Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (GTA SA)

[gritty isle]

Hi, I'm new here. I went through the pinned messages but they haven't fixed my problems.
My list of issues are:
White vehicles.
No health bar.
No sun.
Weapons display muzzle flash effect at all times.
Again I have read the pinned messages but they have not fixed these issues.

[olive dragon]

@gritty isle have You tried the installer? The installer should set everything up for You to fix all Your issues except muzzle flash. Which can be solved by forcing the game to use effects.fxp instead. You can do this via MixSets.ini
No3DGunflash = 1
Fix2DGunflash = 1

[gritty isle]

Is there a way to make the installer window smaller? I tried using it but the next button is out of reach?

[gritty isle]

Nvm. I figured out how to scale it. I'll update later on.

[warm thorn]

Try setting the in game visual effects quality to medium. That should help fix the shadow problem.

[gritty isle]

Everything is working as intended now. Thanks for the help.

[analog sable]

but that's the default and it still doesn't work

[analog sable]

soo the foliage a little further away dissapears and the sky is green sometimes

[candid sapphire]

foliage is a gta sa issue unfixable as for as i know

[analog sable]

😢

[candid sapphire]

I never saw this green sky issue, idk if you have installed mods in your game or if it was not a clean install

[candid sapphire]

Their might be ways to fix it with remix but i don't know really

[analog sable]

this is a clean install but the save is not but i don't think the save could be the reason

[candid sapphire]

could be

try with a new one

i know that my save without remix crashes when loaded with it

but my saves with remix loads perfectly fine

so definitely changes something

[magic scarab]

It's already fixed, and the fix is in the latest update of proper fixes on patreon

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[candid sapphire]

Yeah, patreon

i ain't paying to see foliage further in a 2004 game

[split badger]

It will probably get public

[warm thorn]

The sky color is likely caused by the time cycle settings. Probably need to make some adjustments to the time cycle settings to resolve the problem.

[solar cairn]

if this water was in sa remix... revolutionary

[solar cairn]

mixing this with the fallback light settings that i've been found will blow people's mind

[jaunty kestrel]

Literally it's a moving pbr image you can add it to any game

[iron anchor]

Literally to any, even in Doom if it would hook to Remix

[jaunty kestrel]

Wait i think I've told you this exact thing multiple times

[iron anchor]

Yeah, you did told that to Paniz once before

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[jaunty kestrel]

Thought so

[solar cairn]

it already hooks🧐

[jaunty kestrel]

😭

[solar cairn]

don't cry🥰

[jaunty kestrel]

[solar cairn]

vanilla water with terrain texture.

is there a way to assign custom terrain settings for different objects? this celashes with vehicles since vehicles use terrain textures too.

[solar cairn]

hey hemry, thank you for your hard job in creating the sa remix 😄, can we increase the water's enhanced asset resulotion?(or make it smaller, same)

i guess the resulotion makes it strange to be seen from close, if you look at water from a distance, it looks so beautiful and clear, but from close it looks like there are blue squares and borders in water

or making the water's enhanced asset smaller.

i'm figuring out something

what if we add a texture for puddles in the orginal game, and mark them as terrain texture?

the surface looks wet with terrain texture.

what if we do it for locazied points of surface? to add puddles.(which is possible via adding textures for puddles then marking them as terrain textures, but might it very hard since it modifies original game and we might need to put puddle textures on surfaces by hand in original game editor)

we could also make transparent-non transparenter points on that puddle texture so it won't look un natural.

[warm thorn]

Actually, there's no need to mark it as a terrain texture. I think you've edited the terrain system's material properties to make it more reflective. We just need to replace the puddle texture with a highly reflective one in Remix, similar to what i did with the "bloody puddle" texture.

[solar cairn]

gta sa already has puddle texture?🧐

[warm thorn]

#1097105394821759006 message

It sounds like you're having an issue with Moonloader. Your antivirus software may be deleting some Moonloader / Moonaddition related DLL files, which is causing problems. You'll probably need to check your antivirus settings and make sure it's not flagging and removing any of the required Moonloader / Moonaddition files.

[solar cairn]

thank you for your answer, will disable windows's realtime protection and install moonloader again 😄

[solar cairn]

japan in 1945:

[solar cairn]

does it also workes with 0.6.0? i'm using it 😄

it looks like i haven't done this step yet(to open mod.usa file

it's still the same ;c : @./SARemix.usda@,
@./Meshes.usda@,
@./texture/effect/Effect.usda@,
@./Light.usda@,
@./Materials.usda@,
@./texture/sky/sky.usda@
]

i'm going to try single player, samp might be incompatitle with it.

[solar cairn]

sky looks so realtistic without any sky replacements.

but here it's unrealtiscally blue.

[solar cairn]

beautiful glitches with samp objects and enabled directional lighting

it's far more amazing in a video, the lights colors changes and their location changes and new light sources appear whenever i move, creating a very colorfull and beautiful lighting🥰

[solar cairn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C219JziOj6g

the lag is caused by the recorder.

[quaint heron]

how the fuck do you have working samp ui while using remix

[solar cairn]

remix 0.6.0

also loco suggested a asi mod which converts's samp's chat to imgui😄(and the kills list) this worked for me on old remix versions but remix 0.6.0 is working out of box without any problems and any need to this mod. also this mod dosen't fix tab(players list) and the menu that tells you to enter your password.

[solar cairn]

best solution is remix 0.6.0 right now to compelety fix samp's ui 😄

[umbral swift]

looks so goof

good

but its too inconsistent . If they get consistency done in lighting and textures hell yeah. Id even pay money for a full done sa remix

[solar cairn]

i suggest to change the sky's brightness from 3 to 0.6 since it looks more realtistic.

[quaint heron]

how much fps, and whats ur gpu

[solar cairn]

i thing close to 60 fps or maybe 50 fps, i haven't checked but it's too smooth(feels laggier without dlss frame generation)

rtx 4080 super

1920x1080.

[quaint heron]

4080 super with 50-60fps

💀💀💀💀

what about me with rtx 3060

[solar cairn]

i haven't checked😁

[solar cairn]

set dlss to performance😄

but it might look blurry

4k is so so laggy. unplayable

but smooth on performance. in 4k resulotion

(and dlss frame generation)

around 40-50 fps without dlss frame generation on 1080p full resolution.

with dlss frame generation it's 78 fps(monitor's refresh rate)

[candid sapphire]

The performance are still shit due to alpha textures, we just need to replace them nd the performance will likely double for everyone, we just need time

or if you just play with remix installed and not our mods, in the runtime you can toggle off alpha textures, better performance but a lot of meshes won't appear anymore

fences, trees, sign etc

[solar cairn]

i thought my graphics card couldn't run rtx remix at 4k with a smooth refresh rate😁 (with dlss frame generation)

[quaint heron]

idk why people use 4k resolutions, 1080p is literally enough for me

if i had an rtx 4090 i'd still play at 1080p

[quaint heron]

the main reason is because its literally patch tracing, which is literally the most realistic graphics engine

but also the heaviest in terms of FPS

[candid sapphire]

yeah but gpus aren't that shit, the 4080 should have like 100fps, it's still gta san andreas

[umbral swift]

by the time this project is finished we wont have to worry about RT performance anymore lol. We could just rawdog it.

[solar cairn]

4080 super 120 fps then😢

[candid sapphire]

kim on a 4090 went from 70 to 150 fps with alpha off, so yeah 4080 could have 120 fps

[opal sable]

60 to 150 😛

[mossy flicker]

omg

[candid sapphire]

Doing trees cuz alphas are mostly vegetation

1am here i'm doing 3d trees my life is random af

[opal sable]

why not just use quixel assets?

damn they're not free anymore

[candid sapphire]

i got them anyway on my epic account hehe

but idk

license block them in unreal i think

[opal sable]

the quixel asset giveaway from october to december didn't have that limitation

but you needed to select the indie license first

[candid sapphire]

Oh

[opal sable]

if you had the free UE tier before, then yes you can only use it in UE

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if you followed these instructions during that time frame, the assets are available for use in other programs

[candid sapphire]

i think i did i have a shit ton of quixel megascan in my epic library

even paid one that i know i never bought

cuz i never bought anything there

if there's any trouble i'll sue openai

[opal sable]

that's fab though

not quixel's old license

[candid sapphire]

ok so

with the october to december thing they just gave everything for free to use everywhere to everyone that claimed the assets by that time

and i did

[opal sable]

but did you claim it under the UE license or the indie license?

because that still mattered

[candid sapphire]

indie

I just checked

standard license is indie

if it's unreal blocked it's UE license

chatgpt my savior

[opal sable]

that's again for fab, not from quixel's website

chatgpt is just giving you a lot of mixed up information lol

Fab's new license also has some terms in there that may restrict Remix usage. we tried emailing them for clarification but they didn't help at all

Quixel's standard license from before they switched to Fab was a lot more lenient

[candid sapphire]

but i have them and download them on fab

so why should i deal with quixel license if i don't even use quixel website

[opal sable]

fab's license is worse

you may not be able to use their assets in Remix without violating the license

if you got the quixel assets through Fab then you're stuck with the Fab license

if you got them through the older Quixel website then you have the better Indie license, which would permit Remix usage almost certainly

[candid sapphire]

I have them on quixel website too but i can't download them there, it just takes me to fab

[opal sable]

i can still download them

[opal sable]

you didn't claim them

if you had, it'd look like this

[candid sapphire]

shit

i have them but on fab

not quixel

[opal sable]

yeah. until we receive clarification on if Remix usage is allowed, you're kinda screwed unfortunately

[candid sapphire]

i mean, you have them

[opal sable]

😛 distributing it breaks the license

even to someone else who holds the license

[candid sapphire]

[solar cairn]

i mean super xd

i thought rtx 4000 cards are too backward to run rtx remix

[solar cairn]

it makes my game so laggier😢

what does alpha objects do? why they add alot of lag

[opal sable]

turn off RTXDI and NEE Cache as well

should see ~8 FPS increase from that

[opal sable]

they're assets from the original game. things like power lines, trees, fences, etc. all use textures with transparency

Remix does NOT LIKE that, and will run horribly as a result

once these things are replaced with high quality modern assets it will run better

[solar cairn]

thank you😄

[solar cairn]

water looks abnormal on remix 0.6.0 from distance

[iron anchor]

you know, it would be funny to see Criminal Russia with RTX lighting

[unreal cloak]

so funny

[warm thorn]

That's so true. My current job already exhausts all my energy...🥲

[warm thorn]

I've been able to pick up some new skills from working on VFX videos, things like photogrammetry, character modeling, clothing, hair creation, and rigging.
That will benefit my modding work aswell.

[candid sapphire]

True af lmao, I almost broke my back in a car accident and i'll have back pain for life now 😎

[analog sable]

port rtx remix to the unreal engine trollhd~1

[candid sapphire]

If I really do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIoqmgpYHlw

[candid sapphire]

@opal sable General Restrictions. For any Content licensed to you under a Standard License, you may not:

• allow any third party to incorporate Content into their own products, services, or other projects (this means, for example, that you may not make Content available in world- or level-editing tools or templates or other modeling tools that allow works to be exported);

Fab + remix is a no

maybe quixel is different but fab itself is

remix is a world editing tool and makes the assets available as it is so

no megascans for me

[lilac adder]

thx, I have 1000000 trojan malwares now

and it doesn't work hahaha

[jaunty kestrel]

Did you install the right thing? 😭

[lilac adder]

yeah but it's kind of buggy and I wish I had time to participate in the development

coming back in 1 year to see how this is going

[opal sable]

we can pack assets into the RTXIO format, which may make it okay

the wording there is specific enough that it may be allowed

[candid sapphire]

OH

didn't know that

i checked their assets but all vegetations one i checked uses alpha

[opal sable]

really? the ones i had downloaded were full meshes

[candid sapphire]

i'm stupid i thought translucency was transparency

or whatever the name is

it's full mesh indeed

[candid sapphire]

Does this look good ?

[radiant axle]

Looks weird.
No actual shape other than an oval clump, just branches randomly scattered.
Not saying it is not realistic, some trees are like that, but I'd look for some pieces with more style or interesting shapes

[candid sapphire]

i can't find a way to make it rotated around the tree instead of around the vertex its connected too

i used the hair system to spam the leaves

[radiant axle]

Blender?

[candid sapphire]

yep

[radiant axle]

Use geo nodes bro. They're my goto strat for everything verge

[candid sapphire]

i never used that

[radiant axle]

The scatter points on surface has outputs for rotation and Rotation nodes that allow you to make local and global space rotations.
One tip: if you UV map the main trunk properly, you can plug the UV.y coord in a color ramp node to drive things like leaves size, density, rotation randomness, etc.

[radiant axle]

They're quite simple.
The nodes you'll be looking for are (iirc their names):

• Scatter Points on Surface
• Instance on Points
• Collection Info
• Rotate Rotation

1. You will plug the input geometry node directly into the Points on Surface Thing node.
2. Plug the Points on Surface output into the Instances on Points node
3. Add all your leaves into a separate Collection
4. Add a Collection Info node
5. Plug that as input to Instances on Points node and tick "Pick Instance", and tick both options in the Collection Info node ("relative something" and the other thing)
6. Plug the Rotation socket from POS to IOP node
7. Plug the output of IOP node directly to the output of the graph.

You will see your leaves scattered with rotations based on your main trunk points, but the main trunk mesh disappears. That is expected

[radiant axle]

8. Add a Join Geometry node, and plug both the output of IOP and the graph geometry input to merge them both.
9. Add a Realize Instances node and then plug the Join Geometry to it.
10. Plug the Realize Instances node to the graph output. This will allow you to hit Apply Modifier.
11. Add a Rotate Rotation node and plug the Rotation socket from POS to it.
12. Plug Rotate Rotation on the IOP rotation input.
13. Now you can play around with the values to see how they affect your leaves.
14. Add a Random Value node, set it to Vector3/Float3 mode.
15. Plug that to the other Rotate Rotation node input and tadaa 🎉 Random Rotation in local and global space
16. Likewise add another Random Value Vector3 to the Scale input of IOP node to randomize the sizes.

[candid sapphire]

"They're quite simple"

[radiant axle]

Lmao. Yeah it looks like a lot but, trust me bro, it just works

[candid sapphire]

thanks but just for the nodes names

i never used it so i don't know which are the ones you want me to use

they're not the right ones

or maybe ur using blender 4 and their name changed idk

[radiant axle]

Yeah I don't remember from the top of my head. Gimme a sec

[candid sapphire]

Rotate Rotation and Scatter Points on Surface, I can't find them

[radiant axle]

These two are the core ones

The Poisson Disk mode allow you to define a minimum distance between leaves, which is handy to control density and evenly scattering

[candid sapphire]

ok thanks i'm doing it rn

[warm thorn]

Bro, tell you the truth we live in large scale simulated world. The trees are generated by math systems. So you don’t need to create the branches and leaves by hand. You can find some YouTube tutorials on using geometry nodes to do this.

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[round tendon]

proper fixes now fixed the vegetation from further away bs : https://www.mixmods.com.br/2025/01/sa-proper-fixes/

[wintry mesa]

Is it possible to run it in SA:MP?

[candid sapphire]

yes but i never tried it, i just saw people playing samp with it, check pins there is everything you need for the game to run properly, i can't help you to make it for samp tho

[wintry mesa]

Mb dm? bc i have many questions🙏

[wintry mesa]

Can you accept my friend request?

[manic forge]

heloo

after patching the game to version 1, remix doesnt launch with the game

can someone help?

but it was working before patch

[manic forge]

now my game just closes when loading in

[candid sapphire]

clean gta sa install + Auto installer

[manic forge]

alr

[manic forge]

Is it normal that the image gets fuzzy when you look at the sun during sunrise and sunset?

[umbral swift]

yes its the radiation

[candid sapphire]

wdym by "fuzzy"

[manic forge]

ohh its dlss

[candid sapphire]

Either DLSS or ray reconstruction

Maybe the mix

[opal sable]

no there's definitely something bugging out there

[mossy flicker]

wich dlss internal res you have?

i noticed that at 720p internal res

[umbral swift]

yes it does happen at 720

this is where tranformer model comes in handy. We see in 2 weeks

it not just happens in remix btw

same thing just way less strong can be observed in PT cp

[manic forge]

Yes

But at 1080p also

Only when i enable dlss

Imma try turing of ray reconstruction

[umbral swift]

does it happen at 1440p dlss quality?

[manic forge]

idk my display is 1080p

so ray reconstruction is the reason

i got it

[meager rivet]

All we have to do is use SA Remix auto installer 1.2 over a clean GTA SA directory?

[candid sapphire]

Yep

And if you're having freezes/crashes, in the app you can install remix 0.5.4 which is a known stable version of remix but with worse performance

but try it as it comes first

[meager rivet]

Well that's really convenient now, was more comlex last time I tries it. But for some reason my screen is really dark and draw distance a cuple of meters lol.

[meager rivet]

I deleted everything and started all over again, as soon as it downloads I will try it, thanks.

Will it continue downloading after this?

[candid sapphire]

i never had this error, either your internet or github died through the download, you should stop and retry

[meager rivet]

Ok, I'm deleting everything again lol. Fresh start.

Does it have to run on vulcan tho?

[candid sapphire]

yeah, remix works like that

[solar cairn]

(water is bugged due to 0.6.0 version, that's why it looks unnaturally dark)

[umbral swift]

is 4070 super enough to run Rtx remix smoothly at 1080p native

fine with 40-50 fps

[quaint heron]

i cant find anyone here who asked

[warm sphinx]

I have a 4070 super, it depends on the game

[candid sapphire]

yeah, it depends on too much stuff to answer, remix runs differently on each game so it depends, i have better performance on cyberpunk ULTRA PT on than gta sa with remix, so the gpu isn't enough info to tell you how well it can run

[solar cairn]

in gta sa, no.(without dlss fg)

rtx 4080 super in gta sa 1080p native with no fg:45-39 fps.

with dlss fg, probably yes.

[solar cairn]

somebody please fix water for remix 0.6.0😢

[open coyote]

is it possible to convert blocky low-poly sa models to smooth models in RTX remix?

[candid sapphire]

Doing them by hands

there's no straight workflow to make something low poly to high poly other than subdivision spamming which is probably gonna look bad and be a wreck to run

Or if you know an AI that can model at a high quality 👀

[open coyote]

what if we just extract and import models from definitive edition as it has high poly models plus it has pbr for every texture.

[candid sapphire]

Most definitive edition models are still the low poly ones

Also it's rockstar's models we can't just take them

it's just giving rockstar a reason to shut down our mod

you can do it for your own private mod tho

they won't know about it so who cares

[open coyote]

ikr

[open coyote]

yes thats something i could try

they are comparitively high poly bcuz they have smooth curved roards and mountain models that i noticed and it has pbr too which will look so good with path tracing

[candid sapphire]

Also, you don't want to smooth out terrain cuz the collision don't change so you'll just clip through it

the blocky terrain needs to stay for most part

[iron anchor]

yeah......though are we sure DE's got new collisions?

[candid sapphire]

They ai upscaled most textures, I doubt they did anything on collisions

[iron anchor]

they smoothed map, GTA SA was infamous because of that

[solar cairn]

I've tried it on blender, it doesn't look bad for most human objects and low poly round objects😄(not gta sa or rtx remix models, normal models)

[solar cairn]

Exactly.

I saw original game files and folders when i extracted the gta sa de edition.(In a folder, i don't remember correctly it was one-two years ago) They didn't even encrypt the package file of GTA sa de.

Rockstar just ported renderware to unreal engine, and maked the visuals-rendering to be done by the unreal engine(and the objects) but the game machanics are still done by renderware). Pretty similiar to rtx remix but with some diffrencies.

[warm thorn]

Don't try to subdivide old game models. Their simple mesh will give you bad UV stretching and make editing hard. Starting over with a new model is usually faster than fixing the old one.

[warm thorn]

Actually, GTA Trilogy DE wasn't made by Rockstar. It was ported by Grove Street Games, a much smaller studio, which is why the quality wasn't great.

[iron anchor]

yeah, combine this with a little deadline they presumably got, they surely got less than Revolution Team with Vice City NextGen Edition (but those ended up having a huge ton of glitches of their own in a simillar to DE way, or probably even worse)

[solar cairn]

yep, but i doubt if those grove street games members had the ability to code a such wrapper lol

[candid sapphire]

They did such a shitty job they are no longer in the credits of the game

so no they are not competent at all

i could work there probably

[mossy flicker]

wrong channel

[solar cairn]

grove street games team

[iron anchor]

Half of the new upgrades in last update where their names were removed from openning iname was made by them, yes, VGD didn't do ALL the work, GSG did some of their own

Besides

It was not their idea to remaster THREE GAMES at row!

They did with low Deadline as much quality job as Revolution Team did with VC NE for quite long time

(Both are hugely glitchy)

[solar cairn]

They're mobile devs, and they previously only worked on porting games to mobile phones. Rockstar's fault.

[iron anchor]

exactly, not GSG's, they tried their best

if they would be given just GTA 3 remaster and not whole Trilogy, quality could've been better

maybe not drastically, but still

[round tendon]

explains why trilogy was so bad

4 people did better with a more complicated rage engine with vice city

not so much of an excuse anymore

[iron anchor]

they didn't, its almost as buggy, also have AI upscaled texture in there, plus RevTeam surely had much more time, yet still got problems

sorry mate, i'm not interested in huge excuses about VC NE, when someone tries to convince me that VC NE is better than DE, i'm expecting it to be better, not to be on similar level

[round tendon]

still better than turd edition

i can point u out a thousand more clipping issues in D.E. too

at least vcng isnt bad at its core unlike the mobile versions lol ( de )

the only bugs i seen on this conversion mod were the crashes and z fighting which is generic for gta 4. the rest was fine. plus they gonna update this overtime too

and best part...they dont charge cocaine money for a turd

also, about time, probably about the same. around 2 years or so

rage is much more complicated anyway. and 4 people did better on a more complicated engine than 21 dei's did on a very popular engine

[iron anchor]

The fact that you will point them won't make NE better, genius, it will just point DE problems, its like if i would point at broken hole in house in front of other broken house nearby

[iron anchor]

Yes, its because core is freaking GTA 4 with all its things like swimming, while DE (and mobile versions) stays true to Original to each freaking point

[iron anchor]

Well, i'm very grateful for that, but i doubt you would use same excuse if DE would be free, or if NE would require money too

[iron anchor]

WRONG
NE development surely started after VC2 cancellation, and it happened in 2021, they had 4 years

GSG very unlikely had 2 years at best

[solar cairn]

what's vc ne?

[warm thorn]

https://gtaforums.com/topic/1000335-grand-theft-auto-vice-city-nextgen-edition/

[solar cairn]

thank you 😄 gta vc to gta v's engine is 100% better. but it's abondanded and dosen't work on new versions of gta v. gta vc ne tries to restore the old graphics from old gta vc as max as possible.

[warm thorn]

It transfers the content of GTA VC to the GTA 4 engine not GTA V.

[solar cairn]

yes i mean vice cry mod for gta v, not gta ne 😄

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt_BxpWCv7M

[solar cairn]

they had rdr 2's engine for DE... but they used mobile game porteres and ue4.

imagine if they just recreated object/textures and rdr2's engine.

[warm thorn]

Vice Cry just brings Vice City's map to GTA V. VCNE is different, it has both the map and all the original game missions.

[round tendon]

no they dont? theres a thousand issues with mobile versions. they should of ported the PC one

[round tendon]

even so, the entire thing has been rebuilt. RAGE is much more complicated than UE

[round tendon]

TLAD Filter

[open coyote]

There are PBR materials already made for full gta sa map but for renderhook shader, can this be somehow used with RTX remix?
https://youtu.be/SdXG0qIGsdw

[candid sapphire]

If you can export the textures from the mod, could work yeah

they will most likely use a specific extension to work for gta sa

[open coyote]

Maybe someone include it in this project if PBR for whole map is not made here already?

[candid sapphire]

Maybe not, they're most likely low res cuz gta sa has its engine limit, also that's called stealing

also the textures are terrible, it's too much displaced and too much destroyed, it's a poor neighborhood not at war

[open coyote]

No, you didn't understand, that is not texture, there is only PBR materials folder there and it will work with any texture pack, though only made for vanilla style textures like rosa evolved etc. and PBR doesn't seem low quality.

And the PBR materials only work with renderhook, and not with directx 3.0, I have tried

If stacking mods is equal to stealing then I am already a robber dude

But maybe it's the choice of you all, I just wanted to help, I don't know RTX Remix modding

[candid sapphire]

No it's most likely too low res, PBR is just a mix of multiple textures, for it to look good you need all textures to be same res, so they most likely are low res

[solar cairn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_t0bdK1bZA

[round tendon]

yeah i seen that one

probably because he was pissed at this situation

lmao who deleted that message

[solar cairn]

what?

[solar cairn]

take two?

[round tendon]

maybe it was auto

anyway

i was saying that apparently an ex rockstar dev gave that build

some beta ps2 vc

[solar cairn]

oh i didn't saw it😄

[open coyote]

Just installed, How to fix this? the healthbar is also missing

[open coyote]

I havedownloaded this from mixmods which is a very old version, the installer seems to be stuck in the starting even though the download speed is showing

[warm thorn]

If the auto installer not work, and you want to fix this, try the old manual method :
#1097105394821759006 message

[candid sapphire]

The mod is 6 to 7gb, if your internet or your hard drive is slow it will take time

OH i didn't update the auto installer on moddb

mb

[candid sapphire]

Updated

[charred knot]

hello

i'd like to know if there's any way to fix the black surface textures randomly appearing

new to this so not sure what to do

[charred knot]

right

and uhh it somehow makes the performance worse

ok well the rtx.conf pinned doesn't really fix it

[candid sapphire]

@charred knot sup, i think you need to have your game on low settings

You can have render distance at max tho

[charred knot]

does that have any noticeable impact on the visuals

(i mean it surely does though i wonder if it can be ignored)

[candid sapphire]

not really since lighting is not the original one

[charred knot]

o

so free performance basically

alrighty

[candid sapphire]

Yeah pretty much

[charred knot]

ok so that fixed it

thanks

ok well just noticed another issue

street light pop in

the lights just keep turning on and off

and whenever you face away from a light source in interiors they just disappear

[candid sapphire]

It's something wanted, a flicker to make it like it is malfunctioning

[candid sapphire]

That's culling, there's not a lot we can do about it as far as i'm aware

basically, the game not rendering stuff behind the player, but the light is linked to this object so it disappears too

[charred knot]

So its intentional

Though is there a way to remove the flicker

Not a big fan really

[candid sapphire]

if you change the code yeah, it's in moonloader/SARemix_Lightman.lua

[olive dragon]

open the SARemiv_LightMan.lua in the moonloader folder and change
max_flickers = math.random(3, 7) to
max_flickers = math.random(0, 0)

[sick glen]

is 12gb vram at 1080p gonna be enough when this project is finished

[candid sapphire]

probably yeah

It should get better as we remake more stuff cuz of some issues with transparency

and DLSS, RR and fg getting updated it should get better too

[sick glen]

is dlss 4 in remix yet

[candid sapphire]

Nope, and won't for a bit

[merry hare]

does anyone know how to make my gta san andreas run in 16:10

[wintry furnace]

Very carefully

[merry hare]

and lights keep flickering too

ingame

[warm thorn]

%GTASA folder%\modloader\WideScreen\GTASA.WidescreenFix.ini
[MAIN] ; Use this option to override the game resolution (-1|0|*). ResX = 0 ResY = 0 ; Set game aspect ratio (auto|4:3|5:4|16:9|*:*). ForceAspectRatio = auto

[merry hare]

what do i do with this

holup

ahh

okay

i see now

thanks

[warm thorn]

#1097105394821759006 message

[merry hare]

which folder is that in

im in it

moonloader

OH

IM BLIND

[warm thorn]

or you can change the flickering rate yourself:
max_flickers = math.random(%wait_for_min_second%, %wait_for_max_second%)

[merry hare]

oon what number though exactly

[warm thorn]

Ctrl+F

I'm using a development version that has extra debug functions, so my line numbers are different from the public version.

[fading sphinx]

Does this work on Linux?

@warm thorn

I've tried following the instructions but it's a little unclear. If I don't put GTA SA Remix in the game root and overwrite it with RTX Remix 0.6, it just crashes yet the instructions don't say to do that. There are four states of "Running" I have been able to achieve. In screenshot one only the LUAs are being loaded. in screenshot 2 I had just put RTX Remix in the game folder, overwriting GTA SA Remix's 0.5.4 stuff

The third state is just a green blocky texture covering the rendered part of the screen, that happens if I do too much of the guide on GitHub

@opal sable Any ideas?

[candid sapphire]

I made an auto installer, it basically downloads and extract everything needed in the game, it's an exe but you have the source in the git if you wanna try and compile it to work with ur linux

@fading sphinx

[fading sphinx]

Oh, sorry. I will give that a go. Most exes work so that should be fine

[candid sapphire]

[fading sphinx]

Also, a pin said it doesn't work on a fresh install, is that still relevant?

[fading sphinx]

If I press enter I can move it to the main menu, then I can see "Francis International Airport" and crash

[candid sapphire]

It is made to be on a frssh install

[candid sapphire]

Might be linux idk i never saw anything like that

[fading sphinx]

With Proton GE it looks like this

[candid sapphire]

why is it green

[fading sphinx]

I dunno

Still behaves the same though

But there's audio now

[candid sapphire]

that's weird af

it works fine on windows i don't know linux enough to help you on that sry

[fading sphinx]

It tells me to get the log files and report it to the RTX Remix GitHub

Nvidia Reflex works just fine on CS2

[solar cairn]

He's running it in wine, not linux directly. Linux doesn't support exe files or any windows library.

[fading sphinx]

Actually Proton GE gave me the best results but yes

[fading sphinx]

I figure it would be good etiquette to post the issue here https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/rtx-remix/issues/726

[fading sphinx]

It appears I needed to disable the default DXVK

But what now?

I think what I would need is a Linux native dxvk-remix?

[candid sapphire]

yeah you pretty much turned off remix there

so it just has all the mods and modifications we did to the game for our mod

[fading sphinx]

Seems that way

This is immediately after running the download all option on the installer BTW

[warm thorn]

The textures/meshes aren't loading correctly because of mismatched hashes. Please make sure you've only installed our complete remix mod files, with no extra mods.

[fading sphinx]

Yes

I will try again

What's GTA SA install #9 anyway? xD

[fading sphinx]

Fresh install of GTA SA + Yaniss' installer and it's exactly the same

[fading sphinx]

At one point this thing was nearly working but IDK how

[candid sapphire]

might just be the way proton works that is not liking remix

[fading sphinx]

It's working for other games though

[warm thorn]

Sorry, neither Yaniss nor I can help with this issue since we both work on Windows and don't have experience with Linux.

[candid sapphire]

AUTO INSTALLER

❤️‍🔥 **UPDATE **❤️‍🔥 Hey, so i haven't been very active and i'm sorry, but i decided to drop everything I did instead of losing it again (RIP HDD)

**App update : **

Changelog :

• Added an "Install Remix Config" button to update the config (rtx.conf) when needed.

• Improved download behavior to be more dynamic, eliminating the need for an app update with every mod update—this also resulted in faster downloads on GitHub.

• Added a new section at the bottom for optional stuff.

Download it here !

Mod update (Yes, an actual update that adds replacement) :

All changes before and after : https://freeimage.host/a/saremix.ezyX4

You can download it using the Auto-Installer

**Enjoy ! 😄 **

(I couldn't test the app nor the mod on another machine, if it's not working ping me)

can someone pin plz

[meager rivet]

😅

[candid sapphire]

Try installing remix 0.5.4 with the app, the 0.6.0 was unstable and might still be broken for some people

[meager rivet]

It runs fine, I was just amazed about this ram usage after just 5 min of play time

[candid sapphire]

Oh okok

If it works keep 0.6.0 it's way more optimized

[opal sable]

wasn't that just an issue with the mods you guys had for the game?

[candid sapphire]

I think it got fixed when i swapped the modpack to Aupx's one but i still have some issues sometime, idk if it's still from some mods in the game or just remix dying with all the alpha shit there is

[opal sable]

probably alphas

it's been 100% stable for me

[candid sapphire]

YES YOU HAVE A 4090

sorry

i'm not jaleous haha

[opal sable]

i mean that it's not crashing at all, but it was with the original mod pack

[candid sapphire]

I think it's just eating a lot less vram and ram

so 4090 is fine with the 9 to 12gb it takes

not my 3080 or any gpu under 12gb in fact

[opal sable]

i'll launch it again to see, but it wasn't using much VRAM at all iirc

[candid sapphire]

the more i play it the more it eats memory

might have a memory leak

whatever it is

cuz it's eating 6gb when i start it

but i often open and close the toolkit and blender when i open the game sooooooo

idk if it really is coming fro mthe game

[opal sable]

it does

[opal sable]

that's DLSS quality from 3440x1440

[candid sapphire]

overriden dlss to transformer ?

i'm at 4gb

[opal sable]

yes

again though, ultrawide. uses more VRAM

in different areas it uses less

looks oddly nice

[candid sapphire]

hmmmmmmmm shadow

[opal sable]

lmao

[candid sapphire]

hmmmmm flashbang

[opal sable]

actually hurt my eyes

[candid sapphire]

you're missing stuff btw cuz white cars has been fixed a long time ago

the script just don't start sometimes too tho

[opal sable]

yeah, i intentionally disabled the vehicle toolkit because it was causing insane VRAM usage on the older version i have

[candid sapphire]

oh okok

yeah

ALPHA

once again

[opal sable]

which usda file is the main project file?

[candid sapphire]

mod.usda i guess

[opal sable]

mm

toolkit doesn't like that

[candid sapphire]

mod.usda loads everything, and in toolkit it's another file that loads mod.usda

[opal sable]

had to rename it and set it to workfile instead of replacement

[opal sable]

mm. couldn't find it

[candid sapphire]

i prob removed it when cleaning before uploading

[opal sable]

it's okay, i made one

[candid sapphire]

okok

i was loooking for it and realized i just don't have it anymore

[opal sable]

just gonna experiment with replacing some alphas with assets real quick

[candid sapphire]

there is a TON of alphas

[opal sable]

well then

i don't think that's right

[candid sapphire]

the capture appears TINY

for some reason

never figured out why

[opal sable]

the lights are in a totally different place than the geometry lol

and a lot of geometry is missing

[candid sapphire]

OH

weird

i don't have that

[candid sapphire]

huh

[opal sable]

also, any way to fix the annoying running when the remix overlay is open?

[candid sapphire]

haha

i wish

it just happens

but not everytime

sometime you open the game and it doesn't happen

why ?

IDK

[opal sable]

always happens for me 😦

[candid sapphire]

try rebinding forward and sprint they usually have multiple binds

maybe they slapped alt on sprint i'm not sure

[opal sable]

well

the game was just using 30 GB RAM

[candid sapphire]

hm

[opal sable]

lol

[candid sapphire]

gaming in 2025 be like

[opal sable]

maybe the single replacement i did wants to use that much

[candid sapphire]

What you tryna slap real life in the game ?

[opal sable]

two plants. that's it lmao

OH no it's not the plants. the vehicle toolkit got re-enabled somehow

this is the version that had 8k textures that just destroy everything

[candid sapphire]

OH

You still have this one

no wonder it eats that much

[opal sable]

btw, why didn't you pack the installer as --onefile?

[candid sapphire]

it wouldn't want to

i used auto py to exe

and it was not happy when trying to

so i just packed it like that

[opal sable]

it looks like there are some extra python libraries included too. annoyingly it'll just pack all of the packages you have installed, regardless of whether or not the script needs them

[candid sapphire]

huh

yeah

[opal sable]

i usually make a separate conda environment that's blank, except for any required packages

but if you do get it packaged in one file, you can send it to microsoft to verify it as safe. no more false positives

[candid sapphire]

it gets false positive ?

i don't know shit about that lmao i learned python just for that app

"learned"

asked claude sonnet

[opal sable]

yes. unfortunately pretty much any python script packed as an exe will have false positives, because this method is used commonly in malware

i switched to using rust for the remix downloader because of this

[candid sapphire]

okok, i asked a friend to try it on his pc and he didn't tell me about antivirus going crazy so idk

is it smartdefender thingy when opening it ?

[opal sable]

i mean on virustotal

looking at it again, it's actually not detected by microsoft, so i guess it's fine

[candid sapphire]

yeah cuz it was having false positive at some point cuz of how i was doing it, i looked a bit on forums and used other stuff to get it less "malwary" and it went away

so i guess thanks stackoverflow

[opal sable]

unfortunately it'll usually be detected after a few different people run it

still worth sending it in imo

i couldn't run it to test right now, but this is the packed version of v1.3 of your script from github

if you can set up github actions to build this instead of manually uploading it to github, it'd be a lot better

https://github.com/Kim2091/RTX-Remix-Downloader/blob/python-backup/.github/workflows/build-release.yaml
this was the workflow for the downloader, which also used pyinstaller

[candid sapphire]

it's like, i drop the code and github just compiles it for me ?

[opal sable]

you update the repo (a single py file, instead of multiple like you have right now), then make a new release. github would then compile it for you and attach it to the release

[candid sapphire]

oh

ok

[opal sable]

but i'm not sure how you'd go about including 7z

[candid sapphire]

can't i drop the portable folder in the repo and include it in the yaml as additional ?

[opal sable]

probably, yeah

[candid sapphire]

i'll try that thanks

i didn't know that existed

[opal sable]

claude is great with workflows like this, so it should be pretty easy 🙂

and np

[candid sapphire]

also can my last update message plz ?

[opal sable]

i dunno what you mean

[candid sapphire]

HAHA

I forgot a part

can you pin my last update message

is what i meant

#1097105394821759006 message

this

[candid sapphire]

(all done thanks it's way better like this)

[opal sable]

🙂

that's not quite the setup i'd suggest. those types of builds actually expire after 3 months

      uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
      with:
        generate_release_notes: false
        files: |
          ./RTX Remix Downloader.exe```
this is the way i do it for the downloader

https://github.com/Kim2091/RTX-Remix-Downloader/blob/master/.github/workflows/rust.yml

when i do that and make a new tag and release, it'll build it automatically and attach it. these never expire

[candid sapphire]

oh you can make releases out of this

ok i'll change it

[opal sable]

@candid sapphire you need to zip it before trying to push the release, because your current workflow will only attach the exe without the 7z files

[candid sapphire]

i think it's done

[opal sable]

looks right to me 🙂

you tested the exe?

[candid sapphire]

yep works fine

[opal sable]

so in your pinned post, i'd just link to the release then 🙂

glad it's working now

[candid sapphire]

thanks for the help 👌

[opal sable]

last piece of advice: remove the version number from the .py file in the repository, and from the workflow file. that way you don't need to rename it every time & edit the workflow file

[mighty sapphire]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYNggJzkrmw

[olive dragon]

new volumetric settings in the latest runtime allows for some pretty nostalgic looking haze

[iron anchor]

i bet its baked haze like in Mobile version of DE, which takes whole city

[candid sapphire]

We can't do localized ambients for now so yeah it will look like this on the entire map

[iron anchor]

https://tenor.com/view/i-knew-it-george-clooney-ticket-to-paradise-as-i-suspected-shouldve-known-gif-26105489

[opal sable]

@candid sapphire the new texture streaming stuff in Remix fixed the insane RAM usage, even with the old vehicle toolkit

it's only at 8 GB instead of 40

[candid sapphire]

oh

[candid sapphire]

nice

16k texture going crazy

[opal sable]

yeah

i'd say it's still way overkill lol

[olive dragon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYADPeNPYZM

[candid sapphire]

I missclicked on blender at 1am and ended up making 3 replacements, it's 4:18 am now help me

[radiant axle]

The feet support in the barstools are a bit of a thick tube lol.
You can make them thinner by selecting the tubes with Ctrl+L and Shift+Alt+S to scale along normals

[candid sapphire]

what's a barstool ?

oh

the chair

[candid sapphire]

you don't know how many different searches i made to find how to make this shit thinner

yeah that's way better

[opal sable]

tbh i'd say even a bit smaller

less tall specifically

[radiant axle]

hmm yeah, looking much better

[candid sapphire]

idk less tall looks weird to me

[warm thorn]

This isn't the exact same one, but using real world references always helps create better results.

[opal sable]

yeah these bars are meant to be pretty small

i guess the original design doesn't have that, but i dunno why tbh

it'd be impossible to use at the size they are

[candid sapphire]

Yeah the original model has them THICK

so i just made them like it was, i litteraly looked at the og model while making it

5:10 am i need to sleep i'll fix that tmrw

[elder river]

Good work, I agree thinner rings on the bar stool though. I'm not sure where this prop is ingame but maybe they're thicker on the original because they're meant to be a different material, perhaps wooden/rattan/bamboo/wicker/cane?

[candid sapphire]

the one on the right on the ss is the og model with og tex, this game has shitty textures so hard to understand what it's supposed to be

it's in one of the strip clubs btw

[solar cairn]

which interior it is?

[olive dragon]

@solar cairn The interior is from a GTA V Bahama Mama's mod. There's a couple but I think the one I have is the Evolution Undercover one by Michelle_Works . The peds come from Urbanize by Junior_Djjr as a optional.

[candid sapphire]

does this look good ?

[candid sapphire]

If you're playing GTA SA with remix, you'd need to create a new CLEAN GTA SA FOLDER and then install the mod and remix on it, updating previous version to the new one seems to completely break the install

[olive dragon]

All the new stuff in it is too good to pass up bro. We need to get this fixed up.

[candid sapphire]

I can't even run the game anymore for some reason, idk what this 1.0 did but it entirely fucked up the installation

[candid sapphire]

Ok, I just tried a few stuff and for some reason it started working again

if you want to use 1.0 don't just update, create a new install, clean GTA SA files

clean gta sa + auto installer and it should work fine

[candid sapphire]

cj's getting an upgrade

texture might be too clean tho, i haven't looked too much into it, idk it looks a bit too luxurious to me

[olive dragon]

yeah texture doesn't really fit in either the vanilla game IMO. it;s like it belongs to a completely different prop.

I'd suggest taking some creative liberty here and match it more to the other sections of the deck there. Model looks good though.

[candid sapphire]

I could try a grey rock yh

Yh that's better

[iron anchor]

I might pressume that texture belonged to MadDog's mansion thing and got a little recolored

[wintry furnace]

mmmmmmmm

That don't look too good to me

[opal sable]

that kind of thing is supposed to be smooth, slightly polished

get rid of the height map, make it glossier

and make the base texture a bit brighter with some more contrast

that should look pretty close to what i've seen IRL for these

[opal sable]

less yellow too

[toxic elk]

I can't seem to run the installer, it keeps showing this

[candid sapphire]

for some reason you can't load the image in the welcome page of the app

i tried and it loads on my side, and the image still exists on the website

i'll update the installer to remove the image cuz could be a website locked in some countries

[candid sapphire]

https://github.com/KCDQYaniss/SARemix-Installer/releases Updated, download the last version and try again it should work fine

[toxic elk]

oh damn this worked

thanks a lot for the fix

[peak zinc]

The ground keeps showing grey boxes as I move

[floral wedge]

Could one re-use the grass from the new hl 2 rtx and re use it here?

That'd be pretty fancy i assume.

Idk how exactly intensive grass can be in RTX remix, though.

But seeing this grass on the flat-green areas would be pretty big.

One could also re-color them a bit

[candid sapphire]

Visual FX in game settings to low should fix it

[candid sapphire]

That's possible, I already tried a while ago and it looked insane

[floral wedge]

Woah

Its not perfomant tho right?

It would massively increase the Fidelity of SA since Vegetation Always was a weak point

[candid sapphire]

When I did it it was shit yeah

[floral wedge]

Imagine filling a forest with it💀

[candid sapphire]

But it was remix 0.2 or 0.3 idr

It could work now that the performance are way better and memory has been optimized a lot

On the mods moddb page there's a screenshots using the 3d grass if you want to see how it looked

[floral wedge]

Can you link it!@candid sapphire

I suck at using mod db

[candid sapphire]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/sa-remix

(don't look at this banner it's dogshit)

[olive dragon]

do it!

[floral wedge]

Shiiit..

One needs to try it now

That would transform the entire project.

[candid sapphire]

I could try again but rn the toolkit is buggy, can't ingest, so when it's fixed

Also i'm spamming tarkov and fragpunk

[floral wedge]

Will probably be fixed soon

[floral wedge]

How does one play tarkov without going insane

I just cant man, i wish i could refund

[olive dragon]

https://tenor.com/view/paddling-gif-7623907

[candid sapphire]

I never said my mental state was stable

[floral wedge]

Every tarkov player lol

I mean honestly the game gets this right. You do not end up mentally healthy from a real gunfight either

[radiant axle]

Getting grass to work in hl2rtx was insanely tricky. Mark had to implement GPU instancing (GeomPointInstancer) for that to work.
The painted grass needs to have relatively small clumps to avoid blades clipping through or floaing above uneven terrain, that results in 1000s of individual instances

So the resulting painted grass usda had to be run through a script to convert them to pointInstancer format

[warm thorn]

Will grass clumps clipping through each other cause performance issues?

[radiant axle]

Nope. That is fine. If it does causes, might be on a much smaller magnitude compared to everything else

[floral wedge]

Theres no way we filling out these landscapes🤣

We can actually see grass here!

[warm thorn]

That's good to hear. I could create an in-game scatter script to save grass positions as a single USDA file. If overlapping doesn't significantly impact performance, implementation should be straightforward. And if overlapping does cause serious performance issues, adding a simple custom distance boundary check wouldn't be difficult either.

[radiant axle]

Yeaaahh, no lol
You guys will definitely need to come up with a better strat to get that much grass coverage @warm thorn
For such a large area, it is really important to consider culling, LODs, etc.

Think you can write an ingame LOD script to add and remove "anchor" meshes based on camera distance? Grass instances can be attached to these anchor meshes and disappear when not close enough

Also, the usd composer tools I made have support for paint brush scatter with custom mesh_HASH anchors now (unreleased yet) for this exact strategy

[warm thorn]

I'm not sure how Lua will perform when handling a few thousand clumps per frame. I might need more optimized code like a grid-based or quadtree-based implementation. (I've actually already used quadtree generation in my streetlight script, though I haven't released that version yet.)

[lone basin]

How playable is this mod at this point in time?

Been debating checking it out now or waiting longer still

[warm thorn]

The game is pretty playable, but it's experiencing memory leak issues after Remix 0.54. Also, many assets remain untouched. The project has been on hold for a while since both Yaniss and I have been quite busy recently. However, I've got some free time now, so I'll be continuing work on it again.

[lone basin]

Sounds good ill give it a little more time, will be super nice to dive into with a fresh coat of paint. Thank you for all your hard work guys

[floral wedge]

Wasnt the memory issue fixed in the latest version

I heard WAY less ram usage or Something

[lone basin]

Clean.

[candid sapphire]

I don't think there is any memory leak anymore with 1.0

i runned the game for an hour twice with a consumption monitor linked to the bridge, other than the fact that my gpu was the bottleneck it was fine

[warm thorn]

I still have memory leak issue with 1.0 release...

[candid sapphire]

that's so weird

[olive dragon]

I think it depends on which mods are running

[candid sapphire]

maybe

@warm thorn do you have anything else than what is installed with the installer ?

cuz i don't have any issues other than the RR being all glitchy at times

ik i had a fov mod that was making the game stutter so anything can create these issues really

[olive dragon]

The installer You have now doesn't have this issue if I clean install it, but as soon as I drop the files in from Hemry's original version in it will start with the memory leaks.

[candid sapphire]

i think vehfunc is creating the issues

that's the only thing that is both on the ss and the hemry modpack in the isntaller

for me it just crashes when i install vehfunc sooooo

might be doing some shit remix don't like

[olive dragon]

Hmm if I remember right, For Me I think it was missing some stuff that was never getting installed originally. I downladed it from mixmods I think and reinstalled it then it worked fine with remix... besides the mem leaks. but I'm not sure that's the cause there yet.

CrashInfo should give you a log though if you have it installed

https://www.mixmods.com.br/2022/09/crashinfo/

[warm thorn]

Woo, direct light flickering is finally fixed

[warm thorn]

I tried the installer's modpacks and they still have memory leak issues, though they're not as severe as with my previously recommended modpack.

However, disc light movement is still noticeably smoother than direct light.

[radiant axle]

No, you don't need to manage the grass instances yourself, just anchor meshes (could be a floating triangle, a cube, etc., as long as each will have their distinctive mesh hash), then remix comes in and replaces them with grass instances on the ground

[olive dragon]

admittedly I haven't tested the new installer for that long but I did noticed that even the ROSA RTX Remix has memory leaks as well so that's most likely a issue through any configuration.

[lone basin]

You need 1.0 for this installer or steam version work fine?

[olive dragon]

the installer downgrades it for you I believe

[lone basin]

gorgeous, if thats the case i might as well check out whats going on now lol

[warm thorn]

Even without any mods installed (neither modloader nor moonloader mods), the memory leak issue still exists after Remix 0.54 build, so I'm pretty confident it's a Remix issue. On the positive side, the visual quality has improved significantly with the transformer model and NRC with Remix 1.0.

[olive dragon]

Yeah I guess we'll have to formulate a proper bug report

0.54 never shows this behavior so it can't be that hard of a fix I guess

[lone basin]

This is kinda crazy i wont lie

[warm thorn]

I still need to manage a few thousand instances (even it's just a simple triangle) to address the performance issues when transitioning from CPU instancing to GPU instancing. This is particularly important since the objects are dynamic - being generated and despawned on each frame or every few milliseconds.

[radiant axle]

Think you're confusing the idea. Imagine you will spawn one anchor mesh every 30 meters in a grid, and they get culled away when, say, after 100 meters of distance from camera.
Now you paint the grass on the terrain, attaching all the 1000s of instances for that patch to the nearest anchor mesh_HASH, so when the Lua script culls the anchor, all the instances go away with it

[warm thorn]

Wow, you're very clever! Why didn't I think of that before?😅

[candid sapphire]

idk if that's gonna look good, there's whole forest in this game

[radiant axle]

Should work very decently. Something like that
Each anchor .USD painted data should have between 200kb to 1mb since it is only storing points, kinda

[floral wedge]

Damn

[warm thorn]

1. Does your USD composer addon handle face normals? Since Moonloader doesn't allow reading mesh properties, I'm concerned that if I spawn grass in game, it will all stand straight up rather than following the terrain's curvature.
2. Do you have a release date for the USD Composer Remix Renderer addon? https://discordapp.com/channels/1028444667789967381/1028600697463263314/1337212866490667070

[lone basin]

what am i doing wrong?

[radiant axle]

1. You don't need to spawn grass via Lua, just spawn the achor meshes in the sky or under the terrain or anywhere, then take a capture of them. Open USD composer, paint all the grass and details and whatever you like, all attached to the captured anchor and save the USD file. The Paint Brush tool supports "Conform to surface" so yeah assets rotate with the normal
2. Nope, that was just an experiment I was playing with. I didn't quite work as expected and was crashing too much on my end

[warm thorn]

In-game, press "Esc" to go to the options menu. Then, go to Display setup > Advanced > Visual FX Quality and set it to Medium. This should fix some of the shadow (black surface) issues.

[lone basin]

Thank you

Very cool to see real-time in GTA SA keep it up guys cant wait to see whats to come

[warm thorn]

Thanks! I've learned something new from my recent work, so the next update of the mod may include detailed objects like this :
https://discordapp.com/channels/1028444667789967381/1196836285545971712/1330230210666434674

[lone basin]

Yah thats pretty crazy

Is there any way to warm the lighting a bit?

[olive dragon]

https://tenor.com/view/man-cant-believe-shookt-surprised-mind-blown-gif-8714188

[floral wedge]

Lets not bump our vram into insanity

I dont think everyone who wants to play this one day has 80GB vram server gpus

[candid sapphire]

you can open the mod in the toolkit and change the sun color following the real sun light color but a way to do it in real time i don't think so

maybe in the usda file but idk

and yes you have to kinda know what you're doing

[floral wedge]

It looks crazy though, Like a cropped picture of a real shoe. Is this done via photogrammetery?

@warm thorn

[warm thorn]

Yes, the original mesh and texture are from a worn shoe I downloaded from Sketchfab. I made some mesh adjustments and recreated the texture details in Substance Painter.
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/worn-new-balance-990-ar-25b9ae0b32a44240a22b76558b446198

[floral wedge]

Ahh nice! I tried photogrammetery once but with my arse Phone camera i only got slop. no idea how people do it this Detailed

I do wonder how optimized these models would be for games.

I saw a part of a german city fully modeled into unreal engine, give me one second

https://youtu.be/UVvNJX3WTgQ?si=a9uq5NYcO_bysj4-

Yeah that looks insane

Thats gotta be a couple thousand pictures

These guys do have a service available i think

Lets Just take photos of the entirety of los angeles and slap em into remix 🤣

[warm thorn]

It's not actually very high-poly just around 30K triangles (compared to some tree, grass models in other Remix mods). Remix path tracing renderer handles high-poly objects well, so don't worry about polygon count. 4K PBR textures consume much more memory than a 1 million polygon model. For comparison, a 4K (4096×4096) PBR texture set with color, normal, roughness, and metallic maps can use approximately 256-512 MB of VRAM, while a 1 million polygon model might only require about 20-40 MB of memory.

[floral wedge]

Holy damn

Wouldnt this literally transform gaming?

Whats the catch?

Are these models able to like, to reflect

[warm thorn]

All you need for this is a powerful GPU capable of real-time path tracing - at least an RTX 3060 or better. Remix is a highly optimized path tracing renderer, so if your hardware can run real-time path tracing well, polygon count isn't an issue.

[floral wedge]

Sounds good

[iron anchor]

because it doesn't have this

[candid sapphire]

the "definitively better" part looks weird

almost like you painted on some text that you wanted to hide

[iron anchor]

i just couldn't do it better and there is no clear version of this without DE words

[warm thorn]

Bro, don't worry. We artists can create it from scratch. We'll make a custom logo specifically for the mod.

[iron anchor]

damn, sad i won't see my creation, but okay

[warm thorn]

Thanks for your hard work❤️ , but we have our own vision in mind.

You know Rock* doesn't like modders copying their assets or anything from them, so we'd better create something custom before this mod gets bigger and attracts attention.

[floral wedge]

Can i pay you somehow lol

[warm thorn]

Interested in supporting the mod? We have a Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/GTASanAndreasRTX where you can contribute.
(Unlike other paid mods, we don't promise specific update dates - we focus on quality over deadlines.)
For any job-related inquiries not connected to the mod, feel free to DM me personally.

[round tendon]

i wanna see how the number 9 will look like in rtx

or a large soda

the fries

[floral wedge]

Lmao people gonna over engineer that now

[candid sapphire]

I'll make sure i use 32k textures for the fries

[floral wedge]

Is blender all it takes to create textures?

[wintry furnace]

Depends

[floral wedge]

Id like to help but idk shit

Id end up stealing assets from every game i know lmfao

[candid sapphire]

Youtube is how I learned

I opened blender for the first time in my life like a year ago

I'm not very good but i can do stuff and it can only get better

just don't look at 3D donuts for too long

[warm thorn]

Back in the day, I used Photoshop with CC0 textures to create replacements. These days, I primarily use Substance Designer/Painter for texturing, though Blender can also create procedural textures effectively.
For our current approach, we're planning to use trim sheets and tileable textures that can be shared across multiple objects - it's much more memory efficient than unique textures for everything.
If you're interested in helping but concerned about your experience level, we can guide you through some basics. The important thing is avoiding copyrighted assets from other games to keep everything original.

[floral wedge]

I cant even think that far, what could one create to be used multiple times

A trash can for example, i guess

Vegetation hasnt been in the making at all no?

You could absolutely re-use trees if you rotate them a big

[slim lake]

hey guys. im new here. i just want to ask how would i get the most latest updates for the rtx remix mod and how far do you guys think the project has gone. thank you.

[scenic sequoia]

I thought about helping out with the logo

[floral wedge]

Looks fire

I dont like over engineered logos, this is good

[olive dragon]

#1097105394821759006 message

[iron anchor]

There is simillar mine logo i did earlier, but neither mine neither yours will be used, most importantly because our logos use R*'s resource and Hemry want to went safe way, so they'll do logo from scratch

[scenic sequoia]

sure

if you guys want me to help with that let me know

[floral wedge]

I could see rockstar sueing this into oblivion

Why specify a project owner in the first place

They cant sue that, can they

[candid sapphire]

Problem is, anything looking like or taking ideas from the original logo is a good reason to end up dmca'd

[candid sapphire]

Use the auto installer, you can check pinned comments for the download link

[shrewd wagon]

game crashing every 15 minutes?

[warm thorn]

May be memory leak, try install Remix 0.5.4.

[shrewd wagon]

oo

[floral wedge]

Is it possible to create different looks when weather is different

For example a grey and depressing look during the morning

With volumetric fog and so on

[candid sapphire]

I don't think so, it would mean that we would have to load a new config every weather changes and i don't even know if it's possible

[warm thorn]

If the Remix bridge API allows access to the new volumetric fog settings, then it would be possible.

[floral wedge]

Another thing that would greatly enhance a possible remaster

Rdr2 for example looks vastly different depending on the weather and people praise it for that

This game is just beyond insane , i cant wait for the weather system in gta 6

[pseudo moon]

bruh

[quaint heron]

We wont get it in GTA VI

unfortunately

it will be based on GTA V

but with volumetric clouds

[floral wedge]

Cap

[quaint heron]

check the trailer bro, it looks more arcadish than RDR2 itself

[candid sapphire]

?????????????

ARCADISH ???????????

[quaint heron]

Look back at RDR2

which one looks more atmospheric

[candid sapphire]

both looks insane, rdr2 looks very good cuz the weather makes it more grey so it looks more realistic

[quaint heron]

exactly it looks more photorealistic

GTA VI will have better engine and graphics

but the atmosphere

will not be photorealistic

[candid sapphire]

Yeah it's more vibrant

[quaint heron]

it will be following the GTA pattern

rdr2 was all into photorealism

[candid sapphire]

Probably cuz there's less stuff so they can go even harder on weather etc

[quaint heron]

idk

[candid sapphire]

and honestly, a few mods and it's 10x better than rdr2

[quaint heron]

tbh with a budget of 2B$

i dont think thats the case

i think they were meant to do that

[candid sapphire]

yeah

it's miami

[quaint heron]

yeah a few mods

[candid sapphire]

vibrant colors

[quaint heron]

we’re gonna have to wait minimum 2 years from now

because PC release

then graphics and all

[candid sapphire]

Yeah sure

i can wait

consoles will deal with all the issues

[quaint heron]

j cant, imma start college soon 😢

[candid sapphire]

and pc will get the final product

[quaint heron]

yeah as always

[floral wedge]

Can cars possible be remade as strong as What we see in the half life 2 rtx demo

Or is it somehow not possible due to them being movable objects

What are the limits, basically

I heard Character models are somehow not possible or Something

Or atleast not CJ

Due to him not being a Npc model or Something

[candid sapphire]

they can't be modified using remix, we have to mod the game

so no, we'd have to be limited by the game

[floral wedge]

gotya

[floral wedge]

https://www.mixmods.com.br/2020/04/pbr-materials-for-renderhook-by-jujubao-materiais-para-rh/

Thoughts on this

?

[candid sapphire]

It's PBR on original 64x64 textures, so it's really bad

it's good if you don't have enough memory to have proper texture replacement

[solar cairn]

wowwww that looks so beautiful

[iron anchor]

not gonna lie, it looks strange, i know its WIP, but it looks like a woven carpet, from below, from above

[warm thorn]

Wait, how did you know I used carpet texture as a base texture? Just kidding! I noticed I used the wrong gradient noise texture.🤣

[warm thorn]

Add more depth to the height map.

[warm thorn]

Maybe final version

[iron anchor]

now THAT looks like a pavement!

[iron anchor]

Perfect!

[thorny copper]

damn Ballas, won't leave us the hell alone

[unique arch]

Look's awesome!

[opal sable]

second one imo

[candid sapphire]

I like the epsilon logo so i'd say 1st one imo

[iron anchor]

in terms of being close to original - two
in terms of possible 'logic' - one (as i they could think of Epsilon as total okay thing for putting on star)

[warm thorn]

Just for reference, the second one is also from the original game texture. The problem is that the texture size is too small, which makes the logo barely visible from a distance.
And I don't want to use a 4K texture just for showing the Maya calendar logo. It would be more efficient to make a custom decal mesh for it and manually place those textures on the wall of frame pavement.

[warm thorn]

WIP of asphalt and pavement texture day/night time comparison. I've been working on getting the right balance of detail and realism while ensuring good visual contrast between lighting conditions

[shy wind]

I like more dirty V2 look, V3 and V1 are way too reflective.

[shrewd wagon]

is it just me or frame generation is too laggy

like around 1 second input delay

[warm thorn]

No noticeable difference on my side. What GPU are you using and what FPS are you getting?
I've found that some configurations can introduce input lag if your base framerate is too low before frame generation kicks in.

[round tendon]

dam y all come a long way

[shrewd wagon]

4060
doing 20ish

[warm thorn]

Thanks! Been a lot of hard work, but seeing the progress makes it worth it.

[warm thorn]

Framegen struggles at low FPS like 20ish. You'll get better performance once we replace more meshes. GTASA is heavy with Remix because transparent objects (fences, trees, grass, foliage, wires) are very demanding in path tracing. We're working on replacing these one by one to improve performance.

[shrewd wagon]

ohh

btw did you place all lights manually in remix app?

trying to reproduce the same in vc

[iron anchor]

Not for use
done pure of wish to do something

done using only fonts, no original Rockstar resources were used

[warm thorn]

I wrote a script using moonloader and moonaddition that automatically reads the in game light positions, places simple objects there, and then replaces them with light objects in Remix. Saves a ton of time for lighting work.

[shrewd wagon]

could be good for vc and 3 also

atleast to get the modding started

[warm thorn]

You could try using CLEO or an ASI plugin for VC, should work similarly. I switched to moonloader (Lua-based) because CLEO scripting gave me headaches, but unfortunately VC doesn't support moonloader. CLEO would be your best bet for VC modding.

[shrewd wagon]

okie

[manic forge]

how can i reduce vram usage? even if it takes to lower textures or smt