S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Series Megathread: The Zone will stop the Russians - Games

[QUOTE=LoNer1;42452560]When I return home I'll upload it to sendspace for you or just to my dropbox. Cheers man![/QUOTE] thank you very much i appreciate

I have it in txt format.. I haven't finished reading, but if anyone is still looking for roadside picnic, I can sort of hook you up.

What about a sort of interior haze effect? A little fog/mist hanging around the ceiling in the x-labs or a cloud or cigarette smoke in the bar would be pretty awesome.

[QUOTE=LoNer1;42452283]First, I like your avatar. Second, Yeah it usually is haha. Though, I always test shit out, it's part of who I am. But, after working with particles for over 4 years now and 'trying' stuff out, my imaginations grows weary :/ Hence why I need your guy'ses (idk how to write this please forgive me) opinions or ideas. What should I improve? I already did: Artefacts Muzzle Flashes Anomalies Shell ejection particles (both left and right) Static effects (steam, distortion etc.) Weather effects (bigger fog, more stable, new flies etc.) So yeah, what's there left to include? I want it to be a total particle overhaul so ... let me know what you think is necessity for in the zone :)[/QUOTE] I'd like to see some interior effects, a la the occupied areas of Metro. Stove flames, smoke, like the guy earlier mentioned, steam coming from pots, and so on. Stuff for other interiors would be nice, too: a range of drips would be nice.

ooh, might not get used much but how about trails for RPG rounds?

Awesome ideas! Noted them. Keep them coming guys

Would bleeding particles be possible? There's already mods that spawn blood textures under a bleeding NPC, but if there were some kind of blood particle like drops or even a stream of blood gushing out of an open wound it'd looks gorier. If not for bleeding, maybe oomph up the default blood spatters that occur when hitting a mutant or stalker with boolets? oh and i found the disintegrative effect of whirligigs wholly unsatisfying. I'd imagine it to leave behind a thick red mist instead of several blood emitting gibs. I don't know if it's possible tho.

Most of that is possible, even the gushing blood BUT, there's 1 downside. It emits from 1 place, so if I'd make the blood like pouring out of someone, it would be static (so if the NPC moved, the gushing would stay in 1 place :v: ) I have to find a way to bind it to the skeleton of the model and then I'll be able to do such a thing. For the rest, working on it!

[QUOTE=LoNer1;42457109]Most of that is possible, even the gushing blood BUT, there's 1 downside. It emits from 1 place, so if I'd make the blood like pouring out of someone, it would be static (so if the NPC moved, the gushing would stay in 1 place :v: ) I have to find a way to bind it to the skeleton of the model and then I'll be able to do such a thing. For the rest, working on it![/QUOTE] Shoker's doing gibs, I think? Might be a good idea to see what they've come up with and work from there?

[QUOTE=LoNer1;42457109]Most of that is possible, even the gushing blood BUT, there's 1 downside. It emits from 1 place, so if I'd make the blood like pouring out of someone, it would be static (so if the NPC moved, the gushing would stay in 1 place :v: ) I have to find a way to bind it to the skeleton of the model and then I'll be able to do such a thing. For the rest, working on it![/QUOTE] It'd be pretty amusing seeing Firestarter-like bleeding in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.. [video=youtube;PnG6uY0eS4o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnG6uY0eS4o[/video]

[QUOTE=Etcetera;42440164]Nothing about that sentence strikes you as contradictory?[/QUOTE] I was completely drunk when I wrote that so... :v: Prioboi Story was still a good mod but that monolith in the garbage was just wack.

[QUOTE=Amez;42458505]I was completely drunk when I wrote that so... :v: Prioboi Story was still a good mod but that monolith in the garbage was just wack.[/QUOTE] What about poisonous Sidorovich? :v:

[QUOTE=croguy;42458534]What about poisonous Sidorovich? :v:[/QUOTE] [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19779215/Photos/STALKER/nostalkernotthere.jpg[/img]

SGT PRIBOI WHAT THE HELLLLL

Just finished vanilla SHoC, is Priboi Story worth a try? Would it work on 1.0006?

New [B]Path Of The Zone[/B] updates! [t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/24/23267/ss_codepoet_10-09-13_03-15-08_l01_escape.jpg[/t] [t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/24/23267/ss_codepoet_10-06-13_17-20-44_l01_escape.jpg[/t] [t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/24/23267/ss_codepoet_10-06-13_17-22-25_l01_escape.jpg[/t] [t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/24/23267/ss_codepoet_10-06-13_17-04-05_l01_escape.jpg[/t] The shaders man ...

nice screens loner @ManRod priboi story works with 1.0004 give it a try

Yo Svd you might not wanna quote image-heavy posts, they unnecessarily stretch the page.

[QUOTE='[Green];42463852']Yo Svd you might not wanna quote image-heavy posts, they unnecessarily stretch the page.[/QUOTE] will do thanks for the tip

Meanwhile at GUNSLINGER mod [video=youtube;AvUZemaH38Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvUZemaH38Y[/video] Dat smooth animation gives me the weirdest boner.

nice

Man those animations are slick. I also watched the aim_shoot animation video as well. Damn, even the animation when the weapon gets jammed looks sexy.

[QUOTE=Hammer7;42464184]Meanwhile at GUNSLINGER mod [video=youtube;AvUZemaH38Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvUZemaH38Y[/video] Dat smooth animation gives me the weirdest boner.[/QUOTE] i want this to come out already

Am I the only one that thinks the gunslinger animations are very CoD-ish?

[QUOTE=nige111;42464789]Am I the only one that thinks the gunslinger animations are very CoD-ish?[/QUOTE] They do, a bit over-exaggerated, but my problems with CoD has never been the animations.

IMO it's showing off. For example cocking the slide could be MUCH faster in practice than GUNSLINGER's animations. It's a quick chack-chick instead of a pull back and then left go after a moment. And you don't take your gun in front of you to reload, something a lot of games get wrong. LURK did it much more believably where the gun is kept down where it's faster to attach a new mag in.

The reason is S.T.A.L.K.E.R. =/= simulator That's why lots of animation looks slow - they're making you enjoying every moment of reloading/pulling out a gun.

[QUOTE=Hammer7;42465820]The reason is S.T.A.L.K.E.R. =/= simulator That's why lots of animation looks slow - they're making you enjoying every moment of reloading/pulling out a gun.[/QUOTE] Just saying that GUNSLINGER isn't realistic. LURK, despite the jelly screen and pink Zone is more realistic in its design and overall feel. GUNSLINGER looks more like Call of Duty. Not to say unrealistic is a synonym for terrible, I'd love to have these in some kind of merge with a version of SGM where nothing makes sense anyway, but people think it's the herald of a golden age. While it is a good mod and some of the wizardry involved is impressive, I'm not getting a snork boner from it. I just respect the effort.

wait what a hallmark of the COD series is animations so fast you can't tell they're kinda shoddy

[QUOTE='[Green];42465695']And you don't take your gun in front of you to reload, something a lot of games get wrong..[/QUOTE] Yeah this is the part which kills some reloads for me like reloading an AK looks painful in COD (and vanilla CS / CoP too to be fair) when they bring it up, turn it sideways and reload from there. Or if they're unnecessarily showy for the sake of being showy like MW2 FN FAL reload animation. That said, I feel that most of Shoker reload animations (well, practically most of the new ones I've seen) are very competently made and not too showy. The best part is probably having separate jam clearing animations instead of just repeating the reload animation exactly as it were when a jam occurs.