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[dark brook]

What are your gamma, middlegray and amb values in the console ?

[echo schooner]

its not dark?

atleast not on my screen

looks fine on 350 cd/m²

are you looking at the preview or full resolution?

only the preview is darker

[dark brook]

Depends on screen calibration 😉

[echo schooner]

i mean, the GB2760QSU has a delta C range of 1.1-1.3 stock

so its fine :p

[dark brook]

👍

[echo schooner]

but seriously, i dont see a problem with it

[short gazelle]

somethin strange happened to this man

[wide lion]

bandit literally surrendered immediately after killing me

[slow gust]

He realized what he did and surrendered to the Zone's judgement.

[leaden jetty]

Had to play where’s the bandit for a second

[thorny hemlock]

[short gazelle]

ever since my guy enabled the laser on this thing somehow hes been unable to get his hands on it

[short gazelle]

o nvm thats actually the veresk

[dark brook]

BaS issue with Veresk position

[dark brook]

Check this one out @naive tapir and Merry Christmas chief

[short gazelle]

merry christman @dark brook

[dark brook]

🎄

[wide lion]

jesus make him stop make him stop

[dark brook]

Hahahahaha

Can I share that to Reddit @wide lion ?

[wide lion]

haha of course

rip the bitrate but discord compression

[snow shuttle]

Two dead pseudogiants in CS base

[dark brook]

Atleast now when rookie asks for pseudogiant parts you have them

[snow shuttle]

They were already looted

I found them like this. I did not help kill.

[loud root]

Nice sunset in Yantar

[short gazelle]

he was put into the dirt

[naive tapir]

Got it, merry Christmas and a great new year!

[short gazelle]

are nvgs supposed to look like this?

[slow gust]

Yes.

At least tier ones are.

[outer grove]

Yup

Wait until you get Oracle.

[slow gust]

Oracle's fuckin' baller.

[short gazelle]

aah alright

i mean i could upgrade my nvgs right now

IF I HAD THE TOOLS

[outer grove]

Just go get them :4head:

[sterile ivy]

[waxen rapids]

I always turn the NVG's brightness to minimum, it's horrible otherwise

[slow gust]

Depends.

If it's a really dark night.

Then nah.

It's not terrible to have it on full brightness.

[dark brook]

Press N once to adjust brightness

[short gazelle]

oh yea i know i just wasnt sure if the Textures were right i thought its kinda weird that i can see things normally out the sides

but thats because these are the newb nvgs as the other have said

[slow gust]

What a fucking terrible fast travel spawn.

8 zombies, plus a Big Bloodsucker.

[dark brook]

[wide lion]

I used fast travel on a playthrough recently, spawned on literally 15 rats swarming me. Turned fast travel off.

[slow gust]

I just didn't want to go through Agroprom

[dark brook]

Agroprom is quite cool

I love hanging with stalkers at the lab entrance

Also, the psyfield + electra field always has artifacts

And there's a toolkit spawn in the building at the top level

Electras are easy to avoid as well

[wide lion]

nearly cried when I saw the new textures

so good

[dark brook]

Jdude did a good work with this

But the fruit punch are over the top I think

And I don't like gunfire particles

Firecamps could be better as well

I'm waiting for Yohjimane particles

Which should be better in every way

Also, fully remade emission wave

This will be glorious

Can't wait for GTR as well

Even though my VRAM will explode

[wide lion]

need my VRAM to explode on first emission wave. immersive.

[slow gust]

It's the military.

I hate the military there.

[echo schooner]

https://zerogott.s-ul.eu/U7tnKwry

https://tenor.com/brNC8.gif

[dark brook]

Best .45 ACP gun

[blazing vortex]

7 round mag

[dark brook]

1 Hydrashock off of this gun should kill most mutants

[loud root]

Even still, I’ll be quite happy when I find the 12 round mag for my sig

[dark brook]

Aren't NATO traders selling the upgrade kits ?

[loud root]

They are, but all my mags are still 7 rounds. Did I not do something right?

[short gazelle]

ive met him

the legend in the making

@thorny hemlock HIS NAME IS FUCKING SPAGHETTI

is this a light exo?

this pleases the butcher

[thorny hemlock]

what the fuck

[short gazelle]

[thorny hemlock]

based mike

[short gazelle]

had my stash in cordon full of mutant parts

and i was running low on money so i made the run

i wasnt expecting to make this much tbh

sidenote after selling i was at 70kg

[wide lion]

"I saw a stalker wearing 35 kg of mutant meat. Isnt that the suit Mike wears?"

[slow gust]

For context, that's 5 bandits that spawned on the way from Cordon to Garbage via the tunnel.

I killed them all with a fireman's axe.

[short gazelle]

youre mental

[slow gust]

I didn't really have any other option.

[thorny hemlock]

they are coming.....

[leaden jetty]

That axe is great for those who strafe around corners only to find an axe in their foreheads

[dark brook]

A- Akira

https://tenor.com/view/akira-tetsuo-power-anime-smoke-gif-17076324

[outer grove]

Hmm.......

[dark brook]

That's the one you spawned ?

[outer grove]

Yup

They all walked away from the checkpoint and right into WT to dump magazines into Mercs.

[loud root]

Screw you zone!

[snow shuttle]

https://gyazo.com/74178a567b70c595c78edf7aa1309638

They want my ass

[slow gust]

[dark brook]

Mean dudes in your locality want to whack your ass

[snow shuttle]

?

@lost coral

[lost coral]

Thank you

can you SS the upgrade path too?

[lost coral]

Wonderfull thank you again 😄

[snow shuttle]

there is a 5th row too hold on

[lost coral]

Upgrade path seems good

[snow shuttle]

The 5th row has sprint and a belt slot

[lost coral]

DX8 can look good too, damn

[slow gust]

Imma t-pose on you with my DX11 at max settings.

[slow gust]

Fuck the Truck Cemetery.

There's a chimera darting around those trucks.

And I can't see anything.

[blazing vortex]

Oh lawd they coming

[dark brook]

The Burer Brothers !

https://tenor.com/view/mario-luigi-dancing-pixels-gif-11870261

[bitter rock]

Are fire and electra burers in game or they are uncommented from spawns ?

[dark brook]

They should be in game. Never saw one though

[bitter rock]

that basically my point - they are in game but they are not ... it is worth of investigation ... probably not by you (no disrespect, you have more important things to do) ... I might look into it when time allows

[dark brook]

ZCP issues again

And the author doesn't answer ..

[outer grove]

True. I've never seen anything like it thus far.
It sounds amazing though.

[short gazelle]

ive had a burrer shoot fire at me

iirc he looked exactly like a normal burer tho

[slow gust]

Excuse me wut?

[worldly lake]

ZCP issues

[plucky oak]

Why using it in first place

Never saw it in any load order, is it mandatory?

[slow gust]

No mod is mandatory, but ZCP is not an "optional" mod, and thus is ticked on by default.

[plucky oak]

No i mean its functionalities

what the mod offers

is it mandatory

if it's bugged and the author doesn't answer just yeet it

[echo schooner]

adds mutant spawns

[slow gust]

It basically tweaks Zone populations.

And anomalies.

[worldly lake]

Honestly ZCP is not very good

[bitter rock]

Well alternatives to ZCP is Dynamut that is far from safe&solid

Maybe there is something else entirely ... some other addon but I know only these 2

[torpid mauve]

doesn't zcp bug your playthrough if you spend too much time? i once remember having like 3 'snitch' npc roaming in rostok

[bitter rock]

Mr. Demonized would be probably able to solve ZCP issues ... he is one of best problem solver around ...

[dark brook]

Gives randomness of Stalkers and Mutants population

[plucky oak]

Yeah but is this randomness balanced lol

[dark brook]

No but it's fun

I could eventually move it to optionals actually

[worldly lake]

Make it an optional alongside AWO, so people can choose what sort of dynamic zone they want, weather it's factional warfare dynamics or mutant/wildlife dynamics.

You could even make it an entirely separate MO2 divider, called "Zone Dynamics" or something

[slow gust]

Context time...

I was doing a mission in Army Warehouses where I was trying to deal with Mercs.

Emission comes in.

I fucking start booking it with an adrenaline shot over to the Freedom base.

I faceplant into a springboard.

As zombies are shooting at me.

[short gazelle]

[slow gust]

Oh well.

At least now the crows are legitimate warnings of an emission now.

Made it to the warehouses this time.

[short gazelle]

uh missing fire anomaly thing ?

[dark brook]

DX8 ?

[short gazelle]

nop

[dark brook]

Or missing cvfx textures

[short gazelle]

i play on avx dx11

prolly missing cvfx texture

[dark brook]

Try reinstalling it

[short gazelle]

got it

[dark brook]

Right click > Reinstall

Also check which addon has priority over particles.xr in gamedata

It should be cvfx

[short gazelle]

which version of cvfx is used in vanilla gamma?

[dark brook]

Latest one

[short gazelle]

nan i mean the tweaks in the file

or is it just core version

[dark brook]

I didn't tweak it

[short gazelle]

kk

[dark brook]

GAMMA uses base cvfx latest moddb version

[short gazelle]

alright gotcha

[dark brook]

Perhaps it's the cvfx fix that is outdated ?

[short gazelle]

na

i think its because i had my cvfx fix set to the wrong version of cvfx

i had it set to ultravoilet or wahtever and not core

i reinstalled both as core I'll check out the anomaly and see how it looks

[echo schooner]

its there

for what ever reason you can only see it from a specific angle

[short gazelle]

@dark brook

looks fine until you realize you can see the squares

[echo schooner]

yeah its because the effect is actually in the top of the concrete pipe

[short gazelle]

i thought it was funky cuz i hadnt deleted my shader cache but that didnt change anything

[echo schooner]

the same also happens in vanilla anomaly

[short gazelle]

u sure

when i went there vanilla i could see the thing the entire time iirc

but thats not really my main issue

the main issue is that i can see particle squares

youll see that if you look more closely

[echo schooner]

i know what you mean

the blue squared boxes

[short gazelle]

yee

[dark brook]

Blue square box = missing particles

Cvfx will be replaced by new particles at some point anyway

I also bet that using Expedition modpack particles will fix this issue

You can even test it if you want

[short gazelle]

figured

[short gazelle]

its fine without the fix

[dark brook]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/expedition-graphical-overhaul-addon-for-anomaly-151

[short gazelle]

mayhaps can be circumvented by merging the two

[dark brook]

You can't merge particles files

[short gazelle]

oh

i wouldnt know

snap

[dark brook]

You need SDK etc

[short gazelle]

big yikes

[echo schooner]

expedition doenst look bad

[short gazelle]

so its either funked particles or crashes for me

[echo schooner]

just a "bit" of bloom

[dark brook]

It's over the top and it kills your frames...

[echo schooner]

laughs in r7 5800x and 2070S

[dark brook]

While GAMMA is much more subtle and still have a nice frame rate

[dark brook]

Spoiler : your GPU runs at 30% and only one CPU core is used by Anomaly but you still have a hard time hitting the 144 fps

[short gazelle]

true

[echo schooner]

let me disabled 7/8 cores and clock it to 5.2 :p

[short gazelle]

so waht i should try is downloading expidition but only using the "particles.xr" out of it?

[dark brook]

That can actually help a lot

[echo schooner]

yeah but i dont have fps problems so

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[short gazelle]

fair

i do

[dark brook]

OC one core. Set affinity of Anomaly to it, disable every other programs on that core. Enjoy 200 fps

[dark brook]

Perhaps

[echo schooner]

or just disable grass

[dark brook]

I'm curious about the result @short gazelle

[short gazelle]

yep i'll give it a shot

[dark brook]

At some point CVFX will be replaced in GAMMA by Yohjimane particles

[short gazelle]

except my internet is operating at 10% of its actual power

and downloading expedition is gonna take me 20 minutes

and yes i am using an EU mirror

[short gazelle]

epique

[echo schooner]

eu mirror seems to be scuffed

[short gazelle]

but the fix should be up to date

its last update is way later than cvfx last update

[echo schooner]

use DBolical SJC #1 (CA, US)

that mirror works better

[short gazelle]

nvm my downlaod speed just octupled

the problem might be that the fix is for version 1.1 and the version youre using in gamma is 1.12 ? @dark brook

[dark brook]

I guess so

The new version shouldn't need the fjxn

[short gazelle]

yea

so why did i crash

and why did the fix fix the crash

this is so confusing

[dark brook]

Yes...

[short gazelle]

maybe i'll just play without the fix for a while an dsee what happens

[dark brook]

Didn't have any issue but didn't go to Generators

[short gazelle]

oh hol up i got expeditions downloaded

lemme see what happens

[dark brook]

I did kill several poltergeist without any issue

[echo schooner]

target #10 is currently running in generators for me

i think he got stuck there

has been 4 ingame days since he was near the CNPP

[dark brook]

Got kidnapped by monolith

[echo schooner]

jokes on you

target #10 is a monolith

[dark brook]

XRay at its finest

[echo schooner]

[short gazelle]

so i disable cvfx and cvfx fix and just load the expidition particle.xr right

[dark brook]

[dark brook]

Yes

[short gazelle]

but what im wondering

[worldly lake]

How do you work this black magic?

[echo schooner]

tskmngr

[dark brook]

No actually keep CVFX

[echo schooner]

set priority

[short gazelle]

if you cant merge or override the particle.xr file anyway wouldnt that mena you dont need to load cvfx for the fix to do its thing

[dark brook]

But add the expedition particles.xr in a new addon after CVFX

[short gazelle]

or does cvfx do some other stuff aswell

[short gazelle]

done that

[dark brook]

Very curious about the result

[short gazelle]

oh it does do some other stuff nvm

lets check it

pc bout to go bluescreen

[dark brook]

[short gazelle]

thats the result

[echo schooner]

great

thats even worsee

[short gazelle]

its prolly trying to use a texture from expiditions that aint there

[dark brook]

Ah ok

[short gazelle]

i could just plug the textures from expiditions in aswell

[dark brook]

So jdude actually change particles between expedition and CVFX and most likely stopped updating CVFX

[short gazelle]

seems like it

[dark brook]

Yup

[short gazelle]

ayo @dark brook

thats kinda sexy

groks tutorial to getting the newest cvfx version

[echo schooner]

can you finally replace that shitty shotgun

[short gazelle]

never

[dark brook]

How are the guns flames looking ?

[short gazelle]

muzzle flashes?

[dark brook]

Cause cvfx is way over the top

Yes

[short gazelle]

they seem pretty good

[dark brook]

I'm wondering about anomalies and firecamps aswell

[short gazelle]

some are bigger flashes

some are just a few sparks

[dark brook]

Hum

I'll check them out

[echo schooner]

should test the saiga that has the muzzelbreak

or ASH-12

[short gazelle]

they definitely arent too big

atleast on my shotty and my ak

[dark brook]

Oh, if you could test the garbage fruit punch anomaly field see if it still kills your frame rate that would aaaaaaawesome

Cause cvfx has a huge impact over there

I'm wondering about the blood as well

And grenades boom

[short gazelle]

i did

flashes really arent all that big

[dark brook]

(cause jdude likes large Hollywood like explosions....)

[short gazelle]

if only i knew which one that is

[dark brook]

That's coolio, cvfx are too large I think

[dark brook]

When you come from cordon to garbage, up the road to Rostok on the right

[short gazelle]

alright hold on

want me to trigger it

or just look at it

[dark brook]

Just go there and check the field from a distance

[short gazelle]

alright

[dark brook]

With my laptop I reach 20 fps max so I cannot judge

And I will have access to my desktop PC in like 15 days

[short gazelle]

this one?

you can barely see it on the screenshot

[dark brook]

Hum

[short gazelle]

hold on

lemme grad an fps counter rq

[worldly lake]

You can see FPS in debug

[short gazelle]

oh

how

[worldly lake]

Go to debug and hit statistics

[dark brook]

Cordon > Garbage. In garbage, up the road to Rostok, there's the flame heli onnthe left, then a bit after on the right there's a lot of chemical Anomalies in a small swamp with dead trees

[short gazelle]

oh

yo usaid garbage

my bad

before or after train hangar @dark brook ?

[dark brook]

Before

[short gazelle]

effectively halves my fps to just look in the general direction of the swamp

goes from abt 70 to about 35

[dark brook]

Ah ok

I thought maybe he fixed it but no

[short gazelle]

rip

[dark brook]

I'll check out how expedition particles look instead of CVFX

Thanks for the test @short gazelle you rock

[short gazelle]

no problem glad to help

[echo schooner]

https://zerogott.s-ul.eu/iWEZ7VP8

that fucking thing scared the shit out of me

[blazing vortex]

Duty is really good at finding artefacts

[short gazelle]

im still using the expeditions textures + particles

@dark brook just found some missing particles upon hitting a tire

[dark brook]

I guess you might need some CVFX particles still perhaps

[short gazelle]

so load cvfx and then both the expiditions stuff

[dark brook]

Perhaps yes

Which is weird though .....

[short gazelle]

yea

idk maybe he just missed those

[outer grove]

Uh oh..

[short gazelle]

particles work now

[short gazelle]

dat gun sexy

[dark brook]

Oh !

So CVFX followed by Expedition particules and textures right ?

[short gazelle]

yea this is a bit of a mess it would be nice if you could get a word from the man responsible

[short gazelle]

that seems to have done it yes

[dark brook]

Lol. I wouldn't get anything out of the author most likely

Not everyone is cooperative

[outer grove]

It's a bullet hose. Not really my preference.

[short gazelle]

weird thing that happened after i loaded cvfx theres a gas thing anomaly thing there but it doesnt do anything when i stand on it

could swear it wasnt there before i put cvfx on

[dark brook]

Perhaps borked dynamic Anomalies

[short gazelle]

i didnt go back to test if it wasnt there for sure without cvfx loaded

[outer grove]

Four pseudogiants in one instance of Red Forest.

[dark brook]

That's the intended red forest experience

[outer grove]

How are any trees still standing?

[dark brook]

Mutated trees

[outer grove]

[half tinsel]

I just found expert tools in the army warehouses

[short gazelle]

@dark brook those fire anomalies also seem barely visible again

or im just blind

[slow gust]

Pog

[echo schooner]

bolts are your best friend

[dark brook]

Hum so the Expedition particles aren't that good to that regard

[short gazelle]

mightve just been that particular area i was there with just cvfx on and it looked the same ppretty much

[slow gust]

The Zone is both beautiful and terrifying all at once.

The skies boiled, the seas became blood, and the world was cracked open...

[frozen hamlet]

woke up at the base of duty and I was attacked by 4 snorks

[thorny hemlock]

Z C P strikes once again

with snorks this time

[worldly lake]

[slow gust]

That's a new one.

[frozen hamlet]

zcp - the strongest opponent 💪

[torpid mauve]

[steady bison]

[echo schooner]

YAWN looks great

[upper burrow]

[plucky oak]

gloss factor 400%

[echo schooner]

nah, was just a broken shader cache, deleting it 3 times fixed it

[plucky oak]

doesn't sound like a plausible fix but ok

[snow shuttle]

Just need a T-posing pseudogiant and this image is complete

[leaden jetty]

found one of those wonderfacts

[sterile ivy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA2S-uIFOPw

[clever badger]

mfw i found 2 perk artefacts but nothing that sells well
and i don't even have any slots for 'em

[sterile ivy]

[snow shuttle]

MFW someone doesn't squat to parallel

[native dock]

Welcome, to Dark Valley XD

There was also a controller

[slow gust]

[dark brook]

First GAMMA gameplay video

[echo schooner]

forbidden cake anybody?

[steady bison]

I don't know what normal stalker spawns are so all these controllers and chimeras seems normal to me

[dark brook]

[clever badger]

Fought 3 controllers on my way to garbage from cordon. Never used campfire saves before. Absolutely shitting on my way there

[dark brook]

ZCP is the worst but also the funniest sometimes

[steady bison]

What are even supposed to spawn in the starting zones?

[leaden jetty]

Recycling that artifact into the Lucifer one brings it to 100% with a chance at suicide lol

[carmine wraith]

Right out of X-16 a lil bit damaged but made it out B)

[jaunty mountain]

Day 1 controller was fun, was supposed to be 3 blind dogs. But it was 3 blind dogs and a controller

[slow gust]

laugh.mp3 intensifies

[jaunty mountain]

I want that effect, what is that?

[clever badger]

Rtgi shaders and expedition graphic modpack

For rtgi you need to pay 5$

[waxen rapids]

Meanwhile...

[vapid badge]

Can you just replace the existing shaders from GAMMA with the RTGI ones?

[clever badger]

It should be possible because rtgi is just a reshade layer/file which you can turn on off

So it will work with any reshade preset

[vapid badge]

interesting I might give it a try, although I'm bad with reshade

thanks for the heads up, great shots

[clever badger]

Be prepared for depht settings

It might quite hard

[vapid badge]

depth of field?

[clever badger]

Yep

[vapid badge]

I'll back up my shit and give it a go

[clever badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9v8qDFniog

[echo schooner]

also be prepared that RTGI needs a high/high-end gpu

[dark brook]

Also be prepared to fucked up UI

[vapid badge]

Yeah I had a look and it's too much effort and I dont want to futz my install now

[short gazelle]

the best thing abt that moment was that the music fit perfectly
at first i thought id use nahmusic because muh immersion but i forgot that music usually makes things a ton better

why the black dog gotta have penis skin

[dark brook]

[echo schooner]

https://tenor.com/tTKt.gif

[lost coral]

ive never seen this before 😮

[short gazelle]

dude on the left is me

[dark brook]

Yeah it happens sometimes

[high shore]

good to know my models can handle that anim without looking weird 🙂

[echo schooner]

except for that dude on the elft

left

[high shore]

Well i dont think thats a dude, the stalker on the left looks like one of the fstalkers

[echo schooner]

but i think that guy is also broken in vanilla

[lost coral]

thats not a dude

[echo schooner]

YEET

[leaden jetty]

Lol how do you clip those small videos?

[blazing vortex]

Shadowplay pretty good and easy to use, only available for NVIDIA GPU

Alt + z to open overlay or alt + F9 to start/stop recording

[leaden jetty]

Thanks

[dark brook]

Hahahaha what ammo was this

[fervent tulip]

12x76 AP Slugs, The blue one

[clever badger]

imagine the sound

[dark brook]

Time to AXE

[echo schooner]

F1/Thermite

oh shit

or the artifact that has a 15% chance to explode enemies

[dark brook]

Quest + squad + ZCP spawn

[vapid badge]

https://youtu.be/i6nhAMQRPT0

[signal rose]

https://puu.sh/IzLK2/f8c570b658.jpg

[clever badger]

GAMMA + Expedition in Rostok

[leaden jetty]

All these photos has me thinking I’m only playing stalker 2 for the story then it’s back to anomaly lol

[clever badger]

I just hope my PC can run stalker 2 lol

Might need a new gpu soon.

[clever badger]

Where's the sky

Yes

I'm curious to install expedition to see what it does to my game but it looks so over the top to me

I like it personally. It's just my kind of over the top.

The downside is it comes prepackaged with HD models, which for me isn't a big deal as I prefer the HD Models but that might be a no for some people.

I haven't tried activating DICK in MO to see if it overrides it.

Oof, that is a dealbreaker for me

Can't you just delete the folder with them

Idk how that pack works

You probably can

I haven't done a lot of experimenting with it. I just wanted to get it running to see how it looks compared to Aggressor.

Agressor is ok. I don't really like the textures. But the weather's are good

[thick acorn]

@clever badger make sure you can actually see the blue sky when you use the weather editor to set to clear sky 1

[patent hedge]

Thanks Monolith, what am I going to do with this?

[snow shuttle]

USe it

[blazing vortex]

Disassemble

[patent hedge]

It has no parts, came with 10 batteries though

[slow gust]

Pew-pew in Pripyatl.

[lost coral]

Shoot down helis

[echo schooner]

10 batteries?

thats lik 9k money

[clever badger]

What settings do I need to change to do that?

[carmine wraith]

Dead Zone textures

[thick acorn]

youd have to turn on debug mode in the launcer

then use debug menu

from the screenshot its not wroking properly looks like to me

(thats how it looked when i tried to add expedition)

[clever badger]

Yeah that wasn't clear sky 1. It was I think partly1 or something like that.

But yeah even with clear1 the sky is kinda just white.

[thick acorn]

yea

its not working then

clear sky 1 should be bright blue sky

[clever badger]

I'll toy with the settings later on then and see if I can get it working properly. I feel like it's just weather settings at this point.

Cuz all the other reshade settings seem to work fine other than the known issue of glowing text.

[half tinsel]

somehow a monolith guy triggered the whole freedom base

[thick acorn]

idk the lighting doesn't look like expedition to me

[torpid mauve]

try messing with the middlegray command value and lower the bloom intensity

[clever badger]

I'll try that later. Right now I'm going to do a fresh install of Anomaly and see if I can get Expedition without the HD models.

[fleet sorrel]

THAP Rework 2.o

[dark brook]

Is it released already ?

[fleet sorrel]

In the process

[snow shuttle]

Where's the torso

[clever badger]

It's the first person animations. There is no torso.

[dark brook]

yet

[torpid mauve]

[dark brook]

FP legs gonna cum come to Anomaly

[short gazelle]

uh my nvgs stopped working randomly and now all it does it make my screen blurry

[echo schooner]

battery empty?

[short gazelle]

i checked that but my battery is also bugged out for some reason all my devices are at 100% even tho they were between 30% and 50% before

fixed it by deleting shader cache a couple of times and unloading classic textures

[dark brook]

AMD GPU?

[short gazelle]

yes

[dark brook]

AMD GPU issue

[short gazelle]

makes sense

oh

it happened again

what the heck

[thick acorn]

really liking this reshade pack with gamma (https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/reshade)

[ionic fern]

Boy was he stacked

I'm actually a merc

[torpid mauve]

merc run was a mistake

[analog knoll]

Run forrest

[patent hedge]

Mistake? Looks like free loot to me

[leaden jetty]

Lead him back to the base and have everyone else kill it. Or even better he takes out half the base and you get free loots

[leaden jetty]

some moments i've been saving

Ran across an arms dealer

Also found a decent suit for the best faction in the game, nice

[lost coral]

dr freeman

[thick acorn]

still problems with shadows popping in but i'm really happy with how its coming along

some screenshots from a reshade pack i'm working on for GAMMA

[clever badger]

That's looking nice.

[thick acorn]

some more from the swamp

most of the heavy lifting is coming from ambient light and a couple others

then a bunch of fucking around with the colors to get everything sort of washed and over vibrant at the same time

[lusty ridge]

Definitely wanna try out this reshade when you finish tweaking it 🙂

[dark brook]

Looks cool :D how is the UI ?

[leaden jetty]

This was amusing

[thick acorn]

it is a bit cloudy but i like the look of it, will take a shot later

[patent hedge]

I'm not sure how a Freedom guy got a package into Rostok, time to sneak in

[ionic fern]

In my experience it's under the concrete blocks close to the stairs that leads to the wild territory checkpoint

[thick acorn]

some updates and with UI showing. i think i like how it is now just gotta play a bunch and tweek i guess

reds are still distored a bit but i dont mind yet

[carmine wraith]

GAMMA + Expedition + Dead Zone

[keen void]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16fM96WwgMf4OKGCUBVd28Flp5EZccsgZ/view?usp=sharing

This is my reshade preset with minimal ray tracing and qmxao. I also use expedition, which is why I've also included the shader cache and user.ltx. If you want to use expedition you need to install aggressor again as a duplicate with only weather files and put it last on the load order to fix some weathers.

I'm too lazy to share screenshots but maybe I'll do it later. I'm really happy with the way it looks. Thought some people might enjoy as well. Backup your files, just in case.

Load order is like this. I've played like 5 days in game without any issues.

I also have a rx 570 4gb, for referrence.

[dark brook]

Pictures with the Reshade on/off guys

[keen void]

Will do that today probably. Just wanted to share a way to get expedition working for now.

[hollow narwhal]

ew renegade #clearskylife

[keen void]

There you go, some screenshots from my setup.

Some more.

Last ones.

With reshade on, it's a bit gloomy. But I like my zone gloomy...

[lost coral]

when you know that theres no escape now, so you just look at the sky one last time

[dark brook]

The darker is yours ?

I prefer the zone to be more clear. With darker graphics you can easily miss some ennemies etc

[keen void]

Yup. If it's too dark, you can just disable Ray tracing and qmxao. I like the depth they add to the picture.

Expedition is working fine without the reshade though.

[thick acorn]

@keen void curious about your expedition fix

wasn't able to get your reshade working last night but i didn't try long

[keen void]

Reshade is not critical to getting expedition working. Just reinstall aggressor as a new mod with a different name with only weathers and make it load after expedition.

[dark brook]

Btw guys you can post screenshots and presets in #╟🎑reshades

A nice tool for Reshade showoff is juxtapose.js

https://juxtapose.knightlab.com/

[thick acorn]

yeah I added the aggressor weather at the end of the modlist and i still get the lightning bug

i should mention it happens without adding expedition or the other reshade pack so thats why i'm not sure whats going on lol

all i've done is manually add a few effects to the 'real' bin folder and the reshade textures i've added but not overwritten any

[split hedge]

It do be dark doe.

[keen void]

Maybe delete the shader cache as well. If it gives an error, disable expedition and launch again. Re-enable afterwards.

[carmine wraith]

i used expedition as well loading it last but did not used the shader cache or user ltx. I will do that.
what is the issue you get when not installing agressor again as just weathers? i haven't got any issues with expedition but i havent played much

[dark brook]

Just... Stop with expedition

It's garbage

[carmine wraith]

xD

[dark brook]

[carmine wraith]

just took 2 reshade effects and added it to my preset..the rest of the files no f idea what they do any way xd

[dark brook]

Also if you want a darker zone, you can set engine command lines for that

Also most likely, you can setup stuff and it will look like shit in other weather

Meanwhile GAMMA settings should be ok in most weathers, dark nights, no visual artefacts, no UI bugs etc

[carmine wraith]

when using raytracing and qmxao it gives me ghost shading when using scopes. have you not had that? i havent used RT because of that

[dark brook]

I know my way around Engine AND Reshade, and that's what I came up with

[carmine wraith]

I did had one visual artefact now that I remember

[dark brook]

Now if you want to provide new presets whatever, you can upload them on moddb or #╟🎑reshades

@keen void

But don't draw people on using Expedition....

Because then people report visual issues that doesn't concern GAMMA

[carmine wraith]

that tru

that tru too

lol

[keen void]

Yeah, I just opened up a diverse can of worms, didn't I? Sorry about that.

[dark brook]

No worries

[warm kraken]

zcp being weird again

[dark brook]

Not sure it's ZCP

Maybe is part of a vanilla AI script

[warm kraken]

loris was still inside his shop tho

[dark brook]

[loud root]

Wolf didn't want to be in the shot

[thorny hemlock]

ive never seen loris outside ever in all my games tho

weird

[thorny hemlock]

oh lmfao

[half tinsel]

Found two giants in one place in truck cemetary

[torpid mauve]

they be sleeping

[ionic fern]

That happened to me yesterday

[thick acorn]

looks good

[thick acorn]

that looks really good

[hardy condor]

the mask overlay looks "too clean". If you blur that a bit it would be more "immersive"

[opal birch]

There are blurred masks as well but I prefer crispy!!

[winter gate]

What a beautiful view

[ionic fern]

[bright peak]

Ah yes, the scope that makes you fear to aim and in result, you become master at hipfiring.

[sterile ivy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5NxuAXoqZw

[dark brook]

You people like the game way too dark

You mad man hahaha

[sterile ivy]

I'm constantly messing around with reshade so it varies

[dark brook]

For Darkness I think its easier to follow #│🔧troubleshooting

amb and middlegray are faster to change than Reshade

[lost coral]

sarchophagus be like

[past owl]

this game fr looks great at times

[split hedge]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[outer grove]

Nice gradient blur.

[past owl]

you play like that?

[outer grove]

Like what?

[past owl]

https://tenor.com/view/hehehehehe-nigga-hehehehehe-black-laugh-dark-laugh-in-the-dark-gif-17513267

[outer grove]

Dark?
Remember that lighting differences can occur between various monitors and windows settings.
Also that is during a foggy morning.

[dark brook]

[outer grove]

This here is a little brighter.

[dark brook]

I would up the middlegray a little bit

But it depends on your screen for sure

https://tenor.com/view/fo-sho-snoop-dogg-for-sure-gif-10890829

[outer grove]

It's at 1.0 in my settings.

Otherwise it's like I'm hunting for artefacts on the surface of venus.

I also like strong contrasts between what's light and what's dark.

[dark brook]

👍

It also depends on the lightning in your room

I find myself bumping middlegray a lot when it's sunny outside

[outer grove]

My room is fairly murky, my eyes are very light sensitive.

[outer grove]

https://www.famitsu.com/image/34458/s114_aM9E65Rvc7nn4M85KBt5h4P6I1Wd3j8X.jpg

[dark brook]

[outer grove]

I find using absolute black for shadows to be stylish.

[dark brook]

Murky sneaky breeki

[outer grove]

me irl

https://img.memecdn.com/grumpy-cat-deal-with-it_o_1296093.jpg

If I'm outdoors without sunshades on a sunny day, I get a strong headache.

[thick acorn]

yeah ive been using levels plus in my reshade with really slight dark -> black settings and i love the colors i get from it

dark areas are proper dark, you need a flashlight to loot indoors at dusk etc

and outdoors daytime all the shadows really pop

[outer grove]

Which reshade setting are you referring to? Levels, you say?

[thick acorn]

levels plus

levels might work too

i havent used

[outer grove]

Is it something outside of Gamma reshade?

[thick acorn]

yes

you can install the pack from the reshade installer

[outer grove]

Oh.

[thick acorn]

or just find the .fx file and add manually

reshade stuff is super easy just seems complicated at first

[outer grove]

Just adding the .fx will be fine.

Thanks for the advice.

[thick acorn]

for mine i'm using something really miniscule like

everything below 3/3/3 RGB is black

and it actually makes a big difference

something the same for above values -> white

like 245 /245/245

[outer grove]

Not sure if I'll use absolute white because of my previous statement.

[thick acorn]

right

you can also change the value of the output too

so anything above X values you should be able to make darker to help with that

[outer grove]

Thanks. I'll play around with my values a bit until I find a nice contrast.

[outer grove]

Now we're talking.

[thick acorn]

looks like mine now!

[outer grove]

I use a sharpening filter on top of it all.

[somber root]

Default modpack and settings

[dark brook]

What time was it ? DX11 ?

[somber root]

yeah

around 9 pm

[dark brook]

Ah that's normal then

[somber root]

i know, this is a beauty screenshot!

[dark brook]

Ooooh

I thought it was a problem or something

[somber root]

soo pretty

[split hedge]

Grok expecting everything to be a problem recently feelsbadman.

[dark brook]

[keen void]

Looks great! Lensdirt can be annoying in gameplay though.

[split hedge]

Morning Marches be kinda cool doe.

[clever badger]

@dark brook you are the first guy in my life who pins so many better screenshoots

[dark brook]

[lost coral]

got lucky at black jack

[ionic fern]

I like how you can ask anyone to play blackjack

Even voronin

And when it's sidorobitch it's like "Hey sidorovitch you fat thief"

[lost coral]

not rigged at all

[dark brook]

[echo schooner]

https://tenor.com/bqA1E.gif

[thick acorn]

finally some decent weather in the zone...

[dark brook]

Is it vanilla GAMMA ?

[thick acorn]

vanilla gamma + my reshade

its mostly just a couple things to make the dark areas darker and bright areas brighter then ambient light with fairly low settings & cold instead of warm

but i didn't do anything with extra textures/expedition shit

[dark brook]

Oh the bloom is vanilla then ?

Hey I did a good job

[thick acorn]

oh no i have a diff bloom on

my b lol

this is what i'm using. some are default settings but most are tuned to be more subtle than the default

another shot i really liked

[thick acorn]

its honestly crazy to me how good this game can look. last one has a red glowstick for vibes lol

[thick acorn]

you have the patches fav'd so they don't leave your inv if you transfer all?

[leaden jetty]

No, I just like to keep track of how many I have and they weight nothing so why not I figured

[thick acorn]

ah cool ill prop try it too not a bad idea

since i'm always manually dealing with them lol

[thick acorn]

fov is 95 it looks good to me!

arms look fine actually

[bright peak]

[dark brook]

There's fov and HUD FOV

The 0.65 one shouldn't be changed

[delicate sable]

what happened?

[dark brook]

https://tenor.com/view/skillissue-skill-issue-gif-22125481

[ionic fern]

You have been warned

[leaden jetty]

You’re playing cards with people that rob corpses all day, of course you dont play blackjack

[vapid badge]

https://youtu.be/BYOIRvEJOew

[bright peak]

https://i.gyazo.com/251e08b52ef19d17c790b0feccb9059a.jpg

[limber stream]

Hey dude, can you post your preset? Rlly like it!

[teal grail]

What's you're reshade chief

[fleet sorrel]

P.R.O.S.P.E.R.I.T.Y. Reincarnation ReShade (B) High preset

[teal grail]

Thanks comrade

[thick acorn]

sure you'll have to install the effects yourself but here it is

[limber stream]

Thx!

[tepid basalt]

how do you guys access the reshade menu from ingame?

Fairly new to reshading but those ones up look cool asf and I want to give a go at it

[haughty escarp]

home key

[tepid basalt]

Im dummy new on applying reshades how do you get that preset? Is that an option you find when scrolling thru the ones in the home shader menu?

or is it something you have to download from outside

[fleet sorrel]

||https://youtu.be/0FXsrd14IHA||

[tepid basalt]

appreciate it

[fleet sorrel]

[tepid basalt]

damn creator currated. well done sir.

[clever badger]

sheesh this is nice. good visibility but not oversaturated or washed out

[tepid basalt]

damn ive been fumbling around with shaders for a solid few hours and I still dont think ive got it downpat haha

im close

but just barely not there

[tepid basalt]

Hey I wanted to replicate your settings and I found everything but colorfullness. Was that something you added from outside?

[thick acorn]

yeah i think its in legacy

if you just go through the vanilla reshade installer and select the vanilla anomally that gamma is attached to

you can install new effects

you'll also want to use these settings

for basic light settings

gamma - 0.9
saturation - 1.0
brightness - 0.8

on the thirdscreen of the reshade installer hit update

actually wait its not in legacy hmmm

wait no

i got it from here sorry

https://github.com/Otakumouse/stormshade/blob/master/v4.X/reshade-shaders/Shader Library/Alternate/Colourfulness.fx

[tepid basalt]

ima kinda new but how would i download it from Github?

[thick acorn]

honestly colorfulness is barely doing anything anyway

[tepid basalt]

ahh gotcha

[thick acorn]

i can get you the DL link

or you can copy that file and create it locally then change the extension to .fx

[tepid basalt]

thanks bro

[thick acorn]

dl link is https://github.com/Otakumouse/stormshade/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

then you just pull that file to the folder with your other effects

[tepid basalt]

got it workin.

[thick acorn]

nice!

remember the basic light settings

and adjust the indoor ambient light value to taste

[tepid basalt]

Perfect everything looks so good now

Hell yea

Even more atmosphere

Curious though, is your inventory bag look very seethrough when you open yours @thick acorn ?

as well as the HUD stuff like the EFT health menu, does it kinda fliker in the darkness. Not sure if im explaining this properly.

second picture is inside a dark room at around 830 pm

perhaps i need to fiddle around with the gamma but ill try and figure out the cause

I figured it out it was the PPXX SFDO

[outer grove]

I think you forgot to use UI masking.

You need UIMask_Top.fx and UIMask_Bottom.fx to envelop the effects you are activating. Otherwise the reshader will affect your GUI too.

[tepid basalt]

That’s the weird thing they where both on

Though this did show up

Perhaps I have a file causing conflicts

[thick acorn]

you gotta turn off the gamma default bloom

[thick acorn]

this is actually normal

its because levels plus will take anything thats darker than 3/3/3 RGB and make it pure black

you can adjust that or turn it off

[thick acorn]

i actually dont mask them in my profile because i dont really mind it, and the mask area is quite a bit larger than the actual UI element

[thick acorn]

did you adjust the ambient indoor light value, and change the basic light settings?

[tepid basalt]

yea

[thick acorn]

what value are you using?

[tepid basalt]

was using gamma - 0.9
saturation - 1.0
brightness - 0.8

[thick acorn]

thats the basic lighting

you need to change the ambient indoor light value

i'm using r2_sun_lumscale_amb 0.8

but adjust to taste

between 0.0 and 3.0

[tepid basalt]

ahh i see

[thick acorn]

you shouldn't have the default bloom enabled if you used my file tho

you can download the .ini file i posted

and put that in the folder and activate it

as long as you have all the effects

[leaden jetty]

All because I left my stash of food in wild territory coming from army warehouses

https://tenor.com/view/zagreb23-jean-claude-van-damme-universal-soldier-gif-12920049

[dark brook]

You can resize the UImask as written in #old-how-to last step to avoid the UI glow

[bleak cave]

warfare :X

[clever badger]

modified B.O.N.K reshade with rtgi

[light moon]

thanks for this

[fickle roost]

I finally started a serious playthrough of GAMMA and I'm having a blast :)

[novel depot]

any idea how I could dissipate the "zebra effect" on the floor ?