╙🖇mods-making-discussion

[undone lily]

hum I guess I'll make something specific for gamma then

[mystic solstice]

we'll see anyway, first i just gotta get the base system down

adding items that add to condition is also not so crazy to do

[undone lily]

actually techs can clean guns, I guess it should be fine (in gamma they can't repair armors)

[undone lily]

indeed

the question is more how you want to display them

a 2nd bar would be a pain, although it's doable

[mystic solstice]

imo, binoculars/detectors/radios/geiger/nvgs/flashlight/headlamp should all have some condition associated with them

[undone lily]

look at Utjan's stuff for dual bars

[mystic solstice]

the easiest for me imo is to do what xcvb did for his toxic air addon

just add a line in description that shows item states

[undone lily]

yes there's that too

[mystic solstice]

not as sexy i guess, but item condition should also be apparent just from looking through/at the thing in your hand as well

but between vanilla/gamma/efp/whatever other modpacks everyone does something a bit different, so i'll try and keep it modular/easy to configurate

[static nebula]

the weapon rig suck

if i could figure out how to rerig it then maybe... eventually

[regal bolt]

guys i cant find bandit combat voicelines in my cop files nor shoc files

where can i get them from my game files

or download them

[analog blade]

So what you are telling me…. There is hope 🥹🤣

[regal bolt]

any help would be appreciated

[static nebula]

maybe, but no time soon because im working on other stuff right now lol

[analog blade]

❤️

[regal bolt]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-gif-22469622

[regal bolt]

paitence if key to your goal

so be it

[sharp acorn]

Weapon Sway Mod:
Anyone know how I can increase weapon sway when scoped? Even the max values are pretty low for my taste, using an LPVO is super OP

[somber mulch]

No mod needed, just go shoot bandits

[regal bolt]

i want the sound files to replace the player pain responses with bandits

[somber mulch]

seems my message is now without context

and it shall stay that way

[regal bolt]

no worries we all misunderstand

thanks for trying to help tho bro

[chrome elm]

anyone know if it would be possible to remove the bullet crack when firing from specific weapons??

like the .300 rifles for example

[river fjord]

there isnt much that isnt possible in anomaly with enough effort.
you can achieve that by removing the sound layers for that gun that contain the crack sounds or if its a single sound file youll have to edit out the sound in something like audacity

[chrome elm]

godbless you sir

[soft burrow]

I'm trying to test a mod I'm making but I get this error that I don't know how to debug. Happens every time I shoot somebody. Any help is very appreciated.

Ah I forgot to check the log before posting
Here it is if anyone's interested

[soft burrow]

From what I gather from the log the problem lies in npc_on_hit callback.
Can't figure out what the problem is. Am I using it wrong?

[fiery cedar]

quick question, where are all the ltx files for all the default anomaly gear located? I cant seem to find them

[fluid idol]

You'll probably need to unpack them from the Anomaly configs.db

[simple scaffold]

line 25, you can't compare game objects. you need to get thier ID and compare that. who:id() == AC_ID

the no such operator is that there is no == operator defined for game objects

[soft burrow]

Thank you!

[simple scaffold]

the other big rule for game objects (and se_objects) is that you don't store them. you store the ID and fetch the object fresh when you need them.

[simple scaffold]

in anomaly/tools/ there is an unpacker bat file. the all version includes the art assests, sounds, modles, textures and sucks up gigs of HD space. the other version is just the configs, scripts and shaders and is much smaller, and probably all you need.

[simple scaffold]

it's anoying in that the batery system uses the objects condition to store charge. you either need to move that to mdata or keep you condition in mdata. probably the first is better, since it will automatically affect price and if the item is to broken to sell and makes more sence, if the item has a durablity condition it should be in the same place for all items, but more work.

also unless you patch the xml condition bar in items in the binocular slot causes a crash. patched xml is in my addon that lets you put pistols there.

[mystic solstice]

its fair

battery can be checked in the menu and some of the devices have a notification for low battery anyway or the bones of where it used to be

[stark slate]

so im currently experimenting with alife file.. but i need descriptions on few parts (especially schedule_min and schedule_max)

what are those 2 settings mean?

[celest nexus]

i dont know if this is the correct place, but is there a mod that changes the little patch/icon you get when aiming on people? my eyesight is kinda bad so i need something else than that

like a text or just something that says bad guy/good guy

when sneaking around i always have to wait and see if they shoot at me or no 😛

[simple scaffold]

this addon is old enough that it shoves it setting in beside the anomaly settings rather than using MCM. but still works ok. (except for an unfortuante but harmless bit of log spam, there is a fix int he comments)

it can be setup to change the crosshair shape based on friend/neutral/enemy
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/ascendantcrosshairs

[celest nexus]

ill have a look at it, thanks

[simple scaffold]

you can also scale the croshair way up

[celest nexus]

tho, i dont play with crosshairs

[simple scaffold]

you can set it up to only show when your gun is hostered if you don't want the aim assist.

[celest nexus]

i see

[simple scaffold]

I can't think of any other IFF type addon

[celest nexus]

ive come atleast 40-50ish hours into the game with the "wait for them to shoot me" mentality 😛

[stark slate]

i used this mod for long time and it helps my bad aiming

[simple scaffold]

it is very configurable. It started out as just a colorblind IFF solution since addon gamma uses didn't exist. I ended up adding a bunch of other features. I should give it an update and some polish.

[stark slate]

i use it along with Inakrin's hitmark mod too, not gonna lie, i accidently made COD crosshair + hitmark XD

Call of Duty GAMMA

[plush kiln]

I want to nerf medkits by making them take longer to do their healing. Anyone know a quick way to make this edit or what file to look at?

[steady sigil]

Hey guys was curious about what people used to edit ST description files? right now working on fixing some descriptions and stuff for some meds i was working on icons with and using Notepad, it does not transfer over the symbles used for the different limb heals.... the *** symbles is what im trying to firgure out

[jade yacht]

Anyone know how I make starting items damaged like in regular anomaly? Tried disabling "starter items are not broken" but it didn't seem to do anything

[past barn]

Idk if this is a GAMMA-specific feature or something, but does anyone know why doesn't Gamma pause the game when you alt-tab? Or why do non-Gamma modpacks pause upon alt-tab?

[river fjord]

its just a console command from vanilla anomaly. always_on Edit: g_always_active, it being on is the cause of loosing audio when alt tabbing during a loading screen. its off by default in most installs/packs

[past barn]

Sorry to question you but are you sure? I can't find such a command, only g_always_active which doesn't seem to have any effect

Oh wait, it does apparently. Thanks

[river fjord]

sorry i might have gotten the name wrong, i dont actually have the game open but it defiantly works

[past barn]

Interestingly turning it off doesn't have an immediate effect, but if it's off when the game starts, then turning it on does have an effect. At least in EFP

[simple scaffold]

Need to set the encoding to windows 1251, it will be under the cyrillic section of the encoder ng

Encoding menu

[simple scaffold]

Unpacked files, configs/items/items/i_medical.ltx or something like that

[gleaming kernel]

Are there any mods that add more Lukash-style fetch tasks for weapons?
I know theres Retirement Tasks
https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1128666938827087932
But maybe something in reverse?

[random fulcrum]

vanilla anomaly has them

they were kinda common

got disabled in gamma for obvious progression issues

[topaz estuary]

To add existing scope to a gun I need to edit/create an .ogf file?

[random fulcrum]

yes you have to create a new model

[wheat mist]

Hi Stalkers, I’m passionate about this game and community and wanna get into modding. I know I should read up on some Lua general knowledge, but are there any community resources I can access? Context - web dev by trade

Looking for some high level overview for nwebies

[random fulcrum]

anomaly's source code is publicly available in bitbucket

it's c++ (?)

there's the anomaly modding book around

it's slowly being filled with info

and you can also just do the classic thing of learning by breaking others' homework

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

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

[ornate spade]

lua scripting section starts at: https://igigog.github.io/anomaly-modding-book/scripting/index.html

[wheat mist]

Thank you : )

The docs are so detailed. Can't love this community enough

[wet ermine]

Hi! I would like to make the footsteps of others louder, how do I go about it?

[wintry dirge]

Someone please make realistic/better bullet cracks, impacts, flyby sounds please and thank you ❤️

Or point me to one if one exists that works good, im looking rn but so far the ones i've seen are outdated

[regal bolt]

Is there a way to turn on auto-capture on scope without any upgrades? Asking for a friend, he said that he tried to find it, but didn't see any callback for that

He wants to make a script that checks what scope is on your weapon, for example if it is a gauss scope, then auto-capture will turn on

[river fjord]

edit the ogg files (the sound format stalker uses) to make them louder,
do note its a lottt trickier to make them audible from further away, that is very different from louder and requires engine changes iirc

[wintry dirge]

Try out https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/footsies

[river fjord]

that persons mods are normally dogshit but you can try

[fossil birch]

I remember hearing about some sort of program that directly edited the .ogg comments in a way the xRay engine understood, and had options for audible distances and that sorta thing. Was called like SAandT or something along those lines. No idea if it's anomaly compatible though or just OG xRay compatible

[river fjord]

yes its anomaly compatible, it is called SAVandT
you can find it here: https://www.metacognix.com/files/stlkrsoc/index.html#SAVandT
yes you can set distances, sound levels and add sound comments but the engine will still limit the distance on footsteps to like 20 or 25 i dont remember which regardless of what you set in the program

[fossil birch]

thats the spice, shame it doesn't work on the footsteps though, would be nice to hear them before they're practically on top of you

[river fjord]

when you occasionally see in your console X sound is missing ogg comment blah blah blah, its cause the person hasnt set the sound type in that program (could also use sdk to set it but is annoying)
this is what the program in general looks like

[fossil birch]

Yeah I used it years ago to do some sound modding for SHoC, there's a few sounds in a pack I made I've been meaning to tweak before releasing it, so cheers for the link to it again

[chrome elm]

tried to export custom hands ogf file and got this error

anyone know what the issue is

[river fjord]

yep,
you cant export hands directly from blender. it messes up the dynamic loading that the hand models use. the *.omf.

you need to export them as .object and use something like https://github.com/VaIeroK/XrayExportTool/releases or the sdk to convert them properly to ogf

[chrome elm]

@river fjord thank you adonis

[chrome elm]

@river fjord is there any guides on how to use this xray export tool everythings in russian

[slow bolt]

learn Russian

[river fjord]

im not sure what you mean, the program is in english. its extremely straight forwards, you shouldnt need a guide of any kind

just import as object, export as ogf.
you can make some texture/shader tweaks in the relevant tabs if you have to

[tardy galleon]

why has nobody made a mod that prevents companions from shooting random wooden boxes

[slow bolt]

i love that feature

[tardy galleon]

https://tenor.com/view/looney-tunes-daffy-duck-now-thats-an-interesting-feature-feature-features-gif-22401587

[slow bolt]

you peacefully walk somewhere and then suddenly jumpscare from behind you as a companion starts unloading on a box

[tardy galleon]

bro for real, im walkin around in grass as tall as me and all of a sudden he's shooting boxes

[wispy ferry]

mf thought he heard David Hayter, Solid Snake could've been in that box

[chrome elm]

@river fjord ya just having issues as im editing the old EFT hands add-on and they come in ogf format so im not used to working with obj

[river fjord]

whats the issue?

[chrome elm]

the eft hand models im editing come in ogf format

and im unsure how you would convert that to object format

as this app above only takes object format for editing models

[river fjord]

you should export them from blender as .object after you do whatever it is you are doing to them in blender

only use that program to convert back to ogf as the final final step later.

[chrome elm]

everything working brother @river fjord 👍

[river fjord]

nice, glad to hear! glgl

[plush kiln]

Is there any way to bind the mouse wheel forward and backwards position of canted sights in the Adjustable Scope HUD? ie - scroll down to push the canted sight away from you

[gleaming kernel]

AFAIK mouse scroll wheel is hardcoded by engine and can't be changed? I've tried to do the same

[fossil birch]

What controls the sounds you hear when you get to low psy health? I've made a bunch of sounds for it that fit better than what is already in it, but I can't work out what has to be chanegd to get them into the game

[static nebula]

Make sure they're formatted correctly, find out what the name of the original is and where it's located, then just replicate the file structure in your mod I assume

[fossil birch]

Yeah I know how to do it, I just can't locate the original sources. I've tried searching both the MO2 files and unpacked all the base anomaly files but nothing stands out as being what I need

[strange walrus]

Question. In death_generic.ltx, are these values (0 and 6) measuring boxes of ammo or individual cartridges?

[topaz estuary]

I found a bug in the full upgrades mod (probably) from the UGP QoL package - res burn updates seem to give much more % than they should

So my question is - what file is responsible for the resistance bonuses from upgrades? Do I need to check every piece of helmet/armor or there is some master file?

left - after upgrade / right - before

[fluid idol]

Burn res is weird anyway

[noble plinth]

resistances work at different %

don't ask me why

[torn vault]

i want to say individual cartridges, but when i was modding clear sky some custom ammo types would drop entire boxes instead, and i don't know why; vanilla ammo didn't have such issues, however

[topaz estuary]

Ok, maybe I didn't notice it before and now I thought it was a bit weird

[topaz estuary]

BTW, is there a parameter to specify which items can be attached to quick slots?

[slow bolt]

Any usable item?

[topaz estuary]

After unpacking the scripts.db, I found the ui_inventory.script file. It looks like it checks which item is considered consumable and returns true or false. I want to change this behavior and add an option to include devices like NVGs, detectors etc. (for now in vanilla state I can add scope)

[slow bolt]

Would be easier to do with scripts and diffferent buttons

[topaz estuary]

As I'm rather a greenhorn with modding, so it sounds a bit complicated. Well, I was encouraged by the script for a mod that makes the binoculars and knife slots accept small firearms, looks pretty clean and easy to edit, then I thought maybe quick slots aren't much worse to edit than this one.

[torn vault]

@topaz estuary what would you like to accomplish with this? change to a specific scope with a hot key?

[stark slate]

i need some help in setting up Alife.ltx as i encountered stutters when Lurkers are around

i need to know the functions of each of the settings

[topaz estuary]

For now, you can add a range to a quick slot with no hassle or script editing. In my case, I'd like to be able to switch between NVG and Thermo Visor because I'm using the heatvison mod. But a modification that allows you to simply assign different devices makes more sense.

[strange walrus]

Yeah I played around with some numbers and noticed some ammo shows up in really large quantities. I need to test the values a bit more

[chrome elm]

@river fjord need ur smart brain again pls

cant seem to remove the bullet cracks from the mcx rattler mod

removed all the crack layered sounds from the gun sounds it uses but no workin #

[river fjord]

no idea what that mod is but send me the config for the sounds and i can look

[river fjord]

so you removed the sound layers from this config that you think contains the snapping sounds and made sure the actual shot sound itself doesnt have any cracks in it either correct?

[chrome elm]

well the cracks are stored in the jsrs mod

and i removed them all from the layered sounds folder for val which is what the rattler uses its sounds from

[river fjord]

it uses its own sounds from the look of the config,
it has the wpn_vintorez_sounds as a section its inheriting from but those lines are only inherited from those sections if the lines are not present inside the main section, which they are in this case, see red circle.
this config has a whole sound section in it.
i dont know what your load order is looking like but if this is loaded after everything it shouldnt be inheriting sounds from anywhere other then whats on this list

[chrome elm]

hmm i cant find a single sound file in the mod folder tho

so i assumed it has to be inheriting the sound files from elsewhere

[river fjord]

just seach for the sounds with the data tab of mo2, search for like sig550_shoot_silencer

[chrome elm]

uses the gunslinger mod for its sounds fk

@river fjord ok pretty sure it just uses sig550 sounds

not its own

[river fjord]

that is indeed what the config says
when i said its own, i meant from its own section. not inherited from another section

[chrome elm]

but it doesnt sound like it in game :D:D

shits confusing bro

[sharp acorn]

With mags redux, is there a way to make it so enemy bodies have mags with actual rounds in them? EFP seems to do this, but rn in gamma they just have empty mags and a few spare rounds

[slow bolt]

in mcm

increase the slider

though having mags be full is just op as fuck

[sharp acorn]

I've jacked that all the way up, didn't see any difference. They just have more empty mags

[slow bolt]

there is definitely a slider for amout of bullets in the mags

[sharp acorn]

Just messed with it some more, I previously had those values both at max (2) and now at like 1.6 and they're still just empty mags

[simple scaffold]

Gamma changes mags redux to remove that ammo

Redux normally has ammo in the magazines

[sharp acorn]

Interesting ok. Where can I find these settings/which files? I don't mind tweaking it myself

[simple scaffold]

IDK, I don't use GAMMA.

This is the normal version of the script redux uses to spawn those magazines.

https://github.com/RAX-Anomaly/MagsRedux/blob/main/gamedata/scripts/magazines_loot.script

[sharp acorn]

ok cool, I'll do some digging. Thanks!

[neon flower]

hey! im new to modding and i have tried finding HD model legs and body mods, i see the base game textures when i look down at my arms and body. Does anyone know a good mod that i could use?

[river fjord]

being able to see your body and legs is its own mod in the first place,
its unlikely you find many others variants, not many people use that mod but maybe you can find a few variations around

[neon flower]

im havin trouble doin that, yeah. i coulda swore the last version of gamma had something like that. ididnt enable anything so that means it would have been built in, but after fresh installing my launcher, it was gone. Im trying to get it back cuz it looked so much better.

[wintry dirge]

Is there a way I can see what functions get called when clicking inventory elements? or if you know what function is called when adding magazines to loadout

Im trying to make a small QoL mod that automagically adds mags (full mags) that your current equipped weapon needs to your loadout

[sharp acorn]

well shit, this script is the exact same as the one loaded when I play, according to MO2

[simple scaffold]

Mo2 only looks at name, not contents.

I am fairly sure that just replacing the gamma version of that script with the original will not break things. And changing that script is the easiest way for gamma to have made the mags have no ammo.

[wintry dirge]

Just recognized the name, maybe you could point me the right way? 😂

[simple scaffold]

magazine_binder.toggle_carried_mag(magazine_id)

Adds/removes magazines tonloadout

magazine_binder.is_carried_mag(magazine_id)

Tells you if it already is in load out

magazine_binder.is_magazine(val)

Checks if an item is a magazine

magazine_binder.is_compatible(weapon, magazine)

Checks if a magazine works with a given weapon.

Those last two functions work with id, game object, section or se_object

If you use id for all of them you will be fine

[wintry dirge]

Yess, thank you 👍 I have no scripting experience so this is gonna be interesting

[simple scaffold]

That should cover the mags redux bits.

Simplest way to detect a full magazine is one with its condition at 1

That's all the mags redux stuff you need.

I do not currently have time to give general anomaly modding lessons. But many ppl here can help with that. Maybe me to at some point. Srry

[wintry dirge]

Your good lol what you've given already helps a shit ton as before this I was looking thru mags scripts for functions

[wet ermine]

okay I put that in, but it gets flagged in the mod organizer (pic related)
Am I supposed to reinstall the whole thing when adding mods?

[wintry dirge]

supposed to extract it then theres two folders inside one for manual and one for mo2

[neon flower]

does the 1ST PERSON VISIBLE BODY [PORTED FROM SWM] come with the hd models? or do i have to download them?

[wet ermine]

is there some guide for adding mods, similar to the install guide?

[wintry dirge]

Idk... most mods that are compressed you can just leave in your downloads folder and install throught the MO2 client ||(Ctrl+M)||, some mods you need to drag and drop into the mods folder

[wet ermine]

That's what I did, uncompressed it into the mods folder with 7zip, and yet it gets flagged

[wintry dirge]

||forward||

Theres two more folders inside

one for manual and one for mo2 you're supposed to go into that folder and pick either one

if you pick the one that doesnt say manual, put in mods folder, if you pick the one that has manual, drag and drop into anomaly

[slow bolt]

no, dont drag anything into anomaly folder

all you have to do is copy the DLTX folder into the gamma mods folder and enable the mod

[wintry dirge]

ye just use mo2 one

[wet ermine]

un7zipped the manual one into gamma/mods/, not flagged now, hopefully it does not ruin my install

[slow bolt]

there is no mo2 or manual folders

there is pussy version without dltx and one good DLTX one

[slow bolt]

wrong

[wintry dirge]

the DLTX one is the MO2 I refer to

[wintry dirge]

DLTX one

not manual one

[wet ermine]

come again?

[wintry dirge]

https://gyazo.com/ca214fa98467a22c70f807672dfd93d7

[wet ermine]

thanks

[median hull]

I don't really see anyone talking about it or anything so I'm just going into this mod thread to see if I can get any info. Given that Promzone and Grimwood are just new levels entirely does anyone know if anyone is working on trying to port some of the maps from Stalker Soup/OP 2.2 to anomaly or if its even possible?

[static nebula]

trying to make the lowered sprint loop slightly less atrocious... whether im successful or not is another matter
this is the best ive gotten it to look so far, i don't know why it always loops weirdly, like it always snaps on the last frame, despite looking fine in blender. also varies from weapon to weapon, because the main bone of some weapons can be in really weird spots

are .anms known to loop weirdly or what? i havent had this kind of issue working with omf/ogfs 🤔

[somber mulch]

looks alright

keep it up

[static nebula]

might have figured out the issue, unfortunately it is 10 past 1 am and i should sleep soon

[uneven hemlock]

This looks 10x than default

Good work

[static nebula]

thanks, hopefully i can get it polished up and post it soon

[thick loom]

Any tiips to remove this black overlay from the leaves? I'm using DXT1 1bit format, "box" mipmap filter, "alpha modulate" on

Mipmap preview shows this

[fossil birch]

I've found DXT1 compression has issues with certain textures for some reason. DXT5 seems to work perfectly from what I've found though

Left image is DXT1, right image is DXT5

[fossil birch]

I believe it's something to do with how the xRay engine reads .dds files and the DXT1 compression screws with that

[thick loom]

For most textures Dxt5 works fine, but for vegetation, Dxt5 has issues, specially draw distance. GoTZ addon was built in DXT5 format, it has draw distance issues due this format

[fossil birch]

Hmm, maybe DXT3 if that's an option for you then, I must admit I've not touched the vegetation textures in a long while so I can't remember the settings I used to use to get it to display correctly

You could also just send it and go uncompressed, but that file size creep would be huge eventually

[thick loom]

Hmmmm got it, gonna try this, tks!

[thick loom]

From far, it doesnt show up (Dxt5). From close it does, and has more quality than Dxt1

[fossil birch]

Could that be to do with the games internal render distance instead of the file compression? Still seems odd to me that changing the compression would make it render at a shorter distance. Theoretically if DXT5 is higher quality than DXT1 it should show up from further away

Also, in the ingame console if you type texture_lod what number shows up for you? I believe that controls the distance you see textures such as leaves from

[thick loom]

Gonna check here. I know that changing mipbias values increase this draw distance, although makes it more grainy and causes FPS issues

[thick loom]

mipbias via console

[thick loom]

i believe its set in "0" right?

[river fjord]

this is for sprinting with your weapon in the lowered position i guess you mean?
theres no such thing as a "default sprint" in stalker,

im assuming gamma uses that lowered sprint mod that just puts your weapon into the lowered position when you start to sprint?

either way looks good!

[fossil birch]

yeah 0 is the default and lowest I think, try stepping it up one by one and see if it makes any difference

On another note, theres no easy way to copy reposition data across to different scopes on the same weapon is there? It's super time consuming to have to make the same changes for all 20 scopes on each one of the assault rifles lol. Using draggable hud editor, I've tried using the copy paste function in that but I end up having to adjust the aim point for each scope any way

[misty mulch]

hey which files do I have to check to see whether or not a certain gun will spawn in GAMMA

on npc loadouts, i mean

[simple scaffold]

unpacked files + modfiles. gamedata/configs/gameplay/loadouts/

those files are loaded by the profiles in gamedata/configs/gameplay/profiles/

in the case of a mod file and a packed file of the same name, mod file wins.

these file can also be changed by DLTX scripts and there is no easy way to identify those except by going thru every dxml script by hand.

[misty mulch]

thanks - i just need to reference them

looks like it's time to trawl through dltx scripts then

[thick loom]

I think i use the same method, move the hud to the position i want, minimize the game and change straight in the .ltx

[cold loom]

hey has anyone tried running GAMMA with DXVK ?

[slow bolt]

... why

[cold loom]

Just to try and see performance

[misty mulch]

!dxvk

[queen pine]

Go here https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v2.0
Scroll down and download dxvk-2.0.tar.gz then open it like a .zip file.
Double click the .tar file inside to open it like a folder, then keep going until you can open the x64 folder.
Take all the .dll files from inside the x64 folder and place them in \Anomaly\bin and overwrite.

If you wish to remove it again then remove the .dll files and type !k98 in #🤖bot-commands

[misty mulch]

we generally recommend it only for driver issues. you're not gonna squeeze that much performance out of an engine with this.

[cold loom]

i see

[slow bolt]

its a wrapper. You aint gonna get more performance like that unless you have issues

[gleaming kernel]

If you want you can try Special K

It minimizes latency, especially if you have variable refresh rate monitor (GSync or FreeSync)

[slow bolt]

If you get that much fps you worry about latency then idk

getting stable 60 is a godsend already

[gleaming kernel]

60 FPS VRR is much smoother than 60 FPS static imo

[slow bolt]

actually, it isnt. There is no difference.
There is a difference only if your refresh rate is different from 60

[river fjord]

its 2023, most people have had monitors with higher then 60 refresh rate for years

[slow bolt]

idk about special K but dxvk would lower performance instead of raising it unless you have some kind of issues. So, it is better to have more FPS instead of lower latency and less fps. Since more FPS = lower latency by itself

[static nebula]

whatever lower sprint animations is using, yeah 😅

[river fjord]

i hate that mod, so many people spend a lot of time making good sprint animations with transitions and everything just to have thier work overwritten with some shit lowered pose.

it causes so much confusion with new people as well. especially when its in a big modpack
i get comments like this where i have to explain it all the time, this is just from a couple weeks ago on my svu for example

[static nebula]

I understand, that is pretty shitty
It does have a whitelist of sorts but I assume most people don't even bother to mess with all that

[river fjord]

its like once a month i have someone telling me my sprint animations are broken & need to tell them to disable that dogshit

[slow bolt]

I agree it can mess with animations or prevent seeing good animations but honestly it is better with it on.
I rather have the lowered one than this one for example

[static nebula]

The one you replied to is the lowered one, just reanimated 😅

[static nebula]

maybe it's time to add a disclaimer
that sounds annoying haha

[gleaming kernel]

that's what I said. VRR implies a higher refresh rate but limiting to 60

[gleaming kernel]

I like it, nice work as always

is it just me or does the sway loop seem slower than the sprint footsteps speed? if that makes sense

[static nebula]

it could be, partially because I slowed it down 2 frames from how it was originally in an attempt to fix the issues I was having :p
I'm gonna see if I can maybe speed it up some

[gleaming kernel]

yeah the og anim was basic but responsive, each step you took bobbed the weapon in sync

but your loop is much more smooth and visually pleasing

[thick loom]

Issue found and fixed

[humble crater]

Hey

Umm I don’t know how to integrate Magazine Reduxx to B&S

[simple scaffold]

I do. And I already did.

Except where there were typos. There are a couple of guns I need to fix

[humble crater]

Oh shit your the author

Imma be honest

I really think it’s cool that you decided to add all of those magazines and suck

Such

[simple scaffold]

mags redux has bas support. i thought gamma would have installed it. if gamma has bas

[humble crater]

I like how if your run of out of mags, your basically fubar, it’s cool

I don’t use gamma

Pc can’t run it

[simple scaffold]

ok. well if you use mo2 and use this button to open the mags redux zip it will run an installer that has a check box for adding bas support

[humble crater]

Ahh thanks

Imma expose myself for being ignorant, but how do you exactly mo2 and add mods on it?

I tried to do it before, I understand the basics but didn’t know how to exactly add mods that weren’t from nexus

[simple scaffold]

Download the mods like any other file. Then use that button to open them. They should be in your downloads folder.

There is probably an mo2 guide in a pin in this channel. If not there definitely is in the anomaly doscord

[humble crater]

So i redownloaded Reduxx

Added them to a different folder separately from anomaly

And gonna seee if that works

[humble crater]

Nope it didn’t work, and the official discord for stalker are all assholes

[misty mulch]

it is and does already

[misty mulch]

it's already in there on the version that gamma installs by default

[humble crater]

I am not on gamma though and since I am on windows 11, they don’t show up in my downloads often

[simple scaffold]

I am not an asshole here there or anywhere

If you are not using mo2 to manage anomaly mods mags redux is a pain to install.

If you got base mags redux working already then what you need to do is open the mags redux zip. Find the bas patch folder and open it. In there is a gamedata folder. Put th contents of that folder in the gamedata folder where you installed the main mod

That should be all.

I can't speak for most of the anomaly discord. But the modding channels are mostly civil most of the time.

[humble crater]

Alrighty @simple scaffold

Thank you

And sorry being for rude

[simple scaffold]

Also in the zip is instructions on how to make magazine work with other guns. It is very simple for a variant of an existing gun, and not hard for an entirely new ammo type, and magazines to hold it.

Integration guide

[humble crater]

Yeah I saw

And had no idea what any of it meant or how do any of that

[simple scaffold]

Yeah, it is written with an intended audience of someone making new guns

So already familiar with the terms

[humble crater]

Oh ok

When I download the files for mods, like yours what I did, was download it, unzip it and just add it to the anomaly folder

Which it added or replaced some files, was I supposed to do that?

[river fjord]

absolutely not.
ravens picture from above is pretty straight-forwards, download mo2 and click the button circled in green to add the mod.

[humble crater]

I figured it kind out I think

I downloaded the files into the downloads folder on the root folder

Click the game data, and archive it

And it works on MO2 afterwards

And the root game, doesn’t have the mods install but when I launch it through MO2 it does

:3

[misty mulch]

that's the advantage of MO2, doesn't actually overwrite files so you can change mod order as you please, and it's much easier to roll back in case you fuck up somewhere and have to reset

[humble crater]

Yeah I see now

But what do I with the old addons and game data?

[misty mulch]

it's best to start fresh on a clean install of Anomaly if you're going to mod it again through MO2

because then you don't have to worry about the remnants of some other mod you installed then partially uninstalled or whatever

[rotund sluice]

S'up, fellow stalkers...

I've been working on a mod that overhauls how weight is handled in Anomaly, leaning more on the "inventory space" idea rather than on the higher carry capacity one.

So I was wondering if any of you know of other ways of dynamically adjusting max carry weight other that using items with bonuses.

I've been looking at some files but thought maybe some of you could have a straightforward answer.

[humble crater]

I basically just made new folders and labeled the mod they go to

[simple scaffold]

game_dificulty.script function: set_actor_weight is what sets the base actor weight based on the dificulty slider in the settings. it runs every time a save is loaded. as long as your adjust it back after that you can use the same mechanisiams it does to adjust actor carry weight how ever you want.

[simple scaffold]

or you can use this https://github.com/themrdemonized/anomaly-demonized-scripts/tree/015dfaa4fcec9ad9c2591e6be41213b423e2ea81/weight_script/gamedata/scripts
where demonized has done all the hard work already.

[rotund sluice]

Who would tell, I was actually midway of implementing my own use of those functions when you mentioned that script.

Much appreciated.

[swift swallow]

Hello everyone! I made a custom loading screen and I would like to use it in my game. The thing is, I can't find the location of the game's loading screen to overwrite it. Do you know where can I find it? Here's my version:

Btw, I found the original file in the folders and tried to make exactly like it (same name and format), but I can't locate the version the game is using to overwrite it.

[subtle ermine]

anyone know of a really nice looking inventory overhaul mod that works with gamma?

[fossil birch]

GAMMA uses a file in GAMMA UI for that screen, path should look similar to \mods\G.A.M.M.A. UI\gamedata\textures\ui\ui_actor_loadgame_screen.dds

[fossil birch]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/ui-rework-gamma-style-by-sota This is the one I've been using for a while, compatible with GAMMA as far as I can tell

[austere oracle]

uhmm
im not sure am i allowed to ask questions like this so if im wrong plz lemme know
im really noob at modding games.. especially mod packs such as gamma
im really bad at handling crash, dont know what am i not supposed to add into game..like them
so can you guys suggest some mods if is there any for OG gamma?
like new guns, utility, new quests...etc

[swift swallow]

Thanks, it worked! I have another question: The original image is 2048x2048. Since I'm playing in 2560x1440, the loading screen fills the sides as you can see the screen. Do you know if I make my image 2560x2560 the game will read the file normally?

[fossil birch]

Honestly not sure boss, it's worth a shot, I've not messed around much with the load screens but let me know how it goes for you

[fossil birch]

Have a look through https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1035807043933720576 and see if anything strikes your eye. Most of the threads are built for GAMMA and have install instructions with them

[austere oracle]

uhmmm
is there any chance to crash by additional downloaded modpacks?

i mean

it makes crash each other new mods

if there is, is there any tips to avoid them as much as i can?

like "dont download these kind of mods with this mode"

[fossil birch]

Honestly it's just trial and error. Mods can interact in weird ways and can just crash with seemingly no reason. Most mods will usually say what they're incompatible with, but the only way to really know is download, install them, and just see what happens

[austere oracle]

thx understood

[celest nexus]

do anyone know of a weapon mod that i can add mid save? just to spice things up abit

[fossil birch]

you can add any afaik, it's the removing them mid save that gets you

[celest nexus]

oh really, read on that big one that said you cant add mid game so thought all of them were like it

[fossil birch]

yeah UGP is an exception cause it changes so much, but smaller packs that only add a few guns will work fine. It'll just take a bit of time for them to work their way into AI loadouts

[celest nexus]

great, thank you

[faint sable]

Yea say you are downloading simple one off gun mods

they are fine, just takes time about 24 hours in game for them to pop up on npcs fully

but big packs like UGP you need fresh games for since they tinker with several things

[celest nexus]

"PHANT0M'S TACTICAL ENDGAME WEAPONS PACK" seemed to work mid game and seeing how im at endgame kinda works for me

[faint sable]

Yea most guns will work mid game, just those that need say BAS 2022 newest october update, those wouldn't work on mid game saves

since you'd need a fresh new game to load in the new bas goodies

[sharp acorn]

@simple scaffold sorry to bother you, but just FYI:
The reason mags are unloaded in GAMMA is due to the death_manager.script in G.A.M.M.A. Economy, line 772:

        itm:set_ammo_elapsed(0)```
I commented out those two lines and mags are loaded as normal now

[simple scaffold]

I don't see how that will affect the extra magazines, should only affect the ones in the gun

[sharp acorn]

Yea honestly idk, but it seems to have done it hehe

[misty mulch]

bro please get in the habit of searching #1035807043933720576 before you ask

[swift swallow]

So, I made it 2560x2560, but the game keeps the screen in this format. I took the opportunity to improve the art, but I still need to align the loading bar

[static nebula]

shortened by 2 frames + polished, not sure if i should make and test out another version or just call it good :p

[subtle ermine]

i searched it exstensively before asking acually

i dont kust ask questions

i ask when i need to just like everyone else

since i thought this was a community for people to ask questions

[misty mulch]

clicking this gives you the answers you seek

[subtle ermine]

i checked that

i never found what i was looking for

i gave an example of what i was looking for or close to it

which was Enhanced GUI

[subtle ermine]

Thanks for this dude. will check this out also.

[viral edge]

For upgrading what is the %value of a advertised stat in relation to?(Or in more blatant terms why when I paid for a %10 radiation resistance did I only get %5)

[simple scaffold]

Description is a block of text, effect is a config file. One can be updated without changing the other. Some one probably adjusted the effect for "balance" and didn't update the description

[viral edge]

OK. (at that point why even have a number instead of just "+Rad protection")

[simple scaffold]

Probably:
Person 1: carefully sets up effects of their upgrade tree, writes careful descriptions to match the effect.

Person 2: I will make this game moar harder! And slashes all the values, doesn't change the text because they never read in game text that is not voice acted.

And gamma ended up with person 2 effects with person 1 descriptions.

Welcome the the many layered modified mods on top of mods that is stalker and gamma

[viral edge]

I mean yeah. I didn't even know about mod_system files until I was trying to figure out what was causing the damage for full powered rifles from EFP were slashed.

[vocal obsidian]

hmmm yes I could actually start playing the game today... OR i could spend the day merging 4 different item animation mods and redoing all my medical items

[fossil birch]

Maybe try extending the edge texture out so it becomes a 16:9 resolution and see what happens? that way it would properly fill the screen

[rigid escarp]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/na255892/#8609729 This got me wondering what would the game looked like if we'd weaken the creatures, slow them down, but increased the amount spawning and nerfing the loot dropped to offset that change. Was this considered before?

[slow bolt]

creatures are not strong. Only cats are annoying. So you already can increase their spawns

[opal void]

Does anyone here have any USP Match Tactical animation mod?

[misty mulch]

specifically the upgrades for outfits are I believe in gamedata/items/outfits/upgrades, while GAMMA Actor Damage Balancer is what modifies the outfit resistances (and is the last-loading DLTX mod to do so)

since all upgrade configs are specified in absolute values, if you change the base resistances of the suit, the % difference between the config's stat changes + the basegame suit resistance is now different. I haven't found where the upgrade description strings are stored yet

[misty mulch]

for future reference, GAMMA's NPC loadouts are handled by the mod "GAMMA NPC Loadouts" (duh) and the weapon spawn conditions are all in there. weapon loadout autoinject scripts seem to mostly be overwritten by GAMMA Weapon Pack

[rough rivet]

hi people. how can I make match boxes more expensive to buy from trader? :3
also it will be cool make camp fire only with fire starter kit, and fire starter kit must be more expensive. but easier way just up match boxes cost

[simple scaffold]

configs/text/eng and configs/text/rus

[inland lodge]

I had been on the lookout for a mod that prevented reputation loss from doing missions for opposing factions, but this is the only one I could find. https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/without-decrease-reputation

Unfortunately, while it seemed to work fine in-game, it caused an instant crash to desktop whenever I tried to save my game. Does anyone know of any alternatives that do the same?

[simple scaffold]

that's not what is does. it simply locks more faction pairs when using dynmapic faction relations. it has nothing to do with your good will with factions. player to faction goodwill is what is affected by quests.

just use my addon to edit your good will back up.

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

[inland lodge]

Hm, I don't think I have dynamic relations enabled, however. I'm fairly new here, may I ask what your addon is called so I can search it up?

Aha

Excellent, thank you.

[languid lark]

Guys hi , help me with specs to gamma on ultra graphic without stagger’s. What video and procc mb

[swift swallow]

I tried, but the result is almost the same, only this time the game stretches the image to be 1:1. I'm pretty sure there's a configuration somewhere in the files that forces this behavior, but I was not able to find it yet.

[fossil birch]

Found it, it's a file called ui_actor_widescreen_sidepanels.dds. The section on the left of the image seems to be what controls the loadscreen edges. It doesn't appear that anything in GAMMA changes it though, so I pulled a copy from the db files for you

[peak quest]

this seems like a better channel for my question damn

theres an addon that adds durability to plates that im looking for. it was in EFP

wait i think i have found it

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/anomaly-armor-attachment-adjustment-addon-by-arti

ofc arti

fucking goat!!!!!

love you arti

[river fjord]

https://github.com/ahuyn/anomaly-opo/releases/tag/latest use his github version (for all of his mods), most of his moddb stuff is years out-of-date

[peak quest]

loaded up fine but ill get this version if it crashes when i get shot in the plate or something

thx

[simple scaffold]

That version is two years old and was built for anomaly 1.5.1 I can guarantee you that the latest from git hub will have better performance, and features. Also any addon that might interact with opo is going to assume you have the current version. Or at least one way newer than the moddb one. That can cause bugs.

[halcyon plover]

has there been any addon as of recently to 'add life' to the promzone and grimwood maps for GAMMA? i've only seen one monolith in grimwood, but promzone has been empty for a whole in game week

[swift swallow]

Thanks a lot! That seems to be it. I can render the rest of my image and paste on top of the original one. However, I can't find anything in my game files that has that name. Where'd you get that?

[river fjord]

gamma is just a modpack for anomaly so a lot of files are packed inside of anomaly. you need to go to the tools folder of your anomaly install and use the unpacker to unpack the base game files

unpacker_all will unpack everything including all art assets so it will be very large, just regular unpacker without the _all is only scripts & configs

[swift swallow]

Thanks! So, after unpacked, I can just overwrite the original file in the unpacked folder and it will affect the game as intended?

[river fjord]

nope, just use the file like you would in any other mod. all mods are just overwritten/new files

[simple scaffold]

from what i have been hearing i belive the makers of those maps will be addressing that

[dusty skiff]

You will need to edit the ui_actor_widescreen_sidepanels.dds file. The games "reading" the files correctly, its just hat the main image was sized for non widescreen monitors.

[jovial kelp]

Guys, do you know if anyone already extracted just the plates part out of this mod?

[swift swallow]

I did that, but for some reason, even though I only edited the part of the file that has the side panels textures, the game give an error related to a font file, I'm not sure why. Since I unpacked only the DB file that has the widescreen images and and repacked it, maybe there was an issue in the process. By the way, I found the config file that uses the sidepanels, I'll try editing it to see how it goes and will post an update here.

[swift swallow]

Well, I unpacked the configs.db0, edited only the file related to the side panels, packed it again, changed the format to configs.db0 exactly like the original, but for some reason the game doesn't recognize the repacked version.

[fossil birch]

Don't bother repacking them, just the files you edited into a zip folder that matches the \gamedata file structure

[swift swallow]

Yeah! This is my first time modding a game and I just realized what should be done in order for it to work. By the way, it works! Now I just have to adjust the the images so it can fit properly. Thank you all for all the help! Now that I finally understand how it works, nothing will stop me haha

[dim crypt]

ive downloaded a blender addon for exporting and importing models and whatnot from the Xray engine and since i have gamma installed, the gamedata folder seems to be missing the meshes folder, sounds, textures, etc. does anyone know how to solve this or where the folder is?

[static nebula]

the meshes/sounds/etc. folders are inside the gamedata folder, no?

[ornate spade]

run the unpacker in the tools folder

[dim crypt]

they should be, however in my case all it has is configs, levels, and textures

[static nebula]

gamma isn't gonna have all the gamedata, anomaly is gonna have it afaik

[dim crypt]

its where my anomaly installation is

oh well, ill figure it out eventually, thanks for the help though!

[river fjord]

that is not your anomaly install, thats some gamma mod.
gamma is a modpack for anomaly so its anomaly with a bunch of preinstalled mods on top of it so you dont have to. youre looking at one of those mod folders, not your anomaly install.
your anomaly install that will have the folders your looking for will look something like this:

and like aoldri mentioned above too, youll need to run the unpacker inside the tools folder

[dim crypt]

this is well, where the gamedata folder from above is located

[river fjord]

That is your anomaly install so it's in the tools folder

[dim crypt]

ah i see. do i run db unpacker all or just db unpacker

[river fjord]

Depends on what you need. _all is e everything including meshes, textures sounds and ends up being a pretty large unpack and the other is only scripts & configs

[dim crypt]

all it is then, blender wont do much with scripts and configs

thanks for the help, i know what to do from here

[dusty skiff]

Yeah I wouldnt recommend unpacking anything or repacking it unless you know exactly what youre doing, gamma makes it really easy to just drop in a mod folder that will overwrite the default files when the mod is set as the higher priority, and this doesnt delete or tamper with any default files. Also make sure you save them with the correct DXT format, you can get away with DXT1a since it makes an alpha channel for you but DXT5 is the correct one which requires a proper alpha channel to be made.

[dusty skiff]

Its really interesting trying to use other programs to view the files. Ive got one called AXR toolset that Ive started using, lets you open a mesh with the textures preloaded onto it for viewing. Though I dont like it much, it doesnt appear to do the bump maps or anything with lighting. Comes up as a virus when I try to share it on discord lol, gets replaced with cooking recipes XD

[static nebula]

WHY are so many of the guns in this game rigged like this, having the point of rotation at the grip makes no sense and sucks to animate with

need to go out of my way to learn how to re-rig weapons

or maybe just create workarounds to avoid having to re-rig

[river fjord]

Rerigging something like this is literally 10 minutes.
I'm genuinely surprised you make animations as well as you do and you don't know how to rerig something
Most animators I know will almost always rerig everything to their liking before starting any animation

If it's only the rotation point you don't like tho it's as easy as just moving the highest bone in the hiarchy to where you want the rotation point to be in edit mode
This will of course break any current animations but if your reanimating it, that doesn't matter

[static nebula]

Seems like it would be a pain to do it for weapons with multiple variants/scopes, especially to get them to all line up the same 🤔 Maybe I'm just dum though

[river fjord]

You can just ctrlc/ctrlv copy paste the new location tho or even paste the new armature if you add more bones
I don't think I've ever animated anything without totally scrapping the original armature for my own.
Should learn, it's really really easy, I think you're just overthinking it kinda

[static nebula]

Probably, yeah
I'll probably just have to screw around with it for a bit, the rigging itself is nothing new to me, just doing it in a way that would work in-game :p

[river fjord]

There's really no way that won't work ingame, the animations get baked before export

You're extremely free to rig stuff however.
I've done some 200+ bone absolute cluster fuck armatures that run with no issues inside xray

[static nebula]

So if I understand correctly, it's basically just

• Add vertex group for the part you want the bone to move
• Add bone with the same name as vertex group
• Add armature modifier on the mesh
  Or am I forgetting something? And is there anything that needs to be done externally, like inside the OGF editor? Or is it fine as is, after exporting?

[river fjord]

Yep that's pretty much it!
There's nothing you'll need to do in ogf editor related to the armature aside from setting omf file path

[static nebula]

Awesome, so nothing out of the ordinary. Awesome, thank you Barry! 👍

[river fjord]

Np, glgl

[static nebula]

Said 'awesome' twice, I'm getting tired clearly off to bed i go lol

[lean dagger]

are there any guides how to make new weapons for BaS? kinda interested to get back to modding but im really rusty, all I did was swap some attachments on BaS weapons.

[swift swallow]

Yeah! Took me a while to understand the modding procedure but I figured it out now. And it really is amazing how the modding priority in this game works, it so easy to add them! But you just mentioned something that I never heard before: DXT5. Did a little research and understood it a little bit. However, I make my pictures in PNG (render in Blender, adjust in PS) and then convert them to DDS. Should I make then in DXT5 and then convert to DDS instead?

[fossil birch]

as long as the final image is exported as .dds with DXT5 compression, I don't believe the source file type matters too much

[swift swallow]

Got it!

[fossil birch]

what could the reason be that my new sounds aren't playing in game? Trying to change the sounds of the EFT aim rattle mod, but no matter what i do they won't play in game, I've changed the .ogg comments to the correct type and exported them from audible what I think is correctly, still nothing in game

[static nebula]

are they 44100 hz? they have to be mono as well iirc

[fossil birch]

ah i think i accidentally exported them as 48k, that might be my issue

[river fjord]

they dont have to be mono
quality wise its actually better to use stereo in any places you can get away with as it just allows for higher quality sounds if done right using left/right fading
the only issue with stereo is any stereo sound will play always at the actors position, so you need to make sure youre only using it for sounds the player will use and not an npc
if an npc reloads a gun using a stereo gun reload sound for example it will play at max volume at the players position regardless of where the npc is on the map

most people just use mono cause they dont know which sounds will end up where etc

[swift swallow]

Finally! I wasn't able to change any configs in the files so I had to resize the pictures many times until they matched. There is still some very small details, such as the loading bar, but I'll try to correct them some other time. Thanks for all the help!

[scarlet radish]

Guys, tell me please, what command can I get the name of the group in which the object consists in full text form?
The name is displayed in full as "Саша Иванов", and the grouping, as a conditional abbreviation, like "csky".

local tar_o = level.get_target_obj()
local npc_n = tar_o:character_name() -- prints "Саша Иванов"
local npc_c = tar_o:character_community() -- prints "csky", not "Clear Sky"

[torn vault]

try, uuh
local npc_c = utils_xml.get_special_txt(tar_o:character_community())

[scarlet radish]

Unfortunately, now the field is just empty.

[regal crypt]

hi everyone plz tell me
decided to try to create a mini mod, see how it works, created a file in the area

E:\Stalker\GAMMA\mods\777_bagpack\gamedata\configs\items

named
bd.ltx

inside a file

![equ_tourist_pack]:itm_backpack
additional_inventory_weight = 100
additional_inventory_weight2 = 100

I'm getting an error on startup, can you tell me what's wrong?
this is the first time I've experienced this, I'm wondering how it works

the idea is just to run around the missions and go to the base less, if you can somehow increase the weight in another way, please tell me, I'm already tired of "surviving" in the stalker, I just want to see the mod

[dusty skiff]

Yeah its just .DDS with a specific DXT formatting. DXT1 no alpha, DXT1a is 1 bit alpha which is what I save mine as initially then I reopen them with the alpha channel as a layer instead of transparency and resave with DXT5 formatting.

[dim crypt]

ive managed to get everything to work in blender to an extent, importing the ogf files and all, only thing the files are missing are the UV coordinates making it a pain to even try and retexture things, however i might try the AXR toolset thing.

[dusty skiff]

Just be cautious, discord views it as a virus even though windows defender doesnt.

[dim crypt]

theres a github page for it, however i have no idea how to download it, so i might just try to remap the UV myself

[dusty skiff]

thats where i got it from

[dusty skiff]

Click green code button and download the .zip

[opaque night]

@simple scaffold @river fjord Sorry for the ping, but I thought you might be interesting in working on a collab? I have managed to get some pretty high quality videos working with the standard TVs (and it has zero impacts on performance!) but I haven't released the addon for two reasons:

1. I can't get the audio to loop with the TVs as they are - I think it's an engine limitation tbh..
2. There seems to be a game breaking bug that gives sounds a weird doppler effect any time the player moves, which persists even after the addon is uninstalled. It might not be related to the addon, but I thought I'd warn you just in case. It is resolved after reinstalling the base game.

Would either of you be interested in seeing if we can get it to work? It might be a pretty cool feature for the hideout furniture?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFobRcGX-6k

[dim crypt]

got it to work, though the ogf viewer doesnt have any textures even after adding the directory

[dusty skiff]

It must be put into the correct folder for that to work. 1 sec

[dusty skiff]

I used the extractor in the anomoly/db folter, made a folder on my desktop and move the extracted stuff to that folder so when you open it it should show all the folders with AXRToolset-master folder. no sure if the directory part matters or not as i did the same thing and it didnt initially work till I did the other part

[dim crypt]

i put all the extracted stuff into a folder in a different folder where i keep 3d assets and whatnot, hopefully itll work

[dusty skiff]

Cant tell you if it will or not, just that it works how I did it.

[dim crypt]

to an extent, it works

[dusty skiff]

Thats why it neesd to be how I did it, it should be loading the textures onto it.

[dim crypt]

i have it nearly the same i believe

[dusty skiff]

That ones cursed but you get the idea

[dusty skiff]

now put a copy of the toolset folder in there

[dim crypt]

the entire toolset master folder?

[dusty skiff]

yes

and make the directory that unpacked folder when you open the program

[dim crypt]

somethings still not working, not sure why

[dusty skiff]

Is that working directoy set to the unpacked folder?

[dusty skiff]

in the ogf viewr is the texture tab set to the textures folder?

[dusty skiff]

Not sure why the pda is doing the same thing for me

[dim crypt]

not just the pda

[dusty skiff]

back in the tool is the settings tab set to the same unpacked folder?

[dim crypt]

i think that solved it

[dusty skiff]

my pda is still staying white but everything else gets textures

[dim crypt]

didnt realize the settings tab was even there but it works now, thanks

[dusty skiff]

ok wierd not sure why its working now for me too\

i didnt change anything

[dim crypt]

im looking at the

one in dynamics\devices\dev_pda

[dusty skiff]

If they open white just close that window and relaunch the viewer

[dim crypt]

now i wonder if theres a way to get the textures and maps correlated to said model

thanks for the help though. saved some sanity

[dusty skiff]

What do you mean?

Also to be fair, this tool is rather annoying to use for actually viewing the models, bad panning around.

[river fjord]

theres really no reason ever to use that, its super ancient

[dusty skiff]

If you know of a better way please divulge, I need an easier way to do this so I can build my mod out already.

[river fjord]

to do what? that is just an ancient model viewer, just open the models in blender. with the proper paths set there is nothing missing in blender

UV maps and everything work perfect being imported to blender

[dusty skiff]

Im not familiar with almost any program, I found this one that looks like it does everything with all the files and just went with it.

[river fjord]

im still confused what youre trying to accomplish tho. this program is useless unless you want to just view models for fun (although blender is just faster for that anyway)

[dusty skiff]

And I mean that the axr toolset has built it options for editing every type of file in any of the stalker games. Im needing to easily view the models so I can edit the textures and quickly review them without launching the game. tweaking the models would also be nice but Im not experienced with that yet.

[river fjord]

then just using blender will be 10x faster
axr is an ancient jack-of-all-trades program that is pretty awful at all tasks. theres better free software for every aspect of stalker modding then that old program

[dusty skiff]

Guess Ill have to look into blender then.

[dusty skiff]

Care to assist at all lol? Having an experienced modeler would be nice to work with.

[river fjord]

if you get stuck of course i dont mind answering specific questions. I can tell you almost anything about models, sounds, textures and their related configs for anomaly but i cant really sit here and explain to use how to use different 3d software. theres probably more blender guides out there on the internet then any other 3d software in existence and making/editing models & textures for stalker is no different then any other game or render

[river fjord]

thats pretty cool! is it just a ton of .seq images or is it something different?
sounds looping im not sure about but doppler affect is likely the modded exes doing something to it. you can use the console with like set_doppler_power or something like that to tone it down or even disable it completely

[opaque night]

Nope! It's an actual video! It plays at 24 fps, and is an .ogm file, just like the animated main menu and in game cutscenes

[river fjord]

thats cool! @ornate spade might be interested in that too. the hideout furnature is their addon and theyve got a lot of cool ideas for dynamic wiring and power systems etc. tv would be a cool addition to that maybe if people can add their own videos some how

[dusty skiff]

Sorry no meant looking for someone to do modelling XD. but jk

[river fjord]

i wish i could but i have a lot on my plate right now, i have 4 different pretty big mod projects like 50% done and a couple contracts animating for a different game at the moment so a lot of my time is taken up atm sorry ):

[dusty skiff]

Youre good lol.

[opaque night]

That's alright 🙂 I just thought I'd get your opinion - I'll see what Aoldri thinks as well.

The offer is still there, if you need some sound work done (and I have the items in my sound library)

[river fjord]

sounds are my least favorite thing to do i might take you up on that in the future, thank you, i do like your sound mods, i use most in my own install
i just spent half the day today doing sounds for some new devices for anomaly im working on with a friend
(they made the models & i did the animations, sounds and made it game ready)
heres little preview of new bear detector 2handed draw:

[opaque night]

Goddamn

[static nebula]

damn it looks so good

[river fjord]

thanks, the models & textures diolator made are amazing, they really carry the whole thing

currently working on an out-of-battery draw version

but this is a bit more WIP then the above one

[frigid juniper]

will it do this during an emission too?

[river fjord]

could do fersure

[static nebula]

yeah i think i see a tiny bit of jank but otherwise still very good looking

[river fjord]

theres a lot of fuckery with the left hand changing poses; it just sort of slides to the new pose, the covers not animated during the slapping-the-side parts and generally its just shakey and doesnt match a lot during the new parts

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

[flat steeple]

Barry Pogs

[ornate spade]

that's pretty cool, i'd be down to help if i can
i assume the audio is a part of the .ogm, rather than a separate .ogg file that's played on top?

[opaque night]

Yeah that's correct. Even though the ogm file has its own audio that can be played when you're looking through the file structure, the engine doesn't allow for it to be used

I can send you my bundled addon

[ornate spade]

sure, i can take a look

[opaque night]

Thanks mate! I'll DM you the password

[vale knot]

Is the doppler effect sound only on the tv or all sound?

I know the game has a doppler effect option that you can disable. It fucks with stuff like NPCs playing music whenever you run/move fast

[ashen pendant]

as a complete modding noob (i've written a bit of json and that's about it) how hard would it be to make a mod that makes toppers only reward expert tools?

i looked and didn't see any in #1035807043933720576, and that feels like it'd be a pretty fair way to have guranteed expert while still having it be hard and ensuring late-endgame accquisition

(feel free to @ me with replies btw)

[opaque night]

That's the one!! I never noticed it until I messed with the TVs, but I've only recently found that option to disable. You've had that issue before?

[vale knot]

Specifically with stalkers playing guitar and such. You can disable it with a command, just search doppler into the console and you should see it. Set it to 0

[cunning isle]

Can someone help me out?
I need the IDs for the different types of anomalies in the Arrival add-on.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/arrival-anomalies
I can see a lot of files with different names on them that do make reference to some anomalies, but there are others that have really weird names that confuse me a lot.

[opaque night]

Does anyone know of any HUD tweaks to read detectors better? I'm trying to avoid making one from scratch if there's one floating about

[chilly shore]

In which file can I find the config parameter/function, that controls, whether the "maintain" inventory action appears after clicking right mouse button on a weapon?

[mint dust]

ahhh dumb question but say you wanted to print out a string that showed up in this area highlighted , how?

[slow bolt]

Its done by a print command in scripts

[mint dust]

yea with printf("hi") inside a file, just kinda new to this modding scene and i havent been able to find documentation on modding stalker anomaly specifically

[slow bolt]

There is anomaly modding bible or smth like that out there

And for script to actually do anything the function needs to be called

[mint dust]

i seee

but nah no anomaly bible sadly ;-;

[kindred tiger]

I only know the highlights like ! ~ - (red, yellow, green) used as a prefix of a message e.g printf("! error ..."). The engine then color codes it according to internal logic.

[slow bolt]

#╙🖇mods-making-discussion message

found it in pins

[mint dust]

THANK U

[fossil birch]

How would I go about adding an 'item uses remaining bar' to something that doesn't already have one? wanting to adjust the amount of times you can use certain food items but can't work out how to add the visual bar for uses left

[simple scaffold]

add these:
use_condition = true
condition_bar = uses_progess_bar

[fossil birch]

Perfect! Thank you so much

[faint sable]

Is it possible to make an ogf unique and add to the npc list of visuals? Example : I want to give Monolith a new model ogf, but I don't know how to make it appear in game without renaming it to an already existing ogf file name

Visual example is this model, it had a name "stalker_monolith_hunter.ogf" however I renamed it to "stalker_monolith_4.ogf" to appear in game. Is it possible to make the "stalker_monolith_hunter.ogf" Appear in game all on its own or is that not possible

[soft gate]

Is it possible to add extra names to the list that NPC's are named from? And how would I go about doing it.

[main niche]

Anyone know how to change the quality of items that traders will buy form you?

[fossil birch]

Anomaly has that control by default, in Settings, Gameplay, Progression Difficulty the first line is sale condition, just adjust the slider to what ever number you want. unless you want it to be on a trader by trader basis where they all have different conditions they'll buy, that's controlled directly by their trader .ltx file

[fossil birch]

GAMMA comes with a mod that adds a bunch of new names to the game, 240- Anomaly's Name Update for Stalkers ANUS - Grulag, dissect that and you should be able to work out how to do it fairly easily

[main niche]

Awesome thanks Bro

[jolly pendant]

i dont know where else ask - is there some fuckery i can do to change character portrait? One you have without "portrait by outfit" option

by editing save file perhaps or console commands

[somber mulch]

Anyone in here know how to debug upgrade Medic supply levels, using WTF tasks breaks upgrading Medic supply with kits because something fucky in the mod itself I'm guessing conflicting

[river fjord]

You have to edit the dds sheet that contains the portraits if it's a custom one you want or edit the configs if it's one rhat already exists

[jolly pendant]

alright, how do i do that?

[river fjord]

With photoshop, gimp or any other similar software. I'm not at my pc right now I can't really help further sorry

[jolly pendant]

i dont understand anything but thank you for trying to help me, i will go with portrait by outfit i guess

and pretend i have gasmask underneath that screen helmet that is shown on the portrait

[old berry]

pretty sure there is a mod that does that

[jolly pendant]

like this guy

[old berry]

also im pretty sure that player icons use npc icons so if you do that some npcs will have that icon as well

so you might wanna replace the rarer ones like scar's

[river fjord]

No you can just add new ones

Replacing the ??? One is probably easiest for someone who doesn't know what they're doing tho

[jolly pendant]

i just want to change my default portrait (i have white tv static rn) to one of the other options

there are eco mercs portraits, with gasmask and armored vest on top of ssp-looking suit

those fit my character perfectly rn

[old berry]

so you want to change your portrait mid playthrough?

[jolly pendant]

yes

[old berry]

idk if you can even do that, i haven't played stalker in awhile

[jolly pendant]

neither do i, thats why im asking for help

[old berry]

you can check in options i suppose, if not you would either have to make a new character or just replace the portrait entirely

[jolly pendant]

i wanna have this one

[old berry]

i can replace the icon for you if you want

[twin field]

Hey hey people
is there a way to remove specific guns from the loot table? (so they don't spawn neither on stalkers nor in stashes)

[fossil birch]

You'd have to edit each npc_loadout file for each faction, find the weapon line you want to remove, and remove it from all of those manually

As for removing them from stashes, find your highest priority treasure_manager script, and under each table for the different types of stashes, find the lines that look like this change all those numbers to zero and it should remove them from the spawn tables

[twin field]

I'm not very advanced when it comes to modding, how do I locate the treasure_manager script ?

[fossil birch]

Open up mod organiser, in the box to the right, click the data tab and type treasure in the search bar bottom right, it'll display all files with that in their name, the one you're looking for should be under gamedata>configs>scripts

[twin field]

awesome, thanks 🙂

[fossil birch]

np! shout if you need any more help with any part of it

[slow bolt]

Is it possible to prevent stat degradation on helmets and outfits until they reach 85% for example?

[fossil birch]

you could probably make a script that checks your equipped armour and its durability and overwrites the values until it hits that specific durability. That would take a smarter person than me though, I'm still only really learning the basics of LUA scripts

[young bison]

was told to bring this here
is there any way i can edit my camera position to be a bit lower near my torso?

[scarlet radish]

Can you please tell me what the characters after the ":" mean in the gamedata\configs\items\settings\npc_loadouts\ files
this:
wpn_vityaz:r:r
wpn_vityaz:0:r
wpn_vityaz:r:0
wpn_vityaz:4:r

[faint sable]

I been trying to make new portrait icons for HD models, and I was wondering how does the UI values and such work? I have the ui_actor_portrets.dds and been looking at them and I am confused how to identify them.
I see in outfits folder the bandit outfits have "character_portrait = ui_inGame2_bandit_1" but how do you tell the ui_ingame2_bandit_1 even?

[faint sable]

nevermind I am starting to figure it out now

[tepid moat]

@scarlet radish

[scarlet radish]

Thanks

[river fjord]

All textures have xml descriptor files that tell the game at what coordinates each "picture" is located in the bigger dds

[faint sable]

Ah okay, is there a way to see them? like there xml list

[river fjord]

yep, locate the xml and open it in something like n++ or vsc

[faint sable]

thank you

[river fjord]

if youre editing icons of a preexisting mod, its likely it has its own xml inside the mod somewhere

[faint sable]

gotcha I'll try searching around for it in the files

[wary scroll]

Hi, I wanna know how can I start mod making for stalker anomaly from basic. And What kind of tools I need for mod making.

[fossil birch]

If you want to edit basic config files I would recommend Notepad++ as it has a lot of tools that help
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/

For image editing I would recommend GIMP, pretty much a free photoshop
https://www.gimp.org

And this is a good place to start to get an idea of how to mod, but there are a ton of other videos for all different topics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCT8ObJEOec

[old berry]

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

[wary scroll]

Thanks a lot 🙏

[old berry]

everything you need to know

[wary scroll]

Thanks man

[cunning isle]

It's possible to move smarts coordinates?

[supple thorn]

is there anyway for me to remove nvgs ability to use headlamps in the device.ltx?

[simple scaffold]

make it not be a headlamp.
add this line to the section
class = II_ATTCH

this will probably spam the log complaining when you hit the light key, but shouldn't crash.

[supple thorn]

thanks!

[arctic talon]

Just did a thingy, be sure to check it out https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1146445041179578430

[radiant lake]

when i did change game relations a week back and then reverted it to default my modified game relation saw some interesting dialogue as sin about how i could switch faction does this mean if my game relations is modified to have story factions allied can i switch my character over to the main story factions? i originally intended that i wanted to form my own world with the idea being around the concept of the lost alpha mod, so sin was more of a misrepresented faction in that mod rather then what the anomaly wiki says which is being controlled by mutants, naturally i went that route with SuS mod but i didnt find it fun after a while. i researched factions that "wanted" to get the truth about the zone out into the world aswell instead of containing and allied it with sin. this wasnt fun anymore aswell so i reverted to default. but the question still stands as i never really changed factions while i did have my modified game relations

[regal bolt]

Hi

I need help in changing white stash color, its hard to see them on the map, would like to change it to blue, orange, or yellow, anything other than white

[supple thorn]

You can do that by changing stashes.dds. I usually turn it in to PNG edit it in Photoshop and put it back to DDS format

also you can try editing this https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1085355655478640660

[river fjord]

why would you convert to png first? photoshop works perfect with dds format

[supple thorn]

oh I did not know that...I just did what alphalion does for his #1116727876830646334, did not know PS accepts dds

[rustic jasper]

didn't know which right channel to ask in but is there a mags redux patch for this?

[supple thorn]

yes in #1035807043933720576 i dont remember which one tho

either this https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1036228045343825980 or this https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1036228045343825980

the RAPTR magazine should look like a spiky drum mag

[rustic jasper]

thank you

[slow bolt]

Damn

(its a discord bug)

[supple thorn]

the links will load properly when you click them

Is it possible to prevent xml files from overwriting each other? do i just change the name?

[fossil birch]

I think that's how, but you might have to find what .ltx files or scripts reference it and point it to the new name, i don't really mess around with xml due to the black magic that they are

[supple thorn]

It fucking worked

I renamed scopes_16.xml to whatthefuck_scopes_16.xml

and it worked

thanks

[fossil birch]

fuck even I'm surprised that worked, no worries!

[simple scaffold]

MO2 lets you hide a file in a given addon, blocking it from being used regardelss of load order.. you can do it from the conflict report screen

[supple thorn]

I see thanks

[misty mulch]

i guess you could also learn to DXML, although that's less straightforward than DLTX syntax

[vale knot]

#1075947373508964373 message

load at the bottom

[supple thorn]

yeah okay turns out i had the wrong files thats why it worked, renaming didnt do anything

Im trying to have a patch for scope textures without trying to overwrite the original scope.xml and ui_ingame.xml so i do think i have to try and use DXML

damn im the only sibling that doesnt have a background in programing what are all these letters

[rustic jasper]

thx

[split mountain]

Hi Im kinda new here, I wanna ask if there is a mod to add the classic Stalker SOS/Clear Sky and Prypiat soundtrack to the areas ?

[supple thorn]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/ambient-music-from-soc try this

[split mountain]

Thank you alot!!!

[scarlet radish]

Please tell me, why are variables from *_up.ltx files not changed via DLTX?

configs\mod_system_zzz_my_mod.ltx :
![up_sect_fourtc_svd_nimble]
cost = 100000 ; - does not work!

There are no problems with variables from the sections of the weapon itself, only with *_up.ltx files.
They also seem to have a system.ltx root file.

[supple thorn]

is there any way to like "dltx" scripts? I have a scopeRadii.script thats conflicting with another scopeRadii.script from another mod, I was wondering if both can work together but keep different information/text

this might be more work than its worth actually

[fossil birch]

Do they both share info for the same scopes or completely different altogether?

[supple thorn]

different altogether, this one i have has scopes for custom guns

I just found out how to dxml call backs or something which is good

[fossil birch]

are the scopes brand new as well or are they existing vanilla ones on new guns?

[supple thorn]

brand new scope textures

you can even see the clock and the fps counter burned in

[river fjord]

No, you can not dltx a script

[supple thorn]

damn

I could probably just make one big script that has all scope radii as a patch

[fossil birch]

you could try digging and see if this would help at all, it seems to be what you need as a way to inject a specific section into a different script, though I'm not entirely sure how it would work

[slow bolt]

yeah you can do that if you make a script that work with other script's variables

But that wont work for this case

You need to make a script that would replace the original one

[supple thorn]

yeah im not changing variable im adding new lines

[slow bolt]

you need to make a replacement script

[twin field]

Hi all,
is there a way to set a minimum barrel condition for drops, or make it so it doesn't affect the dmg/ap?

[random fulcrum]

monkeypatch

[supple thorn]

this works for inserting new lines in a script?

[random fulcrum]

read about it

[simple scaffold]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y4IYgIpjkNcLkcr7EHpdVJovDQzTovbAIW0z5y7o6_M/edit

this version is slightly better than the one in the modding book

[supple thorn]

thanks this helps alot

[random fulcrum]

didn't know that doc existed

[simple scaffold]

It's on the anomalydiscors resources channel. Where it has been since I wrote it. One of these days I'll transpose the updates I made to the modding book

[dusty skiff]

Raven do you know if there is a file that dictates the x/y size of the loading screen images?

[sharp blade]

Hi everyone!
Simple question about artefacts properties.
Is it possible to add addon which change parameters for junk artefacts like this:
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/artefact-renovation

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/artefact-renovation-152-dltx

[dusty skiff]

Does anyone know if theres a specific script or config file that would dictate the dimensions of the various ui elements including loading screen intro images?

[strange ledge]

hey i have a kind of general question, so im trying to get into making an addon for anomaly and while reading the modding book it talks about DLTX, from what i gathered it just makes it so ltx files that are edited by multiple addons dont overwirte themselves, but does the creation of an addon change at all depending on if dltx is used or not? ive seen quite a few addons requiring dltx hence why im a bit confused

[static nebula]

As far as I can tell it's a method that lets you overwrite specific parts of an LTX without overwriting the entire thing. So like if I wanted to modify just the position of a gun, but leave the rest of the LTX untouched, I'd use DLTX

[slow bolt]

this.
That is what modern modding is. Not replacing files themselves but lines in files instead

[strange ledge]

alright thanks for the clarification

[modern grail]

how do i change the stats of armors/backpacks?

[cunning isle]

I need some urgent help friends!
What tool/software do I need to compare and merge different all.spawn files?
Im trying to make a patch for New Levels add-on.

[slow bolt]

notepad++

[mint dust]

nice

[slow bolt]

I just looked at the file. Disregard

[cunning isle]

[slow bolt]

Expected it to be more or less a text file. guess not

[cunning isle]

[cunning isle]

[undone lily]

https://github.com/VaIeroK/XrayExportTool/releases tool to convert obj to ogf

[undone lily]

Tool to manage OGFs (nice to make different variants) https://github.com/VaIeroK/OGF-tool/releases

[undone lily]

Tool to manage OMFs files and change their parameters https://github.com/VaIeroK/Omf-Editor/releases

[undone lily]

Tool to manage THM files (textures shaders types) https://github.com/VaIeroK/THM-Editor/releases

[undone lily]

Tool to manage ogg sounds comments (change AI scheme associated to sound, distance of detection, volume, etc) https://www.metacognix.com/files/stlkrsoc/SAVandT_1.1.7z

[strange ledge]

Is there a way you can make the property menu pop up anywhere you right click on the map? For example when you right click on a squad in warfare mode a little menu pops up there where you can take control of the squad etc., is it possible to make a property menu like that pop up when you right click anywhere on the map regardless if on a spot or not?

[signal barn]

guys, can someone put some starfield guns in gamma?

[slow bolt]

lmao

[swift swallow]

Hello everyone! I just made a new main menu background based on the OG Gamma one. Made it in Blender, prepared in Premiere, converted in FFCoder

[idle oasis]

wdym? the gauss rifle has always been in stalker

[void sluice]

so is the revolver

and the P90

[idle oasis]

starfield copied gamma

[opaque ledge]

b

[undone lily]

I would have prefered that, atleast there would be a AAA version of what I want to achieve and could finally play instead of modding

[idle oasis]

[static nebula]

anyone have a guide on "converting" so to speak textures to look correct ingame? i know it's supposed to be dds on whichever compression format and whatnot, but is there a process to modifying the different layers of a normal map i should know about?

have some insurgency sandstorm textures im playing around with

hopefully im making sense, im like half asleep so i probably sound dum right now

[river fjord]

go to layers tab of your normal map,
if there is no alpha channel, create one and rename it to Red.
next, duplicate Blue and call it Green
next, duplicate Green and call it Blue
next, duplicate Red and and call it Alpha
delete everything above your new red channel so its only your newly created ones.
paste your roughness map into the red channel.

ill dm you a move indept guide. dont want to spam channel

[cunning swift]

https://tenor.com/view/power-rangers-time-force-red-ranger-blue-ranger-green-ranger-gif-18123281

[static nebula]

was a pain in the ass but i think i finally figured out how to make it work in gimp

[static nebula]

didn't someone here have a link to a google doc with rips from a bunch of games like insurgency and cod? the only rip i have has no textures, just models, so im stuck relying on other people to rip textures lol

[river fjord]

posting links of ripped assets is probably best left out of public servers

[static nebula]

oh, true

[opaque ledge]

.

[dull willow]

hey can someone send me the link for gun modpack i want the mcx inmy ´game

[frigid juniper]

#1035807043933720576

[jade oxide]

where can be grab that ? I WANT I WANT I WANT XD

[fossil birch]

So I've got my UI mostly working, but I can't seem to work out what's going on with the hunger, thirst, etc bars. I know GAMMA uses a mod for adjusting those, but I still can't seem to get it going properly and the three bars always seem to go off the end

[jade oxide]

gamma minecraft guy XD

my gosh, when I think I had seen it all....

[slow bolt]

I am pretty sure the xml config tells ui how high and wide the bars should be but i am not an expert at that at all

[fossil birch]

I tried that and it's still screwed up, I'm gonna try screwing around with the xml a bit more to see if I can bend it to my will

[fossil birch]

also trying to change this font colour to make it easer to read but can't work out which xml file controls that

[vale knot]

I got u homie

Its either ui_inventory_16.xml or actor_menu_item_16.xml

Both have weight captions

But im going with former cus it has multiple

[slow bolt]

Since we are talking UI. Can anybody point me why the the BHS ui is kinda fucked like that?

I tried to fix it but everything looks in order

[spare cipher]

Hey can some smart guy tell me something:
I want to "psuedo-disable" Dux's character pack, so basically I need to keep it enabled but I want the chance the game picks any of the models from the modpack to be 0, I'm just a HD models kinda guy tbh.
Any help?

[dull edge]

Hello does someone knows where i can find the inventory textures aka the icons labelss etc as ressources?

i am looking for the border style icons... or textures. guess they should be able to get into a png file?

[ornate forge]

my ass brain took 1 minute to realized this is not stalker gamma main menu in roblox

[prisma quarry]

so this isnt necessarily mod related but it could be. im trying to import levels into blender and everything looks good when all the textures are setup except for the terrain, which is one material. how do you find the texture mask to blend the ground textures together like they are in game?

the texture that the imported terrain is extremely low res compared everything else in the level, so there must be a material with a texture mask that doesnt get exported correctly from the game files into blender

[red tree]

looks like youre using 2 different bhs huds

[slow bolt]

Except i am not

[red tree]

https://tenor.com/view/third-rock-third-rock-from-the-sun-riddle-enigma-puzzle-gif-14750727

probably just need a fresh install

maybe an update from groks installer

[slow bolt]

Well i wanna fix this in the core. Something causes psi bar to go there and i rather figure out what file(s) are responsible

[fossil birch]

have you changed anything in G.A.M.M.A. Minimalist HUD? I believe that's the mod that controls the psybar as far as I can remember

[slow bolt]

I dont like it and i disabled it. Any ui mod controls the psybar and i think BHS itself places it there

[fossil birch]

I'd say try and find the xml that adjusts the psybar in minimalist hud, and copy the values for its location over to the hud controlling xml in bhs

[slow bolt]

Yeah sadly a bunch to that

[fossil birch]

damn, just gonna be trial and error then, it would be nice if there was some sort of tool that could point to the exact location of HUD elements

[red tree]

use dynahud its the best

[slow bolt]

Dynahud for me causes lag when looting bodies last time i tried. Never found out why
Or nav's masks. Cant remember which

[red tree]

i dont get that. i dont use navs masks

dynahud was also updated recent

[fossil birch]

not a fan of how dynahud works either, it's a cool concept, but I always like having all the information available at all times, not just when the mod thinks I should want it

[slow bolt]

idk how but your presence made me figure it out. BGAC causes that psy bar to fuck off there

Rad bar still wont work but that one i dont care

[red tree]

you can make it static

dynahud does it all friend haha

cant tell me that aint better lol

[fossil birch]

it isn't, why does it need two main health bars? the yellow symbol and red bar do the exact same thing. Plus it doesn't fit with the rest of the ui at all. Maybe if it were made cohesive it would be better but it just seems out of place. Personal preference though, if it's your sorta thing, more power or something like that

[red tree]

that was my choice to have the bhs show up

many options lol

why you hating bruh ?

can make companions just white dots. can get rid of the yellow bhs

or get rid of the red bar

all an option

[slow bolt]

not just the red bar though

[red tree]

go on ...

[red tree]

you can just have the bar if thats what u mean

[slow bolt]

No. Red bar i useless if you have BHS showing

[river fjord]

iirc that "low res" texture is the terrain map, the actual textures are blended ingame between the different ones based off the shades on that map

[red tree]

https://tenor.com/view/buzz-woody-everywhere-toy-toy-story-gif-17059600

[prisma quarry]

Where do i find the blending mask

Wait the terrain map is the mask?

[river fjord]

yep thats what i meant

if i recall correctly anyway

[opaque night]

Is there anyone here that has experience with engine edits for the Monolith engine?

[regal bolt]

how did you place the hd models?

[verbal finch]

how can I change the set FOV of a weapon mod? I downloaded a mod with a bunch of weapons I like but the modder has the FOV on them cranked way too high

[red tree]

i dont use the old hd models

@regal bolt https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1143233268595044493

[fossil birch]

easiest way is to download https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/draggable-hud-editor to be able to click and drag the location, though you'll need to be in debug mode to change it. when you click apply in the menu, it'll save the data to a file called cache_dbg.ltx in your anomaly/gamedata/configs folder. copy the sections to a new file called mod_system\_****. change the * to whatever name you want and put it in your anomaly/gamedata/configs next to the cache_dbg.ltx file. I think I explained that well but if not feel free to ping me and I'll help out more if needed

[undone lily]

just use the BHS text hud

[warped depot]

Hello friends! I have a question regarding changing outfit models. Does anyone know where I can find the map "outfits" so to say? I can't seem to find the LTX anywhere

[warped depot]

Nevermind, found out how to get it to work

[warped depot]

Got another one though, is it possible to not change model when changing outfit? As in, keeping the standard clothing (no outfit)

[dull willow]

how to change gun fov?

[dull edge]

Am not really sure where to ask, but i might have a questions for Grok himself. I would like to code a Interface based Merging tool for mods.
I was wondering what template your "program" is build of. Cause i really do enjoy the overall look and thought it would be a nice thing to know.

[faint sable]

so what you are saying is you want to stay the default no outfit model while putting on outfits?

[warped depot]

Yes, exactly

[faint sable]

hmm let me try to find the no outfit ogf, usually outfits are assigned based on what visual ogf they are given

you use dux?

[warped depot]

Alright, cheers! And yes, I do currently

[faint sable]

let me get dux myself, I been using uh HD models so I have to figure out its default model xd

[warped depot]

All good!

[faint sable]

so this guy?

[warped depot]

I think so, yes. I've tried to change the Sunrise outfit earlier on, but somehow I've managed to change the default skin (No outfit one). So I figured I might aswel find a way to disable the model changing when puttin on an outfit

[faint sable]

sadly I thought it'd be as easy as Hd models outfits are. however I can't find this default visual for dux models. However I believe the visuals use anomaly default outfit ltx visual ogfs. I am not quite sure on it. But this is its base outfit ltxs for them. Easy way to make the outfits use a single same visual is by changing the visual paths for only one visual ogf for all of them. In each ltx, the outfits all have debug names. so for novice it is : novice_outfit and all the novice outfits are usually always in the same ltxs with what they are assigned to. I made a dltx to make all the novice outfits use the stalker_neutral_1.ogf for the visuals. you can look inside of it and see how I did it and mimic it for every single outfit there is if you wish to. the dltx can go to any config folder

simple way of testing them all is by using debug mode and checking the outfits by third person view

[warped depot]

All good man! I'll give it a try. Thanks a bunch for helping me out btw, I really appreciate it!

[faint sable]

yea I been messing with a lot of model stuff due to hd models so I learned a bit from it

if confused at all just lmk

[warped depot]

Will do mate, new to this aswel, so I'm just screwing around a bit. Actually enjoying it too!

But I'll let you know how it went

[warped depot]

Can't get it to work, I'll just try again tomorrow. Thanks a lot for the help, though!

[faint sable]

hmm all good, I gave you the way how I did it for hd models and it might not be the exact same really

[warped depot]

Holy shit, I've fixed it. Thanks a bunch dude, I understood what was wrong because of you ❤️

[faint sable]

nice!

[faint sable]

I did find the actor visual finally

it was covered in a db config within base anomaly

had to convert it to look into it

[jolly wharf]

Theoretically, would it be possible to fuck the task board code, pull it apart, dance in its entrails, then stitch it back together to make a notepad in this game? I would KILL for the rp potential

[faint sable]

I am pretty sure Interactive PDA mod adds a notebook to the pda system

so you can write in notes

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/interactive-pda-01

[jolly wharf]

Yeah but it’s not inside the pda

It’s a right click option

Also it looks like shit

Also I’m already using it

And want to make my own mod

(It doesn’t look like shit, I appreciate the authors work)

[twilit lynx]

What addon is GAMMA using for carving mutants w/o knife?

[dusty skiff]

I want to see this mod integrated into the normal pda.

[slow bolt]

It just disables fdda skinning animation

[twilit lynx]

It's not using S.k.I.n or smth else?

I'm just tryna copy it with base Anomaly for now

[slow bolt]

Bruh turn off mutant skinning in fdda

That is it

[twilit lynx]

I have it off, still takes a long time

I want the base animation gone, too, I alr FDDA skinning turned off

Nvm, maybe it's scripting stuff

[slow bolt]

Gamma does not remove it. It is still there.

[twilit lynx]

Is it? I've only ever seen Drewski's gameplay and skinning looks so much faster there, even comapred to base Anomaly with skinning achievement unlocked

[slow bolt]

Gamma itself has default anomaly skinning. If you don't wanna see it just turn off animations

[twilit lynx]

Lmao is that really just it? I've been digging through moddb like a dumbass, then

[slow bolt]

Turning off animations is vanilla anomaly thing. Turns off all the anims like pretend repairing, taking artefacts off and so on

[twilit lynx]

And leaves FDDA alone, kinda cool

Thanks so much, lol, sorry for the bother

[fervent dust]

Is there a way to add bonus BR class for artefacts that gives ballistic resistance like the one in plates ?

[random fulcrum]

through the actor damage balancer script

and very tediously so

[faint sable]

would adding character_desc ids cause lag?

wanting to know since I been giving some desc ids new ogf ids and I been lagging but idk if its from the description adds or not

if anyone knows

nvm seemed to be a one off thing for me

now my fps is great

[slow bolt]

Somehow FDDA can cause this error, and i am trying to figure out why. Replacing quality vodka and metal canteen vodka anims.

[vale knot]

@bold surge this is the config for the 1911 and you can see it uses the anims with cult prefix

[bold surge]

Ahhh alright I see

[vale knot]

and models should be easy enough to delete

[bold surge]

Also you should play gunslinger, real fun

[vale knot]

theyre all labeled right

im doing op2.2 before i do anything else

[bold surge]

Which folder would I find them in

[vale knot]

i dont really like call of pripyat by itself but maybe i can in awhile

meshes

[bold surge]

So including hand animations too I'm assuming

[vale knot]

id leave them alone for now

[bold surge]

Alright

[vale knot]

dont exactly know what those do myself

[bold surge]

Just delete the folders labled as tt33, etc

[vale knot]

yeah

[bold surge]

Alright

[vale knot]

whatver ones you want to get rid of

[bold surge]

Alright let's see if this worked lol

[vale knot]

[bold surge]

Nope

[vale knot]

rip

OH

hold on

nah nvm

thought there was a random dltx file

ah gamma weapons pack also has ltx files for guns

that are overwriting it

theres probably ltx files all over overwriting this stuff

[jolly pendant]

stalkers, where does the game stores prices?
i want to change things, make all hp ammo a bit cheaper and buckshot more expensive

[slow bolt]

God dissaproves of that action

prices are stored in item's ltx

[jolly pendant]

God can fuck off

thanks

[slow bolt]

But with dltx spaghetti you need to either find the latest price adjusting one or create your own, which would be the better way

[jolly pendant]

um, which the latest one and where does it lies?

[slow bolt]

Yeah that is the fun part. You need to find that yourself.
I use AnyTXT indexer to find shit like that.
Just create your own DLTX mod and adjust the price there directly instead of chasing the ghost. Gonna give you an example, sec

Create your own mod with whatever name and in its gamedata\configs
create a file with a name mod_system_"anything".ltx . replace "anything" with whatever you want but prefix it with z. So like this for example: mod_system_zz_eftmeds.ltx

Prefixing with z means it loads last and would overwrite all other DLTX mods(unless they also have _z_ prefix)

If you changes dont apply add another z, so mod_system_zz_whatever.ltx

all DLTX changes are loaded alphabetically, so z makes sure it goes in the end

In the life itself do this:
![weapon_section]
cost = yourcost

[jolly pendant]

mod_system_zz_hpunfucker.ltx like this?

[slow bolt]

sure

[slow bolt]

So you need to find the section name of the weapon. You can do that in debug by browsing all items

[jolly pendant]

roger, thank you for the help

[slow bolt]

Or ammo, rather. same thing but easier

[jolly pendant]

how do you turn on debug mod again?

through anomaly launcher?

[slow bolt]

in the launcher

then F7 once in game, loaded in

[jolly pendant]

cost ammo_11.43x23_hydro = 1350

like this?

[jolly pendant]

ok, i made the file. Where do i put it again? Gamma folder has like 50 gamedata's

ok, i made a folder with bunch of subfolders, and in the very end is my txt file

hp unfucker\gamedata\configs\items\weapons ?

i simply put it in mods and activate in gamma launcher?

huh, it didnt do anything

[slow bolt]

@jolly pendant

hp unfucker\gamedata\configs

sec i'll give you an actual example

didnt test but like this

Currently also modding so can't do multiple things at once

[jolly pendant]

yeah, i arranged folders like that in put the whole thing into mod folder in Gamma, activated it in launncher

didnt do anything still

must have wrote the txt file inccorectly

[slow bolt]

Get the one i sent. It should work as it adjusts the base price

rest you can add yourself same way

[jolly pendant]

right, i get it now

thank you very much for the help

ey, your file worked

[fickle river]

Hello! I want to ask for instructions on how to return the Tulip & Tulpan back to it's original texture.

[undone lily]

How to start modding:

• Anomaly Modding Book: https://anomaly-modding-book.netlify.app/
• Stalker modding guides: http://sdk.stalker-game.com/en/index.php?title=Quest_creation
• How to port guns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwTYYH5zLjo
• "How do I make a script for X": reverse engineer existing scripts close to what you want to do: there are tons of scripts already available in GAMMA mods, just search and start reading & coding, every system is different 😉

[fickle river]

I'm sorry, I really can't figure it out on how to return Tulip back to it's original texture. Please help.

[hearty plinth]

Is it possible to add this type of dissipator

Cuz i love it

Reliability +15

[opaque pilot]

ppsak what the hell

[regal bolt]

Cursedgunimaes

[dusty skiff]

WE NEEEDS IT

[slow bolt]

Need someone to test if in vanilla gamma BHS limb pick is randomized or not

[random fulcrum]

it's randomized if the last hit registered to the player doesn't have any bone linked to it

otherwise it isn't random

[slow bolt]

That's the thing. The callback does not work. It is always randomized

I fixed it for myself in my mod by switching to actor_on_before_hit

and fixing the arguments

In current dev callback is also set to actor_on_before_hit_callback, which i am pretty sure does not exist

[random fulcrum]

https://tenor.com/view/azumanga-azumanga-daioh-tjsafxzvgsadfre-gif-26314411

yeah it doesn't exist

but having it before or after the hit doesn't make the difference

since limb damage happens after the fact

[slow bolt]

Yes, yes. I am testing it further to see why actor_on_hit_callback wouldn't trigger at all