╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion

[river bolt]

oh

[tidal yew]

oh man

[river bolt]

?

[tidal yew]

bro like a lot of this might be borked as of update

:(

[river bolt]

i guess only oxa is the one updated

so remove all?

[median quest]

Id just go trough them all and anything that is old, just yeet

just beware so its not breaking your save

[river bolt]

well the only mod updated is OXA

[river bolt]

how about mods that only edits?

[median quest]

Ye well mods using refurl is generally fine

like zivs

its fine

[river bolt]

hmm guess, technician, repair kit and extended equipment will be gone for now

[median quest]

but 2 days longer days is probasbly outdated and should be feliches

[median quest]

Id keep those

[river bolt]

time to yeet stuff that add stuff i guess

[river bolt]

oh

neat

[hazy ivy]

edits are the worst possible mods

as they use old versions of configs

[median quest]

they use refurl which is fine

[hazy ivy]

they effectively replace updated configs with ones from months ago

so you'll get weird behaviour and CTDs with no idea why

[river bolt]

can u guys tell me which mods to remove

and are safe to keep

is everytechnician unlocked and unrestrictedupgrades good?

[tidal yew]

i'd first move all these paks to a folder in desktop, go to nexus and update the ones which have been updated

[river bolt]

man
why stalker 2 so fcking hard to mod, they conflict with mods i want to add

[oak olive]

Hi, please tell me, is it possible to make it so that you can buy and sell weapons from sellers?

[hazy ivy]

And get rid of Axxii and definitely the merge

[hazy ivy]

I believe that's called trading

[river bolt]

the encircled is from this
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/633?tab=files

[river bolt]

the pample is from this
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/665

[river bolt]

default game you can buy and sell weapons

altho it depends on the location

[tidal yew]

that'd be a sick mod after sdk drops. as is we can buy the car, so it's definitely possible.

[hazy ivy]

think that's a BP mod so should be good

[hazy ivy]

and not sure where things are with these, you'll have to ask @thick widget

[river bolt]

ill remove them then

[oak olive]

I recently downloaded the game and haven't quite figured it out yet. And I think I mixed up the chats a little bit, if that's the case, I apologize.

[hazy ivy]

haha dw about it, if you've got questions go for it

[river bolt]

on base gamma you can buy and sell weapon
in stalker 2 you can

you mixed it up

[oak olive]

Ok, thank you very much, I will figure out the game

[river bolt]

@hazy ivy just to ask
is the 0 weight item mods good?

[hazy ivy]

probably not

gimme one sec I'l take a look

nah think its borked

btw people have remade a bunch of these

[river bolt]

atm i dont see any updated
if i cant find one
i guess ill just use an item that increase carryweight

[hazy ivy]

yea this is the problem :/

[river bolt]

iirc its from the extended equipment
it sells a backpack to give more carryweight

[hazy ivy]

that might work

[river bolt]

so maklane is good to use?

[hazy ivy]

yea, but its a balance rather than a zero weight

but yea maklane's on it with the updates

[river bolt]

ill look into it

tnx bro

if only GSC release proper modding tools

kek

[hazy ivy]

tbh modding tools wouldn't fix this, it'll be an issue til they stop updating the game so often 😦

[river bolt]

btw what about this?
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/806

[median quest]

And/or nexus decides to not have outdated mods on top pages and filter better

[summer silo]

Yeah we'll see these issues crop up until GSC stops updating the game.

This is the case with many games tbh

Skyrim Special Edition keeps getting updated to this day.
Result: SKSE needs to be updated, mods get broken, etc.

[river bolt]

same when i was playing fallout 4
nxt gen update was bullshit

[summer silo]

On that note I still remember the guy who proudly said Vortex is superior because LOOT can make load order management in stalker much better despite it not even supporting the game

[river bolt]

kek

man i guess old mods are gonna go bye bye

[summer silo]

Yeah

[river bolt]

oh it work
guess old mods are outdated

ill try to add mods one by one to see which one is causing the issue

[hazy ivy]

there's an OXA compatible version

one part from that page, the other from mine

[river bolt]

yeah i installed them
no issue

[hazy ivy]

🙂

[hazy ivy]

tbh there's nothing amazing that's lost

[river bolt]

this mod works
i just added it

seems like some mods that modify stuff are the culprit

welp im fine now

tnx oxide

[hazy ivy]

careful

'loads' is not the same as works

if the game is now expecting something to be in those cfg files and it isn't, it'll either bug out or crash when its referenced

and you won't know why

[river bolt]

im trying it out in new game

haha zubr

well shit
i guess they really dont work

[hazy ivy]

hahaha

that won't be them

but its something

if you wanna post your new order I'll have another look

those weight mods affect ammoprototypes, grenadeprototypes, and consumablesprototypes

[river bolt]

well thismod is fine

[hazy ivy]

oh definitely that

[river bolt]

select fire apb

no issue

[hazy ivy]

its overwriting your entire weapongeneralsetupprototypes cfg

with a version from months ago

which includes all the static mesh references which have since changed

[median quest]

I dont understnad these 10 line changes using the entire cfg

so much headache

[river bolt]

wait maybe its the merge file i used

ill try removing it first

[hazy ivy]

haha im tellin ya

[river bolt]

btw oxide is fubar safe to use?

[hazy ivy]

yea it got updated

make sure you load before OXA tho

[river bolt]

new load order

it was the apb lmao

man
why is the apb 3 shot burst
but no single fire

wait wut
it has auto and semi

i removed the mod that adds that

im fine now oxide
i guess everything works

much tnx brother

[hazy ivy]

oh yea i changed the fire modes for the APB in OXA lol

[river bolt]

i guess ill look on mods that are updated

[river bolt]

the mod i remove is the same as yours

so i guess it remained

[hazy ivy]

no i mean that's an OXA feature, some guy asked for it ages ago and i was like, eh why not

it's like a single line edit

[river bolt]

well i also wanted it so i guess lots of guys will like it too since why would apb only be 3 round burst if u want it single fire

also found replacement for mods i previously installed

[river bolt]

@hazy ivy found the culprit
it was this mod

[tidal yew]

myb, catch me up, pls tell me the full auto aps wasnt using the whole cfg 😭

[river bolt]

bummer
unrestricted upgrade mod causes the upgrade cfg file issue i have

[river bolt]

i dont think it is
coz my issue was the weapon are disappearing

or maybe

[hazy ivy]

lol of course it was

[river bolt]

i returned some mods im using and they work fine

oh

[hazy ivy]

yea weapongeneralsetupprototypes contains attachment info, static mesh component references, reload speed, weight, fire modes, all sorts of stuff

[river bolt]

btw oxide
how to make your mods take priority? what should i add?

[hazy ivy]

rename OXA03_P to OXA03_100_P

[river bolt]

btw is this fine? i followed the steps

[hazy ivy]

the others are just resources that don't compete with anything else

yea that's perfect, so long as you're using UE4SS

[river bolt]

i have some localization issue
i guess the community localization is outdated?

[hazy ivy]

yea, search for 'localization' and delete everything that's not OXA

OXA has a whole bunch of other localizations rolled into it

[river bolt]

btw

oh shit why is the localization remove

[hazy ivy]

stalker can only load one set of localization files at a time

you have another set somewhere

[river bolt]

man i just looked at my load order and i dont see any localization files
wtf i remember i put yours

[hazy ivy]

haha lol i see now

yea just throw em back in

[river bolt]

aight time to test again

aight its fixed
guess the community one is outdated
and yours is the updated one

at first i was skeptical about your mod
but i wanted the more attachment so i gave it a try
guess the old mods i had was the problem and yours just works
still has limitation coz some attachments doesnt have anims but i can just put attachments in inventory for those i cant do on the fly

[hazy ivy]

yea if a weapon doesn't have any default attach animations there's not a lot I can do rn

and 'complex' animations that involve moving parts (mags, UGLs) are also a no-go

[river bolt]

limitation i know

weird
i use some mag + ubgl

and they are fine

well i guess it was fine on g37
havent tried ar416

[hazy ivy]

custom mags + underbarrel attachments tend to shit the bed

mag doesn't move on reload

[river bolt]

you mean the mags you added?

[hazy ivy]

yea

or expanded compatibility for

[river bolt]

oh
i havent found those

[hazy ivy]

there's a few 'grouped' mags

they're all standard

just usable on more weapons

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/939?tab=description

[river bolt]

oh maybe you mean the interchangable mags?

[hazy ivy]

scroll down to Silencers & Magazines

the groups on the right

[river bolt]

so you mean if i use a mag that wasnt supposed to use + ugbl it will bork it?

[hazy ivy]

yea, nothing permanent

but if you find you try to reload and the magazine doesn't actually go anywhere, that's why

[river bolt]

oh well
i have mag preference anyway

[river bolt]

wdym? it doesnt reload? or it reloads but no animation?

[hazy ivy]

it reloads, but the magazine never leaves the weapon lol

[river bolt]

oh that

[hazy ivy]

your left hand just moves around like you're casting a spell or some shit

and alakazam the mag is reloaded

[river bolt]

i guess it will be a minor annoyannce
but cant help it since "limitation" that you cant solve atm so im fine with that

unless someone find a fix for it

[hazy ivy]

yea, setting it up so the magazine and ugl are 'incompatible' and cant be equipped simultaneously is a pain, not sure how to go about it as they're in different slots

but reload animations are already complicated, and ugl's use an entirely separate anim montage to the base weapon

[river bolt]

honestly i want this feature for gamma but i guess thats impossible
i mean different magazine if change it
but its old game so cant fix lel

[hazy ivy]

and I'm doing it all by editing cooked assets so that's a nightmare in itself

[river bolt]

lel

also add more attachments might be in the future?

like a drum mag for vector lel

also why is there a vector but no glock

compatible magazine lel

[river bolt]

what tool to use to edit the pak files?

[hazy ivy]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/374

I use that to unpack and repack .Pak files

If you want the vanilla configs get Fmodel

[supple hare]

almost 4 months of work, my big mod is done: https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1352755804138246255

learned a lot about this game, feel free to ask me anything related to modding this game (that is not AI, A-Life or 3D modelling related)

[void owl]

grats!

[void owl]

If anyone is interested in higher weapon fov (not camera fov):

something like this

[minor cedar]

damn, very interesting.

didn't know that this is possible, I might have to borrow this idea someday...lol

jk I'm not a fan of copying others' stuff either.

[void owl]

Nan I won't release it as my own mod

[void owl]

I already offered Ani to use it in MHM

Problem is that it's another 3 files to add to mod folder unless you can pack it up in your own

[minor cedar]

think I can manage that, do you mind if I borrow it as well? will credit you for sure if I do.

[void owl]

for sure, just link my profile or my weather mod lolol. The mod might need some tweaking and hasnt been tested fully

you can try it on your own first, make sure guns look fine and animations are busted lol

[fervent stratus]

tested in cutscenes?

[void owl]

only affects weapons

contextual actions for example climbing ladders seem to be unaffected

reloading the ak was fine and so was clearing a weapon jam

[junior portal]

Hello guys, I want to do second run of the game and looking for optimal solutions with mods. First run I finished with Maklane overhaul, but yesterday was released Stalker Infinity with loud changes. If you can recommend something else, please, let me know, thanks.

[hazy ivy]

A few options in terms of overhauls;
Modular Hard Mode - If you consider yourself a veteran of the zone who can survive anything, test your skill (and luck) with MHM
Desolation - If you want to explore new features/mechanics/items in a more challenging Zone, have a look at Desolation
Infinity - The mod is a relative newcomer, but it's creator was one of the first to provide a satisfying rebalance of weapons. From what I gather, Infinity is a step towards what vanilla Stalker should/could be; the Zone you know, but rebalanced and reconfigured for a better experience

[hazy ivy]

A single line won't do any of them justice, but have a look at their mod pages if any take your interest

Oh and obviously you need to install my mod because it is the best mod

[junior portal]

Understood) Thank you!

[hazy ivy]

Actually I take that back, Infinity is incompatible with OXA so you don't actually have to install my mod

[fervent stratus]

punked

[junior portal]

At this moment exist some mods closed to the GAMMA experience?

[hazy ivy]

gamma?

There is no GAMMA in Stalker 2

ohhhh

wait you mean close to

my bad

depends what you mean by that, GAMMA changes a lot of things

[junior portal]

Of course that not, I have to hear about it if that existed)

[junior portal]

Hmm

[hazy ivy]

what things did you like about GAMMA the most

[junior portal]

like grinding and gear leveling)

[hazy ivy]

hmm, nothing to really replicate that exactly yet

OXA expands on attachments and equipment a lot, so there's reward in exploring to find new equipment, or to earn enough to buy some new stuff from traders

MHM's difficulty hike makes it so progression is definitely earned

Desolation has a bunch of extra things you can find

[junior portal]

Ok, this one sounds most interested

[hazy ivy]

I just looked and the mod hasn't been updated since v1.3

[junior portal]

But I have bad feeling about this. Probably will drop it and install GAMMA with Bandit run in third time))\

[hazy ivy]

haven't heard from Deadlystrike in a little while either

[junior portal]

Ah...

[median quest]

If you are planning to play for an extended period of time MHM probably the most stable. Regular updates and pretty fast maintained for patches, atleast so far

(Maybe a bit biased since I play it myself lol)

[void owl]

I hope he's doing fine

I think Desolation uses only exclusively refurls so maybe it's still good

[crisp bolt]

He made his own discord I believe for Desolation

[hazy ivy]

So looks like development has slowed a little due to RL but the latest version on Nexus is still compatible with v1.3!

[junior portal]

Ok, thank you!

[hazy ivy]

Honestly not the worst idea

I was thinking about doing something similar for OXA, but don't feel like my mod warrants its own server

but a dedicated Stalker 2 Modding discord might be nice

Actual channels for the major mods so we can use the search function properly

Easier access so users dont have to know how many modules GAMMA has before they're allowed to ask a question about installing MHM

Places we can host our own resources, like refurl guides for mod makers, or instructions for users on how best to manage load order

call me crazy but we could even have a moderator or two

[minor cedar]

yeah, I also think it's about time Stalker 2 gets its own modding server

[fervent stratus]

already exists

just dead af since release

[thick widget]

Look a magician!!!!

I swear every patch moves the headlamp around on some of these npcs

[void owl]

WeaponFOV mod

(i hope this doesnt ping the guys lol)

[grave kite]

the ads swap can also be done in one of the weapon proto configs, i have it set to .05 so its just a tiny increase in mhm, but by default the game does it by a good amount

but if its the view model i assume it acts abit different

instead of it being a fov zoom in

[void owl]

yeah so i think cfg its just the zoom, not the weapon/viewmodel

[void owl]

try it out, i think itll really elevate the mhm feel

if you can just add it into your pak and utoc, you wont need the extra 3 files

[grave kite]

i will, currently finishing up this interface overhaul

[river bolt]

is the stashes on stalker 2 are only 1 time loot?

[gentle hinge]

Yez

[mellow prawn]

Where do I find the values in the .cfg files to change a weapon's range ?

The ones in playerweaponSettings.cfg don't seem to work for weapon range

[thick widget]

How far rounds travel?

[minor cedar]

In vanilla it's 1000m for all projectile types

[minor cedar]

as for the variables responsible for weapon changes, refer to the bottom section of this page:
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/658?tab=description

[mellow prawn]

thanks

[minor cedar]

A lot of weapon range stats are configured in CharacterWeaponSetupPrototypes by default - PlayerWeaponSetupPrototypes then refurls said stats for each individual weapon, so if you want to modify range by weapon types only it's faster to change stats there also

[celest crow]

anybody know why I a may be getting this crash when I load into my save LoginId:443953b74ce7f6ac9b7e36ab2474e1f3
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[thick widget]

Assuming the save isn’t corrupt. It’s possible a mod could be related

[hazy ivy]

Gonna need a lot more info, the main thing being what has changed since you could last load the save. I.e. since you last played have you
Updated the game
Updated, removed, or added mods

[celest crow]

You were helping me out on your thread. I reloaded a save from like an hour before that time and it works flawlessly now. Weird

@hazy ivy 'Merged Version for OXA'? that is this https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1139?tab=files

[hazy ivy]

OHHHH it you

oh lol i made that

the merged one, not the whole thing

[celest crow]

but thanks again for the tips, I read through it and changed a bunch around and now its working perfect

[hazy ivy]

Did you see my comment regarding Kireina's?

[celest crow]

yes

[hazy ivy]

glad to hear it

there's like no readily available info on this stuff, so there's a load of users using absolutely ancient .cfg files

the v1.3 'missing weapons' issue made it super obvious, but outdated .cfg files can just cause weird undetected behaviour and CTDs that people blame on the base game

[celest crow]

Yeah I posted a day or two ago when I mentioned that I was on a previous version of the game like 1.1.3 or something old and I continued updating your mod as you released and at first I was like oh weird I don't notice any issues but once I actually starting searching them out I realized it was a lot more prevalent than I realized

[hazy ivy]

yea, Nexus is pretty shitty for it; literally 50% of the 'top 30' mods now break the game or reduce stability

[golden pumice]

I would appreciate if someone could mod the snipex alligator or horizon's lord into the game, in real life accurate way with the ability to use most scopes and the round having same ballistics (or bit better than .50BMG)

[hazy ivy]

no new guns til SDK atm

no-one's developed a way to create new materials

[golden pumice]

Okay 😦 but keep it in mind cuz gamma needs a long range sniper that can use different scopes and one shot, it would also be balanced as it would be heavy and have very rare ammo

[golden pumice]

What kind of file do I need for weapon 3d models

[hazy ivy]

oh, if you want GAMMA you're in the wrong place

this is Stalker 2

[mellow prawn]

Anyone know what .cfg file has the settings for the animation speed of the M700's bolt reload ?

[crisp bolt]

Also to add @celest crow to this, they tend to change resource paths and if you run a cfg where that tells the game hey this resource path is here, but it's actually not there anymore it will cause a CTD/AV.

[celest crow]

good to know ty

[thick widget]

Missing critical assets tends to do that

[crisp bolt]

To be fair some things tend to not just some fine Linguine

[thick widget]

https://tenor.com/view/screaming-albert-niazhvinski-albert-cancook-shouting-yelling-gif-13553596472613750219

GSC Probably

[celest crow]

I have tried those skip shader warm up mods whenever I have, it appears to either not load or disable a significant portion of the loadorder. I was just curious if anybody has had that happen and why it is? Im more curious than anything

[minor cedar]

Guys, am I doing refurl right here? Been trying to make a refurl file for GeneralNPCObjPrototypes, so that I won't have to overwrite the entire .cfg just to change body part damage multiplier

So far this doesn't seem to work in game for whatever reason

[void owl]

This reminds me i wanted to make a new enum with more than just head body and limbs for damage modifiers

i wonder if it will ever be possible

[fervent stratus]

your refurl is wrong

[thick widget]

Well it depends if your new config is in the objprototypes directory then its just refurl=GeneralNPCObjPrototypes.cfg

[median quest]

Ye for every subfolder it is in it is another ../ added

[minor cedar]

yeah, in theory that should be the case.

for now I've tried every single combination I can think of:

• with or without an extra foldery, and also with an extra folder line in config
• removing other mods that also edit GeneralNPCObjPrototypes
• trying other saves
• removing ALL mods

andddd it still doesn't work. not gonna lie, I hate refurl sometimes 😂

personally, I think for how annoying .cfg override is to maintain it's still a more reliable method to load mods in long as there's no conflicts.

[golden pumice]

I didn't even notice

But yea I found a nice snipex alligator addon

It should be added to gamma

[loud patrol]

Hi, can someone please pack these files for me in pak, utoc and ucas because I don't understand how to pack them myself. many thanks in advance

[young granite]

Sure as long as you run my perfectly safe executable

[tidal rapids]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/540

try this

pretty straightforward too

[loud patrol]

[celest crow]

@hazy ivy im curious if you have encountered the repair widget stay on the screen after inventory closes. I can only guess that maybe the faster backpack mod that opens the inventory faster is what causes it

its sporadic too. I find it sometimes popping up on my screen when invetory isnt open and after I had already pressed 0 to disable it

[grave rose]

The repair widget is tied to the open and close function of the inventory. So if anything knocks you out of the inventory it never gets the call to turn off.

I believe Oxide was working on a better way to do it. I'm not sure if it's implemented yet.

[hazy ivy]

What's your typical framerate?

[celest crow]

sitting at like 80-100, doesnt drop below 60 @hearty fiber

if I press 0 it will go away but when I close the inventory sometimes it will pop up again and stay on screen until I press 0 again or open inventory but it continues to do the same thing regardless of the 0.

im not sure how to go about fixing it besides possibly just turning off the fast backpack open mod. Ima disable it and see if it continues. But I do really like opening my backpack faster so if I can fix it without getting rid of that or possibly incorporating whatever speed changes it makes into whatever cfg file but Im not 100% how to go about that tho

ooo i guess I could jsut unpack it and take a look

but if the speed is what is causing it I guess manually making the changes instead of the mod might not solve the issue

yeah its 100% the backpack mod, disabled it and it stopped completely. The one im using is https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/84

[sharp meteor]

refurl trick works in EffectPrototypes.cfg? As CoreVariables and some aren't working well, anyone knows?

[fervent stratus]

depends what you want to do i think

[sharp meteor]

Modify "BulletKillDamage : struct.begin {refkey=[0]}" block

Edit: Is more like this block: "KillVolumeEffect : struct.begin {refkey=[0]}"

[fervent stratus]

should work i think

its the [0] that are annoying imo

where it says [0] : struct

[sharp meteor]

Will try then

Ty

[fervent stratus]

for what? did barely anything hha np anyway :p

[sharp meteor]

There are some zones where you get an instakill fake sniper shot (example in Duga north zone or south military cordon control point). For New Game Start mod, I will try to avoid the instakill to allow access to these (small) zones in the "free play". No super-important, but wanna test. Shot damage seems to be in these block

[wispy temple]

@hazy ivy

U got that yt channel right?

[hazy ivy]

Nah that's someone else

[wispy temple]

Ah aight bro

[hazy ivy]

I just make a stalker mod 🙂

[fickle urchin]

is their a mod that gives you every upgrade kit when you disassemble any amour or gun??

[void owl]

This sounds like a GAMMA Question

[fickle urchin]

dam didn't see this was a stalker 2 channel lol just saw mod making

[loud peak]

Please, don't be like this guy:

[grave rose]

Sadly this is going to become more and more of a problem as people return for updates and don't redo their mods.

[strong coyote]

Anyone tried to modify the ambient music files? Would like to make a mod with my own playlist but it seems very hard to do

[median quest]

I know ani did

And apparently it was pain i think

[strong coyote]

Have you uploaded your mod somewhere?

I heard S2 have around 600 sound files, I need to change all of them?

[median quest]

I personally have no idea, I jsut know ANI HVX did some changes to ambient music so probably ask in https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1310297745679978496

[celest crow]

@hazy ivy is there still a command to disable repair widget? instead of using 0

[hazy ivy]

nah i broke it by accident in v2.1.5

[celest crow]

dang owell

[hazy ivy]

I'm figuring out how settings work

so once that's done I'll be able to implement a cleaner version of it

[celest crow]

that makes sense, better than putting out something half baked

[hazy ivy]

that's what i figured

no point wasting time implementing a solution I'm gonna be replacing anyway, it's not like it's a game-breaking bug or something

[celest crow]

yeah only reason I wanted it was to try to keep using the faster backpack animation but its mostly fixed with the new update you pushed. It sometimes stays if I open and close it a couple times pretty fast but works way better

[hazy ivy]

'0' should hide it if it gets stuck

but other than that

there's a section set up to monitor the inventory widget to see if it's rendered, if it detects it's no longer rendered then it shuts off the repair widget

but to minimise performance impact I try to shut everything down when it's not needed

so that section is only active when the inventory is considered 'open'

but the toggle to set it to 'open' only kicks in after about 1.5s, as that 'open' toggle triggers a bunch of other stuff that needs the inventory to be visible

[strong coyote]

@tidal yew Do you plan to make Project Inverno or other "Winter/Autumn" like retextures to the S2? I assume that it needs SDK?

[tidal yew]

Yes, there is a plan to make winter in Stalker 2. Whether the SDK is needed for this, I can't say yet. At the moment, only the main menu is ready.

the grass free option might help with fps.. 😅

[fervent stratus]

not trying to burst bubble but a full fledged winter region is planned

unless you mean full zone winter

that would be craaazzzyyyyy

(not in a bad way)

[tidal yew]

I'm not sure yet if I can do it myself. Time will tell.

[fervent stratus]

true true, time always tells

!vero

[celest dune]

⠀

[strong coyote]

I don't know is it possible to modify gameworld without SDK, textures maybe but nothing else

So more "desolate/autumnal" setting could be possible even now

For a proper winter mod we need particle editor for snow, grass reduction is also necessary

And amount of textures to modify will be far more bigger than in Anomaly since the world is much more varied and detailed

Late Fall in S2 would be amazing

[fervent stratus]

hha brother fabio is an xray modder

man knows whats up

[crisp bolt]

We might be able to, but we would have to make a custom 5.1 build from source and edit the engine to allow import of cooked assets. Make an uncooker in engine as a module and then uncook the asset, someone did this in 4.23 I'm trying to replicate this in 5.1 but they changed and moved a lot of stuff around also Microsoft issues.

If we can get this to work though. We might be able to expand on more asset types in the future.

[pastel mesa]

gotta say ... took me a while to notice it's real footage

[crisp bolt]

This looks really really good

[fervent stratus]

ngl i thought man had some god blender skills

untill i saw it was a drone vid

still very poggers

[strong coyote]

Been in Chernobyl in real life 4 times already but never during the winter. It was a dream to wander Pripyat in snow but now due the war it's impossible. Really waiting for winter mods for S2 to just have a glimpse of it 😿

[celest crow]

impossible? no but probably 95% chance of getting smoked

[crisp bolt]

yeah that area is def a no mans land

[tidal yew]

Most likely we will have to wait for SDK, and it is not known how many years it will take for it to appear on the network.

[strong coyote]

There are no official tours there at the moment, that's what I meant

[strong coyote]

Wow, I thought that we can expect SDK in the upcoming months, not years

[tidal yew]

who knows 🤭

[river bolt]

guys what editor u used to edit cfg files?

i wonder if i can update some mods i want coz there are some mods i used that feels like abandoned

i had to remove them but i wanna update myself to use them

[fervent stratus]

u can go as basic as notepad++

[median quest]

I personally use visual code

Easy and you can install extensions to suit your needs

[fervent stratus]

i use a combo of things but mainly notepad++ and intellij toolbox

[river bolt]

so just open the mod with notepadd++?

[fervent stratus]

ohhh

you gotta unpak it, then adjust it with notepad++ and then repak

[river bolt]

what unpack and repack tool should i use?

[median quest]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/374

[river bolt]

tnx

[median quest]

I use mainly visual code for this

dont know if n++ have something equivalent

So I dont have to go into individual folders to open up files

[river bolt]

damn
i tried but i cant understand

[median quest]

Best way is to get the cfg files from when it was made in that patch and compare (1.1 > 1.3 for example), then compare what the mod does to the original files, than overwrite with whatever new changes it made from the new patch

[river bolt]

so i need to get it if it wasnt updated to 1.3
get the latest and the previous version of it

[median quest]

Ye, https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1016
this one has older dumps

[river bolt]

the only mod i want atm is reload while sprinting
dunno how to do that tho

you can cancel reload by choosing another gun or eat or other anim cancel

[median quest]

Im certain its not possible atm without sdk

since anims are executed by blueprints(?)

[grave rose]

I can neither confirm nor deny at the present time.

[verbal pier]

Hi, can you determine what mod crashes stalker 2 somehow from the Unreal engine crash window? I packed few mods together, but it keeps crashing 😄

[hazy ivy]

by any chance was it a bunch of 3 month old config edits?

[verbal pier]

honestly... I have no idea

[hazy ivy]

tbh the crashlogs are 90% useless

although that looks like a visual issue

if you have a modlist I can look at it

[verbal pier]

i am using these right now. tbh the Stalker Infinity is a larger bunch i think

[thick widget]

Someone reported having to make a change to get around this error some where maybe reddit. Pretty sure it was an engine.ini change

[hazy ivy]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1jf83zm/patch_13_fatal_error_out_of_root_pages_crash/

[verbal pier]

It describes the fix as changing r.Nanite.Streaming.DynamicallyGrowAllocations=1 to 0. But interestingly enough i cannot find r.Nanite.Streaming.DynamicallyGrowAllocations in my engine.ini. Gonna try to just paste r.Nanite.Streaming.DynamicallyGrowAllocations=0 into it and Ill report if it had any effect

Welp gonna try to search for r.Nanite.Streaming.DynamicallyGrowAllocations harder, since the crash persists 😄

[verbal pier]

Looks like disabeling Optimal Tweaks S.2 helped

[crisp bolt]

yeah the reason you can't add the command to your engine ini is because that mod is overriding the engine ini since the mod maker put it in a pak

[celest crow]

Question if anybody can answer it, im merging two mods manually and they both modify the objectprototype.cfg file. Is this also the file to increase the run and sprint speed etc? At the top of the file is a section that says movementparms and then there is also another movementparms farther down in the files, each have different values so I am curious what I to specifically edit to make the sprint speed faster. Ill add photos in a second to show what im talking about if this is even the right area to modify the actual speed of the sprint and not just the stamina increase

top of the file with the line number and then the 2nd field farther down

[median quest]

You want to change the params under

0 is just base which other configs and structs can derive from

So if you change the former, it will change for more than jsut the player

[celest crow]

okay good to know

thanks

[celest crow]

@hazy ivy I gotta question for you, at first I thought it was an issue that I kept having since I was using the backpack mod that deletes the animation so the inventory opens faster but even after disabling it, I thought that was the issue with 2.1.7 update but even with it disabled Ill open my inventory and have to hold 0 to enable the repair system but as soon as I close the inventory and open it again I have to hold down 0. It wont stay at all, I can see it flash for like half a milllisec

[grave rose]

He is currently working on fixing something related to the repair widget. I'm sure he will respond when he gets a chance. If you want jump into https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1322530320494628945 and try there.

[celest crow]

good to know! thanks

i didnt even know he had a channel lmao

[pastel nimbus]

can someone teach me how to make an audio mod

[hazy ivy]

Don't be this guy

[young granite]

How am I supposed to read!??

[orchid vale]

Do you guys know how to change the sleep time to like 24 hours? its not gameplay related, I'm just testing something.

[median quest]

Im not sure if feliche has that setting in his longer days. Otherwise is realtimecoef in corevariable but setting it to 1 could be pretty unstable

[orchid vale]

thanks, I'll try and play around with that config.

[shell quartz]

how do i unpack the localization files from a mod?

[hazy ivy]

i typically just ask politely for the JSON files

[boreal smelt]

does anyone know of a mod thats been updated to sell artifacts at full value or even 2x value
i hate the economy of the default game i feel like you should have to hunt for artifacts and mutants for your cash
compared to feeling like you have to camp a respawning camp for hours to get 1 upgrade and repair with the other 95% of the money you make
in 1.0 how i got around this was to use the pull price glitch but they fixed it sense i played last
im not opposed to going into files and rewriting stuff if i know where to go and know what im looking at if thats a option

[shell quartz]

So is there no way?

[grave rose]

What mod are you trying to get localization files from?

[shell quartz]

Ziv's mod pack

[grave rose]

The repair one?

or armor one?

[shell quartz]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gr2a3d7tzt5AAG6EM6zthTmdNRe_lsKhAFL6Ez8rVvA/edit?usp=sharing

No the mod pack in open beta test

I want to merge it with this mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1324?tab=posts

[grave rose]

You would need a Gamedata extractor. Idk which ones are available for Stalker 2.

[shell quartz]

I have fmodel which is the only one that works with stalker 2 as far as I know but it doesn't work with the localization files

[tidal dragon]

guys which one of these mods https://i.imgur.com/qDU3nSz.png has the command console?

i have to change the default keybind for it if possible

[hazy ivy]

Simple Modloader

numpad '/' seems the most reliable

[tidal dragon]

how can i change it

ah am stupid, its in the readme

[hazy ivy]

• How to change console key? -

a) Open or CREATE in Notepad
Steam: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Stalker2\Saved\Config\Windows\Input.ini
GamePass: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Stalker2\Saved\Config\WinGDK\Input.ini
b) Add to the very top section:

[/Script/Engine.InputSettings]
!ConsoleKeys=ClearArray
ConsoleKeys=RightBracket
ConsoleKeys=YourKey

c) Replace "RightBracket" with a key of your choice:
https://nerivec.github.io/old-ue4-wiki/pages/list-of-keygamepad-input-names.html

[tidal dragon]

thanks for pointing me to it

[tidal dragon]

just for clarify, i only need one of the strings right? just a ConsoleKeys=mykey yes?

[hazy ivy]

Use the entire section

maybe not the last line (YourKey)

but definitely the square brackets section and the !ConsoleKeys=ClearArray

[tidal dragon]

got it, but what is ! for?

i remember ! meaning difference between variables

[hazy ivy]

yea it'll be doing something behind the scenes

but that line will be clearing the existing settings

[tidal dragon]

like the keybind is NOT ClearArray for example

i get it

[tidal dragon]

so apparently now i have double keybind 💀

[hazy ivy]

how so?

[tidal dragon]

i dont know lol

the tidle still works and i used "/"

and both open the console

hm i have the game running and i just re opened the input.ini file, the last string is gone and its just !ConsoleKeys now, weird

but the / is still working

https://tenor.com/view/nick-young-question-mark-huh-what-confused-gif-4995479

yeah, whenever i launch the game the last string gets deleted

[hazy ivy]

did you have that YourKey line in there?

might be why that eists

[tidal dragon]

no, i removed it as you said

[hazy ivy]

guessing we found out why its there

[tidal dragon]

lol

well now the strings remains there

but the tidle still work as console

[hazy ivy]

oh, are you trying to disable a key?

[tidal dragon]

in a way i guess, i just want to change the tidle to something else, because i use the tidle in game for inventory button

[hazy ivy]

yea you'd likely have to crack open the code itself to do that, probably a hard setting

[tidal dragon]

i never did that, how would i do it

unless the author is in this discord? idk

[hazy ivy]

no idea personally, and he isn't

might be worth getting some remapping software

[scarlet vigil]

use unrealpak to get .ubulk and then convert it to jsons

[tidal yew]

.

[celest crow]

okay im not sure if it can even be implemented without the sdk but adding a slide function would be pretty cool

[grave rose]

Animations require SDK 😦

[summer silo]

Supposedly this is using content from the leaked build of the game (The one GSC accidentally made public)

[grave rose]

That does seem to be the consensus. I don't see how they could have done it otherwise.

[summer silo]

Ergo I can see Nexus Mods eventually taking it down as GSC forbid the use of the leaked build.

[shell quartz]

Yes, I have seen it in the leaked docs

There is a lot more quest that were cut

[summer silo]

Supposedly 50 side quests met the chopping block

[grave rose]

It's like 70+ and 1/3rd of the main story.

[summer silo]

https://tenor.com/view/-gif-5297251

[grave rose]

What could have... No, Should have been. It would have been glorious.

[rigid nebula]

sauce pls

[young granite]

https://tenor.com/view/shining-gif-27476019

[shell quartz]

does anybody know if npcs get affected by archanomalies like Bulba?

[grave rose]

I've seen npcs walk straight through bulba and be fine. So I'm going to say no. Not sure about the others.

[thick widget]

It's because the player isn't near by to trigger their effects. So they're just reduced to visual

[grave rose]

I had a ward squad walk past me through bulba while I was inside it trying to get the artifact. So idk? Maybe they are supposed to but it didn't work?

[shell quartz]

was it in older version of the game?

[grave rose]

Was last week.

[shell quartz]

oh okay

maybe it was a bug

[thick widget]

Idk i've watched them get sucked in while I was there. didn't pay attention to if they died at some point though

[grave rose]

Not sure, I can only go off of what I've seen. Wouldn't be the first thing to bug out on someone.

[crisp bolt]

It's weird behaviour, but I'm fairly certain anomaly activation for NPC requires them to be in combat.

[thick widget]

That's not true I've watched them patrol right into them haha

Well I mean that might just be my efforts to break some restrictions in FaW though so don't mind me

haha

[crisp bolt]

That's the thing with their combat, if it's a patrol that spawned as aggressive then I think they are always in combat, where as a more neutral spawn roaming to a contextual lair goal walk right through them.

I could be wrong, Like I said it's weird behaviour.

[young granite]

Ive seen human npcs calmly walk right through a fire anomaly and casually burn to death. Although this was about a minute after they killed a pack of snorks

[grave rose]

Yeah, They don't recognize the anomalies for some reason. It happens all the time in my playthroughs.

[thick widget]

Yeah seems like GSC either introduced a bug or intentially made npcs lose their AI oversight/sensors temporarily after combat sometimes

[pure tendon]

Anything i could do to make scopes look better? I cant quite put my finger on it whether its a scope overlay, depth of field, some color distortion lack therof, im not sure but is there any possible solutions?

[lapis quarry]

Hello people, hope this is the right place to ask, i think i might need some help understanding refurl stuff.
Disclaimer, i'm a newbie at modding this game - please don't throw your bolts at me - but i'd like to learn and if someone has some spare time to help me get this working, that'd be nice.

So i'm using two mods, mhm and oxa (awesome stuff regarding the mod-ability of the game currently, can't wait for the sdk to come around and see what you guys will do), thing is, there are some stuff in the cfg files i'd like to change, but without having to extract what's inside the mods and make a patch each time an update drops.

Started some research, read through entire sections of code to familiarize, then stumbled upon an article by LetsWoolgather on his nexus mod page.
Cool, now i know what i want, to do an override, so nothing unnecessary gets in the way for game/mod updates and better compatibility.
Tried to understand the article, followed the structure, started to get hands into it and replicate for my own needs, tested it, crashed at startup. Sad.

First thing i tested was changing anomaly cooldowns (don't judge me, i'm old and i ain't got those pesky reflexes anymore). The code is in AnomalyPrototypes.cfg.
So following the article, i create the folder structure and file:

.../GameData/AnomalyPrototypes/z_AnomalyPrototypes_mymodname.cfg

Then i get into the file and type this

My_Cheeki_Mod : struct.begin {refurl=../AnomalyPrototypes.cfg;refkey=ElectroAnomaly} Cooldown = 12.0 struct.end struct.end

If I understood well, i'm giving a name to the override i'm about to type, i then reference the main file that contains the code i want to override, then i reference the electro anomaly code block wich contains the attributes i want to change, and then change the cooldown attribute.

Save, pack, launch game, bam, crash before mhm startup screen.

Maybe that was too much for a first test, what about something simpler.
Next test, then.

I like having the ability to increase the yaw and pitch limits when climbing ladders. The code is in CoreVariable.cfg.
So following the article, i create the folder structure and file:

.../GameData/CoreVariables/z_CoreVariables_mymodname.cfg

Then i get into the file and type this

My_Breeki_Mod : struct.begin {refurl=../CoreVariables.cfg;refkey=DefaultConfig} ClimbViewYawLimit = 90.0 ClimbViewPitchLimit = 90.0 struct.end struct.end

Save, pack, launch game, bam, doesn't work.
Well that's a bummer.

So if anyone wants to teach my the ways, i'm all ears.

[thick widget]

So CoreVariables.cfg is sadly one config that doesn't allow refurl to be used. Very sad for all of us.

[lapis quarry]

Oh no 😦

[thick widget]

This one you have an extra struct.end in there.

[lapis quarry]

The one just after the cooldown attribute ?

[thick widget]

Yes

Technically you have an extra in both

But the corevariable one won't work no matter what you do.

[lapis quarry]

I thought it was necessary but now that i read through the code there's only one structure begin, my bad

[thick widget]

My_Cheeki_Mod : struct.begin {refurl=../AnomalyPrototypes.cfg;refkey=ElectroAnomaly}
Cooldown = 12.0
struct.end

[lapis quarry]

That's sad for the corevariables, is there other cfg files like this ?

[thick widget]

AiGlobals.cfg is another

[lapis quarry]

Sorry to bother but can i ask why ?

[thick widget]

They're structured differently. And I think they have some cooked in protections limiting how they can be affected. They are core configs so that sort of makes sense.

[lapis quarry]

Thanks for the explanation, well, until we get the sdk then :/

[thick widget]

So in most cases the cfgs that start out with [0] or Empty tend to be ones you can reference url

[lapis quarry]

right, cause those were just two of five cfgs i was trying to modify haha

[thick widget]

Then for comparison you can see aiglobals/corevariables is setup without those.

[lapis quarry]

yep so they seem to be locked behind some other file, not accessible through what we currently have at our disposal

[thick widget]

Yeah, you can edit and override the files as a whole, but then you just have to let people know they're included and may have to merge with other mods that make changes to the same configs.

Or in some cases people build patch files that include changes from both mods.

[lapis quarry]

I saw what you just mentionned in some mod description yeah, it's something i learned the hard way before the overhaul mods started coming, the thing i'm asking myself is, cus i have a little bit of knowledge of ue5 (not that much though, i'm just a student in 3d/vfx animation), but that looks like the cfg files are just air-exposed for quick modifications from the devs for iterating, but some core components are contained behind the whole packaged game.

I'll ask my teacher about this

[thick widget]

The cfgs are just quick access to what the devs want to allow.

The cfgs aren't even all the settings that are available.

Even some of the bps are cooked in and can't be dumped with fmodel

[lapis quarry]

Well i was about to get back to say the same thing, from my teacher's answer (but first he told me to sod off - he's a nice guy nonetheless)

Anyway, thanks for the help LetsWoolGather, that's nice of you, i corrected the referencing stuff and it's working 🙂

[thick widget]

You're welcome. Hope you have fun messing around with them.

[tidal dragon]

anyone ever made some kind of character skills like stalker gamma?

[young granite]

where tf is the oxa armory thread

[grave rose]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1322530320494628945

[young granite]

THANK YOU!

[orchid vale]

Do you guys know of any guides online on how to make blueprint mods for s2?
I've been trying to follow some guides online but not specific for s2 and so far I have no luck on making it work.

[boreal smelt]

how hard would it be for someone with 0 mod making history, to make a mod to change the sell value of artifacts to 100% where the vendors would buy them for full price or double item value?

the only mod i have found that has done this is https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/503?tab=posts

but it is out of date and the comments are saying it doesnt work

is this a skill i could teach my self or is it something i would need to study for more then a week to get something like this working?

im also not using any artifact mods but for future playthroughs after this one would this be simple to duplicate for mods like

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/933

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1071

[void owl]

It's fairly straightforward. Start by looking at #╟⚒stalker2™-mod-resources

[tidal rapids]

for me it was easy, if you can unpak the original mod, you can probably reverse engineer it and create your own

theres always people in here who are willing to help as well

[tidal yew]

Which config describes what icon is being used for an item

[hazy ivy]

Depends entirely on the item

[median quest]

Its usually Icon = or Icon1x1 = I believe
In all CFGs that has items

[young granite]

Ive never modded this game before but I want to do a version of the ballistics mod like infsolv’s but with far more correct ballistics for individual weapons. Would that require pretty advanced and complicated knowledge of stalker 2 modding?

[grave rose]

Are you trying to set it up based on caliber and ammo type? Or just modify the weapons stats?

[young granite]

More indepth than that, I guess I need to see what I can actually edit in the game. I actually know ballistics very well so I want to try and apply that to the game

More so based on the individual weapon so stats based on barrel length, twist rate, most likely bullet weight

[grave rose]

Hmm, Kazz or Ani would probably be the ones to talk too. Ani has and entirely edited ammo system with new types and stuff.

[young granite]

Hmm maybe I could just help them do accurate ballistic data

And let them handle the modding lol

[grave rose]

Maybe.

[young granite]

Are they in here very often?

[median quest]

Mostly its pretty straight forward when you have checked the configs a bit

Id suggest start in WeaponData folder

all ballistics is mostly done in there

[young granite]

Ok awesome! Still have to download the tools when I get home but I’ll check it out, thank you

[median quest]

Ye need a un/paker and visual code/ notepad++ and you're set

[young granite]

Any way to measure distance and length of objects?

More so distance, I can handle not knowing measurements of objects

[grave rose]

like from point a to point b on a map?

[young granite]

Actually I have one idea for distance I can do if no one has an exact method for it

[young granite]

Exactly

[grave rose]

place a marker in game and use the compass hud

Should give it to you in meters.

[young granite]

Amazing, thank you!

[young granite]

im trying to get the aes key and im running Steamless but I dont see shipping anywhere

oh is it because it has no drm?

nvm I got it from the modding discord

[thick widget]

The fun part is TileSizeUU is 1016 instead of 1000

[young granite]

holy shit I wish I had a third monitor for this

the good news is I found the file I want and can edit it

[grave rose]

Wish I had a second monitor. I'm living like it's 2005 all over again.

[young granite]

someone stole mine years ago and I only recently got a second again, so nice. but yeah now wishing I had a third

anyone know what units the distance is in?

[young granite]

oh wait...

[thick widget]

1016 = 10m in game

[young granite]

Yeah love that its a nice even conversion factor of .00985425197

[thick widget]

It's funny too because older builds were 1000=10m

All of us want to know why it changed just a little

[young granite]

anyone know how the armor system works by the way? is it just a flat value that never changes?

[grave rose]

The funny part is it's 8 short of 1024 which would of made more sense.

At least you could come up with some bullshit about memory sizes.

[agile dagger]

hey all i got an issue with Oxides Expanded Armory mod, and simple mod loader. The command for gamepass to load the mod in the game is not working, while I have all the new items and stuff I have no clue if the mod is working properly with the data and stuff. I have come bnack to the game after a long hiatus, so mods might be outdated and idk if im loading these thing sproperly. Here is my mod list

heres the full list with details as well

[hazy ivy]

Sorry bud, but this is a 'start over' kind of mod list

Mods that haven't been updated since the latest patch use outdated config files; when you use these, it forces the game to use the outdated version, which can cause all sorts of issues with stability and crashes

[grave rose]

I thought the same but wanted someone else to chime in first. Lots of outdated mods and potential conflicts.

[hazy ivy]

There's a lot that's still ok in there, but you're gonna want to at least go through them one by one and clear anything that's just .Pak files and hasn't been updated since March 18

To resolve the issue with OXA, you can't rename any of the OXA0X files

[grave rose]

Red shells, Dogfromwest, Ragingbull, questweight, moreaimpunch, red cobra, realistic health, readable ammo, quiter anomaly detector, deathscreen wallpaper, and damascus knife are all questionable. Some may still work but you would have to test them each to see if they are actually working and not conflicting with something else.

[tidal dragon]

i have a question

i am having issues on seeing enemies in dark areas

the torch doesnt enlight beyond 10 meters ish in dark rooms

how do you guys fix this

[grave rose]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/221
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/1290

Make sure you read the Read Me on Flashlight Customizer's page.

[tidal dragon]

i cant use this, because the console keybind to open is fixed to the tidle, and i use the tidle as game keybind

there is no way to change it

[grave rose]

• How to change console key? -

a) Open or CREATE in Notepad
Steam: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Stalker2\Saved\Config\Windows\Input.ini
GamePass: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Stalker2\Saved\Config\WinGDK\Input.ini
b) Add to the very top section:

[/Script/Engine.InputSettings]
!ConsoleKeys=ClearArray
ConsoleKeys=RightBracket
ConsoleKeys=YourKey

c) Replace "RightBracket" with a key of your choice:
https://nerivec.github.io/old-ue4-wiki/pages/list-of-keygamepad-input-names.html

• How to block default TILDE console key? -

Launch the game with switch -notilde
(add in in shortcut properties on in Steam's launch options)

[agile dagger]

Any idea how to start clean

Because i got the mutant loot mod and idk how to like start clean with that

And i also know ur mod adds items too

[grave rose]

Start clean on the same save? or restart completely?

[agile dagger]

Restart completely

[grave rose]

Just remove everything from ~mods folder. If you don't care about your save game your fine.

Any mod that had you do a Mod Add console command. Just change the add portion to del.

[agile dagger]

Ok now how about if it was on the same save

[grave rose]

More complicated, You would have to empty stash and your inventory of all items created by a mod. Then go somewhere and sleep for like a week until all traders reset. And even then there can still be some lingering issues.

[agile dagger]

Because im like
Rt near the end of the game

okay so ill

Ill prob just fully restart

Plus maklanes like item overhaul thing only really fully works on a new save

[grave rose]

Did you see Oxides comment on the mod renames?

[agile dagger]

I didnt see that

[grave rose]

Can try that and see if OXA starts working.

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

[agile dagger]

I thought that u need to load em after everything else

[grave rose]

The only one is OXA03

[agile dagger]

Ah okay

[grave rose]

I would just delete those

And get a fresh DL

And move them over.

[agile dagger]

Mkay got it

[grave rose]

The only rename you will do is on OXA03 You want to make it like OXA03_100_P.pak

[agile dagger]

Because like the mod was like working in game like i saw the new items that oxa added in the traders, its just the command line for simple mod loader that wasnt working

And also this flashlit setting wasnt working properly either

[grave rose]

Flashlight customizer?

[agile dagger]

Yeah

[grave rose]

You have Simple mod loader?

[agile dagger]

Yes

I put the settings in the engine ini as well to alleviate the issue

Scowered through all the posts to try everything to fix it its just

Like i get the mod idea its just the description of how to install it and also how to alleviate fixes is not written clearly in the mods description

Its a complaint alot of people had

[grave rose]

So you bring up console, Input mod add /Game/Mods/OXA0X/ModActor.ModActor_C and what does it say?

[agile dagger]

It says mod actor c not found

Wait prob because oxaox is named something else

[grave rose]

The problem is you renamed OXA0X to zzzzzzz_OXA0X So it probably cant find it.

[agile dagger]

just had an epiphany
Prob because i named it with all those zs and the nimbers

Yeahhhh

Okay ill try that

And dekete all the mods that arent working

[grave rose]

Yeah it's going to be trial and error on the other ones

Cause some of them probably work and other don't

You'd have to check them one by one to see.

[agile dagger]

Yeah

Imma check en on my main save first then ill start fresh

Because i updated shays mods, maklanes overhaul and better items, dynamic weather, npc combat overhaul and the noc long range agression fix, and oxides mods with lna and hcwu

Everything else i dont know

I am gonna maybe miss the readvake ammo if that dosbt have an update currently that works

But ifk if its running on an okder version or not

[grave rose]

Just make sure LNA loads last, HCWU I normally put between OXA and LNA

[agile dagger]

Olay

Okay

Imma make a written checlist of all the mods and check em off oke by one

Also the quieter beep if that doesnt work imma be so sad

That anomaly beep is so annoying

[grave rose]

Yeah, Sadly a lot of mods creators have fallen silent because there hasn't been much movement from GSC.

[agile dagger]

Sucks to hear

[grave rose]

So there is tons of outdated mods on nexus.

[agile dagger]

What date should i be looking for

Was it anything updsted past march 19th thats orob all good

[grave rose]

Sadly it's all over the place.

Anything past march 19th is 100% good. But there are plenty of mods from December that still work. It just depends on what it's editing and if GSC patched anything.

[agile dagger]

Mkay i guess i just gitta test em one by ine

U reccomebd doing it on my main save or a new one

Because i know i have access to every gun on the main save and every ammo type but i dont know if thats because the game backlogged to an old version and thats why its working

[grave rose]

If your testing mods that dont add items and your keeping the ones that do you can do it on old save

It's only if you remove a mod that adds injected items.

Like OXA for example. Or Mutant loot.

[strange ivy]

Hello guys i'm trying to make import new mercs models for gamma

but i can't find a good ogf converter to fbx or obj

where can i find that

[grave rose]

Try here https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/967696698065436682

[agile dagger]

Im confused so to test the old mods that dont add anything on the old save, i need to remove the mod that adds items?

[grave rose]

This channel your in is for Stalker 2.

[strange ivy]

oops yes my bad !!! sorry !!!

[grave rose]

So there are 2 ways you can test stuff, Use your old save and check to see if the functionality of the mod is working then move to the next one. Just don't remove any mod that adds items that don't exist in vanilla S2.

Or remove your ~Mods folder and create a new one. and slowly add each mod checking in between if they work.

Either way it's time consuming.

[agile dagger]

ok so to test it i should first 1. rename the oxax files to nothing, check to see if the command works 2. then i should check the mods that i have that are old one by one on the old save, and delete them if they dont work or updating them if they have an update

[agile dagger]

or just delete the oxax filed that do not need to be renamed an reinstall the respecvtive oxe files that shouldnt be renamed

[grave rose]

Or you use my personal method, Start completely from scratch only adding this you know are updated. Then add anything questionable one by one after that.

[grave rose]

This is prob the easier option since i think Oxide already set everything up for you.

[agile dagger]

okay

let you know if i have any more issues

[grave rose]

Good luck

[agile dagger]

changing the name of the oxax worked

the mod loader now says it works

[grave rose]

Awesome.

[agile dagger]

dont know how to test the longer days mod, death screens doesnt work, but damascus knife does, no clue how to test the even longer days

[grave rose]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/35?tab=files

That one works

And it's kept up to date.

[agile dagger]

ty

im having issues with simple mod loader this is giving me the biggest headache

so i installed teh loader into the paks/ ~mods folder

i load the game up

i enter the command to load the flashlight customizer it says this

mod entry sucessfully added

failed to save mod list

yes

gamepass

i also did the thing where I put it directly in the engine ini

didnt work then

like the flashlight is working to how i like it, i just cant pull up the ui menu with alt L and adjust it and i have to enter the command every time i reload the game

also i got the ui thing to pull up finally, but it always says failed to save every time i try to click sav

reload the game it says this

flashlight not working

now my engine.ini file got changed

this is what it looks like now

git the engine ini fixed

everything working as should

no idea how to test equalized aim x and y

last thing i needa test

i have my engine ini set to this now

and in game it says this after reload

flashlight mod still not working

[tidal dragon]

was there a mod that changes the way stats are being showed? instead of words, uses numbers?

also a mod that shows the current buffs?

[grave rose]

Your playing on gamepass?

If so:
-- IV. ModLoader does not save mods I've added via "mod add" command! --

Same issue. Saving modlist wont work. You have to add it manually in config.
a) Open or create Engine.ini inside "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Stalker2\Saved\Config\WinGDK"
b) Add following section:

[/Game/Mods/S2HOCBootstrap/UModData.UModData_C]
ModsToSpawn=

Now, instead of executing command
mod add /Some/Mod/Path/Mod.Mod_C

you add mod path line to the config, like this:

[/Game/Mods/S2HOCBootstrap/UModData.UModData_C]
ModsToSpawn=/Some/Mod/Path/Mod.Mod_C
ModsToSpawn=/Some/Mod2/Path/Mod2.Mod2_C

and now mods will autoload.

[grave rose]

Outside of that I'm not sure how to help you, May need to do some research online about how to set them up on gamepass properly.

Wide Screen (Ultrawide) HUD Fix (r457hud) has been reported to cause crashes on 1.3 Not sure if that report is correct though.

[agile dagger]

setup engine ini asthe read me says and ur message

still says this

this is what i have it set as

[grave rose]

It's adding the intensity ect?

BP_MOD_FLCustomizer.BP_MOD_FLCustomizer_C try that instead of the GSV one.

[grave rose]

[/Game/Mods/S2HOCBootstrap/UModData.UModData_C]
ModsToSpawn=/Game/Mods/FLCustomizer/BP_MOD_FLCustomizer.BP_MOD_FLCustomizer_C
ModsToSpawn=/Game/Mods/OXA0X/ModActor.ModActor_C

[/Game/Mods/FLCustomizer/GSV_FLData.GSV_FLData_C]
intensity=25
radius=1
attenuation=2000
color=(R=1,G=1,B=0.913009,A=1)
color_temp=5200
sourcelen=0
inner_cone=50
outer_cone=65
specular=1
indirect_int=1
volscatint=0
lfalloff=6
shadows=false
deepshadows=false
volshadows=true
dynshadows=true
fgshadows=false
rtshadows=false
loc=(X=10,Y=0,Z=0)
lightmat=None
ies=/Game/light/textures/IES/T_17_50_65_7.T_17_50_65_7

Delete what you have and paste the one above.

And let me know if that works.

[agile dagger]

will try

that worked i think

yep

ty lmao

[grave rose]

Np, If anything else pops up let me know.

[agile dagger]

now i just need to replace those values with the ones i like

ty foir all the help the flashlight customizer read me and the simple mod loadre are not descrptive enough

[grave rose]

Correct. This is what I use:

[grave rose]

Yeah, Gamepass functions differently so it makes it overly complicated.

[agile dagger]

intensity=64
radius=0
attenuation=2600
color=(R=1,G=1,B=1,A=1)
color_temp=15000
sourcelen=0
inner_cone=4
outer_cone=24
specular=0
indirect_int=0
volscatint=0.92
lfalloff=5.4
shadows=true
deepshadows=false
volshadows=true
dynshadows=true
fgshadows=false
rtshadows=false
loc=(X=10,Y=0,Z=0)

basically excatly what i use 💀

cast shadows does cause performance issues

i want at least 60 fpseverwhere i go

so might turn that off

[grave rose]

The shadows from flashlights are terrible in this game, I've been playing with different setups all the time to try to fix them.

[agile dagger]

yeah

i find it so stupid that games are basically advertysing dlss so much YAY I WANNA PLAY A GAME ON A LOWER BLURRIER UPSCALED RESOLUTION JUST SO IT CAN PERFORM BETTER

[grave rose]

Implementation of DLSS and other upscalers has made Developers/Companies lazy. They spend less time and resources optimizing their game because "Upscalers will make it playable"

[agile dagger]

yep

now the next thing i wanna do is implement a reshad but like only have it affect ingame not the ui because i really like what clickrad did with his reshade, i just hat how unsaturated it makes the pda and ui icons now

[grave rose]

This is what I use

I found Clikrad to be too orange.

Be aware, Reshade can have a large impact on performance in S2. Make sure you go to Addons and disable Generic Depth and Effective Runtime Sync.

[agile dagger]

i like the orange filter the game kinda has its easier on my eyes and its part of the style of stalker

i was looking for a reshade that was less realistic and more art orientated

[agile dagger]

okay thats a lot of numbers what does this do

[grave rose]

It's a reshade .ini It's what Reshade will load settings from.

The same thing you get when you download Clikrad.

You can have multiple .ini and swap between them through ReShade.

[agile dagger]

how do u think i can use clickrads and just adjsut the color saturation a bit

i want it to still be a lil colorful but i love the grayness of his reshade

[grave rose]

I mean, you can deff do that, You'd just have to balance the color changes

[agile dagger]

(mostly want the blues and oranges of the ui to pop a lil better

i just like

i dont know what settinsg do what

[grave rose]

You'd have to mess with RGB values

That's a SS of Clikrad settings btw

This is clikrad.ini

This is MHM.ini

[agile dagger]

prob have to adjust the midtone and highlight saturation

[grave rose]

Yeah, depending on what you want changed.

[agile dagger]

yeah mostly just want it to be a tiny bgit more colorful

figured it out

it was the filmic gold setting

turned that off exactly what i want

changed it to cinematic colors

perfect balance i found was the ilter "old elegance"

[grave rose]

Yeah you can do a lot by changeing the LUTs

[agile dagger]

Modular hard mode looks pretty enticing

Idk someone sell me on it

[grave rose]

It's the only way I play S2 now.

[agile dagger]

i thibk i like everything but the pillhead changes

[grave rose]

What don't you like about them?

[agile dagger]

i feel like its too much idk its like just too much shit to learn and prob someghing id be like jesus this is alpt

[grave rose]

That's kind of MHM as a whole. Weapons have deteriorated variants that cant have attachments or be upgraded. Unique weapons have largely been removed from their original locations. Same goes for armor locations. Weapon and ammo stats have been changed. There are some new ammo types. ect.

It's much harder than base game imo. You need to plan ahead. Get all your consumables together, Bring good ammo, Maintain your gear with the new repair kits.

It's a very different way to play. Highly recommend though.

[agile dagger]

I think imma do one more modded playthrough with my mod list i have the moment then try modular hard mode at one point

Are there moments in modular hard mode u feel like os hard just for the sake of being jard

or is it pretty fair

[grave rose]

I mean, It's hard. I play with the Master mode add-on which makes it so I have to go to certain locations to save. Which makes me think about how I'm going to fight things more so I don't loose 40 minutes of progress.

You walk through a door and theres a dude with a shotgun.... You dead.

It eases up a bit with better gear but it still maintains it's hard gameplay.

So idk, It's definately going to be subjective. If someone blasts me point blank with buckshot... I should probably be dead.

[agile dagger]

Well i like games like that im a huge souls fan boy and i love games like dayz, doom, sometimes tarkov

But theres fine like between hard being unfair and hard being fair

[grave rose]

I find it more hard than unfair. There are normally ways to put yourself into advantageous positions. Or you can walk yourself into a kill box.

But you'd have to try it yourself and see what you think.

[agile dagger]

Mkay wisj i could like test this stiff side by side with like maklanes overhaul mod but modular always needs a new save

[grave rose]

Yeah, You would have to start a new game and swap out your ~mods folder depending on which save your playing.

Your going to learn really fast if MHM is for you. Starting a new game with no gear will show you lol.

[tidal yew]

where can l find a mod which fixing iTheon's tasks bug in PDA?

when you take any from actives, but it let you took another one bellow or upper

[agile dagger]

Question
Is mhm compatable with shays modulat living zone

[grave rose]

Are you planning on using the MHM AIO version?

[wanton summit]

How hard is it to add a custom unlockable marker to the PDA map? It would be nice if artifact spawning anomaly fields had their own marker to go back to when I am artifact farming.

[grave rose]

You can mark up to 10 things by holding tab and choosing an icon.

Or do you want more than that?

[wanton summit]

I was hoping for a new map feature that would automatically and permanently mark artifact spawning anomaly fields. I was interested in if it was feasible.

[grave rose]

Ah, kind of like a archanomaly icon.

[wanton summit]

Exactly! Maybe even the same icon but smaller.

[grave rose]

Yeah, I'm not sure how you would do that but maybe one of the mod authors do. Someone will probably answer when they see this. But I have not seen it done before in any mods.

I have seen new markers in places where there were none, but they reused an old icon.

[wanton summit]

Reusing the archanomaly icon might be good enough for now. It would get the job done.

[grave rose]

I just don;t know how you would remove the original one.

But again the mod authors may know.

[wanton summit]

Maybe just add more icons instead of messing with the originals?

[junior portal]

Hi, guys. How may I fix a bug with impossibility to install psy-protection following main quest?

Stalker Infinity + OXA

After repair helmet even loosing active dot to this option.

[hazy ivy]

weird

dunno if it's OXA or Infinity

gimme 5 mins

[hazy ivy]

XCreateItemInInventoryByID Blueprint_FaustPsyResist_Quest_1_1

try that first

[lean condor]

Hello All modders!
Has anyone made the mod yet to have physical magazines to reload manually like in GAMMA?
like this picture

[hazy ivy]

nope, nothing yet. I'd like to make something like this, but without true access to inventory contents (i.e. SDK) I don't see a way of implementing it rn

[lean condor]

thanks!
then we wait for them to release the SDK, hopefully it won't take too long 😃

[junior portal]

Good evening, doesn't help(

[hazy ivy]

Even with Shurup?

[junior portal]

he too

[junior portal]

https://youtu.be/Nbis0Sc5jMs

https://youtu.be/fTHIxl4_iL4

[hazy ivy]

XApplyUpgradeBySID Heavy_Military_Helmet FaustPsyResist_Quest_1_1

[hazy ivy]

I think that's the right SID for that helmet

Heavy_Duty_Helmet for the black one

[junior portal]

yea!

That updated quest

[hazy ivy]

awesome

[junior portal]

only second one

first doesn't work

[hazy ivy]

might need to be equipped or somethiing, haven't used that command before

[junior portal]

and maybe you know how to change stamina recovery parametr? just doesn't work

[hazy ivy]

Unfortunately that's not really my area of modding, wouldn't know where to start

[junior portal]

Ok, still thank you!

[hazy ivy]

No worries, let me know if you have any other issues 🙂

[junior portal]

By the way, when I can find names for armor?

[junior portal]

like this.

[hazy ivy]

https://www.gamerguides.com/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl/database/armor/armor

in the Spawn Command below the item image

[honest glade]

does anyone have the latest AIGlobals.cfg file?

[sharp meteor]

From 1.3.1 Fmodel

[meager hull]

How difficult is it to make an audio mod? I want to change the base emission siren audio with the silent hill siren to give it a "darker and more emergent" feel.

[grave rose]

lol, That would be great

[void owl]

Very complicated

You need to make a Unreal Engine Wwise Soundbank

Not longer possible to replace just .WAV files

[meager hull]

Well crap. Guess I need to find some places to make a mod request for this then.

[frozen anvil]

you could give it a shot using Wwise tools to convert to .wem. Just gotta get right version
and if it's .bnk, you could inject wems with something like FusionTools or wwiseguiutil

[meager hull]

Ya thats a bit over my head lol. But thanks for the info.

[void owl]

There is @fluid monolith working on something like that

[meager hull]

Oh thank God. I miss the old emissions vibe of "oh shit RUN".

[grave rose]

Every time I hear the birds in S2 I instantly run for cover.

Can't seem to break the habit.

[meager hull]

I had the same reaction the first time it happened to me ;-;

[thick widget]

https://tenor.com/view/laughing-crows-old-cartoons-gif-10526554

[winged snow]

if the ever release the SDK would it be possible for someone skilled enough to make a mod that turns the PDA back into a handheld item like gamma?

[crisp bolt]

depending on the extent of the SDK yeah it's completely possible, but we won't know till if when or how SDK.

[winged snow]

man i hope one day

[median quest]

Isnt it technically that now? I think ultrawide see hands

[grave rose]

It is, It's just super zoomed in

[winged snow]

you cant move around tho

[crisp bolt]

yeah I was gonna lean to that

I think chadman means the animation and making all the interfaces on the PDA without it layering the camera off to a UI

[winged snow]

yeah thats all i want tbh the ability to move with the pda out and press a button to bring it up to the face

so i can see the map and then get a mod to remove the compass

[crisp bolt]

I mean technically you're not wrong, I suppose we could potentially do this already, but it would be pretty difficult.

The biggest issue I see is having the pda in hands pre-zoom, I don't think there's any animation for it.

[thick widget]

So we just need the npc animation and have it as a quest item

[crisp bolt]

yeah if we hack that into a second stage animation that could work

cause essentially that's how it's done, stage 1 brings it up, stage 2 zooms it in.

[thick widget]

Basically make it a required in your hand before you can turn it on

[crisp bolt]

and quest complete triggers the zoom in

by a button press?

if possible?

[thick widget]

Haha not sure about that tap on the screen though exists

So wakeup tap haha

[crisp bolt]

[thick widget]

https://tenor.com/view/no-lalala-i-cant-hear-you-gif-8013705

[grave rose]

Or, You know. Wait for an SDK and do it a 1/4 of the time.

[thick widget]

Not going to let myself get dragged into another project haha

[grave rose]

The easiest way is to make it an item with it's own keybind like the detector.

But SDK

Use ADS as zoom in and out

[crisp bolt]

Yeah I don't feel the "space race" urgency to do this, but when the SDK comes around I got plans.

[thick widget]

It'd be a good qol feature

[crisp bolt]

Ideally you would press the PDA button they don't even use, and second press would bring it to full.

[thick widget]

Also random moment where it won't work the first time so you have smack it on the side a couple times to turn on 😄

[crisp bolt]

We can hope that this feature will be an actual feature when they introduce the statistics tab

[crisp bolt]

I like how Gamma does it and it requires batteries, and emissions and psy storms cause it to glitch or the pulse turns it off during emission.

[grave rose]

I could sit here all day and list off things I scratch my head about.

[thick widget]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-technology-patrick-hung-gif-5567497

[crisp bolt]

yeah same

https://tenor.com/view/list-amazinggrace-court-watching-scroll-gif-13488308

[grave rose]

I want to start with flares or a shitty handheld flashlight

Then go to headlamp

then NVGs

[crisp bolt]

oh isn't that blackroad?

or w/e

ngl the headlamp makes no sense, we're not given it or anything it just.. is a thing

without wools mod it's literally a fake light LMAO