevel?

(you cant)

[lusty sail]

Hided because of negative number?

below 0

[drifting tapir]

no, hidden because gsc didnt want it to be displayed. Those effects are a food effect.

If you flagged those removedrunkness effects visible in the "shouldshoweffects" struct of food items, it will display as "sid_effects_artifact_none_name"

like if you set removedrunkness15 here to display in ui with EffectLevel, it will show the "id_effects_artifact_none_name" value.

insanely shitty ui code.

[lusty sail]

Ah, it's because SID has number more than 4, from number 6 it starting said as id_effects_artifact_none_name, like for drunkness -> 15, will be always id_effects_artifact_none_name

All my researches above 🙂

And _ also works between SID and number

SID = EffectTest_1 //will be Weak
SID = EffectTest_2 //will be Medium
SID = EffectTest_3 //will be Strong
SID = EffectTest_4 //will be Maximum

[drifting tapir]

have you tried something like EffectTest661?
I think it just parses the last digit

[lusty sail]

Nope, but I guess maybe it's regex just search any digis in the text. Will test

[drifting tapir]

wonder if something like EffectTest50_3 works

if so then at least we can make var names that are a bit more ... sane

[lusty sail]

So... Results.

SID = BreadHealing999 //will return "id_effects_artifact_none_name"
EffectsDisplayType = EEffectDisplayType::EffectLevel

SID = BreadHealing999 //will return "+8.0"
EffectsDisplayType = EEffectDisplayType::Value

SID = BreadHealing999_4 //will return "Maximum"
EffectsDisplayType = EEffectDisplayType::EffectLevel

SID = BreadHealing999_4 //will return "+999.0"
EffectsDisplayType = EEffectDisplayType::Value

_ can be used for separation and applying EffectLevel to that effect

[drifting tapir]

try breadhealing9994 without the _ separation

[crystal sinew]

@serene juniper

[lusty sail]

Looool

Last digit

It's a

[lone sapphire]

You got this... We know you will...

[lusty sail]

So conclusion - game parse last digit from 1 to 4 where first is Weak and last Maximum

We can do like:

SID = TestEffect25_3 // will be "Strong"
ValueMin = 25
ValueMax = 25

or

SID = TestEffect253 // will be "Strong"
ValueMin = 25
ValueMax = 25

[serene juniper]

did you figure it out ? im crashing every 5 mins . typically from inventory

[spark plinth]

Textures Curtesy of @little sluice
Screenshots by me 8K:

[summer tartan]

need new skins for all the guns, they all look the same ingame

[lusty sail]

Yes, now EEffectDisplayType works for preview.

[deep ridge]

has anyone made a mod with real weapon weights applied?

[dense saffron]

What software is that

[crystal ether]

I want thsi

[high rain]

S2GUITools is totaly ungooglable and it's not on nexus what is it

[dense saffron]

Probably custom

[steel isle]

it’s not available yet, new tool he’s working on

[south kayak]

Yep, it's a custom piece of software @lusty sail developed for item creation/editing ease, from what I gathered from this chat. Afaik it's made on Godot Engine. So here's to hoping we might get our hands on it someday in the future

[summer tartan]

are there any forms for stalker 2 modding yet?

forums

I need to read about a lot more stuff, and also need a place to ask basic questions

[hazy wing]

Yea, i did, just re-done copying some lines from vanilla game, edited them, and it worked 2nd time
I still dont know what happened

[fervent talon]

Please tell me how to change the cartridge used in the weapon? I really want the PKM (RP-74) to shoot 7.62x54mm cartridges

[summer tartan]

there are some calibre mods on nexusmods already

[steel isle]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/790

[fast shore]

Any way to hide enemy markers and red outline from the compass

It makes the game too easy imo

[steel isle]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/182

[fast shore]

Incompatible with stalker2tweaks and a life extended

Unfortunately

[steel isle]

not if you only install the NoColorBar and NoEnemyMarkers files (and cardinal directions if you want that one). these don't edit CoreVariables. I use it with Shay's and other mods just fine

[limber rose]

Hi, where can I find this tool please?

[lusty sail]

Nowhere, it’s still in development, still very raw

[limber rose]

Maybe you have a git repository? I m application developper, maybe I can help

[lusty sail]

It’s godot engine, no git hub for now 😅
When I will get some working build with all the item creation features - i will inform here

[limber rose]

Ok 🙂

just a question, what language is it coded?

[lusty sail]

GDScript, it looks like symbiosis of python and lua

[magic shuttle]

is there a way to get rid of death counter?

[desert valve]

well, you know, you could... stop dying?

but no, i dont know of a mod that removes it 😄

[cobalt hamlet]

It's a good reminder of just how bad you really are.

https://tenor.com/view/when-gif-10953630

SDK

[summer silo]

If only it reset when you change a save slot or restart the game

[cobalt hamlet]

haha what a joke, they really did that ? I don't think its intentional but's it's funny

[summer silo]

I restarted my save after first update to do side quests
Died once
Counter = 22

[cobalt hamlet]

I'm pretty sure there is a way to reset it from save files

Maybe using CheatEngine and find the Hex etc

boring just for a counter, it's probably a bug

[void owl]

Just wanna self promote a bit, that version 2.1.0 for Dynamic Weather Overhaul is out :3 checkout the screenshots at #1311655930907066461 and be sure to give feedback. I won't be doing any major reworks except for bug fixes and small tweaks. Thanks !

[magic shuttle]

dont need game to tell me that continiously. ik im not good. lol

hence game, play for fun. seeing death counter not fun to me

[merry mountain]

if we find the function that does this we could hook into it with ue4ss and set it to whatever

[high plaza]

Yo gamers how’s the modding going!

[minor cedar]

Nothing special, been working on reworked stats for unique weapons lately for my mod

likely will be the last update for this year since I still got some university stuff to do left during Dec - Jan.

also because I need to actually play the game, lol.

[steel isle]

not good, I added some new generators to ItemGeneratorPrototypes and I keep getting the "struct hierarchy damaged" error when I start the game...can't figure out where I went wrong

[steel isle]

lmao fuck me, I had a struct:begin instead of struct.begin

I hate coding sometimes

[minor cedar]

same here, coding is a pain

[ripe flame]

Does anyone know if there's a way of batch execute commands in dev console?

[ripe flame]

Answer: yes. Separate commands with |

[minor cedar]

Nice, thanks for the tips

[ripe flame]

Created simple bundle for faster testing things in new game. Weapons, ammo, helmet, armor, medicaments.

XCreateItemInInventoryByID Heavy_Military_Helmet 0 1 1 | XCreateItemInInventoryByID Battle_Dolg_End_Armor 0 1 1 | XCreateItemInInventoryByID GunD12_SG 0 1 1 | XCreateItemInInventoryByID A012A 0 200 1 | XCreateItemInInventoryByID A012D 0 200 1 | XCreateItemInInventoryByID GunDnipro_ST 0 1 1 | XCreateItemInInventoryByID A545D 0 300 1 | XCreateItemInInventoryByID A545A 0 300 1 | XCreateItemInInventoryByID EcoMedkit 0 100 1 | XCreateItemInInventoryByID Bandage 0 100 1 | XCreateItemInInventoryByID AntiRad 0 100 1

[merry mountain]

there are also some debug quests that you can start that give you a bunch of gear

[ripe flame]

Manually merged localization. For those who wants up-to-date localization but without real weapon names.

Mods:

• Mutant Loot 1.1.4
• Project Itemization 0.20
• Faction Patches 0.3.1
• Pillhead 1.2

Added:

• Mutant Loot: "Zombie Hand" name and description for all languages.

Known issues:
-Project Itemization: broken localization for "MarkedСards".

Download:
Miscellaneous files section: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/367?tab=files

[summer silo]

THY WISHES WERE HEARD BY THE LORDS OF THE NEXUS

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/861

Oh wait you already found it

[magic shuttle]

i was wondering who it was... thanks !

(i'm a mod stalker lol)

[half willow]

anyone here knows what the paths for the LocalizationDB file is?

[frozen anvil]

working on classic flavoured hud

[little sluice]

Looks amazing

[unreal glacier]

YES i WANT

[tidal yew]

best stutter fixer mod?

[unreal glacier]

release soon?

[summer silo]

https://tenor.com/view/give-it-to-me-give-me-i-want-it-i-need-it-gif-19137027

That has got to be the most amazing mod so far for hud ngl

Now to figure out how to make the HUD stop hiding itself

It'll work great with

• https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/830
• https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/441
• https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/649

[frozen anvil]

@unreal glacier @summer silo https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1317650751043928124

wip

[summer silo]

https://tenor.com/view/rage-emoji-rage-gif-3851471549750385303

[lone sapphire]

But does it still count your death counters in the background if we ever uninstall your mod?

[lone sapphire]

Have you already checked if you uninstall the mod, does it still record or increase your death counter in the background or does it totally disable and doesn't increase your death counter in the background anymore if the mod is installed?

[lusty sail]

Clear Sky vibe 😄

[frozen anvil]

yep

Clear Sky my beloved

[summer silo]

Pretty sure it just hides the text from the death screen

[lusty sail]

why there are 3 parameters :0
Second is for count?

[tidal yew]

im gonna have to install ue5 to modify this texture right? or is there another way? trying to edit scope texture using UE4-dds-tools but im getting this error

[lone sapphire]

bummer

[lusty sail]

if ../ in refurl works as one folder up relative to file from where we check refurl=, then how can I check if file in folder that near current file?

Like refurl=FolderName/Reference.cfg or refurl=./FolderName/Reference.cfg?

[summer tartan]

needs minimap

[frozen anvil]

that's beyond my capabilities right now

[summer tartan]

yes, need to know where the guys are

[lusty sail]

Continue working on my tool, today I've done first steps of item creation, not only preview, maybe tomorrow the feature "add item" will be functional. I need to rewrite save system for saving new cfg's 😦

[summer tartan]

i might prefer something like this

i need the minimap, although i actually like the minimalist look of the new game

can't decide between top left or bottom left minimap for gameplay

[frozen anvil]

idk why, but blocking out CoP-style HUD as well

[summer tartan]

I think that one fits S2 better

is there no config for hud fade time?

oh yes there is: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/683

5. Compass is not a tiny widget at the top, it's a giant widget covering the whole screen - this is why changing alignment does nothing for it and scaling feels weird. In general, all the widgets are not what they appear to be and the HUD is made in a bizarre way by using overlay containers (literally: healthbar -> overlay -> overlay -> sizebox -> overlay -> root, they're not using canvas for whatever reason, so they can't set positions normally ... whoever made it this way seriously needs to read some docs and redo the whole monster from scratch).

[crude basin]

Hi all, trying to follow the modding tutorial above. I downloaded a .zip file of all .cfg's off Nexus. Can anyone tell me what the full file path should be for the mod before I pack it? Trying to create custom cfg's. Current file pathing is as below. cfg changes are not working in game so I am guessing it is my file path before I pack it. I am also on game pass if that matters.

[odd seal]

\Stalker2\Content\GameLite\GameData, youre just missing the content subfolder

[odd seal]

^

[crude basin]

Thank you! Was actually the next thing I tried. Variable changes are showing in game.

[foggy hinge]

Can I make a recommendation? Maybe consider adding a option to create projects to save separate copies of these changes. That way mod management is much easier.

[lusty sail]

Describe more please, because I don’t understand why it needed if you can be able to save changes to opened file before or to the new file for the first created item, you can’t make the same item with same uid

[foggy hinge]

So more like if you isolate your mod files into a folder, you can use an open folder or open recent option to designate to that folder specifically.

And IDK if you want to, but maybe a simple file explorer or something of the sorts.

[lusty sail]

It already there, you can save new items file (if create first item without opening file for preview before) into any folder using window file save dialogue. The saved file will be opened for preview in the tool.
And if u opened some items file before creating new one to preview, you can save this file separately to the new file in any directory.(Same as make copy of all file by notepad and paste in new file)

[foggy hinge]

Ahh, okay.

[sinful cypress]

May this be a localization error?

[swift pasture]

I think yes, I've seen it with 2-3 armor and maybe with 1-2 upgrade name for suits

changed the language to another from english and worked, changed back and the same placeholder again

[summer tartan]

heh, the / in the ammo HUD actually moves around with each shot. although I guess that's not very surprising

[nimble heron]

what do you guys think abt flesh jump attack?
Ive completely disabled it
and tbh, feels nicer
at least closer to trilogy

[summer tartan]

I don't like any of the mutant AI so far. They just do the same thing over and over again

disabling jump attack is cool But it would be nice to edit bloodsucker completely

[nimble heron]

on it currently
but imo bloodsucker should remain almost the same
trying to get as close to trilogy as i can

[violet crater]

Guys do we have any game unpacker not just FModel ? I would love to unpack full game audio and so on )

[summer tartan]

bloodsucker wasnt like that in original trilogy, this is like very cartoony

breaks immersion to know he's coming back at the same length of time each time. he's just a bot

[nimble heron]

i agree

[summer tartan]

that's my hud

I figure the tiny radar is better than nothing. and you can still see arrows

I can't really play with no HUD. I've tried

[half willow]

@lusty sail @drifting tapir any idea how (or if it's even possible right now) to define a straight up new property?
I'm trying to add a new caliber into the game, and I'm running into a wall where when I set EAmmoCaliber:: to something that isn't used for anything else already in the game.
Right now I'm setting it to AmmoCaliber = EAmmoCaliber::A300B in WeaponGeneralSetupPrototypes.cfg and Caliber = EAmmoCaliber::A300B in AmmoPrototypes.cfg but I have problems with the text showing up in the UI.
It's using sid_misc_item_tooltip_ammo_caliber_None instead of sid_misc_item_tooltip_ammo_caliber_A300B and I don't know why
I don't know if I'm running into a SDK wall or not 😭

[lusty sail]

Hey, here are all EAmmoCaliber::. As you can see, I guess, It's premade in engine??? So maybe try to put refrence ammo from this list, that you've used to create A300B

[half willow]

is that screenshot taken out of the Unreal Editor?

[lusty sail]

UE4SS

[half willow]

Huh

[lusty sail]

Show your A300B structure

[lusty sail]

So look, you use TemplateAmmo reference structure that have:

Caliber = EAmmoCaliber::None

And inside your structures i don't see that you rewrite same property, so technically all your ammo is still EAmmoCaliber::None

[half willow]

I do

in the A300BD

and then I ref the other ones to that

[lusty sail]

This isn't exist

[half willow]

Yeah I know

[lusty sail]

You saw list of calibers Enum

[half willow]

That's sort of the point

I'm trying to add a new one

[lusty sail]

There some point that need to be add new one?

And don't use exist one as reference