Decreased Bush Hearing Distance addon - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

But they can't...

Edit: alright to the special person who minused it:
1) A good portion of bushes are fake objects that are non-existent to NPC, they will see through it regardless;
2) Last time I checked with default configs NPCs already couldn't see you through real bushes;
3) If they go in "trying to find you" state, it's because they HEAR you (which this addon seemingly fix), yet they don't go into bushes and still can't see;
4) If you playing with anal pack that changed transparency_threshold or material power of bushes - unlucky.

Someone minused you?? Madness.... here i vote you up

I can relate, this happens to me too, some bushes tends to be a problem when you sneak into and the npc can't see you at all

i think someone should make a script that makes npc fire to the last position they heard someone, just to be sure someone does't explot the bush to be permanently invisible from npcs

They can't see you but they indeed can hear you from 1 klick away, this mods are fix that error. Or... if you don't feel convince try this mod too Moddb.com

for sure ,this 2 jewels together make your game fuc.king realistic ,i have it both and it's incredible :)

This business about bushes being non existent objects is news to me - but I'm not saying that's not the case - HOWEVER - within configs you can define how opaque bushes are to NPC's. In my stalker games - INCLUDING ANOMALY I always get hold of the unpacked configs and reset how well NPC's can see in the dark and thru bushes to reduce the frustration factor of aimbot death thru bushes and in the dark... Originally I discovered this when modding CS - and how I was setting it in that was using the enemy dots appearing on the minimap - ie. editing the player config values so NPC's didn't show up on the minimap until I could actually SEE them on the screen - then I used those values in the NPC config sections. These days I just change the values until it all feels good. You can also define how far away NPC's can see you - with different values for when they're alerted vs unalerted - and you can define how quickly they lose interest. The strange thing is that within the "terrarium" of artificial game world, setting vision distances that are actually unrealistically short is a necessity - else things get a bit too difficult. Realistic isn't always best for GAMEPLAY. Similar thing applies for sound distances and vision in the dark and thru bushes - it's about what works for good gameplay, not necessarily best realism - because a fully realistic game is actually crap to play...

Gamedata/configs/creatures/m_stalker.ltx - there are values for "transparency threshold" and "luminocity factor" as well as others for vision distance etc. It IS possible that something is done in-engine in Anomaly that means those values don't work the way they normally do - but I've made adjustments that seem to work as they should.

In other STALKER games there are different sections for each type of NPC (Bandit, Soldier, Stalker etc.) as well as sub classes within the types - ie. normal soldier vs officer vs specnaz etc. I can't recall which games (SoC, CS, CoP) have the different sections - pretty sure CoP definitely dropped them and SoC has them but I'm not sure about CS. Pretty sure too that people successfully just inserted the various NPC type sections into m_stalker.ltx in games that didn't come with the separate sections (CoP?) and it worked.

Another really good tweak is increasing or decreasing how quickly NPCs wil react and fire at you - ie. I generally make them react much more quickly. In games that have the different sections (I'm thinking here of my personally tweaked SoC AMK) I've tweaked different types of NPCs to react differently - ie. Specnaz will fire almost instantly they see you vs noob who will stare at you for a little while first.

I'm curious, how does editing .ogg file change NPC hearing distance? Does it contain some sort of hearing radius information for AI? lol

Also to anyone wondering if this is compatible with Soundscape overhaul (I got prompted to overwrite in JSGME) - it is, they're the same sounds

Interesting, thanks for info!

There's an ogg commenting utility called SAVandT which you can use to set variables that are defined in each ogg sound file. This includes things like basic volume as well as min and max hearing distance etc. You can find a download for SAVandT on this page Metacognix.com - you'll need to scroll down a bit to find it.

None.

That is not possible atm since the distance is bound to the soundfile

put it down to some stalkers being retarded and some being grizzled vets lol

the noise distance has been reduced through SAVandT, this program sets the parameters of the sound type and distance, so the NPC can distinguish between the sounds of a shot, music, etc.