Dynamic random GUI changer for main menu background and soundtrack with pre-packaged atmospheric S.T.A.L.K.E.R clips and custom audio tracks.
This addon sets atmospheric in-game clips and audio tracks respectively as main menu background and main menu music background, changing at each game start.
As of 05/08/2023, this addon requires themrdemonized's STALKER Anomaly modded exes and will not work without DXML capability.
Such changes were made in order to provide DLTX/DXML compatibility.
You can find a zipped version of the modded exes embedded with the addon, but it is highly suggested to check the above linked GitHub repo for updated versions.
The addon also provides a certain degree of modularity for adding custom specific clips/tracks or removing them: instructions (and limitations/downsides) for doing so are explained in the modxml_dynamicbg.script file.
Credits to Sabulanis and 0str0vSKY for the atmospheric clips, and to themrdemonized for providing the DXML API in the modded exes, which guarantees seamless tinkering with the mod's XML files.
Reason for clips being at 1280x720 res is a compromise between quality and file size, to reduce as much as possible addon size.
Feel free to suggest improvements.
Audio tracks used in this addon:
- Аквариум - Город Золотой
- Кино - Группа крови
- 5'nizza - Солдат
- Кино - Кончится лето
- Эдуа́рд Никола́евич Арте́мьев - Meditation (from Tarkovskij STALKER)
- Anthesteria - Metro 2033 Theme
- GY!BE - Mladic
- Rudé Kostry - Noční šero
- Кино - Последний герой
- Кино - Спокойная ночь
- Akira Yamaoka - The Day of Night (from Silent HIll 2)
![[1.5.1 & 1.5.2] Dynamic Backgrounds](https://media.moddb.com/images/downloads/1/232/231731/preview.jpg)
huh. this is interesting. how exactly do you generate "in-game clips"? I assume you simply created a few, they are not really dynamic, taken from "my game", right?
so maybe the term "dynamic" is a bit click-baity here. Why not change it to "changing/rotating" or so?
You are correct, but there is no order in which they "rotate", so they really don't. Just read the description credits and you'll see they are taken from two YouTube channels specialized in creating such clips, addon title is just a matter of wording and usage can be disambiguated by reading the description, no need to download addon beforehand.
gotcha!
And I wonder if foreigners even understand what Russian tracks are sung about?
In case you're curious, there is the track list on the bottom of the description. You can easily find lyrics and such.
Nah, we don't understand. But who cares. It sounds awesome
says the guy with the kino album cover pfp, based asf
как установить?
You install it the same way as every other mod. Just drag the gamedata folder into the STALKER one, and merge.
Umm, where is the BKP folder and where would I restore the XML files? Sorry if stupid question.
Once you extract the .zip file, there are CORE FILES and XML_BKP. The last one is the backup.
sorry, I get that; where in the gamedata folder do these files GO to restore the default?
Thanks!
Under gamedata/configs/ui, I think.
Don't get me wrong, your music is good but i currently got a menu song from Silent Hill game and i only want to use that song for the menu. I have tested the game without your songs first, turns out without it the menu is completely quiet. So i wanna ask you is there a way to use your background while i still can keep my menu song. Thank you
You'd have to edit dynamicbg_autoload.script file, and change OSTS table, the one with all the music's file names. Detailed instructions on how to this are commented on top of the aforementioned file.
thank you so much
The mod isnt working what do i do?!
for some reason half of my screen is a super compressed version of the video clip and then second half is just a greenscreen??