Garry's Mod

[oblique hollow]

anyone know what could be a possible cause?

[meager oar]

yea i recently tried to join a server and it keeps crashing now before it wrked

[oblique hollow]

its really weird

[smoky otter]

Map too intensive probably

[oblique hollow]

its paralake v5

is the map im trying

[lethal torrent]

anyone know why tyhis is so blueish

[quiet scroll]

Somewhere in parameter tuning go to lighting, and for the values on intensity make all the numbers the same value in the row

Or it might be the values in your volumetric lighting if that’s on

Adjusting the values changes the color of the light, I think that’s what’s happening

[lethal torrent]

i tried everything on volumetric lighting for 10min

it diddnt work

disabling wont make a thing

[lethal torrent]

i didnt understand where i needed to loojk

[lapis delta]

yo, it looks good

[meager oar]

try my rtx.conf, put it right besides hl2.exe in ggmod directory

[meager oar]

also i have a question, where did u get your rtx.conf from?

this one with the creepy lighting

[lethal torrent]

ur but modified

i got poroblem with ur original

[lethal torrent]

sry for pinging but it was i used the file from an another game it works fine just a small visual bug but thats it

keep up ur good work

by visual bug i mean this

[meager oar]

hmm do u have a amd gpu?

[lethal torrent]

ye

an 7800xt

[lapis delta]

it'll be with artifacts

@lethal torrent

sooo, you need Nvidia gpu

[lethal torrent]

i dont think an gtx 1050ti

will run it

is it also cuz of my amd gpu i cant load a capture

or am i just stupid

[lapis delta]

ofc it won't run

[lapis delta]

probably, its the same engine which in remix

[lethal torrent]

well idk

idk what to fo

[lapis delta]

yeah, it’s extremely bad that Nvidia made its technology exclusively for rtx gpu

[meager oar]

yea amd gpus will cause artifacts and visual glitches like those

[lapis delta]

i hope they will support amd gpus in the future

[hexed hare]

Depends on the driver 🤓

With mesa RADV, we have no artifacts.

[lethal torrent]

mesa radv?

[half viper]

maybe it has an HTML menu?

you know the welcoming ones

[flint glacier]

.

[lapis delta]

tf?

[flint glacier]

what?

[lapis delta]

what is

[meager oar]

Haunted doll

[lapis delta]

that

[flint glacier]

Creepy Doll

[humble mango]

how to run rtx remix in gmod?

[jade trellis]

@humble mango

[glossy mauve]

it's a LOD

have to capture each one if you want it to stay

[oblique hollow]

i think it may, does that cause crashes?

[meager oar]

Oh, The server I was joining has a Welcome screen, Gredwitch base is also crashing whenever that dx7 Notice screen pops up, Both didn't crash months ago da heck happened with the HTML stuff

[half viper]

HTML menus always caused crashes

[blissful falcon]

finally... sanic rtx...

[junior bolt]

[flint glacier]

How?

[jade trellis]

Capture up close and one far

[flint glacier]

ok

[half viper]

use the static LOD command

[hexed hare]

i can now die in peace.

[glossy mauve]

oh my gawd

[humble mango]

ok the game crashes

on loading world

did everything from that video

[humble mango]

that this guy linked

[modern latch]

even to the dll's from portal part?

[humble mango]

yes

[modern latch]

im gonna try reinstalling myself

[humble mango]

deleted game_shader dll and it loads up to that:

---

Engine Error

CMDLCache:: Out of memory

OK

LOL

[smoky otter]

too many mods

or map too big

[humble mango]

now it works

[meager oar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9u1LiGoLzY

[humble mango]

how(

i want to remaster maps

using rtx remix

[quiet scroll]

https://discord.com/channels/1028444667789967381/1098785289838796850

[boreal zenith]

The video is almost entirely in shades of yellow, orange, and brown

[glossy mauve]

gotta make more custom levels n textures

[celest stag]

does anyone know if there's a way to fix this

i gotta apply the patches to fix stuff like this

but when i apply

the last required engine.dll patch specifically

this starts happening

[lone arch]

have you putted dxvk.conf there?

[celest stag]

yea its in the main folder

it has this on it

d3d9.shaderModel = 0```

[glossy mauve]

balls

[celest stag]

how do you get

mirror balls

[glossy mauve]

you make em

im trying to upload my mod file to moddb

[celest stag]

ooh

with the remix/mods thing

[celest stag]

@glossy mauve do you know how to fix

this

or

have you experienced this

glitch

[glossy mauve]

map brokey idk

visleafs all brokey

i compile my rtx maps without visleafs to not have that

[jade trellis]

Don't forget to turn off chromatic aberration

[glossy mauve]

whye

[quiet scroll]

Thanks! I forget which one I was using before, but the night version of this one works

[half viper]

golden city is weird

some maps are fucked idk why

[meager oar]

Minecraft themed maps have this issue alot, There was a ZM Minecraft map that was working fine but after I opened my game again like 30 mins later and launched the map again it started having this issue And I have no clue why or what caused it to work fine before, It felt like as if I saw a Dream and so confused

[celest stag]

i think it has something to do with the

having too many faces using the same material in a scene

error

[half viper]

could be

[celest stag]

but i have no idea why it only happens

when i apply the last patch

[half viper]

uhm

because you are literally loading up the entire map geometry?

[celest stag]

makes sense lol |

but i wonder if there's a way |

to disable that limit

if that's the problem

no idea what im talking about

but maybe

idk

[glossy mauve]

try using this command

r_novis 1

[meager oar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-ngf9IV0to

[blissful falcon]

anyone got any good studio lighting addons?

[glossy mauve]

i made my own honestly lol

[blissful falcon]

i like that it lets you see the full textures of things

meaning you can see hidden phrases

[subtle bison]

messing with homemade lights from emissives is a lot of fun https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/948337688824643601/1206116932521173052/2024-02-10_23-56-50.mp4?ex=65dad6ed&is=65c861ed&hm=9f96e54d9a18b6cf9896e7e66cdd652781f241d1ff453ed4dfb2647e4d6e8453&

[glossy mauve]

hell yeah

[glossy mauve]

horsey

i just loved the shadows

[meager oar]

Cat with pants

[half viper]

oh wait

they will remodel this in hl2 rtx

they'll probably remodel the horse cock :clueless:

[glossy mauve]

yup

poor fella who will have to do that

[half viper]

mald about not preserving the original aesthetic if they remove it

[glossy mauve]

lmao they'll have to remaster it

4k

bring the guy that made the cinematic mod for this one

ok imma stop X3

[half viper]

lmfao

[half viper]

100k polygons for that one 🗣️

[scenic jungle]

i did everything in the video yet nothing changed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hck4sFx2Qj0

[half viper]

shadermodel 0?

[scenic jungle]

ahh so thats whats missing

[half viper]

where did you install remix?

yk it should be in the bin folder

[scenic jungle]

it is

am i an idiot? i feel like i did something wrong

[half viper]

dxvk.conf?

where is it

[scenic jungle]

in gmod folder

[half viper]

does rtx remix notifcation appear in the corner of the screen?

[scenic jungle]

nope

[half viper]

show me your bin folder

[scenic jungle]

theres more files so ill just send more screenshots

[half viper]

uhm

go 32bit

opt out of the beta

drop all remix files into the bin folder

@scenic jungle

[scenic jungle]

like bridge remix and dxvk?

[half viper]

yes

[scenic jungle]

did it

[half viper]

oh also
drop dxvk inside .trex

[scenic jungle]

i did

[half viper]

show me how it looks now

[scenic jungle]

already

wait

its working???

nvm

still looks like vanilla gmod

is my gmod fucked up

[glossy mauve]

are you on a beta; did you make a duplicate of the install; no addons enabled

[scenic jungle]

maybe the addons were the problem

wait

[scenic jungle]

i think i did duplicate

i wasnt suppose to do that?

[scenic jungle]

wait

im kinda confused

[celest stag]

i ran this command

and later added it to the .bat

but it's still happening

[blissful falcon]

should i put this in the batch file

[glossy mauve]

prob not

[meager oar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmSR3OoWLh8

[earnest yew]

@half viper o

do you have the patched dlls

python is mega broken for me

and it wont work

script'

[half viper]

i dont think so no :(

[earnest yew]

fuck python bro

it never works on my damn pc

@half viper

i got it to work but theres no ray tracing

its just the game with the rtx overlay

[half viper]

shadermodel 0

[earnest yew]

in dvxk?

[half viper]

mhm

[earnest yew]

nothing happend

[scenic jungle]

same here

[earnest yew]

awesome

yeah nothing is working

ive tried placing the dvxk everywhere

[vocal basin]

Thanks!!!

[glossy mauve]

furry painting

[half viper]

IM INTERESTED

[royal copper]

Craziest painting in the world

[half viper]

now i want to see a furry model with that texture

[glossy mauve]

wish i could feel it

[glossy mauve]

hehehe that was the plan since the beginning

[half viper]

the effect is achieved with heightmaps right?

[glossy mauve]

yup

[half viper]

also PROTOGENS

need ray traced screens

[glossy mauve]

yessss

[royal copper]

Proots are pretty epic

[glossy mauve]

animated displays

[half viper]

btw you can make a PBR spritesheet

[glossy mauve]

shor

im a lil bit of a texture artist but not much

can try heh

[half viper]

hehehehe

that would be so epic

[half viper]

also this statement is super true

[glossy mauve]

did they fix the issue with those already?

or is it just for wawa?

[half viper]

wdym

what issue?

[glossy mauve]

it gets all bugged

[half viper]

the spritesheets?

[glossy mauve]

omg the time i met one at bff was awesome

[glossy mauve]

yep

[half viper]

https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/rtx-remix/issues/220

this got fixed
this is the only issue i was aware off

[glossy mauve]

lmao I'm thinking of using the fur on my suit to make a proper normal texture

[half viper]

oooo

[glossy mauve]

did it? i tried today and was still brokey

[half viper]

maybe you did something wrong?

[glossy mauve]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[half viper]

woah

deja vu

[glossy mauve]

I'll try tho

hehehe awesome

[royal copper]

Need to use remix more

Just been very unmotivated recently, but it's fine

[glossy mauve]

samee

[half viper]

literally me

[glossy mauve]

having a lot of fun trying to figure out how to make textures

[royal copper]

Understandable

[half viper]

been working my ass for the past 20 days and i havent played a single game since

[glossy mauve]

damn

[half viper]

it was for an exam
got fucked hard
2 months of prepration to waste

[royal copper]

Oooof

[half viper]

well that isnt the subject of this channel sooo

lets go back to garrys mod furry mods lol

[royal copper]

Yesh lol

[glossy mauve]

hehe hey dw

dmz open in case anything wanna spill out

anyyywayy

I've been struggling to understand something a bit technical

[royal copper]

Understandable

[glossy mauve]

apparently source makes up a normal map in engine?

or, well-

[half viper]

noise texture

[glossy mauve]

it's confusing

[half viper]

to add fake detail

to textures

[glossy mauve]

nono-

it's like

lemme get an example

oh

forget it lmao

im just dum

[half viper]

well

when you said source as an engine makes up a texture

immedietely thought of the noise texture

(that makes stuff invisible)

[royal copper]

It happens lol

[glossy mauve]

hehe naw it's not the detail texture

[half viper]

well i go eep now
ill cya yall later :3

[royal copper]

Okiii have wonderful resttty

I'm just going to be lurking

[half viper]

thanks!

[half viper]

furry mentioned
breaks cover

[royal copper]

Lol

[half viper]

ha

[royal copper]

Idk last img I posted in here was backrooms related or something

[half viper]

shit im getting distracted again

gn for real this time <3

[royal copper]

Srry srry

[glossy mauve]

we already infected the channels

[royal copper]

Gnnn

[glossy mauve]

let's goo

gnnn

[royal copper]

Infecting the channels let's gooo

[blissful falcon]

there has GOT to be a way around this

[celest stag]

yea

so many maps are unplayable because of this

does anyone know

why my character isnt being reflected

on mirrors

[atomic nexus]

maybe u need to download rtx fixes

[blissful falcon]

rendering is so weird cause this is litterally just a single plane

like how

how is this possible

[half viper]

you need rtx fixes mod

and then tag your playermodel textures

[celest stag]

thanks

i reinstalled rtx fixes

and it worked

[half viper]

holy shit thats so cool

btw are you using quadtrees?

[glossy mauve]

the wha?

sorry hehe im still getting familiar with the tools

that's just a heightmap

oohh nope im using raymarched at 256

[half viper]

quadtrees are so much better btw

afair you need to use a python script tho

[glossy mauve]

i didn't like it

looked worse imo

[glossy mauve]

glassy

[meager oar]

Indeed glassy

[blissful falcon]

hey wait has anyone tried this out?

[glossy mauve]

pushin the bar a little there

[quiet scroll]

Wahh - has anyone seen this before? I just got a new PC and I'm going through installs. This is just regular gmod without rtx, I've disabled all the addons but the game looks hyper zoomed in for some reason

[jade trellis]

Have you tried verifying files through steam?

[quiet scroll]

Yeah, tried verifying and uninstalling, deleting the old folder, reinstalling and then verifying :/

[jade trellis]

That is such a strange bug, never encountered it

What's launch options you got

[quiet scroll]

No launch options

and not on beta branch

[jade trellis]

Try fiddling with resolution

Everytime you reinstall it grabs the settings from the cloud, if nothing works disable cloud saving and clean install

[junior bolt]

when will the mod for the game be publicly available?

[quiet scroll]

I. fucking. love. you. Thanks bro, that did the trick

What the heck steam cloud stabbing me in the back after all these years

[quiet scroll]

it's available right now, just follow the instructions in pins

[jade trellis]

Cloud is most likely using settings from previous pc, pretty sure you can override it with your current settings

[quiet scroll]

Anyone know how to expand the draw distance for raytracing? I don't think I've had this issue before

I turned off point/directional/spot lighting ingame

[atomic nexus]

thanks to hl2 maps and their optimization

[glossy mauve]

im pretty sure that's a fake bloom effect ingame, or a blocker in for optimization; better wait for Half Life 2 RTX to launch properly if you wanna experience it without issues

[meager oar]

There's a View distance option in remix menu, Try messing with it

[glossy mauve]

why are free textures the best textures

[glossy mauve]

found out func_physbox entities have very stable geometry hashes

[half viper]

try hl2 update maps

[glossy mauve]

this is a vibe

[half viper]

i love this

[half viper]

wait did you enable it without converting the heightmaps?

because it doesnt work that way
you gotta put your heightmaps through the python script

idk if its implemented in the toolkit

[glossy mauve]

ah oki

i mean

this works perfectly already i don't mind it really

i might try it sometime

[half viper]

#1099591203768504421 message

look

[glossy mauve]

can't lie, dosen't look that diff 😅

these already look great

[glossy mauve]

little museum

[celest stag]

does someone know how to fix this

[celest stag]

my reflection wasnt working cuz i forgot to install rtx remix's dependency

but then i installed it

and now gm_construct_rtx's skybox

looks like this

also had this since i installed rtx does someone know how to fix this too

weird skybox weird skybox

do i disable it

somehow

[half viper]

you can disable it

i really dont know what happening there

never seen it before

r_3dsky 0

[meager oar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKopK1R7ffU&lc=Ugz5lwMe1Fy2irjxzJJ4AaABAg

[glossy mauve]

wallss

[half viper]

walls never looked so edible

[glossy mauve]

mmm chocolate

damn

mad desire to lick them while i was workin on them

[half viper]

so true

[keen rivet]

r_openallportals or something

something like that

type find portal in console

might show what i'm talking about

[quiet scroll]

ahh, r_portalsopenall 1, no dice 😦

Kinda has an effect on some maps when running into rooms, like the light isn't recognized until I step into a room or am close enough to it

Looking for the view distance option popo mentioned

found it, mines already set to none on view distance

[meager oar]

I had this problem until I got the rtx Remix fixes addon then it stopped doing that, There's also a Suppress light option in Light Translation in parameters that should keep the lights on I think but it causes them to flicker.

[half viper]

you need rtx fixes mod

[glossy mauve]

hayo mayo,
im gonna start working on another project rn, wanted to ask if anyone would like to playtest my old map to see if im exporting stuff correctly, just DM me in case you're interested

[keen rivet]

yeah i tried to do a shitty fix with the fixes addon

it kinda works decently enough

[subtle bison]

supress light is pretty useful for doing realtime adjustments to lamps and lights, definitely makes posing for screenshots easier

though even with the rtx remix fixes addon and disabling suppress light, lights still are getting culled pretty up close. anything else to try?

also some maps have some really odd culling behaviors

[quiet scroll]

its enabled

[rich badge]

Try disabling composite fog from post processing

[quiet scroll]

No dice. Hmm, is this happening to anyone else? This is the map I used

[keen rivet]

place a prop that moves inside of the light

lol

you'll see an object that is updating will only be updated by lights

[glossy mauve]

maybe r_novis 1?

[scenic jungle]

question where do i type that?

[quiet scroll]

on the video install tutorial, between 4:32-4:58 on the video when you create the dxvk.conf file https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hck4sFx2Qj0

[scenic jungle]

thanks

[keen rivet]

:D

[faint sapphire]

You have to tag the fake texture the game uses to fade to pure white there as ignore

[blissful falcon]

UUHHH

they are a lil funky but they work

its right here if you have portal 2

[half viper]

portal material?

[blissful falcon]

yeah i think so

[blissful falcon]

any ideas on how to fix this?

i mean like the matricies are all funky but it should be a simple fix

[hallow wasp]

Oh, yeah, it's because there are no meshes that "receive light" from the point of view of Source. So the engine culls it, and doesn't send any info about that light to the D3D9.

One solution would be put some dummy mesh underneath that light, so Source would submit the light to D3D9

[subtle bison]

yeah that seems to work, thanks for the tip

[subtle bison]

Though I have another question, on some maps, all of the brush details are rendering just fine but some props are completely invisible and their textures do not show in the remix menu. I assume these models have materials with no fixed function fallback? Would it be as simple as editing the vtf file to fix it?

[hoary helm]

Actually I think I ran into this issue as well. If it is the same issue then yes, all you have to do is make sure that the addon you're using has the dx80 versions of every model vtf and that'll fix it.

If it's built into the map I don't think you could do much without the original map file, unless you're good with recompiling maps for Source.

That's how I ended up finally fixing the Cry of Fear prop textures/models. Couldn't fix any of the invisible props that were directly placed in the COF maps though.

[keen rivet]

this is what the rtx remix fixes addon tries to do

[subtle bison]

does it apply to all light types? i don't notice any difference with the addon enabled

[blissful falcon]

does anyone know how to get the model replacements working?

[half viper]

afair we do have few issues with that

@blissful falcon try using these commands
+mat_dxlevel 70 +r_forcenovis 0 +r_occlusion 0 +c_frustumcull 0 +r_frustumcullworld 0 +r_shadows 0 +r_lod 0 +r_staticprop_lod 0 +r_vertexlighting 0 +mat_queue_mode 0 +r_unloadlightmaps 1 +mat_drawwater 0 +mat_forcehardwaresync 1 +cl_detaildist 0

@keen rivet afair you got model replacement working right?, but was only limited to static props

[keen rivet]

model hashes are so unpredictable

they're impossible to get stable from what i've tried

need someone smart with hex editor knowledge possibly

[blissful falcon]

well how did they do it to portal?

[keen rivet]

they have source code access

[half viper]

entorpy zero 2 guy used portal rtx binaries

[keen rivet]

too different from gmod

[half viper]

i know

but like

nvm

[keen rivet]

I've tried as many binaries i could that would work

[blissful falcon]

well i mean they kinda work

[half viper]

im not that knowledgable in hex editing but thought it would help to make a modded hl2 exe

[keen rivet]

yeah they work on some props

mostly static props

and non moving physics props

[blissful falcon]

well thats kinda important if they want to make this a tool for regular modders

[blissful falcon]

that just doesnt even load

[noble cypress]

Practically impossible.
Hardly any games are actually open-source, and few have even been reverse-engineered.

I honestly feel like NVidia kinda cheated for Portal with RTX.
Having source code access, distributing a modified version of the engine, even for minimal integration (Non-native RTX), still allows for things that are otherwise impossible or impractical.

And having a purpose-built version of RTX Remix just for Source, too.
How many other games will realistically get that special treatment?
Sure, there could be improvements to RTX Remix that benefit one game more than others, but not many people will fork Remix so that it's specifically targetted to their desired game.

[blissful falcon]

aw

atleast when hl2 comes out, the textures will look good

i mean like world textures

not just props

gm construct is gonna look HELLA good

[glossy mauve]

pretty sure construct uses mostly custom textures

[subtle bison]

guess it shouldnt be any surprise for fumo models to look photorealistic since they were probably photoscanned lol

[quiet scroll]

That’s so cool

[modern fulcrum]

Did you know why some wall/floor are invisible? (half, not full texture)

[quiet scroll]

Hmm, have you downloaded an rtx.conf file for gmod?

[modern fulcrum]

Yeah, already done

[quiet scroll]

Hmm, there might be some detail textures on the floor or walls. Sometimes graffiti or impact/smoke is a texture added, I categorize them as decals and it usually fixes it

Idk if that’s what they’re supposed to be under but they reappear and fit in 🤷🏻‍♂️

[blissful falcon]

i wonder if there is a mod that could fix geometry hashes

[glossy mauve]

func_physboxes have great hashes if that's any useful

[keen rivet]

mostly hl2 textures actually

almost all hl2 textures

some are renamed hl2 textures, but theyre still in hl2

[glossy mauve]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

it'll be fun hehe

[modern fulcrum]

Thanks! It worked

[forest path]

I've decided to start trying gmod, I'm having an issue where remix loads but there is no path tracing

[quiet scroll]

Have you followed the pinned youtube tutorial?

[forest path]

yeah

[quiet scroll]

Did you place the dxvk.conf file in the main gmod directory?

[forest path]

all the important links are broken

[forest path]

and yes

[quiet scroll]

Hmm, and you're using the launcher to start the game?

[forest path]

I've tried using teminals with the argments posted int the pinned message

[quiet scroll]

What's your game folder look like?

[quiet scroll]

Gotcha, what's in the bin folder?

[quiet scroll]

Looks good. Ahh, yeah the download link in the youtube video doesn't work - so you weren't able to apply the patches?

@keen rivet do you happen to have the patcher file? Looks like the one in the yt video expired 😦

[keen rivet]

How did it expire? That's odd

Lemme go take a look

[forest path]

@keen rivet Could you find the launch file and the patcher?

[keen rivet]

Oh sorry, I forgot and went to bed, it's a bit late so I'll do it tomorrow

[forest path]

👍

[keen rivet]

everything i had should be in here

[forest path]

Thanks

[keen rivet]

looks like discord stopped allowing people to direct link to uploaded files

like cmon i pay for nitro atleast let me upload a 4mb file permanently

new links in video description too

[quiet scroll]

Thanks Xenthio!

[subtle bison]

so why is -debug and -allowdebug needed?

[subtle bison]

took forever but i finally marked all of the animated fire sprites to be emissive (worldspace ui texture)

destroys my fps pretty easily too

[keen rivet]

Gmod used to crash without it

Back in portal rtx days

I dunno why tbh

[jade trellis]

A while ago discord added timers to links that are outside of discord, pretty much expiring and needing a new link after a set amount of time

[keen rivet]

you could just delete the timer thing in the url and they would work still tho

now it doesn't anymore

[jade trellis]

Im not mr discord, whatever their mindset behind this, its silly

[forest path]

How do I use the patcher

[forest path]

Nvm

[forest path]

I still can't get the game to raytrace

[quiet scroll]

what's your gpu?

[forest path]

3060 mobile

Got it working,

The issue was a lower case 'm' in the dxvk.conf

[forest path]

How can I fix the terrain?

[modest whale]

you set it as "Terrain"

ggwp

[blissful falcon]

primitive's meshes have stable geometry hashes

prop replacemets are possible

[blissful falcon]

yep it works perfectly lmao

[subtle bison]

is this as of a new remix commit/version?

[blissful falcon]

what

[subtle bison]

you mentioned that those specific meshes have stable geometry hashes, I was under the impression that gmod does not have stable hashes at all

i could be mistaken

[blissful falcon]

you are! im as suprised as you are

[lapis delta]

damn look at these shadows

[half viper]

Wait did it get better with the last commit or what?

[blissful falcon]

litterally nothing changed about anything

i just figured it out

[half viper]

Could it be a special property in the model file?

Fences are stable right?

[blissful falcon]

from what i think, "props" arent meshes, but rather physics objects that contain meshes, so when you seperate it out (which is a side effect of primitive) you get meshes with hashes that only corrospond to the meshes properties, (size, shape, etc)

so basically props are unable to become instances

but primatives are

primitives being the name of the addon

[tight lynx]

Someone pls help me jus get gmod rtx workin

[quiet scroll]

Looked at pinned

[tight lynx]

I can't make sense of it and it gets me nowhere

[quiet scroll]

Did you watch the youtube video?

[tight lynx]

Yea and it doesn't work for me something fucks up and I don't have patience

So I want help

[quiet scroll]

ggs

[tight lynx]

All I want is someone to guide me through this bs so I can get what I deserve

[kind kraken]

wdym get what you can deserve

[tight lynx]

I deserve to admire the beauty of rtx in a sandbox game as good as gmod

[forest path]

Is there a fix for unstable hashes?

[blissful falcon]

i figured it out

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2840295308

use this

[modest whale]

does this fix the movable props unstable hashes or I misunderstood ?

[blissful falcon]

yes

it fixes it

[modest whale]

Yo that's actually insanely huge

[blissful falcon]

I KNOW LOL

[modest whale]

Lemme try i need to see this

[quiet scroll]

https://tenor.com/view/nowaying-gif-3060989595762813571

OMG

[blissful falcon]

whats cool about primitive is that you can adjust the paramaters to fit anything, so you can actually just remake anything you want

[modest whale]

btw, anyone knows why "add lights to texture" lights are switching temps constantly ? like it goes from light orange to white to light orange to white etc etc

[compact blaze]

how does this fix the unstable hashes

will installing this mod just someow automatically fix everything

[blissful falcon]

it doesnt fix the props

[compact blaze]

or will the stuff in the mods be used as a replacement to the models with unstable hashes

ah ok

[blissful falcon]

the stuff in the mods will be used as replacements yes

it has a ton of base stuff that you can use

[compact blaze]

i wonder if there's a way to fix the issue of the props sounds not matching with whatever ur replacing with

like if you wanted to make a barrel and replaced the primitive model with an hd barrel

but it sounds and acts nothing like one y'know?

[quiet scroll]

Is anyone able to capture props and things in their captures? I only get the rooms and stuff in mine

I get npcs, just not the world objects

Like a glass bottle or table

[compact blaze]

Oh cool

[half viper]

@keen rivet thoughts on this?
what makes this different than other props?

[blissful falcon]

the difference is that props arent exactly meshes

props are their own thing

primitive just attaches a mesh onto an object, and fakes the collision

[blissful falcon]

looking closely, i think the entire scene is skewed, which is why the portals look the way they do

[jade trellis]

Had this issue aswell, im just assuming its intended at this point

[keen rivet]

Primitives are rendered differently to props

idk why props suck

[half viper]

;(

[keen rivet]

I'm not much of a source internals nerd for anything specific like props

so i couldn't tell you

yet again I think the only way it could be fixed is from a dll patch or something

that or replacing prop rendering with some lua equivalent.

[brittle compass]

did y'all put the remix files into the bin folder?

[half viper]

Yes

[brittle compass]

doesn't even find it, no alt + x..

[half viper]

Show me your bin folder

[brittle compass]

wait lemme try to bin/win64

nothing

I use the x64

[quiet scroll]

Ahh, you have to be on the 32bit version for remix to work

[brittle compass]

Downgrading that shi instantly

then I dump the remix thingies into bin?

[quiet scroll]

Yep, remix in the bin folder, and the dxvk.conf into the main gmod directory (steamapps<common<GarrysMod)

[brittle compass]

Oof

lmao

[quiet scroll]

Hmm did you follow the YouTube video tutorial?

[brittle compass]

..I didn't.
is it in this project thread thingy

[quiet scroll]

Yep! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hck4sFx2Qj0 This tutorial is up to date and should work 👍

[jade trellis]

Some links are dead

#1116089843479498782 message this zip has all the important stuff in the description

[quiet scroll]

Xenthio updated all the links in the video

They were broken a bit ago but he updated 👍

[jade trellis]

Smart xenthio

[quiet scroll]

The last link brings up a raw text rtx.conf file, here's my file version if that makes it easier @brittle compass

[brittle compass]

Thanks a lot. I'm really totally ignorant and I feel so lost very easily, thank you

[quiet scroll]

You got it, lemme know if you need any help

[brittle compass]

well, since u asked...some textures disappeared, but I didn't finish the video yet

[quiet scroll]

Very fixable, finish all the steps in the video and we'll see what it looks like

[brittle compass]

Question: when I download something from the workshop, doesn't it go to the main gmod folder instead of the RTX's?

[jade trellis]

It goes to both

Bizarrely enough

[glossy mauve]

vibe

[glossy anchor]

how do I stop crashes if I don't have portal RTX

[jade trellis]

The lack of ambient occlusion is throwing me off

[jade trellis]

I can dm it to you

[glossy anchor]

it still doesn't work, i just watched the tutorial, it says that I need 2 files : The stdshader_dx7.dll and the stdshader_dx5.dll

[jade trellis]

You only need 7

[glossy anchor]

but it still doesn't work

[jade trellis]

Did you follow the tut correctly?

[glossy anchor]

yes

[jade trellis]

How many addons do you have

[glossy anchor]

a lot

i've just deleted all of them but it still crashes

[quiet scroll]

Are you on the 32bit version and not the beta 64 bit?

[glossy anchor]

yes

im doing everything from the start again

[subtle bison]

its all path traced, no need for ambient occlusion. the issue is that every materal looks like its been mopped so there is no soft diffuse light bounces to fill in any shadows

[glossy mauve]

i wonder if i can import a model this high quality?

ai gen image btw

[subtle bison]

are you inpainting into rtx remix screenshots?

[glossy mauve]

hehe yeah just for curiosity

[subtle bison]

yeah i was wondering why the character models looked so good in that office screenshot

lol

[glossy mauve]

hah yeah

they still pop out tough

wish there was a photo mode on remix,

let you just bake a picture using max rays and stuff

[subtle bison]

gmod camera tool?

oh yeah that lol

you could enable reference mode with full res dlss and let it bake a bit

[glossy mauve]

hehe guess its a workaround

[subtle bison]

yeah its probably the best you can get out of remix as of now

[half viper]

You can

Go crazy with em

[glossy mauve]

lmao i already am runnin into fps issues with a photoscan

[quiet scroll]

Even like 1 4k texture in gmod can ruin performance if it’s not done through remix

[glossy mauve]

oh it is trough remix

just yeah

my poor bb can't handle it

[half viper]

Yeah do it through remix not through the game

[half viper]

@glossy mauve use this mod it has stable hashes

[glossy mauve]

i use func_physboxes im good

no need for addons

[glossy mauve]

i kno, i can't even load photoscans into gmod

[blissful falcon]

Mfw i accidentily make a breakthrough

[subtle bison]

i wonder what makes it have stable hashes, maybe a certain vtf config?

[half viper]

Yeah exactly

[hushed trail]

So would there be a way to inject a fix into all the stock assets?

[subtle bison]

my guess is replacing/editing the texture vdf's in the same manner as the primitive addon

[subtle bison]

ok well nevermind

https://github.com/shadowscion/Primitive

looking at the actual source, it doesnt use any unique textures

i assume its something with how the models are rendered since they are procedural with this addon

maybe something like this could help?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2458909924

seems to have a similar basis with manipulating meshes

epilepsy warning

epilepsy warning

but yeah the primitves addon has perfect hashes

[subtle bison]

ok yep this actually works

once again epilepsy warning

this addon seems to rectify the unstable hashes

[quiet scroll]

gmod nanite

[hexed hare]

staring at a wall

for the past 55 days.

(jk looks good !)

[quiet scroll]

Dang, none of the portal gun addons work, that would’ve been pretty cool

[brittle compass]

that's crazy good! I just found out that RTX remix is for modders and developers mostly, so I'm totally in the wrong place xD
I'll sit here and look at what y'all make instead

[tight lynx]

is there still no one willing to help me?

[half viper]

In what?

The tutorial is up there in the pinned messages

[tight lynx]

yea ive watched it 6 times no good progress

[half viper]

What happenes exactly?

[tight lynx]

it gets to the point where gmod doesnt boot

ill give it a 7th go tmrw when its not 12 am

[half viper]

Have you installed the lua menu?

[tight lynx]

dude idk what i havnt done ;-;

[half viper]

Did you follow the tutorial step by step?

[tight lynx]

ye
is the 2060rtx perchance somehow not capable?

[half viper]

It is capable

[tight lynx]

alr cool then

[half viper]

Wait is it instant crash like the game doesn't boot up?

Or is it in the loading screen crash?
@tight lynx

[tight lynx]

loading screen im pretty sure been a while since i last messed round with it

imma head off to bed now tho whats ur time zone so i know when to expect u be online

[glossy mauve]

me when remix crashes for the 10th time trying to import a texture

[hexed hare]

Lol

[glossy mauve]

I'm guessing it's because of the physics model it uses, but i could be very wrong. Would explain why func_physboxes work, given i don't think those use Vphysics

but yeah i could just be very wrong lmao

[subtle bison]

i think it's how source renders certain types of meshes/models, in this video i converted a prop into a mesh and the geometry hash became stable

we need some kind of way to convert props to meshes. maybe add some kind of lua script to the rtx remix addon?

[blissful falcon]

I predicted that primitive might be useful here

I HECKING KNEW IT WOULD

cause i was like "hey wait doesnt primitive use a special kind of mesh" AND IT TOTALLY DOES

[blissful falcon]

What map is that?

[blissful falcon]

The problem is that instancing is harder

[blissful falcon]

Mount portal2, start new map, in spawn menu go to games->portal2->effects

[modest whale]

idk how gmod works, but maybe making a specific mesh with primitive and re-exporting the map with the new primitive mesh replacing the one with unstable mesh could be a solution (again i have no idea how this works) ?

[blissful falcon]

Hmmm

[subtle bison]

we dont nesseccarily need primitive, just a way to force props to be that "specific mesh" (dont know the technical term)

[modest whale]

Yeah but since primitive already does this part, no need for detailed stuff with primitive since it will be done to be replaced with remix afterwards

[subtle bison]

i guess instancing but I dont understand what it means in gmod's context

[subtle bison]

but collision gets more difficult using primitive

i guess you could technically match the proportions of whatever replacement you're using but it would be easier to convert an existing prop to a mesh and base the replacement on that

[modest whale]

Anyone tried Prop2Mesh ??

Just saw it was compatible with primitive

[subtle bison]

yes thats what the video i sent was

i converted a prop to a mesh and it fixed the hashes

[modest whale]

oh okok

[modest whale]

thx

[subtle bison]

we just need an addon to do this automatically for all props in a map

[modest whale]

So :

• Learn how primitive works,
  make an addon that :
• replace all props with prop2mesh copy of themselves,
• Make old one invisible cuz Prop2mesh has no collision

[subtle bison]

the only issue with prop2mesh is that the copied mesh has no collision at all

so maybe just attach the mesh on top of the existing prop and hide the original prop

[modest whale]

i think there is a transparent material in gmod, ez workaround ig

[subtle bison]

materials dont work with dx7, you need to change the texture of the actual prop. an easier option is to set the prop RGBA to 0

[modest whale]

and now i'm thinking that this won't work as soon as a props moves

[subtle bison]

i can try it rq

hold on

[modest whale]

https://tenor.com/view/anxious-gif-17597644896756472985

[subtle bison]

😎

this is definitely an option

[hushed trail]

Wonder how we will get around the viewmodel hash

[modest whale]

I love what I see

[modest whale]

What's this ?

[hushed trail]

See how the viewmodel is flickering, it isn't a stable hash

so replacement is going to be tough

[modest whale]

u mean the physgun ?

[hushed trail]

Yeah

[modest whale]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=945145478&searchtext=physgun+HD I guess

idk if it's stable but i don't think we necessarily need to mod everything using remix, gmod is already a moddable platform

[subtle bison]

we could just use that addon and then replace the materials in remix, i dont think viewmodels really need mesh replacements

[modest whale]

Unstable hash can have a texture replacements ?

[subtle bison]

in my experience yes

[modest whale]

okok i always thought unstable meant impossible to mod

well yeah then : high poly with workshop, 4k textures with remix

[quiet scroll]

OH MY GOD WHATTTT NO WAY! Thanks!

[blissful falcon]

No problem!

[quiet scroll]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2081893512

[blissful falcon]

Thanks

[rich badge]

Did you asked Mark about this

[blissful falcon]

yea

[rich badge]

and?

[blissful falcon]

idk

[quiet scroll]

Woahh, how did you get the rtx water on the map? I have the rtx water mod, but it didn't work for that map for me

[rich badge]

What he said? Is it the broken axis like we speculated?

[blissful falcon]

idk

[blissful falcon]

yeah i think so

[rich badge]

Its hashes might be different, just copy from the map and add to your mod

[blissful falcon]

anyway i gotta sleep

[lament quartz]

why do only some of the reflections work ? i did everything right 😭

if not, it ends up being like this (no reflections i think)

debug view is on but it doesn't change what it looks like when i turn it off and on aswell

and whenever i try using flashlight it just freezes the entire game

also, if i delete game shader, it crashes after/during loading

[quiet scroll]

Did you import the portal rtx files?

[lament quartz]

yep

[quiet scroll]

What’s your main directory folder look like?

And what’s the bin folder look like?

[quiet scroll]

Hmm, are you on the 32bit version and not the 64bit version of gmod?

[lament quartz]

I'm on the 32bit version of gmod.

[quiet scroll]

hmm, what's your game look like in-game without the debug mode on?

what's your gpu?

[lament quartz]

rtx 3070

[lament quartz]

lemme check

pretty sure it just looked the same

with no debug view on

ui also becomes black for some reason

[quiet scroll]

That's so bizarre, it looks like you have it installed correctly to a T

Hmmm, does your dxvk.conf file say d3d9.shaderModel = 0

and you're using the launcher to start the game and not directly on steam?

[lament quartz]

Launching it with the launcher removes the black stuff

this still happens though

[lament quartz]

yep,

[quiet scroll]

All the addons disabled and just the rtx remix fixes enabled? (You can enable them back on once it starts working 🙂 )

Ahhh wait, when you ran the applypatches python file, did anything happen?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hck4sFx2Qj0 at 2:15 - 3:23 a patched folder should have been made to overrite some files. You may have already done this, but I had left my patched folder in my gmodrtx directory

[lament quartz]

yep, it added a patches file, and then I did as the video said, which was overwriting the existing files.

and I just redid it right now to be sure it was actually there.

same results

[quiet scroll]

Gotcha, hmm lemme do a little bit of research - I know someone's game looked like that before and we got it fixed. The issues probably right infront of me too

[lament quartz]

lol ok

[quiet scroll]

Arghh, the one I was thinking of had a different blue screen looking issue. I'm off to bed, but I'll take another look at it in the morning and see if I can help. In the meantime, try other maps and firing your gun if that effects anything.

Here'x my dxvk.conf file and rtx.conf if you want to try those incase it's some setting issue

[lament quartz]

whenever you're back online, just so you know, those files didnt really change anything, ALTHOUGH, my dvxk file was a text file, not a conf, now it's a conf, it seems everything BUT the rtx is working 😭

also, for whom is able to help at this time, am I meant to have the files in here such as "client.zip/client.dll and agame_shader_generic_garrysmod? cause you're meant to delete game shader, which I have, and after alot of shit, it's letting me in, but there's no menu

[lament quartz]

this is what shows whenever I try going into a map, there's no shader as game shader was deleted

[jade trellis]

Do you have the shader for portal rtx?

And did you put it in the bin folder where the exe is

[half viper]

The portal rtx shaders are not necessary for it to boot

[lament quartz]

I don't think so

[half viper]

Dw about that

[lament quartz]

Actually, I might, due to importing 2 stdshaders from portalrtx

if that's what you mean

[lament quartz]

mk

[half viper]

@lament quartz did you use the bat file?

[half viper]

Btw its case sensitive, could be that too

[lament quartz]

the launch file?

[half viper]

Tbh this looks oddly similar to what L4D looks like with rtx remix

[half viper]

Yea

[lament quartz]

yeah, i used that

[half viper]

Mmm

[lament quartz]

the problem that seems to be happening currently is that theres "no bound shader"

this happens when I delete game_generic shader

[half viper]

That's not the issue

[lament quartz]

which is what you're meant to do

oh

[half viper]

Thats normal we deleted useless shaders.

[lament quartz]

so this would be correct?

[half viper]

Yes

Did you modify the ingame settings?

[jade trellis]

Might be a finniky rtx conf

Where did you get the conf from

[half viper]

Shouldn't matter

And mistakingly marking a ui texture isnt going to result in that

@lament quartz you have addons on?

[lament quartz]

only the rtx remix fixes one

[half viper]

Mmm

[lament quartz]

using the rtx conf from this guy

as you can see

[half viper]

Did you also replace the dxvk file with his?

[lament quartz]

yes

previously it wasn't even a conf file, it was just a text file, but now since I used his, it's now a conf file.

[modern latch]

always set view full file extension in file explorer

[lament quartz]

anybody able to help?

[keen rivet]

What's in your dxvk.conf

[keen rivet]

Hmmm

[lament quartz]

just so you know this is what my garrys mod > garrys mod bin folder looks like

[keen rivet]

Why are you doing changelevel

Do map

[lament quartz]

did it, this is what shows up

it's weird cause earlier some of the rtx effects were working.

so basically without game shader, there are no reflection effects as the revolver is just grey with no texture at all

[keen rivet]

Can you try shoot the ground?

This is a weird sounding test I know but lol try it

[lament quartz]

yep

[keen rivet]

Odd

I've never seen this

[half viper]

Yeah me neither

[meager oar]

Half life source weapons and npcs have the same issue

For me atleast

It's all glowy but when I remove the glowy texture it is textureless like that

[lapis delta]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3170495340 can anybody test this map?

[lament quartz]

i'm certain it's because there's a file in the garrysmod > garrysmod > bin, file that I do not have

[quiet scroll]

fudge sorry, took another look and can't find anywhere you're missing or messed up it all looks perfect. Guess all I can recommend is starting over and redoing everything

[lament quartz]

i've done that many times 😭

i assume because i don't have a certain file in the garrys mod > garrys mod > bin folder

are you able to copy yours and send it here perhaps

certain thats the issue

[quiet scroll]

sorry I can't do that, that would be ✨ illegal ✨, are you sure you deleted the generic shader in the tutorial?

Are there any extra spaces in between d3d9.shaderModel = 0

[quiet scroll]

Cool map!

[lament quartz]

yep, and there's no extra spaces in d3d9
although i feel like these errors have something to do with it

[quiet scroll]

oh WAITTTT

I think I found the problem

when you say bin folder, you made adjustments to THIS bin folder right?

garrysmod>bin - not garrysmod>garrysmod>bin

[lament quartz]

yeah, I removed game shader from garrysmod>garrysmod>bin

and I did add the trex stuff into the garrysmod>bin

[lament quartz]

I think I FIGURED IT out

i didnt have shadows enabled

does that effect the rtx

[quiet scroll]

Nahh mine are off as remix adds in shadows through pathtracing, enabling them would just add double shadows.

Here's my bin folder, I noticed you have a couple of more d3d9 files in yours, idk if they're important, but you might want to try moving them to a temp folder and running the game and seeing if that does anything?

(I accidentally added a dxvk.conf file in my bin folder, it doesn't do anything as it should be in the main directory but I just let it sit there lol)

and here's my main directory

[lament quartz]

it might be this

[lament quartz]

is it illegal to have your patches folder?

[jade trellis]

Literally played on this map on tf2 yesterday, freaky

[jade trellis]

No

Did you drag the stuff in the patches folder to where it needed to go?

[lament quartz]

yep, I did

it was failing to add some things into the patches folder though

but i did put the bin and garrys mod file where they were meant to be

[quiet scroll]

that's probably what the problem is, if you run the applypatches.bat and it gives you the "patched" folder, moving the bin and garrysmod folder into the main directory should overrite and fix everything

Is it giving you an error when you try?

[proven lintel]

Whoa it reminds me of Digital Circus with all that colorful lighting everywhere

[glossy anchor]

how do you make your textures looks that good

and how do you have your own shadows in first person

i've installed RTX remix fixes, but it still doesn't work

[lament quartz]

It's giving me a error when I run the script in the terminal, so I don't think everything from the

"patches" folder is getting added

but the patches folder does show up.

[fossil crow]

The patches are not necessary

It should boot up with only remix files and the command line and the lua menu only

[night bramble]

seeing balls in the balls in the balls is nice

not even UE5 can do that lol

[lament quartz]

why does it freeze on loading

[lament quartz]

anybody know what this means?

[half viper]

Nothing is wrong here

[lament quartz]

i have to manually enable textures to see anything and theres no rtx

[lapis delta]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3172280552
guys, can somebody test this map also?

[vocal basin]

Someone can give water materials pls

[boreal zenith]

https://youtu.be/TlbxX7Ve3Kk

philip is among us

[lapis delta]

amogus

[ember plover]

how do i set d3d9.shadermodel = 0

[jade trellis]

the dxvk.conf is pretty much a text file, just type d3d9.shaderModel = 0 in dxvk.conf, simplest way to do this is open it with your favorite text program

[ember plover]

oki

[jade trellis]

its case-sensitive so make sure its Model and not model

[storm estuary]

Hello. Just joined the server. Looking in RTX remix for Gmod and any information that can introduce me into how it works for Gmod. Is there any write ups or videos that might be useful for a novice to the software other than the general pins in the info channels and anything that describes the quirks of gmod with this software?

[quiet scroll]

Check out the pinned messages on this thread - there's a full video tutorial on how to get gmod working with rtx

You have to follow the instructions EXACTLY, missing anything prevents it from working

[storm estuary]

On mobile so wasn’t sure where I could see the pins

[quiet scroll]

Oh no worries, here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hck4sFx2Qj0

[quiet scroll]

LMAOOOO

[storm estuary]

Nice

[jade trellis]

He really said

🧍‍♂️

[keen rivet]

Pushed an update to RTX Remix fixes,

made the light updater better and more efficient

fixes almost all light flickering

you can even crank rtx_experimental_lightupdater_count to 256 and turn on "supress light keeping" and there will still be no flickering

doing the above also means lights that do turn off don't linger

[storm estuary]

Has this map been viewed or optimized for RTX?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2312309380

[quiet scroll]

I LOVE YOU XENTHIO

[keen rivet]

video game

[storm estuary]

Looks neat

[lament quartz]

ermmm what

[keen rivet]

ready for ray reconstruction whenever we get it

[quiet scroll]

Hmm, is anyone else getting this or is it just on my end?

[keen rivet]

did you install the required addon?

[quiet scroll]

Just the rtx remix fixes from the workshop, and then downloading the mods in the rtx fixes description for water, the mirror, and emissives

Was there another one?

[keen rivet]

yeah

niknaks

[quiet scroll]

Ahh got it, thanks! That fixed a lighting issue I had from earlier

This is the only error I have now, but idk if it's causing any in-game issues, everything looks great 🙂

[quiet scroll]

fixed

I forgot that step when I reinstalled gmod rtx on my new setup - that explains a lot

[storm estuary]

What kind of hardware are people using for this. Just curious

Oh interesting. Thanks for the image. Did frame rate drop because you were taking a screenshot or is that expected fps for that area? I know it’s a dense map

[keen rivet]

I'm running full resolution no dlss

[keen rivet]

It worked fine on my old 2060

[quiet scroll]

Yeah, my 2060 mobile (laptop version) was just fine

[quiet scroll]

idk where the grass went lol

[jade trellis]

Isnt the grass a shader?

[keen rivet]

grass not so green today

[quiet scroll]

Yeah that's probably it, it didn't show up in the textures

[jade trellis]

Had a hunch they were using shaders for grass

Just difficult to pull off that much grass without anything special

[keen rivet]

anyone else have any maps they want to see?