Garry's Mod

[modern quest]

in this case, it's from model instability. the dataset was far too small

[magic wyvern]

looking at the texture here it's probably a case of garbage in- garbage out since the albedo is already quite noisy from all the rust. The source image needs to be processed to be cleaner before you can get a good normal map out of it.

[subtle bison]

yea, that's what i was assuming

that's why im gonna touch it up a bit in PS to make it more normalmap-friendly

[modern quest]

i can include an optional step in the chain to denoise or blur textures first, but in many cases it can accidentally lead to bad results

[subtle bison]

yeah a denoiser or some kind of smoothing technique would help a lot of textures from source

[magic wyvern]

something like a surface blur that uses edge detection to cordon off edges and only blurs flat surfaces might work.

also worth noting that blurring might introduce color banding which might manifest as lines in normal maps

[modern quest]

i can try to do that

[modern quest]

never mind. i thought chaiNNer's blur nodes had an input for a mask, which i could generate with canny edge detection

asked for it to be added

[onyx ridge]

i cast gimp's remove noise filter

[subtle bison]

took forever but i traced the entire thing and blacked out the rest

oh yeaa that's clean

[modern quest]

could you send the diffuse/albedo please

i need to use it to test

(the upscaled one)

[subtle bison]

sure

ooops

this isnt it

i overwrote it oops

[modern quest]

lol it's okay

[subtle bison]

here ya go

[modern quest]

thank you

[subtle bison]

oh yeaa this looks

[modern quest]

hm. this is the output with my blur setup

[modern quest]

nice work. looks great 🙂

[subtle bison]

looks a bit better, but you can still see the noise artifacts

i think the detail is fine on the albedo, but rather the normal needs to be blurred (i think pbrify already has this?)

[modern quest]

the normal is blurred after processing. i'm experimenting with blurring it before as well with RuneStorm's suggestion (using edge detection to only blur the noisy areas, but keep edges)

and this is hte output. definitely need to retrain the model. once i do, i think this will look okay

[lapis delta]

how is it?

[subtle bison]

performance looks pretty good at 1080p, less smeary

but at 1080p i get like 19fps with my 2080 lmao

[lapis delta]

by your opinion

does it help to decrease roughness loss?

[subtle bison]

wdym?

roughness looks about the same

no RR vs RR @720p DLSS perf

you can see a lot of normal detail gets washed out

oops forgot to fix the roughness

mmm rust 🤤

[lapis delta]

so yummy!

[subtle bison]

here is the materials in motion (running at DLAA 720p)

hopefully i achieved a good realistic look while also matching vanilla

[lapis delta]

i meant that

[subtle bison]

what am i looking for

[lapis delta]

wait a min

[lapis delta]

this is with ray recon.

and this is without

[subtle bison]

ouch

yeah that's a lot of normal detail getting removed

[modern quest]

try changing the model to Default from ReSTIR finetuned

[subtle bison]

yea that's what im using

[lapis delta]

it helps with decrease

but not as i thought

[subtle bison]

what in gods name am i doing lmao

[magic wyvern]

re-living what everyone did back in 2007

[earnest yew]

autism: the room

[keen rivet]

Does the fire itself work?

[subtle bison]

yeah somewhat

[keen rivet]

Gmod in its purest form

[keen rivet]

Dunno what causes the issue then lol

[compact blaze]

is this with ray reconstruction?

[subtle bison]

yea

[compact blaze]

nice

also someone should def try adding lights to the nyan cat gun

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=123277559

[keen rivet]

lol

i'll give it a go

also i figured out what was causing my water flickering issues

rtx io being enabled means that theres a frame when a texture changes that the texture isnt replaced properly

no clue why

[keen rivet]

just trying this out now

it doesnt extract properly

no matter what i try to extract with

[quiet scroll]

Uh oh, the original files been nuked. I did a clean install of windows and wiped my C drive, turns out my rams cooked so my systems down for a bit.

[keen rivet]

It's only some of the files in the archive broken

[onyx ridge]

i've seen some people using ray reconstruction, i take it that's taken from portal with rtx's remix runtime?

[half viper]

Yes

[onyx ridge]

ahh alright

[onyx ridge]

phys_lobby is so fucking good with volt

tbh it's also really good with remix too since you can break a pole that disables all the lights

[compact blaze]

omg i love how the pistol looks

[keen rivet]

Yeah

That pistol is awesome

[lapis delta]

@onyx ridge can you upload your materials to moddb please?

[onyx ridge]

what'd be the best way to go about it

[plain blade]

how did you made that pistol?

last time i tried to make pbr it was black

[compact blaze]

https://www.moddb.com/rtx/downloads?filter=t&category=34

there's a catagory for releasing pbr assets

like @glossy mauve released one

[glossy mauve]

does it.. work?

[compact blaze]

i have no idea i just know the comments are like this

[glossy mauve]

lmao

[onyx ridge]

everything's from the mmod replacements redux addon

the models all already have specular, emission and normal maps

[compact blaze]

also i wanna ask has the method for installing rtx remix into gmod changed in any way?

[onyx ridge]

i split the diffuse texture into its colors and alpha in gimp (because the alpha is used for emission)

then split the normal map texture the same way (because the alpha is used for specular)

inverted the specular for roughness, upscaled the textures

then did gimp magic to make it so just the most reflective parts (aka the slide) is metallic

made a metallic map out of that, then ingested them and applied them in remix

[glossy mauve]

idunno i haven't checked in

as far as im aware it still works

only thing i changed was porting the new stuff from portal rtx

[compact blaze]

is there a guide for that?

and just optimizing rtx remix in general for gmod

[glossy mauve]

just drag the things in the rtex folder to the gmod one

[compact blaze]

And stuff like stuff disappearing off screen is dealt with in the video?

[glossy mauve]

i haven't kept up with the updates, check out what Xenthio is doin if you want the latest patches i guess

[onyx ridge]

i have started on the gravity gun™️

i'm slightly confuddled by the crystal rendering

it has alpha and it's material is marked for it being for transparency but it's such a low amount it's barely noticeable

but it looks like it's emissive until it's somewhere dark where it just isn't ??

i'll probably just apply my own touch™️

(aka making it not transparent and just having it be emissive instead)

[compact blaze]

The crystal looks yummy

Also I didn’t know gmod was able to render pbr stuff if you can grab pbr stuff from that replacement addon

Unless I’m mistaken

[onyx ridge]

it can i think but it's not very noticeable

there aren't many dynamic lights which i think are required for normal maps to be visible

there's no metallic properties which means you can't really have effective shininess

(this is what it looks like somewhere darker)

actually

i think it's game driven??

it seems like it's taking its brightness from what would be the lightmap

[compact blaze]

speaking of pbr

i remember seeing someone like use a really scuffed method

to get pbr working kinda

lemme find the video

nvm i think the video is gone

but it was a destiny 2 character iirc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8YWs3537lY

also there's this

[magic wyvern]

I believe Day of Infamy is the only source engine game that implemented a GGX shader for PBR.

[onyx ridge]

good news: can still override the opacity thing

[subtle bison]

dear lord these models are delicious

[keen rivet]

nice

i want to try getting physgun colours working but im not entirely sure where to start

[onyx ridge]

i've noticed the mmod replacements mod's physgun is blue but flashes red

i'm not sure if that's a hint since i haven't actually tried changing my physgun colour yet

[keen rivet]

another thing i want to try is automatically fixing up particles from lua

[onyx ridge]

that i will wait patiently for

i wouldn't be surprised if i slowly chip away at all the mmod weapons in the next week or so but not having white squares/rainbow triangles taking up my screen whenever i shoot would be a good motivator

[keen rivet]

can you link the mmod weapons addon you're using?

[onyx ridge]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2035609495

[keen rivet]

thx

it'll be an easy way to test my fix lol

[onyx ridge]

i'm pretty sure it's supposed to be muzzle smoke(?)

[keen rivet]

that sounds like a different issue entirely

this?

[onyx ridge]

i think so

[keen rivet]

looks like something made is a peice of UI that isnt classed as so

[onyx ridge]

woah

i've never had it that bad

for me i usually just get the white squares but sometimes get rainbow triangles on certain maps

[keen rivet]

these seem to be drawcalls without textures

[onyx ridge]

tried capturing them once and in omniverse they were material-less so checks out??

[keen rivet]

skimming thru the code

my guesses so far are

[keen rivet]

Trying to draw a crosshair

[keen rivet]

fucked up refract effect maybe?

[keen rivet]

ok with the way these fixes will work i think i'll be able to do some pretty cool stuff

such as automatically flag water materials to show up properly

automatically fix particles

and automatically hide textures and shaders that are broken

[subtle bison]

xenthio just making fire after fire 🙏

[onyx ridge]

hell yeah!!!

[keen rivet]

only worry is that doing this makes the game freeze for like 20 whole seconds lol

i'll try making it async

[keen rivet]

@onyx ridge ok

tell me if it works

it's uploading right now

the broken material should now be replaced with a material you can ignore

uploaded

[quiet scroll]

For texture tagging, sv_cheats 1 and then host_timescale 0.1 makes textures a lot easier to tag when they only appear for a few seconds if you want the point and click method lol

[earnest yew]

i thought you pinged me for a sec

lol

[keen rivet]

lol

oh

i forgot to mention

you need to run rtx_fix_materials

for now lol

i'll make it automatic once i perfect it

[keen rivet]

ok

now it's automatic

its funny the idea of doing this fix like this came to me in a dream lol

[quiet scroll]

for any mac users - gmod 64bit fix for steam, it works! https://github.com/solsticegamestudios/GModCEFCodecFix

[keen rivet]

oh i fixed ui too

[subtle bison]

UI fixed how?

[keen rivet]

uhh

magic

like

[subtle bison]

no i mean what was broken about it?

[keen rivet]

yknow how things would dissapear

[subtle bison]

oh shit so the flickering is fixed?

[keen rivet]

yeah that

[subtle bison]

mr magic ✨

[keen rivet]

like this would have its middle part removed

[subtle bison]

yeah

🙏

so when are you going to integrate the entirety of rtx remix into the addon? /s 🤣

[keen rivet]

this is how btw

even my weapon icons are working again

[subtle bison]

ah so remix was confused the whole time

[keen rivet]

yeah the ui that was drawn as a solid colour didnt have a texture for remix to remember

so i gave it a 1x1 white pixel texture

k uploading to workshop now

if you guys appreciate my fixes I would appreciate throwing some help my way
https://patreon.com/xenthio
I do all this in my free time and will even spend entire days working on these things lol. And it's all free for anyone to use or edit for themselves :)

<3

just consider it if you want

[subtle bison]

if my financial situation ever gets better ill be sure to join ur patreon

u have done so much 🙏

[keen rivet]

anyways whats next on the list to fix

i think it was projected textures and dlights

[subtle bison]

what about the gmod legs remake?

[keen rivet]

low priority currently lol

[subtle bison]

gotcha

so how would you go about projected textures? i thought that used CSMs which are dx9 only?

[keen rivet]

no its just a shadowmap and a projected texture

really what i'm going to do is just replace those functions with regular old lights probably

[subtle bison]

ahh ok

[keen rivet]

ui being fixed feels cursed

i feel like i'm about to be arrested by the source engine police just looking at it lol

[subtle bison]

lmao

think about it the other way, source does a lot of cursed shit to make it work the way it does

and you are basically undoing a lot of that 😉

[keen rivet]

i'm doing cursed shit to make it work lmao

[subtle bison]

so then it evens out

[keen rivet]

i just turned something uncursed into something cursed for gui to work lol

[subtle bison]

if it doesnt have major performance penalties and it makes the remix experience better its not cused for the person using it in my eyes

[keen rivet]

oh i didnt even consider performance

i dont thinkll have any real impact

[subtle bison]

lol yea prob not

[keen rivet]

its a 1x1 pixel texture lol

[subtle bison]

nooo my 0.001 fps

what about the possibility of getting the dynamic sky's working?

👀

[keen rivet]

uhhhhhhh

low

i mean, they might work if i create the texture from lua but they wouldnt look the same.

oh crossbow scoping works 0.001% more than it used to

[subtle bison]

hm? this just works for me already?

[keen rivet]

oh

didnt for me before

anyways

tell me if the ui fix works

[keen rivet]

also adding rtx_pseudoweapon_unique_hashes_downscale as i'm noticing that a brief stutter occurs when you switch between the mmod weapons.

[keen rivet]

hey what hand models are you using?

[onyx ridge]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2786713821

using the mk v from this

the mmod fix works too, awesome !!

though for some reason the hash of the ar2's firing texture's changed

[onyx ridge]

how come no one mentioned that 3d skyboxes work 😭

[quiet scroll]

I thought it was just me, his heads missing for me too

[onyx ridge]

okay to be fair they don't seem to be path traced but at least they render

[onyx ridge]

@keen rivet i've noticed that since remix fixes got the material update™️ any map glass replaced by destructible glass is invisible to remix

resetting the material with the material tool fixes it so maybe it's a texture i've ignored but idk

[keen rivet]

yeah i noticed that

need to fix

[onyx ridge]

catthumbsup

[keen rivet]

@onyx ridge share your weapon replacements when you can I would love to try them

[onyx ridge]

this is just the pistol textures taken from my ingestion folder i have no idea if it'll actually be useful

(i'm kinda speed limited atm)

i have also realised that the emission texture is kinda not entirely fully black so the pistol's a dark grey in pitch black i need to sort that

[lapis delta]

hunter from l4d be like

[plain blade]

what is the best and fastest way to make upscaled pbr texture?

[subtle bison]

octotex is good for full automation but you need a gpu with a lot of vram, though the actual accuracy of the generated PBR materials are not as good as doing it yourself

[plain blade]

i have 6 gb of vram

[subtle bison]

that might cut it? im not too sure what models octotex uses for stable diffusion. PBRify would be preferable as it's a lot lighter and more authentic with its generated materials, but you still have to manually export and import to and from rtx remix

[plain blade]

but, in pbrify there is no height map

[subtle bison]

do you need heightmaps? also it should support it with the latest version, but its an optional feature

[plain blade]

yes

[subtle bison]

i cant imagine ai generated hightmaps to be accurate

but i guess you can try it

[onyx ridge]

dangit

i tried replacing one of the curved wall things in phys_lobby and it permanently broke the texture used for it

it somehow deleted the original mesh instance but still has a broken version of my imported mesh

said mesh has a material that has all of the textures applied but when loaded in-game show up blank

i hate how buggy the remix editor is

yes please i love my program that for some reason permanently drops from 90fps to 20 after losing focus

[subtle bison]

i also hate when you can't select any objects in the viewport after alt tabbing

i have to reopen the whole project to fix it

[onyx ridge]

you can it's just the cursor gets way offset

[subtle bison]

this might be why my cs_office has no ground lmao

[magic wyvern]

odd, I haven't encountered something like that so far.

[subtle bison]

any way to permanently fix it?

its extremely frustrating

[onyx ridge]

nope, i just try dealing with it

[onyx ridge]

phew, wiped the reference to it in the mod's usda and it's fixed

[glossy mauve]

i wanna recreate this image in rtx lmao

[onyx ridge]

the world if atmospheric house worked correctly:

[compact blaze]

Why doesn’t it work?

[onyx ridge]

last i checked it was an hdr only map which means that no models render

[half viper]

Didn't xenthio fix it through the patch?

[loud mural]

He fixed the models without a dx80.vtx not rendering

HDR maps are still busted

Only prop_statics render in HDR maps atm

[half viper]

Ah

[loud mural]

It only happens with his addon mounted though

This is an HDR only map and dynamic props render just find when Remix Fixes is unmounted

We still have no lights though

The only reason why there is any light is because of the skybox textures

[glossy mauve]

i shall make my own

[glossy mauve]

i feel really dum for asking this but, can someone give me a hand??

changes in the Editor won't apply to the game

i really don't know what is going wrong since i didn't change anything from last time

[lapis delta]

do you save layer?

and is your textures in mod's folder?

[subtle bison]

ctrl s often and reload enhanced assets. also if its a newly made mod file, you need to restart the game to load it

[keen rivet]

awesome thx

i'll fix the glass bug now i'm awake

[earnest yew]

bitch im back out my coma

[onyx ridge]

corrected pistol emission texture™️ i think

[keen rivet]

looks like procedural glass copies the texture the glass in the map uses and places it on the glass

[keen rivet]

you should totally package these up as mods and upload them onto moddb

[onyx ridge]

i'm guessing somewhere it gets messed up with your fixes since the glass texture used by the map works fine without the mod

[onyx ridge]

i should !!!

but i also kinda wanna wait until i've done all the weapons

[keen rivet]

i'll ask the creator of the procedural glass addon for a favour hold on

[onyx ridge]

(by 'the mod' i mean procedural glass)

[keen rivet]

ye

[keen rivet]

upload them individually :D

it'll be better for people who want to pick and choose their favourite replacements

[onyx ridge]

that's true

also dang irl this would actually be useful

[glossy mauve]

nope, not working at all :<

even tried reinstalling the .trex file and engine dll

it's pretty bizzare

cuz my old changes still work just fine

[onyx ridge]

oh i was gonna say maybe an addon's messing it up but if old ones still work then strange

alsooooo

this happens sometimes randomly???

player head and some random textures get replaced with another material in the scene

viewmodel gets assigned a random blank texture

persists until the game's restarted

sometimes when it happens the game'll error about something something derma gwen and an invalid texture

[keen rivet]

what in the fuck

i've never had that

[onyx ridge]

i've found it most consistently happens in phys_lobby when opening the spawnmenu and hovering over a ton of items in it

[keen rivet]

used your pistol replacements but left out metal texture as i felt it looked strange lol

lmao i think the emissive is very very slightly on

[onyx ridge]

yeah that's the problem i sorted with the newer emissive texture

[keen rivet]

oh right

[onyx ridge]

i think the original is supposed to be metallic

tbf i don't think it's as metallic as what i've done but i don't know if that's artistic or vertexlitgeneric limitations™️

[keen rivet]

idk lol, just looks a little off

[onyx ridge]

guh your screenshots are way cleaner than mine

having a 4050 SUCKS

though it's better than not having one at all

[keen rivet]

i have ray reconstruction on

[onyx ridge]

comedically timed alt tab tantrum

[keen rivet]

lol

[keen rivet]

can i have your hand replacements too please lol

theyre also nice lol

[onyx ridge]

shoulddd be it

[subtle bison]

i could do some metalwork for it if that's ok @onyx ridge

[onyx ridge]

if you want to!!

[subtle bison]

should I share my physgun replacement?

[lapis delta]

exception
my beloved

[onyx ridge]

the current metal texture for it is pretty much just me doing minimum shenanigans with the specular texture

** ** i think

i should do what i did with the smg more

(which is opening the model usd in blender and manually selecting the metal parts and painting a texture)

that's probably more accurate to both how it works in real life and how it's handled by source

i should try and find a stable hash somewhere on office extended

and like sort out the window lights!!

[keen rivet]

@onyx ridge

k mee said he'll update it with a convar that disables the usage of the old map material for the glass

thats whats causing the issue

its only happening now because yeah i recently fixed the SetMaterial function

[onyx ridge]

me indirectly causing a mod that hasn't been updated for like nearly two years to get an update

[keen rivet]

lol

you made me mmod pilled

it works so well with rtx lol

[onyx ridge]

muahaha

i originally started using it because i realised base hl2's weapon animations are slightly jank

then realised "oh wait these have higher quality base models which is great because i can't replace them with remix"

then i realised that they have like half a pbr set built in

some of cs:s's textures have normal maps surprisingly

also excuse the fact most of my comparison screenshots don't have the same lighting for some reason screenshotting causes rendering to flicker for a moment

[keen rivet]

lol

[keen rivet]

full resolution, DLAA

[lapis delta]

damn, 90 fps..

[onyx ridge]

here i am barely getting 40 with frame gen on dlss balanced

GFStare

[keen rivet]

honestly with ray reconstruction even performance mode looks great

[subtle bison]

me with my 2080 at 1080p dlss perf getting like 22-30fps on flatgrass

[subtle bison]

i got a idea for this one, since the light is painted on the textue, i could easily make a emissive map and then remove the source light in the room and bam

ill go ahead and try it

[subtle bison]

🤤

havent fixed the brightness but my trick worked

all source lights disabbled

there we go

[valid elbow]

You are the best!

[keen rivet]

<3

[valid elbow]

So, are you using 64bit build already?

[keen rivet]

I'm still sticking to 32 for now

[valid elbow]

Still with dxlevel 70?

[subtle bison]

@onyx ridge got a weird issue with the remix toolkit not showing the correct texture for the pistol, the albedo only shows the emissive dots?

same goes if i click the slide

nvm i guess the toolkit is drunk

it shows fine in photoshop

[scenic jungle]

did anyone figure out how to fix mw base?

[subtle bison]

nah not yet

[keen rivet]

90, but shadermodel set to 0

[keen rivet]

What's broken about it

[scenic jungle]

its invisible

[subtle bison]

got annoyed with how remix split the pistol slide and body separately so i merged them back in blender so i can finally start painting 🖌️

[keen rivet]

Did you try with the new datacache.dll patches?

[scenic jungle]

no

[valid elbow]

Oh, texture fixes are kinda expensive

[subtle bison]

🤤

im repainting the whole pistol

[scenic jungle]

where can i download them?

[subtle bison]

im also gonna re-do the normals

[keen rivet]

https://github.com/Xenthio/SourceRTXTweaks

[keen rivet]

Here

[keen rivet]

Are they? They should only run once at load and never run again

[valid elbow]

But they are calling from Think as coroutine. Kinda strange

[keen rivet]

Oh yeah but they'll stop as soon as they're done

I can probably remove the coroutine stuff I was only using it to debug a crash

[valid elbow]

@keen rivet what about collecting materials once? To make it less expensive. Not sure if mat object is being updated while playing, so did it with pathes

[valid elbow]

Oh, so no sense, my bad xD

Works good without calling it infinitely ❤️

[keen rivet]

i dont want to override the materials perminantly

its better when done at runtime to avoid issues with file mismatch in multiplayer for example

some of the materials cant be written as theyre dynamically created

[valid elbow]

Understood. Thanks

[keen rivet]

no worries! I hugely appreaciate you looking over the code and alerting me about a potential issue

[scenic jungle]

the weapons are still invisible

[keen rivet]

damn :(

send me the link to the addon

i'll look into it

[scenic jungle]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2459723892

[earnest yew]

bitch im back out my coma

[subtle bison]

looked up a good reference model online and added some real rubber to the grips

lmk if this is a good change or not

any criticism is welcome

here is the original as well

here is the pistol so far

[subtle bison]

i dont have emission yet but here is the somewhat finished material work

tbh it looks almost the same as jessica's lmao

i guess i could go back and make it more scratched up?

ngl this model is pretty good already

here is a better angle

i definitely forgot to fix some things so yeah unfinished

[subtle bison]

fixed, redid the normals again, every piece on the gun should have the correct material now

the whole gun except for the slide should be a slightly glossy metal, while the slide is rough, and the grip is rubberized

im still kinda indecisive on the rubber texture, i dont think it fits with the gun style but i can re-do it later, it cant be seen in first person anyway

yeah im convinced that rubber grip is shit

[onyx ridge]

ooh, looks pretty alright

i still kinda prefer my set though i think i'm just biased towards shiny things

[onyx ridge]

19 verts too many

c_

[keen rivet]

RIP

[onyx ridge]

i should play about with some ported model addons

they probably have the same uvs as the original models so there's nothing stopping me using the original textures

image1

[compact blaze]

bruh what gpu do u have for it to run this well at full resolution?

[onyx ridge]

hmuh

for some reason h0l-d4 has incredibly slow and choppy animations

(for elements appearing and disappearing)

but it otherwise works fine??

(though you do have to play about with a render target if you have blur enabled)

wait it's something generally with the game's hud??

hints are really choppy too

the hl2 hud replacement works alright but it's a bit too snappy

it seems to error pretty often too because info from the original hud isn't being processed when it should

tf??

[onyx ridge]

curious, does doors work with remix?

i'm guessing ray tracing through portals isn't really feasible without a source code portal implementation

[onyx ridge]

okay whatever ram i have is fucking good

this has no impact on my fps

[humble mango]

... on rtx 4090

[onyx ridge]

hm

drones rewrite's rendertargets work fine#

(though not raytraced of course)

[lapis delta]

vro, even numbers are fucked up

[onyx ridge]

i think that's just frame gen ?

the max available was constantly changing

[lapis delta]

yea, it glitches out when u enabled fg, but your fps is low

[onyx ridge]

always is™️

[onyx ridge]

made both regular and 'rtx' icons

(the rtx one was supposed to have a shadow but blender wasn't agreeing with me)

[compact blaze]

i wanna ask what res and dlss are u on rn?

[compact blaze]

u should actually make the icon in gmod rtx for that added authenticity

[onyx ridge]

1920x1080, dlss quality

balanced has little to no performance and vram difference

any less and i think there's too much detail loss for it to be worth it

[subtle bison]

me at 720p DLSS Perf 😭

[keen rivet]

4090

[keen rivet]

you mean like the ones already in rtx remix used for portal rtx lol

[onyx ridge]

i have no idea

i actually do not know how portal renders portals but i'm betting it's different to what you can do with just garry's mod's lua

and even if it is possible to perfectly replicate it i wouldn't be surprised if lightspeed studios tweaked it so it works better

[compact blaze]

what res u playin at?

[keen rivet]

2560 x 1440

[compact blaze]

dang no wonder ur performance is bad, play at like performance or smth

[compact blaze]

dear lord at dlaa as well?

[keen rivet]

yeah dlss full res is that

[compact blaze]

how tf does ur pc not overheat?

[onyx ridge]

performance gets me like 5 extra fps

[keen rivet]

You're going to be limited by how fast gmod itself can run

[onyx ridge]

well if i'm somewhere where i can look at the sky without much around me i can get like

[compact blaze]

wowie, have u tried seeing what ultra performance does?

[onyx ridge]

50+ fps

[onyx ridge]

i get another like 10ish

[compact blaze]

wow those fans are uh, massive

[keen rivet]

beefy cooler

super quite too

noctua

[compact blaze]

whats the difference between a cooler and fan?

ik this sounds like a dumb question

im not that much of a pc nerd

[keen rivet]

cooler is what the fan is attached to

big ass heatsink

[compact blaze]

ah ok

[keen rivet]

metal fins attached to the cpu that they basically transfer heat from, that air passes through to cool.

[keen rivet]

beefy ass computer yet rtx remix still crashes the gpu drivers when playing with glass :(

[onyx ridge]

have no idea how mine handles it !!

[keen rivet]

anyways, to speed up gmod it might help you to try these commands.

mat_viewportscale 0; gmod_mcore_test 1; mat_queue_mode 2

189 -> 210 fps for me

at ultra performance the command makes a bigger difference
230 -> 322 fps

since remix will only run as fast gmod can.

[onyx ridge]

i have the latter two commands and it didn't make much of a difference

[keen rivet]

yeah it might be tiny

[onyx ridge]

heavily doubt i'm being limited by gmod, since my 1080 in the same situations can easily push 120+ fps with a lot of graphic mods

[keen rivet]

well consider that your cpu and gpu are now not only just doing gmod, but also now doing gmod and rtx remix

[onyx ridge]

that is true

[keen rivet]

also pushing a long overdue optimisation to rtx remix fixes right now

+10 fps for me

[onyx ridge]

ooh

[subtle bison]

what was the optimization specifically? just curious

[keen rivet]

adding an option to remove a loop that might not be needed when rtx_experimental_lightupdater_count is set to a high value

also renaming a couple of convars

[keen rivet]

throw in a shiny new workshop icon too lol

tell me if the update causes any new issues

[subtle bison]

for some reason switching weapons makes the game freeze for a few seconds

ok seems to be fine when disabling pseudoweapons

[keen rivet]

theres a console command

[keen rivet]

rtx_pseudoweapon_unique_hashes_downscale

turn this up

the mmod weapons must have some insane highres textures or something because theyre the only thing this happens with

[subtle bison]

are lights supposed to break when disabling vertex lighting as well? i havent messed with the option before the UI update

its more severe in some other areas in construct

[keen rivet]

uh

lemme see something

[subtle bison]

here is the severe spot

culls really up close

[keen rivet]

this doesnt do anything for me...

[subtle bison]

hu

odd

would there be any remix specific settings that could break this?

[keen rivet]

whats r_PhysPropStaticLighting set to?

[subtle bison]

1

on another sidenote, maybe not related to remix fixes, but the terrain texture seems to be bugged on construct

the scale is much higher than its supposed to be

[keen rivet]

yeah you have a map installed replacing the texture

its annoying i think the map is 7/11

issue in vanilla gmod too

[keen rivet]

pushed a sorta fix

[subtle bison]

works

doesnt matter if vertex lighting is on or off, lights are completely stable 😎

[subtle bison]

ok so l4d characters have eyes?

well fake eyes like shown a while back but hey they aren't stretched

cant adjust them with the eye tool either

[onyx ridge]

for some reason in enclosed spaces sun lights tend to not render in areas they're supposed to

it almost seems like they render when you're outside the room they're in but don't when you're in

[keen rivet]

its because the window that blocks the light probably loads into existance.

[onyx ridge]

oh probably

[clear tendon]

oh wow, i've just noticed this. But guns now show in reflections

must be rtx fixes

[keen rivet]

ye i did this a while back

[clear tendon]

ah your a legend, didn't realise till now

[compact blaze]

off topic but if u ever get the chance try play without global illumination

and just direct illumination

its a vibe

[onyx ridge]

texture's probably a biiit too clean compared to the original but eh

eventually i'll have a scene that's 100% pbr assets

[humble mango]

some photo

time to take some snapshot and remaster it

[valid elbow]

Looks awesome. Gj

[valid elbow]

mat_viewportscale 0 is spamming Material dev/upscale has bad reference count 0 when being bound error

[keen rivet]

There's anothe command to upscale it I can't remember it right now

[keen rivet]

Errors in console?

[loud mural]

Fix materials does this^

[valid elbow]

Looks like material issue with rtx.conf

[loud mural]

None from your addon

[keen rivet]

Fix materials fixes that for me

[valid elbow]

Same

[loud mural]

It only happens when I go to switch weapons

[keen rivet]

Hmm

[valid elbow]

Are you using rtx remix fixes?

[loud mural]

Yeah it breaks it for me

[keen rivet]

That's super odd

[valid elbow]

Kinda strange

For me, material fixes are fixing almost all materials

[loud mural]

Yeah that's what's breaking it, that's why I replied to his message saying that to let him know if the update causes any issues

[valid elbow]

Except rounded box function with transparency

[keen rivet]

Try reload the map make sure fix materials is on

[valid elbow]

Yep, prob it didn't fixed it for him because called too early

[loud mural]

Still happens

[valid elbow]

While LocalPlayer is nil

[loud mural]

It fixes my hud and stuff as long as I don't try to switch weapons

[keen rivet]

Run rtx_fixmaterials_force

[loud mural]

Do you mean fixnow?

force doesn't exist for me

[keen rivet]

Yeah

Fix now

[loud mural]

Still broken

[keen rivet]

Where are all your weapons?

You only have physgun

[loud mural]

Yup

And Camera and Toolgun

[keen rivet]

Give yourself all the weapons

[loud mural]

lol that fixes it

Wait

wth? it fixed it only for a couple of seconds

[keen rivet]

Huh...

[loud mural]

I have no addons enabled

[keen rivet]

Turn net_graph off

[loud mural]

Other than your stuff

and NikNaks

[loud mural]

Sure

Still broken after I reloaded the map too

[keen rivet]

Darn

hold on I'll get out of bed and play around in a moment to see what I can do

I just woke up lol

[loud mural]

Gotcha np

[onyx ridge]

i've found it happens randomly either way

[keen rivet]

That's annoying why did it break now :(

works for me

maybe you need to mark a texture of some kind as ui

[loud mural]

I marked all of the UI textures as UI, that was part of what I tried before I messaged here

So I just decided to nuke my rtx.conf

And it works now

[keen rivet]

heres my config if you wanna give that a whirl

[loud mural]

Yeah I'll try it

[keen rivet]

oh great

[loud mural]

Yeah I tried yours and that works also so I definitely messed something up

Sorry about that

[keen rivet]

no thats fine :D

[loud mural]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SO0lSAUlHs

Is this just another me issue or do you guys get this too?

[keen rivet]

no i get that

ive never been able to figure out what to do with the underneath of water

[loud mural]

It seems like it just stops rendering the world above for some reason

[loud mural]

Also idk if you've seen this yet but I just wanted to bring it to your attention;

https://github.com/Xenthio/RTXFixes/issues/8

[keen rivet]

yeah

i'll get around to that eventually

[valid elbow]

@keen rivet autorun/cl_init.lua - in FixupMaterial material can be nil. s is nil

[keen rivet]

where did s come from wtf

[valid elbow]

Prob it was filepath

[keen rivet]

yeah its meant to be

[valid elbow]

And 10 seconds cooldown for "optimised update" is too much

[keen rivet]

nah

its not

i had it never update before

[valid elbow]

RTX = RTX or {}

RTX.Ents = RTX.Ents or {}

local lights = NikNaks.CurrentMap:FindByClass( "light" )
lights = TableConcat(lights,NikNaks.CurrentMap:FindByClass( "light_spot" ))

local c = Color( 255, 255, 255, 1 )

local light_poses = {}

for k, v in pairs(lights) do
    if v.origin then
        table.insert(light_poses, v.origin - v.angles:Forward() * 8)
    end
end

for k, v in pairs(RTX.Ents) do
    if IsValid(v) then
        v:Remove()
    end
    RTX.Ents[k] = nil
end

local amount = 128

for i = 1, amount do
    local ent = RTX.Ents[i] and IsValid(RTX.Ents[i]) and RTX.Ents[i] or ents.CreateClientProp( "models/hunter/plates/plate.mdl" )
    ent:SetModel( "models/hunter/plates/plate.mdl" )
    ent:SetRenderMode( 2 )
    ent:SetColor( c )
    ent.Draw = function( self )
        self:DrawModel()
    end
    ent:Spawn()
    RTX.Ents[i] = ent
end

local next_update = 0
local last_light = 1
hook.Add("Think", "RTX.Shuffle", function()
    local now = CurTime()
    if now < next_update then return end
    next_update = now + 0.15
    for k, v in ipairs(RTX.Ents) do
        local s = light_poses[last_light]
        if not s then
            last_light = 1
            continue
        end
        last_light = last_light + 1
        v:SetPos(s)
        v:SetRenderMode( 2 )
        v:SetColor( c )
        v.RenderOverride = nil
    end
end)

[keen rivet]

I use an entity to easily start and stop its functionality at runtime

[valid elbow]

Tested with 128 on big maps. 128 is the best ( 256 is giving me 1 frame per 3 seconds ), updating every 0.15 seconds is just good ( no freezes, fps is good )

I just shared my numbers

[onyx ridge]

excuse my intrusion

[keen rivet]

uhh

[keen rivet]

i use 1024

with my code 1024 is fine

[valid elbow]

I'm testing it on rp maps xD

[onyx ridge]

i use 2048 and it gives me no different performance to 16

[keen rivet]

yeah on maps with less lights

but gm_construct has a lot of lights

[onyx ridge]

(again, it's likely my gpu's being too hammered by path tracing for anything cpu wise to have much of an impact)

[keen rivet]

so it needs to be 1024 if surpress light keeping is on

[valid elbow]

Tested it on rp server for my friend

[keen rivet]

oh it is wayyy too long if you dont have a high light updater count yeah

lol

its meant to be automatic so if theres less updaters than lights it'll constantly update

[valid elbow]

Understood, nice idea

[keen rivet]

but i totally forgot to implement that sdo thx for the heads up lmao

[valid elbow]

You are the best person in whole rtx remix community, I'll try to help my friend with implementing rtx-remix for his hl2rp server

Just wanted to give it a try

[keen rivet]

i appreciate anyone willing to look over my shitty code

<3

[valid elbow]

local convars = {
    ["r_drawsprites"] = 0,
    ["r_drawdecals"] = 0,
    ["mat_dxlevel"] = 70,
    ["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,
    ["cl_first_person_uses_world_model"] = 0,
    ["r_WaterDrawReflection"] = 0,
    ["r_WaterDrawRefraction"] = 0,
    ["r_radiosity"] = 0,
    ["r_PhysPropStaticLighting"] = 0,
    ["r_colorstaticprops"] = 0,
    ["r_lightinterp"] = 0,
}

If someone is interested in "breaking cvars"

[keen rivet]

lol

[valid elbow]

Doing it like that

local convars = {
    ["r_drawsprites"] = 0,
    ["r_drawdecals"] = 0,
    ["mat_dxlevel"] = 70,
    ["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,
    ["cl_first_person_uses_world_model"] = 0,
    ["r_WaterDrawReflection"] = 0,
    ["r_WaterDrawRefraction"] = 0,
    ["r_radiosity"] = 0,
    ["r_PhysPropStaticLighting"] = 0,
    ["r_colorstaticprops"] = 0,
    ["r_lightinterp"] = 0,
}

local convars_runconsolecommand = {
    ["mat_disable_d3d9ex"] = 1,
    ["mat_softwarelighting"] = 0,
    ["gmod_mcore_test"] = 1,
    ["mat_queue_mode"] = 2,
    ["r_frustumcullworld"] = 0,
    ["r_occlusion"] = 0,
    ["r_lod"] = 0,
    ["r_staticprop_lod"] = 0,
    ["r_worldlights"] = 16,
    ["r_shadows"] = 0,
    ["r_glint_alwaysdraw"] = -1,
    ["r_3dsky"] = 0,
    ["cl_first_person_uses_world_model"] = 0,
    ["r_WaterDrawReflection"] = 0,
    ["r_WaterDrawRefraction"] = 0,
    ["r_radiosity"] = 0,
    ["r_PhysPropStaticLighting"] = 0,
}

local function ApplyConvars()
    if util.IsBinaryModuleInstalled("cvar3") then
        for k, v in pairs(convars) do
            GetConVar(k):SetValue(v)
        end
    else
        for k, v in pairs(convars_runconsolecommand) do
            RunConsoleCommand(k, v)
        end
    end
end

[keen rivet]

I'm not the best person here

[valid elbow]

So person with cvar3 module shouldn't get any errors

[valid elbow]

I just like thematic servers so much

[keen rivet]

shoutouts to people like
BlueAmulet (All the patches I'm not smart enugh to do)
ALEX (OctoTex)

everyone else in this discord

[valid elbow]

I can't ever imagine how BlueAmulet did it

He did a nice job

And I can't imagine how you did such things with mats ( it's awesome, dude )

[keen rivet]

you can imagine it, you've seen the code lol :)

[valid elbow]

I can remove global functions and tables if you want

But later

[subtle bison]

looks great other than the fact it no longer looks like hl2 except for the viewmodel giving it away

[loud mural]

If anyone had the same issue I figured out what was causing it, I accidently ignored his 1x1 fixup texture

[keen rivet]

oh lmao

[loud mural]

Well I know why I ignored it now

It paints itself over some props randomly

[keen rivet]

wtf

can you tell me what texture that is meant to be ontop of that prop?

mat_crosshair?

and give me the map too

[loud mural]

Sure

hit material "maps/zm_rig_v4e1/metal/metalfloor001a_920_331_1684"

It's hitting the brush texture

Even though I'm staring directly at the prop

It's a prop_static from the looks of it

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3225449927

It's only the tank props on this map for some reason

I'm on zm_rig_v4e1

I haven't tested the other ones yet but I imagine they are the same

[keen rivet]

looking into it

i dont see it

[loud mural]

Fun

How does this always happen

[keen rivet]

can you show me your console

like the part where it spams with "Found and fixing material"

[loud mural]

Sure

[keen rivet]

does it happen with my rtx.conf too?

[loud mural]

I tested a blank rtx.conf but I'll try yours

I left in some other stuff just in case the context was important to you

Okay so trying with your rtx.confg it looks okay but the rest of the map is partly rasterized

[keen rivet]

odd

i wonder whats putting the material ontop of that

[loud mural]

What are your launch args rn? I want to see if mine are different in a significant way

[loud mural]

So with your launch args and your rtx.conf I still get a half rasterized game like I showed above

[keen rivet]

hmmmmm

what games do you have mounted?

[loud mural]

HL:S, HL:DMS, CS:S, HL2, HL2:DM, HL2:LC, HL2:EP1, HL2: EP2, DOD:S, Portal, Portal 2, TF2, CS:GO, L4D, L4D2, and G-String Retail

[keen rivet]

hmm

try unmounting them and see if it helps

something is adding a texture to something and i dont know what

[onyx ridge]

if it helps i have hl2, ep1, ep2 and tf2 mounted and it works fine

[loud mural]

I disabled everything, same issue

[keen rivet]

hmm

i wish i knew what material ingame is being overlayed there

[loud mural]

Okay I think I may know what's happening

I dug out the files that were packed inside the map and this prop is missing a texture

In the first slot which may be why it's being replaced with the 1x1

[keen rivet]

oh

[loud mural]

models/dimidrol/equipment/a4815673.vtf

There is another larger tank with a different texture but the same issue;

models/dimidrol/equipment/5c9e9d62.vtf

[scenic jungle]

for some reason models are low poly???

[valid elbow]

@keen rivet I need your paypal. My friend told me your work is awesome, so I should donate you 🙂

[keen rivet]

Oh that would be lovely I really appreciate that

[valid elbow]

And we are going to launch it on rp server

[subtle bison]

wouldnt that be sort've an issue as we dont have a fully actualized installation guide for end users outside this discord?

or rather a easy to use installer

[ebon lichen]

@keen rivet @fringe ingot thank you for all your hard work!!

[keen rivet]

My YouTube video exists

[subtle bison]

my bad, I was under the impression it was out of date

[keen rivet]

it still works

the only part thats different is you dont need to do the lua menu

[keen rivet]

this is tricky, projected textures i cant easily get as theyre not always entities

[empty leaf]

so my garry mod rtx no longer woks i go into a map anmd then it crashes with a wight box comes up with err box so fast i cant even see wat it says

nor am abile to dounload the lastist brige remix

fixed it myself it was addon cxonflicting

[keen rivet]

Interesting discovery

this isn't an issue when you use the vanilla gmod stdshader dlls

[loud mural]

My game crashes though if I use the vanilla dlls

[keen rivet]

yeah same on most maps lol

[compact blaze]

iirc i remember there was a console command to make it so that stuff renders underwater

u have to like disable smth

try check the old hl2 thread in #general-remix

[onyx ridge]

yeah i should probably Definitely Legally obtain substance sometime

though i think as long as a texture generally fits the tone of what it's replacing it's fine

[solar wadi]

how does remix work with x64?

[onyx ridge]

it apparently does 'work' but tends to crash often

[solar wadi]

tf2 got a 64 bit upgrade

can't wait for a source code leak

[half viper]

We don't talk about leaks here

[compact blaze]

@glossy mauve u there? i wanna ask smth

[glossy mauve]

sorta am

what's up

[compact blaze]

i got gmod rtx setup, do u want me to test if ur rtx mods work?

[glossy mauve]

sure, if you want to

tell me how it goes since I've never had a chance to try

[compact blaze]

what props should i use?

[glossy mauve]

uhh

gosh that is a old version

i think try the construction plates

those tile things that look like plastic

[compact blaze]

ok thx

[glossy mauve]

tell me how it went if you manage it! I'll have to go now but I'll be back soon

[compact blaze]

sadly i couldn't test anything

cause for some reason today

gmod rtx started stuttering like hell

for no reason

and freezing

[glossy mauve]

huh

weird

[compact blaze]

its not caused by the mod

@glossy mauve what do u think could cause the game to suddenly stutter and freeze?

like i did nothing with the game at all

lemme try smth rq

[glossy mauve]

idunno

[compact blaze]

ok for some reason

it seems like mounting portal

[glossy mauve]

i just make silly textures i have no idea how it works

[compact blaze]

fucks with the game

[onyx ridge]

okay i have the same problem

it seems like it starts and stops randomly

[compact blaze]

for me it happens instantly and it has constant second long freezes

[onyx ridge]

well i mean like

it starts happening randomly

[compact blaze]

might have smth to do with vram and ur pc getting to hot

i have the same issue too

iirc its ur stuff overheating and slowing down so it doesn't get hotter

[onyx ridge]

some days it'll run smooth as butter (as smooth as 20 frame genned to 40 is), some days it's stuttering every few seconds and crashes when i spawn stuff

[compact blaze]

hm

maybe its the addons?

@glossy mauve ok ima try our ur mod

[compact blaze]

@glossy mauve hiya

ok im noticing an issue

if i have too many addons mounted

(by too many i mean like 30)

the game dies

im guessing poor gmod couldn't handle it when portal was mounted cause it was too much content ugh

@onyx ridge is this normal?

[onyx ridge]

maybe ??

speaking of i should probably unmount tf2 considering i don't use its content

i've noticed it does in fact load all of tf2's ui elements into memory

oh i don't have my gold replacement material anymore

widegladeline2

i should probably just make an addon that adds a bunch of materials

[keen rivet]

Good morning chat :D

Any issues needing fixing today?

[glossy mauve]

yayy

thankies

[keen rivet]

multiplayer

[earnest yew]

multiplayer is fun

especially when nothing is broken

[onyx ridge]

multiplayer limits my capabilities.........

and also i don't have anyone to play with

[jade trellis]

who won that round

[keen rivet]

innocents

[earnest yew]

you can play on any server..

[solar wadi]

@keen rivet when new video about rtx

[hushed trail]

Is this still a command?

Oh it's just not experimental anymore

[keen rivet]

Tomorrow or the day after

[keen rivet]

Ye

You can also find a settings menu in the spawnmenu too now

[forest path]

So after getting an rtx gpu for my desktop I'm trying to get gmod to work with remix on my desktop. I have copied all my files from my laptop which work fine but when I launch gmod my game crashes when it gets to the main menu

[solar wadi]

did you install lua menu?

[wanton scarab]

anyone by any chance have legacy csgo content mounted and wanna try a scenebuild i made a while ago with Remix?

here's the file if anyone's interested, i can't remember if it required any other addons (it probably requires some material ones but i can't for the life of me remember them)

ok discord thanks for trying to embed a .gms

here's the thumbnail for it, i can't find any big pics of it

might also require effect resizer iirc

alternatively i also have this one which is just vanilla cs go s1 assets

I would try them myself, but I'm on an AMD card and I don't know if I should bother

both are on flatgrass

whoops uploaded an older one, this is the correct one

i've got a prettier pic for the first one from the old thumbnails, this is what it looked like with some lamps

[humble mango]

yep

[wanton scarab]

would love to see some screenshots if you can be bothered

[humble mango]

does that include some addons?

[wanton scarab]

they're pretty old so i can't remember what (if any) addons are required, but i might have some other decent looking ones in my list, im chock full of scenebuilds

the 2nd one should be just cs go assets

the ground grass material might be wrong because i think i used to do some code stuff to generate a proper material for that back then

i've got this one which looks decent enough

requires this addon https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2886241611

[humble mango]

ok

[wanton scarab]

here's a bigger pic of it

i can get you exact coordinates for a comparison, sec

lua_run Entity(1):SetPos(Vector(-12301.311523, -2441.275635, -7161.724609))

lua_run Entity(1):SetEyeAngles(Angle(19.466, 53.820, 0))

you can paste these 2 in the console to get the same position and angle

oh and it requires CSS for the trees

but i think those are included with the cs go content as well if im not wrong

[keen rivet]

I would love to try this in the morning

I have the fixes for dx9 models so it should work

[meager oar]

CSGO stuff is invisible for me idk if that is fixed

[keen rivet]

That's fixed with the dx9 stuff

[wanton scarab]

i could supply even more scenebuilds if you want

[keen rivet]

I'll try out any you want to see

[wanton scarab]

i could even make a new specific one if you have something in mind that would look good with remix

[keen rivet]

Though not right now because it's 1 am for me and I need to goto bed hehe

[wanton scarab]

that's fine

[keen rivet]

So in about 7 or 8 hours ping me hehe

[wanton scarab]

that'd be around 5 or 6 am for me so i don't think i'll remember lol

[subtle bison]

did we ever get a fix for maps that just stop rendering brush details?

map is gm_denizen

[subtle bison]

added some emission to the mmod physgun

i selectively removed the glowing parts from the albedo and then adjusted them in photoshop

so its not painted this time

[glossy mauve]

glowy pressure gauge

[subtle bison]

yeah i thought it would make sense for it to be illuminated

old gauges like this usually have some kind of bulb behind them

i think it needs some more adjusting to be authentic but it looks good enough for now

[onyx ridge]

iirc the vanilla gravity gun texture has something similar

[subtle bison]

@onyx ridge how did you extract the specular maps from the mmod weapon textures? all i see is the normal vtf's with some vmt's that specify a material type such as brass and chrome

im not too experienced with vtfedit other than exporting '

[onyx ridge]

the specular maps are the alpha texture of the normal maps

[loud mural]

What do you mean by this, do you mean they don't always have names? Because NikNaks can get prop_statics so I'm confused as to how and why it wouldn't be able to get a projectedetexture

[earnest yew]

i hate that theres two of us

i keep thinking people are pinging me

ik its not yellow but its faking me out ngl

[loud mural]

I've had a fix for this for a while but I've been waiting for my friend to finish his PR for Blue's patcher

For now you can use mat_forcedynamic 1

Depending on the map it can kill your framerate though

So if your on a map where it isn't required and/or when the patch comes out be sure to set it back to 0

[subtle bison]

thanks

[keen rivet]

Consider advanced light entities, I have no way to get the projected texture they spawn

[loud mural]

welp, thanks for trying

[earnest yew]

#strokingit

[loud mural]

np

[keen rivet]

https://github.com/BlueAmulet/SourceRTXTweaks/pull/10
@fringe ingot do you think you could merge in my pr?

[keen rivet]

vfire replacements, proper emissives.

[wanton scarab]

Just about how I imagined it looking in my head when I was making it

Weird that the ground grass was invis

Also the blocks around the tree are supposed to be wireframe as they're just for collision (the tree is an effect prop)

Thanks for testing it

[woeful phoenix]

Can I steal those for the dark messiah flames 😮

[forest path]

Well reinstalling it fixed it but now when I try load a level the game crashes

[keen rivet]

yeah if you want

[half viper]

is it just me or the particles don't get effected by the post processing pipeline?

do you have bloom enabled?

[keen rivet]

yeah

bloom looks fine for me

[half viper]

I just think the particles are not bright enough like in the raster renderer

[lost ridge]

Hey, do you think remix could work with the gmod's chromium x64 version?

Sorry if the question was already answered or if its obvious, I just got here, searched a little but couldn't find anything 😔

[solar wadi]

mainly we need the patches

i have heard that blueamulet is working on it

[humble mango]

how do i have sunshafts like you?

[half viper]

untextured drawcalls?

[meager oar]

ooooooo

[brisk prism]

I'm working on a mod to give every texture PBR materials in garrys mod. Well, more specifically all vanilla, css, dod, l4d2, portal, and tf2 assets. Is there already something like this i.e would this be a waste of my time?

AI generated PBR so this wouldn't necessarily be the best quality you could get, but just a good place to be in for having entire levels PBR'd.

I've already PBR'd all of the CSS levels

I also fixed all (or most )the decals through all of those games in my conf since that was making issues, not sure if anyone would be interested in me sharing that.

One thing I can't figure out though is how to get glass to look like glass

[glossy mauve]

my weapon worldmodels are rendering in firstperson 😭

[brisk prism]

You can mark them as player model but unfortunately it will hide it from other NPCs. I would like to know how to disable the worldmodel showing in first person outright though

[glossy mauve]

weird cuz they worked fine before

naw im not gon mark em

need em

[brisk prism]

Yeah I regret marking mine invis, I wish I just made the worldmodel not visible at all

If anyone does know how to make the worldmodel not visible in first person (in gmod, not remix) I'm all ears