╟📸screenshots

[jolly flicker]

too

[vast ferry]

WTF IS THIS

[jolly flicker]

pitbull named sunshine

doesnt bite

[ocean ocean]

Shhhh

[jolly flicker]

cute

[strange finch]

If you find any other issues dm Me please

[clever badger]

will do man

[past hare]

in-game AO or reshade?

[jolly flicker]

reshade

[past hare]

The skyboxes in this game . Pretty

[strange finch]

Looks great, atmospherics?

[modern forge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/629645001776955392/1063988073341395106/anomalydx11.exe_Screenshot_2023.01.15_-_04.34.49.62.png

[timid merlin]

@strange finch THX

[hearty oriole]

First time for me. What the name of this grav anomaly XD

[past hare]

Whatever Gamma is using. I've only installed one mod(Aydin's Grass Tweaks) beyond vanilla Gamma.

[compact wedge]

black white

[strange finch]

That thunder debug is annoying

[sharp pawn]

ET Stalker (glitch)

[compact wedge]

cton k

[strange finch]

BeAUTIFUL

no idea

[wintry laurel]

ark survival evolved type beat

I loaded that screenshot and it crashed discord mobile

[tribal aspen]

im scared of army warehouses if you couldnt tell

[unkempt sage]

sick arma 2 conversion man 🔥

[strange finch]

Asides from my mod, big shoutout to @echo flame for his grass. There is an update planned for it soon as well.
Hippo Atmospherics, Aydin's Grass Tweaks, Light reshade with 4 effects is all thats needed.

[tribal aspen]

confirmed, freedom are cannibals

[lunar crane]

Not so bad you still can see bullets

[severe quarry]

Hah rip

I know the long way to fix it

reinstall gamma
im sure theres an easier way to fix it tho

[lunar crane]

restore default user.ltx

copy this file to appdata, clear shaders_cache. Run the game, write in console cfg_load grading_default

[wooden ermine]

"which one of you bastards stole mr. teddy?"

[compact wedge]

lmao wtf

[lunar crane]

Glad it helped

[twin cedar]

New to stalker... what is this weather? (I'm dead btw xD)

[rich flicker]

Emission/blowout. You need to find shelter when that is happening

[twin cedar]

ok. thank you!

[magic spruce]

hehe

[rugged arrow]

top100 yay

mp7 with scope :>

[oblique lily]

Everything that has been done with this game... and we still can't fix this fucking door

must be an anomaly

Chernobyl style guitar technique

[half cargo]

dunno about you fimka but i wouldnt be proud of that

[sudden coral]

Custom reshade I made today, it works well with interior aswell

[wooden ermine]

thats dope

[simple solstice]

all from the new hippo shaders

[oblique lily]

holy FOV

shernohbal seats incoming

[modern forge]

Which setting helps with weapons texture resolution

I feel like guns in gamma have worse textures than vanilla anomaly with addons

[oblique lily]

strange, I feel like gamma has superior textures pretty much everywhere. post screenshots?

[modern forge]

Its just on weapons and detectors I’ve noticed its low res compared to anomaly,
I wonder if a certain setting/slider needs to be changed

[oblique lily]

screens?

[modern forge]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/920013807479296042/1064018840381575229/anomalydx11.exe_Screenshot_2023.01.15_-_04.41.53.17.png

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/629645001776955392/1063988073341395106/anomalydx11.exe_Screenshot_2023.01.15_-_04.34.49.62.png

[modern forge]

Here

[oblique lily]

I don't really see much of a difference...

maybe I'm too drunk right now

but, even through my alchogoggles I can't spot much of a difference.. anyone else?

[noble nexus]

Which shaders do you prefer? (I have good GPU)

[noble nexus]

These looks amazing :0

[noble nexus]

And these

[torpid dune]

I did it like this, but I also changed it for the EFT assembly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_exWieLpPk&ab_channel=Hippob0t , plus I mixed a couple of graphic packs of trees and grass and pulled the weather out of Summer season redux

[noble nexus]

Thanks

[past hare]

Love it. Reminds me of Tarkovsky's Stalker. Was just thinking of doing this myself.

[delicate sapphire]

what reshade?

[delicate sapphire]

?

what is it?

[lunar crane]

SSS ice shaders

[delicate sapphire]

with project om

inverno?

[lunar crane]

yes sir. But not included) comes with 13.2 version of sss

[sudden coral]

Custom made

[spark fractal]

@nimble otter you using expedition for gamma?

[nimble otter]

Nope

[clever badger]

What's this compass minimap? 👀

[clever badger]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1041435123444367491

[sudden coral]

Not that bad actually, I lowered grass distance a bit, I stay between 30-50 fps. I have a laptop, so I can't afford too much fps

[sudden coral]

AMD Ryzen 7 4800H + 16 gb ram + GTX 1650ti + 500 gb SSD

[compact wedge]

fps killer reshade/particles

https://tenor.com/view/wolf-aoogah-awoogah-awooga-love-gif-19805850

lmao no

dunno just a soup modlist i made

[severe quarry]

What reshade is that? Lookin good

[compact wedge]

a lil modified expedition 1.0 reshade

[remote meadow]

How do I get those electrical particles?

[south jungle]

I suppose is this

[prime cedar]

These screenshots look so much better than mine. Need suggestions for best graphics add on. My PC is new as of Feb, running a 3060ti

[remote meadow]

Ah from Gamma-exp, guess I need to download and yoink that

[unkempt sage]

Making some friends in Dead City

[glad socket]

; p

[strange finch]

Looks good

[glad socket]

thaaanks

[jolly flicker]

how?

[nimble otter]

messing around with editing @strange finch's weathers, that's how

[jolly flicker]

no 4k textures

anything like that

special reshade

[nimble otter]

my own reshade, I use whatever textures come with gamma except for simple desaturated autumn & aydins autumn grass

[jolly flicker]

love it mate <33

[civic salmon]

Merc friends

[remote meadow]

Any chance you can send me that folder? Rather not download the entire Expedition pack...

[south jungle]

The folder is 1.5GB

[remote meadow]

[lunar crane]

tryed BONEZONE config fits good for a winter. Using w/o any reshade

[wooden ermine]

yooo! looks great! thanks for giving the bonezone a try

[clever badger]

I am so amazed at how good the game looks

[tardy sail]

Aydins summer grass+trees?

[lime gulch]

Still trying to make all the shaders work in Expedition. Any hints how to fix black shadows?

[pale falcon]

GTR + Aydins Autumn Trees (no grass) 👍

[strange finch]

show me your weather debug?

That deep bubble gum blue fog can also be fixed

[grizzled heath]

this might be related to the SSS shadow bug?

[strange finch]

Whats your shader param 4 values?

since there is nothing wrong with your debug values

[lime gulch]

Changing values has no effect

[strange finch]

It should as thats contrast

for instance with those shader param 4 values on my screen this is what I get

mip map values

I think

or AF

whats this value for you

ok thats not the issue

whats your antristopic filtering setting set to?

also shouldnt be an issue

idk looks bad, feel bad

but what did you do before this?

before it looked messed up

[sacred stag]

This is giving me Hardcore Henry vibes.

[lime gulch]

Yoo, that's cringe

[strange finch]

lol what did you do

[grizzled heath]

looks kinda cool tho

its the depth map

[lime gulch]

Just've started new game)

[clever badger]

How can I get it like this?

[strange finch]

That first screen is so nice, majestic looking good

[pale falcon]

Can't stop making screenshots 😛

I just wish the sun could look better, but I have not found the right mod yet.

[strange finch]

like the actual texture?

[pale falcon]

Like the flares and size. I did try adding expedition sun to majestic but burnt out my corneas in the process

[strange finch]

lol have you tried delphics?

[pale falcon]

Yes, delphics definitely the best one now👌

[unkempt sage]

Back at it again with professional pulse photography

[crisp kelp]

there's at least 15 stalkers in this tunnel

[clever badger]

managed to see this nice sunset in the great swamps

[half palm]

the best kind of nvg's. just shoot the darkness away

[modern forge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1061578435262160916/1064688985789710356/anomalydx11.exe_Screenshot_2023.01.17_-_00.32.13.74.png

[strange finch]

Are you you still messing with the npc pack?

[compact wedge]

haven't finished yet, havent touched it in weeks

i mean it's kinda playable with hd/azetrix mix

still needed to sort out HD models meshes of loner faction to pick out the best lookin and leave out the bad ones, but it has like 150 meshes and at that point got bored, so it got stuck there lol

most faction have like 20-40 but loner has +100

[strange finch]

Fair but that was the only faction left?

[compact wedge]

loner/freedom/military i think

video settings has those options

[strange finch]

Ahh damn I’ll give you $15 to finish it lmao its all i got from kofi

[compact wedge]

lmao

[strange finch]

You don’t even know how to change grass height

[compact wedge]

money aint makin me openin that loner.blend

[strange finch]

Fair lol

[compact wedge]

besides azetrix would hunt my ass down

[strange finch]

lol why??!

Tonygd equivalent?

[compact wedge]

nah, it's his work, cant be grabbing money for a half ass 'port' to anomaly

[strange finch]

Fair i suppose

[compact wedge]

besides, the pack isn't finished yet, he still posts WIP new models
https://vk.com/azetrix_group

[strange finch]

Yeah I’ve seen that I’m just too lazy to even start porting models otherwise how else will i update atmospherics daily lmao

I just think that’s the last major thing holding back the visuals, it’s the npc models some are worse than others

[compact wedge]

when reshade fucks everything up

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/932993929991831774/1017352515102195782/steamhappy-psp-yipiee.gif

[hidden crescent]

:/ monies are taking leader board by storm

[compact wedge]

SSS settings

search for SSS tab inside MCM menu and tweak to your liking

[clever badger]

i have aydins summer grass, summer redux and hippo

replaces flora and dirt with summer looking textures

np bestie

[modern forge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1061578435262160916/1064711970961494086/anomalydx11.exe_Screenshot_2023.01.17_-_04.20.34.65.png

[prime merlin]

would appreciate addon that makes foliage snow covered

[runic stag]

untick performance mode

[runic stag]

that looks... interesting

[tardy sail]

Looks like Far Cry 2.

[south jungle]

[sacred stag]

Ayo that Eye is floating...

[flat tartan]

can you shoot it

[sacred stag]

Nah, you can't shoot it

Guess it will remain like that for eternity

[random parrot]

low settings no shaders

[strange finch]

B0nezone? Nvm I see atmospherics sky textures in there

[stoic yoke]

although it looks sick, that much grass in the Swamp might be a bit too deadly

[gusty valley]

is there a way to limit ai so they don't see you through the grass or bushes?

[rancid karma]

There is an option in the gameplay settings

Search around there

[compact wedge]

amogus

[past hare]

Yeah. It's super deadly, haha

[past hare]

Your shaders with a mix of vanilla Gamma trees and Aydin's grasses along with my reshade preset.

[strange finch]

looks great!

[twin field]

Cozy campfire

[orchid drum]

really like the mini map / compass in the bottom right. Which mod adds that if you dont mind me asking

[clever badger]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/modular-compass-minimap-extension

[acoustic swallow]

@torpid dune can u add mods in at anytime? can u download mods and add them?

[torpid dune]

?

[acoustic swallow]

can you download new mods and add them in at anytime like the minimap above

[torpid dune]

I don't understand what you mean

[spark fractal]

You can but it can make the game unstable, most mods have instructions on where to place in load order so be careful and it's on you if it messes up

Make a back up of the game files just in case

Best to check on #1035807043933720576 for the compatible ones

[torpid dune]

in the summer redux package there are very cool settings, i pulled them out and the pack, but there are some that need to be edited, with your shaders it would be curto)

[acoustic swallow]

I might just leave it as it is tbf looks good enough for me

Looks good enough for me 🙂

[strange finch]

cool settings like what?

[acoustic swallow]

Love the blue skys that @strange finch has tho looks awesome! 🙂

[strange finch]

Clear 1

Clear 2

Cloudy 1

Cloudy 2

[acoustic swallow]

that looks amazing man but i dont wanna break my game hahaha @strange finch

[strange finch]

Foggy 1

Foggy 2

partly 1

partly 2

rain 1

rain 2

rain 3

storm 1

storm 2

[torpid dune]

just try weather from summer season redux with hippo shaders

[strange finch]

That covers all the weather types, ranging from vibrant to really moody with atmospherics

[strange finch]

Will the fog break? like trees glow

[compact wedge]

thats using also the reshade right?

or just weathers + .ltx cfg

[strange finch]

Just the 4 effects which are regrade (color grading), solaris (bloom), Sharpcontrast (sharpening), Glamaraye (faki GI and AO) and the 3 optional effects for TFAA to work such as CMAA, TFAA and DRME

the 3 optional effects are just anti aliasing thats all

I just realized that both clear weathers were using the same sky texture there, but its only in that instance the rest are unique

[acoustic swallow]

so is that all with reshade in your pictures mate??

[strange finch]

Yeah those screenshots, yes

[acoustic swallow]

really 😮 dam what about the clouds and blue sky etc

[strange finch]

but if you exclude the anti aliasing part of it, its very lightweight

Reshade - SR

[strange finch]

No Reshade - S

[strange finch]

UNABLE TO SAVE SCREENSHOT, but it looks sick

[acoustic swallow]

so if i follow them steps in reshade

[strange finch]

yeah just enable what I have and you'll be good

[strange finch]

Is your game still crashing or did you figure it out?

[compact wedge]

nono, i quit yesterday after the stream and left it there, most likely the engine just freezed itself and wasn't due to bad mods

[gusty valley]

ok so i just found the "G.A.M.M.A. NPCs cannot see through foliage" mod in MO2 and it seems to be disabled by default

[rancid karma]

ah my bad then, I thought it was an in-game setting

[gusty valley]

at least i have a better idea what settings are there 😄

[strange finch]

You can ask Fabio, the author of summer and other great texture packs to make a special version with some light edits if you want. Everyone is free to use atmospherics and edit it to their needs

[past hare]

That Cloudy 2 is pure sexiness

Oh wow. It's all sexy! Need to hop in a run around now lol

[dark brook]

Oh boy

[south jungle]

Fogs of Misery + Aydin's Autumn

[pale falcon]

Wow

[tardy sail]

Is that the grass retexture from the Aggressor reshade + your weather?

[random parrot]

very cinematic

[south jungle]

This is Fogs of Spring, I assume its the vanilla grass + majestic weather and majestic filmic (I'm still tweaking my weather)

[tardy sail]

God damn. I'll have to try that.

[past hare]

The thumbnail of this seriously looks like a film still

[clever badger]

what grass is that

[south jungle]

Vanilla anomaly

[clever badger]

what are your mods or reshades then

[south jungle]

That is Fogs of Spring + Majestic Filmic reshade

[clever badger]

i see i see

ty

[south jungle]

Aydin's grass here

[tardy sail]

It's on moddb.

[south jungle]

Sent you the link

Nope, the pack, Aydin's and majestic, nothing more (majestic also comes with the pack)

Majestic has fog since forever

???

[strange finch]

Just tried this pack, just to let you know the included mods are much older for the most part with some issues. And it will rupture your ear drums as the audio on the guns is maxed out.

but if you want tetanus tinitus then you'll have a good time

[gray hollow]

i believe you mean "tinitus" 😛

[strange finch]

thanks lol

[gray hollow]

no worries, just poking fun haha

[sinful iris]

poking
tetanus

[strange finch]

stick with gamma or efp they are of much better quality and actively updated. Grok also is dedicated to updating GAMMA which is a plus, if it wasn't for the virus mod pack that he installed in his body, we would have had version 1.0 right? @dark brook

[south jungle]

Yeah the pack is nice only for screenshots I would say, the other uses for the pack would be a IRL deaf speedrun

[burnt panther]

The last few months were terrible for gamma

Larkin suddenly disappearing, for example

[strange finch]

Like left the server?

or on hiatus

[coral creek]

My fist Steps in Gamma Experience is looking amazing 😄

[coral creek]

i have see alot of crazy screenshots with amazing textures and lighting but default is looks great to. Crazy moders make games better ❤️

[wild schooner]

so I finally got past the border army of Monolith in Red Forest and uh

i dont think this is right

[strange finch]

ass eating

[sacred stag]

Ayo, Hermann and Ozersky caught lacking in 4K Ultra HDR 2048 bits.

[dull crater]

Got a question for you folks. Just finished installing Gamma and Hippo's Shaders. I'm noticing some rainbow banding in the shadows/fringes of the screen. Any idea what could be causing this?

[strange finch]

thats from the sunshafts

its dependent on the weather but if it bothers you then you can use screenspace mode instead of volumetrics inside your video settings

[sinful iris]

Yeah god rays are questionable in stalker. Still think nvidia’s implementation in fo4 is one of the best around. Actual tessellated light independent of viewing angle.

[dull crater]

Yeah that's not what I would expect at all from sunshafts. Thanks, though, Hippo; screenspace is much better for my preferences.

[strange finch]

Hoping one day that tabs starts to work on the sunshafts for anomaly.

[sinful iris]

you might also want to dial down SSS DOF to like half the normal values

[jovial cedar]

Well, from what I could gather with the search bar, a lot happened lately, so it's more like sudden silence rather than anything else

[strange finch]

What happened?

[sinful iris]

i actually have a local edit of the SSS DOF script to halve all the reload/fdda/pda type DOF but i need to clean it up a bit to be less hacky

[jovial cedar]

No clear answer but try typing Larkin in the search bar

I'm just as surprised as you are honestly

[strange finch]

Huh wow yeah

and I guess no one knows why

[jovial cedar]

Nope, just like with Aldourien not being there anymore either

I believe something went wrong and led to him going silent mode as well, although a different one

[strange finch]

Well I guess there is no point speculating at this point

That sucks though

[jovial cedar]

Yup, what's done is done but I still feel sad

[jovial cedar]

Do you have some screenshots ? To cover that up ? Doesn't belong in #╟📸screenshots channel

[strange finch]

Max Graphics

[clever badger]

woah

looks amazing

wish i could run stalker at such a setting

[fresh sun]

Pc specs?

[strange finch]

rtx 3080 and 5900x 32 gb ram

but my mod is lightweight

[compact wedge]

Wtf missed drama?

[dark brook]

No 1.0 wouldn’t be a thing already. My plan stays end of Q1 2023. And that’s because 1.0 is conditioned by the new installer and launcher. And BloodOfSniper is currently busy with other projects and didn’t finish it yet @strange finch . So until the new installer is made: no 1.0

1.0 is also conditioned by the new bas release. But for this I’ll « simply » collect the few extra guns added by the new update instead of adding the whole pack, simply we spent a lot of time of fixing everything in current guns and rechecking one by one what bas fixed and didn’t fix would simply take too long.

[dark brook]

Not really. Indeed Larkin not being here and also not giving news is really concerning. But having a period of « stalling » in terms of updates allowed me to collect tons of feedback on what to do for the next patches and for 1.0. Also, I started the project without Larkin, so not having him doesn’t endanger the project don’t worry. Larkin provided a huge boost in the last months, especially at the right time since I was starting my new job.

But now I have to find a better balance between family, modding and work. I’m trying new things and it seems to work, I have time for everything and started modding again since I’m cured

One of the key is simple: spend less time at work

Second key will be: get everything up and running to mod at work when I have small breaks

[jovial cedar]

Just don't overwork yourself with modding again okay ? Especially since you're getting better, 1.0 can wait, health is priority

[lunar crane]

What a beautiful eyes

[dark brook]

It’s fine don’t worry. I will not spend nights on modding again, just regular small steps is how I will proceed. Without stressing myself for patch releases

Less regular but bigger patches is how I will do it for 1.0

Anyways, once 1.0 is released that’s also how patches flow will be

[raven patio]

Yeah, game is tons of fun so far.

[dark brook]

I don’t have time anymore to release daily patches anyways. But I also think that gamma is already in good shape and don’t necessarily need it anymore anyways

[raven patio]

also, unrelated but for a lot of these screenshots, are you guys maxxing out grass density?

[dark brook]

Current gamma grass has issues and will be fixed

Basically the density is too low compared to how it should be

It’s an issue with how the grass textures are saved

[raven patio]

not a big issue to me, it can wait

Gunplay just feels so good, cobbling together weapons is far better than buying them

turns out I’ve spent the past 7 years trying to mod fallout 4 into this game. Very ironic

[jovial cedar]

To be fair, it's quite beneficial that the release was delayed so much, GAMMA has improved a lot since the time you were first talking about releasing 1.0 back then

[dark brook]

Indeed

But 1.0 will not be the end

[jovial cedar]

Fun fact, I never did a full regular GAMMA or Anomaly playthrough so far

So my first experience will be gold

I'm back to modding in February as well

[dark brook]

1.0 will simply be a message to say « gamma main features are here and it’s stable enough to please a wider audience »

[dark brook]

Been a while since I finished the story myself

[jovial cedar]

Especially considering how picky the "wider audience" can be

[dark brook]

My main goal for 1.0 is to get journalists to test the thing

[jovial cedar]

I had a lot of progress on my LTTZ project before going in October so hopefully I can release that in February

[dark brook]

Stalker gamma in PC Gamer when

[jovial cedar]

The same kind that don't really know how to play ?

[dark brook]

Hey I’m not talking about IGN here

[jovial cedar]

Well you're doomed otherwise, swamps have too much water

[raven patio]

This ACG review will be fascinating

[stoic yoke]

I am down to listen to that

[jovial cedar]

But yeah, I'll be happy to provide what I have, all twelve factions able to do the main questlines will add tons to the replayability

Instead of the default six

I'm mostly done with dialogues, now it's about implementing the whole thing

But 4 months away from computer and modding, I'm so rusty right now

[lunar crane]

Hands will remember modding, it’s like ride a bicycle 😀 if you learned ones you don’t forget in future;-)

[jovial cedar]

Yeah, hopefully x)
I'll just need to do it gradually, hopefully the results will be worth it, I've seen some people lamenting about having contents only with the main six factions, which can be sad because I know for exemple some people would love Monolith and Bandits

[potent fossil]

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN GARBICH 😭

[spark fractal]

"I walk a lonely roaaad"

[jolly flicker]

A whole fucking gang here cousins

[past hare]

Testing out Hippo's Shader's with my own preset. Loving the bleak look.

[strange finch]

looks lovely, you should release it!

[past hare]

Hey! Thanks. Too much work. SFXthelazy is as far as I go, lol

[strange finch]

lol

[past hare]

^ Man, that looks just like I feel

https://tenor.com/view/jack-nicholson-frozen-chilly-the-shining-winter-gif-10777839

[mystic pulsar]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/267247780001480714/1065066097310707752/image.png

this is what moments before death looks like

[strange finch]

If you can at some point, send me your reshade preset Im quite a fan of the bleak look you have going on.

[past hare]

No problemo. I was gonna suggest my TFAA settings to you because I found values I like that really stabilizes the shimmer. It's slightly blurrier than your settings though and text can exhibit some breakup in motion but I'm okay with that. TFAA isn't perfect but it's the best AA Reshade has.

[strange finch]

It is and there is always a tradeoff with TFAA but the positives of it far outweigh the negatives

[past hare]

I've never been able to get the "Ignore UI" shaders in reshade to work though. Maybe that's a way to get TFAA to ignore text?

[strange finch]

I can try but I typically just play with no hud

[past hare]

Same here most of the time

[sinful iris]

You’ll have better luck using the shader toggler addon for such a thing as it allows you to identify the exact shader in many cases and then disable it. It requires the addon version of ReShade though.

[past hare]

You mean for shader interference with the HUD? For my presets I know which ones do it and set toggle buttons for them. It'd just be nice to not have to consider how your effects will affect the HUD.

[strange finch]

A very slightly edited preset originally from @past hare

Film

[compact wedge]

https://tenor.com/view/faint-pass-out-heart-attack-unconscious-black-out-gif-15661716

[desert yew]

This one tho (2nd picture)

[strange finch]

Where is this in the outskirts? I wanna recreate this with atmospherics

its very movie poster like

[pale falcon]

Yes please do!

Spawn as monolith in outskirts

It's the building with the elevator

[sinful iris]

Yes. It requires scanning the various shaders in use at the time and telling shader toggler to basically remove them from the equation ReShade wise. There’s one that’s a toggle and one that’s a bypass. What’s an example UI element you want not affected and I’ll try and see if I can isolate it? It really depends on what it is as not every shader is easy to be isolated but a lot of times with UI stuff they are.

[strange finch]

For example the hud such as the body health overlay on the bottom left of the screen

[past hare]

Interesting. Is this the nuke option though? Because ideally, I'd want all effects always on, just not affecting the HUD elements. Say the compass or inventory. Butyeah, I'd love to see what you can come up with

[past hare]

Nnnnn, that 4th one down. So gloomy and awesome.

[compact wedge]

isnt a uimask option in reshade to assign a texture on the location you want reshade to not affect

[past hare]

Would that create a hard border where effects disappear? If so, could the edge be softened?

If I knew how to do that, I'd be doing it right now lol

[sinful iris]

This ain’t the uimask shader. It’s the shader toggler addon and a fork of it that allows bypassing ReShade but leaving the shader alone. This is newer stuff that wasn’t possible until later ReShade versions came out to support the addon framework.

[strange finch]

@desert yew changes are coming to foggy sunsets

[sinful iris]

It supports id’ing pixel and vertex shaders to control. All depends on how the game handles shaders as to what’s possible. It can be useful in cases for bypassing fog shaders with RTGI without ReVeil although I tried with stalker and wasn’t entirely successful. Was partly successful with FO4 but they use multiple fog shaders that make it complicated.

[spark fractal]

Yo this looks mad

[past hare]

Good lord that looks epic

[sinful iris]

Here's an example using the gaussian blur + color matrix shaders to make it completely obvious the entire image is being affected and then, while using the effect shader toggler addon, isolating the shader used to control PDA display, bypassing specific effects or combinations of effects, or alternatively outright toggling it off entirely with the shader toggler addon (which is different than the effect shader toggler addon):

[crisp kelp]

this looks really good

[past hare]

Sorcery!

[peak wyvern]

they told me to kill a dog, what the dog doin'

[wheat plank]

There is something on my lens

[peak wyvern]

i was batch crafting in rostok and decided to put some music, on shuffle, this is the first music that played

[runic stag]

you messed up somewhere

[peak wyvern]

looks like fallout 76 to me

[runic stag]

most likely not

[past hare]

Think I've about got it dialed in. Regrade is pretty good.

Did you type cfg_load hipposr in console? I'm using his shaders and atmos, and my shadows aren't that dark.

My build is 99.6% vanilla GAMMA. I'm only using Aydin's grass, Hippo's Shaders, and HD Models

Oh, and my reshade

lol sure

make sure you download all the shaders

and MXAO is optional. Without MXAO and TFAA, it's fairly lightweight

[strange finch]

Give me

[past hare]

Ayyy, you got it workin. TFAA?

[sinful iris]

fov looks just a tad high

[past hare]

yeah it does

At the very least reduces shimmer by a ton

[fair wadi]

uhm ... something weird happened..

[grand sundial]

Is this a custome reshade?!? Looks amazing

[stoic yoke]

bruv, that looks fucking amazing

[wintry laurel]

Can you pls give me reshade as well, perhaps post in #reshades

[stoic yoke]

What specs do you have and how does it run compared to vanilla Gamma?

[past hare]

@grand sundial @stoic yoke @wintry laurel Hey! Yeah, custom preset made to work with Hippo's shaders. Not sure how it'll look with vanilla Gamma's much darker look. Possibly too dark since my preset is dark. I just prefer working from a more neutral source.

My PC is an i9-11900F/3080 Ti and 32gb RAM. I'm almost always at 60fps at 3440x1440. I just keep my settings realistic. I've capped my refresh to 60hz though for consistency. If you don't use the TFAA cluster and MXAO, the preset is very lightweight, about +1.6ms to process a frame. Dropping those two shaders doesn't have much effect on the look. Without them, you still get about 98.2% of the way there.

[spark fractal]

The reshade is amazing, could you possibly pass it my way too

[tardy sail]

I'd love that preset too! 😂

[strange finch]

Either release it before I include it in atmospherics WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION, jk

[past hare]

Hey, if you want, feel free to! I don't mind.

[stoic yoke]

hmmm...i might include it into my current build ... i kinda wanna change the 50 shades of brown into something a bit more varied

[prime merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/thirsty-i-need-it-spongebob-gif-11796572

[clear gyro]

What HD npc model pack are you using?

[tiny path]

I have no idea if any of these beautiful shaders are even remotely possible with my pc but I want em badly

[dull crater]

You should definitely release this. Looks incredible.

[crisp kelp]

where can i get your reshade? i really like the dark aesthetic

[clever badger]

this pic goes hard ngl

[vocal kite]

We need this amazing reshade

[acoustic swallow]

@strange finch The screenshot u told me to follow other day for the game to look like yours in screenshots i cant find the settings on the reshade menu for some reason..

this one i believe

[sharp pawn]

Stalker can also be funny and breaks the fourth wall. That was a good one!

[clever badger]

get fucked

[lunar crane]

Good one) just turn of hud one button easy misy

[tender shell]

bruh how bro is carying so much stuff

(dead corpse)

[warm sierra]

what shaders did you use?

[compact wedge]

hippo atmospherics + custom reshade

[warm sierra]

ah yes. thank you very much

[ember scaffold]

the monolith truly blesses its chosen

[iron roost]

omg looks amazing what reshade are you using or graphics mods ?

[warm sierra]

new @compact wedge's reshade looks great

[pale falcon]

Aydin's Grass Tweaks, Hippo Atmospherics and @compact wedge reshade preset

[dark brook]

ze bait Stop leaking GAMMA 1.0

[iron roost]

Thank you

[warm sierra]

it's too late

[iron roost]

How to get lauta reshade preset ?

[dark brook]

btw people are amazed by the graphics, but I'm more curious about that HP bar white block and it gives me ideas about a new heal system:

[warm sierra]

@compact wedge provide this man with information

[past hare]

Are these textures vanilla to GAMMA?

[warm sierra]

it will be in the 1.0 update

[dark brook]

I'm not even sure you guys are trolling or if you are clueless at this point

[warm sierra]

[past hare]

Damn. What foliage is this? Where is this?

[past hare]

I'm definitely clueless. I've never played much of Stalker until your GOAT mod, so I don't know what's vanilla or not.

[dark brook]

that's screenshot of STALKER 2

[compact wedge]

[compact wedge]

it's stalker 2 promo screenshots

[past hare]

I'M A FOOL!

[iron roost]

oh you guys got me

@compact wedge Do you know a good reshade preset ?

[iron roost]

is this your preset ? can you mind sharing details ?

[past hare]

Lauta, you sunova bish!

[past hare]

HD Models. I merged it with Dux's and haven't been getting any errors fingers crossed

[topaz dew]

how would one go about making a merge like that? Or would you mind sharing it?

[past hare]

I just disabled Dux's, properly installed HD Models following the author's instructions, then copied over Dux's entire folder structure over top the HD Models install and skipping duplicates. Working fine so far and I'm following the main quest and in Rostok. I'm new to Stalker modding though, so take this whole thing with a massive grain of salt.

[lunar crane]

What is your favorite season of the year in stalker?

[past hare]

Beautfiul. I saw someone working on a sort of melted snow texture pack that reminds me a lot of the Volga map from Metro Exodus. I hope they finish it because that's the look I want.

[lunar crane]

Autumn Season Redux?

[past hare]

Maybe? I'm not sure. That looks good though. It was a few days ago and they mentioned it as a WIP. Could've been you lol

[lunar crane]

I'm interested to see if you can give me a link

[past hare]

Found it! It IS ASR, lol. It's Aydin's Grasses author working on a grass set to match your mod 🙂 #1053707300080209961 message

[crisp kelp]

babe wake up, new shaders just dropped

[grizzled heath]

the pump-station doesn't look right 😭

[compact wedge]

why?

it's identical

[strange finch]

“Can i play stalker 2 in dx8 Mode?!?!?”

[crisp kelp]

hippo reshade for stalker 2 when?

[lunar crane]

I have an agreement with the author of the Abnormal Weаther mod, I think that in the next version there will be weather from Misery. More gloomy and autumnal. Of course, I will edit presets for SSS shaders of the latest version

[quick latch]

Just when it couldn't get any worse...

[clever badger]

LMAO

[grand sundial]

is it possible to get the preset?

[compact wedge]

too many words magic man
just drop the folder and preset file

we monkeys like it simple

[past hare]

Full disclosure, I don't know how other than sending it to people directly. I'm used to posting on SFXthelazy and Nexus and I barely know how to use Discord lol

But it'll be included with Hippo's next update, so yay

[gusty valley]

is with late ASR and what other? somehow I never get sunsets like this

also the grass you have is always shimmering without TAA and that's too much for my pc. Do you know a solution for that?

[gusty valley]

i think it's not the grass but the white background due to the snow

[junior sleet]

You see, Ivan

If you sleep sideways, you'll wake up early and get all the artefacts!

[random parrot]

i liked this angle

and a dark valley one

[spark fractal]

@past hare your reshade has quickly become my favourite

[timid merlin]

pls give us a link when you upload a first version 🙂

[spark fractal]

It's included in #1036172060969410590

[past hare]

Yeah, grab Hippo's ^. My preset was built with it in mind.

[past hare]

New Hippo skies?

[south jungle]

No, thats the weather I'm tweaking atm

[delicate sapphire]

super huge grass be like :

[south jungle]

FPS goes brrrrrrrr

[delicate sapphire]

[rapid comet]

Hippo Atmospherics, no reshade, latest SSS

[deft lark]

game is beautiful even without adding anything else to it. would like to eventually but im just enjoyin base gamma

[light prawn]

Insane

I know im comparing games that are more than a decade apart but even for todays standards, stalker 2 looks great

[tardy sail]

Meh. I think it looks like a console port from years ago.

[strange finch]

Love it

[light prawn]

how so

[rapid comet]

Hippo broke me I can't stop taking screenshots

[dark brook]

You dropped this 👑

[acoustic swallow]

Beautiful Morning in Stalker👀 😍

[past hare]

I love how depressing this looks

[acoustic swallow]

👀

[spark fractal]

So glad you decided to make this preset, makes the zone look how it should and with hippos shaders looks chefs kiss

[acoustic swallow]

how does hippos shaders run btw? im running 2070 i7 9700k 16gb ram atm

[past hare]

For me, pretty well if you're realistic with your settings. I cap my fps to 60 even though I have a 3070 and 3080 Ti

[acoustic swallow]

hmm may try the shaders at some stage.

[spark fractal]

They run nicely, I'm running a 3070 and use hippos shaders and atmospherics, with his reshade with TFAA I can get a good 90/120 consistently but with TFAA it dips to about 70/90 in crowded areas

*without TFAA

[past hare]

At 1080p?

[runic stag]

literally no difference for me switching between base gamma and hippos, I'm running a 2060 and ryzen 5 1600x, you'll run it perfectly fine

[limpid tangle]

When someone tells you to boost your chem immunity

[heady acorn]

From Cordon, passing Garbage, Rostok, Truck Cementery, Dark Valley and Darkscape.

[severe quarry]

Hippos atmospherics makin these storms look amazing

[severe quarry]

Reload save if bugged press h if its working

[timid merlin]

which grass tweaks ?

[heady acorn]

3 boar chops for a stash location and 2050 roubles, what a deal.

[heady narwhal]

My game still don't even run amazing on default with some shaders turned off so i steer away from trying to add more

Plus i think game looks great as is

Hopefully my new 1060 will let me bump up grass a little

[heady acorn]

Well, at least you don't have to play in DX8

[heady narwhal]

I do have to do dx10

And i don't see a visual difference between the two one just runs worse

[past hare]

RTGI in Stalker. I'm in love

[compact panther]

damn sakharov got a glow up

[gloomy ivy]

Some of the chatter is interesting 😄

[south jungle]

PhroZac preset

[toxic ore]

pls god tell me how

i need it

[stoic yoke]

Did phrozac ever post his preset anywhere?

[strange finch]

Its in atmospherics now

[stoic yoke]

i see, i guess its time to see what that atmospherics mod is all about when i get back home

[toxic ore]

i been playing vanilla gamma so this will be nice change

[stoic yoke]

Ye, i really like the mood change the game gets with that preset

[strange finch]

Yup all of phroZac's screenshots are with atmospherics

[quartz cape]

jesus mans out here with stalker 2

[spark fractal]

I use dlsr to upscale to 2k, after I did that didnt really need tfaa anymore as it didnt make much of a difference

[neat timber]

how you do this

[dull crater]

Sorry for the UI. Can't figure out how to get rid of it for screenshots and the hide HUD toggle does nothing.

[junior sleet]

Press H

[dull crater]

Bless you

[delicate sapphire]

Aydins but ist autumn and taiga trees

[vocal kite]

So if I already have atmospherics do I need to reinstall it? Super new to this so im sorry if it's a dumb question

[spark fractal]

If you have the old version then yes, just to be safe reinstall and follow the new instructions

[vocal kite]

Thanks!

[dull crater]

Which reshade are you running here?

[timid merlin]

looks better than stalker 2 screenshots

[timid merlin]

looks like the included reshade (filmic 2 ) included in hippos Shaderd/reshade

[spark fractal]

This is phroZacs preset in hippos shaders

[tardy sail]

Just the usual atmospherics set-up, with Aydins Grass, Adega, etc.?

[spark fractal]

Yep yep, using aydins autmn grass and the trees and adega

[dull crater]

Looks so good

[grizzled heath]

that first puddle is HUGE

[spark fractal]

The zone loves a puddle

[graceful bone]

the irony

[past hare]

How would I use Adega but keep Gamma's old leafless trees??

Can I just put "Simple Autumn Retexture No leaves" behind it"?

[torn tusk]

forgot i had kept stalker population at 1, went for the mission at radar, managed to run away with a perfectly good saiga, aug and vss but my entire team except one is dead

good ol stalker

[spare aspen]

these need to not exist

[delicate sapphire]

Weapon?

[prisma cosmos]

Anyone know any cool reshades??

more of a stalker look a like

[prisma cosmos]

basically maybe somethink like this

[clever badger]

howa 2.0 it looks like

[quick latch]

красива

[acoustic swallow]

@strange finch this u sent me other day buddy im not seeing the actual settings in my reshade for some reason..unless i need to update to new version of reshade

[strange finch]

What do you mean?

[hot forge]

I think a joke I made didn't land

Btw they didn't help me clear the military in swamp at all, they turned around and left lol

[warm sierra]

yeah they do that if u load game. talking to the squad leader will make the squad go to the military again

[hot forge]

i got them to fight a few times but you know how ai is, a bit ineffective at fighting and got tired of just forcing them to slowly walk to engage again and just did it myself

[warm sierra]

on my first try with that quest i had to wait till they slowly reached the military for them to just die instantly and not land a single military kill

[daring barn]

whats is this weapon and why its so fucking clean? sorry for stupid question but how? my weapons on max settings doesnt look so clean

[hot forge]

i think it's a bas weapon that's why it looks so good, its a pp19 vityaz

[potent fossil]

This dude really just sat down, picked the guitar up all fucked up and said "Anyway, here's my take on Wonderwall"

[past hare]

SPOILERS!
lol

[cobalt iron]

my dude prays so fking hard

[random parrot]

Dark Valley

[severe quarry]

Yaes

Kos

[storm terrace]

dead freedomer in red forest

i had to take a moment to make sure i wasn't seeing things

[scenic shell]

dat ass

[past hare]

Love those ominous clouds. Which preset is this?

[spark fractal]

This is your reshade with hippos shaders and atmospherics, literally been taking screenshots all day and made 0 progress

[past hare]

Lol! Did you make any edits to the preset? It seems darker than I would've gone.

Glad you're enjoying it, btw. Nothing like seeing a favorite game in a new light

[spark fractal]

Nope completely unchanged, It might be the time of day but yeah its become my favourite

[compact wedge]

i really like the look of this reshade in storm or rain weathers

but not a fan of it on clear weathers
i know i can just disable it when clear weather appears, but too lazy to hit the button xd

[delicate sapphire]

what a beautiful day in Prypiat

[spark fractal]

Yeah it's perfect for stormy weather's, I've turned rain, cloudy and fog up in weather's and sunny rare for it, really sets the gloomy zoom tone

*Zone

[delicate sapphire]

tbh I really love it with sunny or cloudy weathe

gives that nice depressing vibe imo

[past hare]

Do you have it set to brighter nights?

[strange finch]

Hit it you bum

❤️

[deft lark]

legs look a little fucked there bud

[spark fractal]

I have it set to slightly brighter nights, it's basically a horror game with your reshade and dark nights

[spark fractal]

All thanks to you good sir

[peak wyvern]

just got to swamps

[clever badger]

Mans super sayan

[tall sedge]

how did you get it to look like this. nice

[strange finch]

Download atmospherics and download the optional reshade presets for it

[green hatch]

#1036172060969410590 with phroZac's preset which is included, Aydin's Grass Tweaks (Summer), GTR and ADEGA textures

[strange finch]

There are a good handful and try them all. In siques case it is prozacs communist badland

[green hatch]

i also have the RTGI shader on

[ancient owl]

there's no substitute for doing, as rightly noted by fellow merc

[tall sedge]

sorry I'm still very new to this..I have installed hippo shaders, how or where do I find phrozac's preset. and is GTR and ADEGA textures downloaded seperately? I appreciate the help

I find myself tweaking the colors more than playing the game lol

[twin fulcrum]

hate this place

[green hatch]

When you installed Hippo's make sure you select 03 - [OPTIONAL] RESHADE SR - Film - Snowy Reshade. Once you do that go ingame and press the Home button, on the top left there's a drop down menu and you can select phroZac's preset from there.

A.D.E.G.A is in #1035807043933720576

link to GTR: https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/global-texture-rework-beta

[tall sedge]

That's helpful, thank you

[clever badger]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/865748432734912563/1066176987233800323/image.png

i love this place it runs 90 fps

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/865748432734912563/1066183940274143293/image.png

[past hare]

Bit more Fun With RTGI. GI off

GI on

[tall sedge]

I can't find phrozac's preset for the life of me..I thought I followed all steps. Grass looks black and the color looks nothing like the screenshots I saw

Any idea what I messed up?

[flat spruce]

These mutants literally spawn camping Freedom Base

[tall sedge]

my game looks like crap

lol

[compact wedge]

probably installed GTR shadesr

which aren't compatible with any ES or SSS

[tall sedge]

I did install GTR shader...I just have no clue what ES or SSS is

[compact wedge]

enhanced shadesr
screen space shadows

basically, install GTR without the shaders

otherwise you will have the 'black grass'

[tall sedge]

I tried deleting the shaders and still looks the same 🤔

[tall sedge]

Do I need to disable the screen space shader mod on mo2?

[cosmic parrot]

the 2nd pic is insaaaane, so pretty

[lunar crane]

It's a Hippo weather and Inverno mixed. His weather pack is so good

[wooden ermine]

handy trick if you're changing the colour grading: take a vanilla screenshot and import it into photoshop, then use camera raw filter to get the desired look. the changes you make in crf will will give you more context into what shader parameters you need to edit to get a similar look in-game

[strange finch]

You’re talking about creating luts?

[wooden ermine]

would help with anything that touches colour channels really, its a neat way to understand what needs to happen to the grading to get to an end point

[orchid drum]

what weapon pack adds these new scopes and weapons in?

[tough zodiac]

desolation

[dull crater]

what reshade is this? One of my favorite looks so far

[delicate sapphire]

i would guess hippo but maybe not

[wooden ermine]

rainy morning in the b0nez0ne

[warm sierra]

the cordon tent provides

[clever badger]

Hippos but with my own magicbloom and ambientlight settings

[junior sleet]

I may hate Great Swamps in terms of gameplay but damn they look good

[delicate sapphire]

this cute guys was attcking me

i SHIT my fucking pants so bad

[lunar crane]

Foggy again

[green hatch]

Hey sorry I went to sleep, honestly I’m still very new to STALKER modding too so I’m not really sure what could be causing the black grass. Maybe someone in the Hippo channel can help you out

[pale falcon]

reshade off

reshade on

[strange finch]

Both look good!

[pale falcon]

[delicate sapphire]

ahhhh @past hare cant get enough of your reshade tbh

i just fucking love it

[past hare]

What gun is that? It's similar to the one Artyom uses in Exodus, yeah?

[lunar crane]

it's from efp i have the same

[vagrant heart]

i found a old screenshot of mine back when i was playing Expedition

[past hare]

So not in GAMMA?

Hippo's S&A and Badland

[lunar crane]

I was wrong this is normal BAS

[delicate sapphire]

its the vss vintorez I think

with a scope

[past hare]

Yes, I have it now 😄 Artyom RP engaged!

[spark fractal]

Stunning, what's your settings btw I forgot to ask?

[past hare]

Graphics settings?

[pale falcon]

At it again with leaking S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2?

[green hatch]

what grass/tree mod are you using

looks nice

[pale falcon]

Looks like GTR

[past hare]

At 3440 x 1440 with a 60hz cap. Depending on the scene, I'm mostly in the 50s on a 3080 Ti.
At 1440p 16:9, I'm always at 60 barring occasional stutters.
I cap to 40hz on a 4k120hz LG where it feels surprisingly smooth given that frame timing is very consistent.
Probably TMI 😄

[delicate sapphire]

Ahhh a metro fan

[pale falcon]

Have you tried setting custom resolution of 3840 x 1646 on your LG? I get slightly better fps and the benefit of ultrawide

[compact wedge]

Vanilla

[spark fractal]

You absolute gem thank you this is perfect

Basically the same as mine

[past hare]

I haven't but that's a real good idea. My wife would lose respect for me if she found me playing m&k from the couch though 😆

[sacred stag]

Now I know the true reason why Valerian died/disappeared. Look at this crap! They have more than resources to arm the boys, yet they keep sending in literal freshmen.

Bro's so skinflint the Loners fell becuz of this

[keen dirge]

just love the sky after an emission

[chrome cobalt]

how do you get that orangy look on the waves?mines always pink like

[keen dirge]

Hmmm might be random. I'm playing with the hippo reshade but I don't think that changes the emission sky

[chrome cobalt]

i think the hippo shader actully changes, it looks so much better, im so glad its coming for the next update

[past hare]

Poison Republic 😄

[green hatch]

what SSS blur settings do you use

looks clean

[severe quarry]

Looks amazing

[rancid vale]

getting close with my reshade/dynamic tonemap setup...

using hippo's atmospherics + reshade as a base with some more stylization

[agile bison]

default gamma, saw a cool sunset

[strange finch]

Is this a new preset?

Remind me to send you the beta version of atmospherics tonight so you can test it before i publish

So you can fine tune your preset

[delicate sapphire]

If this is a new preset could you added in next update @strange finch ?

[compact wedge]

[past hare]

I'm thinking maybe. Going for something that resembles Tarkovsky's Stalker. It has a ton of atmosphere

[delicate sapphire]

Wow man props to you

But in case will it be added in next hippo update?

[strange finch]

I would personally rock a preset like that

[past hare]

Are those actual Tarkov gun models?

[past hare]

I rarely publish anything, but if Hippo wants to have it be part of his suite that's awesome. I mean, it's built on his weather and lighting and would probably look weird without it.

[strange finch]

I’ll publish it

What do you wanna call it

[past hare]

Ha! Not sure. Maybe Poison Republic, lol. Maybe something from the movie?

[strange finch]

Btw will you still be on in 2 hours?

[strange finch]

Sounds good

[past hare]

Probably watching a movie with the lady but Iif not I'll be on

[thin ocean]

call it Kino

[strange finch]

Ok sounds good

[strange finch]

Go ahead and dm the preset incase you’re not on by the time i get home. If that works for you

And the badlands preset hasn’t had any updates beyond what you sent me today?