Important Links to Modding Questions and Answers

[Nightwatch]

Here are some links to various answers and discussions from very important and knowledgeable modders, programmers on various sites and forums. (some are the members of this forum as well. )
I believe these links to important answers and discussion will provide and easy reference for modders and enthusiasts, saving them from entering long searches on the internet and from having the need of asking the same questions over and over again.

Please, if you have any other links and/or tutorials and/or links to those subjects, please let any of the Moderators have them, so we can add those here on this Sticky, helping new links not to disappear amongs the posts.


Basic Modding with Playable Examples
http://forums.filefront.com/s-t-l-k-e-r-soc-modding-editing/307191-basic-modding-playable-examples.html

Adjusting spawn speedhttp://forums.filefront.com/s-t-l-k-e-r-soc-modding-editing/344166-adjust-respawn-speed.html

Editing all.spawn
http://forums.filefront.com/s-t-l-k-e-r-soc-modding-editing/338466-editing-all-spawn.html

Editing all.spawn -(modwiki)
http://sdk.stalker-game.com/en/index.php/Editing_all.spawn

Help with spawning
http://forums.filefront.com/s-t-l-k-e-r ... wning.html

Creating Random Quests
http://board.oblivion-lost.de/showthread.php?t=10976

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Database Extractor
http://stalker.filefront.com/file/STALKER_Database_Extractor;77831

Importing MKV and/or OGM files into Adobe Premiere Pro?
http://forum.doom9.org/archive/index.php/t-105542.html

Creating a scene in 3dsmax
http://sdk.stalker-game.com/en/index.php/Creating_a_scene_in_3dsmax

SDK Tutorial
http://www.gsc-game.com/index.php?t=com ... &sec_id=16

MOD SDK official help
http://sdk.stalker-game.com/en/index.php/Category:MOD_SDK_official_help

Stalker Particle Editor Basics
http://www.hoogin.com/stut/particlebasics.html

Mod tutorials!
http://stalker.heroesradio.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=1069

Extensible Markup Language (XML)
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/

XML Comment Syntax
http://www.tizag.com/xmlTutorial/xmlcomment.php

Decoda - Lua IDE and Debugger
http://www.unknownworlds.com/decoda

Lua grammar
http://www.smart-mod-manager.org/other/lua-0.2.html

Editing Music and Sounds
http://sdk.stalker-game.com/en/index.php/Editing_Music_and_Sounds

OGG Comment Tutorial
http://board.oblivion-lost.de/showthread.php?t=10566


A simple converter to create Ogg Theora files.
http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/

VLC media player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

River Past Audio Converter Pro Edition -free trial
http://www.riverpast.com/en/prod/audioconverter/pro/

River Past Video Cleaner (converter) Free Trial
http://www.riverpast.com/en/prod/videocleaner/download/

Question on file hud.ogf editing in 3Dmax and Maya
http://forums.filefront.com/s-t-l-k-e-r-soc-modding-editing/357656-question-file-hud-ogf.html


Good Luck __

[MeanderingBeing]

By the way, Just wanted to say thank you for posting this. It has been very helpful!

[EggChen]

Nightwatch - Can you post the link to the VISTA compatible version of Perl here?

I think you e-mailed it to me, but I have lost the mail, anyway it may be useful to others too

Edit: Got off my fat arse and found it :

http://www.activestate.com/Products/act ... ndex.mhtml

[VINTAR]

Heres a link to LUA basics :

http://books.google.co.za/books?id=ZV5hXZ8QPKIC&pg=PA3&dq=programming+in+lua&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=0_0&sig=ACfU3U1dTzuvDoziASmnJ4Cbe_rfnHB9Fg#PPP13,M1

[NatVac]

STALKER SoC and CS SDK Wiki Main Page

Useful Wiki Articles/Tutorials

All links referencing to FileFront and Oblivion-Lost.de forum pages are no longer valid; FF's forum just went down without warning, and Oblivion-Lost crashed a while back and the resurrected English forum only really has the ongoing thread for Russo's ABC Inferno mod.

Also, the "Mod tutorials!" link to stalker.heroesradio.com/Forum is no longer valid; the forum has a policy of purging threads with no new posts within a certain period of time. They will move some threads into their archives, but someone has to be on the ball to make sure that happens -- and then the archived threads require forum membership to access.

And please use the [url=http://xxx]name of web page[/url] link form to keep the page from being too wide to read; some themes don't handle long URLs correctly.

[Hangman]

Minor question, can someone upload me a copy of acdc.pl? I'm runnning behind a nazi firewall and can't get to the site.

[Nightwatch]

Check this thread on our forum:

Modding Techniques/all.spawn and acdc.pl
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=218

My answers (from the top) number 4 and 6 has the necessary attachments and links.

Do not forget that you also need to install the Active Perl, suitable version for your OS, e.g. either for 32 bit or 64 versions. (download link on 4th post)