NVV - Guides (Early Showcase)

# Getting Started

Please note that everything on this page is a subject to change (WIP) so expect bugs/typos and if you do, you can send them to our Telegram. Currently demonstrating its features.

Welcome to Null Core - Visual Vault Guides. On this page you will find everything you would ever want to know about Null Core software for Team Fortress 2, how to configure it, how to avoid common crashes, how to make your own visual config, how to set up an aim bot and so on! We'll brief you on a simple markdown which will be used through all of the chapters and would help you to understand things better. Let's start! Here's common blocks - Coming to images, there are simple image blocks with descriptions which will help you with understanding or just giving you some context: And grouped images, good for comparing something which we will definitely do.

# First Glance at the Menu

Now if you aren't familiar with Null Core or you've never seen it let's start with its actual User Interface (later called UI). On the image below you can see the first appearance of it once you have it injected in game by clicking INS by default. Upon clicking on the icon, you'll see the menu with tabs and quick-access console commands for your own comfort pop up. Let's break it down - no need to hurry. Here you can change your steam name, custom name and disconnect reason, quickly reconnect to the server you're currently on (Retry button), fix your bugged in-game sound, i.e non-stopping pyros flamethrower sounds, sounds of cart moving even if it doesn't (SND_Restart button or StopSound which would be a faster option). CL_FullUpdate button can also fix various things like elements of your HUD (health, ammo) being invisible and Status button which will show you information about players on the server, their ping, steam IDs and so on in your in-game console. You can also notice information about Cloud Usage being shown. Null Core stores your configuration files and visual configurations in cloud storage which then gets synchronized with the cloud upon closing TF2 or starting your loader.

# Player Manager

Coming to Player Manager it's straight forward - first thing you'll see is a big window with, if you're currently on server with players, players themselves including yourself and additional information like NCU or Priority, or none, if you're not in any server. Skipping obvious headers like kills/deaths or players health there's two other headers which are NCU and priority you can notice there's two other tabs at the top left named "Recent" and "Stored" but let's leave these tabs behind and first talk about NCU header.
NCU (Null Core User) header will display yours and other peoples NCU. On other side, your ESP (Extra Sensory Perception) will display other players who also use Null Core as NCP (Null Core Player). On two images above you can notice there's three priorities, "Local Player", "Auto-Normal" and "Auto-Ignore". As they speak for themselves, they are automatic as "Auto-Ignore" will prevent from shooting your own teammates but will still let you target them with Medi-Gun or Crusader's Crossbow. "Auto-Normal" priority being the default priority for your opponents, which makes Aim Bot treat each target equally (priority-wise). However, you can ignore (prevent Aim Bot/Trigger Bot from targeting specific target) any player you want by right clicking on that player no matter where or under what header and choosing the "Priority: Ignore" option. To set it back to default or let's say, unignore, click on that player in player manager again and choose "Priority: Auto" which will assign a default priority based on that player's team. Besides these default priorities you can create your own, make aim bot shoot the target affected by that priority even if it's your teammate, automatically crit and so on which will be discussed later on. Talking about priorities, all players with custom or "Ignore" priorities are getting saved in "Stored" tab. You can export and import any priorities you want by right clicking on headers, and choosing the options you want in context menu. "Recent" tab will show you every player you've played with, when you played with that player and provide you an ability to open their Steam profiles by right clicking (works the same way in "Active" tab) including an ability to export that list as well.

# CVar Manager

Opening CVar (Console Variable) Manager in navigation menu will show a small tab with input box. CVar Manager lets you bypass various console commands which are considered as a cheat console command. For example, you can change your viewmodel offsets. Now, the command is considered as a cheat so we can 'set' sv_cheats to 1 to bypass it, of course server won't let you use noclip. Or you can enable clip brushes on official TF2 servers without any problems. For more CVars you can visit list of TF2 console commands and variables

# General Settings

Upon opening Settings menu, you'll see a window with a lot of check boxes and other tabs inside which can get a bit confusing at first, but don't worry, we'll go through each, what it does and should you enable it. Of course, Null Core's menu isn't perfect, it has a quite a lot of broken features, some cheat limitations only an experienced user might know and so on, we'll try to break down each thing. We'll start from top to bottom and from left to right.

# Configs

Null Core has two types of configuration files or, presets - the first of them is the ones indicated in the picture above (that is, preset named "Default 1" in General tab) which contain almost everything - from the aim bot settings to the simple text for spam in the chat. You're given 3 actions you can perform with the preset/config you have selected - Reset your selected config, import or export with little corresponding icons on the right. You can click on the arrow pointing down to open dropdown menu of all configs. Down below in the Settings menu you can set hotkey to quickly load your config but it's a bit different. No matter what key you choose in dropdown menu, you will still have to press F1-F12 with the key you have chosen unless it is set to "None" which will make the cheat load your configs by just pressing F1-F12 buttons.

# Networking

Networking tab is located right below configs tab, leaving you with three options - "NCU Visibility", "Optimize Networking" and "No Lerp". Simply put, NCU Visibility lets you see other Null Core users and vise-versa. For example if you are using default visual config which comes with Null Core by default, this is what you'll see: "Optimize networking" option does what it says. It will apply the best networking options and rates based on the server you're currently connected to. It is recommended to leave this option on since it does not interfere with community anti-cheat therefore it is safe to keep on.
"No lerp" will disable interpolation. Source's interpolation system prevents the jittery motion of players and entities by buffering server updates and then interpolating the gaps between these updates. With Null Core, you can disable the interpolation to gain a slight time advantage and overall accuracy with hitscan weapons. It is recommended to have the feature on but only in case if you are comfortable with jittery entity movements or want to gain extra accuracy.
You can read more about interpolation here - Valve Developer Community - Interpolation

# General Misc Settings

While we finish this page off, we have only a couple more settings left in the same general tab. Don't forget that Null Core is supplied with very handy tooltips if you hover over any setting so understanding them shouldn't be a big problem! For the most part we'll talk about why and for what reason you should enable it the feature!
Let's get things as simple as we can - "Suppress CPU Throttle" disables CPU throttling when you're alt-tabbed out of the game, resulting in game remain having consistent FPS. We recommend to have this feature on if you are running the game in borderless or windowed mode as sudden FPS drops when the game is out of focus can be a little frustrating.
"Block MOTD" - Blocks "Message Of The Day", a window which welcomes you to a TF2 server. Very useful and is recommended to have it on.
"Show Enemy Classes" (New) - Shows enemy class icons in scoreboard. It is recommended to have the feature on.
"Message Queue Send Delay" - A delay that is given before sending another message using "Chat Spam" feature. It is recommended to have it on "5.00" to prevent you getting temporarily muted.
"Ping Reducer" - Reduces your ping to a certain point. Recommended to use with "Fake Latency" paired to achieve legitimate ping.

# Other Guides

## Viewmodel Editor Installation

If you're struggling with a manual installation and can't look at text in a eye-blinding notepad, this is for you! Viewmodel Editor installation is pretty easy, now it's bundled with fixed viewmodels and a ready to use preset so the only thing you have to do is tweak viewmodels to your liking!

Let's start by downloading the mod and install it the way we do with most of the mods - Direct Download
Drag and drop the folder from the zip into your custom folder located atSteam\steamapps\common\Team Fortress 2\tf\custom
Open the folder you just extracted and you should see this with the same path If you want to make your own class presets by editing settings_'classname', you can either look at positions and X,Y,Z coordinates here or by opening two images inside a mod folder
In the following setting files you can edit pretty much everything you need - Positions of specific weapons, primaries, secondary's, inspection animations, removing a left hand or enable static animations! These settings are pretty easy to understand once you open one of them if you wanna tweak the positions yourself. Done tweaking your own viewmodel positions or installing one of the presets? Run the _GENERATE.bat file! If everything runs smoothly and you'll see the window as displayed above, congrats, you now have viewmodels with positions and rotations set!

# Contributing

Found a mistake? Something is broken? Noticed a typo or would like to give a better explanation? You can always contribute to NVV by correcting us at public Telegram chat or creating a bug report at GitHub.
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