╙🖇mods-making-discussion

[blissful tartan]

black version is a definite W

[lethal garden]

Can you send me that texture file? thatd be great

Or else Imma have to screenshot then edit it with paint.net lol

[fair canopy]

Where'd you find an archangel Mosin? 👀

Also I don't think explosive weapons need parts

[lethal garden]

I spawned it via debug, but ive got possibly every weapon pack available to GAMMA, hopefully I do. But ill look and see which mod provides it

[fair canopy]

Easy way is to go into debug and check the name then that name you can check against the files and it'll tell you the mod

[lethal garden]

Mine is using my ACOG texture. How can I create and assign a new scope texture? Last time I did I got an scopes.xml crash

[fair canopy]

Give me a few minutes and I'll upload the file you want

I'm omw home

[lethal garden]

Looking in the AK5C ltx, I dont even see a section to assign the scope texture

[fair canopy]

Get yourself notepad++ or visual studio basic if you're gonna modify ltx files

[tacit surge]

U dont need this texture. It will be in the addon.

[lethal garden]

you meant this rifle?

Its provided by BAS2022

[lethal garden]

Which Addon should I be looking for?

[fair canopy]

Oh it's a Remington

[blissful tartan]

yea i reckognized it , its from updated bas

maybe there will be m1a series with sass version n thermal vision scope like the nvg scopes

or arc mosin

[lethal garden]

yeah this probably wont end well

[fair canopy]

@lethal garden @blissful tartan here you go

[lethal garden]

Sweet thanks!

Also, The MP5SD is supposed to accept BAS scopes, but upon trying to install the aimpoint onto the mp5, it isnt attaching. Now ive noticed this with just a few guns, that they're picky about certain scopes and wont equip them

[celest forge]

What the fuck is that icon for the 10mm Banshee

[lethal garden]

Yeah, i didnt dig the white version of the banshee, so i placed the black icon over the white, didnt get it lined up well. gotta fix it

[celest forge]

But like

Those are not the stock icons

Right?

[lethal garden]

Some of these are edited by me, to have a folding stock to appear shorter in the inventory since i often use them as sidearms

[celest forge]

I definitely didn't remember them being that bad

holy shit

[regal bolt]

That’s the 10mm mod right

[celest forge]

Yeah

[regal bolt]

Absolutely baddass

Whoever made it was amazing

Especially the vectors 🤤

[celest forge]

MrB did most of it

I genuinely didn't think the icons aged that bad

[regal bolt]

Deadass I haven’t even downloaded that mod to try it yet, I’ve been staring at the icons only till now lmao

Can’t wait to pop em into my save

[celest forge]

Some day he will come back and update it and put in the new ones

[regal bolt]

Look sick

[celest forge]

Maybe i'll use those new vector animations too

Dunno, haven't heard from him in a while

[regal bolt]

Life or school

[celest forge]

Work, last time I spoke to him

The pack tooks us like

3 months in total to make

[regal bolt]

You were part of it?

I’m dumb, I see now, nice icons

[celest forge]

I made most of the stuff related to the models, textures, animations and icons

[regal bolt]

Love that you took the time

[celest forge]

he did all the smart work

[regal bolt]

How many of the hud models and models themselves have a laser

Because I learned how to add laser by myself and I feel like doing it even more

[celest forge]

I don't remember, it was such a long time ago

But like a lot of them do

[regal bolt]

X-ray addon in Blender is finna making sense

Dope, I can wait to try those

[lethal garden]

Anybody got any idea about this?

[celest forge]

Probably the BaS patch conflicting

[blissful tartan]

huh

[blissful tartan]

i wanted to test this thing but ak5c isg tactical is removed

[fair canopy]

it shouldnt be

[blissful tartan]

no not the mod that removed it

i checked on debug there is no isg tactica

[fair canopy]

debug in the kit and add it to the regular ak5c

see if it changes it

or do you have bas2022 installed?

[blissful tartan]

oh i do

that removes the gun ?

[fair canopy]

No, that removes the parent section from certain guns so you can remove the part kit

[blissful tartan]

i did this https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1036086143923536055

[fair canopy]

It's still there. It just acts like a scope now instead of a permanent upgrade

[lethal garden]

Go to misc. Where the attachments are, youll find a kit

[blissful tartan]

found the kit but i cant put it on

[fair canopy]

add this into the ak5c bas ltx

[astral tusk]

where should I go in the game files to make the SVU-A fire full auto

i feel cheated that its limited to three round burst

[fair canopy]

`[wpn_ak5c_bas_5c_tik]:wpn_ak5c_bas

visual = dynamics\weapons\wpn_ak5c_bas\wpn_ak5c_5c_tik_world.ogf

hud = wpn_ak5c_bas_5c_tik_hud

inv_grid_width = 5
inv_grid_height = 2
inv_grid_x = 11
inv_grid_y = 22

inv_weight = 3.700
scope_dynamic_zoom = off

hit_impulse = 27
hit_power = 0.49, 0.49, 0.49, 0.49
hit_type = fire_wound
fire_distance = 800
bullet_speed = 900
rpm = 800
rpm_empty_click = 200

scopes = none
inv_name = st_wpn_ak5c_bas_5c_tik
inv_name_short = st_wpn_ak5c_bas_5c_tik
description = st_wpn_ak5c_bas_5c_tik_descr

parent_section = wpn_ak5c_bas_5c_tik

silencer_name = wpn_sil_spec_isg
silencer_x = 220
silencer_y = 8

scope_zoom_factor_alt = 0

use_alt_aim_hud = true

zoom_rotate_time = 0.25
scope_lense_fov = 4

laser_status = true`

[blissful tartan]

ohh better 2d scopes removed the item from the list

i disabled and i can see the isg tactical itself in debug

[fair canopy]

odd

it might be doing the same thing

[blissful tartan]

i also applied the kit

it works now

@fair canopy so what happened was there is no ak5c isg tactical cuz its removed in better 2d scopes , and your scope version is basically what @tacit surge was tryna do or already did but not released

[fair canopy]

i forgot the trader file to add it back into traders

[blissful tartan]

oh isg tactical kit ?

[fair canopy]

yeah. it doesnt spawn in the current version of gamma

[blissful tartan]

but gun itself is in loot pool far as i know

i never seen the kit before tho

[fair canopy]

also i just went with the same basic idea of 2d scopes. i just changed it so it only adds the one scope nintrusively

and the upgraded gun wont drop. grok took it out due to the low fps on the og scope

[blissful tartan]

#1118909693813862492 message you did this 😄

and the reason it conflicts with better 2d scopes is that your mod tryna find what other mod removed so game hard crashed on me when i enabled them both

[fair canopy]

his is based around unifying everything via 2d scopes. mine is more in line with the scopes gamma uses as far as size goes

so the reticle is bigger

[blissful tartan]

i see

but its the same logic more or less

anyways its really well done regardless

[astral tusk]

isnt fire_modes -1 supposed to be full auto?

the ltx file for the SVU-A shows the fire modes as 1,-1 but in game it has only semi and three round burst

[round coyote]

will they add the new sss textures

soon

[hardy hound]

sss textures?

[round coyote]

or shader thing

#📢announcements message

[naive snow]

Grok always updates it whenever the actual update of SSS drops

[hardy hound]

when it's released yeah, gamma will probably grab latest sss version

[round coyote]

oh so it’s still in development

[hardy hound]

yeah

[naive snow]

It's always a teaser and only accessible if you're paying the kofi price to access his discord until he drops the official

Upcoming stuff looks fantastic

[lethal garden]

If anyone has a well documented list of weapon packs or any of the lesser known weapon mods, Id appreciate it if someone could compose one for me. Ive scoured Discord and moddb but I know theres always something missed.

[astral tusk]

what's rpm_empty_click supposed to be?

[random fulcrum]

nothing at all

it's not referenced anywhere in the source code

[hardy hound]

firebreath, barry bogs, strogglet15, and probably some more that i forget, all have good weapon releases reanimation/remodel

afaik all of their addons are already included in gamma

also there's some new reanimations for some weapons, made by NickolasNikova on moddb, but most of them use the same model/texture, so they look kinda bad imo

in this discord in #1035807043933720576 are some weapon releases also

[random fulcrum]

could still rig those anims to a better model if you're so inclined

the fixed meshes and shaders thing makes most vanilla models look comfy

[hardy hound]

https://tenor.com/view/old-snake-metal-gear-solid-snake-time-goes-by-fast-metal-gear-solid-gif-26264117

[celest forge]

There's ATHI's stuff, it's a few guns but they're all very nice. The Gunslinger ports by Teivaz, depending on which version you get your hands on, it comes with a few new guns per pack, like the Samurai Edge beretta or the Tactical P90. Firebreath has a few reanimations and a few new guns, they're about as great as anomaly gun modding comes. LEWD or Laughin Lunatic has also some guns, they tend to be on the crazy side but he also has some nice simple rifles. Pieuvre Armament which is a few guns that are basically kitted out tactical versions of BaS guns. Retrogue made a good fair bit of guns, he's not active rn but if you combine all of his old and new guns it's quite a few. Strogglet/Blackgrowl mainly focuses in replacers but he also has a few additions, mainly the PPP which is a bit of both, his Ithaca shotguns and a few others. Billwa has posted quite a few guns in moddb, most notably the Daewoo pack but also stuff like the Grease gun, the Mac-11, Grenade launcher, etc. NickolasNikova has some pretty decent reanimations for some of the forgotten guns in vanilla anomaly, and has made a single addition with the Type 89 Rifle. Sedzhimol has some amazing reanimations of a few guns, they're pretty top notch quality wise. You then have some exclusive guns per modpacks, EFPWP is the main one that comes to mind, it's not amazing, a lot of guns use vanilla animations which are pretty bad, and if you have the older version the bump maps are mirror like and just bad to look at. Bosspack has a few exclusive weapons made by his community, some pretty quirky stuff. The RAPTR is GAMMA exclusive.

[fair canopy]

I'm surprised bosspack is still a thing

[celest forge]

Then you get to the people that have made a single weapon or a couple, that are not regular modders. The Jadey M K98k glow up is amazing, the Insurgent Palestinian AK-74 imo is pretty great. There's a Scorpion Evo mod, The Radom Vis 35 pistols by SoulCrystal, the EFT SR-25 port by OneRock, The Armalite 10 mod which is a mid ehh but not too bad ig, Maid from the EFP crew made an AGRAM 2000 which is really good, the XM4 port from CoD ColdWar, by KeatonB

There's BaS but I think everyone knows that

[fair canopy]

The mp155 ultima from efp is great as a tech demo

[celest forge]

Then there's the cursed early soup category, which imo is the old "CWWP" which is a bunch of poorly made contract wars ports that don't even work most of the time, the guy who made that just didn't know what he was doing really

Provak is more than just a gunpack, but that was the main draw, if you could gather all the low quality assets and shove them into an oven and cook them, that'd be what Provak's is. It's literally just a million shitty ports using TaZ anims and models from god knows where

Then there's the few that are basically lost media since they're either super obscure to get or just deleted from where you could get them, like the Lee Enfield from Tacos con Chela, that Gepard PDW that was deleted a few weeks ago, Moro's guns in the LEWD server which he took down for some reason.

The released assets of TCO which are barely functional and mostly mid

TCWP is also some few great guns made by Teivaz and TheDJ

Also in the cursed early soup are all the TAZ ports like the Misc weapons pack and Simple weapons pack, along with the Minigun port and the MG42 ports, they're all mid, TAZ I imagine was great back in the day but today it's just bad to look at. Also that HAMR sight pack which was also just TaZ ports of varying quality.

And the New Weapons pack which depending on which version you got had an MP40 and STG44 which were also from BaS, but even the guns that are still available are from there

And that's all of the guns i'm aware of

oh and mine ig but no one likes those amirite

I'm forgetting a bunch like Asnen's Arisaka, BarryBogs' SVU, Blindsides reanim, Deanon's anime replacers, the 10mm pack we did with MrB, Phant0ms BaS expansion

[lethal garden]

Sweet man thanks, gonna paste that in notepad for future reference

I swear some weapon positions suck so bad

I spent %80 of my time repositioning guns and messing with textures rather than playing

[random fulcrum]

idk what's bad with the position from the first picture

is it about some unspoken rule of realismo

[celest forge]

Just personal preference

ig

That mo3 guy made a repo just for pistols so when you'd aim they'd be super far away

like when you aim a pistol irl

Personally I don't like to have guns too close to the cross hair

[lethal garden]

Just preference

[lethal garden]

Is the BOSSPACK thread usually all russian?

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/dltx-mtacwpack-0-94

found this though

[celest forge]

I think mostly Ukranian

but yeah, mainly RUS/UKR

[celest forge]

This is 99% just guns from other mods

[lethal garden]

I see. I see it mentions adding BAS scopes to vanilla firearms. Now, that seems useful.

[celest forge]

Ehhh

I personally don't use vanilla guns anymore

there's so much stuff

[lethal garden]

Seen this before?

[celest forge]

that using a vanilla gun that doesn't have a reanim is like

why would I

I don't recognize that

But I know there's a guy in the bosspack server that makes a bunch of kit bashed guns

[lethal garden]

Do yall remember the previous MP7 model that was in the last versions of GAMMA before they included the new reanimation mod? Im using Strogglets MP7 Replacer, but it doesnt use BAS scopes like it did before. Huge help if someone knew something

If someone has one of the previous GAMMA install files, RC3 I think, if someone could share it with me, pull the mp7 data

[lethal garden]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/dltx-mtacwpack-0-94

SO, I pulled the individual files and folders from the mod for the Vitzyaz into its own folder to make it compatible for GAMMA

So, Vityaz now accepts all BAS Scopes

[blissful tartan]

think imma look thru moddb for more gunslinger anims

i know there are already included in gamma but only partially

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/fdda-enhanced-animations-medical-exo-anims gunslinger meds if anyone wants it , food and drinks were exactly the same in gamma currently

if only redone devices had working bear anim for grizzly

[blazing hull]

OK now its starting to kill me SO PLEASE TELL ME WHO CAN HELP ME FIX THE NEW GAME UI?!?!?!

[naive dew]

is there a way to get the laser dot on/off state from zzz_bas_laser_control.script? The current state seems to be saved as a local

[sacred token]

If it's local then unlocalize it

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

[naive dew]

yeah I'll do that if it's the only option

[lethal garden]

Anyone know if theres way to fix missing textures like this? The magazine on the bizon. I play on DX8, maybe thats why?

[slow bolt]

Texture isnt made for DX8 most likely

[lethal garden]

Well, I changed to other DX versions, still it was missing.

[lethal garden]

Do you think resaving it as any of these other options listed may help? I know that some of those options decided for me in the past wether or not it displayed in DX8 or not

[slow bolt]

BC3 DXT5

[blissful tartan]

eft weapon sounds go hard ngl

[lethal garden]

Gotcha. Thanks Mirrowel.

[blissful tartan]

especially suppressed ak man pure asmr

[lethal garden]

got it

[lethal garden]

Im using Tacticool and DARE, using this texture for the ISG kit, but the layout isnt working for me

[fair canopy]

Dare?

Also which tacticool? I thought it was in gamma?

[regal bolt]

How could I make a simple script that uses a keypress (Long hold prefered) that would toggle jumping being bound to a key or not? I seriously would love to have "Long Press I" for this function. I am no coder, and don't know where to start...but is there some sort of examples that I could use as a template?

This is because I use fucked up keybinds and am irredeemable in that regard.

[lethal garden]

the tacticool provided by GAMMA, and by DARE i mean Dots and Reticles Extravaganza, also provided by GAMMA

[broken wagon]

greetings stalkers, can someone help me out some? i wanna mod some values to my liking in actor.ltx, but am confused as to which one i should alter, if not all of them.. there are a multitude of them in the GAMMA subfolders bc of the diff mods, but also the (now unpacked) one in the Anomaly folder... just wanted to run this by the C-consciousness first just in case (which was a good idea, told not to mess with the Anomaly one already)

[regal bolt]

Possible idea from my caveman mind: can you create a "mod" yourself using the actor.ltx and edit the values there? If it's high priority in the mod order it should be the one that dictates the values. Caveat: I don't think I have ever edited that specific file, but am familiar with ltx editing.

[fair canopy]

It should just work out of the box. Are you on 4:3?

[broken wagon]

you mean "create a mod" as in an entry in MO2 and everything?? kind of a scary prospect with the legion of GAMMA mods on top of each other, personally speaking... is there a tutorial somewhere or something?

[regal bolt]

I don't know lol. But when I wanted to diy a UI, I just took the files that I knew needed editing and packed their file structure into a .7z and installed it as it's own mod.. At first it was the exact same shit, but I edited the "installed" mod files and over time it changed to what I wanted.

I don't know if this is right or not, but it worked for me lol.

[broken wagon]

hmm sounds like a plan, thx

[broken wagon]

will be finding out the hard way hahelakaok

[regal bolt]

The file structure inside the .7z is important. That's a big part. FOLDER OF YOUR NAME, and inside that the "gamedata" folder.....from there fill in with the folders/files you need to edit. 7z that FOLDER OF YOUR NAME. When you are done you can "install" via Mod manager. Once installed in mod manager, you can go to the gamma/mods folder and find it and there will be your files ready to edit.

[lethal garden]

No I dont believe so, I believe 16:9, I havent changed anything, thats screen size right?

[fair canopy]

Yeah

[broken wagon]

think i got it, will test it out shortly, thx a lot brother (also, offtopic but love you pfp)

[regal bolt]

I hope that helps. Good luck! I am a big ol' MVS fan from way back. I keep a consoleized MVS-1c here at the house for Metal Slug lol because it's the best side scrolling shooter of the 16bit era

[broken wagon]

that's some dedication to the art hauehah i played alot of NG (emulated) for all the metal slugs but what surprisingly got under my skin was the fighting games.... usually not my cup of tea but mainly savage reign and samsho2 lived in my head rent-free... and sengoku 3 ofc, the goat of beat em ups for me

[fair canopy]

Try iron default gamma

[naive dew]

how often does actor_on_update trigger?

[queen pine]

@lethal garden If you have a question or need help with G.A.M.M.A., please use the correct channel for your problem:

For vanilla G.A.M.M.A. modlist (this means that your modlist is unchanged and untouched): #🔨base-gamma-support

For custom G.A.M.M.A. modlists (this includes mods added by yourself and also mods that are disabled by default in G.A.M.M.A.: #🔨modded-gamma-support

If you are having issues with the installer, or with your G.A.M.M.A. installation: #1026866080347603065

Any other channel ARE NOT support channels. If your question is a support question, you may be asked to go to the proper channel.

[blissful tartan]

is there a gunslinger medkit anim for anomaly ?

[slow bolt]

Gunslinger medkit anim is just a needle anim from FDDA with the added shoulder anim

[blissful tartan]

yea i just searched but i swore there was a different medkit anim like taking one out from the medkit

im also thinking if i should get RPG or Skills Expansion

[lethal garden]

Okay, so Im trying to integrate this pp2000 Remodel that was included in a weapon pack I found, so I pulled all the specific files of the PP2000 from that mod and added them to their own. Looking at the LTX provided, the weapon sections has the same name of the pp2000 already in game, (wpn_pp2000), so it is conflicting with the existing files in GAMMA. But once I add ! to the sections the gun just dissapears from ingame. Advice?

[naive dew]

is there an easy way to check for if you're ADS or not? Currently I'm registering callbacks to actor_on_weapon_zoom_in (and zoom_out) to flip a boolean, but that seems way too spaghetti to me

[fair canopy]

I have no idea with coding but check out beefs nvgs script. It can check if your ads or not to toggle goggles so that might be a start

[lethal garden]

In some cases the weapon disapearred. this case with the pp2000, the gun im trying to add isnt added when I dltx the ltx

I could probably explain it better but im just zooted from everything going on rn

[fair canopy]

You're overwriting with another entry not adding it

[lethal garden]

Okay I see!

[lethal garden]

Man I apologize for being so needy lately

[astral stratus]

Where can i find non-modded items for editing, like kerosine?

[naive dew]

hmm so beef's nvg uses a wpn:IsZoomed() function, but I get a nil value error when I try using it

[random fulcrum]

nil value error can be like

literally anything

[naive dew]

ah I fixed it, you have to do wpn:cast_Weapon():IsZoomed()

if I'm monkey patching a script that's registered as a callback, do I have to re-register it?

[random fulcrum]

no

[naive dew]

gotcha, thanks!

[fair canopy]

How hard would it be to write a script to allow sprinting with a certain weapon when an exo suit is equipped?

[naive dew]

more trouble than it's worth, I would say

considering all exos can be upgraded to sprint anyway

[fair canopy]

I'm specifically looking to add a script to the mini gun so that it only allows sprinting if you're wearing an exo suit. It's a complete meme gun but I think it can be fun in it's own way

[astral stratus]

Where can i change the weight and price of kerosine?

[surreal gust]

Physics test with spawn refrenced object

Gravity on the smoke was set to low to showcase this effect

Occlusion was also placed under the smoke

So that it doesn't go through static geometry

[blissful tartan]

nerd

looks dope tho

[surreal gust]

It's literally the same shader

15 years old+

you're essentially doing real time fluid simulation

kind of

[naive dew]

is there a function to check if you're in primary, alt or grenade launcher aim mode?

[rough lion]

I guess this is where i post my updated addons https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/high-resolution-maps

[fair inlet]

db.actor:active_item():cast_Weapon():GetZoomType()

[surreal gust]

did you demo_record the levels or?

[naive dew]

ugh this is annoying, I think using the unlocalizer somehow fucks up my mod

like I'd test monkey patching the exact same function using unlocalizer and it would behave differently

[rough lion]

No

[surreal gust]

How did you do it then?

[rough lion]

Simple AI upscale + minor touch ups

[surreal gust]

Thought you used demo_record to take level screenshots

Usually these are used to take screenshots of the level

and you can use them as a pda texture

[lethal garden]

Ive got 2 Scorpion Evo Mods, I like both models alot. How can I include both guns without them conflicting?

[fair canopy]

You need to rename one in it's ltx

Appending _c or whatever else to the end of each section will do it

[supple stone]

within the scripts for anomalies in artefacts reinvention mod there is reference to some Artefact classes that dictate which artefacts can spawn in eace anomaly, these artefact classes are mostly listed within artefacts.ltx however some are missing, how can i figure out what artefacts are within these classes or if these classes are used at all?

[mortal kraken]

wait is there a mod for like changes the arm models and textures for eft ones?

[woven mountain]

Does anyone know how bullet drop is modelled in game? Is it just 9.8 m/s^2?

[random fulcrum]

basically ye

9.81 is the gravity const in configs\items\weapons\base.ltx

there's some complex nonsense to it but basically just think of the constant

you can check Level_Bullet_Manager.cpp for more info on it

[woven mountain]

Do you know whether bullets are affected by air resistance? I would think not

[hallow jacinth]

guys how to change which specific character model drop specific outfits? Like merc nosorogs will drop amogus suits?

[random fulcrum]

yeah it's even a parameter for ammo

[woven mountain]

Oh? What's it called? I have an idea for something interesting and I need to know exactly how bullet trajectory is calculated

[random fulcrum]

k_air_resistance

also if you need to do stuff where the bullet lands there's tech to do that

script level

bullet_on_impact for instance

[woven mountain]

Gotcha, I want to know where it is moment to moment in the air

[random fulcrum]

ah no that's not possible yet

like you could estimate it maybe

but it'd be super expensive on the engine most likely

and for that you'd need to dissect the source code file that i mentioned above

[woven mountain]

Where is that file located? I can't seem to find any .cpp files Nvm found it

[covert skiff]

I had this crash in warfare mode, so I modified the script file and it seems to be working. (Idk where to put fixes so I place it here). The modified code is from line 1632 to line 1668.

[elder iris]

Pardon me if this isn't the right place to ask, does anyone know where the ltx file for the Sledgehammer is located?

[surreal gust]

I'm gonna port volumetric smoke from agroprom underground clear sky to anomaly's agroprom underground

Today...

[lethal berry]

I am make very just changes in drop condition artefacts, artefacs spawned with 50-100% condition in anomalies, idk work this in body loot or no, but i am checking now condition atrs spawned into surge and psy storm

is it worth publishing these edits? or are they too small for the post

[mint dust]

nice , although i dont know many people would get an edit specifically to make artifacts spawn with 50-100% condition.

for stalker anomaly is there a way get a callback for when an audio file is played?

[wary scroll]

@naive snow sorry for ping you again
Since the last time we talked about how to make a texture, I changed the grass colors of cordon
But now rendering distance of grass looks bad
So I want to know how to increase this value and make it like first time
I also changed it with adega not Aydins so also there's a level_lods and terrain folder
And I think they should run inside blender

I'm so sorry for ping you again man if it's annoying then I don't ping you again cause my questions really basic

Maybe it's cause format method?
I saved it as BC3

[naive snow]

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by rendering distance? Grass rendering distance is handled same as always with the detail density and distance settings

[surreal gust]

@undone lily Do you think it looks good on the agroprom underground level? I have already published the mod on moddb and I think it can be added to default gamma

This effect will not show up if volumetric smoke has been disabled from in-game settings

This emitters and occlusions use the config from stalker clear sky

16 year old shader

This currently affects agroprom underground level

FPS impact on my gtx 660 is not a lot even with some shaders enabled

I usually get 60 fps

The smoke is entirely dynamic

If its too dense I can decrease it

This should work for any mod

As long if 31.1.2024 or newer modded exes are installed

I'm an experienced xray sdk user

so its easy for me

[wary scroll]

I mean after I changed colours and saved
In game grass not rendering like before
I know it's strange I'm a noob I don't know what I did

Like just front of me and far away nothing

[naive snow]

Do you have a screen shot or something to compare before/after

[naive snow]

You probably messed up the mipmaps alpha channel. That's why it's disappearing much quicker

[surreal gust]

Lots of people are saying that their FPS didn't drop at all too!

[outer edge]

Guys anyone knows how I can get rid of this glossy effect? My gloss factor is on 0.001 and gloss min is on 0.35 I have only SSS update 19 and ES not other visual mod

[naive snow]

Texture mipmaps are basically how the engine "downgrades" texture quality over distance. (You don`t need to display a full 4k resolution when the object is so far away). Mipmaps are encoded at half the resolution of the last step. If your initial texture is 4096 x 4096, the mip1 will be 2048x2028, mip2 1024x1024, mip3 512x512 and so on. These mips also apply to your alpha channel ( the texture information that makes either the pixel of the texture opaque or not) What's probably happening in your case is that over your mip map chain, (progressively downward) your mips are turning black or dark gray and making the grass become transparent faster.

[wary scroll]

So as I understand it's cause mipmaps
Here my settings
So I have set Format to BC3
But others idk
I mean which one should ignore for leaving mipmaps

[surreal gust]

Wtf

Why are they in BC7

The engine doesn't support bc7 format

[wary scroll]

I know

Just a quick shot

[surreal gust]

Did you try DXT1?

[wary scroll]

Nah

[surreal gust]

You should try it

Maybe that will fix your problems

[naive snow]

Make it BC3

[naive snow]

BC1a is a fucking horrible format, you should avoid it

[wary scroll]

Thanks a lot man
So should I do this for every textures I'm going to use ?

[naive snow]

It's a good preset for foliage yeah

[wary scroll]

Thanks

[surreal gust]

True but The actor editor only allows me to use DXT1 and more

it has support for BC7 too

BC6a probably

But anomaly doesnt so I have to use DXT1 for the terrain

You can't change the compression format on the terrain

[surreal gust]

What ground textures are you using?

[outer edge]

Anomaly

The vanilla one i mean

[surreal gust]

Wtf

[outer edge]

I was using performance texture for 1.5.1

[surreal gust]

That doesn't look like vanilla anomaly at all

[outer edge]

Then I ipgraded my gpu

[surreal gust]

The asphalt is so weird

[outer edge]

Yeah

That's the thing

[surreal gust]

Maybe its the texture itself

Textures have specular

[outer edge]

I think so

Cuz it looks specular from texture

But I cant understand how to fix it

Other then reinstalling the game from 0

[surreal gust]

nah its a texture issue 100%

[outer edge]

There's no console comand for that?

[surreal gust]

theres probably too much specular inside the texture data

[surreal gust]

nope

[outer edge]

What I can do lol

[surreal gust]

I'm not 100% sure if that's the case but

You have 2 options

uninstall the texture mod
or keep it

[outer edge]

I unistall it but it didnt fix it

I think it screwd up anomaly vanilla textures

[surreal gust]

Did you install more than 1 ground texture mods?

[outer edge]

At same time?

No

[surreal gust]

Anomaly textures are stored inside their "db" folder

Okay go to your mo2

go to filter not mod filter

type

ground_grass

and if anything shows up

it could be a texture mod

[outer edge]

Only from adyins

If i copy and paste db folder from anomaly vanilla files?

[surreal gust]

type

asphalt

[surreal gust]

I was only checking if there are mods that are fucking with the ground textures

[outer edge]

Wait up

[surreal gust]

Then I don't know whats honestly fucking with your ground textures

[undone lily]

Yup looks good 👍 thanks a lot

[surreal gust]

Thanks-

It's just ported from clear sky

But I specialize in this type of shit

[undone lily]

Might be too dense yes. I’m curious how in reality you can get such a dense smoke, know what I mean ?

[surreal gust]

Didn't change the density at all but I will add a less density option

Or you can do it yourself

It's easy to change it

I didn't leave my custom level in the rain though

I'm still working on it

valley\gamedata\configs\environment\fog

This is where all of the fog configs are located

These are the parameters used for the fog volumes

"GravityBuoyancy" determines the weight of the smoke

The higher the value the more the smoke falls down

Maybe the smoke comes from the pipes though

That could explain the big ass density

I can send you my current build of my map with far cry 5 trees and some survavium assets too @undone lily

If you want...

i'm not sure if i am going to include the trees due to fps impact on my end

[outer edge]

Man it was texture problem indeed

Thanks for the help bro i really appreciate it

[surreal gust]

Told ya

No problem

[outer edge]

I copied the db original forlder from anomaly

And boom, done

I think the texture pack i was using before fukd up the original textures

[surreal gust]

Next time if you're installing this

It'd be better to organize and remember what you installed

The hardest problems are the ones when you don't know the source of the problem

[outer edge]

Lol well its not ended

I got this crash now

[surreal gust]

Show the log

[outer edge]

Scripts now 😨

[surreal gust]

what the

ok listen

This most likely has nothing to do with textures

[naive snow]

!aaa

[queen pine]

@outer edge Follow this ➡️: #1197313402377347324 message

[surreal gust]

hold on what the fuck

you installed gamma with anomaly 1.5.1?

[outer edge]

No

Of course no

[naive snow]

You probably installed the wrong db archives

[outer edge]

Loool yessss

[surreal gust]

that makes sense

[outer edge]

I took the 1.5.1 one

Ok now I've pasted the right one

I think this should work

It didn't crash

But the gloss is back

Im going crazy

Lol

I guess uninstall the game

And install it again should fix it

[surreal gust]

wait

dont

what is the gloss factor

[outer edge]

I did it already

😣😣😣😣

18 days ironman bye bye

Gloss factor was 0.001

And gloss min was 0.35

@surreal gust thanks for real man, i appreciated the help you gave me

[surreal gust]

Alright.

[outer edge]

Yoo you made a map mod isnt it?

[surreal gust]

Yeah

It's still under WiP

[outer edge]

I wanted to make a showcase of it in my channel lol

[surreal gust]

Now the volumetric smoke for agroprom underground

[outer edge]

Yeah I saw it

Nice job man for both of it

[surreal gust]

Thanks

[outer edge]

Thats why you got that was a texture problem that fast

Thanks again bro

[surreal gust]

Np

[surreal gust]

@undone lily can i get my orange/red role plz?

[woeful rain]

[surreal gust]

[undone lily]

Done

[surreal gust]

Thanks

Im gonna focus on my custom map for anomaly

Or expand the volumetrics to other levels

Especially underground levels

[lethal garden]

Is there anything I can do, like edit the texture map for the GL or anything I can change to where the texture is displayed in DX8?

[celest forge]

Find the original maps and export them again properly

Actually I think that's the base texture

[lethal garden]

Any idea what the name may be of the texture file? Would I need to unpack the Anomaly files to find the base text.?

[celest forge]

I doubt that's vanilla

[lethal garden]

I found the black version of the Scar GL, wpn_scarl_gl.dds

[celest forge]

Most likely a BaS texture

[lethal garden]

Yeah it is.

Im most likely just beat.

[celest forge]

Is it that one

[lethal garden]

Upon searching, these are the only ones I can find, they all seem to be Diff file

[celest forge]

So yeah

IT's that one

replace it

For the one I sent

[lethal garden]

Alright sweet! Let me check it out rq

[lethal garden]

It worked, do you happen to have one for the SCAR mounter GL textures? Wanna replace those too

[celest forge]

which one is that

the "mounter"

[lethal garden]

It may be, Im not quite sure tbh.

The Gl texture on the Scars arent DX8 compatible either

[celest forge]

That is from the scar

Literally found them by tracing the texture through the scar meshes

[lethal garden]

Awesome. Im not quite familiar with Blender, planning on learning soon. I apologise about bothering you about it, but thanks Juan. You do great man

[celest forge]

Not an issue at all

just a classic BaS moment

[lethal garden]

Do you know the texture file name? Cant find anything under "mounter"

[celest forge]

You mean the little trigger thing

[lethal garden]

Just the Grenade Launcher

It doesnt display in DX8 Either

[celest forge]

According to blender it's the same texture I sent you

[lethal garden]

Also, Ive got this p90 Reanimation file. It isnt GAMMA compatible since it overwrites the P90. How can I use it with GAMMA without having to hide all the other P90 ltxs?

If I mark all the sections with (!) it doesnt appear in game. Am I supposed to mark the LTX im trying to override with ! instead of the ltx im trying to use?

[lethal garden]

Okay sweet ! Thanks

[celest forge]

That's a tough one because it also replaces the meshes

and probably animations

[lethal garden]

Im trying to include all these gun reanimations. It adds BAS scopes to vanilla weapons

Its fine. Im doing each gun one by one. So far its fine. I just have to hide some LTXs.

So far, Ive got the Vityaz, Bizon, PP2000, FN2000

[fair canopy]

What mod is that?

[lethal garden]

DLTX_MTacPack on moddb

[blissful tartan]

do you guys know of any mod that makes ks23 ecologist to spawn ?

[fair canopy]

Wait if it's a dltx you shouldn't have to do that

[lethal garden]

Yeah, but it still CTDs due to overwrite

[exotic sleet]

Has anyone tried adding stats to a backpack? I mean protection stats

[fair canopy]

I think the ghillie suit mod does that

Take a look at how it's done. Because it moves the suit to the backpack slot but gives a few stats iirc

[exotic sleet]

oh u are genuis, ill try thx

[random fulcrum]

those stats however don't get accounted for in gamma because the actor damage balancer isn't designed to read them

[exotic sleet]

ye, i understand. But, if I do this for a default anomaly, for example? Or I want to edit everything very much

[graceful sluice]

If I gonna make 3D model of FM-15, someone can animate it?
Basically it's foldable AR-15, with charging handle in handguard.

My variant

In this configuration, from legal point of view it is pistol, so it can be used with one hand, also because it got pistol brace.

[random fulcrum]

can't find anything on it but you can try ig

[lethal garden]

So this texture is missing on the Vihr M2 provided by a custom mod. Yet, for some reason, the texture map provided is a JPEG file instead of a DDS file, is this normal? Or the reason the texture is missing?

[graceful sluice]

For some reason all textures are .dds, probably Xray can read only them

[lethal garden]

The texture map above, happens to be a JPEG. Any way to convert it to a DDS? had trouble doing that.

[graceful sluice]

I have website for it, wait a sec

https://convertio.co/ru/jpg-dds/

Because dds is very ancient shit, everyone converting it in modern format to edit, and then converting it back when returning in game

[random fulcrum]

gahdaym they were indeed using cutting edge technology

[slow bolt]

use an image editor? it aint hard. Just saving in a different format

[slow bolt]

Jpeg:

png:

So in actuality .DDS is the newest of the bunch

[graceful sluice]

But it was always updated, what you can't say about .dds

Damn, dds actually was also updated in 2019

[fair canopy]

Maximum airflow is no case

[celest forge]

Best way would be to export it

Not just convert it

[quartz anchor]

I'm trying to change the ammo of the USP match, do you guys know what mod it is in, i looked in the base anomally weapon files and didnt find it, just the usp45.

[naive snow]

It's the reason why your texture is missing. Jpegs dont actually encode stuff mipmaps or extra meta data like the mip filtering method. All information needed for the engine for it to properly read. Modern engines now have their own texture importer that will take jpeg or png and convert them to a computer readable format for the engine (DXT1, DXT5, BC7, etc) because Xray doesn't have an engine editor really, you need to pre-convert your textures to a suitable format

[astral tusk]

is adding adjustable zoom to a scope an easy process? if not i might have to commission someone

[fair canopy]

scope_dynamic_zoom = on

[random fulcrum]

you do that on a gun per gun basis

not on the scope

[fair canopy]

put that in the hud of the weapon's scoped section you want

[random fulcrum]

not in the hud tho

in the gun's definition

[fair canopy]

weapon section*

[astral tusk]

see this is what i assumed but I checked the ltx file of a gun that has working zoom (SCAR-H siber) but it has dynamaic zoom turned off for some reason

so I was wondering if it was some xray magic that i didnt understand

[random fulcrum]

but the scar has irons by default

[fair canopy]

make a dltx file and do ![(name)] and then add that under the section

do you mean the freezoom?

[astral tusk]

this section

[random fulcrum]

ah yeah well okay change that off to on

[astral tusk]

the leupold is a zoomable scope (i use it regularly) and I assume this is the section that handles it

[random fulcrum]

that's it

[fair canopy]

yeah put the line there

[astral tusk]

how will that look

[random fulcrum]

change the scope_dynamic_zoom line

to on

[astral tusk]

alright, thanks

so no ![(wpn_siber_pkp)] required?

[random fulcrum]

would be good practice for the long run

you do you

[astral tusk]

i dont really know dltx quite well, I only know what values do which

what does the brackets actually do

is it just override I'm assuming?

[random fulcrum]

dltx allows you to override specific params without having to replace the entire file

or having to edit the original file

for example in this case you could create a new mod and add a file in gamedata\configs\ called mod_system_(your mod name).ltx

[astral tusk]

oh, so it lets you override without physically altering the original

ok that seems helpful, ill keep it in mind

[random fulcrum]

in it you do ![wpn_scar_siber_leupold], the ! signals the engine that it's an override

and then below that you just add the lines you want to change

dltx is loaded alphabetically

[fair canopy]

You should dltx any changes you make to base gamma files. The next time the game updates you'll lose the changes and have to make them again

[woeful rain]

hi, how do I get a modders role?

[fair canopy]

What's the encoding for texture files again?

[fair canopy]

You don't ping grok first off

And you make mods that people like

[random fulcrum]

i haven't done mods that people like

[fair canopy]

i like pain though

[woeful rain]

what

[fair canopy]

just make good mods

[random fulcrum]

idk the modder role is like

a you tried sticker

so is alpha even if it would technically mean you're above the average

[woeful rain]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1054718392810090506/1066809806658211970/test22.mp4

[random fulcrum]

there are people far more deserving of alpha than me

easily pick out people like g_flat

[undone lily]

Done

Welcome around here and thanks for your work on the SDK

[atomic roost]

Wow, can I?)

[woeful rain]

[woeful rain]

❤️

[undone lily]

Done

👍🏼

[astral tusk]

tried this and the dltx method, both didnt work

still cant zoom with 1p59 for some reason

[atomic roost]

❤️

[astral tusk]

its super weird, the zoom on the 1p59 works everywhere EXCEPT on the PKP

[random fulcrum]

same issue as what you found above

[fair canopy]

[astral tusk]

fixed it, i had to go add the value at mod_system_basdynzoom.ltx

[coral ice]

Guys, which file is responsible for editing artifacts? For example, using the organizer mod in the item_artefacts file in the compass, I tried to change some parameters, or rather minus radiation and the speed of stamina recovery, and changed the current radiation. In the item_attachments file, the current weight of the plates, for example, has changed

[slow bolt]

Wuh? Gamma has first person death already

[surreal gust]

I work around using the SDK too although it's a pain. (i know how to use it unlike the 98% of the people)

I'm going to release an update that should

Fix the low resolution in volumetric smoke

This will cause significant fps drop so I will see if I will add it as an optional feature.

[covert skiff]

I want to understand X-Ray Engine at it's depth (how the engine works on the code level, how is it architecturally built, how each component interact with each other, etc.) Do you guys know any good source for that? I tried to make a documentation with doxygen but it was still beyond my current capabilities to understand stuff. (The class diagram looked like someones nerve system lol)

[woeful rain]

go to ue5

[surreal gust]

i use the xray sdk*

[woeful rain]

in x ray, the scariest thing is the yasenev classes(alife) and lua

[surreal gust]

imagine starting doing engine edits first 💀

[woeful rain]

template in A* more logic

https://tenor.com/view/передозкринжа-кринж-cringe-gif-23318833

[surreal gust]

i did waste 3 days fixing the volumetric smoke in my level

the configs were screwing me

and also i didn't know occlusions existed until i opened up the old sdk

[covert skiff]

Well this whole C++ and LUA is a new stuff for me to discover but I think I understood it. But the general concept only, not how this is actually working in X-Ray lol I bet it's 2 different thing.

[covert skiff]

Woah that's some serious stuff

[covert skiff]

Well, I'm interested in solving the hilariously poor CPU usage so I have to dig deep. It just bugs me that much I'm willing to sacrafice hours trying to understand stuff xd. Like I bet there can be something that we can do about this. (But maybe this task is like disabling the Mirracle machine: it's a one way trip to something horrible)

https://tenor.com/view/franco-ddlj-kratos-god-of-war-ps2-fall-gif-20972964

[slow bolt]

Yeah you are not doing that

[covert skiff]

Why tho, are there any discussion, attempts or any resources for that?

[surreal gust]

Making the engine multi-threaded is very difficult

It's not easy like on other engines

openxray already has a multithreading feature but it's not fully finished YET

and it only works for DX11

[undone lily]

Just Multithread the stalker AI, easy

that's currently the biggest framerate eater

[surreal gust]

openxray already does that I think

The second reason your FPS is fucked

Is because of smart terrains

[surreal gust]

Ok finished the new update

This should fix the low resolution in the smoke

While not fucking your fps

from me it was still very smooth

I'm gonna send a video

(low fps is due to recording)

It isn't perfect but it's a lot better than pure low resolution

you can still see some low resolution spots on the box that's pretty much all

it's updated on moddb so you can get the new version

[covert skiff]

Yeah that was my thought too. Just it's a tad-bit hard and it require a very deep understanding of the workloads that the engine defines since not all and every task can or should be delegated to a separate thread. Sounds like a hell of a time lol

[covert skiff]

How so?

[surreal gust]

Smart terrains control NPC spawns

And where they stay it

It also includes which factions can stay on that specific smart terrain

And it also controls which type of NPC's spawn there too

[covert skiff]

Oh, noice, good to know

[surreal gust]

And their respawn time

[covert skiff]

Seems like a pretty sequential task.🤔

[covert skiff]

I guess this means it has an update rate and it has to update all the online territories smart terrain. Yikes

[surreal gust]

A-life doesnt spawn npcs if

you are looking at the smart terrain

or if you are nearby it

Some smart terrains don't have any respawn parameters

[covert skiff]

That's true. Would be weird if it would do so. a monolith squad pops up behind your back with exo and Gauss guns

[surreal gust]

You can look in debug mode which smart terrain has a respawn parameter

These smart terrains are dynamic

you can choose if your smart terrain has skirmish wars

[covert skiff]

This is a lot of ifs. I wonder tho where are the test cases for the C++ code. I looked at multiple repos and neither of them had any. Did GSC seriously ship the game without test cases for their engine? I'm asking only because it's easier to understand and refactor stuff if there are test cases that can indicate if I duck up something.🥹

[surreal gust]

Smart terrains use .ltx files

for their configs

In each level

[covert skiff]

Oh so ltx files are used for that. Noice, thanks

[undone lily]

Nice !

[surreal gust]

it uses gsc edge detection

with some lvutner changes

so i'll credit him

which i did

[surreal gust]

Almost every config uses .ltx files

In the entire game

[surreal gust]

This will decrease your fps but

It wont be fucked unlike rendering it at full resolution

[undone lily]

That level is so small anyway

[surreal gust]

Im gonna make my level anyway

[undone lily]

I usually get 1.6x more fps there

[surreal gust]

Which is also on moddb

But its in wip

It has its own everything

All.spawn file

There

[undone lily]

Imo huge ass maps are hard to make and also very boring to play

[surreal gust]

It isnt a very big map

I call it about average

More smart terrains should do the trick.

[undone lily]

Peak levels imo are Limansk and WT

[surreal gust]

I also thought of

Reworking agroprom

By replacing almost all of the objects with newer assets

[undone lily]

Reworking existing levels is impossible

[surreal gust]

Its possible

If you dont touch the ai map

[undone lily]

You can just change the geometry

[surreal gust]

Or the spawn files

Thats what I thought

[undone lily]

But AI will ignore the new geometry

[surreal gust]

I said replace

[undone lily]

Sounds good then

[surreal gust]

Im gonna add new geometry at the outside boundaries

Which player and ai cant access soooo

[covert skiff]

True. Zaton or Jupyter is a running course basically.

[surreal gust]

So i can add more detail and other objects at the outside boundaries

Which player and ai cant access soo

Its a win win

[covert skiff]

But there are ai map editors or they are just for the old games? Dunno

[surreal gust]

You use the SDK for that

Ai map controls where npcs can walk in each level

Technically npcs can walk through anything

Ai map is used to prevent the ai from going through walls

[covert skiff]

Yeah it's cool. But I often see they are going around objects that doesn't exists. Also, I bet this is why dynamic anomalies had to disable npcs die in anomaly

Cuz the ai map is a static thing I guess

[surreal gust]

Anomalies are spawn refrenced

They move after each emission

But they are limited to anomaly zones

Thats why dynamic anomalies exist

mod*

[covert skiff]

Ah yeah that makes sense

[surreal gust]

This logic applied since CoP

[covert skiff]

So this is where Doctor's sausage is getting smoked? Very nice mod tho, I like it.

[surreal gust]

Probably...

Did you install the new version?

I updated it an hour ago

[covert skiff]

Not yet. I think I updated 3 days ago or so

[covert skiff]

Will definitely get it

[surreal gust]

Okay

[wary scroll]

Hello hello
So this is my first try and want to know what you guys think?
Left side is adega and right side my try

I have to rework upside and giving it more different colours like left side
But horizontally and with few scratches
And turning the colours to something between cyan and yellow

[covert skiff]

Looks pretty nice I think.

[wary scroll]

Thanks

[surreal gust]

@undone lily Updated the mod AGAIN but this time I swapped out the broken GSC Game Worlds edge detection

for a better and cheaper one made by LVutner

The addon only works for DX11 now

no dx10 users

this update should give the same or better results for better performance

[hardy hound]

i thought you were g_flat

[surreal gust]

yo

i fixed your problem

the pixelation shouldn't be no more

[naive snow]

Too much noise and fine details. You'll end up seeing a repeating pattern because of it. It's important when you're texturing to have a good balance of "large", "medium" and "small" detail. The Adega one is a nice exemple. You have these big spaces empty of paint chips where you can rest your eyes. These would be "large" details, you get some medium flakes too and some smaller scratches too. Yours on the other hand is all one detail size for the most part. It's very busy. Also too bright of an image will make the lighting blast when it's gonna hit it

[wary scroll]

I see
So I have to lower the brightness and gives more cyan then adding big scratches and and lower the amount of small scratches

Thanks for info man

[regal bolt]

[regal bolt]

Hi, i want to edit the npc loadouts to balance them out and make them more logical, but i have a problem: wpn_ak74m_n:0:r what does the ":0:r" mean after the name, didnt find anything about this in the anomaly modding guide

[celest forge]

Attachment and ammo type

r:r makes them both random

[regal bolt]

got it, thanks

[fair canopy]

so what are the limits of those number?

[regal bolt]

Is there any list that shows what number/letter means what? would help

[fast plume]

Hmmm. I wonder, how much knowledge is needed to even start messing around with making mods? My knowledge about coding etc is somewhere between wet moss, and unfired clay brick. If i wanted to start making mods for stalker, how long before i would be able to bash out something serviceable? 150 hours? 300?

[regal bolt]

There is a stalker modding guide on the internet, maybe you can get an insight on modding there

[regal bolt]

Is there a place that I can read about the songs that have been added to gamma's radio and PDA. I am interested in finding some of these songs because they thump, as well as examples like "Summer Wine" and am wondering who were the artists. This is a popular song to cover and they did a decent job. - I understand that this may not be the best place to ask, but I also believe that the regulars here are more knowledgeable about these sorts of nuanced questions.

[fair inlet]

First flag adds the attachments, allegedly like this:
:2 for GL
:4 for silencer
:6 for both

Second flag just points to a respective value in weapon's ammo_class.

Third flag allows to adjust weight, by default it's 50

[vale knot]

I thought 3rd value is for adjusting spawn chance further

[random fulcrum]

that's the weight thing

it's weighted random

not weight as in physical weight

[random fulcrum]

attachment flag is
+1 for scope (it's always random)
+2 for launcher
+4 for silencer

so it can be 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

[vale knot]

Oh okay

[random fulcrum]

for nothing / scoped / launcher / scoped + launcher / suppressed / suppressed + scope / suppressed + launcher / all

[vale knot]

One thing i wanted to ask

If you choose random attatchment, is there still a chance to roll with no attachment?

[random fulcrum]

yeah it just picks whatever combination

[vale knot]

Oki

Ty

[fair inlet]

so do you know how scope flag affects scope_chance? or other way around

[random fulcrum]

not really maybe it's for when setting attachment to random?

idk

or maybe it decides if the scope actually stays on the gun when looting

haven't looked into it at all

[astral tusk]

im trying to edit npc loadouts, are "killers" supposed to be mercs?

[surreal gust]

Yes because mercenaries are killers

[astral tusk]

thanks

![monolith_master_primary]
wpn_mk47:r:r

what does the :r:r mean?

yeah im new sorry

[fair inlet]

check messages above

[celest forge]

Which is recommended btw

unless you want people hoarding a specific type fo attachment

[astral tusk]

danke

[fair inlet]

nah I wouldn't recommend random for ammo, in gamma at least

[astral tusk]

so just :r?

would that make only ammo random?

[fair inlet]

:r:0

[astral tusk]

thanks. also, i noticed that some weapons have K_hit set to, for example, 0.75 in their ltx files but when I launch gamma its set to 1.0 in debug mode. is this GBOOB's doing?

[exotic sleet]

if I want to remove something from dynamic loot pool, should I add it to the Grok`s config with the value 0? Or just remove it from config?

[astral tusk]

figured it out, it was being set by a dltx file

[wary scroll]

@naive snow sorry for ping you I can slowly feel ban cause pinging you

This is looks like this now

If it's good and acceptable then it's mean I understand the base and now I can start making other textures

I hope

Btw it's use the adega bump I don't have any idea how to do bump

[naive snow]

Christ that's yellow alright. Is that what you were going for?

[wary scroll]

I also used a reshade so that's why it's a little more colourful

But this how it's turned

From blue to yellow and now I'm gonna turn green paint walls to cyan and different scratches

[astral tusk]

this looks good?

![freedom_veteran_primary]
wpn_mk14

![freedom_master_primary]
wpn_mk14

![killer_veteran_primary]
wpn_mk14

![killer_master_primary]
wpn_mk14

![isg_veteran_primary]
wpn_mk14

![isg_master_primary]
wpn_mk14

![monolith_veteran_primary]
wpn_mk14

![monolith_master_primary]
wpn_mk14

[celest forge]

Why are you adding the MK14

[surreal gust]

Maybe as an example idk

[astral tusk]

doesnt the reanimation mod fix it

the one in ugl

*ugp

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/mk14-m14-reanimation

this one

[willow delta]

Is there a way to partially mod a weapon, for example I'm making the SR-25 support the Leupold RMR scope kit. So it looks like I have to copy the entire w_sr25.ltx file from gamma weapon pack mod into my mod to simply add some lines here and there. So I'm wondering is it possible to "dynamically" mod, where you take some ltx file as a base, and extend it a bit ?

The mod would basically be adding 2 meshes, the base one and the _hud one and just adding 1 line in scopes in the .ltx file with the required scope position and mesh definition stuff

[surreal gust]

This smoke is so realistic

I never thought it would react with grenades exploding too

It's way more realistic than CS2 smokes

[round coyote]

how do i open db0 files

[fair canopy]

Unpacker tool in base anomaly install

[round coyote]

what folder is that in?

[fair canopy]

Tools iirc

[round coyote]

theres only this in tools

wait hold on im stupid

for some reason it didnt unzip correctly when i extracted

[fair canopy]

It's in there somewhere. I don't remember

[blissful tartan]

u deserve ur nickname good sir

[sleek palm]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/dx8-lighting-improvement-version-1
Is this gamma compatible?

[round coyote]

anytime i try to import an ogf i get this error

can someone please help?

[naive snow]

You didn't set your paths in the Xray plugin options

[astral tusk]

im trying to edit 7.62x39 ammo so its not fucking terrible, ive been changing around the k_hit values in the weapon_ammo ltx file on both GBOOBs and Gamma close quarters but none of the changes are being reflected in game

is there like a dltx overwriting the damage values? or am i knocking at the wrong file

oh, is the displayed damage not reflective of actual values?

[lethal garden]

Is it possible to disable Dux Innumerable Character Kit? Ive disabling it before, but would get a CTD at times, even after starting a new game. Are there other mods I'd need to disable alongside DICK?

[surreal gust]

ok for next update

fix 2 emitters that are broken due to coc "l03u_agr_underground" geometry

by repositioning them

[naive steeple]

Anyone know how to change the length of days?

[crisp oxide]

use blender 3.6

x-ray plugins don't work on blender 4

[round coyote]

im pretty sure i set the sdk paths right since it autofilled when i put in the game data one

it might be the version of blender

[simple scaffold]

Sky box, including sun and moon are controlled by weathers. If you want the day longer and the nights shorter.

Time scale controls how fast time passes, but messing with that can break a larger number of things.

[naive steeple]

Dammit. That's a shame. Wanted a race against the clock. But aight.

[rustic echo]

Hello, I was wondering. how hard it is to mod quests? since my favourite companion is Hip, I was thinking it would be nice to add a little story to her. Since we all know that she got G-r@ped, my idea is adding her a little quest, that would be like a revenge. After she decides to stay with you, instead of looking for comfy life as a weapon dealer, we could be able to ask her for her story. Where she says what happend to her. the quest would start like this and continud by speaking to Faction leader and asking about those guys. we would then recieve a message where they are (random map place.) After eliminating them, Hip would thank us for killing them, as she was too scared to look for them, and that would be the end.

If this doesnt belong here, please tell me where to post it. THANK YOU.

[open tapir]

Hey guys is there a way to see via ogf tool the colors of the models?

[slow bolt]

You see the models how they would look in game, more or less

so what colors are you talking about

[open tapir]

The models are completely white, how do i see colors of the uniforms

[open tapir]

I'm poking my nose in the modding things

idk anything

[slow bolt]

you mean textures then

[open tapir]

yeah

[slow bolt]

You need to configre the tool to where the textures are stored

so it will pick up the textures

[open tapir]

oooooh

I have this folder of the Kvmas and Azetrix hd models called "textures" do i need to be more specific or i just need to pick with the tool this folder

[slow bolt]

easier to set up in the config file ngl

TexturesPath=D:\Games\Gamma\mods\mod\gamedata\textures
OmfEditorPath=D:\Games\Gamma\mods\mod\Tools\OMF tools\OMF_Editor.exe
ObjectEditorPath=D:\Games\Gamma\mods\mod\Tools\Object Editor\Object Editor.exe

[open tapir]

Oh, this for me is arabic but maybe i can figure it out

[slow bolt]

You can use the virtual file system with MO2 but i never needed that

[naive snow]

Just launch the tool via MO2 and assign the texture path Game MTL/FS LTX path and image Path to your Anomaly respective folders so you have complete virtualisation

[open tapir]

Thanks both of you, you are wizards for me i'll be trying

[slow bolt]

image path is just where to save the pictures you take in the tool

[naive snow]

Wondered what that was about too

[slow bolt]

also i dont even know what Game MTL even is

or FS LTX

[naive snow]

It's the compiled game material library (like grass, concrete, wood, etc) for how the lighting needs to be compiled (it this case model/models and Default should be used)
the FS LTX is a file that describes where the relative roots are for all of the folders

[slow bolt]

okay, so mtl requires decompiling. FS LTX would be just gamedata or?

ah, so that one requires unpacking too

[naive snow]

You got it at the base of Anomaly, so no unpacking necessary for FS LTX, however you'll have a lack of folder so it will kind of be useless, unless you virtualize via MO2

You can get the game MTL via the db_unpacker.bat if you dont want to use the db_unpacker_all.bat to save on space

[open tapir]

Guys i did it

[open tapir]

Doing this

didn't think was that easy

My brain just opened up to a new world

now i can see colors

[celest forge]

Anyone knows where the Hip model is located in the anomaly files?

[simple scaffold]

actors\mnp_npc_remeik\girl

[celest forge]

Thanks a lot

[open tapir]

Do you know how to modify the visual of hands?

I'm modifying the actors player models but i want to modify also the hands in first person

but where are those files

[random fulcrum]

that's funny

didn't expect hip to be just "girl"

[celest forge]

I mean she's the only one

[open tapir]

[surreal gust]

esc_m_trader is not a human

Fixing da fog volumes

Slight tweaks left

It's honestly really dense so I will decrease the density significantly

@undone lily I'm gonna push out an update

That will fix 2 broken fog emitters

due to Call of Chernobyl geometry

[undone lily]

that's really cool that you can edit the levels geometry

how big will the mod be then ? I have no clue how big are level geometry files

[surreal gust]

They aren't big

Precompiled geometry

it takes seconds to do so

You don't have to recompile the spawns for fog volumes

Also I think it's possible to enable volumetric lights on lamps by decompiling the anomaly all.spawn

I did learn that it stores light information and what type it is

And what object too!!

Keep in mind that this is for dx11 only

So if someone wants to play on dx10/dx9 or dx9 static lighting

this mod must be disabled

or disable volumetric smoke in the settings anyway...

[surreal gust]

It usually takes a couple of hours probably even a day to compile the level geometry

It depends on the build quality you use

Nowadays ditch the old shitty compiler and use the modified one that has lots of cool features to stabilize your misery when compiling a map

Adding more spawn terrains to existing levels is impossible

Because you need to insert a graph point inside the smart terrain

And graph points are stored in a .SECTIONS file

(only on decompiled spawns)

I know how to do all of this shit and even handwrite spawn sections for new level transitions for the player

It took me a couple of months to learn this

And I can't get rid of my mapping addiction lol

Also a modified 64 bit SDK is used to make my life slightly easier

I use the old SDK only for very specific situations

Since the modified SDK doesn't have all of the features that the vanilla SDK has.

You can add dynamic objects like lights, stashes anomalies and others

Without recompiling the map at all

Only recompiling the spawns

Which saves shit tons of time

[surreal gust]

level.fog_vol is only 10 kb

It depends how many fog volumes you add

[round coyote]

is it possible to export whole levels into blender

import with xray plugin*

[surreal gust]

You have to decompile the level assets

It's not worth doing so

You won't have access to everything that anomaly maps are made of

The developers don't have the file sources for lots of levels

[rough lion]

Use them how? My modding knowledge is very limited 😄

[surreal gust]

It doesn't work for anomaly

Because opening up that .tga file

it's going to be messy

[rough lion]

I see

[surreal gust]

Currently i'm fixing the third fog emitter

by repositioning it

[rough lion]

The pda textures originate from Call of Chernobyl, right?

[surreal gust]

yes

or call of cocks

however you wanna call it

[rough lion]

And would it be possible to take high resolution pictures of the maps?

[surreal gust]

I don't know

I relatively have a low resolution monitor

So I can't tell ya

Fog emitter 3 is the bane of my existence

For the fog emitter 4

I might rework it because the area for it has been changed

Or delete it idk

@undone lily do you like this result?

this emitter has been a bane of my existence

i will decrease the radius more so that this emitter covers this open entrace

and make the occlusions thicker

i deserve alpha modder role for knowing all of this shit

why the fuck are they using occlusions to block the smoke going through the static geometry

they could have just made the smoke to read the level.cform file

I think i'm going to leave the fourth emitter for tomorrow

I thought this would have been easy

but I was wrong

[surreal gust]

Fuck it. I will just leave it as it was in the first image

[undone lily]

Alpha modder roles is mainly for people that released outstanding addons or stalker mods recognised by the community

[surreal gust]

I see.

This fog emitter is the bane of my existence

I wasted 2 hours on this fucking shit for very little "improvement"

[surreal gust]

I'm going to fix the occlusions and i'm not going to touch it anymore

it's so broken

one mistake and you're fucked

You can configure it further if you want

it could be due to that shader

that changes the smoke a lil bit

not the edge detection one

Do you like this result?

This is probably the best I could do without fucking the occlusions