Call of Duty 2

[slow shore]

if u leave it as it is now that's fine too 😛

[radiant belfry]

for the face looking "dead", that's why

like there's no movement in the face at all

and the default state is blank

[dull oar]

nah we close guys, gotta sort this out

[radiant belfry]

tadpole ftw

MVP of the day

[dull oar]

slo mo glamour shots did it

[slow shore]

maybe u can play blendshape idle face anims? or blink eyes (cod2 already does this iirc), does remix have that?

[dull oar]

this is just cod characters with a new material

its all done with the blender cod tools

[slow shore]

hmm

animated textures do exist in cod2

eye blink could be possible

😂

[dull oar]

oh he does blink, just not while running apparently 😛

[slow shore]

ah ok

[slow shore]

but yeah it looks fine

dont listen to me im a perfectionist

[dull oar]

nah i want perfect mate

[slow shore]

just noticed

xd

[dull oar]

thats spine3

bloody spine3!

[slow shore]

btw idk if ur exporting head and body seperately

u dont have to

u can just export body with head and not attach any heads in gsc

[dull oar]

i am yea

its got no face bones then though

i attached them in the character gdc file

[slow shore]

not sure but should still work i think

[slow shore]

hmm i might be wrong

but i think ingame it just finds the tag_eye or stuff on the model in general

[dull oar]

i'll parent neck to spine 3 in blender and export i guess. I'll have to combine head and body again as well

[slow shore]

im not entirely sure about this tho but i did export some fullbody models this way

so i may have forgot

[dull oar]

fair enough, i'll give it a go. the seam is bothering me more and more

its not like i have a second head yet either

[slow shore]

ye its not compatible with other

u can always cover it up

like the og models do

they just float inside the torso too

[dull oar]

yea the jacket should cover it, i'll not need the body except for the wrists and hands so will end up deleting most of it

i have an English Indian made short sleeve shirt to capture next so we might get some more arm action soon

and shorts for the ladies

[slow shore]

do u need more face variety

for free

?

[dull oar]

you got free faces?

you'll need to introduce me to your friends

[slow shore]

university scanned a lot of people, and released a morphable free permissive license model

with the blender script it randomly generates one

there's no textures for it tho because those are paid/professional

😛

[dull oar]

i have a custom base mesh so if i wrap my mesh around those heads we're sorted 🙂

hell yes now we're getting somewhere

[radiant belfry]

oo that's neat

[slow shore]

surely is

[dull oar]

those are textures, i can make this work

obviously those are textures, i got excited 😛

[slow shore]

what u mean those

[dull oar]

bottom two chaps with the hair nets

[slow shore]

i was kinda sneaky for those

they have a paper where they have the textures of some

as small resolution

[dull oar]

oh i see 😛

[slow shore]

so i just took those

[dull oar]

its reference aint it

[slow shore]

but the one i showed before i did paint in substance

which is high res

theres a free sample on those wrinkle map sites

like some old lady elbow idk

and i just used that as base

to paint

skin layer

[dull oar]

yea we can do this, i'll still needs hands but i can just sculpt some i guess from my low poly

wanna move away from the copy right protected stuff so i can release at some point

*gotta move away

[slow shore]

i always try to find cc0/copyright free stuff

or cc1 with attribution

[dull oar]

i brought the character from a shop

[slow shore]

ye u mentioned that before

i would just generate a few heads

and then just paint them

also @dull oar worst case u could've used makehuman/MPFB2

if u know what that is

[dull oar]

no idea

[slow shore]

WHAT?!

makehuman is a free/opensource humanoid model / character generator

[dull oar]

oh snap, cool stuff

dem hands

i need to sort out his jacket and trousers first, i cant have a naked man running around anymore

[slow shore]

im kinda rolling my eyes rn that u call urself an artist but never heard of makehuman

[dull oar]

i have a small bit to fix on his ammo belt and the top half is done. I've already made all his attachments

yea not bad at all

[slow shore]

these look great

[dull oar]

ah here we go, all his bits and pieces

i'll just attach a polygon at the point of each attachment and rig it 100% to the correct bone so that it's stable for the mesh replacement

[slow shore]

also im now wondering what store u bought that dude from

because either he was cheap or that store is kinda bad

because i've seen 3d stores / shops where they sell entire ppl scanned in

[dull oar]

3dscanstore

[slow shore]

and boy they are expensive and good

[dull oar]

these guys are the bomb

[slow shore]

what was that one where they sell the textures of every body part or so

123.xyz i forgot

[dull oar]

something like that yea

[slow shore]

ah ive come across that one

[dull oar]

https://www.3dscanstore.com/retopologised-body-models/animation-ready-body-scans/animation-ready-body-scan-male-04

[slow shore]

i wasnt very fond of it

but i cant remember the one

that had the amazing ones

but im sure they were expensive oto

they sold like 2 licenses

[dull oar]

this sites the best of the best

[slow shore]

indie or bs/single

and professional

iirc it was like $99

[slow shore]

nah there was one better

ill let u know when i can remember

[dull oar]

getting closer

[radiant belfry]

just about everything you post in this channel is good enough for #showcase lol

it's very impressive

[dull oar]

lol cheers kim 🙂 just unwrapping that webbing now

[dull oar]

and there we have it, now it's painting time 🙂 ironically i have some paint on the sleeves i have to paint out

[dull oar]

yoooo we're in game!

[dull oar]

right i'm faffing around, mosting working out the fit and skinning but i pressed jump and i've been laughing for 5 minutes

brace yourselves

dat face though

"eeeeeeeehhhhh....oooouuuuuuwww" thats the noice coming from out hero here

[dull oar]

right that'll do for today, i got work in 6 hours 😛

[main estuary]

Excited for the complete working set

[radiant belfry]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1366236320598462496.webp?size=128&lossless=true

[dull oar]

Lol that's mint kim

[scarlet monolith]

Looks like a hybrid of Max Payne and Dale Cooper

[dull oar]

[sage locust]

Bits and pieces of prime Robert Patrick

[dull oar]

He looks like the guy they scanned

[scarlet monolith]

https://tenor.com/view/kyle-maclachlan-agent-cooper-dale-cooper-twin-peaks-david-lynch-gif-7019194491026163173

[dusk comet]

Wow these lamps look amazing!

[dull oar]

guys come to my cafe i made a lovely sign and everything

translated from french it means "starbucks"

[sage locust]

dupasquet for life

DUPA means ASS in polish, good night 😛

[dull oar]

we sell chocolate now...i think

[dusk comet]

woag

[dull oar]

and a nice lil frame. not bad for one evening 🙂

next up we're adding an embosed metal sign on the left there. i'm thinking this would look nice
https://www.lucienparis.com/lot/96416/11376396-byrrh-plaque-emaillee-pour-laperitif-byrrh-a-base-de?

going to add plaster all up the front of that building saving the exposed bricks for decal damage

scanned this over the weekend for the walls on the lower side and under the mg

and check out my new building corner trim piece thing

[summer brook]

Hell yeah. That is looking really good.

[dusk comet]

This sorta reminds me of the one in wolfenstein almost

[sage locust]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv8x5xyPGcs

[dull oar]

cod2? never heard of it

thats a sick video, nice one craven

[sage locust]

Thanks buddy! We will be making a longer one, with all stuff that is happening explained, where I will definitely include you and your work, which is fucking magnificent.

[dull oar]

byrrh

[sage locust]

byrh the fcuk?

[dull oar]

its from a famous painting of the 101st as they took carentan

and its cooler than a biscuit painting cod2 shipped with

[stoic jetty]

sounds awesome, especially for him.
just wondering, might logo appear on that longer video? Not forcing. No is always no.

[dull oar]

i really like your logo mate

and thats it done. aaaaaaaaaart

[stoic jetty]

kinda cool, but kinda also feels strange to me, i dunno why, can't say exactly

[sage locust]

sure 😉

[stoic jetty]

here is the latest logo for use (as Singleplayer under huge question)

[dull oar]

Hmmmm

[glass marlin]

I wanna ask when you do photogrammetry how do you get the materials to look like the irl reference

Like do you work on the pbr maps yourself?

Or is there some automatic process

[dull oar]

I work them myself. the pbr accurate albedo is made as you scan when you use cross polorization. I then just copy the albedo into the roughness channels, faff with values so whats shiny is shiny and whats rough is rough. copy the diffuse again into the height map and do a little high pass filter and sharpen then i'm done 🙂 its 10 minutes of faffing really.

you guys HAVE to try it, the quality is amazing and its fun

[glass marlin]

oh thats sick

[dull oar]

here i went out with my dog and found an old wooden leg thing and smashed it in the garden with a hammer. the small bits i'm scattering on the cloth like you see and scanning that. Taking about 50 photos so under five minutes of work. Then I process them into a 3d mesh and chop off the table so they float. bake to a plane with alpha and tada 🙂 wood spray when you shoot wood surfaces.

I'll do it 3 times and scale them around so i get diffuse sizes of spliters

the bigger parts are mesh replacements for the big 3d bits that land on the ground

please mr thing, try it. its hella fun

[dull oar]

there we go, bits and pieces to blow up 🙂

[dull oar]

muzzle flash is next i think, ruined the video

[glass marlin]

Insane work what

[stoic jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/its-beautiful-orson-krennic-star-wars-gif-27444911

[dull oar]

naaah its crap. THIS is beautiful 😛 check out dem 6 unique chunks plus particle bits texture that respects gravity

[dull oar]

hehe love this so much

[radiant belfry]

as you should 😛

looks amazing

[dull oar]

and my dog helped as we found the wood piece on our walk 🙂

now to capture a muzzle flash while keeping my eyebrows...hmmm

[radiant belfry]

could just use that flame simulator software thing

[dull oar]

the what now?

[radiant belfry]

https://jangafx.com/software/embergen/download

#general-remix message

looks very real

it has a demo i think

[dull oar]

a permanent license 🥹

rent to own! omg these guys rock

[radiant belfry]

yaa

[dull oar]

oh cool clouds, i've been thinking about adding layers to my sky dome. i MIGHT be able to have moving cloud that could block the sun for a bit

this looks easy enough
https://youtu.be/MUTWI0nIwxU

i got cod2's 2002 particle editor working 😛

[summer brook]

This is gorgeous! Looking really good

[dull oar]

so i got embergen and it's awesome, check out ma wispy smoke

[radiant cradle]

NVIDIA Flow when tho

[dull oar]

wednesday

[granite forge]

wow looking really good! How long did it take to create that?

[dull oar]

been working on it since the wood stuff last week. to get the render for the sprites it must have been 20 minutes. it comes packed with presets you can build from

download it and give it a try

[granite forge]

if only I had time to do that 😂

[dull oar]

all cod2 is doing is placing a big polygon plane on it and fading it in, moving forward and fading out. remix has a looping smoke effect on it and tada

yea i get it 😛 got sooooo many things i wanna try

[granite forge]

muzzleflash next?

[dull oar]

hell yes, i'm going to spawn a big camera facing sprite and place this sprite sheet on it 🙂

might do two so i can have a big wide smoke push effect that lasts longer

random rotation on that one

[glass marlin]

how easy is it to use embergen?

[dull oar]

so far piece of cake, seriously

just learning the UI now

just faffing with the presets got me a repeating wind puff thing

[glass marlin]

Excited to see how you’ll do explosions and fire

[glass marlin]

i wanna ask is it easier to replace the particle textures through remix or the editor?

[dull oar]

you can only swap a sprite sheet with remix, probably wanna do both right?

[dull oar]

right i've got this bug where the smoke disappears when renders against the sky BUT this looks sick still

[granite forge]

wow

[stoic jetty]

even with bug it looks beautiful, making it look like an amazing Remaster

[dull oar]

yea this is fun as heck

[radiant cradle]

I didn’t know Remix could even do that kind of stuff

[dull oar]

Right so turns out I need to upload this to moddb 😋

Ok so I have textures I can't share, characters I can't share and no way to stabilise hashes over the internet

I guess I need to look into server side mod hosting as well so my edits work in a live game

Thats where I'll start. If anyone knows what to do here id appreciate the help

[stoic jetty]

https://youtu.be/C0ikGN5khY8?si=TL0gY2LwjW8MtJ0K @dull oar congrats mate, your project appeared in a video alongside my logo

[dull oar]

Ew

Nah I kid, they asked if it was right before they used it. I think it's dope

[slow shore]

They should've used DX9 with settings set to max for the comparison though

[dull oar]

Yea you've said before

You know anything about running a mod on a server?

[slow shore]

I've hosted modded servers for years yeah

[dull oar]

I need to plop my mod on a server so people can play it. I need to have r_portalfinecull 0, loddisthi 10000 and r_lockpvs 1. Is that something I can set up on a server? These are all locked behind svcheats

[slow shore]

yes

[dull oar]

Oh cool

[slow shore]

for every gamemode there's a spawnPlayer() script in the gametype.gsc (dm.gsc)

then add a

self setclientcvar("r_lockpvs", "1");

or in the spawnSpectator() or in the join part in maps\mp\gametypes_teams or something

[dull oar]

Oh yea I'm using that here, craven hooked me up

So about hosting a server, is there a site or something?

[slow shore]

what

[dull oar]

I found this
https://fshost.me/free/cod2

Maaaate I have no idea. Never even thought about this before 😂

[slow shore]

well the traditional way is

rent a server/vps

then download the cod2 1.3b server lnxd files

(having to set up ubuntu and all that crap)

or windows vps but why would u

then add ur mod

set everything

./cod2_lnxded +set fs_game urmodname +map mp_toujane etc... +map_rotate

[dull oar]

Oh god why did I have to mod a multiplayer map for

[slow shore]

and those free services don't allow you to upload custom mods most of the time

and the servers go down

after inactivity/timer

they're more used for small scrims

like clan vs clan

[slow shore]

lmaooo

[dull oar]

After that remix prize mate

[slow shore]

ye ik

thats why its all the more funny

[dull oar]

So I'm gonna have to do it ain't i

[slow shore]

i could prob fix the SP hash or issues u had to begin with but

i dont have a rtx card

xD

[dull oar]

Rip

[slow shore]

to be fair u could switch to SP there's some maps that still benefit from the asset rework u did

not only carentan has those textures/models/buildings

[dull oar]

Duhoc assault and defend, yea could do

It's so big id only get it functional in the timeframe

I need it on point

Nah I'm sticking with carentan. It's been 2 years

[slow shore]

2 years

dang

[glass marlin]

Did you send them your toolkit footage for that quick clip?

[dull oar]

Yea man. That's commitment

[slow shore]

tbh u could "cheat" them in with a patch so that even in MP even if it's cheating those dvars are always set to that

in MP

[dull oar]

I can bring the wrath of Activision

Prize money is well and good but this is my hobby and has been for years now. Don't wanna loose it by giving them an excuse

[dusk comet]

amen

[dull oar]

I could use bots

That's how I play now

[slow shore]

what u mean

[dusk comet]

is cod 2 worth buying in the big 25 or should i not

[slow shore]

punkbuster isnt even officially supported for the game anymore and a lot of scriptkids already cheat in the game anyways

[dull oar]

Modding license says don't faff with dll or exe

[slow shore]

then all of xoxor his mods to make rtx compatible are not valid

[dull oar]

Nostalgia is big

[dusk comet]

i want to get it but at the same time moneys tight enough as is lol

[dull oar]

Yea but he's fine with it ain't he.

[slow shore]

everyone at this point is except u 😛

[dull oar]

I know I know lol

I got this anxiety thing from legal stuff. Super shit but is what it is

[slow shore]

besides for compatibility reasons in EU it's even legal to faff with dll or exe

[dull oar]

I cant. My anxiety would kick off like crazy. Don't even make sense half the time

Oh you signed a contract at work? Have anxiety for the month

New phone contract? Enjoy not sleeping for a week

Brains suck

[slow shore]

anyways you yourself wouldn't be able to do regardless because of the know-how required so it's fine

[dull oar]

Truth

So server hosting stuff, think you could help me out?

[slow shore]

yes and no

like i said u have to host ur server with ur mod

im not gonna host it for u

[dull oar]

I'm more after advice mate

[slow shore]

also idk if it would fit nvidia's spirit of the rtx mod

when the server goes offline

ur mod is "broken"

[dull oar]

Hmm yea that's no fun

What about bots? I see bot servers everywhere. Surely you can do that offline

[slow shore]

yea u can do that

just a local server

[dull oar]

I've got meatbots locally

Modded in my files

[slow shore]

ye u can bundle meatbots with ur gsc mod changes and release that

that would work

for local only bot gameplay

[dull oar]

But Id need to contact Mr meatbots whoever that is

I could release the online one with a server that's hosting it and an offline one so you can always play the mod after the contest

[slow shore]

what for

[dull oar]

Tbh it would be well fun to play online with everyone

[slow shore]

he released meatbots as a sole mod and probably with a license like MIT?

[dull oar]

Isn't that what you do when editing a mod?

I have no idea

[slow shore]

no? also u might not even have to modify it but just add new .gsc

[dull oar]

Something to think about

I'll check the files for a license, bound to have something like that

You used this fshost? Would be cool to try this out and see what work needs doing

[slow shore]

nop

[dull oar]

Everything works in a devmap

Or if I add my commands to a maps\mp\gametypes\ GSC I can just load a regular local server

Gonna need to try this on a live server first I guess and see where I'm at

Go from there 🙂

[dull oar]

this is good news for team cod2

right so fresh install on a fresh hard drive and we're stable

[sage locust]

We can get you your own server buddy.

[dull oar]

i looooooove you

if i remove the stuff i dont own copyright to I'll get you a version along with the rtx.config to actually see some good stuff

https://tenor.com/view/notpunkanymore-shovel-gif-22129031

going at my own mod with a spade to dig out all my hard work 😢

[summer brook]

At least you own the space

[dull oar]

true true

[sage locust]

@tawdry parcel Buddy can you help @dull oar to setup RTX server? 😄

[dull oar]

just working out what I need to do to this mod to get it to work

will be a while i think

days

[sage locust]

FYI YctN is COD2's main guy if it comes to hosting stuff, especially experimental stuff 😛 Also one of CoD2x devs! 🙂

[sage locust]

you tell me 😉 https://youtu.be/dv8x5xyPGcs

[dull oar]

i dare you to make this awesome truck tadpole

ok 😛

[slow shore]

are u at an event where this truck is displayed?

[dull oar]

no its just the one from the game

blocking out

[slow shore]

idk could be since u did the other with photogrammetry too

[dull oar]

yea would be cool to do for sure

if i ever come across one irl i'll have to take a crack it at

oh and i think i found a guy with a bren who'll let me scan it 🙂

[slow shore]

u want the glb?

[dull oar]

oh lol 😛 sure go for it

yea i got loads more angle mate if that helps

[slow shore]

u can feed in 4 different angled photos

the model is very high triangle count but maybe u can use it to retopo

site is https://3d.hunyuan.tencent.com/

[dull oar]

would be a measurement guide to model around

[slow shore]

yes

it's how i treat the generated models atm

the texture quality and models aren't there yet but if the quality isn't amazing you can retopo and use it as reference

[dull oar]

yea all good

you mind having a go with these? its a toy but it might work

[slow shore]

lol i also sometimes use toy cars as reference

[dull oar]

the most fun is getting a model kit and model each bit. i've made tanks like that. sooooooo cool

[slow shore]

2 hours later...

[dull oar]

thank you man, going to put it to very good use 🙂

[slow shore]

15%

I thought AI was supposed to be fast

[dull oar]

i say they same thing in the drive through "i thought this was fast food!"

[slow shore]

Meshy only allows single image, which one?

nvm i went with top left

even if its angled

still had best detail imo

meanwhile

quality on meshy was horrible

[dull oar]

thats fine i only need to positions

what one do you think

oh sorry 😛 ya top left is spot on

[slow shore]

if u threw the 4 images into meshroom/metashape/colmap or other photogrammetry software would it generate something reasonable?

wow...

so sad but i had another in queue and it's trying again it looked like the quality would've been decent

nvm i give up

[dull oar]

ah well, the one you gave me before is fiiiiiiine 🙂 cheers man

[dull oar]

there we go then, now just gotta detail it

[dull oar]

detailing time

[dull oar]

what a nice bottom

[limber otter]

a nice what now?

[summer brook]

Hell yeah boy. Looking sweet

[dull oar]

oh so i tested online cause why not and it works

i just need to get the camera above the sky box to stablise the hashes.

you need to poke your head over the skybox in a set position then lock pvs

for carentan its 0,0,8000 and look straight down. then lock pvs and you're done

but i dont know how to do that 😦 any help would be great

i can do it with my own mod though, if i host that we're sound

[dull oar]

need to sort the hubcaps but the backs done now, just the cab left togo

[stoic jetty]

Hella impressive mate

[dull oar]

phew, done. now onto the unwrap and i can colour him in

[dull oar]

tree time for a break from modelling. sub surface scattering leafs 😮

oh no, i have a video but 10mb file limit is preventing me from showing off 😛

[granite forge]

oh shit

[dull oar]

lol i know! i'll release it for free like i did everything else after the competitions over

[granite forge]

easy 10k

[radiant belfry]

this server has a 100 MB upload limit

[dull oar]

oh no what a mess i've made on this mg42

saw it in saving private ryan 😛

[radiant belfry]

i think discord just hates you

[dull oar]

says 10mb, i just restarted discord 😦

its a REALLY cool video though

[radiant belfry]

😢

got a solution for ya

https://litterbox.catbox.moe/

upload video there, then paste the link here. it should embed

make sure you select 24 hours at the top before uploading

[dull oar]

oh ok nice one

internet is a fun place aint it

[radiant belfry]

yus

[dull oar]

cheers kim

[radiant belfry]

even if it doesn't embed, i'll be able to download it and re-encode it so it'll work

[dull oar]

https://litter.catbox.moe/rtv8fl.mp4
ok here we go

[radiant belfry]

yeah not gonna embed. i'll fix it though

WAT

oh i'm stupid

[dull oar]

kick its ass kim!

[radiant belfry]

i'll send you this encoding setup if ya want. it's really simple

[dull oar]

oh yes please, thats wicked. can i noob like me handle it?

[radiant belfry]

yaa

i'll make an all in one package for you

[dull oar]

cheer mate

[radiant belfry]

so you just download this & extract it wherever you want. it should just load the template on startup

i preconfigured it so that it'll make just about any video under 10 MB. and as long as it's not 3+ minutes, it'll be decent quality

you just launch it from staxrip.exe, drag the file in, select "Current Template", then press the button in the bottom right and begin the job

i'll DM it

ah right. on the first launch, press the very top option

[dull oar]

request sent 🙂

[radiant belfry]

ooo it should have worked

try again

[dull oar]

thats done 🙂

sorry i'm going to have to bounce, mums poorly

[radiant belfry]

no worries. hope all is okay

[dull oar]

we're alive! somewhat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1f4cxhJzKg

[dull oar]

so issues. i cant change skys as now its on the server it doesnt care that I've told it to load the next sky the server doesn't read my console inputs

maybe i could put it on a vote? or pick a random sky with each round?

[granite forge]

spawn chickens in some map corner - spawn triggers over them that when used change the sky

[dull oar]

the legend xoxor4d, who makes games bend to his whim! has suggested chickens

[granite forge]

or add framed pictures of a sunny day, a moon etc and add triggers near them

[dull oar]

oh so you wander up, press f and sky change

thats cool

[granite forge]

yea

[dull oar]

i'll set up a test day at some point so people can come shoot each other. a rtx remix showcase dead match

[dull oar]

just unwrapping and thought i'd show off my sick topology

hand modelled, well happy with that 🙂

[summer brook]

Well you should be. That is looking cleeeean af mate

[dull oar]

not slowing down it's cart time baby!

ones fine, ones bombed. same as the original game

[dull oar]

bouncing back to ma truck for some fun 🙂

its colouring in time

when i'm done with the compertition i'll release every asset i make and this substance file so people can play around with it and have some fun 🙂

[dull oar]

daaaaaaamn

on a sunset walk with ma truck

setting up an invading force of airborne troopers on this side of the map

super work in progress, she's got no dirt on her and her grill is grey 😛 it'll do for today though.

[summer brook]

Looking incredible mate! Really well done, and quickly!

I'm not 100% on the tire models though, doesn't look much like a real tread pattern, specially for mud.
You'll want something with chonky tread blocks and deep grooves, in a pattern that breaks the continuity of longitudinal grooves

[slow shore]

This is hindsight though I assume? I don't know either but did they have these tires back in 1940?

After a quick google search I found this

And they look more similar to the ones he has atm

But I don't know for sure either

[dull oar]

Yea they do look rather weak. I used the tred of the combat mud and snow tyre above. Time appropriate ain't it. I could make the grooves deeper?

[runic condor]

If I can put my 2 cents in, I think you just need to extend the grooves to cover more the running side of the tire, reduce that flat zone. That gives more grip to the tire

[dull oar]

Yea that'll do it

[summer brook]

Oooh thats well pointed. Haven't even considered the time factor
That second one looks more closely to what tad guy is going for. Adding the continuity break of the longitudinal lines like @runic condor suggested + deeper groves is really gonna make it pop
Rn the current model has too much of a flat, slippery and exposed rubber surface in the middle

[slow shore]

or just put on new 2025 tires and call it extra RTX upgrade

[dull oar]

Health and safety and all that. Best upgrade it

[summer brook]

the way ppl argued online that hl2rtx's power box had a 60hz counter instead of a 50hz one for the european region... That would make ppl go nuts

[slow shore]

nah it's fine, cod gamers aren't that nitpicky as hl2 gamers i think

[summer brook]

yeah, ppl just hate raytracing as a whole these days but there ain't much we can do about it right

[radiant cradle]

So, what you do is you make every game require RT and over the years, performance will increase so much, people will forget the days before RT

[hazy canyon]

Been happening already for the last 4 years

[radiant cradle]

Wdym

[dull oar]

that'll do for trucky 🙂

now it's cartys turn

using the photoscan i did last year of the lumber cart, its more heavy duty but i crawled around on the winter ground for two days to capture it so i'm bloody using it! 😛

[summer brook]

You get a sick cart photoscan and gets sick as a bonus

[dull oar]

faffing with windows, forgot to share

need fake interiors for every building to make it work

[dusk comet]

stole my idea!!!!!!!

[dull oar]

I think bill gates invented windows mate

[dusk comet]

i meant the 3d esc part of it lol i was jokin tho

'

[dull oar]

perfected your idea

[dusk comet]

smh

[slow shore]

I think the last game I remember doing this extensively is Spiderman 2 (2023)

[dusk comet]

thats where i got my inspiration lmao

again i was joking tho

[slow shore]

You can't fool me 😏 I know where you get your tricks from too.

[radiant cradle]

We got Call Of Duty 2 remaster before GTA 6

[hazy canyon]

just the whole ramp up of RT games in general has been happening for the last 4 years, there are currently over 278 games that feature RTX support.

[radiant cradle]

I mean, only recently did it become mandatory

[hazy canyon]

well yeah cuz we have hardware that can do that now

[dull oar]

i'm going to copy all the buildings and slap a shell on them, flip the faces and use that as an interior add some floors and the odd table and chairs. then swap the existing windows with the glass material and push a frame around them with different window set ups, some with curtains, some with nets 🙂

then everything gets an interior, i can even add some lights

[dull oar]

got the underside of this cart looking transformative

[dull oar]

and now the top, modelled from scratch

much transformative

[dull oar]

there we go, coloured in 🙂

[summer brook]

Very nice! 🛒

[summer brook]

Did you remember to add the support rafters on the left side?

[dull oar]

oh yea lol caught that earlier 😛

trying to keep instances and left them behind

going to go out and get some hay to scan later today 🙂

[dull oar]

we're on the other side of the map now guys!

like placing the corners down on a jigsaw puzzle, now to just fill in the middle bit

underside isnt textured yet but i like getting the early models in game

[summer brook]

You'll like what I'm about to post in a few minutes then if you're into blender

[dull oar]

i can use it 😛 had to learn for the skinning process of the characters. where you posting mate?

[summer brook]

done 😜

[dull oar]

there we go, with a before and after, why not

hand modelled the top part, photo scanned myself the elements of the wheels and tracer. combined together into this shape and hand textured over the course of two-three days. just in case anyone was judging the artwork in a big competition or something

[dull oar]

oh no i broke it

i think i'm going to burn it next. would an artillery shell/grenade burn something or just smash something?

[radiant cradle]

I am curious, are you also working on the campaign?

[dull oar]

unstable hashes I'm afraid

the textures and models carry across but you cant place lights or skys or anything fancy

this map is my testing ground though so i'll give it a go

right so my 3d "to do list" green is completed since start of the competition, pink is up next

[dull oar]

chair's done, lets goooo! totally retextured from scratch over a couple hours 🙂

[dull oar]

i got work tomorrow today 😛 made a matching walnut table for the chairs

when I'm done replacing all the low res props i'll add stuff to the tables, decals up the walls, curtains in the windows and stuff like that.

[dull oar]

during the duration of the competition I'll be posting in this channel and here https://discord.com/channels/1028444667789967381/1377776639772987394

it's piano time baby

[dull oar]

a painted piano, needs blowing up a bit still 🙂

[dull oar]

lil more tweaking and its spot on. just gotta do my booleen damage trick to it now

and we got new concrete barrier thingys

ma trucks are stucks behind them 😦

the texture is from my garden, its part of the drive

[scarlet monolith]

More environmental geometry detail than contemporary milsims lol. It's very fun to follow this.

[dull oar]

progress update in a wee video
https://youtu.be/EnflLyQkjvM

[dull oar]

erm

is this the first rtx remix rain effect?
#showcase message

[dull oar]

more playing around with rain
#showcase message

[dull oar]

ivy baby

[dull oar]

ivy x10

[granite forge]

oh damn

/bind p toggle cg_draw2d 0 1 (requires you to start the map with /devmap tho)

[dull oar]

oh yea the UI 😛 i got it on a bind now i just never remember

[scarlet monolith]

Rip structural integrity

[dull oar]

alright guys very funny. where did you put my buildings

damn they aint coming back. guess i'll just have to remake each and every one with custom vertex painting and a fuck load of details. damn

seriously this took hours, its all grouped into sodding lumps. getting the meshes to go away is only part of it. now i need to bring back partial meshes for parts of the mesh hash that aren't building parts like walls and such.

[radiant cradle]

Holding them hostage till we get FSR 4

[dull oar]

i'm never getting them back 😮

[radiant cradle]

[summer brook]

ur not using multiple usd files for modding yet are you? 👀

[dull oar]

i am now yea, building.usda

[dull oar]

building are back 🙂 each one is a unique mode. how transformative this will be

[glass marlin]

do u know if ur mod will still count for the competition?

[granite forge]

Surely! He worked on so many new things since the start of the comp. it has to be accepted

[dull oar]

It's not a @glass marlin lol

I couldn't get a straight answer from the Nvidia guys so I'm just going to have to cross my fingers and hope for a fair shot with everyone else

[dull oar]

blocking in is going well 🙂 slap dashing on stuff over a clean model to get everything workable

new remix features like vertex painting are going to be important here but i'm at least a week away from that

[dull oar]

man this is exhausting, about half way done with all the buildings now

then it's onto blocking out the interior. then filling window and door holes and then and then. 35 days left...hmm

[radiant cradle]

Reminds me of Battlefield V

which is an amazing game

[dull oar]

Once they're all modelled I can do anything I like to every building. Adding things like collapsed roofs, unique trims, unique materials. loads of possibilities. It's a big deal but has so much work just to set it up

[stoic jetty]

looks really impressive

[dull oar]

yay it's working!

just slapping generic materials on it like but the models all smoothed and getting prettier all the time

[stoic jetty]

Wait, you some sorta reconstructing a map almost from scratch?

[dull oar]

100% remaking everything yea 😛

[stoic jetty]

Holy S

Okay, that's REALLY impressive

[dull oar]

it took a week to get it into this position so i'm making the most of it

thanks mate 🙂

[stoic jetty]

I guess its one way to show transformative change for Competition

[dull oar]

lol i know right. gotta get my head down and toil. got something to prove now aint I

[dull oar]

there we go that'll do it 🙂 going to model the rest before it's texture time

[summer brook]

these sharp edges can cut vegetables 👀

[radiant cradle]

Mods, unsharpen his edges

https://tenor.com/view/tata-mpo-gif-15942038246373310601

[dull oar]

check it out

[marsh hinge]

Used to play cod2 on my school mac a bunch back in 2012, it's awesome seeing it looking this good.

[dull oar]

yea man

next up the tiled wall texture and a trim sheet for around the windows and under the roof 🙂

then as e-man said booleens on the corners, a boat load of decal war damage and onto the next. doing the feature buildings first. the generic ones can wait til i got a bit of a texture kit

[dull oar]

more arches

design is based on the church from Sainte Marie du Mont

[dull oar]

lil before and after

and a wide shot

plasters too shiny and needs some tweaks. its all very tiling and needs vertex paint and decal pass but good solid base right there

[dull oar]

this is pretty much my plaster master material. the holes and damage are procedural. i got a colour tint layer to change it as i like as well

[slow shore]

Are the sunlight orientations the same in both?

[dull oar]

The sun rotates around the map mate. Random start point so it's always different 🙂

[dull oar]

Never the same game twice. Making the most of realtime lighting

[slow shore]

For comparisons I would prefer it being the same though

Otherwise what are you comparing

Yes the newer models but the core is better lighting though RTX

[dull oar]

I'm comparing the newer models and textures. I just finished them

[slow shore]

I know that's what I said but I just think it's silly not to use the same lighting angles when you're putting two side by side comparisons

[dull oar]

They're the same shapes for collision but slightly different design based on the real arches in the real town. Chuffed with them

[slow shore]

But do whatever you want it's your thing

[dull oar]

You always get worked up when I post an original screenshot

It's ok mate, I like the game. It's why I'm doing this. Trying to make it look better

[slow shore]

Yes because you're doing this much work and it looks great but in my opinion it just taints the comparing of how incredible the new assets with the lighting could be (as a hey this is what you get if you use this mod with RTX) from the perspective of the old game.

But yes I'm nitpicking and even if it's a small thing you're nowhere done yet I assume and you're on a deadline so feel free to ignore

[dull oar]

Yea keeping my head down. Booking some time off to really concentrate

[dull oar]

trim and stuff 🙂 more faffing with materials as well

[dull oar]

phew done, decals added

[uncut vapor]

So are you remaking just multiplayer maps or also the solo campaign?

[dull oar]

Just carentan for now

[stoic jetty]

He's focused on Carentan, so its pretty much he focused on Multiplayer, as Singleplayer will have unstable hashes, so if he'll Remix Singleplayer, it will be the last thing he'll do

[dull oar]

new house material from a scan i did while out buying ww2 british uniforms...remix has changed me 😛

just the bricks, rest is block in rubbish

going to make these style windows next with this scan, its close enough

[dull oar]

we got one! windows, doors and roofs next 🙂

[dull oar]

oh he cloned himself

[dull oar]

another new building, sorry its going to be lots of buildings for a while

[stoic jetty]

that's okay, that's cool actually

[dusk comet]

Oh thats super cool

Good job!

[dull oar]

some decal work i've been playing around with 🙂

i got some bullet hole ones as well I need to place down

[dull oar]

lil wander around the weekends jobs

[radiant belfry]

@dull oar for staxrip. put in the Settings\Templates folder

Discord supports embedding AV1 now. videos will look quite a bit better 🙂

[radiant belfry]

yes those aren't videos

they're templates for a program called staxrip, to encode videos at certain file sizes

#offtopic message

here's an AV1 video

[glass marlin]

oh nice

[glass marlin]

how's it compared to handbreak

[dull oar]

Wow that's one sharp video. Text is super clear

Cheers Kim 🙂

[radiant belfry]

it's a ton better

more complex, but learning it pays off if you have any interest in more efficient video compression, restoration, etc.

with what i've learned, i compressed a 35 GB movie to 50 MB lol

fully watchable

can't get close to that in handbrake, and what you would get would look worse

[glass marlin]

does it have proper GUI?

[radiant belfry]

yes

it supports avisynth and vapoursynth too

this is how one of the profiles i sent above looks

i made it really easy for tadpole to use

just drag your video in, then encode. it'll automatically be within discord's upload limit

[dull oar]

It's magic honestly

Couldn't upload videos before

[radiant belfry]

here's a demo of my 50 MB encode lol. 2.5 minutes of video + audio + subtitles is only 1 MB

sacrifices had to be made to get it to 50 MB ofc 😛

240x100 res, 12 FPS

[dull oar]

hey this videos nice and sharp. and i've added windows to building 16

now to smash some glass and create curtains, nets and blinds

[summer brook]

Your approach to buildings really makes a ton of difference to the map visuals, one of your best decisions!

[glass marlin]

Hope you find a way to make the buildings a lot dirtier and broken

[dull oar]

hehehehe mouhahahaha hohohoho

yea i got a plan, a vertex painting plan

[summer brook]

Gotta find ways to spruce up the exteriors with props like wall lamps, wires, pipes, signs, verge and plants, maybe flags, drying clothes, window blinds planks and whatever else makes sense for that time

[dull oar]

yea i need shutters as well. think every buildings going to have some of some colour

for the comp i might not get as far as i'd like. still need to test this mod with other people at some point

[glass marlin]

ya, my biggest issues with modern PBR is that it doesn't seem to ever match the grit and gruff of certain textures

it always looks soft and shiny

or plasticky

[dull oar]

What's modern pbr?

[glass marlin]

just pbr in general ig

like the modern way textures are done now

[dull oar]

Probably denoisers washing away detail

[summer brook]

sounds more like modern art approach to texturing than the PBR theory itself

[dull oar]

Mines all scan based. If it's there in the real world it's in the scan

[summer brook]

Old games used lots of tricks to add noisy elements to textures which weren't very accurate physically, and as ppl started using real world values and refining the accuracy of normals, roughness maps, albedos and etc with real measures, lots of that "stylized" approach, lets say, was lost, so now using decals, multiple texture layers and more fine details become more important than ever

[glass marlin]

nah its not that, just games after 2013-2014 seemed to lose a bit of that grit

[dull oar]

First pbr game was remember me in 2013

[dull oar]

wow glass makes a HUGE difference

oh i'm watching top gear 😛

oops

[dull oar]

hey thats cool

[dusk comet]

looking better than battlefield

[dull oar]

where we're currently at, with the help of band of brothers I think thats pretty cool

[dusk comet]

Is this the natural fps

Why is jt so baggy

Laggy

[dull oar]

i just make the art 😛

i'm on full resolution at 1080

ugh i hate this part of game dev

yes it is what it is and i cant do shit about it 😛

[dusk comet]

I see

[dull oar]

ah i feel bad now

i get this on perf mode

[radiant cradle]

54% GPU usage, hmmmmmm

[dull oar]

I had remix and substance painter open at the time

Remix ingestion standalone. I'm not crazy

[pallid cipher]

Looks very impressive is there a way to toggle the original models and texture and lighting on the fly to see the difference?

[dull oar]

Yea just tick the raytracing box to off

[glass marlin]

do you plan on cluttering up the rooms and enviroment once everything is done?

[dull oar]

hell yes, for the competition i'll do what i can but after I plan to go all out

some unique damage today

[radiant belfry]

video might just be stuttering for you. it is AV1

[dusk comet]

it was likely due to mobile tbh

[dull oar]

sorry for being grumpy

it was 1am. as it is now

bed time

[radiant belfry]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-bed-cat-blanket-black-cat-gif-7945780675926146027

[radiant belfry]

@dull oar replace your staxrip template with this

it fixes the stuttering issues people were experiencing

partially, at least

[glass marlin]

Mmmmmm I loveeeee av1 ❤️

[dull oar]

Thank you Kim 🙂

[dull oar]

some basic interiors. nearly done with this level now 🙂

[scarlet monolith]

Sooo cozy! || Until the gibbing begins.|| Good job!

[glass marlin]

do u still know if ur thing counts for the competition?

[dull oar]

I think so

I've made all 17 buildings, 10 props and about 30 textures. That has to be enough

[glass marlin]

hopefully

[dull oar]

Either way it'll be done by the deadline and we can all shoot each other in pathtracing glory

[glass marlin]

i really hope this mod gets some attention from the wider cod community

[dull oar]

more decals!!!111

[dull oar]

even more decals!!!11

[glass marlin]

@dull oar is this lamp from your cod 2 project?

[dull oar]

Yep that's one I made

[glass marlin]

nice u appeared briefly in a 2kliksphillip video

true honor

[dull oar]

the what now?

is it as cool as my 3d metal rail?

3 million polys across the whole map 😛

[glass marlin]

https://youtu.be/K9ZmZinaWjo?t=885

[dull oar]

oh yea look at that

got more of that here

[granite forge]

lovely

[glass marlin]

This is sooooooooooo 2kliksphillip coded no way

[dusk comet]

what does the room look like without rtx remix

[radiant cradle]

Where did the chandelier come from

[dull oar]

with remix you can do anything you like mate

[radiant cradle]

Even the Window?

[dull oar]

anything

[radiant cradle]

[slow shore]

technically if you would use this in MP and looked through the window that non-RTX players don't have it would be wallhacking

[dull oar]

I'm going to model some wooden shutters and close them on those windows.

[dull oar]

I'm seeing a lot of scary stuff about remote code execution in older cod games. Call of duty ww2 for example is in the news a lot today. Is that a concern for cod2 as well?

Call of Duty: WW2 Players Reporting RCE Exploits on PC - Insider Gaming https://share.google/C6cPc9thjISbwbNyu

[granite forge]

Yes and no. Mostly games with steam / demonware (their online service) are affected. Vanilla CoD4 also has some public known RCE's. I don't know of any active usage in cod2 but I assume that there are some in there as well. Playing locally is no issue tho. If you intend to create a server for actual mp play, I suggest protecting it with a password and giving that out to the people that you want to play with. That way, no random person can join

[dull oar]

that's calmed the anxiety, i'll just release it to play in a devmap offline I think 🙂 you'll have no one to shoot but you can see all the pretty art and stuff.

[granite forge]

isnt there a bot mod?

[dull oar]

yea but its not mine is it, dont want to upset anyone if i end up winning something

tried to open the map in singleplayer but get "In single player, do not compile the bsp with visibility" while loading so thats no good either. was hoping to spawn some baddies

i also cant combine my mod and meat bot together. it's got so many changes beyond just bots.

[granite forge]

Ah forgot that you cant have two mods next to each other. Don't think that it would be to hard to create some kind of drag-drop addon that adds all your mods functionality to the bot mod

[dull oar]

theres not a whole lot of stuff in my mod, its just both I and meatbot both edit _load.gsc and mp_carentan.gsc so you cant just drag and drop

I only add one line to it to be fair 😛
maps\mp\rtx::main();

thats the line 😛

[dull oar]

oh turns out you CAN just copy my mod over meatbot and be happy

damn it

[static tangle]

Put together a quick hacky build. could you try these options:

rtx.geometryAssetHashRuleString = positions,texcoords,geometrydescriptor,tadpolehack,vertexshader
#rtx.geometryGenerationHashRuleString = positions,indices,texcoords,geometrydescriptor,vertexshader

with this dll?

[dull oar]

yep lets try this thing

games not booting

its in task manager

[static tangle]

you dropped that inside the trex folder? and are you on the latest action build for the rest of the files?

[dull oar]

I'll grab latest, think i did it this morning though

[static tangle]

that should be plenty recent. And you're sure you replaced .trex/d3d9.dll? not the bridge's d3d9.dll

[dull oar]

yea its the one in trex

and i'm on latest, no updates in 2 days

[static tangle]

hmph... that d3d9 works for me in testing. Are you getting anything in the remix logs?

I wonder if your anti virus is blocking it or something :/

[dull oar]

nothing popping up

[23:28:36.288] info: [23:28:36.288] info: No default config found for: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Call of Duty 2\CoD2MP_s.exe [23:28:36.288] info: [23:28:36.288] info: Trying to open config file: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Call of Duty 2\.trex\bridge.conf [23:28:36.288] info: ================== [23:28:36.288] info: NVIDIA RTX Remix Bridge Server [23:28:36.288] info: ================== [23:28:36.288] info: Version: remix-main+0f974386 [23:28:36.288] info: Running in x64 mode! [23:28:36.289] info: Launched server with GUID 0e96e882-a6f7-4cc0-bf49-d3ffa21d0a7b [23:28:36.289] info: Server started up, waiting for connection from client... [23:28:36.289] info: Registering exit callback in case client exits unexpectedly. [23:28:36.289] info: Registering message channel for asynchronous message handling. [23:28:36.289] info: Initializing D3D9... [23:28:36.368] err: d3d9.dll loading failed: 126 [23:28:36.368] info: Message channel MessageChannelServer established. [23:29:18.135] err: The client process has unexpectedly exited, shutting down server as well! [23:29:18.135] info: Most recent Device Queue commands sent from Client [23:29:18.135] info: Command sent: Syn [23:29:18.135] info: Most recent Device Queue commands received by Server [23:29:18.135] info: Command received: Syn [23:29:18.135] info: Most recent Module Queue commands sent from Client [23:29:18.135] info: Most recent Module Queue commands received by Server Exception 0xc0000005 at 00007FF6C4274B52! Saving minidump to 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Call of Duty 2\.trex\NvRemixBridge.exe_20250703_232918.dmp'

thats bridge log

remix-dxvk didnt write a log

[static tangle]

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Call of Duty 2\.trex\NvRemixBridge.exe_20250703_232918.dmp
send me that file?

[dull oar]

just dm'd it to ya 🙂

[static tangle]

when was the last time you updated your bridge d3d9?

[dull oar]

its all 1 now isnt it?

i thought the two got merged

[static tangle]

yep, just making sure you're updating the bridge dll as well as the runtime dll. they come in the same package

[dull oar]

where does that go?

i'm just emptying the whole zip into trex

[static tangle]

it's the d3d9.dll that lives at the same level as the .trex folder

from here:
https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/dxvk-remix/actions/runs/16003754366
download the rtx-remix-for-x86-games-c460b13-860-debugoptimized package

(the bridge log you sent me identifies your bridge build as coming from May 13th...)

[dull oar]

oh wow i missed that, i'm here every day 😛

[static tangle]

that package includes the .trex folder, you drop it in whatever folder contains .trex

[dull oar]

still downloading, github is slow today

ah!

do i need x64 maybe?

[static tangle]

no, your game is x86. x64 is just the runtime without the bridge

there's something in your settings that nrd is not happy with, apparently

[dull oar]

nrrrrrrd!

[static tangle]

Are you still using my hacked binary, or is that just with the github .trex/d3d9.dll from the link I sent?

[dull oar]

just standard right now

wanted to make sure that worked first

[static tangle]

right.. I'm guessing you've been using release builds instead of debugOpt, and that's why you haven't seen that assert before.

[dull oar]

and i guess QA check release builds?

[static tangle]

For now, you can download the release build instead of debug opt.

longer term, you've got some kind of wonky NRD settings in your rtx.conf that you should probably get rid of

[dull oar]

theres only two options in there
rtx.denoiser.nrd.timeDeltaBetweenFrames = -1
and
rtx.rayreconstruction.enableNRDForTraining = False

[static tangle]

you still have the rtx.conf backed up, right? I say just try removing both of those

[dull oar]

nah no good

[static tangle]

second hacked build. If you run this with

rtx.geometryAssetHashRuleString = positions,texcoords,geometrydescriptor,vertexshader

then it should print out

"[Tadpole-Hack] Found a stale mesh hash: HASH, new hash: HASH"

for all your replacements (but only when that replacement tries to draw).

once we're sure the first hack actually works, you can use this to print out all of the mesh hashes that need to change in your log.

[dull oar]

release works

right lets do this 🙂

[static tangle]

run it with

rtx.geometryAssetHashRuleString = positions,texcoords,geometrydescriptor,tadpolehack,vertexshader

and it will still print them all out, but the new hash will just be the same as the old hash. should still show your mesh replacements tho

[dull oar]

comment out rtx.geometryGenerationHashRuleString?

[static tangle]

I don't think I'll have time to help you with actually updating your usda files, but you could probably get an AI to write a python script to go from old hash to new hash. or just do a bunch of find/replace in a decent text editor.

[dull oar]

right so i got no meshes in game, wheres this print out the hashes?

this is exciting

oh its in my log i see it!

[static tangle]

I presume that's running without tadpolehack in your settings, since you're getting different hashes?

[dull oar]

yea this one was first so i used that
rtx.geometryAssetHashRuleString = positions,texcoords,geometrydescriptor,vertexshader

[static tangle]

right, so that's what you'd hopefully transition to. if you run with tadpolehack in there, then your mesh replacements should come back

[dull oar]

yea they do indeed

[static tangle]

great. glad to finally understand this properly.

I'm going to try to clean this up into something that can be merged in and that other people could use to fix the same problem, if anyone else runs into it. Should also mean you aren't stuck on my hack build until you can fix all your mesh hashes

[dull oar]

the tadpole hack doesnt fix my alpha explosion issue though does it. i've gotta change the rule and swap every hash

[static tangle]

well, with the tadpolehack in the rule, you can remove the geometryGeneration rule, which should fix your traingle soup

that won't be a permanent fix, since it's limited to this build. so long term you'd be better off swapping all the hashes and removing it.

I might add some equivalent with a better name tho, which would save you from actually needing to migrate.

[dull oar]

hang on it's still exploding though

[static tangle]

did you comment out the geometryGeneration rule?

[dull oar]

#rtx.geometryGenerationHashRuleString = positions,indices,texcoords,geometrydescriptor,vertexshader
rtx.geometryAssetHashRuleString = positions,texcoords,geometrydescriptor,tadpolehack,vertexshader

like that?

[static tangle]

yep. it still explodes like that?

[dull oar]

going to double check

yea still happening

[static tangle]

welp, no reason to change your hash rule if changing it doesn't fix the problem

[dull oar]

well we ruled it out mate

[static tangle]

#general-remix message

what did you mean in that post? I took it to mean the vertex corruption was fixed

[dull oar]

no mesh replacements and it doesnt happen i guess. could it be a memory issue?

i get like 200fps vs 80fps when the replacments kick in

[static tangle]

so commenting out geometryGeneration and breaking mesh asset hashes does fix it?

In the hack build I sent you, what happens if you disable replacements? does that fix the triangle corruption?

[dull oar]

lets try it

yea its fine like that

[static tangle]

okay, so just disabling mesh replacements doesn't fix it, and just removing the geometryGeneration rule doesn't fix it, but doing both does fix it

and it's still all the same decals getting corrupted when you re-enable mesh replacements?

[dull oar]

i'm seeing the green grass one still

[dull oar]

that appears to be the case

i have a 200,000 line usda file for grass

3d grass that is

[static tangle]

the 3d grass is getting corrupted? I thought it was just the grass decal?

(also, you may want to save that 200k line file as .usd, it should use a lot less disk space)

[dull oar]

no its not corrupting or anything, i'm just wondering if thats the issue. big usda files

[static tangle]

I'm not really sure what else I can do remotely in terms of debugging this, so I think you're going to need to write up a github issue.

I do think it'd be a good idea to migrate your replacemetns to

rtx.geometryAssetHashRuleString = positions,texcoords,geometrydescriptor

as the vertexShader also seemed to always be 0 in my testing. getting rid of the vertexLayout (and restoring it to the geometryGeneration rule) is more important tho.

[static tangle]

nah, once it's loaded it's not USD anymore, and just having more static meshes should do anything to cause vertex corruption

[slow shore]

Does it exist for CoD2? Yes almost every CoD has RCE exploits. Is it easy to do? Most not, some yes. Are these RCEs well known? Depends. Some of them are.

But considering you're hosting a server no, most of these don't have many RCE exploits.

But if you're planning on running a stock/vanilla CoD2 server there are some vulns you may want to patch or look into.

q3dirtrav (allows downloading of any files on servers, so disable server downloads sv_allowDownload 0)

q3msgboom overflows MSG iirc this might be a RCE

there's a few others

but the kind of RCEs that would put players directly at risk are very slim and depend on the server hoster so as long as people trust you not to host a malicious server that's fine. 😛

[dull oar]

thats good to know, i'd still like to have a real match or two with everyone

[dull oar]

new walls are in 🙂 going to be a few wall updates. this maps got like 4 wall types

[dull oar]

warned ya

[radiant cradle]

Beta testing when

https://tenor.com/view/raccoon-hehehe-gift-racoon-hand-gif-775074914789379772

[dull oar]

Sometime this week, Wednesday or something

[dull oar]

first finished building

[sage locust]

0:35 hits hard, great job. I still hope it will be possible to exhibit locally COD2 RTX Carentan in Prague this fall.

[dull oar]

version 1 coming this week mate 🙂 I'll ping you when its uploaded

[sage locust]

I invited you to CoD2x discord, maybe some features devs have implemented in 1.4 patch can help you with some issues you're facing, if any.

https://github.com/callofduty2x/CoD2x/releases
https://cod2x.me/

[dull oar]

Cheers mate, I've joined

[dull oar]

paths, chimneys, stacks of sandbags and the lil bay windows on the roof. that's all I have left to do before I start scattering grass and broken bricks and stuff up to the deadline of next friday

[dull oar]

getting around 60fps at 4k at perf mode, when i release around friday i may need a hand getting that up

[dull oar]

why didnt anyone tell me fog was off. it's fixed now 🙂

[radiant belfry]

https://tenor.com/view/fog-foggy-foggy-city-gif-11424586

[dull oar]

Nearly done Kim!

[sage locust]

just one thing I noticed, the interiors look super laboratory clean, some dirt and dust would work on those floors and furniture

[dull oar]

yea theres no decal pass in there yet, i'm aiming to make it look something like this but for next friday i might only get some rubble and staining down in reality

i'm going to get the wall damage details from here
https://texture.ninja/category/Plaster/45/49

going to be the last thing i do though. i still got copyrighted assets and grey stuff in my scene

[dull oar]

got some rubble baby

nearly ready to release, I have to replace the sandbags first though and learn about packaging up.

[glass marlin]

RUBBLEEEEEEE

[dull oar]

kim and I just shot each other for a bit, its working and online as well!

frame rates are pants and looks like its mesh replacement related. I'll be digging into that after some last props

[dull oar]

managed to nearly double frame rate swapping terrain decals to baked decals, you get a drop in quality but it's fine. still looks good 🙂

still experimenting

[dull oar]

we're done! uploading now

[dull oar]

from the video i'm working on, thought it was neat

[radiant cradle]

Put it on Steam

[dull oar]

man i cant even put it on moddb

[radiant cradle]

What, why?

[dull oar]

i can i just dont know how 😛

it's done btw

[radiant cradle]

[radiant cradle]

Let’s gooooo

Imma burn my RX 7600

[dull oar]

if you dont have frame gen you'll get around 30fps at 1080p just a heads up

[radiant cradle]

Que?

[dull oar]

its got a lot of stuff in it, i'm moving a lot of polygons around

[radiant cradle]

@limber dune new GPU stressor dropped

[radiant belfry]

@dull oar did you fix the meshes?

[dull oar]

yea sorted that

big decals and 2 million polygon rails were the issue

getting 100fps with 4x frame gen at fullres

around 30 with frame gen off at native 1080p

[radiant cradle]

I can’t use Frame gen on my 5060 Ti because I’m on a 60hz monitor with no VRR so everything tears and looks horrible

:p

[dull oar]

sorry mate, download it and try 🙂

[radiant cradle]

Where’s the download?

[dull oar]

i'm getting there, need a video as well apparently

just packaging it up now

i'll need to upload the video with the mod so wont be tonight

i'll upload some patch files to get meat bot working as well so we can shoot bots

Yctn hooked me up with a server so we can play each other online as well 🙂

[radiant cradle]

[lost dome]

Cant wait to see the result!

[dull oar]

a package has been created!

[lost dome]

How can we give a try? Will be any server prepared?

[dull oar]

yep I have a server all set up and ready to go. I've included a bat file that takes you to the correct server. I'll be uploading in the next few hours (but dont sit up waiting on it, something could still go wrong)

you can also play around in a devmap and look at all the new pretty stuff

i'm be creating some patch files for the mod meatbot so you can play offline against bots tomorrow

[lost dome]

I play cod2 online on fps site every week, comfigured with v1.4. Is it compatible with the server what you have prepared? Or I should modify something?

[dull oar]

i have no idea what that is sorry, I've only tested this works with disc and steam releases

[sage locust]

its not.

[lost dome]

Thanks craven. Do you think we can have step by step instructions about how we can acitavte/configure it?

[sage locust]

You should test it locally only, it can be potentially detected as cheat by fpsac

[lost dome]

Oh, I see. Thanks. Any plan to make it available online in the future?

[sage locust]

It's just Carentan, remixing entire game will take a lot of time and effort, not sure if tadpole has the juice to make it happen :p As for online gaming, all players would have to install modified client, I suppose, will be hard to pull off.

[dull oar]

nearly done, just recording the last bits of the video

[glass marlin]

after the video what do u have left till mod release?

[dull oar]

thats it, it all goes up right after that 🙂

its not going to be tonight i dont think. my internets not amazing and its 5 gb with a video to upload

I booked tomorrow off work so i can do it in the morning

[radiant cradle]

https://tenor.com/view/steam-steam-deck-valve-logo-symbol-gif-25086108

Come with me and you'll be
In a world of pure imagination

[dusk comet]

h

[dull oar]

g

[dusk comet]

the steam deck is a world of pain not imagination

[dull oar]

my 5080 plays at 70fps with 4x frame gen, guys i'm serious

the video is 8 minutes long and i'm still not bloody done

[dull oar]

last test then i'm uploading the file!!!111

[slow shore]

last_test_done_for_real_this_time_11_second_edition_2_small_edit_actually_done_now.mp4

[dull oar]

i'm so nervous 😛

I've included voice over in the video. I'm super self-conscious on a good day

gonna watch some telly and chill for an hour, test the mod zip file works then upload it all night

then i'm going to touch so much grass

[dull oar]

here it comes guys

[granite forge]

my first black mesa upload failed at 80% or so so GL 😛

[dull oar]

lol oh no

just noticed my video repeats 3 clips right at the start. that was a 2 hour export 😦

[granite forge]

wha .. 4k export?

[radiant cradle]

I meant Steam

[dusk comet]

Same with all of the first 3 of my rtcw uploads a while back iirc

[dusk comet]

Ah

[dull oar]

1080p, i'm using cs5 though so might be that

[granite forge]

I did render my mesa vid in like 2 minutes at 1440p 70k Bitrate h265. I’m davinci. Thought that is the new normal as I have not rendered a video in ages

[dull oar]

yelp

damn dude you got off easy

anyway, its bedtime and I can leave this running

uploads still uploading, thats a good sign

[dull oar]

ITS UPLOADED!!!11
https://www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-duty-2-rtx-remix-of-carentan

[granite forge]

playing as a german soldier is kinda .. messed up 😄

it also breaks the ui

oh no wait thats on me

[dull oar]

Oh phew, never seen that before

[granite forge]

I'm still rocking that player shadow patch