Lego Batman 1

[dreamy helm]

nobody even once said "these are being used"

[rain ore]

that doesn't take vram big dog, I think you shouldn't be commenting on this

[lofty swallow]

meshes do take up vram?

[severe shoal]

Yeah the problem is my 60k triangles

[rain ore]

I would bet my entire life's savings that those tri counts have such an infinitely tiny increase in VRAM that it might as well not be there

technically the more characters I type into the discord chat box the more RAM discord is using. Should I care? No

the real performance concern would be in rendering the tri count. But because we're using pathtracing that's a non issue

geometry can be much more dense without any perf impact compared to rasterization

[lofty swallow]

i understand that which is why i said vram and not performance specificly

[severe shoal]

Oh what is an issue then? Apart from path tracing

[dreamy helm]

im glad auto stepped in, based on me not knowing enough about the rendering side of things, I wont pretend to know something just to sound smart lol

[rain ore]

I threw a 100K faceplate mesh in my project just out of boredom and there was no perceivable drop in performance from the couple hundred tri original

[lofty swallow]

was there a vram usage spike at all?

[dreamy helm]

hmm idk... doesnt seem high enough to me

[rain ore]

VRAM on meshes is a non-issue since textures are overwhelmingly going to have the highest impact on vram

[dreamy helm]

maybe subd it 3 times and watch a nice firework show

[rain ore]

I added an 8 million tri mesh of hay once

[dreamy helm]

oof

[rain ore]

fps dropped by like 20 or 30 lol. It was still playable

[severe shoal]

Your poor pc

[rain ore]

iirc it was still over 60fps

[severe shoal]

Blender would just freeze for me

[dreamy helm]

lmaoo

[lofty swallow]

ok thats my bad then. thanks for letting me know

[rain ore]

blender would lol

funnily enough perf scales better with tri counts in remix than blender

[severe shoal]

Why?

[rain ore]

pathtracing has different perf scaling compared to rasterization

[severe shoal]

But no lighting is being applied?

In material mode

[dreamy helm]

Should we use this mesh for the project?

[severe shoal]

Ok how is blender not crasing for that?

[rain ore]

I watched a whole video on it but tri counts are a serious concern in modern game dev because modern games are rasterized or at the very least they're using a hybrid with RT on top. Remix is 100% pathtraced, it's not a hybrid system

[dreamy helm]

Lmaooo

[lofty swallow]

employees at blind squirrel studios will look at this and call it acceptable

[dreamy helm]

wait mb, I forgot to apply the subd

[severe shoal]

Blender crashes when I delete 1 vertice

[rain ore]

put a subd on the subd

[dreamy helm]

some assets in fnaf security breach are unnecessarily high

[rain ore]

^ yeah I've seen that lol

[lofty swallow]

i need wireframes

[dreamy helm]

here ya go

[lofty swallow]

which ones in particular

[dreamy helm]

thats the wireframe

[lofty swallow]

zamn

lmao

[dreamy helm]

struggling

19,398,656 tris

[severe shoal]

Why do people need to send viruses to crash a pc, just send them that

[dreamy helm]

lmao

[severe shoal]

Anyway do you want to work on the project? I don't have anything that needs doing right now but if I do can I dm you?

[dreamy helm]

moving into edit mode from object view took a good 14-15 seconds

I stopped my stopwatch at 14.75 seconds but I may have been a tad slow

[severe shoal]

I remember waiting over 2 hours to go to edit more, memory full and eventually I gave up

[dreamy helm]

lmao

What for?

[severe shoal]

It wasn't even that many, it was just too many bounding boxes

Auto figured it out, I can't explain

[dreamy helm]

you-... you used instances... right?

[severe shoal]

Most of the 13 hours working on it was just my pc loading

[severe shoal]

Yes

[dreamy helm]

wild

[severe shoal]

Now it runs without any impact on performance

[severe shoal]

?

[dreamy helm]

Just so you know, the reason im pining for "enough" detail is to get something that looks like this

this is really low poly too, compared to previous models

[severe shoal]

Goddamn

It looks like plastic

[dreamy helm]

You wanna make sure you have enough edges circular

but those beveled edges are super low poly

im using weighted normals

idk how it works but weighted normals just makes the normals better

this is without weighted normals

[severe shoal]

Yep, they fix a ton of shading issues caused by remix capturing

[dreamy helm]

Yeah

[severe shoal]

Not bad

[dreamy helm]

Yeha but this one is better lol

the 2nd one makes the flat faces look slightly convex

[severe shoal]

Yeah ofc. Why does it not have any reflection on the side though?

Oh it does, just not as much

[dreamy helm]

erm

something to do with Fresnel?

the angle of reflection can alter how much you see

[dreamy helm]

Red Brick

[rain ore]

[wild lily]

welp i wasnt satisfied

[dreamy helm]

I have to modify this to have nice bevels/edges

looking pretty nice

[severe shoal]

Very nice

[lament swift]

It looks crazy.

[dreamy helm]

in a good way? haha

[lament swift]

Yes.

[dreamy helm]

ty

[amber shale]

this almost looks like a irl piece placed on a table, can't make out if it's real or a render

[dreamy helm]

real would have way more scratches lol

mine is perfectly smooth

thats deffo one way to tell

[severe shoal]

Holy shit I am so excited to add that

[rain ore]

this looks incredible. Well done. I like the subtle sparkly material effect going on too

[dreamy helm]

Oh?

There's no material

[rain ore]

actually that's just noise in the render isn't it

[dreamy helm]

Other than full gloss and a pure colour

[dreamy helm]

Haha yeah probably

[rain ore]

I noticed the second image had more of it so I was like

the one time noise actually looked neat lol

[dreamy helm]

Hah yeah

[severe shoal]

Not finished

I decided on keeping the plastic instead of having realistic materials such as metal for these canisters but use pbr plastic instead of a single colour like the original game. It should hopefully be apparent enough that it is plastic so it is breakable

[severe shoal]

Added Harleys Mallet in Poison Ivy's Lair to show off their beautiful relationship in the animated tv series

even though Harley Quinn isn't in the level

[severe shoal]

What do people like?? The animated series, Christopher Nolan movies, previous movies, Arkham games, comics? What made you interested in Batman and how much of a fan would you describe yourself as?

[dreamy helm]

For me, my first batman memory has to actually be Lego Batman 1

My first memory of it is VERY early, I played it on a store console lmao

Meaning it probably only just released??? Or was soon to come out

And then my dad eventually got the game (it was the 2 pack of Lego Batman and... I think it was Pure as the 2nd game)

And then after that, I started getting into the Arkham Games

[severe shoal]

The Arkham games are brilliant

When I saw the next Arkham game would be vr 😭

LB was also one of my first games. I had to wait a year between playing it as it was in my grandparents house in Malaysia on the ps2 but eventually I completed it

[dreamy helm]

I have VR but i've been waiting too long for a flat arkham game

I'm not willing to spend as much on a VR game as I would a flat game either, you spend less time in VR generally

[dreamy helm]

Could you maybe send me this capture please?

I dont need it exported to a file type that blender can read btw, it can natively read USD files haha

[dreamy helm]

Also I have no clue where all this light is coming from, my sky lighting has been set to 0 temporarily

[severe shoal]

You need to turn off fallback lighting under parameter tuning

Does the toolkit work for you now??

[dreamy helm]

nope

Mystical road

[dreamy helm]

this is what it looks like if I move slightly further up

[severe shoal]

It looks like you've set one too many UI elements so rasterisation is breaking I think

[dreamy helm]

I have not, in fact lol

I've set the studs, heart icons and character circles

and the main menu logo

[severe shoal]

Try taking off the studs

[rain ore]

The studs might be it

[severe shoal]

Auto I swear you just appear out of nowhere lmao 😂 You are everywhere

[dreamy helm]

it was a half black half yellow texture

[rain ore]

I'm not beating the discord mod allegations

[dreamy helm]

idk what that texture is used for, I assumed it was for the true hero meter

[rain ore]

Could be a shader. If you set shaders as UI it breaks stuff

[severe shoal]

Are you just playing around in remix or looking to enhance some assets?

[rain ore]

You could always give him your rtx.conf

[severe shoal]

I was just going to suggest I package the mod but I don't know if they are interested in playing

Let me find it

[dreamy helm]

I cannot enhance assets, as my remix toolkit doesnt work

lol

[rain ore]

It's probably not worth packaging the mod at this point, stuff is a little all over the place isn't it

[rain ore]

AMD card?

[dreamy helm]

nope

4090

[rain ore]

Welp

[dreamy helm]

the toolkit itself works

its just the creation of the projects using the wizard

I've been able to make them manually occasionally

[rain ore]

That part can be pretty finicky. It really doesn't like it if you don't do it in specific ways it likes

[dreamy helm]

wdym? doesnt it tell you exactly how to do it? lol

[rain ore]

Bad UX, it doesn't warn what will bother it

[dreamy helm]

what I mean is, it tells you how to do it, then you do it or else it wont let you proceed

[rain ore]

I have my projects in my documents folder. Documents\RemixProjects\ insert project name without spaces

[rain ore]

That's what I mean

It won't proceed if you don't do what it wants and it doesn't always specify clearly when it gives an error

[severe shoal]

I can give you my project files and you can just insert them?

Mod directory is 135Gb but I can take out some unnecessary things

[dreamy helm]

WHAT

[rain ore]

Jesus Christ

[rain ore]

No bad

[severe shoal]

I've been busy modding hahaha

[severe shoal]

Ok

[rain ore]

If you're gonna share the project as-is then package it in the Remix toolkit

It should only package what it needs

[severe shoal]

Ok

Its given me this but I can fix it

[severe shoal]

How large is your project directory? You've got a big game?

I thought it would be much larger

[rain ore]

I imagine it's much smaller. Since you have blender files there with textures included right

[severe shoal]

Yeah and I don't even use some of the textures, they are just for testing

Also I have split my project up to be organised but its a real problem with file size

How do you organise your project levels?

[dreamy helm]

Do you have a USDA for your project? just that one file on its own?

like whats the file size of that

[severe shoal]

One sec I'll give you those

[dreamy helm]

hmm, didnt seem to open

"mod.usda has a reserved name in filename"

[severe shoal]

Let me just package the mod

Its 4gb

I will upload to google drive

[dreamy helm]

oh

thats pretty small

[severe shoal]

Yep

I'm not sure it even used the latest versions of the files because it was asking me for previous iterations of replacements

[dreamy helm]

idm lol

i'll likely make my own assets, if thats what you mean

[severe shoal]

No I'm just saying it might not look how I intended it to

[dreamy helm]

ah

[severe shoal]

Could you share the minikit you built please?

[dreamy helm]

Sure

Is it okay if I send the raw blend file?

[severe shoal]

Yeah that's great

Can you make sure textures are included in it pls?

[dreamy helm]

I dont have any textures

its just material nodes atm

I'm not a texturer lol, so I didnt apply any

[severe shoal]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19jOdPj4dytX-N7z7EdLzUn0YHy1ikl22/view?usp=sharing

[dreamy helm]

I was just having some minor issues with the minikit lol, it was showing me the original model before I modified it

I think i've fixed it though

lmk if there are any issues with it

[severe shoal]

Thanks

Let me know if you can reuse the mod

[dreamy helm]

Nope, I dont seem to be able to

I tried clicking Edit instead, to see if I could just edit yours and it came up with this

I think i'll stick to just being the modeller/exporting assets to use

[severe shoal]

Moving water thanks to happysufigee, Rune and Uncle Burrito and Mark

[rain ore]

Wow you have a lot more updated assets than I was expecting. Road looks great

I'm guessing the lighting is unfinished since it looks a bit awkward angle wise

[severe shoal]

Thanks. I’ve barely replaced anything in that shot, the water does a lot of the heavy lifting. What did you think of my previous photos?

[severe shoal]

What should be adjusted?

[rain ore]

Haven't looked over the shots too much. As for the lighting, it feels like it's at too sharp of an angle and is unnaturally dark

There should probably be a bit more glow/strength to it, and the angle should be raised so its less harsh

[severe shoal]

Ok I can try. The light is coming from the lighthouse so I can try and raise it and shift the moon so it isn’t behind that. There is also blue moonlight coming from the left

I can’t raise it too much though because you can barely see it on screen now and the camera doesn’t move up that far

[severe shoal]

I’ve decided to create a scavenger hunt!

So people can truly look around at the beautiful world instead of only playing the game.

It’s going to be one significant item or reference to the boss at the end of that specific level, for true Batman fans. I'm hoping because the Lego community loves collecting things like minikits, red bricks and stud completions they will like this added feature! I will create two spreadsheets that I will post on the mod page for you to write what you think they are and then check them against the other spreadsheet at the end

[severe shoal]

It was so hard trying to make this building look like a bank and not a evil lair while also showing its on lockdown

[severe shoal]

The Floor is Acid (not my texture)

[severe shoal]

I am so burnt out after doing this

[dreamy helm]

oof, I do not like that wall lmao

[severe shoal]

Oof, I do not like you. Jk. What would you like me to change it to?

I spent ages trying to find a wall. It was first black marble but that made it seem like an evil lair

What do you not like about it?

[dreamy helm]

Wait, you're trying to make it look like an evil lair?

I thought you werent at first lol

also im sorry if my comment sounded super negative

I didnt mean it that way

Hold on lemme find a picture of the original look

[severe shoal]

I know I’m sorry if my comments seemed negative, I don’t know how to talk lol. I do want to know how to improve the game

[dreamy helm]

basically, my issue with it is that it looks way too bright? and non metallic

[severe shoal]

Yeah I don’t. Black makes it look like an evil layer but I’m aiming for Fort Knox

[dreamy helm]

Can you send a screenshot of the original look?

i'll also aim to find one

this is one ig lol

[dreamy helm]

Can you send me the texture for the original?

[severe shoal]

You want to upscale it?

[dreamy helm]

no

I just want to see what I can do with it

[dreamy helm]

the thing is, why is there no lighting on it?

I feel like there needs to be better scene lighting

[severe shoal]

In this?

I've got high quality pbr stone if you want?

It might be better to start fresh

[dreamy helm]

Wdym?

[severe shoal]

You want to see what you can do with the original texture but it like 512x512 which is really low. So you might see higher quality results by finding a similar texture with more data and modifying it to match the original

[dreamy helm]

are you sure?

[severe shoal]

It was just a suggestion 😭

Ok I'll try that texture and we can see what it looks like

[dreamy helm]

im not being mean

but from all my time as a 3d artist, some textures just look bad

nothing you can do about it sometimes

normal maps look messed up, roughness can have the wrong values... etc

theres also a chance that its the ingame lighting messing up the texture though

[severe shoal]

Is it not shiny enough?

[dreamy helm]

I made a new roughness

[dreamy helm]

it just looks like a diffuse slapped on a wall

because either the texture isnt reflective enough, or the lighting ingame is bad

[severe shoal]

What do you think?

[dreamy helm]

hmm

no its definitely the ingame lighting messing it up

[severe shoal]

That is with fake lighting. I can change it to use the ingame lighting

I can also change the roughness amount

[dreamy helm]

yeah idk

something is happening ingame that makes the materials look flat

[amber shale]

I see a repeat, is it a tiled texture?

I happen to have a concrete material if the intended look was supposed to be it, but I'm not sure if it would get a repeat like this one

[dreamy helm]

its the original texture

with new roughness and normal maps

[amber shale]

Ah

Seems okay then

[amber shale]

Oh man, this part needs UV editing

[severe shoal]

It was originally like that for the metal. Do you guys think stone looks better or another metal?

[amber shale]

What's the original texture look like

[severe shoal]

.

[rain ore]

I think this texture looks pretty good actually. You know what you could do, rotate each of the texture maps 90° so the orientation matches the original game. Also means you won't get that weird warping effect on the right side of the building since it being horizontal will hide it

[severe shoal]

Ok

[dreamy helm]

yeah it looks good, but I feel like its not making use of any nice RT effects

since theres no light on it

yk?

[amber shale]

Afaik, this can only happen if that side of the wall is a different object, which it isn't I think

[rain ore]

There's light but I think if those are rectangular lights I'm seeing, they might not be the play. Sphere lights would do better if you want a slightly more dramatic look

Also increasing the depth of the height with the values in the Remix toolkit would also make it more likely to play off of the light neatly

[dreamy helm]

I mean that the texture looks flat, since theres no reflection or anything

[severe shoal]

No I can rotate UV's within an object

[rain ore]

Not even UVs, the literal texture map itself

[dreamy helm]

I mean if you compare it to this, because its placed in a way so you can see where the light is coming from

the light would need to be behind the camera facing the wall

I suppose

[rain ore]

Ohhh I see what you mean now

I think sphere lights + adjusting the roughness to have more contrast would accomplish that

Then again idk if it needs specular to look good overall. Like the metal where the lights are sitting on will definitely have that once there's PBR on it

[severe shoal]

What do you want the sphere lights to be in game?

[severe shoal]

I'll place the moon behind the camera

[severe shoal]

What do you mean it pbr rip

[rain ore]

I mean swapping out the rectangular lights you have now with using sphere lights instead. I don't think it's all that necessary but it might make it look a little more dramatic since the light is coming from a single point

[rain ore]

Like once you have a new texture on it

[severe shoal]

This part?

[amber shale]

Looks aight

[severe shoal]

Forgot the height map

Probably could reduce it more

[amber shale]

Just a tiny bump is enough

Nothing extreme

Something like this

[rain ore]

That looks a lot nicer yeah. I thought it wasn't PBR bc of the lack of height + the rough ess of it is super consistent. It's fine it just threw me off lol

[severe shoal]

You are right that does look a lot better. Modding for me is basically trying everything then realising you should go back to what you originally had

I'll check it to sphere lights I forgot and the moonlight

[amber shale]

What are these

[severe shoal]

Forgot to make them double sided

[severe shoal]

Do you think it looks more dramatic?

I haven't made the spotlights double sided

[amber shale]

Remove the square too which is protruding from the sides

Oh wait

[severe shoal]

Its actually the vent behind it. It was causing problems after ingesting so I got rid of it. You can't see it when playing

[amber shale]

You cut a hole in geometry hence the square

[severe shoal]

I'm doing a second pass when I complete the game

Then hopefully getting people to test it, then release it to the public, then tidy the non essential parts up

[rain ore]

Honestly yeah. Might wanna increase the displacement on the wall so there's a higher chance of small shadows forming

[rain ore]

Looks pretty great overall. Would love to see it with a rocky texture on the mountain there

[severe shoal]

I don't have a displacement map for it. @dreamy helm Could you use your magic process please 🙏

[dreamy helm]

er

height maps are harder to make because they have to be pretty precise lol

[severe shoal]

Oh

[dreamy helm]

if you can send me the texture though, i'll take a look

[rain ore]

True but this texture would be quite easy

[severe shoal]

Its the texture you gave me

[dreamy helm]

for the rock?

[severe shoal]

Yes, the wall

[severe shoal]

.

[dreamy helm]

... wasnt Auto talking about the mountain?

[dreamy helm]

here?

[rain ore]

Displacement on the wall

The rocky mountain doesn't have any new texture yet

[dreamy helm]

yeah ik, which is why I thought Frisser was responding to that

[severe shoal]

Sorry

[dreamy helm]

Could you send me that rock texture though?

[rain ore]

Lol just a simple order of messages thing

[dreamy helm]

just to see if I can do anything with it?

[dreamy helm]

Yeah lol

[rain ore]

Imo the rock texture looks generic enough that you could probably find a really great material on PolyHaven or AmbientCG

[dreamy helm]

true

[rain ore]

In fact I'm gonna look bc I'm curious what I can find

[dreamy helm]

same

[severe shoal]

lol dw. Also blenderkit is pretty great

[dreamy helm]

I found 3 already

[severe shoal]

Yes I was going to use one online

[dreamy helm]

https://ambientcg.com/view?id=Rock050 https://ambientcg.com/view?id=Rock020 https://ambientcg.com/view?id=Rock030

the texture looks generic enough that you could use any one of these

[severe shoal]

Rock 030 looks the best

I'll use that

[dreamy helm]

https://ambientcg.com/view?id=Rock019 also saw this one

looks a bit too light though I think

[severe shoal]

Yeah

[dreamy helm]

https://ambientcg.com/view?id=Rock022 this one is pretty similar to 30

but straight

combined with the natural geometry of the mesh

it could look pretty nice

[rain ore]

Well there goes my efforts lol. I think rock 50 is a safe bet since it's not too structured and will had lots of nice displacement

[dreamy helm]

you think?

I think any of them will work tbh lol

except maybe Rock 19, purely because it seems a bit too light

[rain ore]

They'll all work but in my experience when texturing old meshes you're at the mercy of what will look good with the geometry

The more generic the better I've found

https://polyhaven.com/a/stone_tile_wall
Ignore if your happy with the wall of the building, but I think this could look excellent there

@severe shoal

[severe shoal]

Thanks I'll try it

[dreamy helm]

Yeah that looks pretty nice

Could possibly edit the colour to more closely match the original though, perhaps

[severe shoal]

Yes i will

[rain ore]

This is probably the download setup you'd wanna roll with

[amber shale]

I have a rock texture laying around. This one I made in designer

[rain ore]

I think that looks too stylized/for a specific kind of rock

[severe shoal]

Remember when you said Don't overload the guy. Yeahhhh

[amber shale]

It is actually stylised

You want yourself a cliff rock to be exact

[amber shale]

Rock050 is also good

[severe shoal]

Yeah the one I used didn't work, not seamless enough

[rain ore]

It's probably more confusing to figure out the right way to download tbf lol

[severe shoal]

Dw I am well versed in all free texture and model sites on the internet lol

[rain ore]

Valid

I should probably do it more tbh

The amount of time it saves is ungodly

[amber shale]

The attribution section is gonna be insane. If it were me I'd probably lose count of all the materials I've obtained

[severe shoal]

Yep. No way I could complete this project with free materials online

[severe shoal]

Hahahaha I’ve got a text file

And a text file for all the things I think I can use in the future

[severe shoal]

Bow down at the awesomeness of Dave

If you want to know why I did this, idk

Its in a bank

Or I could make it Gotham related?

Actually I will make it the actors of Batman

[rain ore]

I like Dave personally but I wonder what the others would look like

[dreamy helm]

oh, are they ai generated lmao

[severe shoal]

Yes lmao. What do you think?

[dreamy helm]

eh

im opposed to using AI in commercial products

but I feel like a bitch if I tell you not to use it

I saw that??

[severe shoal]

It's just once for fun, its not meant to be realistic

[dreamy helm]

my cat was climbing over my keyboard

[severe shoal]

Same

[dreamy helm]

no im sorry, but I dont want you calling me that

[severe shoal]

I'm sorry

[dreamy helm]

I dont believe that

tbh

[severe shoal]

I mean it with all my heart and I actually am sad you don't believe me

[dreamy helm]

then maybe dont call people a bitch

[severe shoal]

because it is very important to me that we have a good friendship

Ok sorry

[dreamy helm]

you wouldnt like it if I called you an a** hole out of nowhere then deleted it to "hide the evidence"

I had to censor that word because the server doesnt approve of it

[severe shoal]

I am not trying to hide it. It is meant to express that it is my inner monologue (sarcastically) having an outburst

[dreamy helm]

people usually dont call other people a bitch randomly, unless they truly think that

[severe shoal]

I would never call someone something if they had no expressed it first. I was agreeing (sarcastically). I will never be sarcastic from now on. I do want you to trust me (for no insidious reason) and I can see why this would not have helped

[dreamy helm]

"(for no insidious reason)"

sure

[severe shoal]

I am not sure what insidious reason there could be? Except for having an Ah ha tricked you moment, which has happened to me many times and I hate it

[dreamy helm]

its a mystery

[severe shoal]

I'm sorry if you don't trust me, truly. I don't think there is anything else I can say. People are horrible and you shouldn't trust them so I understand

[severe shoal]

99% PBR

So many more asset's than I expected. I did this entire scene today, been working all day. Its 3am so goodnight

[severe shoal]

@rain ore What do you think?

I took inspiration from The Dark Knight and the green is from Matrix because of that awesome shootout in a similar high security area

[amber shale]

https://tenor.com/view/neo-trinity-neotrin666-gif-22411913

[severe shoal]

Yesssssssssss he knows

[severe shoal]

What do you think of the rest of it?

[amber shale]

I'm looking at the screenshots,looks good

What is this

[severe shoal]

A skylight

[rain ore]

is there toxic stuff on the ground? curious about the glow

[severe shoal]

Yes its all toxic. It's basically the floor is Lava in a game

[amber shale]

No I mean the boxes hanging above

[severe shoal]

Rip one of the first models I make 😢😂

A lantern

[severe shoal]

After this

[amber shale]

Pretty sure it's not a box

But still good effort

[severe shoal]

They will have subsurface scattering or emissive lighting

[amber shale]

Ugh I need to watch the opening scene for TDK

[severe shoal]

That's just what I was thinking

I was sitting on a plane next to this young kid and he said he hadn't seen the trilogy because the start of Batman Begins is boring and I thought you won't find the start of the Dark Knight boring

[severe shoal]

Can you help me with subsurface lighting tomorrow please?

And I was wondering if we could make some bubbling effects for the toxic waste!

When I started the scene I thought it was boring because this was next

[amber shale]

Hmm. Possible

We can try that

[severe shoal]

Rooftops

[severe shoal]

Current scene has so many building, I’m basically building a city so get ready to see buildings. As always if someone could help with the toolkit that would be much appreciated

[winter maple]

FYI: https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/rtx-remix/issues/414#issuecomment-2356836253

[severe shoal]

I am so giddy from excitement

https://tenor.com/view/at-last-morpheus-laurence-fishburne-the-matrix-finally-gif-22197064

[severe shoal]

Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiixed

https://tenor.com/view/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs-enough-to-make-a-grown-man-cry-police-officer-make-a-man-cry-gif-15227532

The pain it was causing

Before

After

[rain ore]

Dreams really do come true

[severe shoal]

I would say god or whatever forgot to punish me but yeah 😂

Its given me the inspiration to try again. I've been off for a couple of days

If you think this blender addon would be beneficial please give it a thumbs up or something! https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/rtx-remix/issues/617

[rain ore]

Seconded. Some sort of blender addon for quicker iteration and implementation would increase the speed of development by so much it's not even funny

[severe shoal]

Yes indeed. And not to mention the lack of motivation I have from having to constantly import every little object

[severe shoal]

Do you guys think people on the server will test other people’s mods to help?

I’m worried not many will test and I’ll release an unpolished mod

[rain ore]

You have over 30 people here, I have no doubt one or two would playtest

I have about 70-80 people in my thread iirc, and I was able to play test with 5 different people without having to work for it

[severe shoal]

Would people test even if they have never played the game before and just like remix? I’m hoping for 10 people who can provide detailed feedback at least

This would be when the mod is pretty much complete

[rain ore]

If it's that much farther along then I think people interested in Remix in general would be willing to test it, yeah

Only obstacle is just getting the game but I imagine it's dirt cheap on sale

[severe shoal]

If there is a discount sale it’s like £4 but I don’t know how often there is a sale

[severe shoal]

Moving into Uni accommodation tomorrow! I will be more busy from now on

[amber shale]

Good luck

[wild lily]

Good luck

[lament swift]

Good luck!

[severe shoal]

❤️🫡

3 hours sleep lfg

[severe shoal]

I ran through it quite fast

[severe shoal]

I’m working on improving it but I spent many hours yesterday and today on it and I hate it

[dreamy helm]

Definitely

[severe shoal]

ChatGPT is so frustrating. It can’t remember to include most of the functionality, makes regressions that we found fixed for, and edits code that had nothing to do with the request

Ive spent over 30 hours on this stupid addon

[amber shale]

Use Phind for writing or understanding code

[severe shoal]

You are kidding right. I spent £24 for nothing. Code is nearly done

[severe shoal]

Used it and it fixes a problem ChatGPT was going around in circles with but also typed something in another language. I think pro models are the only things that are half decent. Also

[amber shale]

wth

[tame galleon]

claude > chatgpt for code

actually for most things

[severe shoal]

Interesting I'll try it 👍

[severe shoal]

I have to showcase what artistic work I have done so far in my lecture today so wish me luck

[severe shoal]

It was a success! It blew everyone anyway

[rain ore]

Congrats

[severe shoal]

Thanks, it was my small little focus group

[amber shale]

What did you show from the project

[severe shoal]

Everything. I retook photos at 6am. I’ll upload them. I was taking about lighting hues and which colours show who is the villains, pbr materials, gloomy lighting and shadows.

[severe shoal]

Flip book animation. I even mentioned how my friend was helping me with certain things and I showed them your car signboard 😂

[amber shale]

I don't remember any car signboard

But that's great that you're living out with something you are passionate about

[severe shoal]

Yep all we do is chat about games all day I’m in heaven

[lament swift]

I'm very happy for you.

[severe shoal]

https://tenor.com/view/its-been84years-its-been-a-long-time-rose-dewitt-bukater-titanic-gloria-stuart-gif-16850506

But now I am done with my addon hopefully so I can use it to get back to my favourite project!

[lament swift]

Welcome back!

[severe shoal]

👀

Why isn't anyone working on this game?

Oh wait that's me, one sec.

[hardy pumice]

Are you trying to make the aesthetics like Batman '89? I think that It'd fit perfectly since all the music style of the OG uses stuff from that movie

[severe shoal]

That would be incredible. Unfortunately, even though I would love to, I am going for the dark knight trilogy because its easier as its more modern and less Gothic which is what the OG game looks like, so its simpler to continue like that

[hardy pumice]

thats fair. I wonder if you turn up the grunginess of the textures and maybe make certain colors POP, you could get something similar to it without too much hassle. Also I wonder what it'd look like if you add some style from The Batman (2004), since that show had some nice skies

https://static1.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/The-Joker-in-The-Batman.jpg Something like these

[severe shoal]

That's a good idea. I'm aiming for the colours to pop for sure. Grungieness will require custom textures instead of the ones I'm finding online so that will be something I look into once I've done an initial pass over the entire game, setting the tone, placing lights and trying to get at least 80% of the textures righr

[severe shoal]

This is some of what I've done so far. What do you think? #showcase message

[hardy pumice]

Pretty good man. Kinda reminds me a bit of Batman & Robin and Batman Forever when in areas with lots of colored lights. The First level outside does remind me of Dark Knight with the more realistic lamp coverage

[severe shoal]

Exactly what I think as well 🥳

If you are interested in Remix I am always looking for more help if you want to join?

[hardy pumice]

Maybe once I figure out how all these tools work. Tried to do stuff with Purple Dimenson on CoD World At War before and I couldnt figure out how to use the tools. I'll let you know when I get a good grip on what to do

[severe shoal]

Ok. Lmk if you need help. Its quite easy once you got the hang of it

[proven wedge]

BUNA NUNA NUNA NUNA NUNA NUNA - BATMAAAAAAN I've joined the teammm, batman's getting the remix treatment. Frisser and I'll use PBR textures from various free websites/places, keeping it authentic to the game as possible, but will make artistic enhancements where needed that stick with the theme

[severe shoal]

Lego Batman trilogy bundle £3 on Steam 👀

[severe shoal]

We will also be trying for the competition. I’ve got 2 months of relatively little commitment including pesky relationships to get in the way so its monster drinks and a bad sleep schedule from now on 💪

[severe shoal]

Unfortunately skurty is too busy with his existing projects 😮‍💨

[lament swift]

What a Summer Grind mood.

[severe shoal]

Between the addons I have been developing and other issues progress has been very slow. But I did all this today, the work on my addons has been paying off infinitely. And the thought of what I would do with the money keeps my motivated lol

[amber shale]

Are you using triplaner projection?

[severe shoal]

Yes

I dont know why sometimes the streaks go across, the UVs are aligned correctly too

I think tho overall it looks pretty good

Do you not think so?

[amber shale]

Is this dirt right? I think you might need to incorporate with a mask editor using data from baked mesh maps so it might of sticks to the glass panels much more accurately as shown in reference

[severe shoal]

Would you have time in VC to show me what you mean?

[amber shale]

Sorry am on my bed, I'll contact in DM

[severe shoal]

👍

[severe shoal]

Still going to be tweaked

Need to find an ivy generation addon now

[severe shoal]

There is too much pressure for this competition. I suck while under pressure. So its actually been harder to work while this competition has been going on

One day this mod will be a thing. You’ve probably all lost hope lol

Fair enough

[surreal birch]

Nope keep going at it , you got my support 🫡

[lament swift]

There is an “Ivy Gen” add-on, it’s built-in into Blender, if you still need help with this)

[severe shoal]

I tried it but it is not powerful enough 😔

Funnily enough I was just about to start modding

I am downloading the latest toolkit now

I'll let you know how the ivy generation gets on

[lament swift]

Good

Anyway, don’t stop, please

You already did a great job

[severe shoal]

Thanks. I'll try not to. I just get worried that this is one of the things people support but will never play 😂 Maybe I'll try to release a few levels to see the engagement interest

[severe shoal]

Will add different types

I am just worried about the performance impact

[surreal birch]

lego batman is like my fav lego game to see it modded would be hype

[hazy bolt]

this still being worked on?

[severe shoal]

Not actively sorry. I just finished a tool that will help me create it. Now working on a second tool. Then I will be able to continue but I do want to learn Maya also so I’m quite busy 😢 It is my dream though, but it’s also quite daunting, that I have trouble working on it

[hazy bolt]

i might be able to help

what kinda tools r u working on?

[severe shoal]

https://discord.com/channels/1028444667789967381/1289913588852592662

https://discord.com/channels/1028444667789967381/1360543242927734895

Universal material library is broken

But blender to remix is very useful and quite a few use it

They are perfect for me as I am using texture libraries online mostly

[severe shoal]

That would be fantastic

have you done any modding before?

[hazy bolt]

does doom modding count lol

or minecraft

i have done some 3d modeling

not super good

but decent

and fooled around with the materials in gmod rtx remix

[severe shoal]

ok cool

one sec

[lament swift]

I’m sorry, but is it dead?

[severe shoal]

yes

it is definitely 100% dead now

I was holding out hope I could keep going but no