Eden's Backpack Workshop (3.1) addon

yeah that was totally my idea, but this is just a primitive proof of concept right now. I wanted to make the crafting/repairing WAY more accessible and straightforward than it is currently, actually complementing the game. In the future if I can I'm going to completely change the crafting system and make the different backpacks offer different crafting options if I can, it's just a matter of if I can figure out how to do any of those things (I'm very much a beginner, I can't tell you how long it took me to figure out how to do this very simple thing).

Yeah other people are positing that idea but I was really going for like a Metro Exodus feel. And I'm planning on making the toolkits obsolete as well. Adding this feature to backpacks ties into my future plans, it just takes a lot of time to learn.

It shouldn't need a new game, no, I just tested it on an old save.

No problem!

Of course! Email me at michiko.hamasaki.chan@gmail.com it would probably be easiest that way.

Nevermind, I figured out the translation and updated it. Should now say "верстак" when set to Russian localization. Is this an appropriate translation?

It's not a bug it's the pocket workshop script. The mod is very primitive right now so it is just the pocket workshop, activated a different way.

Sorry I don't understand Russian, I can only use google translate. Are you saying I should add the option to open the workshop with the toolkits?

that's an idea, however it leaves up in the air whether it should check for other toolkits and such that you have or only use the one you right clicked on. I imagine the former would make much more sense. But if I plan on making toolkits obsolete then there wouldn't be much use for me to implement that

Read the description, it runs the pocket workshop script rn.

Oh no harm done, yeah I have much more plans for it. Actually I want to make the toolkits obsolete and make it so the backpacks supply different toolkits depending on the type. But ideally I'd want to get rid of that too eventually and just make an entirely new system reminiscent of Metro Exodus, but adapted to work for Stalker and with at least a bit of a realism approach in a way that is good in a game design sense and not bloated and strange

And my bad if I came across as cold, after getting comments like "haha nice bug dude" my brain interpreted shitposting as opposed to a genuine question.

It's the Release Candidate version of Anomaly, think of it like a beta. It's only available for download from the Anomaly discord through the magnet links they provide in one of the channels, but is a newer testing version than what you find here on ModDB. I got confused hearing people say RC18 at first too lmao.

I was intending on making workbenches useless just for the fact that they are too difficult imo to access with the pay requirement, but in the future if I can add my own workbenches in bases and such or modify existing ones to not require money, I could see it acting much more like Metro Exodus in that sense, allowing you some vital functions with the backpack on the move but giving you a small incentive to visit a base every once in a while to gather up everything you have and implement the best upgrades and such before heading out again. I should have thought of that though because that completely slipped my mind, so thank you for reminding me!

Do you mean like, how do you disable the requirement to have repair kits to repair?

if you're just talking about needing repair kits to relair, like how you need a smallbore rifle repair kit to repair 5.45 rifles, I was wanting to find a way to get rid of that requirement or just make the game think you had them but hadn't figured out a way yet

Oh, that's actually very easy to change, as the debug pocket workshop script has code for that. Go into my backpack_workshop.script file and where you see all the true false statements for each function start_workshop I made, there's a false statement at the end that when turned to true, makes it so that the game thinks you have 999 of every upgrade kit. However this means you literally can just upgrade everything from the start with no cost to you except for buying a better backpack to have access to advanced and expert tools.

Yeah, I was thinking of doing cloth and alcohol but I just decided **** it and did just cloth because making recipes to combine all of the different kinds of cloth and alcohol would bloat the interface, but you can totally add that if you want in the craft.ltx file.

Yeah compatibility for different crafting mods is super easy especially since I added new categories and recipes instead of changing old ones. Just need to make sure all the categories are listed in the right order and everything.

It really is annoying but unfortunately as far as I'm aware it can't be done without changing the workshop interface code entirely. There is a potential way to make it not close upon crafting an item, but the code is set up in such a way that the interface cannot update until you open it again. It might be possible to accomplish and I would really love it as a huge QOL feature, but I'm still very new to coding so I don't know when I can figure it all out.

Yeah I have no idea, there's probably some way to copy the inventory to make real time updates work but I'm not sure when I'll try to put in the time to figure that out. Been moving on to different mods and ideas so I might end up revisiting this concept much later

I could try to look into it sometime. Meanwhile you could try to merge the changes both mods make wherever it conflicts

That's very strange, but it must be related to the workshop script since I just call the workshop function. Any bug related to the workshop is very likely an issue with how the workshop was coded since my scripts don't touch it, it's just set to activate it the existing workshop script. Could be because it was designed to be used on a vice along with camera animations and such whenever you do anything with it.

Thank you!