╙🖇mods-making-discussion

[rich cargo]

Well you have ammo check on so you mag count is gone

[balmy peak]

why is mag count gone?

so if i turn off ammo check, mag count will be back?

[rich cargo]

so you're left with just the fire rate unless you install the fire rate check mod to remove the "1"

Yeah

[balmy peak]

so i disabled ammo counter

but now the ammount of ammo i have left is so far from the hud

wtf

[rich cargo]

Oh pachki

[balmy peak]

wtf

[rich cargo]

[balmy peak]

like what i want is, i want the number of the fire mode and the number of the magazine, at the bottom of where it says magazine and firemode

why is this so difficult

😄

[rich cargo]

Slavjank game

[tawny stream]

Your fire mode is right leg. That checks out.

[balmy peak]

idk why my hud is like that

like wtf

like i want my BHS to look like that, where it corectly displays fire mode and ammo in mag

but it doesn't

if anyone can help with this let me know please

[hardy hound]

thats gamma default

if you play with mags redux and it dissapear, just enable them in the MCM menu of mags redux and done

[balmy peak]

eneable waht in mags redux?

[hardy hound]

i don't remember

search/read in the mcm menu

[marsh vapor]

Isn't that aydens hud tweaks?

[balmy peak]

so this is how it currently looks like (not aydions hud and ui tweaks) don't look at the mags and quickslots, i'm fiddleling with .scripts etc, but it's not showing properly, like my psy, rads, and firemode etc

so i am fucking confused

like there's a random 1 next to my leg aswell

[marsh vapor]

Press keypad enter or H

One of those

[hardy hound]

well, i don't know what he did with the scripts/files

probably messed up more

[marsh vapor]

There's that too 😂

[balmy peak]

no, i had help from ravenacendant, it's just another mod/file to move quickslots and magz around, nothing to do with the bhs hud

just tryna figure out why the fuck my bhs is not showing like the other guy that i took a screenshot of

[simple scaffold]

no, that's how the gneric greeting system in the game works. it spits out a line based on the faction adn other things.

[balmy peak]

can you help me here xD

idk wtf is going on

[marsh vapor]

Did yiu try pressing H or Keypad Enter?

[balmy peak]

so i want my BHS hud to look like this, displaying firmode correctly and ammo in magazine

[simple scaffold]

it normaly exists. not in that location or font. that was changed by one of your huds.

[balmy peak]

yes didn't work

[balmy peak]

i removed aydins hud and ui from mo2

so idk what's going on now

this is how mine currently looks like

[simple scaffold]

gamma has it's own hud. I don't use gamma. i don't know what "normal" looks like for gamma

[balmy peak]

and not like this

[hardy hound]

just reinstall gamma

and enable mags again

go into MCM and select the mags redux tab and hide the magazines hud and enable the ammo counter

[balmy peak]

gonan fuck up my saves if i do that

[hardy hound]

thats one of the options

[hardy hound]

why?

[balmy peak]

idk someone said it will

[hardy hound]

[balmy peak]

you can't enable/disable mags reduz whenever you want in a current save

it messes somethign up

[hardy hound]

well yeah, reinstall gamma and enable mags redux again

i never said to disable mags redux

only tweak it inside MCM in game

[simple scaffold]

i made an unisatall tool, but lauta is right if you reinstall gamma and reactivatge mags redux that is not removing mags.

[balmy peak]

mhmm

[hardy hound]

unless you mean you want to disable mags redux and go back to the default gamma hud without using magazines addon

[balmy peak]

i want my bhs hud to look like that

does mine look different, bcuz of having mags redux on?

like it shows psy, rads icon, the firemode "A" and a number for ammount of ammo left etc

mine doesn't do that, and has a random 1 next to the leg, that's the firemode

as you can see mine doesn't have a rads bar, the psy text etc

@hardy hound if you undersatnd what i mena

[simple scaffold]

no. the ammo check addon might have hidden the ammo count if you installed that. you can turn that off in the ammo check mcm. but as for the mode being moved no idea

[balmy peak]

fixxed it, backed up everything of the game, re-installed, and it worked

i also made a new profile, comparing the new one to gamma's default

and some of my hud and other stuff's order wasn't the same

so i made it the same, enabled the rest of the mods that i download and it all works now

@simple scaffold

[simple scaffold]

cool

[balmy peak]

was a struggle, but yeah it works

also installed aydins ui and hud tweaks 3 again, and it works perfectly, just tryna figure out where to move my quickslots to, bcuz above the bhs i can't otheerwise the NPC's announcments etc that come through your pda is going to interfere, bottom right next to bhs i can't otherwise some effects/buff is going to interfer

so idk

dunno where you put yours if you even using it

@simple scaffold

[simple scaffold]

i don't use BHS so i have it over my much wider health and stamina ui

[simple scaffold]

I know one person that puts it center top. maybe beside the mini map? or above the magazines? it almost looks like it would fit above the BHS block, but there are messages there sometimes right?

alternitvly QSP has a keybind to toggle the visablity. so you could just have it hidden much of the time. it should make it self visable when you cycle sets or use an item

[balmy peak]

yeah that's what i'm saying

currently i'm doing it like this, so nothing interfers

and it's not too hard on the eye

above the buff's/effects/ away from the messages etc

i tried putting it bottom middle, but that looks absurd haha

think it looks nice

[cerulean thorn]

hey question guys, is there a bullet camera for stalker gamma?

[simple scaffold]

no. i am not sure that that could be done with out editing the engine

[balmy peak]

so i just got a new bug

if i zoom in, my menu goes over it?

the fuck

i tried shooting a guy while zooming in, and i did miss by quite a lot

[balmy peak]

@simple scaffold you got any ideas 😄

[simple scaffold]

nope. that's not one of mine.

[balmy peak]

hahaa

all good, will restart see if that helps

[frigid hollow]

Has anyone tried to use the Propaganda Back in the Zone mod with gamma? Where it adds the propaganda speakers at Freedom and Duty bases like in the OG games?

[tall sluice]

i want this but i didnt know it existed

[regal bolt]

can't see why it wouldn't work; the speakers in those areas are not really being used for anything from what I can tell

[cinder light]

Does anyone have some barebones details on how weapon dmg is calculated? Mainly for weapon tooltips and how ammo used factors into that. Not worried about ballistics, dmg vs armor types, etc.

[wispy shoal]

Who knows what the name of the mod for the starting gear is like in the screenshot

[cinder light]

Im just wondering if the dmg # on guns is reliable, or if i should just use whatever gun and focus on ammo

[celest forge]

Ammo matters more than the gun itself I think

[cinder light]

Makes sense. Im mostly just curious about the korth 9 custom having higher dmg then most .45 pistols, and if it makes a difference vs just any old .45

Just not sure if those dmg numbers are a base value thats somehow calculated alongside ammo, or if ammo is the sole main factor.

[celest forge]

Probably better muzzle velocity due to the long barrel?

Idk

[floral rune]

i remember momo breaking down how the ammo/damage clacs work in general a couple months ago, idk if you'll be able to find it again

yeah the korth did effectively do straight up more damage at least in the anniversary patch (took 2 shots to kill a bloodsucker compared to a regular 3 from any other .45 using HP ammo)

grok has tuned .45 in current patch so no idea how much that old testing holds up now

[quiet charm]

damage calcs are in grok_bo.script within GAMMA close quarters combat

[proven palm]

I demand SIN radsuit/nosrog

Will give shekels

[cinder light]

Ty

[thorny hornet]

Someone know if this mod is compatible with gamma if i disable artefacts reinvention and perk based artefacts?

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/arx-artefact-anomalies-restoration-experiment

[fluid kestrel]

ammo

[vale knot]

Called the black road i believe

[simple scaffold]

all gun damage in GAMMA is handled by GBOOBS not the game engine as i recall, open the scripts up and read them.

[random fulcrum]

the stat on the gun is the actual base damage you deal

the number you see on the ammo is literal flavor text

[cinder light]

Ah. I gotta get to my pc eventually to dig around in scripts, but thanks everyone

[past barn]

What about .45 Hydra and other HP ammo? Those surely deal more damage than what the gun stat says

[random fulcrum]

ammo has a multiplier

a modifier

the "stat" should show the modifier instead of a nothing number

[sand grove]

Where can I get the optional BHS files? Like for colors and additional information

[past barn]

Do I remember wrong that you said the polar opposite last time in this topic? Like 1-2 months ago. Or whoever it was, they said ammo damage matters the most, gun stat damage is useless

[sand grove]

#╙🖇mods-making-discussion message like in this message

[random fulcrum]

people throw that around all the time so it gets treated as a fact

[simple scaffold]

Well the in game item descriptions of both guns and ammo are crap(and meds, and other items). Gamma tries to make some of them better i think but still largely crap.

In base anomaly i am fairly certain the ammo is the primary contributor. or rather at a single shot level the stats contributed by ammo have a larger influence on the final damage. Gamma has GBOOBS and BAS which both muck with the way damage works on the player. and GBOOBS applies to NPCs.

[daring mauve]

@simple scaffold is there any way to make an actual space appear in the HUD?
AP Slug

[vale knot]

how does it write the text out?

normally stuff will have an xml file that they pull from to get text

[daring mauve]

.ltx file

[vale knot]

im not 100% on how it works tho, so im gonna let Raven explain it

but usually ltx files will have the ID, xml will have the actual text associated to the ID

[daring mauve]

eh, screw it, its not important. I'm going with AP.Slug

[simple scaffold]

LTX should have no problem with having spaces

[daring mauve]

it ignores spaces for some reason. So "AP Slug" becomes "APSlug"

Also, I uploaded the mod, let me know if you think any credit/disclaimer needs to be added @simple scaffold

[simple scaffold]

odd, i had never noticed that. generaly i use translation xmls for text, but that is kinda overkill for ammo types.

[simple scaffold]

looks good

[dapper meteor]

real quick question, i am trying to reorder how the inventory is sorted. I want my ammo at the top of the inventory while at the moment its close to the bottom. Which file do i edit to do this? i cant remember for the life of me which file i need to edit for this

thanks in advance yo

[simple scaffold]

the sorting plus MCM lets you reorder the existing rows, that is generally easier.

however if you want to go all power user you need to check "use ltx" in the sorting plus MCM.

this is an example of a highly customized sortingplus ltx: #╙🖇mods-making-discussion message

[dapper meteor]

Thanks homie

[daring mauve]

I am flattered 😊

[rough merlin]

Hey guys im messing with the voiced actor mod trying to add custom lines. So here is the default code out of ui_addon_companion_quick_menu

    self:ExecuteScriptByCondition("npcx_beh_wait",
                                axr_companions.set_companion_to_follow_state, 
                                axr_companions.set_companion_to_wait_state,
                                "characters_voice\\player\\command_follow_" .. math.random(3),
                                "characters_voice\\player\\command_holdposition_" .. math.random(3))

--    addonMenu:CloseTheMenu()
end```
 Do i need to add a call to the voiceline it doesnt seem to play command_follow_/command_holdposition_

this one works but is has AGDD_voiced_actor.actor_speak

```            AGDD_voiced_actor.actor_speak("characters_voice\\player" .. lang .. "\\command_start_" .. math.random(4),1.0,1000,100,true,false,false,false)
--            show_all_ui(false)
            if AGDD_voiced_actor.is_actor_in_combat() ~= true then
                AGDD_voiced_actor.actor_speak("characters_voice\\player" .. lang .. "\\command_cancel_" .. math.random(3),1.0,1000,100,true,false,false,false)
            end```

[thick loom]

Hello there everyone, i would like to know if someone here have any idea on how to edit "level.details", my objective is to make different grass heights (small, medium and tall vegetation) this way it would be able to fill more forest levels and stuff like this. So what i want to know is:

• How to make a specific grass "grow" is a specific region
• How to make different grass heights to build details

If someone knows, or have a north, like a forum or document i would appreciate!

Screenshot from HLL of what i seeking to make, these thin trees doesn't have colliders, the player can walk through them

[simple scaffold]

level editing is beyound the scope of mods in this game at this time

[thick loom]

I see, i was thinking into something like this because texture packs (such as those from Fabio Conte) uses different "level.details" for Anomaly, so you get different grass sizes and heights. So if there was a way to edit these details (that seems to be a "friendly" file not causing crash if different from vanilla) enviroment could be enhanced

[simple scaffold]

maybe. just the level.detail and not the level geometry could be edited then. I wouldn't know where to start. i'd have to go ask ppl who have done it. It isn't in the modding book. and i don't recall seeing an english lang guide, bit that doesn't mean there isn't one, just that I haven't seen it in 2 years modding anomaly. but i also refuse to do art and this smells like art so maybe i missed one

@river fjord is this something you understand? you do art

oh they are busy. might still see the ping later.

[obsidian aspen]

Does anyone know where the .xml is that dictates the root location of on-screen PDA messages, IE "I just saw that Stalker get his shit pushed in by a controller lmao"? Trying to reposition the messages. I already found the one to let me change the general positioning of the text itself but not the root of the element as a whole.

[hardy hound]

best tip would be to copy some parts of the message, then use notepad++ to search in the unpacked text folder files

it will probably come up and you can locate easily

[vast lava]

I couldn't see the location data in any of the news files but feel free to double check them as well, i only skimmed since I'm not a modder

[obsidian aspen]

Oh no I meant like, the position of the messages on the hud as a whole. Not specific messages but anything that appears in the bottom left as a "PDA message", be it dynamic news, dialogue or system information

Though I've dug around a ton and can't find it so I'm lead to believe it's either buried in the db files somewhere, or it's something you'd have to mess with with something like DLTX, which I'm too smol brained for

I'll update here if I figure it out in case anyone else has a similar question down the line, so they can see the solution via Discord's search bar

[vast lava]

Yeah I was looking for Hud stuff as well but couldn't find anything that jumped out. I'll let you know if I find anything else too

@obsidian aspen looks like its a no go

[obsidian aspen]

heck

oh well, no big deal. I can at least twiddle with the text slightly, just can't relocate where it's rooted to on the screen. Allg c:

Thanks for the help homie

[soft badge]

That feeling when your mods usually get like 200 downloads, one suddenly has 40,000, and you realize it's because it got added to GAMMA.

[regal bolt]

anyone know what mod allows you to have no map transitions...? ( in this video some guy posted )

[steady apex]

you need to edit maps in sdk

[regal bolt]

in theory, could it be possible to connect all maps together and have no transitions..? heavy performance impact obvs??

[balmy peak]

What PDA is this, or is this a mod?

[regal bolt]

its not my video, its @hardy hound i have many questions about it aswell lol @balmy peak

[balmy peak]

Aah alright, looks sick though

[regal bolt]

fr

[balmy peak]

Does anyone here know of a mod that works with current gamma to make the sky look better, like better clouds etc?

[glass umbra]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. : Lauta_ro Edition

[balmy peak]

What now?

Oooh lol

[round sun]

has someone made simthing like a walking dead ver of stalker

i try looking up only reddit dis

[balmy peak]

?

[quiet valve]

Just look for skybox textures, any that fits your taste since they should be compatible with gamma as long as you disabled the skyboxes already included

[balmy peak]

Can you maybe send me some link, tried to searc but couldn't find any?

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

[quiet valve]

I use the normal skyboxes because they're already nice so I'm sorry but I can't really help you

[balmy peak]

All i found is this. But think this is already included by default

My skies look shit though

[quiet valve]

Did you edit the gamma load order?

[balmy peak]

And then this is the reshade im using

Idk if this will make any diff

[balmy peak]

Wdym

[quiet valve]

Did you add or remove any mods?

[balmy peak]

Ooh yes i added some stuff but nothinf related to graphics or sky, its just some weapons mods and stuff, thats at the bottom and made a custom profile in mo2

[quiet valve]

Never used reshade so can't really help you with that either. I know that cmaa won't do anything to the sky since its just antialiasing but that's the extent of my knowledge

[quiet valve]

I don't really know then

[balmy peak]

Mhmm do you knoe if that mod that I've sent above is included by default?

[quiet valve]

The two sky mods I know is skies redux and ai upscaled vanilla skies so it's probably one of those

I think gamma uses skies redux

[balmy peak]

Alright then

[dapper dust]

Can anyone tell me if there is a limit to goodwill/rep with factions?

I want to increase the rep supply limits for trader

[weak hull]

As of now, the limit is 3000. You will get messages but the number will not go above that.

[dapper dust]

ty

[weak hull]

For the actor's footstep sounds, I see there are 2 files, depending on the mod. For example: earth1.ogg and also n_earth_1.ogg How are these used differently?

[thorn stratus]

is there a way to see if player is firing a weapon? I want to timestamp list time player fires a shot or use a weapon

also I wonder if it is possible to track if the player is moving or is still

[round sun]

does anyone know of a last of us mod

or zombie survivl

[hardy hound]

there's a option like that in ZCP iirc, read it's modpage and see the steps to enable it i guess

[regal bolt]

HEY YOU.

WHAT MODS ARE IN YOUR VIDEO YOU POSTED

[hardy hound]

CWWP, anthology maps, GTR, hippo atmospherics and nothing else i guess

some unreleased gunslinger anims

[regal bolt]

i like the hud you have and the wild + rostok no transition thingy

have download links or ??

[hardy hound]

yea te wild+rostok is a single map

it's a anthology map

https://ap-pro.ru/forums/topic/4266-anomaly-anthology-10-obt

[regal bolt]

translation avaliable?

[hardy hound]

some translation is at anomaly discord addon releases channel

[regal bolt]

ya im totally lost

[vale knot]

itd be cool hearing the gunshots from wild territory chilling in rostok

seeing how close they are to each other

[regal bolt]

havent you seen this mans video hold on.

[vale knot]

ya i know lauta_ro always takes these nice videos showing WIP stuff

[regal bolt]

idk if it will work in gamma.......

[vale knot]

map addons are out of my scope

[hardy hound]

u need to patch some files

like hide/delete 2k files and patch the 500 remaining

[regal bolt]

500 files????????????????

?!

...

[hardy hound]

basically, if you want it to just plug and play for gamma

wait i guess

[regal bolt]

omg.

[hardy hound]

maybe I or someone else will release in months/years

[vale knot]

[hardy hound]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/931574530110013470/1065905024858857552/ezgif-5-69ba753ced.gif

[regal bolt]

wat if i d o it my self

i am willing to

[hardy hound]

you do it then

[regal bolt]

go into this rabit hole.

take me by the hand?

lead me ?

make sure i dont trip..? 😟

ok apart from the map mod or wtv what about yur hud mod

[hardy hound]

WIP

[hardy hound]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/cy-a-hud

modified this addon

i also don't use BHS so you will have to disable/tweak your gamma modlist

[regal bolt]

what does bhs even do again

[vale knot]

leg and arm damage

etc

[regal bolt]

oh i wanna keep that

i like it

[simple scaffold]

you can hit H to make BHS UI small and H again to hide it all together. (assuming gamma didn't change the keys) that should make it not overlap with sidhud derived huds.

that would let you use huds like the one above without giving up the limb damage. the mini BHS hud is informative enough.

[thorn stratus]

I need to see this movie, what is it?

https://media.moddb.com/images/members/4/3097/3096786/profile/susHUD.gif

[glass umbra]

I think people call him "super sus" lol. Don't know much about this dude but theres hilarious memes about him

[thorn stratus]

I more interested in the original movie this was taken. Maybe I'll do a meme search or gif search

[hardy hound]

i don't think it's a movie

it's a youtube video

[cunning forum]

quick question does anyone know in which ltx medical items are located? like the configs for Medkits, medicine etc

[thorn stratus]

Check gamma medication balance

I am not sure if that is exhaustive

In player injuries script there is defined the limb healing properties of drugs

[cunning forum]

I meant more like the item itself, like how many times can it be used, how much does it weigh etc

[thorn stratus]

Do a text search for keywords in the Gamma mods folder

Use something like vs code

[cunning forum]

I already did, IIRC it was called smth like item_drugs.ltx

the same config as food drinks weapons etc

[thorn stratus]

You can also use the MO virtual explorer and browse the ganedata configs folder

There you can see all the configs ltx files that are loaded at launch

[cunning forum]

Okay so I checked everything and cant find what I am looking for, although I found the sleeping pills which is smth

[thorn stratus]

You could search on moddb for mods that change the number of uses of drugs

And then check what files overrides

Or you could expand all anomaly archives and search in there

[regal bolt]

if all you want is to change uses, weight, and cost, here's the code to make a DLTX mod for those changes on yadulin
adapt for your own drug

![yadylin]
cost = 1900
use_condition = true
script_binding = bind_item.bind
max_uses = 3
empty_weight = 0.001
inv_weight = 0.01

[gaunt pawn]

Could anyone help me with DLTX and changing a price of an item of Arti's Ammo Maker? I've got an .ltx to change their inventory, but this file "mod_items_ammo_parts_ammo_craft.ltx"
This does not seem to change the price at all.

![weapon_ammo_parts]
cost = 270

![bullet_pistol]
cost             = 450

![bullet_pistol_ap]
cost             = 450

![bullet_shotgun]
cost             = 450

![bullet_shotgun_ap]
cost             = 450

![bullet_r5]
cost             = 450

![bullet_r5_ap]
cost             = 450

![bullet_r7]
cost             = 450

![bullet_r7_ap]
cost             = 450

[regal bolt]

that looks like it should work perfectly fine
it might be a case of your DLTX edits not loading properly because your file name doesn't have enough Zs in it
(LTX files are loaded alphabetically, so sometimes file conflicts happen like that)

[gaunt pawn]

Z's?
Also MO2 shows no file conflicts

[regal bolt]

yeah, as in when you named the file mod_system_name_goes_here.ltx it is sometimes good to instead name it mod_system_ZZZZ_name_goes_here.ltx because the engine loads them in alphabetical order

[gaunt pawn]

interesting

[regal bolt]

I made a very similar mod myself, feel free to poke around and adjust values and see if it works for you
install like a normal mod in MO2, then open in explorer and go ham

[gaunt pawn]

Oh that's interesting. You put the dltx file in "gamedata/configs." I put mine in "gamedata/configs/items/items" as that's where the file I'm modifying is; that's what the modding guide book said to do

Also why are you modifying "system.ltx" and not Ammo Maker's "items_ammo_parts.ltx"

I changed it mimic your structure--- to modify "system.ltx"--- and it works perfectly. Weird, but thank you

[regal bolt]

oh yeah it is weird, this is just how I managed to make it work on my end so that is how I explain it go forward
thus continuing the legacy of spaghetti code

also because of DLTX, which is an engine modification
where you can have .ltx files coded a certain way to modify other files on game load - and NOT have to juggle overwrites constantly

[primal acorn]

What's the program to edit the .ogf files? I have 3dsMax but it doesn't recognize it.. Maya instead? Photoshop? I'm not a modeler but I wanted to mess around with some stuff lol

[torn vault]

hi, how does one change the odds of dynamically-placed anomalies to appear?

[thorn stratus]

I don't know honestly but you might want to ask to the anomaly discord as well

[torn vault]

to answer my own question, it seems to be bind_anomaly_field.script:42

[simple scaffold]

https://9gag.com/gag/aogj8X2#comment color version.

[thorn stratus]

I see, an amateur video maybe. In B/W it looked like some old nuclear themed russian movie, that is why I asked. I am bit of a sucker of old foreign movies

[primal acorn]

Dang, I cannot for the life of me find the base file for the AK-74U Rifle Dynamics kits.. (wpn_ak74u_m1 and m1_isg).. This is maddening

I see their meshes in 76, but not the file Pulls hair out

Nm, found the problem.. File calls itself w_aksu, internally is w_ak74u

[vale knot]

BAS moment

To this day i couldnt find the textures for the scopes

[primal acorn]

Oh this is fun.. I just discovered a rather interesting bug I need to fix..

For the new weapon upgrade kits, for whatever reason when I make a new gun, putting attachments on that gun releases a NEW version of the non-attachment gun in addition to an attachment gun (which is now unique and doesn't have this problem)

[celest forge]

You need a plugin or a converter

I use the Pavel Plugin X-Ray blender

[regal bolt]

needa find out where the ui for pda is kept so i can change the color of it for personal reasons :3

[tawny yoke]

anyone knows how to enable visual psy effect? its disabled in gamma, i know it has somthing to do with arszi_psy, need to know what need to be change here

[runic wedge]

hey can someone help me? how can i enable 3d scopes?

[simple scaffold]

less "enable" and more redesign the gun model, hud positioning and possibly write/find a zoom shader

[simple scaffold]

gamedata/textures/ui/ui_actor_pda.dds for most of them

need to go to anomaly/tools/ and run the all files unpacker bat that will give you a copy of the file to edit.

this will eat up gigs of hard drive space. alternitivly you could ask someone if they can send you the file. you can ask me in ~10 hours.

[regal bolt]

okay thanks g

[balmy peak]

Why does your pda look so different?

Is it a mod or something?

[regal bolt]

i reskinned it my self lel

all you need is gimp

its pretty easy

[runic wedge]

but bas already has the 3d scopes, right? if i desable some mods, should work?

[simple scaffold]

yes, idk i don't use gamma so i have no idea what they did to BAS

[balmy peak]

Is there any mod that makes npcs look better, like an graphics overhaul to npcs

[simple scaffold]

Dux improved characters, if it isn't already in gamma. fixed vanila models and textures, and others here: https://www.moddb.com/members/strogglet15/addons

there is also the so called HD models but it will not be compatible with gamma, and even if it was it is cursed. there some model(s) that cause random crashes in there but with hundreds and hundreds of models no one has figure out which yet so games randomly crash for some ppl, others have no problems. i wouldn't risk it.

[balmy peak]

Wich one would you suggest

[simple scaffold]

Dux Improved charecters and any of strogglet's stuff you like they should work together if dux's stuff is installed first.

[balmy peak]

Where is dux? Do you have a link for that one?

[regal bolt]

tis this the one to edit modern pda hud ?

[simple scaffold]

i don't have the textures here, just the config files that reference them. that doesn't look right. from this i would expect a set of button textures on the left side near the top.

  <file name="ui\ui_actor_pda">

        <texture id="ui_inGame2_pda_texture" x="0" y="256" width="1024" height="768" />
        <texture id="ui_inGame2_pda_offline_e" x="97" y="29" width="33" height="34" />
        <texture id="ui_inGame2_pda_offline_h" x="131" y="29" width="33" height="34" />
        <texture id="ui_inGame2_pda_offline_t" x="131" y="29" width="33" height="34" />

        <texture id="ui_inGame2_pda_buttons_background_lt"   x="0" y="29" width="20" height="19" />
        <texture id="ui_inGame2_pda_buttons_background_l"    x="0" y="40" width="20" height="11" />
        <texture id="ui_inGame2_pda_buttons_background_lb"   x="0" y="52" width="20" height="11" />

[simple scaffold]

idk, these texture defs are a mess.

[grizzled mountain]

Where this function prints its info? print_dbg()

[simple scaffold]

as that is not a global function it would depend on how the script implemented it. printdbg() doesn't print anything unless you start the game with a particular comand line parameter.

almost all prints end up in the xray log in appdata/logs

[grizzled mountain]

Well... I'm talking about mags mod, and I see nothing in xray log even when running debug mode.

I'm getting really weird crashes upon initializing trader's inventory with my really small patch for GAMMA MP7 tweaks. So I'm trying to investigate that.

[simple scaffold]

did you turn debug mode on in the mags redux MCM?

i'd try that

[grizzled mountain]

Oh shi, didn't notice that one.

Ye, still nothing.
Trying to print info about mag that crashes my game.
magazine_loot.script: Lines 62 and 63.

                    
                    if mag ~= default_mag and (capacity > default_capacity or load_delay < default_load_delay) then```

Crash pointing me at the latter line: compare nil with number.

So basically I'm trying to figure atleast what number is being compared and then figure out which mag definition is causing that.

Since it's MP7 and P90 mags are in question, then 50 or 40 number will suffice.

[grizzled mountain]

Any chance you could help me with that? It's just frustrating to see those quite important guns falling off the board when you're playing with mags.

[simple scaffold]

did you add new guns or new magazines?

[grizzled mountain]

Basically I changed MP7 to accept 5.7 ammo and changed its 9x18 mag accordingly.

It all works great, apart from the part where game tries to spawn it in any inventory: trader or corpse.

[simple scaffold]

paste section

[grizzled mountain]

Error looks like this: ```FATAL ERROR

[error]Expression : <no expression>
[error]Function : CScriptEngine::lua_pcall_failed
[error]File : ..\xrServerEntities\script_engine.cpp
[error]Line : 206
[error]Description : fatal error
[error]Arguments : LUA error: g:/anomaly\gamedata\scripts\magazines_loot.script:64: attempt to compare nil with number

[grizzled mountain]

Mag looks like this: ```[mag_mp7_5.7x28_default]:tch_mag_base
description = st_mag_mp7_5.7x28_fmj_descr
inv_name = st_mag_mp7_5.7x28_fmj
inv_name_short = st_mag_mp7_5.7x28_fmj

inv_grid_x = 1
inv_grid_y = 8
max_mag_size = 40
mag_size = medium
inv_weight = 0.25
cost = 1754
visual = dynamics\wpn\mags\wpn_mp7_mag.ogf

base_type = mp7_5.7x28
retool_group = mp7_default```

Also this:```[mag_mp7_9x19_alt]:tch_mag_base,tch_mag_alt
description = st_mag_mp7_9x19_fmj_descr
inv_name = st_mag_mp7_9x19_fmj
inv_name_short = st_mag_mp7_9x19_fmj

inv_grid_x = 1
inv_grid_y = 8
max_mag_size = 25
mag_size = medium
inv_weight = 0.25
cost = 1754
visual = dynamics\wpn\mags\wpn_mp7_mag.ogf

base_type = mp7_9x19
retool_group = mp7_default```

[simple scaffold]

gun

[grizzled mountain]

Gun looks like this:[wpn_mp7] default_mag = mag_mp7_5.7x28_default ;base_type ammo_5.7x28_ss190 = mp7_5.7x28 ammo_9x19_fmj = mp7_9x19

[balmy peak]

@simple scaffold can you potentially help with my bug in reshade and screenshot channels?

someone said i should re-install SSS but idk what all to tick when i re-install

[simple scaffold]

neither do I

[grizzled mountain]

I can send you a zip with all this inside.

If you want to try it yourself.

[simple scaffold]

geb log file

[simple scaffold]

ah yes i moved our debug to mcm logging cause it is spammy as hell

[grizzled mountain]

Anyway, no nil values. 😦

I've no idea what it's trying to compare and gets that number to nil comparison.

[simple scaffold]

go into MCM's own settings. under logs check continus. redo crash send newm mgazines log

[simple scaffold]

well crap.

in magazines.script below line 35 add dbg_log.continuous = true line 35 should be dbg_log.enabled = true

have to have both MCM allowing and the addon asking to get continuous logging and apparently i didn't add that to mags redux.

[grizzled mountain]

Done. Retrying.

[simple scaffold]

this time the log will save every time print_dbg is called so we will know exactly what weapon section it is working on

[grizzled mountain]

Vityaz?

What the actual fk?

Basically this is the part:```retool_group = mp5_default

description = st_mag_mp7_9x19_fmj_descr
inv_name = st_mag_mp7_9x19_fmj
inv_name_short = st_mag_mp7_9x19_fmj

inv_grid_x = 1
inv_grid_y = 8
max_mag_size = 25
mag_size = medium
inv_weight = 0.25
cost = 1754
visual = dynamics\wpn\mags\wpn_mp7_mag.ogf

base_type = mp7_9x19
retool_group = mp7_default

description = st_mag_vityaz_9x19_fmj_descr
inv_name = st_mag_vityaz_9x19_fmj
inv_name_short = st_mag_vityaz_9x19_fmj

inv_grid_x = 5
inv_grid_y = 8
max_mag_size = 30
mag_size = small
inv_weight = 0.17
cost = 852
visual = dynamics\wpn\mags\wpn_vityaz_mag.ogf

base_type = vityaz_9x19
retool_group = vityaz_default

[simple scaffold]

mag is fine. wpn_vityaz is missing a default mag i bet

[grizzled mountain]

default_mag = mag_vityaz_9x19_alt
;base_type
ammo_9x19_fmj = vityaz_9x19
ammo_9x18_fmj = vityaz_9x18

mag is called *_default

But weapon waits for *_alt

No idea why and not sure where this comes from.

basefile from mags mod looks like this:```[wpn_vityaz]
default_mag = mag_vityaz_9x19_default
;base_type
ammo_9x19_fmj = vityaz_9x19
ammo_9x18_fmj = vityaz_9x18

Probably I changed that accidentially.

[simple scaffold]

that would do it.

it was right at one time

[grizzled mountain]

Yay, it worked.

Thank you a lot. Saved my day.

[simple scaffold]

should turn the contius option in MCM off until you need it again. batch writes are better for your HD.

and the magazines dbug option for the smae reason.

[grizzled mountain]

I probably should share all those patches... But i'm not sure how to bundle them properly and elegantly. With all those overrides instead of plain file replacement.

[grizzled mountain]

Thanks. Done. Running Anomaly off an SSD, so makes double sense.

[simple scaffold]

mags redux was not setup with dltx in mind. you actualy have to make 2 mod files for every change to make it work.

and i am the only person that knows that

[grizzled mountain]

Yet I don't really need to make changes in a same file, so since I can just add those changes trough the separate file, then it should be no problem.

Right?

[simple scaffold]

yeah, it was designed to make that very easy.

[grizzled mountain]

Task is to remove 9x18 mag and all related entries.

Not sure how to approach it... Or probably I could just leave it there.

[simple scaffold]

dltx wasn't very popular at the time. so i made editing mags as easy as possible to edit without it.

just leave it. no real harm. there are probably a couple of unused mags still floating around

from my edits

[grizzled mountain]

How do I change the MP7 configs though? w/o replacing original files seems impossible.

[simple scaffold]

yeah. that would require replacing the file or DLTX

[grizzled mountain]

I mean, mine looks like 5.7 -- default mag. 9x19 -- alt...

Can I use DLTX to modify mags mod though? Or that requires internal support from the mod first?

[simple scaffold]

there is a reason there are only a couple of guns per file. to limit the likelyhood two addons will need to change one

made my life fun making dozens of files.

[grizzled mountain]

Ye, noticed that, it's just too bad that MP7 ended up in a batch file as a P90.

[simple scaffold]

so few smgs with so few variants arti lumped them by ammo type. i was just happy i didn't have to do all the guns myself. i think i did do 90%

[regal bolt]

i did it btw thanks

[simple scaffold]

glad i got you pointed in the right ish direction

[grizzled mountain]

So, anyway, where do I put this patch of mine?

mods posting?

[simple scaffold]

You can disable all mcm log writing on that screen too

Since it is very gamma specific that probably makes sense

[tranquil cargo]

On the subject of mods, I just wish to establish that because of Unreal Engine 5.1's amount of tools and VR tools, I can confidently predict a stalker 2 VR mode will be a thing, whether by GSC, fans or hell, both. New engine with alot of fun toys.

[balmy peak]

you have an idea why i can't access my reshade menu anymore?

[vast lava]

Are you launching the same dx exe as before? if you reinstalled or moved you may need to re-install reshade manually against the exe

[simple scaffold]

I have never used reshade in this or any other game

[balmy peak]

aah all good

[lament kettle]

What's the community opinion on a mod using AI to fully voice the game?

I'm sure someone is already working on it at this point.

[balmy peak]

@simple scaffold hey man, you remember that maghud thing you made for me for mags redux

nvm figures it out

[simple scaffold]

it would probably be to high quality and feel out of place.

needs to be bad english, moderate recording quality. i don't think an AI system can pull that off. at least not a free one. no one is going to actualy train an AI on stalker voice files to get it right

training is expensive

[vale minnow]

was going to say pretty much the same, needs to be close to what it might have sounded like at release

maybe after stalker 2 comes out we can train ai on that game since theres voice lines

[simple scaffold]

wouldn't feel right. anomaly needs that early 2000's euro jank feel. if the sound is all modern and pretty and the rest of it is still Xray it will be wrong somehow

[vale minnow]

well yeah, the only way it might work is if they add noise and reduce quality/clarity

i dont really care for it personally but it could be interesting

[sand grove]

Yo what song?

[gaunt pawn]

Is there a callback or some event for when the player crouches?

[random fulcrum]

check axr_main

for all the callbacks

[gaunt pawn]

I did. I see nothing for on crouch. There is a function in _g "isMoveState" but it's not used in any event callbacks; I'd have to call it constantly in an "actor_on_update" and I have no idea how those constant loops perform in Anomaly

[steady apex]

It's every frame

If you just update the current state in it, then the performance hit is undetectable

[gaunt pawn]

That sounds expensive, even for what would just be a simple check

[steady apex]

In reality it is not

There is a lot more shit going on magnitudes more expensive

[gaunt pawn]

Okay, so I'll try making my own callback then.

I'm working on a smart music silencer, so if you start sneaking the music goes silent

[steady apex]

there are two ways of doing that, first is executing console command exec_console_cmd("snd_volume_music 0") and another introduced in modded exes is level.set_music_volume(0)

the latter one wont mess with your user settings

[balmy peak]

hey apologies not part of what you're discussing, do you know if there is any wayt to turn down fog or turn it off vie removing some lines in script files in the game files

bcuz atm i barely can't see infront of me

[steady apex]

you have to edit weather files

[balmy peak]

do you know wich spescifc file, cuz i tried too but think i messed up and nothing worked

[steady apex]

i dont know what weather mod it is used, but in configs\environment\weathers there are weather files

in the files there should be multiple fog_distance parameters

increase them all

[balmy peak]

i assume it is these

increase?

[steady apex]

yes

[balmy peak]

these?>

[steady apex]

yes

[balmy peak]

or should it be in weather graphs

[steady apex]

no its there

[balmy peak]

alright so just the distance nothing else?

[steady apex]

should be enough

[balmy peak]

too how much

[steady apex]

you can also decrease fog_density

idk

try double the value

[balmy peak]

alright wil ltry this

thnks

[regal bolt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNrVxtqC_-o&list=PLlkKtIQHAX5y-D8gkHNFYEupUiPZWRoqF&index=3

[balmy peak]

can anyone reccomend any good sky mods for clouds etc

the 2k upscaled doesn't do much, already tried it

[regal bolt]

try ripping some outta AAA games

thats what i would do tbh rip sky textures outta games thaty have nice ones if its possibler

[modern lintel]

are the ground cloud shadows default anomaly or a mod? want to mess with them

[violet ridge]

you can quickly check yourself, by making a copy of the GAMMA profile in Mo2, and then disabling all the mods to see default Anomaly behavior

[balmy peak]

Yo, can anyone here suggest any decent mods for skies/clouds and terrain? Except Adega, adega seems to fuck around with my gamma tried it twice

[modern lintel]

me and meatchunk where working on improved skyboxes for 1.6 a while back, though not sure if anything like it exists for now

[balmy peak]

Hmmm danm, yeah cuz i keep seeing all these nice screenshots of other peeps's skies and it looks beautiful and mine really doesn't so ikd

[modern lintel]

ah well this is the dev channel, you might be better just asking in screenshots or general

[balmy peak]

Are you just using default

[modern lintel]

yes

[balmy peak]

Mhmm, there is a 2k upscaled skyboxxes, but dunno if that is still compatible

Dunno if you'd know any of this?

[modern lintel]

if it's just textures then likely will still work, but if it edits scrips there is a chance it does not work, again though just find a nice sky image in #╟📸screenshots and ask them what mods they are using would be the fastest way 👍

[sand grove]

Has a really nice shoe gaze feel to it. Reminds me a little of Deftones

[regal bolt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-fetNUKqDM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s9hiKGrBQc&list=RDM9BUMGvjq0g&index=3

[restive cradle]

It is. I used it a lot when i tried majestics weather and reshade.

[devout yacht]

So it's possible to take skyrim cloud and sky textures from mods and make them work in gamma?

[regal bolt]

idk i said if its possible

[devout yacht]

Ik skyrim and fo4 had some pretty crazy mods for stuff like that last time I played those

Especially Fo4 with like 8k clouds

[regal bolt]

later ill look for the textures for clouds and sky

[robust seal]

Hello
I'm looking for volunteers who'd like to join our mod team and help us in creating a story-based mod on Anomaly's engine.
If anyone's interested DM me. Looking for all talents, mostly LUA scripting, SDK work.

[gaunt pawn]

Is there a reason the level.get_music_volume() return value doesn't match the value in user.ltx?

[marsh vapor]

probaby because of this

[gaunt pawn]

Hmm, weird. I'm using both now, but still weird.

[gaunt pawn]

Does anyone want to test out my Smart Music Mute On Crouch mod? It lowers the music volume when you crouch, over the course of like 10 seconds, and vice versa when you standup.

[marsh vapor]

If you are going to publish the mod I would only use the level.* if it exists

that way it can be used outside of gamma

if that is your intention

[low spindle]

Hey yall, does anyone know how to spawn items such as weapons with either fixed or variable levels of deterioration/use?

[gaunt pawn]

I built it in vanilla; I only have the newest modded exes installed

[marsh vapor]

Well that was kind of my point, those APIs only exist for modded exes

[gaunt pawn]

Yeah, ig. How rude of me would it be if I just required the modded exes? 🙂

[marsh vapor]

look at death_manager.script create_item

[low spindle]

Im seeing many criteria that need to be met in order to trigger spawning a damage weapon. Does the engine have vanilla .ltx logic to spawn a damaged weapon? such as on the new game menu?

[marsh vapor]

you just have to set the condition, you can spawn it with the parameter

alife_create_item(sec, npc, {cond = con})

[low spindle]

so to spawn from debug menu to player inventory a 50% ccondition AKs would be wpn_aks74{cond=50} yes?

[marsh vapor]

oh from the debug menu, no idea, i was thinking you meant in code.

in code you do

alife_create_item("wpn_aks74", db.actor, {cond = 0.5})

from the debug menu i think it spawns random condition already

[low spindle]

Im designing a new loadout system but proper balancing for gamma is contingent on being able to start game with damaged weapons. I think its always like 80 or 100% from debug sadly

[marsh vapor]

so you want lower condition from debug just to try?

[low spindle]

i want lower condition weapons to put into the "new game" loadout menu so that you can offer higher tier weapons at the cost of the them being damaged or non-operational, so as to preserve GAMMA's earlygame meta

[marsh vapor]

i see, im guessing its ltx files that define all that somewhere

local ini_itm = ini_file("items\settings\new_game_loadouts.ltx")

[low spindle]

yes but i how do i make sure the items put into that menu are damaged? by default, your weapons are close to new when you spawn in with them

[marsh vapor]

checking

[steady apex]

It's a modifier, by default it's 1

[marsh vapor]

Doesn't look possible based on how its coded. You would have to add new parameters to the ltx and change the ui_mm_faction_select.script to match

Basically it current is

tomato = true,1,60
kolbasa = true,2,100
batteries_dead = true,3,50

this

you'd have to add condition to that list

and then you'd have to change LoadLoadout in the ui_mm_faction__select.script to use that extra parameter

I don't know if the UI would even render a condition bar either, or if it has a way to show it

so you might need to make even more changes to reflect that per item

[low spindle]

@marsh vapor thank you. Im not sure if this is the way i want to implement it then, i may go with alternate route like perhaps creating "unique" versions of existing weapons where everything is the same EXCEPT they cannout be repaired past a certain %point or are stuck in semi auto ect

just something that makes them clearly not endgame material

[primal acorn]

New items don't get declared anywhere else outside of the appropriate item ltx file, do they? I made a couple new ones - and they work fine - but for some reason the crafting system does not register that they exist..

[slim sorrel]

Is there a way to change the randomness of NPC spawns? It's frustrating when I know I don't need to check corners just because I know there won't be anyone there

[torn vault]

@slim sorrel no, but in debug mode, you can enable map debugging so all squads will show up on the map-
wait, you want random spawns in your face? okay, go to settings - the zone - general and and reduce exclusion radius

[tough flame]

I almost forgot to do this, my b

[celest forge]

Oh I got it?

https://tenor.com/view/emoji-screaming-lets-fucking-go-lets-go-lets-gooo-gif-25735018

[tough flame]

yep

[celest forge]

Thank you friend 🙂

[tough flame]

[regal bolt]

Hi

Is there any documentation for modding?

[tough flame]

#╙🖇mods-making-discussion message

[regal bolt]

Neat

[tough flame]

also #╙🖇mods-making-discussion message

got some good info in the pinned messages

[spare ermine]

Anybody can help me add a single silly item to the game?

[primal acorn]

TIL, the crafting menu doesn't like new items with too many underscores in them.. Why, I don't know. But that's a thing.

What's up Curvin, maybe I can. I just got done adding some new stuff

[spare ermine]

oh yea

I want to put in a single food item

how do I do that

[primal acorn]

Putting just the food in? that's a new entry in the \gamedata\configs\items\items\items_food.ltx (though you'd want to make a new file called something like mod_items_food_new.ltx or something to avoid overwrites).

If you want to add it to loot tables, there's more steps..

I should probably point you to https://igigog.github.io/anomaly-modding-book/ for the basics (if this is your very first mod).

[obsidian aspen]

Does anyone know if it's possible to lock the Psy bar to the BHS hud?

Had an idea for an "immersive hud" where everything (except stamina, which autohides) is hidden and only appears on the in-inventory BHS hud (sort of like how it works with EFT BHS Interface). I already have a UI textured out to do it with, too

My only concern is that the BHS hud itself doesn't seem to have a function to tie the Psy bar to it. Specifically referencing all the elements encompassed in the "ui_body_health_system.dds" texture.

[simple scaffold]

psy bar is drawn by the game engine. BHS is drawn by a lua script

[tired talon]

anyone know if editing the viewmodel fov of knives/melee weapons is possible? if so what param handles this?

[obsidian aspen]

[obsidian aspen]

it is, i have mine edited.
gamedata\configs\items\weapons\m_knife.ltx
gamedata\configs\mod_system_meleeanims.ltx
gamedata\configs\mod_system_zzBarryAxeReanim.ltx

Be aware that the sprint anims for knives are janky af

[primal acorn]

Question about how the game reads loadout files:
NPC_loadouts details that it's pri:attach:ammo:chance, but many of the loadouts only have two things after.. Example
wpn_fal_sa58_osw:r:3
Is that only going to bother with attachment and ammo?

The ones that have 3 after, like
wpn_m4_butcher:0:6:40
I think get.. no chance for attachment:6 rounds:40% spawn chance

...unless gamma is handling loadouts differently, and I can't find the script that changes how it does

[empty gazelle]

Does anybody know where the -negative hunger values for general medicine might be? I want to edit them, but not sure what mod(s) they're a part of. Things like stimpacks, medkits etc.

[empty gazelle]

have a feeling it could be these

there's a fair few missing in here though

[random fulcrum]

they weren't patched then

[sick seal]

I have an emergency if anyone can help me, i just posted a weapon mod, its waiting for authentification, however I just noticed 1 of the weapons while using scopes, wont zoom in and out. its just static. I am unsure how to fix this and could really use some insight. thanks.

[dapper meteor]

question real quick, im trying to increase the amount of uses from a bag of cocaine in the game and i am wondering which file i have to edit to do such a thing. i have no idea how to create a whole new mod to do such a thing so any assistance would be appreciated.

[sand grove]

How do I make sniper damage more realistic when used on mutants?

[quiet charm]

You mean like the pseudogiants in real life?

[vale knot]

Anomaly has always had ass sniper damage vs mutants

[quiet charm]

If you want to change a guns damage, search for its ltx. If you want to change calibers search for weapon_ammo.ltx

[low spindle]

Hey yall, simple question. Where are helm properties such as "breathing sound = yes" and "breathing fog =" ect found?

[sand grove]

I dont understand why that is

Why is sniper damage so bad against mutants?

Im using .338 lapua rounds, i should at least 1 shot a fucking pseudo dog

And maybe 3 shot a chimera

[sand grove]

Is damage hit_impulse

[quiet charm]

hit_power

[low spindle]

Im trying to change the properties of helms such as whether or not they make the "breathing" sounds, where is that defined for helms? i dont see it in o_helmet.ltx

[sand grove]

Do you know why it's so bad? I dont really understand

Is it how its calculated or something?

And would making the ammo type stronger help with damage against mutants? Kind of like how HP rounds are?

[quiet charm]

you generally want to exclusively use HP rounds / shotguns vs mutants. Making the ammo type stronger will make things die faster but you'll have adverse effects in terms of game balance

[random fulcrum]

what is this guy trying to achieve?

higher monster damage?

it's script side

and it's not user friendly

[sand grove]

Mutants actually die reasonably from sniper rounds

Thats what Im trying to achieve

[random fulcrum]

so higher monster damage

[sand grove]

Yes

[random fulcrum]

it's script side

grok_bo.script

[sand grove]

A .338 should kill a pseudo dog outright

[random fulcrum]

yeah yeah whatever

        ammo_mult = 420.69
    end

paste that at uhh

line 233 in grok_bo.script

or around that

[sand grove]

420.69?

[random fulcrum]

use your brain

[sand grove]

Damn

I think I know what to do

[random fulcrum]

dude just

copy those 3 lines

and paste them in grok_bo.script

at line 233

[sand grove]

K

Did it

[spare ermine]

well fuck me in the ass I gotta learn how to Blender

But I have none of the patience required to listen to a >20 minute tutorial

[quiet charm]

You wanna learn blender but 20 minutes is too much?

[spare ermine]

I have zoomer brain I cannot spare that much attention even if I tried

[quiet charm]

Let's put a positive spin on it

Think of the fun and accomplishment you'll have by acquiring a new skill

without needing secondary reinforcement to string you along

the journey is the fun part

[spare ermine]

Oh trust me I already tried doing it blindly without looking a tutorial, furthest I got was turning a square into a trapeze and into a very weird low poly carpet thing

[quiet charm]

Congrats on your carpet thing

keep at it or find a hobby you enjoy

[spare ermine]

hold on

Im playing around with the other meshes

maybe i can figure this shit out

[quiet charm]

you can indeed

[regal bolt]

is there a theoretical limit to the amount of tracks on the radio playlists mod?

[regal bolt]

follow up question, would a playlist pack that's supposed to also work as a sort of "hosted radio station" be something i can ask about/seek advice on in here or naw, just not sure where else i'd ask.

[steady apex]

for the first question, i dont think so

[regal bolt]

i didn't assume so, but ya can never know

thank ya brah

[full notch]

I've starting reading anomaly modding book but to be honest I don't I need to modify big things. I want to create a mod to modify PDA quest list. I wanted to organize quests by zones, hiding or showing those zone quests, and maybe changing some icons like chests icons. Where can I find the info for at least, getting started ? For example creating the workspace with needed files for PDA modding.

[tidal arrow]

would u guys give this noob a feedback for this animation, thanks for advises

[lean apex]

Align the animation on its tempo, it is necessary that all the movements would be about the same tempo. Work on the position of the weapon to make it more pleasant and inert. Add a camera animation.
I do not even know what else to say, understanding how to create good animation comes with experience and mistakes. Just animate at your own pleasure and look at the work of others.

[tidal arrow]

with some camera movments, is it too much disorienting at the end ?

[random fulcrum]

yes very much

[regal bolt]

I'm not an animator but I do like that the right hand's not moving around too much
the Anomaly SV-98 reload animations pain me with how much the rifle swings around while inserting the magazine, that would downright ruin your wrist

what you've got looks pretty good, like the rifle has some weight to it
the back-and-forth movement of it at the end as you're "shouldering" it again is a bit odd, would prefer it to go forward then back just once
kind of like you're positioning it before properly bracing it

[karmic orchid]

Hey I am wanting to try and make a basic multiplayer mod for anomaly...nothing to crazy, maybe just a basic p2p system with 1 other player but I don't really know where to start

any suggestions

[hardy hound]

i don't think theres any guide or that it's any simple to begin with

[karmic orchid]

Oh I am aware that it will not be easy... 😦

I guess the first thing is how would I go about setting up a server that is hosted locally on the host player

I am trying to find material online but it is very scarce

I am currently looking into OpenMW for morrowind. they seem to have the type of system that I would like to use

[near verge]

https://tenor.com/view/nathan-fillion-no-words-speechless-mal-firefly-gif-11786332

[sharp verge]

you do realise you're building a mp system for a single player game, you're going to have to build it from the ground up

If it was easy, someone would have done it by now

[sinful pawn]

ye its like the people who made a MP mod for fallout new vegas, not easy by any means at all

[karmic orchid]

I understand it is not easy

But unlike F:NV or Morrowind. Stalker does not have as large a following thus why it is likely not done so yet

I'm sure it wasn't easy for those games either, but they did it

What I am wanting to do is with only 1 other player so the difficulty, while still great is much reduced

The X-Ray multiplayer mod is the closest thing I have seen to this

[sick seal]

Hey i have a question, so i released a weapon mod, and there were some issues post release that needed to be patched, i fixed them all, but 1 issue was created. if you downloaded the original file and used it on a saved game, the updated patch will cause CTDs because of a renaming of a scope (it was having duplicate/fatal error CTDs) If you never ran the original version then the update works fine, no new game needed. But I want to know if theres a way to fix this problem for those who dont want to start a new game and downloaded the 1st version.

I changed the name of a scope, so when you load up an old save with the 1st version of the mod. its calling for say wpn_addon_scope_specter , but you changed it to wpn_addon_scope_specter1 . and it crashes because the original name no longer is a thing.

[soft badge]

Main practical way to deal with something like that, far as I'm aware, is a clean uninstall. Install the old version, completely remove all traces of the item from the game, then install the new one. The bad references are baked into the item that is active in the save.

Sorry, uninstall, launch the game, make a save without the bad item, then reinstall.

[sick seal]

thats what i figured. I was hoping i was wrong though. or there was some method to solve it. thanks for confirming for me though. i appreciate it.

[soft badge]

If you want to make it easier on your users, you could make a patch containing the references of the old version (so it doesn't crash), which iterates through the game when it launches and releases any items with a matching section. Then they just have to launch with the patch installed, re-save their game, quit and install the correct version, and re-launch.

[sick seal]

how would i keep the scope references and not crash? mind explaining? while im good with Gimp and Blender, not so much at file writing lol.

is the issue i had to rename the scope to fix. so keeping the references, wouldnt that cause the same crash again?

[soft badge]

Basically, start with a copy of the original mod that doesn't crash but has the bug. You only need for users to be able to launch without crashing, and the old version does that, right?

Then, once they're in-game, you can iterate and delete any existing items. Once the items are no longer in the game, they can save, and their save will be clean.

Then they reinstall the "fixed" version that crashes if the old version is in the game.

[sick seal]

the old version did this for some people. not everyone. whoever had the mod that already had an LCO in it.

[soft badge]

I guess what I'm saying is, the bottom line is that to fix this they need to be able to get in-game without crashing. If they can't no matter what mod version they have installed, their save is irrecoverably dirty.

If there is any version of the mod they can roll back to, or any circumstance that will allow them to do that, a scripted patch like I mentioned can fix them. If not, they're rogered.

[sick seal]

gotcha, just clicked. i know exactly what your saying.

the people who had this crash probably never made it into the game, but the people who did wouldnt crash with the scope references in the patch.

[soft badge]

Got it. In that case it should be fine.

[sick seal]

time to change update instructions for a 100th time lol. its just been back and forth. im alright at making mods. managing them however is a different story lol

how does one "delete" items ingame though? ive never had to "delete" anything so never looked into how.

[soft badge]

This is an example of the function I use for uninstall cleanup in mods where I add a new item. Obviously, test on something safe first.

local uninstall = false -- set true via MCM or script to enable this to happen when called
local inv_item = "kolbasa" -- section of the item to delete
local function uninstall_cleanup()
if uninstall then
local function delete_item(obj)
local se_obj = alife_object(obj:id())
local id = se_obj.id or nil
local name = se_obj:name() or nil
alife_release_id(id)
end

    local function search(temp , item)
        if item:section() == inv_item then
            delete_item(item)
        end
    end
    db.actor:iterate_inventory(search,nil)
end

end

This is for iterating through what the actor is carrying in their inventory. If you need to iterate through the entire game, you'd need to iterate a bit differently, but the deletion logic should be the same.

[sick seal]

and how do you idk, activate this function? like i said im newer to file building and scripting and that side of modding, than i am animating and mesh building.

[soft badge]

The simplest way would be something like this:

function on_game_start
uninstall_cleanup()
end

Then, if the uninstall variable is to to true, the function will trigger on startup.

[sick seal]

okay awesome.

thanks a million!

[soft badge]

If your weapon is named, for example, wpn_overpowered_cannon, set the line inv_item = "wpn_overpowered_cannon" so that it knows what to look for.

NP!

[sick seal]

question, if the scope is injected via Traders, could i use BAS gun despawn script, but alter it to just my assets?

[regal bolt]

Hello, i have a question. I am total newbie and wanted to ask is there any simple way to loop through all items in Misc Category of loot Table, something like pythonic: "for item in misc_items"?

[soft badge]

Sounds like you want something like this:

yourtable = {
["foo"] = "bar"
}
for k,v in pairs(yourtable) do
printf("Key and value: %s = %s",k,v)
end

Result:
Key and value: foo = bar

That's your bread and butter for rolling through a table of keys and their values.

[regal bolt]

Okay, so i got to write down every item I want to loop first, is this correct?

[soft badge]

Not necessarily? Like, if you only want to catch certain items, you're just putting conditional logic like an IF where the printf is. It's going to repeat that test for every key-value pair.

It's going to iterate through all the items in the table, however many there are.

[regal bolt]

Okay, thanks

[soft badge]

I'm having a weird problem I could use some expert help with. I've implemented a new tier of PDA in an addon. It works perfectly, except for one thing: Anomaly completely ignores the PDA key (bind kACTIVE_JOBS) when this specific PDA is equipped. All others work as expected.

It's behaving like there's something hardcoded in the engine that decides what is and isn't actually a PDA for the purposes of triggering that keybind, which would be really silly.

So I found the only two places in the vanilla scripting where it traps that key, and duplicated their code to try to trap it myself. Which works--except that by the time my on_key_release fires, the vanilla script has already caught it, so while opening the PDA this way works, closing it immediately re-opens it, because my IsShown() test is resolving false, I suspect because the vanilla script doesn't have the same problem with closing the PDA, and has already done so when my script fires, so mine thinks the PDA was closed and needs to be re-opened.

I'm not sure how to get around this. Any ideas?

[regal bolt]

@soft badge What if I wanted to loop through all items in this category (by_list)? Is there any in-build expression that will allow me to do that?

[soft badge]

What are you trying to do?

[regal bolt]

For item in [table_of_items_written_in_by_list_(etter_ecologist_report_1_of_3, letter_ecologist_report_2_of_3, etter_ecologist_report_3_of_3 etc]. I ask whether you can write those in square bracket by some expression

[soft badge]

There are various ways to do what it sounds like you want, but IMO the most elegant is usually putting the desired matches in a table and checking whether the iterated item exists in the table. So for example:

someletters = {
["letter1"],
["letter2"],
["recipe1"]
}

playerstuff = {
["letter2"] = 1,
["shitty_pda"] = 1,
["recipe1"] = 2,
["rotten_meat"] = 1
}

for k,v in pairs(playerstuff) do
if someletters[k] then
printf("Player has %s %s",v,k)
end
end

Result:
Player has 1 letter2
Player has 2 recipe1

Hopefully I didn't fluff any syntax there, but the idea should be clear enough I hope.

What you'll probably be testing against is the object's "section" (e.g. "letter_ecologist_report_1_of_3")

So if you've gotten the game object passed to you stored in the variable "obj", then you want obj:section()

This is really where looking at existing scripts that do something similar to what you want (i.e. checking what an object is) will serve you best.

[regal bolt]

Okay, I see now. Thank you for your time

[empty patrol]

So, the XRay Engine that is used in Anomaly has its source code publicly available, right?

I was thinking if it would make sense to invest time to multi-thread it, and add some better scripting tools and SDKs, such as nodejs

maybe also add chromium for better UIs and shit

does anyone know where to find the engine's source code? specifically, the one used in Anomaly

https://bitbucket.org/anomalymod/xray-monolith/src/master/ this one doesn't seem to be up to date, it's missing the LTX functionality. Unless that's not part of the engine itself?

[lean apex]

This is the publicly available source of version 1.5.2. A new version will be in 1.6, which is under development. There are also modded exes with engine improvements https://github.com/themrdemonized/STALKER-Anomaly-modded-exes.
If you want new functionality and interface look at this project https://github.com/RedPandaProjects/XRayEngine

[narrow stirrup]

Is it posible to make a menu on the mcm with bars to edit audio levels for a mod i create wich adds battle music?

[simple scaffold]

Yes, but there is also a script in the resources channel of the anomaly that is a template for doing just that.

[simple scaffold]

Can you change those audio levels from a script? If yes then yes. MCM is not magic it is just a system for scripts to store and read data that can also be manipulated by the player via a UI.

[narrow stirrup]

I see thank u raven i guess i should find a way to edit the audio from the script

[shell knoll]

sorry to butt in here, isnt there a way to edit .ltx files while in game?

I'm editing the item_devices.ltx file and could have sworn you can do it on the fly while in game?

[simple scaffold]

ltx in general yes. system.ltx, which that ltx is part of, no. that would break everything

[shell knoll]

okay thanks for the help

What I'm trying to fix is the map on the PDA. On UW resolutions, it squishes the map (or maybe just the icons). I've edited the hud_fov in the items_devices.ltx file and it helps a little bit with reading/visibility but still looks like this. Any clue where I should look to correct this? All help is very much appreciated!

Notice the white circles are actually ovals. When using 2d PDA, this is not an issue...but that is not a solution to this issue imo.

[undone lily]

It would make a lot of sense, now that’s tons of work to multithread it

[simple scaffold]

it's an engine bug. when the 3dpda was implemented the anomaly deves neglected to tell the map rendere that it should render for the 16:9 screen on that model and not the ratio of you monitor. Your options are: 1, deal with it, 2, use the 2dpda, 3, play on 16:9, 4 learn the xray engine and direct x, and shaders then fork the monolith engine and corect the rendering bug. I personaly go with 2

[shell knoll]

gotcha. are you personally running on a UW res?

[simple scaffold]

21:9

if your equipped guns in your inventory don't look stupidly streched with scopes by their trigger guards that is because you have some of my UI fixes installed.

been fixing what i can. 3dPDA is beyound me.

[sick seal]

Thanks man. much appreciated. I havent heard any complaints about these save issues. but its something I want to offer just incase. right now im making a 2022 BAS patch, but after im gunnna get working on an Uninstall/Mod Removal Script (something i know absolutely nothing about lol)

[bronze wharf]

Hello fellow chat

I would like someone help me for something that makes me go nuts

And its the OGF FORMAT

I don't know what program i should use for it!

I used blander but it doesn't support it

I USED UNITY AND IT DIDN'T WORK

Now im dead end ! And cant think of SHIT

[random fulcrum]

xray pavelblend plugin for blender

[bronze wharf]

Got it! Thank you sooo much!!! @random fulcrum

[polar magnet]

I want to make some edits to the main map (basically add some icons). What's the process look like to do that? Is it just editing some pngs or more involved?

[simple scaffold]

.DDS not pngs. And that is one way. Possibly could be done via script with the system that adds the stash and npc markers. I have seen both done

[gaunt pawn]

So I found a soft incompatibility between AutoZoom and MCM Key Wrapper. AutoZoom uses they "kKANJI" key to do it's magic, and that's one of the keys Key Wrapper uses. So anytime Key Wrapper assigns an action to "kKANJI" the controls get really junked up.
It's an easy fix, to remove "kKANJI" from Key Wrapper's list of usable keys and replace it with something else.
Should this soft-bug be reported somewhere? I'm not quite sure

[arctic relic]

Hey all I'm starting to learn this pavel blender plugin - I'm wanting to modify some weapon animations but not sure of how to get the correct camera setup to correctly visualise what it will look like in-game.
Is there a stalker viewmodel template somewhere with the correct camera placement etc.?

[regal bolt]

Retrogue made some animations a few days ago (scroll up in this channel a bit to see 'em), but I'm not sure what program was used

[lean apex]

In my bad experience, the camera in Blender and the camera in the game will be different. I myself have not figured out how to configure it more or less, so that in the game, the weapon looks the way I conceived. I personally did so: did motionless animation in Blender and imported into the game and from what I see in the game adjusted the camera in Blender (approximately adjusted fov camera in Blender, so it looked like in the game)

[icy quest]

Id like to add the M82 into the Merc NPC equipment pool, what would the process look like to do that?

[violet ridge]

there is a loadout config, which you can DLTX it to make the weapon appear on given faction stalker ranks

if you unpack Anomaly db files, you should have quick tutorial in loadout file how to make them yourself

[past barn]

Would it be possible for the PDA/minimap to mark stashes put down by the player? Things like the 400kg metal box for example don't have an icon on the map, unlike the stashes you can crate from a backpack

[hasty scaffold]

Does anyone know where I can try out some 3d scopes for BaS? alot of people say its bad because it hurts frames but I wanna try it out it looks cool lmao

[torn vault]

@hasty scaffold this will double your gpu usage, that's why almost no games have such features

[remote venture]

If I wanted to from scratch remake the actor voice for kills, jams, pain, death, etc…

What is the process?

For example

Record the VA on this software in this format, save as this.

My goal is to present the crisp clips in a way a mod maker can take and plug in.

Also say you had 10 voice recordings for expressing pain.

Could you add say 50 of them coded to play 10 at a time for each bracket of rookie, veteran, expert, and legendary rank?

[violet ridge]

one way for your mod is to be straight up "replacer"

ie. you mimick the structure of the original files used, and you keep the names and their locations the same for your creation

when loaded by the mod manager, they will be loaded instead original files

but that means you can only do as many sounds as they are already defined, which obviously is not what you seek

i dont have the straight answer to the latter, ie. adding more

i'd recommend checking other voice mods, replacers and expansions, there are out there - see what they do under the hood

[remote venture]

Appreciate the response regardless. I suppose getting all the sound files from the actor folder and pugging in the custom content is the most easy

[violet ridge]

maybe someone else will give answer you seek

there is also anomaly discord and their mod sections where you are more than free to ask the same query

there's also a bunch of helpful folks there + sometimes even anomaly devs themselves might chime in (note, @-ing them is not recommended)

[remote venture]

Good point, it would just be cool to say. Here are the recordings, plug em in, make ‘em work. Here’s money

[violet ridge]

there is a war nymph mod which changes player actor voices for female ones, dunno if they add more voice files but that might be one sure place to look at how it works

[remote venture]

Fair, asking the author who already did such a thing feels like a good start.

[violet ridge]

i'd recommend taking the mod apart on your own first

learn what makes it tick

[remote venture]

As much as I’d like to I don’t have the skill set. If not for Groks auto installer I’d still be playing base anomaly

[blissful dune]

I've no idea how it works in a modular way, but it certainly can be done to add extra voice clips, or define who uses which clip and when. At least with straight up modding.

It's my first time seeing the mod manager, but from my experience modding other games it's doable. But you'll need someone else to set it up if you lack the knowledge or will to experiment with game files.

[hasty reef]

Can anyone help me to combine this https://www.nexusmods.com/stalkeranomaly/mods/16 addon for GAMMA? I tried my best, but i still have one bug. Everything seems to be working, but the little man on the bottom left, that shows damaged limbs, is not shown. What files are responsible for this and how to fix it?

[hasty reef]

I want to have a default GAMMA HUD while having EFT Interface that shows a bigger picture of your limbs condition while inventory is open.

[daring mauve]

are there any mods that remove minimap and pda map transparency?

[past barn]

The minimap transparency is controlled in the zone_map_16.xml config files:

255 being the max. obviously. Not sure what you mean by the PDA tho

[primal acorn]

I don't know why this is giving me such headache.. I want to do some modding to weapon .ltx files - specifically, remove some sections from them. Do I need to republish the entire .ltx file with the sections I want removed left out, or can I just comment it out with !! (which hasn't worked..). Reading the documentation, I thought !! would work, but nah?

[vale knot]

Dltx has a means of removing sections iirc

[primal acorn]

Yea, I tried that, and it spat out the same file, just without the parts I edited out. Which made me think, ok, so I need to republish it in it's entirety?

DLTX doesn't like formatting, so anywhere it sees like.. tabs.. it thinks it's a different line

[vale knot]

You mean the dltx-ify tool? That what you used?

[zealous copper]

Is there anywhere to learn how to mod weapon meshes

looks like wavey has one

does anyone know what mod the sr-25 is from?

is it in base anomaly?

[primal acorn]

I've got it, yea. Its just been.. Less than reliable when it comes to deletion. I just need to figure out the most minimally invasive method for deleting a section is all..

[zealous copper]

man trying to figure out how to take stuff from other mods and add them to say default anomaly weapons makes me respect everyone who does this stuff immensely

Got my files open and reading them its like brain surgery

also I found the sr-25 didn't realize it was stock anomaly

can you copy and paste say items from weapon addons.ltx from bas and put those on the anomaly sr-25.ltx

Sorry for the dumbass questions

[primal acorn]

From what I understand, it's not that simple.. Lots has been done in gamma to adjust visuals, and there's a lot of position data that's been changed

[random fulcrum]

no you can't

attachments on guns are baked to the model

[zealous copper]

yeah its nuts

so theres no way to add stuff to stock anomaly guns

that one guys mod added stuff from bas to other bas guns

but I guess you cant take bas stuff and add it to stock anomaly stuff

[random fulcrum]

you can

but not through only text

besides it will look dogshit

having anomaly's lowpoly models with the 4 trillion polygon bas scopes

[vale knot]

Sr25 is from Boomsticks and sharpsticks
If you still needed that answer

[random fulcrum]

it's a vanilla gun

[zealous copper]

yeah true

models not awful

[celest forge]

You can

Just takes a lot of time

[pastel sage]

I just inserted the ash12 suppressed sound over the Vssk sound in the gamma weapon forlder and this thing sounds angry now. Like the suppressor can barely contain the violence coming out of the barrel

wpn_ash12_snd_silenced

wpn_ash12_snd_silenced_actor

added these 2

[primal acorn]

This is so strange.. What is so special about the FAL Upgrade Kits that it actually works properly when disassembled.. It's the only one.

Just spits out parts, nothing else..

I wonder if it's because it's inheriting from a parent that has no scope capabilites on its own.. Hmm..

[zealous copper]

Yeah it sure seems like it

[celest forge]

Considering StCOP has like

300 guns

Unlikely someone will actually do that tho

[undone lily]

SR25 is a gamma gun

[undone lily]

It simply halves your framerate

[blissful dune]

Anyone knows how to pass mod options to MCM? Trying to fix a mod, but it has the hotkeys in options and that creates a few problems.

Or at the very least, someone that managed to get OPFOR ClearHUD to work?

[hasty scaffold]

Tarkov and squad are the two games that i know that has this feature but who am I kidding this is stalker

[hasty scaffold]

I see stalker runs only on one core no?

[blissful dune]

Ooooh, I do it from MCM's files, not from the mod's.

[hasty scaffold]

Err one cpu core

[undone lily]

yes

[hasty scaffold]

No wonder lmao

[near verge]

Just wait for Stalker 2 for that kind of thing.

[vale knot]

oops

[karmic heath]

Hello,
tldr mod idea - English item descripions with Russian in brackets.

Idk if that's the right place for ideas / suggestions. I've been learning Russian for 3 years now and came up with this idea to naturally learn new words by playing the game. Since gamma is both in English and Russian it shouldn't be too hard to do?
For example: water (вода)
Could be problematic with UI with too much text on the screen.
Thank you for your opinions on the matter!

[violet ridge]

it would double the required space for displayed text

fine for small things, but some items have hefty descriptions

[karmic heath]

Yeah, maybe just for the main description, leaving what it does, for example M1 med pack is soviet ble ble ble (Russian version) and heals / post heals section left entirely in English

[tawny yoke]

anyone know of any way to make mutant pelt lose condition on hit? or is there any addon already that also work on gamma?

pelts last forever now make them kinda op

[soft badge]

Does anyone know if the text override for MCM menus actually works? For example, let's say I have an option that looks like this:

{id = "show_f", type = "check", val = 1, def = false, text = "ui_mcm_milpda_showf"},

I want it to use that string, not the auto-generated ID string, because I have several menus with the same options for different items, and I don't want to have a bunch of unnecessary text string duplication when I can just reference the same string for all of them that should look the same.

However, MCM just seems to outright ignore these custom "text" fields. Instead I get this:

I'm kinda tearing my hair out over this because it's blatantly not doing what the documentation and common sense seem to dictate. Am I doing something incorrectly?

If you wouldn't mind taking a quick look at the above when you have a minute @simple scaffold, I'd appreciate it. I can't seem to get any element in MCM to acknowledge the existence of a "text" override for the usual default ID string. It acts as if those override fields just don't exist. All other functionality works as described in the documentation, so I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I'm doing something wrong that isn't obvious. Thanks!

Edit: never mind, I figured out what I was doing wrong. For anyone else: it's "hint" you want, not "text".

Sorry to bother!

I should add, this is on a clean install of 1.5.2 that has nothing on top except MCM and the mod I'm developing.

[stuck spear]

I believe I've found what is causing busyhands (and also seemingly random crashes), but could use another eye. Who do I talk to?

[simple scaffold]

i didn't pick the key words and agree hint is a bit odd. I may add the text key to more items in the future, if only so i can use it in MCM itself.

[dapper meteor]

Is there a mod that hides the Body health System but then have it appear when my inventory is open?

basically like this mod but updated for GAMMA

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/eft-interface-for-groks-body-health-system

or this like @hasty reef said
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalkeranomaly/mods/16

[soft badge]

Thanks for responding, I got it sorted all out. 👍 Now that I know what to look for it'll be fine, but yeah, I agree--I feel like "text" ought to more or less universally, well, display text. 🙂

[simple scaffold]

if i add text to settings it will be paired with desc allowing you to override the normal strings for name and the tool tip individualy with a non prefixed string key. Mostly so that you can feed in Item names and things. I've held off be cause it is one work, and two the current system of MCM generating the string IDs for most things prevents odd string collisions between addons.

It will be a power user feature hidden in a patch note most likely

[soft badge]

It's a minor note of confusion in an otherwise fantastic tool.

[nimble moss]

https://youtu.be/K-Yfp1PKCHU

[nimble moss]

Hey I don't really know if this is the right spot to share this so I'm sorry if it is not..I want to ask,is there a mod or is there a mod in the making that'll have the more centered gun position like in this vid?Personally i think it looks better than the other known mods' gun position

Or can i just make it myself by simply editing some files or what not?(Felt dumb asking this)

[regal bolt]

you can achieve it by adjust each gun by hand, so it's not simple or easy
use this or you will have a bad time https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/draggable-hud-editor

[nimble moss]

This must be it!

You think i can just slap this into Gamma?

Don't wanna break my game trying myself

[regal bolt]

it should work
worst comes to worst, you can do a reinstall of GAMMA and everything will be back to normal

[nimble moss]

Yeah i guess i'll try

Thank you so much bratan

[regal bolt]

[hasty comet]

Any way to add more spawns of military dudes in Agroprom? I think their base is too easy to steamroll, and I dont wanna crank up all human spawns 50% 😟

[hasty comet]

I bet the mod files have that region's spawns specified somewhere.

And I could add a few entries or modify a value there..

[deft gate]

I have mod idea - gamma is about finding and repairing your gear - mod that causes technicans to not being able to repair suits if they didn't got tools - if you want to repair light type of armor you have to give technican earlier basic tools etc (only for armors because they are only cleaning rifle not reapiring it)

[undone lily]

Give techs a basic tool > you can buy related armor repair kit > you can repair your armor

if you mean giving tools > pay roubles to straight up repair an armor you just skip all the armor parts scavenging, so why would you need armor parts to start with

[deft gate]

I mean how he can repair for me skat-9 armor for money for example if he don't have repair kit's to work with. With money right now i can even in cordon get heavy armor and repair it at Xenotech but he still don't have light repair kit on stock

[undone lily]

Well in gamma you can't repair armors for roubles unless you have custom addons

[deft gate]

hmm i recently made reset with mods, reinstaled all addons etc

never mind (something gone wrong then)

[undone lily]

What I mean is: design your stuff well before asking for help. If you want NPCs to be able to repair armors based on the tools they have in their possession, you need to delve into the following script:

There's the following code snippet:

CanRepair = inventory_upgrades.can_repair_item
function inventory_upgrades.can_repair_item( sec, cond, mechanic )
    local kind = ini_sys:r_string_ex(sec,"kind")
    if sec == "batteries_exo" then return false
    elseif IsItem("helmet",sec) or IsItem("outfit",sec) then return false
    elseif kind == "i_arty_cont" then return false
    else return CanRepair(sec, cond, mechanic) end
end

This is what prevents in GAMMA to have techs repairing armors, helmets, etc

you can customise this function to your liking by checking if the NPC has the tool set and based on the object armor repair type

To check if an npc as some specific toolkits you can use something like:

        local npc_sec = npc:section()
    if npc_sec and db.actor:has_info(npc_sec .. "_upgrade_tier_1") then
        printf("can repair armors with basic kit"
    end
        if npc_sec and db.actor:has_info(npc_sec .. "_upgrade_tier_2") then
        printf("can repair armors with advanced kit"
    end
        if npc_sec and db.actor:has_info(npc_sec .. "_upgrade_tier_3") then
        printf("can repair armors with expert kit"
    end

this needs to be used in the correct script...

so taking the example above: item_exo_device.script

CanRepair = inventory_upgrades.can_repair_item
function inventory_upgrades.can_repair_item( sec, cond, mechanic )
    local kind = ini_sys:r_string_ex(sec,"kind")
    if sec == "batteries_exo" then return false
    elseif IsItem("helmet",sec) or IsItem("outfit",sec) then 
      local repair_type = ini_sys:r_string_ex(sec,"repair_type")
      local npc_sec = mechanic:section()
      if npc_sec and db.actor:has_info(npc_sec .. "_upgrade_tier_1") and repair_type = "helmet_light" or repair_type = "outfit_light" then
        return CanRepair(sec, cond, mechanic)
      end
      if npc_sec and db.actor:has_info(npc_sec .. "_upgrade_tier_2") and repair_type = "helmet_medium" or repair_type = "outfit_medium" or repair_type = "outfit" then 
        return CanRepair(sec, cond, mechanic)
      end
      if npc_sec and db.actor:has_info(npc_sec .. "_upgrade_tier_3") and repair_type = "helmet_heavy" or repair_type = "outfit_heavy" then
        return CanRepair(sec, cond, mechanic)
      end
    elseif kind == "i_arty_cont" then return false
    else return CanRepair(sec, cond, mechanic) end
end

so here's goes your addon basically...

@deft gate

[lavish herald]

guys,how can i get kidzukami reposition for glowsticks as a separate addon?I cant find it on moddb

[fair granite]

The base weapon sway is tied to the weapon animation itself? Can it be changed on the LTX file or something?

[balmy peak]

can someone maybe go have a look in reshade and tell me what this issue could be, it only appears over the excavator in jupiter

[mortal grove]

@undone lily i have a question, whats the program you use to make mods? i wanted to practice but idk with what program to start.

[undone lily]

Notepad and your brain

More seriously, Visual Studio Code or Notepad++

[mortal grove]

thanks

[undone lily]

But you need knowledge of most files or what to search in the files to modify what you want + understand how script works if you want to mod

And usually depending on what you want to do, you need to know totally different things

Like some people are very good at UI, others at AI and quests, others at porting guns, others at making gameplay mechanics and balancing stuff, etc

[mortal grove]

gotcha, thanks

[shadow hull]

@undone lily With the tier system you made for stashes, can lower tier items still show up in higher tier stashes or are the tiers exclusive? Like can tier 1 items still show up in tier 2 and up stashes or only in tier 1 stashes?

[undone lily]

Each map has a set of item tiers in stashes. Items are taken from these tiers

Basically a map can have 2,3,3,3,4

Meaning mostly tier 3 items but also more rarely tier 2 and 4 items

[shadow hull]

So in this example, when a stash is generated on that map it has a 20% chance to be a tier 2, a 60% chance to be tier 3, and 20% to be 4 if I'm understanding it correctly?

[undone lily]

Yes

[shadow hull]

And is stash generation from completing tasks and purchasing them from Spore and Sid entirely random on the map?

[undone lily]

It’s one of the empty stashes of the maps connected to actual map you get stash info in

Connected is depending on one file, not the pda map per se

[shadow hull]

So getting tasks further up north and turning them in increases the odds you get more northern stashes? And say if I want more early game stashes to appear in the south I would do more tasks given by groups in the south?

[shadow hull]

Also could you tell me the file name?

[undone lily]

Yes

Ah I forgot it…

Let me find it

[shadow hull]

So doing stuff for say... Sid and the CS base would generate more stashes in the further south of the map?

And Duty / Freedom would likely populate more of the center?

[undone lily]

Here's the linked maps. Meaning, accomplishing quests or buying stashes in the [maps] have a chance to give stashes in the listed target_maps.

[k00_marsh]
target_maps = l03_agroprom, l01_escape, l08_yantar

[k01_darkscape]
target_maps = l01_escape, l04_darkvalley

[l01_escape]
target_maps = k00_marsh, k01_darkscape, l02_garbage, y04_pole

[l02_garbage]
target_maps = l06_rostok, l03_agroprom, l04_darkvalley, l01_escape, l07_military

[l03_agroprom]
target_maps = l08_yantar, l02_garbage, k00_marsh, l06_rostok, l03u_agr_underground

[l04_darkvalley]
target_maps = k01_darkscape, l02_garbage, l07_military, k02_trucks_cemetery, l04u_labx18, y04_pole

[l05_bar]
target_maps = l06_rostok, l07_military, l02_garbage, k02_trucks_cemetery

[l06_rostok]
target_maps = l07_military, l08_yantar, l02_garbage, l03_agroprom

[l07_military]
target_maps = l09_deadcity, l10_red_forest, l10_radar, l02_garbage, l04_darkvalley, k02_trucks_cemetery

[l08_yantar]
target_maps = l09_deadcity, l06_rostok, l03_agroprom, k00_marsh, l08u_brainlab

[l09_deadcity]
target_maps = l08_yantar, l10_limansk, l07_military

[l10_limansk]
target_maps = l10_red_forest, l09_deadcity, l11_hospital

[l10_radar]
target_maps = l11_pripyat, l10_red_forest, l07_military, l10u_bunker

[l10_red_forest]
target_maps = l10_limansk, l07_military, l10_radar, jupiter

[l11_hospital]
target_maps = l10_limansk, l12_stancia_2

[l11_pripyat]
target_maps = l12_stancia, l10_radar, pripyat, jupiter

[l12_stancia]
target_maps = l11_pripyat, l12_stancia_2, zaton, l12u_sarcofag

[l12u_sarcofag]
target_maps = l12u_control_monolith

[l12u_control_monolith]
target_maps = l12u_sarcofag

[l12_stancia_2]
target_maps = l12_stancia, l13_generators, l11_hospital, l12u_control_monolith

[l13_generators]
target_maps = l12_stancia_2

[zaton]
target_maps = l12_stancia, jupiter

[jupiter]
target_maps = zaton, jupiter_underground, l10_red_forest, l11_pripyat

[pripyat]
target_maps = l11_pripyat, jupiter_underground, labx8

[jupiter_underground]
target_maps = jupiter, pripyat

[k02_trucks_cemetery]
target_maps = l05_bar, l04_darkvalley, l07_military

[y04_pole]
target_maps = l01_escape, l04_darkvalley

[shadow hull]

If this also applies to the stashes you can buy from Sid and CS it seems like purchasing stash info is only viable early game since they can never generate stashes up north.

[undone lily]

Simulation_objects.ltx

[shadow hull]

Thanks.

[undone lily]

They can if you fill the maps iirc

Or they stop I don’t remember

[shadow hull]

But that requires purchasing them until all stashes are filled first and not picking up filled stashes?

[undone lily]

Yes

It’s dumb

[shadow hull]

That's not very viable lol

[undone lily]

And not intended anyways

[shadow hull]

Gotcha.

[undone lily]

Just do quests north

I’ll add more people in the north bases soon enough

Im reworking north spawns

[shadow hull]

So you wouldn't consider say an option to have different stash tiers purchasable by Sid and Spore with exponential increases in prices?

I guess it wouldn't be possible either.

Since it's dependent on the map the player is in when the stash is generated.

[shadow hull]

Fair, I think some factions don't even have northern bases.

I'm not sure say Duty or Clear Sky have a post in the north but I guess they can just use the loners posts.

[shadow hull]

@undone lily I'm also thinking of a color code for stash tiers, could just use the borderlands colors to determine tier color and to differentiate common stashes from rare stashes could have the rare stashes be a larger icon.

[tawny stream]

CS definitely do not. Would be cool to have little enclaves.

[primal acorn]

Ok, this is strange. No matter what trick I use, I can't seem to override the cost for scopes. Even separating that out into a file with a bunch of zz's, loading last in the order, nothing..

[shadow hull]

Anyone know which lines of the treasure_manager script determines the appearance of a stash on the PDA? I know a stash can appear white or green depending on if it is common or rare so which script determines that appearance and color?

[twilit patio]

is there a mod to make nvg's blue like white phosphorus?

[marsh vapor]

treasure_manager.get_random_stash there is a line

    local is_rare = caches_rare[str .. stash_name] and true or false

and caches_rare is populated from

    ini_treasure = ini_file("items\\settings\\grok_treasure_manager.ltx")

[shadow hull]

I'm trying to figure out which file determines the color of the marker on the PDA. In Gamma common stashes are white and rares are green but in vanilla anomaly common stashes were green and rare stashes were purple.

[marsh vapor]

im assuming its just a texture

[marsh vapor]

Vanilla was green too, this is the file from 1.52 unpack

path -> \textures\ui

file -> ui_actor_hint_wnd.dds

[shadow hull]

Ah ok, it looks like there is a texture for common, rare, and the isg stashes.

[near verge]

ISG gets their unique red stashes

[undone lily]

No I hate that kind of color codes for loot

People will expect crazy loot and find random shit in a high tier stash

[shadow hull]

Fair enough lol

[grave cairn]

Hello m8s

What about Gunslinger + FDDA animations, with change of needed anims, example only with flask, bandage and energy drink?

[opaque crescent]

Hi guys, could you recommend good sources about mod creating? I would like to do my own

[marsh vapor]

#╙🖇mods-making-discussion message

This helps, look at other mods, look at the Anomaly source

[opaque crescent]

Thank you

[past barn]

Can someone enlighten me on how does the "Unlimited stashes weight" mod work? It only has 1 script file in its folder, which contains nothing at all

[violet ridge]

maybe it overwrites the script which says the stash weight is limited ?

byhaving the script file be empty

[past barn]

This is the only mod that has a file with this name, so that's not the case Wait a second

[past barn]

Yeah, that's what's going on it seems like

[desert ermine]

Hello, do we have some ambiente sounds overhaul? i watched some older gameplay and it seems to have better ambiente sounds as the current version animals in the distance, rain, footsteps etc. i set my sfx volume to max but idk not a big change

[solemn pelican]

A quick preview trailer video of the new Main menu design in Enhanced GUI Inventory video will be released.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBwvH1r5bYI

[sick seal]

hey everyone, so a mod i released contains 8 guns as of rn, will have 10 today, (with 3 mag options for 2 of the guns), I built a Zip Tree to act as a ghetto FOMOD in MO2 but it boosts my mod's filesize to 700mb, super inefficient, How hard would it be for someone who doesnt know scripting to create a FOMOD? (i learn pretty quickly with most things, but never tried scripting, but I want to make a FOMOD either today or have one by tomorrow. any tips or insights?

[primal acorn]

I removed my previous messages as I tested a bunch of stuff, but yea. I'm stumped. I can't override scope costs. The in-game numbers for several (ACOG, Leupold, Kashtan, etc.) don't even match what is defined in Boomsticks or Gamma Weapon Pack. I can't even find what is assigning them their prices.. And I know that it's attempting to load my changes - if I remove the '!', the engine freaks out that I'm overwriting and asks me to put it back.

Anyone have an idea what I'm missing here?

[upper nova]

King

[solemn pelican]

[teal pier]

Anyone use Winter mods and which one to use for GAMMA?

Using YAWM just corrupts my shader cache.

[balmy peak]

yo guys, how do i use adega's Autum trees/grass?

i have aydins autum grass on atm?

should i just disable that, or how do i get the autunm one

[marsh rover]

I use yawm, everything works perfectly

[balmy peak]

?

[past barn]

I used to have YAWM which worked well. Right now I'm on Inverno, but I'm playing the pre 0.9 version. Inverno should be compatible with Gamma 0.9, check the ModDB page for instructions on what to disable. There's also Frozen Zone which I haven't tried yet

[marsh vapor]

Mght be a bit to remember but when you release this can you just ping me so I can add changes to Soulslike to inject the button to the right place. I did this with EFP, works really well.

[balmy peak]

yo AlphaLion, do you know how i can get Autumn trees/grass with ADEGA installed? currenty have aydins autumn on so idk if ADEGA has autumn aswell

[marsh rover]

how i can test pda sounds?

mainly quest receive sound

[teal pier]

Unfortunately FrozenZone seems to ahve been taken down

[past barn]

I have no idea, never used either

[past barn]

[teal pier]

I got it working without the shader cache breaking, but not everything is snowy...

[marsh rover]

turn off grass tweaks

[teal pier]

Righto

[celest forge]

Anyone knows where these icons are assigned and stored? The weapon upgrade tree icons

[shell knoll]

Does anybody know where the script is found to edit the "hint" lines for the companion wheel? For instance, you mouse over the stealth icon, it says "stealth". Mouse over it again it says "stop stealth". Any help is appreciated.

[marsh vapor]

configs/text/eng/st_addon_companion_quick_menu.xml

or config/text/eng/ui_st_companions.xml

[shell knoll]

hell yeah thank you

[marsh vapor]

actually think its the 2nd one

[marsh vapor]

textures\ui\ui_actor_weapons.dds

[shell knoll]

@marsh vapor any chance you could send me a copy? I've checked like 5 mods related now and dont have it.

[marsh vapor]

run that and then look in _unpacked

Anomaly 1.52\tools\_unpacked\textures\ui

[celest forge]

Thank you very much

[regal bolt]

Does anyone maybe know where I can find information about actor's in-game name?

[soft badge]

What it sounds like you want is db.actor:character_name()

[regal bolt]

Yes, it is exactly this. Thank you*

[soft badge]

np! it's in lua_help.script, that's where you'll find the methods and attributes attached to the actor (and of most other classes).

[regal bolt]

I just wanted to ask you for this on PM, thx again then 😉

[soft badge]

If you're new, _g.script is also where you'll find the global functions, and axr_main.script has most of the callbacks (functions you can put in your script, like on_game_load or on_actor_footstep, that get called whenever the thing happens)

[solemn pelican]

I see, i will add this to Enhanced GUI seems like good mod.

[dapper dust]

Would anyone happen to know how I can edit the reputaion thresshold indications such as minor, moderate, major and maximal on pda?

I specifcially want to change the different tier indications to corrospond to some actual value changes/limits. Ideally 500=minor, 1500=moderate, 3000=major, and 5000=Maximum

[low spindle]

Idk if someone already answered but i believe this is the mock-path in vanilla!

\textures\ui\ui_actor_weapons.dds``` 
not sure offhand where the coordinates are assigned for icons though

Does anyone know where you assign hud attributes to helms such as having a visor and making the gasmask breathing sound? I found somethings like [helm_respirator] 30 = level.add_pp_effector(\helm_respirator.ppe\3000,true) in actor_effects.ltx but adding new helms here doesnt add the breathing effects or hud

[broken galleon]

could this be the real 4k main menu?

[solemn pelican]

Stalker is not designed to be played in 2K 4K resolutions. so can't help.

[broken galleon]

well damn, still awesome work