╙🖇mods-making-discussion

[sonic birch]

something was overwriting it even later than this

ah this was

[undone lily]

It’s the worst

That’s GIMP compression of normal maps

That’s AMD tools compression of normal maps

@regal bolt

Listen to the XRay Wizards

[fluid idol]

The cr3pis icon file doesn't really need compression, it just needs all the empty space removed... Which I guess requires redoing all the icon locations

[tender marsh]

@random fulcrum game crashed when searching a stash with the 20x70 slug mod.

FATAL ERROR
 
[error]Expression    : <no expression>
[error]Function      : CInifile::r_section
[error]File          : Xr_ini.cpp
[error]Line          : 948
[error]Description   : fatal error
[error]Arguments     : Can't open section 'ammo_20x70_devastator_bad'. Please attach [*.ini_log] file to your bug report
 

stack trace:

[fair canopy]

Did you download the centered wheel fix?

[random fulcrum]

uhhhhhhhhh

disable old ammo in zcp?

also what athi said

[fair canopy]

throw this in configs

[random fulcrum]

damn the 20x70 slugs thing really blew up

[night veldt]

posting in the hopes that someone might be able to help me out with this

[fair canopy]

use the search in files function in notepad++ to look for every file with the mention of the section or weapon being modified

[regal bolt]

I made stalker bump and parallax edits a while back, but never seen anything like this. Could you send over the original of that texture? I would like to reproduce this. I'm still using the old 2013 plugin, not the built in version, but can test both.
||also, you are not the only X-Ray wizard||

[night veldt]

you mean all the conflicting files? how would I go about searching all the files with notepad++?

[fair canopy]

just search the files in the mod folder of gamma

its going to take a few minutes though

[night veldt]

ah I see how to do it, kk will do capn o7

[still meteor]

its the sdk panda

[night veldt]

damn this whole file search thing is ty <3

[night veldt]

well I still have no idea what I'm looking for exactly, can't seem to find anything relating to the issue at hand, everything I see shows them directing to the proper sound files, yet still they use default jsrs sounds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9lRhT7WCQQ

I imagine one of the resound mods is ruining their paths to the correct sound, so jsrs gives them default, but I don't know how I would confirm that

I feel like such a potato trying to make sense of all this

[lean dagger]

one question, im currently using this tutorial: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ADMhkeqFmL29NTPcGZ8MzavDZoyJe4UXDaK_T1gG68/edit

and when importing a converted .object it all looks fine, but when exporting and reimporting it it has artifacts all over it:

any pointers?

[fair canopy]

Export as ogf

[lean dagger]

those are my export settings

[lean dagger]

ah okay, the guide said to use the CoC SDK to convert it to ogf. well im confused lol

[fair canopy]

That's old. Yiu don't need the sdk for most things anymore

[lean dagger]

ah alright, should i still import as . object or also just as ogf?

[fair canopy]

If you don't set the texture paths in blender you'll have to set them using axrtools though

I always import and export as ogf

[lean dagger]

okay. is the name of the objects importaint? or can i just import a scope from another model and ignore the naming?

[fair canopy]

You can import the scope from a different model and override the name of the weapon you're working on

It's important to preserve the name for an existing model otherwise you'll get a crash for a wrong name/missing mesh

[lean dagger]

so if the acog is compromized of those 3 parts, i just need to name the 3 elcan parts to the acog equivalents, right?

btw thank you a lot for your time

[random fulcrum]

there exist many loose programs to do that, no need to get the toolset

[fair canopy]

Ah true. I'm so used to the toolset. Ogf tool is good too

[fair canopy]

Nah you can just copy and base them from the donor model and when you save it blender takes care of fixing the name of the objects

Well, not copy paste exactly

[lean dagger]

ah alright, and do i have to do something with them being basically seperate objects? or am i now good to go and can save it like that?

[fair canopy]

You want to drag the objects from one parent to the other

Make sure you parent the new meshes to the existing armature

It's the little wrench tab I believe

[lean dagger]

i assume that the specter object referencing the bones of the ak means i did it right? sorry i also have very little blender experience, im basically learning along rn lol

[fair canopy]

Looks right. You'll know when you export because it'll give you errors and won't save

[lean dagger]

i assume this means i didnt parent it right?

[fair canopy]

Right

You have to go the thr individual added object

[sullen dew]

@fair canopy where would you say is a good repository or place to look for weapon models? Ive been sifting around for a good FN MAG model for you to port into anomaly/gamma. found a good looking one with a blender port but it costs $40. i can bite the bullet if needed but im curious if there's better versions out there, especially ones with nicer textures than the rather glossy finish on the render images displayed for the one ive found.

[fair canopy]

If you can't find a free one then I would suggest not buying the model. I can't promise I'd be able to port an MG with a chain easily and I don't have much time in the day to create no animations currently

[lean dagger]

hmmm i managed it to compile but the scope for some reason is attatched to other bones, but i have no idea how to change that. also for some reason in the scope there are vertex groups for the triggger, bullets i assume the bolt etc. any tips?

[fair canopy]

Remove the vertex groups from the scope and set the verrexr for the scope to wpn body

[sullen dew]

no worries, thank you for the advice!

[lean dagger]

i removed all the vertex groups from the scope and the lenses and added a wpn_body vertex group (at least i assume i added it, i created a new vertex group and named it wpn_body. is it contextual or do i have to manuall ylink it now to the body bone?)

[fair canopy]

you shoiuld only have to link it to the bone

[lean dagger]

sorry for the dumb question, how would i do that? i have tried researching it and only found stuff about parenting to armatures, would you mind giving a short rundown?

[obsidian void]

Can anyone tell me how to edit the money that stalkers have available for trading? Mainly I'm concerned with individual stalkers but I would also like to add a money limit for traders

[fair canopy]

click the wrench tab and make sure you're armature is wpn_body

[desert olive]

does anybody know a good gore mod

[still meteor]

there isn't

there's some particles for hit impact maybe

[lean dagger]

thanks a lot man!

one last thing, what do i need to do for the world model?

because i assume its not the same for performance reasons?

[random fulcrum]

you need to have a new model for world

in bas they're the same unoptimized hud model but with the bounding box attached to it

[lean dagger]

ah okay so i should proably just edit the world model the same way i did with the hud model

thanks

[fair canopy]

You could just leave it as the same model as it is if you don't feel like going back and changing it

[lean dagger]

sadly (mostly for my well being) im a filthy perfectionist lmao

also, i assume that variable zoom for scopes is the scope_dynamic_zoom variable?

[fair canopy]

Yeah

[true tapir]

Is there an "anm_open_empty" function for animation in the anomaly?
And does it work?
Because I saw it in the configs, but as soon as I try to attach an animation to it, I get a crash.

[ornate spade]

not in vanilla - if you use this script, it can be used though:
https://github.com/Aoldri/anomaly-addon-deps/tree/main/Universal Animation Scripts

read this guide for more info:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o3GjxHd0dMoe_QswrTS3AdInq4j8eWGA2LTiES6Om-E/edit#heading=h.q5pwezy4qbqt

also what kinda crash you getting? assigning anm_open_empty to something in the config shouldn't cause a crash to my knowledge

[true tapir]

stack trace

[ornate spade]

just an empty stack trace? and it doesn't crash if you only remove that line?

[true tapir]

Yes

[ornate spade]

huh, that's super weird - regardless, hopefully the stuff I sent helps

[ivory flare]

Wait, FOV is tied to high collision? Ive been having a nightmare of a time with collisions, and its all linked to FOV?

[olive vapor]

@ivory flare yes

[ivory flare]

Ffs

Alright

This has been a problem since I first was playing Anomaly a long while ago, and I had no idea why

[olive vapor]

@ivory flare Noones came up with a solution yet which is a bummer

[ivory flare]

From what i’ve been told, its hard-baked into the physics engine

[fathom wagon]

Trying to quickly change the "Better Armed Zombies" mod to just inherit the loadouts of factions that would be the ones to turn Zombified (i.e. everyone except Mono and Sin)
I think this might be the worst idea I've ever come up with lmao

[sullen dew]

ash-12 zombies

[fathom wagon]

You haven't felt fear until you gone against a Zombie squad with 2 RPGs

[regal bolt]

makarov zombies are trying their hardest to compete

[fathom wagon]

RPG Zombies are just the Stalkers who completed the emissions/psy-storm achievement and they didn't get lucky on surviving a psy-storm

[regal bolt]

When big boob hip mod?

[wanton knot]

fair, we already have anime hip mod

[queen yoke]

this sorta thing opens a dangerous door for 'my little zone: artefact is magic' mods

[bold mural]

yo if i want to make a very slight edit to a gun would i have to do any flat texture editing? i basically just want to widen the notch in the rear sights on the bizon very slightly

[true tapir]

Sorry for the stupid question, but do I just need to put it in gamedata/scripts?

[pulsar cape]

oye man algun manual para diseñar weapons hay?

[hard oracle]

whats the valid source rate for music?
i got invalid source rate

[sonic birch]

https://igigog.github.io/anomaly-modding-book/main-folders-and-files/file-formats/ogg.html

[hard oracle]

thanks a ton

[fathom wagon]

So I found out that the Gyurza does indeed have ammunition similar to both FMJ and HP.
Guess I know what I am gonna do lol

[hard oracle]

it worked thanks

[fathom wagon]

How do these look to you guys? Colors are made up due to packaging IRL having no difference, but bullets are the real deal. Will check back in the morning to see what you guys think.

[hard oracle]

i thought this overwrites the original guitar sounds?

but it didnt work
am i missing something?

[ornate spade]

yeah

[true tapir]

Then I do not understand what I did wrong, now the game does not crash, but the shotgun does not want to use anm_open_empty, it only uses anm_open.

[ornate spade]

is this with just vanilla + my script + your addon you're making, or are you testing over a Gamma install?

[true tapir]

Vanilla

[ornate spade]

hmm, if you want you can send over your wip addon so I can take a look why the script isn't working

it works fine from my testing, and other ppl have used it so far with no issues, so idk what could be wrong just from the face of it

[ornate spade]

iirc there's two places for guitar sounds - one for the player and another for NPCs

[hard oracle]

oh ok ill go check ty

[lean dagger]

how do upgrade packages work? thinking of doing a few upgrade kits for weapons i have, mainly the p90 and mp7 (i just want a laser on em lmao) i assume i just have to slap an appropriate laser on them and enable the laser functionality in the config of the weapon?

[lean mural]

@fair canopy Pinging you because I'm certain you'll know the answer - if I want to create a simple mod that adds an effect to a food item, how would I go about doing that without editing items_food.ltx? Looking at some of your mods it appears you can just create a separate ltx file which (somehow) overwrites the base item config.

[sonic birch]

https://igigog.github.io/anomaly-modding-book/addons/dltx.html

[lean mural]

I had literally just clicked on the link to the menu page in the pinned comments, thanks for posting this though!

OK, so if the effect I want to add doesn't appear to be available in the normal way for consuming, how do I get consuming the item to trigger a script?

I want to add a psy restore to eating chocolate.

There doesn't appear to be a boost_telepat_restore, so I'm guessing I'd need to run a script similar to Calming Campfires when consuming the chocolate

I'd also like to do the same with 'Picture of a loved one' by giving it a 'Use' option in the right click menu.

So basically a 'Think Happy Thoughts' mod

[sonic birch]

so it would be like slight psyblock effect?

[lunar nimbus]

psi regen is custom

demonized patched it, but i wont remember the name of addon that does it

[terse idol]

Would it be possible to add faction dependent player dialogue when speaking to NPCs to replace the default options? Renegades, Bandits, Monolith, and Sin would could probably use special dialogue

It is possible to edit and add AI faction dependent speech, but I don't know if player speech can be made faction related

[lean mural]

No. I'm talking about a recovery rate booster for when you've already suffered Psy damage.

[regal bolt]

IIRC Grok's said something about Psy resistance effects also being psy regen effects
not sure if that really works, given that Signet specifically improves psy regen quite significantly

[sonic birch]

yeah joint/psyblock looks like regens some too

[lean mural]

Hmm, haven't noticed much effect when I've tried those post damage?

I'm looking at the artefacts overhaul git to see if I can figure out the regen effects

[lean dagger]

damn i just realized that the p90 and mp7 arent Bas, and thus cant really be edited with a lasersight without a fuckton of work, am i seeing this correctly?

[fair canopy]

Just move over the laser and dot over and then add the appropriate line to the ltx and it works fine

Though I believe the P90 and mp7 are getting a new model in gamma soon thst includes lasers

[lean dagger]

hmm i just added the laser line to my p90 to test it and i didnt have the additional sideways grip, or is that defined somewhere else?

oh damn that sounds great, i think this makes my efforts in vein then, althooo it still sounds like a fun project

[fair canopy]

You have to add alt aim to the gun for that

[lean dagger]

i assume its aim_hud_offset_alt_pos?

[fair canopy]

Yeah

You also have to add aim_alt_hud = true

Though I think if you just add alt aim position to the hud section it'll just let you alt aim without adding it for some reason

[lean dagger]

hmm i put those into the lowest p90.ltx in the MO2 list just to prototype, and it doesent do anything. neither the little laser toggle animation nor alternative aim (coords taken from monolith ak alt aim) havent changed the model at all yet tho

[random fulcrum]

did you spawn a new p90?

[lean dagger]

yeah the save i use i basically a completely fresh spawn, i open the spawn menu and give myself a p90

i put it in the gamma p90 one handed ltx as its the lowest by far

[random fulcrum]

laser_status and the other thing go in the weapon's properties

not the hud properties

that's why it doesn't work

[lean dagger]

like around the lines of sprint allowed and such?

[random fulcrum]

in the weapon's properties

[lean dagger]

okay the laser now works, but not the alternate aiming

[random fulcrum]

because you need the 4:3 position

[lean dagger]

no was my bad, i had the wrong variable in it

its use_alt_aim_hud = true and not aim_alt_hud = true

[lean dagger]

anyone know where the p90 model is? i assume it is in base anomaly?

okay nvm i was looing in dumb places

[true tapir]

Does anyone know how to bind a pump sound for a shotgun?

[solar oriole]

I got 2 quick questions:
If I edit a config file to create a small tweak and put it in Anomaly's gamedata folder, will it load before or after all the GAMMA add-ons in MO2?
And 2nd, I read a few months ago that Anomaly updated the way mods work to reduce the amount of mod conflicts. Am I understanding correctly that if I only edit 3 lines in a config file for my little tweak, only those 3 lines can conflict with other mods? Or do I still need to expect a conflict if any other mod edits the same config file (in my case "items_quest.ltx") in any way?

[sonic birch]

so this is what you will need and it should have answers for your questions https://igigog.github.io/anomaly-modding-book/addons/dltx.html

[lean dagger]

hmm when aligning a laser for a weapon, where shoild i try to align the dot? at the middle of the scope when looking trough it?

[random fulcrum]

just move the dot until it lines up with the crosshair when you hipfire

[placid juniper]

Does anyone have a list of all the item names in 'vanilla' GAMMA? Wanting to give myself some specific options in the new_game_loadout file.

[random fulcrum]

bruh just use debug

[placid juniper]

ok i will check into that, although I'd prefer not to have to spawn them in and be able to make locked RP loadouts for the factions for some of the runs I want to do. Thank you.

[random fulcrum]

but uhhhhhhh

use debug to get the names

???

[placid juniper]

Got it, haven't used debug before.

[obsidian void]

Can anyone help me to adjust the amount of money traders have available to trade with? I'm trying to limit trader's money and increase the amount of money regular stalkers have available

I've scoured the trade ltx files but I can't find these variables

[lean dagger]

is there a more efficient method of testing stuff? like, can i reload models and configs in the live game? or do i have to restart nonstop?

[random fulcrum]

we tried to implement this WAY back in the day

couldn't get it to fully work tho

[obsidian void]

fuck

fully as in, some of it worked?

[random fulcrum]

take a wild guess on what fully means?

[lean dagger]

okay stupid question, what bone should the laser pointer be bound to? so that it stays centered in hipfire, aim down sight and alternative aim?

or si it just a matte rof finetuning until it just.. works?

[fair canopy]

It just depends on the weapon. If you move the laser move the dot and the beam all together not separately. Then you have to adjust each hud with a laser

You should bind all those part to wpn body

[lean dagger]

hmm currently having a disconnect between all 3 aim states

but i do have them to wpn_body

thsi is hipfire

ADS is completely borked (scope isnt set yet this is only a mesh

and alt aim is slightly to the left

[fair canopy]

Hip fire depends on hands position, ads depends on hands position + aim

Setup hands pos so the laser is on the cross hair in hip fire then once that's set you can adjust aim huds on top of that

When you're adjusting aim hud never touch hands pos or you'll throw everything off

[lean dagger]

ahhhhh so i should stop fucking with the model, adjust the laser so its in line with the red dot i wanna use in this custom weapon kit, and adjust all with the aim hud and hands pos?

[fair canopy]

If you don't have it already, download draggable hud editor off moddb to make adjustments easier

[lean dagger]

sounds helpful, imma get it

[fair canopy]

Yeah. You'll drive yourself crazy trying to adjust the dot

Also because the dot is part of the model certain sights can't be adjust depending on how high over the laser they are to align together

[lean dagger]

would it help if the alt aim rotation is made the kind of way that it uses the laser kinf of like an axis?

[fair canopy]

I'm not sure what you're asking there

[lean dagger]

like, set up the alt aim rotation, that the laser point of the weapon is the rotating axis, so it doesent get thrown off

[fair canopy]

It's still gonna get thrown off because you're physically rotating the weapon and laser

So you still have to set the alt aim

[deep solar]

does anybody know if there is a way I can display some sort of coordinates/guide to adjust some UI elements? or the best I can do is adjust by hand and reloading the game?

[fair canopy]

What mod is thst?

[deep solar]

something I'm making

[lean dagger]

hmm i installed it, but the hud doesent show up and the camera kind of freaks out when using it

[fair canopy]

Click and drag to move the gun model x and y then shift drag for z axis

[lean dagger]

is it normal tha ti have no ui while doing this? like no coordinates displayed etc?

in the preview there is an entire menu

[fair canopy]

Are you in debug?

[lean dagger]

yeag

yeah*

[fair canopy]

I believ that me based on the icon x/y coordinates in the ltx

[random fulcrum]

wpn_body

[fathom wagon]

Is there an ammo chart that I can use as a guide to determine what k_ap values pierce through which types of armor protection?
And what variable/variables determine what I should put for "flesh damage" seen in ammo's description?

[lean dagger]

like when im dragging my mouse afte rpressing num-0 my character still looks around, and the models move at the same time

[fair canopy]

You don't need to press 0, it already starts in group drag mode default

[lean dagger]

wait so it is always on? is there a hotkey im missing?

[fair canopy]

You gotta arrow down to where you want the change to occur. The first value in the group you're changing should be highlighted

[lean dagger]

well the issue is that i dont have the menu at all. this is what my game looks:

[fair canopy]

There are a few keys in forgetting off the top of my head but the mod page should have a guide for those keys

[lean dagger]

i have no menu at all

and the draggeable hud editor is completely at the bottom of the load list with no conflicts

[fair canopy]

Go into debug and hit f7

The bring up the weapon hud editor

[lean dagger]

ahh, sorry i was being stupid, sorry. thanks

[sullen orchid]

I wonder if it's possible to have a dynamic relations mod between stalkers in the zone. Like friend, rival, etc. It'd be interesting to see stalkers try to take revenge on rivals or avenge their fallen brothern/friends

[obsidian void]

Is it at all possible to lock selling certain items behind supply level? I tried adding the [supplies] section under [trade_generic_sell] but it just causes a CTD.

[marsh crag]

is there a way to extract all the gun item icons in the modpack?

[lean dagger]

where in the weapon ltx is it defined what scope crosshair is displayed while aiming?

[winged hawk]

its already in the game, but very rare
I got one when loner squad got destroyed by ecologist in yantar
it is funny because it's accidental, it's zombies fault

[sullen orchid]

I meant more personal not faction

[winged hawk]

its personal (squad)

[random fulcrum]

exactly that

i've seen it too

[winged hawk]

its kinda stupid but free loot

ecologist still neutral with loner in yanov station

it just some squad brawl in yantar

and it's more funny because it happened twice
loner vs ecolog in yantar
and ecolog vs merc in yanov lab
both happened because accidental killing when firing shoot to mutants

and it just happened to those squad only, everywhere else is as normal as faction relation

if only I knew the ACE SEVA real name back then
because I dismantled that mercs armor

fuck to the people called merc ace scientific suit "ACE SEVA"

[random fulcrum]

like 90% of people call it just the ace

and there are no other armors that have ace in their name

[lean dagger]

@random fulcrum sorry for the ping but im kinda out of ideas, where would i set up that the base weapon now has an integrated scope? like a reflex sight for example? where is the texture specified that shows up in the reflex sight like the chevrons etc?

[random fulcrum]

???

[lean dagger]

idk i thought you would maybe know so kind of out of the blue asked, sorry lmao

[fathom wagon]

So the ammo icons I made for my 9x21 ammo mod came out blurry when converted to DDS. Any reason that might be?

They look fine when I preview it on my computer, but the preview icon and in-game the text is pretty blurry.

[lean dagger]

what dds did you chose? theres like 30 subtypes

[fathom wagon]

Tried both DTX5 and DTX1

[lean dagger]

some proably fare better than others, i dont know how it is with stalker, but elden ring liked DLTX5 way more

maybe its some stupid oddly specific format

[regal bolt]

Make sure to not generate mipmaps. A common mistake when making UI textures.

[fathom wagon]

That fixed the issue. Thank you for that!

[regal bolt]

Then a sidenote: always play heavily modded stalker with maximum texture quality, unless you have to lower it. There are tons of old lower res textures mixed in, so any reduction will make the game look even more inconsistent than it already can be.

would making the cig an overlay be possible?

[fathom wagon]

Just realized it may be because I have the icons at the wrong size. Gotta re-do them

[merry thistle]

how did you change your scope reticle ? ive been trying to change my specter reticle(editing estravaganza files) to "tri role" but always end up with the default illuminated reticle no matter what i do

[fathom wagon]

I might just give up at this point lmao

[fair canopy]

what are you trying to do?

[fathom wagon]

Just trying to make the ammo icons look right. Either the text is all blurry or those black lines near the text show up.

[grave glade]

I ended up making a tiny mod to override the texture and ui config (for the texture resolution).
\gamedata\configs\ui\textures_descr\ui_ingame.xml
\gamedata\textures\wpn\wpn_crosshair_specter.dds
So no need to edit any existing mod. Just make your own and load it last so it has the priority.

Be careful to edit the correct ui_ingame.xml as it contains a lot of data and might have been changed by another mod.

[merry thistle]

i dont have any experience with modding, but i'll be trying that, thanks for the help mate !

[lean dagger]

anyone know if the AC11090 scope is even used? like i see the model, it has an icon, but the only weapon using it is the XM8 and itdoesent seem to work

[fair canopy]

Oh that's why I swit he'd to BIRD for gamma. It uses tarkov icons for bullets but it looks really nice

[fathom wagon]

Should've clarified. I'm trying to make the icons for the new 9x21 ammo I'm making. I swear I can never get the size right for the icon.

[fair canopy]

The way I do something like that Is draw a grid on one layer, then have a 2 or 3 layers depending on what I need between the base layer and the grid, then overlay the icons to get the a similar size and cut and paste the letters from existing icons

i honestly cant help myself

[copper cobalt]

... i just posted about this in the suggestions tab lol

[fathom wagon]

We need more revolvers in the game. Purely for cowboy reasons lmao

[lean dagger]

@fair canopy could you spare a moment?

sorry for beign a pest but would you mind explaining how i would assign a new scope to the p90? i have made a new model and added a new variant of the weapon, applying the scope changes the model accordingly but the scope has no reticule (obviously because i proably missed a crucial step) how do i tell the game what reticule to use for the red dot? (in this case trying to slap a d0cter onto a p90)

[fair canopy]

when you transfer over the scope from one model to another you usually have 2 or 3 parts that go with it. the body of the scope, the lenses, and the projection plane that lets you see the red dot. You have to make sure you move all the scope parts over to the new gun. after that you can assign whatever red dot texture you want with an ogf viewer

you want to do a lasso highlight on the scope and you should grab 3 or 4 parts

make sure you always keep them together whenever you do anything to the main body

[lean dagger]

ahhhhh okay so thats what i missed, makes sense, thanks!

and another question, where are the weapon upgrade kits defined? just in the base weapon? because afaik they are considered scopes, right?

[fair canopy]

Yeah. The name of the weapon section has to be the same as the name of the section for the scope

So if you have wpn_m4 and want to add your kit' say the sup kit in gamma, you'd add "sup" to scopes and your weapon section for that gun would be "wpn_m4_sup" and your hud section would be wpn_m4_sup_hud

In all honesty the hud section doesn't have to match the name of the weapon section as long as it's unique, but it's more organized if it does

And then you can define your icon as either a scope layer or point it to a pre-made icon with the scope baked in

[lean dagger]

ah alright i understand. thank you a lot for your time!

[fair canopy]

[pulsar cape]

@fair canopy yo, where i can learn how to make some guns?

or to edit them?

[fallow crystal]

when is this going to be available?

I need me more magnum type weaponry in my zone

Just got the rex rn

[fair canopy]

theres a pinned guide in this channel however most of what i learned was through messing with blender and then asking questions when i got stuck

[fair canopy]

check #1035807043933720576

[lean dagger]

@fair canopy do you know if the Barska AC11090 scope actually works? or is it just a placeholder / abandoned? im struggling to find a 2x nato scope and that one would be JUST right but i cant find any textures for it etc

this bugger

only reference i found was the xm8, wich seems to be broken

or are there any nato alternatives? because theres like.. 3? dovetail mount low magnification scopes

[fair canopy]

It's probably abandoned. You could always search for the scope in bas' configs using the scope name to see if it's listed as a scope for any weapon but I don't think I've seen it

[lean dagger]

only the broken XM8 uses it, but equipping it guarantees the busy hands bug.

[fair canopy]

It isn't busy hands so much as it just broken animation of the gun itself

I believe the minimod pack has a fix for it by using some other animations but they aren't the best

[lean dagger]

mhh im onl ylooking for a picatinny rail scope with a fixed small magnification of 1.5x to 2x for a spec ops p90 kind of deal im trying to cobble together

[fair canopy]

I wonder if it's even a bas scope if the xm8 has it

You could try unpacking the anomaly files, it may be a vanilla scope

[lean dagger]

i think it actually is

i unpacked the anomaly meshes before

to fish out the p90 model

and it is in meshes/dynamics/weapons/wpn_upgrade

[queen skiff]

scope on a P90

[lean dagger]

why not? the p90s bullets has an effective range of arouns 200m, its a miniature rifle bullet

and with the kit i thought about giving it a longer barrel via a long suppressor

also a red dot and a laser sight feel minimally redundant, so a small magnification and a laser sight sound like a great combo

also come on that looks kinda sweet

[fathom wagon]

A Merc's wet dream right there

[lean dagger]

actually thought about calling it the p90 contractor

also the little barska looks rather neat on it, but i think i gotta find an alternative, or maybe try making my own scope altho i will proably not manage that and stick with a reflex sight lmao

[fathom wagon]

As long as you make it part of the kit, should be fine with its own scope. Similar to the AK5C BaS kit with its own custom scope

[lean dagger]

all id need is to get maybe the lenses from an acog and resize them? and then make it use the nice 2d shader scope?

i bet i could find a nice texture to use as the scope itself

[fair canopy]

You could switch the lens for the clear ones the red dots use and then up the zoom actor in the ltx for it

[lean dagger]

hmmm yeah thought about that, but there is no other scope that does this and it would be kind of inconsistent with the rest of all scopes

[neon geyser]

alright, so if I wanted to make a soundtrack mod. how would I go about that? I wanna make my own original soundtrack

[fair canopy]

check out some of the soundtrack mods on moddb

[neon geyser]

Oh I see what you mean, Thanks for the suggestion

[undone lily]

Already done it for P90 and MP7 as well, I need to upload it

[pulsar cape]

hey grok there are any guides out there to make weapons? i would like to make my contribution to some addons here @undone lily

[undone lily]

Not really no 😦

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ADMhkeqFmL29NTPcGZ8MzavDZoyJe4UXDaK_T1gG68/edit?usp=sharing

There’s this but it’s outdated since the SDK isn’t needed anymore

You can simply export as OGF from within blender now

[uneven sail]

I wonder how to do mission mods

Because I have some ideas but know literally nothing)

[eager path]

I wonder, is anyone from the modding community of Stalker Anomaly/Gamma working with GSC on the Stalker 2?

[lean dagger]

oh nice, when is the release date?

[lean dagger]

doubt it. modding is very different from actual development. modding is a passion project, you dictate the pace, small team and a vision, infinite timeframe. gamedev is paid labour, small timeframes, huge teams and a narrower vision based all around the aviable time. gsc proably looks at mods, maybe even asks some community figures under an NDA, but i doubt they hire modders, especially considering that S2 is on unreal 5

[eager path]

Aww, well let's hope the modding of stalker 2 will be as good as in s1 or even better 🙂

[lilac compass]

You ought to do some research mate people use scopes on p90s

[lean dagger]

the devs said it will have mod support, but we dont know how extensive that on U5 is, as all games on it were rather closed off until that point

[lean dagger]

you could try to reverse engineer the lost to the zone addon anomaly had

[lilac compass]

Not likely modders have been hired by game studios before but it isn't common

[lean dagger]

yeah high profile modders or community figures more often than not become community managers

altho Wrel became a community manager and balancing team lead in planetside 2 after years of youtube content for the game

[lilac compass]

There was one modder I forget his name who did a combat overhaul for the witcher 2 and witcher 1 his combat overhaul for the witcher 2 became so popular that cd project red took notice and hired him to work on the witcher 3

[still meteor]

isn't stalker soc/cop very moddable bc everything got leaked/released code for public? idk if they will make the same with s2

[autumn pilot]

Was there some mods removed from the #1035807043933720576 ? I was following one that added some new rifles but now it’s gone :/

[surreal charm]

Hey, im a 3d modeler and ive never stepped into the modding thing but since im really hooked up to gamma i was wondering if i need to do something specific to lets say make a new gun model and use it in gamma, any specific polycount, etc..?

[lean dagger]

while i dont know anything about the other requirements, i can tell you that you need this addon to import and export the stalker model files:

https://github.com/PavelBlend/blender-xray

[surreal charm]

well damn i use maya lel

i guess i can just use blender for this, at the end of the day its the same process

https://gamebanana.com/tools/5202

would this work for maya?

[lean dagger]

not sure but there have been some engine alterations, mainly from call of prypiat to Call of Chernobyl, and then from CoC to anomaly, and i remember seeing some plugin settings in blender that specified if the model format is supposed to be SoC or CoP. so i would assume (and i could be completely wrong here) that this only handles the Shadow of chernobyl files and maybe wont work

[undone lily]

Hopefully soon

[surreal charm]

damm okay i see its a bit more complicated to get the compatibility right, ill google a bit see if i find something

[undone lily]

I need to organise the git repo for large files and add them

[lean dagger]

altho, just try it, if you have gamma installed just navigate into Stalker GAMMA\mods\76- Boomsticks and Sharpsticks - Mich\gamedata\meshes\dynamics\weapons\wpn_ak74m_beard and try opening one of the ogf files and reexporting it

[surreal charm]

right, will do

[undone lily]

Pavelblend is better for exporting

[surreal charm]

could i create the model in maya, send it to blender and export it with that addon or too much movement xdd

[undone lily]

Indeed

[surreal charm]

alright ill try that, thanks man👌

[main slate]

Hey all, Is there any tool to convert DB (data base files) to db0 files? I managed to edit the textures inside a DB0 file, but now I just have the option to compress in DB format. Using AXR

[still meteor]

aren't they the same

iirc some deadzone files are .db'x'
i just unpacked them and packed them into a .db and they load normally

[main slate]

mmm... I'm not crashing, but i just wonder. What's the difference between normal DB file and db0?

[still meteor]

name maybe lol

[main slate]

Ok, like I said everything seems normal. Thank you as always Lauta

[queen skiff]

okay thats pretty fucking cool

[fathom wagon]

Might be like that one Upgradeable Detectors mod just changed a PNG to DDS simply by renaming it to a .dds and it worked

[wanton knot]

Loose files vs .db... Is there any difference in performance? loose files prob a bit faster?

[regal bolt]

Packed might load faster on hard drives, and usually takes less space.

[serene gyro]

has anyone managed to make the debug menu "weapon/outfit stats editor" to work? manual editing is a major pain and goin in and out of game for some % changes here and there is even more of a pain when testing stuff

[junior cloak]

noob question: how hard is to edit and change a map/level/zone? as in adding, moving or removing existing and/or new meshes

[still meteor]

mm im sure you can add some objetcs, spawning them and disabling their physics? , but i think they take item id's so i don't know if its a good idea to start cramming them in the maps, also npcs could be blocked and not be able to pass through them

as for editing actual maps to remove buildings/doors or add them, it's not possible currently i think

[junior cloak]

oooh... that sucks :/

thanks anyways!

[still meteor]

it will probably become possible in 1.6

probably

[marsh spoke]

i have no mod making skill whatsoever but hear this idea out, silencers right? but make em customizable like the erector made by q (which is a silencer that lets you control the length)

[wanton knot]

do you know what features they are working on for 1.6?

[still meteor]

no idea, i don't think they posted a roadmap or things like that

[copper sky]

Is their a tool/method that mimics the use cases of SSEdit with Skyrim for Stalker Anomaly/Gamma?

Would like to take a peek at some conflicts/overwritings that mods are doing before I go poking around and configuring things

[random fulcrum]

but i uh

have you ever wondered what green and red means in mo2

[copper sky]

MO2 only goes so far

thats why SSEEdit was made in the first place, cause mo2 only shows when 2 files are conflicting. But if a mod doesn't have conflicting files but the config is conflicting it won't show red in MO2 but will still screw it up

for example Mod 1 config says use mod 1's audio files for xyz. and mod 2 doesn't have any sound files or change any but says "Use game default audio files for xyz." if mod 2 is loaded after mod 1, the game will use the original default sound file as opposed to mod 1's cause of the last config loaded in.

[random fulcrum]

bruh there's a conflicts tab

ah i get it now

well it just comes down to knowing what you're installing

and that's about it

knowing the structure of the game when installing crap like provak's

which is just one guy's gamedata folder packed into a zip

stalker modding is almost entirely made up of .script files

and dltx nowadays

dltx HARDLY ever has compat issues

like, it would require some unearthly coincidence to get two dltx files from completely different mods to have the exact same name

[copper sky]

I just want custom gun sounds (shooting sounds to be specific) but having a hard time figuring out where those reside. If not in the db0 files

[copper sky]

Right now looking like I might have to mess with the sounds db0 file, should be interesting

[dusk pivot]

If I change the last number in this line itll change how many bullets I need to craft said item right? ammo_pkm_100 = 5, recipe_ammo_2, casing_r7,10,powder_3,8,bullet_r7,10

[true tapir]

Does anyone know how I can fix this? When I stand still or shoot while aiming, the bullets hit normally.
https://staging.streamable.com/j7sg50

[true tapir]

I forgot to set fire_point, shell_bone to bone, everything is fine now.

[hybrid tulip]

skill issue

[hazy fog]

Where is the meshes of the NVG's? Considering some NPC's has them

[hazy fog]

[fair canopy]

I'm pretty sure it's tied to the character mesh itself

[alpine shuttle]

so this is a question cause I am clueless

how hard is it for someone to just modify the value so the mag size is 30 on this weapon

would I have to do any weird hocus pocus

or just change the round capacity in a config file

[fair canopy]

It's 2 lines you have to change in the ltx. You have to save it in a different mod though

[alpine shuttle]

what is the reasoning of saving it behind a different mod

[fair canopy]

Because when you update the changes will revert

[alpine shuttle]

I dont really mind if it is as simple as changing 1 number

[fair canopy]

Any mod controlled by gamma will reset to default on update

[alpine shuttle]

was just wondering if there was any intricate process

aight thanks 😄

[alpine shuttle]

where would wpn_vintorez_isg be located

I looked at BAS file directory

but it wasnt it

[drifting glade]

you have the unpacking tool and also you can use other sound mods like jssr

and is necessary the use of .ogg

in 41000hz I think?

[regal bolt]

use the data search thing on MO2
it should show the most recent thing that adjusts the weapon's config, then you can show it in explorer and adjust it in notepad (preferably Notepad++ for the better interface)

[alpine shuttle]

then it must be getting overwritten by another mod

since the mag size in that file is 10

when in game its 20

same for the as val tactical it shows up as 20 when in game its 30

[regal bolt]

huh, that's odd
not sure where the configuration is buried then, sorry

[alpine shuttle]

all good

[sonic birch]

you making isg vintorez 30 mag?

[alpine shuttle]

I just want to change the value so it is 30 round

I am not adding a model or anything

just want to switch the value

[sonic birch]

someone else a couple days ago wanted it too

it's getting overwriten by gamma weapon fixes

[alpine shuttle]

ty will look into it

[sonic birch]

but if you add a couple zzz to the file name it loads last and overwrites weapon fixes

[alpine shuttle]

what category under is the gamma weapon fixes

[sonic birch]

uhh

this mod overwrites the base file

[alpine shuttle]

uhhh

bingo

thank you

[desert olive]

could someone help me

what programs are modders using to edit the anim

[desert olive]

like there

[wanton knot]

Hey guys, some random question about loadouts as I do some planning here. Shouldn't UNISG be using mostly western gear/weapons? Almost all ISG tagged guns are pimped out aks. I'm not a gun expert here so bare with me XD

[queen skiff]

im making the animation from scratch to put into Stalker
like this isnt modifying an existing one

[ornate spade]

Blender with Pavelblend addon and Ichicrow's rig

[queen skiff]

[fair canopy]

where can one find this rig? 👀

[ornate spade]

this should be it:
https://mega.nz/file/nSxWBYLa#YHhsMWw7exBkgLh3aw5faB_ErCyjGoSohrhwU_CcY9k

[fair canopy]

thanks

[drifting glade]

Larkin how is he tweaking the AI?

[worthy mortar]

Yooooo this is lit

Reminds me of that one time I tried making my own bolt animation since no one else would two years ago.
I should really try doing some stalker animating again..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHmcXrH0mkc

This was also a "From Scratch" thing.

Took a bolt, made an idle, then worked from there.

A fair warning though, if you wanna make a fancy idle animation, don't.

[fair canopy]

i love animation shenanigans like this

[lean dagger]

honestly, considering how mocap technology has advanced, i wonder how feasible it would be to mocap rough animations and polish them up in post

[worthy mortar]

Really doable

I saw one game actually do that

[fair canopy]

one of my favorite i found was during some reloads if you took out enough keyframes youd wind up with a double jointed wrist that can do 360 degree turns

[worthy mortar]

As in, I saw the guy put up a really basic rig for mocap in his own garage, put a makeshift weapon model out of cardboard and then ported that into animating tool and polished it up.

[lean dagger]

i mean star citizen has real time face capture, even if it never comes out the tech they pioneer sure is crazy

but yeah, actual first person mocap would proably make theentire process of animating first person rigs way more intuitive, but i doubt artists will ever be out of the equation. the best animations i have evcer seen were manually animated still

[undone lily]

By changing AI schemes and creating new AI evaluators functions

[worthy mortar]

Here's an example of someone using vr mocap to animate a halo gun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQQ4DfIngRc

[lean dagger]

damn that looked great. also bonus points for using the MA5B

[worthy mortar]

THIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3ORpnnWRGg

This vid is what I was looking for

Actual game dev

[lean dagger]

ahh yeah witchfire

not really a diy thing considering the tracking hardware is a couple of grand proably

but i bet a kinect could do the job too

[worthy mortar]

Also a fun fact regarding my animations.

While most people here almost definitely use IK rigs for their work
I did my animations completely and purely, in FK

Which means I had to animate each little movement, by hand, rotating and moving each and every single bone into the right spot.

[lean dagger]

that sounds more like an admission to being a masochist than a fun fact lmao

[worthy mortar]

Looking back at it, if IK didn't crash my blender every single time I tried to use it, my bolt animation would've been a lot better.

[random fulcrum]

i don't know shit about blender intricacies tbh

when working on the schofield i just make sure the viewport doesn't show anything out of the ordinary

[worthy mortar]

I would just position my view in the right spot and say "that looks good"

Funnily enough I positioned the bolt just right for there to be pretty much minimum work required when posing it in game.

Working with FK was fun and pain
But it made me appreciate IK a lot more.

To the point where I'd actually learn how to turn an FK rig into an IK rig on my own.

Another fun fact

The bolt idle animation. With throwing between hands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENUcV-6NxWw

1. It was based on Shadow of Chernobyl idle.
2. It took a hell of an odd way of making it.

I created 3 different animations for it that would be merged into one.

Animation A. Initial throw from the main hand.
Animation B. Bolt flying out of the main hand and into the second hand
Animation C. Bolt flying back into the main hand.

After merging all I would do is make the bolt move more naturally and adjust some angles.

I did this in a couple of hours in the middle of the night out of boredom.

Went to sleep at 4 or 5 AM

[lean dagger]

yeah inspiration always strikes at like 2 am the night before an exam lmao

[worthy mortar]

Y e s

Brain: I should probably be sleeping.
Also Brain: HERE! MAKE THIS ANIMATION RIGHT NOW OR YOU'LL NEVER WANT TO DO IT AGAIN!

It's honestly like being held at gunpoint kind of feeling, lmao

[lean dagger]

i actually hate it. i have been working a few months already on a large update for my elden ring mod, and its nearly finished but i ust lack the motivation to finish but oh boy am i gonna work on it again when i need to do shit for university. damn this hedonistic primate brain

[wanton knot]

Do you guys know if the blender rig works for both npc and hud?

I'm not even sure if they are aligned XD

Also, if you guys are on the seriousish side of making anims, get a gopro and make some ref video in front of a mirror.

[queen skiff]

nice lol
i resized the bolt to be less comically large in my project, reexported it like that and everything to make sure its that size in game too
btw what anomalies are in that video? never seen them before, the anomalies from that area look different than i remember if its the area i think it is

[queen skiff]

nah
hand made animations will always be king

[queen skiff]

damn
thats impressive

[queen skiff]

yup ive been playing SoC, knew i recognized that bored anim

[strong wasp]

Super newb question. In MO I hit "open in explorer"on a mod and changed a tiny bit of code in a script in there but how do I get that to actually take effect?

[queen skiff]

not even video, just look up the gun to see how it behaves
use objects to get the jist of movement
and even then its not the greatest cause
some of us animators have used nerf guns to get an idea for the movements but the issue is that nerf guns weigh Way less than an actual firearm does so the movements wouldnt be very accurate at all
for bolt throwing though i might actually record a slow mo video of me throwing like a chapstick or something

[fair canopy]

If it's only for reference, fill it with rocks lol

[queen skiff]

no fr though how do your anomaly effects look like that?

[obsidian void]

Is there anyone here who is familiar with editing NPC dialogue options and quests?

[lean dagger]

never said anything else, but working off of mocap footage just accelerates the process

[worthy mortar]

Uuuuh
Two year old set up there.
It was a mix of some mods I can't remember with cinematic vfx

[fluid idol]

If it's in an existing mod then it should be automatically loaded as normal

[steady apex]

with some scripting in theory this anim can be altered or disabled if you have detector

[grave glade]

Is there a lore reason why the susat scope doesn't have the iconic needle sight picture?

(or did I mess something up in my install?)

[grave glade]

[ message moved to #old-feedback-suggestions ]

[lethal jolt]

Unless you're planning on changing it yourself; that's more a #old-feedback-suggestions thing than a modding thing

[brave badger]

For PDA messages: I want to pay around with notifications pop-ups in the bottom left corner. When I want to publish a message every X minutes, which file(s) are responsible for it, if any?

[lean dagger]

is there a tool for UI alignment? like where silencers are on the weapon and scopes? or has it to be done just by hand?

[undone lily]

done by hand

and you need to fully reload the whole game everytime

[lean dagger]

damn thats painful

[fathom wagon]

I'd take a look at Skills Expansion. They have within their scripts a timer to pop up a reminder when you have unspent trait points. I'd try to find that and look how to use it yourself or replicate it. https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/skills-expansion-for-anomaly-skill-system/

[lean dagger]

are the values in the LTX files in pixels? or some other arbitrary unit?

[random fulcrum]

pixels

each cell is 50px

[lean dagger]

hmm considering if i should try to code a little utility that spits out coordinates of attachments, but im bad at coding and it would take some time, would such a tool even be useful to more people than me? because if yes i might try it

[random fulcrum]

i don't know

50px isn't that hard to position

but i guess i'm numb to that

since i've been doing doom since i was like 10yo

[lean dagger]

i mean yeah but its just a lot of busywork i guess? was jsut thinking about it because im looking for an excuse to start coding again so i dont get too rusty

also i mainly mean the positions of silencers and scopes

[random fulcrum]

go ahead then

i'm sure most would appreciate it

[lean dagger]

like select a weapon from the grid, select attachment and drag it around, spit out coords

[random fulcrum]

like, i see people thinking the same way i am now back when some guys started doing tools that didn't nees the xray sdk

[lean dagger]

well ill try it, maybe someone will find it useful once i manage to spaghetti it out lmao

[random fulcrum]

woah just found out that thermites do in fact deal fire damage

[lean dagger]

speaking of, dragons breath rounds would be kinda cool i guess?

i remember there once being a mod i ported from an older version of anomaly that had stuff like dragons breath rounds etc

yeah shotgun variety it was called

[sullen dew]

that'd be an interesting idea, particularly as a dedicated anti-chimera round. apparently they're weak to fire anomalies but that might just be lore fluff.

[lean dagger]

was pretty cool, it allowed shotguns to actually do something against high armor targets like exosuits by boiling the enemy exo alive inside their tincan

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/shotgun-variety-2-reupload

like here is the original

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/shotgun-variety-v2-1-1-5-u4-compatible

and this is my port altho i thiiink its outdated again? not sure

my proudest achievement from this is the pogorovich anyways that got adopted as an emote on the official stalker discord lmao

[sullen dew]

yeah, i am curious about compatibility with things like gboobs and some of the other weapon mods. idk if weapon cover tilt would be too affected by it? but its a neat addon since shotguns are always lacking in variety for games, including anomaly. i should get momo's slug mod for 20x70 now that i think about it

[lean dagger]

it just replaces the broken ammo types by mor einteresting ones, so i guess it should be okay?

mind you i ported it without any knowledge on how it works, i just bruteforced it by trial and error and playtesting lmao

[obsidian void]

can someone help me with fetch quest functions? for example, "fetch_func = %=setup_fetch_task(simulation_task_1_fetch:supplies:1:4)%" what do the 1:4 values do at the end of the function do?

[undone lily]

pixels of whatever pane > that's basically arbitrary

[grave glade]

The 1P29 scope from BAS didn't have the correct sight picture. I tried to make a new one closer to the real one and upped the res to 4k (a bit overkill but somewhat futureproof).

Not sure if I'll end up changing other reticles that might not be accurate (susat), but if I have multiple reworked versions I'll probably contact BAS's author or just make a mini-mod with the new reticles.

[sullen dew]

iirc its not the bas author that made it that way, its the SSS addon creator. since it draws new sight pictures instead of the old vanilla overlays that bas also used

[paper oxide]

There's another mod that adds the correct sights and has a more realistic view https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/anomaly-tactical-scopes-bymike0422

Also shader driven

[void hinge]

Is there a way to modify the key for the daddy save mod? I use shift for jump so it makes it very awkward...

[grave glade]

Thanks! I didn't know about that mod.
I'm usually not a fan of scopes/sights overlays that show the weapon because they're not lighting dependent (unless it's different in that one - I'll have to see how it looks).

^ that mod uses 1k textures for tiny sight pictures. Not enough imho. GAMMA deserves all the pretty pixels! ^^

[lean dagger]

what mod is adding or modifying the item icons btw? i was looking trough the highest hierarchy that would modify ammo icons and i found the gamma icons file, but its ammo icons completely dont align with what i have in my game. anyone know something?

ok nevermind im stupid lmao

[wanton knot]

You can dltx the icon changes

[lean dagger]

yeah i still needed the icons themselves

[wanton knot]

You should anyway. I started working on fixing a bunch of them but got sucked in my npc cave . 🤣

Oh yeah, let me check

[lean dagger]

i already managed to find it it was G.A.M.M.A. Icons Cr3pis Ammo

but i just figured ill try to port the dragons breath from shotgun variety and test how it fares balance wise

[wanton knot]

So, one thing to note about the icons alignment, the way it is now, a lot of attachments have weird proportions. Like the specterdr is gigantic, aimpoint an rmr too. If you want a consistent ui visual you gotta edit the scale of the icons and align them in the image file first.

I can send you my files if you want to dig into it. I honestly won't have much time to touch it for a while. I already tweaked a bunch of optics scales in the image file.

these are the ones I tweaked so far

[lean dagger]

looks good!

altho im currently only trying to do a small port of a mod and change an ammo icon

[wanton knot]

well then your life is much easier

[fair canopy]

Are you using the new bas icons as a base? They're actually sharper I think

[wooden hemlock]

didnt they added some editor to coc or did anomaly removed that feature?

it was in the old debug menu

you could test offsets in game

[wanton knot]

I was not, will take a look at that.

[lean dagger]

behold, gas station buckshot

[random fulcrum]

holy raycasting

[fair canopy]

Forarti ballistics?

[lean dagger]

just trying my hand at porting dragons breath from shotgun variety and try how it works and looks

[still meteor]

🔥

[lean dagger]

what tomfoolery is this, whenever i spawn old ammo into my inventory it becomes fresh ammo, what a scam

[still meteor]

disable old ammo to new addon in MO2

had to disable it to use arti ballsitic

[lean dagger]

ahh makes sense

weird because i still occasionally found old ammo

[random fulcrum]

yeah but it's converted as soon as it touches your inventory

same as artefacts rolling to trash condition

[lean dagger]

ahh interesting, yeah would explain a few things

hmm i made changes to weapon_ammo.ltx as in ported the values but it didnt change its properties at all hmm

ok nah i just made the changes in the wrong file

ok na tested them and tried to tweak them they are either useless or broken, damn shame

3 shotting a monolith exo just aint something that should be in the game. not with a saiga at least

[random fulcrum]

arti's balls play under a vastly different balance to boobs

boobs is more just a funny number check

if funny_number > armor then deal_damage

if not, dps check until you break the armor

[lean dagger]

honestly balls sounds enticing

hows the balance of it?

[still meteor]

dunno i just throwed it into my modlist and just shoot

[random fulcrum]

it has way more variety of things to shoot with than gboobs

but gboobs is more streamlined

ymmv

[lean dagger]

ill need to do a playtrought with both, but im really interested ngl

damn i cant find artis ballistics, anyone got a link?

[abstract hedge]

Can anyone guide on how to edit a particular item? I want to make the Leatherman Multi-Tool 100 uses (they're sturdy tools if you never owned one) and currently they don't live up to their name in game

[still meteor]

this one'

[abstract hedge]

Yeee

[still meteor]

create a new folder in the 'mods' folder of MO2 in gamma, name it whatever you want

inside it create a 'gamedata' folder n inside that folder create a 'configs' folder

inside the configs folder, create a new .txt file and call it 'mod_system_zzzleatherman.ltx' and rename the .txt to .LTX

inside write this:

![leatherman_tool]
degradation_factor = 0.025

and then save the file, then enable the mod in MO2 and try in game to see if the degradation rate is slower

the 0.025 value is the default one, im not sure if putting it lower will make it go slower on degradation each use

try testing with different ones till you find one you like

[abstract hedge]

It has 10 uses according to the tooltip box but I will try this and get back to you, thank you

[mighty stump]

Hi guys, im trying to get the Body Health System to hide when im healthy but it doesnt seem to work. I changed the setting to true in the script like it says on the moddb, but nothing is happening. Has anyone got it to work?

[abstract hedge]

is the MO2 folder simply "C:/GAMMA/mods"? O.o I can't find any folder names MO2

[still meteor]

it's the folder where you have all your gamma mods

[abstract hedge]

Lol I hit the wrong refresh button in MO2 xD

[abstract hedge]

It sort of worked? The degradation didn't always go down when dismantling stuff, so gonna 1/4 the value and play as normal see if I notice any difference

Actually gonna try 0.005

[rose flame]

im a sad man.....the link for a fix from the gamma exp expedition doesnt seem to exist anymore....well rip until further notice i guess

[elder badge]

any way to make the cooking station have more uses

only 8 is a bit unviable I have a mod that can cook water, but buying it is a better option wich is unimmersive hhe

[random fulcrum]

muh immersion

[elder badge]

nvm just found there is a more perm cooking station lol

[grizzled light]

how to scare the shit out of every tacti-larpers (and impress soviet soldiers (1949-1991)

[lean dagger]

got a link to artis balls? cant really find it anywhere

[fathom wagon]

You have to download EFP and get the mod folder from the pack.

I think you need to do some modifications too so that the special ammo it has that replaces old ammo can spawn/doesn't get replaced by regular ammo.

[still meteor]

Search for arti github (ahuyn)

[undone lily]

https://github.com/ahuyn/anomaly-ballistics

[unkempt pecan]

I tried altering repair_min_condition of light_repair_kit in items_repair.ltx but noticed the game still showing it at 0.5 no matter what I do. Where exactly is this value being set?

[sonic birch]

probably gets overwriten by this because in there medium repair kit min condition is set to .5

[unkempt pecan]

Interesting, the max uses can be overwritten without a problem, min condition requirement on heavy sewing kit as well. Where can I find mod_system_GAMMA_armors_repair.ltx its not obvious to me from the screenshot.

Nvm, found it

[sonic birch]

it is in gamedata/configs folders but you can overwrite it using dltx by just adding zz in the name like mod_system_zz_restofthename.ltx

[unkempt pecan]

hmmm, not too familiar with that process, I just made my custom mod where I put files I want to overwrite and load it at the end, worked so far.

[random fulcrum]

it's on his github

[fallow parcel]

Anyone have any idea how to change back to the default stimpack anims? I dont like the new "Dewalt" style drill injectors and much prefer the old anims. The glucose shots still use the ones i want. I want to change the fentanyl ones too as the fentanyl ones are quite bad.

Ive tried changing the anims_list.ltx files to point to the glucose shot animations but they still play as the "new" ones.

[still meteor]

yeah, the anims_list.ltx doesn't work because there is probably some mod/addon that is using DLTX to assign the glucose animation to the stimpacks

find the DLTX file which changes it

[fallow parcel]

Cool il have a look

Okay, so i made my own DLTX which should overwrite whatever is causing it not to work. It is still playing the old anims.

[fair canopy]

Add z in front of your ltx. It loads alphabetically

[fallow parcel]

The more you know

Will probably fix my other issues regarding magazines and calibers

https://tenor.com/view/alphabetically-the-grinch-gif-25266860

Still same animations....

[random fulcrum]

spawn new items

make sure the mod is actually loaded in mo2

add more 'z'

[fallow parcel]

Its actually loaded. Spawned a new stim and it persists. Il open up a can of whoop z on my ltx

[random fulcrum]

oh i get it

you're inheriting from the original antirad

[fallow parcel]

I just copy pasted it to get it working,

Alot of them seem to inherit from there

It is inheriting the anti rad capabilities

[random fulcrum]

you don't need inheritance when doing dltx

you're overriding certain lines

not redefining the whole thing

[fallow parcel]

Yea im just trying to do it as heavy handed as possible then scaling back.

Spawned a new injector and its still inecting using a dewalt drill :/

Really hope they dont make modding this annoying in Stalker 2

[steady apex]

nah they will save your soul by not doing modding at all

[fallow parcel]

https://tenor.com/view/jim-carrey-hit-head-gif-10236285

Nah its still showing the old anims

[random fulcrum]

uhhhhh

wasn't there already a mod that changed stims to the really short syringe anim

maybe look there to find out how it's made

[fallow parcel]

Hmm, i did a search and nothing came up

[random fulcrum]

inb4 they just replaced the animation files

[fallow parcel]

Likely lol

[random fulcrum]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/fdda-stimpack-changer-dltx

[fallow parcel]

Thats the one

By far way more satisfying than the dewalt drills and the terrabad fentanyl anim

Thank you for finding this

Pretty much the content of the dltx is what i had. It appears the folder in which you place the dltx also matters. Another thing i was not aware of.

It works now

[random fulcrum]

yeah dltx has some intricacies to it

[fallow parcel]

It would be great if someone implemented C# scripting for this.

[fair canopy]

Good luck with that

[fallow parcel]

Yea, its highly wishful thinking

The engine has a detailed history of shitting its pants at the slightest after all

[fallow parcel]

What do these operators mean?

[fair canopy]

Nothing. They're just comments from the mag guys

[fallow parcel]

Okay, thanks.

Still experiencing weird behavior with my dltx. Ive managed to get 2 variants of the SR-1MP to show damage values i expect. The base class still shows as 14 damage for some reason. It accepts my new ammunition types though which i dont understand.

(i added in the inheritance to see if it made a difference, surprise it did not)

[still meteor]

dltx madness

return to single .ltx file for all

[fair canopy]

You don't have to edit those values since the other sr1s inherit the stats

[still meteor]

become monke

[fallow parcel]

Il try it again, i took out the other two and they still all show as 14 damage

[fair canopy]

You only need to set the differences for sr1. I can't imagine the other two are touched by any dltx but I'm not 100% sure either

[fallow parcel]

I had a look before, the SR1 is, but i dont think it affects damage

Actually, i just found it i think

kinda makes sense looking at the values

Took a leaf out of the russians book and slapped a Z on it....

It worked.... unfortunately?

[bleak wedge]

Is there any way to reduce/remove fast travel costs in Gamma? Prob some ltx or something?

[still meteor]

disable fast travel mod in mo2

[bleak wedge]

Fair enough

[shy torrent]

Is there any guide on what the parameters mean in grok_bo_enhanced_recoil.ltx ?
I understand that larger numbers in e = crazier spread when going full-auto, but not sure what the 6 groups of numbers mean

[sick seal]

does anyone know what animation files the RD-74 ISG uses? i want to fix it so the rifle uses the AK-105 foregrip anims full stop, cuz rn it only uses the foregrip with a red dot attached but reverts back to base ak74 anims with any other scope or irons.

[wanton knot]

Bruh, BAS is such a mess with their models, they are all in different positions

[fallow parcel]

Didnt they just rip the models from other games and mods?

[wanton knot]

They did but it's weird having weapons that share almost the same meshes and textures to be in different position and scale

looking at the m4 tac and the freedom one in this case

🤷‍♂️

[fallow parcel]

Looks like amateur hour kek

[wanton knot]

m4 tac has the weapon check anim and the freedom has the equip weapon anim, was thinking if it was possible to frankstein that shit

[fallow parcel]

Likely not sure how the anims are dealt with in XR

[still meteor]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/961738167537512523/1008176301095526450/mw_reload.gif

[wanton knot]

Yeah, I'm not an animator so I'll just crawl back to my texturing cave

[fallow parcel]

Acreate

[wanton knot]

I'm pretty sure they tweaked the loadouts

They just changed it for the unisg

[fathom wagon]

muh realism

not enough screen shake

[fathom wagon]

"An origin? What is that?"

[vapid valley]

pretty sure they ripped these from tarkov

[fair canopy]

Most likely due to how the setup their animations and individual differences in perspective

Ideally they'd all look the same. It bothers me that some guns look like toy versions

Unfortunately because the animation is created with the weapons at a certain scale, it may not be possible to just upscale the model a bit without messing up the animation

[wanton knot]

Yeah, I was just confused because the m4 tac and the freedom version are pretty much the same XD

[fair canopy]

It's at least possible to fix some of the world models since the npc animations are all generic

[plain spear]

anyone know which mod makes it so that only BaS weapons are available and not Vanilla?

[undone lily]

Blender > work on it > export as OMF. Animations fit a specific gun rig

[fathom wagon]

Need some input:
As fun as coding the concept was, the Artefact Recharge combo-perk I made for Anomaly RPG is starting to get a bit dull. I was wondering if I should make it just a "Prestige" unlock for unlocking the final Looter Tree skill, or replace it with a function that will change an artefact's condition if it is underneath a threshold (i.e. If an artefact drops at 15% but the threshold is 20%, it turns to 20% when picked up)? For Perk-Based Aretfacts, I could have a separate variable that acts as modifier for the interval that PBAs degrade at.

[fallow parcel]

So its just a case of matching the anim names to ones already established then i take it?

[woven fox]

actually i wouldnt mind having the howa type 20 sprint animations on a couple other rifles

[naive plaza]

Reply to an old comment, but did you ever get around doing this? I desperately crave a lever action, preferably with a scope.

[fathom wagon]

Not yet. Still haven't had enough time where I can sit down and learn Blender to attempt this. If I ever get around to doing it within the next few months, I will make sure to post it here and on ModDB.

[paper stirrup]

hi anyone use mag redux? i saw youtubers mention/use it but what's it do? and do i just disable the unjam gamma if i want to try it?

[woven fox]

#🤖bot-commands message guide here

[paper stirrup]

thanks!

[fair canopy]

the animation also has to fit the bones available for the gun

[potent garnet]

Where does the damage stat of a weapon come from? Is it 'hit_power'? How can this be modified to adjust damage of a weapon?

[grave glade]

Where can I find the corresponding cyrillic characters to the characters in the .xml files? (texts)
I'd like to use cyrillic characters in some english descriptions.

That's what I can see from a RU translation:

[random fulcrum]

the damage you see on the card is hit_power * k_hit

hit_power comes from the weapon's properties

k_hit comes from the first ammo type's properties defined in the weapon

and then normalised by some factor, don't remember

but, i.e. if you change the orders of the ammo types

say: put HP ammo in front of FMJ ammo

the damage number will be higher

but your damage when using FMJ will stay the same

[rugged trellis]

Does anyone know how to turn off the sound of the dosimeter when I receive a dose of radiation?

[potent garnet]

Where does the damage a weapon actually does come from?

[random fulcrum]

[potent garnet]

What am I missing? I'm understanding 'hit_power' to be a coefficient of the weapon itself, and 'k_hit' also appears to be a coefficient, but for example: 0.5*1.8 is nothing like 189 damage displayed on the card. There also is sometimes a second value in k_hit separated by a semicolon.

[random fulcrum]

it's normalised by some factor

check uhh utils_ui

maybe

don't remember

but that way you'll get the number

semicolons are comments in .ltx files

[faint sand]

hey, i'm having a little issue concerning Momopate's slugs mod for the Toz 106
in my selection wheel i have this issue, that both slugs are inside each other
i have talked a bit with andtheherois, the issue might be that i am on an older version of anomaly (1.5.1) which may be the cause
(I am running it with MagsRedux, hence why i contacted herois instead of momopate, since he made the Mags patch for the slugs)

the mods, just in case

i'd be thankful if one would fix that little issue, but it is not of urgent care since i can neither craft/buy the slugs atm 😄

[random fulcrum]

you need _bad and _very_bad variants

[faint sand]

if you'd add those in, i'd be thankful for it 😄

[random fulcrum]

there was a patch already here

maybe check #🖇old-mods-posting

i remember the 20x70 concept really took off

[fathom wagon]

Quick question: would be safe to try and patch the more recent version of WPO with GAMMA, or is the WPO that is already in GAMMA a version specifically used for the modpack?

[cyan fiber]

Working on a project with a friend, and we’re brainstorming certain things. I myself am experienced in coding, not with modding platforms. My friends had a good bout of modding experience. With the stalker anomaly platform what’s prevented mult-I-player mods from being created? The janky software that it runs on or something more in depth?

Is it even possible to get several people wandering in the zone?

[left rain]

Hi 👋 I would like to turn off the mod that changes sleeping but don't know how it is called. Can somebody tell me what mod does that? It says that i am not tired enough and can't sleep

[random fulcrum]

i don't know but between the default version we use and the latest one is that overheating got axed

which, i'm not against, but still that's the only big difference regarding gameplay

[fathom wagon]

Thanks for that. I'll get around to tinkering with it a bit and see how it goes.

[random fulcrum]

anomaly still has leftover multiplayer code in its source, it goes completely unused but still clogs the engine a bit

however you just can't implement multiplayer and even begin to dream about mantaining mod compatibility

let alone have a stable platform

if you want multiplayer, xrmpe exists

ray of hope i guess

that is, for coop pve modes

because the original trilogy had pvp multiplayer

[random fulcrum]

you can't without breaking the whole game over

[left rain]

Ok, thanks 🙂

[cyan fiber]

Hm, I appreciate the heads up. Xrmpe might be fun to wander about in but, hell. Could get a project zomboid type menu system for mods when dealing with compatibility. Albeit it would be absolutely fucked if you didn’t have the same files.

In due time, might be tackled, Mikey a project that’d fade away. But still would be a good laugh as we see how badly we can fuck up the game.

[fathom wagon]

Also noticed that new WPO might've added Triggers as a non-removable part. Interesting change...

[fallow parcel]

Have they even released ROH yet?

[stoic lion]

anyone know what mod is the middle mouse button quick knife?

[random fulcrum]

it's from bas

[stoic lion]

is there a way to disable it?

[random fulcrum]

don't press the button

[fathom wagon]

You can change its keybind, no?

Update: got WPO to work properly it seems with GAMMA. New WPO includes options to either allow/disallow fieldstripping of barrels and triggers, whether repair/technicians can only repair the weapon condition, repair weapon condition + clean dirty parts, or fully repair the weapon and its parts (prices will increase iirc with each option). Also uses keywrapping to allow you to bind any button to the Unjam button in its MCM. Meaning you could possibly do away with the "GAMMA Reload Button Same as Unjam".

I also got it to work with the barrel damage/AP display from you Momo, and I included a monkey patch that allows you to see each parts' percentage when either fieldstripping or maintaining/replacing it.

I also made sure to include GAMMA allowing the sale of armor parts and their prices from GAMMA Economy.

New WPO also has a threshold for if a weapon can have a part placed in it out in the field. If a weapon's condition is too low, you cannot freely place new parts its parts without needing a workbench.

[undone lily]

Depends on what you want to do. If you create new animations you do whatever you want

[sick seal]

hey so i finally got the AK-74_ISG to use the foregrip with long scopes, using the AK-74_tact anims that it already uses for red dots, just assigned new anims in the itx folder and all the BAS patches. but the hands are too far back and to the right, in theory all i should have to do is re adjust the hand placement and zero and all should be good yes?

i only ask because if its something as simple as this id imagine it wouldve been fixed already, so i just want to make sure im on the right path and not wasting time doing the wrong things. any insight would be greatly appreciated.

.....actually all i should have to do is copy over the hand placement axis's from the red dot anims and move them over to the long scopes since its still using Blnd_Ak74 anim hand placements with AK-74_tac anims.....hmmm

[still meteor]

do the anims match

[sick seal]

yeah they all match perfectly, the AK-74m isg uses 2 sets, im trying to get it to only use 1, so they line up perfectly, only issues im having currently are....

1. the magazine doesnt come out of the gun when reloading, you reload and invisible magazine while the actual magazine doesnt budge

and 2. when zooming into the Spectre - long scope, the lense stays blacked out. but the canted sight works perfectly.

thats it and all im doing is fuckin around in the Ltx file

@still meteor forgot to ping. ^^^^

[fathom wagon]

I want to have a function run when a gun is done reloading. Is there a way I can do that?
I have the "Ghost Ammo" from Anomaly RPG (grants very small amounts of ammo when mag is empty) now working when you do an empty reload, but now you can do a quick melee or weapon swap to keep proc'ing the perk. I want it to add the ammo once the reload is completely done.

[still meteor]

doesnt mag redux do something like that, like after anim reload the magazine ítem dissapeared from your Loadout

maybe it can ve useful

[fathom wagon]

I'll need to look into that then. I don't use Mags anymore so the thought never crossed my mind. Thanks for that.

[sick seal]

ugh, tryna get this forgrip to work is getting annoying, i have legit 2 weeks of Stalker Experience, onyl games ive made stuff for is Fallout 4 and Cyberpunk with dev tools and more modern opensource tools. but stuff as old as stalker has me stuck. i know Blender is used for anims. but...its alot more effort than i was hoping to put in lol.

[queen skiff]

It's funny cause I've modded for Fallout New Vegas so going from that to Stalker is an upgrade in a lot of ways lmao
Or at least around the same

[sick seal]

i have next to zero experience with anything pre 2016 basically. so the older stuff im learning as i go.

and btw RPK16 anims fit PERFECTLY with the RD-74m isg

im using the stock Blnd reload anims, which work fine, the sounds match but it going from that to the RPK foregriip anims is wonky. id love to get another reload anim to work but getting the magazine to move is the brick wall ive hit.

so this is where im at..... the scope still blacked out....and needing to zero the canted sight and lazer.

[woven fox]

as far as i know sound should also be part of the ltx so you could change that to the rpk reload as well, then have it with entirely rpk animations

[sick seal]

I tried that with the AK-74-Tac anims and you would reload an invisible mag while the actual magazine never moved.nor the bolt handle when charging the gun, which is why i stuck with the orginal. if i can get the RPK reload anims to work tho it would make my day

im making progress on zeroing the canted sight and irons atm, still stuck wiht the blacked out Spectre tho

[fair canopy]

you have to assign the magazine to the correct vertex group

[sick seal]

ight, what tools do you use for that in Stalker? or is that also an Ltx edit? sorry if my questions seem stupid, im still learning how to mod Stalker, and have about 7 hours experience lol.

[sick seal]

im starting with the RD-74m rn cuz i want to use it and the anims annoy the hell out of me, but my goal is to comb through BAS and try to make more changes. so this is all a learning experience atm.

[fair canopy]

notepad++ is all you need to edit ltx

[random fulcrum]

motherfucker has barely even played the game yet he wants to mod it

that's quite commendable

strong initiative

[sick seal]

lmao the game is fun, amazing. but modding is where the funs at for me personally.

[random fulcrum]

that's based

[sick seal]

okay, thats good to know, i wasnt sure if it involved actual like nodes or mesh edits. but a vertex assignment, thats something i can prob figure out tn.

[sick seal]

https://tenor.com/view/based-uh-hello-based-department-based-department-american-psycho-patrick-bateman-gif-22458382

[fair canopy]

oh sorry i misread your comment

you'll want to get yourself blender for assigning vertexs and pavel blend for import/export of models

[sick seal]

okay, yeah i was chatting in youtube comments about exactly this and they mentioned blender and pavel. was just hoping this wouldnt take that much effort lol. i have experience with max3ds and nifskope but not much blender, so im hoping itll be something i can pickuip relatively quickly.

[fair canopy]

i never touched 3ds and nifskope is a bit different. blender is a little obtuse but it shouldnt take long if youve already got experience with other programs

[sick seal]

thats what im hoping, but i might be retarded because i cant find the download link for Blender, its Blender 3.3 right?

think i found it, thanks for the help btw, i greatly appreciate it!

[paper stirrup]

is there a way to change the shift keybind to auto move items to a stash ? (i'm using tooltip in corner mod and it uses shift too)

[sick seal]

hey, downloading blending rn hope im doing it right, everything ive used before has been its own software, i just had to download like 4 different tools and now cloning blender through the command window. this is correct?

[fair canopy]

That sounds very wrong lol. You just need blender 3.x and the latest Pavel blend

Then just adn Pavel blend as a plugin

[sick seal]

was just following the directions on https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Building_Blender/Windows lmao

....i hate myself sometimes lol found blender 3.3 .... just had to google it specifically and not "blender download" lol

and got the pavel x-ray engine plugin thingy off github, PavelBlend , but now am gunna run a quick virus scan after downloading all this random shit i didnt need lol. thanks for the help, much appreciated, ill stop blowing up the room now lel. cheers

[sick seal]

just wanted to report success thanks @fair canopy

[fair canopy]

Ayy nice

[sick seal]

thanks, goes to show just how annoyed i was with the longscope anims of the rd-74 lmao spent the last 4 hours just to get this far haha

come hell or high water, im using a foregrip with the Spectre lel. thanks for the help fr. i rlly appreciate it.

[fair canopy]

I'm redoing anims for my bullpup saiga23

[random fulcrum]

oh you know what

maybe that anim set could fit the vepr from one of those dltx mods

i like how alien the gun looked

but the anims were ass

[sick seal]

dude that looks sick.

omg, i can probably foregrip the 2016 AK-12 now too. atleast i hope so.

whats the deal with community patches like if i were to make the animation patch for BAS is that something i could release or would that have to be private? im unsure how the stalker modding community works in regards to that sorta stuff.

[fair canopy]

I had to use the L85 m3 anims to fix it. The m2 and m1 still use original L85 anims I think

There's a lot of cool guns in the misc weapons pack that have awful anims

[sick seal]

but jesus that bullpupp saiga is beautiful, i love the rpk furniture. tasteful

[sick seal]

truth

[fair canopy]

Thanks

[sick seal]

you modeled that as well? or just the anims?

[fair canopy]

Honestly you can just throw them in a mod and upload it. No real problems with it usually

I played with the model a bit. I can't do actual modeling but I can mix and match and move vertex points around

I've made a few guns that are in a mod pack in #1035807043933720576

[sick seal]

oh nice thats good to know, Fallout 4 especially on nexus gets really uppity with crediting authors and working off other peoples mods.

i was just gunna say when you finish the Saiga id love a google.drive link or something

[fair canopy]

I mean, fallout 4 is just titty mods and sometimes guns

[sick seal]

the guns are insane now, but ye lotta slooty mods. some authors are making amazing leaps and bounds with the creation engine, swapable magnifiers, weapon modding on the fly, canted sight animations, its getting wild.

[fair canopy]

I actually ported the sig spear from a fallout 4 mod a few weeks ago lol

[sick seal]

yeah BroodaHood made the Spear, its disgusting.

hes making an STG now

[fair canopy]

Unfortunately xray is very limited in gun modding. There's a branch of it that's close to tarkov modding but it's closed source

Stg44?

[sick seal]

yeah someone mentioned that when i asked about foregrips as an attachment,

yeah stg44 and kar98k

[fair canopy]

Ah nice. I know a lot of stuff gets ported over from fo4

[sick seal]

i was making a kar, but hes a better modder so i decided to not bother competing wiht him.

Fallout has become bascially a blank canvas for modders now, theres full on voice acted 20 hour storylines being added, its nuts.

its wild, apperantly Stalker 2 is gunna have official mod support from day one and im hoping dev tools post release.

[fair canopy]

#1036112180145299536 message

Here's the spear port

[sick seal]

thanks downloading now, it looks so dope

[fair canopy]

Ah wow. I may go back and mod fallout 4 again some day though that's it's on process unless there are some decent mod packs

[sick seal]

yeah its definately labor intensive, vortex is a saving grace tho for fallout,

[fair canopy]

Thankfully the spear fit scar bones almost perfectly so I was able to relatively easily use existing animations with a few slight edits

[sick seal]

yeah im struggling to import bones into blender and find out how to reassign vertecies. atm

but its odd how well anims fit certain completely unrelated guns.

[fathom wagon]

It is in the Misc. Weapons Pack just so you know

[fathom wagon]

Just realized the Misc. and Simple Weapons pack needs most of its other weapons to be assigned to NPCs still when I took out the files that had them sold by vendors.

[tight jasper]

can you add iron sights while at it? or its to much hassle

[wanton knot]

Hey guys, when I apply an upgrade to a weapon, can I make it load a completely different hud or the animation will still load from the original?

[sick seal]

while im working on the RD-47 and BAS im going to try to rip some assets from Tarkov and see about making some new and different weapon kits that will work with already existing animations.. i swear making mods might be more fun than actually playing the game lol.

[wanton knot]

Oh that's nice!

[sick seal]

depends what upgrade, for the most part the only thing that changes is the weapon model, but select weapons will have integrated scopes or foregrips

[wanton knot]

I just reinstalled tarkov, could you dm me the ways of "borrowing" assets from it? XD

[sick seal]

lol i have no idea how, im learning as i go haha, modding stalker is literally 8 hours new to me haha

[wanton knot]

haha nice!

[sick seal]

when i figure it out tho ill drop you a dm

[wanton knot]

Yeah I'm learning a lot new shit too, for the past week I've probably went through all COD games to check NPCs for the overhaul I'm working on. So I switched gears a bit to weapons because my eyes are bleeding

[sick seal]

....BSG launcher is downloading tarkov at 22mb/s over 5g wifi but still sttruggles to load customs lmao

lol oof sorry to hear you had to torture yourself like that. my sympathies haha

[wanton knot]

I've been wanting to make some additional upgrades too, mostly cosmetic, adding some attachments here and there and that's it

[wanton knot]

The games are shit but the assets are really well done. So it's kinda perfect. HD Models uses a lot of COD assets, that's why I started doing that, to go to the source and grab higher res textures to work with

[sick seal]

yeah same, i want to add the Vortex-UH1 sight, thats a goal, as well as some different AK furnature. but i want to make upgrade kits that stay in line with player progression. that way a Rookie isnt walking around with a 300k ruble gat. but idk. well see.

[sick seal]

yeah Cod has some really night charector designs i used to rip all the time for Fallout4

[wanton knot]

The polycount is really low too, at least up till the mw2019, even that it's nothing super crazy

a BaS gun has more triangles than a whole character from mw2 lol

makes sense tho since it's up and close

Last night I started working on a camo paint material for substance painter. The idea is to make it easy to apply any sort of camo to the weapon. This m4 has no original textures yet because I was lazy to convert them but it will look more detailed with the normals.

[sick seal]

thats sick, i wanted to make a camo paint for the Rd-74 but had no idea how lol, when it comes to the more techincal stuff like nodes, verticies, animations i know mostly what to do, but altering the appearance of a model is something i struggle with greatly.

so im super impressed

[wanton knot]

I'm trying to put together a nice upgrade for the m4 tac so I'm moving some shit around. XD

[wanton knot]

Oh dude, I'm planning on doing a camo version of the rd-74! That and the m4 tac for now and see how it goes

[sick seal]

that looks sick, and oh nice if you finish it pm me a download link!

[wanton knot]

For sure

I'll probably beg for help here when the time comes, I'm just a dumb artist so putting together the actual mod is always a torture

I can paint texture for days tho

[sick seal]

lol i always found that to be the easy part, painting and weathing and that sort of stuff is aboslute torture for me. itll take me no bullshit like 3 hours to apply a camo to a gun, im cursed with 1. not really knowing how to do it and 2. borderline ocd where everything needs to be perfect. a horrible combination haha

[rain cliff]

damn that gun is nice

[faint sand]

found the patch, thanks (its in the new mod-posting btw)

[brave badger]

When creating anything with the SDK 0.7, does it work with Anomaly or is there need of additional porting tasks?

[thorny hornet]

Someone know if there is any video or tutorial that explains how to correctly unpack a db file and then repack them just like they was, because i want to compress some textures of mods but i cant because when i repack the deb it repacks it on only one file and it doesnt work

[vapid valley]

will this be public?

[wanton knot]

It will, I just need to actually get everything working. I have no idea how to add an upgrade an all. XD

[livid hazel]

Hey .. can you safley use https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/groks-4k-and-reflections-for-navs-mask-v12 for gamma ?

[regal bolt]

a similar mod is already included in GAMMA
doesn't have as much shadow overlay, but reflections and glass cracks are there

[livid hazel]

ah .. well what i miss are shades of insight mask ... default one is too much liek a scientist head gear

*like

[regal bolt]

there should be nothing stopping you from using it, just put it to the bottom of your load order so it overwrites the existing mask overlays

[livid hazel]

oh, ok so its safe, thank you very much

[sick seal]

how do i delete the bones and vertex groups? and just have the model? i imported the .ogf file but i want to try and rebuild the weapon from the ground up, in order to better learn my way around blender. any advice would be appreciated!

[fair canopy]

You have to move the parts to the overall collection and then you can delete the bones

[sick seal]

alrighty, thanks, ive been browsing the Blender manual and there are some things it doesnt do the best job at explaining.

does anyone know if the Rifle Dynamics ISG weapons are custom modeled or are they asset rips? im asking because whoever made them even modeled the Baffles inside the suppressors lol

[vapid valley]

possibly from tarkov

[fair canopy]

Most of that model isn't from tarkov

[random fulcrum]

that's from vanilla anomaly

yo @fair canopy

is this still available

or are you willing to revive the project

because i need help with this

[fair canopy]

Yeah you wanna mess with it?

[random fulcrum]

i just need you, if you can, to shorten health to half

move it to the right

like uhh hold on

[fair canopy]

Like exactly half or to the size of the other bars?

[random fulcrum]

[psy]        [health]
[rads]       [ballistics]
[chem]       [rupture]
[shock]      [impact]
[fire]       [explosion]
[hunger] [thirst] [sleep]

like that

i need the physical/elemental split for a thing

[fair canopy]

Sure I can do that

[random fulcrum]

very based, thanks

or uhh

[psy]        [health]
[rads]       [ballistics]
[chem]       [rupture]
[shock]      [impact]
[fire]       [explosion]
[h][t][s]    [br level]

[thorn stratus]

what are thm files? do they have a relationship with dds files?

[deep solar]

yeah they hold information about what width/height the .dds has, the dds format, what name does the _bump have, etc.

[fair canopy]

Thm files define the properties of the dds files

[deep solar]

you can edit them with the Axr Toolset

[thorn stratus]

I see, are these information also used by shaders?

just learning some basics

[deep solar]

you got me there, I believe anything that is shader related might be handled directly in the model files but I could be wrong

since you can point it to use specific shaders with the Blender plugin in the materials tab

[thorn stratus]

are these models files?

[deep solar]

yeah

[thorn stratus]

thanks

[deep solar]

coming along nicely

[lean dagger]

oh god oh fuck amazing

anyone know how to change the population in the north of the zone? i kinda understand its so scarce, but it just feels depressing to see like 5 people at the skadovsk. any mods or tweaks for that aviable?

[fair canopy]

if you could hook this into the interactive pda that would be awesome

[deep solar]

the computer? probably. I just realised I can also hide/show bones via script so turning the computer on and off to display an image is also possible, same thing with the tv.

the worst was making the beds useable but thanks to dealing with that now I understand better how the scripts actually work

[ripe meadow]

hello I'm new and maybe someone has asked this before and if the mod is not there I assume there is a problem with the other mods but there is no way to put HD models?

and sorry I don't know where to put this comment

[paper stirrup]

is there a mod for these boxes? i can't do anything with them, like disassemble, etc: