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[near wave]

you didnt even ask if it was his

you just wanted to snatch it right on

[mossy tiger]

Mb I assumed it was his

He didn’t say anything about someone else having created it so I thought he made it

Also @oak lava can you send me the LUT

[oak lava]

2 sedc

sec

[mossy tiger]

Not that one

The ReShade one

Should’ve said mb

[oak lava]

if this aint the one then idk what you talking bout

or which i mean

@mossy tiger

[mossy tiger]

The unreal_zone_lut_test.png one

[oak lava]

how do i send it?

[mossy tiger]

Not sure

It’s alr tho

Looks good without it

I’ll just tweak the settings accordingly

[oak lava]

alr

[serene light]

you know, i gotta try the winter overhaul myself, if not for the (probably) increased performance over other setups thanks to the drastically reduced grass.

[acoustic tiger]

@brittle shale
-Playing on 4k. Have most SSR settings on high/medium. Weaker pc's should tweak between low/medium and short light/shadow distances.
-put your brightness/gamma higher. 1.0 or 1.1 and put that color to 1.4 in basic graphic settings
-not using any reshade/enb
-some extra texture mods to make it more pretty

[brittle shale]

I love you
I will try this in a couple of hours. Thanks

[obsidian onyx]

https://tenor.com/view/lluvia-roja-raining-street-light-street-lamp-gif-14758491

[topaz void]

suggest options where else it can be done like this

[near wave]

do that in cordon

or bloodsucker village

[topaz void]

It's not interesting there, we need a more atmospheric place

[near wave]

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[near wave]

then here maybe?

in the childrens theatre in zaton?

there is a big scene there

[topaz void]

hmm thanks good idea

[rose zenith]

Just me and Hip chilling in ARI after massacre the entire military battalion.

[tiny heart]

How can I make it look like this?

[dire needle]

You can’t, all of this is unfinished or as some people call abandoned

[thin obsidian]

abandon me daddy

[lucid blaze]

what are you using for the sky?

[clever badger]

Skyboxes from inverno

[drifting pulsar]

OMG, that campfire shot...

Heart touching

https://tenor.com/view/cat-crying-cat-cat-meme-cat-crying-meme-crying-cat-meme-gif-15530372636024879885

[drifting pulsar]

With looong and haard work... maybe you can do it (start to learn blender)

[inland fjord]

Bro thinks he is spiderman

[obtuse cairn]

i crashed my game to take this

[vivid gale]

Certified cool / 10

[short gazelle]

this might be the biggest cope response possible

[fiery bridge]

This is absolutely unit

[obsidian onyx]

[dire needle]

Welp, life. I guess nobody plays and mods one game for an entire year . If anyone wants to continue it faster in the same style, all assets are available under ccbync. There’s also plenty of information in the mod thread on how to do this, so feel free to use it. Meanwhile, I’ll rework and improve it at my own pace and release it when I feel it’s ready. Also, the one who does nothing is always right.

[stark smelt]

better release something great after 1 year than something mediocre after 1 month

[short gazelle]

holy cope, stop crashing out on stalker screenshots

[acoustic tiger]

Youre not releasing shit until i beta test it, need those mods for my next run

[coral sable]

Hardcore Henry 2

[zenith cypress]

Do you want a script to activate your Windows ?

[rose zenith]

Nah, am good, thank for offering anyway.

[thin raven]

Rotten textures 4k look yummy

[narrow dagger]

Moody

[fluid crescent]

Killed a guy and his gun did a backflip, turns out he was flexing on me even in death

I tried to get the backside to show it's not being propped up but kicked it down the stairs 😦

[lethal iris]

Sin ExoSuit

[short gazelle]

Fanatic did something for sure man.

[rough lantern]

nice npc textures. what is this mod?

[umbral sparrow]

big boyo

[vernal cave]

Beautiful morning in the Garbage

[clever badger]

Family be like “can we see him?”

[rustic crow]

that's a nice autumn look, if you don't mind what mods are you using

[narrow dagger]

Thanks! I’m using:

-ATO4
-Ccon grass Autumn 2k
-Golden Autumn Retexture - I use the green, yellow, red trees option
-Emergent Zone 2 - Flare, either 100% or 75% I forgot which

[rustic crow]

👌

[burnt scroll]

Which scope is this ?

[proper nimbus]

Pk-a it's a red dot based off a pso

[near wave]

looking clean 😎

[narrow dagger]

Thanks! Took long enough for me to find a consistent look I’m happy with.

[near wave]

not using reshade tho?

didnt see it listed in your config

are you using ingame antyalias by any chance? looks suprisingly smooth

[narrow dagger]

I use reshade only for AA but i turn it off when taking screenshots cause for some reason having it on screws up the screenshot

[near wave]

[narrow dagger]

If it looks smooth, probably just luck and partly trying to take a pic that has the least amount of shimmering in it

[narrow dagger]

I can smell the dust off of these, looks good

[thin obsidian]

thank u sir

[mossy tiger]

I really like those new dirt effects ngl

[sterile trellis]

ikr they're amazing

[short gazelle]

W repost

[narrow dagger]

oops i left the cracked helmet

[solemn river]

🙈

[brittle shale]

how do you people get the wet floor when it's raining? I've seen some screenshots and the floor is like wet when is raining.

raindrops on the gun looking beautiful tho

[dry dagger]

Atmospherics I assume

[dire needle]

Are you using the debug menu? If yes, you need to click the play icon. If it rains naturally (without using the weather debug), check the SSS options in MCM under water wetness or something like that. There, you'll find two sliders: one for how fast puddles fill up, and the other for how fast they dry.

[brittle shale]

I guess im starting to see some puddles tbh

I dont think I've saw those there before

[rustic crow]

what AA method are you using in re-shade?

[brittle shale]

anyways the rain is a very light rain so I guess that's the reason why the puddles are "small" and filling up slowly

[solemn river]

if you have not touched any shader mods, they should look like this

[brittle shale]

I think it looks pretty similar

Less dark obviously because the time of day haha

[solemn river]

im pretty sure they are also random, they will not be the same every time it rains

if you have debug mode enabled you can force rain

just save before

and load back after ur done testing

[narrow dagger]

The immerse AA

But FYI I turn it off for screenshots. It fucks with the result

[rustic crow]

thx again for the autumn tree mod makes a big difference for a good looking full autumn

[narrow dagger]

Glad you like it! Your game looks great

[rustic crow]

8k ccon helps a bit

[narrow dagger]

8k damn. I just use 2k to be safe. How much vram do you have?

[rustic crow]

3080 12gb

[narrow dagger]

Nice, that’s my goal for next year

More vram

[rustic crow]

I'm finally gonna upgrade to a 1440p monitor soon here which should make everything look even better. I have been stuck onm the 1080p fps mindset for too long even though I don't really play comp fps games anymore.

[narrow dagger]

1440p will be worth it

[dire needle]

they will be the same every time since water only 'spawns' in lower spots of height map of terrain texture and its linear from 0 to 100, you can speed filling up process and water height in sss mcm

[brittle shale]

me ❤️‍🔥

[inland fjord]

The rain added an extra touch

[solemn river]

that makes more sense, either way they look beautiful

[worthy yacht]

the dog foot anomaly

[solemn river]

what is going on

schizofrenia mod

[narrow dagger]

Sorry for the screenshot spam

[mossy tiger]

Dw about it
All of em are beautiful so all is forgiven

[near wave]

reinstall screen space shaders and chose puddles, then reinstall atmospherics and chose puddles always present

[wanton delta]

Skyrim with Guns!

[verbal sundial]

lol

[sand belfry]

!0days

[humble pasture]

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[sand belfry]

Sorry had to do it

[indigo moon]

[sand belfry]

At this point I'm going to be posting post-blowout pictures just for this command

[proud swift]

[clever badger]

Late Fall

[acoustic tiger]

Done with this game, 65% psy protection is too little, not walking back to craft a psy artifact and go back into that horror zone. fantastic 40-50 hour run

[near dust]

Can someone reposition this like the as val???

[limber garnet]

r@

[sharp ibex]

tactical af

[jade orchid]

finally got my cramped af room in the freedom base looking decent

[thin obsidian]

@stark smelt

[eternal sky]

"🎵 ...Can you take me higher. To a place where blind men see... 🎵 "

[buoyant coral]

2 very trigger happy ladies on the zone

[mossy tiger]

What LUT pack is that?

[near wave]

[ancient hazel]

jxr comes, cause auto hdr looks good, for me

[rough lantern]

._.

[craggy basalt]

RTGlobalIllumination Reshade.
Before and After

[brittle shale]

No LUT or Reshade, I just tweaked the basic lighting in the graphics settings like saturation, gamma, brightness

[mossy tiger]

What graphics mods are you using then?

[brittle shale]

ccon grass (i think that's the name), just that

[mossy tiger]

Just that with base GAMMA?

[brittle shale]

Yep

I also tweaked the bloom in SSS settings in MCM

[mossy tiger]

Huh

Alr then

[near shell]

Just 4 gals out for a walk in the zone.

[fallen osprey]

СЧО ЦЕ ЗА МЕСТО?

[honest tiger]

свалка

[short gazelle]

blyat

[quick python]

jkhj

[high tusk]

How did you make winter?

[onyx slate]

With the I.N.V.R.N.O winter mod, u can find it in Mod posting

[timber swallow]

Leaves instead of render 🤔

[short gazelle]

what even is that

[timber swallow]

Supposed to be a leafy vine wall texture. 🤗

[short gazelle]

it looks great, dont get me wrong, but unless theirs like, parallax, or added depth, it just dosent look right, if that makes sense

[timber swallow]

This is using sss 22 parallax shaders and the normal map is pretty aggressive already so maybe I'll switch back to a concrete render

[short gazelle]

oh, honestly i just feel like anything involving "leaves, or foliage" needs some pretty good amount of depth to look real/actually like foliage, and not some leaf themed wallpaper, thats just my take though

[opaque ocean]

Is this stalker gamma or stalker 2 looks amazing. May I ask what mods are you using?

[short gazelle]

stalker gamma, ATO 4, C-Con Grass, Panceride Trees, and sharpen reshade, and SSS/Ingame settings to the MAX possible

[opaque ocean]

thx man will try

[clever badger]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1011496826471460915/1327953048437522552/IMG20250111140850.jpg?ex=6784f026&is=67839ea6&hm=78f6f6370bbac52c5221dd5226b926a0a747cf442d6bac8c03ad544018ee7387&

[timber swallow]

Agreed mate.

[livid haven]

what anims is that 416 running on? or something new

[tardy lance]

my starting PL-15 doing some work

[clever badger]

Rostok Base

[short gazelle]

custom commision

[near dust]

what they talking about ??? w.i.p

[oak lava]

what typa toz build is that😭

[past aurora]

The sucker for sniper rifiles poor man's build

[dry dagger]

Damn, it looks like my village

[leaden bane]

My base

[inland fjord]

Cyka

[spare needle]

i need ur mods / settings please bro

[swift ether]

No crazy shaders or anything, just a really good atmosphere

[green sleet]

I can’t see shit

[swift ether]

YOU.....

https://tenor.com/view/rat-grab-ratgrab-get-grabs-gif-295638301835408792

[green sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/dan-hentschel-orb-dan-hentschel-gif-10507097856484227824

[patent coyote]

Yo, that is crazy I have taken almost the exact same screenshot before! xD

[narrow dagger]

That is one of the best damn sunset skyboxes ive ever seen. During a thunderstorm too. This game is something else

[old geode]

what settings/reshade?!

[near wave]

its just ccon + texturepack like ato 4 or adega + memory of home or some other lod from what I can see

[narrow dagger]

No reshade at all! Just default SSS and atmospherics.

Color is largely from Emergent Zone 2 -Flare lut option

[brazen prairie]

chilling with bro after destroying the monolith

[honest tiger]

Wip

[near wave]

fairytale vibe

[vivid gale]

If only I could make the audio crunchy/underwater

[short gazelle]

why is it so god damn bright what the fuck

[narrow dagger]

Lightning strikes are bright af

[random flame]

same with the pulse thing.

[odd wraith]

Ah, fellow Winter Zone enjoyers

[limber plume]

wtf ????

[crude swallow]

STALKER 2 at home

[inland fjord]

I had a lot more military and bandit patches, but I gave them to merchants to complete missions

[cunning junco]

Hip, master of smoking through her mask.

[humble leaf]

Man, even Cordon can be dreary

Morning fog, sun just rising, it would be almost cozy if not for the crackling of my geiger counter

[crude bison]

I'm too lazy to turn off the HUD every time I take a screenshot.

[clever badger]

how do you hold artifact in hands

[serene elbow]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/artifacts-inspectionv10

[pseudo aspen]

My homies had gone crazy

[timber swallow]

Sometimes, reshade is not required.

[valid fjord]

There's a Psuedogiant stomping about in that cooling reservoir in front of me. Actually amazed it didn't come and ruin this.

[short gazelle]

imagine how good that would look with it though

[rough lantern]

what is this mode for npc?

[timber swallow]

Don't tempt me 😆

[hard ridge]

pretty at night

[dark copper]

you see Ivan, when hold hammer like rifle...

[agile jay]

first time finishing the game. it was a journey

[patent coyote]

Absolutely stunning!

[dire needle]

Thanks, I got this wild idea to make my own weather and lut mod, But i guess it's never gonna see daylight, Kudos to everyone who made one of those ,only thing used from reshade is adof, rest of it can be achieved by tweaking game settings

[patent coyote]

Well it is too dang bad that it won't, for if my game looked like this I would never change it again!

[rustic crow]

red fog looks sick

[thin obsidian]

even shrek uses ccon trees and grass

[patent coyote]

Cordon sure can be purdy some times!

[languid ibex]

You running any additional graphic mods or reshade to get this visual?

[dire needle]

Nah bro they are og’s I just took inspiration from this great movie

[fast kestrel]

silent hill modpack dropped

[sharp plume]

show off, shooting mutants like this

[heady grail]

how do you disable the hud (the body on the left side) ?

[rustic crow]

press H a few times

[heady grail]

lol thanks

[oak lava]

i disabled BHS completely, but H works aswell if you want the extended medical things

[dire needle]

with winter foliage and less grass i think this might look like s2

[molten pike]

landcopter

[midnight zodiac]

Be me
Badass merc in Zaton helping Strelok
Get contract saying some insane dude got shot at by his own copy at the old military base
Pffffsureokaybuddy.png
Casually move over there
Rip the few Sin hanging there a new one
Then hear gunfire from squad
See enemy and fire
Exoskeleton mfer
Then I get enough time to read the name tag and its mine
Take a closer look and it is indeed me
Beat the phantoms one by one with comrades
Too ez
Get closer to tunnel system
Three of my endgame character run out
Ohfuc-

[molten pike]

how does that happen

[midnight zodiac]

Mission called Mirage, its given out by Beard

[dry dagger]

Stalker: The Lawn Mover

[shadow raven]

Dang what's your resolution lol, also nice screenie like the soft shadows for the trees and grass and the fog layer as well. That with Atmospherics or something else?.

[dire needle]

3440x1440, and about colors and everything else, it’s a very specific user.ltx + custom LUT + custom weather made from Atmos 2.6 or smth (but tbh only the sky textures weren’t changed ) + some shader tweaks(that fog needs some tweaking still it’s to tall and top transition should be smoother ).

[obsidian onyx]

Stalker anime

[dire needle]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-gif-20461706

[obsidian onyx]

https://tenor.com/view/сигма-сигма-мем-женщины-легенда-gif-11512366757430619497

[heady grail]

thanks bro

[rapid comet]

what texture pack you using here?

[vagrant falcon]

• edited capa reshade

[wanton delta]

jesus.. Looks awesome.

[wanton delta]

How did you make your game look like that? Shadows are awesome.

My shadows look like ass and the game is randomly dark at times.

[timber swallow]

Mate, I've spent 2 days tinkering with every setting and a light reshade to get to this but don't ask me how I did it. 😆

[wanton delta]

I have really weird darkness on shadows.. anyone have any ideas what i can do for this?

[serene light]

did you update atmospherics? try downloading the latest from moddb, there was a bug in early 0.93 with dark shadows when the game is in fullscreen mode, but im not sure if this was hotfixed or not since

[wanton delta]

Oh ok will give that a go. Any special setup needed?

oh on the page, think i got it

[serene light]

not really, you pick the options you want, and make sure its placed in the right load order spot, i like to use the sky textures that come with atmos, the weather options are all up to you

[hybrid quarry]

finally found the damn MP9 and got it fixed up, it's pretty fun I get why people never shut up about it lol

[wanton delta]

Grrr.. still cant figure out why shadows are so DARK

seems like its something to do with grass

[hybrid quarry]

pretty sure my game looked like this but tbh i turned the gamma up like 0.1 and it made my game much more bearable lol

"the gamma up"...wait a sec...

[serene light]

so it didn't help. hm... other things i can think of, is to make sure anomaly default (visual->advanced) ssao and grass shadows are turned off as they are stacking with SSS. same with reshade, don't use reshade for ambient occlusion. you can also try going through all the SSS settings and resetting them to defaults, and lowering shadow settings to your liking

[wanton delta]

It seems distance based

@serene light

[hybrid quarry]

wait the setting in advanced stacks with SSS mod configuration settings for SSAO?

[wanton delta]

yeah news to me too 😄

I think i figured it out

C-Con grass mod. There's an option for SSS Shaders in 2k 4k 8k. I reinstalled without choosing any of those and no longer have super dark shadows.

[hybrid quarry]

as far as I'm concerned, and this is after resetting the game entirely, there is no stacking with SSS/visual difference of SSAO being on or off in the advanced settings, left is on, right is off

correct me if i'm wrong or am misunderstanding

[wanton delta]

Hey can i please get a copy/paste of your axr_options.ltx (MCM Settings) ? I want to try your config for ssfx section cause mine is a bit shitty and im trying to see what i can do to tweak it to look better..

Usually found in here

[serene light]

i'm just saying what ascii (the author of sss) recommends. it could be that his algo overwrites default, but its more likely that the effects are the same, and you just lose FPS by running both shaders instead of just one (one of your screens has a lower framerate)

[hybrid quarry]

nah i gotchu i just wanted to try it to see, and yeah makes sense

[haughty sinew]

Hi! Have issue: How to get rid of noise effect on shadows and lights? I have circled the most prominent places in the paint, but in reality there are many more such places. Tried reshades - doesn't help... Version: not modded (vanilla Gamma).

[serene light]

sss - > shadows and light -> untick force volumetric or lower volumetric setting below it from 0.8 to 0.4-0.5

[brave phoenix]

pretty cool shot of lightning right as i took a pic of this post emmission, also these merc's be holdin they rifles like "you see ivan"

[haughty sinew]

I already tried this, the effect still remains in the distance and in the shadows

[stray sparrow]

Pripyat, Ukraine. 15 years ago

Not a 1:1 accurate since I noticed that Pripyat looked different in CoD MW but oh well

[fast kestrel]

you got it set up like this? SSS is also somewhere above my pop hubs mod, mb.

[wheat stone]

the masculine urge to bleed out here

[hybrid quarry]

i'll check here soon and lyk

[wheat stone]

the weather in the zone aint that bad

[reef sigil]

reinstalled the game so excuse the shitty ss

[shadow raven]

Lighting and shadows crispy as all hell, using anything in particular or just what comes with GAMMA?.

[shadow raven]

When you say shader tweaks do you mean within the settings for SSS?, or do you use a reshade you made as well I presume?.

[dire needle]

some things like fog or pbr from es, etc... you can adjust in .h files in shaders folder, but to achieve those crips lights and shadows you just need to not relay on ambient light since blending of it completely removes baked lightmaps - user.ltx or console lumscale_amb 0.05 or smth like that, idk what will work with atmos or my old cfg's

[shadow raven]

Thanks!, I've just been doing basic tuning based off of the little tip off the SSS description along with what's in the MCM settings

[serene light]

you need to reload the map

[wanton delta]

Ive spent the entire day trying to make my game look good. I just cant get it right.

[craggy basalt]

What did you figure?

[forest gull]

Visit the XGP channel they'll hook you up

[wanton delta]

Hey did you figure this out? Ive got the same thing.. It's really jarring.

At night there's this shitty 'noise' overlay on everything. Zoomed in to make it more obvious.

Even without reshade it's still there.

[haughty sinew]

Yes, I have been struggling with this problem for a long time, but I just can’t solve it. I understand what you're saying, it's the same for me.

[haughty sinew]

At random I discovered that this problem arose due to volumetric lighting and SSS (possibly SSAO). Setting up SSS did not give anything, so apparently we need to somehow convey this information to Grok.

[sterile hedge]

funny hands

[solemn river]

Wait, really ? Ive been having this issue too where dark places seemed way darker when i got close, ill try this when i can

[timber swallow]

Found a couple of good looking fellas. Mini hench!

[peak wyvern]

this pic would be great if not by the artefacts in the screenshot, svobodaaa

[peak wyvern]

it's the guy from rummelsnuf (bruder) video

[craggy basalt]

20 year old engine, by the way.

[prisma mural]

are these graphics ok? or can they be improved?

[ocean sage]

merc didnt activate windows

[rapid comet]

Like the faded look, what you running? Atmos looks a lot more colourful than this

[craggy basalt]

This is Anomaly Custom

[rapid comet]

Oh right, that's a surprise, looks nice, I thought that was meant to be more colourful too

[craggy basalt]

The first picture is at 6am with cloudy weather

The others are 7pm, storm

It looks a lot more colorful during the day, let me tell you

#╟📸screenshots message

The graphics are simply awesome

Both HACR and Custom are my 2 graphical favourites

[dire needle]

no he doesn't know what he's talking about and thinks that .bump in my mod is responsible for overall shadows or idk, (that's why i added kek emotes, smooth brain crakheads , when i read that i took irl psy damage ) in reality it's only adds small details like bumps and dents on top of grass and alters how light interact with surface

[solemn river]

i thought i had found a fix for my issues

[dire needle]

what's your problem

[solemn river]

Do you know why shadows get darker when i get close tho ?

[solemn river]

Many, but in game its shadows

[dire needle]

tonemap migh be doing this

[solemn river]

Basically it looks like this

Pinged him again sorry dude

[solemn river]

I downloaded a different lut file from a dude on youtube, it got better, but its still a little weird

I have no way of showing my game rn, but its pretty similar to the screenshots

Well I found this on Atmospheric's moddb page

[dire needle]

it's only fixing 3 commands responsible for gamma contrast etc, they are not working in windowed version

and i believe that problem was caused only because hippo took my values that i shared in sss dc, since they were identical

[solemn river]

Ill try updating it anyway when i can, also ill try tinkering with some settings on SSS, i didnt really change anything there

[wanton delta]

did it work

[wanton delta]

@dark brook FYI. Something causes this 'noise' texture at night and seems SSS/SSAO or something.

[wanton delta]

So did you disable SSAO and that fixed it?

[haughty sinew]

I tried disabling SSAO but it had no effect. POSSIBLY the problem lies in Atmospherics. I found old versions of this mod in \Gamma\downloads that shouldn't exist (downloads12-31.7z, the latest pack). On the Atmospherics page it says that it is compatible with SSS 22. Maybe the problem is that the launcher installs an old version of Atmospherics. Now I have deleted all the old versions of SSS and Atmospherics and will check them.
EDIT: didn't work

[solemn river]

Still didnt test, tomorrow ill be able to, im not home

[solemn river]

You could try updating to the latest version thats on moddb

[haughty sinew]

didn't work

[solemn river]

What if the issues has to do with Ambient occlusion, might sound weird but idk

I suspect the issues i have has to do with AO

Maybe the combination of volumetric lighting and Ao are messing stuff up

[wanton delta]

I remember in GAMMA in like 2022 visuals were really easy to get a good looking game. Having spent almost 2 whole days recently im just not sure what's broken but something somewhere isn't quite right and i cant figure it out.

There's also they grey 'haze' that seems to permeate the visuals. Reshade can sort of get most of it out but im not sure where in the mods or game cause this.

[solemn river]

Well i never played gamma before, but I did play with sss on my own modded anomaly, i dont remember shadows getting super dark when you got into them, i noticed this when i started gamma, and I was at the clear sky base and the inside of buildings were super dark

Could be something related to ambient light not working properly

[timber swallow]

I think I have the lighting just right on this new Anomaly 1.5.3 game. Just don't ask how I did it.

[stark smelt]

reduce sun rays intensity (especially the min one) and tweak volumetric/lighting settings on sss

[wanton delta]

[silent blade]

I'm having the same issue as some others mentioned before: hazey effects, too bloomy, the effects just look too much and overexagerated. it wasnt like this some months before. I also played with some settings but still looks like a garbage reshade :((

looks very off to me. clean install

[timber swallow]

If the grass is too hazy, turn down the translucency. I think it's in the flora fixes setting.

[silent blade]

what about the lightning of the fire? its like very present in a 2m radius but after everything is just playin dark as you can see at the ending of the video

[serene light]

hey, just wanna let you know that there's a bug in RTSS that causes frametime stutter when you have any form of power monitoring enabled. if you want I can link you a video. Once you disable power monitoring it goes away

[silent blade]

ill check it out,thanks

[haughty sinew]

The only thing that helped was switching to Screen Space rays in the main settings in the menu (not SSS settings). But thanks for the tip, thank you!

[fast kestrel]

I really liked Custom but it crashed way too often. Do you have the same issue? I know it was updated recently.

[wanton delta]

Uggh... 3 days in, slowly getting a look i want.....

[hybrid quarry]

lmao are you okay?

you need to stop touching c-con grass and touch some real grass apparently if you're that passive aggresive over that lol

[hybrid quarry]

you'll have to drop all your sauce for what you've got going so far, really like this and the prior ss

[solemn river]

I mean, the game doest have ray tracing, but it sure looks weird

[solemn river]

What did you change ? Sss settings ?

[shut thistle]

c con and ato4 looking good

[wanton delta]

Added Emergent Zone 4.1 (option 1 (100%) and upped some r2_setings

cfg_load grulag2 (it will probably blow out your game brightness.. maybe)

it's for bright days

[solemn river]

Thanks, ill try it out, where do I put this ?

Also i found out that in SSS 21 they changed ambient occlusion and made the game way darker in some areas

So i think some heavy tweaking in AO is needed

[solemn river]

This looks good, way better than mine

[wanton delta]

Oh is GAMMA running SSS 21?

Looks like 22 is out but not sure what one we are on

[solemn river]

Seems like it, you can find older versions of it on MO2

At least i can

I dont think that going to a older version could cause problems

Man i wish i could test shit rn

[serene light]

please i beg you 😭 stop

0.93 has SSS 22, the noise you guys hate so much is caused by volumetric effects, you can turn them off entirely or increase the quality/ lower the intensity of the effect to get rid of it

[serene light]

left - default volumetric settings. quality: low, intensity : 0.8
mid - quality: med, int: 0.5
right - disabled
open the pictures in a browser window and zoom in to see the noise

[cosmic coral]

what are those ground textures?

[umbral dagger]

Tools

[hybrid quarry]

i appreciate the help and not being condescending 🫡

[serene light]

can't wait for the new GPUs to launch so i can finally use 4k textures too 😭

[wanton delta]

these arent 4k textures

just base gamma

with a 2k grass mod

didnt think the game could look this good without a reshade..

[serene light]

i'm pretty sure you are using ATO4 (which is 4k) and C-con

[wanton delta]

What's ATO4?

[serene light]

you're gaslighting me now

[wanton delta]

..?

what

dude

[serene light]

ATO4 is a texture pack by paul, base gamma has a very bright gray asphalt texture that stands out while ATO has one that's pretty dark like yours

[wanton delta]

Ah right. Yeah i dont have that installed...

Like i said, i dont have any texture mods except the grass one

[serene light]

well i'm going to go down to rostok just for this then

[wanton delta]

What are those trees from?

[clever badger]

This is our own project, Summer-Early Autumn. Not released yet

[serene light]

yeah you're right. i'm just tired. its almost 7am x)

[hybrid quarry]

looks nice m8

[craggy basalt]

The last time it updated was in august. It does crash only when you fuck up debug too much.

[haughty knoll]

I keep seeing so many clean screenshots. Can anyone offer any advice on how to install the best graphical mods. I have 4090 tuff and r7950x so wanna pish my rig so I can enjoy a visually beautiful gamma. Thanks

[shadow raven]

Hyped for anything you guys are making!. I have so much fun using season addons, the amazing atmosphere from the zone is consistent throughout them but the weathers and seasons change things up which is awesome. Here is roadside view in Garbage with the seasons.

[pulsar mason]

I can feel the fog

[shadow raven]

Sexy skybox, just using regular GAMMA stuff to get that?.

[craggy basalt]

Damn. I am looking forward for sure!

[wanton delta]

Holy shit what mod does this? Awesome.

[shadow raven]

A combination of addons, I use this old one called Summer Season Redux along with Aldyn Grass and Trees ( spring/summer version) for the summer, then I use Golden Atumn for the nice near fall colors, and then Late Fall, and then for winter I use Inverno.

[clever badger]

Pure Alpha channel

[stark smelt]

that's looking insane

[silent blade]

in my fresh install in MO2 SSS shows as version 20

[serene light]

#📢announcements message

https://tenor.com/view/cat-blink-cat-blinking-cat-funny-cat-funny-cat-blinking-gif-27202865

[silent blade]

I tried the volumetric setting but my game still looks so unnatural. also the lightning at the anomaly is weird. really liked the visuals few months back ago when it wasnt overloaded as it is right now

[serene light]

i cant help you with the anomaly light as i'm using arrival which lets you customize anomalies and effects, and im just not sure what to do about those perhaps something in mcm-> dynamic anomalies overhaul can help with that. atmos did go into a more neutral color direction, so if you're looking to pump more color back into the game, i recommend installing emergent zone luts and choosing one of the more colorful options (use 100% lut variants)
https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1224348512280379494

[near wave]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1324870296943198240 just use this and problem solved

[dense gazelle]

gunslinger grenade?

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1146519010733719675/1330207663421653144/image.png?ex=678d23ed&is=678bd26d&hm=7fe514b2bec6af1a3d4904672edafbbdb91b01a9bc3e5131fa4b990519e8ff4b&

[dense gazelle]

хYES

[sterile trellis]

what mod is this sight from?

[clear oak]

how do you make your game look THAT good mate

[wanton delta]

Hey bro. I use Emergent Zone 2, and in some screenshots i turn on ADOF in Reshade.

[wanton delta]

What're the trees? Nice

[narrow dagger]

Are those midwinter trees?

[hybrid quarry]

nice, just got that sniper recently, is it pretty good?

[hybrid quarry]

having a hard time choosing - ATO 4 left, Default right

[clear oak]

right

[haughty knoll]

right, the left looks like minecraft

[hybrid quarry]

lolol, yeah i thought something was off, there are some textures that are very nice with ATO 4, but honestly some things look very off and i muchhh prefer the default concrete for the roads

it doesn't help that the wood grain is horizontal on those beams instead of vertical, not sure why that choice was made

[hybrid quarry]

this here right here shows (IMO) how much better default roads are to ATO 4 in my experience (default left, right ATO)

though to be fair if you look at the shack to the left in the bottom pictures, ATO looks better. so it's not terrible it's just some things need to be changed.

[near wave]

try https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1192574018398715904

even tho its dead now you can still download it i think

[fallen osprey]

Original GAMMA

[hybrid quarry]

yeah that texture pack is insane, haven't seen this yet

[timber swallow]

This brick wall texture has been upgraded in ATO 5. Many textures in the game are used in various areas on different sized geometry, sometimes flipped 90 degrees and or magnified/stretched. It's impossible to make each one look great throughout so I always concentrate on the areas where it's most noticeable for sizing. Hope that helps.

[shadow raven]

Inverno snow is so damn nice! ❄️

[shadow raven]

What's the volumetric settings you are referring to?

[near wave]

in sss volumetric light

[hybrid quarry]

awesome to hear, I hope you didn't take my criticisms harshly as I think many of the building textures and misc. textures I see are much improved over default. thanks for the response.

particularly I wish there was an (easy) way to use ATO with the default roads, I didn't have/see a FOMOD installer or anything so

[near wave]

mo2 -> right click ato -> open in explorer -> delete the textures u dont want

clear shaders cache, done

[hybrid quarry]

sounds easy enough, I have zero experience with modding other than minecraft in the past so sometimes a lot of the ways this stuff is handled appears daunting, then it ends up easier than it seems

[near wave]

literally delete the textures u dont want

[hybrid quarry]

right, I was agreeing that that is easy

[hybrid quarry]

tried out the Rotten Life Texture Pack. pretty cool so far, I might still use the default ground/roads though.

[solemn river]

I mean, it looks pretty good for me, kinda foggy tho

and my res is low, not 1080p

and no reshade

[crude swallow]

wish we had TAA

[solemn river]

(reshade)

it has TAA, don't know how good it is

now its better

[fast kestrel]

which grass is this?>?>?

[crude swallow]

c conciousness grass overhaul

[reef sigil]

hot

[wanton delta]

What are the trees?

[hybrid quarry]

trying to go for a more photorealistic color look atm

[rare quail]

Grass and Trees by PanceRide

[hybrid quarry]

getting there slowly

[patent coyote]

Digging what you are getting going! I like the natural vibes for sure.

[hybrid quarry]

thanks homie

[patent coyote]

Hell yea, bro! Idk if you are doing this via Reshade or LUT or what, but if it ends up something you are down to hook a man up with please do let me know!

Looks like Discord likes to compress the living shit out of your screens too, eh? I have the same issue -_-

[timber swallow]

Wait. I'll upload the OG png. Tell me if you see a difference. 2K original.

[patent coyote]

This version is definitely clearer on Discord

[hybrid quarry]

only things on reshade I'm using is SMAA and Adaptive Sharpen, no lighting FX or anything, and then I'm using https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1224348512280379494, I believe the 1st 100% option LUT. I have Weapons DoF turned off completely. Also note I am using Emergent Zone in combination with Atmospherics that's already with Gamma. I think that's it mostly in terms of fidelity settings/lighting. (also playing at 1440p)

[timber swallow]

Well, usually I would export as a 'save for web' jpg as the file size is smaller but good to know for future.

[hybrid quarry]

yeah that is much better

[patent coyote]

Oh shit, slick! I am also only using Reshade for AA as well as ADOF (I enjoy DOF but certainly not the Weapon DOF included with SSS). I am sure I can click that link but I am guessing that Emergent Zone 2 is one of the paid Lut presets?

[hybrid quarry]

no v2 is in the pins

and yeah I only turn on ADOF for screenshots really

[patent coyote]

So which method are you using to get the cleaner 'original' screens? I thought using Reshade to get screens in .jpg format would fix it for me, but I have the same issue as the F12 screens

[patent coyote]

Gonna take a looksie right meow!

[timber swallow]

I use the Nvidia AA. Works great!

[hybrid quarry]

i just use windows key + shift + s for my screenshots lol (my keyboard does not have print screen as it's a 60% )

[patent coyote]

Oh shit, I have AA via the Nvidia Panel as well though I do not think it is cranked up as high, I gotta try that!

[patent coyote]

Noted!

[patent coyote]

Just mimicked your settings precisely. Going to boot her up and see how it looks now! 😄

[timber swallow]

also set power management at maximum performance 👍

[patent coyote]

Oh shit, does this decrease power consumption or what is the effect?

[timber swallow]

it really smooths out the AA so you don't need the reshade aa.

[patent coyote]

Did you put Emergent above or below SSS and Atmos in MO2?

[patent coyote]

That would be wonderful!

[hybrid quarry]

it goes after SSS and Atmos

[patent coyote]

Yea I read that in the instructions but I still get confused if that means above or below xD

Still pretty much a n00b in the grand scheme of modding lol

[hybrid quarry]

mine is just at the bottom of my MO2 and it worked fine

[patent coyote]

LMAOOOO

I just loaded a save and the sky is literally purple xD

[hybrid quarry]

shader cache needs to be deleted

[patent coyote]

OH SHIT!! Thank you!!!! I always forget that step!

[blazing wing]

https://medal.tv/games/stalker-anomaly/clips/jwjBCFiBIvlTkxqpp?invite=cr-MSxFUVUsMjA3NjEwMzA5LA

[patent coyote]

Fixed and now fucking gorgeous! Thanks bro!!

[hybrid quarry]

left is your Nvidia AA settings, right is iMMERSE anti-aliasing (SMAA) in reshade. was worth a try but this reshade option still looks better in my experience.

forgive my cursor

[patent coyote]

Yea idk why the difference but I am having much better results with the Reshade still on as well

Left: Just Nvidia Panel AA
Right: Nvidia Panel + Reshade

The combo deal between seems to be the absolute best at least for my rig

I use the iMMERSE SMAA in Reshade

[hybrid quarry]

last photo dump and then I'm off for the night, really happy with the look now.

[serene light]

nvidia control panel MFAA requies MSAA, so if you don't have MSAA enabled in game it does absolutely nothing - and since a lot of mods actually require MSAA to be disabled, there is no point in even using nvcp for AA. you either use reshade, or use supersampling with DLDSR. there is no alternative until ascii implements temporal AA

[near wave]

why would you need an alternative in the first place? this works wonders

and its quite light to use

[serene light]

because motion vectors take up 10-20 fps and is too slow, has no benefit on a still image

[near wave]

who cares about a still image

youre playing the game or no

[serene light]

everyone who does screenshots

[near wave]

yeah look at mine

[serene light]

congrats?

[near wave]

[near wave]

admitted

[dreamy trout]

looks like stalker 2 mixed with tarkov for me idk why

[shadow raven]

Absolutely awesome lighting demonstration!. Do you have the launchers shadow map settings at maximum I assume?. I'd imagine your screen spaced shaders settings are probably also set to high too?.

[timber swallow]

Nope. Shadow rez is at minimum. Ggx specular is enabled in the ES pbr settings also.

[solemn river]

what settings are you using on the SMAA ?

[timber swallow]

Am I losing my shit or has he always been here in Rostok?

[hybrid quarry]

in reshade you should have a fx called iMMERSE Anti-Aliasing, that's all I'm using for AA

oh sorry, I guess you're asking if I tweaked it at all, I did not

[hybrid quarry]

LMFAO i have never noticed this mf

[solemn river]

yep, because on fences and certain objects it still has jagged edges, but I guess there is nothing you can do

at least bigger buildings are fine

[hybrid quarry]

i'll mess around with it today and see if i can get a solution

[solemn river]

im gonna be honest I have no experience with reshade

I know how to use, but i don't know how to set up stuff

too many sliders

[serene light]

use CMAA instead, and set quality to 4 in the settings, its better. the default settings for smaa are good, but you can lower the first (detection radius iirc) from 0.100 to as low as you want, its kinda redundant at 0.5 but you may get a bit more out of it. cmaa is still better imo

[solemn river]

Looks pretty much the same for me, might have reduced a bit of the shimmering when running

[serene light]

ive done screenshot comparisons and yeah they are similar, but cmaa was consistently better (and i believe its faster too), but ofc you can do as you like

[patent coyote]

Thank you for the info! That’s good to know for sure!

[sick kiln]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[hybrid quarry]

really like this look for fall/winter, what's your setup roughly?

[near wave]

looks like vanilla+ccon to me tbh

[viscid depot]

vanilla graphics

[rustic crow]

+1 on that

[near wave]

guessed it!

[hybrid quarry]

swamp day

[rustic crow]

Beautiful day in Yantar

[cunning junco]

Bullets must be getting pretty expensive these days... Sid must of bled this bastard dry...

[hybrid quarry]

second pic moody af

[thin obsidian]

[hybrid quarry]

wood 🗿

[short gazelle]

Vanilla

[pulsar mason]

uno mas?

[mossy tiger]

That looks really nice
What graphics are u using

[clear oak]

something is off with my grass shadows right ?

[clear oak]

how did you get such amazing shadows on grass ?

[hybrid quarry]

homie that's just enabling grass shadows in the advanced video settings 👍

also your grass isn't gonna look the same at all at night with a flashlight

[clear oak]

already cranked everything grass shadow related tot max

near grass it seems okay but at 10m no shadows at all

[clear oak]

can you show me how your grass looks with the headlamp like me ?

[cunning junco]

Imagine breaking open a cold one here!

[clear oak]

i can't get to have shadow rendered with the headlamp more than 10m away i'll just assume it's normal

fine

awful

[near wave]

do you have grass shadows on in sss?

[ashen fossil]

rate my homescreen

[near wave]

ass

[upbeat spindle]

gituwa

[fast kestrel]

ass you could eat

@clear oak what cfg u got loaded? eg cfg_load atmos

[near wave]

[clever badger]

that's not all

[clear oak]

i guess so ? can’t look right now but i remember checking every settings shadow/grass related to test

[near wave]

check then

[clear oak]

i’m sorry i don’t know very much what your are talking about, like reshade preset ?

[near wave]

you can tweak values there

[near wave]

he means a config

if you never typed a console command - cfg_load something

then u have your own

it consits of visual settings like exposure, brightness, saturation, parallax etc

[clear oak]

yeah i spend an hour this morning tweaking those, nothing seemed to change very much

[near wave]

did u clear shaders cache?

[clear oak]

oh okay

[clear oak]

every time i changed a setting yes

[near wave]

then i cant explain it

you sure u were doing it in sss and not in visual settings tho?

just gotta ask

[clear oak]

yeah i’m sure

[clear oak]

no problem i understand

[near wave]

alr well then you could try to reinstall sss

[clear oak]

already did

[near wave]

like this ?

[clear oak]

imma look at it when i’m back from university tonight, would you mind if i update you on the situation ?

[near wave]

I mean im not an expert on sss, you should rather ask in sss mate

i dont use grass shadows nowadays anymore so

im out of ideas honestly

[clear oak]

i guess so yeah

[near wave]

[clear oak]

like i’m sure i did it this way but not 100% that i did not checked a box i wasn’t supposed to

[near wave]

like i said, not idea

[clear oak]

what do you mean by ask in SSS ?

[near wave]

eventually maybe if youre using a texture pack then this could affect it

[near wave]

on moddb

sss page

[clear oak]

it’s not that big of a deal but it breaks immersion whenever i turn the headlamp on

[near wave]

its discord is behind a paywall so

[clear oak]

i’m not

[clear oak]

oh wow

[near wave]

yeah, then im out of ideas mate

[clear oak]

thx for your time my friend i appreciate it

[near wave]

yw

[fast kestrel]

do u use ccon grass? using the console presets like cfg_load ccons and cfg_atmos is different than just tweaking the bars in the menus.

[clear oak]

don’t know what your are talking about, i only used the console once to put the value recommended by the Grass tweak mod

from what i can test and see in my game the only thing i need to change is the render distance of the shadow casted by the headlamp on the grass. Since in can see them but only when i’m near the grass

but can’t find a setting that affect this

[undone knoll]

purdy

[granite bramble]

(STALKER 2 duh - Ultra realistic reshade from nexus - Epic to high settings)

[verbal sundial]

Nice screens but adhere to the channel description unless you want them gone, lol

[lyric monolith]

amazing

[granite bramble]

my fault, ty!

[dusky abyss]

going with the new update... @_@ the zone is making me see things

[near wave]

[clever badger]

Kid crafted his own weapon from poop and sticks🤷‍♂️

Mom, buy me a weapon, no, we already have weapons at home. Weapons at home.

[lethal aspen]

Very interesting

[hybrid quarry]

what's the ground/grass textures homie?

[near wave]

looks adega to me

[surreal hull]

if gas anomaly not friend then why so pretty?