╙🖇mods-making-discussion

[ashen hatch]

Beside assigning the omf to the ogf file with the appropriate folder/config structure do I need to do anything else in order to make my helmet use a certain FDDA equip/unequip animation?

currently its doing this anim

its also not displaying the model assigned in the config
The world model has no issues tho

please help a poor lad

[hoary cipher]

Try to look in the fdda redone configs iirc they have their own config setup for a helmet to play animations

[ashen hatch]

I already copied the stuff from the fdda config

[hoary cipher]

But did you correctly change the omf to have the custom helmet model for the animation?

[ashen hatch]

Then renamed accordingly

[ashen hatch]

Isn't that set through the config?

[hoary cipher]

Nope the hands are connected to the helmet so you have to change the animation itself

Unless it's using scripted attachments but I don't think it was

[ashen hatch]

do I change that with omf editor?

[hoary cipher]

No you change that in blender- you are making a new animation for your helmet to look correct on equip

[ashen hatch]

I already modified the anim in blender and exported it

[hoary cipher]

Then I'm not sure what the issue is, if you have to correct animation then it isn't playing at all, if the animation was broken but was being called correctly you would hard crash

[ashen hatch]

maybe theres a script that forces the default gamma helmets to use the fdda redone anims

[hoary cipher]

I'm not sure I'm just going off of my base fdda and redone knowledge, do you want to send the animation and I can see if I can make it work?

[ashen hatch]

Sure but I didnt finish it fully, I exported it only to check if it actually works

turns out it doesnt

[hoary cipher]

Well as long as everything is set properly like all the paths and whatnot it should work I thought?

[ashen hatch]

it did when I was working with guns

[hoary cipher]

Ok I'll take a look a bit later when I have the time

[ashen hatch]

[naive snow]

Did you check your log file for the error?

[scarlet granite]

No error.. just memory violation in windows dump

Could I have to many bones?

[naive snow]

I'm not aware of a bone limitation

So your log just ends abruptly?

[scarlet granite]

I created a new action with just 1 frame and everything set to 0 position and it still crashes

[scarlet granite]

Yes...

[naive snow]

What's the last line in there?

[scarlet granite]

[LSS] Spawning object [placeable_hideout_cat2815][placeable_hideout_cat][2815]
stack trace:

SymInit: Symbol-SearchPath: '.;F:\Anomaly\bin;F:\Anomaly\bin;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\system32;', symOptions: 530, UserName: 'Jonas'
OS-Version: 6.2.9200 () 0x100-0x1
F:\Anomaly\bin\AnomalyDX11AVX.exe:AnomalyDX11AVX.exe (0000000140000000), size: 20549632 (result: 0), SymType: '-exported-', PDB: 'F:\Anomaly\bin\AnomalyDX11AVX.exe'
at address 0x0000000140B57BD2

[naive snow]

You did export as the right cs/soc format?

[scarlet granite]

when I export the anims into omf and reference I get a crash in m_Motions.size() stating some random guns hud ogf

[naive snow]

Does your section inherrit from a particular base type?

[scarlet granite]

I tried both and with hq animations

[scarlet granite]

physic_object

My gun turret also inherits from it and it has 0 problems dispite having 72 animations inside the ogf 😄

[naive snow]

Do you have the .ltx on hand?

[scarlet granite]

I have to rename it as I expanded my hideout gadgets 😄

[naive snow]

Could be an issue with your bind_hideout_cat. Did you inspect your OGF export with the OGF tools to see if the directory for the OMF was properly set?
Sometimes blender fucks it up with virtualization

Also, do take a minute to use comment separators in your ltx, clarity in your files is just helpful all around

[scarlet granite]

I checked both OGF and OMF with the respective tools

[naive snow]

My guess is that your blender file has some old motions still linked or it's not properly exporting all motions, hence the error of the m_Motions.size()

[scarlet granite]

when I import the ogf with animations inside or just the ogf and add animations from omf it only creates the right amount of actions and they all play just fine

[naive snow]

Best way to figure it out properly is just to scrub both of the files with virtualization. Can you make a zip out of your mod?

You can Dm it if you want

[scarlet granite]

Done 🙂

[naive snow]

So a quick thing I'm already noticing, you don't have a "root_bone", your first bone is actually "link", but the fixed_bones is set to root_bone

Also you might want to setup your bone shapes, which are all set to default Box, instead of none, but that's a seperated issue

[scarlet granite]

Ahh yeah I renamed the first bone to link for the hideout stuff 😄

[scarlet granite]

My thought was: since its just a prop and will just lay on whatever spot you place it I would just have a square box to safe performance

[summer tundra]

Hello! Can someone make a mod that cancels reload when sprinting. Thanks!

[naive snow]

Yeah it's fine for the root bone or, but every bone as box makes a LOT of boxes

[scarlet granite]

OH it auto creates them? 😄 Didnt know that

[naive snow]

Just mass select all your bone and set them to none

Then just correct the Link bone

[scarlet granite]

It's a bit surprising to me as I have them all set to none expect the link one. They appear correct when reimporting the ogf. However: I can see them in OGF Tool I thought that was just something the tool does

[blissful tartan]

do u guys know of any mod that gives gamma 1911 a threaded barrel upgrade for 45 suppressor

[naive snow]

Just looked too in the Anomaly discord, your initial guess on the number of bones might have been correct. Seems there's a hard limit of 64 on the rendering side, which was increased to 127 for Ixray, but we're not running that

Might want to set your helper bones as not exportable to reduce things up a bit

[scarlet granite]

Interessting.. I have 49 bones right now I can try to reduce it as the many tracks in the animations might cause issues

[naive snow]

Might also be the sheer number of animations, there might be a maximum number of animations on a model

Might be worth checking if embeded motions have a maximum number

[scarlet granite]

I tried that already by just export one animation which just had a still frame and that also didnt work

[naive snow]

vs a motion ref/omf file

[cyan ginkgo]

guys what does it mean if a file is showing up as red in mo2?

[scarlet granite]

I reduced the bone count to 39 and the anims to the 36 most important ones and it still crashes 😄

[drifting moat]

IIRC means that the file is overwritten by another mod (named Ready Or Not...)

[regal bolt]

Hi, is there a guide on how to create your own LUT?
And what knowledge and skills do I need to create my own LUT and reshade?

[naive snow]

I believe that there's a LUT creation video that exists using Reshade.
You can refer to the reshade forums to get how to load via reshade luts, if that's your thing
https://reshade.me/forum/shader-discussion/3179-luts-powerful-color-correction-the-guide
Or you can use the built-in LUT module of SSS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1B_czV0i-g
This should cover how to bake down your color correction settings. The LUT group and intensities are defined in LUT.ltx

[regal bolt]

thanks

[naive snow]

Could be worth a shot to use a motion ref and check if that fixes it. I honestly can't infer more than that with an empty crash log

If all else fails, ask in the Anomaly Discord instead, they might have more info or it might be worth searching if someone's already had a similar issue

[scarlet granite]

! error in model [dynamics\decor\hideout_cat]. Unable to load motion file 'dynamics\Decor\hideout_cat.omf', section 'wpn_colt1911_sk3_hud'.

FATAL ERROR

[error]Expression : m_Motions.size()
[error]Function : CKinematicsAnimated::Load
[error]File : D:\a\xray-monolith\xray-monolith\src\Layers\xrRender\SkeletonAnimated.cpp
[error]Line : 874

section 'wpn_colt1911_sk3_hud'
model 'dynamics\decor\hideout_cat'

stack trace:

! [LUA] 0 : [C ] __index
! [LUA] 1 : [Lua] ...nomaly/bin/..\gamedata\scripts\sim_squad_scripted.script(212) : update
! [LUA] 2 : [Lua] .....\gamedata\scripts\zzz_sim_squad_scripted_milpda.script(22) : show

[drifting moat]

sim_squad_scripted_milpda? What does that file have to do with models

[scarlet granite]

nothing. The Lua stuff changes from crash to crash 😄

I also had it talking about some M4 instate of the Colt 1911

[naive snow]

Are you using the MT exes by any chance?

[scarlet granite]

Standart Vanilla GAMMA install

[drifting moat]

I was thinking about that too

[drifting moat]

That's not normal at all

Well. It means that it crashes at a different point in time, but it's weird as hell.

[ashen hatch]

Ive found and fixed the issue

[drifting moat]

If the crashes are caused by your cat it would have to be generally in the same file.

[scarlet granite]

stack trace:

! [LUA] 0 : [C ] device
! [LUA] 1 : [Lua] f:/anomaly/bin/..\gamedata\scripts\drx_da_main.script(2693) : func_or_userdata
! [LUA] 2 : [Lua] f:/anomaly/bin/..\gamedata\scripts\axr_main.script(284) : make_callback
stack trace:

Its just random every time

I just want a cat in my hideout

[drifting moat]

Super weird. I can't make sense of it.

[fair canopy]

It might just be a bone limit

[hoary cipher]

Ok nice I just started looking at it now lol

[ashen hatch]

[scarlet granite]

the weird thing is: My turret uses more bones that are also animated and it works just fine

[regal bolt]

but what about LUT mods like EMERGENT zone (https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1224348512280379494) ?
How to create these ones? And which is better: create lut mod or use norfair's method?
In emergent zone I find some scripts and LUT atlas in dds not png

Looks like norfair's is just a reshade not lut

[naive snow]

I'd guess that emergent zone uses the same lut method as in reshade. a Lut atlas for the game

[regal bolt]

but why it has scripts

I can understand why this ltx file used for, but there's also cpp/header file

[naive snow]

Because it changes settings for lut shader itself

It might also be packaging the LUT module of SSS by itself, for a standalone install

Ask the actual mod author if you want a better answer

[regal bolt]

oh, thanks for helping, lut is working, idk how hard it is to create visuals I want and how much time it will consume

Idk what have don wrong but I want image to look like in some lut I've downloaded from luts site, thought it will be okay to simply add an effect on image with that lut

[naive snow]

LUTs downloaded online aren't compatible with Anomaly or the LUT module of SSS.
There might be a way to convert them somehow, but I wouldn't recommend it

[regal bolt]

which is better: edit image using reshades or using photoshop?

I thought putting image with visual I want into reshade and then use norfair's method

like this

btw, why using techi color and lightroom? Can I use other than those?

[scarlet granite]

Got A LOT of this after including the anims in the ogf:

{@} --- Invalid position for CLevelGraph::vertex_id specified: [210.773087][28.404781][-503.219604]

[naive snow]

Depends on if you can get a pre-toned image out of the engine, you'd have to disable a whole bunch of things before taking your screenshot. Only then if you have the right bit depth can you do proper tone mapping and color grading in photoshop. Reshade setup simplifies a bit things because it can hook into the engine during the rendering process.
You're still quite limited in terms of color grading one method or the other. I know Hippo uses the reshade method and does retouching via Davinci

[regal bolt]

ok, ty

[untold cairn]

Hey guys, i have maybe stupid question, is it hard to do mods for gamma? I have an small idea but never tried modding anything in my life. Or should i ask someone else to do it who have expirience.

[scarlet granite]

It depends on what you are trying to do. Apparently adding a cat model with animation is impossible

[lucid notch]

what abt add a quest chain?

[untold cairn]

Well, there is a character after mortal sin questline, Psyglov, who was former sin member, who joined clear sky later. I would like to make him kinda like HIp. It would be a cool reward for doing this storyline and fine alternative from her. Shes immortal, why he cant be.

[drifting moat]

Quests are not that easy to add. WTF (Weird Task Framework) makes it easier, but in general I would say it's some of the more challenging things to do.

[ashen hatch]

What could prevent changed keyframes from exporting? There was no error but in game nothing changes.

[scarlet granite]

I would always recommend to download a mod that does a similar thing to what you want to achieve and have a good look at it.

[lucid notch]

I see, but I'll try anyway. A year of editing the texts of various mods made me look at such horrors of writing that I have plenty of motivation for my own mod.

By the way, what do you think about Axenia? Is this a good tool and is it worth using?

[scarlet granite]

Did you modify existing actions?

[ashen hatch]

yes

[scarlet granite]

Are your animations inside the ogf or external?

[ashen hatch]

wdym?

[scarlet granite]

You can have it like this and tick "export motions" when exporting the ogf or remove the tick on "export motions" and export a separat omf

[ashen hatch]

thats how I usually export

how it looks in blender vs in game

In game it clips a lot with the back of the helmet

[lucid notch]

my bad, just checked - they hid the repository on Github.

[drifting moat]

What is Axenia?

[lucid notch]

A tool like Notepad++ that I used to view Stalker files. Unfortunately, the project is apparently unavailable now, as I understand it, so the question is removed.

[split igloo]

Working on implementing call graphs for the devtools. 😄

[tribal rock]

Do the more experienced people here think it'd be remotely possible to make a feature where if you throw certain stuff into an anomaly, it'll influence the artefacts that are created come next emission?
For example, corpses and mutant meat into a chemical anomaly making it more likely for a meat chunk to be formed?
*if that wasn't already a thing in someone else's mod lol

[split igloo]

Aren't some artifacts colpressed organic matter anyhow?

[green root]

Hey, so I was looking at Groks damage calculator... and I had a question hoping someone can answer. For the Ballistic Rating Calculation, there is an IF check to see if your ammo AP is less then the armor BRC. If the ammo AP is less, it adds the plate BRC+20 and that becomes a fixed 20%+plate BRC multiplier against the damage from each bullet.

Where does the 20 come from? Is that just a code level value Grok chose? Could that value be modified? Could it be modified ingame by an item?

I would think it's just a fixed 20 BRC that is being converted into a multiplier, and being the plate directly adds to the multipler the BRC itself is the value I'd want to modify. I guess he's just giving it a flat 20 in the backend?

[tribal rock]

Exactly my thought.

[green root]

Current code, seems it is just a fixed 0.2, and also has 1.3 at the end. Figuring he simplified this in the next update.
So in theory you could rewrite the damage calculation from scratch. Just would need to figure out where armor_protection, and armor_bone_value are stored. I assume it's part of the armors configuration.

I'm dumb ignore me.

[undone spruce]

both textured, now the fun part

[normal plaza]

i think it just clips in game, assuming you have set the clip start of the camera to not clip at all, and given how big that helmet is. the camera setup on blender doesn't reflect the clipping ingame would have

[ashen hatch]

nah the changes arent getting exported at all, I tried changing the keyframes in ways that would make them very obvious but nothing changed in game

from what Ive understood so far its because it has only 1 bone wpn_body

[normal plaza]

oh it actually doesn't reflect the keyframes at all after export

have you tried exporting it as skl first then importing it on the model then exporting it as omf

that's what i usually do when keyframes dont match at all during straight omf exports

[ashen hatch]

do I have to convert the omf to skl?

[normal plaza]

you just have to export the animation on blender as skl just like you do when doing it with omfs

[ashen hatch]

alright Ill give it a try

[normal plaza]

we all have our xray blender woes

also make sure the animation names are not in conflict with fdda and other mods, that might be the reason too. make the skl names unique

[ashen hatch]

alrighty

but theres also 1 more thing

the hand anims have no issues getting exported along with the changes

[normal plaza]

yeah definitely check for conflicts

[soft garden]

Is there a mod that allows crafting using items from nearby chests?
For example, when crafting items, the system would automatically check storage containers placed nearby.

Similar to how you put items into a crafting table and craft from it - but instead, you could craft or cook food directly from your inventory, while the required materials are taken from nearby chests.

Looks like I found, "Craft From Stashes" hope it works )

[unique crag]

What parameter controls if you can sell a weapon or not? I wanna fix a gun I found that can be sold to vendors

[ashen hatch]

I renamed both the anims and the omf, now whenever I equip the mask I get a crash error with "Can't find variable item_visual in [actor_hud_05]"

[fair inlet]

trade_presets.ltx iirc

[unique crag]

Cool, I’ll check it out thanks

[normal plaza]

i'm guessing the fdda uses one animation name for all of the helmets... that's where my knowledge ends cause im not all too familiar with fdda sadly. you can also try overwriting the fdda helmet omfs with the omfs you made yourself and see if it works at all

[ashen hatch]

I think that I am gonna try to make a child bone for the wpn_body

Also I doubt that it's an overwriting issue because

1. My helmet has priority over FDDA in mo2
2. This never happened with gun anims with the same scenario

[normal plaza]

yeah, if that's the priority it shouldn't be an overwrite issue

[west adder]

what do .s shader files do?

[lilac ibex]

it's just blenders, the same as in engine
.s stores samplers/textures/ps-vs-gs refs/render states

• you can use them to override shaders (i mean, the compiled ones - shaders.xr)

[lilac ibex]

*almost the same. i forgot you cant do dual-blend, set culling mode, and few other thing (CS/HS/DS..)
adding that functionality is ez tho. see how xray manages blender passes.

[west adder]

so basically it sets up the rendering structure

[lilac ibex]

sort of. you still have to bind rtvs and stuff in renderphase

[regal bolt]

How to open debug map with a statue and a house? By pressing F2 it's loading a square with 4 blocks

[ashen hatch]

download it from moddb

[scarlet granite]

Perfect crafting recipe

[fair canopy]

Did you get it working?

[scarlet granite]

Nope. I'm procrastinating

I tried for two days and I tried everything

If anyone thinks they can get the animations working I will gladly give full credit. I just can't figure out whats wrong.

I will try again but I'm just fed up and get really angry trying more atm hahaha

[ashen hatch]

Take a break and come back after a few days, that's what I am doing with this fuck ass helmet

[scarlet granite]

Only fair to protect it while it sleeps - waiting for it's animations

[sacred token]

What about adding a new unique item needed for the craft e.g. "cat collar" thats dropable by cats?

[nocturne night]

does anyone know the debug name for chemical resistance?

[west adder]

im gonna be real here, i have no fucking clue what that means but ill pretend i do so i seem competent

but yeah, on a serious note, i am not competent whatsoever. it would help if you gave me a rough overview of the whole xray rendering pipeline.

[scarlet granite]

Cool Idea, I will have a look on how to add loot to a mutant

[vernal onyx]

Working on enhanced flare and beam tracing for NPC headlamps

[summer stream]

is this the new standard

[vernal onyx]

I’m trying to develop tier based headlamps that scale with NVG tiers, but it’s not going very well
I’ve started by duplicating the base headlamp, but it’s still very much trial and error and pretty rough

[summer stream]

it is what it is for stalker modding

we just cope

[full vessel]

cope. together. strong.

[fiery epoch]

Would each one just be brighter and throw light farther?

[vernal onyx]

Yes, different lights will affect the throw distance, angle and the color

[lilac ibex]

i dont have my xray docs anymore (rest in peace lmao), but you can see most of rendering pipeline in r4_r_render.cpp

[summer girder]

!bc

[queen pine]

@spice lily

Use bot commands for yourself only in #🤖bot-commands. Do not clutter main channels.

⠀

[true lotus]

How does one hot reload assets? Can you do that if I changed a .dds file?

I know you can hot reload scripts

[celest forge]

Can't

That only works for .ltx files and scripts

If you changed a model or a texture or a sound you have to reload the game

[true lotus]

No big loss, just a minor inconvenience

[true lotus]

I'm guessing it doesn't work for .xml files either then?

[turbid lily]

you can trigger dxml for xml files

[celest forge]

Xml doesn't either no

[turbid lily]

there an example in western goods

[true lotus]

Hitting "refresh game" worked but that's not quite the same thing as staying in the same session

[turbid lily]

-- Western Goods\Western Goods Core\gamedata\scripts\modxml_zzz_rand_text_dialog.script
function trigger_dxml()
    local file_list = parse_list(ini_sys, "dialogs", "files")
    local xml = CScriptXmlInit()
    for _,file_name in pairs(file_list) do
        xml:ParseDirFile([[gameplay]],file_name..".xml")
    end
    xml = nil
end

[true lotus]

Oh that's interesting

[turbid lily]

been a thing since western goods 28/07/2024

[safe salmon]

How complicated is the process of setting up an existing optic to work with an existing gun? Am I about to get in way over my head?

[turbid lily]

if it's just vanilla scope without 3DSS, it's a matter of dxml script, adding a texture defintion and a scope texture. For PiP scopes i'm not aware

[safe salmon]

It's 3DSS. Hmm.

[turbid lily]

i imagine it's not much more than the vanilla process, i'd take a look at the 3DSS ModDB page and gamma thread

[safe salmon]

I know about Draggable HUD Editor and S3DS Editor - I'll get em set up and see what's what

[fair canopy]

It's not hard.

[fair canopy]

https://youtu.be/xk_P5NZkeSw?si=KjxSur28GZi4zk7O

https://youtu.be/u8crq79zMfs?si=yMdTissxSFGtrufk

[safe salmon]

Cheers.

[celest forge]

Don't follow this video tho

The guy who made that is a retard and they found cannibalized remains in his apartment

[safe salmon]

Oh man you don't need to tell me, I've seen some of his mods (unfortunately 🤢 )

[north helm]

Hi everyone, does anyone know of a guide on how to create arms/hands for Stalker Anomaly?

[tawny prawn]

the fuck xd

is this a meme

xd

[celest forge]

Let the zone take me if i'm not saying the truth

[tawny prawn]

damn bro

thats krazy shit

[full vessel]

https://tenor.com/view/bullshit-youre-lying-sidorovich-eating-sidorovich-talking-sidorovich-stalker-gif-3416750550931944835

[celest forge]

There's no guide, the best way I found out was just loading a pair of arms, taking the model you wanna use, and matching the position as best as humanly possibly, then assign the vertices to each bone manually

It's a long, tedious process

Which is probably why there aren't as many mods doing it

[tawny prawn]

thats even worse than weapon repositions my god

[safe salmon]

Yeah I heard about it, apparently he was sick of people bugging him for compatibility patches and so he snapped and just ate one of em

[tawny prawn]

ok ok lmao

[celest forge]

Weapon repos is one of the easiest thigns you could make as a mod for Anomaly

[north helm]

And that's why I cannot find any guide too :_

[tawny prawn]

i know but its styill tedious

and boreing

and annoying

i made over 50

and i wanted to puke

[celest forge]

I made it ONCE and I wanted to kms

I'm sure there MUST be a better way, but there are no guides for it

[north helm]

Got it, thanks for the info. Is gonna be a long way.

If I found a better method I will share here.

[naive snow]

Why not simply use the data transfer modifier, you can get a pretty decent result with the nearest face interpolated option for mapping

[celest forge]

Could work depending on the model

The one I did was a Halo Reach one

So the arms had all these plates and armor bits and shit that needed to be static

LUCKILY I pulled those from a mod for another game, so all I had to do was change the name of the vertex groups, which were already assigned

[naive snow]

Oh yeah rigid bodies will probably need to get their weights just paint bucket'd

[safe salmon]

Is that Steve Lichman

[naive snow]

Ideally, there's a motion file that could be loaded that goes through a full animation of movement so you can see the arms moving about and you can correct the vertex groups before shoving in the engine

[celest forge]

Any gun arms OMF file

Problem I found with that was returning the armature to it's default static position

I would just have to ctrl z my way back to it every time

[naive snow]

Wouldn't going into the pose mode do that?

[celest forge]

The xray plugin is funky as shit

Doesn't work correctly with modifiers or even the poses within the files themselves half of the time

[naive snow]

Could be worth opening up a ticket to Pavel, he actually goes through them and corrects shit

[dawn token]

How would I remove certain items from both NPC loadouts and merchant profiles? I want to remove all thermal scopes from dropping in my game because I think they make the game too easy and obsolete all other forms of scope options (but removing them entirely will cause issues)

[random fulcrum]

simply don't use them

[dawn token]

hey thanks I never even thought of that

there's a reason I asked, if you're not going to answer in a way that helps me reach the goal I want, there is no point in responding
I want to make a change and I want to learn how to do it, this may apply to me modifying OTHER things within npc loadouts or trade profiles in the future regardless

[naive snow]

Modify the NPC loadouts and the add them to the trade preset list. Do it via DLTX

The trade preset file is named Trade_presets.ltx. You want to use DLTX to add/remove the scopes from there. Same thing for the NPC loadouts, you want to make a mod_npc_loadouts file and remove the scopes. Make sure your script loads last, with plenty of zzzz. You'll have to do it per-faction mind you

[turbid lily]

https://github.com/Thial/StalkerModdingHelper there's also this where you can set it up so:

• Press keybind in vscode to run the exe or have shortcut on taskbar
• Load all your addons and any extra addons required for your mod
• once a game is running, make changes in your ide then run the exe again
• open debug launcher and reload game
• New changes to any file/folder under gamedata are now in the game

[true lotus]

This is perfect

[safe salmon]

Huh, surprised this one isn't in the pins tbh

Unless i missed it

[turbid lily]

Anomaly Discord has some great stuff no point in being elitist when it comes to resource sharing, hurts the community

[naive snow]

It doesn't exactly play well with MO2 and the virtualized file system, which is why

[safe salmon]

Ahh, fair enough, I figured there had to be some reason

[true lotus]

Yeah I realized this exactly as I tried to integrate it into my workflow

There is a workaround I know would half-work but it's annoying and I'm not certain if I'd be able to launch the game while doing it

Basically I would add a new program to MO2 (doesn't matter what) and run that through it. While this is running, the VFS would be active. Then SMH could see the files and operate on them

In the Morrowind modding community there's several programs that only work if you mount them in a certain way like this

[safe salmon]

hmm
so the info on messing with 3DSS scopes says I need version 3.6 of Blender specifically. Does it need to be 3.6.0 or does it not matter as long as it's 3.6.X

[summer stream]

it doesnt matter

anything ABOVE 3.6 is good

[safe salmon]

Thank you thank you

[teal compass]

if I want to give a specific faction like sin more artefact drops from bodies, do I dltx the death_items or death_generic?

[dawn token]

Thank you.
I won't need to do it for every faction, only UNISG and Monolith, those are the only two that I end up finding thermal scopes dropped on. But if I ever find them on another body, it's at that time I'll add it to the list

[rigid sail]

Monolith don't need thermal sights, they've got their magic rock as their own personal spotter.

IMO, high tier Mercs, ISG and maybe Military.

EDIT: Misread, thought you were limiting which factions thermals could spawn on.

[cyan ginkgo]

guys would there be a way to integrate spotify on windows into the gamma radio system?

[ashen hatch]

RAAAAAAAH FINALLY NO CLIPPING

[scarlet granite]

I FIXED ANIMATIONS FOR MY CAT

[drifting moat]

What was it?

A dog would've worked the first time. Just saying

[scarlet granite]

Well lets say.. do NOT use upper case letters for bone names. Xray tool fixed it for .ogf export but not for .omf

[full vessel]

Wait... are you making a whole new helmet item with FDDA support and everything?

[ashen hatch]

already finished it

[full vessel]

kickass, love seeing new items

[ashen hatch]

[vague gate]

Trying to add a grenade launcher to a weapon but I keep getting an invalid value crash when I change something in grenade_velocity, is there any work around to this?

[misty mulch]

can you upload your .ltx? or at least post your changes

[scarlet granite]

For now it just switching between the states by interaction but I will have it perform standing, sitting, laying on belly/side and sleeping.

[fair canopy]

[lilac idol]

those anims are really neat nice job

[ashen hatch]

[scarlet granite]

It's an asset I bought the license for. I modelled and animated the turret and alarm myself but for animals and life like animations: I'm out. I used to be a CAD designer so metal or plastic stuff is my deal.

[lilac idol]

that's fine it looks cool regardless

[thorny steeple]

Meant to reply to this the other day but you literally caught me sleeping- looks great in-game!

[scarlet granite]

Yeah and now that I know not to use upper case letter I can re add the animations for the eyelids, eyes and ears.

I'm currently thinking about "what does a cat do all day" and weighing different states.. I think sleep should be 90%

[lilac idol]

sometimes my cat stares at me for like 3 seconds when I step into the room and then ignores my existence so maybe that would work

[drifting moat]

Peak modding

[drifting moat]

Sits on your stashes randomly so you can't open them

[scarlet granite]

Next I will add a budgie to warn when an emission appears by just dying.

[tawny prawn]

THATS FUCKING SICK

i always wanted a pet in hideout

amazing work, anims are sick

[tawny prawn]

is it a completely new item on top of all headgear, or does it replace one?

also i cant find the fucking link i got too many mod post following xd

[ashen hatch]

New item

it replaces the exo and spartan drops from sin members

#1468994794427781262

[hybrid spade]

did you solve it? having the same now...

[scarlet granite]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWRrSq5-NY8

Got it to automatically switch between states automatically. Every state and the animations inside that state have weights to controll how often they are played. For development I'm changing the states every 10-15 seconds. It will obviously not sleep for only 10 seconds when I verified everything. As you might notice the blends between states are still a bit choppy. When interacting it always gets up an meows.

Is there any way to allow the user select from a texture/color for the cat? Maybe through MCM? The only thing that comes to my mind otherwise would be renaming texture files manually.

[lilac idol]

you can improve the blending of anims by increasing the first 2 values that pop up in omf editor when selecting an action

I can't remember what they were called but the first one handled blending when starting the action and the same with the second one basically but the other way around

[thorny steeple]

This is quickly becoming my most anticipated mod. And he even looks like my little trash cat

[scarlet granite]

Accrue and Falloff?

[lilac idol]

yeah that

if those 2 have a value of 0 for example the switch from one anim to another will be instantaneous

[scarlet granite]

Well for now I set all my anims to "Stop At End" because the only way I managed to get if an animation is playing is by counting seconds and setting up play time for every animation

So when I use transitions and it overshoots by just a microsecond it instantly loops back to the start

[lilac idol]

yeah all anims should have that flag checked unless it's a running animation or something cyclical

[lilac idol]

wdym?

[scarlet granite]

Can I call you?

[lilac idol]

nah it's pretty late sorry

[lilac ibex]

Is there any way to allow the user select from a texture/color for the cat

yos

[scarlet granite]

Okay, I will write it 😄 Lets say I'm transitioning between laying and standing - I will trigger the transition animation and it finishes just a tad bit before the standing animation start so it will bounce to frame 0 and jump back to laying on the ground before standing the next frame

But the stop at end fixed that

[lilac idol]

hmm that's weird

[scarlet granite]

I think I will split it from my other gadgets so that people can enjoy the cat if they don't want the other stuff. Even tho the coding of the gun turret was way harder hahaha

[lilac idol]

or well not really but yeah just stick to using that flag for food measure

[scarlet granite]

yeah I'm a newb when talking about anomaly

[lilac idol]

transitions in this game are kinda fucky in general

[lilac ibex]

https://github.com/themrdemonized/xray-monolith/pull/157/changes

[thorny steeple]

Finally got my photoshop -> substance painter workflow figured out. Trying to make a retexture of the EFT/FWP VSS Vintorez in the "Monolith" special edition style from Stalker 2. (That game's VSS doesn't have a Monolith variant unfortunately).

So now I'm at a slight block. In Stalker 2 the "Monolith" weapons use a blue camo, for some reason, instead of the winter/alpine that Monolith actually uses. I feel like it looks better with the blue, color-wise, but the winter/alpine is more visually consistant.

[thorny steeple]

I think that's a good idea. I want both, but it would make sense if others just want the kitty.

[scarlet granite]

Awesome lol. I cant wait to test it out.

[green root]

hey all, the script "Grok_actor_damage_balancer" only affects the damage the player receives right? Not the damage the player does to the enemy? Does grok have a separate script for that already or is it just engine level still?

Answer is it comes from grok_bo.script it looks like. This bone terminology for some reason confuses me.

[next grotto]

Is there any real replacement to rotten life textures?

im new

[undone spruce]

im cooked on this modding thing

whats the gamma script that limits the draw and holster animation lengths?

[undone spruce]

anyway ill just whip up a 50 fps long smg draw anim

[undone spruce]

i aint trimming shit

[thorny steeple]

Ooooo, that's sexy.

[scarlet granite]

Ohhh imagine that snapping sound when it click into the lock position

[steel saddle]

I've only ever used PBR for SPT modding, if someone used substance painter to do textures for a GAMMA mod, what would they come out as

diffuse/albedo, normal, ?

is there a third?

[bitter gull]

is there anyway to increse player health in gamma at all?

[steel saddle]

omg substance doesn't even export to .dds

[idle forum]

Is there console command for enemies to ignore you?

[summer stream]

do tga

or png

then do dds using paint.net

[fiery moat]

https://github.com/Tichau/FileConverter

it can convert to dds

[steel saddle]

according to chatgpt the answer was normal and bump

nothing else

[naive snow]

That's wrong. Again Chatgpt is garbage for anomaly and stalker modding

You should be getting out of substance a normal map, a roughness map (or specular one if you prefer that workflow) and your albedo/diffuse map. Then you assemble those to make your bump map for the engine

[scarlet granite]

This worked perfectly. Thanks a lot!

[naive snow]

The engine doesn't work off a metalic workflow like Unity or Unreal, it's not a real PBR estimation.
The specular map isn't something you can get out of the box from Substance painter

[fresh blade]

I have a question for any modder that might know the answer: would it be possible to make bolt action rifles work the way they do in Tarkov - bolt don’t cycle until you let go of the mouse ??
(Pls @me if you know the answer)

[teal compass]

afaik the bolt cycle is in the fire animations so unless some script can be made and also remake every bolt cycles anims, I dont think thats possible

[full vessel]

some guns have independent bolt cycle and chamber inspect animations which are used by mods like ammo check

but yeah you'd need to edit a lot of models

[teal compass]

Oh right yeah

but still thats some

not all

[fresh blade]

Thank you, made me quite sad tho.. I would love if this was possible cause I love bolt action rifles and if this mechanic could be added in the spirit of making you not lose sight picture on shots that would be soo amazing

[teal compass]

yeah I guess it can be made, but it will just be a painful process to make guns compatible with this feature

[fresh blade]

I shall not expect it then..

[fresh blade]

There’s not that many bolties tho..

[teal compass]

well if people bother to fix them

[fresh blade]

Well sadly for me at least the only game that did bolt actions and SGs right is…Tarkov

[full vessel]

don't forget red orchestra

[fresh blade]

Haven’t played that…

[drifting moat]

Shame. Go and make up for it now.

[fresh blade]

If it’s not a stalker like sand box survival FPS with realistic graphics and mechanics, I’m not gonna be interested

[drifting moat]

It's not a survival sandbox, but it is super realistic.

It's a war sim. Very cool game.

[fresh blade]

Not really interested in tha type of games anymore to be honest.

Also I’m aware that there’s a game out there that has like 5 keys to operate a rifle but I’m not looking for that level of realism eaithr😏
all I want is to not have to break sight pic when shooting a boltie

You can’t do that with just upgrades in gamma

[teal compass]

I remember that was old game or mods that u have to manually cycles the bolt by pressing keys

[fresh blade]

IMO holding mouse for that purpose is quite enough

To not cycle I mean

[teal compass]

yeah so I only seen that in old games lol

[fresh blade]

Yeah and Tarkov

[teal compass]

modern games with that would be too much

[fresh blade]

I always loved bolt action but in games I would normally default to a semi auto eventually because of obvious advantages. However since Tarkov I’ve actually fallen in love with using them over semi auto DMRs because it’s really rewarding when you get the mojo going. I could hit anything out to 200m with a rat sniper cause I spent like a year in offline mode just sniping with that gun in its default config - pilad scope

[fair canopy]

Gotta get used to the way they work in gamma

[teal compass]

[idle forum]

Is there tool or command to look at npc's object / data / stats, I want to see what kind of information they have stored. I want to find a way to check what kind of affiliations they have eg. group/community/faction

[drifting moat]

Not a command, but there's a debug screen for it. Launch the game in debug mode and the once in game press escape and in the bottom left corner you'll see information on how ti enable debug huds.

[idle forum]

Follow up question, while I see in the debug view (also tried looking in files) some trader character's faction /community is set as "Trader", for example Professor Kalancha (Doctor in the Clear Sky base id mar_smart_terrain_base_doctor). Is there any data defined somewhere that he is associated with Clear Sky?

[drifting moat]

Probably there is. I do not know however. Never really touched trader stuff, only once when I helped somebody make a mod that had to do with trader inventories. trader_presets.ltx could help

I would start there

[undone spruce]

i do have an export profile for bumpmaps with an additional config for the auto dds converter for substance painter

https://github.com/RonMaxx/subpaintanomaly-export-presets

[steel saddle]

I got it to work but all my normals were piss coloured, not blue

The universe is conspiring to have me not add astronaut suits to GAMMA

[naive snow]

That's how bump maps are meant to look

[steel saddle]

green

[naive snow]

Anomaly doesn't take normal maps

[steel saddle]

oh yeah, does this engine use openGL or

[naive snow]

Anomaly is a directx game

[steel saddle]

oh yeah duh, the launcher specifically asks what directX you want to use

i'm stupid

[naive snow]

The bump map that the engine takes is composed like so:

R = specular
G = normal Z
B = normal Y
A = normal X

So yeah you might end up with a green or yellow looking map depending on the specular of the object

[steel saddle]

i've seen red, orange, blue, green/yellow, blue/pink. the yellow was a surprise. was told my spec was too bright, that i have to invert it and take the brightness down

[naive snow]

red/blue/green/yellow are often world space normal maps, instead of the classic tangeant space normal map. Depends on the remapping logic of the engine

Stalker just uses a method to store additional information in the texture, they store the most important information in the least compressed channels, the G and A, then in the R and finally the B. So instead of having an additional texture, you get the full information of your model with only two textures.

The downside is you get some compression artifacts in your normal map, but that's what the .bump# texture was for, it encoded the artifact offsets and served as a corrective texture + height information.

[steel saddle]

Is there a substance painter export preset anywhere for anomaly?

maybe mine was set up wrong

[undone spruce]

whats goin on with the preset?

[steel saddle]

let me pull it up and take a screenshot

[naive snow]

Substance painter doesn't allow texture swizzling for the normal map, so no there's nothing out of the box for it

[undone spruce]

its just a color and bump images, the bump containing 3 normal channels and a glossness channel

[steel saddle]

crap, lol

[undone spruce]

it does

if its what im thinking

[naive snow]

It now allows in the export template to swizzle the outputs?

[steel saddle]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1427266903922966548/1469319937242824704/image.png?ex=69873a53&is=6985e8d3&hm=0f2884615189daf9436a33452a679795cba52b500fda4a10ef356dbb23572b9c&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1032&height=813

[undone spruce]

it shouldne be roughness in the R channel, but glossness

[steel saddle]

[undone spruce]

substance should convert it automatically

[naive snow]

Your normals are set to the mesh normals, you want the converted maps, Normal DirectX

[steel saddle]

this guy?

[undone spruce]

yeah

[steel saddle]

just gonna save that for future reference

my SP also just doesn't save .spp or export presets anymore so

[undone spruce]

you have to copy the files from your painter data folder

[fair canopy]

@naive snow is blender able to read the packed textures in .dbs?

[summer stream]

no

there's no addon for blender reading off .dbs

they're all packed

you either need to figure out how packing works AND make an addon so it unpacks the stuff you need

or you just unpack it whole

[uneven shadow]

Has anyone made a placeable vehicle mod for storage? Just thinking about a little project to try for my first mod

It’s either that or a first person hands replacer for an armour I like

Feel like the hand replacer would be a lot easier

[summer stream]

yeah hand replacement is easier

by a BIG metric

[uneven shadow]

Lmao something to work towards I suppose

[uneven shadow]

Seeing the stuff you was working on with the cod hands actually inspired me to making something for myself

But I’m literally just reading through the pinned content and finding tutorials on YouTube at this point

[summer stream]

if you want to do the same, you need the assets from the game itself and some addons

... then try to understand how to do weights or at least transfer them

then textures and blah blah

but it's not that hard

cod hands are very close to stalkers

they are almost the same on texture part thing

[uneven shadow]

Yeah I was trying to find specific tutorials on exactly what you was doing, was tempted to ask you if you had any specific references but decided to just try find it myself lmao

Yeah I saw that you mentioned that which is why I felt confident in giving it a go 😁

[summer stream]

well there is no specific tutorials for it

that's all i can say

it was learned through painful hours of
"how do i pose it in the right way?"
or
"did i fucked up weights for it?"

BUT

the easiest thing you can do is

do a pose ONCE

then use it to port other hands

[uneven shadow]

Yeah I’ve been searching the last week or so and only managed to find gun tutorials lmao

[summer stream]

ig i will teach you how to port it

gimme some time i need to clean stuff up

[uneven shadow]

Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated, I’m actually at work right now so no rush at all

I’m excited for the stuff you are working on and just thought, I’m not gonna pester and ask how it’s progressing I’ll try it myself lmao

[summer stream]

that's a plus from me

im always happy if someone learns a thing i love doing myself

[uneven shadow]

Hell yeah, when I saw the one you posted with the tattoos I was like damn I gotta try this lmao

I don’t own any of the call of duty games so gonna have to try download some later lol

[summer stream]

no you don't need one rn

[uneven shadow]

Ahhh okay, was gonna say some of those cods are expensive lmao

[naive snow]

Nah, I just unpacked everything, made a mod "Anomaly Unpacked" and set it as priority 0 in MO2. It's just 20gig

[fair canopy]

i should have done that. i just dumped the textures i needed into the anomaly gamedata folder like a brainlet

[north helm]

I am interested too sir, actually great work with th upscale hands, they are awesome.

[summer stream]

..i didnt upscale the hands
BUT more people that are gonna try to port stuff is always appreciated

[north helm]

Oh, I mean I just use the name of the channel, sorry about that.

I spent the entire week trying to put a watch on some hands. At first, I thought it was going to be easy, but man, I was really wrong.

[summer stream]

eh blender isnt that hard

i can always show how to make it work within like
what, an hour?

or less

[green root]

dumb question, if I'm making a dltx and there may be other dltx and I'm trying to make sure mine is loaded last, where do I put the zzzz? would it be:
zzz_mod_system_weapons_file_name.ltx
or
mod_system_weapons_zzz_file_name.ltx

Another dumb question, when you're going down the root folders... gamedata to configs, items, weapons, etc...
is the word after mod_ supposed to be configs, items, weapons? Isee system a lot but that's not a root file.

[summer stream]

no

it's just
mod_system_etcetc

zzz are there so u won't have ANY overrides

[north helm]

Yeah, but I only have about 2 hours of experience using it. I’m a complete novice.

I managed to place it correctly on the wrist, but my issue is finding the right way to transfer the weights to the correct bones

[north helm]

1 hour vs 1 week

[summer stream]

oh yeah that's easy

[green root]

Okay so just use mod_system, and it will override? Seems that is what happens but wanted to confirm.

Now if i want my ltx to completely override one of groks, for example grok_bo_bone_profiles.ltx, if I named my file zzz_obrien_bo_bone_profiles.ltx, would mine take priority?

[north helm]

I probably just need to learn the fundamentals of Blender, that’s why. I’m even struggling with the camera itself just to get a good angle and see what I’m doing.

[summer stream]

yeah

[green root]

makes sense thank you.

[summer stream]

if it's above, yes

it rewrites changes that you did

[green root]

sorry what do you mean?

[summer stream]

above means lower on priority in MO2

[north helm]

is there a way to test animations without open the game?

[green root]

So if one ltx is priority 1, and the next ltx is priority 5, 5 is loaded last right? So does the zzz_ think even matter?

[summer stream]

last loaded is highest priority

[summer stream]

it does

[green root]

So if the priority I set in mod organizer is 5 for mine, and is 1 for the original, but the original has zzzz_ on it and mine is just the name, does the priority win or the Z win?

[naive snow]

Mak only means priority if you have two files named the same. Otherwise the engine loads the DLTX in alphabetical order. Which is why adding ZZZZZ makes the script load last and override last the values

[green root]

Ah okay so if two files have the same name, but the priority in mod organizer is 1 and the other is 5, 5 takes the priority.
But if the names are different, both are loaded and the one with the zzzz_ is applied last.

assuming both affect the same thing.

[naive snow]

Correct

[green root]

Thank you! I'm going to continue being a pain in the ass, another question.

is it possible to see the k_hit value of ammo ingame? I know I can see weapon hit_power, figuring I'd have to debug the k_hit/k_ap. I tried to use one of the printf lines I found in the grok_bo.script file, but when I check the log file in the anomaly folder I don't see it.

[urban sierra]

Why doesnt this print "is_enemy" in debug / xray log ? Other functions i tested do print correctly.
The function is called thousands of times,
im editing GAMMA\mods\45- Stealth Overhaul - xcvb\gamedata\scripts\xr_combat_ignore.script

function is_enemy(obj,enemy,no_memory)
  printf("is_enemy")
    --utils_data.debug_write("eval_is_enemy")
    if(device().precache_frame > 1) then
        return false -- fix actor dying before game loads from enemies. Also fixes strange crash on game load when in combat sometimes.
    end
    
    if (obj:clsid() == clsid.crow) or (enemy:clsid() == clsid.crow) then -- freakin crows!
        return false 
    end
...

[green root]

Would it follow this same logic with a script too? if both scripts have the same name does the higher priority override the other?

[naive snow]

Same rules apply to monkey patches and scripts. You can see the winning file in your MO2 Outliner

[green root]

thank you

[green root]

Okay so from what i found turns out just having the script in mod organizer isn't enough. You have to call on it from another core file it seems. I'm not sure how grok_bo.script is called on, and that's what I'm replacing, so for now I just changed the name of my script to grok_bo.script and added a print line to confirm it loads. It did load, when the script loaded I saw my print line in the logs.

But the rest of the print lines in the script aren't working. Is there something that would suppress them?

Feel like there has to be something suppressing it because even the original grok_bo script has a bunch of printf lines that don’t appear in the X-ray log file.

[naive snow]

Read on Monkey Patching in the Anomaly modding book to know how to do "patches" to existing scripts instead of fully replacing them.

Useful tip for anyone working in photoshop and packing/unpacking .bumps or any other type of packed maps (from CoD models, Tarkov, etc)
Photoshop by default has a funky working color space setting for gray conversion, Dot 20% so whenever you extract by copy/pasting channels, lets say you're porting a COD weapon or even a Tarkov one, if you take the red channel, copy it and paste it into a new layer, the values all get shifted, this might not seem much, but it's still data loss and for normal Maps it's a decent enough shift. You can mitigate this behavior somewhat with using the Gray color space profile of Gamma 2.2 (you can change this in your Color Settings menu) but it's not perfect. Instead I found that to mirror it perfectly, you have to create a new layer, go to Image > Apply Image and this way you get perfect conversion from Channel to Layer without data shift or change. Same for packing from a Layer to a set channel, you should use the Channel Knockout to apply your layer to which channel you want it. Here's an example and proof. This was done with the stechkin bump map.
@faint sable , @fair canopy

[fair canopy]

👀

[naive snow]

The sGray color profile, if available in your version of photoshop, also gives decent results, but it's not a 100% mirroring either

[hoary cipher]

its not much but i am actually figuring it out

[green root]

Will check it out later, didn't know I could patch scripts too. Thank you.

Also the printf thing does seem to be suppressed. I changed the printf to a log and the log works, I get the string I want. Any idea what is suppressing the printf?

[naive snow]

No idea, sorry I don't really do code much

[green root]

All good, you've answered all my other questions so far I really appreciate it 😄
I just started scripting for this game too, I do programming for work, figured this couldn't be too hard 😆

[urban sierra]

i tried to use log but still not getting any output from my function huh. in on_game_start() the logging works.
very odd

[green root]

There is definitely a script later that is forcing all printfs to stop. All I know is it loads after grok_bo becasue when I dumped my script into it when it loaded in the log files I saw my print message. This was just to confirm is my script loading...
For the logging, this is the string I used...

log(string.format("[DMG PIPE] ammo=%s k_hit=%.3f k_ap=%.3f BR=%.3f bone_mult=%.3f final_pre_dist=%.3f", ammo_section, k_hit, k_ap, armor_br, custom_bone_dmg_mult, shit.power))

it also shows in console, like this.

I forgot to cap the damage so it doesn't multiply to infinity. Oops.

[urban sierra]

Hum neither printf nor log do anything for me. I should be in the right script file too, since only this one touches the function.

Thx though

[native oyster]

I have no idea how to make mods. However, I do have two ideas:

1. I would like a mod that would allow me to sell guns and armor to traders. When you sell them, they pay you 5% the value of the item. If you want to buy them from traders, they will sell them to you for 500% the value. The point is that at least you can sell them for something, even if it is a pittance. I hate wasting them by just dumping them in Sidorvich's floor. You know he sweeps them up later and sells them to a scrapper or something.
2. I would like a mod that would spawn a Whirligig Anomaly on top of any Stalker or Mutant who kills you. It is not going to matter, you have to load a save any way, but screw them.

[plush sky]

Guys somebody have lnk to Screen Space Shaders 24 ALPHA 4?

[royal mesa]

turn on the black market mod

[native oyster]

I did, but nobody will still buy my armor or guns. I end up running around looking for random stalkers with 1k or so rubles to scam out of beat-up Skorpions.

[royal mesa]

strange as far as i know its mostly just loners that won't buy weapons

[native oyster]

Maybe it will be differnt in Rostock. I am still in Cordon

[royal mesa]

that's probably the issue

duty will buy warsaw pact weapons in decent shape but the price is pretty low for the effort still

[native oyster]

That's ok. I am on board with the whole "Scavenge your equipment and fix it up" thing, I just hate wasting all this gear.

[royal mesa]

I've tried a couple different economy mods and only found one that works for me but it makes it so doctors and mechanics will buy literally anything for the base value and its far too overpowered

[fair canopy]

Because traders have different thresholds and gun lists they buy

It's not just turn it on and everyone else or buys whatever. Some traders will, some won't. And you also have to raise your ranks with the faction

[native oyster]

I couldn't have said it better! What I really want is a mod that I can turn on and sell anything... even if it is for a really low price, but still restricts what traders will sell so i still have to scavenge and repair my own guns and armor.

[green root]

Question for everyone... here's a shotgun buckshot config
[ammo_12x70_buck]:ammo_base ; #00
GroupControlSection = spawn_group
discovery_dependency =
$spawn = "weapons\ammo\ammo_12x70_buck" ; option for Level Editor
class = AMMO_S
cform = skeleton
visual = dynamics\weapons\wpn_ammo\ammo_12x70_buck.ogf
description = ammo-12x70-buck_descr
$prefetch = 64

cost = 1000

box_size = 10

inv_name = ammo-12x70-buck
inv_name_short = ammo-12x70-buck_s
inv_weight = .45

inv_grid_width = 2
inv_grid_height = 1
inv_grid_x = 55
inv_grid_y = 22

k_dist = 0.75
k_disp = 4.0
k_hit = 0.42 ; 0.4
k_impulse = 0.5
k_ap = 0.003
buck_shot = 9
tracer = off
4to1_tracer = false
wm_size = 0.022
k_air_resistance = 1.0
k_cam_dispersion = 1.3
k_bullet_speed = 1.425

tier = 2

so this 12 gauge buckshot is 9 shots, what I'm wondering, is each 1 of the 9 buckshot 0.42 damage based on the k_hit, or is it cumulative? Generally these types of things are 0.42 per ball of buckshot, but just wanted to know if someone could confirm.

[drifting moat]

Maybe the place where you put the printf is monkey patched and that's why you didn't see it in the logs. Nothing is preventing printf from logging.

[drifting moat]

AFAIK k_hit isn't the damage. It's a damage multiplier, so whatever gun is firing that ammo is doing: hit_power * k_hit.

But each pellet is like a separate bullet to answer your question.

Also when you paste scripts it's a good practice to format them like this
`some script` -> some script
Or for multi line
```lua <- specifying language helps formatting and it makes code colored like in a text editor/IDE

--CODE HERE
```

Turns into

if some_random_evaluation()
then some_true_code()
else some_false_code()
end

[civic garden]

.

[pulsar willow]

i get this error when i export the gun from blender, even with no editing, just import and export causes this error, i use bendert 3.6 lts and the latest xray addon for it, and here's the settings i use for export

[green root]

Interesting, the original grok_bo.script has printf lines, but I never see them in the log file. I guess it is getting patched out somehow but I have no idea what monkey patching is yet. I just replaced the script parts I needed to.

[green root]

I reworked the whole damage output code, but what you said is what I was looking for each pellet is an independent projectile. So each one inherits the calculated shit.power from the script.

[naive snow]

Depending on the model, especially for a HUD, you probably have to also export motions or check if it references an external motion file. The error you posted could be a number of things, open the .ogf through the OGF tools and see if anything is amiss vs another scope or the base model

[pulsar willow]

thank you

[pulsar willow]

ok, exporting motions helped

[drifting moat]

But on that note I just remembered. Grok prefers complete file overrides when somebody modifies his scripts, so I think in vanilla GAMMA non of his stuff are patched.

If you don't see stuff in the log that means the code didn't run.

Are you running the game in debug mode? Maybe printf doesn't write to the console in non-debug mode. But I doubt that still.

[lone gale]

hello, not sure if its the right channel to ask. Does someone know a mod if there is any like that, where npcs also get fealing animations which take time to patch themselves up mid battle if needed? Cause never saw npcs taking cover to heal mid battle, but as a player you need to do it often, so feels kinda unfair

[barren pilot]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/mcm-npcs-limping-and-healing

Something like that?

[barren pilot]

I don't know about NPC's actually taking cover during gunfights tho

You can maybe try redone combat ai, but I haven't used it so idk how it impacts gunfights

[summer stream]

that's

a different thing

it's all tied to MAPS

that has such triggers so

[mortal flint]

is it possible to distinct light and heavy bleeding via engine? im not talking about pain and pain_bad

@summer stream 🥺

[summer stream]

https://tenor.com/view/milo-atlantis-look-disgusted-gif-25805311

what is it about me
i didn't get inside engine part

@steady apex any clues?

[fiery moat]

I can't find much to hlep me make an UI mod like Sota's.

[summer stream]

but if i want to make a suggestion related to light/heavy bleeding

it's all just about the numbers

[mortal flint]

yeah but voiced actor has it like depending on health

<50% or >50%

[summer stream]

example :

if you have a set position for bleeding, like
50 is light
100 is medium
200 is heavy
then maybe script can read it off THOSE numbers, if you have <50 or 50+ BUT <100, it will play sound for the light bleeding
etc and etc

no idea WHICH lines are corresponding to those

but you can always look into x-ray engine files

[mortal flint]

💀

[summer stream]

aint my thing for now

i'm a model person/guy

[rough lion]

smart covers are tied to maps and not AI behaviour

[green root]

Yeah that’s why I’m confused, i know it’s running I get the first printf line in the logs when it loads, even in his original script. I added a print f to the script right when it starts and in the logs when it’s loading scripts you see that line print then continue loading scripts. But none of the other printf lines further down ever appear after everything is loaded and you’re in game.

Yeah debug mode is on.

[hoary cipher]

more progress, i figured out i was doing parenting wrong on the bones and mesh for export it needs to be armature deform with empty groups or atleast tht worked for me

[tame steppe]

what are you trying to do?

[hoary cipher]

im putting grenades on different animations, specifically the stalker 2 HoC grenade animations

thats a flashbang in his hand

[tame steppe]

ah i see, best of luck

[hoary cipher]

thank you, it hopefully wont be too hard

[ionic quarry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PI0salZE60 hail the xrMPE 🍻 will be available on ModDB if taken down by the team ill upload here somewhere

[fair canopy]

👀

[fiery moat]

How would I go about UI modding? I can barely find anything about it ;c

[north helm]

Hey guys, quick question: is it worth having a functional watch? Just for telling the time, of course. I know the PDA already shows the time and it’s there in the corner, but what do you think?

This will need the skin hands to have a prepared model watch (I'am actually testing this).

[lilac ibex]

idk, i made one for oxr:ga. i didn't use it that often lol

to not create 50000 hand meshes, you can use scripted attachments

[summer stream]

yeah you just need scripts + mesh itself

custom tried something like that via adding additional bones to hands?

[north helm]

got it, that would more efficient.

[north helm]

Yeah that was I thinking, is not that useful.

[north helm]

That’s the way I was going to do it, Adding 3 extra bones to the watch, Hour hand, Minute hand and Second hand. Then update the animation each second.

But yeah LVutner has the reason, that would use a lot of meshes

[summer stream]

add ADDITIONAL bone for the watch to get on it

the watch itself is a different model

[lilac ibex]

everything else can be done with UI/shader, long as youre ok with flat hands

[summer stream]

true

but you can kinda look at other games

that does the same thing

like cod

i looked at the skeleton for it
most of it had "tag_watch" something something

that's where the watches connect

its better than to just add ONE bone

to each hand

not like 4-5 bones and hoping it won't die

since that would require the hands to use TWO different animations at the same time

make it just a two separated models

it should work that way

.. hopefully

[north helm]

yeah, that could work. Thanks for that info.

I saw some time ago a mod with a watch, but it just wasn't for time. It was more useful than that.

This one, from gunslinger

I am guessing that was using UI/shader techniques

[summer stream]

yeah

plus scripts n stuff

[lilac ibex]

yeah, shaders;

pass the constants from engine
read allat in pixel shader

[summer stream]

i have no idea if gunslinger stuff is open source but if you can you could always just look into the stuff that they made

[lilac ibex]

101% shaders

[north helm]

but is actually pretty cool, it shows you more info, health, radiation level, and make an script for battery mechanic.

[summer stream]

and that is pbr

[lilac ibex]

no

[summer stream]

damn

i was mistaken by the amount of circles on screen

my bad

[north helm]

damn cool work there.

[summer stream]

still kinda want to look into how pbr works inside ixray engine but that would result in me learning c++

not a big fan of it

plus vectors...ehh math

im bad at it

[lilac ibex]

i dont bother with pbr anymore; not enough mods with pbr assets

[summer stream]

true

[lilac ibex]

there's diolator's, and that's it

[summer stream]

but if seriously

i wonder if pbr was made into other shader

like models/model_pbr

so u wouldn't see mess on ur screen

or no?

im just kinda dumb

[north helm]

what is pbr?

[lilac ibex]

i did that in anomaly. it was cool for screenshot, absolute pain in maintainance

[summer stream]

physical based render

the most realistic way to show off materials basically

[north helm]

sounds a lot of work

[summer stream]

metallic, roughness n shit

[summer stream]

yeahh

no wonder

the best we can get rn is "fake pbr"

but hey at least im having fun with baking the same thing over and over again

[lilac ibex]

its pbr or nuffin, at least for me. i'll never understand the point in keeping legacy & pbr pipeline in single engine lmao

[summer stream]

true

but that would mean reworking every texture from scratch

didn't someone start a project like that in ixray?

[lilac ibex]

diolator

[summer stream]

oh yeah

him

mmm perfecto

well for now ig we can just live with fake stuff

after all it's not that hard to make one

[lilac ibex]

ye

[north helm]

I found this in git hub.

[summer stream]

oh for fuck sake

oh right

i forgot

something something bounce physics on a model

[lilac ibex]

MSAA

i can't treat this seriously

[summer stream]

i have a question

what's up with MSAA

[lilac ibex]

ixr is quite close to pbr

[lilac ibex]

nothing, every sane dev moved to TAA

MSAA is dead

[summer stream]

no like what the fuck is even MSAA

[lilac ibex]

multisampling

[summer stream]

why most of the devs hate it

[summer stream]

.. understood

that single sentence gave me enough info

[north helm]

hahahaha

[north helm]

I am guessing this guys move too, because the post is from 2019. Quite old.

[summer stream]

well ixray has their version of pbr

plus they implemented stuff like TAA and DLSS with FSR too

i think

[lilac ibex]

i mean, there's google, chatgpt
msaa sucks due to overhead and because it forces you to resolve those shitty msaa buffers. i gave up after trying MSAA with different resolve filters, even TAA. it's trash, always inferior to TAA

[summer stream]

i don't remember really since
i didn't look into it

[lilac ibex]

you cna see how quickly code gets messy in vanilla CS (_msaa.ps)

[summer stream]

that reminds me of nvidias antialising

what was it name again

the fucking DAA or some shit

i honestly forgot

all i know is that it's mostly used for people who are playing on full hd monitors

since dlss on those are fucking horrendous

if you don't count the 4.5 where it kinda got better

.. still can't get over the fact that every third person on gamma is drooling over dlss and fsr getting implemented in SSS

despite the main reason why ur performance just skyrockets into a rock

[north helm]

I saw something about that in SSS , something is cooking.

[summer stream]

yeah yeah it's already in patreons version

5 or 10 dollars
ur getting early access to it

buggy n shit
but it works

just don't combine it with any MT stuff

[north helm]

how many FPS adds in average?

[summer stream]

that'll break apart easily

[summer stream]

depends

most of the time its gonna jump from 30 to 40-50

but considering the fact that gamma is a piece of stuttering shit

with over 500 mods AND scripts running at the same time

you really need some multithreading

to balance it off

OR make better scripts

[north helm]

yep, next gen xray monolith solve a lot of that, at least in my case.

[summer stream]

since that is the main problem

[summer stream]

well there's an official MT for xray

and unofficial one

both are good since, well, MT

[lilac ibex]

ez money tho

one can already take ixr implementation and paywall it

[summer stream]

oh yeah true lmao

that is a good idea

but i kinda want to add another thing to stalker

and keep it behind paywall since you can't really post it on moddb

still kind of cool but requires the fucking bounce physics

and that's vectors n shit

[lilac ibex]

booba?

[summer stream]

plus working with an engine that i HONESTLY don't know anything about

[summer stream]

yeah and animations

[lilac ibex]

peak

[summer stream]

still amazed by what it could do back in the days with clothes

[summer stream]

true but lacks one main aspect

and that'll severely ruin the experience

so i either ball with it
or learn the shit

you know math is
not so great for my brain

[lilac ibex]

add pbr pepperoni instead. problem solved

https://tenor.com/view/dog-accepting-fate-tiktok-at-peace-gif-567488341419321713

[summer stream]

please god no

[lilac ibex]

hell yeah

[summer stream]

i don't want to do it

i don't want to maintain two fucking pipelines

i don't want to go insane man

but anyways ig i should uhhh

maybe try to understand how to implement the bounce stuff

do you have some good like
guides for such stuff

since that'll probably help severely

[tawny prawn]

ok i just realised we need a tamagotchi mod

xd

but instead of the tamagotchi creatures it would be baby pig mutant and baby bloodsucker or something LMAO

[lilac ibex]

nope

[scarlet granite]

I played around with my gun turret and changed it from pm to mp7. It now also support all 9x19 ammo and actually accounts for reload order into mag.

[fair canopy]

I hope we get upgradable and bigger turrets

[barren pilot]

Did anyone else encounter it? Grass rendering through the NPC models, including mutants. Only with magnified optics, irons and red dots work fine

[lilac ibex]

that was fixed iirc.

[barren pilot]

My best guess it's painter of the zone, didn't have enough time to check

[lilac ibex]

modded exes.

[barren pilot]

Ok, I'll try to update them later. Last updated mine a week ago or something

Main branch without beta mt thing

[tawny prawn]

Any good LUT recommendations for autumn/dead autumn c-con?

im using emergent zone 2 ( old one) its very good but i wanna see something new maybe

[idle forum]

Is it normal for npcs from lim_smart_terrain_10 (a smart terrain in limansk) to be in Red Forest?

[blazing nebula]

Those perks in the table may be change. The point is use token system ( maybe like non-dropable item in inventory / quest items )

[blazing nebula]

perks ideas

[summer girder]

Holy shit Engineer TF2

[scarlet granite]

https://tenor.com/view/engineer-tf2-team-fortress-2-dance-dancing-gif-16687770357870666155

[scarlet granite]

I like the small one because you can place it on walls or ceilings and and it does not look funny

[glacial dove]

can someone tell me whats forcing the ak12_m1 to have a hud fov of 0.78? I tried adjusting it in the main ltx but it doesnt change

or well it does change in game but not in the settings, causing other weapons to sometimes have that same 0.78 hud fov when changing levels for example

[summer stream]

another layers of dltx overrides

[hoary cipher]

I'm having an issue trying to export an ogf from blender if anyone can help I can't figure out why, so I had an ok working exporting model with it's bones I moved the single wpn_body bone to get a better position in the animation and now it won't export and just keeps saying "not all bones in an armature have bone group: "my_model.ogf"" even tho it is in the right collection and has all the correct setting anyone know how to fix?

[teal compass]

pose mode select all bones and apply bone groups

[undone spruce]

Thats normal, create a bone group with any name like default for example, and apply it to bones

Thats ok for weapons

I dont know if non weapons ogf should have a proper bone group structure

[hoary cipher]

this is how it is right now, wdym by bone group? like bone collection or something else?

[undone spruce]

yeah bone collection

[hoary cipher]

and i didnt see apply bone groups either

[hoary cipher]

ahh ok i never saw that in any other model so i thought that wasnt a thing to use lol

[undone spruce]

like, apply bone group=Assign bone to bone collection

[hoary cipher]

yea that allowed it to export, do you delete it after or does it just chill?

[undone spruce]

nah, you can let it like that

[teal compass]

[undone spruce]

also, i've never had that problem per se with exporting ogf, but exporting omf

could be wrong though

[hoary cipher]

much better thank you!

[fair canopy]

Not this. It's in the free zoom code cause it's "easier" to set fov zoom than readjust every hud position. I asked for all the set fov to be removed from it in the next update

[summer stream]

i saw

[full vessel]

Hey lads, what methods would I have to use to add selectable options to the companion dialog box and check the faction? I don't want to touch axr_companion or dialogs script directly at all if possible. Can it be DXML'd?

[tawny prawn]

SPT MOD

just gonna leave this here hehe

[steel saddle]

It's just a static object from Epic's AllinOne pack, don't get too excited.

This is the real hero https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Vt4J7X_mo5k

[north helm]

Hi guys, how difficult do you think it would be to make something like this in GAMMA? Just an ‘inspect’ animation for the objects you can attach to your weapon, sights, suppressors, and maybe kits. (The picture is from SoC 2.0.)

[lilac ibex]

eft slop. you can use scripted attachments to do this

see modded exes github

[north helm]

Hmm, interesting, I’ll do that then. Thanks, @lilac ibex . I’m starting to think you’re actually a stalker dev XD

[naive snow]

Difficult, not really. Tedious as all hell and painful? Yes.
MAS already does something similar with scopes, being able to attach any scopes to the proper weapon, but that took a while to get off the ground already. Until 1.6 people are cautious about creating similar systems, since it will be an official one then. Modifying every weapon is the painful step

There is very little value at the moment vs the insane amount of work required

[north helm]

got it, and what about just only the animation and the way that the accessories are attach?

You know, a modern way to put the attachments, not just only open the inventory and them drag them.

[naive snow]

Same thing, you have to create a new animation for every weapon, make a patch for all the possible ones, make sure that the weapons have all a config for the attachment point

The UI isn't the hard part. The way Xray handles animations in general is

[north helm]

damn, and them maybe make it compatible with some attachments mods like MAS.

[north helm]

Let’s see what I can do. Thanks, @naive snow appreciate it.

[naive snow]

@fair canopy could talk in lenght about maintenance and how adapting everything to a new system is a fucking pain in the ass

[fair canopy]

[north helm]

that's kinda cool.

[fair canopy]

Ik is kinda cool

[naive snow]

#588474826105290753 message
Lucy is already tackling something similar

[fair canopy]

Maybe one day 1.6 will come out

[north helm]

holly shit, but that feels like each weapon needs a really tremendous work, like a lot.

[naive snow]

Thanks I needed a laugh

[naive snow]

That's what you were setting out to do

[fair canopy]

Don't forget the fact that every weapon either needs to be remade to a specific animation standard cause non of the current guns have a standard size

[north helm]

yep, well let's just continue with hands skin.

[fair canopy]

Anomaly redux 2 has an attachment system but I don't think it has correct scaling so all the parts look completely off

[north helm]

Well, too good to be true, I guess or just too damn hard to be real.

[tired drift]

Hello. Where can i change gun tier the vr80 here should atleast be C tier but its B tier

ahh i got change repair_type from shotgun to rifle_5

[split igloo]

Bounty Hunting mod coming along. Worked on it again a bit. Traitor mechanic is now implemented with a test spawner. When the traitor squad comes too close (they re actively hunting you, chill though, basically moving towards you) they will turn hostile.

[hoary cipher]

@teal compass ok so i managed to get the grenade on the other animations properly (i think) but it wont play the underhand animation left with no texture is mine right is how is supposed to be

[teal compass]

how did u setup the config

[hoary cipher]

Exact copy and paste of the hud as the proper one

And mostly the same for the main part

[cinder bramble]

Guys, if I use AI and the website https://anomaly-modding-book.netlify.app/ Anomaly, I can create a short story, for example, for the military?
Is AI not very good at modding for Anomaly, and is it better to try it yourself?
I just became curious whether it is possible to implement this, or whether it is just a waste of time.

[hoary cipher]

And when I used the exact config but only changed the animation it had issues too

[wet geode]

heyo, i need some help modifying a game file. I dislike the ambient damage on the chem and burn anomalies, and I want to reduce that to 0, how would I go around doing that

[hoary cipher]

AI isn't great at modding you can teach gpt how to understand anomaly specific Lua but it sucks at writing and Claude is much better at writing Lua but can't understand specific calls unless you show it to them, it can work and certainly be a very helpful tool but you still need to have it teach you how Lua works itself

[full vessel]

I'll be honest with you friend, from what I've seen, AI cannot even handle a dialog adjustment without causes crashes. If you're going to use it, you'd best use it as a supplement when hitting a writer's block or need it to spit out something for you to look at and modify in small portions.

Basically, it's a supportive tool, it's not going to make a new storyline for you

[hoary cipher]

It's really used best of you already have a slight understand as to what anomaly allows and dosent and have a basis script to feed it, it's much better when it can see how something works then just asking it to make something

[cinder bramble]

Well, I'm just not very familiar with modding, but I got bored of just walking around and surviving.
And I became curious whether I could, with almost no knowledge of modding (although before these messages I had read a few tutorials on the website), create a quest branch for one of the Factions, but before wasting time with AI, I decided to ask you.

[hoary cipher]

You very much can but it will certainly be challenging at first, my suggestion is to get a story mod from moddb like the duty expansion story mod and read the config XML and scripts as to how that works if you don't understand feed them to AI and ask it to help explain read the anomaly book and struggle till it works

And add lost of debug prints

[trail sundial]

Whether the AI is useful or not, you would need to learn it the old fashioned way anyway to be able to tell if the AI output is garbage or not.

[cinder bramble]

In general, I just can't figure out yet whether it's difficult to create my own quest or short story for a faction, for example, compared to other aspects of modding, or are there still some nuances to it?

[wet geode]

im just looking for help on modifying damage tables

i want to remove the ambient damage present around chem and thermal anomalies

[teal compass]

hmmm

[wet geode]

how does stalker gamma handle environment-)player damage

[teal compass]

can u like show me? I never worked with grenades but maybe something is different

[humble robin]

if you thought of using ai to make your mods, then you are already out of bounds. modding is made to bash your head on a wall until you stop bleeding enough to walk to another wall and restart bashing your head again. its something made to learn yourself. using that shit already take you out of the reason to mod anything

[dire rain]

eeee

[dire rain]

AI is good in some thingis

[teal compass]

seems liek the secondary ones is the thing that is low throw

[teal compass]

ai is good when u want a general direction of something

its not good to go deeper

[hoary cipher]

you have to learn to make it to do what you want to get meaning out of actual scripts it can write and the more you learn to use ai with lua the more you learn about lua and have it do less for you

i have made it help me make some exxtremly conplex scripts before

mostly because i am very bad at writing the actual code but understand it well

[wet geode]

ok but like

can someone help me with a question

[hoary cipher]

yea but even in blender the low throw animations look messed up on the original model but are fine in game so i have no clue why its like this

[wet geode]

how does stalker handle environment to player damage

[dire rain]

If u want make quests, check the tutorial of matias arregin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGojmShPjzk&t=9s
The videos are in spanish but u can translate em with the own options of Youtube, these tutorials are detailed and u will learn to make a quest, Also, this is a CoP example-tutorials but as Call of Chernobyl (therefore Anomaly too) have simplified systems to make quests, sooo u shouldn't have many problems if u actually learn from the tutorials.
He's doing a mod, VESSEL that has deep work on the quests sooo he knows about what's talking

[teal compass]

[cinder bramble]

I'll have to find some time and give it a try, maybe something will work out)

Thanks for the advice, guys.

[teal compass]

holdon I know where

uni_anim_bolt has specific definition of the low throw, and it needs thr grenade section in the sccript to be true to apply

    bolt = true,
    bolt_bullet = true,
    grenade_f1 = true,
    grenade_smoke = true,
    grenade_rgd5 = true,
    grenade_rgo_impact = true,
    grenade_rgn_impact = true,
    ["grenade_gd-05"] = true,
}```

at it there

[hoary cipher]

OH YEA I JUST REMEBER THAT TOO

[teal compass]

mystery solved

[hoary cipher]

thanks yukiz im going to go make that script a global script bind now

[teal compass]

[tawny prawn]

Is there any way to force a certain weather preset on new game start?

like w_cloudy2 etc...

since its always randomized

not talking bout debug but script

does anybody know which script controls the weather on new game start?

[hoary cipher]

sorry i wish that was it but unforto mystery not solved still no underhand

[teal compass]

uh ok

[hoary cipher]

If you think of the issue please let me know or if you want the ogf otherwise thank you for helping and I'll to fix it tomorrow, may e I'll ask Aphrodite about it

[teal compass]

I honestly got no clue lol prob just ask the org author how it works

[hoary cipher]

Yea I will tomorrow, or atleast the mod maker I don't think I can ask lassie here and I'm pretty sure she made the aniamtions

[teal compass]

[summer tundra]

Hello. Where would I find recources to learn anomaly modding?
There are things in anomaly that aren't yet implemented by others, so I thought I'd do it myself.

[drifting moat]

#╙🖇mods-making-discussion message

Check pins too, but in general the modding book in the link will be your main source of info. And of course you can ask modding related stuff here and we help you out.

[summer tundra]

Thanks

[mortal flint]

how hard it is to make 3dss work with pip on gun?

adjust

[fair canopy]

Like an existing scope or new one?

[mortal flint]

existing

i see, um, the intestines of scope

[fair canopy]

They should all when with pip. Which one do you mean?

[mortal flint]

sorry, i meant modded gun

outside of gamma

gm8 lynx specifically

[fair canopy]

Does it already have 3dss?

[mortal flint]

yeah

[fair canopy]

Add a 'magnifications = x-y' in the Config.

[green root]

Morning. I know Burn mentioned it but I don’t recall seeing a link.
Does anyone have a guide or link to one on patching over a script? Like a dltx for a ltx but for a whole script.

[drifting moat]

Check the anomaly modding book. It has a section on patching. Or just google "How to monkey patch Lua" .

[scarlet granite]

I'm playing around with getting NPC to fire at my Gun Turret. I'm placing a target dummy NPC (red cube) next to it. Im obviously keeping track of the NPC and want to set it friendly to everything.

for _, comm in ipairs(FRIENDLY_COMMUNITIES) do
    relation_registry.change_community_goodwill(npc_obj:id(), comm, 5000)
    ok_any = true
end

I will then give the target dummy NPC ID to my Add_Bullet function to make the hit targets enemies with the turret. However: Settings the goodwill does not fix NPCs from attacking the dummy. Is there a "neutral" faction like Switzerland?

[green root]

I wasn't sure if load order priority would cause two scripts with the same name to override each other. Turns out they do, and since my script is completely replacing the old one I just named them the same thing and had mine load last.
I did find the monkey patching in the modbook though, will try to figure this out another time. Thank you.
https://anomaly-modding-book.netlify.app/docs/tutorials/scripting/monkey-patching

[drifting moat]

If your script completely overrides every function of another script then it's better to do as you did and not monkey patch.

Whether to do it or not depends on the situation, but most of the time it's better to monkey patch stuff for compatibility.

[drifting moat]

I don't know the exact answer, but check out how GAMMA sets SIN and mutants as allies or how it altered ecologists to be enemies to freedomers (IIRC this already happened)

[green root]

Not sure if it's been done already, or if there is a way without some kind of script, but is it possible to have armor modify recoil? My goal would be that unless you're wearing a powered exo/nosrog that machine guns have increased recoil unless crouched/prone. So you can't effectively run and gun with a pkm or m249. So to state the goal I guess...
Normal armor -
standing with LMG = high recoil
crouched/prone with LMG = less recoil
Powered exo -
standing with LMG = less recoil
crouched/prone with LMG = least recoil

[teal compass]

I think there is a relation ltx that defines the relationship

[drifting moat]

But that is read on game init.

Oh, I got what you meant.

He can't reference grok's stuff since it's not runtime.

[teal compass]

oh

[near nacelle]

хтось може порадити аддон для Блендера для роботи з .ogf?

[summer stream]

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

[near nacelle]

Це він для якої версії Блендера?

[summer stream]

5.0

[near nacelle]

Дякую

[fair canopy]

@steady apex what would cause a weapon to make too many calls to the wct script?

[fair canopy]

figured it out. apparently if fire_direction is set to 0,0,0 its causes issues with the wct script

[teal compass]

that's funny

[naive snow]

Could it be a ray cast that looks up the direction or uses that value as a vector multiplier, not hitting anything since it's a multiply by 0 and just rerunning the check in a costly loop?

[fair canopy]

yeah that was what my thought was. i noticed the script checked for fire_direction

[tawny prawn]

The other day i saw somebody post a video where they had the bic lighter from western goods and he had an animatiom for campfire ignition

Does anybody know where to get the anim from? He mentioned some sfx mod or something

[naive snow]

Ask in the relevant channels like #╟🔰☢newbies-chat or #╓☢stalker-chat

[glacial stratus]

Hello everyone, can you tell me where there is information on how to add a new trader in Anomaly? The Internet is silent for now, and artificial intelligence only makes mistakes. Thank you

[steady apex]

Default fire direction is 0,0,1

[neon panther]

has anyone made a mod or is anyone willing to make a mod that makes it so that perk artefacts automatically unequip at 1% efficiency before breaking?

[fair canopy]

I thought so. Not sure why this gun was setup like that

[summer stream]

what gun

[fair pollen]

rsh-12

[summer stream]

but from who

frosty or sedzhi

[teal compass]

meowie which is using seds anim

[summer stream]

okay good

[obsidian lava]

Anyone knows a mod that makes player character speak english without being a Merc?

[barren pilot]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1141506829512364082

I have no idea if it works tho

[summer tundra]

Someone should really make a mod, that makes the cheaper pda's totally miserable. Low fps and loading screens, etc. Not sure if this is a place for requests but whatever

[full vessel]

fatal error but extra shit

[full vessel]

anyway this already kinda exists #1387494277218566454 message

[summer tundra]

No way!

[terse pier]

how do i make arteffacts good again?
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[1:56 PM]Thursday, February 12, 2026 1:56 PM
like givev off radiation and the traaders sell the lead lined containers again\

*how do i make arteffacts good again?like givev off radiation and the traaders sell the lead lined containers again\

[drifting moat]

[scarlet granite]

I love how to bandits decide to blow themself up. Pure chaos.

[terse pier]

i like how artefacts were before

like with the radiation and shit

anddd not nearly asa much downsides

[naive snow]

Use the #📢development channel to track down the changes Grok made, then get the github revision from before. It will probably break a lot of things since the artifact system has been modified to play with the armor system and resistance caps. So you'll have to modify a lot of things to avoid crashes and do some balance fixing on your own

[dire rain]

sell cointainers again
good

[hoary cipher]

making my own ammo icons how is it looking? any criticism would be great thats just the base blender rendering

[dire rain]

looks good imo

[naive snow]

Depends and on how you'll do the distinction between the HP, AP and FMJ variants. A good trick is to scale it down to the actual 50x50px size and see how it looks.
Might be worth using a quick light rig to have a rim light effect to cutout the top part of the bullet

[hoary cipher]

i was probably going to do the different bullets in paint.net instead of making new bullets and taking new screenshots- i do already have the empty casings thos not only full bullets

[uneven shadow]

i dont think I have enough brain cells to figure out if im lining this up correctly

[naive snow]

Change the display mode of the armature modifier of your object:
This makes it easier to vizualise the bones path and relation. Think of the relation ship lines as your own bones, so the line from L_upperarm to L_forearm, is meant to represent your upperarm, you want that line to go through your actual model's upperarm. You should use Latices to deform and place your model as close as possible to the bones position

[uneven shadow]

thank you, that's so much easier to see

[hoary cipher]

You are much correct 50x50 doesn't look very great so I might utilize HD framework and make them on a 100x100 or 150x150

[dire escarp]

is there a list of the anomaly map location? i'm trying to edit the toxic air addon to add a safezone (jupiter checkpoint) but idk the actual name in the files

[robust lily]

Is there any file I could edit to make it so tasks are created faster or there are more tasks created?

I know I can increase the amount of tasks per NPC but that doesn't do much for me

I've looked around the unpacked game files and not found anything so far

[hoary cipher]

i have questions folks, i have a set of icons varying from needing HD framework to not needing it and i am curious as to if you can tell the diffrenc in quility and if it is big enough to need to use HD icon framework or if standard size icons look good enough.

[trim jungle]

Definitely use the framework. The icons will look good for everyone using an HD icons mod and not out of place for everyone using vanilla icons. It’s easier to see high quality icons next to a bunch of rough icons than some rough icons next to a bunch of high quality icons, if that makes sense

[tepid patrol]

anyone got some advice on making ground texture bump maps with stalker-bump-gen-tool that don't make the terrain super shiny/reflective at a distance?

[naive snow]

Use a proper gloss map and make sure to rebuild your terrain lods with Sunn's automatic LOD generator

[tepid patrol]

ty for the reply, my specular map was too bright.

[tame steppe]

I’ll be honest, it’s fine without HD icons, the actual icon in game will still look good because the slot in game is also small, I think