The stand-alone mod S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly aims to be the most stable and customizable experience for fans of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games. It's powered by the Monolith 64-bit engine, a custom fork of the X-Ray engine.

Description

Aydin's Grass Tweaks ===================== A lightweight grass mod that provides 4 distinct looks to the games environment, This includes a lush spring preset, a dead winter preset, a vibrant summer preset and an autumn preset that's something inbetween. Its pretty much a collection of tweaks I made to the terrain/levels and details of the grass from the Golden Autumn Redux texture pack from FabioConte. This was made specifically for use with Hippo's Atmospherics addon.

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Aydins Grass Tweaks 4.0
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tint08771
tint08771 - - 669 comments

i don't know why are they delete his addons lol

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Mikagu
Mikagu - - 146 comments

RIP My FPS

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Fabio.Conte
Fabio.Conte - - 213 comments

Well done 👍

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tint08771
tint08771 - - 669 comments

why are they delete your addons ?

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aytabag Author
aytabag - - 67 comments

thankyou sir!

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D_IV
D_IV - - 93 comments

Fk yeah, looks very nice

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Guest
Guest - - 693,889 comments

nice

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Redroycemac
Redroycemac - - 87 comments

loading screens would be great , good luck

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goldgojira
goldgojira - - 15 comments

Man this looks so good, well done

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Theisgood
Theisgood - - 576 comments

I actually hope you add the winter grass, I am using the inferno winter retexture and I would love some new winter grass.

Regardless I love how you added two packs I have the golden summer redux and the golden autumn pack so those packs will be perfect with your grass textures! :)

10/10.

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heymexa1
heymexa1 - - 31 comments

I installed summer vanilla options.
Your modification helped me solve the problem of flickering textures (trees and grass). Thank you. But there are still autumn trees (texture flickering). Is it possible to replace the autumn trees too (in the summer version)?

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aytabag Author
aytabag - - 67 comments

there are no autumn trees in the summer version, the ones that still appear are the default anomaly trees that appear in red forest and parts of garbage and agroprom.

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heymexa1
heymexa1 - - 31 comments

I know that these are not your trees :) I ask you to replace these autumn trees :)

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Morpheus17
Morpheus17 - - 70 comments

Thank you for your good work, I really like the new vegetation because it drastically reduces the flicker. Could you please create a version with vanilla colors? I have already tried the "vanilla" pack but I find that it is too desaturated. I will be extremely grateful to you.

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aytabag Author
aytabag - - 67 comments

probably not, these were made to my preferences and id rather focus on fixing errors.

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Morpheus17
Morpheus17 - - 70 comments

Ok no problem I understand. I myself tried to modify the grass with the software GIMP but impossible to obtain a result without flickering and this even by exporting the included mip map. Could you tell me the procedure to follow to keep the same quality pls ?

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aytabag Author
aytabag - - 67 comments

dont use gimp, use photoshop with the nvidia .dds plugin

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Morpheus17
Morpheus17 - - 70 comments

Ok I will test that, a big thank you for your answer I will finally be able to create the grass of my dreams.

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MusicNote
MusicNote - - 14 comments

Try replacing the textures but make a copy file of each then try to so your game wont break?

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tint08771
tint08771 - - 669 comments

Taiga Forest Trees for winter ?

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aytabag Author
aytabag - - 67 comments

there is no winter preset yet.

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aytabag Author
aytabag - - 67 comments

okay now there is winter preset.

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helvgen
helvgen - - 10 comments

ellerine sağlık

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JW1cked
JW1cked - - 51 comments

Can I use this without the hippo reshade?

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aytabag Author
aytabag - - 67 comments

yep!

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Alex@1986
Alex@1986 - - 90 comments

Пожалуйста скажите мне древнему человеку я просто уже давно в anjmaly не играл, но часто вижу как у многих просто красивая графика, как на этих скриншотах, мягкая сглаживание, отражение на оружии, как добиться такой графики, подскажите эти моды пж?)

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aytabag Author
aytabag - - 67 comments

Enhanced shaders mod and screen space shaders mod are good places to start, as well as hippobots atmospherics which I have listed in the description.

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Theisgood
Theisgood - - 576 comments

lol all we need is the Spring grass and we will have all the seasons to choose from LOL ! <3

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Handsome_ooyeah
Handsome_ooyeah - - 119 comments

just curious, what makes this "lightweight"?

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goodelad
goodelad - - 14 comments

Hi! I like it, but are you going to make frozen grass like in Project Inverno? Because this winter grass is not appropriate for that mod I guess)

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aytabag Author
aytabag - - 67 comments

probably not, people can make it if they like

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Theisgood
Theisgood - - 576 comments

Where did that mod even go I can't even find the autumn retextures.

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aytabag Author
aytabag - - 67 comments

there in fabio.conte's google drive I linked in the description.

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M4ttlock2077
M4ttlock2077 - - 96 comments

Looks awesome thank you!

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Amoch
Amoch - - 1,541 comments

Looks great, thanks! :)

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Handsome_ooyeah
Handsome_ooyeah - - 119 comments

this addon just cured the fps drop in dark valley when looking at the bandit base

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milleros
milleros - - 287 comments

Does it work with simple Autumn No leaves…? Id like to pimp up
my EFP a bit

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Kentucky2510
Kentucky2510 - - 124 comments

Очень нравится трава из этого мода, находка для меня!

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Amoch
Amoch - - 1,541 comments

Thanks! This makes Anomaly look so much better, including the new trees (the annoying shimmering is also gone). Great variety, and it fits with the STALKER esthetics beautifully. This is a must-have IMO. Well done!

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Artemizio
Artemizio - - 71 comments

Очень классно!

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Amoch
Amoch - - 1,541 comments

Some trees have heavy flickering in the distance (and also fairly close). Look at the dead/brown leaves trees for instance in Zaton, north of the Iron Forrest Anomaly fast travel point. The flickering is quite intense.

Hopefully you can fix this, otherwise everything looks great. (I use the recommended settings with object quality at max, AFx16 etc.).

Thanks! :)

EDIT: I'm using the summer version with both grass and trees.

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aytabag Author
aytabag - - 67 comments

I assume you meant he 'shimmer' that occurs with the aliasing on the dead trees you suggested,

I.imgur.com

tl;dr, vanilla stuff im not going to bother with.

Long explanation:

if you are using any other preset than winter then these specific trees along with a few others are default anomaly textures and have not been changed as seen in these screenshots, this is a vanilla issue with those dead trees. if you are using winter preset the tree's have the same problem as they are duplicates of the corresponding vanilla dead tree textures (I did not make the dead tree's in the winter preset, these were from fabio contes winter mod that most likely borrowed them from simple autumn redux). This is three issues being compounded, i.e. stalker doesn't seem to handle aliasing/rendering well without anti-aliasing and even then, still rubbish, secondly the dead textures edges are quite thin and wirey as opposed to the fuller live trees and thirdly the mip-maps of the vanilla dead tree's are awful and distorted making things even worse.

This was somewhat remedied with the grass considerably by hand editing all the mipmaps, however as the vast majority of the live trees are at a much more acceptable level of aliasing (at least at my native resolution of 1440p) this was more or less a final update, version 3 was supposed to be the last, at least in the forseeable future I do not intend to go back and hand edit every mip map for every tree texture for all 4 variants, nor clean up vanilla anomaly texture issues.

three easy ways to mitigate this would to be replace the dead trees alltogether by copy pasting and renaming the corresponding live trees, or dropping the
mip bias slider to the left (tf_mip_bias 0.5) however this may be unacceptable to many due to a drastic decrease in texture quality overall.
and definitely dont use the winter trees, I dont, these are there for people who absolutely have to have a dead look.

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Amoch
Amoch - - 1,541 comments

Thanks for the detailed reply, much appreciated.

I forgot to mention I'm using the summer variant with both grass and trees.

Hopefully you'll reconsider adding an improved version of those dead trees at some point. The upgrade in visual quality with your addon is very impressive, and those dead trees are real eye-sores. It's really the only thing missing from your addon afaik, otherwise vegetation looks outstanding now.

Thanks! :)

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aytabag Author
aytabag - - 67 comments

definitely they are, lifestorock was doing the painstaking work of fixing up the mipmaps on dead trees but they were never released.

I might take a look at them at a later point but id really like to move on to adding some new weapons before I come back to this or my UI mod.

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Amoch
Amoch - - 1,541 comments

Fair enough. Please keep in mind that there are lots of options for more guns, but fixing those trees would be a major upgrade for maps like Yantar and Zaton. Either way, keep up the good work. Your mods are much appreciated!

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aytabag Author
aytabag - - 67 comments

there's no mods offering what I have planned currently but I will wait and see if I can accomplish the task :)

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_Zazquatch_
_Zazquatch_ - - 73 comments

Is the summer grass supposed to look brown? Trying to get it to look like the picture with hippos atmospherics but it just looks very dry, brown reddish almost like early autumn. Spring looks alright but it's a bit too light green for my taste :P

Would love to get summer looking as deeply green like the picture here.

Imgur.com for pics

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aytabag Author
aytabag - - 67 comments

It depends on the map, time of day, colour settings, weather and reshade preset. It is meant to be a more sun-scorched drier summer look, which is why I made the spring preset for those who want something more green.

If your looking for something a little less saturated than spring than check out this Moddb.com

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_Zazquatch_
_Zazquatch_ - - 73 comments

Nah thanks I'll just use your spring preset then. Idk why but your grass is the densest looking without performance loss and your trees don't look pixelated at all.

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aytabag Author
aytabag - - 67 comments

All in the mip maps, theres some sacrifices made with pixel real estate but i think the compromise is worth it some will look blocky in the distance depending on your mip bias setting (i recommend minimum -0.5, max -1.0)

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