╙🖇mods-making-discussion

[tame steppe]

also how do you get that pixel text? I have no idea where to find it

[tawny prawn]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/volumetric-smoke-for-agroprom-underground

Did anybody manage to get this working on gamma?

[lilac ibex]

it should work just fine

gamma does not change smoke code

[summer girder]

I mean, it's only in Clear Sky part of the Agroprom Underground

The one you access via the snork lair in south Agroprom

This smoke will not be anywhere else

[tawny prawn]

yeh but the smoke is static

it just sits there

yes i turned on volumetric smokes

[lilac ibex]

[tawny prawn]

xd

best part ab it

[lilac ibex]

you need to restart ur game after turning it on

[tawny prawn]

im not the only one

buddy has exct same result

[tawny prawn]

i know

i did

deleted shader cache manually

as always

[lilac ibex]

on non-MT bins it works ok

[tawny prawn]

non - MY bins?

is it maybe because of shroom engine?

[lilac ibex]

maybe

[tawny prawn]

hmm ok

friend says he doesnt have shroom

ok nvm its not that

ehh fuck idk

weird

[lilac ibex]

then I don't know, record a vid 🤔 physics etc works fine on modded exes (no MT tho)

[tawny prawn]

idk what mt is

i do have moded exes..

i got 900+ mods

tho the volumetric smoke mod doesnt overwrite anything

its completely standalone

i dont get it

[lilac ibex]

me neither

[tawny prawn]

:/

at least i got my game looking insane

finally switched to new atmos and started doing all the edits from scratch

looks dope so far

[summer stream]

finally something that doesnt look ass on gamma

[mystic sluice]

Guys, can somebody share Zone Textures Rework 1.3 please? The author deleted all his mods for some reason (Even on moddb) (( I really LOVED THAT texture pack

[hoary cipher]

This is mostly what i was thinking too thank you

[hoary cipher]

The text? Like what it says on the bullet for the type? I just copy it over from another bullet that has it and fill in the missing parts or write my own it's only a 5x3 for most letters

And it's from artigrok icons but it's the same text as "bird" and "Patreon" in moddb

[naive snow]

No. Redistribution is exactly the reason why the mod was removed in the first place. Try messaging the author directly or finding another source

[regal bolt]

Are modded exes devs here? Why not rendering realtime 3d gun models in the interface like in tarkov?
It should take a picture of a gun

[lilac ibex]

because you didn't make it?

[mystic sluice]

I don't know the author :((

I mean, it's strange that he deleted all that. He could've just not make it public then, lol. The ones who did malicious stuff with it already did what they did, don't know what deleting the mod achieved in the end. Only prevented ordinary players from using the mod...

[lilac ibex]

his mod his rules

[mystic sluice]

I mean, yeah, it's just dumb. If he had a remorse that someone redistributed his mod and made money of of it, I read that this was the reason, and he thought that he could've made money from that, he could've then just make all already available versions free and then consecutive versions paid. That would've been more beneficial for him as an author and a texture artist to be honest. But, whatever...

[trail sundial]

Ngl this ranks pretty low on the scale of wacky modder behavior

[hoary cipher]

I think the GitHub is still up

[naive snow]

He gets to do whatever, he's the one who's been pouring hours and hours of work into something freely given with basic rules to follow. People didn't. He took it away.
It's basic shit that kids learn early on. Actions have consequences. Hopefully the community learns, but I doubt it

[mystic sluice]

I didn't disagree with what he did. But in my opinion he missed an opportunity and didn't prove anything, players come and go, in a week most players won't know that the mod even existed, it was not smart and childish to delete whole thread without any notice.

[fair canopy]

[lilac ibex]

don't get me started

[naive snow]

Sure an announcement could have been nice, but a quick search reveals the whole drama.
He didn't want the drama, he didn't want to deal with it.
Most mod authors make mods to give freely, for everyone to enjoy. Setting things up behind a paywall just defeats that whole purpose, plus having to setup the whole thing. Having to start selling your things because an idiot decided he wanted to sell your things is just stupid.

[mystic sluice]

Doing what the author did equally stupid IMO XD. But whatever, everyone is entitled to have their own opinions on the matter, I guess.

[mild frost]

Hey guys, I’d like to know your opinion about using AI to write code for mods.

I’m not referring to game design or assets — just the code itself.

What you guys think?

Is there any discussion about this in the modding community?

[scarlet granite]

You can try using AI for Anomaly but it will not understand a lot of the functions and try to do stuff it learned from other games. Anomalys code is hard to understand because of missing documentation, when going of track. You just have to look at functions and guess what they do or look at other mods that do similar things. For basic Lua stuff it can help, but I would suggest learning it yourself as you will spend a lot of time debugging sloppy AI stuff.

I sometimes use it for searching through source code tho. Hahaha

[mild frost]

I'm thinking in giving a shot with AI, because i want to try some stuff and currently i have very few spare time.

I was vibe coding a planner for me and Claude Opus 4.6 really impressed me. But i guess that, even the planner being somewhat complex, it doesn't come any close to a game complexity 🤔

[scarlet granite]

You should for sure give it a shot, but don't expect wonders. 😄

[naive snow]

There's been several and the gist is: It doesn't really work. Anomaly and it's code base isn't really an open library that an AI can learn off, it's a custom lua implementation and the AI just doesn't know how to handle it.
Lots of people keep on trying and it just spits out non-functional things. Feel free to give it a shot, but unless you're training a model yourself with Tosox's repo and the anomaly modding book, claude or chatgpt spit out crap

[scarlet granite]

Yeah thats what I meant with it not getting most of the anomaly functions. But I had issue with a crash from a certain engine line and I asked GPT what could cause this and provided the GitHub link to the source code and it really helped me a lot.

But what its really good for: Creating blender scripts hahaha. My turret uses stepped animations for yaw axis and it took an hour creating them the first time by hand and then 5mins with GPT

[naive snow]

Yeah it's a good tool either as a learning aid or for scripting out python scrips for tooling. Most of my custom shelves tools for modeling and making things out of Pavel's plugin uses a bit of AI code

[hoary cipher]

I use it to a decent effective ness but you have to be very clear about what you want you have to show the AI how what you want to do actually works and it will take many attempts, the best way I have found is to find an already made mod that does a decent amount of what you want or is anywhere near it then show the whole unedited thing to AI after cleanly describing what you want to achieve

Claude is much better at writing but still needs to see what the code looks like and gpt is much better at understanding functions after seeing code

Use them both for seperate things and it's better then having 1 do all

[drifting moat]

Better to learn basics of Lua and the domain.
You will spend a lot more time wrestling with the LLM telling you nonsense or generating buggy code.
Sure you will start off a lot slower, but at least you will be able to build stuff that actually work.

[dire rain]

While the AI code be a tool for enhance the code by urself in case of have problems, ok

[balmy zenith]

As an older guy who programs for a living: LLMs are like tutoring an intern who can type at insane speeds but jumps to dumb conclusions a lot. If you have the experience to teach and guide an intern, then it can be a useful tool. If you're new to coding, then you're going to have a very confident idiot leading you to do stupid things.
So IMO if you're starting out, do your own homework for at least a year or two--treat LLMs as study partners who are happy to find you links to stuff or take notes for you in order to help you learn better, but don't let them write your code until it's code that you're very confident that you could write yourself without help.

after all, if you aren't confident in writing it yourself, why should you believe that you're qualified to properly review what the LLM sends you?

[novel ruin]

Virgin coder: ^
Chad vibe coder: hahaha LLM goes br br
/s

[lilac ibex]

firing squad is calling

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

[fiery epoch]

hey fellas, is there a quick and dirty guide to first person weapon repositioning somewhere? I want to make some weapons, like the BRN, actually point to the middle of the screen instead of slightly off to the side.

[last reef]

Somewhere down the line somehow all fire rates in the game are getting multiplied by 0.8, 600rpm becomes 480, 700 becomes 560, 750 becomes 600, etc. How can I undo this and restore the cyclic rates on the guns?

[trail sundial]

https://youtu.be/xk_P5NZkeSw?si=QZMHLWSrAFHVRNo-

https://youtu.be/u8crq79zMfs?si=tYnOBbv8-xiJkPZl

Between these videos there's good coverage of how to use the draggable HUD editor and save the new offsets to a config.

[fiery epoch]

You're a king dude, thanks

[unborn crest]

How much does mo2 affect in-game performance?

[lilac ibex]

less than 5230280508 scripts you put in

[unborn crest]

They are now trying to prove to me that mo2 is terrible, and its very presence affects performance.

[lilac ibex]

lmao

[drifting moat]

Who? And what was the explanation for that?

[unborn crest]

pretty serious modders-assemblers

[unborn crest]

the alleged reason for this is the file upload mechanism itself

[drifting moat]

Sometimes tech people can can overreact and bloat problems that are not even problems. Just yesterday at work I was looking for HEX editors and a guy almost had an anneurysm because the editor was 200 megabytes.

He was freaking out how bloated it was. 200mb is pocket change who cares if it has a ton of features that you might never use.

TLDR: In tech ppl love to overreact.

[drifting moat]

If it works out for you don't listen.

[lilac ibex]

"serious"
"mo2 is reason my shitpack runs like trash"

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

[drifting moat]

When you open up a script file you quickly realise that there are far greater crimes to worry about than MO2 somehow slowing down your PC

[unborn crest]

mainly those who optimize all their scripts and not only scripts are trying to prove this to me.

[lilac ibex]

nah they just look for excuses to pack everything into zip/db

[unborn crest]

In db, they really pack

[lilac ibex]

yeah, so they just yoink mods and spread misinformation

[drifting moat]

I didn't sey they wrote bad stuff. I don't even know whom we're talking about. But it doesn't make much of a difference.

[unborn crest]

But what's the problem with db? I don't see anything wrong with it, there are just some limitations, but there are also clear advantages.

[drifting moat]

Much harder to maintain

[regal bolt]

Please, someone increase id amount from u16 to u32 inside engine and increase amount of ids in lua side

[lilac ibex]

nope

[drifting moat]

There's a PR for that

[unborn crest]

why is that?

[drifting moat]

Innit?

[regal bolt]

has someone already done that?

[drifting moat]

You have to unpack, repack the stuff if you want to touch it.

[unborn crest]

[lilac ibex]

prolly not, since there's no point in rewriting everything

[drifting moat]

I think I saw a PR for it.

[unborn crest]

and what's so difficult about that?..

[regal bolt]

why? 65k ids - not enough

[lilac ibex]

enough

not including those scam ass projects like r*dmp

[unborn crest]

it very hard bro...

[lilac ibex]

where mp means u gotta spawn another npc and manipulate it through lua

[regal bolt]

what's hard changing from u16 to u32 property type?

[drifting moat]

Why would you do that? What's the point? If you have multiple mods it's just unmaintainable. Terrible user experience

MO2 was made for a reason

If everything were min-max optimized we would code in bits

[lilac ibex]

it takes more than #define u16 u32

[regal bolt]

soooo, will someone increase ids amount?

[lilac ibex]

so be the change you want to see

aka fork modded exes, and try to increase ID limit

[unborn crest]

this will break a bunch of everything that exists now in anomaly, and it's really difficult to rewrite the entire old system with a new one in the engine.

[drifting moat]

I think if you do anything in tech there's a triangle.
Performance, Readibility/Maintability, Implementation speed. You don't need to max out all 3. Pick what's best for the problem at hand and move on.

[lilac ibex]

or fork SoC sources - it will be easier than doing it for modpack

[regal bolt]

a

[scarlet granite]

The database I work with on a daily basis expands that to a square with the corner "be slow" and all skills points are applied there.

[dire rain]

is enough

and u can do A LOT of thingis with this limit

As lvutner said, don't there point on rewritte everything because the limit is enough, i don't see why u say that thingi because there several mods with 10000 bazillion maps and much more items than Anomaly while em have the same limit, sooo i couldn't see from where the limit isn't enough

[fair canopy]

what do you mean its pointing to the side?

every single gun that drops in gamma has already been adjusted to point to the center of the screen

[unborn crest]

Does anyone know what kind of bone damage was once fixed in gamma, which no one else has done?

[naive snow]

If you want to see how troublesome is, pop on over to #╟⚒stalker2™-mods-making-discussion and see how awful merging multiple mods together is when everything is shoved into paks.
Grok's made test with negligible delta results working off .db archives vs free files.
Also the virtualization process of MO2 is barely an impact vs the practicality it offers.

[last reef]

I was working on my fire rate mod and I noticed something weird: all the guns appear to shoot slower than their RPM fire_rate value. Is it true? Are all fire rates in the game being multiplied by 80% or am I schizophrenic? A 750rpm gun turns to 600, 600 to 480, 100 to 80 and so on, and I can prove it. Is there a setting somewhere that acts as a master multiplier, set to .8, and I'm the only one autistic enough to notice the guns are all shooting slower than they should?

[radiant spear]

ayo peeps, have never 3d animated in my life before (2d scrub), can I animate weapons for the game with blender or do I really need to go through autodesk inferno or crack maya

[fair canopy]

You can use blender

[radiant spear]

nice ty

[unborn crest]

so db archives reduce weight, and there are no problems in unpacking them, and clean files are more of a problem, since no one really needs them, and only create an extra load. And also mo2 really turns out to be capable of causing serious delays, although I agree that it provides great opportunities.

[naive snow]

But aside from minimal space saving, there's no actual performance gains.
You can't override files in DB archives (two files of the same name don't win conflicts, load order isn't handled the same. Clean files are actually less of a problem than DB archives. You could generate one gigantic DB archive out of all your squashed mods from MO2, but that means a static mod list. Not really pertinent to users and even less so to modders

The on-disk memory savings aren't translated to less ram usage, in-case that was your point. Spending 30 minutes decompressing and recompressing every time you make a change isn't really a viable thing either

[random fulcrum]

record it and time it, in any case yeah you're autistic

[fiery epoch]

Idk man, while the bullets go to the center of screen, the model to me looks a bit off. I'm not sure exactly what it is. Maybe it's the exaggerated movement away when walking but idk.

[fair canopy]

yeah if you dont know idk either. every gun in gamma points exactly to the center of the screen now.

i literally spent the last 4 months making sure they did

[teal compass]

[fiery epoch]

like i said, idk. Just looks kind of uncanny, like the barrel isn't pointing to where the bullets should be going. Maybe its just the model or me schizoing

i don't think your efforts have anything to do with the weirdness

its as the if the gun is pointing slightly left of where the bullets are actually going

[fair canopy]

its just perspective

[fiery epoch]

i guess? but i dont notice that with pretty much every other gun

or in any other game really

[fair canopy]

trust me. it's aligned

[fiery epoch]

it is, just tell my brain that lol

[fair canopy]

nothing i can do about that other than stretch to gun into infinity for you

[fiery epoch]

lol, now that is something i can do myself

[radiant spear]

perspective is hairy cheeks in real life aswell, i could swear my brothers fake ar15 suppressor was way crooked when holding the weapon at ready and aiming. Some lighting shit

also, would it be too funky to forego aiming animations, as in to have low ready, ready, and when aiming have the camera itself move to where the sights are visible?

this whole moving the viewmodel to the centre needs to GO

[fair canopy]

theres no benefit to that for how much work it would take to do

[tawny prawn]

Is there a mod that makes the psi helmet wearable?

and maybe gives it actual psi resistance

or at least just the stat for keeping it in the inventory

it would be cool if it can be placed in the headgear slot where the flashlight goes

[rigid sail]

That would make the miracle machine challenging, to say the least. You'd have to rely solely on glowsticks.

[full vessel]

did you forget the flashlight-... oh yeah

[regal bolt]

how to downscale textures from 8k to 2k?

[regal bolt]

someone have older ccon grass version?

[toxic frost]

Does anyone know if there's a mod that introduces new anomalies that behave more dynamically or alters existing anomalies so they aren't static all the time? After putting a lot of time into Stalker games and mods, the threat that anomalies pose is something that you can often plan for or just flat out avoid. I was just wondering if anybody ever thought about making them a bit more dangerous/sporadic so that even experienced players would have to pay more attention.

I like how the Arrival Anomalies mod can make some of the anomalies much harder to spot or hear, but I don't feel like it doesn't scratch that itch necessarily. Maybe a static Electro anomaly could strike random locations around it within a 2-3 meter radius with electrical bolts or arcs every 5-10 seconds. That way it's still a threat even if you manage to wade through a cluster of Electros perfectly with the best detector revealing their exact location around you.

Additionally, I started thinking about this mod concept where a player may sometimes have to go to a location in a level for a basic mission, though, they'd potentially have to choose whether they'd want to navigate through two paths with different types of anomalies to reach their destination. That way anomaly resistances become much more relevant beyond searching for artifacts, as you might encounter situations where you'd prefer to take one path over another because you have better resistances for your chosen path.

I'm not exactly sure how this could be executed, but I thought I'd throw the idea out there and see if it catches anybody's attention.

[full vessel]

It's not a mod to affect base anomalies behavior, but it does add some dynamicness to where and how they appear
#1324510417107681362 message

[toxic frost]

Sick. Thank you very much!

[wicked latch]

hi folks, I'm trying to figure out how ammo check sounds are working in gamma. I have found that there is remington700_new_ammo_check.ogg but I can't figure out where it is used. If I open weapon ltx there are no references to thos sound file. do you by chance know where sound is referenced from?

[regal bolt]

is there a command or mod that completes miracle machine and BS?

[hot token]

!bs

[queen pine]

@regal bolt How to skip Brain Scorcher and Miracle Machine (Access to #1035807043933720576 required, take off your Newcomer role in #⏩start-confirm if necessary)

1. Download the archive https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1153718676592275536
2. Open Mod Organizer 2 and press Ctrl+M
3. Choose the downloaded archive
4. Put the mod at the end of modlist, sorted by priority, and enable it
5. Your run is saved

[regal bolt]

thanks

[radiant spear]

your lack of faith in the quest for authenticity and tactility in virtual firearm representation makes me choke and cry

[fair canopy]

[summer stream]

https://tenor.com/view/vainzi-white-guy-gif-24847210

[fair canopy]

anomaly has many talented mod makers. the fact that no one has done that yet means none of them have found it any kind of useful to implement

[regal bolt]

How does gamma store tons of mods if github repository is 10gb max

[fair canopy]

gamma pulls them from moddb

[regal bolt]

but how? Mod can be updated and I saw Grok updates version manually, no?

[trail sundial]

It's what the installer does, that's like the whole reason it exists.

[radiant spear]

or maybe nobody thought of doing it yet, I doubt this implementation would be of any less practical value than having weapons fuse into ones body. Seems likely to be hereditary, its been done this way so why change.

well, I might aswell stop talking and look into it

maybe the lean, crouching and laying prone mechanic could be abused to make it work as proof of concept, or dig myself a fucking grave

slight "crouch" in the x axis would be funny ngl

[tawny prawn]

is there any way to get the little updates separately? maybe from github?

(talking about handpicking little adjustments and updates)

[tame steppe]

it’s totally possible to handpick the commits from the dev version to your install if that’s what you’re asking, just download the file

[tawny prawn]

yes, i would for an example like to implement the armor changes grok did

without updating whole game

[tawny prawn]

could you link me preety please?

[tame steppe]

it is quite a bit of work though

[tawny prawn]

ohh

[tame steppe]

you have to download the file and set up the mod yourself

[tawny prawn]

wym set up?

install?

or dltx

[tame steppe]

I actually did this before to implement the anomaly field damage fix

[tame steppe]

depends on the commit

[tawny prawn]

well ok as an example

i would like the armor changes

he did

to try them out

[tame steppe]

if it’s a script then you can download the file and just set up the directory in an empty mod

[tawny prawn]

i see

[tame steppe]

wait he has that in the dev version?

[tawny prawn]

if not?

[tawny prawn]

idk whats that

im kinda not updating gamma for a long time

im on 0.9.4

but not latest

[tame steppe]

ohh I see

[tawny prawn]

thats why i would like to try and hand pick the changes i like

and implement separately

[tawny prawn]

yeah..

soo

its possible if i understood?

i just cant find the link

for the page

where he adds them separately

[tame steppe]

#📢development message

[tawny prawn]

or whatever he does

[tame steppe]

in development

yeah so just download the file from GitHub and set up your own mod for the early armour changes

[tawny prawn]

thanks

@tame steppe chance of game breaking by doing these types of implementations?

if its values in ltx i dont see how it can break but then again...its stalker xd

[tame steppe]

I doubt it, you can check the files just in case but I don’t think the armour changes include stuff like armour deletion which would crash so it should be fine

back everything up beforehand though

especially you’re saves

[tawny prawn]

everything? xd

i can do user ltx

and saves which i dont really care about

[tame steppe]

okay maybe not everything just saves

[tawny prawn]

xd ok

but if i make it a separate mod

it should be as easy as turning it on and off

right?

i think

[tame steppe]

yes 👍

[tawny prawn]

splendid

[regal bolt]

Wouldn't it be better to improve vanilla gamma's gun quality, add 3dss and other patches to debug guns and spawn them on npcs so tons of guns will be usable and fresh-looking

people add more guns but who will rework existing ones?

I don't have much time on this

[fair canopy]

Why the fuck would I bother adding 3dss to a bunch of duplicate guns? 60% of the guns in anomaly are reskinned camo version with maybe a sight added

[regal bolt]

ok, but how about increasing guns quality? Like meowie does, adding BC7 textures option, metallic looking so reflections will work, etc.

[fair canopy]

And who's going to do all that work?

Do you understand how much work it takes to make or source "better" textures. You aren't saying anything revolutionary. It's being worked on

[summer stream]

https://tenor.com/view/ishowspeed-tweaking-i-show-speed-gif-12569714116302055236

that's why we have debug guns

we either remove em from game entirely

or put something else above em

[fair canopy]

I already killed a bunch of debug guns that gamma doesn't use

Why waste time with guns that gamma doesn't and won't use?

[regal bolt]

yes, I see how much time I've been waiting for Yukiz's scars, but it worth it, I guess

[fair canopy]

Just to bloat the game more? That's what boss pack is for

[regal bolt]

also talking about non-debug vanilla gamma's guns

or Grok can remove all debug guns

[fair canopy]

Or don't go pulling debug guns

Or better yet, learn to do it yourself

[summer stream]

true!

[regal bolt]

I'd like to - but substance painter cracks may contain viruses or legal version is to costy for me and I don't have much time to do this stuff

[fair canopy]

Buy the legit version. It's 25 dollars

[regal bolt]

OOOOO

wait, I can do something about it

[fair canopy]

Problem solved. Now make us all those better guns you're talking about

[naive snow]

[regal bolt]

will grok add them if someone make bc3 and bc7 texture variants?

[fair canopy]

maybe if they're good and make sense and not just tetxtures for random debug garbage

[naive snow]

Unless there's a proven and noticeable quality change, no.
You can't recompress a DXT1 to BC7, there's no quality gain and you're just recompressing compressed data, with more artifacts.
If someone was willing to find the source files uncompressed and actually generate the full bump and bump# properly as an offset map, then you'd maybe make it worth it

[regal bolt]

why not atleast retexture the whole gun from the ground? Use blender, substance, paint/photoshop, bump generator programs, etc. and you are good to go

or am I wrong?

new textures, new materials

[fair canopy]

[naive snow]

Sure, fix and correct the modeling, fix the UV issues. Rexport the new models with all the animations and retransfer and paint new weights. Spend 20 hours per gun. That seems viable for the number of guns we have

[fair canopy]

its just that easy

have it done in an hour and on my desk. i'll ask grok to put it somwhere

[scarlet granite]

I would not create a mod with the goal for it to be published in GAMMA

[naive snow]

You know, just do it, it's easy

[regal bolt]

oh, dudes who make guns, textures, models mods should get paid for their works

[naive snow]

With what money?

[regal bolt]

real one

[naive snow]

[regal bolt]

no, it's intended to be used in gamma, cos these vanilla ones should be refreshed/renewd, this is 2026, we need stalker improved graphically
wait, there's stalker 2

we need new trees, vehicles, houses models

[lilac ibex]

"we"?

[naive snow]

Oh yeah just swap the models, easy

[lilac ibex]

[naive snow]

No one thought of it before, or tried to

Definetly didn't burn out multiple modders

[fair canopy]

alright call up your guys at activision and get that cod money poured into gamma

[naive snow]

The EA credit card (which is an actual thing without a bottom)

[fair canopy]

better yet, lets get funded by the saudis

[naive snow]

That sweet petroleum money

[dire rain]

This just sounds wrong, "retexture the whole gun from the ground", if is soo easy as it sounds, do it by urself

[dire rain]

there several mods with improved textures and models, S2 assets really aren't needed, except for x project in development

[gleaming kernel]

is there a list of credits / mods which have been incorporated into GAMMA Large Files & Weapon Pack?

[summer girder]

!cheats //

[queen pine]

@regal bolt
Important!
Do not use weapons, armor, artifacts, PDAs, or any other items from the debug menu

🔸 These items may be test assets, outdated, or completely removed.
🔸 They lack proper 3D scopes, stats, animations, and balance.
🔸 This leads to issues such as misaligned scopes, broken parameters, crashes, and corrupted gameplay.

✅ Everything you need is already available in the normal game without the debug menu. Use only legitimately obtained items — this ensures the modpack works correctly.
If a bug or crash occurs with an item from the normal game, you must specify which item you used and how you obtained it. This will help support identify the problem more quickly.

⚠️ The debug menu is strictly for troubleshooting: testing quests, items, crashes, and technical issues.
If you spawn items from debug “for testing” or “for convenience” and then encounter problems, that is your responsibility. Support will not be provided in such cases.

ℹ️ The debug menu may only be used to fix errors, and only if the support team has given you specific instructions on what and how to do.

[summer girder]

Simply don't

[worldly fulcrum]

hi is there a mod that adds a Grenade Launcher like the one in the photos ?

[naive snow]

Credits

Gun porting and rigging: Rubrakul

Gun additional texturing: Cr3pis

Gun animations: Firebreath

Gun texture fixes and shader profiles: TDog

It's on the read me file of the repo

[gleaming kernel]

that's not all the individual addons which have been incorporated into the pack over the years

[naive snow]

It is for the list of guns initially handled by it

SR25
RAPTR
KRISS Vector
AEK971
Tacticool MP7 and P90

Afterwards, the guns are in their own named mod folder, ex: 405- IWP Beneli - Frosty, 407- IWP MP9 -Frosty, etc
It's all in the Repo

[regal bolt]

Is there a guide on how to paint it using different materials and textures and export into gamma? Something like: First, you import a gun into blender using a plugin, then you export it somehow and import inside substance, then paint it and export somewhere, etc.
Only found how to make a gun by LUN4TIC

[random fulcrum]

it's another episode of irl thing that would just not fly in any game like mbic imagine your entire point of view jerking around to position itself behind the gun instead of the gun aligning with your crosshairs

muh realismo until you play with it and realize it'd be motion sickness central

many such cases

[naive snow]

That's pretty much all there is. The substance painting part isn't really any different from texturing a gun model, of which you can find thousands of tutorial online on how to. The only part different is on the export, but you can simply export the Diffuse, Glossiness and Normal map and you'll have everything necessary with a Bump generator like UmYeahNo's

You can follow pretty much any 3D gun modeling/texturing tutorial from Blender to Substance. LUN4TIC shows how to setup the weapon's armature and bones as well as weight painting. Which you should be able to just transfer if the model is identical in geometry

[regal bolt]

Thanks

[delicate ridge]

do i just switch the two lines to replace non-empty mag SKS Molot reload animation with empty mag SKS Molot reload animation?

[regal bolt]

well, I tried to find any gun that needs to be fixed, well, almost every gun looks ok to me and I don't know how to improve them
yea, there're paint cracks and I can go and make a clean versions but, for real?

[summer stream]

no u cant make them, bumps need to be fixed too

[undone spruce]

Reimporting a gun for substance painter aint all that easy also

[fair canopy]

So what the hell were you on about earlier?

You someone to waste their time fixing debug guns that dont drop?

[regal bolt]

no

wanted to enhance guns textures/models , but I realized - there's nothing to enhance
btw, there's, but why bothering if guns look ok?

maybe it'll be better to put new trees and vehicles in the Zone

I mean, new meshes and textures

[dire rain]

True Stalker assets:

https://tenor.com/view/tole-tole-mei-mei-uncle-bao-cat-meme-gif-8149549883384091715

[regal bolt]

but found out someone is already adding new trees meshes and that mod is private, idk if it will be released someday

[dire rain]

Stole True Stalker assets and u will have a renewal of the meshes this year!

[gleaming tide]

I mean you can literally put free assets from UE5 into Stalker

If you'd want to

[summer stream]

yeah yeah go on

free assets are mostly ass + you need to fix UE5 to X-Ray Monolith

are you willing to do that

[naive snow]

I mean you could talk a while with MFB or Huh to see just how ''easy'' changing a simple like trees or vehicles is in maps

[summer stream]

decompile the whole map
put it inside blender
put trees there
pray you didnt forget to put path to textures
put it inside sdk
do ai nodes(TEDIOUS AS FUCK)
pray it doesnt crash
crashes
repeat until work

[naive snow]

Don't forget to rebake the lightmaps for 8 hours and making new UV2 sets for the new models

[worthy harbor]

i have this proposal https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1472025333694857277
and i would like to try to do it by myself (at least the Q, E keys)
where can i find code for the workbench menu UI? is it located in Anomaly repo or gamma repo or is it specific mod?

[drifting moat]

GAMMA repo, but it's not one file. It's multiple files. Some monkey patched, some overridden. Some have both. It's a mess. Hard to alter.

[dire rain]

I wonder if the next "SDK for Anomaly" will make that much easier

[summer stream]

what sdk

[worthy harbor]

i thought that. everything is mess.
can u point me to some specific folder or main file where can i start reading? i'll find refs myself

[summer stream]

[dire rain]

Tho, both of em already have their owns SDK

[dire rain]

There three guys working on a SDK-map focused for Anomaly, HailTheMonolith talks about it

[summer stream]

ah

[dire rain]

He's the less experienced in that group, and i know certain modder working on that

so i trust on that the SDK will make map-modding smth better

[summer stream]

honestly i'm not waiting anything from maps in anomaly

[dire rain]

OWA 2.0:

Custom Next with assets from certain game:
😡

[summer stream]

..i kinda dont get it but ok

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

[drifting moat]

Sure. Actually I think I know the exact files that concern workshop UI.

https://github.com/Bence7661/Serious_Workshop_Optimization

Now. I think you should check these files out from the official GAMMA repository. The mod is included in there with almost the same name. The folder structure will be the same.

[worthy harbor]

nice, thx, i already wanted to ping that i found this
https://github.com/Grokitach/Stalker_GAMMA/blob/main/G.A.M.M.A/modpack_addons/Serious Workshop optimization/gamedata/scripts/ui_workshop.script
can i edit directly the files in gamma repo? or i should do it through bence7661 repo?

[drifting moat]

Look for a mod with a name like this: "Serious workshop optimization" I don't remember the exact name, but do it in GAMMA'S repository. You should also verify that these are indeed the files that win the load order/monkey patch order just to be safe, but I doubt anyome touched these ever since.

Oh wait you actually found and linked the mod already

[drifting moat]

Cool, that's the one!

I'm off to sleep. Good luck. You can still ping me, but I won't answer 'til tomorrow.

[worthy harbor]

thanks bruh, appreciate your help. good night

[undone spruce]

aperture sights kinda suck on this engine

i hate obs

[summer stream]

3 fps

[undone spruce]

anyway, i'll go on with it

those guns werent made to be confortable anyways

[rigid sail]

TBF, aperture sights on PDWs/SMGs have always confused me even IRL. Who needs that kind of sighting precision on something that's designed for close quarter, rapid reaction fighting?

IMO, for usability purposes alone, I'd cut the top off that rear sight, make it more of a notch sight. Bonus points if you make the cut super crude looking, to imply it was done by some gunsmith out in the field with a dremel or hacksaw or something.

[undone spruce]

the draw animation wast shown, but that shitty holster animation is kinda good

barely worked on it

[fair canopy]

gotta gape the sight, unfortunately

[undone spruce]

gape?

make it bigger?

[trail sundial]

Yeah make the rear aperture larger so the player can see more thru it

[undone spruce]

nah, dont really like it

but the idea of hacking a notch there is good

[summer girder]

A stalker would totally take a hand-drill and a vice to it

[stoic maple]

does anyone know where I need to go to find the tree textures?

[lilac ibex]

gamedata\textures\trees or smth

[scarlet granite]

Currently working on Rain Collectors. I LOVE BASE BUILDING

[half cobalt]

i have no clue how to mod but just honestly curious how models and stuff are aquired, mostly for just having a look myself or maybe for making suggestions to people that know how to mod

[naive snow]

You either make the models or you can grab them from other game's content, like Tarkov, CoD, Metro, etc. You simply port them over and convert them

[strange grove]

Is there a way to make guns semi-transparent when ADSing? To simulate aiming with both eyes open

[lilac ibex]

sure

https://digitalrune.github.io/DigitalRune-Documentation/html/fa431d48-b457-4c70-a590-d44b0840ab1e.htm

then you blur it / reconstruct missing pixels

https://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/11/02/gta-v-graphics-study/
G-Buffer Generation & Dithering Smoothing

SSS generates a mask for hud geometry (see deffer_xxx shaders), you can use it too

more info about fake ass transparency: http://drobot.org/pub/M_Drobot_AdvancedMaterialRendering.pdf

[trail sundial]

Is there any documentation on how to set up scopes/red dots to have switchable reticles?

[lilac ibex]

[dire rain]

gud graphixs bro

[half cobalt]

is arma 3, arma reforger, ground branch good for models? they are a few games i have with a ton of guns/ mods

[lilac ibex]

tbh its pretty OK as long as you don't use TAA

[naive snow]

Couldn't you use a bluenoise for the dithering patern or hash and use TAA to blur the samples, the old Dithered temporal AA trick

[lilac ibex]

not with current TAA; it already has problems to clean up IGN (including the variant with uv flip)

[naive snow]

You'd usually get some pretty horrible ghosting passing an opaque mesh in front of it, but since it's a hud element and in foreground

[lilac ibex]

https://qiutang98.github.io/post/unreal/ue5.32抖动半透明兼容taa时序超分算法/ - some CN buddy tried to 'fix' this dead tech

[naive snow]

Oh shit, let me just yoink that for my current project

[lilac ibex]

[naive snow]

We've had this issue with dithered alpha cutout windows for a while with the horrible ghosting

[naive snow]

Depends on the level of quality you're trying to achieve. If the models and textures hold up to the test of time, sure they're a good starting point. You could always add more geometry and retouch some of the textures as necessary

[pulsar halo]

how can i locate the pda animation .ogf files

[tacit wind]

Where can I adjust weapon upgrade stats? Found a bug with the ACE.

This can't be right

Also question - how easy would it be to make the high weapon tilt animation into the regular running animation? This weapon for some reason ends up in high tilt position after zoning.I think it looks pretty cool!

[deep cedar]

gyuz is there any way to edit savegames

[lilac ibex]

no.

[deep cedar]

so whats the best way to edit stats and skills then

[naive snow]

The PDA animation is handled by the 3D PDA mod, you'll find in there the wpn_hand_pda_hud_animation.omf

[naive snow]

What skill and stats? Haruka's skill system or do you mean item stats?

[deep cedar]

harukas skill system and goodwill with factions

[fair canopy]

This is probably due to gmtop messing with this description

[naive snow]

Use the Reputation Editor mod for the goodwill.
For Haruka's use the function executor I guess to boost the skills

[fair canopy]

Descriptions and what actually happens are completely separate things

[deep cedar]

what functions should i execute

[naive snow]

Open Haruka's script and figure it out

[deep cedar]

ok but are sure that reputation editor works on 1.5.3

[naive snow]

Test it

[naive snow]

Just a gmtop issue, it's not +60%, it's +60rpm

[tacit wind]

ah gotcha! Where would I go to fix the description?

[fair canopy]

Make a better gmtop

You'd have to look through the descriptions for the string

[naive snow]

Interestingly enough, it's the base system file of anomaly that spits out the string next to Fire Rate: or any other property like inertion, durability, etc.
It's meant to get the + sum, but it appends a % after it.
So the +60 RPM becomes +60% RPM

It does the same for any of these:

    if    name=="prop_reliability"    or
        name=="prop_recoil"            or
        name=="prop_dispersion"        or
        name=="prop_bullet_speed"    or
        name=="prop_chem"            or
        name=="prop_psy"            or
        name=="prop_radio"            or
        name=="prop_thermo"            or
        name=="prop_electro"        or
        name=="prop_damage"            or
        name=="prop_armor"            or
        name=="prop_rpm"            or
        name=="prop_durability"        or
        name=="prop_inertion"        then
            value = value.."%"
    end

Using the direct sum value instead with a small loop of

         value = "+"..sum
    end

Spits out the correct number:

[fair canopy]

Instant qol

[naive snow]

Hmmm actually, the value and the RPM upgrades aren't the same, for example, that first upgrade in the tree has a value of +5, but the actual sum of the RPM is +38

[teal compass]

so it is really percentage or just adding numbers

[naive snow]

The display looks up the value, not the actual increase of stats

The second ace upgrade has a value or 60 and an RPM of +60 so they match up kinda

But Value isn't the cost, since it's already a property itself "cost"

Some of the upgrades have an actual value used, like for caliber upgrades "value = "7.62x54""

[teal compass]

[naive snow]

You could calculate what the +60rpm equals as a % and input that in the value

But the actual effect is always a sum+

The big thing is that the upgrade view only shows the first stat upgrade, not the entirety of the upgrade values.

[teal compass]

ah so its not like x1.60 the value

intersting

[naive snow]

Nah, for example, the -3% recoil.
The value defined is -3.
but the actual effects are
cam_dispersion = -0.064
cam_step_angle_horz = -0.044
zoom_cam_dispersion = -0.025
zoom_cam_step_angle_horz = -0.06
inv_weight = +0.03

These probably amount to roughly -3% recoil, but you'd have to calculate according to the base recoil value of the weapon

More weight to the point that upgrade numbers are pretty much garbage

[teal compass]

hmm so it doesnt really do -3% for every weapon

[naive snow]

Again depends on the base value of said weapon, and only if the weapon has an actual upgrade tree itself

But a weapon using another weapon's upgrade tree like 95% of modded weapons? No, likely not

[teal compass]

true

I just didnt understand howto make custom ones and when I did I crashed everyone else's game lol

[naive snow]

Point in case, the first RPM upgrade of the Ace52 is saying +5%, but it adds +38 rpm, which is more like +6.1% off the 620 base RPM

[teal compass]

so if we being nitpicking enough every gun should have its own tree and stats

[naive snow]

Or rework the base UI display script to print out the value based on the current weapon stats vs weapon stats + upgrades and spit out a % out of that

[teal compass]

that prob is easier

[naive snow]

Not the easiest with multi effect upgrades, but for some values like RPM, doable

[teal compass]

[naive snow]

You could average out recoil, but meh

[teal compass]

seems more complicated to show the stats for recoil lol

[naive snow]

It is, because it's not a value itself like "recoil=", it's defined as the cam dispertion, step angle horizontal, zoom cam dispersion, etc

If you wanted to simplify it, you could apply the -3% to all of those values as once, but again, it's a big modification on how upgrades are currently calculated/applied

[teal compass]

[tired drift]

Can someone make rubicon surgery and spacemarine armor

[tired drift]

Can anyone tell me how to make custom armor?

like simple roadmap

never mind saw the pins

[supple peak]

How should i edit what each trader sells?

i unpacked and found the ltx, but i don't know how to make it into an override

[naive snow]

Check the modding book on how to use and make DLTX. Then make a quick mod to modify their section

Managed to modify the read out values of the inventory upgrade system to display not only the Value but rather the RPM according to the ugprade type
Now you get to see how awful actual RPM upgrades are

[tired drift]

nice that is useful

[supple peak]

i edited the trade_mercenary_basic and made a mod as ltx, like this, do i just install it now?

[naive snow]

Dunno why you didn't just put it with every other mod in your Mods folder, but sure yeah install it if you did it properly

[supple peak]

welp, got this crash

[naive snow]

You didn't write your DLTX properly then, probably forgot the override symbol, the error message is pretty self explanatory

[tired drift]

I never seen these files

[supple peak]

trying to fix that, added the discount ltx and added the !, now it's crashi about some other file

[naive snow]

They're part of the SDK and some are in the .db archives of the game

[naive snow]

Can't help you without knowing what you're trying to do and how you setup your dltx

[tired drift]

Got a laugh out of me "

Disclaimer: If your addon has a single-word name such as Addon.zip or a zero-effort name such as New folder.rar, then this guide has nothing to offer you. You are already at the zenith of human annoyingness. You are the ultimate expert in irritation. We bow before your magnifinuisance."

[wooden patrol]

If I own GAMMA on GOG, what file do I need to open to manually edit the belt slots on an outfit I want to buff?

[tired drift]

fk man modding on linux is gonna be like triple difficulity

[random fulcrum]

the recoil mod does this

not that big of a deal

there's also the more than certain possibility given all the methods to read and write to weapon stats that you could do this with every upgrade in the game

just have it actually apply the % increase/decrease listed in the value field in the upgrade's ltx

instead of whatever the fuck is going on in the actual changes

[random fulcrum]

no it's not "a big modification" because it's in the recoil mod, it could be ripped from it, cleaned up a little, and voila

the ergonomics mod also does this with handling

[winter trout]

I wanna start getting into making weapon mods, is it hard to get into or make a start?

[naive snow]

That would require a smarter man than me to actually attempt this. I'm FAFOing my way through this shit at best

[tacit fog]

any tutorial video on how to animation weapon ? guys

[tame steppe]

https://youtu.be/CBJp82tlR3M?si=l-V6pH525CypA0uV if you’re using blender I would start with this

Once you’re done with that or if you’re already familiar I’d recommend watching this through for some basics on a workflow for weapon animation https://youtu.be/ImV0knkwedU?si=DubDCqPuL_zw1ND2 though you can develop you’re own way of animating, just make something you can be proud of

that’s most important imo

[teal compass]

[tame steppe]

you could also just trial and error til you make it FAFO

[summer stream]

true

[tame steppe]

https://anomaly-modding-book.netlify.app/docs/tutorials/animations/creating-hud-hands-animation-in-blender also this for initial setup, import, and export + look in the pins of modding arts in anomaly discord for firebreaths modified IK rig message here: #883097205710389288 message

[tame steppe]

OGFs can’t have multiple omf references right? just wondering

[rigid sail]

They should? I haven't messed with them like that, but from my limited understanding (From getting my mod to work), this is how it works.

On launch, the game loads each .omf in alphabetical order, adding each individual animation contained within to a master list (Overwriting any with identical names based on alphabetical order).

When an .ogf (or anything elsee) references an animation, the game pulls that animation from the loaded list, without really caring what .omf it pulled it from.

[tame steppe]

to my knowledge that’s just for hands, gun hud omfs (not hand omfs) frequently have names for motions that are very ambiguously named such as “reload” or what not, making it very unlikely to be in a master list

The mechanism you’re describing is for hands specifically, I think. They have the motion reference anomaly_weapons\hud_hands_animation\ *.omf

the star meaning any named omf in that directory

which is why it seems it loads it to a master list, though that’s just for hands

though maybe I can use that * as well to reference multiple, I’m just curious if anyone’s tried it before…

[rigid sail]

That makes sense. Well, I don't understand why specifically the hands get treated specially, but it does track with the animation names at least.

[tame steppe]

it’s because if the hands referenced one omf any mod that wanted to add hands animations would have to override that one omf, it’s actually a pretty smart thing to make it reference any omf inside that folder

[rigid sail]

Sure, but why not treat the hud animations the same way? The .ltx file references the hud animations in the same line as the hands animation, they could very easily just alter the hud animation names to be less generic and get the same benefits as the hands in terms of being able to easily add/alter specific animations with simple overwrites.

[tame steppe]

I think it’s because different ogfs have different bone counts and names, I’m not completely sure if it’ll be able to load those motions into one list if the bone counts are different

for hands it doesn’t matter since all hands have the same bones

[rigid sail]

That would make sense.

[tame steppe]

but yeah I agree with you it would make things easier

especially with what I want to do (adding one motion to a gun)

[summer stream]

what an interesting set of words

doesn't like hands load every omf when you take out a gun

since it basically has the line for it where it loads every omf when it can

so guns are basically the same

IF

the amount of bones are the same, you didn't break anything while doing stuff

so reference to another omf will be like an another set of anims above others

just without adding to the same omf

[hot token]

https://tenor.com/view/jesse-breaking-bad-walter-white-jesse-pinkman-walter-gif-16654937694077157239

[tame steppe]

yeah once I thought about hands it kinda makes sense that it would probably work the same way for weapons as well

[versed bay]

hello everyone, I have a question: how can I change my death message from "Game Over" to "Lost To The Zone"? I tried to look for a script or a config file in the GAMMA folder but I dont find one, I found in Anomaly folder the death script of modded exes for 1st person death, but there's no config for it.

[trim jungle]

Maybe in one of config files responsible for text? Probably in somewhere like configs\text\eng?

[trim jungle]

Maybe take a look at how this mod does it

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/deathmessage

[versed bay]

thank you I already did, I looked through the russian/eng translation and the text file but still no avail, used the mod you mentioned too, but it still have the Game Over message

using deathmessage would make the text overlaps eachother, for example, the Lost To The Zone text would overlap with Game Over since the positioning of the Lost to the Zone text is position to be in a collunm

[tired drift]

Does pavelblend not work on blender 5.0.1\

[idle forum]

where is the page to upload addon/mod on moddb/anomaly moddb?
edit: nvm found it, a small "+" button a right side of addon's headline.

[warm forum]

The Ruger SR-556 has no sound on mag check , how can i add my own sound ?

[hoary cipher]

Iirc it's like everything under 5 lol I think it was most versions of 4 that worked, I'm in 4.1?... Maybe?

[full vessel]

#1458669913781571709 message

its kind of a shitpost but you can change the text to whatever you'd like

[versed bay]

lol this is perfect

[fair inlet]

I added it in latest update #1175845400507322398 message
you can look up ru556_ammocheck there for reference

[warm forum]

oh nice , thank you very much

[violet aurora]

hi guys i need help with my mod here is it 1. stalker_thoughts.script

English: Player's Inner Monologue. The player character comments on world events (combat, kills, reloading, anomalies, or low health) via on-screen text messages.

Russian: Внутренний монолог игрока. Персонаж игрока комментирует события в мире (бой, убийства, перезарядка, аномалии или низкое здоровье) с помощью текстовых сообщений на экране.

2. actor_vocal_identity.script

English: Item Interaction Remarks. Adds text comments when the player uses specific inventory items like medkits, food, water, vodka, or lighting matches.
+3

Russian: Реакции на использование предметов. Добавляет текстовые комментарии персонажа при использовании предметов из инвентаря, таких как аптечки, еда, вода, водка или зажигание спичек.
+3

3. npc_dynamic_chatter.script

English: NPC Voice Chatter. Forces nearby NPCs to occasionally speak (jokes, stories, grumbling) to break the silence in camps or in the field.
+1

Russian: Динамическая болтовня NPC. Заставляет окружающих сталкеров время от времени разговаривать (анекдоты, истории, бормотание), чтобы оживить атмосферу в лагерях и на вылазках.
+1

Key Features / Основные особенности:

English: Random intervals (1-2 minutes) for natural behavior. 50% chance for combat barks to avoid message spam.
+2

Russian: Случайные интервалы (1-2 минуты) для естественного поведения. 50% шанс реплик в бою, чтобы избежать спама сообщениями.
+2

all was made for me a gemini ai so but it works but need to tune the scripts and repair if need im not skilled hehe

[nocturne rover]

@full vessel i think you'll find it interesting
on topic of "Giving full auto to Double Barrel Shotguns"

apparently there's something fundamental related to WM_BM16 (the class that defines default double-barrels) and it's probably defined on much deeper level

This reddit post explains it quite well, and yes i did do the same steps like changing weapon class or defining fire modes - it just refuses to accept those
https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1njrdgh/anomaly_modding_help_request_fire_modes_and_rpm/

file location: GAMMA\mods\71- Weapons Reanimation and Rebalance - Blindside\gamedata\configs\items\weapons\w_bm16.ltx

not telling you to fix it or experiment yourself, it's just interesting how double-barrels are it's own unique thing from any other gun

seems like one needs to make a whole new gun and fake the double barrel action but give it an auto class (Assuming it wont run into issues of there being no Partial Reload anymore)

[random fulcrum]

wow it's the thing we talked about moons ago and also talked about solutions at the script layer without touching the engine

[safe shadow]

Guys how do I edit a mod that i downloaded? I want to rebind zooming in scope. My scroll wheel is broken and ruins my ability to play the game with any scope that has a zoom option

also, unfortunately unbinding zoom in zoom out via console doesnt work at al

all

[naive snow]

Check if the mod has a MCM menu or edit the script file directly if there's one

[winter trout]

So im starting to learn that making bump maps in gimp is not as easy as photoshop 😅

[naive snow]

Just use one of the bump generator

Save your normal map and specular map separetly and use the software to generate the bump for you

[winter trout]

Wait where? im looking at the pins and cant see it

[naive snow]

https://www.moddb.com/addons/stalker-bump-gen-tool

[winter trout]

Oh damn thank you!

[tawny prawn]

guys what what is ammo elapsed?

ammo mag size is preety self explanatory but what is the first one and why does it share the same number value?

[naive snow]

Its the magazine capacity at the moment of spawning, it's in the modding book

[tawny prawn]

ohh really?

yukiz told me its a multiplayer thing and i shouldnt toutch it

you mean spawning in debug or in game?

because when i spawned both of them in debug it worked

so yukiz was right

unless it will spawn only 10 rounds in game? orrrr

@naive snow

[tacit wind]

Is there any mod that makes the PDA holstered once you switch to something else instead of reequipping it?

[scarlet granite]

Don't mind the shitty textures

[naive snow]

It's the current amount of bullets in the weapon. The mag size represents the maximum amount of bullets the weapon can have. Reference the anomaly modding book or ask in the anomaly modding channels

[violet aurora]

Stalker Monologue Final Release 1.0 By me
Adds short, immersive text comments when using certain items – no sounds, no HUD spam, just thoughts.

What it does
When the player uses selected items, a brief line of text appears in the center of the screen. These are not full sentences, but short, worn‑out thoughts – the kind you’d mutter to yourself while bandaging a wound, lighting a cigarette, or forcing down a cold MRE.

All comments are in English, matching the atmosphere of a tired stalker, not a hero.

Supported items include
Food & drinks: canned food, MREs, water, vodka, beer, energy drinks

Medical items: medkits, bandages, antirad, psy‑blockers, sleeping pills, cigarettes, cigars

Gear: matches, watch, tent, sleeping bag

Features
No gameplay changes – only atmosphere.

Works with any modpack, including vanilla and FDDA.

Lightweight – one script, ready to drop into gamedata/scripts.

Modular – easy to expand or edit.

Done. Comments will appear automatically when using supported items.

Permissions
Free to Expand, edit, and use anywhere. yes included on moddb with your name

[misty mulch]

because you made this with an AI, we don't know if you actually understand Lua, we know you definitely don't understand Anomaly modding, and:

So none of the advice we give is even comprehensible to them, and we can't ask clarifying questions like "why did you choose to write the function like this/implement a feature like that" because they didn't make any choices, and can't even really understand the question or advice.
I'm not going to respond further but we have a very dim view of people asking us to check their bot's homework for them.

[violet aurora]

man stalker monologue work 100 prcent if you dont want dont download but i was test every item when i was build it with gemini stalker monologue is final version and its work and sorry for my english iam european

[naive snow]

If you want to post your mod, use the correct channel #1035807043933720576 and make a thread with the appropriate tags.

[tawny stream]

where’d you get the cat…

give me the cat…

[scarlet granite]

https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1469789714050453504

[trail sundial]

Is converting fallout Nif to ogf something that can be done, or would it not be worth the trouble?

[scarlet granite]

You wont be able to go from Nif to ogf but if you can get the animations and skeletons into blender then you are good to go. Just give it a shot.

[tawny prawn]

ok i think i understand, except what do you mean by current amount of bullets in the weapon?

could you be more specific?

If i understood you correctly the
''ammo_elapsed'' is the amount of bullets in the mag after you pick it up of a dead NPC? or did i completely not understand this

since i didnt really get what you meant by ''current amount of bullets in the weapon"

[trail sundial]

modding book says this

so i guess just make them the same

[naive snow]

The ammo mag size is the maximum number of bullets a gun can ever hold.
Ammo elapsed the number of bullets currently IN the magazine. Have 30? Shoot 3, the number becomes 27. It's used in scripts mainly to play certain effects or animations

Spawning also means when it's in spawned in the NPC inventory or possesion, not just on dead bodies (which get emptied anyway via script)

Does this ever effect you? No. The only thing to keep in mind is if you lower the mag size, both numbers should be the same.

[agile flume]

I’ve seen someone recode the stalker code into c# and used it in unity. He even got the animations, how can I get the original scripts and animations? If anyone knows pls dm me

[naive snow]

Use the unpack All .bat file in your anomaly installation. That will have all the files of the archive. Actual engine functions you'd have to look at the Demonized modded exe repo on github. It's all open source

[frail flicker]

If I wanted to change what the default settings are, and have them revert to my changes when I click default, in the in-game settings menu and/or mcm menu, what would that entail? Is it just a simple itx somewhere?

[graceful delta]

Can I ask a simple general Stalker 2 moding question here?

[trail sundial]

I would try the S2 modding channel

[graceful delta]

Where is it?

[trail sundial]

In the stalker 2 section, literally right under this channel

[graceful delta]

I'm really not seeing it. Perhaps I need permissions or something?

[trail sundial]

Yeah maybe there's a role you need or something

[graceful delta]

Hmm... I'll look through the rules. Thanks for the picture. At least I know I'm not crazy now for not seeing it.

Found the culprit. For anyone reading this in the future: Go to -> Channels & Roles at the top -> Toggle on "Follow Category" next to whichever channel in which you might be interested.

[scarlet granite]

For MCM: Search for scripts called "MCM" in your MO2 and in there the default values for MCM settings are defined. Each mod that uses MCM has its own script tho.

[keen vector]

ya'll know any way to modify what barrel conditon does?

or is it some xray fuckery that mortals cannot touch?

[warm forum]

is there a way to change the loot table ?

like changing what kind of Upgrade kits spawn

[tame steppe]

i mean, if im not completely wrong, the damage calculation (which takes into account barrel condition in the script) for GAMMA is handled in grok_bo.script in GBOOBS / G.A.M.M.A Close Quarter Combat. im pretty sure because i tested if this is the right script by making it so barrel condition doesnt affect damage and it ends up working so you can try to edit this. Though you will need scripting knowledge depending on what you want to do, if you just want to remove the damage multiplier from damaged barrels its really easy even for a non scripter but anything else may be harder

also jam chance comes from wpo

[next wasp]

Does anyone know what the mods for gold and silver bars are called?

[lilac ibex]

shadow of israel modpack iirc

[next wasp]

In GAMMA

[barren pilot]

[fringe latch]

I there a way to change/edit the loot in stashes?

[rough lion]

look into "treasure_manager.ltx" files

[fringe latch]

Thanks will do

[rough lion]

Like Stash Overhaul

[fringe latch]

Yeah sumn like that alr overhauled the starting gear now wanna do the stashes

[agile flume]

Alr thanks! Will try that

[agile flume]

I got the files and they all work, but I cant get the .anm files to work in blender. I used an addon for blender that lets you import Xray engine files. It works but the animations don't

[lilac idol]

anm files are used for camera animations (which you need an empty with a camera for iirc) and some other universal anims stuff

[agile flume]

oh, so none of em are like for the enemies? Like the bandit walking animations

[lilac idol]

those are omf files

[agile flume]

ohh

I tried it but still no luck, this is the error message :
AttributeError: 'Action' object has no attribute 'fcurves'

The error message is longer but discord won't allow me to send it all cause it's too long

[lilac idol]

was the ogf's armature active while importing it?

[summer stream]

that's because your blender is 5.0

[agile flume]

yea I think so

[summer stream]

i think

i had the same problem on my side

[agile flume]

oh, do I need the older one?

[summer stream]

yeah 4.3 can work

[agile flume]

did it work for you?

[summer stream]

yeah for 4.x blender version it's fine

5.0 is broken for some reason

[agile flume]

okay, i'll try it

thanks!

[agile flume]

I got blender 4.3, tried it out and this time no error. It though only froze for a sec and didn't import anything

[summer stream]

https://tenor.com/view/лобанов-интерны-крик-души-азиат-gif-16075243174715711949

[agile flume]

what

[agile flume]

??

[agile flume]

oh I found it

[worthy harbor]

Im planning to do some changes (or try something) here: https://github.com/Grokitach/Stalker_GAMMA/tree/main/G.A.M.M.A/modpack_addons/Serious Workshop optimization/gamedata/scripts

i'm gonna clone repo and what's next when i edit *.script file? is there any compilation? test editor so i dont need to run whole game?

[naive snow]

Just reload the Game, using the debug mode, bring up the F7 menu, hit numpad 0 to reload system files and hit F5 to reload, which will reload your current instance of the game.
Make sure your mod is ran through MO2 like all the other mods.

[worthy harbor]

so whole gamma needs to be run. no lightweight test editor. no source code compiler. ok, thx

[naive snow]

Correct. Best to uncheck any sort of pre-fetching, like meatchunk's

[worthy harbor]

where can i uncheck it?
btw can i create custom branch in gamma repo a do some stuff there? then create regular PR

[fair inlet]

yeah you can fork and open pr
script edit PRs are often not merged though

[naive snow]

Prefetchers are mods in your mod list, if you're using any

[worthy harbor]

i mean, i had suggestion that in toolkit popup there would be quick navigation with 'Q' and 'E' keys - just switching betwen craft, upgrade, upgrade
but it was marked as "too much work" tag, so i though that i can try it.
do u think that Grok wouldn't not merge it?
i need to do fork of whole repo though, not branch directly in gamma repo?

[fair inlet]

I think you can't create braches in master, so you have to fork
I can't speak for grok, just warning that big or complex script edits have a history of collecting dust

[worthy harbor]

how can i inform him that i got some new chages? troughout this channel? so he can check it up

[fair inlet]

if possible post it in mods posting I guess

[worthy harbor]

thanks guys

[warm forum]

Guys i have a lore based Question, which faction should start with a Backpack and which without ?

my first thought would be that only Renegade wouldnt have a Backpack at the Start

and maybe UNISG idk..

[dire rain]

bandits shouldn't have backpacks

[full vessel]

bandits should have extra huge comically stupid backpack for stealing max number of items possible

extra trench coat pockets and cargo pants and a side satchel for additional thievery

[warm forum]

😐

[green root]

What mod causes the armors to have different move speeds? That's not a default stat you can modify in an ltx.

[naive snow]

You'll never guess, but Outfits Affects Movespeed. I know, shocking isn't it?

[green root]

Yeah found it after I searched movespeed instead of... move speed...

[gleaming kernel]

[green root]

The worst part is I tried move speed, move_speed, even used the find in file function in notepad++ to find the same things. But never tried just... movespeed. Nope, space had to be there in some form.

[naive snow]

Just look up the actual parameter name via a Search in File next time and see what file implements it. You quickly would have found that all the values are set in the outfit_speed.ltx, which your Mo2 would have told you is from said mod

[pastel bison]

hi Guys, where can I find modding guides for Anomaly? I'd like to create my own character with a simple questline.

[scarlet granite]

https://anomaly-modding-book.netlify.app/

[pastel bison]

thx

[green root]

That's why I looked up move_speed, I figured that's what they would've named it. Outfit_speed makes sense now just didn't think of it 😅
One more thing to rebalance now. The rework keeps growing.

[naive snow]

Go off the in-game text, find the XML with that exact string and search where the string ID is being used.

Why are you even touching the armor balance when we're so close to the armor rework dropping?

[iron heron]

Hey, is there any variants to use this gloves mod ( https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/custom-gloves-workshop ) with KVMA? I personally tried it, but it didnt worked for me

[deep cedar]

hello i want to increa caary weight boost on drug_booster(gerkules)

[naive snow]

Ask in the KVMA thread, this isn't mod support

[iron heron]

oh, k

[deep cedar]

@naive snow sorry for ping but may you could help me with my question ^
i want to increa caary weight boost on drug_booster(gerkules)

[naive snow]

Then just modify the section?

[deep cedar]

yes i understand that but i cant find correct file

[naive snow]

Just search in Files with the section name and find the correct file

[deep cedar]

i tryed to modify this one but it had no effect

[naive snow]

Because there's a DLTX somewhere that changes it.
Probably mod_system_drugs_increased_weight_boost

[deep cedar]

BIG THX IT WORKED

[green root]

Long story short, I play another stalker game that I really enjoy, but absolutely hated the way the devs decided to balance the PvP/movement/gunplay/gun progression. So I thought of how I wanted it done, and decided to use gamma as the test bed. Figured it wouldn't be too hard to learn.
So far I've reworked... npc to player and player to npc damage calculations, armor/helmet balance, arti/belt attachment/pelt balance, weapon recoil, and have it all packaged up. I actually asked Grok if he was interested in it but being I am doing this so close to his rework he wanted to stay on his path.

I asked if I could release it when I'm done and he's cool with it. Several of the scripts are using his base script and just modifying how it's all calculated in the backend.

The last thing I'm stuck on if anything is LMGs. They're kinda hard to balance, since my damage is primarily based on caliber. For bolt actions I just used their hit_power as a modifier to buff their damage, but I don't want to do the same for LMGs because it would be just a damage nerf. Ideally, I want to make it so their ineffective unless crouched/prone, or if standing and wearing a powered exo suit. Just don't think such a mod exists yet.

[ancient bridge]

Hi, I need a hint: when creating an artifact in the game, by any means, be it an anomaly or from a corpse, I need to call my own function. Where should I put it?

[naive snow]

Just register the call back and do a check on the item spawned, if it's artifact, run whatever your script is

[tawny prawn]

does anybody know where to find the blue bic lighter animation for campfire from western goods?

[robust lily]

I’m on mobile right now so excuse me if this is explained in the files, I just am curious and can’t get to a pc for like 5 more hours.

How exactly does the min and max weight of a stash work? If both are way higher does it just increase the amount of items and higher quality items that can spawn in a single stash?

[barren pilot]

I'm pretty sure "enhanced recoil : gold" mod has a feature that decreases recoil if you wear an exo

[hoary cipher]

WCT scripted recoil has diffrent recoil amounts based on crouch and prone

[green root]

Thank you! I'll check it out. Seems it's not part of bass gamma. Found it on moddb, seems they were going for something similar to me.

[green root]

Thank you as well! Just went through this one.

So WCT is a full recoil rework, scripted and all. They added a prone/coruch multipler and check actor state and apply it. I was trying to use the default recoil system, but I may just be able to get what I want with this and then just overlay my recoil ltx ontop. Thank you!

The enhanced recoil: gold is actually a rework of groks enhanced recoil script. Which since you mentioned it had an exo check, I decided to check groks original script. Turns out grok already does apply the exo modifier, but not the same way.

[turbid lily]

correct me if i'm wrong but are there new materials in gamma ?

materials as in materials\\asphalt kind

[steady apex]

@undone lily you can optimize it a lot by iterating actual stalker objects, in your main for loop in calculate_rankings in pda.script

for i, _ in pairs(db.offline_objects) do
        local se_obj = sim:object(i)
        if (se_obj and IsStalker(nil,se_obj:clsid()) and se_obj:alive() and se_obj:community() ~= "zombied" and se_obj:community() ~= "trader") then
            -- Check if object has a story id, if it does they are probably unique
            local sid = story_objects.story_id_by_object_id[se_obj.id]
            if not (sid) then
                t[se_obj.id] = se_obj:rank()
            end
        end
    end

#📢development message

[undone lily]

Thanks ! Will fix check with the profiler then 👍

[light plank]

Hello! Where i can find a file with armor immunities (The degree of damage to armor from different types of damage)? In the standard build

[sudden inlet]

This should be the place https://github.com/Grokitach/Stalker_GAMMA/blob/main/G.A.M.M.A/modpack_addons/G.A.M.M.A. Armors Balancing/gamedata/configs/mod_system_zzzzzz_gamma_armor_protections.ltx

[light plank]

Immunities, not protections

[sudden inlet]

https://github.com/Grokitach/Stalker_GAMMA/blob/main/G.A.M.M.A/modpack_addons/G.A.M.M.A. Actor Damage Balancer/gamedata/configs/mod_system_items_armor_immunities.ltx

[light plank]

Yes, but this only included ecolog suits, i need other outfits😫

[sudden inlet]

https://github.com/Tosox/STALKER-Anomaly-gamedata/tree/v1.5.2/gamedata/configs/items/outfits

Apparently Gamma doesn't touch those so you can use vanilla

[light plank]

Thanks 🫠

[misty mulch]

!mo2search // honestly you can start by looking through the files of that mod on your install, that's easiest. use the MO2 file searcher if you want to find specific files as well

[queen pine]

@light plankUse the mod name search bar to find mods in MO2, and use the mod files search bar to find which files are from which mods.
⠀

[strange grove]

Is there some kind of guide on making shaders? Not even sure if that's the right phrase tbh. HLSL seems similar enough to C that I can work with it pretty easily, but I have no idea how to actually make shaders for anomaly.

Maybe there's some kind of "example shader mod"?

[lilac ibex]

making shaders
what kind of shaders? do you need to draw ur shader to offscreen texture?

[strange grove]

the ones you replied to me about earlier, with the transparent gun

[lilac ibex]

it's just alpha testing

for resolve you'll need fullscreen pass

https://github.com/ixray-team/ixray-1.6-stcop/commit/c607358f841408434648723fd03e6b05295d2ee7 - very rough example of adding new fullscreen pass

[lilac ibex]

you can also check renderphase code in anomaly, xrRender folder in sources

other than that, you won't find any tutorials/examples

[strange grove]

Weeelp, seems this is gonna be a lot of stumbling around in the dark
Thanks for the help anyway!

[lilac ibex]

it is; better learn d3d12 and dont waste your time on xray engine

[lilac ibex]

@warped trail since i dont reply to any of xray related dms anymore, you'll get an answer here.

[...] using the tonemap function in common_functions.h but it doesnt cover some stuff like puddles reflection ,camp fire ,anomalies and sun color . the tonemap is applied to the rest of the screen 
so maybe its missing tonemap function call in some combine phase idk , do you know where i should look for that ?

can't speak for es/sss/whatever else was packed into your modpack, so i'll go with OG pipeline:

1accum stage - sun & local lights
2combine1 stage - ambient light, fog, tonemap (+autoexposure)
3forward render - particles, glass
4-N combine2naa - apply bloom n some other effects

i guess you render ssr after forward pass which makes sense, cuz you can reproject it in combine1.

so what you can do?
a) read es/sss code once again, and replace aces functions one by one (tonemapping is applied twice in vanilla; sky and opaque geometry [combine1])

b) store everything in hdr buffer (r11g11b10f / rgba16f), and do tonemapping last (combine2naa in vanilla).
this way you apply ur transform to final frame, including glass/particles/water.

[warped trail]

thanks a lot , this is really helpfull

[warped trail]

i forgot to mention , it happens with original ES code on vanilla anomaly so i'll go with option b , less tedious and i think there is all i need in combine2naa for blending

[hoary cipher]

Tbh an list of every actor slot would be helpful

[undone lily]

Next im overhauling all values and they will all be in the same ltx

[hoary cipher]

Not to bother you but I have some recommendations for people who should get the modder tag if or when you have time

[deep cedar]

hello what file i need to edit to change map icons

[balmy idol]

I wanted to ask if you know a way to add a folder into MO2 instead of a zip file
So that way I can actively work on a mod instead of having to zip it every time

[rigid sail]

Not sure what you mean. You only have to zip it for installing it the first time. Once it's installed, you can just right click and choose "Open in explorer" to find the folder it's in, and alter the contents. Then just hit "Refresh" in MO2 to update it.

You can also just drag and drop a folder into the /mods folder and hit "refresh", that will also work for "installing" a mod (Though if it's not yours, the standard install method works more consistently due to FOMODs).

[balmy idol]

Ah ok, I didn't know it kept the files as open folders. Thanks!

[surreal aspen]

do we know if any mod creator is working on NPC ai overhaul?

[hoary cipher]

in what way? what do you mean by npc ai overhaul

[dire rain]

yes, one of the guys of the funny engine

[surreal aspen]

wait is that a serious answer or are you taking a piss hah

[dire rain]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/reznya
take ur piss

[surreal aspen]

peak

[balmy idol]

Anyone know how to make a FOMOD or whatever it's called?

Just a basic checkbox thing

Like the one for SSS

[tame steppe]

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/6821 for an easy way to make one
https://fomod-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ for documentation if you want to build it from scratch

[balmy idol]

Gotcha. Perfect. Thanks!

[drifting moat]

In MO2 there's also an option to install an empty mod. Then you can right click on it and open in file explorer. After that just work on your files in that folder directly. No need to "install" every time.

When MO2 installs it basically just unzips your folder (of course it's a bit more complicated with fomod).

So just open/edit/swap out your files directly inside the MO2 folder. I even initiate my git repos there when working on a mod.

[balmy idol]

Yep yep! Thank you! I didn't realize it just unzips the thing and keeps it like that

I've been working on this:

#1265253362668933120 message

[winter wraith]

Who can make this sniper rifle? https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Снайперская_винтовка_Калашнова_(2016)

preferably one that can be powered by a magazine power supply and has different modularity

[stoic pendant]

Uhh I'm trying to post a mod on #1035807043933720576 but I get this error, what's up?

[lilac ibex]

[stoic pendant]

maybe @sinful wasp ?

[sinful wasp]

you can't use hyperlinks

[stoic pendant]

ah

thank you..

first mod (patch really) 🙂 https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1475147941009424455

[misty mulch]

raven's pretty active here btw if you would like to tell him about it

[stoic pendant]

I suppose it would be polite to ping them ^^ @simple scaffold if you're interested, I did some profiling and optimized SortingPlus' inventory open sort on gamma by an order of magnitude at above link

[fair canopy]

Did you post this in the anomaly discord before?

[scarlet granite]

Nope 😄 Did it today

[fair canopy]

Nice. I saw someone else post something similar over there. Can't wait. I want my guns on display lol

[naive snow]

Nice alternative to the gun racks furniture

[teal latch]

how do i change the price of certain items?

[tawny prawn]

very fucking cool

[scarlet granite]

Yeah Im also adding a headgear display

[hardy hound]

does anybody have a yt tutorial for applying weapon animations to another ogf?

[lilac idol]

I think one of frosty's guides covered that (the ones about porting and allat)

[nocturne rover]

how do i increase the "number of items crafted" here
x_matches is firestarter, need the recipe to craft more than 1 if its possible

how it looks rn

[rough lion]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/153-batch-craftingcooking

[nocturne rover]

good alternative, i was hoping i could make 2 firestarter sets per 1 recipe for same amount of resources

[hoary cipher]

Is it possible to spawn other items on NPC spawn then just weapons and grenades?

[teal latch]

do i change item prices in the game folder

or is it in the game mcm

[misty mulch]

you have to alter the cost parameter in the item's config file. you may want to learn how to use the DLTX method to selectively overwrite configs. my guide on that is pinned here

remember that Hard difficulty has a x0.75 multiplier on profit and x1.25 on cost from a trader, so multiply your planned cost by those to get your desired target value

[hushed portal]

can I commission someone to make a mod like fair auto complete but one that actually works?

spent 5 hrs trying but my dumbass is too dumb

[naive snow]

What do you mean actually works?

[hushed portal]

Like task gets cancelled if not done by player/companion

For that “immersion”

[rigid sail]

That would be difficult to track in a way that won't have weird edge cases. Like, you're hunting Fleshes, and while chasing them they wander into an anomaly field and die that way.

Or a bandit clear quest by the Train Hangar pulls in some locals to help out, and they score the last kill.

[naive snow]

Just get the fair autocomplete task enhanced, it has the kill-tracker + stolen tasks addon

[hushed portal]

Is it possible to do smt like complete iif player/companion kill it?

[hushed portal]

Ya that the mod that made me want the feature lol but it doesn’t work 90% of the time

I am trying to mod it like pda interactive since any task accepted there cancels if someone else does it

[naive snow]

Do you have actual examples of it not working or context on how it did not work?

[hushed portal]

i am not sure if wolf's mutant quest has unique id or not included in fair auto's tracking but it always completes when done by someone else

[naive snow]

So just find the task ID and white list it, there's a whole MCM setting for it

[hushed portal]

fk ur right, imma do that, u know where i can find task id?

[naive snow]

It even tells on the mod's FAQ for whitelisting

[hushed portal]

ya lol i thought it for the auto complete part

[hushed portal]

so it is only for auto complete part and not the kill tracker part lol fk me

[gritty orchid]

Hey guys, I have installed FWP but I don't see any new weapons in my game? Any idea why?

[rigid sail]

Asking in the appropriate channel would help https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1277740537344168016

[gritty orchid]

I can't send messages in that chat even though I'm in Frosty's discord

[rigid sail]

Dunno what to say, I'm not in his discord but I can send messages. Did the thread fill up again?

[gritty orchid]

No idead to be honest

[naive snow]

#🔨modded-gamma-support

[deft ivy]

How can I increase the inventory refresh time for merchants? The economy settings don't seem to be working.

[strong vigil]

#1475008124908994600 message

this might be close to what your looking for but not quite im sorry to say

[misty mulch]

longstanding bug. they restock at half the value of the setting. it works otherwise. https://discord.com/channels/912320241713958912/1142119703389687932

[stoic pendant]

Is there some drawback to using the lua require in mods? I don't see it used in many mods

[odd loom]

Should I add more part?

[hoary cipher]

Wdym?

[random fulcrum]

i've only seen it like once in all my time reading anomaly mods it's crazy, surely it's just people ignoring/forgetting that it exists or not knowing what it does exactly

i'm in both groups, i've enclosed entire script files in an if statement that maybe could've been replaced by a require line

[stoic pendant]

I thought it would've just been broken but seems to work just fine. Maybe it's because .scripts are already loaded globally so it's been enough of an encapsulation mechanism?

[random fulcrum]

IF that's how it works i haven't even done my homework and researched that

[stoic pendant]

I wonder if it breaks the load ordering somehow? or has engine level effects if suddenly there are a lot of dynamic modules being loaded

[random fulcrum]

can only guess because anomaly doesn't have a profiler

or not that i remember

[sudden inlet]

Iirc engine loads only scripts that are located at /scripts. If you want to reference nested scripts like in #1278836517858447471 , you would want to use require

[brave kernel]

Wanted to take a peek at the bo.script for damage values and damn, I didn't realize characters had these many regions to hit

[random fulcrum]

it's all the moving parts of a model's rig

there's absolutely no reason to have all of them get a unique multiplier when they could be grouped into larger parts like idk have both arms + hands + fingers as an "arms" multiplier

instead of having the upper arm take more damage than the lower arm and the hand and the fingers etc

[brave kernel]

Yeah it's weird having every bone for the model have its own dmg mult lol

The fact even the EYELIDS are there is amazing

[trim jungle]

That would make for one hell of a VATS mod

[gleaming kernel]

GAMMA VATS would be crazy

Just need a proper name for it

[trim jungle]

GATS

[pulsar willow]

i wanna make more crafting recepies, but i don't understand where to find names of the items the crafting files uses, like i tried searching "x_detector_simple"(for example) in every files in anomaly folder and in my mods folder, but it only appears in said crafting files

[trail sundial]

Should be the same as the names for those items that show in debug item spawner

[pulsar willow]

huh, seems to be the case, but with x_ added at the beginning

[naive snow]

The "x_" or "y_" identifiers are just there to allow alternative crafting recipes for an item.
Like for the Vodka

It's also written in the header comment of the craft.ltx where all the recipes are:

; ATTENTION: the reason why there is a "x_" in the start of craft items names is to avoid an issue with configs reading by the scripts
; if you use 2 craft recipes for the exact same item for example, the reader will take one recipe and ignore the rest
; to avoid this case, you put 2 strings of anything before the actual name, here i used "x_" and "y_"
; example: if you want to use 3 recipes for the geiger counter in one section, do something like this: "x_geiger_dead" "y_geiger_dead" "z_geiger_dead"
; Otherwise, put "x_" or anything and move along. Just always remember to use 2 digits only and nothing else
; this is a stupid yet simple fix

[pulsar willow]

ooooooooooooooh, thank you, i missed that

[green root]

Grok does sum most of them up into three main parts, head/torso/limbs. Hands/feet will have a separate mul but the rest end up larger entities.

Found when I reworked it all recently it wasn't too hard to eliminate certain multipliers. Current grok_bo or grok_actor_damage scripts have multiplies stacked on multipliers, can be confusing to follow.

[agile phoenix]

is there any mods mixing ru/ua with english voicelines for mercs?

[deft ivy]

It's a shame this hasn't been fixed yet.

[undone lily]

Good ones ? No

[deft ivy]

good idea

[scarlet granite]

Now got two kinds of weapon displays (pistol and others) and headgear displays. 🙂 Making hideouts look like an actual lunatic lives there. Thinking about adding shooting range stuff now. Maybe a way to shoot pop up targets and get a score on a computer.

Currently implemented:

• Hideout cat
• Rain water collection system
• Automatic gun turrets and nixie tube remote ammo displays
• Alarm systems
• Weapon pegboards
• Headgear displays

[summer stream]

my man got so bored he made peak

https://tenor.com/view/one-peak-one-piece-one-piece-cry-its-so-peak-gif-13413926760013023520

[scarlet granite]

And a little over one month ago I never touched Stalker modding. So every time someone is asking "can this or that be done" I think: JUST TRY IT

[undone lily]

Something I had in mind: water and meat production using an artefact container built in the hideout. The meat spoiling code could probably be used > put a specific artefact in a specific container (Snowflake af_ice to produce mineral water, af_soul to produce canteen water, meatchunk to produce random meats) with artefacts degrading over time. Having the artefact displayed within the specific container would be super cool

Some other artefacts could produce other things, like metal scraps, wood, etc overtime

[scarlet granite]

For water: I have these collectors. On spawn they fire a raycast to see if they are actually standing correclty (not obstructed) and then collect water if it rains..

[undone lily]

problem is: rain water is probably radioactive

[scarlet granite]

Yeah I thought at least emission rain should be radioactive 😄

[undone lily]

(and it produces an important resource without any drawback, just make 50 of them XD)

[scarlet granite]

So you think a sort of chamber to place artifacts inside that generates the resources based on the given artifact?

Could also be really cool looking 😄

[undone lily]

What I always have in mind in terms of gamedesign is what new systems bring to the table and how it connects to the existing systems and gameplay loops

[undone lily]

Yep

I can make a table of resources per artefact if you want

And code wise it's mostly done already with the meat spoiling code

(just spawn item in the container based on a time diff, that's the only thing needed to add, meat spoiling code spawns item when it reaches 0)

[scarlet granite]

Maybe you can also give your input on gun turret balance. 😄

[undone lily]

Ah, I'm pretty sure it will be abused so I don't think I'll add it to GAMMA 🙁

(like, stay on cover, pop one, let it kill people, grab it again)

[scarlet granite]

I'm working on having npcs shoot at it. xr_combat stuff is just hurting my brain atm

[undone lily]

although the idea is very cool

[scarlet granite]

Can I write you a DM?

[undone lily]

indeed

[north helm]

Let them cook

[north helm]

Maybe an item that purifies the water, like purification pills (sold by medics), could help, or filters that need to be replaced from time to time.

[peak salmon]

Hey all, is there a way to make an armour use a different set of hands? I have Eco proto exo, with completely wrong looking set of hands. Is there a way to amend it?

[sly orbit]

Hey everyone, does anyone ever thought about the light adaptation of the eyes at night. Could it be interesting to have a mod that makes your brightness and contrast progressively higher after a certain time in the dark.

[weak flame]

Is there a mod which expands your uh…freedom of herbal use? IE: expanded cannabis, possibly some different strains? Or maybe a mod which just adds more medicinal things lol

I want to be able to make caffeine tablets especially. The fact I can distill coke and weed into Vodka but I can’t make caffeine tablets is wild to me

[lilac ibex]

I used purkinje shift from ghost of tsushima presentation. worked OK with vanilla adaptation (though you'll need to do something with contrast)

[lilac ibex]

https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2021/jpatry_advances2021/index.html#/159

[misty mulch]

would help if we knew what caused the bug (and the related one where mechanics stock in 1/4th of the value)

[deft ivy]

Maybe it's possible to somehow adjust the maximum number of hours in the economy settings (currently 168) then you can simply set the desired time by multiplying it by 4\

[sudden inlet]

You need to do like this but only for your outfit
https://github.com/Grokitach/Stalker_GAMMA/blob/main/G.A.M.M.A/modpack_addons/23- THAP Rework - IENCE/gamedata/configs/mod_system_THAP_Rework.ltx

[peak salmon]

adjusting the player_hud_section actor_hud_value in my game files, right?

[sudden inlet]

Yeah, preferably making a new mod folder for that

[peak salmon]

Damn, I gotta do some reading on how to even start this ;D

[sudden inlet]

You can read https://anomaly-modding-book.netlify.app/docs/tutorials/addons/dltx?_highlight=dltx
Or just copy folder structure from that github link and only change the mod name to some custom one

[peak salmon]

Many thanks man, I'll try my best 😄

[green root]

Anyone ever have freezoom move the gun and not reduce the FOV when aiming, but work when using alt aim or hipfire? - figured it out, apparently if you enable alt aiming, scope status defaults to 1 or something. added scope_status = 0 to the base ltx config and it works.

[balmy idol]

Idk where to ask this but would someone be interested in / has already made a less RAM/VRAM intensive version of
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/ccon-grass-n-trees

Cuz the textures currently are REALLY highres

[rotund solstice]

Hey guys, can anyone tell me where I can ask about Lua scripting for Anomoly? I have this small Lua script that works but I am trying to find some resource/documentation on what exactly I can extract from the db.actor object. Right now the only parameter I have successfully extracted was position like this:

local area = db.actor:position()
printf(string.format("! [DATA EXTRACTOR] Position: %.2f, %.2f, %.2f", area.x, area.y, area.z))

Returns something like this:
! [DATA EXTRACTOR] Position: 38.09, -8.30, 18.15

But I can't figure out anything else. Not even like your character name or faction. I got position just by typing things and the intellisence or whatever suggested position so I tried it lol

[green root]

I find stuff here usually.
https://anomaly-modding-book.netlify.app/

[rotund solstice]

Thank you so much

Bruh almost all these links are empty lol

[green root]

Wrong link: https://github.com/TheParaziT/anomaly-modding-book

[green root]

Otherwise I ask an AI, pick your favorite, and then ask it for it's sources. Typically it'll point you to something you can use.

[rotund solstice]

hmmmm ok

[jade onyx]

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

[naive snow]

Ask in the c-con thread #1279805292472832101

[sudden inlet]

I'm pretty sure you should use engine sources for that, like https://github.com/themrdemonized/xray-monolith/blob/all-in-one-vs2022-wpo/src/xrGame/script_game_object_script2.cpp#L97
And then it does some black magic like https://github.com/themrdemonized/xray-monolith/blob/all-in-one-vs2022-wpo/src/xrGame/script_game_object.cpp#L107

[rotund solstice]

You mean for position specifically or for extracting player data in general? I don't actually want the player position I was just seeing what I could do

[sudden inlet]

For all available methods, yeah

[jade onyx]

lua_help contains the lua exports. Under the game_object class for example you can see position(), character_name(), character_community() etc

[rotund solstice]

Ya I'm looking at this right now this is awesome. Thank you guys all so much

[jade onyx]

it's not a pleasant read but afaik everything exposed to scripting from the engine is in there

[sudden inlet]

Just found out moddedexes has their extension to lua_help too 💀
https://github.com/themrdemonized/xray-monolith/blob/all-in-one-vs2022-wpo/gamedata/scripts/lua_help_ex.script

[jade onyx]

ah yeah that'd make sense for all the extra things they allow

[hollow heron]

Wish these were publicly available (brainjacket vid has these)

[rugged wadi]

talking about the reshade or the graphical mods? All of the mods are already out there publicly

the reshade on the other hand might not be tho

[trail sundial]

Anyone know some good tutorial videos for animations?

[tame steppe]

@trail sundial maybe not the best but there’s this

[hoary cipher]

progress

[scarlet granite]

Im working on the Artifact Harvester as described in #📎to-do message

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

Has anybody tried to make an artifact visible without a detector?

[novel ruin]

making cool sound physics stuff ( only reverb indoor shit for now), through efx

[sonic spoke]

hello friends, i have a very particular issue and i think i might have a solution for it.

i would love to use a scoped winchester rifle, but im on dx9 which doesnt support 3dss, which is required for the winchesters scope to work.

i was thinking that maybe its possible to gut the winchesters scope of its code, and insert the code from a dx9 compatable scope.

this would essentially give me a sidemount scope with dx9 compat.

am i delusional or is this doable?

[lilac ibex]

actually nvm, i thought u wanna port 3dss

[sonic spoke]

nah nah, all im asking is if its possible to jerry-rig a dx9 compatable scope for thw winchester

by gutting the 3dss version of the scope and inserting dx9 compatable scope code

my knowledge of coding and gammas inner workings are at dead 0

so thats why im here, i need help if this is even possible

[hollow heron]

The weapon repositions

[fair canopy]

Yes. I have a working dx9 patch by I've been too busy to work on the configs

[fair canopy]

It's actually very easy to make them visible without a detector

[sonic spoke]

hello, id be very interested if it ever becomes available. will it be included in a future main update or would this be more of an individual patch that people can install if they so wish?

[fair canopy]

It's going to be replace the current dx9 patch

[sonic spoke]

this means you'll distribute it to whoever wants it? or will it be in a major update?

[trail sundial]

In the config just enter a reticle for scope texture and it will now have vanilla anomaly scope behavior

[fair canopy]

Except that won't make the model itself dx9 compatible

[sonic spoke]

what makes the model incompatable?

[fair canopy]

The shaders

[sonic spoke]

so would it just show up as pitch black?

[sonic spoke]

this is basically what i was asking, a sort of file replacement

[scarlet granite]

SwitchVisibility(boolean) omg im so stupid

[fair canopy]

That won't work. You'll still get crashes for incompatible shaders

[sonic spoke]

makes sense

[ripe drift]

Hey, does anyone know how to comment out old bas animation lines in the config files that cause ADS stutters with certain guns? Like RD47 / Draco etc? When you ADS, the reticle jumps a bit - known issue I think.

Also, thanks @sinful wasp for directing me here... apprreciate it!

[crimson pawn]

Aren't stub shaders there in gamma?

[rugged wadi]

isnt there a mod that allow you to turn in quests through the PDA? I remember hearing about t somewhere but cant find it

[trail sundial]

There's autocomplete, but it messes with how gamma generates stashes

[rugged wadi]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/fair-autocomplete-tasks

mod page says that its fulyl compatible with gamma

[trail sundial]

Compatible in that it doesn't cause bugs, but still has implications for the stash system.

For example. In vanilla gamma you never get a AW stash from cordon quest.

With autocomplete you could if your cordon quests complete while you're in rostok.

[fair canopy]

I hadn't dropped the stub shaders into 3dss proper because the scope textures aren't setup

Then I'd have a hundred people asking why they can't see scopes on dx9

[crimson pawn]

Ah ok

[sacred token]

Dang, this autocomplete version? https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/dltx-unofficial-autocomplete-v4

[mighty vale]

the vector is real

now i can finally stop savescumming the control center 🥹

[sudden inlet]

we don't play gamma in this thread

[mortal flint]

so, apparently taking a psyhelmet from debug doesnt mean you can travel north

which script handles it then?

[novel ruin]

if has_alife_info("yan_labx16_switcher_primary_off") and has_alife_info("bar_deactivate_radar_done") then 
    return
end

found in grok psy field in the north

[mortal flint]

well thats a whole quest completion

but you need psy helmet to enter the labs, no?

[hollow heron]

Is there any mod that adds a time of day clock to the top right of the screen with no mini map? Preferably semi transparent but beggers can’t be choosers

Trying to go for a semi modern ui look

[mortal flint]

there is a watch mod

that just tells you time whenever you press its key

[hollow heron]

Preferably close to this image in a different game, where it’s on the top right

[hollow heron]

I’d prefer it to be constant,

[mortal flint]

well not that i've seen then

[balmy idol]

MONKE

Also you could edit the watch mod to make it permanent

[mortal flint]

nvm, i found it i think

but actor_has_item scripts are ass

[trail sundial]

Possible jank solution: replace the minimap textures with blank ones and enable minimap

[hollow heron]

That could work lol, no way to make the opacity like 80% though? Or changing the font so the numbers are bigger?

[trail sundial]

No idea

[mighty vale]

never ever living this down

just pretend this is newbies chat

[spice turret]

Where/what file should I look in/at if I wanted to see what determines which mutants spawn where? Both to adjust for myself and to log it down.

Something under ZCP?

[naive snow]

The spots are determined by the ai map spots, which are handled by the SDK. You'd be better off asking in the anomaly server. ZCP handles globally spawning certain mutants off/on. I know HailtheMonolith has been working on some new Ai map spots tho.

[spice turret]

Thank you! I'll dig some other time. Cheers.

[mental vale]

@balmy idol In regards to CCON, I'd also recommend decomposing the bump textures into individual channels, downscaling them, then re-normalizing the normal maps before recombining. This mitigates lighting artifacts from downscaling. Re-compression introduces some new error regardless, but proper normalization keeps it from compounding into worse lighting issues.

[lean frost]

Reshade can do it, plus fps and frametime. You are not required to have the actual preset on.

[sonic spoke]

gamma is a modpack for anomaly, but is there more to it than just that?

[sonic spoke]

no this isnt bait, im basically just asking about the nuances of making gamma

[sly orbit]

Dawn that looks good ! I'll look into that as soon as possible. Thx for the answer bro

[green root]

Hey, I have two versions of 0.9.4, I'm trying to take a pistol from pretty pistol pack, and add it to the newer version but it's position is entirely wrong. I loaded up each version and looked at the hud editor values for the older one, and matched the addon I made to put it into the newest gamma, but that didn't work. What's the best way to figure out the position? I guess something changed with the 0 position or something?

[lilac idol]

how did you "add" it?

[green root]

Copied ltx from the older version, gave it a custom name so it wouldn't override anything that currently exists, found all the aim/hud offset data in the original full ltx, and added it to the copy so it matches values.

I tried copying the hud offsets from one of the newer 1911s over to the m45 and it got closer, but it's still off.

[crisp scarab]

If anyone is interested I have a tool (script I made) fully automated and batch processes/optimizes character models in blender. (Could work for other models, never tried)

Hand of God — Feature List
∙ Smart Vertex Welding — Progressive multi-pass welding of duplicate vertices at mesh boundaries, filtered by bone weight and surface normal direction
∙ Boundary-Only Targeting — Only processes vertices on open edges, never touches interior geometry
∙ Head Protection — All head, eye, jaw, eyelid, and neck geometry is excluded from processing
∙ Decimation — Optional 10% body triangle reduction, AREF models auto-skipped
∙ Stump Capping — Seals dismemberment cut points on human models
∙ Bone Weight Normalization — Renormalizes weights after welding to preserve animations
∙ Texture Path Repair — Fixes broken material references on export
∙ Dry Run Mode — Full logging without modifying any files
∙ Per-Feature Toggles — Every feature can be independently enabled or disabled​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

How To Use

1. Setup
   ∙ You need Blender with the OGF import/export addon installed (io_scene_ogf).
   ∙ Place the script somewhere accessible.
   ∙ Open the script in Blender’s text editor or run it from command line.

2. Configure Paths
   At the top of the script, set your input and output directories:
   ∙ Input — folder containing your OGF model files
   ∙ Output — folder where processed models will be exported

3. Feature Toggles
   All features are independently togglable at the top of the script:

4. Recommended First Run — Dry Run
   Set DRY_RUN = True along with all other options except decimation. Check the Blender console output. It will tell you exactly how many vertices would be merged at each distance pass, how many were rejected by each filter. Nothing gets changed.

5. Live Run
   Set DRY_RUN = False and run again. Processed models are exported to your output directory. Drop them into your game’s meshes folder and test.

6. Second Pass (Optional)
   The first welding pass changes mesh topology, which can expose new boundary edges. Running the script a second time on already-processed models typically catches another 5-10% of remaining issues. A third pass yields near-zero changes — two passes is the sweet spot.

[lilac idol]

you also need to use the values from prp for that weapon

(if it's included there)

[agile mountain]

Shitton of text incoming, in 3... 2... 1...

||So you was warned, now to the point of my humble request.||

Can you please recommend some mods to me? I have many already, but I want to create ultimate pack and then grind Invictus (doesnt care about achievement tho, so no worry if mod breaks it, idc and do it only for my entertainment). Modlist goes bellow.

Mods I especially interested in:

1. PDA notification customizer (not pda sounds, but notifications content: f.e. what types of messages I get on HUD, I want to make some notifs appear only inside pda "messages" section)
2. NPC portraits overhauls (tried several of them, but pretty often was still getting NPC fraction icon instead of NPC model icon in pda notification, taskboard and inventory UI )
3. QoL life features, ways to make game smoother in UI and UX. Good examples - craft from stashes, sprint cancel aim, tooltip control, etc.
4. Immersion mods, from little tweaks like "barrels do no less than half of damage even in shit condition" (instead of dealing 1% dmg like its nerf gun) to big immersion overhauls like S.I.S.K.I. A-Life.
5. Graphical mods. I already have latest sss, atmos, weather exp for atmos, arrival and complete texture pack, but if there anything to more improve game in terms of looks - sign me in please.
6. More cool gameplay quirks and features. Dont care if it makes game easier (playing max diff with precise AI aim btw) or harder - the right question is will it make game more fun / immersive / diverse or maybe makes it less annoying / exhausting / dumb?
7. UI customization. Im using Sota UI + custom loading screen. If there thing to recomend, I will be glad. Maybe egui? No dynahud tho (what is there to hide lol, map hides by default, hp is essential to be seen and thats it)
8. Performance improvement. I use forbidden engine, ALAO, InventoryOpenLagReducerForGAMMA - what else I can add/tweak?

Note: BHSRO, Klondaik, FWP (or any other weapon pack), NPC retextures (and other graphical mods that requires new game), RE:done combat/maps/mutants is nice, but out of scope for now. Still will be glad to hear recommendations.

I know thats huge request, but if you read it to this point - thank you for your attention, your mods suggestion would be greeted. Please dont suggest touching grass or women: I already have CCon and New Hip Model.

[green root]

prp? sorry not familiar with that.

[lilac idol]

pretty reanimated pistols

[green root]

Yeah just searched it and found it, sorry. It's the m45, I don't see any 1911s in prp.

[lilac idol]

and how does it look in game

[green root]

These are the original values, looks normal in the old game. In the newest version if I copy this 1:1 the gun is in my chest.

[crisp scarab]

#1290829430020898826 message

[lilac idol]

oh yeah i bet it's gunslinger replacers

you have to make your ltx overwrite those

[green root]

Ah I feel like I had to do this before too when I added the m45 back in and forgot... I figured since I was using a different ltx with a new name it would ignore those.

But I'm still using the colt base.

[agile mountain]

have it, great mod

[lilac idol]

oh nah nvm yours has a new section it can't be a replacer messing with it nvm

can you show a comparison between the 2 guns rq