This is an improved new menu for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly 1.5.2. Includes VFX (FC by DeadEnvoy) and new music (Dead City by Alexey Omelchuk).
This addon was based on the work of Daniel Swahn in Unreal Engine 4 (ArtStation):
But it was completely redrawn with a changed color palette and added VFX:
The background music was taken from Alexey Omelchuk, one of the main musical composers of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Metro game series. The title of the song itself is Dead City (Spotify).
Faction selection menu (background art: artstation.com):
The credits have been completely restored taking into account the authors and everyone who contributed to Anomaly (source: dropbox.com, background art: Darin Drvld):
Settings menu (background art: artstation.com)
About MCM:
The mod configuration menu (required for patch) is supported and the patch for it here (send.cm).
Update (29/10/23): MCM support is now integrated into the addon and the configuration menu opens when you press the 'M' key in the main menu (only if MCM is installed, otherwise nothing happens).
Note: I work through a macbook via emulation (D3DMetal), which does not work correctly with the X-Ray game interface at a resolution of 16:10 and to check how it might look on other computers, I have to run the game in a small window resolution, which makes it problematic for me to evaluate the interface from the outside. Therefore, feedback is most preferable and welcome.
Q/A: Why is it raining everywhere? Unfortunately, its absence has a bad effect on the atmosphere and causes strong contrasts when switching between menus, so that it was the most smooth - it was added everywhere, as well as color correction.
Yes! Finally! Someone felt, as I did, that the atmosphere of the shadow of Chernobyl is delightful and gloomy! It's just super, Man!
good👍
Top stuff my man!
Awesome, brings me old feelings about Shadow of Chernobyl.
Respect! Well done
Damn if I had the skill for something like that I'd release it myself when I did my shoc menu addon. Amazing!
This is awesome!!!
nice!!!!
This is awsome! thank you for this man! 10/10
10/10
I edited some guitar track i found, added fire cracks, ambient strings, echoing, distant thunder and few distant gun shots near end of the track to make it perfect for this theme.. hope you like it :) if you want something changed let me know. download link here: We.tl
What you did sounds cool, even I thought about it to do about the same, but my goal was to convey as closely as possible the atmosphere of the original game and the style that the developers previously followed when creating the main menu, namely the addition of a couple of animations and static music in the background. No more, no less.
Hello Daedal, any chance you can reupload your version of the track. Tried to download your one but says the file was expired so was unable to.
Also how did you go about replacing the track? I tried to do it myself with a track, made it the same name and converted it to an .ogg file but when I replace it nothing plays.
Love this main menu and want to continue to use it!
Cheers in advance Stalker!
nice work, though I must say I love the original Anomaly backdrop - the vegetation reclaiming the realm... very moody and appropriate.
Спасибо! сразу накатил ;)
I. Love. This.
Great menu, I love it. Thanks! I noticed something though: the music only plays the first time you fire the game up. When you press Esc during play, or quit current game to go back to start menu, it doesn't play the music. Don't know if this was intended, just wanted to let you know.
Damn, that's good!!
Only wish there was an option to restore the original Exit to Windows button... sometimes i'm just worn out and don't want to wait for the extra loading and button presses to exit.
Amazing, the vanilla Anomaly main menu sucks compared to the original ones
Mind Blowing !
This is wonderful. Do you know if it's possible to force the music to play every time I pause? It seems that Anomaly doesn't like to play menu music more than once.
i once wanted that too, but someone told me that it's a engine related thing so it's not possible :/
Obrigado cara, isso é maravilhoso, me da uma gigantesca nostalgia do stalker clear sky, que foi o primeiro jogo que eu joguei, parabens
Someone buy this dude a beer.
Exactly what I needed! Thank you Stalker!