╙🖇mods-making-discussion

[surreal gust]

I think I can modify them better using positions instead of occlusions

hopefully this wasn't a waste of time

[lethal garden]

Is it possible to disable DUX Inumerable Character Kit? Would I have to disable any other mods?

[surreal gust]

I'm gonna delay this update till tomorrow

This fog emitter made me want to kill myself because of it

[supple stone]

how can i tell what Anomaly Fields these LTXs go to?

[random fulcrum]

maybe open them?

[supple stone]

could work by guessing based off things like "mine_thermal" or the artefact classes, but this wont work for areas with multiple fields of duplicate type

Could set the artefact spwans to something super noticable like the furthest north class and see which field starts spawning Full empty's but thats would take awhile for every field

[idle stone]

How to make HUD food and drink icons more telling?

[lethal garden]

I disabled Particles Cinematic since it was a drain on my FPS. But now that its disabled, I get this terrible blood splatter upon headshotting any stalker. Ive unpacked all Anomaly files to see maybe if there was something I could do. Anybody know if its possible I could change this?

[random fulcrum]

grok_bo

.script

[lethal garden]

I fixed it by disabling Close Quarters Combat. But then got a crash referring to Stalker_Bandit_Berill_nohelm, so I replaced that with a working section.

But what could I edit in grok_bo script? So i can avoid disabling CQC

[random fulcrum]

no dude

enable that thing

gamma practically relies on that being on

just edit the script

go near the bottom

delete lines 864 - 869

that effect only looks good in some particle mods

[lethal garden]

Okay I see! Thanks for clarifying dude!

[celest forge]

Why is that within the ballistics scripts doe

[random fulcrum]

i added that one way back in the day

also like it's there because gbo is hyper inflexible

so everything you want to go on during damage MUST be inside grok_bo

otherwise it's not working at all

that was added before i figured out how to play particles with proper positioning and angles

as to why is it still there then idk

[surreal gust]

i like how my mod has perfect 10/10 rating

i thought it was gonna be like 7 or 8

is that rare or something?

[slow bolt]

people like smoke?

[lethal garden]

All the work paid off. Im finally able to enjoy gameplay. Its not often you find a game that you can configure nearly every aspect of.

[surreal gust]

yeah

no hate comment or anything similar

[slow bolt]

I can do that if you want

[surreal gust]

no

i think its possible to add more lights

decompiled all.spawn

light information this section is long af

direction is rotation

the position values are there too

light types too

so if you want to do the advanced way of adding lights without scripts i guess this will work out too

all.spawn pretty much stores information for every spawn object

including stashes too

[slow bolt]

yeah but compatibility is bad

[surreal gust]

it controls what object is the light too

i still havent tried this yet

i might try it sometime soon in the cordon at rookie village to see

if this works at all.

the id values are going to be a bit tricky but it should work if everything was correct

(this is all xray boomer mapper knowledge)

[arctic relic]

Anyone know of any unarmed hand animations? Would be nice to have something like the gunslinger bolt sprint animations.

[fair canopy]

Best bet would be to port over the gunslinger animations

Alright I'm going crazy but I know I saw it. I'm looking for a mod that removes the in between animation in Mags when reloading without a mag in the load out

[solid zephyr]

yo can someone tell me if i can edit beef's nvg overlay with little to no modding experience in stalker?

[slow bolt]

any experience coding? Because if i got you right you will need to edit shaders

and sane people dont want to touch that

[surreal gust]

Its easier for me to handwrite spawn sections than to code

[solid zephyr]

some, and just to be clear i want to edit just the shape of it

and the colors maybe

[slow bolt]

shape of the black imitation of the goggles?

[solid zephyr]

exactly

[slow bolt]

Well it aint got textures, so good luck editing shaders

Search beef's messages. I remember someone asking him how to

[solid zephyr]

alr thanks for help

[solid zephyr]

oh god i understand now. It's made with mathematical functions

[rough lion]

What do you guys use for unpacking\repacking .db files? It's been a long while the last time i modded anything

[slow bolt]

The unpacker for unpacking

bet it can also pack too

[fair canopy]

Does anyone know much about creating upgrade trees? I tried to make one but I keep getting a crash

[rough lion]

Where exacty do i download that one?

[fair canopy]

It comes in your default anomaly install

[severe plover]

is there anyone knows how to edit br class of an outfit

cuz editing outfit.ltx does not work for br class

[random fulcrum]

change hit_fraction_actor

[sleek palm]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/dx8-lighting-improvement-version-1
Is this useful for gamma or no?

[surreal gust]

bro dx8 is just dx9 but static lighting

i dont know what does this mod change

probably dx8 binary files but idk

[surreal gust]

@undone lily

Do you like this?

I moved the center smoke left so that it appears it's running out of smoke

I previously put it at center but I ran into technical difficulties so i chose this way instead

This update will fix the third fog emitter

And the fourth fog emitter will be custom made

Because the original fourth fog emitter had a section for it

but due to coc geometry

that section no longer exists

Final result

Published the update

Decreasing the fog density allows you to through the fog which I don't want

The .ltx files control everything about them

So you can configure them if you want

flow speed

flow direction

whatever you want

it's not tied to the level editor at all

except the fog volume part itself

and the geometry occlusions

[astral tusk]

So ive been having a sneaking suspicion that KVMAS causes isg outfits to not drop and lo and behold I have proof

Most ISG NPC models are missing in the death_outfits file, meaning they can't drop armor no matter hard you try because the game doesnt know what to drop for them.

i will assign armor drops to all the missing visual models in death_outfits and see if it fixes it

[covert skiff]

How do you guys debug LUA errors? I'm getting lost with that warfare creash I'm having, looks like my last attempt didn't solve the issue.

[glacial dove]

is it possible to reload ltx while ingame? or do you have to restart everytime?

[mystic fiber]

printf is our everything

[covert skiff]

https://tenor.com/view/dang-damn-really-shocked-shookt-gif-17392648

[naive snow]

F7 > numpad 0 > F5

[covert skiff]

I ended up doing it too

[mystic fiber]

And callstack() was very useful sometimes to see what calls what

[glacial dove]

my man

[covert skiff]

Noted, thank you. Btw, can we call this a solution or it's just hiding an erro under the carpet?
`local status, err = pcall(function()
local squadCount, squadPowers = squad_count_defending_all(smart)
end)

if not status then
    printf("An error occurred: ".. err)
end`

I didn't see the error message anywhere, but it must have happened since before it was crashing with a nil error.

[mystic fiber]

Yeah, I would say that this is hiding an error if you do not know the exact reason of a crash and that it can be ignored without introducing some other bugs silently.

[covert skiff]

What I noticed was that there were an increased number of logs on the debug menu like: fixing IS. By default there are many messages like this but it thre were definitely more when I applied this stuff.

So my suspicion is that squads are disappearing, at least their Ids are missing from a common table. and when the fix doesn't help, the error occurs. But that's just an assumption. Idk if Vintar is still in the community and maybe here, I saw that the script is his work. (not necessarily the scripts fault that this happens, I mostly think this is not the scripts fault.)

[modest silo]

can anyone send me the Aryan Reposition Glowsitck mod or file?

[rough lion]

oh wow this looks great https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/parallax-reflex-sights

[gritty raptor]

thats already in gamma, isnt it?

[rough lion]

I don't know it's just released yesterday

[regal bolt]

This is just in #📎mods-added-for-next-build , the build will be who knows when

[rough lion]

oh i haven't even checked

[regal bolt]

A lot of mods from that channel are not in gamma, yet, though, they have been announced there months ago

[slow bolt]

This one is simple, so should be added fast

[crimson pawn]

The addon is indeed simple, one smol issue

BaS is not compatible with it out of the box

[slow bolt]

ah, i see

[regal bolt]

Even if it would have been, when do you think will be the next update?

https://tenor.com/view/druski-gif-23886381

[slow bolt]

Iterative updates happen whenever grok wants

like the christmas one

I loved it as i saw people mald and cry over better FDDA animations. That is too funny

[regal bolt]

Update, when?

Cause oh boy, Lizzardman cooked

[slow bolt]

When my exams end, so soon™️

[regal bolt]

[slow bolt]

If ya havent seen: #883097205710389288 message

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/883097205710389288/1203948152244150282/preview_ingame.mp4?ex=65d2f317&is=65c07e17&hm=3750f4038e2c0842068ba64ef8b36ada937dcd809791000f281cef300d4f87fc&

[undone lily]

no

[undone lily]

I feel like this can quickly get annoying . But you don't change armors super often so that's fine. I guess having an option to only do this the first time you equip a given armor could be nice, like what the doom inspection mod does for guns

[glacial dove]

how do I realign the scope after adjusting the hud on a scoped weapon? the actor just goes into free zoom afterwards basically

[uneven plover]

Alright people i want to get into stalker gun modding, SPECIFICALLY gamma/anomaly only
does anyone have a simple guide? tips? literally anything im going in blind
im assuming its not easy

[celest forge]

There was a video made by a modder but he seems to have made it private

Otherwise, there's not much available

[uneven plover]

alright this is gonna be agony

[celest forge]

Welcome to stalker modding

[uneven plover]

thank you brother

[slow bolt]

Lunatic's video is a good one. But i cant find it

It was posted dozens of times

[celest forge]

That's what I'm refering to

but the one link I found is privated

so

[slow bolt]

it wasnt private some days ago

[uneven plover]

he probably removed it so moddb doesnt get spammed by mods made by 12 year old russian kids stealing guns from some random game like contract wars and porting it to anomaly and making it absolute dogshit copatibility with other mods

[celest forge]

CWWP is a thing

So yeah

Although that aint gonna be dogshit

[uneven plover]

it is?

[celest forge]

It's been in development for quite a while

[uneven plover]

let me guess: 3 years?

[celest forge]

Something like that

although more people have made dogshit ports of CW models like the pistols (i'm people)

[uneven plover]

LMAO

[celest forge]

Well I didn't make the ports perse

But I made them better than the original port

[lethal garden]

OCW pistol pack is the shit.

[covert skiff]

Anyone know what this means?

Like, what is squad IS guard

[surreal gust]

its their job

it can be for example

squad IS sitting

currently they are guarding that smart terrain

[lethal garden]

Is it possible to remove this public bed thats here at the Duty Mechanic? Wanting to build my hideout here, but the sleep prompt is constant within like 20 feet of this thing

[covert skiff]

So fixing doesn't indicate here that there is a problem with it but rather like, changing the job? Wow that explains things

[surreal gust]

Yes

[solar dove]

Anyone know where I can get the PDA sound files? looking to make a meme mod to replace the PDA notifications with UwU~

[surreal gust]

unpack the gamedata sounds.db file

inside anomaly directory

they are located in a db folder

[glacial dove]

hi, I'm trying to add the c-more scope to the mp5sd in blender but am not sure how to merge the two after aligninig the scope. this is how far I've come. dragging the scope into the weapon collection doesnt seem to work

[chrome elm]

@glacial dove never worked with the weapons before but try left click the scope mesh, then SHIFT left click the mp5 mesh and press control J to join

[naive snow]

You need to join them, just like Rise just said. That will bring your mesh under the weapon object. You then need to add an Armature modifier to the mesh you just joined, select the object as the parent armature and paint the weights of the scope mesh to the WPN_Body bone

[lethal garden]

Is it possible to prevent unequipped magazines from appearing at the top of the inventory? Theyre obstructing my access to favorited items, help is appreciated

If theres an LTX or script Id need to edit, im fine with that.

[naive snow]

Just check your MCM under Magazines

[rotund smelt]

Does anyone know how i can revert the grenade patch recently done? i want grenades to spawn normally like they used too instead of teleporting out of the inventory of dead stalkers i loot

[random fulcrum]

recently lmao

open haru_skills.script and remove the grenade_f1 condition from line 362

that's it

mind you f1s are also the worst grenade type in the game

[rotund smelt]

I didnt know that, i should remove all grenades then or? I edited it out but left the rest of the line, only removed Grenade_f1. I also searched in the .txt other grenades but didnt see any. thanks for the assistance

[random fulcrum]

it's the only one that gets deleted

i mean

ALWAYS deleted

hold on

could also, instead of deleting that, change it into a more complex conditional

think

nevermind

[surreal gust]

ayo tf

moddb is broken again

nvm

[soft patio]

hey im trying to make the winchester an available loadout option in EFP like it is in GAMMA, anyone know how to get or replicate the injector script for it?

[sacred token]

Do you mean when starting a new game?

[soft patio]

yea

bear in mind this is 4.2 EFP so it's not using the vanilla point system for new game loadouts like GAMMA is

[sacred token]

Oh

I have no clue how it works for EFP if it's different

Which winchester?

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/winchester-1886-and-marlin-dark-tracker-lever-action-rifles this one?

@soft patio

[soft patio]

yeah that one

it already has files to be available in enemy lootpools and traders

[sacred token]

So only the winchester?

[soft patio]

i only have interest in adding the winchester as a starting weapon option

[sacred token]

How many points do you think is balanced?

[soft patio]

well given how EFP sets the Vepr hunter which uses the same ammo at 6 points

I'd say 5-6?

[slow bolt]

Its better than hunter, so more points ngl

Hunter uses small mags. This doesnt need any

[sacred token]

I made it DLTX it's pretty forward to edit. Test if it works. I am a goner now

[soft patio]

aight

[soft patio]

that's true but it also needs to be "racked" for every shot unlike the Vepr

at least imo having semi auto/auto is better in a gunfight than a bolt/lever action rifle

[slow bolt]

... so?

Its 7.62x51

I would pick this over hunter any day

Because you dont need to deal with mags

[soft patio]

i guess i'll change it to 7 then

actually i also added the tommy gun into the game but it also uses the vanilla points

not sure where im supposed to change it in which script

it has its own injector for starter loadouts

[soft patio]

yup it works

[sacred token]

[celest forge]

PUT THE MARLIN IN THE STARTER LOADOUT YOU PUSSY 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

jk glad you like em

[uneven plover]

efp loadout system is odd ngl

its like pick a mag gun and you have to waste 6 points for basic ammo MINIMUM

[soft patio]

You pick a gun and the game spawns you with 2 empty mags and some ammo for it

anyways i'm also using the New Remmington mods

does GAMMA also use AICS and McMillan remmingtons?

[lethal garden]

Is it possible to remove this public bed thats here at the Duty Mechanic? Wanting to build my hideout here, but the sleep prompt is constant within like 20 feet of this thing

[slow bolt]

tldr:no

[lethal garden]

Thanks for answering

Now, Can I develop a mod that makes me have to shit and piss?

So I can use the toilet paper provided by western goods

pls pls say yes

[slow bolt]

Sure you can, easy

[lethal garden]

Nice, thanks

[lethal garden]

Anyone know how to disable the idle weapon inspection animation? Occurs once you're idle after a few seconds.

Pain in the ass when im trying to edit weapon hud positions

[fair inlet]

try adding the anim to hud editor blacklist

[lethal garden]

Sweet, thanks man!!

[simple scaffold]

what script is messing with the level transitions?

[open tapir]

I write this also in this channel maybe you can help me

@everyone Hello guys, I've been modifying this line of texts in the kvmas and azetrix folders for getting the player models i want. I changed "actor_visual" for the model in third player and "player_hud_section" for the hands but i can't understand which line i need to modify for the rest of the body. Because It's kinda strange that it doesn't correspond to the model i have in third person, maybe is just a limitation but if anybody is able to help me I'll be glad!

[naive snow]

Have a lookt at
236- 1st Person Visible Body Ported from SWM - Wang_Laoshi & SWM Team
That's where the body and legs are coming from

[open tapir]

that's all vanilla textures right?

ooooh there is hd also

[open tapir]

thank you man!

[lethal garden]

Ive got meds dropping on zombies and some other mutants, probably ZCP. Can I disable mutants dropping meds, while keeping meds on stalkers?

[vale knot]

You mean like what makes the transitions auto activate?

[simple scaffold]

Yeah

[vale knot]

Theres an addon in the list for it. I wish i could find it for you but i have no pc

I think its maybe instant level transitions?

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/transition-between-locations-without-confirmation

This one @simple scaffold

[rustic echo]

guys, is there some mod, to add SMGs like vector, UMP45 etc. to pistol slots?

[random fulcrum]

like a hundred

[fair canopy]

is there a way to play a scriped silenced shot?

[rustic echo]

and where? I cant find any. only to be able to put P90, MP7 etc. which is useless, as it is already in gamma

[random fulcrum]

i can think of leaving the silenced sound blank in the gun's ltx

and then play the sound with the on before fire callback

[fair canopy]

Hmm. Could a sound be scripted to not play if a silencer is on a gun?

[random fulcrum]

yeah using the same approach

[fair canopy]

Well at least it can be done. No idea how I'd start doing that though

[soft burrow]

you know what would be cool

if AP ammo penetrated metallic cover

[lethal garden]

Working on custom icons! What do yall think? The helmets I mean.

[soft burrow]

sadly I don't see any code about bullet-terrain penetration

must be all in the engine

[jovial kelp]

Wow, those are cool

[random fulcrum]

it can

but not in gamma because ap was scaled 10x down

[lethal garden]

Thoughts? Yall think this icon style is worthy of an Icon Pack?

I wish someone would create a suppresion mechanic for GAMMA

[random fulcrum]

just restore ammo ap to the original values

that's it

[lethal garden]

Can someone inform me on how to add outfits to NPC loadouts? So theyll drop in game

[surreal gust]

dead and mid game

[fair canopy]

do not overwrite that file. make a new dds with your icons and dltx them in

[simple scaffold]

death_outfits.ltx controls what armors drop from what NPC.

There is a setting in the base game options under difficulty that controls if and when outfits can drop.

Assuming that gamma hasn't mucked with it.

[lethal garden]

Alright this is gonna sound wild. Ive downloaded PROVAKS, and im attempting to pull certain weapons from the pack and integrate them into GAMMA.

How its going so far

Alright, anyone know the deal whats going on here in the pic above? Missing an animation? Isnt conflicting with anything.

[random fulcrum]

it's missing animations

[lethal garden]

Alright, so, what exactly should I be looking for? Tried moving some random files I spotted in the original Provak folder that seemed that they may contain the animations. Didnt work. CTD about "cant find varianle 'actor_hud_05'"

Appreciate the help, you dont have to assist me if you arent willing, thats cool.

[lethal garden]

Ive made backups of every texture file I edit, my icons are heavily customized man, I spend a shit ton of time messing around with everything I can.

[naive snow]

Your best bet is opening both the ltx and the .ogf hud model of the gun, finding the right motion file (.omf) and cross checking everything is in the right folders/in your custom mod/whatever

[lethal garden]

Requires blender right? Not much experienced with blender.

[naive snow]

There's some ogf editor and omf editors too

[lethal garden]

trying to pull 1 gun at the time from provaks. Got every corresponding file for the mx4 that Im aware of in the correct paths and folders. Not quite successful yet. So ill have to dabble into some editors, try to work it out.

[naive snow]

If you pull the right hand animation and the right weapon animation as written in the ltx you should be fine without an editor I reckon

[lethal garden]

If you get the time, and are willing to look. Could you check this weapon ltx out? See if you could point out any significant parts that Id need to look for. If not, dont worry.

A bit unneccessary I know.

[naive snow]

You'll need all of these:

anm_show = kyky_mx4_draw
anm_hide = kyky_mx4_holster
anm_idle = kyky_mx4_idle
anm_idle_sprint = kyky_mx4_idle_sprint
anm_idle_moving = kyky_mx4_idle_move
anm_shots = kyky_mx4_shoot, shoot
anm_reload = kyky_mx4_reload, reload
anm_idle_aim = kyky_mx4_idle_aim, idle
anm_bore = kyky_mx4_zatychka

plus the hand hud animation which is only referenced in the OGF

Send it over and I'll tell you which one

[lethal garden]

This is all you need?

[lethal garden]

Sweet, thanks!

While you were doing that, I moved all the files within hud_anims and hud_hands_anims, fixed it, got a missing texture for hands. But I see now what I must do! Thanks for the help man!!

[lethal garden]

That gun is ass, its only got the AC red dot on it?? insane man, at least it should have iron sights, ruined. Provak isnt great lol

[random fulcrum]

man's just found the americas

but like yeah the irons are on the model

it's as simple as removing the red dot

and then if you want to go the extra mile

add support for bas scopes

[lethal garden]

I have 0 experience editing models.

[random fulcrum]

trust me that it's childs' play to do so

[lethal garden]

Itd be fucking nice if it took BAS scopes.

[random fulcrum]

the mismatch in artstyle and polycount would make it unusable for me but you do you

more power to you

[lethal garden]

I really need to learn editting models. But dude, thatd just be more and more time that I already spend

[random fulcrum]

really, if all you want is to make xyz gun take bas scopes it's braindead easy

couldn't do a quick tutorial now because i don't have blender on my rig right now

[lethal garden]

The problem I had starting with blender, I gave up on figuring out how to import ogf files and such.

Its cool, I can look elsewhere for a tutorial.

[random fulcrum]

tutorials are aplenty

have you looked in the modding book?

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

[lethal garden]

Ill take a look at it. Completely forgot about it!

Another inquiry, do you know what happened to the old MP7 model that GAMMA used in its last versions? It took BAS scopes, had a laser module. I prefer it over the newest reanimation theyve included in GAMMA.

I can find the MP7 Replacement and reanimation mod that contains that exact model, but it only accepts vanilla scopes.

Id love to find someone that has the old GAMMA version of large files or whatever may contain this weapons files

[naive snow]

GAMMA large file is public Github, you can just fetch the proper revision you want

[lethal garden]

Oh okay really now. I remember once I looked on Github, couldnt manage my way around to find the previous versions, Ill take a look again. Thanks

[celest forge]

What do the anims look like for this

[lethal garden]

Eh, in my opinion, not too bad, but not great. Need me to send you any files? You should make a Berretta Storm carbine.

[celest forge]

Oh I was just asking

I have no interest in playing with Provaks stuff

[lethal garden]

Okay, so now that Ive pulled some weapons from Provacs pack, some of them take attachments (scopes, silencers) but none of the attachments I already have in game are compatible with the provac weapons.

Provacs provided its own Weapon Addon ltx and stuff, is there any way I can make the guns accept the attachments I already have in-game? They mostly are named the same thing, no difference that I noticed.

[celest forge]

Those are from the old BaS version

Some names are different

check if the "scopes" section of the guns actually have those sections listed

[random fulcrum]

yo juan

do you know about a weapon pack that had a baseball bat melee weapon

i really don't know if i dreamt it or it's just either too hard to look for

or lost media

it was some turbo vasyan shit

but it had the bat

[celest forge]

In anomaly?

No clue

I've never seen anything like that

However you could reuse the axe animations for that, right?

A melee weapon port is probably stupid easy to make

[random fulcrum]

yeah that's defo doable

damn did i really just dreamt it up

[celest forge]

Weon is having fever dreams about stalker soup

[fair inlet]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/pack-of-new-devices-for-anomaly-151/

[glad topaz]

@wary scroll https://www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl/downloads/cocs-sdk-scene-update

[wary scroll]

Thanks man

[glad topaz]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kjlH4PB--MBmit_MnhLZO-ZQwxzLkBlX/view

[glad topaz]

Some of the trees that I use are here

[halcyon plover]

anybody know how to disable fuel consumption on those tiny gas lamps in hideout furniture

[regal bolt]

Is there even any point in gamma's modlist to keep redundant mods?

[slow bolt]

no

I deleted all useless ones

[regal bolt]

[regal bolt]

did anyone see the new nvidia ai texture and raytracing software i think it would work extremely good on stalker gamma like update the textures and lighting. i think it got released 2 weeks ago

[glad topaz]

)

[wary scroll]

[naive snow]

RT remix is not compatible with the stalker rendering pipeline

[tawny stream]

I had thought this, but had not done the reseach.

[naive snow]

Afaik it only works in fixed functions rendering pipelines (so old ass games, pre-shaders)

[surreal gust]

Pripyat from cop?

I should really rework agroprom

It sounds a lot of fun

[glad topaz]

Yes

[surreal gust]

Okay. Did you port the trees from metro to stalker yet?

[glad topaz]

No

[glad topaz]

I'm still too lazy

[surreal gust]

It's fine i'm working on the geometry occlusions for my terrain anyway

[glad topaz]

Cool

I worki....
Im lazy

[surreal gust]

I made these occlusions a couple days ago but I realized that you...

have to put these on the center of your hills

[glad topaz]

and it’s better to do the same for fences and buildings

[surreal gust]

ik but i dont want to do that yet

i want to see if this will give me an fps boost

[woeful rain]

it's me

[surreal gust]

this is my occ so far

[regal bolt]

Hey guys I’m using the smaller bush mod, it works but the branches stick out because it’s too big compared to bush textures. Where would I find the ogf file of the branches and how should I go about reducing the size?

Spend a while looking for it, no luck

[nimble scaffold]

How to I add something to the game instead of replacing a texture or something. For example, a model from blender.

[elfin mason]

Check the channel pins

[naive snow]

Depending on the type of model you want to add you create an ogf file, add it in the proper folder, create a DLTX or an LTX to add it in

[steady venture]

what is the main difference between meshes of weapons in anomaly_weapons and dynamics/weapons?

[lethal garden]

So, Ive got two Scorpion Evo mods, both of which I wish to include in the game. Both are named the same, so I changed the section names in the others LTX. But when I use the seperate Scorpion, the correct model isnt displayed, instead its the other Scorpions model that displays.

So, I figured Id need to rename the OGFs and replace the lines in the ltx. Could someone guide me on wether this is correct? Or what sections I need to change to get the correct model? Thank you

[celest forge]

Imo it would be easy to rename the main folder that the OGF files are stored in rather than each individual mesh file

So anomaly_weapons/scorpion/scorpion.ogf and anomaly_weapons/scorpion_b/scorpion.ogf wouldn't conflict

[lethal garden]

Ah I see! Thanks dude

[lethal garden]

Im having a time finding the old GAMMA large files on Github, can you possible provide some clarity?

[naive snow]

https://github.com/Grokitach/gamma_large_files_v2

[lethal garden]

Thanks dude! Sorry, I know its late.

[narrow stirrup]

how can i attach an specific sound to a magcheck animation from a specific weapon? i try to find the snd related line to the magcheck animation on the weapon ltx but didn't find it

[naive snow]

You could probably check a weapon that already has a mag check with sound and copy the ltx settings from there

[fair canopy]

Anyone have the link to groks dds export tool?

[naive snow]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y9ld8gaGTxVr8flGRvd5eTzvTS2kOpbb/view?usp=drivesdk

Did you mean the converter?

[fair canopy]

I'm not sure. I was reading through some old stuff on dds and at some point groks exporter came up

[naive snow]

This converts files to DDS BC3, with the kaiser mip map filtering

Just be aware that it doesn't do sRGB or _bump differentiation

[severe plover]

hey guys I have really cool simple ideas to make gamma better but i dont know anything about modding where can i learn modding

[naive snow]

Check the pins

[fair canopy]

so this is for diffs?

[naive snow]

You can do both with it. It looks up anything that's in the same folder as it

[fair canopy]

ahh ok

actually burn if you have a minute maybe you can help me with a small problem I'm having

[naive snow]

I have a version that run's through everything and then does a second pass for _bump

[naive snow]

Sure, what's up?

[fair canopy]

so im remaking my ammo icons in PS. my original ones were made in paint.net and didn't have that white outline however these do and i cant figure out how to fix it

[naive snow]

You need to use a dilatation filter in your RGB

Your alpha channel is cutting up the exported white background pixel probably

[fair canopy]

how do i do that?

[celest forge]

[naive snow]

Go your alpha channel, hide the RGB, CTRL +A to select everything, CTRL+C. Create a mask for your icon, paste the alpha channel as the new layer mask (you can do all of this on a group instead). Right click and apply Mask so it actually cuts out to transparent. Then with something like xNormal or any photoshop filter that does dilatation, use that on your a flatten copy of your icons

[fair canopy]

here?

[naive snow]

If you already have a pre-multiplied alpha you can skip straight to the dilatation filter step

[celest forge]

https://tenor.com/view/jfk-clone-high-i-like-your-funny-words-magic-man-jack-black-gif-18659433

[naive snow]

You can go to your Layer > Layer Mask > From Transparency. If you toggle off the mask you should see your background as white

[fair canopy]

that doesnt look right

[naive snow]

Yeah see that's where the white comes from

Here's my dilation filter

[celest forge]

What filters add dilation tho

from the photoshop ones

[naive snow]

None that I'm aware of. You can do a gaussian blur with enough radius, on a copy of your layer, put it underneath it all to act as background alternatively

[fair canopy]

That's what I had been doing previously

It didn't seem to work this time

[naive snow]

You need to gaussian blur with a combined black background for the gaussian method to work proper

But honestly I hate it, because it introduced a small halo

[fair canopy]

ok so this is the correct alpha now?

[naive snow]

Avoid half tones for transparency sake

[fair canopy]

and now i make this into a new mask?

[naive snow]

Like on your powder canister

unless those are meant to be half transparent^

[fair canopy]

Yeah those are as is

[naive snow]

Did you dilate the RGB or the alpha?

[fair canopy]

Uhhh

I don't think I did

[naive snow]

Your alpha should look a little something like this

The RGB is dilated to cover more than the alpha cuts out

[naive snow]

Yeah you need the dilation

[fair canopy]

Sorry I'm like working from 0 experience on ps

So I have to pass it through a dilation filter?

[naive snow]

Yeah

You can grab the one I sent, just drop it in your Plug-in folder and restart photoshop

What it does is extend the last color pixel up to whatever you set it to and until it meets another pixel. "Dilatation" of the pixel border

[fair canopy]

now we look like this

[naive snow]

Yeah that looks good. Load it up in the nvidia dds exporter and check the color only view

It should appear proper

[naive snow]

How's it looking in game?

[random fulcrum]

you know

[fair canopy]

I'm about to see

I've never seen icons like that

[random fulcrum]

i think people should be moving away from putting item tags to their icons

because there are mods that dynamically add them

that are basically featured everywhere

[fair canopy]

lmao

[celest forge]

Now you get black outline AND white outline

biutiful

[fair canopy]

[naive snow]

Wait how the fuck did you export your alpha?

[naive snow]

What even is this exporter?

[fair canopy]

The Nvidia dds plugin

[naive snow]

Wut, mine looks like this

[fair canopy]

Wut

The hell do I have then? Lmao

[naive snow]

I think you have an old ass version

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

Grab the Adobe Photoshop Plugin from here

Here's my installer straight up

and this is the settings you should use

Photoshop has a tendency to write white where transparent pixels are as you an see here

[fair canopy]

where do i find that option now?

[naive snow]

It's not an option, it's just how photoshop is with transparency

[fair canopy]

no no i mean to export

[naive snow]

You just hit Save As

Pick the format DDS

it will bring up the export window

[fair canopy]

AH

OK now I think I've got it. Loading up

[naive snow]

Also if you want to avoid white in the future, having a black background is a safe bet:
Photoshop will always cut out using the alpha channel if it is present, so you don't need double transparency

I personnaly prefer the dilation method because instead of getting a black outline, you get an "outline" of the right pixel color instead. It's pretty common game dev practice albeit a bit lost to time now

[fair canopy]

awesome! thanks a lot burn. i really appreciate the time

i gotta clean them up a bit

[naive snow]

Happy to help, looks good

[naive snow]

One thing, you might want to use a bigger font or something akin to the one used for parts, lisibility is a bit hard right now with the small font and green

[fair canopy]

I kept the original font the icons had on them but I was considering doing a nameless icons as well after what momo said

I'll have to figure out the font a little later

[low spindle]

Hello, How do i restore the "muffled" status when wearing gasmasks?

I have found the script responsible for managing the voiced actor -
AGDD_voiced_actor.script

I have modified line 51

muffle = "m_"

by

muffle = ""```
by returning the m_

and restored line 451
```RegisterScriptCallback( "actor_on_update", get_muffle_status)```

yet it still does not fetch the muffled sounds (which are present in gamma and in the correct folder)

Thoughts?

the path to the afformentioned script is ``G.A.M.M.A. Voiced Actor\gamedata\scripts``

and yes im aware why they are disabled for vanilla gamma, im brewing something

[fair canopy]

i would try finding the original mod on moddb and checking what the script looks like in that

[low spindle]

I DID

sorry didnt mean caps

lmao

i compared the scripts and thats how i came to the conclusion those 2 lines are essential

thats why when it didnt work i was so sad

[fair canopy]

thats the latest script in the series?

did you load in the mod to see if it worked with it at the end of the load order?

[low spindle]

no actually i didnt think to. often times with gamma grok has layered so many mods that the original is actually incompatible with the build as a whole lol
let me give it a shot

INTERESTING

it plays both now 😳

thoughts?

[fair canopy]

you have two sound layers going on?

[low spindle]

sort of,

so it first plays the GAMMA audio sting for pain (plain voice regardless of helmet)
then it plays the moddb voiced actor sting for pain (muffled as i am wearing a helmet)

whats interesting is they arent overlapping/clipping; there is a "delay" that plays the second one when the first has finished, though that could just be coincidence

almost like there is 2 seperate scripts for managing these sounds - which may be the case actually

[fair canopy]

yeah thas what i was thinking

i would figure out which script it is for gamma and make an empty one in the new mod, then make all edits in the new mod

[low spindle]

oh god......there are so many more scripts than i thought

im going to use notpad++ to search in all folders for the line "pain_8" or "pain_8.ogg" within text files as that is the most common audio sting i hear in vanilla gamma 🤞

[halcyon plover]

Does anyone believe it to be possible for the placeable campfire mod to be modified so burers don’t slam that shit around and ruin it?

[low spindle]

I think i found it;
C:\GAMMA\mods\G.A.M.M.A. Cooking Overhaul\gamedata\configs\plugins\actor_effects.ltx
line 151 has references to the pain_ sounds that i was continuing to hear.

Since they are pulled from a config file, i cant write an if/then statement for a status check for a helmet to enable muffled breathing.

[civic finch]

guys, do world models of gun now use somekind of separated texture file?

[celest forge]

No, they use the same

for most, anyways

some people like to do a compressed texture for the world model but not many bother

[civic finch]

Hmmm strange, I edit the horrible yellow wood texture of the VSS, first person model looks fine, but if a NPC carries it, it shows the old yellow wood.

Didn't Grok implement somekind of ai optimization for models to improve performance recently?

[celest forge]

Oh yeah I think Burns made those have their own texture

@naive snow enlighten us

[naive snow]

Yeah world models have their own baked down textures

You can find the texture with _World suffix

[civic finch]

THANKS! that sure is the problem.

Dude... what the fuck is this

It's a nightmare!

[celest forge]

biblically accurate weapon texture

I'm guessing burn re-baked the UV mapping for the world models

so makes sense it's different

but DAMN WHAT THE FUCK

[naive snow]

Blame it on the shitty UV. Just use the color select to pick it all up in a selection

[civic finch]

Sigh... guess I'm gonna need to bother Grok again, I don't know how to use that ai thing.

[civic finch]

Well, technically I barely edited the color... so that may be work.

[lethal garden]

Juan. Is this still around? Particularily interested in the rifle below the golden AK and the pistol with the stock at the top right.

[naive snow]

The yellow color is so strong you can just pick the yellow with a low threshold and you'll get a nice selection. Apply your Saturation/color balance according to that mask

[celest forge]

Oh those are mostly scrapped/prototype guns

The ones you mentioned are indeed scrapped

That screenshot is oooooooooooooooold as fuck

look at those icons

YUCK

[civic finch]

Well, I guess I get something kind of similar to what I made for the first person model.

It just works

[naive snow]

Anyway it's just for the world model

[soft burrow]

there shouldn't be anything stopping me from DXML'ing the dialogs.xml file, right?
just wanna disable one of the companion preconditions and change the action function

[dapper moat]

I've been thinking about what the game considers "safe" places to sleep in. As it stands right now, you could find a building with intact walls and a roof, but since it's not included in the "local sleep_zones" in ui_sleep_dialog (I'm not a modder, but I think that's what's caues this issue), the game doesn't consider it safe. I'm not sure it's possible, but it would be great if there was a mod that allowed you to sleep in garages, guard posts, etc.

[slow bolt]

Dont think i had an unsafe building when i used a sleeping bag

[dapper moat]

There's one up in Jupiter, at the cement factory. Intact building, but you can't sleep in it. Another example is the small garage next to the ecologist base in Yantar.

Is it possible to add these buildings to the sleep zones? I'm no modder, I've mostly been dabbling with simple patches

Here's an example of what I mean: The garage in Yantar. Intact walls, and should offer much more protection than for instance the traincarts that you can sleep in (Like the one just outside the Rostock checkpoint in Garbage). Can't sleep here.

I found a mod that allows you to sleep without shelter, but it just straight up allows you to sleep in a open field, which is a bit much. It also removes the need to be tired. https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/sleepwithoutshelter

One idea I had was to make it so that the beds from Hideout furniture ignores the shelter requirement, so you can have a hideout whereever. This feels more balanced, since you wouldn't be hauling around a whole bed in your inventory. But I don't know enough about modding to know how to do it.

[dapper moat]

EDIT: @halcyon plover Using my limited experience of creating my own combability patches for Skyrim and Fallout, I've managed to tweak the "sleep anywhere" mod so that it incorporates the immersive sleep changes that GAMMA introduces, like needing to be tired, but allows you to sleep wherever (Copy + paste, baby!) I'll just have to trust in my love for immersion that I won't go to sleep in the middle of a field

But now I can make a hideout wherever I want and sleep in it!

[celest forge]

@naive snow your method of the black blurred background worked to get rid of those lines

thanks

I'll be using that on all icons from now on

[naive snow]

Why u no dilate

[celest forge]

That did the trick

the black blurred bg thing

efective and simple

and you can barely tell

[naive snow]

well... Alright

[celest forge]

I'm lazy

[naive snow]

C'mon Juan, you gotta be better than the shitty weapon packers. I respect you more than that

But I ain't gonna start throwing chanclas at you for this. If it looks good, that's good enough I guess

[celest forge]

I'm literally just retarded

I didn't even understand your instructions

[fair canopy]

i may have fumbled through it as well

[naive snow]

Guess I'll create a step by step guide eventually

[halcyon plover]

Ooo please tell me how to do this in case I get the same issue

[dapper moat]

I can PM you the file if you want. All I did was open up the relevant script file from GAMMA that Grok made, and the one from "sleep anywhere", putting them side by side and checking for what's changed. Then copy pasted the balacnign stuff into "sleep anywhere", without the check for shelter.

[halcyon plover]

Sure!

[dapper moat]

ok, 1 moment.

Just gotta inject the file with 10 crypto miners. No offence.

Mods: That was a joke. Please no ban

Just go to " Gamma\mods\SleepWithoutShelter\gamedata\scripts " and replace the ui_sleep_dialog.script file with that one.

I've tried it a few times and seems to work fine. Still need to be tired, and healthy to sleep, but you can sleep anywhere.

Then it's up to you to have self-control and refrain from sleeping on the ground in the middle of truck cemetary

[real cave]

how do i edit a collimator UV map inside of a weap .ogf file? i have the blender addon installed already

[sacred token]

Well, this has a little something to also let you sleep while bleeding or irradiated if you want https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/tosox-mini-mods-repo

[dapper moat]

Haha, nah I'm good thanks 😄 I was just annoyed that some places that should be considered safe places to sleep, wasn't. For hideouts, mostly

[real cave]

i also need to adjust uv map of some optics. where are the files located?

[sacred token]

Well, it was worth a try

[robust cradle]

hey guys is it possible to remove few weapons like scar or hk417/416 variants from boomsticks and sharpsticks mod?

[muted helm]

how do i find the config name of a weapon, i am trying to modify the SR-3M Vikhr to fit into my melee slot but i dont know how to write it, tried sr_3m_vikhr or sr-3m_vikhr but they dont work?

[uncut flicker]

Check in debug menu name

[muted helm]

whats a debug menu?

or how do i access it

[uncut flicker]

In launcher there's debug option, click it and when you in game(loaded) press f7 and here's spawn menu and then find sr 3m vikhr

[muted helm]

will do ty!

it worked ty very much

[elfin mason]

I've got a mod for that, adds a bunch of mostly logical weapons to the melee/vision slots
https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1202505462688260147

[muted helm]

oh yeah i got a mod for that but just wanted to add this one in particular

ty tho

[wary scroll]

Now this is how's pripyat should looks like

[glad topaz]

I'll post it on the db mod soon

[naive snow]

The UV maps are part of the model, just select the geometry you wish to edit, go to edit mode, select all and you'll see the UV unwraps of the model you have selected

[naive snow]

Yo @celest forge heard you had some animation issues for a revolver?

[celest forge]

Yeah

With the Ruger LCR

But I just took a different route and made the animation a different way

[naive snow]

What was the issue? Shaky hands?

[celest forge]

I was trying to do a tri-state reload

so open-removeaddcartridge-close

the open and close were ok

the remove-add-cartridge just bugged out

the gun and hands just went crazy when that played

[naive snow]

You got a clip of it?

[celest forge]

I don't, sadly, I just deleted the animations and moved on

I just made it a traditional empty reload with a moonclip

[naive snow]

Ah shame, would've loved to look at the issue

[restive robin]

Hey I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but how are Mercs identified in npc loadout files ? Are they killers ?

[celest forge]

Yes

[celest forge]

It was most likely my blender install going crazy tbh

[restive robin]

thanks !

[narrow stirrup]

anyone knows how to fix this bug with the pick up animation(fdda) and the ak 74 u from bas?

[fair canopy]

Don't have the pickup animations enabled. They're disabled for a reason

[slow bolt]

They still should work just fine

[narrow stirrup]

this weapon is the only one giving me problems so i guess it should be something related to the gun itself animation or the gun ltx hand position maybe, but i don't know where to start

[fair canopy]

weird

[narrow stirrup]

i remember having the same issue on efp modpack too

[fair canopy]

works on other aks? this is the bas one?

[narrow stirrup]

yea let me show you

the vanilla ak 74u works fine, this one is the bugged itself

i think it could be related to the folding stock animation

but idk

this one have the same stock animation and the bug happen too with this one

so those are the only weapon that give me the same issue and they share stock animation

maybe i can use the vanilla ak74u animation path on this one? i am very noob on animation things

[fair canopy]

I uploaded a fix for folding stock aks from bas in the mods sections. Try downloading it and see if that fixes it

That probably won't work

[narrow stirrup]

oh that's interesting i will take a look

[crisp oxide]

I tried it. It fixes that animation pickup issue
but there are some tradeoffs tho:
ak74u model look HUGE compared to hands and vanilla one
also reload animation doesn't lineup: fingers clip thorugh magazine

here is the link:
#1204330633682493482 message

[fair canopy]

Yeah I have to redo the ak47u

[narrow stirrup]

so seems related to the dam folding stock, well that was usefull to know, thanks for the help guys

[narrow stirrup]

thank god someone would at least think of it, besides for that issue i personally hate the folding stock animation

[celest forge]

Probably a bone dependency the left hand has to the stock mesh for the animations

Only solution I see is re-rigging the gun to use another animation set

which comes with a small group of issues

[narrow stirrup]

by the way Juan is the holog point related to the gun meshes and modelers? want to change this shitty little point

[celest forge]

That's the dots extravaganza thing I think, it's not that small in either bas or vanilla

[narrow stirrup]

i think that's the thing on the moddb mod above

damm is small as hell i can barely see it

[narrow stirrup]

seems like the clean mask animation looks buggy with folding stock aks too

[fair canopy]

@naive snow having a little bit of trouble. Trying to make some gun icons and previously it was going fine but however now im unable to get rid of that white line again. I did the dithering, i turned the background black, i did the blur technique and nothing seems to get rid of the white lines

ive redone the icon from scratch with a new canvas 4 or 5 times now and it still comes out the same

[naive snow]

Send me your DDS I'll have a look

[naive snow]

Well the tip and back/stock of your guns don't actually have dilation

You still have plenty of space in your pixel grid so use it

This is what it should look like 6px dilation, on black background

[fair canopy]

this is what it looks like in ps

im actually haveing the same problem on another icon now

still getting white lines

[naive snow]

Huh probably something about your dds export I guess?

Let me try exporting and I'll inspect the resulting dds

[fair canopy]

hmm, i setup the canvas as 8 bit, should i set it to 16?

[naive snow]

Nah doesn't have to be

[fair canopy]

weird. i just checked my setup before exporting and its the same sa yours

maybe a reinstall?

[naive snow]

Did you uninstall your old dds exporter?

[fair canopy]

i couldnt figure out which one it was

off that its happening now though, it was fine for the ammo icons

[naive snow]

My export seems to have worked fine on my side

You could try on your side to export the compressed version
like so
See if you see the white background appearing

Honestly I think it might have been that you saved on an empty background so photoshop filled it up with white

Here's my exported DDS

[fair canopy]

do you export just color? ive been exporting both

[naive snow]

The color or alpha check box is always a preview, there's no impact on the exported file

Photoshop will always respect this export option

[naive snow]

Meaning it exports the first named alpha channel

Do you have an alpha channel or are you exporting straight transparency?

[fair canopy]

i think i may be exporting straight transparency

[naive snow]

That could be the issue

I hate exporting straight transparency because you never know what photoshop will fill as background

[fair canopy]

should i do black background as well for rgb?

[naive snow]

Under your dilation yeah

Ideally a setup like this

[celest forge]

Is that mine

like the one I made

[fair canopy]

Yes

[celest forge]

What's wrong with the icon

[fair canopy]

[fair canopy]

That fixed it

Idk how it worked last night with the bullet icons...

[naive snow]

Didn't the icons use a black background + dilation?

[fair canopy]

Ah they did have it already built in. I just went in and edited them

[celest forge]

You should make the dual scopes less shiny tho, they look incredibly shiny compared to the main gun

[fair canopy]

I was too lazy to load up the actual model so I just copy and pasted from the original icons

[naive snow]

Yeah it's a very mate looking gun vs the optics, looks like something out of quasimorph

Also why are you baking in the optics instead of using attachment icons layering?

[celest forge]

Wait those are like

the old icons then

[fair canopy]

The scopes are yeah

And are there icon layers for the dual scopes?

[celest forge]

These are the current ones

[celest forge]

Nope

[naive snow]

Hmmmm yeah now that you mention it, I don't think there's ones for those, but you just need a gun with the canted, you can use the acog already in game as a layer

[celest forge]

Because the position of those is so wildly different to all other scopes in relation to each other per gun

makes more sense this way

You can do it with all scopes really, I did witht he VPO-101 I made

I do not recommend it tho

[naive snow]

Also y'all need to stop making fucking 4k textures for icons atlases, pls my video memory

[celest forge]

nay

[naive snow]

Do it for the children Juan

You're not even doing mipmaps so to hell with power of two texture size

[fair canopy]

I was there when he said it

[fair canopy]

That's for crazy people. Granted lining up the layer in game is also tedious

[celest forge]

I don't use DX9 but i've read that if your icon file isn't atleast 2k the icon won't render right and bug out

[fair canopy]

This is also what I had heard. Granted I'm only making these for myself

[celest forge]

Believe me, lining up the layers is NOTHING compared to this

at all

[fair canopy]

At least it'll look nice in game instead of having an acog that's too small or a red dot that's half as tall as the gun

[celest forge]

I mean yeah

But it's not worth

LEWD did it for his ASH-12

So when I was making the icons again for my icon mod it was pain

[naive snow]

Huh that's odd, we have plenty of atlas that are less than 2k

[fair canopy]

should they be power of two?

[celest forge]

Iunno dude i'm not a brainiac like you

[fair canopy]

yeah but lewd is also crazy

[celest forge]

so i don't know the technicalities of it

I'm saying what I was told

[naive snow]

Power of two only really applies if you're doing mipmaps

Guess I'll pester Olfin later to ask how the small atlas look in game on his crappy machine

[celest forge]

I love doing icons

I'm not the best at it

But it's one of my fave parts of the process

[naive snow]

Most atlas seem to be power of two (which makes little sense considering the UI grids are 50px X 50px)

[fair canopy]

isnt that the base ui scale though?

[naive snow]

Stuff like the MP7 are 512x256

[celest forge]

I currently do 256x or 512x

And it works

so

idk

[naive snow]

Yeah I guess if stuff is power of two, fuck the rest

DX9 might not like non-power of two texture

Cause there seems to be plenty of atlasses that are less than 2048x2028

[celest forge]

The main anomaly item texture is like

8kx4k

[naive snow]

I mean the PDA map is 4k by 8k

[fair canopy]

@naive snow is there any way to reduce the compression artifacting on black guns?

i feel like im seeing it a lot more

[naive snow]

Compression artifact from the BC3?

[fair canopy]

Yeah it feels like some of them have a bit of it

[naive snow]

Well BC3 is pretty shit, but using the highest compression preset helps somewhat

Do you have an exemple?

[olive wyvern]

this is a not mod, but helping a lot of people with low end specs, i am work on the Vulkan backend

for low end hard ware

it has to be modern enough to support Vulkan but i think because is low level api, i can tune to be "basic" compare to DirectX

even more basic than a DX8, but without being deprecated

[olive wyvern]

very nice iconography

[fair canopy]

oops

wrong icon lol

[naive snow]

Do you have the DDS?

[fair canopy]

yeah

[naive snow]

You could use the sharpen option to somewhat remove a bit of the blurryness of the icon too I reckon

[naive snow]

That icon looks ROUGH

[fair canopy]

i actually did use sharpen

[naive snow]

Did you scale it up or something?

[fair canopy]

Scale it up?

I took the render from blender and brought it to scale

But yeah for whatever reason it looks not great

[naive snow]

How big was your render?

[fair canopy]

Uhh

I guess whatever the default render size gets spit out

Then I just scale it down

[naive snow]

the scaling algorithm of photoshop is pretty piss poor to be honest

[fair canopy]

Better than paint.net lmao

[naive snow]

yeah but by default it goes to Nearest neighbors which is ass. Try reimporting the render and scaling it using bicubic

Also a proper smart sharpen should help, something like this to bring back contrasts

[fair canopy]

Do I sharpen before or after dithering?

[naive snow]

Dithering?

You mean dilation? Cause Dithering is a whole 'nother thing

The order shouldn't matter too much, but I'd do it after dilation so it picks up extra contrast on the edges

Looks pretty decent on a proper background

But you can see where the transform nearest neighbors messed up the holes in the hand guard where you have the forward grip

[fair canopy]

hmm i dont have that option on my bar

oh there we go

huh it is actually set to bicubic

looks better in game but seems a little dark

[bitter slate]

hey i am curious on how to get all the models in game for blender anyone here know?

[naive snow]

Well you could put a level adjusment layer because your blacks above the trigger grip are crunched

If these are from your renders you could use a brighter light setup

[naive snow]

Grab the Xray Addon from PavelBlend, setup the paths properly and import all of the .ogf files you want

[fair canopy]

Would I isolate that section on the later?

Layer

[naive snow]

Adjusting with a Level wont do much, since you don't have any details there and it's all black

[bitter slate]

I have pave blend but there is no exe is this the right paveblend?

[naive snow]

It's a plugin for Blender, install it via blender

[celest forge]

All that shit to just not have a white outline on a part of the gun

[bitter slate]

ohhhhhhhhhh im so dumb lol thank you

[naive snow]

We've already nailed and removed white outlines

[fair canopy]

Burn's icon class

[bitter slate]

even for gamma stuff i would choose all the file paths from the anomaly folder right?

[celest forge]

Making a blank layer with a single pixel on the corner and putting a gaussian blur filter over that solves the white lines for me

So that's nice

Also made an icon for the Sturmgewehr 57 mod

since the og is ROUGH

[naive snow]

Probably because since you have super low opacity color information from the gaussian blur, photoshop doesn't fill in the exterior of the weapon with white

[naive snow]

Yes, pretty much

If you want everything assembled from the mod pack you'll need to launch Blender through MO2 so everything gets assembled in your C:/Anomaly/Gamedata

[bitter slate]

when i set file paths im getting an error

[naive snow]

The engine shaders files, compile shaders files and game material files need to be extracted from your Anomaly archives

[celest forge]

I like your funny words magic man x793847598435

[naive snow]

If you go to your Anomaly\Tools\ and use the db_unpacker.bat you'll extract the necessary stuff to a new _unpacked folder there

[naive snow]

Let me change my user name to that real quick

[bitter slate]

after unpacking with the .bat in only left with configs and scripts should i do the unpack all .bat?

[naive snow]

Huh I thought it would unpack Shader too

[bitter slate]

i did the unpack all fuck it

im tryna set a scene up with anomalies

[naive snow]

Yeah you can run the All, be mindful that it's like 20gig so you can delete the uncessary stuff after if you don't need the rest after

[naive snow]

Anomalies as in the anomaly fields?

[bitter slate]

yes like i wanna import the teleporter

[naive snow]

That's not a game model per-say I believe it's a whole particle system. You'll need the full SDK to unpack the levels and all

It's a fucking nightmare to work with the level stuff

[bitter slate]

well fml how do i get the sdk?

if u know

do i need that for all anomalies?

[naive snow]

There's a bunch of SDK versions, there's Hydrid Xray which is neat and has a bunch of QoL features included. There's also this one
https://www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl/downloads/cocs-sdk-scene-update

Also you can't extract particle systems to be used outside of the SDK FYI

[bitter slate]

dam yeah i wanted to mess with the levels and anomalies so thats no go in gamma?

[naive snow]

@surreal gust Is kind of the resident mapper at the moment, he's messed around plenty with the level editors so he might know additional information

[naive snow]

Well there's no way for modders to edit or change the current maps if that's what you wanted to do

[bitter slate]

no no not change the maps just set some people on the map where i want and put down anomalies to make a scene

[naive snow]

You could have a look at how the dynamic anomaly mod is done, spawn a dynamic anomaly on a smart terrain location

[bitter slate]

ahh okay

[naive snow]

Otherwise you'd have to compile a full new level and inject that into gamma so you have all the bells and whistles like atmospherics and SSS

[bitter slate]

i have all my paths right for this plugin but when i go to import something im getting and error

[naive snow]

Unless Pavel fixed it, the xray plugin only works for sub 4.0 version

[bitter slate]

oh okay im on 4. somethin

damn lemme downgrade real quick

[naive snow]

https://github.com/PavelBlend/blender-xray/issues/715

[bitter slate]

alright i imported something how do i put textures on it?

[naive snow]

Textures should already be imported

[bitter slate]

everytihing i import is white ive added blender to mo2 did i miss a step

@naive snow

[celest forge]

Because you're in solid mode

not texture preview or rendered mode

[bitter slate]

ahhhhh i got it now

[celest forge]

Press Z and select the texture preview mode

[bitter slate]

when i do this to a map its half textured half white is that normal?

[naive snow]

The engine doesn't know where your unpacked textures are

[bitter slate]

this not the right path?

[naive snow]

Not for assets that point to Anomaly/Gamedata/Textures, no

[bitter slate]

what do i have to change for it to be right?

[naive snow]

Go to your GAMMA/mods folder
Create a new folder called Anomaly Unpacked.
Create a new folder in there called Gamedata.
In the Gamedata folder, move the whole content of the _Unpacked folder.
Refresh MO2.
Scroll to the bottom of the list and find Anomaly Unpacked. Enable it and restart Blender through MO2
Change your texture path back to Anomaly/gamedata/texture

[bitter slate]

move whats in unpacked to gae data or whole unpacked folder to gamedata

[naive snow]

The content

Basically everything needs to be relative to Gamedata

[bitter slate]

and then change textures path back to original stalker anomaly gamedata or this new path in my gamma fodler

[naive snow]

Anomaly folder

Whenever you launch an application through MO2 everything gets assembled in your Anomaly folder

[bitter slate]

does this look right now?

[naive snow]

Change the rest of those too, basically everything should be pointing to your G Stalker Anomaly folder

Exemple of mine, ignore the last 3 entries, I'm fucking around with the SDKs

[bitter slate]

alrigh like this and the engine andshader fiels i cant find in my anomaly folder

[naive snow]

Good enough

Reopen the level and you should have everything

[bitter slate]

are my shader and matierl files right?

[naive snow]

The white stuff you're seeing is occlusion meshes and collision meshes

[bitter slate]

how do i see the map as ifi were in game?

[naive snow]

You can't? Blender isn't a game engine

I told you, you need the proper sdk to actually compile and open levels with the engine.

But doing so wont have any of the mods

[bitter slate]

ahhh mf. well ty very much for helping me this entire time

[naive snow]

If you just want to have precise actors and stuff around in the levels just set the time speed in game super stupid low and spawn in the actors that you want

Dunno if you can spawn dynamic anomalies at will tho

[bitter slate]

I thought i was going to be able to make something like this but with stalker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIedTs3CvBs

am i not able to do this ?

something like the first 30 secs of that vid

[naive snow]

No probably not. They probably do their whole montage directly in Unity and imported the Tarkov models as is. Or they've rendered their character in Blender and composited them onto captured footage in Tarkov. I'm leaning towards the first option.

[celest forge]

Or something like gmod

[bitter slate]

ahh well still thank you for helping me

[naive snow]

Xray isn't nearly tooled enough to do this. Closest you'll get is redoing shaders and importing bump maps for every models. Building an actual lighting via Blender and then doing your animations in there with the rendering handled by blender

There's quite a lot of work done with making your own character, animating, rendering and lighting like they did. That's low key kind of an impressive project

[bitter slate]

damn well now i know cuz if you woulldnt have told me i would be up all night trying to figure out how to import stalker stuff into blender cuz theres no good reddit post lol

they do make it look ez i thought it was all blender

i only animate stuff in after effects and thats barley anything lol

[naive snow]

Well you have the full maps and textures. You can clean up the collision meshes and everything, but without proper knowledge of Blender you'll suffer for months to be honest

This is probably someone who has already so game dev knowledge or a 3D animation background

[bitter slate]

is there a way to hide the white stuff and collision boxes n stuff

like the white blobs on the trees

[naive snow]

They're probably all named something with a prefix or suffix. You could filter your scene hierarchy and hide them all at once

Or if they all share the same material, you could select all object by material and hide them like that

[bitter slate]

ahh okay well thank you again.

[naive snow]

Best of luck with whatever you end up doing

[normal vessel]

Hello, how do i change quest_package content? i remember doing it half a year ago with unpacked itms_manager, but either i forgot some steps or something changed.

[exotic sleet]

Hello
Can someone tell me what I should do to add a new item to the game? (based on what is already available)

[soft burrow]

How can I spawn identical clones of a non-story npc?

[soft burrow]

Preferably, the clone must have his own squad id

[surreal gust]

you can call me a professional sdk user

[surreal gust]

when it comes to level making/editing*

[cobalt pollen]

Hey guys. Any way to disable the debug/no-clip on numpad 0 ? I use this key for gameplay.

[lethal garden]

How can I edit the resistances of a helmet? Having a time finding an LTX file for the helms.

[exotic sleet]

I'm going crazy now... Tell me what I can use to select colors for xml win1251

[low spindle]

Hello,
Anyone know where the fixed spawns are designated?

I want to make an alternative mod to the "defended-lab-x-10" mod which simply replaces the bloodsucker spawns in x-10 with lightly armored monolith squads instead.

What is the path to files like this, spawns are not something i have tweaked before,
Thank you.

[abstract pier]

Is it possible to somehow get ganslinger animations for energy drinks, vodka, etc. from GAMMA?

[fair canopy]

From gamma? Like for using as a stand alone?

[slow bolt]

Gamma has no unique animations for FDDA

#1150520636406513785

[potent night]

if I have an item reference, I can do item:id() to get the id. Is there a way to get the "name" for example (stalker_patch, you see the item name in debug menu)? I don't know the property name. Maybe item:name()?

Got it, it's called item:section()

[bitter slate]

if i import a actor how do i put an animation on it

[surreal gust]

Im not an animator type of guy but i think you need to use the actor editor idk

[civic finch]

Guys, does anyone of you knows where is the wood parts texture of the Ak-74u tactician? or does it use the default one of Anomaly? I ask, because I wanted to try doing a polymer handguard.

[vale knot]

Its the same as the normal bas aksu

[astral tusk]

what could be the cause of guns firing downwards

my mateba shoots fine when adsing but when i move and hipfire at the same time the bullet travels like straight down

if its anything I can fix without changing the weapon bones themselves I'll be happy to learn how to do so

[regal bolt]

Where would I find how ai react to different game sound types? I am trying to make my taunts make ai react by getting angry or somn lol.
Using SAVandT

“My” taunts

It’s the usec 3 voiced actor taunts mod

I’m just trying to taunt and make npc angry or question surroundings and stay alert

Disregard, I found archive with answers to my question

[exotic sleet]

I want to add my custom artefacts in the game, but I don't have enough classes in the detectors section, so new art simply not visible for detectors and they still hide. Any solutions? I need copy items_devices.ltx and edit them, or I can do this with dltx?

[exotic sleet]

It's in the BaS folder I think

[hallow stratus]

hey does anybody take weapon mod commissions?
i got 1 gun in mind that i want added, thanks for your time reading!

[civic finch]

I could find the metal parts, but not the wood/bakelite parts.

[feral aurora]

Could someone make a chopped RPD mod, and retex the RPD. Would be a godsend

[civic finch]

You mean like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi5UeXeWNU0

[fair canopy]

thats actually not hard to do

[slow bolt]

ew

[feral aurora]

Yes with the suppressor option would be even more a +

[celest forge]

I have a very similar issue with the uzi I helped make

No matter what I tried, the gun shoots to the left when you move

[civic finch]

Why would anyone suppress a LMG, I want to still fear on my enemies with the sound of rakatatatata

[feral aurora]

Clandestine operations. And in stalker just because the + damage increase. Also do you really want that chimera to hear just to run you down from across the map mid spray, just to have to reload and get pounced?

[naive snow]

Just use any OGF editor or even Blender, you'll get the name of every texture used by the model. You can then just search in your MO2 for those and see which mod adds them

[naive snow]

A bad bone orientation most likely. Otherwise you could check in the LTX for the fire bone used, there might be a fire bone rotation parameter too

[celest forge]

I tried that with the uzi

rotating the bones

rotating the armature, the gun

the ltx value of the firepoint

nothing made a difference

[naive snow]

Did you apply transform after the rotation?