Garry's Mod

[earnest yew]

this is peak btw

[quasi blaze]

can someone try this in RTX remix? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2813902415&searchtext=apex+legends

i wanna find out if it works with RTX remix

[quiet scroll]

They crash the game when you load in

atleast on the 32bit version, I'm not sure about the 64bit version - I don't have that installed to test :/

[quasi blaze]

i do wish it gets fixed soon though

[quasi blaze]

in fact can someone do this?

[quiet scroll]

Do you have an rtx gpu?

[quasi blaze]

No i don't have that i only have GTX

i was just suggesting an addon

[quiet scroll]

bro 💀

it's not really worth people's time to go in and try to fix just because you want it and no one will be utilizing

it'll likely work on the 64bit version of gmod though if anyone wants to try it there

[quasi blaze]

i know but you have to understand my budget it will likely take longer for me to even afford an RTX GPU

and i would even have to reinstall windows for that installation of the GPU as well

[quasi blaze]

maybe i will save that addon for later until i get a new GPU that might be good

[night bramble]

No you’d just use DDU and $300 for 4060. Not that it’s a super good deal but that’s the base cost.

[quasi blaze]

Oh that's a relief thanks for telling me that

But still it's gonna take time for me to save up money

[night bramble]

Might as well get the 5060 cause it’ll probably be the same price and comes out in like 3-5 months

Or get a better 40 series if prices drop

[onyx ridge]

still waiting for the 64 bit patches to exist

[onyx ridge]

are model/material hashes consistent between portal and gmod?

(i.e could portal assets mounted to gmod automatically use replacements copied from prtx)

also i guess semi related: is there something that's set when models are imported into source that affects how hashes are calculated?

i've noticed almost every built in gmod prop changes hashes every frame they're moving, even when they don't have bones

most hl2 props have static hashes but there are some (i.e the tv model) that don't

[onyx ridge]

wonder how many people have uploaded saves using remix and had people asking about their graphics

[hasty sonnet]

so uh gmod enhancements i got from moddb arnt working

[winter radish]

Why's this look like those Gmod knock offs

[meager oar]

Where did u put the zip files? They should go in rtx-remix/mods

[wind yoke]

Prices are about to skyrocket

[fringe ingot]

I haven't thought about Garry's Mod for months

[onyx ridge]

oh hyello

you should think about garry's mod again if you'd be fine with it

[fringe ingot]

Working

[winter radish]

https://tenor.com/view/funny-sad-emoji-getting-disintegrated-into-dust-denigrating-denigrating-face-emoji-meme-lol-gif-27508363

Well, guys, I think I'll just stay on AMD forever

I'll never experience that magical DLSS

[onyx ridge]

actually what are all the changes that were made for portal for portal with rtx

[fringe ingot]

I kinda of just looked at what the newly added convars for portal rtx did and tried to locate the same code for other source 2013 games.

GMod 64bit is a different compiler and well, not 32bit, so it's been a little difficult to find the same code in it

Plus it seemed like some of the code to be changed was inlined in multiple places, but it's been a while since I looked

[onyx ridge]

do any other source games use gpu skinning?

i'm assuming prtx does since last i checked turrets use skinned meshes

[fringe ingot]

Source does GPU skinning?

[onyx ridge]

shrug?

prtx replaces turret models so they must have a consistent hash

[half viper]

They do

[lapis delta]

is it possible to somehow fix unstable hashes in gmod when choosing a weapon?

or nah

[onyx ridge]

anything that's rigged'll have unstable hashes

[lament quartz]

Most likely the geometry rule string

Its how I got my weapons stable in rtxw

[lapis delta]

huuuuuuuh?

can you tell me more, I'm very interested to hear

[lament quartz]

One sec

[lament quartz]

rtx.geometryGenerationHashRuleString is positions,indices,texcoords,geometrydescriptor,vertexlayout,vertexshader

Changing those around until it's stable is what helped in rtcw

[lapis delta]

great, where can i find this?

[lament quartz]

You add it to the end of your config

[lapis delta]

can you post your config?

[lament quartz]

I don't have one

Oh you mean the rtcw

[lapis delta]

yea

[lament quartz]

The rule string for that one is

[glossy mauve]

lmao i was wondering why that was your status

[lapis delta]

XD

[lament quartz]

rtx.geometryGenerationHashRuleString = positions,texcoords,vertexlayout,vertexshader

[lapis delta]

without any numbers or anything else, right?

[lament quartz]

I like to confuse my friends who don't know anything

[lament quartz]

Right

[lapis delta]

IT ALMOST WORKS!

maps have become more stable! thanks for the tip!

[lament quartz]

aye, ye just mess around with it until it does work

[lament quartz]

@near tartan you could probably benefit from this for ravenholm n such

[near tartan]

Thanks

Now that you mentioned me about it tho

Expect me to come back with some questions

[lament quartz]

Aye

[near tartan]

Try to keep em as little as possible

The real mission is to fix nova prospect tho

[lament quartz]

Should work all the same

[near tartan]

Nova Prospect is worse and different

[lament quartz]

It should all work the same, you are editing one config, not each map

[near tartan]

Base game lights don’t work just like raven holm, but the flash light doesn’t work there either, I use the geometry hash debug view to get around

It it’s some how mostly stable

[lament quartz]

This won't fix lights, just geometry hash stability

[lament quartz]

Also the video didn't embed

[near tartan]

It was explained to me the lights couldn’t be added due to how unstable things were

In ravenholm

[lapis delta]

av1 )

[lament quartz]

Ah yeah, adding lights, it just can't fix base lights

[lament quartz]

Why is it an mp4 file bruddah

I can't even download to convert it

[near tartan]

They didn’t work, so I was just gonna add em myself, then I realized I couldn’t, Nova prospect is something else, it’s tweaking out beyond belief in some spots, and in others, it’s completely stable, and the lights work in the spots that are tweaking out

It rlly don’t make sense

[lament quartz]

Aoght yea that should fix stability

[lament quartz]

Just write it like this in the config and change it around til stable

[near tartan]

👍

[near tartan]

Thanks

[lapis delta]

combine, right?

[lament quartz]

#1116089843479498782 message yeah do a combination of the ones I listed here

[lament quartz]

Ooo much stable

[lapis delta]

so, you can add and remove something, right?

[lament quartz]

Yep!

[lapis delta]

i left only this and only brushes work fine(

plus remix toolkit is unstable now

5 fps...

[lament quartz]

yeah you gotta have the right stuff

[lapis delta]

but now i can put big ass scope on whole map

[lapis delta]

doesn't work, nothing at all

https://tenor.com/view/what-the-hell-is-that-gif-12447440

[lapis delta]

i want to cry tbh

[lament quartz]

you tried all possible combinations

[lapis delta]

position can't be deleted, without texcoords gmod glitches, adding geometrydescription and indices cant be added cuz this bring you unstable hashes on brushes, vertexlayout and vertexshader don't change anything, but they significantly change the toolkit's performance

i don't even know what to do

it doesn't help at all, only with brushes

[prime ridge]

has anyone in here paired this with the nvidia profile inspector force acting AO into the game?

just curious what RTX and AO look like

I guess AO and RTX are redundant

but still

im also new to all of this and dont know if the RTX remix factors in AO

[subtle bison]

remix is a path tracer, so rasterized elements like AO do not exist

[willow fog]

Ao can be path traced

[subtle bison]

yes but that's still only used for mixing with rasterization

[subtle bison]

For those from #1103495588374401115 @near tartan @loud mural @lament quartz
This addon called Primitive allows you to create custom meshes, they have completely stable hashes that can be saved and loaded at any time. Since they're customizable, you can create as many unique hashes as you want. The benefit of this is that you can set meshes/lights to a map by embedding it into a gmod save file as shown in the video. You can then hide them using the toolkit if you wish

its similar to xoxor4d's system he has in portal 2

@modern quest this might be worth pinning?

[subtle bison]

ty

[modern quest]

ya

[loud mural]

Thank you

I know this is going to sound stupid since I literally just asked on how to do it but why do we need to have stable geometry hashes exactly? I thought it was because we wanted to replace a model or something but your viewmodel is unstable yet it looks like you were still able to replace it? Am I missing something or just totally wrong?

[subtle bison]

the viewmodel was replaced in engine, the materials are replaced via remix

that's really the best method for source

you could "technically" replace map geometry with remix if you recompiled the entire map with a single collision model with nothing else and then place the assets in remix

iirc someone here has done that before

[subtle bison]

we really dont, we just need something to anchor stuff to

primitive solves this for gmod

[loud mural]

What about animated models?

[subtle bison]

for meshes, still in-engine. material replacements in remix work fine with unstable hashes

[loud mural]

Although Source has a pretty low poly limit

[subtle bison]

yeah

[loud mural]

And also your rendering the verts in engine so it's slower than Remix I imagine so it's preferable to get geo hashes stable if we can

Thanks for the explanation that makes more sense

[subtle bison]

i guess for a full map workflow you could get away with a couple of hi-res models by doing this

1. import the map into blender, turn it into a bunch of low poly models
2. decompile the existing map, open it in hammer, remove all geometry and place in the low quality counterparts (prop_static, etc), compile without VIS.
3. take a capture of the map with remix, open the capture in the toolkit, spawn your higher quality versions of meshes, etc.
4. use the remaining engine budget for high quality meshes that have to be replaced in engine
5. profit

[near tartan]

So this will work on Half Life 2 through portal, or would I have to use the gmod method?

[subtle bison]

this is gmod only

[near tartan]

Okay

[subtle bison]

hl2 via portal/prelude already has some stable geometry hashes

you just need to look for them with the debug view

i showed you before

[near tartan]

Yeah I know it has some, but nova prospect is pretty much fucked the whole level so I’d benefit from this

I’ll try what Bailey told me about

#1116089843479498782 message

[subtle bison]

lmk if if it works

i think i tried that before but i still couldnt spawn anything

[loud mural]

I just remembered it has little to do with vert rendering or shading. It's just draw calls.
Source is so bad at draw calls for models that it doesn't matter if I have path tracing enabled or not I get exactly the same framerate on sp_a4_finale4 with culling entirely disabled.

Static props enabled^

Static props disabled^

[subtle bison]

lol

[loud mural]

(ik the screenshot is Portal 2 but this is applicable for all Source Engine games)

[loud mural]

Honestly I don't think you'd need to do all of that you could just disable static prop rendering (r_drawstaticprops 0) and replace them with anchors for the new models.

I'm trying to stay away from map compiling so mutiplayer can still function for our rasterized buds.

[subtle bison]

would the collison models still be there?

[loud mural]

Yes

[subtle bison]

sweet

how granular can it get? can we disable rendering of brushes as well?

[loud mural]

Yup

[subtle bison]

[loud mural]

But it does almost nothing in the cases I've tested

It's really mostly models

[subtle bison]

r_drawbrushmodels?

its most likely talking about the brush physics models made in hammer?

[loud mural]

That's for func_brush

[subtle bison]

r_drawworld 0 seems to work lol

[loud mural]

Yup that's it

Does that actually help your framerate in you case?

[subtle bison]

ill need to find a map that's limited by drawcalls, i have a few in mind, one sec

yup

[loud mural]

Nice 👍

[subtle bison]

guess the steps now would be using sourceio to import the maps into blender (so textures can be reinserted into remix), export as a singular model, line it up in the toolkit, and then use r_drawworld 0

i think its possible to exclude props in sourceio

[loud mural]

That's way nicer than recompiling the map

[subtle bison]

ill see if it works later

[loud mural]

Was this both static props disabled and world or just world?

[subtle bison]

just world

[loud mural]

Okay, did disabling static props help at all in that scenario

[subtle bison]

ill re-check

[loud mural]

Also use +showbudget to see what the engine is complaining about having to render

[subtle bison]

that as a cvar?

oh it works in the console

[loud mural]

Yes

You need sv_cheats 1

Also r_drawothermodels is all other models but static props but we'd want to keep the enabled since we wouldn't be able to replace them because they can move

[loud mural]

It still has awful performance but there usually aren't as many of them per map so they don't drag the performance down as much

[subtle bison]

nothing, r_drawstaticprops 0 only, r_drawworld 0 only, r_drawstaticprops 0 + r_drawworld 0

not bad

twice the fps

[loud mural]

Yeah when I do the perf testing I turn off path tracing at times to actually be able to see the graph better and see what's actually bogging down the engine

But yeah in practice is what matters the most

[hasty sonnet]

i put em in Garrys Mod -game root folder- > rtx-remix > mods

thats where i put em

when i try to enable enhancements

it doesnt do anything

[hasty sonnet]

like this

[meager oar]

Open one of the folders in the mods and see if it has a SubUSD folder in it or has a different folder.

[hasty sonnet]

subUsd

it has a subUSD

[lapis delta]

can they be saved as a separate model?

[lapis delta]

or nah?

[steel lark]

i'm going to make a very simple addon that just removes func_reflective_glasses on spawn

because i'm tired of doing it manually

it worked

[subtle bison]

like ingame as a dupe or a actual source engine .mdl?

[lapis delta]

.mdl

[subtle bison]

nada

you could make your own static mesh to import into the engine

[lapis delta]

can you throw a qc file of the model, which will have a stable hash?

[subtle bison]

if it's a static mesh with no bones it should work fine

[quiet scroll]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/mountain-summit-rtx/downloads/mountain-summit-rtx

@meager oar are u able to load into the map, or is dis a me problem?

[quiet scroll]

jk it was me

I downloaded some mods and 1 was crashing the game

[quiet scroll]

sike again, the latest runtime of remix doesn't let me navigate through the main menu, but the public latest build of remix does

[livid rapids]

a 2020 build of boreal alyph has leaked, it has a pbr shader and viewmodel shadowmaps 😍

[uncut dock]

@keen rivet i tried your tutorial, but when the game launches it will not register any inputs and is stuck on the home screen

[uncut dock]

wait are you having the same problem as me

[quiet scroll]

Yep, seems to be an issue with the latest runtime

Switching to the public release build fixes it

[uncut dock]

how do thar

how do i do that

[steel lark]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1275936356417273946/1305641489057189898/hl2_ZeCuErV9Yb.mp4?ex=6733c4e4&is=67327364&hm=146e6a89ed33389f6c0eab70a90c6c5075bea906604c7e45d8319bb7760573db&

[subtle bison]

didn't we already verify this is a light bug with one of the denoisers?

caustics are not actually implemented in remix at the moment

[steel lark]

uhhmm

[quiet scroll]

right here https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/rtx-remix/releases/tag/remix-0.5.4

[weak nacelle]

caustics arent necessarily "implemented" rather its physical phenomena in a light transport simulation (i made the video)

also theres no denoiser being used there

[subtle bison]

yes but remix is a biased path tracer

[weak nacelle]

exactly

so i just took out all AI junk

and also abused restir to get it to steal more caustic samples

and there ya go 🙂

[subtle bison]

is this something you would publish as a fork or a PR?

a certain individual on here would go nuts for this

[weak nacelle]

is it @lapis delta

[subtle bison]

🙂

maybe

[weak nacelle]

🙂

yeah they havent woken up to see it yet

ill post it on my github

its just configuration

[subtle bison]

this is why i said its not caustics btw

#general-remix message

i thought a nvidia dev made a statement as well but i cant find the message

[weak nacelle]

yeah all of that is caustics... ive written a offline pathtracer for gmod (many) so im well versed in how it works

the problem is that for the realtime performance there is just so much bias against the high-energy but relatively sparse transmission signals generated on each bounce

thankfully you can configure so much so its as simple as just disabling all that

i think i can make a cool example

[subtle bison]

if we had proper ReSTIR FG i think it could look a lot better, or maybe not since you're not using any AI stuff

[weak nacelle]

nah restir fg would help because it essentially does what restir currently does but considers transmission in the light transport simulation

whereas normal restir just assumes the bog standard which is just reflection

[glossy mauve]

finally i can fry the hl1 cockroaches using a giant magnifying glass

[weak nacelle]

yep

chezburger

[quiet scroll]

Is anyone else not able to use the main menu with the latest remix builds?

if so I'll open a ticket for it

[weak nacelle]

yeah the latest remix is acting finnicky

[lament quartz]

Rtx remix caustics aren't real they can't hurt you

[uncut dock]

Which ones do I download (I assume the one labeled “release”) and where do I move them (I assume bin)?

[weak nacelle]

left: realtime, right: accumulated

both with restir of course

😋

[quiet scroll]

yes and yes

[weak nacelle]

BORGIR

[uncut dock]

BORGIR

[lapis delta]

BORGIR

[uncut dock]

is it supposed to look like an abstract art piece

it just froze like this

oh wait forgot to enable the rtx fixes addon

ok it now works properly

is there any fix for the skybox objects not streaming to the map properly

my physgun also blinds me whenever i try to pick up an object

[lapis delta]

"reproject sky to the camera"

and r_3dsky

[uncut dock]

where find those

[quiet scroll]

https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/rtx-remix/issues/674

skibidi

[uncut dock]

anyone know anything about this

[meager oar]

yus yus yus

[quiet scroll]

I reinstalled gmod rtx cuz I thought it was something I did lmaoo

I looked into the bridge.conf to see if maybe I set something, but nada

[subtle bison]

well guess i shouldnt be surprised that it worked

flatgrass only rendered with remix 🫣

static prop and world rendering in engine is disabled

bye bye cpu bottlenecks

a more extreme example lol

time to try a heavier map with some fps numbers

[quiet scroll]

am i trippin or are both of those videos only playing audio

[subtle bison]

cuz they're h265, it might not work on some mobile devices

the desktop client should be able to play it just fine, at least I can

[quiet scroll]

oh wait there it goes, enabling hardware acceleration makes it play on desktop Very cool!!

[subtle bison]

the gains should be massive for maps limited by engine drawcalls

gm_cosmodrome is one i had in mind

importing the map into blender with sourceio, and ill try to line it up with a capture ingame

should work the same as i did for flatgrass

we are in business

sourceio gives me the granularity to remove certain entities before i reimport it into remix

so i dont conflict with props, etc

[half viper]

No decals

[subtle bison]

hm? iirc there are no decals on the outside of flatgrass

[half viper]

When you hit the ground with the crowbar

[subtle bison]

oh yea

dont think there can be anything done for that

since it's an entirely separate mesh from the map

[loud mural]

Glad to see you were able to get it working

[loud mural]

In gmod you may be able to do something via Lua

[subtle bison]

i never got this working with maps imported by sourceio, the meshes never align correctly with the capture, even at the correct scale

might be something im doing wrong in blender

[fast meadow]

Кто знает, как настроить тут освещение правильно?

Who knows how to set up the lighting here properly?

[lapis delta]

дефолтный констракт имеет сверху огромный скайбокс, который перекрывает весь солнечный свет

The default construct has a huge skybox on top that blocks all sunlight

[fast meadow]

а, понял, спасибо

[half viper]

BLUE

[finite mason]

since we're not getting rtx in dolphin for a while, here is smg in gmod

[half viper]

the game crashed

[lament quartz]

Needed

[half viper]

i used a shot gun and this happened

welp the crossbow wants to be special too

[lone arch]

Have you putted dxvk.conf there?

if not add it with "d3d9.Shadermodel = 0" (Do note that its case sensitive)

[half viper]

i did

[half viper]

i need help evrything is blue and rtx wont work correctly ive done every step correctly

[lone arch]

OOPS

replace Shadermodel with shaderModel

[half viper]

still dont work

[finite mason]

inkopolis plaza in gmod (someone has to teach me how to remake games with rtx remix)

[lament quartz]

You could make all these look better if you hit alt+x and go to the bottom bar, look for (i think) advanced settings) go to the tab called game setup, look for the tab next to categorize textures

Inside there will be 2 more tabs to use

One is texture settings, where you could change the roughness value to 0.7 or 1

And the other is fallback light, look for that and set it to no lights present, then set it to distance

[finite mason]

its already set to that

i meant more like texture and material replacement

[willow fog]

can u make it darker?

I can still see a little

[meager oar]

smooth transition

[lament quartz]

the mene is black for me, is there somehting I did wrong?

[quiet scroll]

Anyone had any luck changing the white water rtx-remix fixes addon doesn't cover yet? I tried adding the water and redirecting it to the rtx fixes, but no dice

[meager oar]

maybe something related to da lua menu mod i think reinstall that again

[meager oar]

Close combat

[willow fog]

Chromatic aberration = realistic?

[plain blade]

nah, i think he's trying to do the "UNRECORDED BUT GMOD, BUT RTX, BUT REAL LIFE (NO FAKE)"

[willow fog]

I know

Doesn't look good lmao

[plain blade]

indeed

he just added the vignette, higher fov, ca, and changed the camera and called it bodycam

[meager oar]

I didn't add it, it's a mod on gmod workshop trying to replicate the game bodycams movement in Gmod it's still in beta

[half viper]

There is no perfect camera
Mimicking the imperfections makes it more believable

[willow fog]

Your mom

That doesn't look like an imperfect camera

That just looks like a heavily faked image with that post processing

No matter how bad your camera is, chromatic aberration will never be that bad.

[half viper]

Obviously

[half viper]

I was talking generally

[willow fog]

Yes

You're right

But. That was a bad attempt

[meager oar]

chill out or imma give u a new name

[willow fog]

Gand mara

Bsdk

[meager oar]

😂

[meager oar]

Dunkle Donkirito 😏

[night bramble]

This is cursed gmod footage

Imagine this on a more fleshed out map and remove the hud + less auto exposure so the camera blows out a bit like in bodycam.

[subtle bison]

https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/bridge-remix/commit/6559f0d3ba82bd2eaefc0bf2898e3c9cf5af8cb7
seems to break input

going a commit back works fine

[weak nacelle]

hmm funnily enough one time i detoured the wndproc for gmod on an unrelated project and it also broke input

wondering if it does something dumb

[livid rapids]

I love inverting glossiness maps

[safe jewel]

anyone redone the main weapon textures for gmod? If you where could I get them

[quiet scroll]

fun messing around with remix's motion blur

[modern sparrow]

man wish i could use RTX in gmod but all the stuff i got atm relys on 64bit [well not everything] and well theirs no patchs still for that branch last i checked. and well frankly i dont even know if the maps i wanna use would even work with RTX.

all this stuff looks pretty nice [though ima guess its abit of a process for example to make like guns look good and such same for maps]

[quiet scroll]

attack of the peppas

[lapis delta]

how gmod looks good when remixed

its just amazing

but I would like sharc cache to be added

it makes the visual even better

[subtle bison]

I've tried porting some of the missing 64-bit patches recently, unfortunately i believe facepunch is using some compiler optimizations because while my patchset works for tf2 64-bit, when trying to move it over to gmod, a lot of subroutines dont match at all and finding similar instructions have been a royal pain

[subtle bison]

i wonder how much we can do with lua

[steel lark]

make the patches with lua instead of python lol

[subtle bison]

really depends on what's available on the lua side

ill try looking into it sometime

[peak rover]

cant wait for the rtx 5090

[hoary shore]

someone have a rtx.conf file that doesnt got that decal error when turning on flashlight? pls😫

[quiet scroll]

r_usenewflashlight 1

[wind yoke]

12vhpwr ignites and melts

[livid rapids]

this actually looks good now

[subtle bison]

do you make these pbr maps or are they ported from another game?

[livid rapids]

They're the original glossiness/specular maps from various CODs converted to rough/metallic

[lament quartz]

Have you done any bo1 weapons yet or nah

[livid rapids]

It's very straightforward since glossiness is inverted roughness and there are plenty of tools like GameImageUtil that are useful for extracting and sometimes converting them

[livid rapids]

Bo1 weapons would look kinda ass since they only have specular maps afaik but I could try

[lament quartz]

Of you get any luck with it id love to see

But no pressure or nun

[meager oar]

Dayum how u got grass looking like tat

[willow fog]

Very carefully

[quiet scroll]

Kinda just by playing with the fallback lighting, it appears patchy black in areas when lights pointed in other directions

[meager oar]

any one has issue of not being able to select stuff in the menu in latest remix build? reverted back to old build and menu was working

[subtle bison]

its one of the newer bridge builds

https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/bridge-remix/tree/6559f0d3ba82bd2eaefc0bf2898e3c9cf5af8cb7

?

[quiet scroll]

Got a ticket open for it

https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/rtx-remix/issues/674

Switching to an older bridge fixes it

[lapis delta]

RAAAAAH I WANT THIS

[stable scarab]

there is a tutorial video or a installation guide to use Nvidia remix with gmod?

[winter radish]

You thought you could trick us, we know this is just Source 2 /jk

[willow fog]

Is there a mod for good npc combat?

Like, I don't want them to all rush over to me and start shooting as soon as I take the first shot.

I want them to actually play smart, hold their positions and use cover.

Need it to showcase my mod.

[livid rapids]

theres some vj base half life alyx combine

you could port their pbr maps over as well

[willow fog]

🤯

[livid rapids]

I think some are custom tho

Don't remember seeing the hl2 combine soldier on hla

[willow fog]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1028600697463263314/1291305980260384799/hl2_chusKJlf6x.mp4?ex=6746cee8&is=67457d68&hm=a038894e2f015c0efdccf447d7c0bbba9c293b7a6d238edbb30d96ebd1fe508a&

[livid rapids]

but there are some with only hla ports

[livid rapids]

are these the original glossiness maps converted?

also your 1911 is kinda... $color2 [0 0 0]

deagle looks pristine

I'm doing the bo6 tanto right now

Would like to see how these camo masks work

I heard the mwb developers tried but they couldn't get them right

[willow fog]

Everything original

ALTHOUGH

Normal maps are ALL incorrect.

Apparently the somehow packed 5 maps in one texture

And I found out after like 50 hours of work.

[livid rapids]

yep

that's a NOG

Normal/Occlusion/Glossiness

[willow fog]

Yeah

I found the guy who made the nog converter

[livid rapids]

I'm guessing you're using GameImageUtil

[willow fog]

No. Custom blender node setup

[livid rapids]

Oh I see

GameImageUtil does come in handy for just converting the nog and cs maps

[willow fog]

Found a nog converter and setup rest of the converstions meself

Quick setup to bake the textures out

And then ingest.

[livid rapids]

but there's no way you're just using blender to convert the textures

right?

[willow fog]

Nope. Everything in blender

Using nodes

[livid rapids]

just use GIU

[willow fog]

The onoly thing I took from someone was the nog converter because I'm not smart enough to do the maths for it

[willow fog]

poopoo.

[livid rapids]

it splits nog and cs

and you can just ingest them

https://github.com/Scobalula/GameImageUtil

[willow fog]

I prefer a more hands on approach

Yeah I have it

[livid rapids]

If that's your thing then so be it

[willow fog]

ye

I like full control over stuff so I can edit shit if I need,

[earnest yew]

this really has the source 2 stank

[winter radish]

Just shows how good Source 2 is

[earnest yew]

i think source 2 looks really basic

and plasticy

in my op

[earnest yew]

but this looks like source 2 in a good way

if valve wasnt scared of actual shiny materials

[livid rapids]

It's weird because they have all the excuses to do shiny stuff with better quality and parallax corrected cubemaps

I fw hla and cs2 artstyle tho

Mostly hla

cs2 is sometimes meh

[earnest yew]

i feel like most of cs2 legit just looks like plastic

hla was better than cs2 quality wise

[fast epoch]

why do i get black screen

[livid rapids]

Yeah, I recently ported the original pbr mats for the cs2 pistols and all except for the deagle look like they just got painted with the most matte and plastic-y finish possible

[earnest yew]

like i get what valves going for

the most nondistracting shit

like how valorant dosent have as single piece of shiny material

cause competitive bullshit

but i feel like the game is legit just so fucking plastic

especially the guns

[subtle bison]

if it helps, valorant uses UE4's mobile renderer on all platforms

so it can run on REALLY low end hardware

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valorant

These modifications included editing the renderer using the engine's mobile rendering path as base

[earnest yew]

thats crazy i didnt know that

plus i was just assuming it was cause of the artstyle

[peak rover]

blood is non existant

[keen rivet]

In source 2? They're very much not

In the end of source 1's lifespan they hella were

[earnest yew]

cs2 yes they are

💀💀💀

[meager oar]

well we havent really seen full graphical capability of s2, its used in s&box, dota 2 and valves newest game which both are cartoonish graphics, used in cs2 which is a e sport title so great graphics arnt needed in that game and hl alyx wch is a VR game so graphics are probably compromised for perf since VR is intensive

and freaking hammer 2 has real time ray tracing bruh 💀

[lament quartz]

Same with s2fm

[meager oar]

idk wat i made

[lament quartz]

Now imagine mp with these tracers

[meager oar]

I can try tat in CSS 💀

Gmod MP just eats too much fps

[livid rapids]

Inside

[lament quartz]

Tanto .22 from bo6 or...?

[livid rapids]

Yes

[meager oar]

Max payne

[stable scarab]

and why u post on gmod ?

[lament quartz]

Its a gmod map

[meager oar]

chillin

idk how emission for fire started wrkiing again

Execution

[potent agate]

did anyone figure out why the flashlight doesn't work?
I have rtx remix fixes but it doesn't exist lol

[lament quartz]

Same

Actually i can't even boot the game menu rn

[potent agate]

so the flashlight appears in random parts of the map when enabled

idk if that makes sense

but in these spots will toggle when toggling the flashlight

also does anyone know why these random triangles appear on the screen?
the size and color is based on camera position

[lapis delta]

rtx remix fixes on workshop

[potent agate]

I see

[stable scarab]

cs_ciege

[fast epoch]

niknaks?

[quiet scroll]

that scared the absolute piss out of me

[half viper]

The rtx remix incident

[lapis delta]

bro is gmod arg

[quiet scroll]

Do y'all have legacy fog remapping on or nah

[meager oar]

nu

volumetric 😍

[quiet scroll]

https://www.moddb.com/downloads/gm-csgosafehouse-rtx

[modern quest]

does the pinned guide still work for gmod?

[quiet scroll]

Affirmative

[modern quest]

thanks

[quiet scroll]

https://youtu.be/XcBm9zetwfI?si=hfRc5ZNbHeh_U7i8

[meager oar]

yo can u tell me how your using the latest remix build in gmod? when i use it the main menu doesnt work

[quiet scroll]

Yee download the latest remix, but then manually replace the bridge with this old one, the latest one breaks the menu https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/bridge-remix/actions/runs/11673272760

I have a ticket in letting them know the bridge broke gmod

[half viper]

what commit broke it?

[quiet scroll]

I thiiiiiiink they might've taken it down? It was the latest bridge, but I could've sworn it came out a week ago, not a month lol - this is the latest listed https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/bridge-remix/actions/runs/11752046900

oh wait yeah I'm wrong, that is the one that broke it. damn, it's already been a month

https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/rtx-remix/issues/674

[quiet scroll]

so pretty

[meager oar]

is the fire and its emission working for u aswell?

[quiet scroll]

negative, I even tried the workaround fix and still no bueno 😦

[meager oar]

idk why it suddenly started wrking for me

[quiet scroll]

did you do the garrysmod/garrysmod/addons/rtx-fixes way? or subscribe from the workshop?

It's a shame cuz I can tell it'd be so pretty lol

[meager oar]

i have the remix fixes in the addons folder

[quiet scroll]

and you're on the 32 branch?

[meager oar]

yus

[subtle bison]

i think its a octotex thing?

it does stuff the toolkit cant

@meager oar try disabling your enhanced assets and see if fire is still emissive

[quiet scroll]

I tried taking a nap but I couldn’t fall asleep because this is keeping me up

I feel like it’s solvable

[meager oar]

still wrks

[quiet scroll]

holy fuck, I accidentally unsubbed from all my gmod addons but found a way to resubscribe to all of them

https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/18vlw8e/comment/kyc46d7/ this guy has a python script that fetches your workshop logs and resubs to the latest memory

maybe I should've just started clean

[quiet scroll]

do your launch options look like this too?

[meager oar]

I think I don't have some of these commands in my launch options, I have launch options in steam Library of Gmod

[half viper]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3379621095

try this

[stable scarab]

this method still work to install remix into gmod?

[worldly kelp]

how do u change sun position in this clip?

[worldly kelp]

is there a way to make lights bounce on mirrors? in this clip i was supposed to be lit by that lamp reflected in the mirror

[near tartan]

Install Xeniths remix fixes off of steam workshop, I THINK that’ll do it

[subtle bison]

its a large hdri dome mesh

[worldly kelp]

can u post that addon online?

gmod with composite view looks lowk cool

love the color grading

[worldly kelp]

this will be gmod in 2013

[winter radish]

This is what DLSS sees

[subtle bison]

that requires caustics which arent in remix yet

[subtle bison]

not atm, setting it up is very difficult, it's all happening in remix and not in-engine

[winter radish]

Don't say the C word, you'll summon him...

[subtle bison]

@lapis delta i summon thy

[winter radish]

https://tenor.com/view/crying-turn-to-dust-finnicklomlgif-gif-6202351048420329284

[subtle bison]

lmao

[meager oar]

hmm seems to dont wrk except a png texture , wish it wrked would look so cool in night time battles

[quiet scroll]

friendly fire!

[meager oar]

😭

dayum the details on textures in quality dlss 😍

[quiet scroll]

I gotta try them 16k textures that looks pretty

[meager oar]

they tank the vram alot 💀

[winter radish]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-no-empty-wallet-no-money-gif-14254530

[meager oar]

default emissive setting

[quiet scroll]

When fire starts do you get a bunch of sprite errors in the console?

[meager oar]

nope

the red ones are related to vj base

[quiet scroll]

imma ask chatgpt if it knows what these mean lmao

[modern quest]

it doesn't have a way to render the sprites used to display fire

[quiet scroll]

Hmm I wonder if it's the load order of the mods - maybe somethings disabling sprites

[subtle bison]

no this is an issue with fixed function rendering, xenthios rtx mod replaces a lot of those particles with FF friendly ones

if fire isnt working, you need to install the mod as a extracted addon instead of the workshop version

#1116089843479498782 message

changing load order where rtx remix fixes is 1st might also work though

[quiet scroll]

Yeah even manually placing rtx-fixes in the addons folder didn't work for me. I disabled all the other addons besides vfire and niknaks for fixes but still nada

Is this one still the latest?

[subtle bison]

its the one i have been using

i dont think xenthio has updated the addon in a long while

[subtle bison]

disable vfire, i dont think it works at all

[quiet scroll]

Yeah I'll disable, it's gg's until xenthio saves us

[subtle bison]

i think for vfire and other heavily shader based particles to work, is to use xoxor4d's method of getting source to run in FF

tl;dr stop patching files and just translate the necessary shader calls back into FF while keeping shader for stuff that needs it

i tried to port his portal 2 mod over but im in a litte over my head

in technical theory it would work well here for gmod but i would need to find the right addresses to hook

[lament quartz]

I still have a black screen sadly 😔

[quiet scroll]

That'd be siiick

[meager oar]

Beamm

[near tartan]

My overall favorite part of remix

[meager oar]

me to, they will stand out more and look alot better when the volumetric lighting leak issue is fixed

this is wat im talking bout, see that fog leaking in dark areas behind the shaft

[near tartan]

Yeah ik about the leaking

[peak rover]

😭

[worldly kelp]

160p gaming

gmod rtx breaks when I pull out a toolgun or any other weapon

[peak rover]

depends on the weapon

it works with sum

only the really complex guns it breaks

for me it worked for every gun expect the cold war ones

[lament quartz]

Probably an addon

[lapis delta]

correct gameplay gmod rtx

[worldly kelp]

it breaks for a toolgun too

[stable scarab]

hey all, this method still working ? i think i asked this yesterday but no one give me an answer

[subtle bison]

yeah

[wind yoke]

Is this possible in motion or do you have to render stills? Is 8gb memory too little?

[meager oar]

its playable in motion, im getting 80 fps on tis map and i used to get 50 fps on my old 2080 super wch is a 8gb card in this map but in ultra perf

tis map only has 1 16k texture, i was talking about having more then 1 16k texture, i tried that with wild west mines putting like 4 16k textures and the vram on my 2080S was getting maxed out and alot of stutters

[wind yoke]

I have a 3070, so performance should be roughly the same. Thanks for the info!

I was considering viability for scenebuilds and what not.

[livid rapids]

try using map retexturizer, let it load the default texture, for some reason it overrides the missing texture and remix goes back to normal

works with mwb marksman rifles and some other guns

[keen rivet]

Yep

[lapis delta]

https://youtu.be/0EvyMRY2xdQ?si=lWHqSjbN5lvXIPX4

[quiet scroll]

I thought volt was 64bit only, but they have a x32 gmod version

[lament quartz]

What even is volt

[lapis delta]

better physics + optimization

[quiet scroll]

yeah like more stable physics, better performance

@upbeat jewel incase you wanted to see more of the water

[lapis delta]

now we don't need s&box (jk)

[quiet scroll]

ngl that's sorta the only reason I was looking forward to s&box

[lapis delta]

physics?

[quiet scroll]

Yeah, better physics 20 years later with maybe more destructibles, and maybe native path tracing

kinda like teardown, but not pixel art (i love pixel art)

[lapis delta]

i think with all this its more better than s&box

awesome graphics, better physics, 1000000 addons

and everyone can download and configure it now

[upbeat jewel]

Haven’t got the slightest idea how that’s possible . I guess if the normal is the only thing changing I could see it, but if the mesh is always changing I’m confused.

I guess if it repeats you could include them all. I’ll have to take a look at it in more detail

You should shine a bright light through it with fog maybe and see what happens

[subtle bison]

they released a 32-bit ver
https://github.com/misyltoad/VPhysics-Jolt/releases/tag/0.20

[meager oar]

oh crap

[quiet scroll]

What’s the bomb mod? 👀

[meager oar]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1529340885

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1131455085

need to tinker and set the effects as particles in remix menu

[quiet scroll]

Thanks!

[glossy mauve]

anyone else crashing with the new runtime?

[half viper]

its the bridge afair

[weak nacelle]

use a month old version of the bridge

but you should ideally keep the dxvk-remix intact

[quiet scroll]

Actually yeah It feels less stable. I’m using the month old bridge but I’ve crashed 3 times already

Gunna keep an eye on it

[glossy mauve]

yeah imma wait for a lil too

[potent agate]

It's a shame that Gmod runs out of memory with a bunch of addons with RTX enabled, I'll probably just wait until the 64bit version of rtx exists whenever that happens

[modern quest]

64 bit remix is already a thing, gmod would need to be 64 bit though

[winter radish]

Gmod has a 64 bit branch tho

[modern quest]

then you guys should be using that

you won't need the bridge anymore

[subtle bison]

patches are still incomplete for the 64-bit branch and its much more unstable than 32-bit in its current state

i tried my hand at porting some of the patches myself but i didnt get anywhere

i pray xenthio or someone ports his p2 compat mod to gmod as that's much more likely to happen

[loud mural]

I assume you mean #xoxor4d

[winter radish]

What makes the 64 bit branch so different tho? Other than being 64 bit and supporting chromium

[subtle bison]

oops

yes

[subtle bison]

gmod x64 uses different compiler optimizations compared to other source games so for me at least it's difficult to find patterns of instructions that line up with their 32-bit counterpart

tf2 64-bit doesnt have this issue for example

im nowhere close to being good at reverse engineering so there are probably better methods of finding the right instructions

[winter radish]

Got it

[wind yoke]

Keen on Stargate RTX with PBR lol. It'd essentially make me go back and relive my 2009 childhood.

[quiet scroll]

whatchu mean I can't select the texture

[meager oar]

is there a fix for this? ARC9 Base

[lapis delta]

disable blur in arc9 settings

[visual rover]

is this one easier to learn rtx remix than the broken gta sa implementation

or same crap

[quiet scroll]

https://youtu.be/aO2qNEmwqxg

[willow fog]

lmao thats what I do with guns

[willow fog]

@fast epoch

uh

Wrong person

hi

[fast epoch]

nah its me

[willow fog]

oh

Yeah ask skurty

Basically you need the mod that he made for the game to look like

[fast epoch]

i did ig that he's offline

[willow fog]

You probably don't have any enhanced assets rn

[fast epoch]

oh

where can i get enchanced assets

[willow fog]

Check the video description

[quiet scroll]

at the veryyy tippy top

[fast epoch]

i just need to download the map?

[fast epoch]

ok

ty

[meager oar]

That fixed it thanks

[fast epoch]

uh

how do i fix

[quiet scroll]

Is the mod unzipped in your mods folder?

[fast epoch]

yes

[quiet scroll]

If you press alt+x and go to the enhancements tab, are enchancments set to on?

[fast epoch]

yep

[quiet scroll]

Uhh screenshot your mods folder and main gmodrtx folder

Are you on the 32bit version of gmod?

[quiet scroll]

Hmm, and you’re on 32bit version?

[fast epoch]

i think

ive used this tut for rtx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeMrlemVSl8&t=228s

[quiet scroll]

Oh yeah that’s perfect. Hmm I’ll take a look when I get home

[fast epoch]

alr

[quiet scroll]

Weird, it's working fine for me. If you right click gmod and go to the beta's tab yours should say none like this. Otherwise it looks like you have everything installed right

[meager oar]

yus 😅

[quiet scroll]

oh wait sorry popo, wrong person LMAOOOOO

[quiet scroll]

HOLY FUCK

[quiet scroll]

@fast epoch see a little above

[quiet scroll]

this would've given us a stroke in 2004

[lament quartz]

I wish I could play gmod rtx but for whatever reason no matter my attempts it won't work

[quiet scroll]

Did you try a clean install?

[lament quartz]

Three times

[quiet scroll]

try using my rtx.conf in your main game directory. Are you subscribed to the rtx-fixes addon?

[fast epoch]

yep

niknaks too

[fast epoch]

sure wait

[quiet scroll]

Are you using the launcher to start the game? Maybe an addons interfering?

Did you install gmodrtx to your regular gmod? Or make a new folder?

[fast epoch]

to my regular

[quiet scroll]

That works. Damn I'm outta ideas, but I'll keep thinking

Anyone else see anything?

[fast epoch]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=944959992&searchtext=safehouse

[quiet scroll]

And that little guys checked?

[fast epoch]

yep

theres no pbr textures

[fast epoch]

as u can see

idk why

[quiet scroll]

@meager oar whenever you get a chance, want to test if my csgohouse works for you? I was able to do a clean install from moddb with it, but idk it could be on my end

[half viper]

When does it crash?

Have you tried older versions of remix?

[lament quartz]

It doesn't crash, it only shows a black screen

[half viper]

Thats weird

[lament quartz]

And yeah I tried 5.4 which also failed to work

[half viper]

Mention me later, im going to take a nap then try to help you myself

[lament quartz]

Alright (it's 3 am anyways I need to sleep lol)

[half viper]

Can you VC in like 3-4 hours?

Oh

Take some rest hun

[meager oar]

Yus share da map

[quiet scroll]

Thanks! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=944959992&searchtext=safehouse

[meager oar]

wrks for me

[quiet scroll]

Thanks!

[quiet scroll]

@fast epoch sorry I'm totally stumped on how else to fix it I'm confused because it looks like the lighting I added to the map is showing correctly, it's the textures that aren't. You could open a ticket on github and the nvidia team could look into it, might be another underlying problem

[fast epoch]

alright ty

[near tartan]

You know what

I just saw someone with that problem

A few days ago

He got it to work I think

I don’t remember his user

I’ll get back to you when I find him

as it turns out it was @fast epoch

He may know the fix

[visual rover]

damn man.

[fast epoch]

who

[near tartan]

You fixed the black screen on gmod RTX

[fast epoch]

yes

[near tartan]

Correct

Okay

Bailey

Had the same

Issue

[fast epoch]

oh

[near tartan]

Mind telling how you fixed it

[fast epoch]

download the oldest* version of bridge and extract the zip files inside the bin same as the dxvk (inside the .trex)

oldest version available

[near tartan]

@lament quartz even if you tried it, are you willing to give it one more shot

[fast epoch]

the oldest that u can download is 3 month-old

[quiet scroll]

I love boosting up their health and letting them have battles

the ragdoll physics are drastically better with volt

[meager oar]

i think i spent most of my hours in gmod by just doing npc battles

can finally handle atleast 20 or 40 vj npcs depending on the map without it being unwatchable and a lagfest

[quiet scroll]

https://tenor.com/view/charge-onward-hyped-ivar-the-boneless-vikings-gif-16443044

[visual rover]

is the game fun?

[meager oar]

yus, well its a sandbox game so u kinda make the fun on your own

[stable scarab]

and with Path Tracing its even better

[near tartan]

Anyone know the fix to not being able to click on anything in the menu?

[meager oar]

It's a issue with the latest remix, menu of some source games don't work, reverting to a older remix build helps like the version portal rtx has. Idk the exact build where this issue started

I have a custom menu mod in CSS and the latest remix build seems to work there

[near tartan]

Yeah, CR helped me with this but sent the message by accident in the Half-Life 2 Threwad thread, but thanks for the help anyway man

[upbeat jewel]

try to do underwater caustics by putting a bright light on the surface (has to be directional). the surface already has a ripple through the normal, maybe it will distort it

[quiet scroll]

I had hope

[near tartan]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-frog-mood-rain-pepe-gif-22350498

[upbeat jewel]

noooooo

would have been pretty cool. these look great though: #1116089843479498782 message
its insane how good gmod works with remix

[quiet scroll]

I wonder if portal rtx shaped easier compatibility with remix while they were developing it. 64 bit gmod and rtx will be crazy, we won’t need the bridge

[modern quest]

yes

source works the best with Remix

[meager oar]

shafts

[potent agate]

I'm also having a similar issue to where no enhanced assets are being replaced (on any map) but lighting is applied lol

my map looks like this
very cursed

okay actually maybe this is a bigger issue

[near tartan]

This is bad

[near tartan]

You just need to set the textures to decal or just ignore click ingore on this invisible ones for these

I did also try this

and I got no enhanced assets myself

[near tartan]

This one

i didn't get the assets

[potent agate]

Yeah, but then it either bugs out looking like that second image or it actually works as intended

remix doesn't seem very stable as of now for whatever reason

[near tartan]

in the second image, are you in the map that is designed for path tracing

or the regular map

[potent agate]

the one that's included in RTX remix fixes

the normal map is even worse

I did try and reset the config file but the issues come back regardless

[upbeat jewel]

Well if you reset the config file it comes with you probably lose all the changes 😅 and whatever stuff is applied to make it work, like hashes.

So yeah, that makes sense

[potent agate]

I did make a backup but regardless stuff seems to be broken still, I have a better example in another map where the textures are just straight up glitched and unselectable and appear black in the menu

though it's not just limited to one map but it has the most issues, I'll show it later if I remember

[quiet scroll]

I wonder if disabling rtx.io in the rtx.conf would solve it, might be worth a shot

[upbeat jewel]

You should put your configs, exact bridge and dxvk versions, exact mod versions up somewhere skurty

Since nobody can seem to figure this out

Like wherever your game strays from retail it needs to be documented. Just slapping remix into Garry’s mod is apparently not working

If you have a hundred mods installed how can anyone know that one isn’t conflicting or randomly fixing. (If even a single mod changes the hashes for an object, you’re screwed)

Just as an example

Idk don’t take this the wrong way, I’m not trying to be rude but this is like the 10th person

I wish I could help but I don’t know anything about this game

[modern quest]

i agree

any time i point people toward this mod i just have to hope the old tutorial works, and most of the time it doesn't

[upbeat jewel]

I’d like to play it myself. It seems like a really fun game to test remix code changes in without worrying about the compatibility of other games

Like I want to implement scrolling water. I’d rather do that using gmod then my busted ass bioshock

But idk where to start

A list of path traced maps would be great

[quiet scroll]

That's a good idea, I'll open a github page that will periodically have updated versions of remix, a pre-configured dxvk.conf along with a steam workshop collection of mods I currently have installed (including rtx-remix, nikknaks) that way it's easier for people to jump in

this is a brilliant idea

[modern quest]

thank you for doing this

[quiet scroll]

You got it! I'll also make it so it's just drag and drop, placing stuff in bin where it needs to go, and the main directory

[upbeat jewel]

if you want someone to help you test it that has never walked through it before or even installed gmod I can probably help

[quiet scroll]

Thanks! That'd be great, I'll let you know when it's all polished

Hmm, would I put MIT license like how nvidia has for the repository page?

[upbeat jewel]

you just need to keep the ones that come in the actions build zip files, if any

[willow fog]

There are

Just keep those in

[quiet scroll]

Oh sweet, thanks

[upbeat jewel]

@quiet scroll to be clear it's only included in the master build (rtx-remix), you can find them in remix-0.6.0-release.zip

[quiet scroll]

Looks like I'll be using a python script from Blue Amulet to have the game patched - is it ok if I include these fixes in my github repository for a drag 'n drop method for installation? @fringe ingot

Credit to be given

[quiet scroll]

@keen rivet would it be alright if I include a preconfigured mods folder in the repository that has your water mod? I'll include credit

I'm building a drag 'n drop solution to gmod rtx

[keen rivet]

sure i think it was somebody elses anyways lol

should ask them

cant remember who]

[quiet scroll]

Thanks! Oh in the remix discord? Or out in the wild with the source community lol

[quiet scroll]

Oh shit I'm now in baileys shoes, black screen

I think something changed

I noticed the hl2.exe isn't in the gmod folder anymore, the backup I made before doing all of this has it

hmmm

[upbeat jewel]

heh, this is exactly what I mean, there's a very specific order to this and unless you get it right, rip.

there was no hope in the first place if you were going into this with basic info

what patcher are you using and what are the steps so far?

[quiet scroll]

I was going to have 2 options for them, either being able to copy their existing garrysmod folder into steam/common and rename garrysmod - copy garrysmodrtx, and then let them drag and drop all the files into that folder - or simply drag it into the main game directory, either works.

[upbeat jewel]

dragging into the game directory sounds optimal

Or at least I’d start with that

[quiet scroll]

The current method is still xenthio's youtube video, basically

1. Drop Remix into the bin folder
2. Create a dxvk.conf file in the main game directory containing d3d9.shaderModel = 0
3. Run Blue Amulets patch, then move the contents of the Patched folder into the main game directory
4. Create the rtx-remix/mods folder
5. Subscribing to xenthio's workshop addon/dependencies and move the Water mod into the rtx-remix/mods folder
6. Then using the launcher to start the game

here's the launcher 🙂

I'm gunna research why the hl2.exe isn't moving over to gmod anymore, I reverted hl2 back to the pre-20th anniversary edition

I wonder if reverting fixes it

But yeah I’ll be just dragging into the directory with all of those steps already completed Drag and go as possible

[upbeat jewel]

okay, I;ll try to repro this or get up to the same point

[quiet scroll]

Sounds good, I'll keep messing with it and see if I can get it back up

ahhhhh it was the hl2.exe not being in the gmod folder anymore, they must've taken it out just recently

I clean installed hl2/gmod and then rtx, the launcher wouldn't start without hl2.exe being in gmods directory

@lament quartz found a black screen fix, copy hl2.exe into gmod directory

damn, having hl2.exe included in the drag and drop method is probably a nono

[upbeat jewel]

so explain this for my cluless brain plz :P. Why does garrysmod need hl2.exe

what's the difference between that and gmod.exe?

[upbeat jewel]

you can just say in the README.md you need to have hl2 pre-installed, and that it needs to go in X folder

I can make you a quick program that asks for the users path to hl2.exe and copies it if you want

would literally take 5 seconds

[quiet scroll]

That'd be awesome! I'm not actually sure why it needs hl2.exe, in the garrysmod menu there's a "mounting" option where you pick other source games like hl2, counter strike, I thought all of those rules were done in a separate spot

[upbeat jewel]

okay, I'll modify this then, but for HL2, and have it automatically create the shortcut (after copying hl2.exe) with the launch options you specify as "gmod.rtx.exe"

basically it justs asks you where bioshock is installed, copies it and makes a custom shortcut with the launch options embedded

[quiet scroll]

MEGA GENIUS

I've almost got the drag 'n drop folder finished, just need to make the github look pretty

[upbeat jewel]

so let me just make sure I have this straight. We're going to copy the hl2.exe from the HL2 installation folder, and copy it into the gmod game folder where gmod.exe resides. Then we're going to put a custom shortcut in that folder which is going to launch hl2.exe with the launcher options?

[quiet scroll]

Yes, but we're going to be launching gmod.exe with the launch options, not hl2 with the launch options

[upbeat jewel]

huh ... ? then what does hl2.exe do?

does it somehow run both of them?

if it never runs hl2.exe then something else is going on

[quiet scroll]

That's a good question lol, gmod uses a LOT of half life 2 assets, basically all of the npcs/materials/models/tools are from hl2, garry only has a couple of unique textures/models included. Lemme see if I can find a definitive reason why

Because it looks like they recently stopped needing it

[upbeat jewel]

well the only thing I need to know is, with all the steps you've done, if you don't put hl2.exe in that folder does it still work

[quiet scroll]

Nope, just a black screen. gmod.exe opens, but it's just all black, no menu or game up

Ahh wait, I'll get a video

[upbeat jewel]

okay, I'll need to debug this a little then. For now I'll just make sure the script locates hl2.exe. I can also copy the files into the gmod folder for you through that if you want, but lets just test everything first

[quiet scroll]

very odd

Here's the first draft, should just be able to unzip and drag and drop into your gmod game directory or, if you want to keep gmodrtx and your regular gmod separate, you can copy the gmod folder and paste it into steam/common, and rename it garrysmodrtx and then paste the files

[upbeat jewel]

that's the weirdest shit I've ever seen

a game that only works if another game which it doesn't even run is in the same folder as it

oh well 🤷‍♂️

[quiet scroll]

Yeah, it's very strange. You don't even need to own hl2 to get gmod

O and the list of addons I almost forgot