Call of Duty 2

[slow shore]

when u die a corpse is left behind which is the closest you can get to an animated model other than another player entity (in MP) in SP its easier

for MP* im doing some extreme out of the box and heavy modding thinking here so beware

you can clone yourself with self clone()

which creates a dead body actor

which is usually how its used

but if ur alive it'll just create a clone of u at that moment

doing idle or etc

which is a seperate entity

do that in a loop

and hide it with some extension (C++ mod) tricks with a invisible flag in SV_Snapshot blabla

you could do what you want

[timid trout]

Also we need to be able to give it a custom texture in game, otherwise all players with the same faction will be affected

[slow shore]

but its kind of a ton of work

for SP it might be easier but yeah that only works for SP

[timid trout]

Alright thanks, I will see what I can do

[slow shore]

the last part i dont think (the hiding) isnt really doable unless remix has some cool method for it i think

but u can experiment with self clone()

[timid trout]

The hiding part is done by remix

[slow shore]

e.g

per_player_clone()
{
  self endon("disconnect");
  self endon("spawned");
  for(;;)
  {
    actor = self cloneplayer(0.1); //play with the duration, maybe bit more than a frame
    wait 0.05; //1/20 fps (server fps is usually default 20 sv_fps dvar, waittillframeend also works...)
  }
}

// in spawnPlayer() add self thread per_player_clone() at the bottom before } in the gamemode type e.g tdm.gsc, dm.gsc

@timid trout

then again this requires you to be the server hoster and have access to modifying the game logic

doesnt work for SP

in SP there's also cloneplayer iirc but maybe some other way works better with spawn("script_model", ...) and setting animation with playanim(%anim)

[timid trout]

So playanim isn't available for MP?

[slow shore]

nope

[timid trout]

:/

[slow shore]

hence why i said the closest way to play animations on entities/models is the self cloneplayer

you cant on any other entity

except players

it has been a real struggle for cod2 modders for decades now

to make zombies or cool mods

and you cant normally register any feedback aswell on those entities

atleast with gsc

like shooting

they dont have any hitbox either

there is a workaround with setalive( and then in c++ hooking the engine you can settakedamage and stuff and then it registers when u shoot at it

but no individual body parts like head/torso etc

[slow shore]

and you cant set any animation aswell ,you have to bake it in the set of anims loaded (animtree) and then theres no gsc function for it aswell

its all customly modded in

with adding gsc funcs to setlegsanim which then sets the body/legsanim on the gentity_t/entityShared_t field in memory for the ent

its a pain (this is all for MP tho, in SP theres setplayanim and other gsc funcs on AI and other entities)

[timid trout]

So we can't add a bot and make it mock the player actions either?

[slow shore]

you can add a bot

addtestclient() in gsc

you cant set the animations for it tho without some extension, there are no gsc funcs for anims by default

[timid trout]

Does libcod has that stuff?

[slow shore]

yes

[timid trout]

And since it's doesn't violate anything we could bundle it I assume

[slow shore]

well it mainly runs on linux 😛

[timid trout]

It doesn't run on clients?

[slow shore]

iirc someone made a windows version but not sure how up to date it is and a russian guy made a standalone compileable one that should compile for windows (ymmv with bugs etc)

but its still a standalone dedicated server so no it doesnt run on the client (altough the client CoD2MP_s.exe has a server builtin aswell)

you can seperate it into CoD2SP.exe, CoD2MP_s.exe (client+server), cod2_lnxded (only dedicated server and linux binary) and the gsc functions/engine is different between SP and MP

[timid trout]

I will try the option with the least friction first :)

[slow shore]

seperate server + libcod and ur local codmp exe then

[timid trout]

Nope I will just spawn the dead puppet and see if it's at least acceptable

[slow shore]

xD

ye thats prob the first step

[dull oar]

I'm not using libcod for a sky that disappears on three out of 12 maps inside a one room on each map. we're 99% there already

the method we got works we just need a sweeter sweet spot. no biggie for find it either

[timid trout]

It's not for the sky mate

[dull oar]

oh ok

[timid trout]

Also we simply can't use it anyway

I am trying to spawn a puppet for marking as player model so we can get self shadows in fpp

[dull oar]

oh i see, we can get them from the arms and gun

[timid trout]

Floating arms and a gun :D

[dull oar]

yea 😛

it's why we turned them off

[timid trout]

Hmm I get this error when I call self cloneplayer(1)

[dull oar]

went to a museum yesterday and got some photo's of posters and ration books and stuff 🙂

[timid trout]

Got some propaganda posters? 👀

[dull oar]

no it was all uk related. would be wicked to get my hands on some french resistance posters

just processing a wood scan for the telephone poles

got a scan of some sand bags as well

[slow shore]

try cloneplayer()

[slow shore]

isn't there a french museum digitally?

lot of museums have digitalized and released their inventory either 3d models or posters recently

https://sketchfab.com/museums

with very permissive licenses e.g cc0

a lot of existing poster assets in cod2 are also public domain

[dull oar]

oh thats good to know

[slow shore]

you just gotta find the original source though to verify

[sweet cloak]

Anything from the US Fed government is usually public domain 👀

[slow shore]

yep

just think from the perspective of the cod2 devs/artists when they made the game

they surely weren't gonna make new assets if they didn't have to

example

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn3728

[dull oar]

oh no way

[slow shore]

i think this one is in the public domain

they flipped and made it a bit dirty

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1034849/moulin-rouge---la-poster-henri-de-toulouse/
https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/prints/collection/p0914N1996

idk what the license for it is though

i wonder whether cod2 even got the license for it (if there is one) and if they didnt nobody cared to sue them for it 😛

[dull oar]

I work in games, no one would dare

sandbag baby!

[slow shore]

another one in carentan is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chat_Noir

[dull oar]

that ones wicked

[slow shore]

well maybe nowadays for AAA devs, but cod2 when it came out they weren't as big a studio as now + different culture back then so who knows

[dull oar]

looking forward to when lawyers use AI to work this shit out automatically and build cases for themselves

like it's not hard enough already

I got a 7 disc set of wood textures from work that i dont think i can use unless i contact the maker the textures about each texture. I have them, just cant use them

it's why i'm acquiring everything myself, just easier aint it

[slow shore]

i'm the same, i make it myself or use cc0 assets

e.g https://polyhaven.com/textures

[dull oar]

yea i'm using their skies and one of their dirt textures

scanned telephone pole, just gotta unwrap flat and i can put it in game

[slow shore]

tbh if i was making a cod2 mod or remix style i wouldnt care that much about restricting myself so much as ur doing since ur not making $ off of it and ive seen people share so many cod2 mods that did worse over the years and its kind of the thing in the modding community for any game tbh

[dull oar]

I know, Its about professionalism though. They're electricians with a game making hobby or something 😛

[sweet cloak]

Someone say electrical 👀

[timid trout]

Uhh nothing works

I have a cursed idea tho

I could spawn a entity that is linked to the player, and give it models with unique hashes each representing an animation frame of which action the player is doing, then I could capture bunch of frames of that action in tpp view and anchor those meshes to that scripted model.
Edit: All those functions that could have been useful are from libcod, nevermind

[mild isle]

Can i ask guys what is your ultimate plan? Because i see you put a lot of effort on that

[stoic jetty]

I think its obvious to say "to make game look better"

[dull oar]

shadows cast from the players body

[mild isle]

I know, but i ask just to believe it. Couldn't believe there are people that would do after 20 years

I have a suggestion. Since you do this out of pure passion

[dull oar]

shoot

[mild isle]

You can promote this on cod2 community and accept donations from every player who see your dedication,just to help your work going and also you as developers get something out of it

[stoic jetty]

Oh, that actually would be profitable i think

[dull oar]

nah i'm good, i'm giving everything away

telephone pole time baby

[sweet cloak]

Oh hey something I have way too much knowledge of

The insulators at the time were typically made with glass by the way 😉

[dull oar]

oh sick hang on

https://www.telegraphpoleappreciationsociety.org/images/userImages/johnpaine/IMG_0156.JPG
so this white thing would be glass?

[sweet cloak]

That’s a telegraph pole, different thing. Im not super up to date on the lore of them.

In rural areas they’d be along rail road tracks.

[sage locust]

@dull oar Can you try mp_chelm_fix? Author of the map (Julian Luo) made all the buildings by himself in 2006 when developing the map, he got employed by Infinity Ward shortly after, works there as level designer till today.

https://github.com/eyza-cod2/zpam3

[sweet cloak]

They’d be porcelain

[sage locust]

its there with zpam 3.33 and mappack v3, just download it and try mp_chelm_fix with remix

the church should look epic

[dull oar]

yea will do

[dull oar]

ta mate, this is what i'm remaking from cod2

think its a telegraph pole then?

[timid trout]

Single line

probably

[sweet cloak]

No that’s utility.

Four primaries, neutral on top.

[dull oar]

think it's ww2 accurate or should we switch it for something that is?

[warm lagoon]

for the love of god please do not make it look super clean, or like something that was placed 5 minutes ago given the context

i have full faith in tadpole for recreating certain materials with its original charm from the original game

[sweet cloak]

Yea it’s accurate for the time period. Missing wires but that’d be likely given it’s a war zone.

[dull oar]

yea i'll add them back then 🙂 I'll get to switching this to a utility pole

going to go mad with wires today

last question @sweet cloak like this?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/US_utility_pole_-_labeled.jpg

[mild isle]

Then I will just follow you in your journey and congratulate you for your hard work😁

[dull oar]

g = electricity bucket

[sweet cloak]

No transformer or “electricity bucket”

K is cable tv so that’s not present

[dull oar]

cheers mate, i'll get cracking

[warm lagoon]

https://tenor.com/view/wallace-and-gromit-wallace-hammer-gromit-hammering-gif-25291045

[sweet cloak]

Here’s a close up of an ancient pole from Flickr

[warm lagoon]

can we add the squirrel 🥺

[dull oar]

it's probably a fuse

[radiant belfry]

ancient? that's all i've ever seen 😦

[dull oar]

wow look it's glass

[sweet cloak]

Oh yea the wires are round with a rubber like outer material. They’re not bare metal unless it’s very spicy voltage.

[dull oar]

oh thats handy then

just sweep a cylinder and make it dark coloured

[sweet cloak]

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Cp0AAOSww7llTENz/s-l1600.webp

[warm lagoon]

frosted glass using translucent effect probably?

[sweet cloak]

They’re not frosted. Just thick

[dull oar]

they look kinda cool ngl

[sweet cloak]

People collect them. They’re pretty neat

[timid trout]

Adam certified electrical engineer confirmed

[warm lagoon]

TF2 engineer too

jack of all trades

[sweet cloak]

I have a degree in that so

Note: I don’t work with medium voltage, aka utilities, so my knowledge is limited with a lot of utility pole things.

[timid trout]

I mean the only ones whose immersion might break upon seeing a slightly inaccurate electrical infrastructure are few people like Adam

[radiant belfry]

high standards to live up to

[sweet cloak]

I see all the errors in the building systems to the point I’ve considered writing a building inspection like blog for video games environments

[dull oar]

honestly that would be proper interesting

and a lot of artists would love it

[sweet cloak]

Alan wake 2 team has impressed me with their accuracy.

Even had the conduit bends right

[sweet cloak]

It’d be like that YouTube series where they bring in the firearm expert to look at the gun models

[timid trout]

Royal Armory Museum

[dull oar]

how's this looking?

[warm lagoon]

https://tenor.com/view/army-of-darkness-evil-dead-ash-groovy-gif-25791428

awesome work

[sweet cloak]

Excellent. I would note the insulators are hollow and now solid glass

https://www.ebay.com/itm/355177563967 for reference

[dull oar]

I'll have to cake it with dirt and remix glass doesn't support layers so it'll have to be dirty porcelain I think

[timid trout]

decals?

[dull oar]

Not sure. Could try it

[radiant belfry]

this is a whole new level of detail that i just never even considered, lol. i really need to do better. very very excited to see what you guys will make

[sweet cloak]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/225875636202

This would be something that they’d have in the time period and location (France)

[dull oar]

oh smooth looking, i'm on it

[sweet cloak]

I checked a lore master site https://www.nia.org and it seems as accurate as I can get

[dull oar]

jesus that man has a few dont he 😛

[sweet cloak]

Nah that’s the association as a whole. Told ya people collect them

[dull oar]

oh yea

The National Insulator Association (NIA) is an organization of collectors and friends
aw thats cute, i like these guys

[warm lagoon]

@dull oar what is your methodology for recreating those cable lines

[dull oar]

draw a spline, shape it, sweep a circle

[dull oar]

donkey kong remix when?

[warm lagoon]

that's a nice scan piece

[dull oar]

looks great 🙂

got three of these babies

got the telephone pole in game as well

[warm lagoon]

these look neat

in a good way

[summer brook]

Looking sweet

[summer brook]

A not so tad of a pole

[dull oar]

there we go all set up 🙂

we got this cool statue base today, some neat stairs and some cool slabs

[sage locust]

Those stairs would fit at the back exit from '4' x)

[dull oar]

Yea would look great there

Thinking of stacking 2 or three of them to get in and out of the basement as well

Statue base is for the stone columns around the allies flag spawn

I got the pointy tops as well but it didn't come out so good so I need to go back

[dull oar]

back posting dirty pictures online

[warm lagoon]

these scans look great tadpole

[sweet cloak]

You plow that yourself?

[dull oar]

engineers have visited and hooked us up with fibre

[warm lagoon]

Adam is probably having a heart attack looking at this

gotta keep that realism in touch

[dull oar]

it's 150mb dl, era appropriate

[warm lagoon]

https://tenor.com/view/breaking-bad-ahh-wire-wire-breaking-bad-jesse-ahh-wire-ahh-gif-26980385

[sweet cloak]

Move one wire up to the neutral plz.

[dull oar]

could you draw it over the image?

[dull oar]

ah i see, on it

bottom right to top

[sweet cloak]

Not quite sure what they had going originally with 5 wires. Seems they didn’t have a consultant on board

[dull oar]

total plonkers mate

there we go 🙂

[warm lagoon]

Any specific reason for this?

[sweet cloak]

3 hots (the lower wires), 1 neutral (the top most one).

5 wires (the original scheme from the game) would have a ground I guess, but you don’t run grounds on utility poles.

[dull oar]

whole maps done, I'll slap the pole into asset share now. no cable as its just a dark spline. no textures or anything

[granite forge]

@dull oar

[dull oar]

no way thats sick!

well done xoxor4d!

[granite forge]

what tool were you using to apply the other patches like no culling?

[dull oar]

this website
https://bbbradsmith.github.io/ipstool/

[sage locust]

u gotta light up those hanging lamps

[granite forge]

@sweet cloak which tool did you use to create the ips's? The tools i find on github are kinda shady

[sweet cloak]

Lamps you say 👀

[sweet cloak]

https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/240/

[granite forge]

🙏

cheat engine offsets

[dull oar]

I'm not sure what to do with them

never used it before

[granite forge]

didnt you apply adams patches?

[dull oar]

the cheat engine bits sorry

the ips i can do 🙂

[granite forge]

oh you dont need the cheat engine stuff. Just posted that for completeness (in case someone wants to put them into another ips patch or w/e)

[dull oar]

ok thats sorted, what do i need to do in remix to make the shadows cast again?

[granite forge]

mark all viewmodels (guns / hands ... ) as player model

make sure to have primary shadows on

and viewmodel enabled (game setup)

[dull oar]

hmm no luck, one sec i'll get you a video

not casting any shadow

oh the third person character, do i tag him as anything?

[granite forge]

same as the weapons

player model (not the player body model thing)

you did see the player body upon spawning right?

like clipping into your camera

[dull oar]

no nothing like that

[granite forge]

odd . what happens when you do cg_thirdperson 1 ?

shouldnt change anything

[dull oar]

here we go

oh fuck recorded spotify 😛

alt-j

[granite forge]

looks like the patch wasnt applied .. try dvar cg_thirdperson 1

if it enables third person then it failed to apply the patch or something

[dull oar]

i do it at the end of the video

[granite forge]

oh yea sorry

[dull oar]

i bet it's cause I patched that dll with adams culling fix aint i, think its that?

[granite forge]

nah that doesnt matter I'm also using the dll

but you patched the mp.exe yes?

[dull oar]

no 😮 well there we go then. we're patching exe's now 😛

thought i was patching the dll not the exe sorry mate

[granite forge]

you might want to restore whatever you patched then 😂

[dull oar]

i back up my backups i'm golden. one second

tadpole brained today 😛

thats what i'm talking about!

[granite forge]

noice

[dull oar]

hell yea it's perfect thank you so much!

[granite forge]

🙏

[dull oar]

is anything i can do about the gun penis?

[granite forge]

wdym 😂

[granite forge]

if you dont mean the shadow .. just mark the gun as player model

[dull oar]

yea thats sorted it. had a floating gun in his fun zone

this looks wicked, thank you again

cant help with code but if you need a weapon or something just holla 🙂

[granite forge]

hehe thank you 👍🏻

[sage locust]

This place has massive potential:

and Chelm, Julian Luo's entry project to join Infinity Ward as level designer. Can't wait to see it with Remix assets.

[sweet cloak]

What's the link to it?

[slow shore]

is this a official cod2 map?

[slow shore]

found it here https://gamebanana.com/mods/138791

[sweet cloak]

Imma cook on that later

[slow shore]

i mean its a cool map but theres thousands if not more amazing (custom) maps made for cod2 over the decade

so maybe stick to OG maps

[sweet cloak]

Okay

I didn’t play CoD2 growing up so I don’t know which maps I should even be looking at ngl

Guess I can go back to railyard tho 👀

[slow shore]

i did, but one glance at gamebanana or moddb or other cfgfactory, customapscod for cod2 and there's tons of (good) maps

also the most popular maps for cod2 are carentan and toujane

so if you remix a map might aswell remix those maps because they "are" cod2

if somebody sees those maps they immediately see ah cod2

[sweet cloak]

Well tads got carentan down to a T so that leaves me toujane

[slow shore]

it's kinda weird how they "ruined" mp_harbor in cod2

since mp_harbor and mp_carentan are the most popular maps in cod1

[sweet cloak]

Harbor looked like a cool map

[slow shore]

i guess toujane took its place

they remade carentan in cod4 again too but its nowhere as popular anymore there

mp_crash is a popular map and some others took its place

[sweet cloak]

Whats like the top 5 cod2 maps 👀

[slow shore]

uhh well i used to run a cod2 server with custom maps, but it varies from gamemode

e.g for competitive other maps are more preferred

but for regular tdm/dm toujane/carentan do well

u can go to gametracker and find the gamemode/server

and see what maps are played most often aswell

another server (capture the flag)

(search & destroy, SD)

tl;dr depending on how casual (tdm/dm/ctf) and competitive (sd) there's a variation between favourite maps (also repeatedly playing the same map i feel carentan kinda got boring for the last group over the years which can be due to tactics/gameplay being more unfair other team allies/axis better at map etc or other reasons)

[slow shore]

tl;dr

1. toujane
2. carentan
3. burgundy
4. dawnville
5. matmata

[dull oar]

Pick whatever you like buddy 🙂 that plowed field scan is for Dawnville btw. Where the flag goes

[sage locust]

@slow shore @sweet cloak @dull oar

https://github.com/eyza-cod2/zpam3/releases/download/3.33/zpam333.zip - zPAM 3.33 includes mappack with official COD2 2023 played maps.

It's in the official map pool. Original map has been adjusted by me and @Fjozek (I reached Luo and he gave us source files) for competitive play, it's been played on two international LANs already.

https://fpschallenge.eu/ladder/eu/cod2/5vs5-sd/stats

We have three custom maps in map pool nowadays, mp_chelm_fix, mp_crossroads (based on singleplayer mission) and mp_breakout_tls, which is a total remake of original Villers-Bocage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3ftK2qHanM

[timid trout]

xoxor I think you should definetely do a pull request to this repo for your patch
https://github.com/adamplayer/CallOfDuty2RTX

Adam's anticulling patches are also there

[sweet cloak]

I prob should rescope that repo to just be the culling patches

I’ll hopefully have some time this afternoon to start remixing again

[sweet cloak]

I completely forgot about the only night map, decoy. Will probably focus on that

[timid trout]

Why not just create folders to categorize them

[granite forge]

I've created a PR but I did not want to do any cleanup so I just added the ips and the cheatengine table 👍🏻

[sweet cloak]

Cause I don’t really wanna distribute my in progress work like that any more. 👀

[sweet cloak]

Merged 👍

[scarlet monolith]

were such posts tarred back then? might not be the case everywhere but they are here

[dull oar]

Now we're getting into it!

[dull oar]

lamp

wall lamp

https://tenor.com/view/moth-dance-windy-mothin'-mothin-gif-3557803883483505551

[sweet cloak]

[warm lagoon]

can't wait to see the total poly count

[dull oar]

20 k in that lamp alone. Add it to the spreadsheet!

[sweet cloak]

How do I get the sky replacement working again? I thought I had it down but it just turns gray with a replacement

[dull oar]

unmark the sky so it's just a normal mesh and it goes black. then capture and with texture replacement plop your hdr dds into the diffuse slot 🙂

[sweet cloak]

Got that part done

[dull oar]

oh snap yea you need this

replace what i gave you last time, goes in the root of cod2

[sweet cloak]

Does that just do it for all the maps?

[dull oar]

yea, this map included

got 10 skys so just pick one thats commented out in "_load.gsc"

which you'll find here
steamapps\common\Call of Duty 2\rtx\maps\mp

[sweet cloak]

Ohhhhh clever

[dull oar]

yea man we got a system for it now baby

you'll want to recapture the new sky and all that jazz

and we can use your new sky on any map 🙂

[sweet cloak]

Now we're cookin

[sage locust]

wow.

[sage locust]

cg_draw2d 0 to get +30 to visuals

XD

[dull oar]

that'll do it. after and before 🙂

makes a lovely light

[dull oar]

Got a new camera coming tomorrow for scanning with, a nikon 800d with a wicked sigma lens. Got a lovely chest of draws to tackle as well as some muddy footprints i'm looking to make and place at the doors into buildings 🙂

[sage locust]

Amazing

[dull oar]

spooky

[warm lagoon]

Can someone explain to me why we have a dead cow?

[gaunt agate]

Call of duty has always had dead cows

setathereisacow 1

[stoic jetty]

Saint Dead Cow

[timid trout]

It's a debug cow

to visualize where the script object is located

Because it gets culled in certain spots

[warm lagoon]

ohk

[dull oar]

Holy cow

[dull oar]

waaaaaaay down we go

[sweet cloak]

They glidin

[dull oar]

slip slidin but it's ok i only want the rest position 🙂

[dull oar]

bricking it

[timid trout]

Oh I thought you're placing them by hand lol

[dull oar]

I was originally, got some brick crumbs a wood fragments to scatter around today 🙂 between gift wrapping

[dull oar]

@timid trout has been busy! check this out. We got random starting points for skies, controls for speed and angle in game, buttons to switch sky in game. it even unloads the dishwasher it's that feature complete. Thought I'd put together a video to show off the work of the last 2 weeks including @granite forge 's awesome character shadows
https://youtu.be/62kylewMsfk

[radiant belfry]

the character shadows look great here (ya know, instead of just a pair of floating arms SKYRIM)

and the sky is amazing. great work

[timid trout]

@dull oar did the dynamic sky not me, I just refactored its script and added the switching ability + some QoL features. My part is not really a big deal.

[dull oar]

Lies! I had the ideas but without our guy @timid trout that's all they would be

[timid trout]

#1099591203768504421 message

No need to overcharge my work, I am ok with what I do and having fun in the progress

[dull oar]

It was two lines in a map script that rotated a big mesh. You made it interactive, multi map, multi sky, days of debugging and cow based solutions. You did loads. Credit where credit is due.

[dull oar]

this is cool @granite forge

[sweet cloak]

It’s wild to see a mirror in a video game where the reflection isn’t just a super low res and quality version of the world

[dull oar]

trippy

lets make a full box

[sweet cloak]

This was the last thing Tadpoles GPU saw before melting

[sweet cloak]

Do the reflections continue to get clearer if you stand still

[dull oar]

lets find out. I made a box

best. artist. ever

[sweet cloak]

https://tenor.com/view/inception-deeper-go-deeper-we-need-to-go-deeper-leonardo-di-caprio-gif-16756828

[sweet cloak]

Peak art right there

[dull oar]

getting inception vibes honestly

[sweet cloak]

It’s all down hill from here

[timid trout]

cough BeamNG.drive cough

[timid trout]

Strelok sent this in offtopic some time ago, it's 128 bounces in a mirror room.

[timid trout]

Have you set PSR bounces to 15? I think that's the max. It's 10 by default

[sweet cloak]

Oh yea I forgot that interstellar screenshot

[warm lagoon]

Procedural mesh

[dull oar]

all default, lets go crazy

[sweet cloak]

This reminds me I need to practice redoing the model and materials for the weapons.

[warm lagoon]

Y'all planning to do any local multiplayer session with Remix?

[warm lagoon]

that's 15 bounces

Hardcoded limit

[dull oar]

wheres the option in remix menu?

[timid trout]

Uh what is payload encoding

[timid trout]

I think we could build from source for a higher limit, tho the description mentions it's due to a limitations I think

[dull oar]

this is nuts 😛

[timid trout]

Strelok said he modified the limit in BetterRTX's source, Minecraft doesn't come with 128 bounces lol

[warm lagoon]

Where's my Cornell box

[dull oar]

time for reference mode and some sitting still for 1 minute

oh no dice the character moves 😛

[warm lagoon]

Pause in-game time?

is that possible?

[timid trout]

I think it won't look much different, PSR looks kind of "denoised" out of the box

[dull oar]

dont think you can pause animation 😦

[timid trout]

Hmm, path bounces don't go higher than 15 either, I remember it was possible to disable PSR and still get raw reflections & refractions but can't find how

[dull oar]

I've kinda got bored after the initial wow moment lol

[timid trout]

Only if we could set it to 128

[dull oar]

It's white diffuse, white metalness and black roughness on a cube with a light attached to the gun though if you wanna play along at home

[granite forge]

oooh that’s really cool

[limber otter]

yeah its limited to 8

in vanilla RTX

[limber otter]

cheat engine honest reaction:

https://tenor.com/view/transitions-kinemaster-black-guy-suit-tiktok-gif-25279479

[timid trout]

You can set it to higher levels in imgui too kinda the same thing

But still it doesn't go any higher

[timid trout]

It mentions a limitation but I have no idea what it means

[cerulean mica]

At least there is "cl_paused 1" dvar in SP

[floral stump]

Wanna me help you with textures ? such as posters and logos that are placed on the wall or does rtx remix automatically do that ?

[stoic jetty]

Current available Remix doesn't do that, so yeah, you could help, but lets wait for tadpole response to your request

[floral stump]

yeah i mean i could upscale some textures or re do them and replace them with the original ones

[timid trout]

HQ versions of those posters are available online, we had a conversation about them if you scroll up a bit

[floral stump]

Oh interesting 👀

[timid trout]

Yea those posters are real

[floral stump]

Well if you need anything about upscaling or recreating textures I'll be glad to help

[timid trout]

Tadpole is in charge

[floral stump]

yeah im waiting for his response

[dull oar]

Hey ya, cheers for offering to help out but I'm using this as a chance to get my hands dirty and make some stuff by myself for the time being. Cheers for the offer though

[floral stump]

No problem 🤝

Good luck with it

[radiant belfry]

https://tenor.com/view/ut99-games-thunderbolt-unreal-unreal-tournament-gif-16492790

Unreal!

[dull oar]

huh? whats going on kim. merry nearly christmas to you!

[summer brook]

If I had to guess, Kim might be already drunk.
Merry Christmas then!

[dull oar]

scanned this on christmas eve 🙂 managed to sneak in some texture work yesterday between naps

rubbles looking cool as well

[sage locust]

I always thought that COD2 building/stone textures were ahead of its times, on DX9 it looked like Tesselstion was working. But this is another level. The only thing that still interferes is seeing building so geometric, with not enough polygons on edges as we would want these days

Your work guys is astonishing.

[dull oar]

yep once I've got new textures on the old building models is time to update geo, add the trims and decals and we're up to date 🙂

[dull oar]

todays job

[gaunt agate]

Now that's a lot of geo

[dull oar]

Second test of my new camera and lens combo. About 50 photos

Nikon 810 and sigma 35mm art lens. Second hand from ebay

£800 so not cheap either

[warm lagoon]

that's crispy

[gaunt agate]

Interesting. My pizza scan was 50 photos. 60mp each. Jpg

Took about an hour to cook

[warm lagoon]

you tried PhysGaussian on your scan yet? or was it point cloud based

[dull oar]

Can you bake that Gaussian stuff to textures and geo?

[gaunt agate]

Prolly not

[warm lagoon]

https://xpandora.github.io/PhysGaussian/

you can do this nowadays

bread

[gaunt agate]

It's just different than geo

[warm lagoon]

wrong channel btw lol, would be intersting to see this happen sometime in 2038 w/ remix

[dull oar]

Is cool but I guess not game compatible

[warm lagoon]

yeah this is a far stretch, remix won't be supporting physics

its just fancy lighting

[timid trout]

We need https://youtu.be/1cfKc8U4iwg to run it in real-time

[dull oar]

It's fancy Geo, texture and materials + lighting

[timid trout]

Remix can't interact with the game so the only physics we might see is particles I believe

That would be soo cool tho

[warm lagoon]

particle emitter

[timid trout]

yep

[warm lagoon]

me by the time they add it

https://tenor.com/view/old-man-grandpa-gif-15302685

[dull oar]

a day late but its christmas and time means nothing to me

[warm lagoon]

hmm, considering that the place is really fucked up, won't these bricks be damaged with explosives or bullet holes

[dull oar]

Unless you want your damage repeating every 2 meters you have to use a simple repeatable base and layer your damage on top. That's my next texture

[warm lagoon]

using decals?

[dull oar]

Yep

Thinking about it though I lack the ability to mark a mesh replacement as decal so this might have to wait

[floral stump]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj4u9GCJPvM&pp=ygUHc3BpIG1vZA%3D%3D

this would be cool for rtx remix @dull oar

[dull oar]

You can download any mod you like and remix cod2. I'm remaking all gun models at some point

[floral stump]

i mean u could use that mod if ya want i was just suggesting it for u

[sweet cloak]

I have a feeling tad's going to go to the range and photoscan them

[floral stump]

lol

[dull oar]

Oh yea for sure. But once my mods out you can install any other mod you like, it's compatible with them all

[floral stump]

: ) i don't have cod2

[dull oar]

On noes

[dull oar]

That sounds fun btw

Wonder if we got stuff like that in England

[sweet cloak]

Just start working for a museum and do it on the side

[dull oar]

Heist time

I do have this ww1 compass

[cerulean mica]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-duty-world-at-war-weapons-cod3-themed
Here is another interesting weapon mod inspired by SPi's project. I prefer it even more.

[cerulean mica]

I think the main problem with weapons is in their animations, which were designed with cg_fov 65 in mind

[dull oar]

remix layers itself over the top of the game so whatever i do should be compatible with other mods as long as the models are the same as the original game

[cerulean mica]

I really like the compass from CoD2 Big Red One and CoD3

[dull oar]

i'm not actually modding cod2 😛

i'm remixing it or something i guess. dont need any mod tools or new files in cod2 format

[dull oar]

we cracking up over here

[gaunt agate]

Can confirm

[broken loom]

Did you port the textures from other games or its the cod 2 texture ?

[dull oar]

I'm making everything myself. Either by photoscanning or by modelling and texturing. What you describe is copyright infringement

#1099591203768504421 message
That's what this is, fresh scan 🙂

Scroll up to see more work in progress

[broken loom]

So in cod 2 you can port some models and guns from mw3 2023 is it possible cause I've heard old cods have limitations

[dull oar]

Again copyright infringement. I'm making new things here

[broken loom]

Can you make these for world at war too . ?

[broken loom]

Idk why this reminds me resident evil 4 remake graphic lol

[dull oar]

Got nice lighting ain't it

[broken loom]

Can I get some help for my project in the future ? I am actually doing some sculpting and want to put it in cod waw or maybe cod 2

[dull oar]

I'm making the art alone on this one buddy. You can start your own cod project though and I'm happy to help

[granite forge]

@dull oar have you recently updated the runtime or the bridge? If not, could you check if player models that are not close to you disappear?

You can quickly test that if you use the /kill command, respawn and fly towards your corpse

I know that it was working 😬

[dull oar]

i havent updated since early December, its been a while and i got ghosts with shadows as well

[granite forge]

Mhh thats really odd then. I remember that they only disappeared when you are close to them

[dull oar]

I just assumed it was the downside of it tbh, works just fine when your in the map by yourself taking screenshots for discord 😛

[granite forge]

Mh yea but that will be an issue if you either play with others or in sp

[dull oar]

hi, how are you? i'm crate

[timid trout]

I'll pretend I didn't hear read that

[timid trout]

Is that the case with CoD4 as well?

I thought this has fixed it for you

[granite forge]

Yes thats why I was asking .. Its now broken for some reason and I cant figure out why. I've also tried older versions of the runtime+bridge but that doesnt change anything 😬

[timid trout]

I mean that's what player model texture option supposed to do, but those options worked for the first time didn't it

[granite forge]

Well I remember that meshes marked with the player model texture would disappear when you come close to them. Moving further away would show them again

[timid trout]

Yea that detection distance, it never worked in cod2

[timid trout]

@static tangle We're having a hard time with player model textures, xoxor made a patch that renders the world model in fpp so we can mark it as player model texture. This causes other players that share the same texture to become invisible as well.
The player model calibration section doesn't seem to do anything when no player model body texture is present. Marking say allies's uniform texture as body texture somewhat solves the problem (until you go withing the detection range), but this time if player switches to axis, his body that is supposed to be invisible, becomes visible. I really can't wrap my head around what's going on here, RtxOptions.md has no description for those two categories either.

Here's a video:
Player: German, Body Texture: German -> everything fine
Player: American, Body Texture: German -> player sees his own body
Player: American, Body Texture: American-> everything fine
Player: German, Body Texture: American-> player sees his own body
Player: American, Body Texture: German & American-> player sees his own body (the last selected player model body texture seems to override all others)

[sage locust]

Where new screenshots

[dull oar]

Just working on my crate, issues with it's bake. Won't be til next weekend now

[slow shore]

i blame @dull oar with spoiling us too much

[dull oar]

My crates got baking errors and I can't share 😭

[summer brook]

Use the microwave

[sage locust]

Airfryer

[static tangle]

At a guess it seems that the live player body and the dead bodies / npcs are using the same texture, so hiding the player model also hides the other bodies. I'm not sure if we have a good way to separate that - it was never a concern in Portal, and I haven't heard of any changes since then.

I'll ask around a bit, but I suspect this will need some feature work from us, so you'll probably need to file an issue on github.

(if you can mod the game to use unique textures for the live player model, that'd be easier to split out)

[granite forge]

We thought that this sets up some kind of bounding box in which it hides meshes, marked as player body, from your view (but still casts shadows)
But yea its probably better to modify the base game so that it uses a different model/material for the self controlled player model

[static tangle]

yeah, the code for that check lives here:
https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/dxvk-remix/blob/release/v0.4/src/dxvk/rtx_render/rtx_instance_manager.cpp#L1255

basically, if the draw call is using a marked texture, and it's within those distances of the camera position, it gets ignored

so you can improve that by shrinking it until the player model is only barely ignored

but fixing it properly will require either a unique player texture from modding the game, or some changes to that check

[granite forge]

Mhh tweaking these values never changed anything as far as I'm aware but I might need to check that again

[static tangle]

does setting them to 0 cause the player model to re-appear?

they'll be in terms of the game's units, so if the game is using meters then you'll probably want a value less than 2

[granite forge]

Negative. But my 3rd Person gun stops is affected when I set these values to values around 1000.
Is the runtime only using the scene unit scale set under game setup to determine the scene scale?

Seems like the culling box isn't really moving with the player? Models reappear when I increase my Z position (Z is up)

textures are marked as player model

Setting the vertical detection distance to 50 shows the c4 when it is placed higher up but wont show it on when placed on the ground 😂

Yea so it definitely uses the distance from { 0 0 0 } to the object. Setting Horizontal detection distance to 390 with the object being at { 380 0 0 } will hide it. Setting it to 360 will show it again

[static tangle]

It's just using whatever coordinate system the game uses - doesn't look like there's any accounting for scene scale in that code.

ahh, but it gets the player model body position based on the playerModelBodyTextures list... So whatever draw call uses that texture is considered the center of the player, and other draw calls are shown or hidden based on distance from that instance. and I think if there are multiple draw calls that fall into that, it will just use the first one in each frame.

I thought it was using the camera position

I think that was done to make it so the portal gun that Chell holds is only shown in portals / shadows / etc, but the gun that sits on a pedestal is shown.

[granite forge]

Makes sense yea. So a system based on camera position might be a useful addition then 🫣

[timid trout]

Ah that explains a lot of confusion I had

Unfortunately they don't have any description in the RtxOptions.md

[timid trout]

I don't think we can mod the game to do that, maybe remix could only affect the closest instance 🤔

[static tangle]

The way Remix is currently set up, that decision needs to be made when the draw call is received, so there's no way to wait for all the draw calls to come in, then make the decision.

(there are a few other things that'd be much easier if we could wait to get all the draw calls, then start doing logic. Unfortunately it'd be a significant refactor to enable that, and it might be a big RAM or perf hit.)

[timid trout]

Hmm since there's no unique instance to the current player that we can mark as player model body (if we do, others players become invisible too), so we could spawn a dummy model attached to the player and mark it as body texture instead.
Edit: a bit more clear explanation

Probably need something other than a cow

[granite forge]

To have non animated shadows? Wouldn't you also have to do the same for each and every weapon?

[timid trout]

No, as I unique instance to mark as player model body

Because otherwise lying modies will be invisible too

[granite forge]

Ah so it uses the cow as the reference origin basically

[timid trout]

Exactly

It still has the problem where bodies will disappear if you get close enough but that's a good start

I used linkTo but seems like spawned models have collision. attach method (which is supposed to better fit the use case I think?) doesn't appear to be working :/

[granite forge]

which bone (tag) did you try to attach it to?

player attach("cow_model_name", "j_spine4"); (if thats valid in cod2)

[timid trout]

Ah tag was optional so I thought it isn't required

[granite forge]

mh I'm not sure where it attaches it to when you dont declare one

[timid trout]

still not working :/

where to get available tags?

[granite forge]

try j_head

[timid trout]

nope

Is it correct? player attach("xmodel/cow_dead_1", "j_head", 1);

[granite forge]

uh I dont think that you need xmodel/

[granite forge]

I guess that you need it then 😂 Very different compared to cod4

[timid trout]

yea

Where can I get the available tags for the player model?

They're probably different than CoD4's then

[granite forge]

short tag_flash;
  short tag_flash_11;
  short tag_flash_2;
  short tag_flash_22;
  short tag_brass;
  short j_head;
  short tag_weapon;
  short tag_player;
  short tag_camera;
  short tag_aim;
  short tag_aim_animated;
  short tag_origin;
  short tag_butt;
  short tag_weapon_right;
  short back_low;
  short back_mid;
  short back_up;
  short neck;
  short head;
  short pelvis; 

[timid trout]

Ah I was searching through the model files

mtl_brit_africa_pricehat

[timid trout]

hmm still no :/

Lets try all of them

oops

None of them seems to work :/

[granite forge]

are you attaching on spawn and did you precache the cow model?

[timid trout]

No, I wait for the player and yes I precache it (it throws an error if I don't anyway)

linkTo works just fine in the same block

I think it's not a huge deal since we can create a custom tiny mesh for this

[granite forge]

@slow shore 🫣

linkTo is somewhat laggy compared to attach. Atleast in cod4

[timid trout]

That's the case in cod2 as well

doesn't seem to cause any issues if detection box is slightly larger than the actual model. Tho it already has to be large enough to accommodate for some animations

Ah now I get it

@granite forge I misinterpreted your question, script waits for the player connected signal, not for spawn

Seems like I need to attach it every time player respawns

[granite forge]

yes sorry

you need to waittill spawned

[timid trout]

No my fault, I misinterpreted your question

[timid trout]

What is the signal name for it

[granite forge]

sec

onPlayerConnect()
{
    while(1)
    {
        level waittill("connected", player);
        player thread onPlayerSpawned();
    }
}

onPlayerSpawned()
{
    self endon("disconnect");

    while(1)
    {
        self waittill("spawned_player");
        self iPrintLnBold("SPAAAAWN");

        model = spawn("script_model", self.origin);
        model.angles = (0, 0, 0);
        model setModel("xmodel/cow_dead_1");
    }
}

[timid trout]

And I should discard the cow once player is dead

I think it's waittill("death");

[granite forge]

if that is implemented -> check if it removes the cow if you go into spectator mode 😜

[timid trout]

hmm :/

detachAll(); doesn't crash but doesn't work :/

[granite forge]

you did spawn the model as a script model right?

[timid trout]

Uh no, do we?

[granite forge]

if you do that first eg model = spawn("script_model", self.origin);
you can then just do model delete();

You obv. need to be within the same function scope that created that model

[timid trout]

But attach() expects a model name?

[granite forge]

ah damn I thought you could also attach an existing model

[timid trout]

Maybe, I need to try

I think no

[granite forge]

but tbh I tought the engine would clean up that model automatically

[timid trout]

yea weird

Nevermind, it worked now ¯_(ツ)_/¯

It crashes because I didn't specify the tag 🤦‍♂️

[timid trout]

here's the final version for reference:

    while (true) {
        player waittill("spawned_player");
        player attach("xmodel/cow_dead_1", "tag_origin", 1);

        player waittill("death");
        player detach("xmodel/cow_dead_1", "tag_origin");
    }

[dull oar]

Nice one man, would you like me to create a custom object for us to tag as player?

[timid trout]

Ah yes please, just a single triangle should be sufficent right?

Also could use something like a xyz cross for fine tuning the position to keep the detection box as small as possible.

[dull oar]

Yep no worries. On it

[static tangle]

for meshes designed to be replaced, best to go with one triangle with a unique texture (a 1x1, 2x2, or 4x4 texture with random noise is great). If you want something easy to identify, make a small texture (32x32, 32x64, 64x64, etc) and just write the purpose in the texture:

[dull oar]

Oh nice one, I'll use that

[static tangle]

(I just made that in paint, then took a screenshot of it. it's probably not even actually 32x32

[dull oar]

we got two triangles so we can tell direction 🙂 even got little coloured bits

[dull oar]

had a shit day at work so taking it out on this crate, looks pretty cool though 🙂

[radiant belfry]

if you don't mind teaching me your ways 😛

how did you get the dirt here to actually look like there's depth to it? i've provided deformation maps, normals, roughness, etc. for mine, yet it still looks extremely flat ohh you probably replaced the mesh

just occured to me while writing, lol

[dull oar]

Yea new mesh 🙂

[radiant belfry]

reallllly gotta fix my camera and start with this stuff

[dull oar]

Hell yea get out there and scan. Super rewarding

[slate plank]

Following update reworked how decals are resolved. This should resolve most decal issues you have seen. Give it a go and please file github issues for any remaining/new issues you find.
https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/dxvk-remix/commit/11e910b9eb6f8ae412be1932d9ee2b4e38613db7

The main notable difference is that decals are no longer artificially offsetted away from their backgrounds/walls by the runtime (note: the original game/replacements could still have them offsetted) and there is only one decal texture category to use (the previous decal categories are still ingested by runtime, but no longer exposed in the UI).

The main things to keep an eye out for:

• if all decals are (fully) rendered on top of their respective backgrounds/walls
• if decal blending order is correct when there are many overlapping decals. The current system does an approximate ordering for 3+ decals on top of each other.
• if decal order is consistent frame to frame and when viewed from different angles

[sweet cloak]

Did you tile the scanned mesh and swap out the ground mesh or just apply a height map to the original mesh?

[dull oar]

for the ground mesh it's just a blob with a nice material on it, loads of bricks and dirt 🙂

[dull oar]

wicked! taking a look now 🙂

[sweet cloak]

Ohhh so the original ground mesh is still there, you just laid the new one on top?

[dull oar]

its the same mesh, used to be a little mound, i smoothed it out a bit and stuck a load of brick models into it 🙂 heres its not

you can see what it more clearly from before

[sweet cloak]

I was talking about the base layer mesh, like the cobble street in this case

[dull oar]

oh i see, just the old mesh with a cobble material on it mate

[sweet cloak]

Gotcha, thought you meant that you went all out and had a simplified cobble street mesh or something going on

[gaunt agate]

Crack one of the boards

[dull oar]

could do, dont fancy it though 😛

[gaunt agate]

It would look cool cracked under a brick

[dull oar]

oh i see, yea damn it, that would look sick

i'm sick of getting covered in green carrying this thing around 😛

[sage locust]

Cmon @dull oar give us some kickass screenshot to blow our minds

😄

[dull oar]

Scroll up, made a crate this week

[sage locust]

I'm checking this channel 100 times a day

xD

[dull oar]

Scanned an antique suitcase today. Leather came out rough so ordered a linear polarising filter for my ring flash to fix it. Thought I could put it outside the car with some scattered clothes and personal papers, family photos...stuff like that. Tell a bit of a story with it

Found a local ww2 museum and I'm working up to asking to be able to get some scans of original weapons, uniforms and other items. he has lugers, mp44's, full uniforms. Its perfect.

Wanna perfect my scan process first

[sage locust]

Do you have more of these? 😄

@dull oar Planning to scan a cow? 😂 🐮

[sweet cloak]

Not at the moment.

[dull oar]

working out cross polarization photogrametry today. check out this vintage chest of draws, it's shiny in the realworld but my new set up removes all specular highlights

putting scanning stuff aside for a moment you can learn so much about what goes into an albedo map from this. just look at the richness and variation in colour in, what is basically, an albedo photograph

[warm lagoon]

you filtered out the specular highlights?

[dull oar]

yep 🙂

[warm lagoon]

nice

ig that's what sunglasses do with polarized lens

block out any unnecessary lights

[dull oar]

having trouble though with the auto focus, it's blurry for most shots, not sure why

[sweet cloak]

AF detects the contrast between points on the sensor, the flatness that cross polarization creates probably confuses it a lot.

[sweet cloak]

Best bet is to lock the focus in and then apply the cross polarization.

[dull oar]

suppose if i set my aperture to f11 and above the area where i'm going out of focus would be wider meaning i could get away with no AF at all?

[warm lagoon]

anyway i can do this one a phone instead of relying on a sub $400~ Camera?

[dull oar]

not with cross polarizing i don't think so

got this with a test but the autofocus is proving to be a pain

thats just a mega dense point cloud so i'm chuffed with that, it's working when it works

you can see the grain and where the wood joins which is sick. and those handles are shiny brass as well but you'd never know it from these photos

[granite forge]

How much diskspace is used for such a model?

[dull oar]

it's becoming an issue

[granite forge]

my guess: 5-6gb of images?

[dull oar]

21gb for uncompressed tifs per scan

the raw images are lighter at 10gb...

damn tif is big

once you're done you just move the raw photos to an external hhd, delete the tifs and keep the asset files

[warm lagoon]

quite impressive

whats the size of the end result model in .usd format that can be used in remix

[dull oar]

final built asset

[dull oar]

normal asset size, 4096 px texture set

damn this is something else

this screenshot is around 10cm in width. very cool

[warm lagoon]

just throw it in carentan and see if it drops the performance (maybe with one it won't have a issue but with like 20 of thesse bad boys, maybe 💀)

what's the current poly count, or is it still just point clouds

[dull oar]

its just a test piece, it'll be normal polycount once i've made a low polygon model of it all

trying to increase the quality of high polygon model and source art capture. low poly will be normal

[warm lagoon]

i mmean for experimental purposes

[dull oar]

it'll die 😛

[warm lagoon]

💀

[dull oar]

and look wierd af

2 million faces. probably wont die

[warm lagoon]

btw @dull oar they used your lamp in the RTX remix article, nice job 👍

[timid trout]

DMCA them!!

[gaunt agate]

I remember a guy got 2 4090s and a full pc build from nv because they used one of his renders without permission

[stoic jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/zhou-shen-charlie-zhou-shen-chinese-cute-handsome-gif-16581846

[dull oar]

they asked, i shared 🙂 nyles kind

[summer brook]

tadpole will be getting a 4090 with subsurface scattering-enabled fans

[sweet cloak]

Only to be hidden in a plain workstation case and tasked crunching photogrammetry all day.

[summer brook]

Hey @dull oar
I watched this video about the cross polarization method u're using (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWsbP56MDk0), and it left on a cliffhanger to explain how to deal with metallic objects in another video. I can't find it.
Do you have a source to point out?

[dull oar]

yea saw that yesterday and was looking for a while as well

literally watching this one now
https://youtu.be/uWtoZs1jgOg

[summer brook]

Thx u

[dull oar]

ma boi william faucher has a good one as well, more practical and shorter
https://youtu.be/GJ2gtQ0WxTU

[summer brook]

It is out of curiosity only for now, I still need to get some decent camera + light rigs. Have been doing it with my phone so far

Accepting recommendations btw

[dull oar]

turns out if i lower my aperture to 1.2 I can get autofocus to work. From there if I switch to manual and bump the aputure upto F11 again then get to shooting i'm good, just need to lower my aperture when i move too far or closer to my object. it's a lot to remember though

[dull oar]

second hand all day every day. I have a nikon 810d with sigma art lens, it's still new so i cant reconmend it yet. for years my go to was a canon 800d and canon efs 18-55mm lens. works just fine honestly

you can get them cheap on ebay

my whole old kit for £449
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175975854559?epid=8033525322&hash

[radiant belfry]

oh, that's quite nice

someone recommended this site to me in the past: https://www.mpb.com/en-us/product/canon-eos-rebel-t7i

in this case, your ebay listing is probably a better value

[dull oar]

nice find, yea looks good

just double checked my old camera is 700d. you can bug the complete kit for £300

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176142297339?hash

[radiant belfry]

oh, i forgot to note that the rebel t7i is the 800d in the US

[dull oar]

ah i see

whats wrong with naming them something other than numbers and letters? its the cannon "bob" or the nikon "steve"

wow lots of 700d on mpd.com as well
https://www.mpb.com/en-uk/product/canon-eos-700d?page=2

[radiant belfry]

i have a measly Rebel t1i. still holds up surprisingly well for photos

[dull oar]

you'll have to give it a go then. it's really easy and the quality is amazing. for a wall stand 2 meters (ish) from a brick wall on a cloudy day. starting at the top left corner take photos in a line after 30 cm (ish) starting until your at the top right corner. move down (dont rotate, MOVE the camera down) 30 cm and go back in a straight line until your 30 cm below where you started. work in this pattern until some asks you what your doing and chuck it in agisoft metashape 🙂

[sweet cloak]

If you wear a hard hat and a vest you’ll never have someone ask what you’re doing

[dull oar]

The hitman approach

This looks promising for my auto focus problem.
https://adapting-camera.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-external-auto-focus-assist-light-is.html

The massive flash blocks my autofocus light on the camera body but this essentially redirects it to an external unit and emits only infra red light. Light turns off when the photo is taken and I got sharp focus 🙂

[sweet cloak]

The Construction uniform always works

[dull oar]

Experimented with lowering my aperture to f1.4 and focusing, switching to manual and setting aperture back to f11 but my wandering path around objects left me with some blurry photos. Need a solution not a work around I think

[sweet cloak]

Can’t you lock your focus?

[dull oar]

I did but as I walked around my square object I'd misjudge distance and be shooting blurry photos

As you capture you move in and out so distance changes constantly. the flash frees me up to go handheld as well so I'm all over the place. Getting full coverage and then some but all out of focus ool

[radiant cradle]

Someone better give this an official sponsorship, the work being done is amazing

[stoic jetty]

bip bloop

bip bip, banana bus

don't ask why

[dull oar]

Cause it's cool, ta mate

[radiant cradle]

Why call of duty 2 specifically?

[gaunt agate]

Why any game specifically?

[stoic jetty]

i've did this for Max Payne and COD4 as well mate

[granite forge]

What kind of question is that 😂

[stoic jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/tony-stark-eyeglass-exellent-question-gif-12818139

[gaunt agate]

Who did the logo for need for speed?

I still use it

[dull oar]

Just ordered the auto focus unit I mentioned above. I'll have a go at scanning that antique chest of draws I shown off earlier this week over the weekend and turn that into all the furniture in carentan over the next few weeks 🙂 I also plan to capture some picture frames I got lying around cause these walls are bare af

[stoic jetty]

that one?

[gaunt agate]

yeah

[stoic jetty]

its by filib

he left this server

#1103377328530276403 message

his message where he dropped that logo

[dull oar]

cart time baby

work in progress, it's for lumber

perfect for chopping up into all the carts in cod2 🙂

just a point cloud for now while i wait to do the back end

[summer brook]

Pretty sweet. Where did u get this from?

[dull oar]

it's a 1 tonne cart in my local woods

[sweet cloak]

He stole it He's been gobbling up all the historical items for his own collection.

[timid trout]

@dull oar When you're visiting the Royal Army Museum to 3D scan some guns

[dull oar]

am trying but not horse 😦

[sweet cloak]

Tadpole's trying to create his own Xanadu

[dull oar]

once i get my set up i'm going to contact a local ww2 museum. looooads of weapons, uniforms all sorts

mp44's, pssh, tompsons...everything a growing modder needs

[warm lagoon]

Accurate

[summer brook]

Crazy stuff
Imagine having a documentary page about the work that has been done showcasing all the effort you've been doing. Surely something worth for a Nvidia article

Pro level stuff

[gaunt agate]

Damn

Tadpole out here doing some crazy stuff

Hope this project gets into the spotlight

[dull oar]

Aw cheers guys 😁

[sage locust]

How is the scanning going? 🙂

[sweet cloak]

The printer jammed

[dull oar]

You'll be setting up Jira for me next. I'll post when I've got something

[timid trout]

Now you need more luck than an astronaut in the Challenger

[dull oar]

60,000,000 polys when its calculated. i'm cutting it into bits for the broken cart in carentan but also keeping it whole for the background just outside the map.

this is just the point cloud for now

1,400 photos in total across 2 weekends

[sweet cloak]

You missed a pebble

[dull oar]

so flopping detailed errrr mer god

[sweet cloak]

Now that’s a dense point cloud

[dull oar]

https://tenor.com/view/ostrich-laughing-gif-8863235

[timid trout]

The amount of effort you put in for the every single prop in your mod is insane

[tired brook]

Reviving the channel a bit 😄 Any ways to force the game to run in 1440p on DX7 ? mine even with config file in read only, don't want to go over 1600x1024

[granite forge]

That is caused by a dxvk (not remix) bug that was recently fixed on the dxvk repo (https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/issues/3214)
It still needs to find its way into the dxvk-remix repo so nothing you can do until then

[tired brook]

Can't compile it myself or something if it's fixed on the repo ? Need to wait ?

[granite forge]

If you are able to: integrate these 3 commits into dxvk-remix and compile it yourself

[tired brook]

Thanks, will see if i can do it, if not will wait, will be a good test 👀

[dull oar]

Your going to get like 20fps at 1440

[tired brook]

but at least it's gonna be pretty, will be a good way to use my 4090 😂

[tired brook]

Finally fixed one of the issue, need to change the build version of rtx-omni-meterial to V11 instead of V12

now i got an error telling me that it tried to make an absolute path instead of a relative one to a dir in the source tree

[dull oar]

What are you trying to do sorry?

[timid trout]

A bug in dxvk (inherited by dxvk-remix) prevents them to launch the game with their display resolution I think

[timid trout]

.

[tired brook]

Exactly 🙂 Fixed the second error now it was because i was using a recent build of meson that didn't had all the libraries, now i'm facing another error during the build but hey, at least it's trying to build it this time 😄

[tired brook]

Anyone got transparency issue on texture

on cod2 ? Can't get wall textures to display properly, it keep popping

[tired brook]

Was able to integrate them, but got this type of error while doing it

It build perfectly without the commits changes though

[dull oar]

Is this still the resolution stuff? So confused

[tired brook]

yup

Was trying to add the fix from og DXVK into DXVK remix

[dull oar]

I see. Thought you could just put any resolution into your profile and play

[tired brook]

That's what i've done but it isn't working which is strange cause it works perfectly on WAW

it works without REMIX, works on WAW with/without REMIX, but on cod2, with REMIX it's not working

stuck in 1600x1024

[dull oar]

I'm running on 16*10 since the start

Reset your display settings and it'll go back to 800*600

And it does it from your profile

[tired brook]

it won't take it even though it's read only so shouldn't be able to modify the values

[dull oar]

Aspect ratio is new to me

Display refresh 240 hz 😄 you just adding this stuff yourself that's not standard is it?

[tired brook]

it's standard ! didn't modified the file

[dull oar]

Maybe reset your display settings and try again

Crash the game and enter safe mode will do it

[tired brook]

will try

[granite forge]

The higher the refresh rate of your monitor, the lower max resolution you can choose in game

because there are only 256 available modes and each sub resolution step has all possible refresh rates .. so 640x480 takes up ~ 10 modes or so if your max refresh rate is 240

and because there was a bug in dxvk, it would even add some duplicates into the mix resulting in eg. 16 different modes just for 640x480

[tired brook]

that's why ! So should be able to choose 1440p with lower hz

still don't fix my build issue though lol

need to work a bit more on it then

[tired brook]

My friend was able to build it finally, @granite forge what to do with the build after ? Do you know how can i inject it into cod2 to fix the issue ?

Do i need to use gametarget.conf ?

[granite forge]

place the build files (mainly d3d9.dll) into the .trex folder

the solution can also generate the game project files for you

[timid trout]

Thats for automatically deploying d3d9.dll files

[granite forge]

[CoD4]
outputdir: D:\COD4Modtools\.trex
workingdir: D:\COD4Modtools
commandline: iw3xo.exe

(gametargets.conf)

[tired brook]

It works !

[timid trout]

Btw you could run the build task in Github to do it on the cloud I guess

[tired brook]

👀

Could it be possible to do an MR now ?

Could be nice for other peoples

[timid trout]

I don't understand the language but make sure to disable AA

[tired brook]

got it @timid trout

[timid trout]

Absolutely!

[tired brook]

My friend will do it then

[timid trout]

If they don't like it, they can still edit your commit

[tired brook]

Thanks again for the help 😉

[tired brook]

👀 🧐

Here is the link to the fork if you want to patch the resolution too (https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/dxvk-remix/pull/55)

[spiral spruce]

how?

[timid trout]

I think it's not told in contributions guideline but they want you to squash your commits into a single one

[tired brook]

Any easy way to extract 3d models from cod2 ?

iwi 2 dds ?

[dull oar]

Just capture a usda

What are you planning to do with them?

[tired brook]

was trying to export some of them to see if i can smooth some models

[timid trout]

Gotta admit, CoD 2 already has decent models.
Most importantly, it's gameplay never gets old. Excellent pick for a remaster :)

Unlike all the Battlefield games that worked so far 😦

[tired brook]

Yes, cod2 gameplay is really good ! And the movements feelings don't feel that old compared to BF, only the sprint is missing, but could be a game design decision today so not that big of an issue

[dull oar]

Call if duty united offensive had a sprint. Shame it's open gl

Much prefer it to cod2

[timid trout]

Man, it's just a sprint

Oh I think you mentioned it also had large scale vehicle combat

[dull oar]

Oh it's more than that, the maps are huge and have vehicles, rank perk's. Soo cool

[sweet cloak]

Bet it’s pushing the limit of OpenGL at the time

[tired brook]

any tips to import some usd ? i smoothed one USD in blender then export it out again, when ingesting it into remix, the 3d model position is completely bugged out, can't put it where i want to put it using the position tool

[dull oar]

You followed the tutorial on Nvidia studios YouTube?

[tired brook]

yup

[dull oar]

Wanna record a video so I can see the problem? I was in the early access group I've used it for a while now, could probably help

[slow shore]

yes

https://github.com/mauserzjeh/cod-asset-importer

and if you also want animations, https://github.com/riicchhaarrd/xmodelconverter/

[dull oar]

You'd do it with remix ideally. Handles modern poly counts and texture budgets much better

[slow shore]

i mean i'm happy with remix, but don't neglect that cod2 came with official modtools

[dull oar]

Yea true, I use it for the skies myself

Kungfoomans blender exporter was killer

Everything he does is dope

[slow shore]

exactly, it's much easier to do things using official modtools + distributing them in iwd package aswell + if someone doesn't have rtx they can still enjoy the improved models (yes u can use higher quality models, most pcs run it fine), i don't think remix handles animations aswell

[slow shore]

link?

[dull oar]

Remix doesn't handle animations no. Everything else remix does waaaay better honestly

Your limited by ye olde game tech otherwise

[slow shore]

u mean the models and textures

what about game scripts / weapons / sounds / integrating models with the game aswell e.g loading them precache, u can't do that in remix

the things that make up the game

[dull oar]

Not remix is all art stuff

[tired brook]

Thanks for the links, will take a look !

[dull oar]

we back in game with some stairs, very work in progress

good starting point

[tired brook]

Any ways to easily fix texture pop in ? I know i can fix a lot by classing the texture by it's category, but how do you know if it's a decal, terrain texture, anti culling etc ?

[dull oar]

I force lod if that's what you mean

[spiral spruce]

Hey bidule how you activate rtx in cod2? is there any guide on github or in the web?

[tired brook]

@dull oar What do you mean by forcing lod ? Here is an example of the issue i got

For example i got some randomly flashing texture even though i selected them as decals in game setup, here the little debris on top of the floor

[dull oar]

Maybe you need to look into decal options? I'm not sure decal system changed a few weeks ago

[tired brook]

Didn’t know there were some decals options

Will check that tonight after work

[spiral spruce]

how can i fix this issue?

[dull oar]

Mark textures as decal that need marking as decal

[tired brook]

Any ways to be sure of the marking that we need to put ?

By testing ? Or is there a thing somewhere to know what texture is what ?

[dull oar]

By testing yea

[tired brook]

Looks better 👀

[tired brook]

Any known ways to fix theses lightnings issues that cause texture to glitch like this for example ? Bit hard to start from zero 😅 Already marked everytextures by their correct category

[spiral spruce]

same here how can i fix this lighning issues

im inside of a building and the sun lights shows incorrectly when i move the camera

[dusk comet]

Its probably culling

Game unloads walls thats not in your sight

[spiral spruce]

what should I do?

[dusk comet]

Try enabling anti culling from remix menu

[spiral spruce]

From the rtx.conf file it is not possible?

[spiral spruce]

i already fixed that issue downloading the next two files: iwd_16 inside main folder and rtx.conf from here https://github.com/adamplayer/CallOfDuty2RTX/tree/main

[spiral spruce]

inside rtx.conf i found this but idk if changing that value would fix the issue

and this

[dusk comet]

I dont know too

There was a anti culling option in geometry tab

[spiral spruce]

inside remix menu?

[dusk comet]

Yep

[spiral spruce]

nope

it didn't work

[sweet cloak]

No. You gotta use my patch

[spiral spruce]

can you please share it with me ?

[sweet cloak]

It’s the GitHub link

[spiral spruce]

where?

this one?

[spiral spruce]

and wich file do i need? i already download the rtx.conf and iwd_16, i need all the files ? and if i need all the files i have to put them all inside cod2 root folder?

[sweet cloak]

I honestly don’t remember it’s been so long. I think there’s an alternative patch that’s easier than mine somewhere as well.

[spiral spruce]

Its the only game that I have this problem sadly

😦

[tired brook]

Thanks for the link of the patch, will check tonight. And yes culling from the menu don’t work I already tried it 🙂

[dull oar]

We have a guide in the pins

#1099591203768504421 message
The .iwi just makes the settings get applied as you go into a level so you don't have to use a devmap every time.

Patch with Adams patch to fix culling but heads up it doesn't work for brecourt or single player maps though and I'm seeing you two guys posting single player screenshots

Xoxors patch add your player cast shadows if you want that, looks better than latest cod in my opinion

[tired brook]

Thanks again for all the infos !

[tired brook]

So what's the most up to date ? Adam one or xoxor ? Seems like xoxor patch was merged with adam one ?

[sweet cloak]

Prob xoxor

[granite forge]

They are not really merged into one file. My patch is just doing the player shadow part and completely optional

[dull oar]

"Thanks for all the infos" read non of it

You even reacted to it ffs

[tired brook]

I readed it ! Just thought each one was different 🥲

Thought that xoxor patch was just for cast shadows and adams for the culling, my badd

[sweet cloak]

Oh yeaaa I forgot about all this lore.

[spiral spruce]

this is beatifull 😍

i hope they fix the issue related to the resolution, but honestly cod 2 at least for me runs pretty well on my 3080

[dull oar]

what issue with resolution? all these work

1440p

[timid trout]

I think the gun looks raster?

[tired brook]

It depends of your refresh rate, for me, with 2k 240hz, can't go over 1600x1024 if i don't put the patch that my friend made

[dull oar]

but why do you need it set to 240hz?

[tired brook]

well, 1 it's my monitor refresh rate, and 2 i don't have the choice, just by connecting a 240hz on my pc, it force the game to try to show every resolution in the menu, so because of that i don't see the one over 1600x1024 without the fix

but i'm sure if i had a 1080p 144hz it should work i think

[dull oar]

default is 60hz, just leave it at 60

[tired brook]

i know !

But because my monitor is a 240hz 60hz or 240hz isn't the problem, i just don't see resolution over 1600x1024 because the game try to show every resolution with every refresh rate and it's capped at 256modes, and because of dxvk bug, with a screen better than 1080p 144hz the game just can't show it

I would love to play it 1440p 60hz without the fix if it was possible 😄

but since it has been fixed for me at least, not an issue 🙂

#1099591203768504421 message

Here is the issue that xoxor explained in details 😉

[dull oar]

an expensive monitor thats causing you all this trouble, madness

[tired brook]

Pretty much it 💀 😂

[spiral spruce]

now i can play at 1080p, thanks! @tired brook

[spiral spruce]

how can i change the color of the sky?, anyone knows???