Garry's Mod

[lament quartz]

FullHD resolution

I have no more dense monitors

Not home not at work

[compact blaze]

@lament quartz do u think you'll port the hl2 rtx assets into gmod when it releases?

[rich badge]

Who can resist quality pbr

[lament quartz]

Who can resist quality PBR

As he said

[compact blaze]

im sry im confused

[rich badge]

We are ready to stole everything from other projects

[compact blaze]

oh im stupid i didn't realize what u meant lmao

[meager oar]

Wow 😯

Wonder how hl2 rtx will handle 3d skyboxes

[compact blaze]

also how did ya get god rays workin lol?

[lament quartz]

Idk they are just appeared on the latest remix build

[meager oar]

Are U using the config I send U? I tweaked the setting in it to make sun shafts more noticeable

But it introduces alot of fog in some maps

[lament quartz]

Yeah I've used yours

I like those sun shafts

That was a great idea

@lament quartz я так вижу, тебе капец как ремикс понравился)

[lament quartz]

Ну ды

и мне тоже

Я столько времени был отрезан от рей трейсинга

А теперь 3080 на руках

Конечно меня прорвёт

я лично 4070 покупал для ремикса

шобы фипиэс побольше было

и это

самому хотелось прикоснуться к чему-то такому

[lament quartz]

А мне просто по цене подвернулось

Буду брать 7800х3д для неё

Пока в Германию не свалил

[lament quartz]

Почему на пендосском не говоришь кстати?

[rich badge]

Hello

[lament quartz]

Hello, sorry

Ik that we does not supposed to talk other languages except English

[lament quartz]

I will try to write a script tomorrow that will do all the job about materials

Like all you'll need is just press record content in remix, and then launch my script

And then after it finishes, all you'll need is just to run the game and boom

Every material will have a normals, roughness and etc

Just two steps

Record, and run script

@half viper sorry for ping, what do you think about this idea?

[half viper]

Pretty interesting

But again

Nothing is better than hand crafted materials

[lament quartz]

I did this already with Gmod, but using sd upscaled and chainner

But I can write all those things inside of my script without other tools

[lament quartz]

Nothing is stopping you from editing them

[half viper]

Well!

Go for it!

[lament quartz]

I can make a cashing system, after every material is remixed

You'll be able to edit the normals and other textures

And then script will automatically compare the file hashes, and if they're not the same, converting them to DDS and writing them to the replacements file

This sounds fantastic to me

[lament quartz]

So the taken time will be less after first remixing

[lament quartz]

I will!

Btw how can I get a developer role?

[half viper]

#welcome

[lament quartz]

Thanks!

That will be fire!

[lament quartz]

What do you think? Maybe create a gui?

With material preview

That will be overkill maybe

[half viper]

Yeah, it would be an overkill

I might start messing around with model replacements

[lament quartz]

But on the other hand, you'll be able to see how material will look without joining the game

Just edit a PNG file, and back to the program

After you've done just press export and that's it

It's in your game

[half viper]

Hmm

I mean

If you can do it

Then go for it!

[lament quartz]

Ok, ok then!

Uuuuh, I can't wait

I hope the community will like it

[torpid fable]

Hi Alex, what rtx bat are you using?

[lament quartz]

rtx bat?

Wait

I am using this one

hl2.exe -steam -game garrysmod -window -noborder -w 1920 -h 1080 -condebug -dev -insecure -dxlevel 70 +sv_cheats 1 +mat_dxlevel 70 +r_forcenovis 0 +mat_disable_d3d9ex 1 +mat_softwarelighting 0 +mat_queue_mode 0 +r_novis 1 +r_frustumcullworld 0 +r_occlusion 0 +r_lod 0 +r_staticprop_lod 0 +r_worldlights 16 +r_unloadlightmaps 1 +r_shadows 0 +r_glint_alwaysdraw -1 +r_3dsky 0  +r_DrawDisp 0

[torpid fable]

thanks, i want try it

[lament quartz]

Okie dokie

[half viper]

Btw try copying the portal rtx autoexec cfg file to gmod!

[lament quartz]

Later

I need to write a auto remixing Program

Sounds creepy

[torpid fable]

my game crashes on bigcity for some reason.

[lament quartz]

You need a patches

And some portal's files

[torpid fable]

how do i patch garrys mod?

[rich badge]

Always check pinned messages

in https://discord.com/channels/1028444667789967381/1055020377430048848

[meager oar]

Wat does that do? I replaced it but don't see any difference

[half viper]

Thats portal rtx configurations

So its the best

I think

[rich badge]

I don't think it works on gmod

[torpid fable]

I must be doing something wrong, but the game crashing again.

[rich badge]

Did installed the lua menu?

Did you patched the binaries?

[torpid fable]

yes

[rich badge]

Replaced stdshader_dx7.dll ?

[torpid fable]

ok i try it again

[rich badge]

@half viper Does anything changed regarding the crash

[meager oar]

Are u using the latest gmod version? It has sum issues try replacing the two bini files again the ones I send u, it will revert the update and also has the patched files.

[torpid fable]

Yeah, I did what you said.

[meager oar]

its still crashing?

[keen current]

It will have Ray Reconstruction, the tech is going to be released in just a month

[torpid fable]

yea(

[meager oar]

that will fix so many dang issues i see with RT in gmod like sun shafts dissappearing if u move alot then appearing again, shadows blurring when moving and light taking sum time to fade in or away

[torpid fable]

I forgot to say, the game doesn't crash immediately, but after some time.

[meager oar]

hmm, then one thing u can try is reinstall gmod completely and replace every file not only the 2 bini files but every file i send u again dxvk.conf, rtx.conf, menu.lua, background.lua and etc

[torpid fable]

I think I've tried it...

I'll try replacing stdshader_dx7.dll.

[meager oar]

thats weird that its still crashing are the drivers updated of your gpu? i dont know anything after tat

[torpid fable]

I guess so.

[meager oar]

Oh do u have addons installed? maybe one of them is messing with it

[torpid fable]

hmm

[meager oar]

gwater crashes bridge after 1000 particles are spawned

[rich badge]

Are they transparent

[meager oar]

the other water looks are glitched but the expensive water works but its not transparent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YS9O_j8RuA&t=32s

they kinda look tasty

[torpid fable]

could that be a problem?

[rich badge]

Not related

[lament quartz]

Do you have the latest Gmod version?

[torpid fable]

yea

[lament quartz]

That may be the problem

I can't launch the latest Gmod with rtx remix too

And Strelok too

[rich badge]

[rich badge]

Man I love this

[half viper]

Can you try capturing it as USD?

Maybe can tell us why its crashing

[lament quartz]

The whole mesh as usd hahaha

[rich badge]

Strelok how it's going

[lament quartz]

Just a 3d blob

[half viper]

Oops hai Kamil, sadly im still not home yet, (will be in a few hours!)

[lament quartz]

Man I love this community

[rich badge]

Sorry I didn't meant that

More like how're you

[lament quartz]

Hail Kamilkampfwagen!

[half viper]

Im actually worried that gwater is creating new meshes instead of instances

[half viper]

Awww
Im good thank you

[rich badge]

Lol it translates to something like "long live Kamil car"

[half viper]

Im pretty sure that remix can handle thousands of instances

[rich badge]

I thought the same when I cranked up the case lifetime of guns

Havok can't handle it

[half viper]

Ill ping mark over this

To see if its normal

[rich badge]

Is Mark even alive

[lament quartz]

I meant not that but ok

[lament quartz]

Mark 💀

Who's Mark

[rich badge]

I didn't know the word "hail"

I love google translate

[lament quartz]

That word means like "glory" or idk

I know only Russian translation

[rich badge]

Glory to Arstotzka!

[lament quartz]

Hahaha

[lament quartz]

Ich studiere Deutsch aber ich weiß deutsch sprache nicht 💀

Three languages, mind blowing

Russian is my native, English is a second ( B1 btw ) and now I'm learning Germany

[meager oar]

https://file.io/1tR5SMTJKLtF

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

the crash

[half viper]

Can you keep the water source going until we hit the crash?

I want to see when it crashed exactly

Logs would be greatly appreciated

[meager oar]

Ok but will be able to do that at 11:30 cause electricity went out

[half viper]

Oh ighty!

[meager oar]

Where are they located?

[half viper]

Next to the exe+next to the d3d9 dll+in the bridge folder

[wanton scarab]

I make-a de addons too 🤌🏻

[lament quartz]

can anyone test the infinite map base?

[meager oar]

I did the maps open but it's just a black screen

I can still walk around but can't see anything and it's not related to the skybox not being marked it's actually just a black screen but U can still disconnect

[lament quartz]

I would like to have skybox support in the future

[rich badge]

It requires rendering of multiple targets at once

We'll eventually have it but this is an expensive way of "having" skybox

We better use mesh replacements for that

[meager oar]

https://file.io/6tPNFpfs1dbc

there two logs one is the normal gmod crash one and the other is that dmp file i found inside trex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTqI0r-pi0U

it crashed at 1702 particles

[half viper]

Does it always crash on the same number?

[meager oar]

im gonna see it again

[half viper]

Also there should be 2 other logs

Hl2_d3d9.log

And d3d9.log

[meager oar]

it crashed at 1912 this time

same map

[half viper]

I see, it doesn't seem consistent

[meager oar]

imma try again but this time do it in the same placement and positions both times

[meager oar]

https://file.io/IrztnoTiT6nJ

other one is in there aswell

[half viper]

Hey @lucid parcel, we are having an issue where creating high amount of meshes can crash the bridge, is this normal?

[lucid parcel]

umm, what is 'high' in absolute terms?

[half viper]

1702-1912 particles :3

Doesn't seem consistent

Are we blowing up the bridge limits orrr what?

Normal gmod can take up to 75k

[meager oar]

Only the expensive water material seems to crash the game but the other water matariels which are just png cubes dont seem to crash the game spawn 70000 of them no crash

[lucid parcel]

hmm, a couple thousand draw calls with small meshes really shouldn't cause a crash, I'm pretty sure we've gone over that number of draw calls with Portal

you should file a github issue with as much info as you can, and we can get the bridge devs to look at it. Especially good to include any *.dmp files that get generated in the .trex folder

[half viper]

Will do!

Thanks mark!

Really appreciate it!

💗

[meager oar]

ok this time i did everything same to same it crashed at 2434 at first and 2410 at the second try

All the dmp files produced when i was testing https://file.io/IcotQw2CjTgR

[lucid parcel]

please @ me when you create a github issue for this so I can make sure the bridge team is aware of it

[meager oar]

Woah Dlss 3.5 is in dlss swapper

[meager oar]

so i swap dlss 3.5 into gmod using dlss swapper but it seems it isnt working it still says 2.0

[half viper]

Thats just the upscaler

Ray reconstruction is still not there

[lament quartz]

morning!

oh sh!t

[lament quartz]

amazing normal maps

poop map

[lament quartz]

that's much better

[lament quartz]

yaaay

now i need to add an upscaler

and write a gui

[lament quartz]

ok now it's time to test these materials

i need to test it in Sonic Adventure DX

These are my materials now

but without reflective windows

i've made them by hands in previous time

Yeah i prefer them more

i think the roof is too reflective

[torpid fable]

you're doing this with omniverse?

[lament quartz]

Nope

I wrote my own script that does this automatically

[torpid fable]

cool

[lament quartz]

I'm recording new textures now, i wanna see gm_construct with PBR

[hushed trail]

Wow that's pretty impressive

[lament quartz]

i gonna write a files hash cashing, and then i'll upload it here

so you can make these too

[lone arch]

Thats impressive honestly

[meager oar]

I wanna see 2fort with pbr

[lament quartz]

2fort?

[meager oar]

Tf2 maps look great

[lament quartz]

aaah

wait, im testing hashing stuff

a little bit and you can use it

then you'll be able to do it by yourself

but there's no upscaler now

only pbr generator

yaaay, hasher is working for loading

it'll save alot of time

ok pbr generator also works with hasher

ok i'll add an upscaler too

@rich badge sorry for ping, what do you think about this?

Hello reader!
Ok heres what you need to know, first things first, you need to capture textures in game using remix, if you did this already, read the next lines.
Open the remixer folder in cmd ( terminal ) and write the next commands:

python3 load.py
// This will load all the textures to the remixer/textures/processing/diffuse folder as .png files

python3 upscale.py
// This will upscale all the textures in remixer/textures/processing/diffuse folder and saves them in remixer/textures/processing/upscaled folder

python3 pbr.py
// This will generate normal, roughness and metal map for textures in remixer/textures/processing/upscaled folder, all the maps will be located in the their types folders, if it's normal map, then it'll be remixer/textures/processing/normals and etc


// After you've done everything without errors, use this
python3 write.py
// This will convert all your textures, normals, and roughness to DDS files, put them to the mod folder, and adds material to the replacements.usda file AUTOMATICALLY!

P.S If you don't want or canno't use upscaler, just drag all the textures from remixer/textures/processing/diffuse folder to the remixer/textures/processing/upscaled folder.

Good luck! :)

oops misstyped "cannot"

[rich badge]

In what way should I examine it ?

[lament quartz]

what do you mean?

[rich badge]

I mean it is clear, easily understandable..

[lament quartz]

that was a sarcasm yeah?...

[rich badge]

no

I just didn't understand what you expect me to do

[meager oar]

Dang all u type is load.py and it does things automatically?

[lament quartz]

aah, i mean, i wanted you to rank it, how does it looks

[lament quartz]

yeah, it converts textures to png and puts them to the diffuse folder

then you can upscale them, generate pbr, and write them back

[rich badge]

I am sorry but I really don't get what should I do

It looks ok, definetely not fool proof however

[lament quartz]

yeee, thanks

[meager oar]

He I think wants your opinion on it, I think it's great that it does things automatically on just a few words

[lament quartz]

YEAH, that word! i forgot it

[rich badge]

Ah yes

[lament quartz]

btw you dont need a chainner

[rich badge]

My head couldn't wrap all that around sorry

[lament quartz]

and other tools

[rich badge]

I am quite disappointed that chainner doesn't fully function on linux

[lament quartz]

no i can use it

i just can't use dds directly

[meager oar]

I have no clue what the heck a chainner is 😅

[lament quartz]

oh

[lament quartz]

yaaay, it's working!

now i need an upscaler

wait, i wanna see that

YAAA

that's amazing

now i can just edit image

generate pbr

and this script automatically detects what texture was edited

generates all what i need

and aftr pbr changed

[meager oar]

Dang

[lament quartz]

the next script that converts it back to dds check if files edited too

[meager oar]

How does that heppy face luk ingame

[lament quartz]

and converts only ones that you've edited

and now

it's in the game

[torpid fable]

Wow, that's great

[lament quartz]

it's laggy cuz i set 30 fps for the video

otherwise discord will scream at me that i have no nitro

[lament quartz]

DAYUM

hehe

[compact blaze]

hey @lament quartz do u think u have time to screenshare ur gmod rtx remix thingy? i kinda wanna see what it looks like

[lament quartz]

yeah why not

but not today

and idk if i'll be able tomorrow

cuz tomorrow is a weekend for me, and i'll be not in office

without my rtx gpu

[compact blaze]

ah ok

nah its aight

[lament quartz]

made a window more reflective

i need to correct rough maps

[half viper]

Must have M I R R O R S

[lament quartz]

YAAA

[rich badge]

Speaking of mirrors, is it possible to disable mirror rendering?

[half viper]

Not sure

I don't think so

[lament quartz]

i think no

[rich badge]

Without editing the map ?

:/

[lament quartz]

yeah i understand

idk maybe the lua can disable other renders

idk rly

[torpid fable]

is this done with python or what? i just can't figure it out.....

[lament quartz]

Python

I'll post it tomorrow

Oh no, I can't cuz tomorrow is a weekend

😭

[meager oar]

😭

[lament quartz]

😭

Do you need a gui? Or publish a scripts first?

And then make gui

[meager oar]

Also if the fog is too much U can lower it in rtx menu/froaxal radiance and set froaxal distance to like 50000 to completely disable it

[lament quartz]

No I like it

[lament quartz]

Do they have a reflection?

Yup

But you'll need to change the rough map by hands

Cuz all the information comes from diffuse map

[rich badge]

Just disable legacy fog mapping

no need to mess with its settings

[lament quartz]

And normal maps too

[meager oar]

I'm talking about Volumetric lighting, I tweaked the settings in it to make the sun shafts strong but it comes in making alot of fog in the map on some maps it too much

I want sun shafts like in Minecraft rtx there very strong but don't make every thing foggy

[rich badge]

Get a bigger sun

[lament quartz]

Increase the penumbra?

[rich badge]

Pick a bigger sun from the milky way

[lament quartz]

Hehehe

[meager oar]

I think U can do that in Gmod using skybox entity but skybox entity doesn't work in Gmod rtx

[rich badge]

We can fix the skybox issue but it requires map specific work

With a custom skydome

like tadpole did with the chess titans

[lament quartz]

How's y'all doing? ❤️

[torpid fable]

I think it's okay.

[rich badge]

Trying to get portals working on replacement meshes

[lament quartz]

Understandable

[lament quartz]

Does the portal's are actual meshes?

[rich badge]

Gotta build a dual render optic like this

[rich badge]

They are materials

[lament quartz]

What a time to be alive

[rich badge]

alived lol 😄

[lament quartz]

Building a real optics for game to make an optics

[lament quartz]

Has been alived 💀

[rich badge]

Not really a "real" optic, I though the same first actually did some calculations. I think it will be extremely noisy and impractical

So I go with portals

[lament quartz]

Understandable

[rich badge]

It acts like you are holding a stick with a camera at the end and the monitor on your side

[lament quartz]

Yeah, understand, that's make sense

[rich badge]

Real precision optics have more than 4 lenses

Two of them is enough for magnification though

[lament quartz]

Waiting for ray reconstruction, I'm wondering how it will look

4k triangles for a single lens, to curve the light

Realistic approach

[torpid fable]

Can someone please send me your dxvk conf?

and rtx conf

[lament quartz]

My conf is on the workstation in office

And now I'm home, and today is a weekend so

Sorry 😔

[torpid fable]

oh, it's okay

[lucid parcel]

Are you trying to use portals to recreate a gun's scope?

This is path tracing... you can make an actual scope the same way they do in real life, with glass lenses

one of the secret cubes in Portal RTX does that

[rich badge]

Thought it would be too noisy and impractical

But it is my plan B

[lucid parcel]

https://youtu.be/bH774y5b1ng?t=283

You can see the lens effect in that video

[rich badge]

Yeah I played with that lens a lot, it is fascinating

It was quite bad with dlss performance on 1080 though

[compact blaze]

Doesn’t concentrate light tho :(

[rich badge]

Nevermind since the optic will cover more space on the screen more rays will go into it

maybe it won't be too bad

[lucid parcel]

https://home.ifa.hawaii.edu/users/gruff/default/Astrolab/07BasicTelescopeOptics.htm

[rich badge]

Why do these university websites always have their certificates expired 🙂

[lucid parcel]

lol

If you just model a couple of lenses with translucent and follow the right math when making the lens faces, you can totally get a simple telescope effect

[rich badge]

will do tomorrow, I am quite new to modelling will see what I can do

[compact blaze]

It just works like that?

[lucid parcel]

Thats what happens when you simulate how light actually behaves, instead of building hacks on top of hacks for 30 years 😛

[rich badge]

A convex lens on the front and an eyepiece lens on the back with a smaller focal distance which their focal points intersect

You get a flip image

[lucid parcel]

you might need 3 lenses to flip the image back upright though? I'm not an expert on how telescopes actually work

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-physics/chapter/26-5-telescopes/

[rich badge]

You can either use a specialized concave lens as eyepiece or a 3rd one

afair

Real optics use up to 4 lenses to overcome some artifacts tho

[lament quartz]

Sh!t I was joking but it's real 💀

[lucid parcel]

yep. and if you play around with the ior constant of the translucent material, you can make the lenses stronger than they should be

[lament quartz]

What a great time to live in

[lone arch]

İts been 1 day of no computer because its on repair

[rich badge]

The problem is in gmod view model doesn't have stable hashes

[lucid parcel]

hmm, why not? Is it doing skinning on the CPU or something?

[compact blaze]

Is there a way to make it so that the light actually concentrates?

[rich badge]

Maybe, idk props do not either, until they stop moving

[lucid parcel]

what do you mean? caustics (like using a magnifying glass to set a fire) are realy hard to get with the number of samples and denoising we're doing

[lucid parcel]

that sounds like it might be applying the transform and/or skeleton before passing the data to the GPU. there should be a setting to tell the source engine to do that on the GPU instead, which is how we get stable hashes in Portal

[compact blaze]

How many samples would be needed without denoising?

[rich badge]

What about this demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbXmSLdGMGs

[lucid parcel]

UE4 didn't support path tracing as far I know. I'm not up to date on what those simulations were doing, but running a dedicated caustic simulation isn't the same as having caustics emerge naturally from path tracing.

I'll happen eventually, but as far as I know it'll need some serious algorithmic improvements, serious hardware improvements, or both.

not really my area of expertise though

In Remix, if you turn on the reference mode, disable denoising, and just sit looking at something that should have caustics, they should eventually start showing up.

[frail tulip]

Got lots of time when playing chess 👀

[rich badge]

Damn never thought of

[lucid parcel]

In theory anyways... the way we do importance sampling might suppress the caustics. I haven't tried it myself

[rich badge]

Is there any shots

[lucid parcel]

you might have to disable other things as well as denoising

[night bramble]

Hopped back on after a long time to see if any changes and seems so.
Not seeing that 5 light limit any more.
Although these are built-in map lights not usda added.

[night bramble]

Anyone know what causes white water?

[night bramble]

loaded into gm_blackbrook_asylum, and it has so many transparent grass and vine textures that it cripples performance with opacity micromap doing absolutely nothing to help as it seems you cannot assign textures to it?
Once you ignore all the grass and vines performance about triples.

Similar to walking into a foliage dense area in CP2077 and watching performance halve due to no OMM.

[rich badge]

Set emissive intensity to 0

[rich badge]

Yea that's a known issue, omm isn't magic and doesn't help majority of the time

[night bramble]

Yeah probably doesn't really work at all atm if I had to guess.
From actual testing I've seen it tends to +50-100% framerate.

[rich badge]

You can disable all alpha textures from the menu for testing, no need to individually ignore them

[night bramble]

Yeah but that disables ALL alpha textures

Which tends to be a butt ton

[rich badge]

Again for testing, to see you framerite ie

[night bramble]

Yeah. Lots of issues with alpha blend still anyway

dunno if it's gmod's fault or remix though

alphas like to turn black or disappear when moving or at certain distances I find

much better than when they were z-fighting constantly though

[rich badge]

If you pick some of the configs posted here they should have that alpha textures ignored

[night bramble]

I'm using the .ps1 args atm

as for conf not sure

rtx or dxvk

[rich badge]

It's not a big deal as it seams, most maps will have same ones so after dealing with some we'll probably catch them all

[night bramble]

also where do I set the emissive intensity

Biggest issue I'm having now is maps won't load until I restart the game sometimes.

[rich badge]

dxvk.conf can both contain dxvk options and rtx options. Basically you put the default settings.

[night bramble]

I see the intensity

[rich badge]

Does it froze, crash? Can you explain more

[night bramble]

soft freezes on loading world screen

[rich badge]

Do you have addons enabled

Some addons cause this, no idea why

[night bramble]

I think just maps but I'll double check

[rich badge]

I have a list of incompatible addons, I update it as a go on

Steam collection

gotta be somewhere here

[rich badge]

Hmm send the workshop link, I gotta give it a shot

[night bramble]

Looks like I had some addons so I disabled what I thought was bad and left some on.
I'll grab the link.
Perf will be garbo without Ultra Performance if at 4K basically unless maybe 4090.

woops

[rich badge]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3004327754

[night bramble]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=903842886

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Oh I know this one

Does it crash for you or just bad performance ?

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FPS goes in the trash.
No crashes on any maps so far unlike a few months ago

When I was talking about the grass

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Yeah this map has tons of foliage

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Literally floor to ceiling

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It is expected to have horrible performance

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also has a bugged texture that makes game look hilarious

I'll get a pic

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If you find incompatible addons, let me know

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okay so now the water is invis

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Do you have a disablewater.lua file

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no

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You should have a gray plane, are you sure you didn't ignored it?

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I'll look

have not had any luck finding the tex as I initially thought so

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Water is another issue

Probably because of the mesh, normals doesn't function properly

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No water tex in sight

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Also props in the other side will be culled

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hovered over all of em

so no water is just to be expected then?

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no

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This looks like water texture was ignored

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hm

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Since the terrain below is gone too

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what about this

this maybe related?

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Yeah these are the problematic noise textures I was talking about

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ah

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Some configs posted here has them ignored

But since these configs needed to be updated its better we put them in the github repo

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Almost feel like I'm somehow just missing textures

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Find some white-ish noise textures

ignore them

also enable terrain blending and mark terrain t.

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this should be the water texture lol

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that wasn't it

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I gotta get its hash

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loaded into a map that was just water, and tile and still couldn't find water, found that, tried it, no work.
tried it again, no work.

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can you try reset the settings

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hold up

this

terrain baking made it wacky

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Hmm mine turned to white, it was gray before

This is with 0 emissive btw

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also those noise textures now just smear everywhere when I move

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I gotta upload my config wait

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your whole map looks different lighting wise

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Add these to you config

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game no longer launches guess I pasted wrong

maybe there can't be duplicate textures

yup that was it

now I gotta find what's making funny triangle

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Does it related to the config?

[night bramble]

No it's a map thing

something with alpha blend

funny texture like in asylum I guess

it changes colors and size always from top corner very funny

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gm_construct has a similar issue if you stand on top of the platform above the water and look at the position of sun

[night bramble]

yeah the artifact isn't always present

any way to get rid of error spam?

Already yoinked error.lua

restarted game and the triangle is gone

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Are you launching the game from the powershell script

remove lines
'-condebug'
'-dev'

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Weird

[lament quartz]

Too bad caustics won't be in path tracing for a long time(

[half viper]

Dynamic fire is compatible

But it spawns a point light inside the model

[compact blaze]

Can u show?

[half viper]

Maybe if my OLDER BROTHER WASN'T ON THE PC

[night bramble]

I wish fixed function worked I wanted to redo a CSGO map like a RTX Remix vs Source 2 sort of thing.

Some day Remix will get there.

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Wish I could figure out what is causing the huge triangles

Makes some maps utterly unplayable

[lament quartz]

Sup guys

[night bramble]

Messing with maps looking for something to maybe retexture

[half viper]

Yo

[half viper]

FF works in gmod wdym?

@lament quartz i found some interesting stuff in the documentation of gmod

[night bramble]

I should specify: stable hashes?

[half viper]

Maybe we can force FF through a lua mod :3

[lament quartz]

Strelok. i've uploaded a OctoTex tool

[half viper]

Will try it soon

[lament quartz]

yaaay

[wanton scarab]

I mean those just return whether the gpu supports those shader versions

Dunno what you'd do with those

[half viper]

I thought it would disable Shader effects (I don't have any idea about programming because i suck)

[wanton scarab]

Nah they just tell you whether the gpu supports those shader versions

Not much you can do with those

Outside of forcing DX7 or replacing materials to use one of the more basic shaders source supports that Remix can interpret

Don't think there's much else to do

[torpid fable]

how to enable USD enhanced assets in gmod, does anyone know?

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I have seen this only in gm_construct. If you stand on top of the platform that is above the water then look at the nort west of your spawn location a huge triangle will appear on your screen. I wonder is that lens flare or something

[wanton scarab]

Is the direction towards the sun

The sun does have an overlay thing which you can edit with the sun editor entity

But I kinda doubt it's that

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I don't know where the sun is, didn't run the game without remix for a long time

Gotta check

[wanton scarab]

It should be directly up on construct so it's probably not the sun

Lens flares aren't a thing by default

[lament quartz]

@half viper sorry for the ping

now you can choose to use alpha layer as affector for roughness and normals

if the texture in some pixels more transparent, that'll mean that these pixels will be reflective

for example, windows in gmod are transparent so

[half viper]

POG

[lament quartz]

I've uploaded the reflection update to the github

You can pull it already

[lament quartz]

Perfect reflective windows

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Is there a way to disable those from rendering all together? We currently need to select ignore them

[lament quartz]

And if transparency is in left up corner too, it'll mean that script will don't affect normals and roughness cuz basically it's a particle or something

[lament quartz]

Wdym?

Do not process the reflections?

Yup, you can toggle it in the config file

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Those alpha layers cause issues like not rendering the actual file.

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No, I mean the game

[lament quartz]

Ooohh

Remix can't render alpha layers?

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It does capture and sometimes renders them. Objects look transparent

[lament quartz]

I mean, it does not add alpha, it uses alpha if it already was there

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What are these alpha layers used for in source games

[lament quartz]

Idk, but I noticed that some textures like windows are transparent, so I thought like why don't make them reflective by transparency

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Brilliant idea

[lament quartz]

Thanks

🥰

[lament quartz]

And as you can see, this looks amazing

Even normals

I can't process all the textures and test it cuz I'm going home

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Does it also set roughness to 0

[lament quartz]

So I can't show you how it looks

But I've upload the updates

To the github

So if you want to test it

You're welcome

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Does the script also modify roughness maps?

like glass has 0 roughness

[lament quartz]

Yeah, that's what I meant

And Metall map too

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I thought it was only for normals

neat

[lament quartz]

Of course not

[lament quartz]

I'm wondering now, if you'll use this on glass, will glass be reflective

Or a car model with a windows

I'm so hyped

Btw I've got my first stars on the GitHub

Yaaay

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There are 4 of them actually

[lament quartz]

Yeah

My first four Stars

[half viper]

You got your fifth

[lament quartz]

Ooooh

Thanks

🥰

[lament quartz]

It's already six

[lament quartz]

Seven

Omg

[torpid fable]

can I have a link to your github

[lament quartz]

https://github.com/alex-suspicious/OctoTex

[torpid fable]

)

[lament quartz]

Eight stars

[torpid fable]

This may seem like a silly question, but how do I find or open remixer?

[lament quartz]

It'll be better to wait next updates and GUI

But if you really want to test it

Download the source code from github

And extract it near rtx-remix folder

so it'll be

OctoTex
rtx-remix

Like this

[torpid fable]

yes, i did it

[lament quartz]

And now launch load.py

python load.py

[torpid fable]

i tried id, but nothing

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You need to install required packages

[lament quartz]

Yeah and for now we have no requirements file for that

[torpid fable]

damn... okay, and thanks for information)

good luck with the development

[lament quartz]

Thanks

[lament quartz]

If you on windows you'll need to install a wand with exe installer

And pip install wand

Install pytorch with cuda support

And, what else... I forgot

[torpid fable]

ok, i try it

[meager oar]

Pillow aswell

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pip install Pillow tqdm opencv-python basicsr realesrgan hashlib wand
pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118

[meager oar]

its giving error at hashlib for sum reason

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement hashlib (from versions: 20081119)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for hashlib

[meager oar]

dang CS2 beta got released for everyone

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Mega based

Absolutely outstanding

[night bramble]

Press F for requirements.txt

[modern fulcrum]

Any project to make it work with a standalone mod like PortalRTX ?

[lament quartz]

python3 -m pip install hashlib

Try it like this

[lament quartz]

I've deleted some packages via apt with dependency remover

And one of the packages contained Nvidia drivers as their dependency

Thanks, now I'm reinstalling Nvidia drivers

💀

[lament quartz]

how to download?

[night bramble]

hashlib no longer exists via pip as it's integrated into the standard library of python3.

You don't have to worry about that error.

Running tool right now will see how it goes

Man I recognize half these modules from an image parsing program

Just tried to allocate 72 GB of VRAM for one map capture.

Guess it'll be done in 5 passes.

Can hear my PSU load shifting up and down for every upscaling iteration.

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This man added a third party library/program as a dependency

https://imagemagick.org/script/download.php#windows
You have to install this to use Octo-Tex now

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Ah yes but it is open source

[lament quartz]

oh hello

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I don't have any problems with the program, just that it must be installed to run the tool with no indication of it needing to be done until the error slaps you in the face lol.

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Yeah it definetely needs a requirements file

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That wouldn't cover that library

It has one now for the pip packages, although it's broken.

It got updated a bit ago

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And a better readme

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That got changed too

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The developer is on linux so imagemagick might be preinstalled on his system

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I already put an issue up with the fixed requirements.txt
At least this version didn't require a code change to get working.

Perhaps.

The upscaling and pbr generation works though.

Just trying to get it into my mod.usda.
I can see it writes to the file, but it isn't applying the textures.

It seems to open the file so that the modifed time changes, but it adds absolutely nothing.

Nor do the dds files seem to go anywhere after converted.

[lament quartz]

make a new mod

it's not recomended to use existing one

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I had a blank one so I thought it'd still work.
I'll try that

[lament quartz]

when you launching write.py i'tll show you the mods

you'll need to type "c"

to create a new one

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Does it actually need to be called mod.usda or can I have multiple for different things?

guess I'll find out momentarily

[lament quartz]

any name

not only mod.usda

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I remember seeing something about the gameReadyAssets path being forced in "Manually remastering assets" but perhaps that is old now?

[lament quartz]

yes

[night bramble]

I see.
And how will remix know which mod to use if I have multiple?

Say if I were creating a new mod for each enhanced map I did.

[lament quartz]

didn't it include all of them?

[lament quartz]

you can use the mod created once

[night bramble]

Guess I'll find out how it works once I get to that point.
Mostly pointless speculating on my end while I wait I'm sure.

[lament quartz]

Thats FIRE

i've generated a pbr on a new branch

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Seem to be in the same boat as before mostly.
Although it appears the PBR portions of texture are working to extent

One thing I noticed is some sections of glass just turn invisible

Enhanced mesh on vs off

No textures are upscaled

Certain alpha textures also disappear or change color completely
Off vs On Enhanced Assets

[lament quartz]

#showcase

that's how it works for me

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Odd.

I'm opening the usda in omniverse now to check it

[lament quartz]

ok

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Reminds me of when I manually did some assets in Underground 2 to see how it all worked

Although this is that on steroids

[lament quartz]

every window now has a reflection

i love it

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Now imagine randomly scattered emissive maps at night

Closest we have to manual lights without stable hashes

also crossbow gun
but emissive bolt

and my omniverse won't launch

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Outstanding

[night bramble]

Renamed my mods folder to gameReadyAssets again and it works

[lament quartz]

oh btw my mod folder is called remaster

and it works

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odd

I'll rename it again

Btw would you know anything about getting the in-game flashlight working?
r_newflashlight 0 as suggested earlier in here does not appear to function.

it just straight up works now

although I deleted the old mod I had so perhaps that was the culprit?

[lament quartz]

idk

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recycle bin will tell me

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That's crazy

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Is that noise or brick normals

Very hard to tell

[lament quartz]

that's noise

that because the roughness maps are moisy

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confirmed the old mod was breaking things

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My eyes are being continually blessed

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Alrighty so now that I've gotten it going I've found a couple issues with textures on remix end when it comes to my viewmodel

vanilla

[night bramble]

enhanced

I turn to badly shaped plastic.

low poly or something

[lament quartz]

ooow

it's not loaded

jsut wait

or reopen the game

exit from the game

and play again

i have the same issue

it's not loading instantly

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Lack of RTXIO moment

I tabbed back in and it's crisp

[lament quartz]

screenshot?

[lament quartz]

upscaler moment

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yeah physgun still looking kinda jank

some alpha clipping somewhere

[lament quartz]

btw

here's my options

btw do you know how to make sun working on gm_construct?

[night bramble]

Honestly would love to get the sun working on any map

Haven't looked into it, just noticed it's been an issue on most maps I look at.

Looks like one of the pbr textures on the physgun is just a little wacky will probably just remove it

[lament quartz]

l it's kinda working

[keen rivet]

Worked on construct last I tried

I had to set the grass texture in the skybox to be ignored

that way it wouldn’t cast a shadow over the whole map

[night bramble]

What do you use for tonemapping btw?

I noticed that has a HUGE impact on scene look

[lament quartz]

oooh

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Just turned reference mode on and off a bunch to watch the denoiser delete like all the small detail

Can't wait for Ray Reconstruction

[lament quartz]

wtf is this room

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Reference mode here

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Some liminal stuff

That white room was wacky

[lament quartz]

yeah

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I forgot to enable the skybox on the agency map woops

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No transparency 😦

[lament quartz]

D:

what map to try

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hm

office

[lament quartz]

i mean

with hl2 only materials

i have no space left on my ssd

[night bramble]

what dis

[lament quartz]

if texture have a transparency

the transparent parts will be reflective

that's how i made automatic windows on gm_construct

[night bramble]

Wonder what's up with the above map then

It has no reflective glass anywhere

also idk what maps only have hl2 textures

[lament quartz]

wait

i want some liminal stuff

[night bramble]

can do the literal liminal map

no poolrooms though

Man I wish I knew why no glass

[lament quartz]

oh awesome

[night bramble]

guess could manually tweak it

F

Have fun

[half viper]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1280291772

@lament quartz try this!

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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[lament quartz]

i need to generate pbr fo it

but i have no space on my ssd

[lament quartz]

anymore

[night bramble]

I just so happen to have generated my first batch on agency @half viper

Just edited the windows

[half viper]

Is it possible to get rid of that repeating pattern

[night bramble]

That's something with the game itself is it not

tiling

[night bramble]

hm so the glass seems to not actually exist

at least in the eyes of composer

[meager oar]

Im having a problem where cmd can't find the modules for some reason even though it's installed on ma PC so I have to manually add certain module into gmod root folder for it to work but right now I'm having another error where it says it can't find Module Hash but I'm looking inside the python folder and can't find any module related to Hash

[lament quartz]

hashlib?

[meager oar]

I think it should be hashlib it's the only thing that has hash in it

[lament quartz]

can you show me the error?

[night bramble]

Ignore the hashlib error as long as you have python 3
you have to install the other dependencies

Do you have the latest version btw or the older one

[meager oar]

Can't cause the process just stops when I get the hash error

[meager oar]

Python?

[meager oar]

Ok

[night bramble]

pip install Pillow tqdm opencv-python basicsr realesrgan wand
pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118

you do these right?

I removed hashlib so it doesn't cause error

[meager oar]

Have downloaded torch already but gonna try the first one again

[night bramble]

what happens is if one package fails none install

[meager oar]

bruh i really wanna see 2fort with pbr textures man dang

[night bramble]

also old version has a second error that requires editing the write.py in the last step

[meager oar]

ok its downloading stuff without any error so far

[night bramble]

found the glass texture

also looks like your method just doesn't affect other styles of windows

[lament quartz]

hmm

[night bramble]

Perhaps because they aren't made the same way

but multiple window textures had 0 reflectivity.

[lament quartz]

that's creepy...

15 gigs of textures

[night bramble]

hm no matter I do to the glass texture I can't get it to change

only the little stripes will change

I see

The texture is just completely transparent

hmm apparently it's roughness and metalness map is invalid as well

Added a roughness map but nothing happened

is it not possible to have transparency effects without a material change maybe?

[lament quartz]

i think it's possible

you can assign a material to the texture

i can't remember how btw

but there was a way

[meager oar]

those dang reflections are delicious man

[lament quartz]

Я В АХУЕ ПРОСТО

[half viper]

@lament quartz im finally on pc

[lament quartz]

Yaaay

[half viper]

tell me how did you fix the startup crash?

[lament quartz]

I fixed it a long time ago already

I've found a hacked version of Gmod, the old version, and copied almost everything except for hl2.exe to the Gmod's root folder

And removed the crack

Yeah pirating is bad, but what can i do when steam does not allow me to use old versions

[half viper]

steam console:

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I really don't understand why newest build doesn't work for you

[lament quartz]

That's too complicated for me

[rich badge]

We even verified hashes with ALEX

[lament quartz]

I'm dumb lol

[half viper]

i asked popo for files
however it doesnt work for me

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The previous build?

[lament quartz]

I can send you mine

[half viper]

yeah

[lament quartz]

Gmod files

They're pirated but

[rich badge]

Even the previous doesn't work??

Damn

[lament quartz]

Gmod is working buttery smooth

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@half viper Are you on latest currently ?

[lament quartz]

No crashes, no lags

[half viper]

i went on the pre aug version

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So it doesn't work you say

@lament quartz Are you on august update as well?

[lament quartz]

I forgot

Wait

I found it

2023.08.21

Version of this date

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So you're on august update?

How

[half viper]

https://tenor.com/view/iwakura-lain-suicide-thinking-gun-gif-11659613

this is truly a

moment

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I am packing the whole damn thing, I can send in DMs. If it still doesn't work I will ship my rig

[half viper]

thank you!

[meager oar]

Danm

[meager oar]

did it work?

[half viper]

nope

[meager oar]

Dang man it's working for everyone, wonder what is it that is causing it not work in your pc

[rich badge]

Do yours work with august update

No if you replaced the bin folder with a older that count as old

[meager oar]

TBH I haven't tried doing all the steps again for the Aug update I just simply reverted the update

Wait is that the reason why the octa Tex script is not adding the textures inside the diffuse folder cause I'm using a older version of gmod?

Imma try to patch the latest gmod and see if the Aug update works for me

[rich badge]

Done ALL steps (including those in SourceRTX repo) #1116089843479498782 message
OS: Windows 10 21H2
Language: TR-tr
GPU: RTX 2060 factory OC Desktop
Driver: 536.67 (NVCleanInstall modifications)
Installed on: C drive
Remix: latest
dxvk.conf: d3d9.shaderModel = 0
Portal & Portal Prelude's stdshader_dx7.dll
Launch: Game launched from custom script

[night bramble]

I use release version of GMOD no issues all patches.

[rich badge]

The August update

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It's awesome to hear someone else's game is working with the latest update too

[lament quartz]

I can't run it on the latest update 💀

[rich badge]

I am not alone now 🙂

[night bramble]

I’ll probably check out material replacement when I get on next.

Can’t remember if that requires stable hash though.

[rich badge]

Materials don't need

[night bramble]

Yay

[night bramble]

damn that last one

[rich glen]

guys im stupid can someone explain to me how to do the pbr thing

(in the most simple way)

[night bramble]

Download Program
Extract alongside rtx-remix folder for game.
open cmd
cd /d OctaTex-Main directory
pip install requirements.txt
install the imagemagick program
follow the readme.

[rich glen]

...

OH

i understand now

[night bramble]

I can't get aperture pbr translucent to show in-game

I have it replaced and showing in composer but no work in game

[rich glen]

for some reason pip command doesnt work-

[night bramble]

oh do you have python3 installed?

[rich glen]

yup

i need another version to make it work?

[night bramble]

do you even have pip?
python -m pip --version

[rich glen]

python command doesnt work..

but if i write it as "py" it works