[1.5.2/1.5.1] Dynamic Anomalies Overhaul (DAO) (UPDATE 25) addon

BEFORE YOU INSTALL, PLEASE READ (1.5.1 ONLY, SKIP FOR 1.5.2)

This mod requires modified EXE to work!!! One of prerequisites below is required, choose any of those that you want and install it. Skip this step if you already have modified EXE

1. HeatVision (Moddb.com)
2. My modded exes, which combines all of engine modifications above (Github.com)

README

This mod aims to enhance hazardous aspect of the zone. It brings brand new anomalies into the zone, based on Eugenium Hazardous Anomalies mod for Call of Chernobyl and enhances old ones. Key features:

• The anomalies will spawn on predefined smart terrains across all maps. After emission or psy-storm they will despawn and then appear later on new places on the next level (Configurable in MCM)
• The anomalies can spawn artefacts inside the zone. The chance for better artefact depends on location. Laboratories and north locations will have very good chance to spawn top of the line and even unique artefacts (Configurable in MCM)
• Anomalies received unique behaviour, they pop in and out of existence and shift places, leading to surprizing situations (adjustable in MCM)
• Some anomalies have unique behaviour if player is in their vicinity, both positive and negative. Use them for your advantage
• Encyclopedia articles about new anomalies in PDA

The new anomalies are (Configurable in MCM):

• - "Darkness" - typical one shot anomaly, very omnious looking, met only on north locations. Special behaviour - has a chance to spawn poltergeist in the proximity of player
• - "Flash" - bubbly temporal anomaly, which doesnt hurt the player by itself, but travels him forward in time
• - "Ghost" - Green bubble anomaly that moves along the fixed path
• - "Liquid gold" - Yellow acid pool like anomaly, special behaviour - drains thirst and some stamina
• - "Green dragon" - Acid field anomaly, special behaviour - 50% reduction of speed near anomaly
• - "Mefistotel" - Strange flower-like anomaly
• - "Net" - Fountain of particles
• - "Ball lightning" - reminiscent of natural phenomenon anomaly, special behaviour - charges batteries of active items if near actor
• - "Radar" - Psy anomaly, has weak but unavoidable psy field which hurts player along with main hit
• - "Rebounder" - Gravitational anomaly that pushes away player when interacted, and provides big bullet resistance to the player

Besides new anomalies, old anomalies also received a bit of improvements:

• - Electra - has electric field that damages player and equipment, causes electrical interference to PDA and flashlights
• - Gravitational anomalies - emits disturbance in gravitational field, causing player to tremble and shake

Screenshots and demonstrations of some new anomalies below:

Enhanced behaviour of old anomalies:

Encyclopedia articles about new anomalies:

MCM options for choosing what new anomalies to spawn

CHANGELOG:

UPDATE 25:

• Added support for new Promzone level Moddb.com

UPDATE 24:

• Reduced the amount of radiation fields spawning in the zone
• Fixed LUA error: ....\gamedata\scripts\drx_da_main_artefacts_movement.script:32: attempt to index local 'a' (a number value)

UPDATE 23:

• Added movement to artefacts when they are created by DAO, similar to vanilla system. When artefacts spawn, there is a 50% chance they will wander around the anomaly zone
  

UPDATE 22:

• Fixed MCM option to remove anomalies so it now removes them properly

UPDATE 21:

• Small Balance changes
• Increased radius of hit detection of Flash and gravitational anomalies
• Fixed possible crash of not finding [anti_aim_effector] section

UPDATE 20:

• Balance changes
• Darkness anomaly was nerfed a bit:
  • The chance to spawn poltergeists was reduced
  • Maximum amount of poltergeists spawned reduced from 3 to 2
  • Cooldown after spawn increased from 3 to 5 minutes
  • The trigger radius to spawn was slightly reduced
• Green Dragon anomaly effect now applies and restores gradually, if you fast enough to avoid it, the speed loss would be less
• Green Dragon hit radius was increased, the trigger radius for effect remained the same
• Artefacts spawn tables are shuffled before picking an artefact to spawn

UPDATE 19.1

• Small hotfix update
• Fixed bullet points in encyclopedia for english translation
• Fixed Rebounder special effect radius being to high, the hit radius remains the same
• Improved processing of anomalies on/off behaviour a bit, should be more consistent with bigger amount of anomalies on bigger maps

UPDATE 19:

• Compatibility with Anomaly 1.5.2. Modded exes arent required if 1.5.2 is installed
• Increased Rebounder effect radius
• Improved effect detection of Rebounder for npcs and mutants

UPDATE 18.1:

• Fix for Rebounder effect not applying to monsters
• Fix for Rebounder effect applying globally even when a single npc or monster in the zone is in anomaly vicinity

UPDATE 18:

• New default presets in MCM, reset settings in DAO MCM menu to apply them if you want
• Anomalies on/off behaviour is forced for underground levels
• Rebounder special effect now affect monsters and npcs in their vicinity
• When actor or monster or npc is under Rebounder effect and is shot, the particles will play at their positions to display that
• Ghosts speed was slighltly lowered
• Ghosts and Ball Lightning anomalies now cast lights and objects drop shadows near them, improving their visual quality and visibility at night

UPDATE 17:

• Bugfixes for new removal system
• Fixed possible crash in underground levels when no anomalies are added there

UPDATE 16.2:

• Fixed possible crash on being near anomalies

UPDATE 16.1:

• Fixed crash on start of new game, sorry for that

UPDATE 16:

• Bugfix update
• Attempt to increase stability of the mod when anomalies are removed after emission. On the current level the anomalies will be disabled instead of removed, and the actual removal will happen after the save and load or after moving to the next level. From player's perspective, nothing should be changed in DAO's behaviour
• Added an option to make a savefile after emissions when anomalies are removed. By default its disabled.

UPDATE 15:

• Bugfix update, DELETE OLD VERSION OF THE MOD FOLDER BEFORE UPDATING:
• Fixed crash related to messing with DAO settings in debug test level
• Fixed crash when using DAO with mods altering New Game setup (like Black Road mods)
• Removed meshes folder from the mod
• Fixed spawning multiplayer variations of the artefacts, those one could lead to errors like "could not create model dynamics\artefacts\artefact_electra_blue_hud"

UPDATE 14:

• Added optional patch for Svarog to detect new anomalies, made by Wildkins for GAMMA and DLTXified. DLTX REQUIRED for the patch
• Corrected the behaviour for anomaly detector concerning vanilla dynamic anomalies, it wont detect them when they despawn, otherwise it lead to false detections

UPDATE 13:

• Increased minimum and maximum possible hit radius for Rebounder
• Increased maximum hit radius for Ghost
• Ghost movement is now FPS independent except really small FPS values to prevent sudden pops.
• Increased threshold for flashlights flickering near Electras, should be less soon
• Added more anomalies into ignore list for anomaly detector, for example vines in Cordon tunnel, some Arszi radiation fields, etc

UPDATE 12:

• Minor update
• Anomaly detector now ignores some static anomalies like teleports, Burning Fuzz and others, this should help for detector to not be super sensitive to some stuff
• Lowered artefact spawn for Radar, increased artefact spawn for CNPP and Generators

UPDATE 11:

• Improved detection sensitivity for anomaly detector, should be more accurate
• Reduced damage for Liquid Gold anomaly
• Increased damage for Green Dragon anomaly

UPDATE 10:

• Added anomaly detector to new game loadouts and traders. Ecologists start with anomaly detector for free, other factions have to buy it in new game loadout or from traders in the game itself. Ecologists, Clear Sky and UNISG traders sell the detector
• Electras field damage is dependant on obstacles between you and electras, for example walls, objects, etc. If there is a thick wall, it can reduce the damage very significantly
• Raised threshold for flickering of lights near electras
• Optimisations in script file

UPDATE 9:

• Anomaly detector can now detect even hidden anomalies when they getting hidden out of existence
• Improved detection of anomalies and display behaviour of anomaly detector
  
  
  
  
• Electras now have collateral effect on screen effect and pda/devices glitching. More electras together will have stronger influence
• Fixed bug when setting gravitational shake to 0 did nothing, now its properly disables it
• No anomaly detectors are on sale yet, it will be fixed soon. For now to get one of detectors you have to accept one of ecologists quests for measuring anomaly zone, there you will receive an anomaly detector for free.

UPDATE 8.1:

• Fixed a crash when no detector is in slot

UPDATE 8:

• Integration with Encyclopedia messages restored mod (Moddb.com). If you have that mod installed, you'll be notified about new anomalies
  
  
• Svarog and anomalies detector now have possibility to detect new anomalies. Svarog will emit sound when approached to them, its not needed to be equipped, just to be in the slot. The anomalies detector visualize the distance between you and anomalies and it works with all anomalies, not just new ones!
  
  
• Increased artefacts spawn for Darkscape, now its a viable place to get some low-middle tier artefacts quickly
• Less anomalies in the Bar
• Slightly more anomalies in Radar

UPDATE 7:

• Maintenance update
• Weakened radiation fields in south locations

UPDATE 6:

• Lowered anomaly spawn for Swamps, Dark Valley, Dead City
• Added spawn of Nets in Jupiter, Zaton and Truck Cemetery
• Blacklisted Storylines artefacts for spawning
• Improved spawn artefacts based on current level, now it considers globally allowed artefacts to spawn

UPDATE 5:

• Filthy casuals, rejoice, new MCM options arrived to ease your gameplay. Options are:
  
  
  
  
  • Pre-defined presets: Easy, Normal, Hard that adjust all values
  • Modifier for gravitational shake near anomalies
  • Modifier for electrical field damage (doesn't apply to electronic devices glitching)
• Reduced distance to electrical anomalies for flashlight flicker to trigger, now it wouldn't be as instant as entering the anomaly radius

UPDATE 4:

• Fixed accidental ginormous spawn on Radar level
• Reduced spawns for Limansk, both Pripyats and Jupiter
• Increased spawn for Generators
• Increased artefact chances for Radar, CNPP levels, Hospital, Generators
• Fixed article for Radar for Russian language

UPDATE 3:

• Added new descriptions for anomaly zones, thanks to CrimsonVirus for creating them
• Lowered main hit damage of electras when they are discharged on player
• Underground locations received exclusive artefact spawn chances and corrected spawn pool for them. Now they never spawn junk artefacts and the chances for spawn are increased a lot (50-80%) depending on location itself (X-10 and X-8 have the biggest chances)

UPDATE 2:

• Ghosts can now climb small obstacles and hills
  
  
  
  
• Greatly reduced spawns for underground tunnels in Yantar
• Slight change of calculations for Radar and Electra fields, the artefacts will have more influence on damage and resistance, dont sell them instantly as you would normally
• Slighlty reduced outfit condition drop for electras
• Added Generators level into spawn presets

UPDATE 1:

• Added adjustable radius of anomaly zones and minimal distance between anomalies in MCM
• Improved spawn algorithm to accomodate new options, it should be better for managing choke points
• Lowered spawns for Dead City and Yantar and some underground levels
• Meadows has increased artefacts spawn chance
• Lowered a bit damage of electrical fields
• Removed stale copy of regions folder from the mod

CREDITS:

• DoctorX - code base for spawning anomalies on smarts, provided the fundament upon i build the overhaul. Rest in peace friend
• Eugenium - new anomalies visual appearance and sounds from Hazardous Anomalies mod, which were improved
• Barry Bogs - playtesting and support, visit his twitch channel foor cool streams with this mod (Twitch.tv)
• Lucy - technical support
• Grok - support for artefact spawns based on map tiers
• Jurkonov - nagging me in DMs (no offence friend :) )