The game is awesome even without mods but...

[Spy Boy]

Hey

I played Stalker CoP even before and not on Steam and I remember it beying so good experience by itself that it didn't require any mods at all, while to play CS or SoC I alwats had to use mods and Old Good Stalker Mods was my favorite. Here it seems that such mechanics as sleep/food are already in the game. But I remember that I didn't like a single detail - when camera is showing the protagonist from 3 person view, he is always without gas masks etc, even when they are equipped, and there is also no effect affecting vision when mask is on (no matter if mask is integrated in suit you are wearing or it is just a gas mask). Is there any way to change it?

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Well, it's just because you have the armor model with Dektyarev's head except of normál armor model used by NPC's. That's easy fix by changing few lines in "outfit.ltx" for the armor to use NPC's model (with helmets etc.) except of models with player's head.

The second thing - If I am not mistaken was never a thing in vanilla, so you'll need a mod for gas mask / helmet visual.

[Spy Boy]

Originally posted by Lebka:

Well, it's just because you have the armor model with Dektyarev's head except of normál armor model used by NPC's. That's easy fix by changing few lines in "outfit.ltx" for the armor to use NPC's model (with helmets etc.) except of models with player's head.

The second thing - If I am not mistaken was never a thing in vanilla, so you'll need a mod for gas mask / helmet visual.

Thank you for so informative reply!
So, then it seems that I need to change lines in that files and just find the mod. Can you point out those specific lines and the mod?

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With the mod you can try:
https://www.moddb.com/games/stalker-call-of-pripyat/addons/hud-reworked-and-extras-20
(haven't tested myself) or try to find similar HUD changing mod.

For the first thing - you'll have to extract game files into normal folders you can edit or try to find "outfit.ltx" and put in correspondent folder.
For the line you should look for something like that:
"actor_visual = actors\stalker_freedom\stalker_freedom_1.ogf"
But you'll have to know a model's name of course.

Usually it is stalker_FACTION_NUMBER -> from leather outfits 1 < ? to heavy armors. I think exo has own cathegory like "stalker_exo_suit" or something like that.

There should be also a file under "gameplay" folder (when you extract game's file) and in there should be list of variety of spawn-able random NPC with each outfit avaible for them.
(or just under model's folder)

Note: It's quite a long time I've tried to mod the game, so can't point you into every right direction.