Half-Life 2

[half dove]

unreal

[grand comet]

Cry me a river man

[modest bear]

no way all of you are so fucking busy that your beating your dick making these games all day and all night trying to maek these games

[half dove]

their so busy

[regal sphinx]

ah yes let me stop everything in my life to help you. would you like me to hold your hand and give you your sippy cup?

[modest bear]

go nut in a circle with the rest of your devlopers

[grand comet]

Or or maybe we should tale them to the daycare

[modest bear]

bro, non of you are helpful, if your making things for others to enjoy then where tf can i get a hold of someone with half life 2

[half dove]

wow how helpful are u

got us there

so hurt

[grand comet]

how am i supposed to help, my thread is some other game

boohoo

[modest bear]

didn't want to be rude to any of you but apeartly calling you out on being compltly fucking insuferable and unable to help with any situtation

[fickle narwhal]

I heard there were clowns

[shy gazelle]

I should've specified, *cry baby clowns

[half dove]

you gotta work on stuff that actually hurts😭

[modest bear]

maybe your the one with the sippy cup if you get mad that quick

[fickle narwhal]

I haven't read anything yet but this community has a really awesome reputation for helping out generally, so I would be surprised if this was the case

[modern valley]

impatient too

[fickle narwhal]

oh boy it's already heated

lemme read

[half dove]

they speak like how we made fun of people in 1st grade how mature of them

[half dove]

u went here so if u wont help then leave and shut the hell up😭

[modest bear]

Not in my experince at all, if i ask them anything they just make some excuse on why they can't give a 6 word response for 12 days straight

[grand comet]

No lol I'm laughing at clowns

[modest bear]

oh i might just start crying in a sec

[half dove]

funny 2018 comback

[fickle narwhal]

okay from first impression I'm getting that 8 has a genuine frustration that he's unfairly taking out on people for not being the equivalent of paid support service workers. This is a community server, community members have lives. It's not uncommon that someone can slip by for a quick comment which can give you a hint but not fully answer the question on it's own. You have to be patient because we're all doing our own things

[half dove]

at least ur helping in somewhat of a way

[fickle narwhal]

so what is the problem, you said you couldn't take scene captures?

[modest bear]

I've avodied it for multiply days and its been two days sleepless waiting for someone to be useful

[modest bear]

yeah i can't capture sceans in order to adjust them

[fickle narwhal]

people do not owe you their time. You're working on their schedule, not the other way around. I can understand frustration, but keep it chill. That's all I ask

[modest bear]

i get that its just why do you get pressed so easliy

[regal sphinx]

he did not install remix / set up the game correctly, which we pointed out with the pinned instructions

[modest bear]

they we're the first to insult me

[regal sphinx]

^

[fickle narwhal]

clearly you've done something here so that's a good sign that you've made some progress. I haven't used Remix with HL2 yet, so I'll download it real quick and see if I can't figure it out and share what I find

[modest bear]

yeah

[half dove]

i understand his frusteration cuz ive had the same issue before for the past 2 months and ill keep it peaceful here but u have to admit there was no reason to have 4 developers jumping us over one small issue it couldve been ended with one person

[fickle narwhal]

these people aren't developers on Half Life 2's remix support. Maybe that clears things up more. If you were under the impression that this was their wheelhouse and they just didn't help, I could understand the frustration

let's all cool it down and I'll try and help ya'll

[half dove]

ok thank you

[modest bear]

It's not that, they don't got any time to help me but all the time in the world to start insuting me

it makes no sense

[half dove]

chill

hes helping

[fickle narwhal]

I mean tbf it's a lot faster to insult than to troubleshoot an issue with someone just messing with you, not justifying it

[modest bear]

Maybe they treat you better casue you got roles

[fickle narwhal]

gonna download the game now

[modest bear]

okay

[shy gazelle]

Auto if you need help lemme know

[half dove]

tbf yeah they all appeared after an argument but not for an issue lol

[fickle narwhal]

it's possible it was just a misunderstanding that got heated from one off expressions of frustration. Like I said I'm gonna try and help so if we could reset that would be great

[half dove]

not saying they all gotta appear for an issue but it doesnt seem like their that busy yk

alr

@modest bear say ur issue he will help

[fickle narwhal]

well first I'm gonna try and set up remix with half life 2 for the first time. And I'll use my experience on that to throw some ideas ya'lls way

[half dove]

ok thank you

[modest bear]

So I'm trying to adjust my image with the Capture Scean feture in order to adjust images

[fickle narwhal]

from what I get you're trying to get scene captures working in the first place right? Scene captures will only work when the game is pathtracing, so when it has the fancy lighting stuff since that means the game is successfully feeding data into remix's renderer. So first priority is getting it fully working, then going for scene captures. Gimme a few min to install this 👍

[modest bear]

I really apreciat the help man, going to a spot in the server wher eyou aren't even ussally are in order to help the vs the people who are supposed to be hear don't really help at all

[fickle narwhal]

let's please leave that in the past

[modest bear]

Thanks man your actually helpful, you are rare dev

[fickle narwhal]

@shy gazelle am I understanding the instructions right that this essentially converts portal RTX to be running HL2 instead?

[shy gazelle]

yes 🙂

[modest bear]

i understand now

[grand comet]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-pikachu-clap-clapping-clapping-gif-gif-3962014923707235210

[half dove]

did not mean to send that

[fickle narwhal]

okay wow this is much easier to set up than I was expecting, sweet. Ok so,

[modest bear]

wsp

[modest bear]

yeah none of you could explain that in the 12 words that he used, but had enough time to insult me despite me saying that I haven't been able to recive help for days, yall got insutled by me telling you what other people have done to me

yall make no sense

[grand comet]

this is not even my thread what am i supposed to do?

[modest bear]

not even saying you

but youre already insulted

[grand comet]

most people here that you yelled at have no idea/gave you actual advice that you didnt listen to

[modest bear]

I told them if they could elaborate on what they said and they dissapeared

[grand comet]

as they are busy elsewhere

[fickle narwhal]

you say you understand but just in case I figured I'd quickly write up. So in the pinned there's a screenshot from @.skurtyyskirts that shares the process. An easy way to think about it is thinking like you're essentially adding Half-Life 2 to portal RTX. So in HL2's base folder you want to copy and past the folder called hl2 into the base folder of Portal RTX. It'll give you the option to overwrite existing files, you want to hit "skip for these files" to avoid that. Now you want to download the rtx.conf file that's pinned from @.cr (newest pin) and drop it into your Portal RTX folder. IMPORTANT: This will overwrite Portal RTX's configuration. If you care about Portal RTX, simply rename the original file so you don't overwrite it. An example can be found in the screenshot. At this point you're basically done. Right click Portal with RTX in your Steam library and hit "Properties". Under the first tab called "General", you're gonna want to type -game hl2 with the hyphen included. This can be seen in the second screenshot attached. Then open Portal with RTX on Steam, the game should instead load up Half-Life 2 but with Remix injected and the game will be pathtracing

[modern valley]

dude i gave you xenthio's tutorial 😭

[modest bear]

they fr dissapear for months and can't help you for days

[half dove]

listen ur not that busy to have the time to argue so we end it here alr

[modest bear]

thanks man

[grand comet]

alt+tab

i am indeed busy too

[fickle narwhal]

okay are we done with the back and forth? Yes? Fkn sweet. We got it going guys!!

[modest bear]

yeah his video didn't give me the solution i was looking for

without looking back tell me what my problem was

[grand comet]

you problem was that your game rasturized, and wouldn't capture scenes

[modest bear]

but you could insult me for 20 mins straight

[regal sphinx]

https://tenor.com/view/simpsons-homer-simpson-gif-13518564799186478937

[shy gazelle]

these guys are still going

[fickle narwhal]

okay I will admit it does seem as if the video is unnecessary. The screenshot from @.skurtyyskirts in the pinned describes it perfectly

[half dove]

ok then please dont spend time arguing and just mind ur own business

[modest bear]

must be real busy

[half dove]

getting involved doesnt help just saying

[fickle narwhal]

oh my god everyone shut the fuck up I'm begging

https://tenor.com/view/anime-headesk-bang-headbang-dessert-gif-17584997

[grand comet]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1197044482437283930/1268322802780475432/IMG_1671.gif

fine

[half dove]

ive been trying to get them to but this guy @grand comet keeps talking

[fickle narwhal]

thank you

[grand comet]

this will be going in my scrapbook

[half dove]

stfu

please end it here

[fickle narwhal]

you literally say this after accusing them of still talking

no more, anything beyond this point is actually gonna have action taken because I'm tired of it

[half dove]

they said smth help so i wont be shocked if they kept going just saying but alr

[fickle narwhal]

I have the patience of a greek god but even that's limited

[half dove]

thank u though

[grand comet]

mario_dance

[fickle narwhal]

bailey don't

okay thank you

lol

NO MORE GG GOOD GAME YA'LL

[grand comet]

i aint doin shit here no more

[fickle narwhal]

HAVE A GOOD ONE :)

[modest bear]

you too

[half dove]

you should pin this just in case others need to see since it helps explain a lot

[modest bear]

fr

[grand comet]

HuTaoCoffee

[fickle narwhal]

I think the screenshot from skurtyy in the pinned is actually really good. Though I can see the benefit in having everything in one message, so maybe I'll write it up in a neat message + the rtx.conf file attached to that message down the line

in the meantime I'm focusing on a project of my own

[half dove]

alr have a good one

[modern valley]

you're a true hero automata o7

[grand comet]

salute

[modest bear]

fr

[fickle narwhal]

stop. instigating.

no more snarky responses. Be like Ham who mostly chilled out

ok back to my stuff

[modest bear]

trying to avoid it

[modest bear]

thanks for the help

its been a long while since i got some

[modest bear]

@fickle narwhal i know your probaly helping other ppl rn, but the rtx.conf file you told me to find under half life 2 isn't here, can you answer why this is, or am I just looking in the wrong spot

[fickle narwhal]

it's in the pinned post

also you aren't supposed to install stuff into the HL2 folder

skim the instructions I wrote again, you're putting HL2 in portal rtx basically

[modest bear]

yeah I understand, I was gonna move the rtx.conf file that you said to from half life to portal

@fickle narwhal

oh nvrm

i got understadn I think

[fickle narwhal]

the rtx.conf that you want is from discord. Not the game files

#1103495588374401115 message

here

[modest bear]

yeah I understand now

[fickle narwhal]

ok cool

[modest bear]

I just read what you wrote wrong

[fickle narwhal]

all good

[modest bear]

I really appricate it you got no idea

[modest bear]

@fickle narwhal hey man sorry to bother you again but ive ran into a new issue after doing everything that you said

when I start the game I recive this message

[last fog]

don't run it from the exe, only run it from steam

[regal sphinx]

you can also run it from the game directory if you make a shortcut and edit it like so

[modest bear]

I am

[regal sphinx]

your screenshot has it all caps, iirc its case sensitive so make it all lowercase

this

[modest bear]

yeah i realized that and tried that and it countinues to not work

[regal sphinx]

same message?

[modest bear]

wdym

[regal sphinx]

you said it continues to not work so i assume its showing the same error dialogue when you open the game

[modest bear]

yes

[regal sphinx]

so you have a full hl2 folder from Half-Life 2/hl2 inside of Portal with RTX?
it should look like this

and the inside should look like this

[modest bear]

I don't have the full folder just the instructions that are pinned pretty much

[regal sphinx]

you'll need to download half life 2 from steam then

if not already

[modest bear]

I already got half life 2 downloaded

[grand comet]

I wonder if it'll work on my old disk

[regal sphinx]

if its the 2004 copy, probably not lol, everything is packed in a vpk these days

old engine had it either in gcf or uncompressed

[regal sphinx]

then just follow my comment, copy hl2 from Half-Life 2 to Portal with RTX and dont replace any files when asked

[modest bear]

when it asks just click skip then?

[regal sphinx]

yea

[tiny gust]

It shouldn't prompt replacement afair?

[regal sphinx]

it will

all source games carry some hl2 content vpks

but not the whole game

[modest bear]

okay so now launch it?

[regal sphinx]

yea

[modest bear]

okay

ill tell you if it works

It works

I'll inform if any weird shit happens

[regal sphinx]

you probably will, its got a bunch of bugs despite the better engine

mostly broken lights

nothing fixable rn

[modest bear]

okay

[modest bear]

Nothing game breaking, the floor isn’t their some times but I think my friend told me a solution to that

But after the 50 hours of being awake for this problem I’ll work on that tomorrow

[fickle narwhal]

BROTHER I LITERALLY SAID THIS IN THE INSTRUCTIONS I GAVE

If you don't read it you're not gonna get it to work

[modest bear]

Yeah I totally missed that even though I read it like 8 times, I was just tired asl, mb

[neat grove]

hey, don't punch him

[grand comet]

https://tenor.com/view/something-just-snapped-vegeta-something-snapped-even-better-gif-15546364486426972697

[modest bear]

Thanks for the help man

[modest bear]

Thanks for the help

[regal sphinx]

np

[tiny gust]

https://x.com/GeForce_JacobF/status/1826258657367163212?s=19

Jacob Freeman (@GeForce_JacobF) on X

Today! At 9AM PT I will be taking a first look at Half-Life 2 RTX and also giving away some #RTXOn Keycaps! Tune in at https://t.co/sw54i8rTRs

Twitter · Aug 21, 2024, 2:02 PM

Watch NVIDIA with me on Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/nvidia?sr=a

Nvm it's already live

[keen vortex]

Can you stream it here

[regal sphinx]

the smoke rings from the .357 look amazing

jesus

[radiant phoenix]

It looks so good WOW

[shy gazelle]

I wonder how close it is to release

[modest bear]

Looks great, the smoke rings especially

[drowsy sorrel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNkZ3rqcZUs

omg hi deegee

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-jumping-cat-excited-excited-dance-gif-19354605

[modest bear]

So currently I'm trying to use the Ai tool to enhance textures in the Mod settings, however when I capture Scean it doesn't seem to save

any fixes?

[frozen lichen]

it's a shame that freeman does not have shadows, and perhaps reflections too

[modest bear]

Also when I try to create a file in the RTX Remix I get this error message

[tiny gust]

Exactly what it says

Remove spaces

[modest bear]

yeah obvisly tried that this is just the first screen shot I took

[fickle narwhal]

since this question is more about remix at large, I'd ask in #general-remix . One of the engineers on the toolkit themselves will likely come by with some time. They always manage to figure it out

[modest bear]

okay thanks for the recommendation

[fickle narwhal]

it also tends to be the most active chat which helps too

just be willing to give it some time please

[modest bear]

yeah

[shy gazelle]

The revolver doing vape tricks

[grand comet]

combine smells vape smoke

Cherry!

Gordon and his metal crowbar:

[tiny gust]

I really gotta try smod

[keen vortex]

The smoke ring or fire is very short lived, seeing it with every fired round makes the effect lose it's charm honestly

[fickle narwhal]

I see what you mean. Maybe if it was more subtle

[worthy hemlock]

I have a theory with half life 2 rtx

Have you noticed? The trailers published display chapters in the chronological order:

Red letter day
We don't go to ravenholm
Nova prospekt

What if this order is meant to tell the completion of development?

Like nova prospekt is at 70% of the campaign... 80 perhaps. What if these trailers mean all the previous chapters are reworked and technically functional?

[pulsar granite]

which means Half life 3 is on the way

[sacred tide]

We'll have GTA VI before hl2 RTX, and I prefer this than a rushed project

[worthy hemlock]

True ngl

[pulsar granite]

or you can develop your project and see results that will play with your vision

[twin patrol]

Does this fix the horrendous flashlight in Half Life games or is it still the same?

[regal sphinx]

wdym

[grand comet]

Hl2? I thought the only bad fl was hl1

[shell ridge]

how to get mmod working?

[shell ridge]

the maps are just white!

[lyric oxide]

hey guys

i need your help.

when i run half life 2 on portal rtx

some maps are great

and some is buggy

and

when i use crowbar

i cannot see crowbar

but i can see hands just

and pistol is behind hands

[shy gazelle]

Try putting the pinned rtx.conf file in portal rtx's game directory

[lyric oxide]

which pinned?

[shy gazelle]

The pinned messages in this discord channel

[lyric oxide]

u dont know where is it. cuz i didnt used discord for long time.

and look my problem with half life 2 rtx

i droped hl2 folder inside portal rtx root folder

and did everything correct

and i got this

the pistol is soo buggy

and crowbar is not visible

only hands

and every texture is black

i really need help

[shy gazelle]

Put that file in portal rtx main game directory, it should fix what's wrong

[lyric oxide]

cuz im new with rtx

since i buyed rtx 2060 super 8gb

[lyric oxide]

what if doesnt work?

[shy gazelle]

ggs

[lyric oxide]

uhh

look

some texture and lighting is fixed

but black textures still showing

[shy gazelle]

Try loading into some levels, it might just be the loading screen that looks like that

[lyric oxide]

i cannot see crowbar still

[shy gazelle]

wait what? if it's a pirated version I can't help you

[lyric oxide]

i have idea for u

can u upload your game in mega.nz or mediafire

soo

i could run it

oh

things is getting worse

this looks good one

but the water is bad

and sky

[shell ridge]

my mmod map are all white do you know how to fix that?

[shy gazelle]

It's honestly better to play hl2 through gmod

It's much more polished and there's a lot of fixes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeMrlemVSl8

[lyric oxide]

OMG

I UPDATED RTX REMIX

AND I GOT THIS

[fickle narwhal]

are you outta your mind

no sending game installs, it's piracy

how can you have the username mr freeman and not own the game

also you didn't follow the instructions clearly

[grand comet]

Ohhh is that how names work

Hold on chat that gives me an idea

[fickle narwhal]

if my name's based on NieR Automata and I never actually bought the game, I think it's fair to be like "bruh"

[grand comet]

[fickle narwhal]

[grand comet]

Wow cmd fail

[fickle narwhal]

you don't have to type a command lol

[grand comet]

Mobile edit profile while in a vc of 54 peeps is laggy

[shell ridge]

my mmod maps are all white, anythingh i can do fix that?

[twin patrol]

It's better than hl1 yes but was trying to see if it feels more dynamic

[fickle narwhal]

given it's pathtraced it necessarily is more dynamic. Even has bounce lighting so the area nearby is realistically dimly lit from the light as well

[lyric oxide]

hey guys.

i recently got idea

and i fixed the black textures. its not the textures. its due to brightness on the map

[fickle narwhal]

should share it here then 🙂

[lyric oxide]

hold on a min

i want to show a picture

sorry

my game is taking soo long to load

due to my bad processor

sorry

i cannot do it rn

maybe tommorow.

[past thorn]

you didnt shoot him

[shell ridge]

my mmod maps are all white, anythingh i can do fix that?

[grand comet]

Alot of mmod items send back bat data to remix so I don't think there is a fix

[regal sphinx]

maps shouldn't be white though?

most of mmod's issues is just broken particles

[regal sphinx]

how are you running mmod?

[brittle ether]

hey guys, I need help, i play half life 2 in gmod , there is crash when loading highway 17 and black mesa east and it said in log "err: [37] common device objects were not disposed of."

[fickle narwhal]

Don't play it through Gmod, play it through portal rtx

[brittle ether]

I did that before and When i play half life 2 in portal rtx, there is culling issues with the lighting .

[regal sphinx]

sounds like a driver issue? send a screenshot of the error

[regal sphinx]

i would say to preferably play it with portal rtx, but gmod in general is a better experience

[fickle narwhal]

Explain

Or be executed

[regal sphinx]

gmod has the rtx remix fixes addon which circumvents a lot of engine bugs that source has with rtx remix in addition to the engine patches

it can fix map light issues, particles, etc

hl2 with portal/prelude rtx is easier to set up but its not in a perfect state vs gmod

[brittle ether]

sometimes be that and another be that

[fickle narwhal]

Would anti light culling be viable? It's one of the last options in the Remix developer menu

[regal sphinx]

it doesnt really work on source games

[regal sphinx]

i see the culling issues, but i was asking more about the error you mentioned

some maps just arent stable with the env_sun light

you can try patching the hl2 client.dll using blueamulets patcher
xenthio's gmod tutorial goes over this but it will also work for hl2 and some other source games
https://youtu.be/JeMrlemVSl8

just insert hl2 where gmod is mentioned or seen

[brittle ether]

thanks for the help

[regal sphinx]

👍 lmk if that doesnt work

[shell ridge]

by changing the mounted game and then using a bat file to run it with portal rtx, thats how I run mmod

[regal sphinx]

try doing the same thing under prelude rtx since its based on SDK 2013, portal rtx isnt based on SDK 2013 so it has issues running anything other than portal or hl2

follow some of the stuff i did here, it does work

[shell ridge]

everything still white.

[regal sphinx]

try using the rtx.conf pinned

[shell ridge]

I already did that

if you could just send me your mmod files for prelude I'd Love that

[regal sphinx]

they're the same as the actual source mod. I copied the base mod and the hl2 update variant to prelude's directory and just ran it using the -game parameter

if you're using the hl2 update version, make sure it's installed on steam so mmod can mount it

also screenshots would definitely help

[shell ridge]

its says Unable to load manifest file 'scripts/surfaceproperties_manifest.txt'

[shell ridge]

fix the crash but it's still white

[shell ridge]

fixed it now theres on periodic flickering

[shell ridge]

fixed everything and now I can play

[verbal bronze]

Having a bit of trouble getting this to work.

Followed the instructions, but it doesn't seem to wanna add path tracing

[shy gazelle]

Did you follow the pinned instructions?

As long as you have an RTX gpu it should be working

[verbal bronze]

Yes.

Ohhhh

The pinned ones

Not the one at the top of the chat

That's the mod DB site, correct?

Is there a way to fix the culling?

Cause it says that's a known issue

[verbal bronze]

Followed it, but it freezes at the title

[shy gazelle]

It's honestly not the best way to play hl2 rtx right now, mine's even having a hard time last time I played

If you have gmod, I'd recommend playing with that - the community made a TON of fixes for culling/issues and fixed the water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeMrlemVSl8

[verbal bronze]

Yeah, a lot of fog lol

[grand comet]

Can you show

[modest bear]

Hey, Im trying to upload my RTX remix mods into the game, however all the steps that were givin from videos from Nvidia and other people, however all the steps I try just don't seem to work, Is it possible to upload mods to the pretty much half assed version of half life 2 with path tracing, or is this just an issue on my end

[fickle narwhal]

you don't have to upload anything

[modest bear]

wdym

[fickle narwhal]

if your mod project is configured properly, the game will detect your work automatically and you'll see your new assets

[modest bear]

I am using a save that was created before the mod, is that possible the issue

[fickle narwhal]

no that's not a problem

it'll just work

[modest bear]

so is this just an issue on my end?

or something else

[fickle narwhal]

well also make sure you have enhanced content enabled in the remix overlay

could be that

[modest bear]

that might be it

let me try that

something didn't exactly work right

In one of the methods I tried I uploaded all the files out of the mod folder

I moved them back it

but I could have forgot one

I know it won't exactly look the same but could you send me a screeen shot of a working mod so I could maybe see the file that I'm missing

[fickle narwhal]

when you say uploading what do you mean

there's nothing to upload anywhere, it's all automatic

it's a bit messy but this is my setup and it works

[modest bear]

I’m using the wrong words

I just moved the files in to a different folder

[modest bear]

It’s got pretty much the same things yours has

[fickle narwhal]

to what folder bc that's probably what's messing with stuff

[modest bear]

The one I made

Oh you mean

Where I moved it too

One of the things I saw said to move all the flies out of the mod folder and then in the direct folder with the .exe file in it

At that point, even though it didn’t make sense

I tried that anyway and put it in the half life 2 folder next to the .exe file

[fickle narwhal]

but why

[modest bear]

I was out of ideas

[fickle narwhal]

no this is only for the runtime not remix mods

[modest bear]

yeah that's what I thought

[fickle narwhal]

right but I'm saying there isn't any need for ideas. You just run the game and toggle enhanced assets

[modest bear]

yeah I just totally didn't do that, that ones one me

but the onlything I could think of for this texture less issue is to re-make the mod

Cause I have all the files it probaly won't take as long

should I try that

or you got a better solution?

[fickle narwhal]

you didn't injest the textures did you

[modest bear]

I did

[fickle narwhal]

and where's the folder you injested to?

in your project folder?

[modest bear]

its in the the project folder, in a folder in that called "package", in a folder called "SubUSDs" which is split between two folders called "RTX-Textures" and RTX-Models" which then each texture and model for each item is in it's own folder for organization

[fickle narwhal]

hmm that soundsl like it should be okay

I'd scrap the mod and create a new project

you said it shouldnt take too long to catch up right

[modest bear]

yeah because I have all the Textures I want to use already set up

If I have to re-ingest everything then it would take a while

but otherwise It should be fine

[modest bear]

Re did the mod same result

[fickle narwhal]

even when toggling enhancements on

?

[shell ridge]

anyone know how to get the flashlight working without r_newflashlight 0?

[modest bear]

Someone a bit back on the list got the flash light to kinda work

It’s far back but if your willing to look for it it’s their

[modest bear]

Yep, still all black textures

[modest bear]

I re did the whole half life RTX system and re did the mod for the third time and still the same result

[fickle narwhal]

Later today I'll try and set it up myself. See what could be an issue

[modest bear]

alright

[modest bear]

Just @ me when you do

[fickle narwhal]

It'll be a while just to give a heads up, doing stuff

[modest bear]

Okay

[fickle narwhal]

it's because all the geometry is unstable

not even the ground is stable

[fickle narwhal]

ground texture replacements worked though

[modest bear]

i don't know then

I re made modles too

and they just don't even show up

I did every flat texture and some and some of the modles

the modles don't show up and the textures are black

I thought I could have been where I got the textures from

but then I realized I did the suit using Nvidias Ai upscaling tool, and the suits black

did I some how just fuck this up or

The ground texture in the suit room I didn't change

but I changed the tiles in the main room

and they just appear as that black texture too

I'll send the textures I'm using

to see if their the issue

for what ever reason it won't let me send my folders

[fickle narwhal]

I wouldn't bother, textures are textures

this is something else. I think someone here was cooking when they said Portal RTX is not the ideal way to play HL2 with Remix. It was significantly more fucky than I expected

[modest bear]

yeah

I mean theres really no other way to do it

my only thought is I fucked up somewhere

Im just pulling at staws now

is their something diffrent here

[fickle narwhal]

please say sike

man

how in the world

did you still do it completely wrong after I said explicitly what to do

you don't put portal rtx into half life 2

you do the opposite

what do you think the launch commands were for

[modest bear]

I don't even fucking know anymore man

I'm just fucked up and down

[fickle narwhal]

pause. Read what I said because I put it crystal clear. Lemme find the msg again

just reset everything you think you know about the install process

[fickle narwhal]

.

in the very screenshot in that message you can see I'm in the Portal RTX folder, not Half Life 2

[modest bear]

I see that

what I did was make the portal rtx folder

made the whole thing work in their

then deleted everything in the half life 2 folder

and pasted everything in the portal RTX folder into it

because the files are exactly the same as the portal rtx folder was

I figured it would work the same

because they we're the exact same file

This way I could play half life 2 rtx

and portal rtx

but I really need and explanation

how is pasting the same files into a new folder going to make it diffrent

theirs nothing diffrent between the two

but somehow it runs differently

There the exact same files

just in a different folder

It really don't make fucking sense to me at all

Like

If I put the portal rtx folder in my desktop

and then clicked the .exe file

It would still launch the same

how would it run any diffrent if its the same information just in a diffretn location

I really just can't wrap my head around it

I got it to work fine in portal

then just pasted it into half life 2 and then re installed portal so I could play both

but how is that different

I really just don't understand this one in the slightest

idk man

if I pasted the files back into portal I don't think I'd get a different result

I can't really try it rn

I used my friends account for Portal RTX

which shouldn't make a difference

I'd gotta wait until he gets off

but idk when tf that'd be

but If i'm correct

its just the same files launching from a different location

sorry abt that rant

idk man

It worked in portal so I figured that if I just moved the files it wouldn't make a difference

Idk man

I'm just cooked at this point

Auto, thanks for dealing with my dumbass for all this time

A friend of mine gave up on this project

told him I could do it and then just send him the files

said I'd be the mf who wouldn't give up on ts

So I'm not gonna stop

but

idk how I fuck up this bad every time I do something like this

[grand comet]

if i were to give any suggestion it would be to slow down, have aptience and read through everything, look before leaping etc its really benifitial

[modest bear]

You were not here for any of this bro

[modest bear]

I did everything properly

excpept for forgeting the hl2 foler because I was sleepless for like 50 hr and jsut wasn't thinking

[grand comet]

#1103495588374401115 message

[modest bear]

That bro

[grand comet]

idk man im not tryna start nothing at all

[modest bear]

I get that

Ima try to be as calm as possible

[modest bear]

That was because I put the Portal RTX folder is supposed to be were you place the half life 2 rtx, from what I understand

If I copy and paste the already working files into a different folder

It should work the same

[grand comet]

You put hl2 into portal rtx yeah

[grand comet]

Not really no

[modest bear]

whys that

same files just launching from a differnet location

[grand comet]

As your taking the game content from prtx into the hl engine rather than the hl content into the portal engine

[grand comet]

Different engines and dlls

[modest bear]

No

because it's still using all the portal rtx files

[grand comet]

No

[modest bear]

explain

[grand comet]

Ok if I take the core of an apple and put it into an orange, and take an orange center and put it into an apple is it the same thing?

[modest bear]

okay ig I get that

but how would effect the editor

which is the problem I'm having

[grand comet]

Half life 2 doesn't use portal rtx dlls so putting the portal rtx folder for ots game content does not give you its engine content

[modest bear]

but how does that effect the RTX editor

[grand comet]

Omniverse?

[modest bear]

yeah

[grand comet]

Well it's most certainly not gonna understand why there is unknown files directories leading to nothing

[modest bear]

the files all appear the same

they all run to the game

the issue is the textures just load in as black

[grand comet]

Right right

Have you tried
A. A new capture
B. A new engine

[modest bear]

I've re done the capture like 6 times now

however

elaborate on the "new engine idea"

[grand comet]

Have you tried putting hl2 into portal prelude/portal rtx, going to portal rtx, properties and then launch using the game parameters of -game hl2

Not putting portal files into hl2

[modest bear]

I can't exactly do that

Because I use my friends portal RTX

he can't be using the account

and other ppl use his account too

so if hes not using it

someone else ussallly is

[grand comet]

Right then have you tried gmod rtx

[modest bear]

I don't got G mod

[grand comet]

Hhhhhh

Hhhhhh

Lag

[modest bear]

?

[grand comet]

Anyways really hl2 with portal rtx folder isn't really going to work my suggestion is just asking your friend to use the account as it's important

[modest bear]

he isn't using it rn

I ain't gonna track down who is

[grand comet]

Ok

[modest bear]

Idk when I can get back to you on thsi one

appreciate the help on this one

[grand comet]

https://tenor.com/view/sleepy-sleepy-cat-sleeping-kitty-kitten-gif-18678404

Ofc, do lemme know of and when tho

[modest bear]

Ima be real with you though

with my shitty luck

I ain't gonna work

and that "core of the apple shit" isn't the problem

[grand comet]

If you say so

[modest bear]

It might

be

but

my luck

It's probaly something that won't be figured out for months

[grand comet]

https://tenor.com/view/hellsing-tfs-nailed-it-gif-18888414

Good luck on that

[modest bear]

with shit like this im like an old person and a tv

some how I end up with a setting that not even LG knew exeisted that fucks the whole thing up

[shy gazelle]

#1116089843479498782 message Gumball fixed source underwater

[grand comet]

Aw hell yeah jigsaw

[modest bear]

called it

the shit still didn't work

So

I have ruled out that the engine makes that much of a difference

and yes

I have re made the mod in portal RTX

So

where do I go from here

[warm stratus]

kinda unrelated but cat in hl2 textures

[shy gazelle]

Lol I wonder where he’s hiding in the game

#1116089843479498782 message Console command to raise texture quality

Makes a massive improvement

Wish I did this before my original game capture/upscale replacements mod lol

[shy gazelle]

OHH THAT CAT

no pun intended

[grand comet]

Iirc that texture isn't used anywhere minus the beta pr smthn like a photo if I had to take a guess

Could be wrong and ots somewhere on a map

[shy gazelle]

That’s cool lore tho, atleast now we know what the cat looked like

[warm stratus]

"what cat?" -alyx vance

[grand comet]

I love reddit

[warm stratus]

it says "matsys_regressiontest/background"

das da name of texture

theres also hl1 gman texture, a tf2 and portal poster, and orange box poster

and le source sample tool (unknown stuff)

[modest bear]

I don’t think that’s my issue

[shy gazelle]

We’ll call the cat matsy

[warm stratus]

name decided!

[warm stratus]

Wat u mean?

[modest bear]

I thought you were saying some how the cat in the textures is the issue

[modest bear]

Ngl I was being dumb asl

[warm stratus]

lmao its alr dude, just thought that the cat was pretty funny

[modest bear]

Yeah it is

[modest bear]

Anybody know this issue though

[warm stratus]

try reinstalling rtx remix

[modest bear]

Did that

[warm stratus]

Oh.

[shy gazelle]

It looks so good

They branded it

[fiery plume]

Where did you find these screenshots?

[modest bear]

I’m just cooked

[shy gazelle]

Their twitter

https://x.com/darkblade909/status/1828151111251038283?s=46&t=GwmAL26Krt_nzNokdJjLgA

Alex Choate (@DarkBlade909) on X

Can finally show the revolver for Half-Life 2 RTX!

More renders available here: https://t.co/BafaZLlUw8 #hl2rtx

Twitter · Aug 26, 2024, 7:22 PM

I feel like the community is going to get huge when hl2 rtx comes out

[fiery plume]

Thank you

[shy gazelle]

Digital foundry mentioned the new light fixtures that move when you shoot them in the nova prospect

I wonder if there’s new physics in other parts of the game

And how they’re doing that. It doesn’t look like source engine physics

[warm stratus]

Yep,

[last fog]

it'd have to be

anything interactible like that would have to be integrated into the base game through a mod

[grand comet]

Woah

[modest bear]

Just wanna confirm if anyone has experienced anything like this before

Or am I just alone on this one

[shy gazelle]

hmm, I guess the mat_picmip -10 only effects some textures. Left is very high and the right is -10

[grand comet]

Mat_picmip mostly effects model and other textures, did you try going from 2 (lowest quality on half life iirc or 4) to -10?

Or it could be that some textures are controlled through a texture setting idk

[shy gazelle]

Hmm seems to not be doing anything, trying all kinds of combinations

Maybe because it was launched with portal and files were swapped?

[grand comet]

Maybe 🤔

[shy gazelle]

Ahh there it goes, it works in gmod

[dusty quarry]

buggin

no idea why these specific parts of the map refuse to render in in some areas

everything else works fine

this also only happens with frustum culling off

which is practically a requirement for it to function

[shy gazelle]

Hmm, maybe there's a detail texture on the wall?

[dusty quarry]

I'm so sorry 😭 what exactly is a detail texture I'm dumb

[shy gazelle]

Haha that's ok. Backup your current rtx.conf and replace it with this one. It goes in the main directory of portal rtx

[dusty quarry]

I'm using half life 2 with the bin folder of portal with rtx + latest version of rtx remix on top of that

so I'll add it to that

it's usually quite stable other than this one issue

[tiny gust]

sigh

Its source engine physics

[dusty quarry]

loaded into the wrong level but I noticed that without frustum culling off, this lamp is on, but only when it's not in frame

[tiny gust]

They modified the maps

Not everything is done through remix

[dusty quarry]

still having issues 😔

[shy gazelle]

Darn I recognize that level, I’ll see if I can go there and replicate it later

[dusty quarry]

thank you for checking it out! let me know what you find when you can

[shy gazelle]

Huh, mine looks alright

Maybe try this one, this is the one right from the game where I took the screenshot

[grand comet]

Wouldn't hurt to try Mat_forcedynamic 1

[dusty quarry]

do you have r_frustumcullworld 0 on?

[dusty quarry]

alright I will

[dusty quarry]

I will try that

[dusty quarry]

just so you know, to fix the ui being white boxes, turning off auto detect sky fixes it

[dusty quarry]

frustum culling is on here, meaning that it doesn't have that wall glitch, but the lighting is constantly flickering

[dusty quarry]

this worked!

I mean my game crashed but it does that like 1/5 of the times I tab out so I don't think it was due to mat_forcedynamic 1

[grand comet]

Glad it could work for you

[dusty quarry]

thank you!

anyway I messed up something in my hl2 folders so time to reinstall the entirety of half life 2 again 👍 😃

[grand comet]

Tis always a good idea to make a copy of your hl2 folders, and name it something along the lines of "hl2rtx" for situations likes these if you have the space for it

[dusty quarry]

yeah I have a bad habit of never backing stuff up, but I don't really use my hl2 folders for anything else so I'm fine if I have to delete them and reinstall them

also what method do you use? the running half life 2 through portal rtx method or the portal rtx bin folder in half life 2 method?

[grand comet]

I don't really play half life 2 rtx I just know these all from other source games - but I would suggest portal prelude rtx rather than portal rtc

[dusty quarry]

portal prelude rtx was way more buggy for me as someone who uses the second method. also whenever an rtx remix update is released, I just throw that into my bin folder and replace the preexisting files, so I have the latest version

[shy gazelle]

Ahh gotcha, do you know where that setting is in remix? I can't seem to find it

[dusty quarry]

it's a console command, well two. r_frustumcullworld 0 and c_frustumcull 0 if I remember correctly

[modest bear]

I recently added new textures to half life 2 with remix and then it looked like this

I have tried to remake the mod time and time agian but I have no sucess

any solutions

?

[shy gazelle]

I wonder what the gman's going to look like

I forgot all about the replaced models

[regal sphinx]

i really hope they improve or re-do the faceposer phonemes for the new character models

otherwise the facial animation is gonna look flat with a 100K poly gman model

[shy gazelle]

We asked David a little bit ago, #general-remix message I wonder if the faceposer would be able to understand the new detail in the new models

[regal sphinx]

hopefully so

i would love to see this recreated with pbr and higher quality models

https://youtu.be/30DacV0T7WI?si=sYbRpkZqAODqUYiG

this was created in source sdk 2005 with only hammer and faceposer

[shy gazelle]

I wonder if it'll ship with culling, it looks like that might not be sorted out yet. Culling's present here at the 25:25 mark. https://youtu.be/UNkZ3rqcZUs?si=eveevav8CPsKxFh1&t=1525

[frozen lichen]

Why this section is still alive, people should just wait for HL2 RTX instead of brainfucking themselves

[regal sphinx]

someone's fun at parties

[regal sphinx]

could be the same light culling issue that exists in portal/prelude rtx when running hl2

im sure they will fix it either with lights placed in the toolkit or further patches on the engine

[shy gazelle]

oh hey look, it's that weird guy

engine patches would be really nice, hopefully we'll be able to tranfer over whatever adjustments they make to gmod

[shell ridge]

anyone know how to get the flashlight working without r_newflashlight 0?

[tiny gust]

You can't

Your best bet is Garry's mod

Xenthio modded that functionality in

[shell ridge]

ok thx

[solemn thistle]

Wew, I didn't knew this gameplay showcase's existence.
I wonder how much of HL2 RTX has been completed.

I didn't notice much in Portal RTX (To be honest, Portal aged better than HL2 because First-Person Puzzler is still rare unless Talos Principle 2),
but while all of those animation and graphics improvements are fancy, I feel those new feature gives HL2's 2004-era jankyness into sharper relief.

[shell ridge]

working on remastering project hl2

[shell ridge]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15S_8Y355imH9WliRi4xrbatZD6u8edwB?usp=sharing here is the project hl2 pbr weapons

[shell ridge]

Here's a of the supercharged gravity gun with pbr enabled.

[modest bear]

Hey you seem pretty deep into a remaster Half Life 2 RTX, by any chance you got any recommendations on where I could get a PBR water texture, or if you got one yourself

[shell ridge]

no sorry don't know how to do animated texture.

[modest bear]

Okay

If I do get a successful water texture I’ll let you know

[modest bear]

Might just try using the upscaling ai for the water

[modern valley]

does Xenthio's water not work?

[regal sphinx]

it does

[regal sphinx]

https://xenthio.github.io/stuff/RTXRemixWater-v1.zip extract this to rtx-remix/mods

most of hl2's water should work ootb

[modest bear]

Thanks

Didn’t know about this

[modest bear]

would this fix the flickering light issue

or does this only work on G-mod HL2

[regal sphinx]

the culling? no

its just a water replacement texture

oh oops

didnt see the reply

you can try it

[modest bear]

where would I install it, Directly in the Portal RTX folder?

[regal sphinx]

\(source game)\hl2\cfg\autoexec.cfg

[modest bear]

okay thanks

My hopes were low but it actually worked

[modest bear]

Hey, how do you get your "Project HL2" weapons to work properly

[shell ridge]

I captured the scene with the mod active to get the models and then replaced the textures

[modest bear]

That’s it, okay

[modest bear]

Finally got the ray and path racing working roughly flawlessly

[modest bear]

Anybody know where the textures are for half life 2 with portal RTX version of the game?

I'm gonna attempt to use Nvidias PBR ai for the 3 time chance after it failing 3 times, but for whatever reason I can't find the textures

nvrm i found it

why is Nvidias texture upscaling ai so shit, idk why they advertise it so much better than it is

I feel like someone could sue under false advertising for ts

[tiny gust]

#1263287747905327236 try this

[modest bear]

I will thanks

[mental summit]

big ball of death

[half dove]

anyone know why this is happening

it was working fine last night

so im a little confused

[half dove]

its still doing it

cant figure it out

wtf its still doing it with the portal rtx reinstalled

[mental summit]

try reinstalling the game and then redo the remix

[half dove]

i did

its still doing it with nothing in the files

my friend said to send it

[mental summit]

wait are u using the latest remix build?

[half dove]

mhm

im reinstalling

rq

the portal rtx

[half dove]

ok so when i added stuff to the mods folder it then broke

[half dove]

@fickle narwhal

any clue sorry for the @

im just lost

[fickle narwhal]

What makes you think I'd know?

All I know is there's two ways to play HL2 through Remix atm. One way is through portal RTX, other way is through Gmod

I hear Gmod is currently the more recommended route but that's about all I got

[modest bear]

Yeah I could be at fault for this one

I told him how to set ts up

I sent him my mod

it worked last night

and then all the sudden this morning the shit didn't work

[fickle narwhal]

I would avoid sharing in progress mods just bc there's a whole bunch of variables involved that need to be accounted for. When I did some early playtesting it took me 3 diffferent tries to get a comprehensive setup that made people's games work just like I did

that said, if he set it up properly and then used your mod, it probably should work

[modest bear]

So it worked last night minus just some invisible textures

Not ones I made

Just some of the original ones on the buildings

I was missing textures myself

But it just disabled inhancments and then it appeared

When he disables them, it still is invisible

[modest bear]

All textures worked and looked as they should last night, and then all the sudden this morning it stopped working

[half dove]

im currently installing the remix i used last night

so ill tell u if it works

[modest bear]

Ngl this looks great thanks

[last fog]

lemme make it look more greater

[modest bear]

Fire

[modest bear]

What would make that look even better would be if I could figure out why my trees are broken

[fickle narwhal]

If you mean the leaves, that's not too surprising. You could adjust alpha blending settings for those textures in the remix toolkit, but by far the better idea would be to have entirely new trees that have modeled out foliage/leaves. Sounds counterintuitive but this is actually significantly better for performance with pathtracing than generic transparent textures

[modest bear]

I’ll try that

The models

[fickle narwhal]

Keep in mind it might be hard to find fully modeled out foliage because it's the complete opposite of what 99.99999% of use-cases would want. Pathtracing is very far from the norm in this instance. Good luck searching

[modest bear]

I think Nvidia has tree models, I’ll try those

[modest bear]

Hey I've tried replacing it as a texture and it ends being black and I tried a model and it says it's not ingested so how excatly do you do this

[shell ridge]

Sorry but idk how else to explain it

[modest bear]

okay then

[half dove]

Does anyone know how to add one part of a light object to glow instead of the whole object?

[fickle narwhal]

emissive maps. Think a texture except it tells the model where to glow, what color, and the strength

#1111273025657114654 message

refer to this

[half dove]

I’ll try that 👍

[half dove]

And one thing the fire is invincible?

Someone told me to mess with the alpha stuff but it didn’t work

Idk if I did it wrong

But I don’t think I did

[fickle narwhal]

someone was me lol

I would help more if I had more time

[half dove]

Was it mb

Ohhh yea

It was

[half dove]

Take ur time man

No rush

[fickle narwhal]

it's just that I'm focusing on other things, you might want to look into emissive maps online to learn more and go from there

[modest bear]

It just explains how to make things Emissive but it doesn’t explain how to make one small part of a whole texture emissive

[fickle narwhal]

It does. Black = no light

color = light

[modest bear]

The fuck

I got that

But

It don’t say how to make only one part of the texture, like how to highlight a part of the layer

[modest bear]

It don’t say how to make only one part, unless your supposed to break up the one texture into multiple

[fickle narwhal]

idk if I'm suffering from brain damage

but you just take the texture

and make everything you don't want to glow, black

you can use any image editor

take original texture, fuck with the parts you want to glow

insert the emissive map

[modest bear]

Understand now

[regal sphinx]

the important part is that the emission map background HAS to be black

its best to paint your emission on top of your albedo (base texture), on another layer though of course

[half dove]

does anyone know how to fix invisible fire?

[regal sphinx]

its only been fixed for gmod using xenthio's rtx remix fixes addon and the fire fix pinned in the Garry's Mod channel

[half dove]

so i cant fix it?

in half life 2 at least

[modest bear]

I was told the file for the culling lights only worked for g mod

so its worth a shot

[fickle narwhal]

once again reminding yall that you shouldn't be doing HL2 through portal rtx

it's more of a mess

[modest bear]

nah

[half dove]

nah trust

[modest bear]

its mostly fine for me

[regal sphinx]

yeah no base hl2 is worse

much worse

[half dove]

its fun

[modest bear]

100%

[half dove]

just the fire is the only unfixable issue

[fickle narwhal]

"mostly fine" -> doesn't know what it's like

[modest bear]

i got a hand ful of issues but majority work

some im 90% sure i can fix

[regal sphinx]

lemme investigate the fire fix and see if it does what i think it does

[half dove]

alright

[modest bear]

It's not perfect but it's mostly fixable

there are no game break bugs

[regal sphinx]

let me just settle this here as i'm someone who's messed with rtx remix and source since the very early days

base hl2 (normal hl2) is a lot less polished and buggy, even with engine patches. Portal/Prelude RTX have custom versions of source built for better compatibility with remix. normal portal rtx is fine for running half life 2 but not its episodes or SDK mods, that's where prelude rtx comes in, it's actually source sdk 2013 with the same engine changes as portal rtx, which means a wider range of source mods/games are able to run with a purpose built source engine for remix

the issue with prelude is that it requires a lot more work to get it in a ideal state like portal rtx, so everything has its diminishing returns

as for the fire, im sure nvidia's lightspeed studios did something custom for the little fire we see in portal rtx, and its not applied engine/material wide

[modest bear]

my portal rtx half lifes only bugs that I'm struggling to fix are some random black textures, and this new bug with the gaurds not appearing in my captures, everything else works really well

[regal sphinx]

yep it works here

[fickle narwhal]

I wasn't advocating for base HL2, I was saying to do it through GMOD

[regal sphinx]

you didnt say that in the first message, but either way anyone can run it how they'd like, as long as base hl2 is avoided as its a support nightmare for this channel

[regal sphinx]

@half dove download the rtx_remix_fixes addon here #1116089843479498782 message, extract the folder into the hl2/custom folder as pictured

[half dove]

alr thanks

[fickle narwhal]

I didn't say it in the first message because I had said it to him before + you had just mentioned GMOD so it was implied

[regal sphinx]

ill be honest i completely missed the implication lol

[modest bear]

I'm trying to upscale this gaurd

however for whatever reason when I try to show it in file explore the texture isn't there

[regal sphinx]

did you try recapturing?

[modest bear]

yes

[regal sphinx]

lemme try on my end

[modest bear]

i got multiple captures with gaurds and it's in none of them

[regal sphinx]

i dont really trust that Show File in Explorer option since it doesnt go to the texture, I use a program called Everything to find the textures. It's a really fast disk indexing tool and it can find files instantly

try searching for it with that

[modest bear]

will do

[half dove]

photoshop is fire

[modest bear]

Still no results

[regal sphinx]

that quick?

[modest bear]

It wasn't complicated

[regal sphinx]

so you pasted the entire filename and the everything window is empty?

[half dove]

i tried helping him it isnt there somehow

thats what he says at least

[regal sphinx]

if its present in the toolkit the file has gotta exist

to me at least that doesnt make sense

[grand comet]

I love half life 2

[regal sphinx]

i would try nuking the capture folder and try recapturing

[modest bear]

I'm as lost as you are

[modest bear]

If i nuke it, my mod will be fine, Right

[regal sphinx]

if its just the captures folder, yes

if you hover over the path in the toolkit it gives you the full file path

send a screenshot of yours

[modest bear]

okay

[regal sphinx]

well the file definitely exists then

[modest bear]

Just won’t show up

uh oh

gaurd isn't there

his weapon is though

[regal sphinx]

gyat damn your hl2 is cursed

why is there so many blank textures lmao

[modest bear]

I think i can fix the blank textures

that's a seprate issue

I'm one unlucky mf

texture still is the same

btw if I turn off enhancements the gaurd comes back

and in the capture the textuers the gaurd still isn't there

[regal sphinx]

then you might've accidentally overridden the guards textures, click this to reset it

[modest bear]

also the textures aren't blank they just blank in some spots

[half dove]

i dont see custom folder

[regal sphinx]

you can make it

[half dove]

oh ok

[modest bear]

nothing

[regal sphinx]

gotta save for each change you make, even when resetting

otherwise it doesnt apply

[modest bear]

i closded and reopened remix, saved that way

do i got to make a new capture after I reset

[modest bear]

I'd sugest just restarting the mod if I wasn't so far in

[regal sphinx]

no, the capture only captures vanilla assets, if it doesnt capture something, it's because you marked a texture as ignored

as for the metrocop, its definitely captured so idk whats going on there

also CTRL+S is a easier method of saving than exiting

[modest bear]

I closed remix just for a full refresh, i do know the better ways of saving

[modest bear]

I won't say it's impossible, I well could have set it to "Ignored", ill check though

[regal sphinx]

honesty i'd recommend a full nuke of your game, your remix mods, captures, etc, and start from complete scratch

cuz all i have seen is cursed

[modest bear]

the start is the worst section

I got alot of good parts

like this

and this

[regal sphinx]

who drank all of the orange juice

(it was me)

[modest bear]

I'm working on making it orange

this isn't great but it's better

i got a good bit of the first 3 chapters

got any other way of ways of this besides nuking the mod

[regal sphinx]

for me, no. i'm sure if I went through your entire process of how you're marking textures ingame, ingesting assets, and editing things in the toolkit, we could find the culprit. but unfortunately i do not have the time lmao

[modest bear]

you can see the water is still in there it's just not orange

[modest bear]

I understand

idk if i could get myself to nuke th whole mod though

[regal sphinx]

you can keep your assets, but i would probably reorganize how you import everything

[modest bear]

I'm fine with restarting the game

just not the mod

ive restarted due to issues about 9 time now

can't hit 10

there's no shot i'm this unlucky

[regal sphinx]

trust me the RNG is low, its just a strong learning curve

[modest bear]

You haven't met me bro