TB's Angry Chimera Growls v1.1 (Added Lurkers!) addon

Agreed! I'm thinking perhaps the Lurkers could do with a growl or two, but they're quite weak, so I'm not sure.

Lol! Most of the mutants don't have much sound, do they? I assume this was by design to make the game more difficult. At least the Boars have their glitchy foot-stomps, but I may look at adding some "yoinks" :)

I literally had to look this up on Urban Dictionary XD

Cheers Spacecheese88! I'll go with the depreciated adjective:

Merry; airy; jovial; sportive; frolicksome. It denotes more life and animation than cheerful.

"Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay"

Webstersdictionary1828.com

What a nice comment, you are very welcome!

I've been really enjoying learning Lua, even if a bit later on in life myself. Trying to think of unique ideas is fun in itself, and all my addons are something I personally wanted to see in the game.

I'm pleased others enjoy using them too! Thanks :)

I already knew some AutoHotkey for scripting windows things, but relatively new to Lua and other languages.

First thing to do is to run the batch file:

    ..\Anomaly-1.5.1\tools\db_unpacker.bat

This will extract all the *.ltx, *.script and *.xml files into a folder structure in a folder called "_unpacked".

There are lots of scripts to study in there to see how things should be structured.

From what I have learnt, a lot of it is to do with using "callbacks" e.g. on_game_start(), on_game_load(), actor_on_update() etc.

So if you had:

    function actor_on_first_update()
        printf("Hello Stalkers!")
    end

and saved that as 'AnyNameYouWant.script', saved inside the 'gamedata\scripts' folder, when you load a game it will print "Hello Stalkers!" in the console.

There are lots of people who have kindly helped me out when I got stuck on something in the Discord channel (modding development)

    https://discord.com/invite/c4RuJNs

and a good site to test out Lua is:

    https://www.tutorialspoint.com/execute_lua_online.php

Watching lots of YouTube on Lua basics was very helpful to understand how all the commands work such as if, else, while, for i=1,100 do, etc.

Being able to kinda 'visualise' code in my mind helps me as I'm a thinking in pictures person, but everyone is different so finding the right way to learn for you is important! :)

Cheers!

I use Solarint's Soundscape Overhaul (which is absolutely brilliant), and it helps a lot by removing all the fake mutant ambient sounds... so when you hear a mutant's distant call, you know it is definitely real.

Plug & play has always been the goal, as you said, it saves having to add patches for other addons etc. You and FunkBuddha1 are right about the cats, they are "silly-difficult" sometimes, I might see about them too :)

Thanks!

Cheers!

I had no idea that Stalker uses "comments" that are actually inside the OGG sound file itself, things like volume to be played, min/max distance to hear and even AI reaction distance.

LateTooDoomLand pointed SAV&T (Sound Attribute Viewer and Tweaker) out to me:

Metacognix.com

There's so many "hidden game rules" when modding, it seems!

*Tweaki_Breeki chuckles heartily and accidentally farts while doing so*