Half-Life 2

[devout linden]

@last fog can you pin this conf #1103495588374401115 message it works the best

[indigo solar]

I followed these instructions and now HL2 isn't starting

[fierce dragon]

You're going to need to give a lot more information for anyone to be able to help you with that. Is it generating any log files?

[indigo solar]

I replied to the message to point out the instructions I followed. I didn't intend to bother you in particular lol. Though I won't say no to help. I'll try again and make sure I followed the instructions exactly.

Steam says the game is starting for a little bit, but then it just says Play. Attempting to open just the exe does the same thing. I verified the games files and it's still not opening

[fierce dragon]

info:  Setting display mode: 2560x1440@180
info:  Restoring display mode: 1440x2560@59
info:  Setting display mode: 1440x2560@59
info:  Restoring display mode: 3840x2160@60
info:  Setting display mode: 3840x2160@60``` are you playing with the resolution somehow?  could you try deleting the hl2_d3d9.log, run again, and see if it gets regenerated?

[indigo solar]

I deleted and reinstalled HL2 and now it's opening. I'll try again

[fierce dragon]

it's also possible something went wrong with copying the portal RTX binaries, you may need to have steam verify local files (to restore the original ones)

or uninstall / reinstall

[indigo solar]

I don't recall messing with either games config files in any way.

[devout linden]

asset replacment is working but getting so many crashes

i can't click some assets

[devout linden]

new gate now

[grand comet]

nice

[grand comet]

Which assets have you currently replaced? just those 2?

[grand comet]

I'm also having an issue where I can't start a new game

but I can load my current game

[grand comet]

??? im so confused

why is nothing loading in lol

[tiny gust]

sky autodetection

enable it in the parameter settings

actually get this file

would simplify everything for ya

[grand comet]

idm doing it mysel

I like knowing how to do stuff just in case

[tiny gust]

oh

alrighty

go to game setup

parameter tuning
Sky tuning
sky autodetection

this should fix the 3dsky box

it uses a second render target

[grand comet]

yeah no dw, i got it haha

ty anyway

[grand comet]

do we know why weapons dont appear?

my guess would be because they're not actually there

most games have them as a sort of overlay

[tiny gust]

guns dont appear?

did you copy the cfg file from portal?

[grand comet]

yep

bin and cfg

[tiny gust]

look below you

[grand comet]

no i see that

but thats just not where they're supposed to be

[tiny gust]

yeah

you are using the world model

hold on

[grand comet]

yeah? so do we know how to get the weapons appearing as they should?

[tiny gust]

cl_first_person_uses_world_model 0

do this

in console

[grand comet]

okay thank you

[compact glade]

Sam squares

[grand comet]

Also has anybody tried modding half life 2 with custom models with remix hooked?

Because I completely forgot about it, but I'm using a modded custom gravity gun model

And it works with remix just fine

[devout linden]

things went well today!

[grand comet]

nicee

im doing the train rn

[grand comet]

have you gotten the metal fencing at the beginning to appear correctly?

I got them to appear correctly yesterday, but they're back to being opaque and I'm not sure how to fix it

[devout linden]

?

[grand comet]

Yeah for me they're opaque

[devout linden]

are you using the pinned conf

[grand comet]

yep

because I didnt wanna keep coming in with problems that have been solved through the conf

[grand comet]

for some reason my floor looks like this

[devout linden]

train is done!

[grand comet]

I feel like we should pick areas to do, each lol

because if we both do the train, thats double the effort for the same bit

I'm okay doing a different section of the game though?

ooh maybe water hazard? the acid water could look really good

[devout linden]

i am learning and doing all my own for my self

[devout linden]

replaced the railing asset and added a new material for the platform

[devout linden]

Turned on the Lights haha redid the trains

[devout linden]

works well

it works well minus the hair

[tiny gust]

And the eyes

[devout linden]

can't fix em i tried

[vagrant whale]

Long time problem

[devout linden]

at least his new hi res suit looks killer

also room is redone

[short spear]

be careful with quixel megascans, the free tier only lets you use it in unreal engine. (I don't know what subscription you're using, I just recognize the textures)

[frozen lichen]

Do I witness arms race between Orbifold studios and fans?

[tiny gust]

@fierce dragon how did you fix the eyes in prelude?

[fierce dragon]

@mellow blaze would be a better person to ask (regarding how to get eyes working in Portal / HL2)

[worldly heath]

Can't wait to see remixed Gman

https://tenor.com/view/gman-half-life-alyx-creepy-gif-16000932

[drowsy sorrel]

they'll prob use the HLA model, since thats what portal prelude rtx used

tho it doesn't look uh, that natural im gonna be honest

still looks like u put a source 2 model into a source 1 game lol

[vagrant whale]

@glacial prism why you think they won't?

[glacial prism]

If you mean ripped models, no way.
Otherwise they totally could, but I just don't think they will

[tiny gust]

they did grigory

[vagrant whale]

Well, its not like Grigory was in HL: Alyx

so obviously they had to make him from scratch

Same thing will be with Barney, Breen, Mossman and Kleiner for example

[mellow blaze]

we've been using some HLA models like prop models and some enemy models

where possible we'll be looking to see where using an HLA model makes sense for our workflow

I don't have more specific answers than that for you right now

[vagrant whale]

Well, im sure G-Man might have sense

[mellow blaze]

we will be making that call ourselves on an asset by asset basis - you'll see in the final game what decisions we made 🙂

[vagrant whale]

Of course 😅

[devout linden]

i really wanna get the water working

[tiny gust]

water fix is pinned

[devout linden]

which one ?

some subsurface scattering i think also changed his texture again and normal map

[devout linden]

the beautiful alyx

[worldly heath]

I wonder how the clipboard will look in rtx

https://youtube.com/shorts/jkZ9jANhBWA?si=a7euQvvaDDnpZ8QL

[devout linden]

about the same i can't click it to change it

[devout linden]

shiny and new

oh ya and see that cable .. haha thats mine

well it should be unless this game is dicking around again

[devout linden]

I don’t think about it

I know some people learn visually so i made this guide to help anyone wanting to start on half life 2 to learn rtx remix.
https://youtu.be/yb9Rn0o4oho

[grand comet]

Where would fans come in with models like that? A fan might want to use models from HLA but then that would fall under copyright?

I would say "as long as its free, you're fine" but that's not always the case

[mellow blaze]

I don't have an easy answer from you other than we engaged Valve and got the go-ahead ourselves

[grand comet]

I feel like valve wouldn't mind?

[mellow blaze]

I can't really tell you to go ahead and ask for forgiveness rather than permission considering we did the latter

[grand comet]

Like, they wanted TF Source 2 taken down because it was almost a straight up re release

And Portal 64 because it used a dev thing used by nintendo? Afaik

[mellow blaze]

well like I say we reached out and got permission from Valve to use HLA assets where appropriate in HL2RTX. the safest thing to do is to also ask permission

other than that I cannot give you guidance on assets owned by someone else

[grand comet]

Yeah that makes sense

Yeah ik, I was just curious, that's all

[grand comet]

How do I add a material to something?

because apparantly, the magnifying glass in kleiners lab doesnt have one

I cant modify it in any way, add a new material or anything

these test tubes are also pure white, but in the toolkit they're not

I changed them for now, to be opaque, green, and glossy (to indicate its full of a pure green liquid), with a slight green emission, but they still appear white ingame, even with the emission showing up

@devout linden any ideas?

i also can't select this puddle in the toolkit

Well its either a puddle or dirt, I don't actually know lol

all I know is its not part of the floor texture? its actually a decal

If I select the floor, it has an outline around everything that isnt the floor

updated the floor texture outside the lab

I cant click on these ones at the machine either

[devout linden]

I can’t click them either like some things cannot be clicked

[grand comet]

hmm weird

because i'd wanna make them shiny, like a spilled liquid

[grand comet]

Also some textures have transparency?

like this metal door

you can vaguely see the checker board pattern behind it

[tiny gust]

decals cannot be selected in the runtime either

[grand comet]

yeah, its really odd

slowly getting there

[tiny gust]

been suffering with it in source games

[tiny gust]

gordon low poly grey model 💀

[grand comet]

thats a shadow lol

[tiny gust]

i know
its caused by gordon's playermodel

[grand comet]

i know?

i dont quite get the point you're making haha

[tiny gust]

i was just pointing out how silly hes shadow would look

because he doesnt have animations

[grand comet]

ohh

and since you cant see your legs, you see the shadows under his feet

[tiny gust]

yesss

we do have that in garry's mod too

looks kinda cool

its not really obvious in portal with rtx because chell's feet arent touching the ground

[grand comet]

lol

idk how you fix it without stopping lights from interacting with your player model

but then you dont cast shadows, which would likely be a bit odd

[tiny gust]

you can ignore gordon's texture

but i like first person shadows

[grand comet]

thats what im saying

idk how you'd fix the feet thing without doing that

I really wanna see areas like this with rtx tbh

[tiny gust]

should def work

ugh my keyboard sucks

[grand comet]

I mean, sand trap works pretty well, all things considered

and thats mostly outdoors

[tiny gust]

i really wanna start learning rtx remix toolset but i got 0 time

im about to graduate and shit

so yea

[grand comet]

its pretty easy imo, im not a programmer and have never actually worked on any games, except for a few gamejams that never went anywhere

and im getting the hang of it pretty quickly

[tiny gust]

i used to edit textures in gmod with notepad++

lol

[grand comet]

with

with notepad?

[tiny gust]

before the toolset released to manually add textures

find hashes

and replace them

[grand comet]

ohh

[tiny gust]

its hell

also you gotta use BC7 compression for albedo or the textures would look weird

and other type of compression for roughness

etc

[grand comet]

I wonder how compatible current games will be with the next remix update

like, I dont want newer games to work at this point

just the current games to have more compatibility

[tiny gust]

releases are nothing different from github actions

[grand comet]

?

[tiny gust]

the releases

dont contain the latest commits to the repo

https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/dxvk-remix/actions

you dont have to wait for new releases thats what im saying

[grand comet]

no but if im on the current version, I have to wait for the next release

otherwise its the same version

I made this light near kleiners lab much darker, i've always found it weird that its so bright when there's nothing down there

but I don't like the light being completely off

[tiny gust]

cut content maybe?

[grand comet]

yeah maybe

maybe a small easter egg should have been there, a decal on the wall

[tiny gust]

mmm yes

[grand comet]

also idk why, but I think setting the filtering to nearest looks better?

the textures are too low resolution for linear, so they look blurry

but they're high enough quality to not look like a minecraft resource pack when set to nearest lol

it ends up looking like a demake with rtx

linear

[tiny gust]

yk you can replace it

[grand comet]

why? i just said I like how it looks lol

[tiny gust]

actually

looks

awesome

[grand comet]

right?

[tiny gust]

yes

something like system shock remake

[grand comet]

I dont wanna change the textures entirely, im just making pbr versions of the pre existing ones

[tiny gust]

https://tenor.com/view/systemshock-system-shock-shodan-trioptimum-triop-gif-9620950574548156373

[grand comet]

and setting the filtering to nearest makes it look perfect imo

[grand comet]

Yeah exactly!

[tiny gust]

but i think remix has filitering on its own right?

[grand comet]

yeah, thats what I changed

[grand comet]

I removed the diffuse but kept the roughness and normal

and wow it looks so clean

I've never seen hl2 look so not dirty

[granite hull]

Has anyone gotten HL2VR working?

I tried but I think the d3d9 dll it has is modified for it to work with VR and needed

without it it crashes

[grand comet]

you should make your own thread, this is for standard half life 2 not the VR version, plus if others wanna know if theres somebody that managed to get it working, they might search in the remix projects thread to find it

so if you make one and manage to somehow get it working, others can find it

[granite hull]

👍

[regal sphinx]

iirc hl2vr uses dxvk native for rendering

so its not going to work without some engine changes

[grand comet]

this is evil

[grand comet]

?

I am confusion

too clean

Cover it with Sand

tru

i don't have remix but i assume the AI upscaling tools tend to remove finer details like all the scratches and dirt

i can probably be proven wrong tho

I really don't like the original hl2 textures when used for realistic materials

They're not high quality enough to be "realistic"

But they're also not low quality enough to look bad without remix

[worthy hemlock]

uncanny valley of textures

[devout linden]

glad that worked just need to replace the first person arm and im happy for today

[tiny gust]

ughhh

i wish garry's mod had stable geo hashes

[devout linden]

i wish we could replace meshes easier lol haha alyx face replaced fine

[tiny gust]

about the eyes

did you copy the configuration files from portal prelude RTX?

[devout linden]

ya that also didn't work

[tiny gust]

search for r_eyemove

or something like that

try disabling it

[devout linden]

where?

[tiny gust]

console

@mellow blaze how did yall deal with the eyes in portal prelude RTX?

[devout linden]

nothing eye releated works

[winter wing]

iirc you have to use r_eyesize 0.6 and tag the iris textures as non-offset decals (eyesize might not be required anymore idk)

[devout linden]

no where have i see the eye ball texture ...

this sucker

so the pupils render fine but without the whites of the eyes they look bad

[mellow blaze]

THG addresses it above - set iris texture to non-offset decals and then we use the eyesize thing since we inherited it from Portal

I think you also need Prelude's engine binaries (which is what we use on HL2) since it fixes some things

[devout linden]

And how does one use these binaries?

[mellow blaze]

You just grab the related engine files out of the Portal Prelude RTX/bin folder

Stick ‘em in the HL2 bin folder

[devout linden]

Thank you

[grand comet]

if I wanna play the original HL2, how can I? haha

I just wanna play through the game without rtx being applied, and potentially having weird lighting

I tried renaming d3d9.dll but the menu was super laggy

[sacred tide]

just delete all files from remix i guess

download it with autodownloader and delete all same files in both folder

[grand comet]

im not gonna lie....

lighting looks so good here

and this is without remix

[grand comet]

yeah dw I got it working

and the lighting on alyx face looks pretty nice here too

[drowsy sorrel]

source was wayyyy ahead of its time

like that 2002 ravenholm e3 level looks spectacular

especially considering its well, from 2002

and the lighting is already just path tracing which is done in advanced and baked into the map

while with rtx remix its just real time

[neat grove]

in fact, such lighting was not originally in the game

i mean, phong was added to the source in 2006

[grand comet]

you say that as if I know what phong is

lol

[grand comet]

I'm holding out for a half life 2 in source 2

because rtx is cool and all, but I also wanna see more rasterised games

like we got portal rtx, but no portal source 2 which would also look pretty incredible imo

[drowsy sorrel]

i get ray tracing is pretty but

its not made for games

100%

rasterization exists for a reason

to render games quickly

[grand comet]

??? raytracing is definitely a good fit for games

[drowsy sorrel]

and its able to do it while looking fantastic

[grand comet]

sometimes

[neat grove]

final diffuse is what it was in 2004

[drowsy sorrel]

i mean when you have to constantly use stuff like denoisers and upscalers to get a clear image its kinda eh imo, idk i just dont like the idea of ray tracing fully replacing rasterization

especially in stylized games

dont get me wrong i love path tracing

its really fun

[grand comet]

I like the idea of raytracing being in collab with a rasterized game

[drowsy sorrel]

i just dont want it replacing rasterization fully

[drowsy sorrel]

ya thats good

[grand comet]

its way easier to run too

[drowsy sorrel]

sry i mean like full path tracing replacing rasterization fully

not just ray tracing running hand in hand with rasterization

ray tracing is def a fun bonus

[grand comet]

yeah

one game that looks path traced though?

Robocop

it has all the bells and whistles of path tracing

[drowsy sorrel]

also hearing that nvidia wants games to be fully rendered by ai or smth in the future

that just, rubs me the wrong way so much

[drowsy sorrel]

i mean it just looks pretty, like rasterized games can look pretty, look at source 2 for example

all it has is pretty advanced baked lighting

and it looks gorgous

no real time ray tracing needed

[grand comet]

I mean... reflections in games are usually pretty boring and detail isnt really there

this is a reflection in Robocop

thats the kind of detail you see in a puddle lol

[drowsy sorrel]

and oof you have no idea how much i love parallax corrected cubemaps, they're so fun

screen space reflections suck but damn parralex corrected cubemap reflections

[grand comet]

im ngl, I never really looked into what cubemaps are used for

[drowsy sorrel]

i love em

[drowsy sorrel]

cubemaps are just 3d images of the maps to be used for reflections

the problem with it is that its static

[grand comet]

this is way better than a screenspace reflection

[drowsy sorrel]

parralax corrected cubemaps fix that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB05cvycfLI

[grand comet]

this game just looks amazing

[grand comet]

arkham knight looks good but I wanna see it like this

[neat grove]

but it's only for brushes

not for models😭😭

[tiny gust]

its UE5

its not path traced

[grand comet]

I know what it is lol

[tiny gust]

does have ray tracing

[grand comet]

actually, it does indeed have path tracing

its just very slow

[tiny gust]

it doesnt, unless you mean the reference mode in the engine

[grand comet]

reference mode?

it has a mode used for rendering too

thats path traced

its so that you can use it for films

[tiny gust]

yeah

its the same thing

but what i meant is
UE5 doesnt have a realtime path tracing mode yet

wish they did

[grand comet]

IK

the reflections in robocop are using lumens reflections

thats why im not saying it is path tracing

because I know what tech its using

[tulip robin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYli86rF3X8

[grand comet]

??

i've seen what the game looks like lol

[grand comet]

I made a backup of half life 2 to run without steam for rtx stuff, followed the tutorial again but I get this while its loading up?

and ingame its rasterized???

just without a sky

I selected to auto detect the sky and it looks the same

any ideas?

oh no....

i'm in a barren wasteland

this is supposed to be highway 17 I think

[safe bridge]

create dxvk.conf and add "d3d9.shadermodel = 0"

[grand comet]

this is so spooly

[grand comet]

anywhere?

or at the bottom

[safe bridge]

just place in game files

[grand comet]

no I mean in the dxvk.conf

I already have that

so maybe thats the issue

now its even spookier

lmao

im scared pls help

[frank folio]

any way to make wire fences transparent?

[frozen lichen]

Try to make it UI texture, or legacy

[royal scroll]

Just remembered something I started yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaars ago and never finished

[little ruin]

is it possible to fix the weapons in hl2 portal rtx?

[solemn thistle]

I wonder Half-Life 2: RTX Remix has a plan to supports Episode One and Two. Maybe later after the main game released?
Just like Half-Life 2: Episode One and Two's VR Mod?

[tiny gust]

cl_first_person_uses_world_model 0

[analog cargo]

How do you play rtxx half life

[last fog]

if you mean the official remaster, it's not out yet and there's no release date

the community does stuff with the original version though

look in pins for instructions

[worthy hemlock]

https://youtu.be/GU87Dh9_tbY?si=0sWaKF-waVsLq8Ie

we need this level of animations in HL2 RTX lads 😭

[tiny gust]

these arent only animations yk
i dont think theyll touch on gameplay

[worthy hemlock]

yea the sound design is different too

welp

i do hope they worked on this

[little ruin]

That phong exponent looks genuinely terrifying

[vagrant whale]

phong was later addition which wasn't on release

at least on guns

[neat grove]

YEAH

[inner fulcrum]

does anyone know how to fix water texture?

[little ruin]

how do i edit portal rtx with rtx remix?

or

you cant

?

[halcyon current]

u should be able to just press alt-x

also maybe try putting this in #1095455547748257862

[little ruin]

I mean like editing models n shit

[compact glade]

these animations don't look great imo

why do they shake their hand so much

looks like a kid trying to be "tacticool"

[little ruin]

do you mean the animations when the gun shoots or

when his hands moves

[void vale]

how do i install the rtx mod

[royal scroll]

It's not out yet

[void vale]

no, the runtime

[royal scroll]

Ah, that's not a mod that's just the tools we use

[void vale]

how can i install the tools?

i want to get into rtx modding

[royal scroll]

#remix-beginners-guide

Otherwise just check the pins in this channel

There are guides right here

[void vale]

thank you ill start with basics then work my way up

[wide oxide]

I hope HL2 RTX comes out this year. Since HL2 will turn 20 this year

Would be a good anniversary

[stuck apex]

wha

fuck did i do

[tiny gust]

hi sam

[compact glade]

hii

[viral frigate]

if it were a professional project maybe, but this is free and done by fans, I'd personally give it at least a few years

[tiny gust]

Id expect it a year from now

[viral frigate]

Cool, I beat HL2 last year so I'm eager to replay it with RTX :)

I presume you're not planning to do the episodes?

[tiny gust]

Hey im not a developer on the project!, im just guessing

Im making a guess based on how much time portal prelude RTX took to release

Afair there werent a lot of people working on it+ its long with alot of assets

[viral frigate]

lol the nice roles made me assume

[tiny gust]

I wanna apologize too lol

[viral frigate]

for wut

[compact tide]

Just got done following setup via the pinned message, loading into most of my saves results in a scuffed render
Am I missing something?

a few areas look normal but moving between certain rooms or areas causes the game to look screwy again, walking back into the previous area makes everything look normal again

[safe bridge]

Did you put dxvk conf in the game files?

[compact tide]

yeah copied all the relevant files from PortalRTX per the pinned message

[safe bridge]

Oh also you have to enable viewmodel on the menu

[compact tide]

viewmodel_fov 90
cl_first_person_uses_world_model 0
these commands?

I attempted texture assignments while screwing about and seem to be getting somewhere, though I'd be lying if I said I understood what I was doing

some levels just dont render geometry outright though, not sure whats up with that

[safe bridge]

no

im referring to rtx remix meny

menu

[fiery plume]

Try r_3dsky 0

[tiny gust]

@compact tide r_3dsky 0 or enable sky auto detection in remix sky parameters tuning

[grand comet]

Bro when is the actuall pack gonna drop?

[royal scroll]

No release date yet

[viral frigate]

Bro when are you gonna learn to be patient

[grand comet]

Bro calm down

I just was curious because I couldn't find any updates for it anywhere else

[viral frigate]

Bro don't worry

[night turtle]

hey how can I do that command

I cant load a game from "new game"

the game loads the map when I press the load savebutton

[fickle narwhal]

You can see the UI from the game...

Use the command with the in-game console

[night turtle]

how I can open the console

I think it is locked

[fickle narwhal]

Go to your keybind settings. There should be an advanced button, there you can toggle dev console

Then using ~ you can open it

[fickle narwhal]

It is by default, gotta do this ^

[night turtle]

no it doesnt working

I can change the button but not working

[fickle narwhal]

Did you go into the advanced settings

I didn't mention it for no reason

Just changing the key doesn't do anything on its own

[night turtle]

I found it finally .d

I ticked

finally I opened the console

[fickle narwhal]

Sweet. Now you should be able to use the command

Unfortunately that's about as far as I can help personally. I haven't touched Half Life 2 on Remix, that's just a general part of the game I knew

Scrolling up, it seems like there's a lot of visual issues people are working out

[night turtle]

I think this is why I cant start a new game

[fickle narwhal]

Interesting, it's trying to load a map from Portal

There should be a command to load specific maps. Might want to look it up online

It'll be command mapname or something similar to that I imagine

Command isn't literal^ I don't know what it actually is

[night turtle]

map command works

I can load a map from here

it is like silent hill xd

[fickle narwhal]

Open Alt+X for the remix overlay. Go to the advanced settings which should open a panel on the right side of the screen (if it's already on the right, ignore this)

Go to the 2nd tab, there should be something in there related to "parameter tuning"

Then look for sky tuning and light translation

Actually, if you're using another RTX conf file that's been uploaded then ignore the sky tuning part

Under light translation it should mention a fallback light. I think there you can force a distant light to be active

By changing values there, you'll essentially add in a sun

[fierce dragon]

that probably means you ported over too many files from Portal RTX - the first map to load would be coming from a file

can't think of any other reason for HL2 to try to load a portal map

[fickle narwhal]

That was my thought too since the caveat wasn't mentioned in the pinned. You should probably do the process from scratch again (like a fresh half life 2 install) in case the files you copied over that aren't necessary cause other issues

You seem to be able to load in and the view model is working, but in software any random little thing can cause problems. Might as well avoid them entirely

[night turtle]

it is empty

[fickle narwhal]

What the

@night turtle try this

Download that file and replace the one in your game folder

It should have some Remix settings configured that fix a few things

[night turtle]

it works

now indoors broke wt

I think I made a mistake when I trying to cpoy from portal rtx

as mark said

I guess the official rtx version will be released until I solve this problem :D

[fickle narwhal]

Then you should spare yourself the hassle! Do a fresh install of Half Life 2 and go through the instructions pinned in this thread again

At whatever time works for you of course. It'd be a pain to try and fix an issue that doesn't exist for most people lol

[night turtle]

I will try again every single thing

And solve this problem

[night turtle]

new game button doesnt works again

[night turtle]

now fixed

flashlight doesnt work

💀

flashlight new game button and some glasses have bugs

everything else is solved

[fickle narwhal]

I'm pretty impressed honestly

Half-Life 2 is more stable than I thought

[night turtle]

İt is really stable but there is like a optimization problem my pc can run portal rtx at 50fps but half life with rtx is 20 30fps I think it is because of the map

Portal is in the chamber but half life it is a open world like game

[tiny gust]

no not really

sky shouldnt matter

also they do run about the same

sometimes hl2 runs better too

check your settings dude

flashlight wont work, you gotta use the old flashlight (half life 1 style)

[night turtle]

They are mostly same

[fickle narwhal]

Do you mean the same as Portal RTXs vanilla graphics settings? I imagine Nvidia chose those for a reason, so I wonder how much better or worse it'd be if you matched those in-game graphics settings 1:1

From there you tweak Remix's quality settings to suit your needs ofc

[placid plinth]

Why is everything so dark when I shoot a gun or hit something?

[tiny gust]

get the rtx.conf above

also make sure its on shadermodel 0

[night turtle]

viewmodel_fov 90

cl_first_person_uses_world_model 0

r_3dsky 0

these are works for me

[fickle narwhal]

Jacket guy is already a half life 2 remix pro haha

Just recently you were figuring it out and now you're giving advice. Love it

[tiny gust]

Well these commands are already up above.

[fickle narwhal]

Not u downplaying jacket guy

Lol I didn't mean it in terms of discovery just that he knows the process now and is giving people answers that he asked for previously

It's just a little thing, not much to it but it's fun seeing it

[night turtle]

I successfully installed the mod (with you :) ), now I'm trying to help someone who can't install the mod

[little ruin]

why is everything black

help me

[tiny gust]

Picture?

[grand comet]

half life 2 is racist towards white

[neat grove]

WTF

[little ruin]

sorry for not reply for like days but this is what the game looks like

its less broken

but still black textures tho

and no ui

[tiny gust]

Did you copy the rtx.conf file?

[little ruin]

yeah

i have shadermodel to 0

[little ruin]

please help me im genuinely suffering trying to fix this

[tiny gust]

Hmmm

[warm stratus]

i need help

whenever i enter the game it looks like this

the sky and water are invisible

[warm stratus]

?

[warm stratus]

thanks 👍

[warm stratus]

very cool

[clear bobcat]

what did i do

also it does appear to have rtx but its just having a stroke

i mean sometimes it works

[viral frigate]

me now making a game with this visual style

[safe bridge]

do you have dxvk.conf on the game files?

[clear bobcat]

yes

in the directory next to hl2.exe right?

[clear bobcat]

and then this when i walk

[clear bobcat]

i got most of it working

[tiny gust]

Its case sensitive

I wanna see it

[clear bobcat]

i got it working dw

my install was just broken

[clear bobcat]

i had it all lowercase

[tiny gust]

Like this?

[clear bobcat]

yes

[tiny gust]

Wrong

Capitalize the M

[clear bobcat]

ohhhh

[tiny gust]

:3

[clear bobcat]

:3

i’m stoopid

[tiny gust]

:33

[tiny gust]

Nuh uh

[clear bobcat]

but it was working somehow

[tiny gust]

You arent

[clear bobcat]

sooo

idk how

[tiny gust]

Its using shaders

[clear bobcat]

is that bad?

[tiny gust]

Mhm

Needs to be fixed function

[clear bobcat]

ok

i’ll change that then

i’m surprised i even got it working seeing as how im on linux

[tiny gust]

Ping if you need any help with ;3

[tiny gust]

It does work on linux

Quite well too

[clear bobcat]

yea

proton is amazing

[tiny gust]

AMD gpu?

[clear bobcat]

nvidia

[tiny gust]

AMD gpus suffer on windows
Works well on linux

[clear bobcat]

yea i know

if i get a new gpu it’s gonna be an amd card

[tiny gust]

I miss my 4070 ti ;(

[clear bobcat]

i have a 3090 rn

i got my pc before the 40 series was announced

[tiny gust]

I'm sorry for going off topic lol

[clear bobcat]

eh it’s fine

i wish the actual remix software would work on linux bc i can’t do any of the material upscaling

mabye it does if i install it through wine but the linux omniverse doesnt have remix support

[clear bobcat]

theres a bunch of gray patches everywhere

[outer oriole]

decals

[clear bobcat]

yep i fixed it by disabling enhanced assets

for some reason

[clear bobcat]

does anyone have upscaled textures i could download

im too lazy to do it myself

[honest barn]

i cant get half life 2 to bee raytraced

how do i eneable it?

@pulsar granite tried shooting didnt help, also after restart some assets are mising idk why

accidentaly made hl2 horror mod

[tiny gust]

@honest barn can you open up rtx remix menu?

[honest barn]

i can

[shy gazelle]

try placing this in the main half life 2 directory folder next to the hl2.exe

[honest barn]

now it wont start

[opal solstice]

Ok new version looking gorgeous and so much less broken than before (I previously had a bunch of geometry straight up missing) but I've encountered three new problems: 1) the RTX menu wont show up even though rtx is definitely working 2) crosshairs and text just show up as white squares and 3) the game is now running like absolute ASS on a 4080, any suggested changes? I've followed the instructions to the letter in the pinned post and used @shy gazelle dxvk.conf in the post above

derp i had dlss set at "full resolution", rebooting the game let me bring up the remix menu for some reason, so thats problem 1 and 3 solved

[shy gazelle]

THE EYES WORK?

Not sure on the square crosshairs - those might be textures you need to mark as UI textures in the menu

[grand comet]

Pasting the instructions so you dont have to spend 5min scrolling like me 💀

[grand comet]

thx, my lighting is flashing on and off tho, got a fix

@shy gazelle

when I move around it breaks like this

any fixes

[shy gazelle]

Hmm not sure, I haven't actually got half life 2 up and running with remix - I only play it using gmod - it seems a lot more stable than half life 2 alone

[grand comet]

oh

same setup for gmod?

with the remix?

[shy gazelle]

No, but there's a pinned video tutorial on how to get it running - the videos up to date 👍 #1116089843479498782 message

[tiny gust]

Culling+ no lights

Are you on dx7?

[grand comet]

Idk

@tiny gust

[tiny gust]

What launch parameters do you use?

[fierce dragon]

they're pinned, you should just be able to access it from there. Also, those are kinda old, and I haven't kept up with any new things the community has figured out

[grand comet]

Hehehe

[regal sphinx]

personally for me the easiest way to run hl2 without having to do any engine patches is moving hl2's game folder to prelude rtx and running the game with -game hl2 in the steam launch options. there is no culling issues and npc's eyes work

you can even get 3D skyboxes, RT screens (the breen display in the beginning) using the updated remix build from portal rtx

[outer oriole]

anyone know why 3dsky still dosent work for me?

@regal sphinx

?

everything dissapears with the command on

[regal sphinx]

are you using the portal rtx remix build?

it only works with that atm

[outer oriole]

prelude

[regal sphinx]

prelude's isnt updated

[outer oriole]

fuck

[outer oriole]

still nope

and hl2 is in portal rtx files

[regal sphinx]

nope for what?

if the 3d skyboxes arent working with portal rtx's remix build, try enabling auto sky detection

[last perch]

Hey

I'm new here

I installed hl2 from following steps

But I can't load the game

Like I press new game and it doesn't do anything

Any ideea why it doesn't loading levels?

somehow i managed to get ni game

but textures is missing

any advice ?

[tiny gust]

Sky auto detection

In game setup

Parameters tuning

Sky tuning

Also, portal RTX runtime is recommended

[last perch]

now

but flashlight its not working

all textures looks wet

[tiny gust]

For now that doesn't work

[tiny gust]

Game setup
Parameters tuning
Legacy materials override
Then increase the roughness

[little ruin]

why everything gray

[tiny gust]

Have you tried downloading the rtx.conf files above?

Should be in the chat somewhere

[little ruin]

I already did

[tiny gust]

What parameters did you launch the game with?

[little ruin]

Parameters??

Wdym

[tiny gust]

Like dxlevel

[little ruin]

Oh yeah

Yes

Wait

[tiny gust]

what parameters did you use?

[little ruin]

could you say it any clearer?

im genuinely confused

[little ruin]

OH

now i know

i didnt use any

what dxlevel should i use?

70?

or 80

my brain wasn't functioning lol

[tiny gust]

70

[little ruin]

didnt work

[tiny gust]

This doesn't look like shadermodel 0

d3d9.shaderModel = 0

Copy it as is

[little ruin]

i put that i the dxvk file

[tiny gust]

Its case sensitive

[little ruin]

wait

wtf

wheres my dxvk file

[tiny gust]

There's your issue

[little ruin]

oh there it is

nvm

OHHH

I FORGOT TO CAPITALIZE THE M

LMAO

oh

half life is crashing

[upbeat scaffold]

where is the hl2 lost coast directory? steam just directs me to the hl2 exe and runs the normal hl2 even though I dont have it installed

[viral frigate]

HL2's Episodes and Lost Coast are basically standalone add-on content, and are installed in the same game directory since they use the same exe

semi-unrelated it would be cool if valve or a modder added real HDR to the game since the Steam Deck OLED has that and it'd come full circle with Lost Coast's fake/simulated HDR

[regal sphinx]

some awesome vibes playing hl2 with rtx remix on a CRT

also a lot more fps 😂

[shy gazelle]

That’s so trippy

[regal sphinx]

the biggest benefit is that any resolution is native so at 640x480 with no DLSS (DLAA) game looks pin sharp and the RT looks super clean

especially with RR

[shy gazelle]

That's 100% what the game looks like in my memory lmaoo, I played hl2 on a CRT tv when I first played it

[regal sphinx]

its weird but all of the facial expressions look very lifelike, as if I've never seen them before

that was the biggest wow factor for me

[viral frigate]

how does portal look

[regal sphinx]

hmm i think that one is out of focus

here it is a bit further away

[shy gazelle]

That's so surreal, I bet that's what path tracing would look like in VR, that'd be unrealllll

[regal sphinx]

might be a bit longer until we have hardware to render PT twice at a high resolution🤣

[shy gazelle]

Trueee, might need a 104090 for that

[viral frigate]

wowie

[viral frigate]

Trhat's Why We Have Upscaling !!!!!!

[outer oriole]

the original dk1 would wokr

work

640x800 x 2

1280 1600

[stuck apex]

hi

[compact glade]

hi

[viral frigate]

hi

No chain

[upbeat scaffold]

hin't

[prime sleet]

hi

[shy gazelle]

well hello there

[worthy hemlock]

Bro really meant "Smell the ashes" 💀👁️👁️

[little ruin]

it looks like normal half life 2

[regal sphinx]

lol it's probably the overexposure and low resolution masking the details

i assure you its pathtraced

[upbeat scaffold]

Half Life 2 Rtx: Rasterized Edition

[night turtle]

You need portal rtx, it is better than this

[shy gazelle]

you are so right, this is CRAZYY. Their facial expressions cast their own shadows now and it's wild. Just vanilla on the base game it's a HUGE update

Half Life 2 RTX is going to be INSANEEE

[viral frigate]

I have hope the fan project will have an extra attention to detail

[shy gazelle]

Also wahhhhh look what I found

I didn't know there was a portal easter egg in hl2

[left galleon]

@regal sphinx how do i get half life 2 rtx

its not working

i have amd

6600

[regal sphinx]

@left galleon

though to be honest you're probably gonna have horrible performance on AMD

[tiny gust]

make a file called dxvk.conf
type d3d9.shaderModel = 0 there
Its case sensitive

[dull cape]

mine just crashes

like when I boot it up

[regal sphinx]

@dull cape

[regal sphinx]

you might need to download portal rtx with prelude rtx for the skyboxes, cameras, ray reconstruction

let me know if you have any issues

[dull cape]

its not using rtx

[regal sphinx]

hu

[dull cape]

it just renders normally

[regal sphinx]

so you moved the hl2 folder to prelude rtx and ran prelude with -game hl2?

it has to be RT

their engine enforces dx7

[dull cape]

ohhhhh

ill try

[regal sphinx]

follw that image

also use this rtx.conf

it has most things tagged correctly

iirc

[dull cape]

ok

o7

[grand comet]

With gmod? Afaik if you get it running using Portal Prelude RTX it runs super well too, plus some less broken textures as a freebie based on some materials for portal Prelude also being used with Half Life 2?

I could be totally wrong though

Like glass in Half Life 2, if you run it through Portal Prelude RTX will already look like glass???

Again, I could be completely wrong

So don't quote me on that

[shy gazelle]

Oh yes, I've since got it running with Portal Prelude RTX by dropping in the hl2 folder into Preludes 🙂 I originally only had gmod working with rtx as that was enough for me, but now it's nice to have the whole game runnable with rtx (gmod has some progression issues with the hl2 campaign I believe, I don't think you can go A-Z fully).

And yes, the prelude rtx version allows the glass to be semi-see through! I'm not sure if this has been implemented into the regular remix release, but it's a total benefit

[regal sphinx]

doesnt also help that gmod has a 50/50 chance of stalling on the loading screen with remix

so you constantly have to restart it

[grand comet]

Oof

[ripe glen]

Hey Source friends, I was wondering if anyone else has encountered this issue? Remix is inverting the 3D skybox Z-buffer on Source 2006 (build 4044)

All I have done is set sky detection method to 2 (otherwise pathtracing doesn't happen)

Here's how that scene should look for context
In both cases source was launched in dx7

I have also tried manually marking those textures as Sky, but the same thing occurs

[viral frigate]

skyboxes simply don't work properly in Remix, when people get to mesh replacement those aspects of the map should be part of the regular environment

[regal sphinx]

try using the portal rtx remix build, it fixes 3d skyboxes and rt cameras

[tiny gust]

Portal rtx build does it better

[viral frigate]

Cool

[tiny gust]

Mhm!

[ripe glen]

Ah that makes sense

[ripe glen]

What parts of PortalRTX do I need to copy into this hl2 mod?

I'll give that a try now

[tiny gust]

.trex folder
And d3d9.dll

[ripe glen]

Oh thats it?
No autoexec or their dxsupport.cfg?

[tiny gust]

Nope
We only need the remix files

[ripe glen]

Damn ok!

Should they also be going in [game]/bin or just the games root dir?

Or does that matter

Same issue still :c

Worth pointing out:
Issue only starts after setting a sky autodetect mode
If I do no sky detection, the 3D skybox acts as expected, but the world geo is invisible

^this is with the portalRTX files, and enabling sky autodetection is the same result as original video
same thing occured with normal remix

Now, it gets stranger..

My current pov, I am in valid playable space

The same perspective, but I moved back slightly so I am now intersecting geometry while still considered within valid space (middle of the bsp)

[ripe glen]

Same perspective with pixel checkerboard debug viewmode

Skybox isnt even drawn
sorry for the dump I'm just at a loss 😅

[radiant phoenix]

it's neotokyo right? What is the name of this map?

[ripe glen]

Redlight

Indoor maps work fine, but nearly all of the outdoor maps rely quite heavily on 3D skybox models

[radiant phoenix]

works great for me

[ripe glen]

That's with r_3dsky 0

Or it just skipped them entirely

[radiant phoenix]

ohhhh ok

I've been experimenting with the game for a few days now

[ripe glen]

Oh? Interesting

Well some bad news, the vision modes & camo material don't work 😦 SM2 shaders

[radiant phoenix]

yep 😦

[ripe glen]

In fact, even default base game doesnt have those before dx9

😭

Another trick since you're probably in dx7
source sets the prop fade distance to be incredibly short

You'll want to edit this in your /bin/dxsupport.cfg dx7 section

"ConVar.r_screenfademinsize"    "1"
"ConVar.r_screenfademaxsize"    "2"

If you're using portalRTX dxsupport.cfg this has already been done

[radiant phoenix]

omg thanks, that's the problem that bothered me the most

[ripe glen]

:3 np

That cfg seems to override autoexec btw

[neat grove]

wrong chat xd

[clear bobcat]

i think its broken

im using portal prelude rtx

was i not supposed to do that

[tiny gust]

Do you have portal rtx?

Not prelude

Use portal rtx runtime

[clear bobcat]

oh ok

i thought that was weird

[clear bobcat]

still broken

happens on prelude too

instant i go outside

[outer oriole]

R_3DSKY 0

[clear bobcat]

i’ll try that

[tiny gust]

Sky auto detection

Enable that in parameters tuning

[tiny gust]

We don't need to turn off 3dskybox anymore

[clear bobcat]

got it

[outer oriole]

you do tho

you turn it off then turn on sky detection

[tiny gust]

Sky auto detection honest reaction:

[tiny gust]

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

[outer oriole]

last time i checked

[tiny gust]

Dude that means removing all sky geometry

What sky geo remains to enable sky detection on

[ripe glen]

I think it's just the "2D" skybox (sky texture)
In the 2006 source build I was trying above, the different sky detection methods would only affect which sides of the 2D skybox were drawn
No sky detection would just disable all path tracing, & then I would also need r_3dsky 0 because it wasn't drawing the sky geo correctly

[grand comet]

when the offical rtx half life 2 finna drop

[outer oriole]

6 years

2030

[grand comet]

accurate

[grand comet]

False

That's too soon

[outer oriole]

you right

[grand comet]

Bwahaha

[glossy nest]

Hey, are the instructions in the pinned comments that mark posted still the go-to method of getting RTX Remix to work with Half life 2? And does anyone know if this also applies to Episode 1, 2, Deathmatch and Lost Coast? Does this also work with Half-Life Deathmatch: Source by any chance?

[regal sphinx]

its pretty outdated

[regal sphinx]

the easiest method is copying the game folder of hl2,ep1,ep2,ls, etc to portal prelude's folder like this ^^^

[glossy nest]

Oh interesting, so instead of running HL2 with fixes, you just abuse how source engine loads games and instead run HL2 in Portal Prelude RTX?

[regal sphinx]

yep 🙂

hl2's engine even with patches is not as good when running it through prelude

the reason why prelude's engine is strictly recommended is that its much closer to the modern sdk2013 branch hl2 and its episodes use

[glossy nest]

👍

Has anyone tried it with the above mentioned titles like Lost Coast, HL2:DM and HLDM:S

[regal sphinx]

no, but it may/may not work

i would try it

[glossy nest]

I can give them all a try.

[outer oriole]

they all work

including half life source

[last fog]

didn't HL Source require an earlier build?

[outer oriole]

nope

got it working

[glossy nest]

just naively moved Half life Deathmatch source into the prelude folder and tried -game hl1mp and it didn't work.

[outer oriole]

we used the patches

atleast i did

it wont work nativley

id kwhy

[glossy nest]

which patches?

[outer oriole]

new blueamulet

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BlueAmulet/SourceRTXTweaks/main/applypatch.py

[glossy nest]

I see, those still have to be applied when running a game through Portal Prelude RTX? Interesting.

[outer oriole]

nah

half life source is installed through hl2 direcroty

directory

i used it without any portalrtx shit

[regal sphinx]

no they should not be used with portal/prelude rtx (well except for client.dll patches for the game)

if hldm doesnt work, the engine might lack something to run it

[tiny gust]

Had hl2 beta a try

Def more broken than current build lol

Characters dont even render

And most props

[last fog]

guys, rule 6

[solemn thistle]

sorry

[worldly heath]

Can't wait to optimize this for Steam Deck

[grand comet]

are these still the recommended instructions?

I don't own portal rtx :c

[outer oriole]

then own it

[glossy nest]

These are the new instructions, unfortunately they still require you to own Portal https://www.moddb.com/games/half-life-2#rtxremix

[grand comet]

okay dammit

when hl2 rtx comes out I won't need portal rtx too right?

cuz I own half life 2

[shy gazelle]

do you own gmod?

[grand comet]

no

oh ur playing life is strange remastered

is the remastered version actually better?

been meaning to give the game a try

[shy gazelle]

Yeah it's surprisingly really good, was a nice upgrade 🙂

I'd wait to get portal when it's on sale, it usually drops down to like .99 cents time to time

[grand comet]

alright thanks!

what if I wait for hl2 rtx to release instead

[shy gazelle]

Yeah that's probably best - they haven't released what the install process will be like, but I'm sure they'll have made something to stabalize it without the need for portal rtx

[glossy nest]

It'll likely be similar to how Portal with RTX is being handled. If you own the base game then you can grab the rtx version on the steam store.

[grand comet]

yay!

I own the base game

[last fog]

imo no. really changed the art style in a way that's really disappointing 😦

[grand comet]

soooo

it's subjective then?

[last fog]

like with most games, yeah

[grand comet]

if it looks better then idrc

[last fog]

that's the subjective part

[grand comet]

if the art style is MAJORLY different then I might care

[last fog]

a large part of this game's appeal is the art style

[grand comet]

but I have never played the original life is strange

[last fog]

it probably won't matter to you then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJMjnKGXG8w

the differences are there, but they're not that drastic. i played the original game many times though, so the new one just looks off to me

[plucky coral]

Anyone solve the light and texture flicker?

[shy gazelle]

Light and texture flicker? Can you send a video of it happening? It might be detail textures

[plucky coral]

Anyone getting close to having a version that runs well and can play almost all the way through? If so, I'd love to know yalls process or see a video

[regal sphinx]

running the game through portal prelude rtx is currently the best way, its engine is closest to modern hl2 but it has remix specific fixes

i can link the instructions in a second

[regal sphinx]

^

whole game is playable

but some textures like decals and particles will need to be marked

[plucky coral]

Appreciate ittttt

[halcyon current]

so i just installed portal prelude rtx and put the half life 2 folder into it, my game appears to still be rasterized and the npc eyes/ skybox dont seem to work. is there anything else I'm supposed to change?

[shy gazelle]

set the launch options for portal rtx to be "-game hl2" without the quotations, and launch portal rtx