Hello fellow S.T.A.L.K.E.R.'s,
It has been a long time since I wrote my blog post. It's time for me to admit that life is full of surprises.
I started with my internship after the summer vacation. I finally finished it, and now I'm retaking the aptitude test. It has been a long year without time to wander aimlessly in the zone, but as luck would have it, I got the most wonderful girlfriend during one of the shittiest periods of the year. I could write a whole blog post about her, but I'll keep it at her sharing the love of the zone with me.
As for the mods I've been working on, I sadly wasn't able to make any progress. However, it looks like that I'll have time soon to work on them during my free days and weekends. My test version of STCoP 2.9 Lite was an success in my opinion, and will now start to work on an proper release. It is only for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, and no other mod. If I find myself having enough time, I might make a version for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Chernobyl.
One thing I would really like to try is to get the main menu from CoC in CoP. I can see some cool use-cases for it. Porting mods from CoC has been a fun experience, and it's doable as long as it doesn't require scripts from CoC (I'm looking at you, arx_keybind.script).
A small list of mods from CoC that I've been experimenting with:
- Autumnal Winds, Absolute Nature Redux, Structures Redux can be done in a day or two
- AF3 S.W.T.C. skyboxes and ESFX are plug-n-play
- Advanced S.W.T.C. works with minor tweaks
- TRX - Sounds Revamp (2.0) works like a charm with some editing
- Gore mod (1.2) was easy to port
- smallHUD required minor tweaks
I recently checked out the old gsc stalker cop mods forum, and damn it has some cool mods and resources there. If you're a modder and need some good smaller mods, make sure to check out that place! It's like a small gold mine.
At last, I'm slowly getting back to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. modding scene by updating all my addons.
That should do it for now. More will follow later.
Stay safe in the zone.
