Can't get a single mod working Thread - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Chernobyl mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

Cheeki breeki, brother STALKERS.

Before I get into this, I just want to say that I’ve modded many games and know what I'm doing. I am using ver. 1.4 patched. Yet I just spent 8 hours straight last night trying everything to get CoC mods working and can't.

First I tried ANR. I copy the folders (levels, sounds, textures) inside the gamedata directory from the extracted rar and paste them into the main CoC gamedata directory. Yet there’s no difference in game after than before. The ground’s barren with only a few shrubs. The only way I can make it so the land not one flat bland blurry polygon is though r_radius and r_density console commands, but it's a work around at best and doesn't address the issue.

So after much frustration, I tried Arsenal Overhaul instead. Same ♥♥♥♥. I follow the install instructions to the letter and nothing. I can't tell whether it’s installed as there's no splash screen on boot to indicating (such as ENB and AA 2.01 have). By all appearances it's vanilla. Loading saves in comparison shows no change to the pistol.

I’ve tried all of this with both the Steam and GoG versions. I've tried JSGME. I’ve modded all three games for the past month successfully but cannot get a single add on functioning for CoC. I’m at a complete loss of what the problem is. The CoC folder is "read only" which I think is possibly the culprit, so I have disabled all UAC permissions and've taken steps to try to get the check box of read only deselected in folder properties but it always reverts. Still, no other mods have had trouble overwriting prior so I don't know why this one would be an exception.

Does anyone know what the problem might be? Any help would be hugely appreciated, for I don't know where else to turn.

Here's a video of my installation. I boot it up once to show and then install the mod for comparison.

Edited by: crpchas

Try something that add a fully new script, something like this mod. Then open log file in appdata/logs and search for the name of newly added script, there should be string: "* loading script 'script_name'.script", if the new script is not among the others loaded scripts, then there is some problem with loading content from gamedata.

P.S.: And you don't messed up with fsgame.ltx are you? In CoC it's configured to read gamedata content by default, you don't need to edit it.

Edited by: melighos

Thanks for the help, got it working!

Edited by: crpchas

How did you get it working? I don't understand what you did.