Need For Speed Carbon

[livid smelt]

do something like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kehGxDO6OuM
smaller and more intensive maybe

for now ur result looks like snow or something 😅

[next sundial]

I could but there is currently no cutout / alpha / mask logic for translucent materials. @turbid shadow would that be a possibility in theory?
I've made the raindrops on the camera (quads) translucent but that results in visible squares. Tried with a transmission mask but I could still see the square at the end of the day

[ashen sky]

Xoxor this other background rain streak detail looks way more realistic than the emissive ones, is this intentional?

[next sundial]

It's no longer emissive and the trails are caused by the denoiser

[mild stirrup]

Icicles are raining

[gusty tide]

windows sounds scared the shit out of me lmao

[ashen sky]

What if they're not emissive? But rather just colored

[next sundial]

Well I have to make them more visible or the denoiser eats them - I can also use metalness and some other settings to make them less visible when light lights them up but that will also result in them being almost invisible when it gets a little darker.

[next sundial]

They are no longer emissive

Surrounding light lights up the rain particles

[ashen sky]

Oh sorry haven't read the previous message

But it still looks off..

[next sundial]

A light influence setting would be great so that they do not get so bright around lights

[inner rose]

is it possible to change texture of rain particle itself? like if u look at og rain drop its kinda brighter on both ends or in the middle of the droplet. (or its just low res AA) So maybe if u could recreate that effect, close up rain wouldnt look like a snow, but obviosly denoising will still eat everything.

[inner rose]

that one is great

[next sundial]

well you guys can play with all the settings .. maybe someone finds something that looks good in all scenarios

[ashen sky]

I think the denoiser is helping a bit

Even if the effect is accidental

Like here

[jolly drift]

I think the particle size is set too high

With extra options you can lower them

[vivid musk]

That's not original particles

[ashen sky]

With rain you also need additional particles like mist or fog plumes (idk what it's exactly called) to give a proper atmosphere. Maybe it's time to discard the original smoke effect from the game and shift it entirely to remix particles

[quaint stone]

I wish the raindrops could be made translucent and with a normal map, that would be perfect.

[mild stirrup]

well here is how the rain looks like in UE5

a rain drops overlay really helps tho

[mellow rain]

Hope DLSS 4.5 RR will help with rain

[vagrant hill]

Can you use mesh replacement for 3d refracting droplets? I do that for call of duty

[next sundial]

I don't think I can spawn actual meshes with the remix particle system

[vagrant hill]

Oh sorry I thought it was carbons particles not remixes. Yea true

[eternal root]

Yeah Carbon’s rain is texture based

[vivid musk]

You can give the particle a translucent material and use a normal map to refract the light in the shape of a drop

[next sundial]

but wont this result in visible squares like here on the camera droplets?

[vivid musk]

Does the translucent material support transparency?

[next sundial]

no

[vivid musk]

hmm....

You could make it thin walled with a low IOR

[next sundial]

whats the point of making it translucent then

[vivid musk]

As long as the camera droplet is facing the cameras perfectly parallel, there shouldnt be any refraction

Except for the part that bends light from the ormal map

[jolly drift]

Well, when it comes to particles, Carbon was pretty decent (well, this is with modded vanilla shaders from my own mod)

[mellow rain]

Hemry once did some particle stuff for Vice City with meshes as far as I understood https://discord.com/channels/1028444667789967381/1396071746209054903

[ashen sky]

We were using PluginSDK for that

So it's all still game side

[hollow delta]

RIP Neville T Pose

hey @next sundial i have a suggestion on the install notes in github

if someone first installed rtx remix mod then the compatibility mod, the notes are not clear about that specific path

for example, i already have rtx remix mod 0.1.2 and the compat mod 0.9 installed, this is a new version of compat mod, it's not clear in github the update path from that

On Installation, you can add a note before step 1 called: "If you only have RTX Remix Mod installed or already have an older version of compat mod installed" then you instruct that you can just paste and replace everything

[turbid shadow]

I think you'd be better off using the opaque material for those rain drops - translucent is more for entering / exiting a medium, which doesn't really play well with the idea of alpha cutouts (i.e. when a ray enters in an 'on' pixel and exits in an 'off' pixel, what does the barrier between those pixels look like?)

[hollow delta]

Also @next sundial i updated and now the game crashes at startup, bridge64.log says that

[23:31:29.347] info: NVIDIA RTX Remix Bridge Server
[23:31:29.347] info: ==================
[23:31:29.347] info: Version: remix-main+e3dee0b1
[23:31:29.347] info: Running in x64 mode!
[23:31:29.348] info: Launched server with GUID e7d72e4d-00d6-48fb-9bad-ec534806ca7d
[23:31:29.348] err: Client (r) and server (remix-main+e3dee0b1) version numbers do not match. Mixed version runtime execution is currently not supported! Exiting...

any idea how to fix it?

i'm running latest version

[next sundial]

Ah I probably forgot to upload the new bridge .. will fix that when I’m at my pc

[next sundial]

redownload the 0.9.3 zip and only extract the d3d9.dll that is next to dinput8.dll and drop it next to NFSC.exe.
Also added step 0

[next sundial]

Adjusting volumetric transmission based on rain intensity

[ashen sky]

https://tenor.com/view/breaking-bad-cooked-cooking-let-him-cook-someone-cooked-here-gif-8305094040107697253

[mellow rain]

Now it's looking proper moist

[mild stirrup]

cant automate the rain?

to randomly rain

[mellow rain]

It rains when it rains in game

[next sundial]

As gabdeg already said, it's already hooked up to game logic. Can't wait for the game to randomly enable rain when I dev tho

[thorn flax]

my game was crashing because of the hd ui

fixed it now

[next sundial]

better than nothing I guess .. but can't make out any of the normal detail because they are very close and aligned with the camera

[unborn brook]

omg bro whats your gpu

[ashen sky]

still looks nice

[unborn brook]

bro this car so ahh.

[turbid shadow]

Another option might be a plane of glass a bit in front of the camera, and then use decals on that to get the raindrops? not sure how that'd wind up looking, but it might get you closer to what you're looking for.

[next sundial]

Oh you mean so that the decal ray terminate on the glass pane? 👀

[turbid shadow]

yeah

decals and particle effects can't cause a ray to defract mid-ray, that only happens when a ray terminates.

[next sundial]

I'll try that!

[turbid shadow]

I think there was something wonky about putting decals on translucent surfaces... unsure, but you may wind up needing to check how that's done on some of Portal's glass decals (bullet holes, blood splatters, etc).

[hollow delta]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_0NMSI8F84

T Posing Neville got featured

[inner rose]

Funny that all it took to make "best nfs rtx mod" is rain. (obv proper car paints and rain droplets on car itself do alot, but come on nfsu2 has way more assets done). Similar situation was nfsmwrtx, where only few things where working and that one also somehow was better for kuruhs and people in comments.

[vivid musk]

Yeah but nfsu2 has a whole bunch of issues and incompatibility issues

[hollow delta]

i mean, if you take a look at the most viral "remaster" videos, they always include rain puddles (see GTA videos for example) because it causes most visual differences

[ashen sky]

Impressive!

[mild stirrup]

yeah but what i meant is puddles

like puddles slowly build up when rain begins

[next sundial]

they do

[ashen sky]

Is it possible to blend oil slick shader onto the road as well?

It's a very subtle detail but idk if it's worth it

[next sundial]

I'd rather not go down that rabbit hole .. using a decal would probably be the better idea

[inner rose]

will u do dynamic weather?

[next sundial]

?

[inner rose]

toggle that would make rain go and stop by itself

[next sundial]

what

I think we already had that conversation, no?

It is hooked up to game logic. If it does not rain, it does not rain

[inner rose]

not with me

[next sundial]

If it rains in the game at half intensity, so does it in remix

[ashen sky]

Hmm... what else do you think is left for the comp mod support? I believe most areas of concern are already covered

[inner rose]

window tint?

[next sundial]

window tint and autosculpt does not work .. but the later seems to be a remix sided thing

[inner rose]

what about making NOS trails brighter like original game, maybe make it emmissive?

Properly working police lights would be nice

[next sundial]

cant properly capture the nitro effect because when I pause the game its gone

[hollow delta]

what about photo mode?

[inner rose]

I found a way how to capture nitro, connect gamepad and assign nitro to steering stick in gamepad settings, press alt+x (while pressing throttle on keyboard) and capture scene while having working nitro (For whatever reason every time I try to capture scene game crashes, so u have to do it)

[next sundial]

Crashing will be fixed in the next release

[next sundial]

world lights are like 80% done I think

and with heavy rain

[mellow rain]

Damn, it looks good

[ashen sky]

Were you able to retrieve the lights using API or hand placed?

[next sundial]

hand placed. This game uses baked lighting so there is no actual light info (besides headlights of cars I think)

[lost basalt]

That’s amazing

Great job

[vivid musk]

I have a crazy idea for placing lights

absolutely unhinged

[mild stirrup]

just needs the HQ vinyls mod

[ashen sky]

Speak up bro

[vivid musk]

Since the game uses vertex colors, you can sample a specific color on the mesh and everage out the intensity to figure out the location and brightness of the might

[next sundial]

Yea … no

[ashen sky]

💀

Understandable

[hollow delta]

Hi @next sundial , is there a reason why the compat mod isn't delivered together with the mod itself on moddb?

if they have to be installed together why not just place both in one place where usually people download first?

[vivid musk]

weak

[next sundial]

I don’t want it packaged. At least not as long as it’s in development.

I also no longer encourage his mod since most of it is already redone in the one I’m shipping + The guy publicly stated that he won’t use my comp mod for his project (even tho he already made a video showing how to install it - quite a twisted personality)

[hollow delta]

ooh, right, the author on moddb is him, right?

[finite wagon]

bleh

[inner rose]

Nitro capture

[inner rose]

For whatever reason assets disappear here, maybe something anti-culling related

[thorn flax]

Looks like a 2026 release

[finite wagon]

it really does

fantastic

[mellow rain]

Hm, the T-Posing is back in 0.9.5 for me 🤔 @next sundial

0.9.3

[next sundial]

Lmao I accidentally removed the code that fixed that 😂
Thanks

[olive anvil]

there are just certain spots in Carbon where the geometry just doesn't load/unload for whatever reason

there's a spot in Fortuna too and that's the other spot where that can happen

[eternal root]

I've always been convinced it's LOD related since consoles don't have that issue

[next sundial]

It’s related to anti culling patches

[wanton flicker]

I saw the mod author's invitation to MODDB on Discord:
https://discord.gg/ZNXXf9ct47

I think he's doing great. His PBR work is solid.

[next sundial]

Hello alt

[wanton flicker]

What do you mean?

I just saw a link to the discord server on YouTube and MODDB.

[next sundial]

And you felt the need to join this server today just to post this? 😂

[wanton flicker]

I went to this server and thought that the author of the mod would be here, but I didn't notice him. What are you getting at, I don't understand you?

[lost basalt]

are you deadass

we can see that you created your acc today

[wanton flicker]

I understand

[mild stirrup]

💀 aint no way

[calm solstice]

banned

[vivid musk]

lmao

[mellow rain]

Bruh

[mild stirrup]

Broski needs acting lessons

[next sundial]

built-in freecam and screenshot mode 🙏
Now I can take proper captures of LODs

[livid smelt]

https://nfsmods.xyz/mod/5956
just use that

[next sundial]

I did previously but it sometimes froze the game and now I have full control how it functions

[livid smelt]

ah

[ashen sky]

Is there a way to force LOD0 in this game? like it just renders the highest quality mesh at any distance

[next sundial]

there should be but that sound pretty bad performance wise

[spare notch]

I had the same game freezing issue too. After running the Tool as admin fixed it. Thanks for the new Remix Update. The game looks & runs great.⭐ 👍

[eternal root]

Why not just use the built in debug world camera?

[next sundial]

Why would I if I can make one myself

probably not user friendly

[eternal root]

It already exists and is well documented on how it works

[jolly drift]

Heyho, great work so far, very great work. I dont know if this is any help but maybe you can make use of this:

[ashen sky]

What is this

[jolly drift]

tool for loading and editing custom-vanilla shaders

its from my NFS ProStreet NextGenFX Mod, but just for carbon

[ashen sky]

Let me try this. Do you have any documentation on how to use it?

[jolly drift]

i can give the compiled one

[vivid musk]

Sense mod try not to advertise NextGenFX every 2.4 seconds challenge (extreme)

[jolly drift]

has nothing to do with that lol

thats why i only posted the source code

because maybe some snippets are helpfull

[next sundial]

A shader loader is already integrated and required to fix up some things

[thorn flax]

Whats with the bodylines of some cars eg carrera gt r34

Even a little a bit on the ccx

White gaps/stripes

[spare notch]

The newest Update runs great so far. Thank you very much @next sundial 🤝

[mild stirrup]

Vents of cars look bad. I wonder what can we do about them? Like theres no shadows

[calm solstice]

another alt

[next sundial]

Please consider getting professional help mate

[night sierra]

gonna need a priest

[vivid musk]

Needs to be beaten with sticks

[heady bear]

How can you tell?

[calm solstice]

won't reveal the secrets here

well, we don't want him to know how we know lol

[thorn flax]

Why does that matter 😭

[calm solstice]

so we can catch it when he comes back again 🤣

[thorn flax]

It isn’t that deep yk

[calm solstice]

😔 it's a pain in the ass dealing with someone constantly evading bans

so pls just don't make it harder for us

[alpine lance]

is this modd on moddb.com?

[jolly drift]

Whats mr bean doin there 😂

[alpine lance]

Carbon looks great and runs better. why wont the game allow high internal settings? The mod works without the game settings set to high.

[next sundial]

settings are forced, why would you even want to increase graphic settings that are completely useless for remix?

[alpine lance]

they arent useless for other remix titles.(Underground and UG2) some settings can change aliasing and minor things like glass! where do i turn the lights on? i know how for other titles.

[next sundial]

trust me, they do nothing / only cause issues. Wdym with lights?

Lights are added via remix replacements and do not automatically translate from game -> remix

[hollow delta]

Aliasing is gone when you use any type of upscaler, which is very needed for this game

[alpine lance]

a headlamp fix. ill search the project.

[wise flare]

May god help us 😂

[jolly drift]

In u2 it was just a workaround from the early days to get remux working on u2

Nowadays those sets are obsolete

[wise flare]

Hey guys is there s way to fix the 3d model for the lady that starts the race? She is invisible. I am using an exe that was provided with one of the rtx mods. I think its 1.4

[humble lance]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1463606590920720435/1488277693400350810/2026.03.30_-_22.43.10.03.mp4?ex=69cc321c&is=69cae09c&hm=f9d966feb778cf738f3534b9892b7f3973b5ca528a2bb16eaeddadea518694bc&

do you guys know how to get rid off or make these smoke particles more transparent?

they pop out of nowhere and they're pretty visible

[hollow delta]

set the quality preset to high

[humble lance]

i did

they're still pretty visible

[hollow delta]

weird

[wise flare]

im hoping someone remakes the particles in the remix api. but i was hoping to do the same. but i believe that those particles need some manual editing because it would probably ruin the rest of the particles.

[fresh glen]

Hey there, I just downloaded the mod and followed the instructions on the github page but the game freezes and crashes pretty much right at the start, it's been some time since I last installed an RTX Remix mod so can anyone tell me if I've missed something?

I run on an RX9060XT 16Gb, Ryzen 5 5600 and 32 Gigs of DDR4

[mellow rain]

I think AMD cards have issues with the mod

[fresh glen]

Oh okay, thought it would be fine because of what's said in #remix-beginners-guide

[covert panther]

Edit particle texture itself. There is a mask on alpha channel which you have to change

You can also disable particles in configuration menu of remix

[steep turtle]

helpp

i followed the guide on github

[olive orchid]

i have a problem with install, can you help me guys?

[wise flare]

Sometimes i had this happen with the bloom so i switched it on and off.

[olive orchid]

its freezing there

[cinder glade]

👀

[low heart]

https://youtube.com/shorts/z8i9-HyfJaU?is=tpF4ij92upgwPBa4

[dark dirge]

having those light ribbons reflect off the ground is like a dream come true

[low heart]

https://youtu.be/Q4UnBbaVD_Y?is=flQoSOvW2KGTc2Kd And it goes even better

[next sundial]

[low heart]

But still no tail lights on for now

[ripe umbra]

New version of RTX remix: https://www.moddb.com/mods/nfsc-remix

[next sundial]

lmao

[ripe umbra]

My Bad internet

[vivid musk]

Hmm

Interesting

Coincidence?

[low heart]

I think something is going on lol

[low heart]

I probably missed all the story, but why the guy who post this is blocked?

Or so that’s what he said

[vivid musk]

Long story short.
Guy asked xoxor to help with the game.
Xoxor made a setting which he didn't like.
He threw a tantrum and left. And then we banned him. Womp womp.

[next sundial]

Well he was banned even before that for foul language and insulting users /using alts, but was given a second chance

[low heart]

Mmm I see. That’s a shame that it went like that, I hope that in the future you will find a compromise to make things work 🤷‍♂️

[fervent shore]

can someone drop me the game but wiith the battle royal mod installed alrdy i wanna play the 100+ races new bosses and new cars

please someone help me i keep getting the mods but then the game says vanilla

[vivid musk]

Here you go, my g

[fervent shore]

help me bro

were do i find the files haha

i wanna play it

[vivid musk]

I don't know.

Look online

[fervent shore]

i got the battle royal mod but it dosnt work man

it brang me here for support

[fervent shore]

send mthe battle royal mod alrdy imn the game will u the vanilla game keeps popping up

[fervent shore]

i wanna DRIVE THIS SOMEONE HELP ME

[remote crow]

[next sundial]

Yes wait

[woven ridge]

rtx rtx Remixrtrt hvgj

'

[fervent shore]

DO U HAVE THE BATTLE ROYAL MOD alrdy pre installed

the game keeps putting me in the vanilla mode

[next sundial]

I said wait

[fervent shore]

cant get the new cars new misisons new bosses new maps i got nothing from the mod

[fervent shore]

thanks

[vivid musk]

This is so fucking funny

[fervent shore]

why gng

im js tryna play the mods on a game i used to love as a kid

HM

[next sundial]

https://tenor.com/view/leekspin-loituma-bleach-anime-gif-13357415461480686305

[fervent shore]

im waiting im waiting

fucking google ai made me get so many mods and them install them ive played the game through 5 times and havnt got to use the mods lmao

[next sundial]

Now that we all calmed down a little, I don't know if anyone in here can help you with your issue

[vivid musk]

Lmao

[ashen sky]

Alright what's going on. You seem to be a bit too erratic, for a guy that just joined this server

[fervent shore]

whos eratic

my caps were on gng

im js looking for the game with the mods alrdy on it cause when i load the scripts into my game it glitches and only uses vanilla. not the mods. ive downloaded so many mods added them and played through the campaign 5 times till completion and got no mods no extra cars no extra races no bmw its vexxing icel

[next sundial]

how is this related to the remix mod

[fervent shore]

google ai sent me here for a game with the scripts alrdy on it so i could finally play it

[next sundial]

you wont get any game files here as said before

[fervent shore]

or a drive link or sum it told me to look for

[next sundial]

no

[ashen sky]

We don't allow piracy or any kind of discussion about it here. You've been repeatedly asking for files around and that's against the server rules.

[fervent shore]

yh yer js all neeks 100% obese and riddled in disabilities

[ashen sky]

Left the server

[next sundial]

this does not fit in with the way he behaves

[ashen sky]

Sorry for the trouble lol

Their initial message was kind of vague and thought they meant they needed help with the carbon remix with other mods. But straight up asking for game installations and acting like a weirdo just isn't right

[mellow rain]

Least weird Discord member

[ashen sky]

@mellow rain is it okay if I DM you? 👀

[mellow rain]

Dang, I'm in trouble. Nah, sure you can DM

[next sundial]

uh

[lost basalt]

why everyone sending his mod here now

[next sundial]

alts

[lost basalt]

the guy above is not his alt for sure

mb he bought an ad lol

he just asks for someone to send these here

[wise flare]

im not an alt.

he personally asked me to do it for him

[mellow rain]

Everybody be having their own Discord these days

[vivid musk]

Do everyone a favor and just not do anything he tells you to related to this server

[wise flare]

i mean the guy wasnt able to come here becaues he broke rules i get it but then are we not allowed to post the link to his mod? i did what was done in any other thread of this server.

[calm solstice]

generally when someone is banned, their work isn't to be actively discussed here either because it invites drama

i'll leave the showcase post up and one link to his moddb page, but i will be removing the discord invite link

further posts about his mod will be deleted