Barnyard | RTX Remix Showcase | Page 5

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 5:58 AM

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yep, there we go. all UI elements without the issue

rugged forum Mar 1, 2024, 5:58 AM

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what was the sand or dirt done in?

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 5:58 AM

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Quixel Mixer using a modified material from ambientcg

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i'm using InstaMAT now with different materials, but those are still great

rugged forum Mar 1, 2024, 5:59 AM

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so those aren't original which makes sense because you could never get that detail from high res original textures

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 5:59 AM

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i redid the coop too, not sure if you saw it

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 6:00 AM

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rugged forum so those aren't original which makes sense because you could never get that det...

yeah, everything i'm doing is replacing the original textures

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one last image

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looks so nice at native 1440p

rugged forum Mar 1, 2024, 6:02 AM

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ashen merlin i redid the coop too, not sure if you saw it

Looks nice, but I think there should be some dirt on it

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 6:03 AM

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there is actually, it just doesn't really show up for whatever reason

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i put a lot on toward the bottom 😦

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having some extra bushes or grass at the base of it would go a long way, but that's not possible

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it originally had pickets with a bit of grass baked into the texture, but i couldn't recreate that without it looking terrible

rugged forum Mar 1, 2024, 6:06 AM

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ashen merlin yep, there we go. all UI elements without the issue

What was the fix?

edgy shard Mar 1, 2024, 6:07 AM

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@ashen merlin were the world/terrain models still culling after modifying the two CullSphereToFrustum methods? I can't remember

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 6:09 AM

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rugged forum What was the fix?

disabling Heuristic detection for UI elements, then manually assigning them

📎 rtx.conf

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the odd thing is i had tried it before without any luck

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 6:09 AM

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edgy shard <@410198342300205066> were the world/terrain models still culling after modifyin...

yes, those continued to cull. only objects like trees and fences were affected

edgy shard Mar 1, 2024, 6:09 AM

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hm okay I guess found how to disable culling for them then

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it turned out that there's a different system for culling world terrain which is called AWorldVis

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 6:10 AM

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oh, cool

edgy shard Mar 1, 2024, 6:10 AM

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there seems to be no any limit for the number of rendered meshes

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simply replace instructions at 006D4DD0 to 'mov EAX, 0' and 'ret 4' to patch the method

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from this

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to this

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 6:16 AM

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that's amazing. going to try it 🙂

edgy shard Mar 1, 2024, 6:16 AM

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hope it will work!

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 6:22 AM

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well, it's definitely improved!

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i think it is showing everything but the LOD replacement models

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which is definitely enough to prevent the main issues!

edgy shard Mar 1, 2024, 6:23 AM

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not sure if that's actually everything tho

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it should show more

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 6:24 AM

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LODs though, yeah? is it possible AWorldVis only covers culling for the highest quality models, and the LOD models that are loaded in aren't culled in the same way?

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that's what it seems like when i move the camera around

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trying to get it in higher quality so i can record

edgy shard Mar 1, 2024, 6:25 AM

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try to also set these instructions at 006cead0

edgy shard Mar 1, 2024, 6:25 AM

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ashen merlin LODs though, yeah? is it possible AWorldVis only covers culling for the highest ...

no, I don't think that's the case

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 6:33 AM

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here it is with just the initial patch you mentioned

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 6:34 AM

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edgy shard try to also set these instructions at 006cead0

this is for the other objects, right? will add it in

edgy shard Mar 1, 2024, 6:34 AM

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ashen merlin this is for the other objects, right? will add it in

yeah it seems that there are two passes for rendering world meshes since they are still treated as usual models

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unfortunately it will probably make the objects flick again but at least we will know if it is anyhow related to the world models

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 6:36 AM

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wow

edgy shard Mar 1, 2024, 6:36 AM

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I guess now it renders everything in the section

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 6:36 AM

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objects now only vanish when you get very close to them

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ah never mind

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 6:37 AM

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edgy shard try to also set these instructions at 006cead0

unfortunately that one patch is still very broken

edgy shard Mar 1, 2024, 6:37 AM

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edgy shard unfortunately it will probably make the objects flick again but at least we will...

that's what I meant

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I have reverse engineered the world shader lately so I'll move to the skin shader (which is used by static instances) soon and will try to fix that flickering issue

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 6:39 AM

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just to show how it is now

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 6:39 AM

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edgy shard I have reverse engineered the world shader lately so I'll move to the skin shade...

well, it's much appreciated. this is already very exciting

edgy shard Mar 1, 2024, 6:39 AM

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but I think it won't be possible to apply the fix with a debugger but with a mod since it will be much more complicated than 2 instructions

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 6:40 AM

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yeah, that makes sense

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as a performance benchmark:

without culling patch:

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with the 006D4DD0 patch only:

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with both patches:

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as we were discussing for Fallout NV, unfortunately the best course (that i could think of) would be to reimplement a customized form of culling that only culls a certain distance behind the player. it'd be enough to prevent visual issues while also prioritizing performance:

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forgive my abysmal drawing

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i don't really see that happening for this game, and that's okay

rugged forum Mar 1, 2024, 7:15 AM

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Are you using dlss?

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 7:16 AM

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yes

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i updated the config a bit more. i disabled rtx.enableSeparateUnorderedApproximations as for some reason (despite what the tooltip says should happen) turning it off improves performance

📎 rtx.conf

rugged forum Mar 1, 2024, 7:27 AM

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ashen merlin yes

What preset and are you using frame gen?

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 7:36 AM

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it's a custom preset, mix between medium and ultra

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it's in the config

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and no frame gen

rugged forum Mar 1, 2024, 7:38 AM

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I'm surprised a 4090 only gets 70fps in barnyard with dlss

ashen merlin Mar 1, 2024, 7:40 AM

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that was DLAA at 1080p actually

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at 1440p i use DLSS Quality

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wasn't sure what images you were asking about

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these were 1440p DLAA, was getting about 40 fps i think

rugged forum Mar 9, 2024, 11:16 AM

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@ashen merlin Need to use alt#588546848105693184 message

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I know it isn't exactly what you want but it does look really good

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here is one from infc0re

chrome mulch Mar 9, 2024, 11:46 AM

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Didnt I have redone it already 😂

rugged forum Mar 9, 2024, 12:03 PM

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Before and After

chrome mulch Mar 9, 2024, 12:04 PM

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Looks good

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Now some proper normal, roughness and heightmaps and its ready to go

rugged forum Mar 9, 2024, 12:05 PM

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https://www.krea.ai/apps/image/enhancer This is done by this

chrome mulch Mar 9, 2024, 12:05 PM

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Krea is really good

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I use Gigapixel back then, maybe I should try it

rugged forum Mar 9, 2024, 12:37 PM

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ashen merlin Mar 9, 2024, 8:39 PM

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SUPIR is effectively a successor to these, and it's even better.i did test it on some textures from this game and it looks great @chrome mulch @rugged forum @edgy shard

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however, i personally don't want to use AI for these

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 1:18 AM

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ashen merlin SUPIR is effectively a successor to these, and it's even better.i did test it on...

Well that does look much better as it is on gihub although I don't have 60gb of ram and 30gb of vram

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 5:15 AM

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ashen merlin SUPIR is effectively a successor to these, and it's even better.i did test it on...

What specs did you have when you tried it?

ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 5:16 AM

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4090, 32 GB RAM. it uses far less than their claims

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https://github.com/kijai/ComfyUI-SUPIR

GitHub

GitHub - kijai/ComfyUI-SUPIR: SUPIR upscaling wrapper for ComfyUI

SUPIR upscaling wrapper for ComfyUI. Contribute to kijai/ComfyUI-SUPIR development by creating an account on GitHub.

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i used this

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it's probably doable on 12 GB VRAM?

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and 30 GB RAM still

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 5:16 AM

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Well the most I have is 8gb vram on my desktop but that only has 16gb of ram while I have 6gb vram on my laptop but 32gb of ram

ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 5:18 AM

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using the other ai you mentioned is ideal then, yeah. i meant to bring up SUPIR as more of a local alternative if you have the hardware, since it's totally free

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didn't mean to say that the websites are not worth using. it's still really cool

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 5:20 AM

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Does it prefer nvidia GPU's over amd in performance?

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looking in the description of it You can get a 512x512 image to 1024x1024 with a 10gb 3080

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I'll give it a go

ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 5:24 AM

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@rugged forum it doesn't work with AMD on Windows. you'd need Linux + Pytorch ROCm

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 5:27 AM

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Well what Nvidia gpu would you recommend that has it's value for these things

ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 5:30 AM

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12 GB card or more really, 30 series or newer

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3090 would be good

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 5:31 AM

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so at minimum a 3060

ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 5:31 AM

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maybe. i don't know anyone personally that's tried it below a 4090 unfortunately

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i can't say for sure 😦

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if it works on your 3080, that'd be great

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my notes on it:

restoration_scale is important to increase. i usually set it at 2, but it goes up to 6. this affects how much detail it tries to recover or add

and to actually adjust the scale of the image, change the resize_scale in the top half of the node

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unfortunately because it's diffusion based and there's no good "ethical" models, by using this you are still using stolen content to upscale 😦

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but it's also by far the best we have right now

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i did release my set of ethical upscalers btw: #1216200397497045002

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 5:36 AM

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ashen merlin 3090 would be good

Well looking at used prices on a 3090 it is basically the same price as a new 4070ti although it does have half the vram

ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 5:40 AM

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afaik the 3090 is a tiny bit slower than a 4070 ti, but the VRAM goes a long way for AI

however if you barely use AI stuff, i wouldn't get the 3090

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the improvements to PT performance on the 40 series are too hard to ignore for Remix, along with frame gen

edgy shard Mar 10, 2024, 5:41 AM

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ashen merlin SUPIR is effectively a successor to these, and it's even better.i did test it on...

Can it be started on google colab?

ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 5:42 AM

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probably not due to the requirements. i'd be surprised if it could

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you may be able to do it with a rented GPU from vast.ai

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if you want a lower requirement equivalent, just upscale with stable diffusion. it's not the greatest, but it's much easier to run in terms of RAM

SUPIR does allocate about 28 GB RAM when i use it

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 7:56 AM

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Is there anywhere we can move this?

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I can't seem to get the SUPIR node to appear in ComfyUI

ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 8:21 AM

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i'm fine with it here

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what did you do to install it?

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 8:49 AM

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Well I've fixed that problem now I'm trying to get moondream to work

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ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 8:49 AM

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i'm not familiar with moondream

ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 8:50 AM

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rugged forum

looks like the huggingface repo for the model is invalid

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 8:52 AM

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ashen merlin i'm not familiar with moondream

It is a model for image to text

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 9:29 AM

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Using SUPIR

ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 9:30 AM

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can you capture the bottom of the error?

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i'm not quite sure what's going on there. are you using an SDXL model?

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 9:33 AM

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ashen merlin i'm not quite sure what's going on there. are you using an SDXL model?

Yes

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ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 9:35 AM

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you followed the instructions to install the python dependencies?

if you're using a portable install of ComfyUI (the zip) you have to do this instead:
python_embeded\python.exe -m pip install -U xformers --no-dependencies

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also when you ran comfyui, you ran the nvidia gpu version?

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 9:36 AM

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ashen merlin also when you ran comfyui, you ran the nvidia gpu version?

yes

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🤔

ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 9:39 AM

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hm

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try running

python_embeded\python.exe -m pip uninstall torch torchvision torchaudio

then

python_embeded\python.exe -m pip install torch==2.2.0 torchvision==0.17.0 torchaudio==2.2.0 --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118

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this should install the correct version

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that's if you're using portable. if not portable, just remove python_embeded\python.exe -m

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 9:43 AM

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Yeah I'm using portable

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 9:55 AM

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ashen merlin try running `python_embeded\python.exe -m pip uninstall torch torchvision torc...

Isn't that what I had?

ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 9:57 AM

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sorry, i copied the wrong one

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python_embeded\python.exe -m pip install torch==2.2.0 torchvision==0.17.0 torchaudio==2.2.0 --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu121

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this is torch 2.2.0 with cuda 12.1, which is what it wants

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 10:09 AM

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Now it doesn't launch at all 😦

ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 10:11 AM

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😠 that makes no sense

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i'm sorry, i have no idea what's going on

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that should have fixed it

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i'm guessing another dependency is incompatible now and it's just all screwed

you'd probably have to start over. the only thing i can think happened to cause this is that xformers got an update since the readme for ComfyUI-SUPIR was updated, and it's now incompatible

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 10:19 AM

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Must not have installed

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Now it launches

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 10:21 AM

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ashen merlin `python_embeded\python.exe -m pip install torch==2.2.0 torchvision==0.17.0 torch...

after running this again

ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 10:21 AM

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weird

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that doesn't seem to have worked right

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it's not saying they're not installed at all

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 10:22 AM

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That was before i ran the install

Now it works here

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This might take a while but if i get a result it is a win

ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 10:24 AM

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cool 🙂

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 10:24 AM

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But I did not expect to use 20gb of storage just in models

ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 10:25 AM

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you didn't seem to have followed my notes though. you need to increase the scale_by setting, and also increase the restoration_scale

i normally scale by 2, and keep restoration at 3

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it won't look too good with restoration_scale at 0. not even sure what -1 is?

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i'm glad it's working though, and i hope you get good results with it

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 10:26 AM

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So how does VRAM help with this?

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does it just make it faster?

ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 10:28 AM

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it might. i'm not sure for SUPIR specifically

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but generally the main thing is that you can upscale larger images without issue

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 10:29 AM

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Ok on the left is SUPIR on the right is the original there isn't going to be much difference

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Oh and there wasn't a very detailed prompt since I couldn't get moondream to work

ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 10:30 AM

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the prompts haven't been to useful really. just use the default it provides and it should be fine

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you can just provide a few key words like "sky" and it'd help it enough

ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 10:31 AM

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rugged forum Ok on the left is SUPIR on the right is the original there isn't going to be muc...

in this case, setting a manual restoration scale of like 1 would probably yield a better result (it'd be smoother))

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unfortunately i have to sleep now. i'm glad you got it working!

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 10:32 AM

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Thanks for the help 🙂

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and goodnight

ashen merlin Mar 10, 2024, 10:32 AM

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💚

rugged forum Mar 10, 2024, 11:46 AM

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Well here it is lol

rugged forum Mar 11, 2024, 1:04 AM

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I'm able to do a 2x upscale on 512x images though

weary inlet Mar 11, 2024, 2:27 AM

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what's SUPIR? I thought NVIDIA's tools had a built-in texture upscaler, is it not that good yet?

ashen merlin Mar 11, 2024, 2:42 AM

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right now it's not too good unfortunately

ashen merlin Mar 11, 2024, 2:43 AM

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weary inlet what's SUPIR? I thought NVIDIA's tools had a built-in texture upscaler, is it no...

SUPIR is state of the art upscaling. it's pretty intensive, there's no way Nvidia could conceivably ship it with the toolkit

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but for right now, i did make my own upscaling models that outperform the default ones as an alternative: https://discord.com/channels/1028444667789967381/1216200397497045002

runs on basically any Nvidia GPU without issue

weary inlet Mar 11, 2024, 2:46 AM

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ashen merlin right now it's not too good unfortunately

thanks, I've never seen much demonstration of it

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how big is just SUPIR?

ashen merlin Mar 11, 2024, 2:47 AM

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it requires ~25 GB of storage, and needs at least 10 GB VRAM to do much of anything

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also 30 GB RAM minimum

weary inlet Mar 11, 2024, 3:26 AM

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mine's a normal 2060S so I'll have to wait on that lul

ashen merlin Mar 11, 2024, 3:38 AM

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the models i released are worth a shot though 🙂

rugged forum Mar 11, 2024, 5:11 AM

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ashen merlin but for right now, i did make my own upscaling models that outperform the defaul...

Also runs on AMD GPUs although it takes 10x as long

rugged forum Mar 13, 2024, 9:29 AM

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@ashen merlin While running SUPIR

ashen merlin Mar 14, 2024, 1:45 AM

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i have no idea what'd be doing that

ashen merlin Mar 14, 2024, 10:36 PM

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so

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gonna try 3.5 really quick

chrome mulch Mar 14, 2024, 10:50 PM

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XD

ashen merlin Mar 14, 2024, 10:52 PM

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weeeeeellllllllllllll

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good news and bad news

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the ghost cows are gone

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BUT interior lighting is 100% broken

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RR off

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oh, now it's fixed of course

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RR on

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there's definitely some weirdness with the emissives

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RR off

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AGAIN

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as soon as i complain it fixes itself

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alt-tabbing appears to fix whatever lighting bug there is

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i finally captured it. when walking around with RR on, things become an almost sepia tone, with a lot of ghosting and blur

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@simple grotto if you're interested

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RR off in the same shot

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and now, RR back on again after alt-tabbing

simple grotto Mar 14, 2024, 10:57 PM

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I don't think it's placebo, but even when looking without a slider comparison and on a phone screen, RR looks noticeably better

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There's more fine shading

ashen merlin Mar 14, 2024, 10:57 PM

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it does improve the overall image a lot

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but the lighting bugs are throwing me for a loop

ashen merlin Mar 14, 2024, 10:57 PM

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ashen merlin i finally captured it. when walking around with RR on, things become an almost s...

i can't even begin to imagine what could do this

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did Mark or anyone else say if we should report issues for it on GitHub?

simple grotto Mar 14, 2024, 10:59 PM

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ashen merlin did Mark or anyone else say if we should report issues for it on GitHub?

Since it's not out yet for general use, no

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Mark did say he fought against the idea of forcibly locking it off in other games though which was cool lol

ashen merlin Mar 14, 2024, 11:00 PM

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back after the OSS version of Remix launched, we were still allowed to report issue from Portal's binaries 😦

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so that's a shame

ashen merlin Mar 14, 2024, 11:00 PM

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simple grotto Mark did say he fought against the idea of forcibly locking it off in other game...

that is great. Mark is awesome 🙂

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i figured out the issue

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setting this to Default fixes it

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so it's an issue with their new denoising model

simple grotto Mar 14, 2024, 11:02 PM

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Interesting. Remix uses restir by default doesn't it

ashen merlin Mar 14, 2024, 11:02 PM

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it does, yeah. so they finetuned the model to work best with it (which is great), but it seems that it's leading to unintentional issues

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which is probably why they have that warning

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i made a post in #1055002308649427004 in case anyone else runs into this

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even with the Default model, it's a huge improvement

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look at all the gained detail in the dirt

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i can't recommend using it in Barnyard though. apparently the geometry corruption bug from months ago is still in this build, making it unplayable outdoors

weary inlet Mar 14, 2024, 11:19 PM

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ashen merlin look at all the gained detail in the dirt

this screenshot goes hard what da hell

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that lighting is so striking

rugged forum Mar 14, 2024, 11:30 PM

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ashen merlin i can't recommend using it in Barnyard though. apparently the geometry corruptio...

😔 but what do you mean the ghost cows are fixed? Mesh replacements???

ashen merlin Mar 14, 2024, 11:41 PM

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rugged forum 😔 but what do you mean the ghost cows are fixed? Mesh replacements???

the ghosting when you moved the camera around quickly. there would be "ghost cows" left on the ground from it

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RR fixes that

weary inlet Mar 14, 2024, 11:55 PM

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yeah RR has way less ghosting in the cases I've seen

rugged forum Mar 17, 2024, 12:37 PM

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ashen merlin i have no idea what'd be doing that

fixed the issue by restarting, I think the issue was a ram limit
also got some really nice results with this

weary inlet Mar 17, 2024, 7:18 PM

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Not bad woag

rugged forum Mar 20, 2024, 6:31 AM

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New Update to SUPIR uses much less vram supposedly

weary inlet Mar 20, 2024, 9:24 PM

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rugged forum New Update to SUPIR uses much less vram supposedly

How much?

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2060S has 8 gigs so it'd need at least a 2 cut

rugged forum Mar 21, 2024, 1:43 AM

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That should be enough I can do a fair bit now on 6gb

ashen merlin Mar 21, 2024, 1:47 AM

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i personally won't be using AI for my version. if you guys do your own (upscale with SUPIR, process with PBRify) i am curious to see where it goes. i'm glad it's more accessible now

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i don't have time to work on Barnyard right now sadly, that's why there's been no progress updates

rugged forum Apr 7, 2024, 2:57 PM

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Well I just bought a 4070 super for my desktop, So I will probably do a lot more on this since I much prefer using my desktop

ashen merlin Apr 8, 2024, 4:40 AM

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nice

compact niche Apr 8, 2024, 10:22 AM

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rugged forum Well I just bought a 4070 super for my desktop, So I will probably do a lot more...

YOPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

ashen merlin Apr 11, 2024, 11:44 PM

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@rugged forum are you getting vertex explosions in Barnyard?

rugged forum Apr 12, 2024, 12:10 AM

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No I haven't had that

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But I'm not using the portal rtx version

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Also do you get issues with frame gen?

ashen merlin Apr 12, 2024, 12:16 AM

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no, it's fine for me

ashen merlin Apr 12, 2024, 12:16 AM

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rugged forum But I'm not using the portal rtx version

i'm not either

rugged forum Apr 12, 2024, 12:20 AM

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Weird, the game was running perfectly fine for me on 0.4.1 debug optimised

rugged forum Apr 12, 2024, 5:30 AM

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Also my issue with frame gen

compact niche Apr 12, 2024, 7:00 AM

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could your draw distance be to high?

ashen merlin Apr 12, 2024, 7:00 AM

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rugged forum Also my issue with frame gen

this stems from the weird geometry "flickering" issue, and the motion vectors for FG getting confused

ashen merlin Apr 12, 2024, 9:03 PM

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mkv 😦

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flashing warning

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i'm not sure why or how i'm getting this corruption again

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the only thing that changed on my system is the GPU driver, so i might rollback

rugged forum Apr 13, 2024, 4:13 AM

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Dlss debug?

ashen merlin Apr 15, 2024, 11:50 PM

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that's not why. happens no matter what i do

rugged forum Apr 16, 2024, 3:29 AM

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When did this start happening?

ashen merlin Apr 16, 2024, 3:35 AM

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this month. i went back to older dxvk and bridge builds and it's happening even there

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so i have no idea what the cause is

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i even downgraded my drivers just in case. no improvement

ashen merlin Apr 18, 2024, 3:53 AM

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@rugged forum dxvk build 408 fixes it

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the same issue was occurring in Fallout NV and Skyrim with newer builds

rugged forum Apr 18, 2024, 5:14 AM

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ashen merlin <@602703357878075392> dxvk build 408 fixes it

The explosions or frame gen?

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I assume explosions

ashen merlin Apr 18, 2024, 5:24 AM

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explosions

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frame gen has always been an issue in the way you showed

rugged forum Apr 24, 2024, 8:12 AM

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ashen merlin disabling Heuristic detection for UI elements, then manually assigning them

Problem with this is that the intro movies seem to have a new hash every game launch

rugged forum Apr 24, 2024, 10:09 AM

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The chicken coop textures upscaled with SUPIR and enhanced by photo ai with PBR maps generated with PBRify

compact niche Apr 24, 2024, 11:08 AM

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Lookin good!

rugged forum Apr 26, 2024, 3:33 AM

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ashen merlin disabling Heuristic detection for UI elements, then manually assigning them

Still quite a few things not marked as ui such as loading screens, intro credits, scoreboards

ashen merlin Apr 26, 2024, 3:41 AM

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yeah, i didn't have time

ashen merlin May 7, 2024, 12:34 AM

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lmao what

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did discord somehow screw up the video file

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ah no

compact niche May 7, 2024, 12:38 AM

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how tf does that even happen???
i'm assuming the moon is a serpetate object then the sky because it does move in game.
but surely the games transformations aren't just corrupted for it with remix

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:12 PM

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hmm

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:12 PM

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downloading blendar

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:14 PM

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I recommend the bforartists fork, the defaults for everything and the layout are much nicer to find what you need @ashen merlin

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:14 PM

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ah right

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the meshes are so insanely small that i've imported them but they're invisible

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:14 PM

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It's a version of blender where lots of things are touched up for use ability

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:14 PM

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ashen merlin the meshes are so insanely small that i've imported them but they're invisible

You can change the scale on the import window

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Try 100x

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:15 PM

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it's still invisible 😢

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the other issue is that all of the meshes are off center and tilted on an axis

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ugh

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here just test this mesh

📎 mesh_91C0D526F8D1C9C0.usd

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i can't get anything to show up

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here's part of the character mesh apparently

📎 mesh_91C0D526F8D1C9C0.usd

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:19 PM

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ashen merlin the other issue is that all of the meshes are off center and tilted on an axis

You can change the orientation on import too. But it sounds like you need to use z-up and potentially left handed

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:19 PM

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yeah same upload

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:19 PM

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simple grotto You can change the orientation on import too. But it sounds like you need to use...

no. apparently this is the way the actual game engine stores the meshes

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no setting fixes it

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:19 PM

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HUH

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:19 PM

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i had to import the mesh twice for some reason for it to show up in Blender

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:19 PM

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Well I guess I'll just have to rotate it

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:19 PM

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looks smoothed already? as if it already has vertex normals

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:20 PM

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ashen merlin

Hit R, X, then type 180

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:20 PM

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ah right i'd need to import it manually in Remix

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since i disabled it

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done. see the slight tilt though?

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that's the axis problem i was referring to

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it's insanely annoying to edit these meshes

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:21 PM

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Well I guess it's a blessing in disguise that everything's unstable?

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:22 PM

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most of the meshes in the game are actually fine as vanilla anyway, other than the baked textures being a pain in the ass. there are some that need updating though

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:22 PM

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As long as I have a complete version of a character model (I don't mind trying to stitch it up together if multiple pieces) I should be able to do what I'm looking for

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:22 PM

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ashen merlin most of the meshes in the game are actually fine as vanilla anyway, other than t...

Something I'm not understanding though, did you take that capture with the vertex normals disabled in the shader support tab?

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:23 PM

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yes

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:23 PM

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ashen merlin here's part of the character mesh apparently

why is this importing a house now? what the hell 😢

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it was just a cow

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how is that possible

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:24 PM

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Well shit, that might cause issues for the baking process I mentioned. I'd need the sharp edge'd version you have in-game. When you right click the character and hit shade flat what does it look like

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:25 PM

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he's gone now and i can't get him back

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:25 PM

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Ctrl+Z time lol

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:25 PM

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the captured vertex normals weren't working properly anyway, so i don't even know how that could be of help

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:25 PM

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Because I need the bake to assume the shitty sharp model is the real model to bake onto

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:26 PM

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shade flat

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shade smooth

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:26 PM

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Hmm smooth looks about right. And the character models?

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:26 PM

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they're arguing with Blender and won't show up

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:26 PM

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Can you not undo

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:26 PM

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no 😢

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:27 PM

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Uh oh

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:27 PM

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i found a different character model that works

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:27 PM

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Okay cool, whatcha got

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:28 PM

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shade flat

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and smooth

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:28 PM

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Shade flat looks about how it looks for you in-game right

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:28 PM

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yes

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pretty much exactly

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:29 PM

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Then it genuinely might be as simple as baking the smooth shaded version onto the flat shaded. Smooth looks pretty good already

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:29 PM

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how would i import that into the game?

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:29 PM

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You'd add the normal map generated via remix

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Like a common texture swap

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:29 PM

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just a normal normal map?

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:29 PM

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Mhm

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:29 PM

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no weird funky normal map?

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weird

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hmhmhmhm

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:29 PM

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Correct

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:30 PM

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soooo how do i do that

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:30 PM

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In blender? I have no idea. I just bake using instaMAT

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:30 PM

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i believe this is that character mesh btw

📎 mesh_A5389E3522581922.usd

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:30 PM

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But if the models are fucky then some stuff needs to be done to clean them up before throwing them in instaMAT for baking

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Which is why I offered doing it, saving you the headache

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Won't be able to work on it for a good 7-8 hours though for reference lol

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:31 PM

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i've got no problem waiting 😛

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thanks

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:31 PM

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salute

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Hope it works because it could be a game changer I bet

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:32 PM

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if that works, most meshes should be good and i'll try to use POM to enhance the rest

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:32 PM

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simple grotto Hope it works because it could be a game changer I bet

definitely

simple grotto May 17, 2024, 3:34 PM

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Btw I highly recommend this version of blender for more casual use

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https://www.bforartists.de/the-differences-to-blender/
^screenshot comparisons are here if you wanna see why @ashen merlin

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One example of many

ashen merlin May 17, 2024, 3:36 PM

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looks good

ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 5:20 AM

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simple grotto Won't be able to work on it for a good 7-8 hours though for reference lol

you still got time tonight?

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 5:21 AM

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oops! yeah I'll try and get it before I hop off

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lost track of time

ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 5:21 AM

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thanks 🙂

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 5:43 AM

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the hole here might be an issue lol

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hold on

ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 5:44 AM

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yeah he's uh... dismembered

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can't find the other half of him

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might be able to use the toolkit to find it

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 5:47 AM

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don't worry I helped him a bit

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lookin spiffy (not what I'm gonna use to bake to be safe)

ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 5:49 AM

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i found the two meshes for the main player model finally

📎 mesh_4A2484DC29713D97.usd 📎 mesh_FB0A6ABAFB8BA964.usd

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this might be easier

ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 5:49 AM

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simple grotto don't worry I helped him a bit

that's so much better, lol

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 5:49 AM

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ashen merlin that's so much better, lol

all I did was give a subdivision surface modifier. For cartoon characters like this the smoothing out looks real clean

ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 5:49 AM

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lsat time i tried that it created some weird openings

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 5:50 AM

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because I made it manifold first

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did a bit of cleanup pre-subd

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holy lord

ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 5:51 AM

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lol ya

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 5:51 AM

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POGGERS

sick wedge May 18, 2024, 5:52 AM

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simple grotto lookin spiffy (not what I'm gonna use to bake to be safe)

Did you check if the original UV mapping has any overlapping UV islands? Many older games have this issue, which means you can't properly bake the high-poly model to a smooth normal map.

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 5:52 AM

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monkaS

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I'll uhhh

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I'll check dw

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at least in the case of RC there was no overlapping, it was a normal cube project

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not seeing any overlapping pepelook

ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 5:54 AM

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i think that's the cleanest mesh i've seen for this game

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 5:54 AM

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seeing some overlapping pepelook

sick wedge May 18, 2024, 5:54 AM

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ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 5:54 AM

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yeah 😦

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many of the other meshes have a lot more than this

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 5:55 AM

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damn

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 5:55 AM

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sick wedge Did you check if the original UV mapping has any overlapping UV islands? Many ol...

I mean on a scale of one to fucked, is it really that fucked

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assuming the overlapping bits are.... small and unnoticeable

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clueless

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COPIUM

sick wedge May 18, 2024, 5:57 AM

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simple grotto assuming the overlapping bits are.... small and unnoticeable

You can try removing one of the overlapping UV islands and then bake the normal map, but usually this workaround won't look very good.

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 5:58 AM

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ah and then overlapping them again after

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seems like the most important parts aren't overlapping though so fingers crossed it'll be useable

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before and after a subd if you're curious @ashen merlin

ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 6:00 AM

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yeah that's going to be amazing

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 6:00 AM

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cleans up surprisingly well for zero work involved

ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 6:00 AM

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the ears especially

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look at that

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amazing 😛

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 6:01 AM

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fuck it i'll try baking the subd

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side by side goes hard

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especially vs original with flat shading lol

ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 6:03 AM

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the eyelids may be a problem on the new one

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but hopefully not

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 6:06 AM

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wow what a massive pain in the ass to split these islands

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I think I'm just gonna say fuck it and hope the islands aren't significant enough to cause big issues

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like the overlapping is on the teeth for instance

ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 6:09 AM

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pretty much anything should be better than how it is now

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 6:10 AM

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models are exported, gonna try baking

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upside down in instamat too

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pepe_despair

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ok time to bake

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weirdge

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okay i found out why

ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 6:15 AM

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why?

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 6:15 AM

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the islands are off center, so instaMAT thinks there isn't a UV at all

ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 6:15 AM

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ah

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 6:16 AM

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I'm gonna drag them all into the center. This adds a concerning variable though because it's hard to know if it'll be perfectly lined up with the original UV

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nvm I might've gotten it perfect

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not upside down

ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 6:23 AM

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seems like automating this would be a huge pain

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 6:27 AM

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it would, I can feel it

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@ashen merlin

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you good to test

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because I got something

ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 6:28 AM

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ya

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 6:28 AM

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okay there's a 99% chance this won't work but screw it

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and by 99% I mean 100%. I will buy a lottery ticket if this works because it won't work

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but we should try anyways

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ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 6:29 AM

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just assign it as a normal map?

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 6:29 AM

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yeah

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injest first ofc

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I don't think it's gonna work since the result of the bake didn't seem to alter the mesh in the preview like I've seen with my clone bake

ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 6:31 AM

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yeah no luck

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 6:31 AM

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figures. How annoying

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I wonder what the difference maker was between this vs the clone

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it was actually a shocking improvement

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with tech there's nothing that's a coincidence. Just don't even know where to begin

ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 6:33 AM

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well it did do something

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it added these weird seams, lol

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 6:34 AM

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I feel like the top right of the head is slightly rounded I guess

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weirdge

ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 6:34 AM

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closer up

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without it

simple grotto May 18, 2024, 6:36 AM

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Interesting. Genuinely better to get some results than none I suppose. I'm gonna try baking the clone again tomorrow and I'll see what's up. Maybe there's a setting I missed because yeah, the normal was blank which is unexpected

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I really hope it's doable though, it'd be a big deal

ashen merlin May 18, 2024, 6:41 AM

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sure would

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thank you for taking a look

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this is what "capture normals from shader" looks like

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has major issues in most places, but it does smooth some parts of it

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RT off entirely

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 3:31 PM

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hey, sorry so to fix the lack of smooth shading your baking a smooth shaded mesh onto a your unsmoothed mesh and baking as normal map right? Do you mind if i try? could you share your smooth and unsmooth mesh @simple grotto ?

simple grotto May 19, 2024, 3:32 PM

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dense wasp hey, sorry so to fix the lack of smooth shading your baking a smooth shaded mesh...

that was what I attempted yeah. Let me get the .blend file for ya, I have it somewhere

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 3:33 PM

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cheers buddy

simple grotto May 19, 2024, 3:33 PM

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found it quick lol

📎 BarnyardBakeTest.blend

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the first selected model is the one I tried baking

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I tried both with shade flat and shade smooth, I'm fairly inexperienced with baking

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the one on the right has a subD

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 3:34 PM

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ah right, lets give this cow a seeing to

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here we go 🙂 everywhere the uv's overlap or are messy it doesnt work. but works for 90% of mr cow

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moo

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oh wait, mrs cow

simple grotto May 19, 2024, 3:50 PM

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@ashen merlin well there you go! Not perfect but still miles better than before

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curious to see it in-game. Well done tadpole 👍

rugged forum May 19, 2024, 3:57 PM

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dense wasp oh wait, mrs cow

welcome to Barnyard

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 4:30 PM

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great, i'll give it a shot. thank you

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😢

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maybe ingesting it screws it up?

simple grotto May 19, 2024, 4:41 PM

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ashen merlin maybe ingesting it screws it up?

try adding it with the non injested version

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you won't be able to package it but it'll work for yourself

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 4:42 PM

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ew

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that's what happens if i manually convert to BC5 but don't convert to octahedral

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 4:42 PM

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oh hang on you need to flip the green channel

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keep forgetting to tag in replies, @ashen merlin

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 4:44 PM

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how would i go about doing that?

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 4:44 PM

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one sec i got chu

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 4:44 PM

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was hoping XNConvert would have an easy way to invert the channel 😦

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 4:45 PM

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i baked with the wrong tangent direction in Y

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"wrong" meaning what remix doesnt use

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 4:46 PM

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😦

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i don't know why this isn't working

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this is the ingested map

📎 cownorm_normal_OTH_Normal.n.rtex.dds

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again manual conversion is even worse somehow

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 4:48 PM

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in remix can you change tangent?

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 4:49 PM

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not than i can see

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 4:50 PM

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hang on i've done something stupid here

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i'm going to add your cow to cod 😛

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 4:52 PM

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lmao

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with manual conversion to BC5 unsigned (with no mipmaps) + octahedral, it looks somewhat okay under specific lighting

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but in any form of direct lighting it's very bad

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dense wasp May 19, 2024, 4:53 PM

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lol

simple grotto May 19, 2024, 4:53 PM

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they've seen some shit

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 4:54 PM

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lol yeah

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 4:54 PM

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its a skin condition

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right sorted it

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plop that on your fbx and ingest 🙂

📎 cownorm_normal_1.tga

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ingested version

📎 textures.zip

simple grotto May 19, 2024, 5:10 PM

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dense wasp

the perfect fit for cod. Now give em the fancy photoscanned bottles

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 5:19 PM

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dense wasp ingested version

hmmmm

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it's a lot better, but it still has major issues 😢

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turning off RR shows it best

chrome mulch May 19, 2024, 5:20 PM

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why not remodel?
or atleast fix in blender
cleanup, subsurf (1x or 2x), adding some details manually

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 5:20 PM

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mesh replacements don't work in this game

hallow root May 19, 2024, 5:20 PM

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It's a skeletal mesh

chrome mulch May 19, 2024, 5:20 PM

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ah shit

hallow root May 19, 2024, 5:20 PM

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Have we found a single game yet that can actually do skeletal meshes?

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 5:21 PM

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i'm not sure, but even disregarding that this game doesn't do any mesh replacements

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i think there was one game that did work

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@simple grotto might know

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 5:23 PM

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might be mip maps at a distance?

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do the lines fade away as you get closer?

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 5:23 PM

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they get worse as you get closer

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this isn't a good sign for Fallout NV or 3 either. they had similar issues with vertex normals from the base game. i'd be surprised if replacements work there

chrome mulch May 19, 2024, 5:25 PM

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i have an idea, why not try a flat normal map?

hallow root May 19, 2024, 5:25 PM

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chrome mulch i have an idea, why not try a flat normal map?

A flat normal map doesn't do anything

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 5:26 PM

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plus we mistakenly already tried that

hallow root May 19, 2024, 5:26 PM

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It would just produce the vertex normals again

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 5:26 PM

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didn't do anything as Traggey said 😛

chrome mulch May 19, 2024, 5:26 PM

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hm okay

hallow root May 19, 2024, 5:27 PM

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A normal map doesn't override, it's basically additive right

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Information that exists bends based on the mesh normals

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Flat information would just give you exactly what was there already

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 5:29 PM

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@dense wasp the new normal map seems to be inaccurate in some way when rendered in this game specifically?

i increased the normal map strength just to see, and it does exasperate the weird wrinkle effect

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spoiler because it's kinda gross

hallow root May 19, 2024, 5:30 PM

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It looks to me like the baked version was baked using different normals on the low poly

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Have you made sure the export is accurate to the in-game one?

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 5:30 PM

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i'm not really sure how to ensure that it's the same. visually it looks the same, and any time i capture it's the same mesh

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just did a new capture with the camera very close to ensure there's no LOD weirdness going on, same mesh

simple grotto May 19, 2024, 5:36 PM

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ashen merlin <@877718466398932992> might know

one of the other star wars games works but it's because it's ships with no deformation

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I think they're animated

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maybe skinned implies deform

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 5:55 PM

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could i get a usd capture with mrs cow please? @ashen merlin

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the target normals must be different to the cow i have here

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this is the best it'll look though

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terminator cow

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:02 PM

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dense wasp the target normals must be different to the cow i have here

it's the exact same cow mesh. i double checked i sent the right one

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so i have no idea what's going on

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 6:02 PM

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i had to reset normal though mate

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art

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:05 PM

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dense wasp could i get a usd capture with mrs cow please? <@410198342300205066>

sorry, to be clear, you mean the whole capture? i'm lost

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 6:05 PM

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yes please, raw usd capture

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:10 PM

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📎 capture_2024-05-19_13-31-21.usd

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 6:12 PM

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thats a bit little, doesnt include anything much but a camera

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:14 PM

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yeah...

simple grotto May 19, 2024, 6:14 PM

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that's all that captures?

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:14 PM

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no

simple grotto May 19, 2024, 6:15 PM

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I think he means one with a bunch of stuff

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:15 PM

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i know. i just don't like sending all of that so i was hoping to avoid it

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 6:15 PM

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got it, delete it 🙂

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i'll delete when done

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:16 PM

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thanks

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 6:18 PM

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ah ok different normals, exciting

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:20 PM

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how is that possible? i'm so lost

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it's using the same meshes that i sent

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 6:20 PM

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normals are inverted in the original. one i got from auto wasnt

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:21 PM

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ashen merlin i found the two meshes for the main player model finally

these here?

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that's very odd

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 6:21 PM

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be 5 mins, exciting

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ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:27 PM

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looks like an odd statue, lol

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very good!

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 6:28 PM

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here we go 🙂

📎 cownorm_normal_normal.tga 📎 textures.zip

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:29 PM

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🙂 gonna test

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 6:29 PM

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oooooooooh i get it

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that probably wont work

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:30 PM

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😢

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does the deformation of the mesh somehow cause the issue?

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 6:31 PM

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nope, normals are backwards. so flip ALL channels 🙂

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easy peasy

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one sec

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:31 PM

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it's still problematic but it's far better than all of the previous attempts

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only up close are there any real issues

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 6:32 PM

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oh sick, what about with direct lighting?

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:32 PM

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still shows the issues

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inverting it should fix it from what i'm seeing. that'd be great

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i mean it's going to have issues no matter what due to the low poly count + deformation, right? 😦

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but it still looks 100x better even now

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 6:33 PM

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yea it's gonna still have issues

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:34 PM

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like those

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but ya

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 6:34 PM

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📎 textures.zip

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i think the one i sent before is going to be it at it's best mind you

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:34 PM

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yeah you're right. this causes more issues

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dense wasp May 19, 2024, 6:35 PM

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yea first one then mate

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:35 PM

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alright, thank ya very much

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what was your process for this? there's a ton of meshes that i need to do this for

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 6:35 PM

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one last attempt?

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:36 PM

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of course 😛

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 6:37 PM

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i'll record a tutorial 🙂

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📎 textures.zip

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:37 PM

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sadly it's very not good

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 6:37 PM

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ah first one then mate for sure

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just trying things

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:37 PM

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appreciated 🙂

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 6:44 PM

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ah videos a pain. I just export the cow as the target mesh and open it in marmoset. no edits. then i flip the normals, add smoothing and export as source mesh. then bake normals 🙂

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and cow's gone for ever. deleted 🙂

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:46 PM

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great, thank you!

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 6:46 PM

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dense wasp ah videos a pain. I just export the cow as the target mesh and open it in marmos...

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 6:46 PM

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kinda miss her now she's gone

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all i got now

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 7:03 PM

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aw

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@dense wasp btw setting the normals to half strength fixed a lot of the issues, but i can't find a way to do this only for one normal map (right now i'm setting it for all replacements)

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half

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full

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 7:10 PM

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in photoshop make a new layer and fill it with a blue colour of red-128 green-128 and blue-255 and fade it out 🙂 then ingest again

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 7:17 PM

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worked perfectly!

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huuge difference

simple grotto May 19, 2024, 7:27 PM

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ashen merlin huuge difference

POGGIES1

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big breakthrough??!?!?

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 7:27 PM

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ya 🙂

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there's definitely no saving some of these guys (that poor horse will always be oddly pointy) but it'll still look a ton better overall

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is anyone here capable of and willing to help recreate this texture? just the chalkboard portion

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what i can read from it:

2. VEGBURGER WITH SIDE ORDER OF CHIPS.
3. CHICKENFEED, ? WITH SALAD
4. GLASS OF COWS MILK SERVED WITH A SHOT + ?
5. SOUP OF THE DAY```

simple grotto May 19, 2024, 7:35 PM

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if instamat had text with multiple fonts I could probably do it fairly easily

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but I don't think it does

dense wasp May 19, 2024, 8:57 PM

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Just crack out a plain piece of paper and write it down in the same style. Photograph it and tweak it to look like a chalk board

ashen merlin May 19, 2024, 8:57 PM

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i would if i didn't have some of the worst handwriting known to mankind

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i was already trying it 😢

rugged forum May 19, 2024, 11:44 PM

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ashen merlin what i can read from it: ```1. PIZZA WITH OATS, GRASS, AND HAY. 2. VEGBURGER WIT...

5 looks like soup to me

chrome mulch May 19, 2024, 11:47 PM

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yeah, its soup

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rugged forum May 19, 2024, 11:53 PM

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ashen merlin what i can read from it: ```1. PIZZA WITH OATS, GRASS, AND HAY. 2. VEGBURGER WIT...

You might be able to ask around in the barnyard discord, maybe a dev might know it

chrome mulch May 20, 2024, 12:04 AM

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rugged forum You might be able to ask around in the barnyard discord, maybe a dev might know ...

orangenectar

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atleast could be

ashen merlin May 20, 2024, 12:10 AM

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upscaling it doesn't really help much, it's usually quite bad with text

ashen merlin May 20, 2024, 12:10 AM

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chrome mulch

soup makes sense, thanks

rugged forum May 20, 2024, 8:47 AM

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ashen merlin huuge difference

Is this what is here?
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rugged forum May 20, 2024, 9:23 AM

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ashen merlin is anyone here capable of and willing to help recreate this texture? just the ch...

I wonder if the wii version has a higher res version that is legible

dense wasp May 20, 2024, 12:19 PM

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It says "soup of the day"

compact niche May 20, 2024, 12:33 PM

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rugged forum I wonder if the wii version has a higher res version that is legible

might be some trouble with that as wii textures files are in TRB and TKL file formats

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iirc

rugged forum May 20, 2024, 12:33 PM

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dolphin

compact niche May 20, 2024, 12:33 PM

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ok

rugged forum May 20, 2024, 12:34 PM

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The real trouble is actally somehow playing the game to the point where i can get to it and capture it

compact niche May 20, 2024, 12:34 PM

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wdym?

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one sec imma quickly check one of my usbs

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pretty sure i have a barnyard game ripped from a Wii disk on their

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ok lotta ripped wii games here

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umm

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give me a couple of mins

compact niche May 20, 2024, 1:06 PM

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@rugged forum has filled her C:drive with the dumps lmao

rugged forum May 20, 2024, 1:06 PM

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her?

compact niche May 20, 2024, 1:06 PM

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his*

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sorry haha

rugged forum May 20, 2024, 1:46 PM

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well maybe @edgy shard do you have a wii version of this texture?
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edgy shard May 20, 2024, 1:48 PM

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iirc I didn't dump any night barn textures so probably no

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and I guess it might have the same resolution even on wii

vivid falcon May 20, 2024, 4:50 PM

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dense wasp all i got now

rtx_debug cow should be upright

ashen merlin May 20, 2024, 4:55 PM

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dense wasp It says "soup of the day"

there's 2 other illegible spots though

dense wasp May 20, 2024, 4:58 PM

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Yea Ive got no clue

ashen merlin May 20, 2024, 4:59 PM

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😢

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@rugged forum #1106420949257044061 message

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this one

rugged forum May 24, 2024, 11:34 AM

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ashen merlin <@602703357878075392> https://discord.com/channels/1028444667789967381/110642094...

This looks the same as it did before for me

ashen merlin May 24, 2024, 1:17 PM

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you set it as the normal map for the character mesh?

rugged forum May 24, 2024, 2:44 PM

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Yeah

rugged forum May 25, 2024, 1:40 AM

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Ok fixed it captures normal from shader wasn't on

ashen merlin May 25, 2024, 1:52 AM

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that's not the right setting

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that breaks everything

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@rugged forum

📎 cownorm_normal_normal_OTH_Normal.n.rtex.dds 📎 cownorm_normal_normal_OTH_Normal.n.rtex.dds.meta

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this is my adjusted vertex normal, it's half strength. it looks a lot more natural than the one you'd been using

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make sure you grab both files. don't ingest them, they're already ingested

rugged forum May 25, 2024, 1:53 AM

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ashen merlin that breaks everything

What does that break

ashen merlin May 25, 2024, 1:54 AM

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it's already visible in your picture

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it causes irregular shadows and.. a lot of issues

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rugged forum May 25, 2024, 2:48 AM

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Also what build doesn't have corruption?

rugged forum May 25, 2024, 3:56 AM

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Maybe this could help with the nightbarn menu https://github.com/yfaqh/Awesome-Scene-Text-Image-Super-Resolution

GitHub

GitHub - yfaqh/Awesome-Scene-Text-Image-Super-Resolution: A collect...

A collection of papers and resources on scene text image super-resolution. - yfaqh/Awesome-Scene-Text-Image-Super-Resolution

rugged forum May 25, 2024, 4:11 AM

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Works perfectly now but why is your cow texture here so low res compared to mine, I haven't replaced the albedo on it #1106420949257044061 message

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And how did youadd light to the nightbarn @ashen merlin ?

ashen merlin May 25, 2024, 4:58 AM

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rugged forum Works perfectly now but why is your cow texture here so low res compared to mine...

maybe from infinitecore's mod

rugged forum May 25, 2024, 4:59 AM

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probably

ashen merlin May 25, 2024, 4:59 AM

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rugged forum And how did youadd light to the nightbarn <@410198342300205066> ?

emissives. i posted my entire mod set in this channel at some point

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it has the custom replacement assets, lights, etc.

rugged forum May 25, 2024, 5:00 AM

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didn't you add a light to a mesh

ashen merlin May 25, 2024, 5:00 AM

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emissives are all we can use

rugged forum May 25, 2024, 5:00 AM

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and set it far away

ashen merlin May 25, 2024, 5:00 AM

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i added a mesh to another mesh. it prevents the light from bleeding in with culling

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i don't remember if that's in this mod pack or not

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https://cloud.kim2091.art/index.php/s/89szTsoNxibQsYD

Nextcloud

Barnyard_Remix_Tech_Demo_0.0.2.7z

Nextcloud - a safe home for all your data

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to be honest i don't really feel like packing up my entire setup

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just get a giant sphere mesh and add it to various meshes in the night barn. make sure you ONLY do this on interiors. doing it on exteriors will block the light from the skybox

rugged forum May 25, 2024, 5:03 AM

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ashen merlin to be honest i don't really feel like packing up my entire setup

You don't have to

rugged forum Jun 8, 2024, 8:51 AM

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dense wasp ah videos a pain. I just export the cow as the target mesh and open it in marmos...

Is this how you get smoth normals in game?

dense wasp Jun 8, 2024, 8:56 AM

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i took the unsmoothed cow and smoothed it's normals with an angle of 35 degrees, flipped it's normals as well cause they're backwards. then imported both into marmoset toolbag with the orignal rough one in the low polygon slot and the smothed normal one in the high polygon slot and baked normals with a very tight cage

dense wasp Jun 8, 2024, 9:31 AM

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rugged forum Is this how you get smoth normals in game?

sorry forgot to reply properly, I did this ^

rugged forum Jun 8, 2024, 9:41 AM

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dense wasp i took the unsmoothed cow and smoothed it's normals with an angle of 35 degrees,...

What did you smooth the normals with?

dense wasp Jun 8, 2024, 10:09 AM

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rugged forum What did you smooth the normals with?

Smoothing groups

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Edge smoothing Maya calls it. Not sure what it is in blender

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Apparently you define hard edges in blender

rugged forum Jun 8, 2024, 1:14 PM

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dense wasp Smoothing groups

What should the names of everything be in Maya?

dense wasp Jun 8, 2024, 1:16 PM

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Edge smoothing

rugged forum Jun 8, 2024, 1:16 PM

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I mean in the outliner

dense wasp Jun 8, 2024, 1:17 PM

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Anything you like I guess, your just after a texture ain't ya

rugged forum Jun 8, 2024, 1:18 PM

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Yeah It seems like it matters for Marmoset though because I'm only getting an empty normal map after baking

dense wasp Jun 8, 2024, 1:18 PM

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Names don't matter. check your uvs are there in 0-1 space

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They might be offset if I remember correctly

rugged forum Jun 8, 2024, 2:07 PM

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Alright that has fixed the issue. But the mesh I'm working with has an overlapping UV which seems to ruin the results

rugged forum Jun 8, 2024, 2:40 PM

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Annoyingly it appears that the UV wrapping for a lot of the barnyard characters overlap

dense wasp Jun 8, 2024, 2:46 PM

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yea it wont work where it overlaps i'm afraid, it's a half messure aint it

ashen merlin Jul 16, 2024, 11:22 PM

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on the latest dev builds, Barnyard crashes as soon as it gets into the main menu

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build 408 is still necessary

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buut the artifacts for it just expired on github

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recompressing it so i can upload it for you guys

ashen merlin Jul 17, 2024, 12:39 AM

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https://mega.nz/file/2N4glTgK#8kGKDpAh5uIxXziSUaQxJRazM_h5wA4pRTEUuE2ZJ1U

109.29 MB file on MEGA

ashen merlin Sep 7, 2024, 4:41 AM

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Barnyard does NOT upscale well at all

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otherwise i'd have just out out a simple upscale pack for people to mess with

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every single texture looks pretty bad when upscaled

rugged forum Sep 7, 2024, 1:53 PM

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How bad does it look?

dense wasp Sep 7, 2024, 4:27 PM

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Crack out ya paintbrush and get to work. Upscaling 🙄

ashen merlin Sep 7, 2024, 8:35 PM

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already was, but i don't have the time

dense wasp Sep 7, 2024, 8:38 PM

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No time for art 😔

ashen merlin Sep 7, 2024, 9:11 PM

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barely any time for life

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but Barnyard is just especially bad with upscaling results. and there really is the potential for good results when upscaling btw

namely what Nightraven is doing with PBRFusion. some of the results are pretty damn close to the full CC0 PBR assets i'd been using

ashen merlin Sep 24, 2024, 5:01 AM

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new table material, thanks to Quixel

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new stage too

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GTA barnyard

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new bench also (same as the table)

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and this game being what it is, the same material for the bench is used for some other tables, and the entire wood trim in the interior here

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and the bar lol

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and chairs

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and the pool table

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and the stairs

rugged forum Sep 24, 2024, 10:31 AM

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Woah, there is time for art?

ashen merlin Sep 25, 2024, 7:30 AM

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this was just a quick toss in from the Quixel assets i grabbed

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not much time for extra work here unfortunately

dense wasp Oct 4, 2024, 7:06 AM

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@ashen merlin do you have a stable model in your scene you could attach a mesh replacement to?

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Attach a giant sphere to it and add an HDR dds texture on the material. Then when your set up go back to game and mark the models original texture as sky with remix in game menu and your new giant sphere will also be treated as a sky.

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That original model you anchored your sky to is done for at this point but you got a HDR sky for your troubles 🙂

rugged forum Oct 4, 2024, 9:45 AM

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I think this was already done previously

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in some way

ashen merlin Oct 4, 2024, 12:02 PM

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dense wasp <@410198342300205066> do you have a stable model in your scene you could attach ...

lights and mesh attachments don't work in this game. it's not related to hashes at all actually, it's an issue with vertex shaders. Barnyard draws everything through shaders, and Remix doesn't support mesh replacements when that's the case 😦

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i appreciate the info though. i might still mess around with it and see how it works, even if it does just follow the player everywhere lol

dense wasp Oct 4, 2024, 12:12 PM

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Ah poop. Wolfenstein all over again

ashen merlin Oct 4, 2024, 12:18 PM

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https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/rtx-remix/issues/222

GitHub

[Feature] Add toggle to run replacement meshes through the vertex s...

I'm not quite sure how to describe this, Mark suggested it to be added in the context of Barnyard's light placement issues (#181). This should theoretically fix lighting placement. Refer to...

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this should fix it. give it a like please 😛

vivid falcon Oct 4, 2024, 1:33 PM

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ashen merlin lights and mesh attachments don't work in this game. it's not related to hashes ...

It was working when attached to the character model wasn't it?

ashen merlin Oct 4, 2024, 1:46 PM

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it only "worked" because it did what i intended it to do

i needed a sphere to follow the player around to prevent light bleed from culled areas

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the issue here is that if i attach a texture to it, the texture will move in line with the player, rather than staying still. so you'd only see one spot of the HDRI, and nothing else

ashen merlin Oct 4, 2024, 1:48 PM

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ashen merlin it only "worked" because it did what i intended it to do i needed a sphere to f...

oh also with this hacky workaround i did, i actually attached the sphere to other objects, not the player. otherwise it'd persist while outside as well, which i didn't want

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@dense wasp how do i assign the hdri? emissive?

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it's in .hdr format, not sure how to go about converting to dds

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i found your open issue about ingesting as BC6S. i did that through Nvidia's texture tools, but the mesh is still solid gray with no texture assigned

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dense wasp Oct 4, 2024, 3:46 PM

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ashen merlin it's in .hdr format, not sure how to go about converting to dds

oh sorry, no need for emissive

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and it looks grey in toolkit cause its not marked as sky yet. that gets fixed in game 🙂

ashen merlin Oct 4, 2024, 3:53 PM

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it doesn't work in-game either

dense wasp Oct 4, 2024, 4:10 PM

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even after you mark the original prop as sky?

ashen merlin Oct 4, 2024, 4:10 PM

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yup

dense wasp Oct 4, 2024, 4:10 PM

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poop

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its how i do mine as well as decals

rugged forum Oct 6, 2024, 1:32 PM

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https://youtu.be/-AjKwTEhHQQ not really remix related but I hope you find this interesting I've spent a lot of time loading the game up after making a simple change in remix

YouTube

InfiniteC0re

Barnyard Loading Times Fix

▶ Play video

ashen merlin Oct 6, 2024, 10:13 PM

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that's great! how does this work?

rugged forum Oct 7, 2024, 1:09 AM

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subtle pendant Oct 19, 2024, 10:19 AM

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Guys, uh, how is this project going? Asking for the greater good of the Empire

ashen merlin Oct 19, 2024, 6:55 PM

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sorry

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it's pretty much halted

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we're unable to replace meshes or place lights in-game, which limits the project way too much

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imo it's not really worth continuing until that's fixed

subtle pendant Oct 20, 2024, 11:02 AM

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thumbs_up_sad I hope it will continue, its one of my fav childhood games

rugged forum Oct 20, 2024, 12:00 PM

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Yeah I hope it eventually gets the support, but we've been here for over a year so

rugged forum Oct 20, 2024, 12:51 PM

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But if it ever does get fixed I see myself putting a lot of time into it

upper badger Jan 27, 2025, 2:47 AM

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hi 😄

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which of this game do i need download for rtx remix?

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i haven't ever played this game, but i wanna take screen shots for my friend who knows this game and surprise him with super realtistic graphics.

ashen merlin Jan 28, 2025, 3:53 PM

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1039166311181320272/1333826464340250798/trex_2025.01.28_-_10.49.13.01.mp4?ex=679a4e32&is=6798fcb2&hm=5776c2fbd87e900afa4adeac068e3bec210c4ca4b1e36525d9b9c3c6762069a7&

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ashen merlin Feb 25, 2025, 6:00 AM

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shadow cows

rugged forum Feb 25, 2025, 9:55 AM

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What happened?

ashen merlin Mar 5, 2025, 8:24 PM

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wow water textures work now

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and they're animated

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also NRC massively helps Barnyard: #showcase message

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i think i also forgot to showcase my work on the bridge texture here

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with Mark's help i fixed the heightmap, so it looks correct now

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this is what happens if you set the displacement strength too high 😛

ashen merlin Mar 5, 2025, 8:46 PM

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throwback

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this is how far we've come

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DLSS Quality looks basically identical to this

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you needed DLAA before

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DLSS Balanced even looks amazing

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640p looks better than native 1080p did

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insane

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gets insanely orange as the sun sets though lol

ashen merlin Mar 5, 2025, 10:31 PM

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📎 rtx.conf

ashen merlin Mar 5, 2025, 10:31 PM

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ashen merlin

rugged forum Mar 6, 2025, 12:32 AM

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What did I miss?

ashen merlin Mar 6, 2025, 12:37 AM

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#remix-updates

rugged forum Mar 6, 2025, 7:59 AM

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ashen merlin i think i also forgot to showcase my work on the bridge texture here

Very nice, what happened to the Coin ui?

ashen merlin Mar 6, 2025, 8:11 PM

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just didn't mark it

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i have UI off most of the time

dense wasp Mar 6, 2025, 10:24 PM

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hey i just added a massive inverted sphere into my scene, like MASSIVE. and it allowed me to have a fallback light as a sun AND the sky dome. not sure if thats an issue or not for barnyard but thought i should let you know

ashen merlin Mar 6, 2025, 10:26 PM

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i appreciate it, but barnyard has issues with replacements at all. a mesh like that would just be stuck to the player, and the esky would appear to be in the same position all the time 😦

rugged forum Mar 7, 2025, 1:43 AM

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ashen merlin i appreciate it, but barnyard has issues with replacements at all. a mesh like t...

Didn't you do it for the nightbarn?

ashen merlin Mar 7, 2025, 1:45 AM

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exploiting the issue intentionally, yes

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but it wouldn't work for simulating the sky, because the texture would follow the player around and look really trippy

ashen merlin Mar 7, 2025, 3:46 AM

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disabling the grass gets me nearly double the FPS lol

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wish so badly mesh replacements worked

rugged forum Mar 7, 2025, 5:48 AM

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MarkPlsFix

rugged forum Mar 7, 2025, 10:29 AM

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But yeah mesh replacements and lights are the reason I haven't done anything for a while

trim pond Mar 7, 2025, 8:09 PM

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@ashen merlin do you mind summarizing the sky / moon bugs you've been having? trying to understand, but the information is kinda hard to track down

ashen merlin Mar 7, 2025, 8:55 PM

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trim pond <@410198342300205066> do you mind summarizing the sky / moon bugs you've been ha...

sure. there's not much to the sky itself actually, most of the bugs lie in other parts of the game

basically: the skybox in this game is animated. it rotates, it has clouds that move, and the sun and moon slowly shift throughout the day or night. this, along with everything else in the game, is rendered through vertex shaders

since about 200 dxvk-remix builds ago, the sun/moon will now shake rapidly instead of... being normal. this happens only when DLSS or TAA-U are on. Nukem theorized that the jitter for those AA methods is being incorrectly applied to the sun/moon, considering it doesn't happen when temporal AA is disabled

and the other issue: the skybox as a whole smears with the new DLSS RR Transformer model. it doesn't happen with diamond_wallaby, but is a major issue with truthful_shrimp

trim pond Mar 7, 2025, 9:13 PM

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ashen merlin sure. there's not much to the sky itself actually, most of the bugs lie in other...

Thanks!

ashen merlin Mar 8, 2025, 10:19 PM

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📎 rtx.conf

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this conf fixes a LOT compared to the last good one

ashen merlin Mar 8, 2025, 10:24 PM

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ashen merlin

rugged forum Mar 9, 2025, 2:20 AM

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How'd you get the star and ring to work?

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Wasn't it tied with the sun or something

ashen merlin Mar 9, 2025, 2:33 AM

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that was about a year ago now

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i found out Remix was marking it as UI because of an auto detect thing. i turned that off and marked it all manually now

ashen merlin Mar 9, 2025, 2:34 AM

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ashen merlin

so this has all of the loading screens set (that i could find at least, no minigame ones) along with some other things fixed

ashen merlin Mar 10, 2025, 4:44 AM

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if anyone wants to, marking the loading screens (and keeping all other settings the same) would be appreciated

tame flume Mar 22, 2025, 4:00 AM

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ashen merlin sure. there's not much to the sky itself actually, most of the bugs lie in other...

So this is a really off the top of my head idea, something that might just be stupid to think. But...
Do you think it could be possible to have a helper program that you write yourself? One that basically reads the game info about time of day and feeds a functional skysphere to Remix, which you have the helper script be in full control of?

rugged forum Mar 22, 2025, 4:48 AM

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Well Infinitec0re does majority the barnyard modding

ashen merlin Mar 22, 2025, 4:53 AM

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tame flume So this is a really off the top of my head idea, something that might just be st...

that would be great, but really what we need is just to rewrite the renderer to avoid using vertex shaders for the geometry

i'm not sure how to do this, i know it'd be a big task. but it'd fix just about all of the issues this game has

edgy shard Mar 22, 2025, 6:33 AM

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ashen merlin that would be great, but really what we need is just to rewrite the renderer to ...

The shaders are decompiled so you can use this as a reference to rewrite it. There's an SDK in this repository with some examples of how mods can be created including an OpenGL renderer

https://github.com/InfiniteC0re/OpenBarnyard/blob/main/OpenBarnyard%2FSource%2FPlatform%2FDX8%2FAWorldShader%2FAWorldShader_DX8.cpp#L235

https://github.com/InfiniteC0re/OpenBarnyard/blob/main/OpenBarnyard%2FSource%2FPlatform%2FDX8%2FASkinShader%2FASkinShader_DX8.cpp#L254

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The sky doesn't use a custom vertex shader. The shader is ASysShader

Screenshot_2025-03-22-11-34-12-286_com.github.android-edit.jpg

ashen merlin Mar 22, 2025, 6:34 AM

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yeah the sky is the only thing that shows up when vertex shader handling is disabled in Remix

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that makes sense

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ty for the info

edgy shard Mar 22, 2025, 6:37 AM

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There's a low end mode for the skin shader which is not decompiled but it probably works in the original game. You just need to set a flag somewhere in the structure

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I don't think there is one for the world shader though

tame flume Mar 22, 2025, 1:30 PM

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You know... that probably explains what I saw back in the day. I remember I had an ultra-low-end PC at the time, and this game had no world geometry but grass, character models, and buildings rendered. If I recall it was a flat color sky too, but it's been a long time.

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I wonder if instead of an ulrta-low-end mode, it was attempting to load the shaders and failing?

edgy shard Mar 23, 2025, 5:52 AM

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tame flume I wonder if instead of an ulrta-low-end mode, it was attempting to load the shad...

I guess the developers forgot to implement the low end renderer for the world shader because it's just empty. The main reason to choose low end renderer is not having this flag:

#define D3DDEVCAPS_HWTRANSFORMANDLIGHT 0x00010000L /* Device can support transformation and lighting in hardware and DRAWPRIMITIVES2EX must be also */

vague drum Apr 4, 2025, 3:08 PM

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tame flume You know... that probably explains what I saw back in the day. I remember I had ...

I remember this happening on an old PC in 2007 as well, I think it had a Voodoo GPU

ashen merlin Jun 2, 2025, 1:40 PM

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hah

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imagine if this game won the competition

rugged forum Jun 3, 2025, 2:31 AM

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Got excited for a second

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But that'd be pretty funny

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Only if lights and meshes worked

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And some other things

ashen merlin Jun 5, 2025, 7:54 PM

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yeah

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lots of other things

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but it would be neat

ashen merlin Aug 19, 2025, 8:23 PM

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someone wanna test barnyard with the latest commit?

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can't use my PC rn (mobo died)

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https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/dxvk-remix/commit/0c328a7ca15c39ff36934fbd9cc28b736a104f29

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this can fix a lot of issues

lilac patrol Aug 19, 2025, 8:52 PM

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@ashen merlin

ashen merlin Aug 19, 2025, 8:57 PM

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that's really interesting

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never seen it like that

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fuck really wish i had my PC

lilac patrol Aug 19, 2025, 9:07 PM

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idk what i can show more

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from the start game doesnt want to raytrace

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i had to do some changes

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this one had to be unchecked

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ashen merlin Aug 19, 2025, 9:10 PM

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yeah

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if you use the pinned rtx.conf it should look a lot better

lilac patrol Aug 19, 2025, 9:11 PM

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capturing froze game

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with the config

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capturing the game froze it

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again

ashen merlin Aug 19, 2025, 9:14 PM

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lilac patrol

do you see foliage and stuff flickering while running?

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idk why capturing is causing issues though

lilac patrol Aug 19, 2025, 9:17 PM

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i see small flickers

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but it is propably mipmaps changing on the fly

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im just guessing

ashen merlin Aug 19, 2025, 9:18 PM

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no

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sadly that's an issue that's been around since this game first worked with remix

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was really hoping this would fix it

lilac patrol Aug 19, 2025, 9:19 PM

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maybe im doing something wrong

rugged forum Aug 20, 2025, 12:40 AM

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ashen merlin can't use my PC rn (mobo died)

Is the CPU okay?

ashen merlin Aug 20, 2025, 11:50 AM

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not sure yet 🙁

ashen merlin Oct 4, 2025, 11:50 AM

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does it look better than it used to?

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the bad news is it now crashes as soon as you alt tab

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ah okay nvm. dxwrapper's windowed mode was causing it

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unfortunately the game hasn't improved pretty much at all in the last 7 months since i last tested it

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sad, but not unexpected

rugged forum Oct 5, 2025, 4:17 AM

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Yeah I feel the only hope is a compatibility mod

weary inlet Oct 21, 2025, 8:09 PM

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ashen merlin the bad news is it now crashes as soon as you alt tab

Windowed??

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I love the way the colors look

ashen merlin Nov 20, 2025, 8:58 AM

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i swear it looks better than it used to, without changing any settings

ashen merlin Nov 20, 2025, 9:00 AM

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ashen merlin

before

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now

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😆 forgot i did this

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dense wasp Nov 20, 2025, 9:42 PM

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I gotta find someone as devoted to Me as Kim is to barnyard

graceful pollen Nov 20, 2025, 9:57 PM

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Kim to barnyard is me to rtcw

ashen merlin Nov 21, 2025, 12:59 AM

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dense wasp I gotta find someone as devoted to Me as Kim is to barnyard

~~i thought i found someone 😭~~

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tbh i don't have much interest anymore. i just check in once in a while to see if there's any compatibility improvement

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if mesh replacements become possible i MIGHT pursue it, but probably not tbh

graceful pollen Nov 21, 2025, 1:00 AM

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Is everything still unstable?

ashen merlin Nov 21, 2025, 1:01 AM

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afaik there haven't been any improvements regarding replacements with vertex shader rendered graphics, so yeah

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replacements still float and follow the camera instead of staying anchored in place 🙁

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i'd have to make a tool to replace meshes in the original engine if i wanted to get around this, and i just don't have the skills for that (or time to learn them)

graceful pollen Nov 21, 2025, 1:15 AM

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ashen merlin replacements still float and follow the camera instead of staying anchored in pl...

same issue here with minecraft story mode

ashen merlin Nov 21, 2025, 1:18 AM

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another one joins the parade

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that's likee 20 games now that have this issue afaik

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a lot more are going to be showing up with CR's camera injection thing

graceful pollen Nov 21, 2025, 4:23 AM

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Actually Kim have you seen mcsm (offtopic question im sorry) outside of the functioning parts

ashen merlin Nov 21, 2025, 4:25 AM

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i've seen a lot of your posts about it

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buut that's all

graceful pollen Nov 21, 2025, 4:25 AM

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Ah

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Yeah gotta love the 2 sides of a coin aspect

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Oh wow vs oh wow

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Sorry ill stop yapping

ashen merlin Nov 21, 2025, 4:27 AM

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lol it's fine dw. idc if there's off topic stuff in this thread

ashen merlin Nov 21, 2025, 4:28 AM

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graceful pollen Oh wow vs oh wow

this is like 99% of my projects tbh

graceful pollen Nov 21, 2025, 4:28 AM

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Yeahhh same

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I never end up choosing anything that just works

ashen merlin Nov 21, 2025, 4:33 AM

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😆 if only

rugged forum Nov 21, 2025, 7:27 AM

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I'll become devoted to this when mesh replacements and lights work (mainly the lights)

ashen merlin Nov 21, 2025, 4:09 PM

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if one works, the other will too

ashen merlin Nov 30, 2025, 2:55 AM

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https://www.moddb.com/mods/barnyard-rtx-remix

ModDB

Barnyard RTX Remix mod

This is just a small demo of Barnyard with RTX Remix. It's not fully compatible due to the terrain being rendered through vertex shaders, but I've remastered multiple textures and did some emissive lighting for the night barn.

ashen merlin Jan 16, 2026, 10:51 PM

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so, barnyard rtx is a bit more viable now thanks to some stuff that's happened in the modding scene

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won't fix the major compatibility issues, but it can help some with visual quality

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we can now replace models and textures for the main character and NPCs in-engine. so we could have a high(er) poly model and then add the texture in remix

rugged forum Jan 17, 2026, 10:51 AM

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Finally, good to hear there is progress being made on Barnyard. Would the new remix logic have any use in Barnyard?

ashen merlin Jan 17, 2026, 2:17 PM

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rugged forum Finally, good to hear there is progress being made on Barnyard. Would the new re...

nothing that would be particularly useful right now. i could see a few things maybe being possible in the night barn, or in some mini games. but they'd just be minor additions

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maybe could be used to fix the weather effects though

ashen merlin Jan 24, 2026, 5:16 AM

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we can restore all of the bink videos now

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some of them are pretty badly compressed

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this frame is from the attract.bik file

input | output

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color shift is intentional. the bink encoding process causes a lot of raised black levels and such

rugged forum Jan 24, 2026, 8:15 AM

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What is this?

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I wonder how this would look futher upscaled

ashen merlin Jan 24, 2026, 8:20 AM

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rugged forum What is this?

a model i'm training on my new video upscaling/restoration architecture

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it'll be released for public use soon

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i will make a tutorial for it

rugged forum Jan 24, 2026, 8:20 AM

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nice is it 480p?

ashen merlin Jan 24, 2026, 8:21 AM

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this model only runs at 1x, so it's not upscaling. whatever the original video res was, it stays as

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it just removes the compression and adds more detail where it was missing

rugged forum Jan 24, 2026, 8:22 AM

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I don't remember the videos being that compressed

ashen merlin Jan 24, 2026, 8:23 AM

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ashen merlin Jan 24, 2026, 8:23 AM

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rugged forum I don't remember the videos being that compressed

they're not too bad. better than most games. but it's definitely visible in spots

compact niche Jan 24, 2026, 8:23 AM

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holy pog

ashen merlin Jan 24, 2026, 8:24 AM

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haven't seen u in a while, hai

compact niche Jan 24, 2026, 8:24 AM

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lol hello to you as well

rugged forum Jan 24, 2026, 8:24 AM

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ashen merlin

I can really see the improvement here, amazing. Was this model intended to be used for games?

ashen merlin Jan 24, 2026, 8:25 AM

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ashen merlin Jan 24, 2026, 8:25 AM

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rugged forum I can really see the improvement here, amazing. Was this model intended to be us...

yeah. i trained it on game footage

compact niche Jan 24, 2026, 8:26 AM

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do you end up converting the bik files at all?

ashen merlin Jan 24, 2026, 8:26 AM

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you mean the ones being restored?

compact niche Jan 24, 2026, 8:26 AM

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nvm

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@rugged forum has informned me it takes the mkv now lol

rugged forum Jan 24, 2026, 8:26 AM

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Is this the highest resolution you've tried so far?

ashen merlin Jan 24, 2026, 8:27 AM

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to put the videos back in the game, they'd have to be reconverted to bink. but they can be encoded at a higher bitrate so it looks better than it originally did

ashen merlin Jan 24, 2026, 8:27 AM

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rugged forum Is this the highest resolution you've tried so far?

the architecture i made can go all the way up to 4x. i haven't tried making an upscaling model for bink yet though

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someone made an anime model on it (unreleased as of rn): https://slow.pics/c/jGngLIex?image-fit=contain

tfdat | Slowpoke Pics

Slowpoke Pics image comparison service

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so it can definitely do more than what it's doing here

rugged forum Jan 24, 2026, 8:28 AM

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I wonder how well it'd do for other things like music videos

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mainly older ones

ashen merlin Jan 24, 2026, 8:28 AM

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works great on those too. someone else trained a model for that

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removes rainbowing, dot crawl, compression, and more

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the arch can handle a lot

compact niche Jan 24, 2026, 8:29 AM

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rugged forum mainly older ones

bro gonna upsacle the cars videos lol

compact niche Jan 24, 2026, 8:29 AM

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ashen merlin works great on those too. someone else trained a model for that

got a link?

ashen merlin Jan 24, 2026, 8:30 AM

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also a private model rn 🙁

compact niche Jan 24, 2026, 8:30 AM

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wrong gif lol

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https://tenor.com/view/pepe-smoking-sadge-pepe-smoking-pepe-sadge-gif-11593451519029497030

Tenor

ashen merlin Jan 24, 2026, 8:31 AM

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it's because it's trained on licensed stuff

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legit reason sadly

compact niche Jan 24, 2026, 8:31 AM

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dang

ashen merlin Jan 24, 2026, 8:31 AM

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there will be more models for it soon

compact niche Jan 24, 2026, 8:31 AM

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pog

ashen merlin Jan 24, 2026, 8:31 AM

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the one i'm training rn included

compact niche Jan 24, 2026, 8:31 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/hell-yeah-thats-what-im-talking-about-kevin-malone-the-office-gif-17805914

Tenor

ashen merlin Jan 24, 2026, 8:33 AM

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it'll be easy to use the model

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i have a gui and everything

compact niche Jan 24, 2026, 8:34 AM

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damn

rugged forum Jan 24, 2026, 8:34 AM

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interesting

ashen merlin Jan 24, 2026, 8:39 AM

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pretty happy with it overall

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works even better on other games

ashen merlin Feb 20, 2026, 4:49 AM

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#Barnyard