╙🖇mods-making-discussion

[naive snow]

What would be the correct flag for multiple scopes?

[fair inlet]

doesn't matter, random scopes spawn regardless, chance depends on economy difficulty

[fair canopy]

Is there a way to stop certain scopes from spawning?

[fair inlet]

afaik no, you have to delete the section

[celest forge]

I am yeah

[celest forge]

r, for random i guess

It pools all attachments into the same class so i'm not sure if you can do JUST scopes and no suppressor or GL

[fair inlet]

just scopes would be 0 flag
unless it's a gun that uses original scope system like raven said

[naive snow]

Okay so it would be either 0 for scope only, 1 for scope and GL, 5 for scope, GL and silencer, 4 for scope + silencer ?

I'm making an NPC_loadout generator file that would make it easier to handle what spawns at what rank and break all inheritance
Just need to know the proper flags for computing the rows

[fair inlet]

4 for silencer, 2 for UBGL, 6 for both
scopes spawn randomly regardless of the flag

[naive snow]

Sweet thanks!

[cerulean mantle]

What is the slot of belt attachments?

item_in_slot() I mean

[slow bolt]

db.actor:iterate_belt()

That is the one i know

[cerulean mantle]

I'm adding a heater function to the Surge Protector when wearing a scientific suit.

If this works, I'll add a battery function as well.

Thank you

Oh I made a mistake .

[cerulean mantle]

It doesn't work because the function that updates the cold value of outfit (called outfit_mult) is executed before my function which takes into account the surge protector.

And since the function that updates the outfit_mult is executed any time a change happens to slot{7], my changes are not taken into account.

Because I can't have Surge Protector before changing outfit.

And I can't execute them in one function, since the moment a change happens to outfit, all belt slots are unequipped.

I have to a section to add the value of surge protection in the cold.val calculations.

Too much work atm, next weekend.

[stray trail]

How do I make guns not sellable to merchants ?

[lilac idol]

delete the trader ltx in the configs folder

[fair canopy]

[summer stream]

how do i make a bump out of these three

[spark totem]

i can not wait for these's!

[naive snow]

R - spec/gloss
G - normal z
B - normal y
A - normal x

The O can be added as a layer to your base color texture, set to multiply and put to 75% opacity or something

[summer stream]

ahh

can you showcase me in vc?

since im kinda

braindead

i dont understand where do i put it

my most is to make bumps out of ready assets

[naive snow]

I'm going to rack some leaves at my grandma's in a few, I can make you a couple of quick screen shots at best

[summer stream]

ahh

okay then 👍

just give me a screenshots on it

where do i put it and how

[naive snow]

Send me all 3 files + your base color

[summer stream]

done

[naive snow]

For base color

[summer stream]

[naive snow]

Double click on the layers to assign which channels you want them on, exemple the gloss goes in your red channel

The channels on your normal map represent directions

[summer stream]

ooooh

got it

[naive snow]

So you CTRL + A to select All, with only a channel displayed, CTRL +C to copy, make a new layer, paste it

Now you need to assign the right channel for each of these layers according to
R - spec/gloss
G - normal z
B - normal y
A - normal x

[summer stream]

[naive snow]

For the alpha, just select your Normal X layer, CTRL +A to select all, CTRL+C to copy, go to your alpha channel, paste

You should have something like this as a result

Which is your bump

[summer stream]

can you drop the finished result

i'll try to do the rest

also, question

[naive snow]

You want both as psd?

[summer stream]

yeah

[summer stream]

do i need to copy every channel

like
ctrl+a on red then ctrl+v

or just all of them

[naive snow]

Do them one by one

Just "extract" them all and rename them from what you just copied, it's easier to sort it out after

[summer stream]

hmmm

okay 👍

[naive snow]

You only need to really extract the Y and Z of the normal, the rest not so much

[summer stream]

btw, extracting is just, copying them and pasting, right?

[naive snow]

The order of operation doesn't matter much for which channels you extract first. Just make sure to hide any above layer of your normal map when you do the extraction

[summer stream]

alrighty, let's try to not combust

[naive snow]

Just do it one step at a time and you'll be fine, anyway it's non destructive work and you can always restart

[summer stream]

wait

how do i get the alpha channel

since for me it's just

white.

[lilac idol]

the original blue channel is supposed to be white

[naive snow]

You don't need to get the alpha channel. You just copy and paste the normal X into the alpha channel

So when you have only the alpha channel selected and visible in your Channels window, just hit Ctrl+V to paste your Normal X layer into it

[summer stream]

yeah no im very retarded

[naive snow]

Alright so step by step

Hide every layer except the normal map

Go to your channels

Select only the red channel

[summer stream]

oh

so the alpha is red

i suppose

i basically did that

[naive snow]

Yeah its your Normal X

[summer stream]

damn

[naive snow]

Once you're on your red channel, still viewing only the normal map layer, select all ctrl + a, ctrl + c to copy, next go to your alpha channel, hide the other channels, ctrl+V into it

[summer stream]

now

where do i put the gloss

in the y, or z

or the red

since for some reason my gloss is this

and my entire result is

cyan mess

[quasi narwhal]

this is how I make mine in GIMP

[summer stream]

never used gimp before

[quasi narwhal]

so it'll go
red - the smoothness/specular map
green - blue
blue - green
alpha - red

[quasi narwhal]

the original RGB being from the normal map decomposed

[naive snow]

Hide you X layer

[naive snow]

You messed up your Z too

Don't forget to hide ANY layers above your normal map layer when "extracting" your channels

Otherwise you're just copy/pasting your top layer

[summer stream]

now

z LOOKS right

[naive snow]

Good

[summer stream]

[naive snow]

Hide your X layer

[summer stream]

i think im missing something

[naive snow]

Now just check that you have the proper channels assigned to spec, normal Y and normal Z

[summer stream]

I FIGURED IT OUT

IT WAS THE WRONG ONES

yiAAAAHHHH

[naive snow]

There we go

[summer stream]

i can finally do bumps for the stuff i wanted

[naive snow]

Congrats you did the thing

[summer stream]

👍

[quasi narwhal]

i'm so glad once i figured out the chaiNNer flow to make bump maps i never had to mess around with channels anymore

cause this gave me ptsd just of looking at

[summer stream]

i had ptsd by just

[celest forge]

I just have a custom action in PS that makes it for me when i feed it the specular

[summer stream]

looking at it

i need to do an operation that does it AUTOMATICALLY

so i dont fucking die

[celest forge]

Yeah, that

[summer stream]

now

how do i save it

nvm

[naive snow]

I haven't gotten around to trying out chainner

[summer stream]

funny enough how i just randomly looked at the assets and thought it was the cod ones

now i need to suffer

[naive snow]

I'm too used to doing it in photoshop

[quasi narwhal]

helping gf rn but i can send a flow for u to have a look at

it's just install chainner, load the file & use

I've left the option to load the roughness map and invert its color cause I think it could be helpful (if gonna use just link the Invert Color image to the Spec RGB. To Gray node)

you can preview how it looks like through the View Image there and just right click on the Save Image step to Enable it once done (and ofc select the output Directory)

[quasi narwhal]

I used the height file there just for an example cause I didn't have the spec. map for that bark

Just download chaiNNer here: https://chainner.app/
Install it, Ctrl+O, open this file and have fun

btw, if you want you can setup the load images to be in batches and do for a batch of files instead of 1 at a time
or message me if you don't know how to do that, I can make a flow no problemo

[supple glade]

Can anyone gelp me make audio play for modded grenade toss

[cerulean mantle]

Just add or string.find( actor_weapon_name, "grenade_section")

@supple glade

Find these for your modded grenades.

Then on that wall of text script, add or string.find(actor_weapon_name, "the section")

Why?

That paragraph is designed to read your weapon. If your weapon matches any of these weapons (=grenades) it will execute the rest.

So by adding the or string.find (etc.), you are adding your modded grenades to the list.

[supple glade]

I did that, but it still doesn't work

[supple glade]

I found the mod file and got the section which is the same as in my screenshot.

[cerulean mantle]

Do you have companions?

[supple glade]

yes

the gamma vanilla grenades work fine, its just the modded ones

[lethal garden]

Alright. Well, quick question, what entry in a LTX enables ADS for a weapon?

[balmy grotto]

@lethal garden The setting you're looking for is this.

zoom_enabled

You'll want to switch it from "False" to "True"

For instance the default CoP and CS RP-74(PKM) has zoom_enabled = false by default. It sounds similar to the issue you're having. There's a good chance though that you will have to set up the aim offsets. Once you confirm that the zoom_enabled setting works, if the aim offset is off, I would recommend basing it off the other AUGs.

The Aim Offsets you're looking for are "aim_hud_offset_pos_16x9", "aim_hud_offset_rot_16x9", "aim_hud_offset_pos", and "aim_hud_offset_rot". If it's misaligned, the values from the other, working AUGs, should be your base.

You will need to manually adjust the values so use Iron Sights as your base to work from.

[young gate]

hey is there any way to put the ghillie suit into the artifact slot? I'm using the ghilie suit overhaul and I was hoping there was a way to put it into the atrifact slot

[sturdy plaza]

is there a way how to change which guns require which repair kit to be fixed? basically, i want to move couple of guns to d tier and bring the old rpk down to c tier

[simple scaffold]

yes. the entier repair system is ltx and lua script. probably just need to change either a line in the item itself or a list somewhere.

maybe repair_type

that looks right

[sturdy plaza]

Sounds fun, but can you guide me where i can find that?

[strong prairie]

Was there a mod for less mutant hides fetch quests?

Or more hides dropping

Fkng tired of "2 flesh hides" when I got none in 20 hours of gameplay

[naive snow]

You could tweak the drop rates yourself, but no the fetch quests haven't really been updated in forever

But you'd probably be better off instead changing those fetch quests to require 1 or two hides max and increase the money reward so as not to blow up the game progression curve

[naive snow]

Change the line in the weapon's Ltx or find the dltx mod that already moves weapons tier. Could also just make a quick mod dltx to do your own balance patch

[sturdy plaza]

can you please guide me where i can find weapons ltx? i dont think i have the knowlage to create my own dltx mod

[naive snow]

Just use the MO2 search bar with the debug name of the weapon. Example:wpn_blahblah

[sturdy plaza]

i cant seem to find much at all, perhaps im doing it wrong. im checking simply in the file explorer, but theres just too much of any results and most only have texture files there

[lilac idol]

search in mo2 inside configs/items/something something for w_yourweapon

[naive snow]

You need to search in MO2 to see the assembled file correctly

[naive snow]

!mo2search

[queen pine]

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[sturdy plaza]

i found it and did a little test. made makarov d tier lol. thank you guys. i truly dont think anybody cares what i want to do with this, but for those who might be intirgued is i really want to change ak12 and other fancy tactical ak's to d tier , bring old rpk's down to c tier because overall they are absolutely useless.

[naive snow]

Whatever suits your tastes

[regal bolt]

Anyone knows what could this be?

!WARNING : level.object_by_id(nil) called!

Found it in the log and started wondering

[fair inlet]

first person body mod non fatal error

[regal bolt]

That means?

[fair inlet]

ignore

[regal bolt]

Okay. Fair enough'

[balmy meteor]

Where can I find "Sky Dome" exoskeleton configs?

[naive snow]

Open debug, use the spawn item menu to locate the item debug name, Search in your files with that

[cerulean mantle]

I've been looking for this for months.

[cerulean mantle]

Still doesn't consume.

Actually wait

FUCKING YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[naive snow]

That seems like a horrible thing

You'll be running through so much repair kits it's not even funny. Plus why would drag and dropping not consume charges but swapping a on workbench instead cost uses

[random fulcrum]

ye it's a terrible idea considering that using the kit to swap parts only makes you not lose a bit of condition on the gun

[cerulean mantle]

Because now, in addition to barrel, trigger mechanism also cannot be swapped on the field :D

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/958342885005221898/1302006415401160866/image.png?ex=6731c037&is=67306eb7&hm=629414058b610ec49f7f647941bad6ee84431387efe26449f4744a045d6932e1&

But I didn't do this solely for the weapons. I did this ONLY for the armors.

Weapons were just a byproduct.

[cerulean mantle]

Next playthrough is going to be so much more fun.

[lethal garden]

Heres my retexture and reposition of the EFT RFB compared to the original (gross)

[fossil stirrup]

anyone knows of a mod where you dont instantly travel upon walking in a travel point but instead its shows a popup?

[naive snow]

Just disable the smooth transition mod

[fossil stirrup]

allright

may i know whats the difference beforehand?

[naive snow]

It will do exactly what you asked

[fossil stirrup]

ah allright thank you

[lethal garden]

Guys, Im trying to find the hands model for this outfit so I can assign it to another, but looking in the THAP configs and everything else, I cant find a single entry for this outfit. Any advice?

[naive snow]

What's the debug name of the outfit?

[wary scroll]

Hey everyone, so I have a question
You see in thm files we have resolution for things
Now the question is, what if we get an uncorrected number as the main texture res, like our texture uses 1024 Res now set the number 256/4096, what will happen?

[naive snow]

That's a though question, maybe Lutvner or Demonized would know? Ask in the Anomaly discord

[wary scroll]

I see, thanks

so it can be ignored```
He said

Then why do we have it

[naive snow]

Probably a legacy tech from the first engine builds

Good to know that there's no need to fix mismatch of those

[wary scroll]

Yea probably something from past
This makes life easier too

[naive snow]

Doing downscalling work?

[wary scroll]

Nah, just wanted to know if that can cause something or not
Let's say someone does downscale and then set thm value more than the main Res like 2048 to 4096

I left them all empty, even the mode filter

Just bump, and use method

[lethal garden]

"Military_bandit_outfit" I have a mod that displays section names in item descriptions, it's very neat!

Also guys, my outfit attachments and Artefact conditions are degrading/decreasing. The "artefact conditon" MCM is enabled. Any idea?

[lethal garden]

When attempting to transition to Jupiter, my loading screen 99% of the time becomes frozen/stuck, the other 1% will crash to desktop without a CTD error. I've noticed that when I remove squads or common squads, the transition will then work.
Ill provide my log!

[rough lion]

Is it possible to enable crosshair when using alt aiming?

[naive snow]

Hmmm crosshair is an option that is saved in your user.ltx, so in theory it's a console command, you should be able to hook in the ADS function, check if you're alt aiming and turn it on/off

[near dirge]

Maybe also check the files inside of Draggable HUD Editor/HUD Offsets Editor mods? There is a toggle crosshair button so maybe that can show how it did it.. And then apply it to alt aims? Idk

[cerulean mantle]

It will ask if you want to transition. You can say Yes or No. Enter acts as Yes also.

If you say No, you will be teleported a little back.

I don't know about GAMMA, but in Anomaly, there was this issue if you said "No" to the Army Warehouse to Truck Cemetery transition, you would be teleported inside the Army Warehouse Freedom base instead. I haven't seen this in GAMMA yet, but in my own modpack it was like that. Maybe I had fucked something up.

[fossil stirrup]

Thank you for the info

I'll check it out as that's where I'm at rn

[sturdy plaza]

is there a way to make traders not sell weapon attatchments?

[fair inlet]

demonized's trader destockifier

[naive snow]

Add them to the trader black list or use the destockifier

[sturdy plaza]

destockifier? whats that exactly? sounds something i would love to play around with. is it automatically installed just needs to be checked or a seperate mod?

nvm, found it myself

[cerulean mantle]

It's something beautiful.

[naive snow]

@celest forge Here emerald man, rewrote it for you.
Right now it only checks if the image that is loaded with the model has a _diff at the end it will replace that with _bump and try to load the image otherwise it will add a _bump before the file extension and try to load that one.
It automatically connects everything to the proper channels.
This will only work if you have your Blender properly setup through MO2 and have your texture paths set to your anomaly folder

Also as an added bonus, it unplugs the fucking alpha channel automatically to avoid the wack ass models with transparency

[celest forge]

This will only work if you have your Blender properly setup through MO2 and have your texture paths set to your anomaly folder

[fair canopy]

Modeled gas tube for simulated gas

[naive snow]

I mean you can try it too without. It uses the image node that is already connected in there to check for the path, so whatever is in there should work

[celest forge]

And I just load it as any blender plugin, ye?

[naive snow]

Nah, open a new window or go to the scripting tab, just load it in the text editor and hit play

[celest forge]

Oh alr

Lemme try then

[naive snow]

Tell me if you find weird edge cases and I'll modify the logic for fetching the bump. (Things like _albedo or whatever)

[celest forge]

That did not work

Does every texture has to have the _diff at the end?

[naive snow]

Try this one, I added a fallback that checks if the texture is named not with _diff, but something like _albedo, the script will remove whatever is after the last "__" and before the extension.

[celest forge]

I gotta go so i'll try when I get home

The problem I think is that I don't main my main textures anything

Like they don't have any _diff or _albedo at the end or anything

They're just tex_gun_main or whatever

[naive snow]

So in order, it looks if it's a _diff.
If it is, strip _diff, add _bump and try to load.
If that doesn't work try adding _bump and load directly.
If that still doesn't work, strip whatever is after that last underscore and add _bump, try to load

if your bump is named tex_gun_main_bump that should still work

As long as they have the same general name

If you name your main texture something like dfjdifjdijf and the bump is adakoakpawd it won't find it for sure

[unkempt trail]

guys anyone know a mod that expand the fast keys to have more? the f1 f2 f3 and so i didnt know where to ask here seems apropiate

[naive snow]

Best ask in #╟🔰☢newbies-chat or #╓☢stalker-chat

[naive snow]

Here I made the code cleaner, made sure to attempt all 3 solutions, put in some debug prints, avoided infinite search loops.
Here's the result on some of the parts
@celest forge

[naive snow]

Fun little try, it actually works for the levels too, tho it takes a toll on your machine

Pretty decent to preview textures too

@quasi narwhal @wary scroll @weary root and I guess whomever else that does texture work, here's a blender python script that will load the bump map (if it's in the same folder as the base texture) for the models in blender. This should help with tweaking specular values and normal maps intensities

[weary root]

i think you can share it to pavel on his git

[quasi narwhal]

more automation

[wary scroll]

I mean, this is so coooool

[naive snow]

I'll check with him if it's something that could be added as a button in his plugin, why not

[quasi narwhal]

was gonna say, this could probably be added to the addon itself

[weary root]

yeah button option would be great since you don't need to load these always

[naive snow]

It's not a 100% fool proof tho, because it doesn't read off the THM for figuring out why bump is being used tho

It just assumes that the bump is in the same folder with a decent naming like _bump at the end

To make this proper we'd have to check and load the .thm and that's a whole can of worm

[weary root]

i believe only flora textures have different bump names paths since 3 or more textures use one normal

[simple scaffold]

Quick slots Plus

[wary scroll]

Dude this is just so fucking cool, you have no idea how much this will help any person who's working on textures
Thanks man for this amazing gift

[naive snow]

Would loading the _bump# for the height be something that could also interest you?

[wary scroll]

That will be the last thing we need to make progress even easier

I mean loading all maps and changing the value immediately for the results I'm looking for ?
Super cool

[naive snow]

It only loads your bump, so if you need to edit it, you still have to do so through photoshop/gimp, save it, and reload it in Blender

Or I guess you could use the texture paint thing with the blender .dds to resave it

But you'd be a fucking mad man to try and texture paint normal information

[wary scroll]

Nah I mean seeing something live and changing it the way needed is making life easier except opening the game and checking the results

[wary scroll]

Oh, I already edited normal maps with ps

[naive snow]

Here's the issue tracker for those interested in the development
https://github.com/PavelBlend/blender-xray/issues/822

[quasi narwhal]

upvoted

[lethal garden]

When attempting to transition to Jupiter, my loading screen 99% of the time becomes frozen/stuck, the other 1% will crash to desktop without a CTD error. I've noticed that when I remove squads or common squads, the transition will then work.
Ill provide my log!

When I "delete all squads" I can then load into jupiter, but "delete common squads" doesnt do the trick

[lost berry]

if anyone wants to make a silly little mod to realign the sights on the aps stechkin, that would be great (i do understand its more effort than its worth, so i dont really mind if you decline, but you get my appreciation, (worth literally nothing) and i love the stechkin and i dont like the front sight being off)

[lethal garden]

try using Draggable Hud Editor on Moddb!

[lost berry]

oh. ok that might work, but im not sure, i can give it a try, im sure my monkey brain can figure it out

[celest forge]

Yeah this seems to only work with the way you load textures via MO2

I'll try that another time

I just don't have time rn to swap my blender launch to MO2

[naive snow]

Huh that's odd, I did fix it and try using some random ass folder

What's your blender console window looking like?

[celest forge]

This?

[celest forge]

Oh, aight

[naive snow]

Like it should have something similar:

[naive snow]

Mind you this is on the tomato conserve can

Well it did work for your bullets

Ohhh are the textures on another drive than the one where your scene is?

[celest forge]

Uhhhhh

Yeah I think so

I have blender installed on my main c drive

the textures are on the E drive

[naive snow]

And your stuff is on the E drive?

Alright good to know, I'll fix it, the file path thing blender uses doesn't really like different drives

[celest forge]

🤔

[naive snow]

Can you copy paste me this bit?

You should be able to select and ctrl c/v

[celest forge]

Error: Python: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "\AutoloadBumpMap_V3.py", line 141, in <module>
File "\AutoloadBumpMap_V3.py", line 137, in process_scene
File "\AutoloadBumpMap_V3.py", line 95, in process_material_nodes
File "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 3.6\3.6\python\lib\ntpath.py", line 747, in relpath
raise ValueError("path is on mount %r, start on mount %r" % (
ValueError: path is on mount 'E:', start on mount 'C:'

[naive snow]

Thanks I think I know a solution, just gotta try it out.

[celest forge]

No rush

Thanks for taking your time to help me out

[naive snow]

My pleasure, it's a fun challenge and I'd rather do this than finish fixing the canned food models

[naive snow]

Here, try this on for size.
I tried loading stuff from my G drive instead of C and it worked

[celest forge]

Without bump

with bump

Thanks man

Now I just gotta figure out how to make it not look all washed out

[naive snow]

Adjust the intensity of your HDRI lighting

Otherwise, I'll send you a version tomorrow where the spec map also influences the roughness of the surface (gives a nice mate finish on some pieces and shiny metal pieces)

It's not accurate to the shader math of the engine but whatever it makes for nice screenshots and icons

[naive snow]

Nice to see the details on the grip really stand out with this

If you want to try out the result for yourself right now, in the shading mode of blender, just organize the nodes a bit (creating them via script stacks them all together) and use the same thing that is plugged in the specular channel. Should be the X output of the Separate XYZ node. Plug that X into an invert color node and plug that node into the roughness input of the main shader. You can play with the invert slider to see the result. 1 would make the bright spots of the spec map shiny and the black spots of the spec map look mate and rough.

[celest forge]

Yeah you can get it pretty roughed up lol

[high radish]

hey

Why do modder prefer moddb than nexus ?

stalker modder*

[summer stream]

question, if i want to add a new suppressor, do i write this down so it can be counted as one?

[naive snow]

Depends what you mean by adding.
You still need to make the ltx to create the item section.
The gun model needs to have it modeled in for every scope combination and no scope model.
You need an autoinject for traders and npc loadouts if you want to buy/trade said silencer.
You need to add the proper silencers lines to your gun ltx

Plus if you want the silencer to actually give you the bonuses imparted by the silencers I think it needs to also be added to a table somewhere

[summer stream]

just for it to work, since when i try to put it on a gun, it doesnt gets on it

[naive snow]

How's your ltx for the weapon setup for the silencer section?

Finally some good fucking tomatoes

Now just need to finish making the rest of the bump maps

[summer stream]

silencer_name = fischer(the suppressor i did)

it says that I CAN put it on

but it just refuses to

[naive snow]

silencer_status                          = 2
silencer_x                               = 176
silencer_y                               = 8
silencer_light_color                     = 0.6, 0.5, 0.3
silencer_light_range                     = 0.01
silencer_light_time                      = 0.2
silencer_light_var_color                 = 0.05
silencer_light_var_range                 = 0.5
;silencer_smoke_particles                 = weapons\generic_shoot_00

A silencer still needs to have every thing added like this

[summer stream]

and that's right but

nothing happens

[naive snow]

Is your silencer rigged to the right bone?

and you did put the silencer_status = 2 (2 means removeable)

[summer stream]

yes

it's a different bone

[naive snow]

Afaik for the silencer to be "hideable" the engine checks this bone:

[summer stream]

YES

it's all the SAME

it just doesnt work

@naive snow basically it's the same glock that had problem with bullet bumps

[naive snow]

Oh yeah that one. Package me your gamedata folder for it again and I'll have a look at it after the corn can

[summer stream]

here

wait shit

[naive snow]

Is the Fischer an existing scope ? or is that something you made?

[summer stream]

silencer

not a SCOPE

[naive snow]

oups

[summer stream]

this one

to be specific

[naive snow]

wtf is that monstrosity

[summer stream]

yeah

[naive snow]

Hold on so the item file for the fisher is in your glock 1 and the silencer model is in your glock folder

How the heck are you organising this stuff

And that crashes because the path to your silencer ogf isn't the right one

Oh its because I need to be runnning both the glock and glock 1 mods seperate and together

[summer stream]

yes

im gonna sort it out

LATER

not now tho

[naive snow]

You're dltx'ing your own dltx?
What in tarnation are you doing

[summer stream]

yes.

Also not really

if you saw anything down the items folder, i forgot about it

[naive snow]

There we go,
so the issue is you were creating your [fischer]: as an addon, where as silencers are meant to inherrit from wpn_addon_silencer

So just change your mod_system_sup_fischer.ltx to have
[fischer]:wpn_addon_silencer

[summer stream]

aaah

thank you very much

[fair canopy]

Gluck'd

[verbal siren]

Hey, some of the guns have this shiny texture that makes them look like they're covered in oil. Does this have to do with textures that have bump or bump# in their filenames? If I wanted to change the weapon to not be so shiny, is there a simple edit I can make or does it require editing stuff in blender?

[glad girder]

Is there a way to make the debug menu outfit editor work and if not is there a different way to change armor stats?

[slow bolt]

You go to .ltx files and change that

like any modder

[winter karma]

where can i find the file for this? 0 weight on mats sounds interesting

[celest forge]

Could be both the bump itself and the THM

That's the "metallic" shader

Since X-Ray doesn't have an actual metallic shader, best you can do is, like you described, oil covered of high gloss plastic

[lament garnet]

i made my own file but any mod_system ltx file could be used

[verbal siren]

I looked into the THM files and saw that the weapon modder was setting metallic shaders on matte polymer parts. I changed it to OrenNayar Blin and it looks right now. Thanks for the tip.

[celest forge]

Sure thing

Are those EFPWP SCARs?

[naive snow]

The age old copy/pasting of thm

[verbal siren]

It's this mod: https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/scar-pack-animation
But now, when I look at his video, the guns are not that shiny. Is it possible that modded exes at some point changed something in how the textures look? Come to think of it, I noticed the shininess on a lot of guns not so long ago.

[naive snow]

The moded exe don't really touch that. Maybe you cranked the DONT TOUCH specular setting or otherwise something to do with your Enhanced Shader. Weather configs could also be playing an impact on how much reflection everything receives

The reflection code of SSS also has undergone quite some significant changes over the last few patches

[faint sable]

they are shiny like that by default, it is the EFPWP scars

at least on gamma, probably efp is fine since they use some old stuff

like 2 year old content

when sss did not have much crazy reflections

[naive snow]

Yeah Ascii did rework quite a bit the guns shader over the past years

[native tapir]

Random question, can you dltx scripts?

[naive snow]

No scripts are Lua. You monkey patch them

[native tapir]

):

Rog

[summer stream]

how do i bake textures or bump maps in substance painter?

[spring mango]

[regal bolt]

Hey guys. How would one go about making a keybind toggle for an option in the game, that is not specified in the controls?

For this specific thing I'd like to set up a keybind (Let's say shift) that would basically hold breath for a few seconds (Either only when clicked, or toggle for a set time) just to listen in to enemies footsteps or mutant howls and growls so I can sneak around better without taking off the helmet each time

Or to know what to expect (in the case of mutants right behind the corner lol)

[naive snow]

You make a custom preset export, the shader template you pick when starting a new project needs to be the specular workflow

[naive snow]

Just grab the Weapon Sway mod and check how the hold breath is done

[cerulean mantle]

Could someone please send me the artefact reinvention?

Nvm, I was writing something, instead put a 01 in front of owner.

[cerulean mantle]

Next step is to bring back the repair kit usage for upgrades.

[regal bolt]

Completely forgot about that. Good idea! Thanks Burn ^^

[cerulean mantle]

Hold breath sadly doesn't mute the breathing sound

[naive snow]

But it does, I'm playing with it. Your character goes "Ompf.......... Breathe out when released"

[cerulean mantle]

@naive snow ...

I have to see this.

[naive snow]

I mean just install and try it

[cerulean mantle]

I have installed it, but removed the sound effect because it wasn't making the gasmask to go away.

Where did I fuck up again? ooof

[somber herald]

in grok_treasure_manager.ltx, how is an item's "tier" defined? trying to determine how the game figures out the chance a stash will have a particular item. (hope this is the right channel)

[dense hill]

what would replace UGP since its outdated?

[slow bolt]

Wrong channel

[slow bolt]

!ugp

[queen pine]

@dense hill
UGP is no longer available in Gamma as it has been superseded by FWP from the same creator.
UGP(FWP) Discord invite link: Accept
Latest FWP thread in this server: #1277740537344168016 message
Frosty Weapon Pack install video:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mAgUuvs1FY

[sturdy plaza]

i got a question. so i expressed a dumb idea about making copies of ak's to make versions of those where some spawn in with the dovotail mount and some which come without it and wont take any scopes. using the debug menu i found out how all of them already exist.

how do i find the list of items you can get in stashes and what kind of gear npc's spawn with?

[sturdy plaza]

alright, better question now

why are some weapons listed multiple times and what do those numbers after it mean in npc_loadouts_faction.ltx ?

[fair canopy]

They were listed because they were thought to increase drop rate ratios for certain weapons. They don't

[sturdy plaza]

and if i add a different gun in the list, it will appear in the game on random?

[fair canopy]

Under whatever rank and faction you added it under

[sturdy plaza]

yea...yea...so it will work.

[sturdy plaza]

so, simply checking it out. so using the ak74 which is normally ingame and its recoil control is 58. switched to a weapon which doesnt normally appear in gamma which in theory is the same exact gun, another ak74, but its recoil control is 78. i checked the ltx files of each gun individually and they are identical. how so?

and ingame the recoil is different from to another, but ltx files are the same

[celest forge]

Are you sure every single recoil parameter in the LTX files are the same

[sturdy plaza]

yes, i checked, identical

[slow owl]

is there some mod that kind of saves npcs weapon parts statistics ?

like every time i load i get diffrent parts %, and want to know is there a mod witch blocks that

[celest forge]

I think that's hard coded as random but I'm not sure

[sturdy plaza]

nvm, found the issue. there is a override of exactly only the recoil values in a file named grok's enchanced recoil.ltx

[naive snow]

Welcome to DLTX. If you really want to find and edit guns properly. You're better off launching something like Notepad++ through MO2 and then just searching through everything in your Anomaly/gamedata

[hallow jacinth]

Is there an easy but somewhat good way to only recolor the camo part of texture? wanna make it for clear sky, mercs and others factions

[sturdy plaza]

Photoshop

[hallow jacinth]

[wary scroll]

Select the area you don't want with magic tool in PS then put them in a inverted mask layer for a hue sat adjustment layer, very fast and easy

[somber herald]

does anyone know which file(s) handle the barrier defense event? i want to make it happen more often because it is very fun, but searching/greping for "barrier" in the anomaly and gamma ltx files didn't yield anything that looked right.

[naive snow]

Search through the xml files to obtain the string id, do another search with that string Id and it should give you the event task generation

[wispy ferry]

there is a mod for tweaking certain values of it, #1050738856569344010 message

[somber herald]

thank you both, i will check out both ways 🙏

[balmy meteor]

Hello, I've tried to mod an nbc suit. With Original outfit, you can also equip headgear. But when I created mine it says "headgear included" How can I fix this?

[naive snow]

Change the LTX, refer to Grok's helmetless mod on how to

[balmy meteor]

Thank you I'll check it out

[sturdy plaza]

sorry to bother you, but how did you mo2 have that notepad ++ option? i just installed it and stuff and i cant open the file explorer with it or....i have no idea what is going on

[naive snow]

Use the drop down, use <edit> add whatever software you want like vs code or notepad++

[sturdy plaza]

how to say this. can you dumb it down for me and with a imagine or two please?

[naive snow]

Google it

It's honestly as simple as using the drop down where you pick the anomaly launcher or your dx version, scroll to edit, click new or duplicate an entry and pick your program

[sturdy plaza]

just no matter how i add it, it says something doesnt exist, the paths aint correct and now i have fucked it where i cant open the virtual explorer itself

i goggled as you said and, maybe i dont know how to word it correctly, but couldnt find much of anything

[sturdy plaza]

so i did it correctly....but why does it look like this when i open it, wtf

[naive snow]

Why are you opening explorer++.exe?

What even is that file?

Oh it's the virtual file explorer thing

[sturdy plaza]

yeah, i dont understand why it opens that

[naive snow]

Probably because you didn't change the start in section

Just close that tab, you should be able to open whatever else with it

[sturdy plaza]

ok, so....wait.i just opened whatever and basically i see everything more or less the same as i would using simply notepad

[naive snow]

Yeah, but now your Notepad++ sees everything as if you were running the game. Like all of the files assembled in your Anomaly folder. So you can reference search through your Anomaly folder and see exactly what the game sees

Example, if you hit the Open and navigate to your Anomaly folder, you should be seeing everything inside of your Gamedata folder and whatever else

If you open notepad++ normally, this is what you'd see instead

[sturdy plaza]

alright, i understood that far

[sinful imp]

lol kek cheburek

[naive snow]

Another example of searching:
vs same search but launched through MO2
26 files vs 6757

Much easier to filter files like DLTX that write to sections and also to find where the original section is

[sturdy plaza]

im truly sorry you are working with such a moron like me regarding this, but i try to search for something fairly basic, but i get 0 results , but it also says it didnt search anything

[naive snow]

What are you even searching for and how are you searching for it?

[sturdy plaza]

a line which i believe should appear a lot

[naive snow]

you forgot spaces in your FIlter section

*.ltx *.config *.script *.lua *.xml

There needs to be a space between the end of the extension and the next *

[sturdy plaza]

you have no idea how much i just facepalmed. alright, i assume that is all. thank you very much for explaining how this works

[cerulean mantle]

@naive snow

[naive snow]

Not surprising considering the parent section they inherit from

[cerulean mantle]

tch_repair? What is that?

To balance it, I made it so it only repair from 85% to 91%.

But now I might end up doing something like this for more items.

[naive snow]

Why do you even want to reduce the % at which it can be used?

[cerulean mantle]

I changed the recipe so it doesn't require a sewing kit...

Now I'm trying to offset this.

Also made it compatible with your Multitool mod.

[naive snow]

Just craft a singular kit instead of two as an alternative recipe

Simple as that

[cerulean mantle]

What do you mean? So it makes a single use em kit instead of two use like usual?

[naive snow]

Keep it a two use item, but just output a single use of it with an alternative recipe

[cerulean mantle]

Wait, I can do that?

[slim sorrel]

I wanna try to create my first simple mod in stalker anomaly. Is there a faster way to test the mod instead of oppening and closing the game everytime the code changes?

[naive snow]

Ah I think I'm thinking of the death_generic file

[naive snow]

Just hit F7, numpad 0 and F5 for a script reload in game

[slim sorrel]

Thanks you!

[simple scaffold]

The above is just a quick save quick load that uses the auto save instead of a quicksave. You can load any save to reload the scripts, no debug mode required

Well the numpad zero part reloads system.ltx, that does require debug mode but also has nothing to do with scripts, just ltx edits, to system ltx or items, mutants and such.

[slim sorrel]

ok, got it. Thank you

I wanna try to create a simple quest. Is this the best place to understand how to do it?
https://igigog.github.io/anomaly-modding-book/quests/introduction.html

Or is there something more uptaded?

[naive snow]

Okay having a look in the ui_workshop script file, you'd have to modify the function UIWorkshopCraft:Craft() to check for an additional parameter in the recipe to be the "amount" result

Like ammo already does it to an extent, if checks the box_size and craft an appropriate amount of single use items

Extending the recipes to include an amount to craft isn't the worst of ideas, but that means you have to rework every recipe string yourself and it probably won't be compatible with any new recipe schemes from other mods. Unless you make a fail safe to check if that last parameter is nil (check if the string break returns a number or a character string, continue evaluating as long as it's a character string, the moment it finds a number instead of a pair of "part, #" then assume that this is the number to craft to replace "amount"

I might actually tackle this as a challenge if I have some time

[simple scaffold]

#╙🖇mods-making-discussion message

I think this is easier than reworking the entire recipe system. Less likely to conflict as well.

[naive snow]

Ah yeah that could work too. Since the load recipe function was already splitting everything via "," I was simply going to check whether that first character of T[2], T[4], T[6], etc was a number and use that as a multiplier to the amount crafted.
I wasn't sure if you could make a "copy" of an item that would still be stackable if it had a different name to it

[burnt canopy]

https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/2dpd9/textron-ngsw-r-assault-rifle

if I bought this model, is there any guides on how I could learn to rig it or bring it into the game

[rich vessel]

For editing ammo parameters, k_disp, k_dist, etc. What are they coefficients of? As in what is the math behind the different between .75 and .9 values and where is that? I don't know if I am asking that correctly

Or where is their behavior at different values explained? If at all

[celest forge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwTYYH5zLjo&t=1884s

[burnt canopy]

Oh sick thanks

[naive snow]

@simple scaffold is the 1icon_layer just picking whatever the icon texture of an item with the given name is?

So if I want to make a small icon for an alt text, I need to create a dummy item to hold that texture to reference

[simple scaffold]

Doesn't need to be a full item. Can be a section with just the icon lines.

[naive snow]

Does the icon size and inv grid number need to be initialized?

[simple scaffold]

Like https://github.com/RAX-Anomaly/MagsRedux/blob/main/gamedata%2Fconfigs%2Fitems%2Fweapons%2Fmagazines2%2Fbase.ltx#L60

[simple scaffold]

All 5 lines if you are not using something from the default icon file like I am on that example.

The fifth line being the icon texture path

[naive snow]

[tch_dummy_Alticon]
icons_texture = ui\ui_AltLayer
inv_grid_width = 1
inv_grid_height = 1
inv_grid_x = 0
inv_grid_y = 0

Like so I guess

Can the licon_layer even be displayed in the recipes menu?

[naive snow]

Or does the alternative icon have to be drawn on the actual item icon for it to work?

basically trying to make an Alt icon layer for alternative recipes

Wondering if I need to make a change on the icon itself

[naive snow]

Ended up just making an alternative icon

[simple scaffold]

no, there is no cord checking. they can be negitive, they can even go out of bounds and overlap the next item's icon, or overflow the UI. it is on you to keep #icon_layers (mostly) in bounds of your icon.

[simple scaffold]

if you own the icons this is fine. not like you are doing thousands where the dds file will get huge or something.

[naive snow]

Tried setting it up in the basic 0,0, so a 50px x 50px, with just the alt text as the iconlayer but that didn't work

Whatever coords I put in, starting from the top left corner

[simple scaffold]

without seeing the ltx i can't offer much

[naive snow]

My alt icon section was setup:

[tch_dummy_Alticon]
icons_texture                                        = ui\ui_AltLayer
inv_grid_width = 1
inv_grid_height = 1
inv_grid_x = 0
inv_grid_y = 0

On the [tch_dummy_armor_repair_fa_1x]:tch_repair
I had setup the icon layer like so:

1icon_layer                              = tch_dummy_Alticon
1icon_layer_x                            = 0
1icon_layer_y                            = 0

The icon layer should have been displayed on the top right most corner, like most gun scopes

[simple scaffold]

try without the capitol letters

[random fulcrum]

script layer freaks out with capital letters in ltxs

found out when trying to read from a fracture's bones section

it just straight up ignores it

[simple scaffold]

always makes my skin itch to see them in ltx. or in MCM paths.

sometimes capitol letters work. most of the time they break.

[naive snow]

Ay yeah that worked!

[simple scaffold]

i wonder how many errors are due to capitol letters in sections embedded in model or level data

[naive snow]

Tho now my issue is that the count is half right (showing 2 instead of 4) and crafting the object returns 4

replace_count = 1
script_binding = z_monkey_workshop_tool_Multitool.spawnx ```

Ah my dummy might have been wrong

Ah fuck replace is the wrong one

[simple scaffold]

i would expect a count of at least 2 as well.

what is that red 2. i swear the crafting system only makes one item at a time, excluding ammo

[naive snow]

Ah because the count is the count of object * max uses since it spawns them as full?

[naive snow]

For multiuses items it prints the max_uses

[simple scaffold]

ahhh, ok. that makes my original suggestion of making a 2x, 5x or 10x icon work better than i thought. it will pretty clearly be read as 2x the number in red.

not perfict. but still easier, and more compatable, than reworking that UI.

[naive snow]

Ah according to the script function spawnx(obj) local sec = obj:section() local spawn = SYS_GetParam(0, sec, "replace_section") local count = SYS_GetParam(2, sec, "replace_count") if not sec and spawn and count then printf("someting went wrong, could not spawn a number of items") return end for i = 1, count do alife_create_item(spawn, db.actor) end alife_release(obj) end
The count 1 would spawn one copy of a the item, so 2 uses

[simple scaffold]

yes but if you only want to spawn the item once...

you can make multiple recipies that output the same item, using different stuff just change that leading x_ to y_ or something like that.
you only need to go thru all this extra work to mess with quantity of the output.

[naive snow]

That I know. The idea here is to output a half charged multi-use item, for an alternative cost

Like by default the emergency repair kit comes with two uses

I'm trying to make a recipe that would spawn a 1 use emergency repair kit

[simple scaffold]

ah I see. this method can still wotk for that too.

you need to change the spawnx function to change the uses. I forget if you can do that on spawn or if you need to make a timed event waiting for the new game object to come into existence.

[random fulcrum]

xcvb's achievements mod has code that catches a crafting success

oh but it's done through the stat increase

[simple scaffold]

hmmm. it must be reading that from the ltx then so you could make your dumy item have a different max uses value to reflect the actual number of the items being crafted. or in your case the actual uses.

[naive snow]

Yeah setting max_uses = 1 in the dummy displays properly in the UI

Tho I'm unsure how to set the spawnx function to setup the uses

[simple scaffold]

function spawnx(obj)
    local sec = obj:section()
    local spawn = SYS_GetParam(0, sec, "replace_section")
    local count = SYS_GetParam(2, sec, "replace_count")
    local uses = SYS_GetParam(2, sec, "replace_uses") or nil
    if not sec and spawn and count then printf("someting went wrong, could not spawn a number of items") return end
    for i = 1, count do
        alife_create_item(spawn, db.actor, uses and {["uses"] = uses})
    end
    alife_release(obj)
end

this version will spawn the items it makes with a uses count equal to what ever you put in a new key replace_uses

if the key is not there then it will just default. no idea what happens if you try and give it to an item that can't have multiple uses. i would avoid that.

you could make the script read max_uses instead of replace_uses but i decided to keep them separate to give as much control as possible.

i probaly shouldn't have used uses as a varible name, gets confusing.

ok. changed it to the braket quotes thing to make it clear that one of those is a table key.

[simple scaffold]

my blurred memory of being able to set uses on spawn turned out to be correct. this is much simpler.

(of course this just uses a system that does something like the timed event just in another way. but it already exists so way easier to code)

[naive snow]

Got busy with something else. This works great. I'll integrate it as part of my multi tool mod and rework some recipes with this

[lethal garden]

What the hell is " strap_position = -0.16, -0.1, 0" for?

[fair canopy]

3rd person/world model position when stowed

[simple scaffold]

@orchid parcel this may be useful

[merry heath]

Is this the best discord for modding anomaly or is the main anomaly discord better

[slow bolt]

yes and no

[merry heath]

This one is certainly the biggest so I'll ask here: is it viable to tweak the FDDA backpack animation so that the inventory opens immediately instead of waiting for the backpack animation to finish?

I like the animation for immersion but waiting for the backpack to open is tedious

I assume I mess with the backpack script

[lunar nimbus]

?

its just one Raven here and the rest are texturers
in main discord there are Raven and me (me asking Raven questions there)

[lunar nimbus]

u can disable it in mcm

[merry heath]

What I mean is I want to keep the animation playing but have the inventory open immediately instead of waiting for the animation

Is that viable

[lunar nimbus]

oh i think that will have so many possibilities to kill engine ;]
its possible yes and should be easy, but i dont recommend it

the amount of work u'll need to do afterwards is insane

[merry heath]

Really? I was thinking the same thing about food use animations, not closing the inventory but blocking item use while they play so you can still look in backpack while you're eating/drinking/healing

I guess there is a reason this stuff is like it is though

[lunar nimbus]

ah only to be able to look?

thats a bit easier, but well i still dont know if theres command to block mouse in gui xd

[merry heath]

Where would I edit FDDA to allow this and open the inventory screen immediately instead of waiting

[lunar nimbus]

check where mcm option for it leads to, im too tired for someone else's code ;[

[merry heath]

Seems like it's tied to the enhanced animations callback system and specifically calls the backpack ui open when the animation stops playing

[slow bolt]

This was done already

pins in #1150520636406513785

[merry heath]

I just found the place in the script for this, haha... You are my savior bro

[frozen flicker]

loser question, has anyone got intellisense/autocomplete working in their IDE?
I'm using nvim

also I mean autocomplete for functions in the unpacked game folder

[quasi narwhal]

i'm not 100% sure for nvim but i think you'd have to add the unpacked scripts as globals in the lua-ls config

kinda like its done with the vim global for configs

and ofc use the .script ext. as a lua file too

[frozen flicker]

yee, I just added _g.script as a require at the top of the file and all the functions are showing up

[quasi narwhal]

try the Lua.completion.autoRequire option

idk if it's named the same on the nvim lua ls though

wait nvm this just auto requires if its in the complete

[frozen flicker]

I think you are onto something though there's probably a way to tell nvim to take files and consider them global

but a require() is a good temp fix for now

[quasi narwhal]

yea you can always require them on top and delete later etc

[frozen flicker]

I'm just trying to change the mouse pos on inventory open so I stop shift dropping my stupid bag

why change how me play when i can change da gaem to how me play

truly a wonderful idea

[frozen flicker]

modding is truly incestuous

I'm staring at some else's code that i am going to copy badly and then there's a chance someone will look at my code and copy it badly

[random fulcrum]

i mean imho the best way to learn is to study other people's work and dissect it to know how and why it works

stopping at just copying is a you issue

[orchid parcel]

Thank you!

[naive snow]

Oh it's doable, I did it on my version

Oh wait that's my thing in the pins

[quasi narwhal]

holy based script yes plz

[merry heath]

I also commented out the first 'key disable' so you can keep moving more when the backpack comes up instead of that microsecond stutter

this one

[naive snow]

Yeah I had fixed it so it stopped the other inputs, aside from the movement key (you want to stop certain keys in the inventory opening sequence)

Tho I have no idea where that version now is

Oh yeah it was already part of the open_inventory_faster

You might want to also comment out the level.enable_input in that function too

[frozen flicker]

is there a dirty way to replace the mcm values on keypress, i am confuse
or are there any mods you know that do it

settings.x_pos = x ?

me dum i fink

brb

[naive snow]

Why not simply rebind the drop key instead of going about this roundabout way?

[quasi narwhal]

there's a typo on the first if condition in the on_key_press callback

[frozen flicker]

to become learned because anomaly modding confuses and scares me

also because i didnt think of that but we'll go with the first point

[frozen flicker]

first script ever, lettuce see if i am understanding the process

[frozen flicker]

I need to get better at splelling

my day is ruined

[lethal garden]

Anyone know where I can find the LTX that affects Mutant hide stats? They're a bit OP, making most outfit attachments (ballistic plates, etc) useless for the most part.

I've also noticed, that artefact and outfit attachment durability is no longer degrading for me

[naive snow]

Just search for any string in the description, find any section using that top ID

[naive snow]

Outfits attachments and artifacts, other than perkifacts never degraded

[lethal garden]

Okay! I've got Notepad + searching now

[naive snow]

Alternatively, use this to look in-game for the section names in the tooltips, then just search with that [blahblah], you'll find every dltx and the base section

[lethal garden]

okay thank you!

[vital tree]

sigmas

[naive snow]

You can't

The source files of Anomaly have been lost to time, so we cant edit the maps anymore

Not really, we can't recompile either

You can attempt decompiling, but it breaks absolutely everything

New maps you can, but there's a reason why there's only 2 or 3 mappers ever, it's a dump of lost knowledge

It's overall all hidden in rusian forums and held by few individuals who aren't even interested in doing stuff anymore since they got burned out

You can attempt to reach a few in the Anomaly discord if you want

[lethal garden]

Just found this UI file in GAMMA Weapon Pack, labeled cwbonus

Are any of these weapons actually included in GAMMA?

[naive snow]

Nah they pretty much all left

[naive snow]

Reference check with the name

Different reasons, not getting into discord lore tbh

[slow bolt]

google it

[naive snow]

No. Just google it

[celest forge]

What the fuck

cw

that's cwwp

Those are not released

Why does gamma have unreleased CWWP assets in it

lmao

[naive snow]

The data mining is proceeding according to plan

[celest forge]

Or is that from that OLD ASS CW pack

From like 2019

[fair canopy]

I'm sure some of those were tarky assets

[lilac idol]

it's probably from the same source as the vector and ash12 in gamma

[fair canopy]

Mgrok gave me the assets for the mdr like a year ago lol

[lilac idol]

i thought it was a comission for bert

[fair canopy]

Except the VHS, you can already get all those guns. They'd just be duplicates of something that exists

No. He wanted to redo the animations and I gave him the original files I had. And then we ended up just doing a thing together

[lapis mountain]

Is there a way to change the running animation of a pistol to be like the one of another pistol?

[fair canopy]

Not without a lot of work

[finite musk]

None of these guns are part of cwwp, and I hope that cwwp's leaked G3 and MDR sets don't resurface anywhere including here.

[celest forge]

Then probably the old ass cw thing yeah

[lucid ginkgo]

GIMP or Paint.Net? Which is more often (easier/recommended) used?

[fair canopy]

Depends on what you need to do. Both are free

[slow bolt]

Paint.net is way easier

[lucid ginkgo]

Guess I'll try both, thank you!

[celest forge]

Photoshop

[slow bolt]

ew+adobe

[lucid ginkgo]

Can't afford it

[fair canopy]

Who said anything about paying for it

[lucid ginkgo]

I know what must be done, just can't say it cus of the TOS
That and I already have separate art programs installed

[last tree]

Quick question:
I was lookin into trying to adjust the UMP45 to be single handed / fit in the melee slot. So far I figured that making a "mod" and editing the w_ump45.ltx file in /gamedata/configs/items/weapons/ will make it at least fit into the meelee slot, if I adjust the param slot = 2 to the value 1.

;0.6 BAS------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[wpn_ump45]:identity_immunities,weapon_probability,default_weapon_params,wpn_ump45_sounds
GroupControlSection                      = spawn_group
$npc                                     = on
$prefetch                                = 8
$spawn                                   = "weapons\ump45"
scheduled                                = off
cform                                    = skeleton
parent_section                           = wpn_ump45

class                                    = WP_LR300
slot                                     = 1
animation_slot                           = 8
ef_main_weapon_type                      = 2
ef_weapon_type                           = 6
hand_dependence                          = 1
single_handed                            = 1

Yet my guess, that changing the value single_handed from 0 to 1, to be the trick to make it single handed as well seemed not to work ^^
Anyone able to help me out here?

[random fulcrum]

the file is most likely being overwritten

[naive snow]

There's a myriad of mods that already add pretty much all smgs to the vision slot and even guides on how to do it. Heck it's even in the pins
#╙🖇mods-making-discussion message

Also you'd need to check if any dltx write or overwrite the weapon

[last tree]

did not check on that one lol, my bad, sry for that.
And as I changed the magsize as well further down the config I don't think that it gets overwritten, as the melee slot and magsize works perfectly fine.
(at least if partial overwriting is a thing... which I assume then welp, no clue how to check this)

[naive snow]

You can search in this channel, I've already shown to a lot of people how to setup Notepad++ through MO2 and how to search properly

[last tree]

will do.
Though I'm definitly not a newbie with Notepad++ as I usually use VS Code for coding (not modding though ^^) quite a lot.

[naive snow]

Searching with notepad++ isn't the hard part (but it does help to see how to setup the filter for relevant files and the proper directory). The idea of launching it through MO2 is that is does the same file virtualization as when you launch the game. I.E assembling all mod files & conflict management to your Anomaly installation. So instead of searching through the mods folder and finding 15 times the same files that just gets all the time overwritten, you get only what the game would see when you do your search

[last tree]

Okay x)
I guess I give up, I checked with notepad++, found that the only other mod writing to that file might be a "ump position" mod, and tried to change the priority of mods, but apparently it still tells me to fuck off -.-
I really appreciate your help here, got me pretty far ^^
And guess I am happy with the melee slot, fuck the single handed then...
Big thanks though!

[quasi narwhal]

true chads use GIMP

enough said

[lilac idol]

wrong

true chads STAND using gimp

[fair pollen]

Substance painter

[summer stream]

Im going to fucking kill you

[fair pollen]

[naive snow]

I should share my substance painter export preset for bumps

[summer stream]

yeah

i dont understand shit on it

(and that would be VERY thankful)

[naive snow]

I'm out hunting this weekend, I'll try to send it on Monday

[summer stream]

ah, good luck

[quiet sorrel]

hey, anyone know what i should write in the ltx to make a specific item undroppable?

just like any quest item like the psy helmet

[slow bolt]

you remove it from the loot pool

from death_generic.ltx and the like

[quiet sorrel]

doesn't work for me because it's a new added item

maybe there's some kind of parameter or smt

[opal void]

Is this where the cool kids hang out?

[plucky path]

Alrighty, would anyone like to help me by telling me where the values for damage taken by bullets that didn't penetrate the armor are? (I mean enemy's armour, I wish to reduce the effectiveness of FMJ as I feel like AP ammo is way too weak in comparison, it's usually a singular shot more to the head)

As I feel it would be easier rather than lowering the AP damage of each FMJ bullet in the groks ballistic overhaul

[opal void]

Hmm

I have no idea honestly

I see what you are trying to do

[plucky path]

I found the bone profiles and ap scales in there but I'm not sure if that's exactly what changes it

As it's just scaling ap damage based on the armor type

[summer stream]

im pretty sure that you need to find t his one

[plucky path]

That's the ammo property

[summer stream]

since k_hit multiplies the damage

[plucky path]

Isn't it?

Also it's a hybrid issue of the FMJ just breaking the armor after a few shots and dealing enough damage while trying to kill the target

That the result of the shooting with AP is for example 5 bullets to the head on a SIN with nosorog and heavy helmet

While FMJ does it with 6 bullets

[summer stream]

just decrease ap slightly with the k_hit

and you should be good

[plucky path]

Yea but that's what I'd need to do with EACH ammo type

So I was wondering if you guys know where the calc for damage taken without pen or at least the armor's condition damage formula is

And I'd just decrease the AP damage taken by rounds that don't pen

Hopefully alongside damage taken in general

[summer stream]

this one

i suppose

or 181

yeah it's 181

it's in scripts

[plucky path]

Thank you!

I must have missed it when I was looking at it, since I only found the ammo values

[summer stream]

yes, shit power

[plucky path]

By the power of shit and sniper leg meta combined

So I would need to reduce the multiplier of damage taken by the bone's armor

local armor_loss_increment = tonumber(k_ap * 0.60) -- reduce bone armor depending on k_ap

And that SHOULD make non penetrating rounds take longer to break the armor

So instead of changing the ap pen values of each ammo bullet, I can just make it a 0.50 or 0.45

Time to change it and launch the tests

[plucky path]

Nope, didn't seem to work

[plucky path]

Changed the k_ap on the 5.45 to almost non existent but it still dealt the same amount of damage and took the same amount of shots

So there must be something else overwriting this

[summer stream]

check the red boxes

[plucky path]

I did

[summer stream]

or just down the information and this

[plucky path]

It's ammo icons, CQB, Recoil, Large Files (has no edits to damage, it's just weapons themselves and animations for the most part), same with weapon pack, scope radius fixes, world models,

[summer stream]

cqb

MAY do something with it

but idk

[plucky path]

🙂

I have haphazardly decided that CQB would only change melee weapons etc

IT HAS THE ENTIRE AMMO FILE IN THERE

Why is the ammo file in multiple places?

If all of the mods were made by grok and integrated into gamma

Redundancy?

[summer stream]

idk

[plucky path]

Thanks anyway

Okay so manually changing the ammo AP value worked

In the CQB

Changing this to 0.30 instead of 0.60 as it is by default, made it so that it now takes 3 shots of AP 5.45 and 6 shots of FMJ 5.45
It was 2 and 3 before the change

So now it is worth it to use the higher calibre as their higher damage will actually matter more

And using an ammo type that does not penetrate means it's way harder to kill an enemy

Instead of the 5AP to 6FMJ usual difference

0.40 still uses 2 AP shots and 5FMJ, so it doesn't make the enemies tankier if you are using the proper ammo which should be AP, I'll need to test if it doesn't change some other damage barriers like 7.62 etc but it looks promising

[naive snow]

Have you been testing all this on the hard difficulty multiplier?

By default the fake start scene if you've been testing in there is on the easy difficulty

[steep saddle]

Hi, had a thought but I don't really know how xray handles thing, so I have a question. Wouldn't putting a ramp on stairs would make it easier to walk up? Rn it's kinda choppy and running up stairs is almost useless bc of the clipping

[naive snow]

We can't edit or add geometry to maps

[steep saddle]

Ohh that explains all

[naive snow]

Otherwise it would have been fixed a long time ago

[steep saddle]

You would have to edit the engine even more ?

[steep saddle]

That's what I thought but I asked non the less

[naive snow]

No. The sdk, what allows us to compile the map into a playable versions, the source files for it have been lost to time

Well the source files for the map+edits made by the anomaly devs

[steep saddle]

That's a bummer

[lament vapor]

Guys i dont know shit about modding, how difficult would it be to add another piece of furniture to the hideout furniture mod?

[naive snow]

Pretty simple

[lament vapor]

Oh dang simple enough to explain here?

[naive snow]

Do you know how to 3D model or texture?

[lament vapor]

No but maybe there is something online about what i wanna do? Like a model?

[naive snow]

What are you even trying to do in the first place?

[steep saddle]

What about boxes and breakable things ?

[lament vapor]

Some sort of orthodox Christian icon to place. It makes sense since stalker takes place in ukraine

Would add athomsphere and decoration

In my opinion

[naive snow]

You'd still have to convert it and modify it for xray. Grab your model, add a bone to it, skin it, add your colliders, export, create the item section, add it to the furniture mod

It's a tad more complex than ripping a model online

[lament vapor]

Like i said i dont know shit about modding, is there maybe something online so i dont waste your time? A lot of those words i just dont know lol

[naive snow]

You can check the pins of this channel, I think there's still the gun tutorial online on YouTube. A lot aspects are similar

https://youtu.be/HwTYYH5zLjo?si=wb2bzLbWM2mbKoJM

It's not for hideout furniture stuff but you'll at least have the info on setting up your blender, texturing and basic rigging. Just reverse engineer other furniture pieces

[lament vapor]

Before i waste my time, are all the programs you need free?

[naive snow]

Yeah. Blender and whatever if you want paint.net or gimp for texturing if you don't want to pirate Photoshop

[lament vapor]

Okay. Also, i heard you can add your own pictures into posters from gamma, would that be a simpler solution? I asked why they were blank and someone told me

[naive snow]

Yeah making a poster texture is way easier

[lament vapor]

Do you just add a picture to the files ooor?

[naive snow]

Save your textures in the proper .dds format and name it correctly and it should replace the one of the poster

[lament vapor]

And add it where exactly?

[naive snow]

To the hideout furniture mod?

[plucky path]

Good point

Is there a way to just change the difficulty while in the debug area?

I've run a test on a different enemy so the stats might not be the same but using same gun ammo etc

It was a 3AP to the head compared to 5FMJ to the head on hard

I'll change the numbers around and compare

[lament vapor]

In mo2?

[naive snow]

You need to edit the difficulty modifiers in the actor damage balancer mod and Grok's boob. G_bo or something is the script file

[plucky path]

I've changed the numbers around and it was 4 FMJ with default setting instead of 5 with my seetings
And 2 AP to the head instead of 3AP on my settings, granted it was a different enemy

[naive snow]

Check the mod page, there's probably others that have asked the how to

[naive snow]

Basically all the damage balance on Gamma is always done on hard (0.9 damage and AP modifier)

[plucky path]

Yup, just forgot about that amidst all the other things I was checking

So this change made the enemies tankier in this one situation, but also widened the AP and FMJ gap

So I've partially achieved what I wanted

[naive snow]

At the top of the gboob file there should be a table of the local difficulty modifier, take the third entry and copy that number to the other entries and everything will be always on "hard"

[plucky path]

I just loaded my save and used the duty nosorog guy at rostok as the test

My save is already on hard

[naive snow]

You're shooting at Gravilenko as a test?

[plucky path]

Yup, does he have his own modifiers?

[naive snow]

Doesn't that guy have some increased resistance?

[plucky path]

[naive snow]

You should test it out instead on the same default sim duty 5 or something, so you at least get an average

[plucky path]

He is not in the tough important NPCs

Yeah, back to the labs forgot the debug didn't account for the difficulty

[naive snow]

What's your shooting distance? Are you taking into account the Grok's cqb stuff?

[plucky path]

Grok CQB is completely overwriting the main ballistic in the grok bo script section at least

I'm shooting from 10 meters

[naive snow]

That's gonna harsh when shooting afar

[plucky path]

Landing consecutive headshots isn't easy either

More reasons to pick up AP ammo

And learn to aim

[naive snow]

[plucky path]

Unless you have a good way to freeze an NPC

So they don't react to being shot

[naive snow]

Time_factor 0.1

[plucky path]

In the main debug console?

[naive snow]

Yeah the ~ key

[plucky path]

Do your companions take reduced damage?

From your shots?

[naive snow]

I think so yeah

[plucky path]

🙂

[naive snow]

Not specifically from your shots

Just all around

[plucky path]

Cringe, I wanted to have a good measuring tool

Duty doesn't have a default 5

[naive snow]

Use whatever group 5 you want

You can also do a save state in the fake start map to ensure consistency

[plucky path]

Hard difficulty, Master Duty in full exo, headshots

• 0.60
  AK74 20 meters
  FMJ 4
  AP 2

• 0.40
  AK74 20 meters
  FMJ 5
  AP 2

[random fulcrum]

are you sure you're on hard

[plucky path]

Yes

[random fulcrum]

because the f2 map is locked to easy

[plucky path]

Burn told me that

Now I'm in rostok

Shooting at a spawned NPC

Not a companion

[random fulcrum]

yeah if you started from the f2 map

and warped elsewhere

[plucky path]

No

[random fulcrum]

your game is still on easy

[plucky path]

It's on my save file

[random fulcrum]

just making that clear

[plucky path]

Used it against another enemy and it did increase the amount of FMJ shots

While keeping the same amount of AP shots

It might work different in edge cases

But since I'm just editing the formula for damage taken by the armor from ammunition that didn't penetrate it

They are consistent

Looks like I did what I wanted, thanks for help Burn and Maka

🫡

[wide cedar]

is there a mod for loot claimed bodies to be actually looted by the claimer? or rather some fix for loot claim to drop claim regardless of what is the source of death (right now it seems to do so only if the player is the killer)

[slow bolt]

This is for making mods - not asking for them. #╟🔰☢newbies-chat
For your question: Say !claim in #🤖bot-commands

[wide cedar]

I would write this in suggestions/bugs but i don't have access.

[late flare]

Does anybody know of a way to make it so that all weapons with the picatinny rail can support all weapon sights? Instead of some having a much reduced selection

[slow bolt]

not possible unless you model every gun with every sight

[late flare]

Do you know how i could go about doing this? Or is this quite a complex thing to do

[lilac idol]

https://youtu.be/u8crq79zMfs?si=LZkApRbWjkEbLRK-

[late flare]

Oh thanks so much i was just looking at tutorials i didnt see this one

[celest forge]

They found partially eaten human remains in the house of the guy who made that tutorial tho

[lilac idol]

that's literally in the guide

it's obvious

[celest forge]

https://tenor.com/view/true-successfully-deployed-get-this-man-a-true-true-morgan-freeman-true-morgan-freeman-gif-17551062976351461149

[summer stream]

im just waiting for the substance painter thing so i can do my own stuff

[rare sage]

is it possible to get the display name of an item in a script?

[random fulcrum]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1225178998276100156

[naive snow]

I need to drive back to the city tonight so try to remind me later or tomorrow and I'll send it

[summer stream]

yeah ill try to

[fair pollen]

||VeNoMMaNs|| exists

[summer stream]

don't want to disturb him

[merry coral]

Anyone know how I can edit the outfit outfit properties for Gamma?

I'm just trying to add 1 arte slot to the starter jackets, (mainly Redline Jacket)

But I can't figure out where these files would be for Gamma...

[wispy ferry]

here's a guide on how to do DLTX edits to outfits (and weapons, and any other item for that matter) that I wrote a while back
DLTX is the way to go, since when done properly it applies after any other changes and will work even if there's some weirdo change down the line

[merry coral]

Do I need any specific programs to do DLTX stuff?

[wispy ferry]

any text editor will do, I prefer Notepad++ because it's a lot nicer than basic Notepad

[merry coral]

Awesome! Much appreciated! 👍

Oh one more thing, how do I find an outfits ID name?

[wispy ferry]

the easiest way is to use the in-game debug item spawn menu; when hovering over an item it will show the ID

if you just want to change the artefact slots of outfits, then your DLTX mod will look something like this:

![leather_jacket_ID_1]
artefact_count = 1
![leather_jacket_ID_2]
artefact_count = 1
![leather_jacket_ID_3]
artefact_count = 1

[merry coral]

So I don't need to add the whole lines of the other armor stats like resistances etc?

[wispy ferry]

nope! only the stats you want to change need to be written into the file

[merry coral]

Okay! that seems doable. Thank you 😄

You've been a tremendous help! ❤️

[wispy ferry]

happy to help
the only difficult part of a DLTX mod like this is to do the file structure properly and to get MO2 to properly recognize it
and even that gets easy after doing it a couple times

[merry coral]

So in the tutorial it says make folders with * in the name? but I can't make folders with that symbol in the name?

[wispy ferry]

oh no, sorry that's a leftover from when I wrote that as just a long-ass message on Discord, it's just to bold and make it easier to see
**mod_system_whatever_name_here.ltx** becomes mod_system_whatever_name_here.ltx

[merry coral]

Gotcha, and by system name I have to put my PC name in it? or it can just be anything?

[wispy ferry]

you need mod_system_ at the start of the filename, but other than that it can be anything

[merry coral]

and for the artefact count does it need to have 10 spaces or could it just be like "artefact_count = 1" ?

Sorry if these are stupid questions, I've never messed with modding for Stalker (Never made any mods for anything tbh lol)

[wispy ferry]

it can be just like that, yes
not sure if it can have no spaces, but it's just like that so it looks more neat and tidy

[merry coral]

Okay cool! 😄

[wispy ferry]

and no worries, I could maybe rewrite the guide at some point
if you're having a hard time, you can use this as a base
it's some random changes I'd done for experimenting with DLTX changes

[merry coral]

and I make the extension.ltx right?

as opposed to "dltx"

[wispy ferry]

oh yeah right, DLTX is just the uuhhh engine thing that loads .ltx files
so yes, keep the file type as .ltx

[merry coral]

Okay! 🙂

This is exciting! I really do seriously appreciate your help! You're amazing!

[wispy ferry]

[merry coral]

can I use 7zip or does it have be a windows zip?

[wispy ferry]

it can be, 7zip is just recommended because it's a better program

[merry coral]

Gotcha

[wispy ferry]

MO2 recognizes .zip, .7z, .rar and a couple others
I just use 7zip to make regular .zip files

[merry coral]

Aight, I just finished it and installed it! Lets hope it works lol

[wispy ferry]

do prod me if it doesn't, and do send the file

[merry coral]

it works! HELL YEAH!

[wispy ferry]

hells yeah bud
you're a modder now!

[merry coral]

Thank you so much bro!

You're literally amazing

Thank you so so so much for helping me! 😄

[wispy ferry]

just doing my part, figuring out the magics of properly using DLTX took me a bit but it's pretty intuitive after a bit
since most properties you want to change are just as written in the debug menu (the outfit editor in debug menu shows the correct names and values even if it doesn't properly stick the changes)

some others I found by looking at other mods
like the tweaks mod I sent earlier has copies of a couple items with changed stats
outfit legs changed too

like a copy of the GSH-18 but using the 9x21mm cartridge
it's as simple as this code if all you want is to be able to spawn it from the debug menu

ammo_class                  = ammo_9x21_sp10, ammo_9x21_sp10_bad, ammo_9x21_sp10_verybad, ammo_9x21_sp11, ammo_9x21_sp11_bad, ammo_9x21_sp11_verybad, ammo_9x21_sp12, ammo_9x21_sp12_bad, ammo_9x21_sp12_verybad```

[merry coral]

True enough! Thats cool as hell

[plucky path]

The actual good chat in gamba

[plucky path]

Gamba has a lot of redundant mods/files that are leftovers

Plenty of overwriting upon overwriting

[wispy ferry]

and I choose to add to that pile
oh, and that might have been written to work with a mod that adds variants to 9x21 rounds, a cheapo FMJ and a somewhat overpowered HP variant

[plucky path]

Some of the redundancy is needed as some mods don't belong to grok, but there are specific gamma grok mods that overwrite each other multiple times

[wispy ferry]

DLTX does make it easier, for better and for worse, to adjust a thing several times
haven't checked too closely as to what files have a hard overwrite going on, but I would not be surprised if some mod has an overwrite of an overwrite of an overwrite

[plucky path]

I've seen at least one of such cases in the short time I spent in there, there is more for sure but my guess is that it would require to merge these mods as they propably need those overwritten files in the same directory

And that would made it more difficult to edit for the average player that wants to "tick off" an addon or later deployements for when you want to get rid of a feature

[wispy ferry]

could see at least a double-overwrite for a few
base mod, mod that adds onto that but requires base mod for assets, gamma balance addon that requires both previous mods

[plucky path]

Yup, they'd need to merged. Assuming grok has the right to do it, which in a good part of gamma mods he has

[summer stream]

@naive snow just a quick reminder about substance painter