Comments - MrSeyker

The Beret guys always look cooked, even in vanilla. It's a side product of how the default human rig interacts with their models.

Wolf's face has better smoothing than his default SOC model. The eyes are also working as intended, there was next to no tweak done to the weights of his eyelids, as the blinking animations always worked fine on Wolf.

But shotguns don't hit anything beyond 30 meters with your settings. The only shotgun that can hit at those diatances with your current set up is the toz34 regardless if on the handa of npcs or player.

I was reading your notes in weapons.ltx, and I feel the need to point out a couple of mistakes you might have made, maybe they are intentional, but I'll clarify to make sure.

In the notes you write

impair = 1.0 ;A multiplier for recoil?

This value, according to some info lost when gsc forums clsoed, it's actually a value for to make different types of ammo contribute more or less to weapon degradation (presumably it interacts with condition_shot_dec). Mods that add corrosive or old ammo achieve the effect by tinkering with with this value.

This here is probably on purpose, but you've drastically reduced the k_dist value for all shotgun shells, which means the description of slug and dart increasing range to up to hundreds of meters is false for all shotguns but the hunting shotgun, which can fire well beyond the stated ranges.

I notice that you use R_Populik's models. You should be aware that their the alpha and blue channels of their bumpmaps are switched.

Unfortunately, you will lose quality trying to correct the mistake, due to the compression on the original blue channel. At your resolutions, it might be worth it, tho, since it corrects some odd lighting issues.

InnoClarke reported a CTD due to a missing entry in postprocess.ltx that I had missed all these years, and Rico_Heart pointed out that my latest upload never updated the version number.

In light of these, I've updated my original uploads (1.0, 1.1 and 1.2) to remove the issues.

Version 1.0 and 1.1 can be found here:

Mediafire.com

Version 1.2 can be found here:

Mediafire.com

Huh, I was never aware of this as never disable the effect. The thing worked on my with default settings, and the person that helped me playtest never tested disabling controller effects.

This is years way too late, but I shall fix my original uploads with the missing code.

I have updated the file, this should fix all the soldiers with berets.

Thanks for the heads up. Yep, I messed up the texture assignemnt for the all the beret soldiers. I'll fix it as soon as possible and update.

Yeah, there would be more sound feedback on non looping cycles. I'm trying to go over the cop files to tweak and share those, but as I explained in reddit, it's stupidly time consuming; have to extract dozens of animations per monster and then go over each keyframe by keyframe with milkshape to determine the timing.

Hello, I'm the person that shared the footsteps tweaks for SOC on reddit. I've been looking at the files used by COP, which I'm pretty sure are the same as Call Of Chernobyl/Anomaly, and a cursory glance at the files tells me that there's a number of mutants that wouldn't actually produce footsteps with my configs.

The cut mutants such as cats, izloms and zombies should work fine, but all mutants with new models such as burer and chimera wouldn't work as intended.

You can actually notice the problems of the pouches in the Sunrise type suits right there in the preview you posted.

The Sunrise pouch hangs out floating to the side of the leg, while you can tell that in the Duty variant it clips into the leg. The later is specially noticeable when the NPC or player crouches. This error is also in the Freedom and Monolith variants.

The Sunrise is the less egregious, and it's set how it's supposed to, at a slight angle so that it doesn't clip into the leg, though the straps look weirdly stretched (this is because you lowered the waist on the models, and the pouch/strap keeps its relative position to the unmodified mesh).

I also notice that you don't include a proper version of the gasmask model with two side pouches (stalker_mo_hood_9, stalker_neytral_hood_9, stalker_sv_hood_91). Though these would have to become three different models, as the differences in the textures used would result in weird look the way Vanilla set these suits up.

Nontheless, this is a great baseline into a rework of the vanilla meshes. We're missing Mercs and Military (and the special player meshes), but what's there, while not completely polished, shows great promise.

The bumpmap mismatches are not the fault of his mod, vanilla SOC actually reuses a handful of bumpmaps for multiple suit variants even when they show significant differences.

The wind of freedom and monolith suits being among the worst offenders, as they have pouches by design yet have assigned the bumpmaps for the regular SEVA vests.

The only game that includes special bumpmaps for those specific variatns is COP, and even there the bumpmaps are of poor quality.

Wow, this is great. A step in the right direction, as I always felt HD replacements miss the mark. Do all the unique SOC variants (backpacks, tanks, unhooded) get covered too, or just fully masked models?

Download via Torrent?

That is the creepiest **** I've seen recently.

No, the Jurassic Park raptors are Deinonychus in both movies and books.

Utahraptor was discovered WHILE they were filming, and it's MUCH larger.

I LOVE the reaction of the guy at the end.

Looks down, looks up, scary monster nearby, pause, leave silently.

But it was planned. They had a model, an inventory icon.

If any weapon should be added, it sould be the P90, the PKM and the Protecta.

Any other just wouldn't fit the STALKER vision.

YAY, NOMAD!!

Holy ****!! That is so incredibly badass!!

Dude, those shadows are WAY too dark.

Because this needs to be said, great Dilo. Pretty spot on to the JP design.

That's done on purpose by aliVe. You can buy Guide's info from traders I think.

I feel its a stupid mechanic that should be removed or improved as it doesn't happen ALWAYS.

Scalability applies foward as well.

Sure, the developers might have dumbed down options to fit the consoles, but that doesn't mean they removed them, just that they are not using them to the max.

And that's where PC gamers will win, because we will be able to go beyond that (with tweaks, mods, etc).

Also, the videos are really promising, I'm not seeing any serious dumbing down of the engine. It looks as good as Crysis on High/Ultra upon release, and the chances of it performing better due to code optimizations to fit the consoles are high.

Lastly, not using D11 doesn't mean its not "next gen". No console game is going to use it for the moment, and Crytek always pushes old tech to the max before moving to the next thing.

So I'm really ok with them sticking to D9/10 and giving the lesser guys the chance to play with this.

Now I just need to prepare my PC for upgrade (still playing Crysis/Warhead at medium-high).

The older one is gonna need a slight update if its to become part of the final project.

Though maybe you can merge the old head with the new body, and rely on the different shapes for dimorphism.

Also, I'm impressed that you corrected the hand postion in the new model. The amount of detail it has its outstanding.

Please tell me Saskia and Johann are next on the update queue :pelase:

Your work continues to be outstanding. Props to the team.

I think her proportions are perfect. One of the most accurate T. Rex models I've seen actually.

So, registered and voted. Good luck. Hope to see more from you soon.

Your work's the best. And if you can't release a game, maybe you could do a movie ;)