So... its been a good 18 months or more since the last update and a lot of people likely wondered what was going on or thought Singularity was a dead mod, its not. The problem is just time as I get older time is harder to find to complete this mod but completed it shall become. Compounding to time restraints is just how old X-Ray is and how awful the SDK tools are for it both combined make accomplishing what I want and getting the right look extremely time consuming some time ago I saw Singularity (back then it was just called TK) compared to Crysis-like level of graphics due to how vastly superior it looked over vanilla Stalker, I still aim to keep visual standards high even today so Singularity is both as visually relevent as possible and as immersive as possible I have plans to once again improve visuals while keeping performance good (no point in having something that looks great if it runs like arse) but all of this takes time. The next update (oh yes there will be an update) I plan to add at least the start of some optimisations which should reduce loading times for people on regular HDDs and I'll be bugging Meltac to see how hes getting on with some customised Singularity shaders ;)
Aside from these changes and improvements I also plan to release remastered vehicle textures as the default ones really do look bloody terrible even for way back when SoC first released I just didn't do them until now because they are not like environment / surface textures the workload to do each one is easily triple but they should release as part of the update as I'm making pretty good progress with those at the moment. You can also expect the weather system to be refined, this might not make it in to the update but it is coming I just need to try and get hold of the guy I want to do this, if I can't, then it'll rest on my shoulders to find time to do. The update will also include improvements and / or replacements for some environment textures and some ground work for the Phase 2 project of which I have made a decent amount of progress with but building and compiling levels is long, long, looooong work so don't expect anything for Phase 2 to release anytime soon.
As for when this next update will be available I have written in pencil for christmas, so maybe a month or so from now, however this date might change a bit depending on what I decide to include in the update things that won't require too much extra work to include I'll likely add but the little extras are also the things that might push the release date for the update back a bit.
Thats all for now fellow Stalkers, I'll see you in the zone.
That's great Ket looking forward to it mate, keep up the good work.
Thanks for keeping us up to date. Those screens you've been posting look nice, too.