Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005)

[ashen scroll]

what about Coruscant Space?

that one looked pretty good already

[frosty elk]

Tbh I hand picked the best looking location where it wan't bugging out. the rest of the map looked like this. Lol

[narrow kettle]

Yeah, Remix does not play well with terrain in this game. The best showcases of it would probably be either space as Harrisonfog suggested or a map like Kamino or Coruscant: Jedi Temple that don't have any terrain.

[frosty elk]

My God

[ashen scroll]

show me the planet and horizonn (thanks man 😛 )

Something lke my screenshot, but with remix

https://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/33/32011/Star_Wars_Battlefront_II_2005.11.png

[ashen scroll]

huh looks weird but we all know it will be better in the end

thanks Razor for showing me these

[edgy island]

Interesting...

[frosty elk]

Wow. The lights even interacting with the hangers of the frigates

[frosty elk]

Anytime

[edgy island]

So I got a capture, and...the floor textures are upside down.

[ashen scroll]

that is awesome no doubt

[narrow kettle]

Captures are upside down for the moment. It is being looked at by the devs.

[edgy island]

.<

Some parts are, and some parts are not, so..go figure, basically th at error makes it unable to do much XD

[narrow kettle]

Some of the more recent DXVK-Remix builds have some fixes that help to a degree, but your mileage may vary.

[edgy island]

still neat to see what it -can- do without custom modification.

[ashen scroll]

for this game, it's close, but not quite there yet apparently

[edgy island]

I suppose I will wait for them to maybe fix some more spots.

[frosty elk]

Fun fact... Galactic Conquest crashes on start.

[torpid linden]

Its mainly a z fighting issue, enabling the terrain baking makes that stable as it blends the textures, but it moves when your camera moves.

[ashen scroll]

Looks pretty, ty for the pics! The transparent leaves I added have shadows! that's pretty neat 😄

[ashen scroll]

ah too bad, it doesn't detect the green glow coming from the walls

[frosty elk]

I think they have to manually add that

[ashen scroll]

most likely, it's not hard I already have the layers used for that map

[long current]

so how do i get this running?

[frosty elk]

Trial and error

That's how I did it at least

[obtuse mica]

Does it come with an emissive map? Otherwise glows won't happen.

[ashen scroll]

the game doesn't have that, but the alpha channel used for glow it's pretty much the same as an emissive map, I'd just need to export it separately

[obtuse mica]

Gotcha, in Remix when you create the PBR material, an emissive map would be required here to make these parts glow for when they're injected by Remix.

[ashen scroll]

for the record, bf2 uses diffuse and normals, the rest goes in alpha channels of said textures (specular, transparencies,glow, etc)

that's for the majority of things, then you have envmaps, or detail textures, but you won't encounter them as often

[obtuse mica]

We're speaking vanilla BF2 yeah?

[ashen scroll]

yep, but I just thought you guys should know

[obtuse mica]

It's good to know, but I think since we can replace the texture/material entirely with PBR ones here, we would need to use the PBR mapping process. I could be wrong here. But that would require to make an emissive map, which dictates which part of the material is well emissive.

I'd assume it would be possible to extract the parts out of the said alpha channels for the vanilla process then? Turn those into separate maps?

[inland haven]

Yeah it's rediculously easy

[obtuse mica]

I'm no expert in making materials, I have dabbled with it before in Blender for various projects. But I never extracted this information from channels. How would one go about moving this information from the vanilla texture's alpha channel into separate maps?

[inland haven]

Use any image editor such as GIMP or photoshop

An emissive is really just a texture that dictates the color and intensity of the light emitted

[obtuse mica]

Yep, I am aware of the map types, emissive, specular, roughness, etc.

[inland haven]

Yep, thankfully it's very easy

[ashen scroll]

Well yes, what I'm saying is you can just grab it from the og asset alpha channel and save time

[inland haven]

Oh hiya Harri 😁

[ashen scroll]

(sometimes, and for certain things)

[ashen scroll]

hey bro

[obtuse mica]

I see that you said you'd just need to export it separately and that would be the emissive map, I overlooked that part. So apologies.

[ashen scroll]

just trying to be helpful 🙂

[obtuse mica]

Never implied otherwise, I am also kind of just thinking out loud tbh.

[solid crag]

Rn emmisves are only working when material is converted to translucent, at least for 2 games thats how ive seen it, and it turns off if not in screen space

[obtuse mica]

I am going by what I remember from the tutorial. Check this timestamp. I don't see it there, but is it marked as transluscent anywhere there?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQejylcuAeU&t=997s

[solid crag]

Cant see what its marked as in that vid 😦

You see it by pressing 3 dots next to material id

Ittl say “convert to translucent” or “convert to opaque” depending

[obtuse mica]

It does say _Opacity in the material, could it be that it does work the same as when integrating maps, where it picks it up based on say _Normal.

Maybe _Opacity works as a keyword that automatically turns the material translucent?

If a material has words like “translucent,” “glass,” or “trans” in its name during the Ingestion process, it will automatically become translucent.
Not sure if that would maybe also include that.

[ashen scroll]

did you guys install omniverse for this to work?

I still couldn't run the game with it

[solid crag]

What gpu do you have

[ashen scroll]

3070

[solid crag]

No omniverse is only necessary for toolkit

[ashen scroll]

and what would that be?

[solid crag]

Theres the runtime known as just “Remix” which is what you install from github, is the backbone hooks the game into remix to be able to categorize meshes & textures add pathtracing mess with how the game hooks etc.. you can also capture a scene in the enhancements tabs

Thats where the Toolkit comes in, you end up editing this capture in a usd scene in an AUTO CAD like viewport where you can click on meshes and edit materials and also add lights

[ashen scroll]

Alright, I downloaded it since I would end up needing it in the end

Thanks for claryfing dude

[solid crag]

🙂

Technically you can do manually do everything with just remix without the toolkit but its a huge QOL improvement

[ashen scroll]

I'm just hoping it works haha, maybe this way it does

[torpid linden]

Technically speaking, everything could be done in notepad if you really wanted

usd is plaintext

How are the models in battlefront II? I need to build the skeleton exactly as the game has it

Trying to do a mesh replacement for that, but the animations will be totally broken if I don't have the skeleton right

Well actually idk. The docs don't go into a lot of detail on how you do CPU skinned meshes. I know you need to have it in the right format too.

[narrow kettle]

I am pretty sure that CPU skinned meshes cannot be replaced by Remix itself as of now.

The only games that have had mesh replacements have been games that used GPU skinning.

[torpid linden]

Yeah did some digging around and that is the case for sure.

Animated assets are probably stuck the way they are unless a patch were made to the game to interface with the Remix api directly

[narrow kettle]

Fortunately, you could replace them on the game side. Apparently there is a plugin for Blender that allows import and export of BF and BF 2 .msh files.

You'd just want to be careful with the polygon count.

[torpid linden]

Well the improved sides mod already did that. The annoying thing is the limit on the polygons

I suppose its not too bad, just need some good PBR textures

[frosty elk]

Has anyone got to improve sides to work with the latest version of remix?
I ask because I tried using it the other day and it freezes when loading the game.

[narrow kettle]

Well, if you stripped down the static meshes used by the game itself to just a few polys and replace them with high quality replacements (or even just the original mesh), you might be able to have more leeway with the quality of the animated meshes.

[torpid linden]

Well yeah that would be great

We really don't need any high quality assets at all on the engine side of things if those objects aren't animated

[narrow kettle]

As far as poly count goes, you could probably get away with roughly 10-20k for animated meshes, though you would have to deal with them switching to low res versions more often. Maybe less so in a stock map with the normal number of units.

[obtuse mica]

@torpid linden have you checked the new builds yet? There's one still running right now for the dxvk but bridge seems to be done.

[obtuse mica]

No chance to force it into hardware animation. In case BF2 supports both CPU and GPU skinning?

[torpid linden]

I see it, I am able to capture stuff right now

[obtuse mica]

Sweet, then I will grab those builds later, let me know if you encounter any issues.

[torpid linden]

I will probably update it at some point, but it works for me right now I don't want to break anything

I did some combing through the code and found the issue was probably too many old materials cause deleting the materials directory had fixed the issue for me

I still don't know the exact reason why that fixed it, but I haven't had to delete the directory again since, and still captures work just fine

Turns out you can't generate PBR textures from 8k textures

Even with a 4090, you run out of VRAM

[narrow kettle]

Not that I am aware of, though it is not entirely out of the question. It also might be possible to add support for it via scripting, much like how the early versions of the Shader Patch did.

[obtuse mica]

Would be interesting to figure out at one point.

[torpid linden]

PBR generation on 2k textures takes a really long time

This isn't something to do long term, somebody mentioned a GitHub one that supposedly worked better?

[inland haven]

I could get away with 50K with a few units, you just have to test and go

[narrow kettle]

Fair enough. Honestly, I have had more problems with them not munging once you get to the 40-50k point, though it may just depend on the model and how well it is broken up into digestible chunks for the munger to deal with.

[torpid linden]

Ideally if we could make the game interact with the remix api it would help a lot on performance

[narrow kettle]

A definite possibility. The game does use LUA for most of its scripting and has it all available to be looked at and modified in the mod tools.

It is a remarkably moddable game.

[inland haven]

Absolutely, from another era 💕

Wish they'd release modtools with games more often nowadays

[torpid linden]

Before Remix vs after Remix

[frosty elk]

I like

[obtuse mica]

New release coming up? At least it was pushed into the release branch.

[frosty elk]

Do you guys think it's too soon to make videos on Battlefront 2 RTX?

[inland haven]

The cloth on the lampposts is to this day one of my favorite contributions. I love adding cloth to props 👌

[torpid linden]

I made a video a while back with just the material roughness and metallic tweaks.

[torpid linden]

Imma find a pbr cloth texture to test with that rn

[frosty elk]

Alright.
I was thinking of doing something of a cinematic teaser with Harrison's Space Coruscant in RTX.

[inland haven]

I'm def curious how cloth looks in remix, also how it performs. For those flags I added several vertices to make them bend in the wind better, but idk if you replaced them with higher poly models if it'd help or not since the wind params are coded ingame.

[frosty elk]

I want to know what the tarp on mos esley looks like moving with RTX

[torpid linden]

The purple one?

[frosty elk]

Yee

[torpid linden]

Mos Eisley does in fact need some more animated stuff, nothing moves around on that map

Just the ammo and medical droids and such

[frosty elk]

Also maybe physics for sand.
Like footprints and have the occasional sand blowing in the wind

[inland haven]

Footprint decals are doable, as for sand you'd have to mess with a Droid odf

[torpid linden]

I was wondering about sand physics, can we do that on the engine side?

[frosty elk]

A lot of those same physics can be ported over to hoth for snow but with a color palette swap.

[torpid linden]

Its amazing how Harison, being one of the main texture artists here is seemingly the only one unable to launch the game with Remix

They also seem to not be using the Steam version of the game

[frosty elk]

I wonder if any version other than the steam version doesn't work.

[narrow kettle]

I think cloth would have need to be replaced in game, at least model wise. Textures could be replaced/added in Remix, though.

[narrow kettle]

I use the GOG version and it works fine for me.

[frosty elk]

Good to know,
That theories debunked now

[torpid linden]

Its like the CD key version that probably never got any patches or anything I think.

Not too sure if there were any on the Steam/GOG side of things

Odd, if I were @ashen scroll I would update as many things as possible like windows, DirectX, graphics driver etc. I do know you have to be able to suport Vulkan since it is what is used to run the path tracing stuff.

[narrow kettle]

It might be a driver issue now that you mention it. Still, his card itself is more than capable.

[frosty elk]

Is it up to date?

[torpid linden]

He updated his driver actually after I mentioned that to him

He wasn't able to open it at all before that, now it opens and he can hear audio but no visuals

[frosty elk]

I was getting an issue like that the other day.
Even have the tiny rectangular box in the top left side of the screen.
How I fixed it was I just reinstalled remix 4.0, bridge-remix, and dxvk.

But you know the latest versions of each

[inland haven]

Yeah I suppose it would help if we ironed out a conf too for moddb

[torpid linden]

I haven't even combed the conf file all too much to see what all the options do

dxvk.conf specifically

rtx.conf has some options worth noting as well

bridge.conf doesn't have really anything other than the api worth changing

[torpid linden]

Replacements seem to crash the game on hoth

PBR Stormtrooper

[ashen scroll]

Is that rezzed naboo?

😄

[torpid linden]

I like this one better than the stormtrooper

This isn't AI, I found out how to make the PBR textures myself from the diffuse/albedo

Note the floor difference, somehow the PBR got reverted on that and I unreverted it

Still need to make some walls PBR textures

[ashen scroll]

have you seen our version

has animated creatures and stuff 😄 just gotta give them PBR treatment and perhaps a high poly version and I'd keep them

[ashen scroll]

textures look wet, but it has potential

[ivory charm]

Whats RTX if it doesnt look wet

[frosty elk]

Facts.
Minecraft is notorious for that.

So stormy Naboo anyone?

[solid crag]

Ooooooooo

[frosty elk]

I imagine if you can change the music this would be the theme playing to a stormy Naboo.
https://youtu.be/XKwH4ph_0tM?si=hPqPiA3BNvHFMi6E

[ashen scroll]

Yesterday I updated windows, tried several versions of dxvk and bridge. Still no luck. Now I'm trying to do it on a clean steam version instead of gog (I have both) don't know if that matters actually

[frosty elk]

Anyone know how to make installers?
That way most likely could be installed right every single time if it's put in the right location.

[obtuse mica]

The latest version work for me, UI clicking is still not fixed there though.

What issue do you have?

[ashen scroll]

I hear the menu music, and I can hear the sound played when you move your mouse. But I see a small blackbox top left corner or a larger black box sometimes

[frosty elk]

Did you copy all the files from the TRex folder to your game data folder

[ashen scroll]

Nope, should I?

[frosty elk]

That's the thing I noticed that I did in the video I sent you that made the difference

But I said copy them into their instead of moving them just in case they are needed them both

I don't personally know I haven't tested it

[ashen scroll]

That made it start but no remix text

[frosty elk]

Hmm

[ashen scroll]

alt x does nothing, it's as if it was the vanilla game

[frosty elk]

In the video I sent you it happened to me too.

[ashen scroll]

Yeah

I realized it' the Bridge that breaks it, when I place just the dxvx files it launches

but not with remix enabled

[frosty elk]

Hmm

[obtuse mica]

The issue I have right now is that the game runs at good fps but animation and etc are like in slow motion.

[frosty elk]

Nice shading on the trooper

[torpid linden]

I posted this for the wall lol

[frosty elk]

That's nice too

And I did notice it

[torpid linden]

Creating the PBR materials yourself is way better, I got nowhere near these results using the AI stuff

[torpid linden]

Reworked the floor and the scout a little

[obtuse mica]

@torpid linden Hey, have you experience the game play very slow? As in, the FPS is fine, but everything moves basically slow motion?

[torpid linden]

No its fine for me

[obtuse mica]

Hmm, which shadermodel setting have you set in the dxvk.config?

[torpid linden]

0

[obtuse mica]

Okay, got the same set there, so that's not it then.

[frosty elk]

Are you playing on a laptop or a desktop?

[obtuse mica]

Nvm I fixed it. I used a launch command /fixedrate to push the game to higher framerates past the cap. Without Remix that works just fine, when using Remix it actually causes the game to basically go slowmo.

I had to remove said command to not push the rate above its default.

[torpid linden]

Well remix needs to be made to not crash the game when you try to go to the next match, thats gonna be a problem

[obtuse mica]

Right now I am basically just using this to play around with it to be very honest. I don't really intend to single handedly make a remaster for this.

[torpid linden]

I am playing around with it too. I wish the active layer was saved when you closed out of the program. My layer formatting is off because of that.

[solid crag]

@torpid linden did you see the github issue response?

https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/rtx-remix/issues/269#issuecomment-1917897509

[ashen scroll]

you guys know what this means?

[torpid linden]

Well the bridge died

The log in the .trex folder should give details

[ashen scroll]

Exception 0xc0000005 at 00007FFB33288EFE! Saving minidump to....

that's what it says

btw, it's always the bridge for me, I noticed that without it game runs, but no remix.

[frosty elk]

Which bridge are you using?

[ashen scroll]

tried a bunch of them

latest, yours and sopitive's working ones

and others

[torpid linden]

Thats still an access violation

[ashen scroll]

https://tenor.com/view/you-crazy-son-of-a-bitch-you-did-it-jurassic-park-ian-malcolm-gif-16042346

You gave me an idea with that... and now it works

You won't believe what was causing the issue...

MSI Afterburner and/or RTSS

[torpid linden]

When making captures make sure you have indirect lighting enabled if the map doesn't have a lot of lights already

[ashen scroll]

think we should tag a dev/mod to let them know of this conflict? it's a pretty common program to have

[torpid linden]

GitHub issue is the best way.

[frosty elk]

Facts

So @ashen scroll you got it running?

[ashen scroll]

Seems like it

[frosty elk]

https://tenor.com/view/hell-yeah-danny-mullen-yes-that's-what-i'm-talking-about-gif-12917058340479137348

[ashen scroll]

https://tenor.com/view/its-true-all-of-it-rey-star-wars-force-awakens-gif-4976962

copied all my maps, without the sides, following your advice, let's see how it looks 👀

[frosty elk]

Make a backup of your game data folder

A backup with RTX working I mean

[ashen scroll]

where is that

also, how did you fix terrain being transparent on kas

game crashed but I could capture this yipeeee

things light up with explosions 🥺 finally

[frosty elk]

I think it lights up just a little bit too bright sometimes.
But it still looks really awesome

[ashen scroll]

I'm sure it can be toned down

[frosty elk]

Same

[torpid linden]

Its on by default

Under rendering settings

[ashen scroll]

Man my improved assets don't look bad at all with this lighting

[torpid linden]

DLSS might be helping too

[ashen scroll]

why would it?

I'm playing at 1080p, I don't even need DLSS

everytime I take a screenshot it crashes btw, same for you guys?

[torpid linden]

Print screen is reserved for something in remix

And yes

Use OBS to take screenshots since that actually supports HDR

[ashen scroll]

I have geforce experience think that'd work too?

Remastered Hoth with RTX

[torpid linden]

Idk if that would work with the game, but OBS for sure does

[ashen scroll]

Even though it's dark, looks so much better than this
https://www.moddb.com/mods/hd-graphics-mod/images/hoth-echo-base-remaster-battlefront-harrisonfog#imagebox

[torpid linden]

I know for a fact OBS supports HDR videos and screenshots. If you screenshot with snipping tool it blows out the whites

[frosty elk]

I've been using Windows + G to screenshot

[torpid linden]

The UI clicking I discovered the issue for, so hopefully will be fixed sometime soon

They have a default config that isn't initialized properly with Battlefront II and it causes a condition to return false to forward DirectInput messages.

Basically local variables were moved non local and it caused those variables to init on program start and not when the localized block was initialized

If there is a specific version you want to test, I can do the fix for that stuff and build it.

Actually lol the last bridge commit fixed that

https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/bridge-remix/commit/6eae7fbda3910ea1a6d21bf80ae7f80fbf2d1031

[obtuse mica]

Damn was there another one?

Because I just downloaded a new one today

LMAO, I have downloaded one before this build.

Gonna check this one later

[ashen scroll]

@frosty elk you were right it's so much better in person

[frosty elk]

Right

Maybe if I did a video of it could have gotten a better feel

[ashen scroll]

For the record, geforce experience works for screencaps too

[obtuse mica]

You guys using a specific config btw?

Got some Z fighting going on with the terrain every now and then

[fallen meadow]

i know the game is funky with overlays, discord overlay just makes the screen black last i tried it XD

[ashen scroll]

I just got it to launch, no idea.

[ashen scroll]

that happens with the OG game, disable discord overlay

[frosty elk]

Sometimes I've actually had it so Discord overlay works with Battlefront.
I think it depends on the specs that your computer has.

[fallen meadow]

oh yeah i know, but its just funny thats what was holding it up XD

[ashen scroll]

Our Mos Eisley looks sweet as well dang

@frosty elk did you try this one

[frosty elk]

WOW!!!

[frosty elk]

No I haven't.
I'm regretting that I haven't

[ashen scroll]

I put a lot of though into the lighting, shades and color grading of everything, here it really shows

[frosty elk]

Facts

[ashen scroll]

placed some lights in our Hoth Hangar, looks really cool

[frosty elk]

Do you plan to add any lights to the falcon?

[echo herald]

nice didnt know people where able to get in

[long current]

I wonder what bf3 legacy would look with rtx

Does the latest version of remix work?

I cant get to the start screens

[obtuse mica]

What does it look like, does the game start, you hear sound but only see a one colored screen?

[long current]

Just black

[obtuse mica]

Might need to set the d3d9.shaderModel in dxvk.conf to 0.

Also make sure to use the latest GitHub builds not the one that's released manually. The current release 0.4.0 does not work with it.

0.4.1 is now a thing and might be worth a try

[solid crag]

Probably worth trying battlefront 1 since github issue was updated

[wicked quarry]

yeeesh why are the shadows blue

[wicked quarry]

will try soon

[ashen scroll]

hey river, I don't know why

could be tweaked eventually

that's just the way it looks with remix by default 🙂

[wicked quarry]

harrison how do you get it to launch with remix cause right now it is just all white for me

[ashen scroll]

yeah that happens a lot

I tried a lot of files until it worked

you know the bridge and dxvk files

also guys asked what gpu I had, non RTX gpus won't launch I've heard, but I could be wrong

[wicked quarry]

wdym

[frosty elk]

Didn't you also have a software that messed with it?

[frosty elk]

These two

[long current]

I have a 3050

So

Do i have to uninstall msi afterburner

[ashen scroll]

I read a guy said

3060 ti min req

it wouldn't run, again, perhaps there's a way I don't know much about it myself guys

[ashen scroll]

no, just close it

that's what I did

[long current]

I havnt had it open

So ill have to look

[ashen scroll]

then it's fine, it kinda takes over the gpu

and remix doesn't handle that, or something, the right term for it is access violation 😄

[long current]

Ill have to look into what else could cause it

[ashen scroll]

.

yeah I've been trying to get it to launch since last week

and also earlier betas, never worked till now

[long current]

I have a 4070 pc at home i might wait until i get on leave to try it out

[ashen scroll]

yep, that would make sense, get it to run there then copy the installation and see if the 3050 can't run it

it's still very glitchy, a lot of things look messed up but it's fun to see our mods under... a different light (pun intended)

[long current]

It could be fixed with omniverse as far as i know

[fallen meadow]

the problem with omniverse atm is that things are inside out, or have they fixed that yet?

[obtuse mica]

Would love to not crash every other time I ingest textures

[ashen scroll]

can't send you a friend request for some reason (for DMs)

but yeah, crashes when the match ends as well for me

[obtuse mica]

For me it's the Toolkit that crashes, the first time I ingest a texture it is fine, the second or third time it might crash the toolkit.

[ashen scroll]

performance really tanks too when adding lights

does that happen to you as well

[wicked quarry]

harrison do you have the default d39d file from bf2 I replaced mine with the remix's

[ashen scroll]

what you did is fine, you have to replace

[obtuse mica]

Oh yeah, depending on the amount of lights and intensity of course. Right now I am working on the first campaign mission, which spawns a bunch of stage lights under the map and one single distant light. I disabled all the stage ones and only turned on the distant light.

[frosty elk]

Ah yes.
Mygeeto

[wicked quarry]

Nah I mean to reverse it lol

So I can play normally

[ashen scroll]

hang on

I think this is it

hope it works! g2g now, cya guys 👋

[torpid linden]

Latest dxvk-remix and bridge-remix

Should both work just fine with the game

[wicked quarry]

is the latest already pre built?

[torpid linden]

Yes, just find the buld artifact for it.

[long current]

im gonna try this again on a clean install of bf2

[long current]

game does not like

whats weird is i run portal RTX at like 50-60 fps so i dont understand why even older games run so much worse

just finished installed swbf UI remaster for the UI stuff

going to try and get my mod in for maximum grafix

somehow this is worse than before

this is now

before

also objects are flashing in and out idk why

for some reason, its reading normal maps (which dont exist in bf2 wtf) as diffuse

this editor is also pretty archaic

gonna find a more

functioning map

it also should be possible to force BF2 to always load the high poly msh's by editing the .sky file

so you can just go into freecam and go nuts

[narrow kettle]

Ah, I think I know why it is showing normal maps. It only does that if you have lighting quality set to high while it is not running in fixed function mode.

[narrow kettle]

It did not for the most part, but it did use bump maps and would convert them into normal maps while munging.

[long current]

had it on low

[long current]

it didnt at all because it used bump!! I dont think it converts them to normals while munging i think remix does that

converting a bump to normal afaik isnt as easy as just making it a normal map

coruscant does not like the existence of a sky box

its also hard to tell what qualifies as a sky texture

because some things that are fucked are technically objects placed in ZeroEdit

geonosis is sorta better

[narrow kettle]

I could be misremembering, but I recall reading in one of the documents in the mod tools that if the -bumpmap argument is used in a tga.option file, then it converts it into a normal map while munging. I'll have to take another look when I get home to be sure.

[long current]

i think it might im not sure

i asked another one of my modding friends but no ones every really cared because it doesnt matter for modding the game

i just use regular normal maps in my mods

i think the play for now is going to be to ignore all normal map textures since they can be re added

recapturing without normals

much better in remix but still ingame is basically unplayable

[narrow kettle]

Are you using the rtx.conf and dxvk.conf that was posted?

[long current]

no whats different with it?

[narrow kettle]

It is kind of up a bit in the thread, so it is understandable if you missed it.

[solid crag]

link it ill pin it

[long current]

i found it

[narrow kettle]

The RTX.conf has a few settings already tailored to the game, such as automatic skybox detection and most of the stock UI and sky boxes already set. The DXVK.conf has the Shader Model forced to 0 so that the game boot into fixed function mode. That right there might help performance a good bit since Remix hates shaders of any kind.

[long current]

alright

ive tested it and the performance is terrible (i have like 4 gbs of vram in this laptop) but it works

[narrow kettle]

If you have to, I would suggest turning the terrain Baking off or lowering the texture resolution of it. That eats through VRAM like a son of a bitch.

[long current]

ye, ive enabled DLSS and that gets me like 30fps which is passable

[narrow kettle]

And it still seems a bit buggy with the game for some reason.

[long current]

i dont understand why the editor is so terrible

at least so far

[narrow kettle]

It seems more than a bit unoptimized and I believe has a few memory leaks from what people have said. I am hoping that will change here soon. There are settings to lower the render resolution within it, but even that only does so much at times.

[long current]

the main thing is that there is no way to enable any sort of unlit mode

[narrow kettle]

I think that the camera light mode is supposed to be about the closest thing to that, but it doesn't seem to work.

At least not when I've tried it.

[long current]

i cant get it either

unlit would be more for performance reasons

so i can select stuff not in 30 fps

can i change an individual objects material?

[narrow kettle]

#1124245541824499802 message

[long current]

id like to make something emissive without making everything using its texture emissive

[narrow kettle]

I believe you should be able to set an override material, though I am not sure if that can only be done with models that you are using to replace the stock ones or not.

[long current]

stock models

i tried a space map expecting the planet to explode it but actually space looks the best so far

lemme add my mod to mos eisley real quick

i have rough maps for those models

real quick ill try legacy desolation station real quick

0 fps time

[solid crag]

ah shit i tought i saw mark say ops can pin stuff

😦

[narrow kettle]

Honestly, I think that the only real graphical issues the game has with Remix are terrain and anything that uses transparency. Stuff like the glass in the windows on Coruscant are actually rasterized rather than path traced because of that.

[long current]

that can be fixed pretty easily

except the terrain

[narrow kettle]

Yeah, terrain is probably going to require Remix itself to have some fixes done. The terrain Baking does work in some games, but not all. It works perfectly fine in Morrowind, for example and even can be configured to work mostly well in Oblivion and Skyrim, as well as Fallout: New Vegas.

[obtuse mica]

Yeah, Zfighting on the terrain is pretty common, even with some of the Terrain experimentals turned on.

[long current]

the terrain can be fixed

but itd be foreced to have 1 material

cuz you can make the terrain a mesh

probably the best BF2 graphics can get

although it does not like raw bf3 legacy with BF3 sides

i do not know why

[narrow kettle]

One of those maps with the proper materials applied would look downright gorgeous. I think it would probably be possible to optimize them for Remix so that they would run better, though it would be a bit of work. I do think that Remix would actually be able to help with a lot of the issues the mod has had with running into polygon count limits and 32-bit memory limits as well.

[long current]

its pathtracing some things

[narrow kettle]

Odd. I did have some success with Cato Neimodia a while back. Maybe try that one.

[long current]

i only have invisible hand installed rn because legacy is like 20 gbs

rooms are flashing in and out of "rtx"

do you have any idea on this one?

similar things happen with the skybox in vanilla

ok yeah its something to do with that

when i get the player close to a wall it equal rtx

[narrow kettle]

That I am not sure about. It might be a texture or two incorrectly flagged as UI or it might just be a bizarre culling glitch of some kind.

I know that the skybox will disappear temporarily if you look at the sun. It doesn't necessarily rasterize the game, but it does remove a lot of global illumination until you look away from it.

[long current]

ok ive figured something out

whenever the character goes transparent (when the camera gets to close) the rtx works

found the issue in the edditor

remix doesnt like transparency right?

we make legacy maps look better than all others using a process we call incanning

which basically makes the whole map transparent

[narrow kettle]

Normally it is varying degrees of okay-ish with transparency, but for some reason it does not at all like BF 2's method of transparency.

[ashen scroll]

Hey again guys

Yeah for terrain I was thinking about trying to replace the mesh

Seems the easier way rather than waiting for them to fix it, also terrain in bf2 isn't pretty so it should even look better

[long current]

is Remix only able to load DDS through the editor?

if so i quit ong

[narrow kettle]

Sadly, yes. Both the editor and the runtime only support .DDS textures. There is a way to convert textures to .DDS through the ingestion tab, however.

Or you could use an external program if it would be easier. Chainner is a good choice and it also supports converting DirectX normal maps to Octohedral normal maps, which is what Remix needs in order to render them correctly.

[long current]

through an annoying process

i got materials working

what ive gathered from this is that Remix isnt viable yet

the editor is terrible and from this test above, it isnt showing anything i cant already achieve with BF2

with Shader Patch i can give the game PBR materials that achieve a similar and far more performant effect

the lighting on some maps (especially invisible hand) looks really good but its buggy and performs very meh

the map lighting is the main draw of this but with the amount of work required for the very few RTX capable players i cant see this as a viable option yet

if anyone here is willing to work on redoing assets by hand (probably just one map) and getting it all in

as a showcase

id be willing to help

but as a 1 man thing its quite the take

[ashen scroll]

You def have a point

even with remix I do miss certain improvements from shaderpatch as well

and the performance is...not good atm. Though rtx things are known to be demanding

[long current]

its a given the performance is going to be rough even on such an old game, but it just bars so many people off of playing it just for buggy gameplay

ill have to test it on my 3070 and 4070 for better results though

but those are fairly high tier GPU's that alot do not have access to

[ashen scroll]

I tested on 3070, does ok but it tanks with more light sources

[long current]

ah

[ashen scroll]

I made the lamps on hoth emissive

[long current]

I think this tool would be tons better if it used rasterization instead of RTX

[ashen scroll]

the ones from this pic

and added an extra light over the falcon, had to remove it cause frames really dropped

but perhaps it's just me not knowing how to configure it right

[long current]

that looks pretty good for BF2

[ashen scroll]

I like it too! too bad our sides don't work with it for some reason either

[long current]

they dont?

[ashen scroll]

No! so weird, I even tried without any scripts (you know, skinchanger and all that). That will work over time I guess, I suppose we just have to wait till they update it.

[long current]

does it crash or do they just act weird

[ashen scroll]

it crashed

and I tried the rebels, they are our least demanding sides iirc

[obtuse mica]

It's a given that the performance will suffer greatly due to it not just being ray tracing but path tracing, which is a good step further.

It is possible to disable the enhanced lighting as to only get the benefits of DLSS, Frame Gen and the PBRs. But it's also kind of besides the point.

[frosty elk]

I remember an older version of Remix did(kinda) work with Harrisons sides.

[misty abyss]

Because its not fully fixed function

[narrow kettle]

I think that another part of it is that Portal with RTX is using a build of Remix specifically designed for the Source Engine - and Portal in particular. The builds that are used for all other games are less specialized.

[misty abyss]

No

You can literally update the runtime

And get BETTER performance

[narrow kettle]

Really?

Odd that the runtime hasn't been updated by Nvidia themselves by now then. Then again, I suppose it really isn't that hard to do oneself

[misty abyss]

Its supposed to get DLSS 3.5

And get the same treatment of portal prelude with rtx

[obtuse mica]

There's something I don't understand. I have a capture, in the capture distant light seems to be on the left side, as is indicated by the shadows in the scene. But in game the distant light actually seems to be on the opposite because shadows are being cast from the other direction?

What is going on here?

[torpid linden]

You can adjust the light direction and color

On another note, we should decide on what map to remaster first and work on collaborating on it. Preferably one that can best showcase the capabilities of Remix lighting. I was thinking Mos Eisley since it is probably one of the most recognized maps from the game.

[ashen scroll]

I will try the "fake" terrain fix we discussed yesterday

it's much easier in Mos as it's mostly flat

will post a screenie here or just DM you if I get it right

[frosty elk]

When it is ready I can make a really nice cinematic to show off the map

[long current]

Mos eisleys terrain is also most easily faked

Just needs a big ass plane

[obtuse mica]

Yeah, but it seems to be the actual opposite of what I set in the toolkit?

I know it's the right one because the color change does apply. But the direction doesn't.

I am also not talking about the position of the distant light, because that doesn't matter. But the angle you set in the settings for it.

[long current]

i think for a remix mod

coruscant could be a good map

Tatooine has been covered more than enough in star wars media

but coruscant (in videogames) isnt too covered

and it should be fairly simple to get it looking good

if anyone here is good at modelling that would be cool too

[ashen scroll]

Exactly

[ashen scroll]

True, as well

My Coruscant is really old and outdated

Would love to remodel and retexture it all

[long current]

i will play around with coruscant a bit, see what i can do, Remix can generate materials right?

[ashen scroll]

Great!

I will try a fix for mos terrain

[long current]

Yes, if we are gonna avengers team a coruscant id rather not used rezzed croisant, not because yours is bad but because it is limited by BF2

[ashen scroll]

See if we can mask all that popping

It is not my best no doubt. 2019 or so

[long current]

iirc someone posted it in here

[ashen scroll]

Too old 😦 use whatever you'd like and remix materials for sure 😄

[long current]

would you be able to throw together your DS map without any alpha channels?

actually

i might not need that

oh my god DDS textures means i have to convert every texture to PNG then back to DDS

i could kiss nvidia

[ashen scroll]

that sucks

tbh I won't go full into this, just doing some quick tests for now

things might change in the future perhaps it will read our tgas and we will be able to use some of the stuff we already got much easier

don't know if you saw we're updating the sides and I'm doing a few map updates as well (more carefully now, since some things I might just replace using remix in the end)

[long current]

with remaster vanilla stuff?

i am banned from the server from like 4 years ago now so i havnt seen much

[ashen scroll]

nice, launcher cor yesterday it was all dark. Emissive works wonders with this.

yeah the older maps are being updated and ISM3 should be out this year (finally)

[long current]

nice, cant wait to see it

I think the main thing that always bugged me was the weird stance in the animation set but thats fairly subjective, Ive been impressed with the new maps ive seen

[ashen scroll]

yes, Ryan is helping with a few custom anims and now I've gotten pretty good at creating custom animbanks with all the stuff I can find

I also learned how to trim an animation to create something you want from a longer one, it's not perfect but it's way better than before

and thanks, it's a learning curve sadly wish I knew all this stuff from the beginning but oh well 😄

[long current]

Ryan Hank is a godsent man

his animations are amazing

[ashen scroll]

absolutely, very talented

[ashen scroll]

neat 😄

you are just toggling emissive for now right?

[long current]

for now

[ashen scroll]

lmk if you do something else

[long current]

had to make an emissive map for one of them

[ashen scroll]

alright, I'm almost finished placing the cube terrain for Mos, gonna try using full PBR texs to see how that looks too

[ashen scroll]

yep you gotta unless the whole things glows equally

[long current]

yup

[ashen scroll]

what's the difference between

NormalDX and NormalIGL textures?

[livid vine]

The direction of the green channel in the texture

[long current]

OpenGL and DirectX

to switch them u just gotta invert the green channel

in the normal map

[livid vine]

You can easily convert by just inverting the green channel

Easy peaaazeee

[long current]

most games are smart and use DX

[livid vine]

And then you have unity.

[ashen scroll]

I have both (downloaded PBR sand texs)

I should use the DX one then

[long current]

yes

[ashen scroll]

I deleted all layers of terrain (they are duplicated or sometimes triplicated 😨 ) and even though I applied PBR textures correctly the new terrain looks like this for some reason

[frosty elk]

BF2

[ashen scroll]

maps without terrain will have to do for now, like you said. It's buggy af and it doesn't fix it if I do it this way

[long current]

thats with big plane?

maybe try raising it higher and subdividing it

[ashen scroll]

It looks fine in the viewer 😩

[ashen scroll]

I did raise it, but it doesn't look right, idk

could be that it's just a giant cube with no subdivision but I mean... shouldn't it be easier to read for remix?

I give up (for now) with terrain, since most likely I'll have to redo all my captures of these 2 outdoor maps anyways when this is fixed

I'm going to wait to see your results and prob try to change PBR textures of an indoor map like Jabba's Palace

safest bet for now imo

see this worked like a charm (more or less)

@torpid linden 😄

[long current]

all id say is to remove the reflection

but it def turned out well

[ashen scroll]

I remember that's how I pictured when I edited that mesh and added normal maps

it didn't end looking like that at all 😄

[long current]

its possible to add lights in the editor right?

[ashen scroll]

I haven't messed much with it yet but yes

I did asset replacements and materials most part

[long current]

generating textures blasts VRAM

also the generated textures are pretty rough

bro

the generated textures come out as PNG

what the hell is this

[torpid linden]

It usually looks like that in remix toolkit, just gotta load it in game. Naboo is the same way

[ashen scroll]

I didn't get that sorry

ingame looks bad too and terrain meshes/patches overlap

[frosty nebula]

hey all, I've been reading through the messages here trying to get remix to work with SWBFII, I have the GOG version 1.1, GPU RTX 3060
The rtxRemix v0.4.0 release seems to start to work by generating a whole bunch of files, but then CPU spikes to 100% and it hangs... :/
tried the latest build artifacts from github but not 100% sure what to do with these :/
If I put the d3d9.dll and NvRemixLauncher32.exe in the GameData folder the game hangs and then gives a little error window "Get Adapter Identifier failed! Error: 0x800004005", adding the .trex folder leaves the game hanging indefinitely. adding just the contents of the dxvk folder doesn't help and adding them with the contents of the bridge files makes no difference...
all that to say, I'm a little stuck 😦

(sorry for the wall of text)

[frosty nebula]

Thanks to @ivory charm, I got it working. going to try from a fresh install again later and jot down the steps for anyone in the future who might find it useful. and then I just need to get to grips with RTX Remix

[ivory charm]

I believed in ya

[ashen scroll]

Remastered Kashyyyk RTX

Too bad terrain is broken

In the OG my mod looks like this 😄

[frosty elk]

Minus the broken terrain in the blurred textures I think it looks better.

I really like how the lights interacts with things.
It adds more depth that wasn't previously capable in BF2

[solid crag]

is this with pbr?

or just lighting?

yeh it def looks better

[ivory charm]

Idk guys looks just like I remember it as a child! jk

[ashen scroll]

Just lighting

I'll do PBR only for interiors, things we can use and showcase right now

[frosty elk]

I wonder if you can add animated 3D Grass that flows in the wind with Remix.

[ashen scroll]

I haven't seen anything regarding animation when I replaced stuff around, but eventually who knows

[ashen scroll]

exactly, that's what my bf2 mod tries to do 😅

[obtuse mica]

Has anyone here manage to capture the textures for the first person view model?

[long current]

you can get them from the mod tools

[frosty nebula]

First attempts at moding textures. did the floor and pillars. in typical rtx fashion the floor is super shiny but I'm just happy to see something working. it's taken a while to get used to the tools and workflow. still haven't figured out how to make lights work in game 🤔

[solid crag]

Nice!

You can edit roughness value on floor id go to like .8ish to start

[long current]

is that what the RTX tool generated for roughness/normals?

on my end it made it look like stone lmao

[frosty nebula]

Lmao, no I painted those myself. The Ai ones were awful... 😂

I did have to use the Ai diffuse maps tho cos I'm not sure how to convert the dss files to something more universal :/

[ivory charm]

post this in #showcase asap, well done

[frosty nebula]

Just having some dinner than I'll get back on it ❤️

[obtuse mica]

Placed the lights yourself or did Remix actually create those?

[frosty nebula]

I placed them myself in a usda file that I sublayered into the mod file. They show up in rtx remix and appear to work but in game I don't see them

[obtuse mica]

So this is a screenshot from within the toolkit?

[frosty nebula]

no this is from in game, the white on the pillars is an emission texture

I was hoping to have lights on the sconces, but currently no luck getting those to function in game

[torpid linden]

You can add lights to textures in the runtime

In the toolkit, you can add lights to specific meshes and move them around offset from the mesh

[narrow kettle]

If you haven't already, I would recommend placing the DXVK.conf in this message next to the game executable. #1124245541824499802 message

That causes the game to run with a fixed function pipeline, which allows the game to pass along its own lights and makes model and light replacement/additions possible.

[frosty nebula]

I will try with your dxvk file. right now I can see lights in RTX Remix, but they appear in their non instanced positions, so very hard to tell what lights are where. I just had a go at positioning my own lights inside RTX Remix, to apply any sort of spot lighting you need to scale the light to -1 in xyz otherwise you end up with an inverse spotlight, dark in the middle light on the outside. haven't looked at this in game yet. other pain point was not being able to duplicate lights :/

when I create lights in Composer and load them into rtx remix they appear to work but then don't render in the game, also when selecting them in rtx remix non of the properties show up

[obtuse mica]

I actually also still have issues with lighting. The distant light that was automatically created shows up coming from a different direction in the toolkit than from in game. And no matter how I adjust the angle of said light, it still seems to be the same in the game. So I essentially don't know how to say. Change the position of the sun from morning, to noon, to evening etc.

Maybe I'm just too stupid to understand how the lights translate?

[obtuse mica]

I guess I would need to tell the runtime to ignore directional light added by the game? There's no way to just change the directional light created by the game through remix?

[torpid linden]

There is, it's under game setup you check the boxes to ignore game lights for directional, point, spot.

There is also the light fallback you can change to never fallback. When adding lights, make sure they aren't clipping into a mesh or you may not ever see them in game.

[obtuse mica]

Oh yeah I have found these settings too. I have decided to create a replacement light in the toolkit, but encountered a different issue with distant light, being that their angle is inverted to what is set in the toolkit.

[ashen scroll]

Hey Mr. Rob mind if I use your screenshot in a YT video I'm making

I will credit you of course, I'd be an early RTX remix preview, I'll add it alongisde my other captures

[torpid linden]

Does the toolkit support ambient occlusion maps? I am aiming for maximum realism just to push it as far as possible.

[ashen scroll]

I haven't seen it anywhere, prob not

[livid vine]

It's a pathtracer, it doesn't need Ambient Occlusion

If you provide your assets with a heightmap, they're actually self shadowed

[ashen scroll]

I don't know if that's true, you could add AO if you wanted to emphasize shadowing for certain object.

I know cyberpunk has AO and RT and you can turn them off individually

[livid vine]

Yes but cyberpunk is a hybrid renderer

This isn't

[ashen scroll]

Right, but you said it doesn't need AO.

[livid vine]

Yeah it doesn't

It creates accurate AO by itself

It doesn't need a texture to fake it

[ashen scroll]

It may need or not but if it can or cannot do it is something else 😛

[livid vine]

RIght, it can't either

[ashen scroll]

Gotcha

[long current]

sadge

performance is a big factor for me

and AO maps give it AO without having to blast frame rate

[ashen scroll]

I like them too

[livid vine]

Pathtracing is all about having shitty frames in exchange for doing it accurately instead

[ashen scroll]

we must just be old school man

[livid vine]

I use them in all my unreal projects, don't get me wrong, I don't hate on a good'ol AO map

[long current]

even though it doesnt support AO, you could bake them into the texture, which is what i do in Vanilla BF2 anyway

[livid vine]

It's just that a realistic pathtracer doesn't need them

[long current]

yes

[ashen scroll]

Yeah the only problem is moving objects

[long current]

oh yeah tru, i only bake AO into static stuff

Shader Patch is incredibly based for AO though

[ashen scroll]

Yeah I mean, wouldn't someone be able to port that in? it'd have to be a skilled programmer no doubt

also, I know in Cyberpunk Pathtracing tanks performance, however there's the classic ray tracing which doesn't as much

aren't we able to choose in Remix? is it just pathtracing?

I wouldn't mind less accurate shadows if it's gonna playable for most users

[long current]

I honestly wish remix was rasterized as opposed to path traced, or had an option for it

its nice to see stuff ray traced but it doesnt serve a great purpose past that

If im going to play portal to play it im going to pick the original version of the RTX version

[frosty nebula]

yea for sure ❤️

[torpid linden]

There are a ton of settings for the path tracer, there may be something in there

[frosty nebula]

I haven't been able to generate AO on anything so far because of all the overlapping UVs and because of how low poly the models are so I've been hand painting in as much as I can. the other thing that really helps is normal maps to fake the small crevasses and bumps

[torpid linden]

Normal maps are based

Makes stuff look so much better

Couldn't we get some really good results via custom meshes though?

[frosty nebula]

here's a WiP of the Super Battel Droid reTextures

[torpid linden]

As opposed to faking height with the normal maps, do it for real on the mesh

[frosty nebula]

I tried replacing the broken pillars on coruscant but that prevented the game from launching... probably something I broke tbh

has anyone had success with that yet ?

[torpid linden]

I had custom meshes spawned into the game from the asset library

You need like a specific format if I remember correctly. Something about triangulating the faces

#1096847508002590760 message

I remember getting one of the original captured models imported at one point. Got a non animated stormtrooper top put in there.

We should try to make the game interact with the remix API if we are able to do that with the scripting. It would bypass the DirectX intercepts and may even allow us to do animated meshes.

[ashen scroll]

Vid is up (for anyone interested) thanks Rob for the screenshot 😄
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O99VYCxtcic&ab_channel=Battlefront2Remaster

[long current]

I couldve sent you coruscant with the fixed hallway lights!! good video though

nice that people can see this

[ashen scroll]

Oh yeah, would have been good for before and after!

[torpid linden]

I think I got hoth working at one point, I had to ignore some textures. There are only issues with the terrain, not any other textures do that. Clearly that type of texture has rendering issues. This is not a huge problem on Mos Eisley if you hide some textures

This is the best result from me so far
#1124245541824499802 message

Naboo also doesn't have issues with the terrain

[frosty elk]

Could I get that Coruscant with fixed lights?
I've been thinking of making some videos myself.

[long current]

Ye i got u

[frosty elk]

Sweet

[ashen kestrel]

how do i get remix working for battle front 2

new to this and barely got a need for speed game working

[solid crag]

ty kim 🙂

[solid crag]

those files that just got pinned are a good startup point

[frosty elk]

Excellent.
My plans for tonight when I get off work has now changed.

[long current]

someone here mentioned a tool to quickly convert PNG/TGA to DDS

anyone remember who or what it was?

[torpid linden]

Chainner

[frosty nebula]

another new toy to play with... who needs sleep 🥲

[wicked quarry]

Photoshop

[long current]

Requires a plugin or some shit

Afaik doesnt do it out of the box

On 2023 cant even open dds

[wicked quarry]

Yea I know I have the plugin from working on eafront

Back in the day

[muted apex]

The proper method requires the PS plugin.
The quick converters tend to do so in a way that is either incorrect or unoptimal.
Depending on use case, this will either result in incompatible results, incorrect results, or if you are lucky, good ones/autofixed ones

[long current]

the quick converters have been working well enough for me

that chainner thing should work

there wont be a notable difference between a quick converter and PS plugin

[wicked quarry]

I can tell you from expeirence their is

their are differnet compression methods for dds

you can not control this from a converter

[long current]

I mean in remix and with what im working with

[inland haven]

https://www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-battlefront-classic-collection-coming-to-nintendo-switch

[torpid linden]

Oo new maps

[inland haven]

Just the DLC ones

[finite needle]

The shadows the pathtracing makes on the player models is absolutely incredible

[ivory charm]

Mind sharing your rtx conf?

[finite needle]

Sure thing!

[ivory charm]

Thanks man lifesaver! Hasn't worked this well in a hot minute. Soo I went through the deathstar map, it has no native detected light source. So I made a good chunk of the light textures have alpha emissives, as well as imported the DC15 from BF2 2017 EA as a replacement for the base games (looks and works great).

Only issue Im seeing, upon enabling an emissive map it brightens the entire texture instead of just where the lights part is (still emits light normally). As well as the platform in the firing room vanished after my capture lol, was there beforehand

Also Kashyyk is looking way damn better now, still flickering though

Yavin looking spectacular, only obseravble issue is flickering when viewing edge of the map

[real fog]

What is with hud?

[ivory charm]

Ultrawide monitor doesnt play nice

[vivid glen]

This looks amazing! Honestly, this is what I once wanted to see from a shader PTGI for ReShade when I was interested in modding Battlefront 2)

[ivory charm]

Went through and updated my textures, had them flipped lighting now correct, Looks fantastic!

[ivory charm]

Went in and imported the BF2 2017 EA Droid TriFighter, as well as corrected the hangar lighting

@finite needle you able to share your latest .rtx conf once more? I've got some strange orange lighting in all my scenes using the last one you provided. Your latest video of Kamino seems you don't have that issue anymore... thanks!

[finite needle]

You got it! I turned the Fallback Light off in this latest rtx.conf - I change it to on/off depending on the map. It gives me an orange hue in some maps, like Kamino.

[finite needle]

Here's how I change settings depending on the map, I have the Fallback Light to act like a sun when I need it 🙂

(ignore the recording of a recording, I messed up my obs encoder lmao)

[frosty elk]

Looking amazing

[ivory charm]

Lifesaver thanks again man!

[bitter anvil]

is the new version of rtx remix runtime working with swbf2 ? or i need an older build ?

[finite needle]

Newest version works

[cyan lion]

Is the install process just a matter of throwing in the two pinned files? DXVK.conf and RTX.conf I mean

And what's the state of captures? Does it work as intended

[ivory charm]

Nothing special just extract like you would normal. Use the rtx.conf skurtty provided, if you dont have a DXVK use this one

Game has plenty of issues, primarily on maps outside in the sun, flickering textures usually in those areas

[cyan lion]

Thanks for the info. Is it known if replacing the textures fixes the flickering?

[ivory charm]

I have not tried

[ivory charm]

T-1 Day till Classic Collection releases, eager to see if Remix reacts differently!

[cyan lion]

boy do I have news for you

[ivory charm]

Rip I didnt say anything

[cyan lion]

for some god forsaken reason it's DX12???

[ivory charm]

Lies

[cyan lion]

why would you ever need DX12 for this game

I don't get it

I bet there's gonna be shader compilation stutter lol

[ivory charm]

What is interesting is I have not seen gameplay of this re-release at all even though Ive heard creators have recieved codes for it

[cyan lion]

it's probably gonna be underwhelming. Some of the textures looked good in some shots, but they're using AI upscales too it seems

oh no

it really does just look like AI upscaled textures with normal cleaner image quality

like the overall image is clean, the textures look upscaled

[ivory charm]

Yeah that haven't been clear about said topic nor have they pushed it in promotional content

[cyan lion]

the lightsaber hilt...

Obi-wan's face....

[ivory charm]

All fairness both were pretty terrible to begin with

[cyan lion]

but PS2 vs 2024 re-release

this could've been so much better with a bit of ambition

they should not be using AI upscales for as much as they seem to

[ivory charm]

Last thing Ill say, what I dont get is the fact you can still play Multiplayer in BF2 2005 on Steam without any form of special launcher or workaround. This re-release seems targeted at consoles

[cyan lion]

another reason why it should've been more ambitious

not talking AAA modern Battlefront tier but smoother models, hand-made textures, improved lighting

[ivory charm]

Aspyr... not a good reputation, not the folks you want for that type of work

[finite needle]

Argh, I'm guessing there's no workaround for this since I guess these two meshes are related

[ivory charm]

You mean making only one light up not the other? Then yeah no, since some reason thats being read as quite literally two meshes in one

[solid crag]

You could export the meshes into blender,delete original in remix scene, split them and reingest them into same places

I do this a lot to counter culling in games

[long current]

Its not the mesh

Its the material

They both use the same texture

You have to make an emission map in photoshop

[solid crag]

That is assuming that the game will still never use apart of the texture somewhere else that you also map

Having a new mesh will allow you to assign a whole new texture(a copy of original without emission)

Without having to worry about that problem+ it's possible the texture is being taken from the same spot in the texture file which a emission map won't remedy

[ivory charm]

Game indeed upscaled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oouFLnVNrhw

[finite needle]

Ahh gotcha, thanks! I’ll have to study blender more, I haven’t touched it in YEARS, but I’m overdue on getting back into it

[finite needle]

Thank god, atleast they did something to the game rather than just enabling online servers 😂

[ivory charm]

This makes me fear though its definetly going to be DX12

[solid crag]

Steam listing says it's dx12

[ivory charm]

Alright so found something horrifyingly broken. Captured the Death Star's hangar and due to the reflectiveness of the floor, Remix captured the scene twice in both directions. As if what was being reflected on the ground was like actually just a glass window looking to a mirror version of the room above. Due to this the reflections of characters in the distance were captured in this upside down state.

Maybe Battlefront 2 is where Netflix got the idea for Stranger Things 🤷‍♂️ ... or maybe its just broken 😭

[finite needle]

LOL I always wondered what the space levels looked like in a capture

The games come out tonight

[ivory charm]

Eager to see if its really DX12 lol

[narrow kettle]

That is actually normal. In order to create fake reflections in hangars, the geometry of them was doubled and the rotation was inverted so that it would be upside down. If you look at the models in a modeling program or even in the game's level editor, you can see the very same thing.

[ivory charm]

Oof

[finite needle]

Absolute garbage, 3 servers???? 💀💀

[ivory charm]

Is the game indeed DX12, see if Remix has any function?

[finite needle]

I already refunded it, that was awful. The servers got back online but it was terrible, even with view distance at 100 anyone 30 feet away was a moving flash animation of a soldier running 💀

[narrow kettle]

I don't know if it does use DX12 specifically, but it does not seem to use DX9. Remix does not hook at all.

[wind stirrup]

Guys, it literally says on the steam page it's DX12

[ivory charm]

Yes yes but still was curious (if not hopeful)

I suspect the DX12 is due to the UI, pairing the two games, and Multiplayer updates, not actually gameplay related. Probably also related somewhat to 64 bit

[ivory charm]

Also not surprising. They should have taken the Mass Effect LE approach. Upscale the later game, semi-remaster the oldest game

[finite needle]

So disappointed, but I guess they have time to fix it. Online felt goofy, like a VRchat game lobby. It felt worse than the original game

[long current]

This is an engine limitation and will occur in the classic game as well with these player counts

[long current]

Depending on your region most have reported the netcode is slot better

[cyan lion]

Xbox uses DX12 exclusively iirc so makes sense

[ivory charm]

Noticed BF2 seems to fail to launch with the latest Portal dlls for RR

[narrow kettle]

Try using the .trex folder from Portal with RTX, but also use the most recent bridge build or the one before it from the GitHub repository.

[ivory charm]

No success, with either d3d9.dll game crashes on launch

[ashen scroll]

Yeah, tried to launch my working RTX modded copy of the game and it didn't launch

anyone has a fix?

[narrow kettle]

Odd. While the game does indeed fail to launch with the bridge from Portal With RTX, it did launch for me with the most recent bridge build (commit abe2be8 as of writing) and the .trex from Portal.

[ivory charm]

Using Bridge abe2be8-62 and trex from Portal, still fails to launch. Hit play it hangs, then after a minute closes

[narrow kettle]

Strange. Let me upload an RTX.conf and see if that helps any. I doubt that would be the cause, but it's worth a shot.

[ivory charm]

I might need to reinstall its probably just a mess of different builds at this point

[narrow kettle]

Worth a shot if all else fails.

[sudden rover]

I have a fresh install and it won't launch with the latest bridge + portal files

[ivory charm]

Do you have the pathtracing disclaimer bottom left when you launch in BF2?

[narrow kettle]

I do indeed.

[ivory charm]

Wild

What if you send your dxvk.conf, wonder if its that

[ivory charm]

Starting to think something else is my issue, fresh install using your xt and dxvk. Latest bridge, Portals' trex.

I obeserved my rtx-remix folder is in-use by another program even if Omnivesrse if closed

Yeah removing said folder had no effect. Clueless, probably hardware related. Whats your GPU? Is it a 40 series?

[narrow kettle]

It is a 3070.

[ivory charm]

3090 here damn, I thought I could blame it on 40 series 🤣

[finite needle]

you'll need portal rtx's .trex folder, AND the d3d9.dll

[ivory charm]

I did try that combo however Boba here stated he tried with the latest bridge d3dl

[ivory charm]

You have any recent success launching it?

Without the Portal d3d9 game closes on launch. With it, game simply hangs, never actually getting past the inital black box inidicating the game is initializing

[finite needle]

Ahh same here, adding the portal rtx rr files just has my game at a black screen. I guess we really can't mention anything or report bugs as it's not officially out for the runtime - but this runtime update reminds me of what happened last time to battlefront. At one point, some update for the runtime came out that broke compatibility with battlefront, I don't remember what the fix was, but I'm sure it'll be a quick fix like last time

[torpid linden]

It will be quick if you complain about it. The big report sat unattended for a while until the toolkit came out and we started complaining about stuff not working.

Reporting a bug is just a nice way of complaining about something that broke in the program

Speaking of complaining, since the classic collection sucked so much, we gotta show them who's boss. Remix by itself already looks better than the classic collection.

If we are to extend compatibility with lower spec GPUs then interacting with the Remix API would be a good idea.

All this said, if the classic collection does come back from the dead and actually work properly, texture mods could possibly be done with it to a much greater extent than in the original game due to running DX12. Only thing is if the game runs on an engine that would allow it.

[narrow kettle]

I think I figured out the problem. It seems like the "NvRemixBridge.exe" from the Portal .trex folder may be what is preventing the game from loading. You will want to either copy the contents of a bridge build over after copying the contents of the Portal .trex folder over or only copy the d3d9.dll from the Portal .trex folder into your BF 2 .trex folder.

[ivory charm]

That indeed did it I was able to launch with RR active

[ivory charm]

Latest DXVK (dxvk-remix-abc073c-490-release) with Portal RTX d3d9 for Ray Reconstruction is starting to look absolutely amazing especially in space.

Biggest issue remaining is the texture for terrain on maps such as Hoth, where the pure white throws it off making it like a mirror. Other maps like Kashykk are odd as the ground isnt able to be assigned a texture category atm. Overall though fantastic strides are being made, most lights are being rendered automatically (lasers, light fixtures, rockets, grenades, sky) Endor nowadays still runs horribly but way way better looking than before. Once performance is improved we will quickly see a remaster of that map like Redwood National Park lol.

(Also wth is there an asteroid in the imperial hangar???!!!)

[finite needle]

Holy CRAPP, those hanger pics look amazing especially!! Nice work Arrokoth

[finite needle]

Houston we have a problem

Mygeeto was working for me just fine last month. I tried reverting back to remix 0.41 release back in Feb but I still get this.

Can someone send me their rtx.conf file please? Does mygeeto look like this for anyone else?

[ivory charm]

https://tenor.com/view/anakin-liar-star-wars-lying-gif-8634649

dxvk-remix-abc073c-490-release.zip
bridge-remix-abe2be8-62-release.zip
remix-0.4.1-release.zip

Portal RTX's usd folder's d3d9.dll

[finite needle]

You're the man Arrokoth, much appreciated! I must've changed a setting by accident nuking everything lol

[ivory charm]

https://tenor.com/view/this-is-the-way-this-is-the-way-mandalorian-mandalorian-i-have-spoken-baby-yoda-gif-24159898

[frosty elk]

I always love seeing progress on this

[ivory charm]

Once we get GPU skinned meshes, it'll be wild

[finite needle]

Anyone have a sweetspot for the emissives on the lasers?

I remember you telling me Arrokoth, but I maaaaaay have done something wrong lol

[ivory charm]

Why the hell does it look like they are shooting lego bricks

Are you on some form of debug mode? Lots of things looking off

For the emissive stuff I talked about. Its mainly for if you take a capture then select something in editor you want to go glow.

[ivory charm]

https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExanJiaDlmdGo3emNodWFxMDQ4OWpuNGRrdXE3czJsbTdoaWtvOGd2cSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/SslOM6oiSkIYBqVcMJ/giphy.gif
@finite needle @ashen scroll

Harrison while I have your attention would it be possible to have a 36:9 UI mod standalone? This UI stretching is real immersive ya know 😭

[finite needle]

SO GOOD!!

[real fog]

Nice, when we can look our self?

[ashen scroll]

Hey, nice shots

I tried installing the latest files but it didn't run this time ( I mean, it runs, but the game self closes when a match is about start after load)

Would you remind me the installation order that worked for you?

[ivory charm]

remix-0.4.1-release.zip
bridge-remix-1163038-65-release.zip
dxvk-remix-73c5297-493-release.zip

Portal RTX's usd folder's d3d9.dll

[ivory charm]

If anybody would like to partner on upscaling some basic interiors such as Space maps or Tantive IV lmk. Ill happily share my workflow. For anyone doing it on their own I recommend the following tools:

https://github.com/upscayl/upscayl for diffuses using model 4XNOMOS8KSC (part of the extra models serperate download)
For all other material maps, after generating a upscaled diffuse I plug it into https://boundingboxsoftware.com/materialize/getkey.php

[frosty elk]

Is there a video that shows how to edit the textures.
Because I've been wanting to learn how to do that.

[ivory charm]

Can you clarifiy? Do you mean how you replace a texture in RTX, or how you go about upscaling/modifying an existing texture from a capture?

[frosty elk]

Replacing /modifying existing textures

[ivory charm]

Follow this basic guide for replacement of textures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6ljqEiGrWs

Make a capture first and start a project with it before watching the video

[ivory charm]

I have been trying to get something going with upscaling to 4k and PBR for Tantive IV. It still feels very "etchy"/"scartchy" for certain materials like the black floor panels.

I also **cannot **for the life of me replicate the iconic shininess of the white walls as seen in other engines as seen below.

[ivory charm]

Gave it another stab, got the reflectiveness on the white plastic. But going to need to tone it way down. I also feel the normal maps are way too rough, making everything look gritty. So Ill try giving that a pass at being smoother

[ivory charm]

So before I actually redo those normals. This is it with normal strength 0

[frosty elk]

Epic

[ivory charm]

Alright, final product, I tweak this any more Ill go insane. In the last 2 days Ive changed my pipeline 4 times over. Ended up settling with using AI model 4XNOMOS8KSC to upscale albedos to 4k. Then Adobe Substance Sampler to generate Normal/Roughness maps.

#showcase message

[ivory charm]

Dude this game is all levels of godamn wack

@ashen scroll do you know what shader this hallway floor mesh on Tantive IV is using to make it transparent like glass for the fake reflection effect?
Said floor mesh cant be detected by Remix and hence, any remix mesh over top of it gets visually deprioritized making it so the hallway floor is visible through it.

[narrow kettle]

I've seen that before. A lot of objects (lasers, glass, forcefields, etc) in the game that use transparency end up rasterized and render on top of everything else. It used to be that if you enabled automatic sky detection, it would solved the latter issue, although such objects would still be rasterized. I don't know if newer builds have broken that or not.

[ivory charm]

Hiding the texture produces a white blob untextured

[narrow kettle]

There really isn't anything you can do from Remix's end to fix the rasterization issue, but I have had success using the ZETools addon for XSI Modtool 7.5 to remove transparency from any material in a model that uses them in the .msh files.

[ashen scroll]

it's not a shader

reflections in the game are achieved by duplicated and inverted meshes

Also, if you care about my opinion, I think 4k versions of those textures are kinda pointless. 2K should be good enough

and filesize will be more normal, otherwise it'll be like classic collection haha

[ivory charm]

So no, I mean the floor literally in between. Its is its own seperate mesh using some form of transparency. NV_Mark reckoned its some form of shader

I fully understand how the reflections in this game are "faked", what I cant wrap my head around is what the floor mesh is using to achieve transparency. And hence why Remix doesnt pick it up

[ashen scroll]

I don't know, a lot of things are kinda bugged with it. Terrain is still not working right afaik and I had certain meshes not being picked up

there's only one kind of transparency, and it did pick up transparent meshes when I tested it, so I don't know 🤷‍♂️

[ivory charm]

Is automatic sky detection a dxvk or runtime option?

[narrow kettle]

It is a runtime option. It should be in the development menu under Game Setup, then Parameter Tuning, then Sky Tuning. Go ahead and set it to "By Camera Position and Depth Flags". That was what used to work.

[ivory charm]

This would be the result of said options being tweaked

[narrow kettle]

So it does still work. That being said, the only way to completely get rid of that problem would to be mod it out on the game's side.

[ivory charm]

Works somewhat, I dont think its intended to hide any sky texture outright, its more just to hide them from being visible from behind non-remix objects

[mortal axle]

I downloaded the files and put them into the game folder according to the guide and then downloaded the config file. Unfortunately I either have a black screen without any light sources or everything flashes like in the video below (tool and dev settings work fine under alt+x). I do not understand what else I should do. How do I start the game? Via game exe file or nvidia remix launcher? Am I doing something wrong or did I miss something? I made a clean install so no mods btw [EDIT] after reinstalling everything, including the drivers, I was able to start the game normally. Apart from transparency problems and occasional blackscreens it is bootable.

[livid vine]

What GPU do you have?

[mortal axle]

rtx 3060

[mortal axle]

Tried GOG version and the same thing

[narrow kettle]

If you don't have any light sources being passed through, then the game is not being rendered via its fixed function mode. To remedy this, either download this dxvk.conf in the linked message and place it in the same folder as the game executable or set the following launch argument:
-fixedfunction

#1124245541824499802 message

[mortal axle]

Yeah as i said i put everything where it should be and it stared working after a ground up reinstall.The only thing I have a problem with right now is occasional blackscreens and transparency issues.

[narrow kettle]

In the case of transparency issues, try turning automatic sky detection on. This message explains how to do it. #1124245541824499802 message

[mortal axle]

Thanks i will try it

[mortal axle]

same problem even when using different configs.

mos eisley works best apart from penetrating missiles and command posts.

[ivory charm]

Make sure you are using the latest dxvk and bridge builds

Found here:
https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/dxvk-remix/actions
https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/bridge-remix/actions

[mortal axle]

yeahhh I am using the latest version + I have checked various others, but this has not changed my situation in any way. I always have the same problems. I have also tried the various configurations I found here. Perhaps an update will help with my problems :/

[ivory charm]

Use these

At that point you still see issues and are using 0.4.1, then its your GPU

[mortal axle]

thanksss finally fixed my problems using those configs + reinstalling remix 0.4.1 using direct github site.I thought it would never work. Sorry for the spam and thanks again for the help 😉

[ivory charm]

Once one person has gone through the pain of fixing the setup, its best to ensure others avoid the hassle 😆

Had I realized you werent provided these earlier I'd of sentem!

[ivory charm]

Behold my completed take on a Tantive IV PBR mod #showcase message

If anybody would like to test this, let me know! I will be moving back to working on the spaceship interiors now. Plan to release to this mod alongside Spaceship interiors and possibly Death Star interior

[frosty elk]

I wouldn't mind testing it tomorrow when I wake up.

[solid crag]

Did you manually do PBR maps or ai?

[solid crag]

^

[mortal axle]

btw how to run the game with the remaster and ray tracing enabled? The game unfortunately shuts down for me with this combination.

[ivory charm]

Yes they are AI

[solid crag]

I released a new height map gen if you want to check it out for new PBR you work on

https://discord.com/channels/1028444667789967381/1229466981015617668

[ivory charm]

Thank you I saw

[frosty elk]

I've noticed that RTX Remix doesn't like Harrisons Sides mod for the remastered mod.
Or at least any time I play it with that it stops responding.

I do know it didn't used to do that.
It's only started to happen for me around the time Sky Auto Detect was added.

[mortal axle]

At least battlefront 3 legacy somehow works although you cannot use orbital assault.

[ivory charm]

I have begun work on Coruscant, here are some in progress pictures with completed textures. But boy I haven't the slightest clue how I'm going to do lighting on this map...

[frosty elk]

Very epic

[ivory charm]

Can anyone with the latest dxvk/bridge builds confirm if sky tuning is functioning properly? Unless Im using portals d3d9 it does not function. All transparent objects remain visible regardless of objects inbetween

[ivory charm]

Have an issue currently where lights are being culled, aka not visible if in frame. If you look away at a certain angle/direction it will appear. Does anyone know a method/command/setting to turn off culling in BF2? Anti-culling enabled by Remix does not fix this issue, this issue seems engine related.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1029710100014833675/1230779585696759930/Star_Wars_Battlefront_II_2024-04-19_01-17-28.mp4?ex=66348fd0&is=66221ad0&hm=78faa3e27e55540104639d8f86a31c18c97728743bb1bc79d0e71f5cc7e38747&

[vocal bridge]

Hi I'm updating game info on ModDB, does this game still suffers from crashing after matches?

[ivory charm]

It does not anymore

[vocal bridge]

@ivory charm Is it okay if I would upload your configs on ModDB? (With credit of course)

[ivory charm]

Hold off for now there are issues with them

Ill let you know when

[vocal bridge]

Okay thanks

[solid crag]

I dont see any any anticulling functions to pass in command line http://www.secretsociety.com/forum/downloads/BF2Docs/BF2_case_hex_lines.txt

and if remix anti culling dosent work, the only way around this issue ive found is

1. To see whats being culled, while its happening, open runtime menu>dev> free cam. Close runtime tab right after when you click this, and zoom out on free cam you should see whats culling.

2. Find the mesh id in toolkit of mesh being culled, then import that mesh from remix capture folder into blender, export as obj reingest into toolkit, attach mesh to a know non culling object and place it right behind original mesh

[ivory charm]

Great idea, yeah so after nuking my rtx.conf starting my scratch only culling I see now is existing objects vanishing if looking a certain way, Which then leads to light being rendered through.

No longer the issue of lighting turning on when not looking at it

So half of the problem fixed, the other half is not a terribly big deal

[solid crag]

in some areas as ive messed with C&C Renegade i end up just putting a box around the basement or room thats having trouble

that way just no random light can enter if its not meant too

[solid crag]

does that happen in vanilla?

cause if that only happens using remix

seems like a github issue

[ivory charm]

No its vanilla, the other problems of lights culling was Remix. This object culling, its vanilla

[solid crag]

👍

[ivory charm]

Now while I have your attention, since Ive nuked my rtx.conf. I cant figure out what setting affects lingering lights. Shoot a gun, the blaster bolt leaves behind a glow where it impacted.

The old rtx.conf fixed this, not sure what setting. Attached the current and the old rtx.confs, would you have a hunch at what setting it could be?

[solid crag]

could be a texture that got ignored in previous or, this rtx.lightconverter line below

https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/dxvk-remix/blob/main/RtxOptions.md

doesnt say what this does but it is present in old conf, could be that it gets hung as a baked light and not converted in remix? im not an expert in that

rtx.lightConverter = 0xB0E201BA3B11F0BA, 0x46C45B8FEE97CE5, 0xAB664DA7A27FD555, 0xE4FBB7AD81A7B015, 0xF70706D3E7A7ADD3, 0xC2FA26AC7B314453, 0x8F3AECB85987D9B, 0x7315F331F0DDA5E9, 0xF2A148F4AB42B8E9, 0xF5C2022991189E3D, 0xDE0EE93E82D8407D, 0xCE1E03A427A9D188, 0x88D0A4BC6D83AC41, 0x42C368A5C34C0B09, 0x61639CD0324629B6

if you just paste in old ignore list does it go away?

[ivory charm]

Sadly no

[solid crag]

then the only thing to try is add old line to new one one by one 😦

or chunks

then find line

[ivory charm]

Yeah, that was the next plan 😭

[solid crag]

good luck soldier 🫡

let us know what it is

youre doin gods work

lol

[ivory charm]

Alright lights vanishing at a certain direction, such as in this video https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1029710100014833675/1230779585696759930/Star_Wars_Battlefront_II_2024-04-19_01-17-28.mp4?ex=66348fd0&is=66221ad0&hm=78faa3e27e55540104639d8f86a31c18c97728743bb1bc79d0e71f5cc7e38747& are caused by:

rtx.sceneScale = 0.01

Which is like, the wildest thing Ive ever seen

Still working on the blaster bolt lights hanging. Pinned it down to 15 lines, still testing

[solid crag]

🥳

[ivory charm]

Alright Im going with this being my final answer for a solid rtx.conf, and that is the current version with minimal changes lol.

rtx.sceneScale = 0.01 removed to fix the lights not being visible.
Figured out rtx.suppressLightKeeping = True is what keeps blaster bolts from having their light linger. (Should have been obvious)
Added a texture to be anti-culling to fix the odd exterior lighting popping in and out in Coruscant's main hall.

I've tried to a new rtx.conf but there is too many settings its missing causing flickering on maps like Naboo, and missing textures like on Mos Eisley. So for the sake of fps and visuals, best to just keep using what we have for now even if its messy internally and has settings it doesnt really need.

There still is some issues Ive seen. Like in Coruscant no matter if a texture is anti-culling it will still vanish if not looked directly at it.

[ivory charm]

Use the above rtx.conf and the attached dxvk (if needed). As far as credits go, at least throw @finite needle name in there. Since he did a lot of this texture tagging. Im not quite sure who else contributed, so dont worry about any specific others name, not even my own. Just give general credit to something like "active members of #1124245541824499802 "

@solid crag is 2.0 of your height map model out yet?

[solid crag]

no im working on curating the dataset

working on it rn actually lol

[ivory charm]

Ping me when the day comes, I havent touched height maps yet for Tantive IV, which is fully PBR'ed now. I dont like Adobe or any other models approach since they arent simple enough (very rough output). I like your approach, think it works best, simpler the better for a height map

[solid crag]

I will :), glad you like it that was the goal, they just arent the most "realistic" but more stylized, thats what 2.0 is hopefully gonna do better on, and youll be able to pass to the diffusion prompt if you want more stylized or realism.... hopefully

i just wish there were ComfyUI to apps stuff, comfy isnt the easiest thing to set up and learn

but its all new stuff i mean comfy hasnt existed for more then 8 months so, its basically still alpha, heck this whole ai space is lol

im having to work with very little documentation on this stuff but its been fun!

[solid crag]

I MAY be able to just write a script for new model but dont know yet

[ivory charm]

Update to rtx.conf, last thing I was hunting down I didnt mention was blaster impacts not being bright. Tracked that down to rtx.lightConversionSphereLightFixedRadius = 0.5
Also slightly improves command posts being too bright, but a capture can fix that properly.

[solid crag]

Is rtx.lightconversionspherelightfixedradius a light fall back thing?

[ivory charm]

It relates to rtx.suppressLightKeeping

So Light Translation

[solid crag]

👍

Thanks