╟📸screenshots

[cunning crest]

S2 🤌🏻

[drifting wigeon]

As good as S2 looks, I always find something missing when compared to GAMMA visuals
Like its missing some of the soul

[cunning crest]

#stalcraft-feet

[uneven fulcrum]

It's missing contrast between things, everything blends too well. Installing pance forest and grass make things a lot better to separate, but without epic grass shadows, it all melts together, only problem is that you can choose shadow render distance. It's almost there and only 5 feet around you or 100+metres and maxed out and nothing in between so it kills performance

[native igloo]

first time going for anomalies the moment an emission passed. I'm about to have some silly fun

[naive kiln]

🆒 💅

[mint ether]

Just edit with Paint.NET, Photoshop etc.
this .dds image "Anomaly Gamma\Gamma\mods\443- Photo of a Loved One Animated - Apathy_Knight\gamedata\textures\item"

[static hull]

These are the worst hands I've ever seen.

[drifting wigeon]

Calm down discord moderator, Im comparing how Gamma still looks better than s2

[naive kiln]

the nails are cool, but the hands lack some curves indeed

[steel belfry]

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[uneven fulcrum]

Just need to reduce some volumetric lighting intensity and add slight wet reflections and literally irl

[uneven fulcrum]

Stalker 2 just needs better shadows that won't kill your fps, it's either ultra foliage and shadows or it looks like this, other than that s2 with tweaks looks better overall

[drifting wigeon]

Id argue the games pursuit of hyper realistic visuals, and reliance on lumen and other temporal rendering techniques take away from the more painterly, colorful zone seen in most anomaly modlists / gamma

[drifting wigeon]

Like this looks way better than the image above as a whole, stalker 2 misses the forest for the trees

[dire needle]

smoother normal maps (z vector iirc) for flora materials and less harsh lighting overall

[humble bay]

Unreal Engine 5 was a mistake and I'll die on that hill

[lunar epoch]

Thank you

[lunar epoch]

Default LASS installation, I have no idea how to tweak or change them. I have to agree, the fingers, especially the thumb look very...odd at times, but they get the job done and I enjoy their look 95% of the time so I can't complain much. I mostly got the mod because I liked the idea of having painted nails while gutting mutants

[uneven fulcrum]

That's 2 decades of difference between engines, of course with more capable hardware being the norm the rendering style will be different

[uneven fulcrum]

I'm hoping for ue5.4 update on patch 1.8 to improve performance so that heavy shaders and shadows wouldn't mean this bad of a performance impact, I "fixed" it when I was tweaking things, but still losing 15fps when you got 60-100fps depending on area is not really a worthwhile option atm

[dire needle]

i just said what is shitty on that pic you posted

[uneven fulcrum]

Yeah I had a "fixed" version. But performance impact wasn't worth it

[uneven fulcrum]

Copium

[vernal gale]

it's not
just used to be very easy to use, and what's better than that for lazy devs ?

[uneven fulcrum]

He just uses upscaling, framegen and does not meet reqs probably

[drifting wigeon]

Are you hitting 240fps without framegen?

[uneven fulcrum]

No, but what's the point of anything past 120fps on a non competitive game in 1440p ultra

[raw arch]

Anything past 100fps won't mean shit if your frame times are higher than 12ms.. GAMMA on 80fps/5ms feels 10x smoother than S2 on 125fps/10ms

[uneven fulcrum]

That's mostly due to camera movement id say. I got a 144hz display and I can barely tell the difference between 120hz and 144hz, people who buy into the 200+ refresh displays are either morons or esports players

[raw arch]

I have a 165 and anything past 120 is the same as 120.. But like I said, that's where frame times come in.. Don't worry about optimizing past 120, stop there and focus on frame times..

Dropping to 80 feels like 30 though

[uneven fulcrum]

Consistent frames are more important than peak fps, that's why I generally lock my fps down to 120/144 depending on the title

[kindred zodiac]

how do i get to this stash ive been looking around for an entrance and cant find any

[uneven fulcrum]

Even at 60fps you'll feel smoother if you keep a consistent fps compared to fps going all over the place between 60-120fps

[raw arch]

It's in the sarcophagus itself

[kindred zodiac]

fuuck

[robust carbon]

looks better then stalker 2

[clever badger]

where is your armor son

[drifting wigeon]

0 to hero 😅

[clever badger]

nice nice

[naive kiln]

❄️

[tired ridge]

This mod is cool! <3😱 ❤️

❤️

[shadow raven]

Love me some project inverno for the winter time!.

[naive kiln]

just tried hunting season mod with inverno...crazy

[magic plaza]

S2 needs to get out from UE5

[solid bronze]

Eh
Also keep your S2 screnshots in #╟📸stalker2™-media

[drifting wigeon]

If im going to 1:1 compare them, where do I do it?

[rain fern]

i would say past in the s2 media then just link the ss when ya post a screenshot

[solid bronze]

It's not a 1:1 comparison either way, you should be comparing with Call of Pripyat or something

[rain fern]

or this ^

[drifting wigeon]

So this channel I can post every game but stalker 2, and in the stalker 2 chat ONLY stalker 2, and I cant post stalker 2 vs gamma or vs anomaly..

[solid bronze]

Every STALKER game but STALKER 2, because spoilers and shit

[drifting wigeon]

Youre worred about spoilers a year after the game has been released? 😂 ok

[solid bronze]

"Oh but the environment screenshots aren't spoilers" I'd still like to avoid them

My guy, I'm worried about spoilers for a show that released 60 years ago

[drifting wigeon]

Strelok kills Snape

[solid bronze]

@warm kraken what did u do

[uneven fulcrum]

People lack the attention span to read a contradicting bottom line, gamba and other stalker games posted here, needs updating the channel description

[uneven fulcrum]

UE6 isn't out yet, shit take

[solid bronze]

Unfortunately we only require some, not a complete handle on the ability to comprehend text

[zenith zenith]

how do i tell or make them to frick off?

[uneven fulcrum]

Awfully tiny percentage of people you're talking about here

[indigo flume]

👍 love c con

[solemn badger]

this is zaton? goddamn

[cunning crest]

overdraw final boss

[swift skiff]

zaton

[rancid pond]

The hell is this mission uptop? i thought it was an error but it says "gl finding me" lol

[plain sinew]

Just chillin' at the end of the world

[thin obsidian]

https://tenor.com/view/dancing-triangle-yellow-triangle-ethereum-blockchain-dancing-gif-8145309328216038010

[swift skiff]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-eating-chips-windows-xp-meme-gif-16637539387988575467

[candid hinge]

stalker 2 storms in gamma is fun

[drowsy lance]

meme I made using stalker gamma screenies

[brisk stirrup]

Wow, do you have any shader?

[static hull]

y I'm using gamma

[brisk stirrup]

Yeah me too but the mine doesnt like this

Or maybe is the sky, i almost always have a cloudy feeling and I don't know how to get rid of it

[rain fern]

more than likely just textures and good settings

[rain fern]

have you gone into sss and hit default on everything its always a good starting point as it loads all of hippos default settings for atmos

[rain fern]

also check ya weathers alot of the rain ones are on rare so its less likely ya get the wet look with sun

[brave lotus]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/765754966458630164/1444788595096424541/image.png?ex=6933ea7b&is=693298fb&hm=0983fbe20446ed6b93ada89c895bd317d6bd13070905a33a3fec3eda342d5938& @vague igloo

[vague igloo]

womp womp

[vernal gale]

vanilla res
1k and 2k, CoP style textures

[steep zinc]

https://youtu.be/jq4Y_qePCrQ "CINEMA" 🎬

[golden tiger]

Can anyone guess where my hideout is based on this one photo?

[sterile hedge]

[haughty kiln]

guys how do i turn off hud?

[sterile hedge]

press h twice to hide BHS
disable hud via numpad 0 or disable it in settings

[proven karma]

Daddy??

[obsidian onyx]

https://tenor.com/view/gachi-gachimuchi-billy-ready-billy-billy-herrington-gif-22011020

[plucky compass]

finally swapped back to summer grass

its a nice change of pace

[vague igloo]

Not particularly the best screenshot but, to each their own

[woven vine]

aay boss

[slim hazel]

what can i improve here?

[woven vine]

depends what you want??

[slim hazel]

i feel like my game is missing some ambiance, idk

[true turret]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/weather-expansion

[slim hazel]

thanks

[cunning crest]

1st

[clever yoke]

how do you get your render distances so ungodly far?

im assuming your grass height and density are set low

[swift skiff]

every render distance slider maxed out, grass density a bit low though, grass height is 1.2 (makes it look fuller)

[clever yoke]

thanks king

[vernal gale]

dayum

[clever badger]

agartha

[magic plaza]

The zone shows its beauty in any season. Stay warm STALKER's!

[clever badger]

agarthan gaming

[indigo flume]

i spend more time taking screenshots than actually playing

[rain fern]

bruh the feels if ya scroll through screenshots ya see me too much XD

[indigo flume]

The game just looks too good and ive been playing since 2023 and have never had visual mods. only recently did i get c con and hd stuff

[rain fern]

i havent played defualt gamma since 2023 lol nitpickers rottonlife ccon with a neutral cfg and mip 0 and the new atmos beta

#╟📸screenshots message oh and operation twilight reshade

[indigo flume]

im using twilight rn! but the performance one , thought it would be too fps consuming but seeing as i have 110fps i will use the normal one. do u have any reccomendations? i have ccon, hd remade models , 2k textures and weather mods

Im not very knowledgeable about reshade settings . if you or anyone could lmk how i can make it look even better i wouldnhigjly appreciate it

[rain fern]

im a bit of a noob myself i just made sure to copy the reshade folder as the last thing i did so all the settings were right but havent tweaked it myself i use the fidality one and im barely hitting 50fps so you are fine aha but the mods i added where pretty standard in the rottonlife posting there is a ground texture that i use and arrival is the other thing i use and make sure to make sss settings default

[stone loom]

What weapon pack is that Kiparis from?

[mint ether]

Hey, could you please suggest a setting that allows you to view shadows from far distant flora? I've tried various shadow settings in both the standard settings and in SSS, but I couldn't achieve the desired effect

[gloomy thorn]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/kiparis-reanim

[stone loom]

[steady mural]

any vids or anything on how i can make my game look like this ?

[rain fern]

doesnt touch anywhere near his but a good start is the clikrad vid with hippo as explains some basic things and has some mods in the description

[rain fern]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slHOznY3nZE i would just use #1192574018398715904 message as the ground textures instead of redone

[dapper axle]

Just found a very lovely goodie that dropped off a random bandit

[mint ether]

Yes, but it's worth mentioning. Even if you set all the settings 1:1 like Klikrad's, you won't get the same picture as him.
He simply didn't explain the key points:

• Lighting quality in the main settings should be set to Extreme.
• For flora, ambient occlusion will need to be adjusted to softer shadows.
• And the standard atmospheric preset may seem too dark.

[rain fern]

thats why i mentioned its a good starting point but hey thanks for the tips i will try implement some of those if ya got any suggestions im all ears

[rain fern]

seems like you have a idea of what clikrads vid produces

[steady mural]

i did it like he says in the vid and yeah its not like monulith's pics

[dapper axle]

Not 5 minutes later
What the actual fuck

[mint ether]

monulith using his own reshade

[rain fern]

it was meant to be more a jumping off point my bad if i mislead ya

[rain fern]

so the sun shadow quality should be extreme for a start?

[mint ether]

yes if u want Clikrad's view, but -10 fps

[rain fern]

eh will give it a shot im already under 60fps XD

[mint ether]

yeah but Clikrad has a 3080, so it can afford it
Otherwise it would be unfair to get a soft view on weak graphics card

[rain fern]

yea i know i just love pushing this game for the atmos im not worried about fps as long as im above 30 im a og console gamer XD

still hitting my cap of 40 with a emmision in rostok so my 1080 still holding on..... just

[rain fern]

game crashed instantly on the switch to extreme but booted back up and going good aha

[steady mural]

No no im rlly thankful for the help i was just wondering what other stuff you would recommend

[steady mural]

I have a better card and i barely get over 70fps with the gpu at 60-70% any tips?

[mint ether]

60-70% cuz x-ray engine

[steady mural]

Ooh alr, so its quite safe to assume there are no workarounds?

[rain fern]

thats alg my dude aha im still learning myself i know you can turn on parallax and turn that to high go to ssr and turn that to medium and denis would be the next go to for help cause he been helping me all along the way

[mint ether]

try google or youtube, there is a taboo on the workarounds you are talking about

[rain fern]

i tried the taboo and it fucked my game some how but also i could of just messed up XD

[rain fern]

how would i go about making the flora have softer shadows?

[mint ether]

answer me in #╟🔰☢newbies-chat

[swift skiff]

lut mod wip

[swift skiff]

increasing shadow render distance helps i guess.

[onyx flume]

perf impact?

[swift skiff]

atp it's bad, needs lot of work, i am taking my time.

[onyx flume]

that's fine, would be interesting to see alternatives to reshades :)

[swift skiff]

that's the goal, people hate reshade 😆

[steady mural]

Ive tried reshade before and ive had big big issues, mainly ghosting and frozen frames, any idea if its just my pc ?

[rain fern]

reshade shouldnt be too bad if ya follow the guide and if it screws up you can just delete it but can be down to the reshade ya use

[rain fern]

@mint ether the resaults will give a better ss but im getting back to back emissions

[rain fern]

honestly dude you never fail to amaze probably the best ss on here at least the top 3

[mint ether]

"but im getting back to back emissions" sry but didn't get u

I using google translate and my eng is bad

[rain fern]

psy storm

[swift skiff]

appreciate brother.

[mint ether]

Not all the weather conditions in the game are well-lit. Or are you saying your previous painting was brighter?

[rain fern]

you are joking your english is amazing my dude i understood all ya instructions

[clever badger]

arctic gamma

[rain fern]

bro i have to show this cause you explained it perfectly

[empty saddle]

!debug

[humble pasture]

@empty saddle How to enable debug mode: #╭📖faq message

[rain fern]

@mint ether still not the best weather but hopfully gives ya a idea of what my game is looking like with ya settings only done 1 for 1 so far will adjust as i go

[mint ether]

what's the name weather?

[rain fern]

uh anyway to find out without debug? im just been taking these casualy as i explore

[mint ether]

"without debug" no, unfort
but mb u have just day dark weather. As I already said, there are unbalanced weathers in the game. I think u have dark/partly or someth. After psy - dark too it's normal

https://youtu.be/slHOznY3nZE?t=786 - Here's a good explanation of light variables that might help you

You can also increase the base brightness

[steady mural]

what are you using in terms of stuff for graphics ? reshade or what

[rotund raptor]

yeah just base gamma with reshade + c-con + rotten life

[steady mural]

what preset for reshade

[rotund raptor]

my own, I can share if you'd like?

[steady mural]

yeah sure

[rain fern]

@mint ether think i achieved the look im wanting and sorted the brightness out still cloudy yet visable and im if it gets dark at night gives me a reason to use nods

[mint ether]

yea looks great! glad you did it

[brisk stirrup]

I dont want it

I need it!!!

[rotund raptor]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m-BHSJ7mXwI7FUArJ0Wyyr_xooMiCAY3/view?usp=sharing

[vernal gale]

for a 1k texture that wall do a pretty job

[toxic atlas]

[fluid parcel]

hey, can you tell me what weapon reposition mod this is please? couldnt find it anywhere unfortunately

[rotund raptor]

it's my own, I repo'd a few weapons I use quite often

I can share that too if you'd like lol

[fluid parcel]

it would be cool if u do this, thanks

[rotund raptor]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vj3kG3G4WVLWoX5570qQ79zYpDPtcqMl/view?usp=sharing

bottom of the load order, if it gives you trouble just disable its for a handful of weapons only

[fluid parcel]

thanks alot

[stiff lagoon]

Winter isn't that bad

[dire needle]

it is bad af half of those tree models were never meant to be “dead” but ppl cope “uu too much radiation zone must be ded to be immersive” or sum shit amongst those lines

[vernal gale]

green zone makes more sense imo
radiation can kill vegetations ofc, and game did that pretty good imo

like red forest (and above with less veg)

[stiff lagoon]

Well... if you take a look around during winter, most trees have no leaves, at least not where i'm from, so it's pretty close to what i see outside right now.

[acoustic sleet]

what mod is this?

[vernal gale]

he is saying those tree models looks wrong, cause they mint to be green with leaves

without, they are odd

[stiff lagoon]

they don't have that many leaves on them in the original I think?

[mint ether]

The car is like a gushing anomaly

[short crypt]

Yep, that's the one. Great mod.

[stiff lagoon]

i understand, but meanwhile when I look outside it's not that different.
Models aren't that bad. to each their own i guess.

[naive kiln]

Anyone know any tricks to improve quality inside scope ? this looks like sheite.

[clever badger]

everything has some super orange mexico filter but I think it's because of the weather expansion

[clever badger]

project inverno + no grass mod + bloomdark reshade

[foggy zenith]

fent hands

[night ferry]

Improve the image or the reticle?

[cunning crest]

a) better filter (bilinear->lanczos/smth similar)
b) FSR/TAAU running on reticle image -- done in OGSR i think

you can also try to increase jitter count in engine (4 -> 16 frames), to get more AA

[clever badger]

https://tenor.com/view/credit-card-smacking-credit-card-on-table-gif-21340324

[clever badger]

drop the method buddy

you cant just post stalker 3 and say nothing

[west plume]

I got you

[clever badger]

reshade btw? specs and avg performance?

[west plume]

I have a ryzen 7 9800x3d and a 5070ti, i average 80-90 fps, im using reshade with AtmosR

@clever badger

[clever badger]

5070ti holy you’re rich

[rain fern]

HEARD STALKER LOVES THE 3D CPUS

[west plume]

https://tenor.com/view/hasbulla-money-gif-25191018

[rain fern]

sorry pda caps

[west plume]

DDR5 is worth more than gold nowadays

[west plume]

Yeah the cpus amazing in locations crowded with alot of nps

[clever badger]

if you get 80-90 i would get like 15-20 on the best day aint no way

[clever badger]

how vro feels after posting these specs 🥀

[rain fern]

i can imagine my poor r5 1600 and gtx1080 cry when i play stalker XD getting 40ish frames max

[west plume]

I feel you, i recently just upgraded to this pc i was playing on a gtx 1660 before this

[clever badger]

holy i’m on one right now maybe this is inspiration

they left us poor gtx series in da dust

[rain fern]

mind you as long as hit 30 im happy as a og console gamer so atmos over frames every day for single player game and still runs smooth most of the time just rostok or freedom base i get some stutter and fuck thats a jump

[west plume]

yeah definitely not a bad gpu for 1080p gaming, held up good over the years

[clever badger]

fr it’s time has finally come

[west plume]

Im the same way i care more for atmosphere than performance

[rain fern]

i havent ever taken is this far for a game as i have little to no modding experience but have learnt alot and pushed my rig basically to its limit

[clever badger]

https://tenor.com/view/rdc-world-catch-you-in-gif-24960894

[rain fern]

i cant compete XD

[west plume]

still looks decent for the hardware your on, ive seen alot worse here from people with better pc's

[rain fern]

dw im aware of the rig difference XD and thanks been tryna make 1080p look as good as possible without 8k textures XD

[west plume]

this is a screen shot from back when i played on my old set up, game would also run at like 30fps

these too

[rain fern]

that still looks great but also the game itself seems to run better too so i have a bit of advantage there also can tell you were still getting the hang of the visuals its great to see the progression

[west plume]

Yeah im always changing visual elements for what ever mood i want my stalker to give off, nice to change this up from time 2 time

[rain fern]

yea i have been tempted to go autumn personally but i know i should enjoy what i have done with summer XD

[west plume]

I cant recall how many times ive messed up my game changing seasons

[clever badger]

yeah game still looks great on low-mid hardware i agree. 1660ti could hold 60 fps

[rain fern]

finally got some decent weather casually playing XD

[clever badger]

bro is entering agartha’s heavenly gates wtf

https://tenor.com/view/mercy-overwatch-come-here-gif-14280244

ccon is so well done

[rain fern]

no reshade denis helped with my flora and ao settings to make the grass softer

[clever badger]

oh so thats how u do it

[rain fern]

just a example of some things he told me

[clever badger]

stalker 2 rolling in its grave rn when the 2018 mod has the same visuals

[wraith linden]

Gorgeous graphics!

[rain fern]

then bro says his english isnt good

[clever badger]

“my english no good so ples bare with me”

(shakespear)

[cunning crest]

aliased, but not blurry. somehow it is possible to unfuck graphics

[rain fern]

what were ya messing with or added safe bet is just defalut the settings

[cunning crest]

-nuked SSShadows
-replaced AO
-removed useless temporal filtering

i didn't like blurry grass

[rain fern]

funny you bring this up as i just posted something that may help lol

#╟📸screenshots message

dont need to copy settings but explains things well

[cunning crest]

i prefer to fix the code, not add 3048845 settings

[rain fern]

well you werent specific before you just said help get rid of blurry grass just means ya need to sharpen it its like 2 settings

[mint ether]

chad

[cunning crest]

meth

[rain fern]

my bad for the bit of sarcasm at the end XD send that to a museum and they would consider that art

[cunning crest]

money laundering

[fierce gulch]

Finally done moodifying

Ts go crazy lmao

[rain fern]

love when a storm hits but hard to time a good shot great timing

[fierce gulch]

Video

https://tenor.com/view/big-brain-gif-27108854

Just getting back into stalker, can't wait to uh... actually play the game now lmao

[rain fern]

too true XD if ya still using atmos make sure to go into sss and defult everything but honestly looks great as is

[fierce gulch]

Ye, everything defaulted, then a few small tweaks to turn up volumetrics. Still fiddling with reshade, but I honestly like where it's at.

[rain fern]

ae thats the way to go looking really clean

[rain fern]

also something i only learnt recently and a personal preference is that the hud fov effects the gun distance so if ya dont like the look of "eating ya pistol" you can push it out a bit but does effect 1 of the detector animations

[fierce gulch]

Oh sweet, good to know. Tho, most of my encounters look like this lmao.

[rain fern]

is that just from shooting or were you hit cause that blurring is intense XD

[fierce gulch]

Lil guy snuck up on me, got some chomps in lol

[rain fern]

ahahaha wild territory never fails XD my fav hunting ground for loot

still dialing in settings myself

[fierce gulch]

Ye, looking forward to actually playing the game. Everything so far has just been test saves for stability.

[fierce gulch]

Purty

[rain fern]

oh true i wish ya gl on ya run and just take it slow until you have a good idea what to expect

[fierce gulch]

Ye, I'm excited! I've played the mainline games, so just gotta get my bearings with gammas mechanics and I'll be off to the fun!

[rain fern]

oh yea just ask any questions in newbies chat always willing to help but its pretty streamlined now so should understand pretty easy

[fierce gulch]

Yeah, this is gonna be fun :]

[smoky frigate]

Peep this shit dude

reshade does wonders

god this game is beautiful

[grizzled wharf]

i'm sure you guys have seen a morbillion screenshots of hobo stalker in cordon holding gun looking at sunset but this one is special because it's my screenshot and i'm the best, some might say the bestest in the world. also ultrawide and with summer grass n trees.

[burnt scroll]

Ok hobo

[final adder]

Ok hobo

[grizzled wharf]

I'm hobo and I'm proud

[vale sail]

@spark harness

[queen sonnet]

seeing god today

[mint ether]

good quality, but I find it a bit contrasty

[daring arch]

в этом и смысл, денис)

[naive kiln]

i cant get out of Darkscape for 3 days with these settings

[vernal gale]

check Zaton and Jupiter, by far looks much more amazing, imo

[naive kiln]

My point is its difficult to enjoy the view while you being hunted

[pseudo nymph]

"damn bandits" yeah ok bud

[plush finch]

Which one is better ?

[daring arch]

viewmodel position looks good

[placid edge]

how many of you spawn in your guns for your screenshots? And how many actually play the game?

[daring arch]

lol why do you even need to spawn weapons for screenshots, the game looks good already

[placid edge]

alot of people do spawn their gear, trust me

[daring arch]

never seen one but ok)

[placid edge]

how do you know by looking at a picture with a fancy gun? How you know its not spawned from the debugmenu? 😄

[daring arch]

depends on the map

it would be strange too see some dude in exoskeleton with lmg at cordon location

[placid edge]

yea 😄

[daring arch]

gorgeous

[daring arch]

your game supposed to be without reshade, right?

[vernal gale]

your shots looks fantastic

[daring arch]

looks like a mountain from new zealand

[mint ether]

wtf

[mint ether]

У него свой решейд

[swift skiff]

it's there just for some vignette

[terse ruin]

I didn't know you could put rugs on the wall, where is it located?

[dire needle]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/912320242301149215/1392109187101884496/azu.gif

[manic turret]

I think something is about to go down between this two.

[zinc sierra]

Freedom spy 🕵️

[midnight compass]

Kissing and smooching perhaps

[slim hazel]

the campfire one could be a pretty fire thumbnail

[golden tiger]

CNPP

It is the most outlandish spot ever

[slim hazel]

what armor mod are you using?

[clever badger]

looks like road to vostok

[static hull]

HD Models

[clever badger]

psx graphics

i fw this shit so hard

gonna remove the axon logo tho ngl

[rain fern]

AS SOMEONE FROM NZ I CAN AGREE

[torn lynx]

How'd u get the gunslinger colt? I love that model but i dont know how to get it

[topaz thicket]

!fwp

[humble pasture]

@torn lynx
UGP is no longer available in Gamma as it has been superseded by FWP from the same creator.
UGP(FWP) Discord invite link: Accept
Latest FWP thread in this server: #1277740537344168016 message
Frosty Weapon Pack install video:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mAgUuvs1FY

[raw talon]

what mod is the vss from?

[naive kiln]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1333281107151683665

[raw talon]

thanks

[naive kiln]

scroll up to the top to find a link

[raw talon]

ok

[torn lynx]

Thanks!

[open thistle]

My first thought was 'Is this Medal of Honor ?? " 😄

[wraith tiger]

red

[hollow hawk]

wow these trees cant be vanilla right?

[hot turtle]

"Grass And trees by PanceRide - Autumn Edition v1" (only trees) and https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1279805292472832101 Autumn Season (only grass)

[dull void]

Where do the hands come from?

[candid hinge]

Lol I wish they would gimme their trees would complete my collection

[candid hinge]

EFT hands in mods posting 🙂

[dull void]

thanks bro

[candid hinge]

Yeah also it’s the stalker tactical medium armor that has it. Also military armor is sick aswell

[naive kiln]

Looks better than some 4k`s here

[steel belfry]

wtf settings 😮

and mods tho

[hot turtle]

modders can do wonders with their mods

[daring arch]

cfg_load exposure_1000

[acoustic imp]

xd

[daring arch]

https://tenor.com/view/flashbang-gif-22572243

meanwhile on your screen

[daring aspen]

https://tenor.com/view/subaru-anime-gif-11421885

[mint ether]

pls try fov decrease for this view

[dapper axle]

After months of traveling with this artifact I found inside of a sewer,
The whispers of it telling me "Buy a Miata" have finally broken through and I will buy a Miata

[lament axle]

friends :>

[tepid bronze]

look who i found in the zone

[brisk stirrup]

Oniric

[amber sail]

bro got x-ray lenses on his gasmask

[naive kiln]

Bruh..i broke my screen

[naive kiln]

can i have you user.ltx ~ your lighting is phenomenal

[clever badger]

more agarthaposting

[vague igloo]

i in da wate please help me

-# i forgot to attach the image like a fucking moron, GOD DAMMIT

[pseudo stag]

I thought he was itching his butt for a second lmao

[stray rover]

xaxaxaxa

[vernal gale]

i might use your graphical setup for "CoP Reworked loading screens for anomaly"

[swift skiff]

much appreciate brother, and i am in love with ZTR and boreals textures! awesome stuff.

[short blaze]

velese hours

[wind stream]

can I please have your user.ltx as well. This looks stunning

[hot turtle]

this is atmos_neutral and the only thing I change is: lowlum 0.5 // middlegray 1.5 // grading 0.5,0.5,05 // lumscale 3 // amb 1 // hemi 1. This is my preference, atmos_neutral itself is great, but I like it a bit brighter, because I'm getting older and my eyesight is getting weaker...

[hot turtle]

and of course Hippo's LUT (implemented in Atmos). There's nothing better (imo)

[wind stream]

Thank you kind sir

[tepid jetty]

A MERC aswell 👌

[slim hazel]

What are you using? This looks like a animation shot lmao, very nice

[daring arch]

i guess aydin's grass is better than c-con?

[daring arch]

а фпс где мужик?

[swift skiff]

some weather alterations + my own tonemap and grade by a lut.

[steady mural]

A bit of education for someone new to this? Whats a lut

[swift skiff]

lut holds numerical values for color and light mapping to alter look of an image. shortest i can describe.

[steady mural]

I get that but is it easy to work with?

[dire needle]

? it's texture file that you "bake" in ps/lr or in reshade with lightroom/regrade shaders with your desired color grading

[swift skiff]

depends on what level you are on, #╟📸screenshots message that's one way to describe it perfectly and more than enough to work on games

[steady mural]

Yeah ill have to look more into it to try it for myself

[swift skiff]

start with reshade

[dire needle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1B_czV0i-g

[steady mural]

Alr

[slim hazel]

Oh

[naive kiln]

Havent seen Norfair around for a while

[naive kiln]

Non SSS reflections

[mighty plaza]

Little washed out sadly, idk why hdr isnt lookin lol

[rain fern]

i have little to no experience compared to alot of people here but can always adjust basic settings like color saturation and gamma and some basic reshades can help with athe washed look

[mighty plaza]

I thinnk its something to do with using the reshade screenshot instead of built in one. Had a weird bug a whiles ago

[plucky compass]

beautiful DoF on this one

[rare harbor]

Thank you ! Good old classic CineDOF

[mint ether]

went to the store for bread in 2020 covid

[modest bramble]

freedom equating duty to sin, typical

[lyric isle]

I could never leave the zone

[stone loom]

Looks awesome, what are your Basic Light Settings? I think I may have effed up mine completely

[magic bramble]

is it okay for the earth to be this specular

[tepid jetty]

What are those trees pls?

[naive kiln]

flora panace

[simple stirrup]

@stone loom @tepid jetty Settings: #╟📸screenshots message

[keen compass]

Here is my newest graphical mod install: "cracked pavement"

#1192574018398715904 message

[arctic lagoon]

extremely generic random shot to show how the latest beta atmospherics looks like vs the current public version in a random environment
god DAMN the ground is pretty in the beta

[strange finch]

Here is another one. Current version vs beta 10 with some further improvements

[naive kiln]

Cool vibes ↗️

[candid hinge]

im using beta 10 look really nice hippo keep it up

[strange finch]

Before vs After with autumn grass vs After with summer grass. No weird gloss, environment isn't as flat, overall improvement

[naive kiln]

Is this released on moddb yet ?

[strange finch]

Nope, still some minor things to fix and tweak.

[dire needle]

skill issue

[naive kiln]

Looking forward to it

[naive kiln]

How do you get that soft light effect ?

[livid haven]

He’s working on some magic of his own

[slim hazel]

Your world looks like it's on a constant state of a sunny rainy day or something like rain just stopped and the sun is appearing

[naive kiln]

ah shyt here i go again fiddling with inverno

[brisk stirrup]

Same feeling

[naive kiln]

is this a bad lut for inverno

[arctic lagoon]

hell yeahh!

[mint ether]

perfecto

[mint ether]

This is how I see my university

[rare bobcat]

EFP

[keen compass]

Kmack stub mosin

[rain storm]

30 minutes in Photoshop to understand what I want to see on my screen, then ~10 hours of "vibe coding" with Gemini to make a shader and here are the results. Made a smart noise which only works on mid tones, dynamic color exposure, which is applied chaotically like you have an old noisy camera, etc etc. Kinda wanted to get that analog feel.
p.s. my pc is a potato, can't afford to play with good grass.

[true turret]

This is so bad

just put grain and lower saturation

[true turret]

I get the vision do

[raw arch]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/while-youre-sleeping-reshade
Just get this if you want an "old noisy camera" or "analog feel"

[true turret]

Thank you Eradis

[rain storm]

its like a cool effect but I can't imagine how can you possibly play with that. Honestly, some changes should be subtle, not like you're going all in

[raw arch]

Disable the fisheye handheld camera affect and you're gucci

[rain storm]

what a freaking beautiful game though, just walking around looking at stuff rofl

[hot turtle]

Overall it doesn't look bad, I wonder what it would be like with a mod that turns off the grass.

[naive totem]

https://tenor.com/view/one-peak-one-piece-one-piece-cry-its-so-peak-gif-13413926760013023520

[steep zinc]

What terrain is this ? It’s fire

[candid hinge]

if you dont want sun shimmering on the grass and trees turn on grass shadows game looks 100% better but tanks fps

[candid hinge]

i think thats boreals or just vanilla

[boreal reef]

is that the protector? do you have any extra weapon addons, i cant mount the exps3 with the magnifier on mine

[swift skiff]

https://tenor.com/view/stalker-gif-18174868

[obtuse laurel]

Staring into my soul

[rain storm]

Okay, almost finished my shader. I'm almost in a film now. Needs a bit more work though

[naive kiln]

Its an ar15-freedom here my extra addons ⬇️

[uneven iris]

I think after a week and a half of learning how to mod, (kind of), I've got my game pretty much how I want it to look and perform. 🙂 Pretty damn satisfying.

[rain fern]

looks amazing my dude

[uneven iris]

@static hull @rain fern Wow you guys like your game very dark huh?

Which no hud mod are you guys using btw? I'm really new and gonna struggle bus not knowing what's seriously hurt for a while but w.e

[uneven iris]

Actually yours doesn't look that dark I just like my shadows slightly brighter

[rain fern]

press h then twice to bring it back normally and enter on keypad

[rain fern]

mine is basically all default in sss apart from parallax and high on every setting i can XD

[static hull]

disable it in the interface settings

[rain fern]

plus weather has a huge play in ittoo its just coming up 0700 in my game

[uneven iris]

Omg so much better thank youuuuuuuuu

[rain fern]

always happy to help damn your game looks clean

[uneven iris]

Ahhh, I think I have most of mine default because my system has fps drops from 110 to 70 depending where I am so I just lock it at 70, pretty sure if I cranked it much higher on stuff I'd drop below 60.

[uneven iris]

It got extra clean just using atmosR on top of it but just using a few very light things

[uneven iris]

Thanks man! Been such a struggle bus the last week and a half!

[rain fern]

bro i tanked my fps XD was hitting 60 fine (not sure my cap) but now i scrape 40 34 fps and worse when i start shit in base camps XD

[naive kiln]

No grass feels kinda dull for me, because the snow terrain is flat, and yeah there still is no decent grass out there for Inverno yet..

[daring aspen]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1192574018398715904 Boreals Forest Ground Textures

[uneven iris]

Hahahaha OH man!!! I can't, maybe turn a few settings down, game looks amazing with atmospherics and mostly every settings set to default with exception of a few things.

Mine is all default and still looks rly nice now 🙂

[rain fern]

honestly still buttery smooth it holds a decent avg fps and im og console gamer 30fps is fine for me XD

[uneven iris]

Hey if it's stable and u like it then there u go

[rain fern]

if it was competitive online thats a different story XD

[uneven iris]

Damn that looks amazing

[uneven iris]

Pancerides or ccon or both?

[daring aspen]

c-con

[uneven iris]

You get those weird lil christmas trees?

I turned off c-con because I can't stand them lol, ccon is beautiful but those bug my OCD brain

[daring aspen]

nah I have a version without them

[uneven iris]

WHAT WHERE

gimme gimme gimme lmao

[rain fern]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1279805292472832101

[daring aspen]

no its not there

[uneven iris]

Yeah I think that's the one I have already

[daring aspen]

uhhh

@dire needle do you still have this le no trees and bush version link?

[uneven iris]

Um, I don't think I have that at all.

[rain fern]

lol my bad completely missed the point of the convo XD

[uneven iris]

I know the default ccon I have off and using panceride instead cuz those stubborn xmas trees that blow around all weird

Oh sorry, you tagged someone my bad

[daring aspen]

Yeah I had the same feeling about them

[rain fern]

dw its a bit of a mess tryna find surtain things that people have sometimes XD

[uneven iris]

I know, I spend more time worrying about modding my game than playing it lol

[uneven iris]

Yeah add me, if you can find the link please let me know!

[daring aspen]

it was linked somewhere in this thread like half a year ago
https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1296365727472943158

[rain fern]

i havve the same problem went to start playing then decided to change back to summer from autumn turned off vol in normal settings changed everything to high and got the atmos beta10

[daring aspen]

not sure if link still works though

[dire needle]

search from: huh ? has: file

[uneven iris]

Digging through that is a mission on it's own 🤣

[rain fern]

also may i ask what tweaks ya made to atmosR as thats what im currently using too

[uneven iris]

Only these ones checked and did nothing else.

Didn't tweak them in their settings etc, just default.

[daring aspen]

#1296365727472943158 message

[rain fern]

oh ok sweet i should of just asked if ya tweaked them also ya game would be a little brighter due to clarity i noticed

[uneven iris]

Yeah, and then I just tweaked my basic light settings to how I like pretty much.

[rain fern]

damn what a legend might as well grab that as a extra option XD

[uneven iris]

So with this, don't need to do anything with it? Just plop into mo2 per usual?

[daring aspen]

yeah just put it after default c-con

[uneven iris]

Sry, lower priority you mean?

Or higher prio

[daring aspen]

higher priority, so it overwrites default version

[uneven iris]

Interesting so it basically overrides the xmas trees.

DOPE!!!! let's gooooooooooooo tysm man I've been trying to figure out a solution with those things this whole time hahaha

[uneven iris]

Dude that looks a lot better

[uneven iris]

Bloom effect?

[rain fern]

literally ya one little tip in atmosR XD

[terse ruin]

bloom, saturation, dof & sharpening w/reshade

[uneven iris]

Did you do dof in your reshade or the SSS menu

[terse ruin]

reshade

[uneven iris]

Man I was just asking around about that, my issue is I want objects that I'm close to, to be clear, and the world behind it to be a bit blurry, but when I aim out of cover, it focuses up quickly. Like when I'm aiming everything I'm aiming at stays blurry but don't know how to fix it

[uneven iris]

Yeah looks a lot more vibrant and the visibility looks better like not overly dark in a lot of areas

[uneven iris]

Btw why is there water droplets on the outer edges of your screen, is that cause you're wearing a certain helmet?

[rain fern]

just the standard eco mask just had a psy storm so got a little wet

[uneven iris]

Ah, I haven't gotten a mask yet to experience the rainy weather with one yet lmao

[rain fern]

just got some mid game gear only just headed south to swamps to start quests

[uneven iris]

Turned on ccon and the le ccon one and most of my screen is black and white what the heck

[uneven iris]

Ah I still need to learn repairing and all that stuff, haven't been able to figure that out, I just learned how to craft some ammo for the first time so I guess that's my first milestone

As you can see, in a pretty dire state here lol

[rain fern]

i can give ya a quick run down or would ya like to figure that one out on ya own?

[uneven iris]

Would love one bro 🤣

Maybe DM me so we're not flooding the screenshot chat

[rain fern]

lol sure thing

[ruby flint]

i killed... so many military

now, to become 73K poorer

[past remnant]

true winter

Not just a texture replacement.

[naive kiln]

Make snow covered trees

[past remnant]

Hopefully I'll manage to finish it before the New Year.

only cordon

[past remnant]

maybe

[cunning terrace]

he's a bit silly

[slate zealot]

i luh this game brah

[uneven iris]

Can I borrow you for a day to make my game look this good? 😂 😂 😂

[naive kiln]

trying to make snow shine using gloss

[uneven iris]

Actually this is a screenshot I took earlier I think I'm close, I love the fogginess of some of your guys pics though. Your guys foggy weather looks incredible.

[uneven iris]

Haha I can see it but I think it needs a bit more touching up I think right now it looks a little too glossy

[naive kiln]

there ya go

[uneven iris]

hahaha u knew exactly what part I was talking about I took this screenshot waiting for your reply 🤣

[uneven iris]

That def looks better

[naive kiln]

Now i made it sparkly, thats as good as it gets, im no coder

Some spooky weather after an Emission

[ancient ocean]

It looks soo good having it on Steam.

[grizzled wharf]

was wandering around the cemetery and caught a nice sunset screenie

[daring aspen]

this ss worth me my Ironman playthrough

[rain fern]

just remember casue its still wet from rain so will be more glossy than normal

[steep zinc]

Cheers mate. Beautiful stuff as always 👌🏾

[rare bobcat]

Unreal Zone 6 has aged very well, shits looking like stalker 2 now

[mint ether]

U gave me an idea for my next vid, thanks

[grizzled wharf]

built myself a little den (reupload cuz lighting was ass)

[elder nexus]

its cozy, i dig it

[neon steeple]

Just a proof screenshot that using Valves upscaling tricks on Steam OS I got GAMMA up to 120 fps range (it bounced higher into the 140s but seemed to stabilize mostly around 120s.) This gave me a heap of FPS headroom to turn on all the graphics goodies and get GAMMA running around 71 fps with everything turned up, fully upscaled with Quality FSR mode to 1440p on an ancient 10+ year old RX 580 GPU card.

I like the full VRAM introspection as well. Seeing how the VRAM is loaded up with textures and graphics. FSR Quality actually needed a different resolution so I've since changed it to that custom optimum resolution for Valve's FSR to upscale to 1440p. See below for 1706x960 being optimum for FSR technology in Quality mode. I've since set the game to 1706x960 Borderless. I also moved off Experimental Proton back down to Proton 9.0-4 for long term game session stability.

Here's my voodoo incantation I am using in Steam OS Launch Options for Stalker GAMMA to pull it off. I tried soft locking the pipeline to 60 FPS but only the title menu in the game locks at 60fps. To my happy surprise the game once loaded ignored the softlock and started putting out stupid performance.

WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1 WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR_MODE=quality MANGOHUD_CONFIG=toggle_hud=F10 gamescope -w 1706 -h 960 -W 2560 -H 1440 -r 60 -F fsr -f --mangoapp -- %command%

[neon steeple]

This is what 1706x960xBorderless upscaled to 2560x1440 with FSR Quality on Steam OS RX 580 looks like in my final configuration of graphics settings which brought me down to the 69-71 range with dips +/- depending on scene/map complexity.

[austere trail]

is that the tactical compass mod cause it looks a bit different

[candid umbra]

who would have thought Chernobyl could look this pretty

[rain fern]

quick tip if ya hit H it will remove some of the hud press twice to make it normal and numpad enter gets ridf of the rest of the hud

[candid umbra]

Thanks for the tip, I took that screenshot while I was playing I didn't think about removing the hud for the pic at the moment

[rain fern]

your alg i take screenshots while i play too just a quick way to geta clear pic without having to open up the menue and can be nice for atmospheric moments when ya wanna just walk through the zone

[candid umbra]

I'll keep that in mind then, thanks

[dark brook]

2026 bingo list:

• STALKER GAMMA on Steam
• PC Gamer article
• SkillUp review

(everything is out of my hands, these are just my wildest dreams)

[errant bough]

stalker 2 gamma when?

[plucky compass]

Using alternate fomod option

[subtle drift]

could you tell me what graphics mod u use? also all the texture and the veggies please?

[finite rapids]

why is AO missing on that tree?

[solid bronze]

Idk y'all seem to like wet ground

[rain fern]

i like wet grounds but that gloss is crazy XD

[solid bronze]

It be default GAMMA

[rain fern]

damn cant remember the last time i just played default gamma

[rain fern]

love playing geoguesser with ya shots XD

[daring arch]

лучше поговори с ним....

[steady mural]

what pack is this

[raw arch]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1437206571024257024

[hot turtle]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1437206571024257024 // https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1192574018398715904 // https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1279805292472832101 // https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1036172060969410590 // "Grass And trees by PanceRide - Autumn Edition v1"

[slim hazel]

Isn't atmospherics already on gamma? Or it's another addon?