╟📸screenshots

[robust carbon]

Cause you have bad taste

[clever badger]

no bullshit, natural look

[mystic forum]

no bullshit, pixel look

[drifting pulsar]

Sorry, my shitty config... don't look at the bad details, I think he meant the overall feel

I myself struggle with Atmos/Aydins. When there is a minor change in the update, my stupid eyes and brain sees only the difference, and I usually don't like it. Why I uploaded these pixelated photos is because it's a confirmation for myself, that it looks good (I mean Atmos+Aydins). Now I seem to befriend with them,

Although I'm not 100% sure. Yesterday I messed with a 1.5-ish Atmos, and I hope traces of it haven't remained in the Gamma dir (it was a separate MO2 profile). Because now I'm satisfied with the look.

[warm sierra]

looks good anyway

wish more people quit using too much blur, contrast, vignette, bloom, lens

[drifting pulsar]

thanks bro, means a lot to me

[warm sierra]

and aim more for a "natural" look

[drifting pulsar]

yeah, it's very natural, this is what I wanted to show, the nature (Atmos+Aydins)

[void plank]

How to setup graphic for natural look?

[drifting pulsar]

Don't touch anything

[void plank]

E nevermind

[drifting pulsar]

Trust this job on professionals, like @dark brook @echo flame @strange finch

[clever badger]

minecraft texture pack

[drifting pulsar]

No, seriously, I didn't do much. Grass height is crucial, I used smaller ones, but does not look good. And it does not hurt much the performance until a point. I raised it to 0.7.
It's AtmosR+ if I remember well, Aydin's Spring

Clear weather, 11 AM, my favourite

You have to find the right spot, and also play with weather and daytime settings, because every scene is unique, and needs special treatment.

[drifting pulsar]

Honesly, I don't wish that. This way my photos are standing out in the crowd

[warm sierra]

i feel you

[drifting pulsar]

It's not my skill, I just point them out, but some of those are brutal, if You look them from a distant, the lights and everything looks pretty real, disturbingly. Especially the shadows/shades, their brightness is perfect.

Especially on the second pic, and the last but one

[warm sierra]

yep

[drifting pulsar]

OK, my compliments: You have a decent config, and a very well made Anomaly mod

(OK, the picture taste is fine as well...)

[mystic forum]

thanks daddy

[drifting pulsar]

But seriosly, it's not fair... what, is it like 8k or sg?! Four times the pixel I have

[mystic forum]

im running at 4k

[drifting pulsar]

not to mention the quality

But the pixel count is twice, is it some upscale or sg?

[mystic forum]

nah

just 4k

[cold spear]

@mystic forum wut reshade

[drifting pulsar]

Oh, silly me, 3840 x 2160, that's 4k... Didn't pay attantion to these technological things... I thought it's 8k, because 8m pixels

[mystic forum]

i only run 2 reshade options, SSAO, and sharpen

[cold spear]

All you need

Cranking AO makes the game feel so much deeper and sharpening brings out subtle detail that gets overlooked

[mystic forum]

your dick is huge

[clever badger]

anyone know how to bring brownish color back to tree bark

[mystic forum]

here

sending mod here

[clever badger]

i lov how gloomy it looks tbh

[mystic forum]

my trees are brown

[clever badger]

mine are greyish

[mystic forum]

i sent the mod

[mystic forum]

^^

[clever badger]

how do i use it

[mystic forum]

download it, go into MOD organ

top left

install mod

then select the folder you downloaded

[clever badger]

does it conflict with any other mods and do i have to make a new save?

[mystic forum]

no

its just bark haha

[drifting pulsar]

I'll try these, thanks for the tip

[clever badger]

lets see if it acc works baha

[mystic forum]

brown bark

god?

[abstract marten]

Holy Monolith's light.
you have been chosen stalker.

[solar barn]

Heart! ;3

its not blood

its paint

so dont worry nobody died !

[drifting pulsar]

LOL. It's funny

[winter aspen]

[coral sable]

same feeling lol

[chilly dirge]

Nice weather

[carmine scaffold]

How to have snow?

[drifting pulsar]

by @stable zephyr

[topaz pond]

Resident Evil Village be like ^

[drifting pulsar]

(our garden)

[drifting pulsar]

We definitely don't have monsters in it! Only cats maybe... oh, WAIT
CATS. See? Definitely aren't dangerous

[topaz pond]

The hut with the long since gone well and out of place gun just gave me RE: Village vibes

[drifting pulsar]

Yeah, those 'huts' are the neighbour's. Some kind of old pigsty or sg

[wooden ermine]

leaving rostok after being banned for life for returning from army warehouses reeking of snorkussy

[drifting pulsar]

no way, there are those kind of god rays in Gamma? I'll check immediately

[tranquil gust]

thats an emission making those

I'm also guessing they cranked up sun shaft intensity a bit

[void plank]

I just randomly screenshoted while emission was hitting

[drifting pulsar]

Ahh, I see. I thought it's just fog and sun. It expleins it then. You caught the moment

[void plank]

Like there

[crimson mango]

Project Inverno

[crimson mango]

real lmao

[glad carbon]

[stable zephyr]

great swamps is probably my fav atmoshphere

[mystic forum]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/782575049289760768/981880128361599076/caption-17-1.gif

[mystic forum]

https://tenor.com/view/epic-embed-fail-ryan-gosling-cereal-embed-failure-laugh-at-this-user-gif-20627924

[stable zephyr]

ah discord upload failure

[coarse talon]

military are such assholes they take shooting the messenger to whole new level, shooting the delivery boy

no idea why its so dark, probably shadowplay being stupid

[normal dawn]

What the hell lmao

[wise wharf]

if you're talking about my waste plant picture, then lemme tell you, 99.99% of my games look comes from the Piknik reshade. that thing is fucking life changing.

[strange finch]

I'm very proud of the level of screenshots in this channel lately. Whether on atmospherics, expedition, or otherwise. Keep it up!

[pearl magnet]

Bruh I love swamps

Made it to my base after two ingame weeks doing sidequests and trying out all the different guns I've repaired in the meantime. I made it back just in time for the sunset, turned on the radio and watched the sun rise above AW

I've chosen this place almost at random, but now every time I get back to unload parts and supplies, repair guns and armor, restock, rest or just change loadout I get a felling of being home that I never got in any other game. Having the sunrise just in front of it was not planned but surely a nice addition.

I feel it only gets beaten by sunrise in swamps

[white orchid]

The blood moon rises once again

[crimson mango]

why is ur sun so SMALL

baby sun

[pearl magnet]

Idk should be bigger?

[pearl magnet]

.

[white orchid]

what the fuck happened to sid

[normal dawn]

He's Lester?

[robust carbon]

That look gud

[white orchid]

Lester who

[normal dawn]

Lester from GTA 5

Looks like a 1:1 head swap lol

[coarse talon]

https://gtwfilesie-thumb.grandtheftwiki.com/LesterCrest-GTAV.jpg/300px-LesterCrest-GTAV.jpg

[crimson mango]

lester's long lost brother sid

[void plank]

Lester after year in zone

[coarse talon]

lester does fit sid, constantly scheming, coming up with plans, missions, providing gear a reasonable prices

[crimson mango]

yes i think your r2_sunshafts_value (in console) is too low. mine is currently 1.0

this is how a sun should look

[pearl magnet]

This is its look when it's higher

[pearl magnet]

mine is 0

Set to 1 now

[crimson mango]

much better lookin 🙂

[restive root]

Source?

[buoyant hedge]

yo, how did you manage to get your sky look so neat? with the clouds etc? is it normal vanilla or do you have some modpack for your sky?

[brisk saddle]

Off to go sniping on my vintage TV

[bronze yew]

He was merc’d

There’s a body cam preset in the works by Hobo™️

I mean Hippo

[torpid token]

we do a little trolling

[topaz pond]

[crimson mango]

tbh these screenshots are old as hell. they're from like EFP 2.0, but I think these were old Project Inverno skyboxes

• a bunch of other graphical mods that were just earlier versions of what atmospherics and such uses now

more old skyboxes

[wise wharf]

That looks fascinating, what reshade is that?

[buoyant hedge]

looks so nice compared to now though

my sky looks asss

idk if there is any modes for it now though?

besides the vanilla ones that comes with gamma installation

[ashen hound]

Bet, where can I get it?

[ashen hound]

[wise wharf]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/piknik-a-naturalistic-reshade-preset

[wise wharf]

I've found that the best results come from going into your bin folder and getting rid of all of the base presets and shader settings that come with GAMMA, and only having Piknik in there, otherwise it'll be blindingly white in my experience

[ashen hound]

Okay

[ashen hound]

Im a little worried about deleting something I'm not supposed to

[wise wharf]

in your bin folder there's gonna be a reshade-shader folder, and in there there's gonna be a shader folder and textures folder. i removed everything from the shader and texture folder, and when you download piknik it'll have its own shader and texture folders, the contents of which you'll put in the now empty shader and texture folders in your Anomaly bin.

[ashen hound]

Ah okay

so just like everything in those two?

[wise wharf]

yeah completely empty the shader and texture folders, they just contain the reshade settings and added textures, so nothing fundamental to anomaly's graphics will be deleted

[ashen hound]

Okay

[wise wharf]

I can DM you a picture of what my folders look like if you'd like

[ashen hound]

I think im good

Piknik has some gamedata stuff, do i just chuck it in there?

[wise wharf]

I wouldn't, it's just weather settings used for a different weather mod that Piknik's creator uses, and cause I don't think GAMMA uses that weather mod it could mess with the weather settings GAMMA does use

[ashen hound]

Okay

[wise wharf]

and then once all the shaders and textures are moved to the corresponding folders in your anomaly bin, make sure piknikRS is also moved to sit in the bin folder, so it'll appear as a preset when turn on reshade in-game

[ashen hound]

Ah ok

[wise wharf]

once all that is moved over, you should be good to go

[ashen hound]

Wait. so the piknikRS and the reshade files are just supposed to sit in the bin folder?

[crimson mango]

just tried out the piknic reshade and its a bit heavy on fps

[wise wharf]

no, only piknikRS is supposed to sit in the bin folder, the items in piknik's shader and texture folders are supposed to be moved to the shader and texture folders in your bin, that's within your reshade-shaders folder

[ashen hound]

My pc screams at me when i play gamma anyway so nothing will change

[wise wharf]

it does bring my down FPS just a lil bit, but no more than any other reshade in my experience

[ashen hound]

Okay now we can see how badly i've destroyed my anomaly folder

[compact wedge]

i think they are from Graupel

i don't know if Graupel took them from another stalker mod, or if it's made from 0

[worldly warren]

https://i.gyazo.com/0c1eddfd61a18f10800f3405f17c3c05.png

Look at this unmatched talent

[normal dawn]

Is this even Stalker anymore?

[stone hamlet]

this shotty is nice

[gritty crest]

wow screenshots just look better and better for Gamma

[cunning junco]

Interesting Spawn Point

[stone hamlet]

why i have a bad feeling

i was right

[ashen hound]

Oh Okay.

[wise wharf]

trying out an 80's style reshade I saw over in #╟🎑reshades, the creator said it was based off the og 1979 Stalker movie. not sure if i'll keep it or not but it certainly has an appeal

[bronze yew]

I like dis

[void plank]

how to make my game look like this

[hollow meadow]

maybe its the fog but this gives me sort of PS1 / retro horror vibes

man I would love a shader like that now that I pictured it, like 4:3 aspect ratio and texture dithering and such

[hollow meadow]

2nd pic: https://youtu.be/kFEdhamh9BE

[tranquil gust]

rats are friends

[wise wharf]

I def get those vibes from that screenshot too. The almost artificial vibrance in the plants and the blockiness of the man-made structures bring it all together with the fog I think. Definitely would also love a PS1 style reshade

[carmine scaffold]

Share preset pls

[torpid dune]

я все таки знал что они дружат

[stable zephyr]

screenshot spam but damn .9 looks good

[drifting pulsar]

Agree

[drifting pulsar]

Aww, finally someone plays (Aydin's) winter. Love it! These shots show its beauty pretty well!
👍

[drifting pulsar]

ooooh, crap... should I comment this?!

(You know very well that it looks awesome...)

[verbal sundial]

Good Job, now I want to find an MP7 and make it my main side arm XD

[vast ibex]

If anyone is looking for steam artwork then here. Looks pretty nice

[topaz pond]

The first one

[gusty spoke]

Don't worry, they just left the furnace on

[nimble otter]

Feel free to comment it!

[coarse talon]

foggy morning in Yantar

[naive needle]

earie fog

[drifting pulsar]

aww, especially the first one

[drifting pulsar]

Ahh, this one... it's surreal how realistic it looks!
The scenery, with the retro detector... sooo Stalker!

[drifting pulsar]

I give it a like, because on the first one it looks close to my setup, I presume. 👍

[drifting pulsar]

ohh, and this... man, it's not even Stalker?! It looks something totally different, because there is nothing Stalker related stuff here (buildings etc). I love the look of the gun, though I don't like blur unless I aim, but here with this rough stovepipe shotgun it looks excellent!

[drifting pulsar]

Ok, enough, it looks like a painting!
I have to start collecting your screenshots.... I hope Discord keeps them for long...

[primal geode]

any special reshade?

[drifting pulsar]

Yeah, it's a very well composed one. Simple, with very few elements, but perfect. I love how the grass looks like if it were mowed fresh! Small and tidy. The oldskool shotgun, the few trees in the distance, that small bush and reed at the sides, and the electric pole are all play a role in this scenery.
The vast grey emptiness of the sky is eased by that single bird flying.
If You look from a distance, I can totally see and imagine a real place in it!

[drifting pulsar]

Stop it, it's beyond awesomeness

[nimble otter]

its my personal reshade which is included in atmospherics, but these screenshots are using another one im working on which is based off of it

[warm sierra]

will you share it in the future?

[warm sierra]

stalker 2 looks good

[nimble otter]

i can give it to @strange finch right now if he would like to include it

[warm sierra]

https://tenor.com/view/senator-palpatine-anakin-skywalker-phantom-menace-gif-10607636

[coarse talon]

what reshade and/or mods are you using? your stuff always looks 10/10

[icy spear]

I think It should be included for sure

[coarse talon]

for sure, imo the best stalker has ever looked

clean visual, natural look yet feels like the zone, overgrown, lost, sad

[icy spear]

It's only sad If you don't love killing mutants and other faction genocide 😎

https://tenor.com/view/gun-cocking-american-sicario-reload-riffle-ready-to-fight-gif-24460079

[coarse talon]

true, but it needs the backdrop of an abandoned region that was once filled with life, and those screenshots have those feels

[cunning junco]

I'm just running default settings rn. Doing a clear sky play through.

[primal geode]

Which grass mod do you use?

[stable zephyr]

wow

[nimble otter]

aydin's grass spring

[primal geode]

Mint

[drifting pulsar]

Cool, thanks. I meant my setup or settings must be close, since my play looks similar rn.
I kinda got bored with stuff a bit, I think it's time to leave my old long play through (all stories and stuff kinda maxed out). It'd be cool to choose a different faction, and a more challenging gameplay.
Today I just started one to see the updates 'In real'. I mean in real play, not in dev mode. My exes and brain can get messed up if I test things for too long. Messing in dev mode with weathers/daytime etc.
I played the game for 1-2 days (ingame), and I have to admit, it looks and feels very awesome. The mood is top notch. I yet sticked to Aydin's spring anyway.
Why Clear Sky though? Why did You choose it?

[heady narwhal]

its aydins spring grass but they just toned down the contrast of the game a bit i think

[cunning junco]

Mostly because I like interacting with the other factions and I like having a base at the bottom of the map; free excuse to take long journeys around the map.

[strange finch]

Send it over and I’ll take a look when i can

[robust carbon]

Would lower green saturation

[drifting pulsar]

I see. Was thinking about what faction to choose next (I played as a Loner always, but I liked Clear Sky faction). Probably I'll consider it. Not to mention, Swamp is awesome, most beautiful place in Gamma!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/QxFrkpfaB7H33kqd9

[slate jay]

is this 4k?

[stable zephyr]

2k

[slate jay]

ok the anti aliasing looks pretty nice

[stable zephyr]

yeah im using the TFAA in hippos reshade

[slate jay]

yeah me too

but idk it seem to change very little

[stable zephyr]

you need to put some AA before it, either CMAA, FXAA or SMAA

then it works real nice

[slate jay]

what do you mean by before?

[clever badger]

blue tint :yuck:

[stable zephyr]

so either in engine AA or above it in reshade order

[slate jay]

i followed hippos install guide

where can i change the order?

i just ticked the anti aliasing options hippo suggested

[stable zephyr]

can just drag them around in reshade? I think CMAA is already above, so try enabling that as well if its not already

[clever badger]

could you do me a favour and send me hipposr shader ini file coz it never downloads for me when i follow the tut

[stable zephyr]

you can put fxaa before it which gets rid of the aliasing but makes everything look kind of oily

[slate jay]

you mean when i open the reshade options with "7"?

[slate jay]

i just did what was in the guide

[clever badger]

so when he said to tilda key and cfg_load hipposr it worked for you?

[slate jay]

yeah

[clever badger]

i followed the guide to the brim and it said file not found or suem

[slate jay]

i think you need to fix a path

[clever badger]

if your on about shader/**

i did that

[slate jay]

and then cfg_load (what you are using)

[stable zephyr]

yeah so like this

[slate jay]

yeah then it should work fine

[slate jay]

oh ok thanks

i will try it later and give you a response

[stable zephyr]

https://github.com/JakobPCoder/ReshadeTFAA

[slate jay]

do i have to activate FXAA too?

i already have it activated but not in the same order (will fix it later)

[stable zephyr]

no you just need some form of AA before the TFAA is applied for it to look good

try different things see what you prefer

[slate jay]

i have this order selected

i think its bc i run 1080p

[coarse talon]

Manfred cockteasing us everyday

[stable zephyr]

are you on the lastest amtos version? i think this fix made a big difference #1036172060969410590 message

[primal geode]

Any idea on how to do that?

[warm sierra]

i think the trees still have too much contrast, wonder if its just me. what do u think?

[torpid dune]

легко)))))))

[median mason]

0.9 looking good

[heady narwhal]

In the settings, click basic light settings

[heady narwhal]

Maybe, i still think it looks fine

maybe they just one or the other

either just aydins grass or just aydins trees

[warm sierra]

i think the trees and maybe bushes only give me too much contrast

[slate jay]

Yeah it should be updated

I installed gamma on the 24th

[coarse talon]

he cant keep getting away with posting these

[icy spear]

He makes the textures look so clean and smooth, mine just kinda look grainy half the time 😂

[slate jay]

i have it exactly like that

[warm sierra]

more architecture photos pls . also, is it +60fps?

[nimble otter]

i average around 90fps most of the time i think

[warm sierra]

btw, if u set time_factor 0.001 u can stop time and take pics of fights, mutants, effects, ect.

it works with freecam too

[coarse talon]

the best ive ever seen stalker look

so natural

[crystal tide]

This looks better than i expect Stalker 2 to look

[drifting pulsar]

Maybe, only maybe ( ) Stalker 2 will look better, but I'm not curious about the game play. I have a fear that it will be (a bit) callofduty-ish...
No problemo: we have G.A.M.M.A.

[brisk saddle]

It ain't much

[stone hamlet]

thank you very much 🙂

[drifting pulsar]

Where did I take this photo?
(I didn't cheat)

Rostok's beauty

[willow shale]

it's good enough for me

[white orchid]

Thats an album cover

[clever badger]

clear sky needs to work on their hiring process

[coarse talon]

straight outta pripyat

terrified to go inside

[rapid tide]

beefy dude

[pearl magnet]

@nimble otter may I ask what settings are you using? It looks amazing

[coarse talon]

[ocean pawn]

that's amazing well done 👏

[pearl magnet]

Guys I have the template whos gonna stop me now

[willow notch]

looks good

[worldly warren]

[steady heart]

Do people with better rigs drop fps hard in places like freedom base? I didn't had these major drops before the big update but now I keep getting these 50-55 in certain places, in the campfires behind loki's building while looking at the gate on a dark night I was getting 40 and it's just absolutely insane. I used to get 55 minimum before at same graphic settings

[opal sail]

What kind of Bloodsucker is this!? Never seen one that had spikes and fur.

[limpid relic]

♫ bloodsucka with the fur (with the fur) ... the whole club was lookin at hurr ♫

[opal sail]

Lol good one friend!

[rapid tide]

I run a 1080 gtx and i7 and since the update my frames have kind of been mid since it came out

I get it really bad around rostok xd

[sharp steeple]

Damn

[topaz oar]

I'm gonna use this for my stalker playlist cover LMAO

[wooden ermine]

chad emission enjoyer vs virgin psystorm coomer

[drifting pulsar]

Nice, like an old yellowed photograph! Especially the first one

[crystal tide]

What gun dis

[drifting pulsar]

yeah I wanted to ask too

[unreal estuary]

SR-25

[drifting pulsar]

sure, forgot it... i got one in my stashes... is it good, compared to an sdvs pmc for example?

[obsidian harness]

a night in Rookie Village

[unreal estuary]

I really like the SR-25, it even has a full auto mode but it's not really worth using it like that

very nice 7.62x51mm DMR

[violet plover]

Two axes? Two axes.

[sick elbow]

There you have found that church?

[lunar crane]

screenshot from A.N.T.O.L.O.G.Y there are other locations

[lucid lintel]

How complete is the inverno port?

[lunar crane]

yes i am making a version for A.N.T.H.O.L.O.G.Y. But it's not ready yet. Done only Autumn Season redux

[drifting pulsar]

Fuck, THIS! Some fricking gothic hunter stuff!!! And with the ol' shotgun! Epic!
Can I have this? I mean to run this?

[lunar crane]

Not yet, still under development

[topaz oar]

I need those grass shadows 😮

[rapid tide]

bro out here on a sunday morning praying

[drifting pulsar]

too much vodka

[drifting pulsar]

Oh crap, it looks sweet. What do I have to do to be able to play this?

[rapid tide]

I just used Aggressor reshade with Project Inverno, which today just updated actually https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/inverno-fx

also I put a fish eyes effect on it for fun

also don't use aggressors settings with inverno since it makes it way too bright to even play personally

I had to tweak some of my reshade settings to figure out what looked good

[compact wedge]

hey, how are you doing the texture for those maps? like in .xdb format? or loose files

[lunar crane]

Packed in db , or inverno will be more then 10gb

[idle mountain]

The screenshots on here alone can advertise Gamma for years

[drifting pulsar]

I see. I think I tried a mod like this before, was not successful (the installation).
Do I just add inverno and shader pack, then disable those in gamma, that's all? What priority do I give to these mods?

Oh, and that Graupel texture pack too?

[rapid tide]

On the moddb, in its description, it says what to deactivate for GAMMA, and what to enable as well, which is the first three, but yea for installation you install it via mod organizer. and I placed it at the end of my load order and deactivated the mods told in the description and enabled the 3 first check boxes when installed via mod organizer

I also added classic textures and no grass and lods just for extra fps

left click inside mo2, click "install mod" select project inverno winrar or your 7zip you downloaded, and check first 3

or click the tiny tool box right above conflicts selector

Disable For G.A.M.M.A
24- Skies Redux - d_nan
241- Simple Autumn Retexture No leaves - Daedalus-Prime
242- Gardener of the Zone Textures - YuriVernadsky
283- Autumn No Leaves LOD Fix - owencraig08
G.A.M.M.A. Weathers
Roadside's Lens Flares
Atmospherics
Aydin's Grass tweaks
Disable these to make it work

Graupel is just for more textures

but not needed to install inverno

shaders pack not needed either

though the shader pack and graupel is optional, it could enhance your gameplay heavily but I'm just using the basic SSS for Gamma and ESS and since i have classic textures graupel won't make much of a change

[rapid tide]

ooh the new flesh models are so perfect, much better than the very weird looking flesh we had before

[minor hatch]

They are soooooo good

[minor hatch]

What mod is that

[rapid tide]

Been testing gunslinger npc rework mod which gives HD models to all factions

[minor hatch]

Oh neat

Can't wait for that

[pulsar spruce]

damn what

[coarse talon]

@topaz oar whats your shader? i am trying to get something natural like yours

[soft summit]

Good god does your GAMMA look nice!

[jaunty palm]

For sure! Wonder what mods/reshade they are using or if some good post work on the shots. Either way they looks fantastic

[shell python]

SKS

[topaz oar]

Im running Phrozac AreaX with FGFX on at 0.750 intensity with regrade and ADOF turned off, Gamma at 1, Saturation at 1.3 and brightness 1 also with all the settings at high and Aydins Spring grass+trees, Sunrays set to 1 and 0.1

[topaz oar]

Ty ty

[topaz oar]

See above

[junior notch]

The Bandit was right!

[drifting pulsar]

Thanks for the tips, tomorrow I'll try to install it!

[rapid tide]

it's not too hard of an install, as long as you follow that it should work

[drifting pulsar]

Oh crap... I tried very hard to find a bad thing about these pictures... but I failed
Everything is just perfect on these!
Wonder what kind of beats needed for having more than 7 times the pixel I have...

[tranquil gust]

old world with sss is something else

[ripe rapids]

Love it really much

What are your grass settings?

[buoyant hedge]

Hey are you still online, if so want to ask you something

[shell python]

what outfit is that?

[nimble otter]

Renegade SEVA Suit

[shell python]

75% density 190 range .7 size

[shell python]

you can never have too many frames ):

[tranquil gust]

i forgot how big the bolts used to be

[shell python]

ty

[ripe rapids]

Thank you

And the reshade

What is it?

Or is it your personal one

[shell python]

Personal

[ripe rapids]

Looks just great

[heady narwhal]

this shoc?

[jaunty palm]

Wow, how had I never tried AreaX before. Just wish I could have those awesome outdoor visuals without killing all indoor lighting and making everything a black tomb

[topaz oar]

Did you turn off Regrade, turning that off fixes the dark interiors mostly

[jaunty palm]

I did. I must have my monitor blacks a lot blacker.

[tranquil gust]

anomaly w/ old world addon

and some other stuff

[heady narwhal]

[opal sail]

This controller is on something lol, whatever it is I want some

[topaz oar]

Probably

[topaz oar]

You could also try playing with the r2 commands in the console one of them affects interior light only

"r2_tonemap_lowlum", "r2_tonemap_middlegray", "r2_sun_lumscale", "r2_sun_lumscale_amb"

[jaunty palm]

Was kinda dreary post-rainstorm. Loving the look of the autumn grass and trees, ADEGA textures, and the phroZac AreaX reshade

[jaunty palm]

I cranked up the min and max lumscale amb in the dynamic tone mapping mcm. It helped

[rapid tide]

Roasting something he is

what you think he roasting?

Push up contest with the boys

[topaz oar]

Awesome! Glad you managed to get it looking good!

[rapid tide]

Love the water wow

[jovial cedar]

I really like the vibe of this shot, amazing 💙

[robust carbon]

[rapid tide]

is that a reshade you're using to make it look that nice?

if so, what reshade is it?

[spark tusk]

What textures packs do you guys use/recommend?

[rapid tide]

I use Frozen Zone, it makes it winter time, the reborn zone is nice too, expedition is beautiful but I’m too dumb to figure out how to make it work lol

[spark tusk]

I love Frozen Zone. I got EXP to work with GAMMA but it took about of month of bug fixing. That's actually why I'm asking, haha I have EFP texture pack overwriting EXP's but the textures in some of those photos look incredible!

[rapid tide]

yea I been using Frozen Zone for a bit, Dead zone is nice too and the other zone texture packs

[spark tusk]

Do you know if GAMMA uses any texture packs? For ground cover, buildings, and such?

[rapid tide]

hmm not quite sure myself, I think it just uses the normal textures for buildings and ground and such, not positive but I think it has BARKS tree rework in the game already and some sky textures

idk if there is like a 4K Hd upscaled mod for buildings or not

the buildings always seemed dull

[spark tusk]

Yea that's my issue. I need textures to overwrite EXP. If not, it will always make their textures priority. And I am not a fan of the parallax effect they use.

[rapid tide]

I think maybe one day someone will post 4K upscale models for modding, but so far I haven't seen anything of the sorts just yet

[spark tusk]

I have a feeling this year is going to give us some insane mods for Anomaly

[rapid tide]

I hope so, I saw the Unreal Engine 5 stalker remake trailer and it's gnarly insane

looks just as good as Stalker 2 does

[spark tusk]

I had no idea that was a thing! Thats sick!

[rapid tide]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IW_xXNXiD4

it looks amazing tbh

[rapid tide]

game always looks beautiful when that ray hits the screen oh man

[slate jay]

4k?

[jagged tiger]

this looks soooo good!!

[torpid dune]

Жесткий трип

[hollow hawk]

time for endgame 🙂

[drifting pulsar]

I've been messing with MO2 profiles, INVERNO install etc. In the meantime I must have fucked up a few things dare I say?
Not a screenshot, a small (bad quality) video:
Stalker: Fallout, aka Total Desolation

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14GipcmjN1EVaggL_Yaas68nAR-nagTLJ/view?usp=sharing

[drifting pulsar]

Anyway, thanks for the cheer-up @rapid tide , INVERNO sort of worked, but I must tweak it heavily, also, I still don't understand a few things. Now I removed it, and put aside for later usage.
I made some shots quickly anyway:

[scenic shell]

[rapid tide]

in an exo too, good luck jumping over that xd

[rapid tide]

went into army warehouses and noped right the hell out of there after seeing this army of military as a loner

[tranquil gust]

usp chads stay winnin

[scenic shell]

rest in piece my guy

[supple quiver]

"It's beautiful, blyat. It's blyatiful" - Boris. (yes I know I gotta activate windows I'm a cheapskate, sue me :P)

[rapid tide]

honestly I'm more surprised about the activate windows logo than anything else but awesome view to be honest

[near cedar]

VMs ftw

[drifting pulsar]

Are You?!

[rapid tide]

I am I never seen a windows register logo lmao

[warm sierra]

oooh, you gonna see it often here

[fallow shard]

is this the default grass?

[heady narwhal]

vanilla anomaly grass

[fallow shard]

Thanks man, lovely screenshots!

[unreal estuary]

The Pripyat Sniper

[scenic shell]

I get the reference

[rare pine]

what armor is this?

[unreal estuary]

Clear Sky Exoskeleton, believe it's called CS-5

[coarse talon]

There was an incident at Yanov station

[willow notch]

does anyone use cinematic dof?

[rapid tide]

I do kind of

[pliant shore]

You too uh

Also is that the body cam filter?

[coarse talon]

AreaX with a few tweaks and additions

[pliant shore]

Noice

Looks great

[pliant shore]

Once I get a PC im going to start asking for people's settings on shaders xD

[brisk saddle]

You playing on a steam deck?

[pliant shore]

Nope

I'm playing on a potato pc

[fair zinc]

Fucking Sidorovich, drunk again

[pliant shore]

Annoying part? I was 1 salary away from saving up enough for a very good PC, got fired before I could get it 😄

[waxen cove]

I got a mission objective over there too...

[torpid blade]

Looks like you got a bit more than that in the distance there... lol

[tough zodiac]

lol we posted at the same time

[thin geode]

😁

[lavish yoke]

God I forgot how nice it is to walk around pripyat/outskirts

[rapid tide]

is that shotgun and kedra in the game? or whatever that tiny gun is again lol

also what reshade or textures is that? I'd love to try them if possible if any are used lol

[heady narwhal]

Guns are WIP stuff that they're a tester for i believe

[rapid tide]

ooh the shotgun looks hot as frick but dang it looks stellar

[wise wharf]

Piknik Reshade vs 80s Feel reshade, thoughts?

[covert aspen]

What the hell is that

[stable zephyr]

love the natural colours on piknik, assuming thats the left one

[wise wharf]

yeah piknik is on the left, honestly never found a reshade that's even held a candle to it until I found the 80's style one so I'm conflicted

[wise wharf]

some more side-by-sides, with the 80's feel first this time

[soft radish]

Piknik is def more immersive

[buoyant pumice]

80's really photogenic, not sure how it is gameplay wise. Awesome shots btw

[stable zephyr]

spring grass + any reshades that add saturation looks off to me tbh

like fortnite grass

[buoyant pumice]

I can't stand this grass either, reshade or not

[pliant shore]

Maybe a mix of both? I like the immersive feeling Piknik as, but I also like the vibe the 80's gives with the colors

[icy spear]

Groovy

[warm sierra]

!screen // just in case 👇

[humble pasture]

We can't really see the problem if you take a picture with your cellphone. If you have a problem you want to share with us, you can do the following, since we don't care about your second monitor or your desktop image:

1. Press F12 in-game, look in Anomaly\appdata\screenshots. If it's not there, look in your GAMMA RC3 folder, inside a folder called overwrite
2. Press PRTSC (Print Screen on your keyboard) open Paint, CTLR + V to paste the pic, save it, send it
3. Windows key + Shift + S, which let you choose what part of the screen you want to copy, it will directly copy the pic for you.

[hexed berry]

doesn't that much bloom make inventories annoying to look at?

[coarse talon]

Just gave me a great idea to bind a bloom effect to my inventory button so it turns on and off whenever I open and close my inventory

[hexed berry]

what about when you're looting enemies

[coarse talon]

I’ll deal with it then, it’s not even that bad with my reshade but it is some what noticeable

[clever badger]

Not really

[hexed berry]

hmm, whenever I set bloom on it made my inventory super contrast-y with overblown whites even with settings turned down

[naive needle]

getting motion sickness just by looking at them

[rapid tide]

[vocal root]

I need help guys

[scenic shell]

nice graphics man

what reshade are you using

|| go to #🔨base-gamma-support ||

[vocal root]

I used what the the mod have already selected for me and its runs fine until I go to the army warehouse

[scenic shell]

ask that in the support channels

[vocal root]

aight

[scenic shell]

[hexed berry]

swamps are pretty ass but look pretty at sunset

[waxen cove]

From what I've heard from others it's effectively the grim reaper but I could be wrong. It's called a Poltergeist

[sharp steeple]

sheeesh

[acoustic raptor]

the last picture has been taken a billion times probably

such a beautiful spot

never gets old

nice stuff

[candid shore]

gamma weathers at it's finest

(not using hippo's atmospherics)

[candid shore]

here's more at the truck cemetery

[candid shore]

bro turned an emission into spaghetti or mac and cheese

[final harbor]

I kinda like it tbf, looks very foreboding. the default ones are a bit too pretty and light to me

[final harbor]

is this a different sky mod after an emission here?

[main heart]

nope all default 🙂 looked even better in game

[final harbor]

very puuurdy, my emission afterskies are always quite bright and colourful, the ones here look like literal hell. it's dope

[main heart]

I think it was just combination of elements, time of day and location. Water reflection looks

[final harbor]

think it must be a time of day thing then to be fair, all my emissions always seem to take place quite early

[main heart]

yea mine happened near like 2 am in game, plus no moon that night

[icy spear]

Look nice, your own custom reshade settings or ?

[ripe rapids]

PhroZac GRIM

It's a really nice preset

[icy spear]

Gonna have to give It a go for sure, been playing with Spring grass and making the zone a little more colourful which has been nice, but seeing these screen shots has made me miss the Dark Gloomy Zone

[ripe rapids]

I'm glad to hear that these shots made you do it :)

[topaz pond]

What gun is that?

[jaunty palm]

Did you adjust anything in GRIM or change any other video settings? Any graphics/texture mods outside of vanilla GAMMA? Really love the look you have here.

[ripe rapids]

Almost nothing, but I have adjusted the shadows:
my sun quality is set to "high", and the resolution of the shadow map in launcher is set to 2560.
The image quality can still be affected by my resolution, which I set to 2k using the DSR function.
About the reshade: I turned off both TFAA and FXAA smoothing there - they really soap the picture, as I personally think.

[ripe rapids]

RAPTR

An AR shotgun with a huge mag.

[pliant shore]

Any links to it?

[ripe rapids]

It's included into Hippo's Atmospherics

[pliant shore]

Ah, gotcha

[ripe rapids]

👍

[coarse talon]

Insert dancing joker here

[spiral mural]

OH YES A SCAR!

[slender junco]

red forest is such a pretty area during fog but i cant figure out how to fix the distant shadows looking bad in the fog

turns out its just my game being wonky- it looks fine in screenshots?

oh nvm its just harder to notice-

[clever badger]

Stuffs cigarette into filter consciously, brooding as he realizes, "Fuck. It's filtering the smoke this taste like shit.. wait is my mask on fire?"

It's not very pretty I don't have a 9 thousand dollar pc

[vague sand]

Its the Raptor Shotgun, full auto 25 round drum lol

[clever badger]

HE'S GONNA JUMP

[clever badger]

merc gaming

[jaunty palm]

Absolute thick boi chad standing next to you

[clever badger]

bros so big he cant hold a gun right

[gusty spoke]

The whole Harry potter thing truly left this man in shambles

[strange finch]

https://imgur.com/a/HJ5qbB0 a compilation of screenshots from myself and the community that use atmospherics.

[heady warren]

first time in radar this place spookie

[warm sierra]

too much contrast

[jovial cedar]

What do you mean? Obviously it's just about having sunglasses all the time, that's realistic

[warm sierra]

damn. Grok, add sunglasses item this instant, thank you 🤝

[jovial cedar]

More bloom = more realistic

[charred pendant]

this looks like real life lol

[spiral mural]

Where do you Get the Screenshots from when you hit F12 lol?

[normal dawn]

F12 puts them in Anomaly\appdata\screenshots
PrintScreen puts them in GAMMA\overwrite\bin

[spiral mural]

Oofs my screenshots are whited out all well

[warm sierra]

!screen 👇

[humble pasture]

We can't really see the problem if you take a picture with your cellphone. If you have a problem you want to share with us, you can do the following, since we don't care about your second monitor or your desktop image:

1. Press F12 in-game, look in Anomaly\appdata\screenshots. If it's not there, look in your GAMMA RC3 folder, inside a folder called overwrite
2. Press PRTSC (Print Screen on your keyboard) open Paint, CTLR + V to paste the pic, save it, send it
3. Windows key + Shift + S, which let you choose what part of the screen you want to copy, it will directly copy the pic for you.

[normal dawn]

Try PrintScreen instead

[spiral mural]

Ok

I will next time a Emission happens

[strange finch]

Btw your latest preset is in atmospherics (the one you sent me last).

[icy spear]

Do we just need to update the game to get It Hippo?

[strange finch]

I dmed Grok about the reshade changes so unless he updated it for GAMMA then you might have to install atmospherics manually

[icy spear]

Rodger that 👍

[buoyant hedge]

Can you link atmospherics please

[strange finch]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/hippos-shaders-and-atmospherics

[buoyant hedge]

Thanks, is this the one that is already included in gamma?

[rapid tide]

Its updated on moddb

[buoyant hedge]

Ooh so its just an updated version of the current one that's included with gamma?

[rapid tide]

Yea it is

Just replace with newest update

[buoyant hedge]

Meaning i should remove the current atmospherics in mo2 and download this one?

[rapid tide]

Yes

Till it is updated via the installer and grok

[buoyant hedge]

Ooh okay so basically just completely remove atmospherics and install the one hippo sent me

[rapid tide]

yea

[buoyant hedge]

Thanks bud

[buoyant hedge]

wich loadorder should this be placed in mo2?

[coarse talon]

I would assume next to where old atmos goes

[strange finch]

same place as the old one

[buoyant hedge]

and is there anythine else i need to download, or just download this one and put it inot mo2

[strange finch]

thats it

[buoyant hedge]

yeah i forgot where it was :/

xD

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

so i don't have to followthis?

[buoyant hedge]

frosty do you know which load order was atmospherics placed, i forgot when i removed the default one that came with

is it 440? just below screen space shaders 15.0 - ascii1457?

@strange finch should everything be ticked here?

[strange finch]

No

[buoyant hedge]

oright, wich should be ticked, don't want to mess up

[strange finch]

01, 02 (Both reshade options do not select brighter ambient). 03 vanilla

[buoyant hedge]

and that's all, nothing else?

[strange finch]

nope

[buoyant hedge]

thanks man !

so like this

and this should be the load order for atmosphereics?

[buoyant hedge]

yo, can you just have a look at the above screenshot is that where the new atmos from hippo should be placed in mo2?, below screen space shaders?

[devout fjord]

Sunglasses are Mandatory or the zones radiation will burn your eyes 😆

[buoyant hedge]

if anyone can advice on this, just want to make sure it's the right place

[rapid tide]

Yea thats where it goes

[buoyant hedge]

awesome, thanks a lot

[rapid tide]

Yea that’s how I got mine

[coarse talon]

What character model mod do you use frosty?

[rapid tide]

currently using KVMAS Hd models setup

[primal geode]

Does it require new save? any bugs?

[rapid tide]

currently only bugs is on select few outfit crashes, other than that it is stable enough, played 24 hours of these models and no crashes of yet

though I am using a modpack combined with the kvmas models and bonus hd patches

#1102541401620750366 message

I actually made a whole guide on installing on via that post link, with the help of Pay and all the others

[primal geode]

I though installing that mid game completely bricked your game?

[rapid tide]

oh it requires a new save, since it scraps dux models completely for kvmas and azetrix models

if you tried loading an old save with it, you definitely will ctd

[primal geode]

Damn, then I'm skipping it, way to many hours in

[rapid tide]

yea I'd try it only if you starting a brand new save, other than that dux also gives like a crap ton of variety, while these only have varying models in outfits and such

[primal geode]

Will only do a new save when the next big update comes most likely, since im taking it very slow

[rapid tide]

Yea the next update will probably be huge since it will be 1.0

[primal geode]

or 0.9.1

[rapid tide]

oh yea it could be 0.9.1

[inland mango]

hey do u know where the old one is supposed to be?

[rapid tide]

it's right in Gamma fixes tab

[rapid tide]

I believe it is right under 190 screen space shaders

[buoyant hedge]

440, just belowe screen-space-shaders

[primal geode]

carzy mf running around dead city with a double barrel

[inland mango]

whats the difference between this and the old one?

should I expect the game to look better?

[rapid tide]

yes, it's a lot better quality since it was updated just yesterday

[inland mango]

and the optional things

[primal geode]

Giff link again

[inland mango]

can they be turned on?

im guessing these ones are the only useful ones ptoentially

[rapid tide]

just click the 2 that says required to install properly

[inland mango]

yea but

the otpional ones are not compatible with gamma?

[primal geode]

then dont use them

[rapid tide]

hmm you can test it out

I don't use them since I use ADEGA

[primal geode]

@rapid tide link, im lazy

[inland mango]

the link is https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/hippos-shaders-and-atmospherics

[primal geode]

thanks blud

just replace old one ey?

[rapid tide]

yep

[primal geode]

dope

[rapid tide]

that's about it for it till it's put in the actual development section for the installer

or however it works

grok will most likely update it soon

[sharp steeple]

That sky my god

[tough zinc]

wonderful isn't it

[uncut ledge]

Hi, A Question. Anybody knows What is the mask that give that inmersion (border / graphic). ?

[normal dawn]

Also we're totally not getting shot through the walls lol

[buoyant hedge]

What mod is it? Or is it defaulr

[tough zinc]

Simply default comrade

[buoyant hedge]

Mine doesn't even look like thag wtf

[tough zinc]

You sure? That was at sunset

[buoyant hedge]

Yeap

[tough zinc]

Was lovely on the great swamps

[buoyant hedge]

I barely have clouds etc

Doing a clean install now so gonna see

[tough zinc]

Might be the weather type

[buoyant hedge]

Idk possible

[tough zinc]

I know there is usually 2-3 types of the same weather

There is like two clear weather sky boxes

I had intentions of using R.A.W but after messing around with it I honestly can’t be bothered fucking my game up right now

I decided just to update my gamma and leave it at the usual stuff