╙🖇mods-making-discussion

[safe nimbus]

I didn't like the symbol on the back of the saiga, so I took it off.

[summer stream]

Frosty's mod doesn't have proper bumps.

So eitherwise it will look like shit.

[safe nimbus]

I just want it to look decent.

Uniform.

[barren spruce]

.

[safe nimbus]

Hello, Picnic.

[summer stream]

Then do as above :
THM file for color map : DXT5, Kaiser, OrenNayar Blin, Material Weight 0
THM file for bump : DXT5, Kaiser, Flags : Generate Mip Maps, Has Alpha

That's all

[safe nimbus]

Thanks, Maka.

[summer stream]

pipnik leaked himself

[barren spruce]

[summer stream]

[safe nimbus]

I kinda like the faded look, @summer stream

Looks decent enough for me.

[summer stream]

also guess what im doing

[safe nimbus]

PM

[summer stream]

nah

[safe nimbus]

IT'S A KNIFE

oooooo

[safe nimbus]

LET'S GO

Has there been any new animations made so you don't have to use universal animations?

[summer stream]

i am planning on new ones

#1292174833211412564 message

[safe nimbus]

Sweet

[crisp burrow]

скореескорее

[summer stream]

https://tenor.com/view/ohne-pixel-cs-go-katowice2014-ohne-counter-strike-gif-27001704

[crisp burrow]

https://tenor.com/view/deadp47-47-деадпи47-дед47-дед-gif-17027646103995977142

[grizzled bison]

Hey I've been trying to install pavelblend's xray addon for Blender but when it finishes the install nothing new shows up in addons. I've tried it with versions 3.5 3.6 4.4. addon is zipped. log on blender shows it being put in the addons folder but nothing. Any ideas?

[polar prawn]

@crisp burrow сюда кинуть?

[summer stream]

you need 4.3.2 blender if you want to run it properly

[grizzled bison]

thank

[polar prawn]

PKP test

[summer stream]

and that's how its named

[sonic bolt]

I was installing the wrong one the whole time I was trying to get it to work

[crisp burrow]

Да я имел в виду на сайт от своего имени) Забей) Спасибо за ролик)

[sonic bolt]

Also, does anyone know how the freezoom works on some guns? Not getting the same effect for some of Juan's guns and I wanna standardize it

[polar prawn]

[undone spruce]

Have to delete it immediate hud_fov on the gun ltx

[grizzled bison]

still not showing up on 4.3.2

[summer stream]

do you have this?

[grizzled bison]

I install from local drive

[summer stream]

okay i see it

remove enabled only

that's why you dont see it

[grizzled bison]

but nah

[summer stream]

ah

[grizzled bison]

I downloaded from here https://github.com/PavelBlend/blender-xray

[summer stream]

and how did you download it

[grizzled bison]

zip

[summer stream]

yep i see it

https://github.com/PavelBlend/blender-xray/releases/tag/v2.45.0

download from here

[sonic bolt]

Make sure its this one I made the mistake of not doing so

[grizzled bison]

yall did it! thanks so much

[random copper]

how does one go about adding more than 1 custom poster to the game?

[azure bluff]

jesus, if this works it's a game changer

[prisma brook]

Is there any chance to see the mod which changes NPC animations and gravity field around them? Or this engine will not let to make it ?

[naive snow]

Duplicate the item entry, give it a custom name, assign a new texture to that ogf, add the item to crafting tables/traders or just spawn it via debug

[random fulcrum]

what even is that

[azure bluff]

a way to attach a debugger to a running script integrated into the engine. no more guessing what keys lua table holds, you can just inspect an object in VSCode.

[sudden inlet]

Yeah, overall it works and has decent call stack with variables overview.
Guys from IX-Ray invented the tech, all credit goes to them

[azure bluff]

why are there so many seemingly active, independent forks of x-ray? There's demonized, IX-Ray, OGSR, OpenXRay. All of them seem to copy some features from the others and leave some out.

[summer stream]

ix-ray is the most advanced one there yet

[naive snow]

Because someone looking at the 4 ''standards'' decides that there should be a new version that encompasses all the best and leaves out the worst of each version. Results, there's now 5 standards.

Honestly, its simply because every big project will at somepoint branch off one of the engine versions for their own needs, stop integrating new changes because it would mess up their own thing and there you have it, all these different versions

[azure bluff]

eh, so same old story. I thought maybe there are some licensing shenanigans or some modder beef. I hate to see the effort so splintered.

oh shit, that's the 5th standard mindset, gotta be careful.

[random fulcrum]

it's usb c

MY fork will be THE foundation for the future, it'll be UNIVERSAL, you just wait and see

and then another team/dude pops up and says the same thing

[fair canopy]

USB c was supposed to be the chosen one

[random fulcrum]

c for chosen

[sonic bolt]

USB C talk as soon as mine breaks

[undone spruce]

C for conked charging chip after 3 days of use

[sudden inlet]

Looking for some ideas how such animation can look like, really struggling with finding inspirations for this

[steady apex]

Modded exes is a superset of anomaly sources, cause anomaly doesnt accept pull requests. If it was this project wouldn't exist

[ocean ermine]

how do i access the models and textures of anomaly? i want to create new animations and imporved textures for it

[toxic frost]

Honestly, that's pretty solid

I can't really think of anything off the top of my head that you could use as a reference or inspiration. Despite that, this could be implemented as is and I would be okay with it. Some other modders who have experience with animation might be able to give you some pointers.

[sudden inlet]

You can extract anomaly assets from db directory with this https://github.com/revolucas/AXRToolset

[misty mulch]

or go full bore and just unpack everything with db_unpacker_all.bat in the tools folder in Anomaly

[ocean ermine]

thanks

[granite mauve]

hello! could someone much smarter than myself tell me if this is possible? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMGtpRflMZc

[lilac ibex]

what

some tldr would be nice

[slow bolt]

5 and a half minutes

[sudden inlet]

newcomer_meme_12.jpg

[granite mauve]

It's kinda hard to explain without writing a novel, but it would be a mod that kinda works like Road to Vostok with moving dynamic areas you lose your stuff in

if you die

[lilac ibex]

so yeh thats possible

[slow bolt]

tldr

[lilac ibex]

thanks i aint reading allat. too long

[slow bolt]

[lilac ibex]

you could put it as "solyanka ahh zones"

where you lose entire eq

[slow bolt]

I read the summary and it is incredibly hard

PvP tarkov ass mechanic

[granite mauve]

it would work off of a better alife system like if a faction took over an area in the zone it would turn into the "DARK ZONE'' like Vostok in that game

[sudden inlet]

This sounds very much like soulslike, no?

[granite mauve]

I thought so. I know nothing about modding, but this idea makes me wanna jump in and try. I just don't want to if it's going to be impossible

[slow bolt]

Bruh this is hillariously hard

[granite mauve]

https://tenor.com/view/toby-cry-phone-spider-man-cry-phone-spider-man-phone-toby-phone-gif-12875606672124040541

[novel ruin]

Come on guys, dont make our new and very ambitious modder down, he can do it if he just believes

[nocturne night]

Hey how can I change Hip's default gun?

like instead of her spawning with a makarov she spawns with another gun how do I do that?

[wide bobcat]

So when you guys make weapon lists, how many times do you do it to make it appear SOMEWHAT commonly? I know the normal probability doesn't work but what specifically is the amount of entries should I do?

I know one entry isn't enough, but like... how many?

[celest forge]

Hey wait a second

https://tenor.com/view/strelok-pointing-gif-16624760617714642893

[wide bobcat]

Yeah I've been editing them to be more common but also specific to certain factions by hiding some trade scripts

Like say the L86 is held by Mercs and ISG primarily with Freedom on the side

Nimble sells a lot of the guns still but not all of em stuff like that

My ultimate goal is just to integrate them into my playthrough more

Not just purchase but find and repair

Fought through a horde in Limansk but no new weaponry found*, so I'm trying to up the ante a bit.

I just don't know by HOW much I should increase the spawn list

I'm mainly just frustrated how the same weapons keep respawning over and over with little variance. Its like CMON give me something different

[naive snow]

I'm pretty sure with the weighted loadout that gamma runs, adding multiple times the same gun doesn't do anything.
Also any "upper" tier, veteran for example, inherits from the previous tier and any other under. So adding the gun to rookie will add it up until legend.

You can open up the loadout file of the weighted loadout mod and you'll have a full breakdown of how it works

[wide bobcat]

Where is this file?

[naive snow]

In the weighted loadout mod

[wide bobcat]

O h I didn't know that existed. Well that works out, GAMMA has so many mods its kinda hard to think of what to search for exactly.

Especially as an outsider looking in

[naive snow]

You can also just search on discord, multiple people have answered multiple times and broke it all down several times

[wide bobcat]

I did it get a snippet from it apparently, but I wasn't aware it was from a thing I could just access at any point.

So I just took what I saw from the image and put it to practice.

[naive snow]

Welcome to modding, most of it is FAFO

[wide bobcat]

Well this will allow for some more simple editing and stretching out

Also one last question

Instead of rookie status it says novice correct? I've also seen some loadouts just say [experienced_loadout] with no faction tag what does that mean?

Like its universal or just a general addition?

[naive snow]

Correct, every loadout inherits from those

[wide bobcat]

Gotchaaaa that's what I thought, my second theory was it was for loners or something else I wasn't aware of.

Well I'm gonna read through the NPC file extensively and apply it

[naive snow]

There's a full breakdown of the tiers in every faction file. At the top you can find what inherits from what

[faint sable]

the more entries of that gun makes it drop more often, only in gamma though, if not using gamma then you need to add : and then the percent for it to drop

wpn_l86_lsw:1:0:15
the :15 is 15% etc

[naive snow]

Even with the weighted loadout? I thought ltx tables would only pick the latest key out of a table

[wide bobcat]

Yeah that's what I heard, that if you spam it it will spawn more

Do you do it like... this (1) or this (2)? Or does it not matter?

[faint sable]

For me in FWP, adding more entries for my weapons made them spawn significantly more than before, however it stills counts all the other guns within that npcs loadout section and the extra gun just gets into the random pool selection so it's still chance, but more entries = more higher chance it'll pick that gun instead

[faint sable]

the first : means if it uses a sight or scope, second : means what ammo type it uses, third : is percent, gamma doesn't care about percent so you can give it whatever as long as you give it extra entries

[wide bobcat]

No I know that I mean the formatting, like do you repeat it under one ![entry] or under multiple?

[faint sable]

like this would work for gamma

[wide bobcat]

Perfect I'll study it

[faint sable]

it'd repeat for each section you want the loadout to come out

[wide bobcat]

Ah so secondary way of formatting

[faint sable]

if it's a pistol then yes

secondary is for sidearms, primary is for rifles any long rifle etc

[wide bobcat]

Last question, what happens if a weapon has an integrated scope but you put 0 on the first part? Does it glitch out or just ignore it

I always wondered that

[faint sable]

If it's integrated it doesn't matter, that'd be model based

[wide bobcat]

Gotcha so my assumption was correct there

[faint sable]

like example is the G28, model has integrated scope within blender, but even if it's 0 or 1 it won't actually care

[naive snow]

We should get this pinned at some point

[wide bobcat]

yeahhhhh

[wide bobcat]

By chance threshold if probability with GAMMA isn't being taken into account what is the chance based off of when it reads the entire enemy loadout? I'm confused on that part

"If using my edited version of NPC Loadouts, the chance threshold is rolled for the entire loadout of the enemy. Then, all weapons that succeed with that threshold will be put into a separate list."

I reread it multiple times and I'm confuzzled

[naive snow]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1310295759114993674

Everything is pretty much explained there

[wide bobcat]

Gotcha

[fair canopy]

It will if you want dynamic zoom

[wide bobcat]

So both entries and weight play a role. Man that is hard to understand since it seems so off...

[faint sable]

oh fr?

just spam the entries

[wide bobcat]

I know what I need to do its just something that can punch a hole in your brain if you are taking all in at once like me

[faint sable]

big brain

[wide bobcat]

Like this is paragraph upon paragraph for me, but adding weight to the entries seems to just work.

So the chance threshold for the entire loadout is based on weights and if they can meet or are greater than it, then they are put into that collected group and then its randomly picked out.

So thus adding more entries causes the weight to have a better chance and with more entries on top of that they can be picked more commonly at random

No no I spelt that wrong

Higher weight equals more capacity to beat the chance cull, more entries with higher weight means the random selection of the collected list is higher.

So entries labeled zero are virtually impossible to show unless a zero is rolled so like say these entries in the duty list are labeled 100 so they are heavily focused on to spawn. Thus why Duty always spawns with these AKs so much

Jesus that took forever to fully understand but I think I did it! Now I'm gonna apply this to Juan's weapons and make 'em show up more often.

OH wait that's the scope chance I'm a dummy but still I get it

No wonder the Val spawns so much on 'em it has a chance of 25 compared to the other specialty weaponry

[fair canopy]

Add all the weight numbers and then divide by the weapons weight to figure out it's chance to spawn

You don't need more entries, just give it a higher weight

[wide bobcat]

Yep that's what I'm doing

I realized the problem wasn't the lack of multiple entries it was the lack of the weight addition

So it defaulted to 10

So something like 40 or 30 is more than enough

[wide bobcat]

Sorry to @ you but does the ranks with no solo loadouts like Professional or Expert do anything? As far as i can tell they just wrap back around to the other rank lists

[tardy flicker]

On scripting animation functions, is there anything I should know to avoid triggering busyhands?

[lament current]

its comoing along decent. my issue is white gets lost in the game. or is weak in expression. and color. like red points to it being DUTY theme. when it has to be universal.
and color everything makes is not fit in to the dark theme of stalker.. oh man my brain

[random fulcrum]

brotherman red is health

there are no players as idiotic to only associate red with duty

like what would you color the bandit hud

if coloring was meant to represent a faction

or what color would be associated with the bandit faction

is white the color of the monolith so it musn't be used as it's thematically already reserved?

is black the same but for bandits?

red is universally health

red draws attention too

which makes sense for a hud element as important as the health display

[lament current]

sorry, but you are rite

[lament current]

does anyone have some knowledge with the minimap, the xml and placement. im editing it. but i keep getting xml errors.

im trying to acomplish this

[main plover]

Finally sit to the mpx loaded with 9x21 to mag dump stalkers

[lament current]

im excited already... dumped on plenty pmcs in tarkov with a long build of that one, wid da square gun. mixing AP with HP

[misty mulch]

dumping this here because fuck searching in the suggestions channels for info

Selective XML overwrites using late-loading files (i.e. not a direct overwrite of XML files)
Also on Github.

Practical example: #1364286250428923914 message (look at configs/text for how I override the descriptions of ammo)

Written example:
Let's say you have some string ID st_mystring, and two files with it, st_strings.xml and z_st_strings.xml.

st_strings.xml

<string id="st_mystring">
  <text>This is my string.</text>
</string>
<string id="st_mystring_2">
  <text>This is my other string.</text>
</string>

z_st_strings.xml

<string id="st_mystring">
  <text>This is altered text!</text>
</string>

Because z_st_strings comes AFTER st_strings if you order it alphabetically, the game will display "This is altered text!" when it looks for st_mystring. However, when the game looks for st_mystring_2, it will still display "This is my other string."

What's the benefit?

• By using an override xml, you don't overwrite things that you don't include.
  • This means that, if the file you're overriding updates and adds new string IDs, they will display properly instead of breaking the display.
  • This means less chances to introduce typos, less unnecessary overwriting, and overall a "cleaner" mod.
  • This also means if the mod you overwrite, has an update, you are under way less pressure to immediately update as well.
• It's easy for you, or anyone using your mod, to clearly see which XML files your mod edits and how. This makes it IMMENSELY easier to do troubleshooting or quick fixes like hiding specific files, etc.

The problem is that you run into the z-stacking war, but for now, since XML direct overrides are rare (and you can "beat" all of them with DXML) it's not too much of an issue.

[fair canopy]

[misty mulch]

actually i should prob sling it on github next to the dltx guide. e: done, https://github.com/veerserif/gamma-dashboard/blob/main/xml_overwrites.md

[lament current]

sorry bud, im a fucking retard with discord. i have a boomer brain. and im fucking newborn to modding.
but thank you for dumping this info on me.

[misty mulch]

oh right i need to disclaimer the FUCK out of it now

[lament current]

i did manage to understand the XML, and change what i needed.
so now im adjusting the finer tuning of what i want.
would you possibly know if there is a software, homepage. where to can plot in XML placemments in the 2D space of a resolution. to get a visual representation, to cut down the amount of time it takes to make comprehensive hud rearrangements.
since changing a value load up the game. over and over takes forever.

[misty mulch]

lmao no i do not

[misty mulch]

are you saying the overrides worked for UI xml placement

[misty mulch]

you'd be better off looking at what e.g. SquareDOV uses for its xy coordinates and using THOSE numbers as a basis

instead of trying to start from scratch, look at what mods like the one you want to make have already done

[lament current]

that is what im doing. however. if i just wanted to move it to another corner. some simple math would do the trick.
but when moving and resize, and moving around various elements.
it aint gonna cut it.
so if i could put someting on a x.y. and see a representation of it.
it would effectively progress development, and allow making more complicated things.
with dds desgins.
i guess i can put in a easy number.
and represent it with a screenshot in photoshop.
then double or dividing that representation to get closer to my wanted placement

[misty mulch]

yeah i don't do UI modding so. good luck?

[lament current]

thank you, you did help however.
now i know not to ask for help, unless accepting redicule.
thank you

[misty mulch]

i was trying to convey that i cannot help at all for UI modding and what I wrote can only confidently apply to text string XMLs

so i am a bad source to ask about UI modding.

and, in fairness, you started with

sorry bud, im a fucking retard with discord. i have a boomer brain. and im fucking newborn to modding.

so "go look at mods that do what you want to do" is pretty valid as advice.

[lament current]

agreed, i apologize. know that i know such an thing exists.
and not only how to write a msg, or do voice chat,
ill make sure to make use of the material. thank you 🙂

WhEn i Waaa yOunG ventrillo and teamspeak were only for chattinhhg

[limber heron]

How does one properly do a russian text for a item description?

[lament current]

drink vodka, and start typing

[lament current]

hold up wait a minute.. u made those posters?

[limber heron]

no

[limber heron]

I pasted readable Russian Cyrillic into the .xml file

[lament current]

maybe ask "stalker boss" on moddb he seem to do russian translation alot. when english speakers do addons/ mods 🙂

[fair inlet]

setup your text editor to save the file in windows-1251 encoding

[misty mulch]

if you saved the file in UTF-8 - it does that

[main plover]

Big

[limber heron]

so,... which editor would you use?

[fair inlet]

notepad++ or vs code

[sudden inlet]

idea allows you to specify encoding for all new files for the current project

[tardy flicker]

Does anyone know how I could get an npc to move away from its target using obj:position():distance_to(pos) ? I can understand moving towards but not how to move away without comparing to tertiary positions

[sudden inlet]

Any chance companion do this when you make them "Stay Far"?

[limber heron]

I dusted off the VSC and set Files: Encoding to Cyrillic (Windows 1251) in Settings but now the description reverted to the one in base Anomaly (porn mags)

[tardy flicker]

hmm good idea, gotta find which file that's buried in

[misty mulch]

can you just share the files you're modifying. ideally zip up your entire working folder so we can also check the filetree

[limber heron]

It's literally the same as GAMMA Heavy Metal Magazines. I'm just changing textures and text

[misty mulch]

yeah but what changes are you making, to which files?

hence why sharing your in progress work will be way easier to troubleshoot

[limber heron]

^

[misty mulch]

ok - got a work meeting but can take a look after

[misty mulch]

final thing before i gotta go - the & character is special in XML, you should always replace it with & to avoid issues

or just don't use & in the text

[sudden inlet]

If you would find a way, it would be very cool to make small article at igigog book about AI

[azure bluff]

I'm trying to make this behavior go away: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr4yzTtrO7M

repro steps:

• disguise
• get spotted by an enemy
• go somewhere where they obviously cannot see you
• rip the patch to lose disguise
• every enemy in the vicinity is immediately alarmed - i want this to stop.

Any disguise expert here? I went over the gameplay_disguise.script multiple times and I do not see any place this behavior could be caused by. My current working theory is that it is related to NPC memory, I'm testing it out and it seems that after about 2 minutes after hiding you can safely lose the disguise and no one will aggro but I still cannot pin-point what part of the script would be responsible for triggering aggro on enemies if you lose disguise before memories of all NPCs expire.

[azure bluff]

gameplay_disguise.script doesn't even exactly trigger any sort of aggro itsel it just sets the "community" (which i guess is faction) which seems to trigger the hostility, so the aggro on losing disguise comes from somewhere else, like some other script or game engine feature that keeps track of who has seen player recently and if the NPC/player communities are hostile the NPCs become hostile.

[thin elm]

if anyone know anything about frostys wepon pack could anyone tell me how to fix a cant find wpn mp9 error

[livid lintel]

I need me some prop.govno

[weary root]

maybe you want prop_kuha (hope i didn’t screw name)

[sudden inlet]

Have you tried anomaly discord? There are plenty of guys who know all these insights about how npcs react to player

[azure bluff]

i haven't, i'll try there later. Thanks.

[azure bluff]

nice, in addition to eating and sleeping now we will have to keep track of player character having to shit/take a piss? i'm all for it.

[limber heron]

I got it to work, at least on my machine. Gnna make a post now

[narrow orbit]

how can i adjust the scope positioning on the weapon rail for the ak-12?

trying to edit the positioning for the xps3-0 on ak-12

[celest forge]

Open the model in blender and move the mesh

[crisp burrow]

кто скажет "вырубай" - тому сношу ебало

[sudden inlet]

Если не получится, придется пробовать еще раз

[crisp burrow]

Придется😰

[crisp burrow]

Кто знает есть ли вариант как-то выставить в мсм выбор модельки? Оно будет так работать? Я умею добавлять в мсм приколы(просто спиздить у кого то кусок кода лол), но не пробовал туда модельку сувать... В swm вроде можно хз, надо попробовать
Does anyone know if there is an option to somehow set the model selection in MСM? Will it work like that? I can add jokes to MСM (just steal a piece of code from someone lol), but I haven't tried to put a model in there...

Весело было бы, если бы можно было прямо в игре менять ей костюмчик

Или типа от группировки зависимость сделать хз... Бля я псих

[sudden inlet]

@azure bluff btw, do you have a savefile for that issue with disguising?

[azure bluff]

ye, sure but i have a couple of mods on top, i can give a full list. I doubt the save file will work without them

[sudden inlet]

Oh, nvm then, will try to reproduce it myself

[azure bluff]

the issue is easily triggerable anywhere as long as you disguise against a hostile faction. Repro steps here: #╙🖇mods-making-discussion message

[azure bluff]

what, this is available!? I thought Stalker's versions of lua doesn't support requiring stuff and it just loads all the *.script files and that's it. Useful Idiots uses standard Lua files and all.

[sudden inlet]

You can even add whole C libraries like it's done in #1375708186828345416

[lilac ibex]

nice keylogger

[summer stream]

[azure bluff]

was there ever a case of a malicious stalker mod?

[lilac ibex]

yes

CoC "patch"

snip

[sudden inlet]

From first glance, npc doesn't forget about you at all.
As you can see, actor is still in the list of npc:memory_visible_objects()

[sonic bolt]

How do character portraits work? Is there a way for me to find these values in gimp or photopea?

[summer stream]

ah yes
recurse

[lilac ibex]

it's not a complete script tho

[sonic bolt]

I dunno what these coordinates are supposed to mean

[summer stream]

XML files

you can find the coordinates via stalker icon editor

[azure bluff]

npc:memory_visible_objects()
what type even is the npc ?

[sonic bolt]

Oh, didn't know it wasn't any different from normal icons, thanks

[sudden inlet]

It's a result of db.storage[id].object

[azure bluff]

and how did you print the npcs memory to the screen?

[azure bluff]

are those like some engine returned arbitrary shape objects or can i find some luajit class of the npcs?

[sonic bolt]

Do I basically use no grid to find out what values they are?

[summer stream]

stalker icon editor already has 50x50 grid

so you don't need to touch anything

[sudden inlet]

1. add -dbgdev to launch args
2. start save
3. F7 - Debug HUD
4. Press ESC to menu and press 1 or 2 or 3 to display different menus

[azure bluff]

ok so my working theory was basically correct - NPCs remember the actor it's just that actor's community changes and that's how we get aggro, right?

[sudden inlet]

Theoretically )

[azure bluff]

is there like some reference for available operation on the npc object?

i'm thinking of making NPCs forget actor on outfit change if actor is out of sight

[sudden inlet]

Maybe https://github.com/Tosox/STALKER-Anomaly-gamedata/blob/v1.5.2/gamedata/scripts/lua_help.script#L5648

[sudden inlet]

That sounds like an another crutch, lol. There should be "honest" solution

[sonic bolt]

If I were to add my own portraits, how precise do I have to be when writing the XML?

Cuz the grid doesn't seem to match the positions of the portraits

[summer stream]

select the exact coordinates via holding down left hand

[sonic bolt]

Like this?

[azure bluff]

why do you think it's a crutch? The condition probably should include that they're not already combat/aggroed against the player.

Unless I'm understanding the consequences wrong this would make that NPCs basically do not give a shit about if you go behind a wall in a disguise and strip naked there. How would they know what you're doing if they can't see you?

[summer stream]

mhm

[sonic bolt]

I see, still don't know how helpful the grid is considering how it's not 1:1 with the portraits

[summer stream]

you can just manually set it up

[sonic bolt]

I guess I just have to be precise?

Gotta zoom in but I can't figure out how to

[sudden inlet]

Just because the fact that you need to "clear" npc memory manually.
We for sure can say that no mod does that manually and game handles that by itself, so, in ideal world, lol, there should be a more general solution that fixes the reason why npc doesn't forget actor

[summer stream]

Ctrl + +

[sonic bolt]

Also realized the XMLs already have the width and height for the portrait size

[summer stream]

see

[sonic bolt]

50x50 wasn't enough tho 😤

[azure bluff]

tell me more because i genuinely do not even have a concept of such a solution. Disguise is not an original feature and i think NPC memory is - so the entire memory logic is very likely not adapted in anyway to handle disguise mechanic. That reasoning takes me to the conclusion that since we're already putting an entire fist into the nose (disguise mechanic) we just need to push harder if it doesn't fit. I don't see an alternative yet to be honest.

i'll let the problem sit in my head for some time, maybe i'll come up with something else.

thanks for the help, i need to sleep

and also about scripts not manipulating memory - i think they do.

[sudden inlet]

Yea, I can be for sure wrong.
It's better to have any kind of a solution instead of having none

[sonic bolt]

Is there any way to speed up an animation or reload? I'm trying to fix the Ithaca Trench not having shells when reloading but giving it the base Ithaca's reload is very slow

[summer stream]

omf editor can set up the speed

[sonic bolt]

Just download the one in pins right?

[summer stream]

yes

[sonic bolt]

Is it not possible for me to make the speed 1.5 or shorten the length for OMF animations? 😭

[bronze apex]

try adding ,1.5 at the end of the animation in the ltx file

i did this for the vssk and it worked so

[sonic bolt]

This worked out better than the omf edit, thanks

[nocturne night]

hey I'm trying to add a new gun part but I'm getting a crash saying that the game can't read the end description

Expression : false
Function : CXml::LoadFromString
File : E:\Anomaly-1.5.1\xray-monolith\src\xrXMLParser\xrXMLParser.cpp
Line : 154
Description : XML file:text\eng\st_revolver_parts.xml value: errDescr:Error reading end tag.

stack trace:

what did I messed up?

[faint sable]

It's missing the ends

try this and just add your stuff to it instead

[nocturne night]

thx I'll try that

[summer stream]

i love when people purposefully break the string table

[nocturne night]

I copy that straight from the game files lol

[summer stream]

https://tenor.com/view/ohne-pixel-cs-go-katowice2014-ohne-counter-strike-gif-27001704

[nocturne night]

to make a new part I need the ltx in tems and what else

[summer stream]

it doesnt mean it will be read

[nocturne night]

cause it was supposed to be in the debug menu and it is not here

[summer stream]

ltx for the item
then put it for traders
after that write it into parts for the revolvers

[nocturne night]

have I done something wrong again?

[summer stream]

looks good

[nocturne night]

yet it is not in debug menu

[summer stream]

it just couldn't read the xml

[tardy flicker]

Does anyone know what's up with the mutant lie_sleep animation not working or crashing the game when called? I can't get blender xray working to check if the animation works properly but it used to be in game right?

[summer stream]

strange

[nocturne night]

it should be here

[summer stream]

try to call it via the name
prt_w_cylinder_revolver_1

[nocturne night]

oh non

[summer stream]

[nocturne night]

mine was from the gas tube

[bronze apex]

what did you name the ltx file? maybe that?

[summer stream]

try using bolt carrier

[nocturne night]

items_parts_revolver

[summer stream]

mod_system_zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz_revolvercylinder.ltx

[summer stream]

make it a dltx

[nocturne night]

by adding zzzzz to it?

[summer stream]

no

[bronze apex]

unironically name it this

[summer stream]

put it into configs

[nocturne night]

oh it is already in

[summer stream]

then mod_system_zzzzz(any amount of zzz)_revolvercylinder.ltx

OH THAT'S WHY

[nocturne night]

ah

it is in config/items

not configs

[summer stream]

if you wanted to add it via NON dltx
go configs/items/items

[nocturne night]

ok I will move to config and see if it works

[bronze apex]

keep the same file name and move it to #╙🖇mods-making-discussion message

[sonic bolt]

How do I use the Stalker Icon Editor to position scopes?

[nocturne night]

no dice

[nocturne night]

do you mean like the position where the gun will be in first person?

[sonic bolt]

Nah, for the UI. I kinda have it figured out

[nocturne night]

My hero!

I could kiss you

now how to change the texture

[summer stream]

make an icon for it

[nocturne night]

no in the ltx

do I just add a line saying icon?

icon= dicpic357

[summer stream]

you need to forward it to an icon

like this

[nocturne night]

width and height is how big the texture will be in the game right?

[summer stream]

yes

[nocturne night]

and x y is where the icon is in grid

[summer stream]

yes

god damn it

[nocturne night]

if not grid then just set 0

[summer stream]

i keep forgetting the language

[summer stream]

if it's set exactly at 0 0

[sonic bolt]

Stalker Icon Editor also gives you more precise locations

No need for guesswork

At least for normal icons and not scopes so far (for me)

[nocturne night]

да

[summer stream]

yes

[sonic bolt]

Damnit what am I doing wrong

[summer stream]

trunk :

[sonic bolt]

Did I do the sequence wrong? I pressed trunk for the rifle then optic for the ZF4

[fair canopy]

Did you save the positions in the ltx?

[sonic bolt]

Yeah, I just replaced them

They were actually fine before I did it

I just wanted to use the new clean icons as a test

[undone spruce]

yes, but on a 50x50 pixels slots

[nocturne night]

oh thank you

[fair canopy]

yeah i havent gotten around to fixing it yet

[sonic bolt]

I mean, it looks fine on other guns but this one looks really off

[fair canopy]

i probably adjusted it with a different icon for the gun

most likely a 1x tall icon instead of the 2x tall one

[sonic bolt]

So if I were to make adjustments, which icon file should I use?

[fair canopy]

whatever icon youre using, unless you plan to share it

otherwise, whatever the default icon is when you install the mod

[sonic bolt]

So just ignore the clean icons for now? That's a shame, I'd love to get them working

[sonic bolt]

Frosty managed to get his to work...

[fair canopy]

huh

i mean the gun icon

[sonic bolt]

Oh I was talking about the scopes

[fair canopy]

take a look at how they're named in the 3dss configs

in the dummy scopes ltx you can find the icon name youre looking for

[sonic bolt]

I think I have this part figured out, its just that the icon editor doesn't seem to want to play nice with the scope compared to in game

[fair canopy]

what do you mean?

[sonic bolt]

#╙🖇mods-making-discussion message The scope looks fine in the icon editor, I copy the values from the addons manager and put it into the LTX, but in game it looks way off

[fair canopy]

probably a dltx override somewhere for the icon

[sonic bolt]

Not enough z's again

[cunning grove]

Leaving here for myself and anybody else who wants to fix the redline fall damage from sprinting meme: increase the value of ph_crash_speed_min in actor.ltx files of the ABF mod, Fixed Player Thermal Res, and GAMMA Artefacts Reinvention

[sonic bolt]

But I also can't help but feel like the icon editor is just wrong for some reason

Cuz I copied values from an older version and they were just fine

[fair canopy]

just edit the values directly in the g43 ltx in 3dss

[sonic bolt]

I did before, but they just completely stopped me from being able to add the scope to the G43 at all so I pulled out an older version and it seemed to work

[fair canopy]

you may have touched something then

[sonic bolt]

I'm using a G43 reanimation, it only broke when I updated to the latest version

[fair canopy]

i h avent touched the g43 in months

[sonic bolt]

Gah screw it, I'll just stick this in here in case the icon is the issue

Credits to Day of Infamy in case they sue me

[sonic bolt]

[fair canopy]

also i just remembered, but i use renegades fixed ports collection, since it was supposed to be added to gamma

and i use the icon for the g43 from it

[celest forge]

Is that icon from base GAMMA

[fair canopy]

which?

[sonic bolt]

Mine or Athis?

[fair canopy]

the gun itself?

thats essentially the crepis icon

[sonic bolt]

Zamn, I'd argue it looks better than DOI's

[fair canopy]

im pretty sure the model and texture from the reanimation are just the ones from doi

technically also the wrong scope i guess but it doesnt matter much

[sonic bolt]

Oh damn right, I guess that's why the icon fits

Also I may have found the culprit for the bad scope positioning

Fml it works. I made the mistake copying the scope_x/y instead of 1icon_layer_x/y

Welp, at least I know now

[crisp burrow]

wip

vot staraya es 4e

[nocturne night]

ok just one more thing the icon is not showing up in the menu

this is the icon I've made

I tried to set it for 50x50 like Ron said but it didn't work

[fair canopy]

you have to scale it to a 50x50 section of the sheet

and then you have to figure out the coordiantes of where your icon is and plug that into the ltx

[nocturne night]

ah now I understand

[sonic bolt]

Use the stalker icon editor so its easier

[nocturne night]

where can I get it?

[sonic bolt]

#╙🖇mods-making-discussion message

[nocturne night]

thx

[sonic bolt]

Just drag and drop the DDS file in (or open it) then left click drag over the area you want to get values of

[nocturne night]

mine would be H50 W50 and X0 Y0?

oh no

would be 1 1

thx I figured how this magic thing works

[undone spruce]

youd have to change the image

[nocturne night]

nvm

[undone spruce]

lemme do it

[nocturne night]

the icon diapered

[nocturne night]

like shrink the cylinder?

[undone spruce]

basically have the entire icon inside a 50x50 square

or multiples of it if you want it to be bigger

[nocturne night]

like this?

[undone spruce]

check the ui_icon_equipment

[undone spruce]

yeah

[undone spruce]

try to create a 50x50 grid on photoshop

and try to have it smth like this

[nocturne night]

is this correct?

[nocturne night]

Yep the icon is not showing up anymore

[sonic bolt]

50x50 just refers to the grid size, not the item itself.

[sonic bolt]

50x50 is kind of the standard of all items in the inventory, so if you want your item to be 1 tile large then this is how it'd appear

If you're using a photo editing software, add a grid and set it to 50x50 and scale your item accordingly

Snap to grid also makes things a bit easier sometimes

[undone spruce]

the height and weight there is calculated from the slots

so it should be 0,0,1,1

inv_grid_x = 0
inv_grid_y = 0
inv_grid_height = 1
inv_grid_width = 1

[nocturne night]

Thx mate

[crisp burrow]

вот что за криволапка так умудрилась сделать...

приходится чинить за ними

[nocturne night]

American 180?

was it that the name?

[undone spruce]

yeah

[hazy vault]

funny 22.lr drum mag gun from new vegas

[gaunt pawn]

I have fallen in a bit of a rabbit hole these past few days thinking of stuff that could be added to the furniture mod + some simple crafting recipies and other small stuff. I dont know anything about modding but someone that does could make this happen (i'm guessing). Where is a good place to start ?

[misty mulch]

Well, I can show you how to do crafting recipes - here's my example crafting zip file. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UTViiNg656Ey_0p7tL3DkJam9oe86RAL/view?usp=drive_link You don't need to read the ammo crafting file (the one inside the ammo folder)

As for how to target furniture crafting specifically - you can check out how my "add crafting recipes for existing decor that doesn't have them" mod works. You'll want to look, specifically, at the "Appliances-only" folder. https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1382005565462544475

I don't know how to actually add furnitures, but if you need help walking through either crafting example, feel free to ping me

[fair canopy]

Iirc there's a guide in the hideout furniture files

[misty mulch]

oh neat

[gaunt pawn]

The zip file seems to be empty , or im doing something wrong. Yes i have 7zip ❤️

[misty mulch]

you sure? Example crafting DLTX\gamedata\configs\items\settings\mod_craft_modnamehere.ltx

the filepath is important, too

(you can even see it in the GDrive preview)

if you still have a problem finding it, i can upload it directly

[safe nimbus]

Who does texture work and would like to help me out real fast? I can't get the colors right for this UNISG bag I'm working on and I'm about to pull my hair out. I need the teal and burgundy color much more vibrant without killing out the white. I'd really appreciate some assistance.

[barren spruce]

put vibrance up if you need it more vibrant

[opal void]

should be fixed

[azure bluff]

naah, this design is too sigma for gamma players

[opal void]

about time shit is gonna change

[safe nimbus]

Tried that, it kills out the white.

Need to separate the two. I'll probably separate the alpha and do it myself.

[fluid wharf]

just replace color and select the specific color range you need...

[barren spruce]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1250941579645161476/1382111305913340025/omega.gif

you will do what

[opal void]

e

mate

[safe nimbus]

Ye

[opal void]

no

[safe nimbus]

I'm tired bro leave me alone.

[barren spruce]

https://tenor.com/view/servantr-тютютютю-тише-quiet-gif-27674169

[opal void]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1111141571132407859/1225684432447344640/attachment-3-1.gif

[safe nimbus]

Nevermind.

[fluid wharf]

mask by selecting color ranges

divide by 3 layers or do in a single pass. done

[safe nimbus]

Thank you.

[opal void]

What is this gif symbolizing btw?

Disbelief, right?

[barren spruce]

just look at him

[opal void]

He is smiling

:)

[opal void]

https://tenor.com/view/tony-sopranos-james-joseph-gandolfini-jr-gif-15850296

[safe nimbus]

I hate it here.

[safe nimbus]

Great job, looks nice.

[quasi narwhal]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1354933409947844700/1392903394770812938/IMG_8934_rockimg_speech_bubble_meme.gif

[safe nimbus]

That's what I'm wondering. I guess being ignorant means retarded nowadays.

[rough lion]

two totally different words but the internet is a miserable place

[faint sable]

We either rage bait or get rage baited

[fair canopy]

Master rager

[safe nimbus]

Yeah, I'm susceptible to the bait. Tim and Pip are pros.

[azure bluff]

@sudden inlet
Thanks man. I went with the forceful clearing of memory approach and it works nice enough.
https://github.com/themrdemonized/xray-monolith/pull/290
https://github.com/Grokitach/Stalker_GAMMA/pull/533

[sudden inlet]

That's all good but There is the same behavior even if you just change faction through the F7-Change faction, would you wanna take a look at it as well?

[azure bluff]

do you think changing faction through debug menu also require fix? If you're playing around with debug menu just set yourself to invisible or something is what i'd say. That being said i can just add the same logic to the debug menu function too.

[nocturne night]

had to sleep to get back lol

I'll make the icons better later

should be working

https://tenor.com/view/each-time-when-i-come-here-i-am-abused-abused-emotional-sad-emotional-damage-gif-14946139662801224806

[sonic bolt]

The fact that it's a black square means it can't find the asset, is your folder structure correct?

[nocturne night]

gamedata/configs/ui.......

I think I know now what is going o

I've done goofed up

ok so now is on gamedata/config/textures/ui

so it should work right?

changed the file name in the ltx and on the file itself for good measure

[sonic bolt]

no need for textures afaik

ui\icon_filename should be fine

[nocturne night]

no change

Can somebody see what I did wrong

I can't figure it out

[late ravine]

Someone know where in anomaly folders are located the global items models*? like the box and items, campfires etc?

[lament current]

mission accomplished.. almost 😛

its nice when you can toggle

[sonic bolt]

it's supposed to be textures

[quartz hill]

also if you are using dltx you need a "!" before the section name

[sonic bolt]

also you put it in the wrong file structure

textures doesn't go into configs, it goes into the normal gamedata

[summer stream]

no

it's only for it to be OVERWRITTEN

[quartz hill]

then @

[summer stream]

if you want to add it into some section

you need to do that yeah

[quartz hill]

i don't think you need dltx for what they are doing in the first place though

[summer stream]

[quartz hill]

[quartz hill]

what the hell is that

[sonic bolt]

Goldless

[quartz hill]

delete it

[faint storm]

Hey guys, I'm trying to mod the AK74M "Venom" to permit grenade launcher attachment. I've gotten as far as the game letting me attach GP-25 to it, but then the entire weapon is invisible on screen, can't shoot or reload, and you can't switch to another weapon or item until you unequip it and/or dismount the grenade launcher. Can anyone tell me what I'm missing?

[upbeat wedge]

yeah its a lil difficult to make this keep that teal color when you go to make the light purple into a whiter tone

cause its not supposed to be light purple it was just as close that he could get at the time

[nocturne night]

THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH

now

let's make the rest of the cylinders

[upbeat wedge]

cause unisg is white, teal, and a kind of pastel red

[upbeat wedge]

4 shot?

bigger weapons sir

[nocturne night]

5 shots

[upbeat wedge]

aw man

[nocturne night]

it is a cylinder for a 9mm revolver

[upbeat wedge]

well i mean other guns

[nocturne night]

I'm making the 357 and 12x57

[upbeat wedge]

if youre making any

[upbeat wedge]

rsh12?

[nocturne night]

exactly

[upbeat wedge]

rad

[nocturne night]

so now revolvers don't have just 2 parts

[upbeat wedge]

i pray for the day i can add a long range scope onto an rsh12 in gamma

[nocturne night]

you know what

I'll also do a 12x57 short barrel

[upbeat wedge]

what the hell its not even the same gun at this point

[upbeat wedge]

are you able to add in the lower accuracy, more recoil, and maybe some reduced weight since its shortened

[nocturne night]

just wpo for now

I just learned how to do proper folder management lol

[lament current]

mono nvgs with re vingette

[nocturne night]

that is actually really nice

[lament current]

im gonna try of different combinations, and ill make a collection

[fluid wharf]

What are you talking about

I just did it in 1 minute

[upbeat wedge]

well like the light purple sections meant to be a white

unless my eyes played tricks on me hold on

[fluid wharf]

I need the teal and burgundy color much more vibrant without killing out the white.

it needs no further explanation

[upbeat wedge]

alright man my bad

itll likely just be tweaked more though to try to get that light purple fixed

thats all im saying

[nocturne night]

YESSSSS

[fluid wharf]

Yes, you can change a color to another color, whichever color. It was a demonstration.

I can make it black and gold

he asked how to change those colors without blowing the white, not "uhhhh i need exactly #F2F2D4 color on this pixel, uhhh not purple", and i showed how to do it. i dont care exactly which color is needed because same method can be used to achieve any color

[quasi narwhal]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1331824238428160040/1331868406944763956/bubbled.gif

[nocturne night]

my ass thinking: "I should do a nice description for this part I've made with some details and what not"

[summer stream]

sickhowl IRL
(he is a girl on that pic)

[nocturne night]

anomaly dev:

[summer stream]

fire

[nocturne night]

also

noticed the difference?

an A

that is it

[summer stream]

what

[fair canopy]

gmtop moment

[sonic bolt]

Is GMTOP an abandoned project now or something?

[nocturne night]

the cylinders are ready

[summer stream]

smack the cylinder

do it

[nocturne night]

now this fix

[summer stream]

st_name

[nocturne night]

instead of showing the name of the part is showing st_name

[sonic bolt]

Now you need to add text on the parts

Also, is the font for the parts the same as the ones on scopes?

[nocturne night]

I do that on the ltx for the parts?

[misty mulch]

no it gets updates every so often

[fair canopy]

if only it'd be update to overwrite only the necessary stuff

I've had people ask me why mags descriptions are empty. Don't know why gmtop needed to copy them into itself and blank all the mag descriptions

[summer stream]

question
wth is gmtop

[fathom wagon]

GAMMA Massive Text Overhaul Project

[summer stream]

ah

[fair canopy]

It's the text overhaul for gamma that diddled every xml

[summer stream]

the mod that broke like 99% of xmls

[fathom wagon]

Has its fingers everywhere yeah

[nocturne night]

The good thing is that the parts are working

[crimson salmon]

maka is 63k vertices for a cod model normal?

[barren spruce]

ye

cyberpunk hands have 200k+ tris and work

[crimson salmon]

[barren spruce]

(somehow)

[crimson salmon]

180k vertice drum mag

[crimson salmon]

as soon as it loaded in my blender started lagging

half of the vertice were bullets that wouldnt even be rendered

[barren spruce]

yeah exactly

they can spare the perf tho

we dont

[crimson salmon]

fully done spring

[barren spruce]

gotta respect the dedication

even tho it never sees daylight

[crimson salmon]

3 different bullet models/

i think for the different ammo types?

idk

[barren spruce]

ye diff caliber

[crimson salmon]

atleast those will be hidden

[celest forge]

That's on the low end for cod

Also I guess it massively depends on attachments

Some cod attachments like mags or grips can be like 20k on their own

[crimson salmon]

Good

[late ravine]

can someone help me? im trying to change the wooden box of anomaly, from one from stalker 2

after doing all the necessary work with blender, when i enter the game, the wooden boxes just break

why?

[crisp burrow]

strashno?

ne boisya

[blissful marsh]

Hello boys and girls, how is it goin ?ž

Had a good idea, why not combine FEARs GOAP combat system and Mantella for dialogue for Stalker 2

If Im not mistaken I saw Grok is working on the 2nd

Stalker 2 is so lame.... but than agian sheeple will buy anything... sad existence indded, if they only had intelligence... they would not be slaves...

[celest forge]

Are you making these mods?

[random fulcrum]

this post goes so unfathomably hard tho

like god damn

[celest forge]

You're not making mods either anymore fuck off

[fair canopy]

Good lord the cringe in that post

[summer stream]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/avatars/724750588948250654/a_a8e4b84b48b894c50dabab83c49d3014.gif?size=1024

amazing comment from someone who doesnt make that good of mods

[random fulcrum]

you're sheeple, your existence is sad

if only you had intelligence

bet you played stalker 2

[celest forge]

!noalife

[queen pine]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1306683555488862319/1309254531602972753/Screenshot_2024-11-21-21-13-12-76_572064f74bd5f9fa804b05334aa4f912.jpg?ex=6740e9cd&is=673f984d&hm=4c16bf5a7fe14ff8f1b81027f51be666771f1c2eb28f8a82498b0e0f436dea10&

[celest forge]

You do make mods but they're all lame and cringe and I hate you

[summer stream]

i bet you downloaded that 700 gb stalker 2 sdk just to export 2 models and realize its not worth it

[random fulcrum]

if only you had intelligence

[summer stream]

clearly you dont own an air fryer

[undone spruce]

https://tenor.com/view/bart-simpson-ay-cabron-sedalga-gif-12454932805507768743

I can't even fanthom why a sdk would have more than 5gb

[summer stream]

uncompressed stuff

[candid quail]

Hey all,
I'm looking for advice on best practices for organizing monkey patches. Specifically, I have a few scripts, each targeting different features.
Should I place the related monkey patches within those individual scripts, or is it better to consolidate all patches into a single script for easier management?
Right now, I have them all in one script, which makes it easier to track and debug any errors. However, I also feel like it might be better to keep each patch within the script it's designed to modify.

[random fulcrum]

https://tenor.com/view/leon-chokes-choking-ada-wong-gif-26380793

[celest forge]

Did you spend all of this time looking for that gif or did you boot up the game yourself and upload it to tenor

[random fulcrum]

nah i just forgot to reply at the moment

i have that gif at the top of my list

[celest forge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/852707473990352907.gif?size=96&quality=lossless

[drifting moat]

I usually keep them in separate scripts. Much easier to solve load order issues and it's better from both readibility and general code organization.

So if I want to patch 2 functions in this file xyz.script then I will create a new file called xyz_patch.script and put my 2 monkey patches there.
If I also want to patch somethingElse.script then I will create another file called simethingElse_patch.script and put my monkey patches for that file there.

[novel ruin]

dont follow the guy above, hes an "alfa" modder or something. I just slam everything into 1 file, if it ran, it fucking ran

[summer stream]

🔥

[candid quail]

Ha! I'm going to follow ALL of your suggestions!

[candid quail]

Thanks, that makes a lot of sense — That'll make it easier to find what I’m looking for. I appreciate the insight!

[blissful marsh]

No did not buy nor play stalker2, I game from like 97 so I can recognise a turd when I see one, yt videos disclosing how actually sad of the state gaame is confirms this

That is why I would like to play gmma Warfare but.... limitations

Just looking in to see how are things are progressing, asking questions and perhaps give a good (or bad) idea here and there

I am one of the rare ppl who would like to see full potential, stalker 2 (unreal 5 is actully to credit here) with gull GOAP and Mantella ..... the role plying one can acheve

I give 0 fucks for companies, regulations... its a game, it is supposed to be messed with

to tailor ur own experience, just like nomaly and Gamm

[novel ruin]

Just use TALKER and move on bro, no need to apply even more ai stuff

[blissful marsh]

will do, ill go play scum now 😉

have a nice day

[novel ruin]

Ok, sorry for being offensive but I just dont like AI and people who have grand ideas but dont actually make anything yet

[blissful marsh]

no hrd feelings my mn, we re here to discuss

dissagreement is a form of dialoge 😉

as stated some dys ago, Im not modder so I do not know of all the mods made, but I am un ufraid to ask stupid questions

[tardy flicker]

Trying to mirror a hud icon is driving me crazy lol, is there a simple way to do it using SetWndPos or another function?

[late ravine]

Can someone help me with something?

i feel like this thread is more a meme thread that a really helpful mod makiing discussion

[faint sable]

So

Here’s the thing

https://tenor.com/view/thing-the-thing-rain-sad-fantastic-four-gif-16023660235634804326

[late ravine]

for real from all the times i have asking for some help or advice on something anomaly modding related, i have been answered none

[wraith tinsel]

can someone pls help me add ammo check anim to toz34? Theres anim that allow to open barrels but if i add this anim to anm_ammo_check no anim is playing

[novel ruin]

Thats how all discord channel works

[late ravine]

yhea, well thats sucks, because i really need to learn some things about anomaly and i dont find any serious thread

In that i think the russians are better, they really help each other, here they just ignore you

[novel ruin]

There is none, maybe in Anomaly channel. Also people dont know how to solve your problem so they dont reply

People would like to help, they just dont know

[late ravine]

but they at least can pin point some documentation or something idk

[novel ruin]

Russian modder generally have more knowledge about the game because they dont just mod Anomaly

[late ravine]

yhea haha, they mod the very fabric on xray, soviet tecnho

[novel ruin]

There is none, the only one is Modding Books which is still very limited and dont cover all aspect

[hot salmon]

or share with a decade old program to edit one single file inside the game

[late ravine]

by anyperchance, anyone knows if the campfires are meshes? because i dont find them, or are intrisicated place on the maps itself?

[novel ruin]

You can reverse engineer this mod i guess https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1370636484511531068

Stalker modding for me is just reverse engineering other people work plus trial and error

[hot salmon]

same

[late ravine]

same x2, thanks Shrike and the creator of Sound Scape Overhaul

Thank you Kute, i will look into it

[drifting moat]

Ask also in anomaly discord's mod making. Has some active modders and discussions

[late ravine]

Yhea, i cant write on anomaly discord, i think they banned me or something when the stalker 2 leaks start leaking years ago and i commented something about that

dont know, tried to talk to some admin with no avail

[drifting moat]

Oopsie daisy

[hot salmon]

huh...

I remember downloading a leaked videos of S2 from youtube and uploading them to VK...

damn that was so long ago

[lament current]

1. can anyone explaing why this to me.
   SSS 23_3 No atmospherics

2. SSS 22_1 With Atmospherics

should be same settings.. theres even more graphics settings with 23.3

must be a me problem rite? i did something wrong

[hot salmon]

Nobody expect S2 Great Swamps in Anomaly

[azure bluff]

i think everything is working alright, if you do not like how dark it looks change the *_lum_* setting, there are like 3 settings lum_ambi lum_hemi and something else that control brightness inside/outside etc

oh wait you mean the left screenshot is the newer SSS ? then i have no idea what happened

[safe nimbus]

Cooking something up. Fomod is almost finished and has been tested. Main and Alternate textures/ camos work properly. I just need the photos of each category to add to the fomod and then I'm ready to publish.

@barren spruce Wanna test it out and give some feedback on the bags? I'm mainly wondering if I should make the Main - Mercenary bag a little less vibrant.

Old photo, but you get the point. New ones are completed and polished.

[barren spruce]

no

[safe nimbus]

https://tenor.com/view/iamproudofyou-my-hero-gif-15828902362440109418

[narrow orbit]

can anyone point me to a good resource to teach me how to make mods for anamoly?
the only thing i can find is this book online but it really doesn't explain things well and lacks a lot in terms of content coverage

[hot salmon]

Nonexistent

Or ask modders how to do stuff

Reverse engineer stuff

Helps a lot

[narrow orbit]

trust me if reverse engineering was as easy i would have not come here in the first place 😂
but thnx

[hot salmon]

Reverse engineering is the simplest - i started from it

Just look how other people do >> copy >> enhance

[narrow orbit]

it seems really stupid that one of the most heavily modded games out there doesn't have a proper modding guide

[hot salmon]

Use AI to understand meaning of scripts

[narrow orbit]

guess I will have to do the hardwork
thanks mate

[hot salmon]

There are, but they all in russian, and they are mostly unfinished

[narrow orbit]

well, can't we just use our trusty chatGPT to translate?

[hot salmon]

Try it)

[narrow orbit]

just point me to where i can find themn

[hot salmon]

There are not much script guides

[hot salmon]

Write "Сталкер гайды по созданию модов"

[narrow orbit]

u russian?

[hot salmon]

Yes

Almost

[narrow orbit]

thnx for your help mate

[misty mulch]

what kinds of mods are you trying to make anyway

[lament current]

sorry yeah probably werent the right chat to post sorry

[pseudo forum]

guys i want to ask is there's any mod that make tools compatible backward ?

like you can use adv tools to craft the type a weapon repair kit

[sonic bolt]

You already can?

Advanced count as Basic tools too

[lament current]

does anyone know where the level transitions icons from the PDA is located folder wise? or what the texture DDS is called.

[pseudo forum]

ohh

i dont know

[lilac ibex]

t really doesn't explain things well
what things

[celest forge]

It explains what things are but not really how to use them to make mods

[misty mulch]

Which is why I asked the guy what kind of mods he wanted to make. We can give far more helpful tutorial recs/advice if we know that.

The anomaly modding book is vague cos it's a reference, which frankly is fine

[celest forge]

It's more of a dictionary than a writing class

[misty mulch]

Yeah. You have to already know what you're trying to make, to use it well.

Granted, if the problem is that you don't know what you want to make, tutorials can't really fix that

[wispy mica]

hi, are all weapons in configs\items\settings\npc_loadouts\npc_loadouts.ltx are obtainable in gamma?

[summer girder]

Just do !sheet in #🤖bot-commands and follow the GAMMA weapon database link

[wispy mica]

i am asking because i made script that fetches all weapons from loadouts, and there is wpn_p90 which is not in Weapons Database

marked as not obtainable

[misty mulch]

yes there are but there are some guns that use a different method to inject into the npc loadouts

plus, the guns you get from nimble trade or kits

easier to just use my weapons spreadsheet.

[wispy mica]

are there is scripts somewhere that despawns some guns
btw i found script with nimble guns trades (forgot where it is)

script itself

[wispy mica]

it's the pain in the ass

[misty mulch]

it sure is

[misty mulch]

no gun despawning scripts as far as i know.

they are simply prevented from being in traders stock at all + not in npc loadouts. that's it

that's how you can still get "disallowed" guns if you e.g. use Black Market or from certain scripted spawns

[wispy mica]

PPP injected into loadouts, not empty
configs\items\settings\npc_loadouts\mod_npc_loadouts_ppp.ltx

[wispy mica]

like in section [skip_npcs]?

[misty mulch]

not what i'm thinking of, no

[misty mulch]

yeah but that file literally only adds the fort-17

you'll note the vast majority of those DLTX files targeting npc loadouts are blank

[wispy mica]

it doesn't matter if script checking sections

[wispy mica]

i thought all guns are banned from trade (or should be )

[misty mulch]

they are

[wispy mica]

some scoped variants not

i dont remember which, so it is useless objection

[lilac idol]

Where can I edit the players stat need gains?

[thorny steeple]

Any suggestions for where to look to start replacing music in-game? Ambient tracks in particular, as opposed to the radio? The only mod I'm seeing pertaining to that would be "Ambient Music Pack" and I experimented with replacing the tracks it has but I'm not hearing anything I've added. Also can't seem to find any config files in it that I assumed would point the game at the folder or something like that.

[azure bluff]

have you tried GAMMA no copyrighted music ? I think it disables music tracks from playing so that streamers do not get banned for playing paid music.

and it overwrites Ambient Music Pack so maybe that's why your changes didn't matter

[lament current]

so i managed to get alot of stuff working that i wanted. with looking at other mods and making my own.. BUT.. the battery logo is basicly only a DDS placed static image.
is there any clever head. that knows if and how to possibly put a PDA battery % Stats.
the plan was to combine it with PDA /Minimap drain

[thorny steeple]

I have it turned off for the sake of testing, but it does actually partially answer my question. Looks like it outright replaces them with silent tracks of the same name so I suppose I could get the same general effect from renaming my "new" tracks to the same as the "old" ones. Then maybe enable the no copyright music and load my mod after so it overwrites the no copyright stuff. 🤔

I just wonder what dictates how the Ambient Music Pack gets added to begin with because as far as I can tell it just looks like a bunch of loose music files in a folder.

[lament current]

the blue Level Transition Icons. does anyone know what DDS file handles them.. been trying forever to find them

[azure bluff]

there appears to be a file called G.A.M.M.A\modpack_addons\G.A.M.M.A. Soundtrack\gamedata\configs\game_levels_music.ltx that contains listing of music tracks per level.

[thorny steeple]

absolutely radical, thank you!

[thorny steeple]

idk about blue ones specifically but I found the same style marker in "ui_MapSpots.dds" in MO2. In my installation it's set by AlphaLions Reworked Stash Quest and Map Markers

[fair canopy]

That's not the original sheet

[lament current]

i think i miiiight i found out why.. chat gpt sayts its ui_icon_equipment.. and Cr3pis Icons handle that for icos.
so possibly its there.. ill try. but thank you

[thorny steeple]

I assumed it would overwrite the original or something providing a place to at least look

[lament current]

nope they not there either

[azure bluff]

have you tried looking into unpacked anomaly files, there appears to be some files called map_spots_16.xml maybe that's it?

[wraith willow]

#1393133617059860480 message

I'll be editing the steam deck controls again soon ! Keep an eye out. Feel free to add your own too!

[azure bluff]

"level_changer_up" this must be it...

[lament current]

yeah i have the unpacked repository. but i only think the XML handles the positioning... NO but they refer the texture to a path. that way i can locate them.. soo ui_hud_map_arrow

hmmm

[azure bluff]

StalkerAnomaly\tools_unpacked\textures\ui\ui_common.dds

[lament current]

!!!!!!

[fair canopy]

BTW textures don't need to be in any specific folder. It's just for organization

Everything could just be dumped in textures\ if you wanted

[lament current]

i can create another transparrent DDS. and make the XML refer to that one?
but what about the location marker placement on that DDS. wount it be misplaced then?

[azure bluff]

i honestly do not understand the question but maybe this helps: it seems texture is derived from a specific location in a DDS, just override ui_common.xml with your version that points to where your icon is in your DDS and you're done, right?

[fair canopy]

Afaik you need to set the texture in the configs and then call the individual elements based on their grid coordinates

[azure bluff]

htid? what is that?

[lament current]

yeah it would seem so. but since its the original. and that it alos contains all sorts of stuff. wount i ruin the look of other buttons etc. .
or can i just remove anything else.. guess ill try.
btw "ui_pda2_exit_point" dont exist in the unpacked anomaly repository. so maybe that file is a GAMMA thing.

[azure bluff]

btw "ui_pda2_exit_point" dont exist in the unpacked anomaly repository. so maybe that file is a GAMMA thing.

ui_pda2_exit_point is a name of a texture and as I said in my previous post: it seems that what XRay calls a "texture" is a specific piece of DDS. So assuming you know texture id you still need to look for some XML that connects that texture id to some actual DDS file along with coordinates in that DDS file

[lament current]

ah

[lament current]

maybe its: "zone_map" regardless. wont bother you anymore with it. ill just have to do the work.. but thank you.. ill look further 🙂

[azure bluff]

if you have questions just ask, if you don't then...don't. Feels like we're having a mis - or rather - nonunderstanding here, either i don't understand what you're missing or you do not understand my explanations.

[lament current]

no i think we are mis communicating big time.. but its okay... lets just leave it here. or my brain melts haha

[lament current]

okay, i understasnd what you were saying now.. i also feel incredibly stupid.
i can just change the RBG code in the XML.
no DDS icon painting needs to be done XD hahahah

missions succcsssseesssss

[random fulcrum]

go talk to ryder

[lament current]

ryder, who dat? and why?

[random fulcrum]

character from san andreas, it's because of the R blip in the map

gamer joke!!!!!

[lament current]

ah hahaha its my stupid mouse

[random fulcrum]

that's a crazy cursor icon

[lament current]

its the first letter of what i write with spray cans 😛
but im going to make something fitting to this black and grey + red theme im trying to create

[fair canopy]

@summer girder

[faint sable]

No he gots a point

Best mod discussion helper so far

More info than anything

[random fulcrum]

how does one even fall for that scam when there's no links to click

[void sluice]

goober is sleeping

[summer stream]

https://tenor.com/view/leon-chokes-choking-ada-wong-gif-26380793

[void sluice]

dreaming of toasters

[fair canopy]

Goobin

[summer stream]

goober

[hot salmon]

[sonic bolt]

How do I add these icons up and arrow icons to a magazine?

[crisp burrow]

ny za 4to mne eto

[summer stream]

Увы

Переделывай в BC3 используя paint.net

[crisp burrow]

А если в B8G8R8A8 сохранить? Так на всех будет работать? Мод то маленький, потерпят, что много весит

[summer stream]

Это без компрессии

[crisp burrow]

Я понял да

[summer stream]

Только для UI

Очень много жрёт по памяти

Просто сделай BC3

[crisp burrow]

Ладна

ясделяль

[summer stream]

Норм

[crisp burrow]

Я еблан или мудак? Почему он мне не дает продолжить нажать?😭

[summer stream]

[crisp burrow]

ебаное имя администратора

[hot salmon]

о

а хде такое взять

[crisp burrow]

moddb

[hot salmon]

не, creation tool

тоже оттуда?

[crisp burrow]

а, на нексусе в разделе фоллаута

[hot salmon]

хуясе

[crisp burrow]

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/6821
во

[hot salmon]

уже нашёл

спс

дядя KILIMANJARO

[crisp burrow]

😰

[hot salmon]

большое пасибо ваще офигенно

[crisp burrow]

О) Это ты фатал еррор сделал) Круто, отличный мод, респект!

[hot salmon]

🫡

[peak quest]

why are we still porting guns

we need to port trees

[crisp burrow]

Когда ты хотя бы на полчасика популярнее гигантов модостроя😅

[hot salmon]

база

[crisp burrow]

https://tenor.com/view/yeltsin-boris-russia-baza-base-gif-16047367072139774216

[patent remnant]

anyone know how to work around this in blender?

or another program idk

[hot salmon]

без шансов бро

я могу рассказать как это сделать через fomod

[summer stream]

Ну так он имел это ввиду через фомод

[hot salmon]

ыыы

понял

[crisp burrow]

Смену модели в мсм не реализовать?

[hot salmon]

просто мсм писал

[hot salmon]

неа

[crisp burrow]

Нет. Я тупой. Ты забыл?

[hot salmon]

этож модель

и текстуры

[summer stream]

А точно

[hot salmon]

через fomod только

[summer stream]

Так погодь.

А как SWM это делает?

[crisp burrow]

Ну. Имя просто поменять и все

[hot salmon]

хуй знает, нам такое не надо

[summer stream]

У него есть опция HD Models

[crisp burrow]

Вот

И я о том

Да

[hot salmon]

легче через fomod, чем куча скриптов