Autumn wasteland grittiness, a texture pack add-on for potato toaster performance, good for DX8 / DX9 - r1 / r2. Most textures halved and capped under >1024. Derived from Autumn Season Redux, Autumn Dark & Structures Redux.
POTAUTUMN Performance Texture & Weather
This add-on contains textures from these other different add-ons:
-Autumn Dark
(The .\gamedata\levels vegetation details, leaves and LODs too.)
-Structures Redux
(Transplanted this from CoC.)
-Autumn Season Redux
(Most non-particle textures from this.)
Then these were compressed and down scaled >1024 with "Ordenador". Repacked as a .db for better loading performance and ease of use, don't expect anything too sharp-looking from this. In some particular cases, some LOD and water textures had been sepia colorized. This add-on doesn't need a new game, and can be uninstalled safely.
POTAUTUMN Performance Weather:
WARNING: This could crash your game if you have conflicting weather files from another add-on. A patch for potautumn to work with the Soundscape Overhaul 3.0 Stereo Thunder option is provided.
DON'T INSTALL THE PATCH IF YOU DON'T HAVE SOUNDSCAPE OVERHAUL 3.0 WITH THE STEREO THUNDER OPTION.
DON'T PATCH IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO, OR IT WILL CRASH YOUR GAME AND TELL YOU:
[error]Arguments : Can't open section 'collection_medium'.
Basically it's just some re-tweaking of the weather files to lower drawing distance and put the fog closer, kind of how retro games used to do it back in the day, clouds are more dramatic and the vegetation now sways more too. You can avoid installing the weather files if you find it too foggy, the vegetation too swaying or if it conflicts with other add-ons that modify the weather files at \gamedata\configs\environment\weathers\.
Installation:
The textures go inside the \db\mods folder and are in the .db format. The weather files are in .ltx format and go in \gamedata\configs\environment\weathers\.
Preferably use your favorite mod manager (i.e. MO2, JSGME, etc.) and set a folder with the \gamedata and \mods\db folders for your convenience.
If not using a mod manager, then just copy/overwrite the \gamedata and \db folders of each option.
Changelog:
0.3
- Provided a compatibility patch for the potautumn weather add-on to work along with Soundscape Overhaul 3.0 Stereo Thunder.
- Took off the green in many more .dds images.
0.2
- Fixed the thunderbolt_collection bug, reverted to "collection_default" as in the original files.
- Defaulted thunderbolt_period and thunderbolt_duration values back to vanilla.
- Defaulted sun longitud and altitud values back to vanilla.
0.1
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Other recommended graphics add-ons that don't impact too much on performance:
- Fixed Vanilla Models & Textures
- Dynamic tone map extended
- My little NVGs
- Shader Based 2D Scopes
- Anomaly Tacticool Scopes
- DX9 Time and Weather Based Bloom and Sunshafts
- Anomaly Sky Bloom Fix
- Reshade (Runs great even with the DX9 version and many filters are quite fast, my favorite filter is Luma Sharpen.)
Credit goes to all the creators of each of these previous add-ons, thanks for sharing! I made this because I felt I was loading too many self-made redundant files when in fact I could just merge their contents into a single new .db file for better loading performance and convenience, then after months of using it I figured out I could share it and others maybe could find it useful.
P.S. Find the rare Pepe.
Man you save my life ... I really thanks you so much you helped me soo much now I can enjoy game thanks you <|3 !
I'm glad it can make you enjoy the game.
really need that many thanks to you
You're welcome man.
Commendable effort!
I bet these will be useful for the Android port of Anomaly =P
wait wut
hahaha
Sweet
i only want to have the movement of the trees because my computer its still can run normally the DX8 in medium graphics
Good for all our potatoasters that we still have DX8, I run this too in a very old laptop with no GPU besides my other main gaming PC.
Hello, when playing with just the weather edits, i get this crash on start up:
[error]Expression : <no expression>
[error]Function : CInifile::r_section
[error]File : Xr_ini.cpp
[error]Line : 915
[error]Description : fatal error
[error]Arguments : Can't open section 'collection_medium'. Please attach [*.ini_log] file to your bug report
Game launches without the files fine. Is this the result of a bug or some time of conflict? Thanks!
same here how to fix!
decided to experiment a lil, game only crashes if the night.ltx and w_storm2.ltx files are in the weathers folder. most likely caused by one of those?
Thanks for spotting the bug, it seems I wasn't getting this error from having my data values from another unrelated mod (those using soundscape overhaul were immune to it, I guess).
I think I fixed it in 0.2, should not crash from this very thing anymore, but please report any further issue.
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FATAL ERROR
[error]Expression : <no expression>
[error]Function : CInifile::r_section
[error]File : Xr_ini.cpp
[error]Line : 918
[error]Description : fatal error
[error]Arguments : Can't open section 'collection_default'. Please attach [*.ini_log] file to your bug report
This happens if you use another mod that modifies the weather files, maybe are you using Soundscape Overhaul? You can just install the potautumn textures and avoid the weather files in this if you want to keep using soundscape overhaul. Too bad the weather LTXs aren't compatible with DLTX or it would be easier to handle.
Edit: I made a Soundscape overhaul patch in 0.3
I'm just giving it 10 rating because I laughed too hard at the title.
lol thanks bud
its okay to use with Moddb.com ????
Will be ok I guess, but each other will stack / overwrite on each other mostly.
does this disable grass?
No, but you can disable grass in the vanilla settings.
Works great, noticeable fps improvement and cpu load reduced. However, my pda is black and white now? lol
Heh, that's a feature, not a bug tho. You can install another add-on on top of this easily that would include the colorized maps, from the top of my head I think Classic Upscaled Maps, ILR - PDA, maybe even "High Resolution Maps" even despite being for 1.5.0. Another option is for you to unpack the original textures from the game and just load the original map textures over potautumn's.
Got it! your ideas about High res maps worked. Truly, this addon is a game changer for me. Great job.
Neato!
It really nice, my FPS increase using this texture. Many Thank's
Glad it helped!
FATAL ERROR
[error]Expression : <no expression>
[error]Function : CInifile::r_section
[error]File : Xr_ini.cpp
[error]Line : 948
[error]Description : fatal error
[error]Arguments : Can't open section 'collection_medium'. Please attach [*.ini_log] file to your bug report
stack trace:
yes i installed the patch
Seems like you installed the patch for Soundscape Overhaul without having soundscape overhaul 3.0 Stereo Thunder option. Don't install the patch if you dont' need to patch it. "collection_medium" it's only needed if you installed the Soundscape Overhaul 3.0 Stereo Thunder option.
Oh my bad
This is in the description:
POTAUTUMN Performance Weather:
WARNING: This could crash your game if you have conflicting weather files from another add-on. A patch for potautumn to work with the Soundscape Overhaul 3.0 Stereo Thunder option is provided.
Basically it's just some re-tweaking of the weather files to lower drawing distance and put the fog closer, kind of how retro games used to do it back in the day, clouds are more dramatic and the vegetation now sways more too. You can avoid installing the weather files if you find it too foggy, the vegetation too swaying or if it conflicts with other add-ons that modify the weather files at \gamedata\configs\environment\weathers\.
Yes it works now and its a huge fps boost thanks mate
you're welcome mate
can i use this addon with winter mod
I guess you can, but nature textures will overlap mostly between each other, yet maybe this will not happen to the buildings and vehicles textures from potautumn, which are from Structures Redux. Just be careful with the weather files or you can get crashes.
in my case I had the opposite effect, I use the 1k anomaly performance mod and it works quite well, the game gains fps without its mod, it's quite rare, but I guess it's because of Structures Redux
It works on Stalker GAMMA! except for the sound overhaul patch... It made crashes after I added to the mod.
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Im curious, is there a way to make shader based scopes work with dx8? Since you recomiended it, but it says dx10+ only D':
Q
I have installed several other maps, but they all display in black and white. What should I do?
Hello there i want to install Soundscape Overhaul but i don't know the correct load order
correct me if am wrong with the load order
Soundscape Overhaul
Potautmn Performance Textures & Weather 0.3
Potautmn Soundscape Overhaul Patch