VANILLA ONLY edition

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Trilogy guides, tips, information and much more:
https://rentry.co/STALKERTrilogyGuides

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Trilogy mods, anon's merges and resources:
https://rentry.co/STALKERTrilogyMods

Common misconceptions about Shadow of Chernobyl game mechanics:
https://www.metacognix.com/stlkrsoc/WhatYouKnowThatAintSo.html

Running S.T.A.L.K.E.R. on Linux:
docs.google.com/document/d/11HcSFSyb0DX3ymModXZ9tNdpTuktTioC

>BugTrap, crash to desktop, freeze/lockup? Find your crash log, stalker.
Check your Documents or game install directories for the xray_[your name].log file. If you can't find it, look in the location specified at the top of fsgame.ltx. Copy the last few lines from the log and paste them here if you want any help.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R Trilogy new & popular mods:
>IWP Standalone
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-improved-weapon-pack
Recommended addons: CotZ, Absolute Nature, Structures Redux

>SoC Update 1.4
https://vk.com/topic-147828435_49497922

>SOCGA
https://www.nexusmods.com/stalkershadowofchernobyl/mods/1089

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 mods and tools:
>nexus
https://www.nexusmods.com/games/stalker2heartofchornobyl

>Mod recommendations + config (less stutter, more fps, NO compiling + full Mouse fix)
https://pastebin.com/Ma6W4BcM (embed)

>Change viewmodel fov, enable console, remove black bars, skip intro
https://github.com/Lyall/STALKER2Tweak

Lost to the Zone : >>530495551

X-Ray supremacy.

Modding will continue until morale improves

say what you want about grok, but at least he has a vision for his game.

say what you want about gamma, but at least it doesn't fake survival.

>>531486069
>his game

vanilla anomaly is mid

thread question: atmos_neutral or atmos_summer?

I'm tired of GAMMA seethers who never even played it.

>>531488103
you really should get over it already grok.

>>531488103
>>531487324
>>531486069
kill yourself

>>531489331
>>531489729

>gammafags seething over gamma seethers
g'day /sg/, i see that the fresh thread is off to a good start.

Kinda crazy to think that after the 2020 wildfires CoP is one of the few pieces of media where this cheeky lion has been immortalized on.

>>531490639
>seether seething over gammafags seeting over gamma seethers

calm down and watch this cartoon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqUahWxPaok

my favourite thing that came out of Ukraine (and I despise current day Ukraine)

>>531492680
>Ukrainian animation
>literal hohols
geg

>>531491283
I didn't even know the buildings were lost.

>>531492680
Watch this too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1IJpFkfcwE

and play gamma instead of seething over it

>>531493294
All of Izumrudnoe went up in flames that month. All because of one retarded hohol that shouldn't have access to matches.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone_wildfires
And now because of retarded mobiks the Zone is thoroughly fucked up with mines so it's forever dead as a tourist attraction.

The Zone is not a place for governments and armies. It's a place for everyone.

>>531493651
She looks like she gets passed around as the camp's fleshlight by Freedomers

BTTS author has returned from military service
Buildo VILL will be saved

>>531493787
Did he kill another GSC developer? Based if yes.

>>531493787
don't get my hopes up like that

>>531493753
We need the Photographer on this case.

>>531493651
would impregnate

>>531493594
That's a damn shame, I had no idea the Zone went up in flames.

duga is a real place btw

it's up

>>531500182
oh it's the Russian guy from Call of Duty who lost against a little girl

>>531500480
Do you saying this when you look into your mirror in the morning?

>>531500614
why you bully me?

>>531493787
Good news, I'm really looking forward to that mod.

>>531500480
and people say anomaly didn't bring in all the codbabbies

>>531493594
>And now because of retarded mobiks the Zone is thoroughly fucked up with mines so it's forever dead as a tourist attraction.
Out of all the places in the world it was probably the only area I was somewhat interested in visiting someday. I hate people.

>there are anons posting and lurking in THIS VERY GENERAL who consider themselves fans of stalker but haven't played gamma
play gamma

no

>>531500182
RIP J-12, a true Russian hero.
https://youtu.be/0HL10S3BH30

>>531504490
cod is older than stalker

>>531493594
>>531504725
At the start of the war the Russians also started digging fucking trenches in the exclusion zone just 10km away from the plant. They got treated in Belarus for radiation poisoning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_exclusion_zone#Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine_(2022%E2%80%93present)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Chernobyl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

>>531509698
it's all so tiresome

>>531510024
>On 1 April 2022, The Daily Telegraph reported that one Russian soldier died from acute radiation sickness after being camped in the Red Forest for a prolonged time. In October, CNN cited a social media post claiming that injured Russian soldiers who operated in Chernobyl had been treated at the Republican Research Centre for Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology in Belarus, including some who showed signs of radiation poisoning.
>The IAEA's Second Summary Report, published in September 2022, clarified that only modest radiation doses (0.6 mSv) could have resulted from such activities. Later, the Washington Post quoted a tour guide in the Zone who acknowledged that he had started the radiation sickness rumours as a "huge exaggeration" meant to terrify the Russians.
Just a bit of banter for April Fools.

>>531512336
Those were the early months of the war, the amount of lies spewed was greater than the Zone has ever seen. And their cost, is yet to be known.

>>531512986
Those in the armed forces might call them successful counterintelligence operations. The only issue is that I fool you, you fool him, he fools me and at the end of the days we're all fools.

>>531490639
>tell fags to kill themselves
>you're seething

how is stalker 2 modding going?
dead in the ditch because of the size of the kit?

>>531523034
it's going

>>531523671

>>531523671
I really don't get it. In what situation would handloading ammunition be beneficial in the zone????

>>531523671
>30 casings makes 15 rounds
Wut

>>531524357
skif's retarded, 50% yield

>>531527927
Spasiba, stalker

>>531523893
>ai'd so retarded his eyes turned brown

which stalker is the most stalker out of all stalkers

>>531538762
I'd say Stalker

>>531528719

>>531523034
It's fine

>>531509698
Why didn't the Monolith take care of them? This was the perfect time for a resurgence.

>>531547551
most of them ARE monolith now. and they have covertly infiltrated belarus.

>>531547363
>mfw western furfags can't get STALKER right
Fucking hilarious how even in terms of "furry STALKER" Russians outdo Westerners. It's like they can't do anything right and should stick to Fallout with their Deathclaw sex scenes and random used condoms.

>>531494723
wasnt that a good mod?

>>531527927

>>531547363
>>531556304

>>531556304
Can you show some furry mods?

>>531558965

>>531509017
cod only really got popular with 4/MW2, around the same time stalker came out

>>531509017
>>531563424
I grew up watching my dad play early COD on PS2, weird seeing how it is now.

>>531527927

>>531567714
WRONG

Good morning, /sg/.

>>531527927
Nice template, bratan.

>>531527927

good day /sg/
reminder that gsc is a bunch of liars and if you gave them any money, you should feel ashamed.

>>531493594
>A 27-year-old local resident was arrested for arson. It is unclear if the man, who has confessed to starting fires "for fun", is partly or fully responsible for the wildfires. The suspect told the authorities that he had set fire to dry grass close to the forest, without making an attempt to put out the fire as it started spreading.

>>531495616
that's a man.

how I feel after reading the thread

I've relocated the merc base to the unused bunker area in Red Forest in Chernobyl Freeplay. In Xiani's original mod and DMM their base is in that small cabin in Army Warehouses. Always seemed retarded to me to have their whole faction based out of some tiny farmstead.

>>531577552
post this on reddit and farm upvotes.

>>531577552
>It has become more meticulous and more detailed
LMAO

>>531586107
>Chernobyl Freeplay
How is that coming along?
Is it even worthwhile for you to continue working on that? Last I remember there was some issue that inevitably crashes the game in its end part (?) and I think you said that you don't know what causes it and how to fix it. Correct me if I'm wrong.
As to your relocation of the mercs, yeah that makes absolute sense from their perspective to be holed up somewhere in a fortified underground segment.

>>531577552
Woah. GSC, lying about their game in an interview? Never happened before.

>>531589302
>there was some issue that inevitably crashes the game in its end part
Yeah lol. That's because I built the mod on top of Xiani's original freeplay mod, which is itself critically buggy and unstable. Absolutely retarded decision in hindsight. Xiani's Freeplay is old as fuck, I think it was released soon after SoC's official release. I should've suspected it would be buggy.

I am remaking CF on a bugfixed version of Doom's Mod Merge: Anon Edition, itself being a sort-of continuation of Xiani's Freeplay. It's got a bunch of cool features, like emissions and actually respawning artifacts, and is much more stable. I've added many more features of my own and improved on some stuff from the old CF. I figured out how to create psi-zones the other day, pic related. An anon in here also helped me with a lot of stuff, like merging a repair kit mod into my mod. I'm very grateful for his help.
It's funny how things work out. DMM: Anon Edition was made by anons in /sg/ if I'm not mistaken and here I am working on my own continuation of it.

>>531490639
>photoshop a meme
>put a watermark on it because everything needs to be a brand and a credit now
cancer

>>531594583
>>531595956
Transparent visors look so goofy.

>>531523034
The size of the SDK is only a concern and issue to people who don't do any modding and instead just doompost and shit themselves about everything under the sun related to the new game they can't run.

it's refreshing to see the npcs without sausage fingers and without those street fighter iv stompers

>>531577552
>you should ______
kill yourself

>>531596192
>copiumtanks.mov

>>531596192
you know how people start modding? at first they make tiny config changes, then try something more ambitious and eventually some rewrite the game engine. guess who won't start modding your shitty game. those who have to fill half of their SSD with trash, just to make some minor changes to the game

>>531600083
good goy, 15 hryvnias have been transferred to your account

>>531586107
You better have the bunker in the back accessible or I will be underwhelmed.

>>531601273
>>531602596
>actually pretending you'd be supermodders if the sdk were the nothing the OT had instead of the real tool kit
You don't even play the game. You're just here to cry.

>>531604150
>this retard thinks its about s2

>>531605243
>You don't even play the game.
true, because it's soulless trash

>>531605243
>implying
man you're stupid

>>531605607
so enlighten me what made you so upset then? the statement that giving money to blatant liars is a reason to be ashamed? because it is in my book.

>>531606173
>implying im upset

how can you be so ducking stupid?
read the post.
anyone telling you you should xyz...

just kill yourself

>>531606556
good talk

the consequences of stalker 2 and gamma have been disastrous for this general
all the oldfags have left, its mongoloid retards and redditors is all thats left. I wish 4chan never came back and I hope you all get cancer of the anus

>>531608750
one must adapt to the circumstances, complaining will get you nowhere

gamma is a real game.

>>531605085
Sorry, it's still inaccessible. Adding new levels is esoteric shit beyond my know-how.

>>531609190
So is Autumn Aurora apparently.
https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:_Autumn_Aurora

>>531609190
but is it free?

>>531609190
grok won.

>>531609486
And our favorite:
https://www.imfdb.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:_Misery

>>531607015
there was no talk, just me, tard wrangling again.

you are not getting another one anytime soon

>>531608750
>all the oldfags have left
not quite, but often wonder why Im even here.

>>531605243
tools dont make the modder

>>531608750
It was terrible right when STALKER 2 released but it's gotten a lot better since then.
inb4 4chan was never good

>>531608750
I'm an oldfag and I enjoy GAMMA, didn't play S2 yet though.

>>531567714
Based

>>531602596
>there are tons of config mods made without dev kit
>NO YOU CAN'T MOD LIKE THAT
retard

>>531608750
>all the oldfags have left
you got a source for that?

gamma is simply filling a void that companies fails to fill.
road to vostok will probably be an alternative but the lack of "supernatural" stuff might turn some people off, only human v human is boring. the dev should add some supernatural shit related to finnish folklore.

>>531610575
doubt

>>531615918
without super natural stuff you may as well just play eft.... vostok/red river is neat but gets boring fast

>>531615918
when drewski uploaded the infamous video about gamma, r/stalker was apparently overflowed with people asking how can they disable "weird animals" and "invisible traps" in this tactical not-survival-faking milsim (which is free btw), so i wouldn't be sure about that.

>>531618301
at that time, people badly wanted a single player version of tarkov
i wonder how many people stuck with gamma and went to actually play the trilogy from that

>>531616730
also oldfag. liked misery and currently playing anomaly

any reason to play vanilla CoP over Gunslinger?

>>531610572
No it hasn't. To this day it's full of analmeme and gaymma fans trolling, russia cocksuckers seething about the devs not catering to "muh russian fanbase" and caring about their own country, /v/edditors whining that their chromebooks can't run new games, and thirdies with flash drives for hard drives crying that the full fledged SDK takes up most of a $40 SSD.

>>531619717
Not many.
>been telling a friend to play stalker for ages but he never did
>one day I'm at his place and ask him what he's been playing
>he tells me he installed stalker a few days ago but didn't play and to give him some tips
>I ask which one
>he says Anomaly
>myface.jpg
>tell him to start as rookie and to explore the village for loot
>he does so and finds underwear and other crap to sell
>grabs some ammo and heads towards the Garbage
>pseudog is at the trailer where you find the PB in SoC
>he gets killed in 2 hits
>didn't save
>doesn't want to scavenge the rookie village again
>quits the game and shows me some other stuff he's been playing
>uninstalled shortly after and never tried stalker again

>>531621830
Are they in the thread with us right now?

>>531621847
Stalker is a hardcore franchise. casuals get filtered pretty easily. maybe far cry is more up to his speed

still waiting for IWPchad to release his edits

>>531622412
He likes Rust.

>>531621830
fix it gsc, or it gets flushed.

>>531623881
If Analmeme's X-Ray fork starts getting Rustified then it's gonna be ultra turbo mega gay, jfc

it's literally over

>>531622781
same.

>>531626095
The mechanical stalker in question:

>>531625912
rust the game, numbnuts

>>531626095
ENTER

I don't understand why people think drones are going to be dangerous in combat.
Literally 1 bullet of any calibre and the lithium battery will rupture and the whole thing will melt down like a thermite bomb in seconds.

>>531484687
you are the retard. there are no mods. just textfile edits.
and NO, you cannot fix UE5 with a config or add missing a-life with a text file. retard

>>531627750
>I don't understand why people think drones are going to be dangerous in combat.
Hohols and vatniks have been strapping 'nades and other conventional explosives to basic bitch cheapo quadcopter drones and wreaking havoc with them. Drones are dangerous in combat because you use them as little kamikaze ass rapers (quite literally so), not fucking fighter jets like you're playing San Andreas RC missions.

>>531628953
thanks retard.

>being such an indian youre shilling unreal engine
grim

in that direction, the stalker said, waving his kalashnikov around, lives a modder, he doesn't fake survival
and in that direction, waving the detector in his other hand, lives a shitposter, who hates it here but won't leave
visit either you like, they're both retarded.
but I don't want to go among retarded people, the loner remarked
oh, you can't help that, said the stalker
we're all retarded here, I'm retarded, you're retarded
how do you know I'm retarded? said the loner
you must be, or you wouldn't have entered the zone

I have found the ultimate zone snack.

IWP is so good, a breath of fresh air after the """"supposedly fixed"""" S2

>>531206728
>AI never dies to anomalies in the base games
you didn't have to out yourself as a retarded faggot but thanks anyways

Has that nigga released the /sg/ IWP expansion yet? I'm bored out of my mind but I don't want to start a playthrough if that shit is going to drop soon.

>>531637092
Eating half a can will kill your hunger for half a day, these stats are fucking bullshit.

>>531638268
>retard dung eater who likes GAYMA
I'm shocked

>everyone i dislike is Indian: an incel's guide to 4chan
Back to rebbit

he thinks I was shilling UE
what a marooon

>>531638438
>Has that nigga released the /sg/ IWP expansion yet?
no, IWP itself will also get a big new patch with three new weapons so I'm kinda holding off with a new playthrough or with really modding it

Patch 1.5.1, clean install, with no mods
>enemies spawned during/for mission objectives often pop into existence in my field of view
>human entities spawning beside/behind me while travelling over the map
>human entities getting stuck blobbed together
>bloodsuckers spawning in settlements and running away to despawn
>laser accurate enemies with no recoil
>xray vision enemies who stand still waiting for you to peek
>dumb as fuck AI if they haven't spotted you yet
>AI sometimes not working at all
>can hardly hit shit when getting shot because of awful screen shake
>skif's pistol
>anemic flashlight
>physics based objects like dropped guns and FUCKING KEYS
>artefacts still able to spawn out of bounds
>graphical glitches
>downright fucking hideous looking at times
>questionable performance and optimisation (especially between different graphics presets)
>map too fucking big
now I have a ward guy inside an inaccesible building (there were 3-4 spawned on a bridge bit) in STC Malachite after the ward attack, a building which is a pitch black void (LOL lighting) and seems to be hollow so I can't kill him no matter how many grenades I throw in. He doesn't drop agro no matter how far away from the base I move so I will have to install UE tools to enable noclip to be able to save my game and sleep at Malachite again.
Stalker 2 is a heap of shit. It doesn't feel any different to play than it did at release. I can't believe I got memed into buying this shit at launch because this fucking slop actually had decent reviews when it came out. This game will NEVER be "fixed".

>>531641349
>IWP itself will also get a big new patch with three new weapons

when is that supposed to happen?

>>531586107
I hope i can try out your mod once it's finished, I really like your progress and the mod concept

>>531642204
this isnt steam or reddit

>>531641349
any news on the ixray port?

>>531642209
IWPniggaz said this summer, no real ETA

>>531642737
>ixray port
haven't heard or seen anything new sadly. I only remember that it won't come before 2.0, which means that it we will have to wait quite some time, iirc

>>531622781
>>531626241
Very soon, I would just like to get the imported textures up to par. They are serviceable as is but kind of flat. I need help working with png to dds and generating a proper bump map. I will describe my issue in the next post.

>>531638438
1, I am not a nigger.
2, You should be fine with adding the new weapons mid save. Though someone more knowledgeable might confirm or deny that NPC loadout changes are save game compatible. My understanding is that new stalkers spawned will start loading the new loadouts.

>>531641349
>new patch with three new weapons
Let me guess, ugly shit with useless rails? IWP is awesome but the devs have no taste. I am not holding my breath for this new patch.

>I need help working with png to dds and generating a proper bump map. I will describe my issue in the next post

I can probably help, but why are your source textures in .png?

>>531643556
>png to dds
wtf, please don't use png as an intermediate format, IF you can use other formats like tga.

one confirmed weapon is the Rsh-12, probably as a companion weapon to the ASh-12 to have a minimum of two weapons for the new caliber like with the P90 and FN Five-Seven

>IWP is awesome but the devs have no taste.
It's aight. I don't understand why they haven't included the full size SiG550 and G36 with standard optics. They already had the SiG implemented, but they deleted it at some point in time for whatever reason. They also had other weapons like the AMB-17 in earlier development stages, but it also got scrapped

>>531639871
why would an incel be on reddit? newfag retard

>>531645112
>Why would a redditor be on reddit?
Real fuckin' mystery, man.
pic unrel

>>531637092
$200 for pringles. man, the inflation hit the zone hard

>>531645978
redditors despise incels and anything to do with them since most redditors are hardcore feminists you total tard, did you just get on the internet yesterday

>>531644101
>>531644936
png is how they came to me. Example attached. I got my hands on escape from tarkov assets (which are very handy because each piece is individually modeled, thus making hacking things together quite simple) and I suppose it's down to the way their game engine utilizes textures.

The textures are appended diff, gloss, and nrm, which I understand translate to diffuse, specular, and bump? Having no experience working with textures, I have simply layered the diff and gloss pngs in gimp, darkened the gloss, and exported as dds. It is serviceable, but I suspect that I could be doing more to integrate the specular.
As for the bump (nrm) texture, the source is in bright red where xray bumps are mostly green. I followed this guide
https://www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-chernobyl/tutorials/creating-bumpdds-textures-for-x-ray
to attempt to create new bumps from the "new" (edited pngs to dds) textures, but failed. The maps I generated were not green, and I could not tell if they were doing anything in game.

My questions:
How to integrate the diff and specular pngs into a proper dds?
How to salvage the nrm png into a xray-friendly bump? And, what is the difference and application between _bump and _bump#?

Many thanks, lads.

>>531648758
Here is the ingame shot.

>>531647481
Jews made anti-woke the new thing
Sounds like you're the one under a rock

Everyone is always talking about the FREE survival shooter that doesn't FAKE realism but no one talks about how STALKER 2 developers knew you would try this....

>>531648758
I can give you the textures from EFT, in TGA format. if you want them
>pic rel

bumps for xray are special, they are they are the normal map channels swapped with some blur added in blue and alpha 1 , specular in the red channel and ambient occlusion in the green

you're supposed to make them in the sdk but you can get away with just photoshop and a dds plugin

I can make a bump for you using the source textures and the SDK, would that be something you would want?

also none of the textures are going to show correctly n game if the textures .thm's info is missing or wrong.

>>531650394
you're definitely brown and retarded if you think redditors have suddenly become anti-woke overnight because of the jews

>>531648758
>>531652437
would have been cool if I attached the pic

>And, what is the difference and application between _bump and _bump#?
from what I recall, the bump# is a filter for the missing info from the compression of the textures. most people just use a tiny grey texture instead of the also full size bump# texture.
its also made with teh SDK or scripts
gunslinger uses the full size bump#'s

>>531647481
>>531650394
>>531652701
what mod are these factions from

>>531626903
IT'S TIME

>>531652889
anomaly

>you're definitely brown and retarded if you think redditors have suddenly become anti-woke overnight because of the jews

>>531654287
nta, but you can stop posting that image now, thanks.

>>531654287
Imagine being terrified of directly replying, a real redditor move

>>531648758
>>531652832
edited eft's bump into direct x configuration (swapped channels)
now can use this to make bump with SKD

also made a bump in ps, lowered gloss map levels a bit

>>531652437
>>531652832
Thank you for the explanations. The SDK in question is the CoP SDK? I have it, but my working knowledge is limited.
As for the EFT assets, I am also using asset studio to unpack them. Is exporting as TGA an option? Again, limited knowledge on my part.
>.thm
I assumed this was thumbnail info for viewing in file explorer... you mean to tell me it has application in-game?
>anon working with anon
I do like the sound of a collaborative effort. If it isn't too much trouble to you, I would like to take you up on your offer.

>>531655508
yeah the CoP SDK

>Is exporting as TGA an option? Again, limited knowledge on my part.
just go to options, export options, and choose your desired output
>like so

>I do like the sound of a collaborative effort. If it isn't too much trouble to you, I would like to take you up on your offer.

yeah thats cool, I'll do it via the SDK, and make one manually and save in psd
will upload in a little bit and post link here

>>531655508
>I assumed this was thumbnail info for viewing in file explorer... you mean to tell me it has application in-game?

yep, the game has lots of info about textues, bumps to use, etc.
I just use axr toolset and edit it how I need

https://github.com/revolucas/AXRToolset/wiki/Existing-Plugins#thm-viewer
https://github.com/revolucas/AXRToolset
https://www.moddb.com/mods/area/addons/axrtoolset-master

>>531655508
>>531648758
here you go IWP bro
there is a readme in this, basic explanation.
I didn't make a psd because the specular levels in the bump the SDK output looks good.

https://mega.nz/file/BU5hXLob#RgQ1QVFc_w1nFdyau9hUP0W6q79uX1poGxUW9GL-JBY

any other question or adjustments you want, just ask

I killed the thread apparently

Not sure how anons feel about suggestions but are there recommendations for games similar to Stalker?
I've played Metro, Tunguska: the Visitation, Zero Sievert, Chernobylite, Zed Zone, and ATOMrpg, if those last two even count.

Bring back always visible artifacts, they were essential to the atmosphere.

>>531636614
this is good

>>531651323
what about those instances when the developers are gamers and they put THIS in the game?

i thought installing bag opening animation would be immersion kino but man is it just an unnecessary delay.

>>531643556
both amd and nvidia have comprehensive tools for compressing to dds

something like crazybump can generate decent bump maps from a flat texture, check out polycount wiki for a lot of techniques and tools

>>531690364
I don't spam my inventory so it is immersion kino for me

Heads up for anyone using the SDK. I recommend the IX-Ray SDK, although I don‘t know if there are some features missing

Hi everyone!
Today, STALKER GAMMA 0.9.4 releases (about 10 hours from the time of this post). While this patch doesn’t add a ton of new content, it brings a lot of quality-of-life and gameplay improvements that significantly enhance the overall experience, immersion, and how GAMMA plays—especially compared to the 0.9.3 update.

>>531706786
fuck off grok

I played the OG trilogy when they came out and I enjoy GAMMA. The crafting (except artifact crafting) and weapon upgrades keep the game engaging and fixing up a nice gun is satisfying as hell.

I wish there was an option explore the Northern parts of the Zone without having to do the Main Quest - some kind of freeplay mode. I also don't like the base GAMMA visuals and how inconsistent a lot of it is, a lot of the new anomalies are retarded but I can turn them off so it's not an issue. It's otherwise a great modpack.

>>531677453
Ashes 2063

Good day, /sg/.

>>531713984
good day anon

>>531696451
This

>>531713984
o7

>>531713984
g'day anon

>>531695719
>something like crazybump
https://github.com/Kim2091/PBRify_Remix

>>531723027

>>531723412
>nvidia vendor lockin
no thanks

>>531724176
Both ChaiNNer and ComfyUI run on AMD and Intel hardware. The models are "intended" for RTX Remix, but by the end of the day they're just SPAN upscaler models trained for generating bumpmaps.

I originally through about posting this on plebbit for a discussion but I'm too lazy to create an account and I hate that site. Anyway, I think I have an idea on how the lore can be saved from the lame S2 plot. Heavy headcanon ahead.
Remember how detailed the game is up until sircaa, and how everything takes a shit right after that? Less side quests, weird, hollow storyline, exceptionally dumb endings? That's because it didn't happen, everything past the moment Skif talked to the wish granter was a hallucination and he's still laying somewhere in that facility brain dead. Everything we see is exactly how it wants skif to see the world and people in it.
For example Strelok is a crazed sociopath because crystal sees him as the enemy who wants it dead, teleports are everywhere just like at the end of SoC, Agatha doesn't appear before this event and "she" is weird and unexplainable and is the only one who knows skif by name for no reason, even if we whack Herman, it turns out that it was a hallucination near the end. Ccon representative appears to be alive and conscious in the endgame only if you decide to believe they're all real (depending on which faction you side with), Faust calls Skif sn envoy of the Monolith which would make no sense.
I could go on for hours but you get the idea, everything seems off because it's not really happening. During Scar's ending and right before it you can see this play out in real time, Skif sees dead people, even talks to them in the cutscene and only then we see he is in fact a brain dead zombie sitting alone next to a muddy shack.
Besides, when you enter the room with the wish granter, you can interact with the silhouettes and see the visions of fake endings of SoC through Strelok's own eyes. Why does this happen when the events of the entire series are based on the destroy c-con ending of SoC being canon? Something's not right here. I know GSC fucks up more often than not but there's no way they trashed the lore this hard

>>531725236
I mean, it's generally understood that the crystal is the most powerful psy emitter and simply being in it's vicinity is enough to blow your brain up, let alone talking to it and asking for some wish to be fulfilled. Nothing implies Skif is somehow special or gifted to be able to tank the telepathic radiation from that ungodly thing

>>531723027
>the zone
>a place that is supposed to be a time capsule from the soviet era, but does not glorify them in any way
>the soviet symbols are surrounded by a destroyed environment, among ruins, in a (man made) hell on earth
>has always been part of the series' aesthetic
>it's le russian soviet nostalgia now

>>531726108
In their defense, it takes place in alternative history and they already retconed the shit out of the map which sucks a lot more in my opinion

>>531726108
This. The C-Con in SoC can also be taken as a metaphor for Soviet government ego.

>>531726568
>Soviet
You mean Russian. Like, sorry sweaty, but STALKER has always been a metaphor about how Russians have been trying to exterminate the poor heckin' Ukrainerinos.

>>531723027
They should also remove anomalies, artifacts, stalkers, and the zone itself since it's based on the russian soviet book. Friends, file a complaint about this garbage.

>>531725236
this. this is my headcanon from now on, the game unironically makes more sense now.
>Something's not right here. I know GSC fucks up more often than not but there's no way they trashed the lore this hard
unfortunately they did. not a single dev responsible for storywriting and worldbuilding worked on the trilogy, and they didn't have any dedicated lore guys to advise them. they relied on the russian wiki and even popular fan theories and assumptions.

>>531727153
I didn't take more time to write this theory out, I might do it later and other anons could add to it, but it's still not too late for the devs to unfuck this all with a dlc, it's lame to fix your mistakes with paid content but still better than leaving us with the soulless shit we have right now.
> didn't have any dedicated lore guys to advise them
I know and it's a shame, but I highly doubt nobody who worked there for the last 6-7 had any idea about the lore of the cult classic they're making a sequel on.
> even popular fan theories and assumptions.
Which reminds me of something, one thing I did notice, but it's more of a feeling since I can't exactly put a finger on it, is that S2 seems oddly similar to the true stalker mod if you remember it from a year or so ago. Something about Zalisiya looks too similar to Novoshepelichy from the mod. Either GSC drew inspiration from that mod or the people who made it had access to leaked content of S2 way before anyone else did.

>>531726108
The game didn't really lose its soviet aesthetics, when they got rid of some red stars and hammer-sickles in S2. You'd barely noticed their absence, if it weren't for the constant whining about muh censorship.
And you can thank russians for that, who use those same symbols today in their war, dreaming of creating USSR v2.0. No wonder people associate them with modern-day russian propaganda and don't want to see them in their games.
Also, I'm inclined to think the key reason for actually removing the mod from steam was the "using materials from the stolen builds" part, rather than bringing back the commie stars in general.

>>531729362
>No wonder people associate them with modern-day russian propaganda and don't want to see them in their games.
In which case GSC should eradicate any and all mentions, or even hints of the USSR existing. All the way down to Soviet architecture and government projects. The Zone is in Ukraine, not Russia, and if Soviet Union = Russia ever since 2022 then they should censor everything Soviet in the game.

Oh wait, that would also include the entire fucking game since the Zone wouldn't exist if not for the USSR being a thing. See why this censorship is so fucking retarded? GSC can't even decide how hard they want to go on the derussification despite their raging hard hateboner towards anything even remotely Russian related, and the same goes to their braindead fanbase.

Make up your mind, you either keep all the Soviet imagery as-is, as it is the fucking Zone, or you scrap STALKER altogether and you focus fully on Cossacks since that lets you circlejerk your Ukrainian patriotism all day all night long. But then no one in current day remembers GSC for Cossacks so that would kill their reactivation faster than whatever the fuck they're doing right now.

>>531728775
i'm still hoping that with some patch they will remove the notes about the past of clear sky and scar because it is one of the dumbest retcons.
>I highly doubt nobody who worked there for the last 6-7 had any idea about the lore of the cult classic they're making a sequel on.
yeah it seems obvious that they should be aware enough to recognize that some shit simply doesn't make sense and shouldn't be included in the game. it's almost as if they couldn't decide whether they were making a reboot or a proper sequel.
>Either GSC drew inspiration from that mod or the people who made it had access to leaked content of S2 way before anyone else did.
i haven't played true stalker, but it could be just a coincidence, both zalissya nad novoshepelychi are real locations after all. besides, s2 devs took some inspiration from the 2010 stalker 2 concept in which zalissya was supposed to be featured, true stalker devs could have done that as well.

Are there good tutorials for modelling/rigging ogf's on blender out there? Everything I could find was written 15 years ago and exclusively relies on Autodesk.

>>531729362
>Also, I'm inclined to think the key reason for actually removing the mod from steam was the "using materials from the stolen builds" part, rather than bringing back the commie stars in general.
Don't kid yourself, Ukrainians have been brainwashed into treating the USSR like Western Europeans do Nazi Germany, even though half the General Secretaries themselves were Ukrainian.

there is no such thing as "ukraine"
kiev was the historical capital of russia

>>531730062
I wonder if GSC would have even decided to make Stalker 2 if development wouldn't have started before the invasion/the invasion would began a few years earlier. In 2018-2021 they had nothing against Russians and were aware that they are their main community, but if it were otherwise, would the idea of making the sequel even be considered?

>>531729362
>I'm inclined to think the key reason for actually removing the mod
then you're a moron, because the same devs made an extra effort to remove the Soviet remains from the game out of spite, making the game worse for everyone, not just Russians

>>531730906
Well the fanbase managed to get them off the NFT fraud if you remember so the lore details could be influenced too. Though at this point I'm still hoping that they made something make sense as it was obvious we still have ways to go as far as story expansions are concerned.
Limansk, NPP are still to be visited and half of the accessible map seem like they have a lot of space for future missions to take place.
I still like my version better, the plot seems rushed and everything points to Skif just imagining being the main character in whatever's left of his brain

>>531725236
>literal "pokemon is the dream of ash's dying brain" tier slop
You should have made your fat ass burn those calories making the reddit account.
>>531733169
>MUH SOVISHIT SYBMOOOOOOLS
Go back to VK, Ivan. Nobody cares about or is buying your fake victim narrative.

>>531730062
>In which case GSC should eradicate any and all mentions, or even hints of the USSR existing. All the way down to Soviet architecture and government projects.
Are you being dumb on purpose or do you have reading comprehension issues? The problem is with the soviet symbols, not with the USSR existing. Modern russian propaganda uses red flags and muh WW2 circlejerk to glorify their landgrab, not commieblocks and soviet architecture.
>despite their raging hard hateboner towards anything even remotely Russian related
Which is why they left the russian text translation in the game? Wouldn't it make more sense to remove russian language alltogether, if they were as russophobic as you claim?
>>531731890
>Ukrainians have been brainwashed into treating the USSR like Western Europeans do Nazi Germany
I wish that were true. Would've solved so many issues.
>>531733169
They didn't. Soviet architecture, soviet statues, soviet posters are still in the game. Literally the only thing they did is remove soviet state symbols.
>making the game worse for everyone
I won't be able to see a hammer and sickle when walking through the ruins of a soviet city or exploring an abandoned soviet factory. Literally unplayable.

It's like the reverse fag flag dilemma.
>heh, why are you upset by the flag being there chuddy, just don't look at it
>okay then I'll mod it out
>nooo you can't mod it out I'll make sure your mod will disappear from the Internet

>heh, why are you upset by the lack of Soviet symbols zigger? everything is already soviet so look at that
>okay then i'll mod them in
>nooo you can't mod it in I'll make sure your mod will disappear from the Internet

Because apparently the core idea of modding, where you can add whatever the fuck you want, to your personal copy of the game, to make it like you want it to be, is problematic and you need other people to mandate what mods you can use and which ones are verboten.

>>531733981
The entire premise of stalker series is that a certain group of people researched weird shit that's related to human consciousness and developed technology that can at the very least make you retarded with the smallest amount of exposure. 5 of the 7 endings of the original game show exactly what you described happen to the protagonist before he dies.

>>531490639
Try some of this for your trannycock, anon!

Captcha: M0MNYT

>the nigger sauce posting retard is back
fuck off

How many copies has GAMMA sold, huh? That's what I thought. Grok lost.

Anybody know a script command to teleport the player to a different level? I'm trying to use "teleport_actor" in a config script but it's not working.

>>531740525
not even a million...

>>531734197
>Soviet architecture, soviet statues, soviet posters
would be funny if they tried to remove that as well. only an empty forest would be left. no buildings, no NPP, because all of that was built by the Soviets. might as well remove their whole country while they're at it

>>531744017
>would be funny if this ridiculous thing I made up happened
Yeah, I bet.
>all of that was built by the Soviets. might as well remove their whole country while they're at it
You should go further and say it were the Soviets, who created Poland, Hungary, the entire Eastern Europe and half of Germany as well. Have you seen how many commieblocks there are?

>>531747314
Why justify a country that closed its citizens access to the entire world? You probably also justify the DPRK?

>>531734617
>t
Monolith brainwashing, which occurs with the monolith not shutting off seconds into the situation, doesn't fabricate "adventure time is finn's brain dreaming while he dies" scenarios that last days. The story doesn't even play out the way you're claiming. It seems "less cohesive" or whatever past SIRCAA because up up through then, you were just going through a small section of the world unless you went out of your way to hit up fringes like Rostok as soon as you were let out of Lesser Zone. After SIRCAA, the quest takes you all over the place, including the far depths of Burnt Forest which otherwise goes unused outside of exploration.

>>531491283
You had to remind me didn't you. The fate of /ourlion/ is the perfect real life illustration of what modding has done to Stalker. It's 2025 and we're caught in the middle between Unhanced Editions, a clueless sequel and freeplay abominations. Thief got The Dark Mod. Maybe, one day, we'll get something similar.
t. uninstalled Curved Road after the 15th pointless fetch quest

vanilla stalker had the following animations:
weapon reloading
switching to underbarrel grenade launcher
getting out a weapon
running/walking
aiming

so what's the problem with the animations for picking up items, searching corpses, opening a backpack, skinning mutants, using first aid kits and food, which
were added to gunslinger/anomaly packs?

also stalker had a stamina, bleeding and radiation systems
so what's the problem with adding a cold and disease simulation?


there must be some kind of sequence. either we make realism/immersive maxxxing, or we add free telekinetic and telepathic artifacts and an ar/vr helmet, which sidorovich gives out right at the beginning of the game

Clear Sky, Call of Prypiat and Stalker 2 never happened. The events of those games are all just delirious hallucinations of Marked One's dying brain, while he's getting crushed by falling rubble in front of the Wish Granter.

chat give me your unfiltered opinion about Stalker 2
did it get any better with all these big patches

>>531723027

>>531739032
Have you even tried the sauce yet, anon?

>>531527927

>>531723412
>pbr
>intended for use with remix
>pls gib moni huehue

>>531754145
>download model files
>install chaiNNer/ComfyUI (also works on AMD/Intel)
>set up a basic model image upscale workflow
>use the "1x-PBRify_NormalV3.pth" model for upscaling
>put in source texture
>run the workflow
>free normal map
Sorry for trying to be helpful, do keep being intentionally obtuse and contrarian as moot has always wanted this site to be and definitely didn't get sick of it years before selling it off to hirohito because he was sick of it.

>>531730062
>the Zone wouldn't exist if not for the USSR being a thing.
It would have

>>531755935
>the fictional location created by Soviet bookwriters that's set in a exclusion zone established by the Soviets after a Soviet nuclear reactor exploded and Soviets evacuated Soviets from the Soviet built city would still exist if the USSR didn't exist because Slava Ukraini death to Russia
That is some industrial grade copium being huffed by the tonne, holy fuck.

>>531752360
Unironocally, COP easily could have not happened and nothing regarding the story would be changed.
Literally nothing important happens during the entire game, you just arrive to figure out what the fuck happened to the helicopters even though you've already seen exactly what happened at the end of Shadow of Chernobyl, and then you get the fuck out of there.
I still don't see what made cop memorable or important

>>531756835
big maps, better balance, less bugs, less shitty corridor shooting and scripted moments, just pure stalker sandbox gameplay with just enough story to keep moving you forward

CoP is the most stable but it feels like a STALKER spin-off sometimes.

>>531741996
600,000 and more coming!

>>531731265
get the program and toold and start figuring it out.
https://igigog.github.io/anomaly-modding-book/modding-tools/blender/blender-x-ray-addon-summary.html

>>531757056
The only gameplay improvement was the upgrade system which CS already had anyway, by all other metrics, SOC was better
>>531757186
It's just like a freeplay mod with new maps which all suck except some parts of Jupiter

So is there any actual mods for stalker 2 yet?

>>531488103
Played it, thinks it sucks as a stalker mod, tedious and boring and retarded and it looks ugly as fuck, I prefer simple gamedata drag and drop for one kino mod over 200 gb of 500 moddb mods

>>531756835
the ending of the story, with strelok wanting to help the government, set the foundation for stalker 2, sircaa was a major element in the 2010 storyline. cop also showed the consequences of the brain scorcher being shut down - stalkers moved north en masse, they began to explore new territories and establish new camps, and this setting allowed for the introduction of many new characters with interesting side stories. side quests are the most memorable parts of degtyarev's story.

>>531757557
The upgrade system is a gameplay downgrade as it heavily disincentivises you from switching weapons often. You're best off just sticking to one single weapon you have upgraded.

>>531756474
>Calculus creates the c-consciousness
Rastapopolous could be sidorovitch

>>531577552
I felt ashamed the moment I went past the refund time limit on stalker 2, what a complete piece of shit that game was lol

>>531757602
>So is there any actual mods for stalker 2 yet?
I doubt anyone has finished installing the modkit yet

>>531757724
> sircaa aets up shop in the zone
> Strelok knocks on the front door or calls them, says hey guys I know a fuckton about the zone and can help you out
There, done, military evacuation of strelok easily bypassed
> cop also showed the consequences of the brain scorcher being shut down - stalkers moved north en masse
Sort of, yeah. Shame we didn't see the original locations for comparison and all the people in the new ones seemed like they were there since forever
> side quests are the most memorable parts of degtyarev's story
The only good thing it has on soc, but just because fetch quests from the previous game were lame just like they're lame in general so the bar was low
>>531757813
Not being able to at least repair guns sucked, some especially the unique ones were well effective into the endgame like 5.45 thunder

>>531754576
its pbr

>>531757557
soc has limited scope, dated graphics (by 2010 standards), and is nightmareish to actually try to play if you don't have some severe form of autism,
cop justwerks

CoP is the best game in the series.

>>531757186
cop has the most polished gameplay loop with each map having a central base where you return to sell findings and restock.
this is what inspired Escape from Shovelware Dogshit Blyat.

however yeah the locations could use some work. ShoC maps were kinda better.

>>531754576
wasnt trying to be "intentionally obtuse and contrarian" anon

>>531757813
How is that a good thing in any way? There's nothing stopping you from using base weapons in cop and/or switching them out for new ones.
The only balancing issue I found with cop was the preloaded stashes and how quickly you could find high grade gear, which then made no reason for you to even use cheaper guns like AKs, which are notoriously underpowered in these games. Then again it's a common FPS trope, just like the ridiculously short ranged shotgun

>>531758942
It generates normals

>>531756416
yes it would have been called something else.

>>531759515
they have normals
>>531648758

I think some confusion is going on here

>>531759407
That's the thing, the AK74 is better than the late game weapons if upgraded and those weapons — not.
And the fact that you can just buy an end game assault rifle from Nimble on the cheap incentivises you to buy the Groza 5.45, upgrade it and keep using it until Pripyat and beyond.
Same with armor, really bad until you upgrade it, but you don't have enough money to upgrade all your armor, which effectively makes the light Freedom and Duty suits not worth using, ever. The game already has very few armors and that makes it effectively have even fewer.

>>531758806
>sircaa aets up shop in the zone
well the whole idea was that the government decided to create sircaa because they finally started to understand something about the zone thanks to strelok's insight. they tried to take over the cnpp multiple times but failed, they haven't found any significant documents or anything that would help them understand what the fuck zone is, why is it here, how does it work. and this lasted for 6 years. if it weren't for strelok, then the government would only learn from degtyarev that there were some strange experiments with some strange psi-energy, that there are gauss rifles, and that's all.
and then, suddenly, this random fucker shows up, and he knows who was behind the creation of the zone (he killed them btw), knows how the psi-installations work (he turned off the most important ones btw), knows where most of the secret labs are located (he explored every single one of them btw), and probably more, we don't exactly know what he was up to before contacting the military in pripyat.

so if it weren't for him, sircaa wouldn't exist, because the government wouldn't know how to start properly researching the zone, scientists like sakharov only fucked around with artifacts, anomalies and mutants, but they had no idea where it all came from.

>>531759976
>making decisions based on stats
>not using what looks cool
do stalkers really

>>531759008
It came out in 2007 after years of delays (just like S2 lol) so it's more of a 2003 game, the only thing is that gun and character models are ugly, everything else looks fine
And as for difficulty, the first 2 levels are hard as fuck if you don't know what you're doing, rest of the game has good gear progression in your favor especially if you learn how to shoot and take cover
>>531760597
And if we're to take S2 plot as canon, Kaymanov, the dude who made the zone in the first place was still alive and he could have told them everything as well.
I just hate how strelok was portrayed in S2, they turned him into an asshole faggot who backstabs his closest friends because of his schizophrenia

>>531759407
>high grade gear
COP set up the gear and upgrade system so, barring shitty double barrel shotguns because there really is only so much you can do with them without going so nuts you make REBORN and OP2.2 devs look sane, every gun is more or less equally viable at any point. Finding an L85 right next to one of the boats definitely doesn't make the progression "trivial".

>>531759515
interesting, thanks

>>531759407
Making AKs in games inaccurate is just as retarded as making M16s unreliable. Both rifles kick ass and have legendary status with AK being slightly better because of the simpler design and more rugged parts.

>>531761661
You can find an SVD, VSS, AN94 and a deagle just by walking around the first map for 10 minutes. By the time you reach the second map, which can be done almost immediately, you can find end game gear in preloaded stashes in several minutes as well.

is the VSS better than the SVD?!

>>531761225
>And if we're to take S2 plot as canon then _____ doesn't make sense
and that's why we do not take it as canon.

>>531763595
We shouldn't take S2 as canon at least until we get the limansk and power plant dlcs.

>>531763589
In vanilla? Yes.
In mods that up its retardedly slow rate of fire from vanilla? Depends on what you want.

>>531763868
> at least until we get the limansk and power plant dlcs
just wait until they ""enrich"" the lore even further by stating that sidorovich is a c-consciousness agent and mercs work for mossad or something like that.

>>531764540
>sidorovich is a c-consciousness
oh nononono

>>531764827
i believe that it's supposed to show that sircaa now has control/surveillance over everyone in the zone/world(?), just like they have it over skif. i choose not to believe that some tard at gsc decided to canonically turn sidorovich into a c-con agent, they cannot be that rertarded, i don't want to believe in that.

>>531764019
alright

>>531752302
>so what's the problem with the animations for picking up items, searching corpses, opening a backpack, skinning mutants, using first aid kits and food
it slows down the game and isnt fun
>so what's the problem with adding a cold and disease simulation?
it slows down the game and isnt fun
hope this helps

>>531767034
*for me
ftfy
hope this helps

>>531764827
To be honest after seeing the PDAs in the Doctor ending I don't think it'd be far-fetched to assume that any noteworthy stalker you've met whose origins aren't confirmed by others could possibly be a c-con sleeper agent. Though that could be part of Faust being a trickster and doing some sort of fourth-wall gaslighting.

>>531768571
I fucking hate Faust and most of the C-Con plot from S2 so much

>>531764827
>>531768571
GSC really looked at fucking fallout 4 and decided they wanted to copy it's retarded "anyone could be fake" shit despite the fact that the C-con hasn't existed since the very first game

>>531768571
That doesn't make any sense as >>531765121 said
I mean the entire plot of the series starts with Sid buying off bodies from death trucks trying to figure out what the hell are they and where they're coming from

>>531764540
Tbh it would be dumb to assume that mercs or ward aren't working for mossad at this point

>>531733981
I drove by The Raped club and everybody knew you there

>>531764827
>>531768571
>>531769279
>>531769363
>4 (four!) people
Did you miss the fact that Skif also could be monitored through c-con? The ending is literally called BRAVE NEW WORLD, you cannot be any more obvious with the implications.
GSC definitely overestimated IQ of its playerbase when making S2 plot.

>>531765121
In that ending you basically do what ccon wanted to do in 2006, long before the events of the games took place so yeah
God I hate S2 endings they're so retarded
>>531769363
You know what I hate even more than that? The muh no good outcomes shit all the mainstream vidya does.
In SoC we had a clear cut good ending, the rest of them were just for keks. And they even managed to make the fake, bad endings interesting

>>531772014

>>531771393

So what the fuck happens in Kaymanov ending? How is Faust suddenly alive and kicking and why does the zone spread to the rest of the world? Why did kaymanov become streloks friend in the first place if he was the one who caused all this to happen, did he grow a conscience?

>>531759575
It would be called oblivion lost set in Crimea with alot more of the sci-fi intact

>>531773289
>and why does the zone spread to the rest of the world?
Because that's what Zone wanted. It didn't want to be contained, it wanted to become free. As for Faust it's clearly a sequel bait. I don't think GSC have an explanation, they just leave it for the future writers to explain.

S2 should've had a 5th ending where you leave/blow up the pods. Call it "Status Quo"

>>531774060
But that would make the sequels placed in other parts of the world which is retarded because stalker dna is Chernobyl exclusion zone

>>531774060
Kek I remember for all these years how you couldn't read anything about stalker without seeing someone mention how zone isn't spreading and how it's a myth, then in first 5 seconds of S2 you see main character's apartment getting blown up by an anomaly outside of the zone.
Duty was right all along and based GSC made that canon.

>>531729362
Get to the trenches hohol

Did another cool thing for Chernobyl Freeplay. The bandit trader can give you drug packages which you can deliver to certain NPCs in the Zone for cash. A good feature to spice up the bandit gameplay a bit.

>>531779149
Neat

>>531779149
When are you expecting to drop CF? I could do with some vanilla graphics and UI after I am done with Radiophobia 3

>>531779149
why aren't you making those mods for Anomaly? a lot more people play it and the effort would probably be the same. Grok might even steal your addon for Gamma

>>531779149
>now fuck off
He doesn't need to be rude. He's not your dad.

>>531779831
Anomaly = homosexual

>>531780760
>Anomaly = homosexual
Best base for modding right now and you stinks.

>>531781090
Just because I replied to you did not presume I needed to hear your irrelevant thoughts on my post.

Time to admit that gamma is better than STALKER 2.

>>531781245
>= homosexual
very relevant take

>>531780063
The bandits are generally rough around the edges to give the faction more character but they're not all assholes.

>>531779658
I'd say in a few months.

>>531779831
I actually made a few addons for Anomaly back in the day when I used to play it but I lost interest in the Misery-ish grind and hard difficulty. SoC needs a good freeplay mod.

>>531781851
you seem to think so

Looking foward to your next CF release, I really love vanilla SoC style looks in general

guys I was just playing shadow of chernobyl....
and I just saw a red star on a helicopter in the red forest
did putin make this game?

>>531782093
>I lost interest in the Misery-ish grind
maybe someone ports your addon. I can't enjoy freeplay without the thrill of losing everything

>>531777729
get to the trenches fodder piggy

>>531782607
yeah.... you better refund if you don't want to be branded as a support of dictatorships...

>>531771393
>>531772360
>this is what passes for an epic own to gen alpha

>>531779831
>modding abobaly, cuz its popular
boring, anons should mod whatever platform they like to. Also its not like anon could port his mod to IX-Ray, since it will also support SoC and CS in the future, unless it‘ll work out of the box wiith it

>>531782963
I agree with you there. I am hoping to add an optional ironman mode to CF. Hopefully it's possible through a script.

>>531783773
>no refutation of being raped by his gay uncle as a child

>An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity, a physicist tries to make it simple, for an idiot anything the more complicated it is the more he will admire it, if you make something so clusterfucked he can't understand it he's gonna think you're a god cause you made it so complicated nobody can understand it. That's how they write journals in Academics, they try to make it so complicated people think you're a genius

who are you quoting

>>531785601
reddit is down the hall and to the left, incel

I like drawing and holstering a weapon in front of a non-hostile stalker over and over so he keeps playing his put your gun away animation.

>>531787376

Real operator right here

>>531790278
Fighting with S.T.Y.L.E.

>>531790278
dudes just protecting his sativa plant bro

>>531793727
Do you think growing weed in the Zone would mutate it or something?

>>531794258
I would hope not, smoking that shit and freaking the fuck out is not a good thing.

>>531794258
>smoke mutated zone sative
>become controller for 2 minutes and 5 seconds
>accidentally explode your own brain

RIPeroni

>>531780760
On opposite day

Meanwhile, on bizarro /sg/...

>>531662708
man, this nigga didn't even thank you?

This horror shooter FAKES it survival

>>531806436
I love GAMMA

>>531806436
OP 2.2 is a good mod and not bloated slop

>>531806436
man remember all those haters when S2 came out? stayed up all night on launch day and still sinking hours into this masterpiece. but I wish the Faust fight was harder.

>>531806436
Clear Sky was the best entry of the original trilogy and factions wars was the best part
They should've added some game mechanic to slow Scar down, maybe rob him like 6 times?

So gamma has TAA finally
And also S2 style interactable hud dots?

>>531812596
Russian cigarettes...
You didn't see Russian cigarettes. You didn't.
Those were Ukrainian, right?

>>531806631
ikr what a total dick

>>531800931
you giggle when old gay men hit on you

>>531812596
>taa finally
>literally the cancer of gaming and most hated post processing of all time

>>531812596
>gamma stole this now
k

>>531800931
Based

>>531815849
Well it's better than the "nothing" that gamma previously had.

Generators

>>531782093
https://www.moddb.com/mods/xianis-freeplay-start-uber-edition
is this the latest version of chernobyl freeplay? btw i love you can't wait to play the new version

>>531592012
>An anon in here also helped me with a lot of stuff, like merging a repair kit mod into my mod. I'm very grateful for his help.

sup breh
its cool you're still working on that
good luck

They kept the same psy voices through all the games, which means 4 different people heard the same auditory hallucinations. Usually this doesn't happen for schizos or people with brain damage, so it makes me wonder what exactly are we hearing when standing near emitters or a controller

>>531493651
I got me one of those thank you butiful madam but I shall not redeem.

>>531832964
>reused assets? noooo Grigory is just a galaxy brain and hid this secret for nearly 2 decades
Come on anon, really?

>>531775717
>without seeing someone mention how zone isn't spreading and how it's a myth
because that was a retarded argument used for defending duty and fueling dumb discussions about the fact that in stalker 2 the zone will cover the entire territory of ukraine since it is expanding.
>then in first 5 seconds of S2 you see main character's apartment getting blown up by an anomaly outside of the zone.
but that happened due to the failed experiment at sircaa. the zone didn't expand on its own from the times preceding the trilogy by years.

>>531662708
Anon, you have my deepest gratitude. Using your example I was able to figure my way around a) tarkov's textures and b) GIMP. I have successfully established a workflow for getting these things done properly. And regarding .thm files...you blew my mind with that. I have to go back and check a few things I thought were finished. Thank you for the wisdom.

>>531695719
>>531723412
Thank you for the suggestions, but I really don't have the baseline understanding required to use these sorts of tools. And, the source for normal maps is already provided, I just didn't know how to rework them into a usable state.

>>531731265
Check this guy's channel, he is the author of the xray-blender addon. He has playlists specifically on using blender for stalker. Use translate if you cannot into vodka.
https://www.youtube.com/@PavelBlend

>>531806631
>>531814474
Hey, buddy.
1, I am not a nigger.
2, Fuck you.

>>531832964
>controller
Don't controllers have their own psy noise, when you're around them, which is just moaning and wailing? Or was it just in SoC?
>it makes me wonder what exactly are we hearing when standing near emitters
The actual voices seem to be just pre-CoP Monolith combat voicelines with a bunch of sound effects slapped on top.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONmJpAllgsw&t=18s
You can somewhat hear them here starting from 0:18, going:
Bcё, oн гoтoв! (enemy_down_3.ogg)
PAЗMOЛOTИM! (attack_5.ogg)
Bcё, дoпpыгaлcя! (enemy_down_4.ogg)
У-y, мaть вaшy! (attack_6.ogg)
Hy, кaк я eгo? (enemy_down_5.ogg)
Baли eгo! (attack_one_1.ogg)
Зaвaлил! (enemy_down_6.ogg)

You can go to sounds/characters_voice/human_01/monolith/fight in SoC or CS files and compare.
I don't think the devs had some deeper meaning for it in mind, other than just being a spooky noise, but if you want to make up theories, you can assume it's the Wish Granter relaying commands to the Monolithians.

>>531774745
>Chernobyl exclusion zone
it's chornobyl sweetie. anyway, speaking of this topic, here's the map of new anomalous zones from skif's ending. where do we go next, if gsc will decide to turn stalker into a ubisoft franchise?

>>531849509
maybe one of the ones in canada, ya know the obvious choice.

>>531849509
>No dot on Fukushima
There goes any chance for S.U.T.Ō.K.Ā.

more news at 11

>>531849509
>dot on poland
they could reuse a lot of assets with that one

>>531731265
One more thing I forgot to mention, you need to use an older version of blender for the xray-blender addon to function. I use 3.3, but according to comments you can use up to 3.5. Other functionalities may require an even older version, check the comments on pavel blend's videos for some useful info.

Also worth noting, exporting as ogf is apparently entirely broken. You will have to export as object, then use object tool to export as ogf. Check the mods, merges, and resources link in the OP to find object and ogf tools, handy applications.

>>531853524
I remember when I had a dream of remaking a kino place (large sanatorium in the south, with swamps in the middle and a oil terminal as well as waste treatment plant in the north with tons of abandoned stuff scattered all over like collective farms) from my post soviet cunt but when I opened the map making tutorials where you need a masters degree in computer science and be a monastic orthodox priest at the same time I gave up.

>>531853524
>exporting as ogf is apparently entirely broken.
Still in the latest version? I managed to export an ogf and reimport it into Blender and it looks intact so I assumed the ogf exporter works fine. Haven't checked what it looks like in the actual game yet though.

>>531857484
I should clarify that I am not an expert. In fact, I am a bit retarded. All of my attempts at exporting an ogf straight from blender failed. What programs and versions are you using? Could be that my xray- blender is out of date.

>>531859127
Blender 3.5 with the most recent X-Ray plugin

Does anyone know where this red question mark texture is located in the game files?

>>531824948
Freeplay Start is a different mod from mine, made by UberMedic. He made a handful of his own versions of Xiani's Freeplay. UberMedic is a cool dude, he held on to the OG versions of Xiani's Freeplay and made them available on ModDB.

>https://www.moddb.com/mods/chernobyl-freeplay
This is the latest version of CF but it's buggy as fuck so I don't really recommend it.

>>531812596
>new update makes high tier artifacts even more expensive and difficult to get
>tier4 crafting recepie is a RNG drop now like exo repair kit
>artifacs were ass in the first place apart from armor cap

Why is he like this?

>>531859737
gamedata\textures\ui\ui_common.dds

Do women belong in the Zone?

>>531861251
Yes, as rape toys chained up in basements

>>531860846
Thank you very much.

>>531861251
>do women belong in a literal hell-on-earth lawless place filled with deadly traps and ruthless, armed criminals/lunatics/other misfits, which they would have to enter voluntarily?
no, for logical, narrative and aesthetic reasons. it was even emphasized in some dialogues and voice lines in the trilogy.

>>531849509
Australian outback, retvrn to classic Fallout. Northern Canada/Greenland could also be cool since I always wanted to see a more desolate Zone

>>531849054
>I really don't have the baseline understanding required to use these sorts of tools
PBRify is pretty trivial to use. It's all in the readme, including a graphical guide on how to load the models into the included chaiNNer workflow. After that you just load the files you want to process, hit play and let 'er rip.

It's not difficult to create your own workflow either, here's a simple one I just whipped up for demonstration. It'll do the 4x upscale with the 4x-PBRify-UpscalerV4 model and then downscale it back to the original size just for the artifact removal, and then it'll throw that through the normal generation model. Doesn't take transparency into account or anything fancy like that.

Trust me when I say this isn't hard. Unreal relies on nodes because they're so retard proof. Blender relies on nodes and you can easily do insane shit with them. It's very easy to figure out how it works. It just does ML magic on images based on the specific purpose of a selected model. The PBRify upscaler ups the res by a factor of 4 on top of cleaning up compression artifacts, and the normal model, well, generates normals. That's all you need to know, the next paradigm in game dev tools that has started back in the late 2010's before everyone was kvetching about AI.

https://files.catbox.moe/98ywcm.chn

>>531849408
>I don't think the devs had some deeper meaning for it in mind, other than just being a spooky noise
I agree. Plus the original psi hallucination sounds are great so why change them?

>>531849509
An Atomfall tie-in

Hi does anyone have the silly nlc pda screenshot with text something like "if mommy was a boy he would be daddy"

I’ve played many mods over the years and anomaly is the best I’ve played. So what makes gamma better or even different from anomaly?

>>531859737
>>531860846
LOL

>>531877904
Explain to the folks in the thread why you think anomaly is the best one.

>>531877904
Gamma just gives you the ability to experience real survival

>>531877904
gamma doesn't fake survival. and it's mind blowing to the point of causing pogfaces.

did you know that its free

>>531878412
>>531879360
Literally gamma broken

>the nigger sauce posting retard will arrive in 10, 9, 8...

>>531879724
just report and don't give the attention starved faggot any (You)'s

>>531849408
The original psy voices with the brain scorcher hum sound so cool, I used to listen to it before falling asleep

>>531880114
>I used to listen to it before falling asleep
you are become to zombie!!

evening in the zone

>>531881926
Turn that mask overlay shit off, for the love of god.

it's up

>>531882730
the last time it was a different ai slop picture

>>531882656
the overlay is off when it makes sense

>>531885624
It never makes sense because the mouth part is always seperate from the eye part even in the cheapest soviet gas masks.
And regardless of realism it just looks bad.

>game has been out for half a year
>skif still embarrassingly dies when he falls 14 feet
why is he such a limp legged faggot

>>531892753
he also survives much more traumatic and serious impacts in cutscenes
this game is so scuffed

>>531772014
the high IQ move is to alt tab when faust is on screen and talking his faggot talk

>>531888053
wat

>>531895193
first day in /sg/?

>>531895515
are they just pretending to be retarded for worthless (you)'s?

>>531895739
>pretending

>>531779149
>>531782093
>schedule 1: zone edition

>>531895193
I believe that >>531888053 is referring to the fact that the mask overlay is accompanied by a fogging effect on the bottom of the visor, or at least that was the case when I played Anomaly years ago, and that it doesn't make sense, because the air exhaled through the mouth, which could cause this fogging, does not come into contact with the visor part of the mask.

>>531895193
Are you retarded? I just opened the thread and understood him completely, just as >>531897005 had outlined it.
>>531895739
It's really ironic you're accusing others of pretending to be retarded when you're the only one here who could be suspect of that.

>gamma has a tutorial now
i can finally play stalker.

Texturewizard-anons, is there any treatment I can give to these to reduce aliasing? Reducing bump height did not seem to do anything (or maybe the increments I was using were too small. I took it from 0.05 to 0.03 with no noticeable effect).

Also, is there a way to have a config file call for a custom dds when assigning inventory icons? I would like to proof my work against the upcoming IWP patch by having the guns I am adding on their own dds instead of the default ui_equipment.

>>531866781
Thanks for the explanation. I'll keep this in my back pocket.

>>531898502
This is usually solved via mipmaps.
No idea how stalker handles it, there must be some "mipmap bias" setting involved.
Depending on what texture tool you use it should auto generate them, I know the intel photoshop dss plugin does.

>>531898837
I see. IWP has a global setting for this, if I recall correctly it's labeled texture sharpness, but it will apply to all textures instead of just these.

Mipmaps were automatically generated, for the texture itself via GIMP and for the bump and normal maps via the CoP SDK. Am I looking for a lower or higher bias?

>>531899494
The higher you set it the blurrier the texture gets

>>531849054
>Anon, you have my deepest gratitude.
no problem anon.

I also wanted to mention that I'm pretty sure that you don't need the normal.dds or the reference to it in the bump.thm.
the sdk does this, but I don't think it gets used in game.

>>531849054
>Anon, you have my deepest gratitude.
no problem anon.

I also wanted to mention that I'm pretty sure that you don't need the normal.dds or the reference to it in the bump.thm.
the sdk does this, but I don't think it gets used in game.

glad you have a proper workflow worked out.
your addon will be welcomed by all. good luck

>>531898502
I would say with patterns that small there will be some natural distortion from a distance.
removing mipmaps from texture and bump might help?
no idea if just editing the .thm's to not use mipmap would be enough.

>Also, is there a way to have a config file call for a custom dds when assigning inventory icons? I would like to proof my work against the upcoming IWP patch by having the guns I am adding on their own dds instead of the default ui_equipment.

I know newer version of the anomaly engine allow for the use of
icons_texture = ui\ui_icons_svdnew in the main section, not hud section

no idea if IWP allows for that or not
maybe their new update would include such features?

IWP really arms the monolith soldiers to the teeth that come to kill you when you turn off the brain scorcher and I very much appreciate that

>>531907823
Does it really matter when a basic AK kills you in 2 shots even when you wear the heaviest armour?

>>531908365
try an artefact or 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as7YB0ePs2M
what went wrong?

>>531909428
they started listening to retards who never played the trilogy
generally catering to gibs me dats retarded fuckheads is an awful idea
take this comment with a grain of salt and tears

>>531908876
I did. See those two green balls? They're Monoliths — lvl 4 artifacts focused on combat. Still whenever I got into a gunfight a single hit left me bleeding and at 30% hp.
I'm thinking IWP was one of those mods that just wasn't meant to be always played at Master like vanilla but instead follows a normal vidya game progression where medium (stalker) is the intended difficulty.

>>531909428
>what went wrong?
UE5 with lies of A-Life """2.0"""

>>531910064
>the heaviest armor

>>531910281
Yes, play the mod. The merc suit is retardedly good in IWP.
That armor and helmet combo is as good at stopping bullets as a normal exosuit. Then you add the artifacts I pictured and it becomes significantly better than the PSZ-9d (the best armor in vanilla).

>>531910082
play the games

>>531909428
>monolol gives up less than a minute after seeing his dead friend
>loudly jumping does nothing
Crazy how stealth in games has massively devolved from games like the original Thief

>>531911154
Brown spotted

They came charging at me side by side and were together even in death.

>>531912427
irony
the post

>>531912579
It would be less pathetic if you were actually paid by GSC to reply to me but the fact that you're just a retarded faggot that has to jump in when someone criticizes how bad UE5 is might be a little funny at least

>>531912427
What the FUCK is this post?
You're in the general for a niche 15 year old game and you somehow thing the person you're replying to is not European/American?
Is this general really this overran with /v/iggers? I leave for 1 (one) year and come back to this fucking cesspool.

>>531912853
its pathetic that you don't know what you're talking about at all and are just parroting shit, because you're a retarded gorilla nigger
yes, you're correct.

>>531913282
dude, its been horrible since gamma and the release of S2
absolute shitstorm of dribbling retards and their faggotry.

>>531913495
Calm your breathing before your BPM starts skyrocketing and you get short of breath, browning out, etc

>>531914212
I really don't get what compels these niggers to take part in a tiny dead general on /vg/. Just stick to your /vee/ ragebait threads where people pretend to be "leftists" for (you)s.

STALKER 2 can't even handle the same amount of NPC's in the same radius as X-Ray's maps were and has to spawn them right in front of you. At the fucking minimum the active NPC simulation radius should be that of X-Ray maps, but no, GSC somehow couldn't achieve that in a much more powerful engine that just so happens to power Fortnite which handles multiple players on a massive map simultaneously.

All of the A-Life 2.0 talk is moot once you realize S2's core NPC system isn't even fit for basic gunfights.

>>531914678
>saying UE5 and A-Life 2.0 are woefully equipped to make the game fun is pretending to be a leftist
why is a 14 year old telling me to play the games lol

>>531915115
That's not what I'm saying, nigger.
I'm just wondering why people (and I use the term loosely) would suddenly remember our little general exists when S2 comes out when /v/ exists and can house all of their horseshit opinions.

>>531915392
So you're still not actually explaining why me saying what I said necessitates your sperging, chimp nigger tier response. Are you actually so insanely chimp niggerish you can't handle someone even benignly replying to a stalker 2 video? You have to actually be some kind of false flagging shill or something

>>531915648
Jesse what the FUCK are you talking about? What stalker 2 video? What false flagging?

>>531915810
I hope you're not some turbo retarded chimp nigger that started replying without actually reading or interacting with any of the posts. So much for being so high and above "/v/tards" when you can't even navigate more than 15 posts without being an ankle biting homosexual

>>531916010
Well call me a turbo retarded chimp nigger because that's just what I did.
I saw a post so retarded I just had to reply. Who the fuck thinks this tiny general would be visited by a non-white? I suppose if you count Russians as non-whites, but then again they have their own thread on Dvach.

>>531916303
You need to be euthanized for your reddit tier sperg out

>>531916303
Can you stop feeding the /v/ermin? Let them suffer in crippling loneliness until they can finally return to some level of socializing once they're back in school.

>>531916365
ironic...

>>531916462
hi stalker2news

>>531916462
I'd bop him one, but it's of no use.
They'll just feed themselves in a retarded loop. The general will fix itself eventually.

>>531911929
Not trying to defend S2 but games like Thief and Splinter Cell were designed with stealth mechanics as the main feature of the game.

I don't recall combat in Thief being good and it certainly wasn't in SC, but gun aiming was intentionally hard as it was meant to be used as a last resort, assault loadouts be damned.

>>531911929
>>531916741
Go back to /v/ you /v/ermin

>>531916740
I can't remember which character said that but I've seen it mentioned on /sg/ many times

>>531917629
/v/ermin post

>>531917629
Wolf says that if you choose the belligerent option in one of the dialogues.
>>531917762
Ironic...

>>531917893
gb2/v/

>>531917118
>>531917762
>>531918024

>>531918109
>/v/ coded reaction image

its crazy how faggots think this place is some secret hidden club

>>531918831
uh, ok /v/ermin, don't let me catch you criticizing stalker 2 or making fun of me again

we hate anomaly, play the trilogy
simple as

>>531919162
/v/ermin post, you should play the games

I play both the trilogy and gamma

>>531919282
This but Anomaly instead of Gayma

>>531919282
/v/ermin post, leave my secret aryan thread alone, you belong on /v/ or reddit, incel

>>531919608
we're all incels here buddy thats what separates us from the redditors/vermins

>>531919714
wrong incel, jews made anti-woke the new thing

how's the gamma update? better than stalker 2 1.5.1?

>>531920024
aryans do not play stalker 2

Everyone shut the fuck up I am trying to mod.

>>531899997
>>531906030
I think this USP rear sight is just cursed. I will instead edit the texture and bump to be flat instead of grooved. The MP5SD handguard will just have to remain funky, I don't want to mess with that texture.
>icons_texture
Unfortunately did not work. Will anything break if I expand the default ui dds to a larger resolution? I will try in any case.

>>531905016
Things are coming along. When I gave my first ETA I vastly underestimated the amount of a) knowledge I lack and b) tidying up I need to do.

>>531921028
aryans play IWP

>>531916303
Post hand and stamp fellow white

do japanese play iwp

>>531914638
>implying
ya bore me

>>531926771
/v/ermin post

>>531915648
>>531915810
he thinks you're me.
because they're mentally retarded and cannot fathom more than one poster exists.
everyone they reply to is the same person
see? it says Anonymous right there.

>>531921028
>Will anything break if I expand the default ui dds to a larger resolution? I will try in any case.

it won't as long as you keep it square 2048x2048 , power of 2, etc
but any future updates from IWP that also change that will then conflict with your edits.

>>531926970
hey, sorry /v/ermin, but you're not tricking any of the well bred and intelligent aryans here including me

>>531930482

>>531930941
thank you for the (You) my /v/incel friend

How the fuck can 9.2% beer be actually tasty wtf

probably the same way 13% wine can be tasty
me, i'm a big fan of porter

>>531933261
Porter is exactly what I'm drinking rn

>>531934478
try okocim or amber next time

>>531648758

>_bump and _bump#?

People mostly ignore Bump#. They contain the compression errors that result of converting a clean normal map (purple) to an xray bump compressed in dtx3/5.

Unfortunately for you, those can only be done by processing the textures in the sdk.

When you work with from the original normals in high enough resoltion it's not as important, but there will always a loss in the Y normal (stored in the green channel of the bump) when converting to dds.

1.5 hours assaulting the brain scorcher. 6 companions dead, AK-12 ruined, 600 rounds of 5.45 spent. the most bullshit part of Anomaly on ironman

>>531849509

Vamos Argentina, carajo.

>>531927368
Mama mia, that's going to be a big file for just adding a handful of guns. As for compatibility, I am hoping that by scaling it larger and using spaces far from the main roster I can just paste it over any new official or modded ui dds, instead of playing texture tetris and trying to eyeball new coordinates to plug into configs.

>>531936108
Thankfully, with the help of anon and youtube I managed to bend the SDK image editor to my will. Working with textures has been difficult but engaging.
I still wouldn't be able to tell the difference between having the bump# or not, but I am trying to make this as polished as possible so I am making the effort to include them.

>>531936226
Is this True Stalker?

>>531939049
>Is this True Stalker?
that's Definitive Stalker

>>531939049
>Mama mia, that's going to be a big file for just adding a handful of guns. As for compatibility, I am hoping that by scaling it larger and using spaces far from the main roster I can just paste it over any new official or modded ui dds, instead of playing texture tetris and trying to eyeball new coordinates to plug into configs.

after looking the IWP standalone current ui_icon_equipment.dds is 4096x2048
there is plenty of room to add the 4-5? weapons you are adding, so you shouldnt need to scale it larger

so if you want to play it safe, I'd just put them in the middle of the right side and it should be fine.
they are on 50x50 grid, so editing texture and getting new coords is easy.

>>531936226
>>531939180
is everything supposed to be a grey blur?

>>531940474
weather + time of the day + low bitrate. you can barely see that it was raining because of the bitrate

>>531940291
I am a heathen. HD models for IWP occupies the space on the right so it is off limits. But now I'm thinking that I might replace the vanilla weapons on the left instead of expanding the image size.
>50x50 grid
I cannot into math. Does GIMP have a grid tool? Is it by pixels?
On my personal installation I shoehorned new icons near the main roster and referenced neighboring guns' configs to trial and error new coordinates. Lots of trial and error.

>>531925252
Ur turn

I NO HAVE MICROSCOPE

>>531941792
well, I'd still try to fix them in there
though making the new image 4096x4096 won't be too bad

I have Gimp 2.9 becuase I've never needed to upgrade it and I have all my plugin shit setup already, so yours may be newer and its layout different

but to setup grid just go to Image-->Configure Grid
>see pic

then to activate/deactivate grid, its just View--> show grid
ticked or not ticked
yes its by pixels

Another question for the texture wizards:
What is the proper way of toning down sheen on metallic surfaces and edges? Darkening the red channel of the bump?

>>531945850
This will make things a whole lot easier. Thank you. I was dreading doing the icon sheet.

reached the credits on the xremp version of cop (solo ofc), does sg have a server?

>>531953454
yeah, the specular channel (red) in the bump is used for that
double check r2_gloss_factor isnt at max in game, it makes specular seem extra shiny when its really just that.
>This will make things a whole lot easier. Thank you. I was dreading doing the icon sheet.
its really not that bad, you're just not familiar with it yet. but really its easy.

>Shadow of chernobyl
>FWR Lite
its gaming time

>>531954036
Thanks for the quick reply. I don't think gloss_factor is the culprit, because it's only the new textures that I have added that are nuclear bright in certain conditions. I will move forward with editing the specular.
>you're just not familiar with it yet
Ain't that the truth. You texture wizards are something else. This shit is complicated.

>>531953590
SGIWPMP when?

>>531953590
not that I know of...

>>531954764
> it's only the new textures that I have added that are nuclear bright in certain conditions.
check thm's that you have all the required bump and bump# files for those, sometimes x-ray will auto generate some and they will show like the sun.

>>531955127
>check thm's that you
*check thm's AND that you

>>531790278
What is that mod

>>531967601
It's a mod for CoP called The Exception. https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-exception-translated
I'm liking it so far. Lots of artifacts and the guns feel nice to use.

>>531977128

is Anomaly using vertical FOV or horizontal FOV? i can never tell what to set for different games to have the same FOV all the time

>>531980402
vertical

good day /sg/

>>531980528
alrighty

>>531943904
>subhuman short fingers
kek

>>531986525
A good day in the Zone.

>>531986525
wassap negr

>>531977128
mod?

If the noosphere is linked to human consciousness and emotions, and the Zone is highly affected by the noosphere, is it possible that stalkers could have unintentionally manifested the Wish Granter into reality?

>want to download mod compilation on nexus
>requires some shit called vortex
>download that garbage and try to install mod compilation
>everythings fine then tell me i need to download parts of it seperately anyway
Who the fuck thought this shitty downloader/manager was a good idea? We have to snuff out nexus faggotry and get people back to moddb.

>>531999351
>stalkers could have unintentionally manifested the Wish Granter into reality?
Possibly. Stalkers are a superstitious people. Someone started the rumor of the Wish Granter (probably C-Con to get their hands on people they could convert to Monolith soldiers), the Veterans tell this story late at night to the Rookies to scare them. The more people believe or at least think to themselves "What if...", the more the Monolith becomes real. Zone and brain fuckery galore

>>531999351
>>532000472
The Wish Granter is not real. Unless you insist that the device in the sarcophagus that makes it exist was also a result of the manifestation of stalkers' thoughts.

>>531999381
>We have to snuff out nexus faggotry and get people back to moddb.
I really don't get why S2niggas release shit on nexus. I suspect that most of them are tourists/bethesdniggers

because theres nothing wrong with nexus or moddb besides the users being retarded most of the time.

>>532002596
Ever since first reviews of stalger in english language appeared on YT, yes, long before THAT one, this community started getting filled with bethesdaniggers and tourists
> Muh rooosian fooolout
> Le soviyet vodka game just like fallout cuz radiation
Hell even the purist plebbitors still miss the vibe of this game

>>532003343
its pathetic that you don't know what you're talking about at all and are just parroting shit, because you're a retarded gorilla nigger

>>532000472
>>532001968
Funny thing is, stalker was what got me into the entire manifestation and LOA in the first place, all the way back in 2010 I think
I became fascinated and obsessed with consciousness research and it's effect on the physical world when I learned about Princeton university and noosphere being a real thing.
Also the psy emitters are heavily based on real life experimental technology

What stalkan mods (for trilogy + standalone, not 2 because I don't have it) add guitar songs, maybe even additional campfire mechanics or animations etc.? It seems to be a criminally underappreciated aspect of stalker. I always loved sitting down by the campfire after a long raid into the Zone, but the same melodies and everything is starting to get a tad repetitive. Would especially appreciate the addition of songs as opposed to just melodies.

>>532003795
>copy and pasting my post
did it fuck you up that bad? damn

>>532008443
Songs would be more difficult to add. The guitar tracks in SoC are registered as voice lines and are associated with the guitar animation. So songs would require to be linked to a non-guitar playing animation.

>>532009242
stop trying to imitate me, /v/ermin, everyone can see through it

>>532009296
Bwaaahahahaaaa still assmad
thats fucking hilarious.

Bwaaahahahaaaa still assmad

take your psyblock, stalker

/sg/ is a /pol/ & /k/ thread and always has been

Is there a reason why my inventory icons are like 2 pixels wider than ever grid in every UI mod for Anomaly? My icons never line up with any grid in any UI mod, it's driving me mad.

Chadthesta lives rent free in your head

>>532018686
have you tried making your icons smaller?

>>531936226
>bad at weebum encoding
>bad at keeping his comrades alive
>bad at aiming
>tacticool sights
>bad at grenade throwing
>bad at room clearing
>Bad at dodging anomalies
>bad at holding onto his rifle
>bad at using ironsights (optics are for pussies)
>bad at taking out nearby enemies with a pistol
Yeah, that's a dutier alright.

>>532018686
can you be more specific?
do you mean modders are sloppy and overlap the grid or?

>>531936226
nice youtuber montage bro

>>532021745
If I wanted an animeposter's opinion I would have asked how to tie a noose. Go fuck yourself.

>>532022646
>this nigga can't appreciate stalkan waifus
the brain scorcher must've fucked you up good huh? or are you just gay?

>>532022646
Fucking based weebs BTFO

>>532022646
based
back in my day we used to mock these faggots shitting up the thread, now its par for course
shame

>>532024115
>S2 adds multiple female characters
>Gets mediocre reception
I'm noooticing

REMOVE ROCK remove rock you are worst cult. you are the cult idiot you are the cult smell. return to powerplant. to our powerplant cousins you may come our Zone. you may live in the garbage....ahahahaha. monolith we will never forgeve you. cetnik rascal Fck but fck asshole cult stink monolith shqipere shqipare. monolith genocide best day of my life. take a bath of dead monolith..ahahahahah MONOLITH WE WILL GET YOU!! do not forget first emission. monolith we kill the C-consciousness monolith return to your precious rock....hahahahaha idiot cult and monolith smell so bad...wow I can smell it. REMOVE CULT FROM THE PREMISES you will get caught. loner+bandit+duty+freedom=kill monolith. you will blowout/ strelok alive in Zone, strelok making quest of zone. fast hunt strelok zone. we are rich and have artefacts now hahahaha ha because of strelok... you are ppooor stink monolith. you live in a powerplant hahahaha, you live in a sarcophagus strelok alive number #1 in zone... fck the monolith ...FCKk asshol cult no good I spit in the mouth eye of ur patch and faction strelok aliv and real strong wizard kill all the monolith farm aminal with 9x39 magic now we the loner rule. ape of the pripyat presídant c-consciousness. f*ck the great cherno and lay egg this egg hatch and monolith was born. stupid baby form the eggn give bak our clay we will crush u lik a skull of flesh. loner greattest faction.

>>532024593
>old man screaming at rock

Did they fix the Enhanced edition already?
Or is there anything original still missing?
I remember in the first update there was something about "missing geometry and textures" in the patch notes.

>>532025012
>Did they fix the Enhanced edition already?
Yes, it's all fixed if you play the original.

>>532021745
>conveniently missing out the freedomer surrendering to the mighty Duty chads

>>532025012
They aren't fixing shit, they keep breaking things that were fine before.
In a previous patch they re-enabled debug quests that old devs used for test purposes.
They pollacks were thinking
>hmm why are these quests removed via the comment function? Let's renable them!
They rolled that back and now they have broken weapon handling.

I recommend you play the original versions with community patches, those are tested for literal decades without retarded faggots going through code they don't understand and just randomly changing shit.

>>532022646
if I wanted you replying for me, I'd tell you, fag

the easiest way to recognize a fag is by watching him get disturbed by hot drawn women

reject anime
embrace realism

>>532026881
No

>>532026696
Exactly.

>>532026881
never understood that weird shape of her right foot.
in any case, if you'll excuse me.... *whiffff*

>>532001968
having an explanation for everything is so fucking lame. It strips everything clear of mysteries and wonder

how bout that

blow out NOW

>>532024593
i fuck your mother (with blacks of course)

>>532026696
Go back to r*ddit newfag

>>532026696
stay on 4chan oldfag

>>532026696
this

>>531563424
only oldfags remember

>>532029346
sex with glim glam

>>532021483
>>532021920
No, the icons themselves are fine, but the grid of icons doesn't match the UI. I don't even know what words to use to search for a solution. Is it a resolution issue? I play in 1440p.

>>532031750
just pretend that you character has had too much vodka

>>532031796
Better yet, load up on vodka yourself and the double vision will fix the problem.
>he doesn't method play stalker

>>532031750
>Is it a resolution issue?
could be. I would read the comments on the UI mod page and see if others had the same issue. are you using the modded exes? maybe the issue is already fixed, if it's game engine related. the easiest solution is to remove the grid

>>532032883
>I would read the comments on the UI mod page and see if others had the same issue
I've looked everywhere and I seem to be the only person on the planet with this issue
>are you using the modded exes
Yes. I resign myself to playing without the grid, but every once in a while I'll see someone's screenshot with a clean looking grid and I want to fucking shit my pants.

ИДИ КO MHE
Я BИЖУ TBOЁ ЖEЛAHИE

>trainme posting furfaggot
>freedomer
the memes write themselves

>>532031750
never seen this on anomaly and i'm on 1440 too
UI mods do get fucky if you're stacking loads of mods though

>>532034591
ИДИ B ЖOПУ, ДOЛБOЁБ

Bwaaahahahaaaa

>>532019685
>Chadthesta lives rent free in your head
nta, but it does not. TeamSESH lives rent free in my head

>>532035919
>shartynigger crying about anime on 4chan for the trillionth time

>>532038646
>Newfag thinks that anime should be shoved into absolutely everything
Go the fuck back already

>>532038972
aryans post anime in /sg/
/v/ermin sperg out about anime in /sg/

>>532039212
they get told to fuck off on /v/ as well, in fact they get told to fuck off on any board

It's all shitposting bullshit.

>>532038972
This

>>532038646
>nooooooooo my entire life is chinese trannycartoons!!!!
stop watching porn

>>532040245
Bwaaahahahaaaa still assmad
thats fucking hilarious.

Any promising upcoming mods that aren't just updates to existing mods?

>>532040509
>u-ur just mad!
i couldn't care less about your pathetic life, its just sad really

>>532040549
wormwood

>>532040613
the troon cries out at his axe wound weeps!

>>532040549
new project
back to the stalker
wanderer
awakening 2055
net online
next sfz project episode

>>532042140
>next sfz project episode
That's never coming out. They've remade Project Zero, what, two times already? They'ven't even touched Lost Story.

>>532042448
almost every big noteworthy mod is in development hell these days and takes 8 years to drop
such is life in the zone

>>532042806
The monkey's paw finger curled when Gunslinger actually released.

>>532038972
>>532039982
>doesn't even recognize what site he is on

it's high time to do a yearly aa2 replay

>>532031750
I guess someone fucked up the grid spacing in their addons ui config files?

>>532021745
>>532022646

>>532047969

>>532048089

>>532040863
Looks like that discontinued almost a decade ago

>>532054303
soon

>>532047059
What is that parameter called? I need to track down the demon who has done this to me.

Hey, folx! Rate my cosplay!!

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1m1ineu/random_loner_cosplay/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

>>532038558
[SESH]

https://youtu.be/SXtuTHI3kbs?si=2Rb6su7K_C7cKPl2

>>532047969
>>532048763
based

>>531488103
it's inevitable I found out about it a few years ago, and I was like "damn if this guy keeps this up at this pace he's gonna get contrarians out of the woodworks calling his mod shit"

and sure enough, it got popular because it was good, and now it's popular to hate on gamma even though it objectively presents the best gameplay stalker has ever had in its life

>>532057626
Holy shit I was not expecting that and almost choked on food that nigga is F A T

>>532057417
I think ? ....
actor_menu_16.xml
dragdrop_bag

>>532057417
>>532062619
*configs\ui\actor_menu_16.xml

>>532038558
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXAuGscSxS8&list=RDzXAuGscSxS8&start_radio=1

>>532057626
he’s more like one of those static vendors than a stalker. a lot of them a are fat

>>531723027
The absolute state of Chornobyl

ap-pro hasn't made any mods. It's over...

>>532024593
>changing all the "fuck" to fck

eat shit

>>532024593
>>532069303
For prosperity.

>>532038558
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. SESH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVyZ2iAzGF0&list=RDOVyZ2iAzGF0&start_radio=1

>>532063853
>>532062619
I just checked all my mods and that xml didn't get replaced so it has to be a dxml edit somewhere. I'm going to bed now but tomorrow I WILL solve this.

>>532076668
good luck anon
thats the only thing that makes sense to me, hopefully I'm not steering you down the wrong path

>>532071038
Posterity*

>>532069303
Dante won.

>>532047969

>>532093937

>>>>>>>pseudogiant
>it's shorter than you

>>532057787
>>532065026
>>532076541
Barman is SESH certified

I shoud consider also adding those songs for my sesh radio

>>532100314
STOP LAUGHING AT HIM!!!

>>532057626
Mission:
>Find Strelok
>Eat Strelok

>>532100314
If it were bigger than you, its name would just be "Giant", no?

>>532058520
>it objectively presents the best gameplay stalker has ever had in its life
4/10 bait

>>532103127
you're objectively wrong

>>532058520
>it got popular because it was good, and now it's popular to hate on gamma even though it objectively presents the best gameplay stalker has ever had in its life
lol
lmao

>>532103285
Shit I quoted wrong post
fuck it

>>532071038
>REMOVE ROCK

Is it possible to get only the original normal stalkers on steam? As in not "enhanced" editions?
I pirated OG stalkers all the time, so I thought about buying the trilogy out of respect and all that since it's not expensive and deserves to be in my library

good day /sg/

>>532100314
Yeah it was always dumb that it wasn't an actual giant and that it was really weak in soc, you can kill it with less than one ak magazine.
Before encountering it myself, I read wiki entries and guides about the missions in supposed to pass and when I saw it mentioned I got hyped, the encounters were anticlimactic

>>532105175
I'm almost certain that you get the OGs automatically added to your library when you buy EEs. Check it though, I might be misremembering.

>>532105362
helo

>>532105175
anon in >>532105580 is correct you get the originals too, when buying the EE on Steam/GoG

>>532105175
The Originals are still on steam, just unlisted. You pay the same price for them as for the EEs though. They upped the prices, even CS is 20 eurobucks when it was like 5€ before.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4500/STALKER_Shadow_of_Chernobyl/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/20510/STALKER_Clear_Sky/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/41700/STALKER_Call_of_Pripyat/

>>532105175
>buying the trilogy out of respect
None of the og devs will ever get a dime from your spending. Griga just pissed all over the playerbase with demasters and the mess that is S2. Cmon anon.

>>532105175
By paying for the trilogy you're only disrespecting yourself. GSC, especially current GSC, deserves zero respect, and especially zero money for games they haven't made but only hold the legal rights to, games that the old GSC has refused to properly fix where fans had to make patches like ZRP and SRP to make them playable.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mhwMy4wSQQ4PC9-YxEAZMX0Pf1ZbS2b0

>>532107931
GSC made S.T.A.L.K.E.R., retarded nigger. The only game that is maybe """unplayable""" without patches is CS, and without GSC we wouldn't have any of the countless mods, patches, standalone mods etc. that we have had over the years.
Modern GSC is retarded, but implying that the old GSC is "heckin' bad!!!" is the most retarded take I have seen on /sg/ for a long time. You probably think that Grok saved the franchise.

>>532108056
>GSC made S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Correct, but that was the GSC that existed between 1995 and 2011, not the current one that was founded in 2014 where practically none of the people that made the trilogy work at. Not only is Griga essentially out of the company and left it to his brother, he also sold it to Max Krippa, some shady fuckface who ultimately makes the bank off of those Steam rentals of games made by people that no longer work there.

And the most retarded take is believing that the old GSC did nothing wrong and that people didn't constantly complain about the release delays, or the sorry state of SoC on launch compared to what was promised, or the mess that was CS, with GSC constantly avoiding patching that mess and only getting their shit together by the time they started working on CoP where they've finally managed to release something that wasn't half-broken on day one. The kind of take that you'd expect from a Anomaly/GAMMA/S2 tourist that didn't bother to do a modicum of research into the history of GSC and it's franchise.

If you're so enslaved to the brand name loyalty, go ahead and pay the full price for the trilogy. Not gonna bother telling a fool what to do with his money.

>>532108525
Old GSC made stalker soc which means that they by default can't do anything bad.
S2 isn't even a real stalker game but it's great simply by being associated with a legendary piece of media released in 07

>>532057626
>i just took a little peek

>>532114231
Stop looking at it!