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[broken galleon]

can't wat

[solemn pelican]

[teal pier]

Any mods that recolour the BHS system? Having a hard time reading it with YAWM lol.

[thick loom]

Hello everyone, any tip on where are Knife impact sounds? I wanna implement better stabing sounds. I've found these files, but they haven't change the sound effects
"\sounds\material\human\collide -> clothes1; clothes2; clothes3"

[past barn]

These are the 2 that I know of:
#1065248535588634685
#1089545722396934234

[thick loom]

the sounds i want to replace

[teal pier]

Thanks mate, appreciate it.

[vale knot]

sounds\material\human\collide
@thick loom ?

could be these

just being altered by script for variation

or engine

[thick loom]

Yeah, i replaced it with the sound i want, it even overwrote Soundscape Overhaul addon

This is what i want to replace it, something more gore. But no success (at least now)

[thick loom]

Its the same sound when you stab a dropped outfit

[vale knot]

yeah im tryna find it but thats the only one that sounded close

[thick loom]

Yes, im gonna post on Anomaly discord to see if they know something

[vale knot]

[thick loom]

And other sounds.DB doesnt seems that this sound will be there

[vale knot]

got one more idea what it might be

[thick loom]

All ears

[vale knot]

nah i was thinking its the outfit interface sound

but it doesnt sound similar

[thick loom]

Yeah, gonna search more, Tks for you help!

[vale knot]

shoutout to this random sound file in anomaly

[celest forge]

On the loadout files, what does the ":0:r" do

[soft badge]

I mean, it's a 500hz tone, truth in advertising XD

[vale knot]

first number is the attachments the gun spawns with iirc

1 = scope
r = random

0 = no attatchments

but i might be spouting nonsense

[celest forge]

So if I wanted my guns to spawn with random scopes i would do "wpn_gun:1:r"

[soft badge]

Generally what I do with stuff like that is text-search the unpacked files for the filename, find which script reads it, and see what it does with the exploded string.

[vale knot]

no
wpn_gun:r:etc

for random scope

second number is ammo type npc uses

gimme a minute ill find what momo told me about it

@celest forge

to find the # for a specific ammo type youll have to look in the weapons ltx

[celest forge]

So random attachment and random ammo would be wpn_gun:r:r

[vale knot]

yeah

for this example (the AK12) 0 for ammo would give you 5.45 fmj

1 would give you old 5.45 fmj

so on

[celest forge]

Thank you

❤️

[analog quartz]

So, I restored the ability to have the Kiparis in the Vision/Melee slots. What lines would I need to edit to have a Detector out with it?

[zenith tiger]

Someone HAS TO add this to GAMMA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76

This is one of the russian ghost signals from the 70's that still come up in today's radio equipment

There is a section for something called monolith

in Afghanistan afaik many us soldiers experienced this phenomenon

there are some creepypasta stuff related to this too :3

Overall this is basically made for stalker:3

[primal acorn]

Is it possible to get a Pin within my mod post? I'm at 200 replies and it's getting a bit annoying to get to the top

[weak moat]

Is it possible to, inject crafting recipes into the game without editing the craft.ltx?

I remember there's a mod did it, but I don't remember the name

[soft badge]

There's a workshop_autoinject.script file that comes in many mods, and it does exactly that, works a charm

Pretty sure it's in at least one or two GAMMA mods

[weak moat]

Ok thanks, will check that out

[random fulcrum]

hey i'm in the screenshot

[outer sparrow]

Is there a way to make hd models pack work with latest gamma ?

[past barn]

Ping a mod to pin the original message

[weak moat]

How does workshop_autoinject.script works? Do I need to edit the script file? I am not very good at these scripts

Nvm I think I figure it out

[soft badge]

I used it in a pretty simple and modular way in a couple of my mods, but I wouldn't say that I understand it well.

If you want, I can zip up a stripped-down example.

[near verge]

Ask in a support room. But also I suggest the search option. This question has been asked and answered approximately a hundred times a day every day since gamma was released.

[broken galleon]

can anyone who has latest gamma tell me if vfx particles are packed or unpacked

when you open VFX folder, is there a particles folder inside with this

[vale knot]

i havent updated in like 2 weeks or so but there really havent been any noteable updates so ill say im up to date

[celest forge]

Any efficient way to make the position of a world model of a gun correct in the stalkers or is it one of those "change and reload till you get it right" things

[vale knot]

its just ltx editing yeah?

[celest forge]

Yeah

[vale knot]

make the changes, open debug and on the top right menu there should be like
"reload system ini"

hit that then select
"reload game"

changes should take effect

[celest forge]

Yeah i know that

Just hoping there was a way to do it with blender or the SDK or smth

[vale knot]

idk how fast your pc is but one loading screen between changes isnt bad at all

better than restarting the game

but i know what you mean, you wanna see changes real time

[celest forge]

Specially since you have to be chasing a stalker, hoping they pull out the weapon, stand still enough to see if the position is correct or not

[broken galleon]

thanks bro

[vale knot]

@celest forge usually what i did for weapon HUD positioning before i learned about draggable hud editor, was i wrote down what value did what

like if increasing X value moved gun right or left

so on

that helped me a little bit

[celest forge]

Yeah, a little harder for a world model

Since there's no way to trigger animations

[vale knot]

id imagine

[celest forge]

Or make stalkers stand still

[vale knot]

usually for stalkers holding guns they tend to be not perfect 70% of the time

I say, as long as the gun is actually in both of their hands its good

[thorn stratus]

trying to figure out some scripts magic. How I can I find out what the xray engine offers in terms of api, like whatever ActorMenu.get_maingame() returns

I don't see in anomaly scripts an implementation of get_maingame() function so it has to be from the engine?

https://github.com/OpenXRay/xray-16/

source code helps

[tawny grove]

Anyone know how to change the font and size/location of the compass instead of minimap mod? Was recommended I post here instead of support-custom-modlist.

[past barn]

Can you show exactly what you want to change?

[steady apex]

whats wrong with actual anomaly sources?

[thorn stratus]

nothing, I found the wrong github

[tawny grove]

This is from the Moddb site, I essentially want it in the Soviet style in the more traditional font with the alternative border on the right hand side and maybe 50% the usual size. I thought it would be a few simple changes in a config file but there weren’t any good instructions in the description on moddb. I’m just using the version included in GAMMA by default but I’ve changed the load order so it overwrites the GAMMA minimalist hud.

[thorn stratus]

https://bitbucket.org/anomalymod/xray-monolith/ this is the one

[thorn stratus]

check this, compass with waypoints 😄

a new endeavor

[past barn]

I haven't used this mod so I might be wrong here, but I assume it works on the same principles as the actual minimap, just with a different position and scale on the screen. The visual appearance should be just 1 texture file (compass.dds I believe). If this mod you're referring to has the same files as the default MCME minimap in Gamma 0.9, then this guide should be helpful:
#1081610248206426134 message
If not, then I'm not sure

[mortal tartan]

I've asked this in newbies chat and i was told to ask here

Does anyone know how the gun jam % works? Is it just based on the overall weapon condition, or is it based on individual parts? Say if i have a gun with just 1 x yellow/red part will it jam less than a gun with 4 x yellow/red parts? and does how clean the gun overall also affect that % chance?

and do the different parts have a different weight when it comes to how frequent things jam?

[thorn stratus]

I don't know tbh but if you want to dig you can check these scripts

How do I use the lua_help.script?

[mortal tartan]

thanks!

[thorn stratus]

ur welcome

[tawny grove]

It’s a start at least, thank you!

[wanton ice]

has anyone gotten HD models to work with gamma?

[thorn stratus]

check #1035807043933720576

[soft badge]

Does anyone know if there is any possible way to get MCM to return the full literal input text from an input field instead of stripping out all the whitespaces? For example, say you have this menu entry:

{id = "sometext", type = "input", val = 0, def = "test text"}

The text displays as expected, with the whitespace. I then type "new text" into the input field. MCM correctly displays "new text", both before and after applying changes.

However, as soon as I exit the menu, then return to it, all whitespace has been stripped from the value, making it "newtext", and ALL attempts to query the value return the stripped text.

Any idea how I can get around this issue?

[mortal tartan]

Okay, i did a bunch of digging and testing and i can kinda answer my own question from before but without exact % chances:

So all the weapon parts affect the total chance to jam equally because it takes the average across all the part conditions excluding the barrel, combines that with your weapon condition, and works out if you will jam or not. However, there is 2 big caveats:

If your trigger is damaged, then that has a chance to cause a jam independent of the condition of everything else.
So even if you have a shiny 100% gun but a shitty trigger then you still have a chance to jam all be it fairly low, for example if your trigger is on 1% and everything else is 100% the chance to jam is at most 8%.

The second caveat is that even if all your parts are 100% condition, your gun can still jam based on the overall gun condition or how "clean" it is. however i'm yet still trying to work out how that part of the jam system works.

the script that is responsible for parts jamming and the trigger jamming was found in the file "arti_jamming.script" with it grabbing info from "a_arti_jamming_mcm.script" for things like the coefficient.

but i couldn't find where the other jamming script was, only thing i found was this in the debug menu

i couldn't really figure out how to test it properly or get the console to display the values since im not really a modder or familiar with programming too much. Is anyone able to at least confirm that that is the correct calculations for the other jamming system?

[random fulcrum]

that's engine side

https://bitbucket.org/anomalymod/xray-monolith/src/master/src/xrGame/Weapon.cpp

lines 1375 - 1426

[mortal tartan]

Oh perfect, thankyou!

[mellow cedar]

noob question how would one go about adding new magazine types i want to add a 75 round ak 47 drum and i have 0 clue where to start

[sick seal]

is there anyone who speaks both English and Russian and can help me with something? someone on mod db gave me a Russian text file, he translated some things for my mod, but I dont know the guy, and want to make sure theres nothing fucked up written in there before i post it. any help at all would be greatly appreciated!

[mortal tartan]

Pm me

[tawny grove]

How would I change the repair kit needed for a weapon? I downloaded the arisaka mod and it needs an advanced kit but I think historical would make more sense

[random fulcrum]

that's because the arisaka isn't designed for gamma

look for repair_type in the weapon's .ltx file

and change if from rifle_7 to shotgun

[regal bolt]

Hi. So far I am enjoying GAMMA very much. The only thing that I do not like is because of trading system, I usually end up always with non faction suits. There is the possibility of exchange, but it is kinda limited. So. Is there any mod I can use which: 1) make exchange more variable, including all factions armor there or 2) allow faction traders to sell faction armors ,preferably in very low condition and maybe even randomly, to keep spirit of the GAMMA? If it is not the case, can someone help me which files to modify to allow this? I did a little modding for basic anomaly for myself, and I understand I need to modify GAMMA economy files.

[violet ridge]

I made a new ammo and balanced it in regards to vanilla Anomaly. Now, I want to make a GAMMA compat, what GAMMA mods/rebalancers do I need to dissect to be knowledgable enough to be able to do so ?

[mental oriole]

good idea...

[floral sage]

Hello I am kind of new to the whole modding scene I recently made a so-called mod that just adds an already existing outfit but with better stats. However, when I equip it the 1st person visible body mod shows me the default no outfit instead of the outfit that I made respectively is there any way to change that?

[violet ridge]

if your mod adds a new one, then probably it's not defined properly for visible body mod to use

it's better for your mod to inherit off the outfit you are editing/basing your outfit around, then it should still correspond to proper visible body, however I cannot be certain as I never looked at that mod

best to find out is for you to dissect visible body mod and see how it recognizes what outfit the player is wearing at any given time

[devout yacht]

If anyone can help I'd appreciate it, I'm currently trying to change the sound and recoil of a pistol and the problem comes from either the sounds not being replaced or the gun being silent when firing. As for the recoil I am just lost on what I would need to change within the ltx file in order for it to not break anything.

[dark raptor]

I want to change console command argument range, do I have to compile my own .exe file for it? Or is there a convenient file holding ranges?

[violet ridge]

if gun is silent, it's quite possible you replaced the correct file, however STALKER uses a specific audio freq range and encoding, and if yours is not correct, it will not render the sound. I don't remember off top off my head, best consult with Anomaly modding book

[devout yacht]

Ah okay then that's def a start then, I'll have to find that modding book

[near verge]

https://igigog.github.io/anomaly-modding-book/

[mortal tartan]

I'm trying to get a list of values for things like misfirecondition/probability for all the weapons, is there an .ltx with all the weapon values together? i can only find seperate individual ones so if there's an easier way of finding the values instead of having to go 1 by 1 (without making a script). also im a bit confused with the overheat mechanic, as i understand its been disabled? So in the scripts that control jamming and part damage that use overheat as a modifier its just set as 1 to not change the value?

[regal bolt]

Any way to do this for Stalker? Sorry if this is a stupid question.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6sVWEu9HWU&t=1056s

[sick seal]

Hey quick question, whats the format to DLTX Overwrite a custom Mags Redux patch? for the life of me I cant get mine working, and its the only thing holding up releasing the final build of the mod Im working on.

DLTX Overwrite Mags Redux WITH A CUSTOM PATCH is what i mean to ask ^

[violet ridge]

what do you want even to DLTX into there ?

[sick seal]

The removal of the Extended Magazine use and changed to the Fast Magazines. basically.

I keep running into problems where either the mags patches created are considered Duplicates = Fatal Error, or They Are Ignored and Mags Redux Patch Base Options Are Used. Or The Guns Dont Use Mags Redux Options At All and Just Act Normally (as if mags redux was never installed)

because I never had to DLTX a Mags patch before so am unsure of the format, or how to title the file.

mod_system_"weapon name".ltx or mod_"weapon name".ltx and do they go in Configs folder or Configs -> Magazines -> Weapons

mod_system*

[opal rivet]

um, not sure if a question for here but it is about a mod. i've seem screenshots with people having mask overlay look sick, like an actual mask instead of the weird water droplet effect normally, what mod is that ? and is it just a singular "picture" or does each mask have its own :

[devout yacht]

#1097606453696667721 message

[opal rivet]

exactly what i meant

[devout yacht]

I figured out the sounds but I'm still a bit lost on the parameters to change for weapon recoil

From the guide it seems it might be related to fire_dispersion_base but from the description it's not adding up to me

[violet ridge]

^ i believe in 0.9 GAMMA now there is a seperate recoil overhaul

[regal bolt]

Hey, no possible to modify traders to sell damaged armor then?

[high loom]

Anyone know if there is a run command/ script that can be ran in game to check the current population of the playthrough? I know that when a new game is started it tells you how many registered individuals there are in the zone but its only seen at the start of a NG, just wondering if theres any way to activate that to check population mid game

[worn fiber]

Do you guys know where the player damage immunities come from in GAMMA? Immunities in actror.ltx don't work for me while jump height for example does work when changed.

[undone lily]

Actor damage balancer

[random fulcrum]

but grok immunities aren't even used in gamma

the adb doesn't make the damage go through the engine

immunities do affect how the game displays stats in the inventory

but for the purposes of actual math

only rads and psy immunities actually get used

[terse jungle]

Hi, are Blindsides animations used on this pack but overriden by Gunslinger/BaS for some guns? I'd like to set Blindsides animation for pistols like APS, is that possible?

[vital depot]

Hey, gotta question. Redirect me If I am in wrong place. Is there any command or way to see how many Stalker currently live in my Zone? Like when you start game and get communicate about how many stalkers are currently in PDA system all around zone?

[daring mauve]

Is there any UI mod that looks a lot like this, with this faction graph style at the top but fully compatible with GAMMA and in the same style?

[high loom]

Is that Aydin’s Hud?

Im not sure but i think dynamic hud too

[daring mauve]

It is Modern UI, but requires certain GAMMA mods to be disabled, and it also doesnt show the psy-bar in BHS for some reason

[thorn stratus]

that is not correct. the mask mod is https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/navs-4k-definitive-masks-10

[devout yacht]

I linked that but the message you sent there cuz I was bein extra lazy

[thorn stratus]

ahh, right. I did not see where the link was going to

[devout yacht]

Ye although paired with dynhud is ideal

[thorn stratus]

however check out latest version of dynamic hud. I made a compass with map markers and waypoints https://youtu.be/I4FnnYUACzs

[thorn stratus]

you need to make a patch for every hud and of course if you use dynahud too, which is a pain in the ass

[pastel hollow]

so i wanted to change the campfire textures and idk which file changes them.

ik it's in cinematic vfx but which file?

[daring mauve]

Basically, I just want this in my inventory, no other changes:

[empty gazelle]

Does anyone know how I could edit gasmask shaders to remove this gross grey oval banding you get at ultrawide resolutions?

[empty gazelle]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1065248535588634685 you could try this

this option maybe

[tawny stream]

#╙🖇mods-making-discussion message

That has resolved most people's hatred of the effects.

[empty gazelle]

cheers buddy, I tried that one out though, the overlays are cool but it still has the same issues at night time with the banding and reflections having this weird oval too

[tawny stream]

I have not used it because my pp is small and I only have a respirator.

Ahh

That sucks

[empty gazelle]

seems to only be an ultrawide thing, it all looks great at 16:9

[tawny stream]

I will have to mess around. I am on UW.

[empty gazelle]

yeahh i've seen you around in girthybois

[near verge]

Everybody goes UW only to realize all of the issues it causes

[empty gazelle]

part of going ultrawide is spending hours fixing stuff for sure

[undone stag]

Does anyone know which files control which items are post-heal/first-aid? I want to make morphine and metamizole post-heal as well as first-aid. Please ping me with a reply, thank you.

[mortal tartan]

closest thing i found was this

[undone stag]

I'll give it a look. Thanks.

[mortal tartan]

got lovely stuff like this in that file

[undone stag]

I kinda wish there was a way to make it so that healing artefacts and resting by campfires also healed limbs, but that would likely require a custom script and I have absolutely zero programming ability.

[slim moon]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1042288712760967208

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1044806214443339786

read through these.

[undone stag]

Good stuff. Thank you very much.

[wintry karma]

stalker 2 is on UE5 so will mod dev be affected?

[violet ridge]

that goes without saying ?

even if it's UE5 based, there will still be inherent question how mod friendly devs make the game

[daring mauve]

Thats just like vanilla

[vital depot]

Hey, gotta question. Redirect me If I am in wrong place. Is there any command or way to see how many Stalker currently live in my Zone? Like when you start game and get communicate about how many stalkers are currently in PDA system all around zone? Or maybe some file that keeps track of those numbers?

[empty gazelle]

Tried searching for this myself, don't think there is nope. You can go PDA>statistics and if you're low rank you'll be at the bottom of the pop, but that's about it. It's gotta be stored somewhere since it pops up at the start but..

[vital depot]

Yeah, exactly. I am no IT guy but it should be stored somewhere. Like a list of stalkers or as you said, the starting count.

I will dig more into the topic after work, tried to chat it out yestarday with few people but to no avail.

I might misunderstand mechanic too but I have another question. Is there like some new game loading sequence to generate things? Like a file or smthing of this type? I would expect it to generate game based on values you provided in character creation screen and start by spawning adequate number of stalkers within parameters of game difficulty and propably a little bit of rng(maybe even faction factor).

[mortal tartan]

try looking in the A-life files maybe you'll find something there, i think there's a file called "alife_storage_manager"

Yeah here it is

[violet ridge]

have you guys tried asking in Anomaly Modding Code channel ?

you are more likely to get answer there

more people experienced with the deep code

[simple scaffold]

[simple scaffold]

the anomaly modding channels have the deep knowledge. they aren't going to know every random change gamma has made, and when what you are trying to do runs into those they will send you back here simply because gamma changes too much for them to try and learn. (heck gamma changes my addons in way's i've given up trying to support, it is incredibly frustrating actually)

But if you want to know how the core anomaly systems work, alife, tasks, dialogue, ai, the engine itself. the knowledge there is deeper, years of accumulated experience.

[vital depot]

Thanks for answers guys!

I will look up the Anomaly modding code channel later

it is brilliant idea, I just did not know about it

[vital depot]

oh

cool, I will gladly look it up later

thank you guys 🙂

Let the Gachi protect you on your journeys and your code always work even if shouldnt.

[tidal elbow]

https://tenor.com/view/jojo-billy-billy-herrington-jojo-gachi-gif-22332544

[vital depot]

Wow, adding to collection

[mortal tartan]

🤝

[undone lily]

When it comes to making your own scripts it doesn’t matter usually if you play on anomaly or gamma.

When you change existing stuff, gamma is much harder because of all the compatibility Patches, monkey patches etc.

But once you know the relevant files, you can simply check who edits these files in MO2 and start modifying these to make your mod compatible with GAMMA.

[undone lily]

I would say the easiest for this is to simply start by searching the dialogue line in the game files (anomaly/tools/_unpacked). Then get the reference string id of the text. Look for the reference string id in the game files. This should point you out to the script launching this dialogue line on the game start. Simply make a new script using the same code bound to a on keybind press callback for instance. Pressing that key should trigger the code and display the message line in game.

[soft badge]

One of the ways I like to trigger something when I'm trying to quickly test what it does is to bind it to on_actor_footstep. Then I can trigger it almost instantly after game load, but only when I'm ready to.

[vital depot]

Sounds like a great plan. In few hours I will be free and will dig into this. You all are great. I am not so acustomed to coding so it may be little challenging but I will first try on my own after checking out how does this files look.

all of your ideas are cool, I will update later how it went

[undone lily]

Try using Visual Studio Code to look for text strings in the unpacked anomaly code or GAMMA/mods folder (add these as working folders in VSC)

[acoustic tangle]

So I saw two mods that caught my eye - the WarDogs mod and one (now defunct) mod that changes the Zone to be a winter wonderland (of death).

For the WarDogs mod - how is it in comparison to vanilla Gamma? It looks like fun, but before I install it I wanted to check for some opinions.

For the Frozen Zone mod - is there an up-to-date and available equivalent?

[marsh rover]

xray is able to read utf-8 text?

[vital depot]

I downloaded Visual Studio - it helps a lot with reading through all of it. I tried visiting directory you advised me to go: (anomaly/tools/_unpacked) and I have few thoughts/question.

From my understanding you wanted to narrow down search by checking dialogues and find this particular one on start of the game where it shows how many stalkers currently generated in the zone(or whatever it shows 😛 ). I tried finding lines of dialogues but those files there cointain only like pure code, no dialogues at all. So my question is if I am a dumbo and I misunderstood you and I should search for dialogues lines somewhere else and then come back to this place and find a line that is trigger for showing all of this?

---

I will add that I tried searching for words that are at start of the game(I added picture so there wont be misunderstanding so we are sure we are talking about the same text).

But did not find anything of good in dialogue files, i checked them all. I check some other files to like PDA as It seems for me like first prompt about it is after you equip PDA.(redacted, it shows with or without equiping pda) But my lack of knowledge makes it hard to understand most of operations that are happening in this files.

But I think I am in bad place as I just did not find anything like written "Welcome to the Unified S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Network."

[undone lily]

DynamicNewsManager:WelcomeToNetwork() in dynamic_news_manager.script

function DynamicNewsManager:WelcomeToNetwork() -- Welcome message on new game
    --printf(">>> Dyn News: WelcomeToNetwork - call")
    local clr_1 = "%" .. "%c[255,160,160,190]"
    local clr_2 = "%" .. "%c[255,220,220,220]"
    
    -- Count the number of stalkers across the zone, except monolith and zombies
    local c = 1
    local sim = alife()
    for i=1,65534 do 
        local se_obj = sim:object(i)
        if (se_obj and IsStalker(nil,se_obj:clsid()) and se_obj:alive() and se_obj:community() ~= "zombied" and se_obj:community() ~= "monolith" and se_obj.group_id ~= 65535) then 
            c = c + 1
        end
    end
    
    local se_actor = sim:actor()
    
    local Se = game.translate_string("st_dyn_news_sender_com_centre")
    local msg = utils_data.parse_string_keys( game.translate_string("st_dyn_news_welcome_stalker") , {["clr_1"]=clr_1 , ["clr_2"]=clr_2 , ["name"]=se_actor:character_name() , ["number"]=tostring(c)} )
    
    dynamic_news_helper.send_tip(msg,Se, 0, 20,"communication","welcome","gr")

    -- Reset
    ResetTimeEvent("DynamicNewsManager","TickSpecial",math.random(cycle_TickSpecial + 1, cycle_TickSpecial*2 + 1))
    ResetTimeEvent("DynamicNewsManager","TickTask",math.random(cycle_TickTask + 1, cycle_TickTask*2 + 1))
    ResetTimeEvent("DynamicNewsManager","TickRandom",math.random(cycle_TickRandom + 1, cycle_TickRandom*2 + 1))
    ResetTimeEvent("DynamicNewsManager","TickCompanion",math.random(cycle_TickCompanion + 1, cycle_TickCompanion*2 + 1))
end

how I found it

[vital depot]

[undone lily]

It's an addon actually

That's why I usually put vanilla anomaly files in a random folder in GAMMA/mods and simply add GAMMA/mods as working folder

then I can find everything, vanilla or GAMMA related code

Then I look in MO2 to find the file that is the one with the highest priority for something I try to modify (use bottom right search bar in MO2)

modding gamma ain't that complicated really

so in your case, you can easily pop the message after the first actor update for instance

[vital depot]

I was more barbaric than your profesional use of this software. Thanks for helping me out getting it out. Haha

So now I should bind somewhow this script so I can use it in game to proc scan

[undone lily]

function print_stalker_number() -- Welcome message on new game
    --printf(">>> Dyn News: WelcomeToNetwork - call")
    local clr_1 = "%" .. "%c[255,160,160,190]"
    local clr_2 = "%" .. "%c[255,220,220,220]"
    
    -- Count the number of stalkers across the zone, except monolith and zombies
    local c = 1
    local sim = alife()
    for i=1,65534 do 
        local se_obj = sim:object(i)
        if (se_obj and IsStalker(nil,se_obj:clsid()) and se_obj:alive() and se_obj:community() ~= "zombied" and se_obj:community() ~= "monolith" and se_obj.group_id ~= 65535) then 
            c = c + 1
        end
    end
    
    local se_actor = sim:actor()
    
    local Se = game.translate_string("st_dyn_news_sender_com_centre")
    local msg = utils_data.parse_string_keys( game.translate_string("st_dyn_news_welcome_stalker") , {["clr_1"]=clr_1 , ["clr_2"]=clr_2 , ["name"]=se_actor:character_name() , ["number"]=tostring(c)} )
    
    dynamic_news_helper.send_tip(msg,Se, 0, 20,"communication","welcome","gr")
end

function on_game_start()
    RegisterScriptCallback("actor_on_first_update", print_stalker_number)
end

didn't tested it, but it should work

[vital depot]

This should I bind?

[undone lily]

it's automatic upon first actor update

[vital depot]

ah, I should add the 3 last lines? I will back up and try it

[vital depot]

unfortunely did not work

or I am doing something wrong, both options can be true

[vital depot]

I just added this whole thing into the dynamic_news_manager

[undone lily]

don't do that

add the code here to a new .script file in gamedata/scripts of a new addon

[vital depot]

ok, will do

[vital depot]

IT WORKED

You are saviour. Praise

Best. Day. Ever

@short needle You wont belive what just happened. We were granted ability to check number of stalkers in the zone.

Praise for everyones help

[undone lily]

Imo there’s a much better way to do it though > modify PDA UI so it gives you that information

[vital depot]

Sure. I am just a simple man without much knowledge to support such reckless operations but that is actually plenty.

It will help in checking how few things behave which I was very curious about

But propably learning ability to read through this code would help greatly too

I might finally give a try and see damage calculations too

But I wont bother you with that 🙂

Anyway, thank you

[simple scaffold]

there is nothig wrong with just calling the function in dynamic_news_manager, might even be able to just do this.
~~

function on_game_start()
    RegisterScriptCallback("actor_on_first_update", dynamic_news_manager.get_dynamic_news().WelcomeToNetwork)
end

or if initiating dynamic news causes an issue that early.

function on_game_start()
    RegisterScriptCallback("actor_on_first_update", dynamic_news_manager.DynamicNewsManager.WelcomeToNetwork)
end

~~ actualy both of those will crash if the settings are not initalized by calling dynamic_news_manager.update_settings() first, easy enough to add but this last way is better
or this way might be better, reset the flag that tracks if you have seen that message or not:

function on_game_start()
    RegisterScriptCallback("actor_on_first_update", function() disable_info("trx_dynamic_news_welcome_to_network") end)
end

yes i am stuck waiting for something to happen at work, how did you guess?

[vital depot]

[hardy hound]

well, wardogs is like a weapon soup with a lot of script and more leftover files that i don't know if even all are modified

haven't installed it, but from what i saw in the screenshots it has lot of weapons, but they don't really look like top quality either
if you like extra guns and don't care about textures/animations i would say to go for it

[celest forge]

I think it's abandoned for the time being

He compiled all guns he could get his hands on regardless of quality

[fading shale]

Man I wish we will have co op someday

[short needle]

It will be great to have it implement in day

[undone lily]

Indeed. I prefer to have everything in one script rather than depending on other scripts though, especially ones modified by addons, because it tends to increase the spaghettisation and is prone to bugs if the addon gets updated

[short needle]

So when will it intergrated into current pack?

[sick seal]

hey, is there anyone who could take a look at my FOMOD script and tell me if theres anything glaringly wrong with it, (its large so im not asking to go through it with a fine tooth'd comb, just want to know if theres anything that like immediately sticks out.)

i keep getting a "Bad XML" notification when installing. and Idk scripting that well.

[soft badge]

I know little about fomod in specific, but an error like "Bad XML" generally means that the syntax or structure of the XML itself is broken--like if you've left out a closing tag or a quote somewhere, or opened a tag with one name then closed it with another.

[vital depot]

Add it by hand. I did yestarday without issue with Grok help. If you want I can show you how

The hardest part was done(code and stuff).

[short needle]

You just need to tell me what is need, open which file, add thing to where

[vital depot]

#╙🖇mods-making-discussion message copy all of this text into some notepad and save it as a .script, open your addon folder - make new folder, I called mine StalkerNumbers - within this folder keep same structure as other addons: It should look more or less that way: \StalkerNumbers\gamedata\scripts\StalkerNumbers.script. Start MO2, it should be on list now. Just tick as every other addon, start game and here it should work every time your actor is updated. So Loading save or possibliy transitions inbetween zones should proc it.

I am at job currently so I cant show you EXACT steps with pictures as I am not on my personal machine

But if you will be no life king as ever I can show after my shift if you want

or have any issues

[short needle]

Just need to check current pop and then shut it off

[vital depot]

Yeah. Only thing you should propably know that it is not ALL of stalkers

It does not caunt monoliths and zombie stalkers from what I understood

[short needle]

That much word is enough
All i have to do is fuck around and find out

[vital depot]

I might be wrong tho I am not Neo, I barely understand code 😛

[vital depot]

I am curious how really desolate is your world. I will need to test out how fluctiation of population affects my own games. From most starts I did yestarday it seemed like around 740 stalkers were generated on start of the game. In my current game I spent 20 in game days. My current population shown was 544 but I barely was clearing anything on north so I propably have still high amounts of enemies in the few zones. Neither I advanced in any stories so they still can keep stalkers for that ones. Not every stalker is killed by my hand so from all of this calculations I would expect that in 20 days span my stalker count rose over 1000th and it is just kept low with killing.

[short needle]

Mine prolly 800 or 1000
Since my game fps didnt spike out of existent

[vital depot]

I would expect that you have like really low number of online Stalkers - because you are much more effiecient. Less amount of days = less chances to spawn you new stalkers. More experience = faster genocide of the Zone. I bet that you have under 500 stalker online, maybe even under 400.

I dont know tho what ZCP settings you have

I think I kept mine stalker pop factor at 0.7

[short needle]

I only kill monolith, duty and military

Mostly monolith so it might be in controlled?

I might need to do main story to find some rare gun since in operation afterglow unisg always come with good armament

[vital depot]

Similarly I would add to this count Sin and Loners too as I am currently running Mercanery. I did not do extensive testing yestarday as most of time used was to understand how to do all of this 🙂

[short needle]

[sick seal]

gotcha, thanks a million for that, atleast now i know what to look for lol. I can recognize patterns well enough to know whats what, but if something goes wrong even slightly. then im SOL basically.

[weak hull]

What is the best way to find my coordinates when using debug? I'm trying to place / modify a level transition point, but need to make sure the new coordinates are correct and not under the map or too high.

Solution found. GAMMA overwrites the default Anomaly position file and saves it in GAMMA\overwrite\bin\

[torn vault]

what's the name of the script that removes cash items you loot (like money_900_1000) and gives money?

[weak hull]

Also, from an older message by Grok:

To get the coordinates, please enable the Debug Mode (Select Anomaly Launcher in MO2 > Tick "debug"). Then boot the game, and in the main menu press F1. A menu will appear and start pressing 2 on your keyboard until you see TOP HUD = position_hud. Then in game press F7 > X to turn on the Debug HUD and report the full values:

For example:
Lvid: 316
Gvid: 5303
Pos: 0.0587, -0.0163, 0.8567

[plush sapphire]

If someone could help direct me in the right direction, trying to add custom guns without them being sold in game

[simple scaffold]

that's easy. it's getting them sold and used by NPCs that is the hard part

make a copy of a gun ltx file change the section names, edit the stats. spawn the new section from a script or something.

[misty rampart]

is the fn scar rifle only in the boomsticks and sharpsticks mod or is it in normal gamma modpack?

[mortal tartan]

Both, check this doc with all the items listed

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OWE25Go9kSao5-IDOS4ZWkBtLfyEF_hPLJz7QQR2lqY/edit#gid=302497032

[mortal tartan]

I'm making a spreadsheet that people can use to input the weapon/part condition and it'll show the % chance they have for a jam, i've done the barebones and equations but when testing, the values i get are different from what the debug menu outputs by just a few decimal places and I'm unsure what could be the issue. I've checked that all my game settings are default and excel matches what i have in-game like the Jam Coefficient. I've checked through the script and the equations I put in excel match what are in the script (arti_jamming). Only thing i can think of is that there are floating point errors in excel or the actual script/game engine or even both. If anyone could shed some light please let me know.

Does the game by any chance store weapon condition in a value that has more decimal places than 0? only other thing i could think being the issue, which would suck if that was the case because people can only see whats displayed in the tooltip so they cant input the decimal places. -edit- (checking now debug outputs a whole number so i really dont know :/)

[random fulcrum]

everything is 0.0 - 1.0

and everything is floating

so you have up to like 16 slots

til float has up to 7 slots

the more you know

[mortal tartan]

Right, so as I understand to fix this, for the equations I should convert all my initial values into something that is 0.0-1.0, then limit the decimal places to 7?

[thick loom]

Hello there everyone, i'm thinking in do a "herbalist" mod to Anomaly, where you can collect these herbs and create zone made items (medkits, enhanced bandages, antirads) something i imagine that Doctor would do. To achieve that i'm thinking in add specific objects (plants) to grow (spawn) in certain areas. What i'm seeking here is if theres any guide, on how to set objects to a specific coordinate in the maps. Tks for future answers!

[celest forge]

Any help on world models being just SUPER dark?

I've checked the settings of texture importing and no luck

[balmy peak]

@simple scaffold yo man, i Don't know if you'd remember but yeah i lost mine, you know that "Mag hud for valiant" thing you made me a while back for use with mags redux, to properly display the magazines on the bottom right of the screen without clipping and all that stuff. Wondering if you still have that file and if so if you can DM it to me please.

Nvm i found it, dunno if the download link still going to work though, but will let you know.

[cinder magnet]

Where did you find the names for items to do the kind_overrides?

[cinder magnet]

Found it.

[weak hull]

I made a custom transition point from the south of Rostok to the north of Garbage and vice-versa. I made an additional .ltx file which utilizes 159- Extra level transitions - Demonized.

In Rostok, the transition is closer to the base, just near the rusty jeep, and teleports the player to the north part of Garbage, slightly west of the jeep with electric anomaly. In Garbage, the transition is just to the southwest of the original transition point and teleports the player to Rostok, on the road near the rusty jeep.

The transitions work very well. However, the problem is that when taking the new transition point from Rostok to Garbage, upon arriving in Garbage, the player is always facing north, not facing south towards the gate. Is there any way to fix this?

[violet ridge]

I'd recommend asking in Anomaly's discord, in Modding-Code channel, more people in there knowing the deep code - including Demonized themselves - note, just do not @ at them

[weak hull]

Thanks.

[weak hull]

He helped me out. Thanks for your suggestion.

[daring mauve]

Debug items menu

[past barn]

Are the ">10" and other condition usage markers for repair kits dynamic? Because they don't appear in the texture files

Or did I not find the correct texture file?

[violet ridge]

crepis icons

or cr3pis ?

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/cr3pis-icon-pack

cr3pis

they have variants with text and that's what GAMMA uses if im not mistaken

they are not dynamic

[past barn]

Yep, found 'em. Ty

[hasty delta]

yesterday I learned the hard way that your companions degrade weapon condition if they use that weapon... Wanted to repair an AK from one of my dudes, got all the parts to 100% then realize the weapon itself is on 0% FML :DDDDD

[regal bolt]

I am looking to make a simple "Mod" For my installation of GAMMA, and need some pointers. I'd like that IF I long-hold the "I" Button down, that jumping would be disabled until I press "I" again. This is very specifically a case use for me because of my preference in keybinds (Right click jump). I'd just need it to unbind or Disable Jump upon long hold of "I" and rebind Jump to Right Mouse. Is there an existing file that this would be added to? Is there specific examples I could use to rework to suit my very individual needs?

[gaunt pawn]

Does anyone know off the top of their head what the second number in the "trade_*.ltx" files is for? I've parsed that the first number affects the buy and sell price, but I have no idea what the second number is. It appears to be just 1 in most if not all files.

[low spindle]

Hello all, hope you are doing wel. Quick question, im doing a weapon import and wanted to know where the anomaly shader-based reddotsights are defined? Is it a script/ini in which a weapon is added and that is all?

[soft badge]

Probably the safest way I can think of to temporarily disable jumping in a script would be to force-unbind the key, which could be done very easily. If you didn't care about getting a notification when it happens or any kind of error checking, it's probably like ten lines of code. I'd look at MCM for ideas on what functions and callbacks are used for trapping keys, it's easy.

[regal bolt]

@gaunt pawn see the message I'm quoting if it's the thing you're looking for
if yes, it's the chance for the item to be available

[gaunt pawn]

Thanks alot, I didn't know I could do restock chances

[regal bolt]

I assume you can also set up a semi-random quantity by having a set amount guaranteed to spawn, and then another amount (or several other amounts) of the same item on a chance
by setting them each on their own line

[gaunt pawn]

That's super sick.
I'm actually doing all my stuff through trader injection, so everything is randomized

[sick seal]

hey, so quick question, I have English and Russian localization files for my mod. I know they get split into Eng and Rus Files, but how does the game determine when to use either or? is that somethign I have to do?

[soft badge]

As long as all of your strings are in those localization files and not string literals in the script that are hardcoded, the game will take care of that for you

they just have to go in the correct subfolders

[sick seal]

okay awesome, thats great to hear! less work for me! lol

[lyric reef]

Quick noob question. Is it possible to determine if an actor is currently crouching, and if so can ltx file values be changed dynamically without something like ltx loader?

[gaunt pawn]

I just went through this myself.
IsMoveState("mcCrouch")

[lyric reef]

Thank you

[plucky abyss]

hi there, can anyone please tell me what controls the laser's position on screen? is it its placement in the .ogf itself or is it configured through the .ltx file? as you can see on the screenshot, bullet hits a bit higher than the laser points to and i'm kinda struggling to understand how it's controlled

[celest forge]

The guns position since the laser is basically a solid mesh that's glue to the main weapon body

So it moves with the gun

You just have to allign it with the center

[plucky abyss]

oh that makes much more sense, i was trying different dot placements in blender and i kept getting it wrong so i was really confused lol

thanks!

[celest forge]

Dot can be anywhere on the object really as long as you allign it in game

Ideally you want it in front of the barrel obviously

[mental oriole]

Alright, I will update moddb release. Good suggestion.

[regal bolt]

anyone know the fix for the bottom lines of errors?

happens mainly with the shotguns

[violet ridge]

are you certain some other mod does not overwrite the effect in question or points to something from a mod that is no longer included in GAMMA ?

[regal bolt]

i posted in custom modlist to elaborate it seems to be an issue with hollywood fx

[violet ridge]

also corrupt install might also be an issue

[regal bolt]

it works when disabled

[violet ridge]

then, don't use hollywood fx, problem solved ?

[regal bolt]

lol yes but i want to use it im gonna see if i missed something if not ima just delete it

[violet ridge]

well, then check what hollywood fx does with that particle effect

or get it from unpacking vanilla anomaly and put in hollywood fx folder

(or whereever the particle effect exists originally)

you can look for strings of text with Notepad++

[regal bolt]

from what i gathered so far it just seems to affect shotguns

[violet ridge]

look for it in hollywood fx, then in vanilla unpacked configs

once you see what og vanilla anomaly effect is like, and then what hollywood fx does with it, a solution to problem should become clearer

[regal bolt]

yeah its Hollywood vfx in general i threw some anomalies and shit at it and it just seems to not work at all, Oh well

wait nvm

i think i know what to do

[regal bolt]

i fixed it! for now until i go to another spot in the map and it breaks XD

it was an issue that it was second to last in my load order i moved it to the bottom and it stopped crashing!

[pure owl]

hey guys is there any mod for a detectors overhaul or anything u can advise or any plans for the future ? I havent found any on the internet

[random fulcrum]

that's extremely vague

[violet ridge]

the only kind of detector overhaul mod i can recall of any kind is the one (posted here and probably on moddb) that makes a screen of one of them clearer to read and stuff, but yeah what the person above me said

[trim ocean]

anyone know a spas 12 mod which features the skelekton stock?

[celest forge]

No but that could be easily done

[trim ocean]

The thing is, I'm thinking of a more unconventional, unique approach

[celest forge]

Which would be?

[trim ocean]

KS-23 with a Spas 12 style heatshield & skeleton stock

[celest forge]

Well you already ahve the model

[trim ocean]

The KS 23 model from BaS is quite good, the Spas 12 sadly is very low poly, even the hud versions

[celest forge]

BaS has a SPAS12?

[trim ocean]

and the Spas doesn't have its stock

[trim ocean]

No, but anomaly has

[celest forge]

Really?

[trim ocean]

Yeah. Vanilla anomaly has 3 different Spas 12 ogf, which are exactly the same but with a slightly different texture.

[celest forge]

I had no idea

I've never seen it in game

[trim ocean]

Nimble is also able to upgrade one.

[celest forge]

However

Getting a spas model is ez

A lot of free good ones on sketchfab

[trim ocean]

Thanks man. I'm looking into it if I can mesh up such a weird monster.

[static nebula]

ripping from other games is also an option but I actually can't think of any games with a very good model off the top of my head lol

[sick seal]

Question, does ARX Toolset have a memory limit? Everytime i use the OGF Viewer to edit Texture and Animation Paths I can do like 5 or 6 before it stops working, Ill edit a path and confirm it, but nothing happens, then i close ARX Toolset to reset, and re open the OGF it stopped working on, and everythings gone, its a 0kb .ogf file now and needs to be remade/exported via blender.

[past barn]

@normal escarp You made a mod back in 2022 to make parts' condition larger which I really like, miles better than the default tiny numbers:
#🖇old-mods-posting message

Would you mind please explaining how the mod works? When I look at the differences between the default script and your mod, I assume the GetFontDI is what makes the difference, but I can't find such a thing in the game files as an existing font or something. I'd like to have the parts' condition values to use the same font Gamma uses by default, so more angular and rectangle-shaped, like on the screenshot, for visual consistency reasons. How can I make that happen?

[normal escarp]

It's 2 am here I am getting sleep will try to dig it out in 24 hrs ;p

[past barn]

Oh yeah I discovered an issue. I know the mod was made a long time ago, but maybe it's useful. Seemingly since Gamma 0.9 your version of the script makes the weapon parts appear off-screen on the bottom of the tooltip (I assume because of the extended descriptions). However if I edit the original script and only change the 2 instances of GetFontSmall to GetFontDI it seems to work as intended

[regal wadi]

how would i go about modifying the damage of a gun in the files? wanna make a gag gun for a video?

it would be great if the ingame editor worked

[violet ridge]

DLTX

basically you can make a mod with just LTX file in it, that will overwrite given weapon's hit_power variable for your own

![wpn_NAME_HERE]
hit_power = 0.58, 0.58, 0.58, 0.58

save it as mod_system_ZZZZ_GAGWEAPON.ltx under \gamedata\configs path of your mod

change 0.58's for what you desire, however I don't know what is the max range of the variable

[alpine nacelle]

I would like to make a mod to allow sprinting up and down stairs. Current slow movement is OK when tactically clearing a building, but other times It's just a frustration. i.e. entering the bar in Rostock. I know I could just jump up/down the flights, but this just doesn't feel right, is hit n' miss, and is very clunky. Could something be altered with the collision detection on stairs, only when sprint is activated? This would be my first mod, as I've no clue what I'm doing. Thanks

[violet ridge]

I'm realtively sure I saw something in announcements about Grok using Mo3's fix for stairs some many moons ago 🤔

from reading into it, seems the solution lies in editing player hitbox

just Discord search from Grok with "stairs" keyword and you should be able to find that discussion and maybe gain some insight

[marsh rover]

anyone knows where i can find config file for suit magaizne capacity in mags redux mod?

ok, i found it

if anyone needs it too: [your GAMMA folder]\mods\207- Mags Redux\gamedata\configs\magazines\outfitloadouts

[viral wind]

Is there a way to change the grenade spawns on NPCs?

Right now they down spawn at all. I'd like to change it so they spawn again.

[balmy peak]

is there any new models/texture for mutants or not yet?

[hidden timber]

There are

Some will be added to the new update of gamma as far as i know

Give it a bit of time

[balmy peak]

when will this new gamma update be, any eta

[marsh rover]

no info on this

[hidden timber]

Whenever grok decides

Could be this week or next month

But it will come

[balmy peak]

aah

do you know what these new models/texture for mutant are and how many different ones there are, would actually like to try them out

[hidden timber]

#📎mods-added-for-next-build

i saw one for cats and fleshes

Well one for cats and one for fleshes

[balmy peak]

does these all currently work with gamma?

[hidden timber]

Mayb?

[balmy peak]

is there a one for dogs aswell, cuz the dogs look ass

the normal blind dogs

[hidden timber]

i dont know

[balmy peak]

fair enough

[trim ocean]

How can I fuse two meshes in blender?

Just with "right click -> join" it seems to only make one a submesh of the other one, not really fuse them together into one

Also when I import the model they're separated again

[celest forge]

Boolean modifier

Why do you want to be one mesh tho

For practical purposes in game, it doesn't matter much

[trim ocean]

The sight should be moving with the barrel when reloading, but it stays there. Drives me crazy. I thought by hard fusing it with the barrel the problem will go away

[celest forge]

Assign the sight to the same bone as the barrel

[trim ocean]

lol

That was easy, mucho thank you

[celest forge]

Very welcome my friend

Let me know when you have the model ready so I can use it

[trim ocean]

Didn't change anything except the sight right now. I would like to be so good with 3D modelling in blender that I can give the gun a really nice HD overhaul. Every tutorial I try to recreate though just screams at me "you're not ready yet, young Padawan".

But when I actually make progress, I am definitely sharing it with you

[celest forge]

W

[gaunt pawn]

I'm trying to use DXML to inject basic task strings into "st_quests_general.xml"
Is there a reason this code doesn't work?
filename starts with "modxml__[random name].script" like it's supposed to

function on_xml_read()
    RegisterScriptCallback("on_xml_read", function(xml_file_name, xml_obj)
        -- XML file i want to change
        local xml_to_change = [[text\eng\st_quests_general.xml]]

        -- Check if its the file i want to change
        if xml_file_name == xml_to_change then
            -- Here is my code to change XML
            xml_obj:insertFromXMLFile([[plugins\wpn_prt_quests_general.xml]])
        end
    end)
end

[vale knot]

there an underscore between modxml and the name?

should be modxml_randomname.script

[gaunt pawn]

There is, my bad. Discord is italicizing it

[vale knot]

where is it placed? in scripts?

thats where i keep my dxml's

[gaunt pawn]

Yep

[vale knot]

dunno then, code is directly the same as the example

[gaunt pawn]

Here is the full name "modxml_yesman_dynamic_tasks_for_wpn_parts.script"

is there a limit on naming?

[vale knot]

maybe? i dont think there is tho

[gaunt pawn]

The console also shows that the script loads at the beginning.
But, funny enough, throwing print statements before and after the if xml_file_name == xml_to_change then line shows that on_xml_read() is firing constantly, but it never shows that xml_to_change is being read

its very strang

[trim ocean]

Ecologist Battlesuit playtesting

[hidden timber]

Thats looks cool

[celest forge]

Who are they battling

an algebra book

Jk, that is sick af

[hidden timber]

Keep up the good shit

[trim ocean]

Thanks man

[trim ocean]

Thanks. 2 sets of veeery late game armor. Don't really satisfied with the RNG method of GAMMA distributing armors, so I don't know what to do with them yet. Maybe I could tie them into the rewards for the Ecologist dltx quest mod.

Also, they only wirk with HD models, so it's only for those select few users shrug

another pic, better lighting

closer look at the upper body section. Clipping is unavoidable, especially with the body contorting in those strange 3rd person stances

[echo crescent]

If I wanted to change the looks of a weapon, where should I start? Is there a resource somewhere with steps or if not which files should I be looking for?

[random fulcrum]

depends on what do you mean with "changing the looks"

[hidden timber]

The whole damn model or just the colors?

[echo crescent]

just the colors

for now

[soft badge]

I've got a weird issue. I've taken a WAV file, commented it using the CoP SDK's sound editor, then taken the resulting OGG file from the SDK's folder to Anomaly's gamedata\sounds as mytest_idle.ogg.

I then trigger this:
xr_sound.set_sound_play(AC_ID, "mytest_idle")
set_sound_play. Wrong sound theme [mytest_idle], npc[0]

Followed by a stack dump. I've tried re-exporting the ogg from the SDK twice now with the same result, as well as copying the thm file from the rawdata folder.

I'm following the instructions in this link, if it matters: https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker/tutorials/stalker-audio-commentingconversion

[gaunt pawn]

For the record, I found the issue. It was how my plugins\wpn_prt_quests_general.xml file was formatted.
I kept the strings inside a <string_table> </string_table> element; strings I wanted to inject into st_quests_general.xml needed to just be bare,

<string id="somename" >
    <text> some text </text>
</string>

[steady apex]

You can just create new XML file in text eng

The ids in that folder are allowed to be duplicated. The last loaded xml with duplicated id will be used

[gaunt pawn]

Interesting.

On another note, regarding task_status_functor.actor_has_fetch_item = function(tsk,task_id) from tasks_fetch.script, is there a reason, in this block, why count > 1 is there? I removed it for giggles, and I'm wondering if the Zone is going to explode

    if (item ~= nil) then 
        if (task_id == "esc_2_12_stalker_nimble_task_1" or task_id == "jup_b220_trapper_task_3") then 
            if (item:condition() >= 0.9) then 
                tsk.stage = 1
            else 
                tsk.stage = 0
            end
        else 
            local count = load_var(actor,task_id.."_fetch_count")
            if (count and count > 1) then
                 local cnt = utils_item.get_amount(db.actor, section, 1)
                if (cnt >= count) then
                    tsk.stage = 1
                else
                    tsk.stage = 0
                end
                return
            end
            tsk.stage = 1 -- should never happen but in such case let player finish quest for free
        end 
        

[alpine stream]

how do people make icons for this game? ive tried editing ui_icon_equipment.dds in photoshop but it always comes out wrong

[alpine stream]

@celest forge hi sorry for the ping, you seem to know what youre doing when it comes to this stuff. I want to change the nvg icons to look like this on the first image, and it looks fine until i save the dds and it ends up looking like the 2nd image

i have no idea what im doing, do you know why it does this

[celest forge]

What software are you using

[alpine stream]

photoshop

[celest forge]

With the nvidia plugin?

Or the old adobe plugin

[alpine stream]

http://gametechdev.github.io/Intel-Texture-Works-Plugin/ this one here

[celest forge]

Well I don't know that one

But if it has any options to disable the mipmaps

Do that

My advice would be to use the nvidia one

It's the best one and free

[alpine stream]

do you know where i can find that one

[celest forge]

But yeah just don't do mipmaps for icon textures

https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-exporter

[alpine stream]

thanks

[celest forge]

Export settings for icons should be like this

[alpine stream]

worked perfectly, thanks so much man

[celest forge]

I'm glad it did

[marsh rover]

is there any example on how to add new campfire stories?

[mortal tartan]

You mean the NPC dialogue around the campfire? Like the audio or the text dialogue you have with them?

[marsh rover]

audio

[mortal tartan]

The anomaly modding handbook has quite a bit about creating your own NPC's, i'd check there first https://igigog.github.io/anomaly-modding-book/quests/npc_creation.html

[marsh rover]

thanks

[mortal tartan]

Also check under the mod in MO2 "8 - Better Merc voicelines" that might help give an idea of how to implement the voice lines you make.

And if you're still struggling and nobody has gave you a clear answer here can always try the Anomaly discord, they have a lot more people with experience in modding stalker.

[tacit surge]

Guys please help. Something is wrong with the editing Ithaca37 hud pos. Everything work except aim_hud_offset_pos. After save loading i got this. But in w_ithacam37.tx i have this edited numbers. I applied them for all Ithaca 37 modificatios in this file. Still my aim is broken. Everything is fine with my edits for another weapons.

[mortal tartan]

i think the changes you make is being overwritten by the eftrepopatch. the values there match your debug one

[mortal tartan]

its in this file, think you have to make the changes there as well and it will keep them.

[tacit surge]

Thank u sir! u save my life! Can i have baby from you?
I deleted aim_hud_offest from w_ithacam37.ltx then added my edits to mod_system_ithaca_eftrepopatch and now it works perfect!

[mortal tartan]

Awesome, glad it worked

[worn fiber]

Do you guys know where are the trade price modifiers for weapon parts in GAMMA? I only found the base weapon parts prices so far.

[opal rivet]

is there a compatible inventory weight mod? tried one from moddb and it gives errors 😅

[worn fiber]

You want more carry weight?

[opal rivet]

no, i wanna see the weight of item without hovering overthem

trying to figure out what is causing conflicts currently

[marsh rover]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/151152-inventory-weights-revised

[opal rivet]

I shall download right now and install thank you kind master

[steady apex]

small teaser
https://youtu.be/REU6a9yMJOU

[tacit surge]

YES YES YEEEEESSSSS

[celest forge]

@faint sable

Lmao

The best stuff from demonized as usual

[faint sable]

omg

does that fix all my issues with positioning

cause if so

imma fucking bust

[celest forge]

It does

[faint sable]

fuckkk yesss

[steady apex]

i'll try to fininsh next week, and new version of mod exes will be required, that will be updated as well

engine functions were added to manipulate npc's weapons

[faint sable]

demonized blessing us

[celest forge]

Truly one of the mvps

[vale knot]

[remote sail]

Hello! How to increase VSSK damage? 12.7 is soooo weak!

what ltx should i look into, and what parameter i should edit?

[hidden timber]

Get good

[violet ridge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/463899353480691738/1109919758859653160/obraz.png

I've possessed the knowledge to make custom upgrade trees for weapons

[hidden timber]

Oh?

[violet ridge]

and if armor works in analogical way, then probably that too

[violet ridge]

I'm working on a weapon pack. I needed to have a full auto mode upgrade on the upgrade tree in a place I desired

[hidden timber]

oo

[violet ridge]

do ignore the weapon icon on the tree, have not yet swapped for my own assets

[hidden timber]

Gl

[violet ridge]

thanks

[undone lily]

And crash existing saves for any upgrade weapon you edit upgrade trees for

[violet ridge]

and that's why I'm making brand new ones

the above was based off existing one, yes, but it's a seperate being from it. Original weapon lacks the edits I've made

thus, allowing mid playthrough activation

hopefully, assuming I haven't fucked up elsewhere

[mellow copper]

I'm curious if the engine allows for tweaking the target acquisition speed when the AI gains LOS during combat

[rose mango]

Anyone know how to modify the efficacy of the artifact u find ?

[mellow copper]

you want to scale the effects?

[past barn]

What file in Gamma modifies the armors' immunity values? I looked through a bunch of files and couldn't find such a thing (except for a few eco suits), yet if I make a mod to modify those values via mod_system*.ltx no changes happen in the game. Both the armor stats don't use the new values, and the actual damage received doesn't change either

Even if I name my mod with a bunch of z's in the name so it's (afaik) loaded in last, the values still don't change ingame

[vast lava]

Name does not affect load priorty, priorty # does. I also think you can also just edit armor stats with the debug menu in-game

[past barn]

I mean the name in the filename. As far as I know a file with example.ltx would be loaded before z_example.ltx, and if there are same values in both the file loaded in later will override the former. But maybe I'm wrong for these specific files, but I know that this is a thing for certain mod files

Plus my mod is higher in priority anyway, so that shouldn't matter

Where can I access the stat editor in debug?

Oh "outfits stats editor"

[violet ridge]

I believe that affects the DLTX load order, not sure about normal variables

[past barn]

These are DLTX files I think? I don't know

[violet ridge]

DLTX is not a file, it's a method

![variable]

and other operations as described on Anomaly modding book

[past barn]

Yeah, that's what this mod does too. It overrides the original values right

As usual, I found the issue right after posting lol. Based on my changes to mutants, I assumed immunities affects armor resistance as well, however that's not the case. The regular [damage type]_protection value is what changes the armor's effectiveness in this regard. So got it working, really cool

[past barn]

Can I use formulas in DLTX? For example instead of changing the values of 10 different things individually, can I just add a variable at the end of the original values, and then only modify its value once?

For example here's a random original piece of code:

example_hit_power_2 = 1.2
example_hit_power_3 = 1.4```

And I'd want something like this:
```test_buff = 1.1
example_hit_power_1 = 1.0 * test_buff
example_hit_power_2 = 1.2 * test_buff
example_hit_power_3 = 1.4 * test_buff```

[regal bolt]

I have not tested that, but I've also not seen any multiplication outside of like, damage calculations

[opaque night]

@stone jasper need your opinion on which version you think is better

second one is quieter due to incorrect rendering settings, but you get the jist

[regal bolt]

quick test says absolutely not
tested with the following
![wpn_m4_ru556]
hit_power = 0.52*10

the *10 multiplier means the game very quickly crashes when that weapon is spawned (or even previewed) with this message

[past barn]

RIP. Manual editing it is Thanks for the testing

[steady apex]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/draggable-hud-editor
UPDATE 8 (MODDED EXES 2023.05.22 REQUIRED!!):
Added 3d Weapon position editor

[steady apex]

sorry, thats too much for dltx

[past barn]

Unacceptable :kappa:

Btw how does the outfit editor in debug menu work? I thought I can edit outfits' damage resistance values on the fly, but even after hitting apply seemingly no changes happen

[slim bobcat]

Got a question how hard would it be to add the Desolation mod to Gamma? i know there would probably be a problem with like 80% of the mods in Gamma but just a idea/ something im thinking about trying.

[violet ridge]

first worry about porting it to Anomaly, then you can worry about porting it to GAMMA

[slim bobcat]

haven't tried the mod yet is it like the old days of anomaly modding?

[rose mango]

no just the efficacy when u pick it up

[chrome prairie]

Does anyone paint gun textures in Substance painter?/is it possible to make textures in substance?

[remote sail]

it works quite well on anomaly

i even had a modpack by BulkyCare

[regal bolt]

it can't save changes because some mods in GAMMA overwrite whatever changes you'd made
you can use it to preview whatever changes you would make, but you will have to DLTX the outfit changes to make them stick (without hunting down the individual files that effect things)

[past barn]

Aha I see. That's good enough to see the changes in the stats visually real-time at least

And do you know what1s the relation between the displayed values on the editor side? I'm seeing 2 numbers for each stat, a yellow and a blue one. The yellow is what's in the DLTX mod, not sure about the blue one, but that's the only value I can edit

[regal bolt]

IIRC the first value is the outfit you are editing
the second value is the outfit you are comparing to, that you can fetch from the list

[past barn]

This is really confusing

[past barn]

Where's the config file for tushkanos? I can find them for all the other mutants, but not these

[mortal tartan]

I've tried to find them for like 30minutes now, also couldn't find them, my only guess is they might be packed away in the .db files, since they only spawn in certain areas like the underground labs, there are also a few other config files i cant see in the folders for some mutants like psydogs, phantoms, karliks. Im entirely basing that guess off the anomaly modding handbook though.

[past barn]

I just realised, I only checked the Gamma mods folder but haven't checked the unpacked Anomaly folder. Which is where they are... D:

Sorry I just wasted your time it seems like

Same for karliks and other mutants, I believe they're all here

[mortal tartan]

hahah its okay, at least i know i wasn't giving bad advice, im still new to modding so. Glad you found them.

[hardy hound]

the engine changes in desolation aren't open source

so you can't merge bc you don't have the changes? i guess

[shell knoll]

Does anyone know if its possible to change the resolution of the background image or video being displayed on the main menu?

[past barn]

If you change it to a still image it is possible yeah. I had no luck changing the video tho

[short patio]

I wish some genius could make me some tactically smarter companions mods instead of the running around like headless chickuns

[shell knoll]

damn... thanks 👍

[past barn]

However in pre-0.9 the game sometimes crashed when I used a 4K background image. Changing it to 1080p solved it, tho the crashes were really random

Haven't tried the larger image since 0.9 came out tho

[shell knoll]

It seems that I can increase the res on a video but I cant set the resolution to reflect a 4k video....strange

for instance 1080 video can be set to 4k res, thus stretching it but when using a 4k video its stretched beyond its res even when setting it to be 4k in the config files.

[shell knoll]

@past barn figured it out. changing the resolution of <texture x="0" y="0" width="3840" height="2160">ui\yourbgimage</texture> works.

however, idk if its just my video or not, but i do get some lag in the menu throughout the video playback.

[past barn]

Higher res video takes more power to run. Combine that with Stalker being whacky xD

[sick seal]

hey can anyone tell me how to properly set licon layer of suppressors on weapons without having to just do trial and error? its something i never delved into and am hoping theres someone out there who can shed some light, any insight at all would be greatly appreciated!

[random fulcrum]

it's just trial and error

just get used to how position works

[celest forge]

Yeah with time you can get them by pure intuition lol

[short patio]

Is there any cool lever action rifles? like the winchester but modernized?

[random fulcrum]

taz had a 1894

[regal bolt]

Is there a mod that adds a medical pouch?

elaborate on what you mean
do you mean a medical item, or some kind of container?

there are medication packages you can buy from medics, that give a set amount of items when opened
which IIRC are better value than just buying the meds on their own, assuming you can use all of it

[regal bolt]

I mean a pouch in which you can store medicines

[violet ridge]

what functionality would you want it to have ?

cause atm it makes no difference when your med stuff is in backpack

extra storage attachment to your outfit/backpack ?

[random fulcrum]

having to right click on an item and then click on another option instead of pressing 7

[violet ridge]

or belt ?

[regal bolt]

google is your friend; I found an ammo box that may be useable for that exact purpose
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/qol-ammo-box-keep-your-inventory-clean
no guarantee it will work

but like Momo said, it does seem like more work than just stashing your unused meds or using the existing inventory sort

[regal bolt]

it would be nicer to have one medical pouch in inventory than a bunch of different drugs

[regal bolt]

Thx buddy ❤️

[regal bolt]

Has anyone tinkered with making a mod for a "Voiced Actor - Duty"? by chance?

Been trying to figure out how to get it to work by looking at another Voiced Actor mod and possibly replacing the files to try it locally.. but uh Im dumb as a brick.

[violet ridge]

which part confuses you ?

[regal bolt]

So I extracted the duty_voices from Call of Pripyat.

And im looking at the Military V.A Mod rn.

But the folder structures and .ogg's are named completely different from one another.

While the VA mod only has Sounds>Actor and characters_voice

duty_voices thats extracted from the game has uh..

[violet ridge]

first extract anomaly files to see OG anomaly file structures

and not of the OG games, as they might or almost certainly will differ

[remote venture]

Regarding actor voice. Do voice lines after a kill streak play randomly or are some triggered depending on what you fought was a group of stalkers or mutants? I’ve heard that the lines are cheese because for example “don’t know the language”

ran out of ammo or what?! doesn’t apply to boars, also sounds to try hard to be gangster.

[regal bolt]

Im assuming you mean the default voice that plays?

I remember with the Voiced-Actor mod it used to be rather random but more often than not on Stalker kills.

[regal bolt]

Right.. now just to figure out how to use the unpacker xD

The whole reason I went for the COP gamefiles is because they came unpacked for some odd reason

[violet ridge]

go to tools, unpacker all bat

[regal bolt]

Upon install

[violet ridge]

in anomaly folder

[remote venture]

Thanks, if there was a way to play lines according to what you’ve fought obviously that would be ideal

[regal bolt]

With the Merc voice it was full random if I remember.

[regal bolt]

ok yeah got it.

Yeah and now I also have Dolg_1 and Dolg_3 (Muffled Voice)

[vale knot]

There are separate parts of the script for stalker and mutant kills, but currently voiced actor uses the same lines for both

[regal bolt]

Eyyy Shine with the clutch.

[vale knot]

I think stalker kills add like 3 extra lines it can use

But with an tiny edit to the script you can absolutely have seperate lines for stalker and mutant kills

[remote venture]

Thanks for the feed back, you’re already aware of the project I’m making. I’m just trying to fine line and edit out what lines I’ll have them saying. No point in making lines for mutants only if there’s no way to have them spoken only when killing mutants.

[vale knot]

I can double check

Actually can you send the voiced actor script here. Ill just check it on my laptop

So i don't have to boot pc

But im 99% sure it has a different bit of code for mutant kills

@remote venture

[remote venture]

Thanks, I have the following someone sent to me. I’ll pm

[regal bolt]

Im currently wondering which Duty files to use

for the weapon jams.

[pliant briar]

Okay, quick question, I have some experience mapping for source but nothing in X-ray or for stalker. What, if any, options are there for map editing, Id be willing on fixing the stairs collisions around the zone, but also would have figured someone else has tackled this issue if it was possible.

[misty mulch]

there are, afaik, little to no tools for map editing at all

[misty mulch]

as for stairs https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1080988163985653820

as you can see the approach is not map editing, its actor weight and collision settings

[pliant briar]

Oh great! Thanks

[trail scroll]

hello Stalkers, i have a question, i am a skills and progressions guy, and would like to increase the max lvl cap of the skills included in this modpack? Its currently 15 according to skill_haruka.ltx file (Skillsystem Haruka mod) how do i go about doing that?

it can't be as easy as changing the max lvl there to a higher number, as there might not be stat instructions coded to go above the stated lvl cap?

I also don't understand how this works "[survival_stats]
resistance = 1.1 ; damage multiplier, by default damage taken increases by x1.25
resistance_increment = - 0.01
bleed_restore = 0
bleed_restore_increment = 0.00005
hunting_skill = -5
hunting_skill_increment = 1.35
functor = haru_skills.update_survival
"
its about the survival skill. Supposedly increases your damage reduction, but it seems to start you off with 25% damage taken increase, and that -0.01 per lvl * 15 lvls will put you at 0.15 aditional mitigation wich is pathetic, if i am reading it right? 😄

[lilac compass]

Hi guys if I have a mod preventing the crafting manuals from being sold how would I go about fixing it?

[violet ridge]

there are enough tools, check the Anomaly modding book

The problem lies that Anomaly forked off a certain mod for OG games, and things got lost to time that don't allow adding of new maps that AI can navigate between

new undeground maps or maps that AI can't traverse between ? theoretically possible from what I've been told

there is supposeddly some madlad that is working on new compatible maps for Anomaly, and they promised to release the info once they finish

dont have the deets on me rn tho

Problem with Anomaly is that it's not compatible with the CoC SDK because its based on a lot of mods like MLR that change spawns and to which there are no SDK sources available. The all.spawn it compiles won't have information for MLR's smart terrains, waypoints etc and it crashes the game. For my project I removed MLR content and it resulted in having a working SDK base from CoC 1.5

[lilac compass]

finally figured it out it was the trade presets being overwritten

[quiet valve]

Chocohex or anthology author?

[violet ridge]

I ddidnt write down from whom this was, but I'll look around when i have a moment

[quiet valve]

I think chocohex talked about removing mlr stuff from anomaly for old world addon

[old berry]

anyone know how to edit an ogf file in blender to give extra bones and export it?

[slim bobcat]

didn't know it wasn't open source that would explain alot. thanks

[hardy hound]

probably chocohex

[heavy shoal]

Hello guys. I need help with modding pls. I am new in Stalker modding but I am a bit skilled in programming.
My question is, does Stalker GAMMA (or Anomaly) store informations about actor's and npc's location on the map somewhere? Like if they are on Skadovsk, Shevchenko, in Iron Forest etc?

[hazy goblet]

Question. How hard would it be to make a VLC addon?
Im getting annoyed trying to replace the music. lmao

[steady apex]

Model a cone and spawn it

[violet ridge]

I'd recommend asking this in Anomaly's Discord Modding-Code channel

more people with knowledge of the deep code there

[heavy shoal]

ok thanks

[hazy goblet]

Ill rip the Gmod one later. 🤷

[violet ridge]

they sometimes stop by here too, but you have higher chances over there

just don't be an ass and don't @ people "demanding" help

[regal bolt]

Has anyone tried porting the AKM Sound from tarkov for the AKM in Gamma by chance?

[violet ridge]

it's easy enough that you may as well try yourself

extract Tarkov assets (I am morally obliged to write it's sorta illegal), convert it to format Anomaly understands (check out Anomaly's modding book - you can find deets there), make a mod mimicking the file structure of the sounds you wanna swap around
voila

[random fulcrum]

bas is straight tarkov rips

[violet ridge]

I am not knowledgable enough to comment, I just know myself am trying best to stay in the legal zone with my content

[violet ridge]

just don't use the Hunt Down the Freeman one :V
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/346/382/c37.png

[past barn]

[violet ridge]

or one of their guns

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/271232048923017216/418951489244102657/1519946335702.png

i just reminded myself of that entire shitshow

[celest forge]

Jesus what the fuck

4 MILLION tris?

[violet ridge]

yeah

[celest forge]

That alone is like 10x the entire anomaly armory

[violet ridge]

it was... something else

[celest forge]

What the fuck

[violet ridge]

thanfully i only watched that shitshow from sidelines and was enjoying some popcorn

[regal bolt]

imagine grabbing those assets and then shoving them into source
with maps that barely even have dynamic lighting

[violet ridge]

Node graph out of date. Rebuilding...

[vapid estuary]

Is this mod somehow available for Anomaly or could it be converted? https://youtu.be/KKZQ5pYtr7M

[hardy hound]

what part of the mod lol

you mean the upgrade tree?

[celest forge]

Anyone knows how to match the rest of the reticle texture to the in game dark overlay?

[steady apex]

more tris than all build maps in anomaly combined

[celest forge]

Probably yeah lmao

[fair galleon]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/nma-101-for-anomaly-151-152

Can this be adapted for GAMMA?

[sick seal]

hey how do i change the Sprint animations from Lowered_Hud to the Charge animations? When running Anomaly with only My mods and 2022 BAS and JSRS the guns had this great sprint animation, but it wasnt added by any of the mods i had active. but when playing GAMMA its just Lowered Hud while sprint. how to i change back? I want to incorporate that sprint in a weapon mod im making at the moment. like i dont want to add the animation files or anything, i just want it to not be overwritten basically. how do?

[vapid estuary]

The laser sight for the Glock

[regal bolt]

you have two options

1. disable 41- LowerSprintAnimaiton - Skieppy entirely, meaning all guns use their actual sprint animation (which for some guns is really ugly, but for a large portion is fine)

2. add an exception to that same mod, for the gun you like

• how? go to MO2, search for that mod, right click, Open in Explorer
  then go to gamedata > scripts > open lower_weapon_sprint.script in a text editor
  add a line to the end of the exclude list:
  exclude["wpn_weapon_name"] = X
  where wpn_weapon_name is the debug name of the weapon and X is just 1 higher than the previous line on the list

[sick seal]

awesome thanks for the help!

[tacit surge]

Hi guys. Can we do something with this bug? I'm using 4k Nav's Masks and AlphaLiom's Health Panel rework. And after drinking or eating this happen. I suppose that the script that removes the mask HUD when using animations from FDDA is responsible for this. It's located in enhanced_animations.script (Default GAMMA FDDA). Сan somebody make a script that force reloads your hud after using FDDA animations? Is it possible? I know that the problem is not with AlphaLion's mod, this bug is also present in vanilla gamma. But maybe we can fix it?

[slim cloud]

Anyone has some context around blowouts and their level of modability?

For example, I’d like to weapons selection of NPC post blowout to be limited. Something like shotguns only for 24 hours post blowout.

[regal bolt]

that does sound interesting, but I can't think of how to achieve that
it would require either spawning new NPCs, or spawning new guns for every NPC and forcing them to change to that gun
which would mean everyone gets a free shotgun every blowout unless you also add logic to despawn weapons, which comes with it's own problems

[slim cloud]

I theory, NPC seek shelters right? I could spawn specific post blowout “zombies” with a restricted set of weapons 🤔

The existing spawned NPC would keep their selection. For the player, there might be a trick? I could make the zombies immune to X ammo type?

[undone lily]

nope and that's why the mask HUD ain't in GAMMA

unless you want to recode the BHS HUD UI to another UI layer

[austere plume]

I should preface this question with saying that I've never modded this game before, so I'm sorry if what I'm asking is trivial.
But I was wondering, is there a way to globally scale the prices of an item in a certain category?
I've figure out that mods have .ltx files for each trader that has the lines

sell_item_exponent = 0.75

discounts = discount_supplier```
Which I assume dictates buy/sell prices and applies a discount modifier to specific items.
But what I'd like to do is for example make all ammo and all artifacts across the board more expensive by some factor. Is this possible to do easily set some global scaling factor for an item category, or would I have to adjust the price of each artifact and ammo type individually?

[quiet valve]

Probably adjust each ltx file

[sick seal]

hey, can anyone tell me in BAS which is the Duty NPC Loadout Table? Im currently thinking it could be NPC_Loadout_Dolg or maybe Greh? , i just have no clue.

nvm got it

[celest forge]

dolg = duty

Greh = sin

[regal bolt]

killer = mercenary

[worn fiber]

Have a look at trade_presets.ltx. At the end of that file is the item group called [toolkits_h]. It makes mechanics pay double the price for buying the toolkits. So you can create an additional item group and put your price modifiers on items in that group. Last thing is adding this group to a trader you want the prices change to be applied too. Also in trade_discounts.ltx are the global price modifiers for different traders.

Still going to take some time if you want it to be more specific.

[austere plume]

Gotcha, I'll take a look at it. Thanks

[sick seal]

hey do you know if theres anyway to create a patch for this? im tyring to make one for an update to a mod im releasing today. and dont know much about scripts, if you can even patch them or what. any insight would be greatly appreciated

[regal bolt]

Sadly I have no idea how, other than manually adding the exceptions
Maybe DLTX-ing the additions could work, but I'm not sure of the wording
And I have no idea how monkeypatching works beyond seeing it as a term here and there

[sick seal]

does anyone know how to set a script to activate on a series of hotkeys? like Ctrl + Alt + F9 ? im wanting to create a universal uninstall script for my mod, since it adds new items, instead of providing x2 uninstall scripts per build and them being extra patches to install. and the only thing keeping them as an extra "patch" to install is the fact it "function on_game_start" but i want to use Ctrl_Alt_F9 if possible. if not then oh well.

[simple scaffold]

make an MCM button.

[hollow shoal]

Hi! How can I revert changes to make random condition for junk artefacts?
I tried to change grok_artefacts_random_condition.script like this

function grok_arti_random_efficiency(obj)
    kind = SYS_GetParam(0, obj:section(), "kind")
    printf("grok_arti_random_efficiency DBG %s",tostring(kind))
    if (obj:condition() == 1 and kind == "i_arty_junk" or obj:condition() == 1 and kind == "i_arty" or kind == "i_arty_cont" and obj:condition() == 1) then
        cond = (math.random(arti_min_eff, arti_max_eff) / 100)
        if obj:section() == "af_ah_f1" then
            cond = 0.98
        end
        obj:set_condition(cond)
    end

end

But even dbg msg doesnt appear

[simple scaffold]

this is how one of my mods adds an uninstall button to it's MCM:

function on_mcm_load()
   local options = {
        id = "rax_pinup",
        sh = true,
        gr = {
            {id = "rax_mmt", type = "slide", link = "ui_options_slider_player", text = "ui_mcm_menu_rax_pinup", size = {512, 50}, spacing = 20},
            { id= "desc_mcm"             ,type= "desc"     ,text= "ui_mcm_rax_pinup_level"             ,clr= {255,175,0,0}, precondition = {function() return not level.present() end}    }, --warning message that will only show with pre 1.6.0 versions of mcm explaining why there seems to be no settings
            {id = "uninstall", type= "button"   ,functor_ui= {function() item_pinup_collect.reset_all_magazines() end}, precondition = {function() return level.present() end}},
            {id = "clear", type= "button"   ,functor_ui= {function() item_pinup_collect.clear_collection() end}, precondition = {function() return level.present() end}},
            
            
        }
    }
    
    return options
end

at somepoint i should add the buttons to the MCM documentation. but they don't work like settings, they trigger as soon as pressed and can't be undone and don't get saved like a setting. they are good for this tho

[simple scaffold]

function on_key_press(key)
 if ( key == DIK_keys.DIK_F9) and (key_state(DIK_keys.DIK_LMENU) or key_state(DIK_keys.DIK_RMENU)) and (key_state(DIK_keys.DIK_LCONTROL) or key_state(DIK_keys.DIK_RCONTROL) then
    --do your thing
end
end

function on_game_start
RegisterScriptCallback("on_key_press", on_key_press)
end

updated to addd calback registration

[sick seal]

oh dude fuckin sweet, thanks for that, I barely understand scripting, but enough to just eek by. so I appreciate this info. sincerely

[graceful wing]

BRO, YOU'RE A LIFE SAVER - I LOVE YOU!

[pale smelt]

Can anyone help me with .dds files? Just messing around trying to re color grass. I converted the dds to png with paint.net, edited, then used nvidia texture tool to export to dds. Now the grass draw distance is 20m no matter what advanced settings are set too

Also I used DXT5 compression and generated mipmaps

[sick seal]

if someone lists their mod with a Creative Commons License and NOT Proprietary does that mean its fair game and its assets can be used?

[high gorge]

Economy balance mod is the you are searching for

[hasty comet]

Oh, I already managed to activate them 🙂 thank you!

Now Im just looking for ways to increase military spawns

[high gorge]

Thats in the parameters in the game

Might be by the end of the list , you can change value of faction peep and mobs pack

I think you might have to be in a game to do it but im not sure

[high gorge]

If im not wrong (has been some time since ive played) you can choose in game parameters for the durability of items fond, idk if that apply to artifact tho

[past barn]

You can test it yourself if you pick windowed mode and a 16:9 resolution. You'll probably need to restart the game after the change, sometimes the UI doesn't scale properly after changing the resolution

[shell knoll]

Will it black bar the sides? It always seems to stretch for me.

[past barn]

If you pick windowed then no

That's how I test my mods at 21:9 and 16:9 on the same PC

[shell knoll]

https://tenor.com/view/you-da-man-you-the-man-pointing-you-gif-17223602

[thorn pollen]

maybe someone here can help me.

is there a Way to make the Master Difficulty Stick to my savegame/game?

I can enter is via console, it gets applied but only till i change a level or restart the game then it changes back to Veteran by default.

I also tried editing the .ini File and make it read-only, but that didnt work either

Is there a way to be able to choose Master Difficulty right from the start with a small mod by chance?

Thanks in Advance ❤️

[misty mulch]

which creative commons license?

[wooden crystal]

not sure if this matter was already discussed:
i've stumbled across a couple of neat QOL mods seen in some yt videos,

• Items weight always shown at the corner of their respective icons (sorting the inventory gives also the total weight of the current filter)
• when accepting collector missions there is a prompt stating how many items the player has in the inventory (cool to know if i have those 4 cat thyroids)

it would be nice if those can be considered to be added in the future updates of GAMMA

btw those 2 mods are
Inventory weights revised
Utjans QOL bundle (there are also other options in this mod)

[regal bolt]

those are incredibly easy to add by the user themselves, and some people think the first one adds too much clutter to the interface
the second one I like myself too though, but I'm sure there's something that stops it from being added, other than the Taskboard not able to utilize it IIRC

[wooden crystal]

i actually have both installed and use them myself with no issues

[wooden crystal]

as for the clutter, well, that is personal preference

[torn vault]

how would i go about disabling the buffs given by achievements? i.e. i don't want to get better at repairs after giving 3 toolkits (possibly the opposite?)

[daring mauve]

Can someone make something like this mod but fully compatible with GAMMA?
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/exo-backpack-1-0

[bold needle]

hey guys i was thinking here about a mod that adds tasks where they give info that a certain faction will pass through somewhere with an good quantity of NPCs (preferably dead city, and places with high buildings) with some good loot so we can make an ambush.
I think that would add great immersion to the game.
If possible i would make it but i got no idea what i have to do to make mods for Stalker.

[daring mauve]

that sounds like easy-mode. A super-easy way to get good loot fast

[bold needle]

i mean, it would be mostly on super dangerous places

and the rate would be really low

and preferably you would pay for the info, then they would appear

no random encounter

or you could find info on a PDA

you would have a certain time to get to the place before they pass

and to balance it out, they would despawn after going through a map transition

of course the enemy will be really well armed so it won't be easy

[thorn pollen]

Push :(

[past barn]

How can I find out which mod/file contains a specific item in the game? The one is question is "Dushman's Intelligence" (hb_isg_dushman_intel)

I want to reduce its weight to 0, because it's a quest item you can't even drop. Waste of 0.5 kg

[fair inlet]

Use "search in files". The file you're looking for has to be in vanilla anomaly dbs

[past barn]

Yeah that works. I assumed it was from a non-Anomaly mod

[low spindle]

Hey everyone, does anyone know where the original prgrmr of pip scopes is? Someone is trying to implement them without any fps drop and there IS a method as featured here in this vid (timestamp 1:19) but i have never seen someone active take credit for it. Anyone have their @hazy magnet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqAj7loSpY0&t=118s

[sick seal]

can anyone tell me if GAMMA Save Saver/New Game Saver gets used by 9-30 BAS users? Ive only come across 2022 BAS Users that have it, but im making a new FOMOD with Flags and Dependencies and kinda need to know to make sure I have all the right pages created.

[regal bolt]

Would it be possible to make the USP "Match tactical" chamber in .45acp instead of 9x19?

[sick seal]

Can any russian speakers tell me if this sentence makes sense? " Вы используете ГАММА СПАСАТЕЛЬ СОХРАНЕННОЙ ИГРЫ? " Im creating a Russian translation of my FOMOD and want to make sure i get it correct.

[fair inlet]

This translation looks a little confusing, if you're trying to translate "Gamma Save Saver" it's better to leave it untranslated in my opinion

[sick seal]

gotcha, thankyou very much!

[sick seal]

Will Russian and Ukrainian speakers recognize the English Names of the mods? Or is Gamma Save Saver just so troublesom to translate its better to just leave it as is?

[fair inlet]

Mod names are never really translated, so everyone recognizes them by their origanal names.

[past barn]

Yeah, there's a mod for that, but that's a tier 3 upgrade. However I believe you could reverse engineer the mod's config and edit the base weapon's values if you want something different:
#1073562381755621458 message

[rose mango]

hi guys can someone help me ? i want to modify the amount of ammo sold by butcher

[regal bolt]

Thank you so much for this

[gaunt ore]

hi there
recently have seen that Skyrim already managed to use ChatGPT with mods → https://youtu.be/0wCjosz1vOA?
there's any plan to do something similar for Stalker?

[vast spruce]

Not that I know of

[quiet valve]

if you mean voice acting, there isn't much voices in stalker in the first place

ok skipped through the video, I highly doubt it lmao

[weak hull]

To release a very small mod, which needs another mod, is it allowed to use GAMMA's numbering and add B? Such as 159B- NAME HERE?

[gaunt ore]

with text chat would be enough

[sick seal]

Can anyone tell me if 9/30 BAS users use GAMMA Save Saver? or is it just 2022 Users? I am making a new FOMOD with Flags and Dependencies and want to make sure i get things right.

[steady apex]

What's demonstrated there is possible in anomaly without any engine edits, except maybe voice input from microphone

[quiet valve]

Wouldn't the extent to how it can be used be fairly limited though?

[gaunt ore]

just configure the chatbot to stay coherent with theme and thats it
practically the only thing that failed for me in stalker has been the AI
surely it isn't bad, but still not quite there yet

with both good gameplay behavior and chatbot could have something really awesome

[gaunt ore]

the idea is, rather than have the plain dialog that is repeetitive that all we know, have a dynamic one
instead of a bunch of options just a prompt entry to talk to and get answers

[steady apex]

I don't have access to chatgpt

And not familiar with it's api

[gaunt ore]

@steady apex still exist more chatbots that are open source and can be executed locally on your machine
for example https://stability.ai/blog/stablevicuna-open-source-rlhf-chatbot

[short patio]

Hello guys, do any of you know of a way to unbind a key in the regular control settings not in mcm? It is not possible nor do I find any mod to implement it :S

[vale knot]

Chatgpt aint gonna come close to the og English VAs for stalker

[quiet valve]

Based

Come in don't stand there!

Pipe down man, let me fill you in

Get out of here stalker!

[regal bolt]

didn't we have someone suggest this chatbot thing from Skyrim before?
it does seem neat but it doesn't really seem like something most people would care for

[quiet valve]

If it could randomly generate quests, Holy fuck that would be neat

Like someone controlling the game and what is thrown at you

Instead of rng

A sort of DM

[regal bolt]

if that could get made and implemented then I foresee that people would complain about lore inaccuracy in the randomly generated chat
or complain that they can't RP sex with Hip five minutes into a new game

[past barn]

What you can do is pick a keybind that you do use, and assign that key to the keybind that you want to unbind. Then assign the original key back to the function you want to ue, thus removing the other one. For example:

• Let's say you want to unbind Drop
• Bind W for Drop
• Bind W back for Forward, which will remove the bind from Drop altogether

Keep in mind some keybinds are sentient and change back to their defaults. Drop for example is one of them. To remove it, you'll need to:

• Go into [your Anomaly folder]\appdata\ and open user.ltx
• Find the keybind by searching for its name or assigned key. The attached image is G for the Drop keybind
• Delete this line from the config, which should stay permanent until you assign a key to Drop ingame again

[short patio]

you are smart haha, thanks boss. simple but smart solution the first one xD

[quiet valve]

I unironically wouldn't see people complaining. 1. Most stalker mods don't strictly follow the lore 2. Gamma definitely doesn't and some things such as the embargo don't make much sense 3. It would be pioneering a new thing and a lot of people, even outside of stalker, would be excited for it

Also stalker community isn't as horny as skyrim XD so I wouldn't think of the hip sex thing as a likely outcome

[regal bolt]

the lore complaint was more of a joke than anything else, but it is possible/likely that the chatbot would still say things very inaccurate to gameplay, giving bad advice, and otherwise cause confusion unless heavily trained to specifically work with a specific modpack
it would require a massive amount of work to idiot-proof it for wider audiences, and with how spaghetti XRAY is, I dare not even imagine the amount of hassle it would be to make it generate tasks

I prefer to leave the pioneering of this to the Skyrim mod community

[undone lily]

Ask what stalker gamma is to ChatGPT and have fun

[sinful pawn]

Does anyone know how to make armour models for stalker or at least have a guide for it to follow so I could maybe

Uh

Make armour mod

[undone lily]

For npcs ?

[sinful pawn]

Well for player use as well but yes for npcs to wear

[undone lily]

NPCs don’t wear the player armor

You can make npc models with blender

[sinful pawn]

[undone lily]

For player armors you just need to edit ltx files

And make icons

[sinful pawn]

But say you wanted to import armour from another game to it

Is it the same process?

[undone lily]

For npc models there are already 2400 or so with Dux character Kit

[sinful pawn]

Oh I just meant when you use like uh dynamic armours and they wear it

[undone lily]

If you want to make npc models you need to use blender with pavelblend

[sinful pawn]

I’m noob forgive me oh mighty grok

Hmm ok

[undone lily]

But NPCs don’t « wear » armor items

A level of armor is embedded in the model file

[sinful pawn]

Oooh cool

[undone lily]

And in another ltx file it defines which player armor and helmet they drop

[sinful pawn]

Oooh okay I was wondering how that worked

Especially when the npcs would have some really cool model and then the outfit they dropped was different

I thought it was scandalous

[undone lily]

Yeah cause it’s different

There’s not different armor for each model

I tried to set accurate armors for each one of the 2400 models manually

[sinful pawn]

How did that go

[undone lily]

Took me about 80h

[regal bolt]

Grok aged 58 years just tweaking LTX files

[sinful pawn]

Oh my god

What a monster

Mans is a goat for the hard work and mental sanity he’s lost

And regained

[undone lily]

Took me about the same to set 4500 extra random spawn points in almost all maps

[sinful pawn]

[undone lily]

[sinful pawn]

You

You crazy

[undone lily]

So when someone ask me little shit like « nuh ak Alfa has charging handle on the wrong side »

[sinful pawn]

Like na fuck that I’m@too tired

So if you are just porting armor models for use from one game to this one is it just a matter of tweaking ltx files and making sure the file tree is correct or is it more

It’s probably more isn’t it

[regal bolt]

from my limited understanding, if the model works it is just a matter of assigning it in the relevant file as the model to use
the "if the model works" is the tough part, since that involves everything from file types to animation rigging

and even if the model works for XRAY's specific spaghetti, you don't want to do an HD Models and have terrible optimization and weird materials

[sinful pawn]

Oh yeah no we don’t want that

[undone lily]

No you need blender

[sinful pawn]

Oh nice

[undone lily]

If you want to port an armor 3d model and slap it an npc models you need blender with pavelblend

And then tweak some ltx and xml files so the new npc model is used by the game

[sinful pawn]

@faint sable I lied it’s not just ltx edits I lied don’t do it

[faint sable]

lmao

[undone lily]

Check how Dux Innumerable Characters Kit work

[sinful pawn]

Does it explain in its description how it works or just check the file system n such

[undone lily]

And you need to manually add the armor model to each npc model you want

Hence it creates lots of variants

[sinful pawn]

Oooh

[undone lily]

Reverse engineer

[sinful pawn]

That’ll be fun

120 hours tops boys don’t worry

I’ll have it all down

[celest forge]

Fuck man wish it was this easy lol

[sinful pawn]

Damn

[celest forge]

Rigging guns is enough of a pain in the ass

Couldn't imagine manually rigging each part of each finger of both hands to a stalker body armature

[sinful pawn]

Horribly

[sick seal]

Where would be a good place to go, to ask any Russian/Ukrainian speakers to help me with my FOMOD Installer? I made basically a Russian/Ukrainian Installer, But had to use Google Translate, I feel like i got things pretty close, but fuck if i know. And trying to find anyone has been like pulling teeth. Any help or insight would be greatly apprecaited.

[hushed stone]

is there a way to make a lower weapon when sprinting script for just a single weapon

looking at the script for the lowersprintanimation mod, it seems like you would need to exclude every single gun in your game besides the one you want to be lowered

[undone lily]

Just change the code

[undone lily]

FOMOD is pretty straightforward, reverse engineer existing ones ?

[celest forge]

I think he's just asking people that speak rus/ukr if they can see if the translation for his FOMOD is good enough

[sick seal]

yeah I got a really nice FOMOD i made, but I used Google Translate to do the Russian/Ukrainian side of it. and have no idea how accurate the language is. I spent the last day and a half learning about the FOMOD script and wrote basically a 35 Installation Step FOMOD with tons of Flags and Dependencies.

[undone lily]

Aaaah ! Just use ChatGPT brother

[celest forge]

True

All my gun descriptions? A.I

One less headache

[regal bolt]

Hey guys. What happened to the "companions inv unlock" and "dncpv-" something mods? In rc3 I was able to equip them with artifacts, armor, backpacks, and now they won't use anything (I knew that they did as their inv weight threshold rose whenever they got such an item from me)

[regal bolt]

Could you try to bring that back?

[coarse aurora]

How would I go about nodding in a new ammo type? Looking to add in either 7N24 or 7N39 to make 5.45 guns a bit better late game.

[calm geyser]

does anyone know how to freeform crop outside of ps?

me and my friends are trying to make something but don't have money

[violet ridge]

youd need to either replace one of the pristine ammo types with whatever you are coming up

or one of the bad versions of the ammo

the problem with latter is that you dont have fine control over how much pristine or bad ammo drops in the wild

which can get balance/progression out of whack

both things you should be able to DLTXify, changing the ammo stats for whatever you deem fit

why replace existing ammo ? cause 3 base ammo types are heavily ingraned into the ui/engine and changing that is a tall fucking order

[calm geyser]

are the playboy/maxim mag textures part of a mod or in vanilla?

[wary mica]

how do i convert obj to ogf? using blender.

[undone lily]

Pavelblend exports OGF directly

[old berry]

how do i match the hands with the gun when exporting to skl in blender

[undone lily]

skl ?

You export OMF or OGF

[old berry]

im kinda green when it comes to making animations for stalker, so i thought the process is to turn into skl then to omf

[rare topaz]

how do i start making stalker mods?

[violet ridge]

http://sdk.stalker-game.com/en/index.php?title=S.T.A.L.K.E.R._MOD_portal
wiki for old games, but a lot of things are still appliccable

https://igigog.github.io/anomaly-modding-book/

Anomaly modding book, constantly WIP but a lot of helpful info is there

with those, i'd recommend taking a look at small simple mods

dissecting what they do and etc.

of course, depends what you plan to do

[daring mauve]

How do I comment out multiple lines in an .ltx ?

[quiet valve]

With a semicolon