Stalker weather overhauled V2.0

- new, sun-based lighting system which makes the game look much more like real-life - during the day the sun always gives at least some lighting, but the color, intensity of it and the way it transits form one setting to another is depended on the time, clouds, fog, angle etc.

- realistic sunsets and sunrises

- new weather settings for all outdoor game levels (clear weather for Pripyat, Yantar, Dark Valley etc)

- included StalkerSkies and S.H.A.R.P.E.R.v95

- effective rain periods, thunder-storms

- included thunder sounds by Darius6, also reconfigured thunderbolts to make them more random and effective

- completely re-done sun positioning / shadow settings - shadows are realistically long (check out the screens) and point to the proper direction. All this perfectly synchronized with time of day, geographical orientation (sun rises in the east and sets in the west) and visible sun position

- sun travel "emulated" with proper sky texture transition and sky texture color settings

- realistically dark, spooky but playable nights

- more detailed cycle, number of periods multiplied (there are more than 40 periods of the cycle, instead of vanilla 24) - a lot of 30 minutes and even 15 minutes periods (instead of commonly used 1h ones) to better reflect and control the subtle lighting weather changes

- cycle synchronized for Kiev, UK, 01.05.2012 (original idea by MrKlorox Badmagic and their DarkerNights mod, so credits for it go to them - I recalculated the timings and since my sunrises and sunsets are animated, they are perfectly synchronized to the minute)

- two optional versions - darker and brighter nights

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Ace Modder said:

how exactly do you install the mod?

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0. DELETE the float32 shaders ([gamedata] > [shaders] folder) prior to use this version of my mod

0.5 delete (move) the [gamedata] > [textures] > [sky folder] if you have it in your Stalker installation dir - do it also if you are updating form 1.1

1. copy the gamedata from the [S.W.O.v2.0] > [#base] folder to your main Stalker installation dir (after this you will have the darker nights edition - which is default) - overwrite everything if you are updating from 1.1

1.5 OPTIONAL: copy over the gamedata from the [#1_-_S.W.O.v1.1] > [#optionals] > [#brighter_nights] - to make the nights brighter (you can revert to the darker nights by using the gamedata from [#darker_nights] folder)

2. copy the included user.ltx of your choice from the [#2_-_[user.ltx]_presets] folder into [documents and settings] > [all users] > [documents] > [stalker-shoc]

3. OPTIONAL (S.W.O.v2.0_FULL only): copy over the gamedata from [#3_-_S.H.A.R.P.E.R-Textures_v.0.95_RECUT] to your main Stalker installation dir

NOTE:

if you did not install or use any mods previously - in the fsgame.ltx (main STALKER dir) change the first line into:

$game_data$ = true| true| $fs_root$|

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Ace Modder said:

The above instructions are not too clear tbh.

Can you explain better

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pre1twa said:

How do I use this mod?? I don't have a gamedata folder in my stalker install directory.

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LizardKing said:

The you just need to copy the one out of the rar and put it in the stalker dir, then follow the last step of the install instructions
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if you did not install or use any mods previously - in the fsgame.ltx (main STALKER dir) change the first line into:

$game_data$ = true| true| $fs_root$|
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This is the mod with the Priboi addon. Looks good

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Darkmage88 said:

always surprises me how people can mod a game to look better than a professional developer made it :s

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