Call Of Duty 1

[solar raven]

i have fixed most of mission 2 and 3, marking decals textures correctly and stuff

even experimented with adding lights to gernades, muzzle flashes from weapons and the sky

very nice lighting effects with little to no actual mods

[trim mirage]

Theres a lightpost that isn't marked which I marked on my config, when I go to checkmark add light it isn't lighting up, but muzzle flash and stuff show light so I am going to go and delete my hash id and see if that fixes it

[solar raven]

trying r_lockpvs 1 now...

now my weapon disappears sometimes

wtf

i tried these as well

[trim mirage]

@rancid crescent I see you added color to the grenades explosion, how'd you do that? Pretty cool!

[solar raven]

rtx.conf edits maybe? I want to add colours to the muzzle flash as well

[trim mirage]

Yeah I threw a grenade and there was an orange glow on the wall when it exploded

[solar raven]

nice!

Okay maybe it was emissive property? You saw me add a light to a explosion texture

Will have to see

[trim mirage]

I did try changing the emissive intensity to 20, here's the result, I'm testing my config right now as checkmarking add light to texture on those light posts doesn't add light with tadpoles config

[solar raven]

What light posts? Can you take a screenshot of them?

[trim mirage]

The one in spawn of mission 2, the same one I was fascinated by, I uploaded a few days ago, and its just to the right of my camera

[solar raven]

are you for real???

captain Price moustache is a grouped texture

[white falcon]

Christmas candy moustache?

[solar raven]

the mission after chateau is VERY cpu heavy

im getting like

24 fps

[solar raven]

Some of the next missions have wide open areas, I even disabled r_nocull to get some extra fps but I think the games renders the whole map

And culls everything behind your field of view

[rancid crescent]

Yea you can add light option that bounces between yellow and white. It's a thing from portal but I can't remember what it was right now

[rancid crescent]

R_nocull does something for you? I can't see a difference

[solar raven]

It does have an effect when I have it on (gets very laggy in dense areas)

But no visual benefit with it either on or off

[rancid crescent]

Does it affect your hashes when you turn it on and off?

Might be part of a clue

I think it's that plus something else myself

[sacred birch]

if i use r_lockpvs 1 in campaign some parts of the map doesn't load

do i have to do anything else?

[rancid crescent]

That's what it does though. It's locks culling for our current view. It's a good trick but useless

Shows that's the hash instability is based on culling as well as it's stable once your lock the culling

[solar raven]

I did not check it at that time

Let me try it now

[rancid crescent]

right faffing around with commands i got 1 rock solid hash on an xmodel. its a bunker and you can see i've attached a massive picture frame to it. annoyingly you can see i have 6 of them in the map and all 6 are instances. I was hoping they might share the same hash and i could use it as my anchor. i'll keep digging

seta r_cullBmodels "0"
seta r_cullXmodels "0"
seta r_lodscale "0"
seta r_lodViewDist "-1"
seta r_lodbias "-1"
seta r_nocurves "1"
seta r_novis "1"
seta r_nomipmaps "1"

these got me here

can we swap shaders for all xmodels to use what our stable hash uses? maybe

my stable 1 hash 😛

[solar raven]

The m1a1 carbine has stable hash (when it's available as a pickup)

[solar raven]

Kilroy was here

[rancid crescent]

lol oh yea

[solar raven]

lockpvs breaks campaign missions

So not using that lol

[rancid crescent]

thats just to visualize whats culling

thats interesting, if you turn off draw world xmodels remain and they become rock solid stable r_drawworld "0"

until they move (if they move) but we know why that is

[solar raven]

Are you specifically testing mp maps only?

[rancid crescent]

yep

right so you can spawn a model with a map.gsc and if its stable you got yourself an anchor for the whole map

means you need to set up an rtx mod and edit the gsc for each map to support your anchor mesh. I'm guessing i can just export a ball with a custom material and have as many anchors as i need to work with

copy this from the maps files, add these lines, pick any xmodel you like and go into your modified map and you got a stable (spinning in this case) anchor

you can do this for single player as well

so if we can get a server to host our maps we should be able to shoot each other 🙂

tomorrow i make a bunch of anchor meshes to stick our replacments on using codemans blender tools
https://github.com/CoDEmanX/blender-cod
hell yea

[severe lantern]

@solar raven when you have some time, I'd like you to test CPU load on a new build

~~https://github.com/whisperglen/QindieGL/actions/runs/13589217777/artifacts/2670623986~~

[solar raven]

I'm available but there's no electricity on my side. Will try at my earliest

[severe lantern]

Sure, no problem

[solar raven]

Seems like r_nocull 1 was causing a lot of CPU load

Disabling that lowered it quite a lot

[severe lantern]

strange. I'll keep an eye out for that when browsing the dissasembly

[solar raven]

It's like large open maps that do it

Not every map, I've seen my FPS plummet down to 24 lol

And the CPU was loaded

No activity on the GPU side, definitely some issues

[solar raven]

Page 404

[severe lantern]

https://github.com/whisperglen/QindieGL/actions/runs/13589217777

This should have the zipfile at the bottom

[solar raven]

Yeah I saw it, but I still can't test it lol

[severe lantern]

oh I see, lemme try to figure it out

[solar raven]

@severe lantern is it possible to get stable hashes this time around 👀

[severe lantern]

nope, did not have progress there

I don't know how to get stable hashes with ingame variables, so I was thinking to modify the exe

I have an implementation in mind that I'm doing in wolfenstein, and then maybe I can adapt that to CoD, with function highjacking

(I already have an implementation in wolf, but it involves drawing all geometry and I want to optimise that)

[solar raven]

This game does use portals, like RTCW

[severe lantern]

yea, probably, but I don't know how to use that..

[solar raven]

happy to report that the new qindieGL update has less hit on the CPU

from the powcamp mission atleast where i was having issues

[severe lantern]

If you play other maps, where you observed high cpu load, let me know if it's better. i.e. is this an acceptable level of performance, so that the game can be played?

[solar raven]

its using 20-25% of my cpu, that's acceptable since before the update, my cpu would ramp up and cause major FPS drops

it didn't happen now

no more fps drops

[solar raven]

this is weird

[trim mirage]

What did you guys mark the vehicle texture as? Because it flickers white at times especially when it was in the shed and as you can see, part of it is transparent

[solar raven]

There's a car texture I tagged as decal texture but beneath it is a cubemap texture that works inside remix

Hold on are you available? I can try to stream to show you

[trim mirage]

Not yet but I did mark the vehicle texture that was individual

[solar raven]

stable on my side but it's a hacky workaround

[solar raven]

this here is just crazy

[rancid crescent]

woo my prop script placment anchor technique (tm) works!

[rancid crescent]

its stable as well, i placed a bit sky dome on it and it never went away 🙂

[untold solstice]

oh cool u got this game working

👍

[light sky]

what's the chance to change weapons and animations?

port something from like cod ww2

https://youtu.be/Au0UAgnxa3o

[solar raven]

do you guys know what this is?

[untold solstice]

u can already but porting is a pain

bo2 mp40

[light sky]

that's on the regular right

meant with rtx remix

[rancid crescent]

just trying to create a series of boxes for anchor points to bind my mesh replacements to. but the bloody converter keeps crashing as you've saw

currently using a coal pile 😛 its next to the flag

[untold solstice]

does rtx even do animations yet

and it would be very game logic dependent too

[solar raven]

@rancid crescent do you reckon we can add more foliage using the grass you made earlier, really want to see that with the anchor mod

[untold solstice]

it's probably better to use the mod tools to port the gun like i did and then change the texture or mesh with remix after, it would also act as a fallback

[untold solstice]

and this is from over a decade ago 😐

[rancid crescent]

i need to create anchors first but my mod tools are crashing when converting

[light sky]

so animation on og game

for some reason I thought it was easy to add animations to stuff

[untold solstice]

also i came across this msg when reading about the progress on cod1 just recently, this is one of my github repos 😛 and it's for the very first patch of cod1 (cod1.1) so it'll crash on steam or 1.5 etc

i don't really do anything with it anymore, some other ppl who are still active with cod1.1 do so yeah beware (also those guys seem to have a private binary vs the code i opensourced so ymmv)

[solar raven]

Do you have experience with cod 1 rendering shenanigans by chance?

[untold solstice]

yes

[solar raven]

Great, I suppose you are aware of the issues we are facing as well?

I'd get down on making a mod, with custom hand made PBR materials etc. and assets but I really can't replace models

Due to unstable hashes. It's as if they change each frame on skinned meshes more often

[untold solstice]

nope

i didn't even know u guys got cod1 working until 1hr ago

[untold solstice]

https://youtu.be/15dgNHnrA2s

2014 damn time flies

i later fixed that flickering issue

[solar raven]

Lmfao

Is this still up?

[untold solstice]

no lol

i havent done cod1 stuff in yrs now

[solar raven]

Imagine running YouTube on a mesh while having remix

That would be amazing

[untold solstice]

well i think with remix it would be easier actually

since it already replaces / translates the entire render backend u could just put in chromium (CEF) and render to texture

[solar raven]

Remix API can do that I think

[untold solstice]

"back in the day" 2014 xd

i used awesomium

but its old and deprecated etc

[untold solstice]

well idk if u followed cod2 progress

but they had same issue but

this is a bit different no? because u use a gl wrapper

won't that make things even more unstable 😛

[solar raven]

Trust me it's very unstable

But it works just enough that you can play the whole game

But you can't make a mod with replacement models yet

The viewmodel, character models and just about anything with animation changes hash for that mesh each frame

Moving the camera around changes hash too

And add portal system on top

💀

[untold solstice]

i havent really dug deep into how remix calculates these hashes or determines them but do wolfenstein:et / quake3 derived games have same issue?

[solar raven]

Yep

Idtech3 has such issues

[untold solstice]

tbh if the gl wrapper is relatively stable and doesnt do anything and just maps to dx, then that isnt such a problem

im just vaguely remembering how q3/cod1 draws things and wouldnt the big problem be that it kind of just sends off "meshlets" to the API

[solar raven]

I've read about the engine

It does each task in VM, like each stuff has it's own managing system

[untold solstice]

from the portalling engine in cod2 what i remember, i think there's like sort of mesh per leaf node

[untold solstice]

ye but thats upper level

codsp/mp_s.exe -> cgame -> CG_DrawXXX -> RB_BeginFrame -> ... loop draw all calls

i think its because its using this unique portal engine and doesn't generate meshes statically

[rancid crescent]

lol meshlets 😛

[untold solstice]

not meshlets in the sense of mesh shaders (new tech) but kinda the same

because they divided the world up due to the portals into smaller meshes so "meshlets"

[solar raven]

We have the hardware power now to render almost everything in a single map, but adding path tracing on top is a huge performance hit

[untold solstice]

yes but not in the obsolete way that they render primitives 😛

[solar raven]

We can start with sorting the culling problems at least

Mainly with the hideous frustum culling I noticed

Everything behind the camera unloads

[untold solstice]

because the way most newer games solve this is by using different drawing techniques and using different hw culling e.g Hi-Z buffers and stuff

[solar raven]

I can hook the game up in disassembler and see what functions handles the culling I think

[untold solstice]

u can mostly map it 1:1 to q3:arena or wolf:et source

also if u need more debug info http://debugging.games

get the mac build

[solar raven]

Since R_nocull barely works for anything that's out of view

[untold solstice]

should have more debug info

sadly the lnxded (linux) doesnt have a cgame only game because its a server gg

[untold solstice]

https://dg.getrektby.us/_files/Mac/[MAC] Call of Duty [2004-04-21].7z

@solar ravengl 👍 i can't test anything i don't have a rtx gpu 😛

[lusty sluice]

just rewrite your GTX to an RTX 😛

[solar raven]

I was just searching this

https://dg.getrektby.us/

[untold solstice]

well.. i wonder if using traditional methods e.g non-hw voxelization raytrace/raymarching with lower samples/rays or even emulating that one thing that's missing/not supported VK_KHR_ray_query or just stubbing it with fake data i could maybe get my GTX card to run RTX remix 😛 maybe on somewhat reasonable framerates too because the polycount is low on this game

[lusty sluice]

we tried using older drivers that still has VK_KHR_ray_query to no avail, but stubbing it may work

performance would be horrible on anything less than like a 1080 ti, and even that you'd be running maybe 360p internal res lol

[untold solstice]

quake 2 RTX does run ok on lower res and i've played cod1 for most of my life in 1024x768 anyways so good enough for me 😂

[lusty sluice]

if you do pursue this i'm definitely interested

[untold solstice]

would be cool and prob would do this if it was 10 yrs ago

but now nah

i mean whats the worst that failing VK_KHR_ray_query can do, just return a non-hit aka black/no light or shadow info

which is already extra info because it's rays cast inside the shader

iirc

[solar raven]

what gpu do you have

[untold solstice]

1070

[solar raven]

i really wish nvidia drivers were good on linux as they are on windows, you could probably run RTX Remix with AMD radeon gpus

using RADv drivers

[lusty sluice]

there is the other version of ray query? that Q2 RTX supports for 10 series GPUs

can't recall the proper name

but Remix has partial support for it. really, modifying Remix to use that in all places would probably work better than trying to spoof it

[untold solstice]

ye true its the only reason q2 rtx works at all, its before it was standardized i think in the transition phase

[untold solstice]

well now that u say that maybe mesa already does this if u enable some obscure config option

[solar raven]

but that is for DXR, VulkanRT works differently no?

[lusty sluice]

don't think so

Remix has partial support for it already

we did get further with it, but Remix relies on the other one too much in hardcoded places

Mark confirmed this

[solar raven]

perfect

searching for where it handles geometry though

[lusty sluice]

#1256601267187220520 message

[solar raven]

im just happy to see there are debug symbols available

probably close enough

[untold solstice]

do a xref

and go up a few funcs

or if u just want to disable culling only models

[solar raven]

technically i want culling to be removed behind the camera

so that it stops unloading objects when facing away

[untold solstice]

ye so if u just disable any culling

e.g add a ret in the main culling func

it'll work

so if u click the func name R_CullModels then press x (xref)

and find where its being called from

[solar raven]

oddly enough there's one xref

[untold solstice]

it should be a more higher up func

i think it might build a list first and then when walking the (d)pvs it will check

so potentially just nopping any XXX_Add funcs could work

[untold solstice]

sadge

but maybe just hooking that one func and returning false/empty could work 😛

[solar raven]

i was thinking more of a patch file

[solar raven]

I got lost when actually working on the SP executable. Will try next time

[trim mirage]

Did the bundled textures issue ever get figured out yet?

[solar raven]

@trim mirage

[untold solstice]

i think env_combine might be just shader parameter not texture combining

also which texture combine specifically?

if its lightmaps

cod2 has a cvar/dvar r_lightmapMerge

[solar raven]

anything

tablelamp texture combines with soldier uniform

[untold solstice]

hmm idk then

[solar raven]

or a grass texture combining with Captain Price moustache

[untold solstice]

ye thats odd idk why it would do that

maybe dynamic lights idk

[trim mirage]

Yeah like some of the lamps are bundles with other things and I want to add lights to the lamps and wall lamps

[severe lantern]

try seta r_optimizeTextures "0"

[solar raven]

decided to work on some environment textures

game is good enough to start making real assets

@untold solstice i think i found r_CullModels 👀

this is from codSP.exe

[trim mirage]

Lamp textures are now seperate!

[solar raven]

how

[trim mirage]

seta r_optimizeTextures "0"

[severe lantern]

seta r_optimizeTextures "0" in config file

[solar raven]

Thanks

i'll figure out culling in meanwhile

[trim mirage]

Time to go back to mission 2 and add light to those lamps near spawn

[untold solstice]

cant u just use https://polyhaven.com

[solar raven]

CC0 textures are for the weak but i do admit they look nice

[untold solstice]

weak?

i think they're amazing

[solar raven]

Twas a joke, i just like making my own assets

😦

[untold solstice]

ah ok

i understand

https://tenor.com/6h7O.gif

[solar raven]

btw look at the message i sent above

pinged you as well

[untold solstice]

v36

[solar raven]

uhh

wdym

[untold solstice]

go ingame in cod1

(mp)

and type v

then 3

then 6

[solar raven]

why not single player?

i haven't tried the MP version of cod1

with remix

[untold solstice]

nvm then ill spoil the joke

because its a quickmessage

and everyone who has like insane amount of hrs on cod1

knows these shortcuts and what they make ur character say

v36 = "Took you long enough!"

v31 = "Yes sir!"

v32 = "No sir!"

v37 = "Are you crazy? / Bist du verruckt?"

the rest i dont remember from head

[solar raven]

damn i got baited, good one though

[untold solstice]

v34 = "Sorry!" iirc

@solar raven

😄

[solar raven]

so i just do this?

[untold solstice]

no

a call is 5 bytes

so u gotta nop 5 bytes

enable instruction bytes visible in ida

i think under Menu -> Options

[solar raven]

ah okay

[untold solstice]

also ymmv idk what that func does with the stack

it seems to add esp, 8

for cleanup

so it might crash 😛

[solar raven]

one can try atleast

🤷‍♂️

[untold solstice]

if its not cdecl/stdcall but usercall that add esp is caller cleanup and u gotta nop that too

[trim mirage]

@solar raven How did you fix the burnt wood? It is marked as decal but isn't rendered properly

[solar raven]

i marked it as decal but it never looked good

idk how to fix that

lowkey just glows, might be a placebo effect

[trim mirage]

Probably acting like a water texture because its animated

[solar raven]

tag it as sky 💀

i have seen animated textures work if you tag as sky texture

so strange

[trim mirage]

Okay, and the water for me is still

[solar raven]

tag it's two textures as sky

you will see it work

but this solution is arbitrary

HOLY FUCK what did i just do

lmfao

it's like the game is telling me stop 😭

there was another call func so i just nopped that

😔

[untold solstice]

instead of nopping u might have to nop the specific if check inside it that doesnt add it to the list maybe

[solar raven]

it's late at night, I might have just made everything get culled or ignore their draw call with this nop

So I'm gonna have to try tomorrow

I will look for other functions instead and experiment

[trim mirage]

Anyone else have this weird flickering on the lights?

[solar raven]

which mission?

technically this shouldn't be muddy but oh well 😆 looks amazing

[severe lantern]

Could those be flares? Check r_flares and cg_coronas . Are they 0 ?

[solar raven]

new grass texture, works well with displacement to mimic grass blades

[trim mirage]

Here's an interesting thing, the animations aren't choppy in multiplayer

[trim mirage]

Chateau

[trim mirage]

I'll have to edit in the cg_coronas but the flare was 0

[solar raven]

they are smooth in single player for me

[trim mirage]

What in tarnation did you change?

[solar raven]

i have no idea but they are smooth

[trim mirage]

I really like the dirt!

[trim mirage]

Adjusted the fallback light radiance a bit so now you can have fallback light during nighttime missions, probably will have to lower sky brightness
Values are: 1.6 2.7 5.9

[solar raven]

We can add different fallback lights for each mission, I just have to work on it 👀

Might be able to solve the issue

[trim mirage]

I wish it could be mission dependent but I was messing around with the values to see if I can simulate night time lighting

[solar raven]

You did a good job, night moonlight is mostly faint and dark

But enough to see your own shadow in full moon

👀

[trim mirage]

😁

[rancid crescent]

For each map spawn an object with gsc scripting and attach a sky. I do it in my cod2 mod

I've set it up so you can swap lighting by switching the anchor mesh to the sky with a hot key.

You can attach distant lights and everything to that anchor mesh
https://youtu.be/7mohaNhOKVk?si=M6fLSXr39UmKSuGU

You can even do mesh replacement. You don't need stable hashes you need a few choice stable objects to anchor your new stuff to

Theres no way you really wanna use low poly 2003 meshes with pbr materials, gonna look like Minecraft with a shader pack

[solar raven]

How about a skydome with rotating HDRi texture

Because I know sometime ago you guys did that

It looked pretty cool

[rancid crescent]

Yea it works, kinda. You can't mark it as sky, when you do it disappears and the old sky is rendered

I'm kinda stuck though. I need to export an xmodel with the mod tools to use as my anchor but my converter keeps crashing

I thought it was because I was using steam version so installed off the disc and that one also crashes. It won't even run the supplied models

[solar raven]

What are the mod tools, could you maybe write a tutorial on how to set up anchors for replacements?

Since these anchors that we add in ourselves have stable hashes and can be used to place props

[rancid crescent]

Yep, you just edit your map.gsc file with a spawning model like this
#1230255464789311658 message

The mod tools can be found on moddb as well as on the original disc in the "extra" folder

[solar raven]

I want to place the culling models back in using this method if I can't Reverse Engineer the damn function. Still pretty mad about this though

[rancid crescent]

You don't wanna be messing with that. Keep it all on anchors and hide the old stuff

Hell attach a capture of the old map onto an anchor

[solar raven]

Just throw in the original BSP

Fully loaded

[rancid crescent]

I'm capturing USD and editing the whole thing in max. Done it loads of times already

Carentan_blah blah.usd

[solar raven]

Hide everything from the original map and just load the whole map back through remix

[rancid crescent]

Yep

[solar raven]

Sounds feasible

[rancid crescent]

Clean, simple to model and edit

[solar raven]

Now I wanna do this

You gave me hope at working on something

[rancid crescent]

Be we need unique anchor meshes

And the converter just crashes

[solar raven]

ah damn

[rancid crescent]

I've been at it all weekend, other people aren't having such rubbish luck

Do you have the disc version?

Pop the disc in and install cod tools from the extra folder on disc 1

[solar raven]

I have the disc version

[solar raven]

Alright

I should let you know when I transfer the cod tools over

[rancid crescent]

Run "converter.exe". After running go to (game directory)tools/game/xmodels and if you got something in there it works for you. If it's empty welcome to hell

3 days and it's all I've thought about. it's midnight Monday morning and I'm ranting about it online. Bloody converter.exe!

[solar raven]

Now it's personal

https://tenor.com/view/rage_rat-rage-anger-grr-fist-gif-22836324

[rancid crescent]

Cod2 tools work like a dream

If I can work out what to change in the hex file thing to get xmodel6 converted to xmodel5 we can use that

[solar raven]

https://www.moddb.com/games/call-of-duty/downloads/call-of-duty-1-mod-tools-no-installer-version

https://tenor.com/view/old-man-gif-4679601

Damn it's been that long?!

[solar raven]

first order of business would be to add trees and add more foliage using anchors, no alpha blended textures for leaves would be good or is it too heavy?

[trim mirage]

Once we start using remix app, will we be able to change the lighting brightness for each texture that has add light option enabled so that way each light isn’t universally bright? Hope this makes sense

[solar raven]

I really don't think it's supposed to work that way, usually you place lights within remix and not tag textures as add to light in the game

And the default light color added through remix stays the same color

Unless light color could be calculated/inherited from the average pixel colors of the texture

without the need for us to edit

[trim mirage]

So a workaround to changing brightness to all the lights is to untag the add lights so we can implement our own brightness level to certain lights in remix app?

[solar raven]

Yes

[untold solstice]

they're not compatible

[trim mirage]

So freakin dope!😍

[rancid crescent]

Damn, cheers mate

[solar raven]

shiny

[white falcon]

Nice tin can.

[untold solstice]

unironically with a pbr shader without rtx this would've looked just as good

it's because this old ass game doesn't have any cool shaders (a lot of old ARB assembly shaders tho) that's why the RTX looks like such an upgrade which it is

but even with just a IBL cubemap reflection this would've looked amazing too 😛

[solar raven]

there's one annoying cubemap texture underneath the path traced reflection

i can't get rid of it

messes with the actual reflection

[severe lantern]

there is a setting in QindieGL ini to disable cubemap support: GL_ARB_texture_cube_map. The game does see it being set to disabled, but I don't have a save with that car to test if it works. Maybe you can try it?

Also I'm releasing that version with the proof of concept for stabilising the hashes. They are not stable, but they are better. When you have time I would like you to test it and see it it works. https://github.com/whisperglen/QindieGL/actions/runs/13676239220

Grab the QindieGL.zip, and copy the .ini file too as it contains the file offsets to override the sortSurfaces function. [game.CoDSP] is new in .ini, make sure you exe is called CoDSP.exe

ProjectionFix = 1 keep this to 1 since this is handled better (restore z_near to 4: in wolf this made gun scopes not completely drawn -not sure if there's an effect here)

Set TerminateProcess = 1, if CoDSP.exe remains running even after exiting the game (check TaskManager I've had even 3 of them running 🤦 ), this tries to kill it

[solar raven]

Ohhhh

Updates

I'm going to try when I'm on PC, currently I'm not

[solar raven]

@severe lantern

looks a lot better now

[severe lantern]

yes! 🥳

weapon is still not stable when reloading.. but better than the noisy mess before

[solar raven]

oh yeah this fixed it

[severe lantern]

more good news

[solar raven]

nice reflections

@severe lantern odd 🤔

[severe lantern]

is this new with my fix?

[solar raven]

i don't know

just noticed it now

[severe lantern]

could that be the sun flare?

[solar raven]

there's a cvar for it?

[severe lantern]

i've seen stuff like that in heavy metal..

le me search

[solar raven]

pistol has stable hash, but only when no animations

[severe lantern]

lots of r_sun glare/flare/blind but no good option to just disable it

[solar raven]

okay, im also seeing no weird RESTIR GI artifacts where it placed colored light blobs on fast moving objects

[solar raven]

there are no instances 💀

so if anyone wants to replace the same light in all rooms, they have to manually place them, one by one

[rancid crescent]

wow loads more stable in united offensive, awesome stuff!

[solar raven]

I still want to try your anchor modding method, cuz I can't stand the horrible culling issues

[rancid crescent]

yea thats how nvidia have recommend we do things in the past as well. gives you loads of options

[rancid crescent]

have you managed to give that convert.exe a run?

mine never finishes converting even the default files

[solar raven]

I have just pasted the tools folder in my root directory...still need to try. Documentations didn't even give a clue for what I want to do

[rancid crescent]

oh hang on i got you

double click that

it'll run the old xmodel_export meshes and convert it to xmodels (if it likes you, mine hates me)

and if it works this folder will have something in it

unlike_mine.meme

[solar raven]

Not on my PC since I'm heading to bed. But this method is where I want to fully start developing the mod, If we couldn't figure out how to block the camera frustum culling through assembly code (disassembler)

[rancid crescent]

oh activision could shut down your mod with that just a heads up. cant be modifying the dll files

[solar raven]

game .exe modification is a no go?

[rancid crescent]

yep

this guy plans to release something 😛

[solar raven]

but I could also just write instructions on how to do it yourself

Won't that be allowed?

[rancid crescent]

this is the line
New Game Materials shall not contain modifications to any COM, EXE or DLL files or to any other executable Product files.

so you cant modify the dll but i guess you could tell others how? you dont need to though honestly. just get xmodels exporting and we're done

custom map.gsc files with loads of custom anchor meshes under the maps. add your mod to a server and play with others online 🙂

[solar raven]

I mean that's a nice work around but wouldn't loading the entire map be too resource intensive?

[rancid crescent]

as usd in remix? no thats super fast aint it. you can load millions of polygons with remix as well

i have more polys in 1 grass piles than the tanks in CoD united offensive

[solar raven]

I've come to the conclusion that r_nocull 1 (in this game) is super fucking heavy. Damn GPU just sucked 400 watts instantly

[solar raven]

Oh that's neat!

This depends if I can edit the map.gsc files in the first place

[rancid crescent]

oh that you 100% can do

i'm doing it now

its just plain text script

[solar raven]

tadpole be clutching those photo scanned meshes in his mod 😛

Ngl they go hard! 🔥

[rancid crescent]

this is my first anchor mesh, i just cant make custom meshes right now

should be called "rhinevalleyanchor001" though so its unique

[solar raven]

With the New QindieGL from SaintMath3us, this might just become playable

[rancid crescent]

i am very excited, he's a proper big brain

[lusty sluice]

biggest brain

[rancid crescent]

finally worked it out, gotta be in a pk3 file. The maximum you can have per map is 23. should be more than enough

these are rock solid hashes, just gotta move them around and slightly under the map

[solar raven]

https://tenor.com/view/breaking-bad-walter-white-jesse-pinkman-heisenberg-vince-gilligan-gif-17016123874427286459

[rancid crescent]

right so to do this at home.

1.put this rtx.pk3 file into Steam\steamapps\common\Call of Duty\Main for call of duty 1 or Steam\steamapps\common\Call of Duty\uo for united offensive
2.open the pk3 (it's a zip file, 7zip works) and extract out maps/mp/mp_mapname.gsc to your desktop
3.open that file in notepad++ copy everything from line 1 to like 145
4.find your favorite levels .gsc file (you can extract the base game files to a folder with 7zip, its easy)
5.find the lines
main() {
select them both and paste those 145 lines we copied in step 3
6.save this file
7.move this file into rtx.pk3 under maps (maps/mp for a multiplayer map)
8.right click on your exe (CoDMP.exe for cod1 multiplayer, CoDSP.exe for cod1 single player, CoDUOMP.exe for united offensive multiplayer, CoDUOSP.exe for united offensive singleplayer) and make a shortcut.
9.right click on the shortcut and go to properties, then add +set fs_game rtx to the end of the target like in the screenshot above. notice the space after the ".exe" and launch the mod.
10.to test your new anchor points you need to find them so open the game with the new shortcut you made and go to texture view and you'll see all these red textures with RH and RI and RA hand drawn on them 🙂
11.move each anchor around the map as you like from within your .gsc file and use it to stick mesh replacement to in toolkit
12.set these
seta r_cullBmodels "0" seta r_cullXmodels "0" seta r_cullsmodels "0" seta r_cullworld "0" seta r_lodscale "0" seta r_lodViewDist "-1" seta r_lodbias "-1" seta r_nocurves "1" seta r_novis "1" seta r_nocull "1" seta r_nomipmaps "1" seta r_noportals "1"
in your config file found either here for united offensive \Steam\steamapps\common\Call of Duty\uo** or here for cod 1 Steam\steamapps\common\Call of Duty\Main**

if we can set up a server to host our mod people can play with us 🙂

[solar raven]

please god, no r_nocull 1

it does nothing

[rancid crescent]

might make the anchors unstable, give it a try

yep just confirmed @solar raven you can turn that off. r_nocull "0" is fine

right, bed. then modding time 🙂

[solar raven]

it's a 6am here

😭

[rancid crescent]

1am here

[solar raven]

found a way to get light from muzzle flashes

while keeping anti culling lights on

[solar raven]

my folder is not empty

[severe lantern]

If you plan on using steam multiplayer version, do not use my latest dll. Use QindieGl_NoDetours.zip

The normal one might give you a VAC ban.

Honestly I’d be afraid to use MP at all with Steam, I read people were flagged for using opengl32.dll in the past

[rancid crescent]

what if you made your anchor mesh spin and stuck a big ball on that mesh in toolkit? you get a rotating sky!

[solar raven]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-meme-i-need-it-i-don’t-need-it-i-definitely-don’t-need-it-thirsty-gif-17101453146721253330

look at the sky

so

stable

[rancid crescent]

sky changing fun times

only issue is when i mark the sky as an actual sky it disapears behind the old one 😦

[untold solstice]

the steam version doesn't use vac iirc but it is using steamdrm so the exe is sort of obfuscated

if u want the original exe of the latest retail cd patch

https://cod1.eu/dl/cod/patch5.zip

you can always just download the patch 1.5 urself (for as long they are still downloadable online lol) https://www.moddb.com/games/call-of-duty/downloads/call-of-duty-v15-patch

but it's usually a installer which checks your registry for a key that steam doesn't set, so it doesn't detect ur steam install

[severe lantern]

yep I delt with that, but it had SecuROM and that was a bust

[untold solstice]

you can manually extract the .exe with some uniextract/wise/unishield extractor if u want and check that the hash/md5sum matches the one from here

[severe lantern]

Currently I have 1.3 / 1.0 / Demo and I was able to locate the function I wanted to hook by searching for a couple of bytes. I was pleased😜 happy it worked for all 3 versions

But maybe we should check the release notes, see if it makes sense to update

[untold solstice]

most people (that still play cod lol) on cod1 (not uo) are on either 1.1 (the first patch) or the last (1.5 steam)

the sp and mp version do differ tho so and its not rlly relevant that much

[severe lantern]

right, I have to start the MP see if the hooking is successful

[untold solstice]

uo has 1.41b and 1.51b iirc

[severe lantern]

Hm, I did not think about uo; tell you what, I'm saying a quick prayer, and go back to whatever sh*t I was doing before

but it's a good point, I need to do more testing

[rancid crescent]

scattered my anchors just under the map and added a single crate to one. Woo!

[rancid crescent]

i've had to upload these in bits because discord hates me

[solar raven]

@rancid crescent (for when you are available) how do I modify or import game models like buildings, props etc into blender for remodeling

[rancid crescent]

Just input the capture into blender, expert as fbx and ingest in toolkit when your ready. 🙂

[trim mirage]

The difference between regular game vs latest nightly build

[thick ravine]

Can anyone give me an explanation for how the sky is set up in this shot?

[severe lantern]

That is I believe Happysufigee's work area, so he may answer best. But I will try Transformer in a couple of minutes, and check if I have the same result

[rancid crescent]

set up instructions
#1230255464789311658 message
you dont need to do anything but open the game

it still flickers on CNN but not as bad

[severe lantern]

Yea, the sky is somewhat borked in DX9 mode, due to the wrapper (QindieGL); it does not draw at all, maybe a z-buffer issue. But it shows up in remix -investigation pending here on my side, but I'm a beginner in 3d apis..

[rancid crescent]

you're doing amazing work

[thick ravine]

Does it go away with RR off completely?

[rancid crescent]

hmm, i'll get a video

[severe lantern]

Yes, Transformer and RR off, I get no artifacts

[thick ravine]

so do you get artifacts with CNN?

[severe lantern]

Only with transformer. CNN is ok

[thick ravine]

are you seeing flickering like tadpole, or black splotches like Happy?

[severe lantern]

The flickering is with CNN, splotches with Transf

[thick ravine]

so flickering blotchiness... bleh

[severe lantern]

It could be the wrapper, but I don't know for sure. Also the flickering in CNN mode, is also amplified by alpha textures on those trees in the back

[solar raven]

No DLSS causes no flickering fuzzy outline on trees

[thick ravine]

can you send a shot of what that looks like using the DLSS-RR Diffuse Albedo debug view?

[untold solstice]

ps1 graphics

[solar raven]

The sky is not visible in the game, without using remix

[thick ravine]

not pulsing or flickering, just a solid black? what happens if you set the color range to be 0 to 0.01

(I'm trying to check if that black region is 0, or just a very small number)

[severe lantern]

where do I set that?

[thick ravine]

gimme a minute to launch an app and get a screenshot

the Max Value at the bottom of that section

[thick ravine]

oh, use the DLSS-RR Diffuse Albedo view, not the Diffuse Albedo view please

[severe lantern]

Also, Happy is right, with Upscaler: None there is no shimmering around trees

[thick ravine]

Thanks for posting those debug views. It sounds like the Transformer model is just handling the flickering sky very poorly, so it should be fixed if/when yall can sort out why it's flickering in the first place. I've gone ahead and filed an issue internally so we can try to improve our handling of flickering like this

[untold solstice]

any news on any official opengl integration?

either translation or vulkan ANGLE etc

[solar raven]

Angle is openGL es 2.0 to dx9

[thick ravine]

I can't talk about anything non-public, and I don't think we've published any updates on that

[untold solstice]

no problem 👍 thanks

[untold solstice]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca_V-SS_44o

but cod1 uses fixed function iirc so yeah es not gonna work 😛

[solar raven]

A lot of mobile games use es 2.0

But we can't tinker with those yet

[sacred birch]

Because he's using Transformer RR model instead of CNN

[sacred birch]

this happened to me as well, but once i change from transformer to CNN model, issue now gone

oh i see that i came somehow late lol

[thick ravine]

I'm trying to understand how the game / mod is rendering the sky, so I can understand why the transformer is having problems.

It seems that flickering textures generally cause the Transformer model problems, so the flickering that is minor in CNN is very breakingly obvious in the transformer.

possibly limited to sky textures... not sure

[solar raven]

Mark, The OpenGL wrapper renders 3d geometry except the sky. So it's just black

the sky is never visible with just the wrapper

So it looks something like this

There is a cod1 demo version publicly available

https://www.moddb.com/games/call-of-duty/downloads/call-of-duty-singleplayer-demo

Perhaps you can try on your side?

[thick ravine]

So where does the sky in your videos come from?

[severe lantern]

The sky is sent to Dx9 with a depthRange of 1,1 but I think it fails the depth test and is not drawn. I’m guessing remix gets the tris and textures and draws them properly. The game aslso uses a projection matrix with infinite zfar, not sure if relevant. In wolf when drawing Moon over the sky with depthrange 1,1 it fails z-test, it needs greater comparison to draw. I might test this to cod1 when I get some time.

idtech3 has a cvar r_clear which clears color buffer to a pink color to check for gaps in geometry (?). When I set that the sky is pink, hence my assumption that it does not pass z-test

[rancid crescent]

I can't attach a replacement mesh to an anchor and mark the mesh as sky either. It just disappears when I do

[severe lantern]

com_maxfps 1 .. so maybe there is a good sky frame and several bad ones? investigation ongoing

[solar raven]

something going on even in the clean frame

[severe lantern]

Yea, I'll try to do some PIX captures

[rancid crescent]

faffing around in united offensive

[solar raven]

these are sick

[rancid crescent]

new plowed ground texture. just processed this scan from one i took last year 🙂 not bad for an hours work

[rancid crescent]

stones

There's no real way to hide the tiling in this game, it's just one texture for like 300 meters or something

I think I'm just going to put up with it and hide it with lumps of destroyed buildings and rocks and stuff pushed from below the ground

[lusty sluice]

there was an issue i opened to introduce hex tiling

https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/rtx-remix/issues/301

give that a like i guess

those are some nice stones though

[solar raven]

Texture blending leaves this really bad sharp line between two textures and the blend

[rancid crescent]

I wonder how terrain decals are blended together. It's some form of alpha ain't it (vertex alpha?). I wonder if we can set this up in a mesh replacement and make large tiles less obvious.

[untold solstice]

they're sorted by (game/engine) material sort parameter and drawn in that order by stacking multiple meshes on top of each other with alpha yes

but it's artist authored e.g DrawOrder1, DrawOrder2 (might be DrawOrderDecal, DrawOrderSky)

[trim mirage]

Enlighten me on what you mean by tiling? As in it’s all too neat, grid like?

[solar raven]

Tiling means repetition of a pattern in game textures in a grid formation, sometimes models project UV on a plane that exceeds the bounding box area (0, 1)

A good way to have a less noticeable and more seamless pattern would be a hex tile approach

https://github.com/mmikk/hextile-demo

[severe lantern]

I've got an update on this. Disregard my previous reply about z-buffer 😅 I've done a PIX capture and looked at the vertex and index buffers. It seems the game is sending homogenous coordinates for the skybox (XYZW), so these are clipspace coords if I understand correctly. See pic attached, this is the vertex buffer for the roof of the skybox. So remix seems to accept these clipspace coordinates and draws the sky. Now the interesting part, I've activated the screen-space motion vectors debug, and I'm getting motion for the sky triangles across multiple frames. I will go on and do some PIX captures of different frames and check the vertexes and indexes buffers for the skybox for anything fishy there.

[thick ravine]

That flashing red means those motion vectors are NaN.

[severe lantern]

We got transformer working

[solar raven]

Nice

[severe lantern]

https://tenor.com/view/yeah-baby-yeah-yeah-baby-yeah-austin-yeah-baby-austin-powers-yeah-baby-gif-10096563685896849428

[solar raven]

How'd you get around that

😮

[severe lantern]

It was using a projection matrix with an infinite zfar plane

[solar raven]

No more flickering on trees as well

[severe lantern]

I overrode that to a zfar of 10000

YES!!

[solar raven]

Any affect on draw distance using that value

[severe lantern]

that inf zfar was probably causing the NaNs Mark mentioned

We'll have to check, but I think it can be higher if we want

In wolf I think I have around 5000

[solar raven]

Sometimes the tree's switch between alpha textures to have more transparency all of a sudden

[severe lantern]

I have no idea what's up with that

Also the grass tufts close by

[solar raven]

Something I'm willing to replace entirely with new trees

Get rid of the old transparent textures

[severe lantern]

Ok, i'm logging off, but I'll try to push to github soon(tm) to have a build, so that you guys can test if we have other issues with Transformer

cya

[severe lantern]

git hub was updated with a new build

@solar raven please update the instructions: please scratch the 2 points on the screenshot below, and add: Change GL_ARB_texture_cube_map = 0 in the [Extensions] section

[solar raven]

Alright

[severe lantern]

NOTE: ProjectionFix needs to be 1 now, for my fix to work

[solar raven]

Well let's try this new update out!

[severe lantern]

the Fix has ben fixed 😂

for me the the sky looks better in all the missions now, and of course no more flicker on alpha textures thanks to Transformer 🥳

[solar raven]

Yeah it's updated

Probably gonna do it on moddb as well

what do i need to edit? @severe lantern any changes in QindieGL.ini for this new update?

[severe lantern]

use the .ini from the zipfile, and set GL_ARB_texture_cube_map = 0

it already has ProjectionFix = 1 and ProjectionMaxZFar = 10000 which is new

Is it working on your PC @solar raven ?

[solar raven]

oh yeah

awesome

[severe lantern]

Nice. Culling is next, I found last week a function that does not cull geometry, but culls everything else (soldiers, boxes, chairs etc), so it will be a matter of reversing it. It think it's connected with dumping dxf, but I'm not sure.

But first I'll take a break, do something else for a couple of days 😃

[solar raven]

one thing im not sure if you have any idea is terrain flat normals, should be smooth normals

like every height variation looks sharp and just bad

[severe lantern]

Erm, in WOlf I was able to send the normals to DX9, and remix smothed the light on many terrain geometry edges

CoD1 only sends normals for soldiers it seems

Maybe there is some sort of cvar, there is one lod high quality haven't tried it; I think we have high quality geometry..

[solar raven]

just a short demo of what the frustum culling is doing to the game, it's only exceptions are playermodels and pickup items, interactable items etc

[severe lantern]

Yep, I only played 3 or 4 maps with remix, this ^ was super annoying!

[solar raven]

should i make weapons shiny now that weapon hashes are somewhat stable?

👀

[severe lantern]

Glass weapons FTW! ... Erm, sorry I just got a call from Todd Howard's lawyer, need to go

[solar raven]

i really just want to get new weapon models but, for now importing current weapons into blender and then Substance Painter would produce a far greater PBR texture

is there are command to get all weapons? 👀

[severe lantern]

'give all' worked in wolf

[solar raven]

also on models

[severe lantern]

can you try: r_ati_pntriangles "1" r_ati_truform_tess "1" vid_restart

I've enabled GL_ATI_pn_triangles in latest build of QIndie to trick games to send more normals

In wolf OGL it only sent normals for NPC tho' so it may not work..

[solar raven]

worth trying

[solar raven]

this should be in config.cfg?

[severe lantern]

yes, or console

config already has them, but they're set to "0"

[solar raven]

no effect

yeah it remains the same unfortunately, would've been nice to see smooth normals

[trim mirage]

Link to new github update pls?

[severe lantern]

Check pins, grab latest release

[trim mirage]

I only see the QindieGL links

Ohh yeah I see that, I thought there was a new update for rtx remix lol

[severe lantern]

Nah, I fixed the wrapper and now remix Transformer works as expected

[severe lantern]

@trim mirage were you able to test? Is it working for you?

[trim mirage]

Oh yeah I just tested it and it’s phenomenal, just one mission regardless should work right? I tested right before I turned off the pc as I’m going to bed, will test more missions when I wake up

[severe lantern]

Yea, if it's working in one mission it should be OK

Thanks

[solar raven]

most missions are night time

need to play Stalingrad tomorrow

[trim mirage]

I’ll test 2 nighttime ones when I wake up, goodnight guys and I’m loving being “involved” in this development

[severe lantern]

@thick ravine with the latest wrapper fix we have transformer working in CoD1. What I did was convert the skybox vertex coords from clipspace to world space (scale+translate) and then send them normally through the pipeline. The other fix was adjusting the Projection matrix to have a fixed zFar value, I believe the infinite zFar that the game used was causing the NaNs I saw in the MotionVectors debug above. This infinite zFar issue was actually what caused the game to not render at all when we started, since the wrapper code was running into float INF and NaN when reversing zNear and Zfar from the ProjectionMatrix. Also thanks a lot for the support!

[solar raven]

@severe lantern can you tell me about the culling function you found? I could maybe take a look at it. But unfortunately we can't modify the exe itself because publishing a mod could become a problem

Cuz Activision

😔

Show me asm

R_addcellsurfaces has a call to r_cullmodels, nopping the call culled everything

But I guess that's the wrong function

[severe lantern]

Yea, it's mess, also inlining makes things complicated

I'm looking at source from WOlf and OpenMOHAA for comparison

[solar raven]

Culling should be similar across all idtech3 games

Quake III Arena used that engine, yeah?

Maybe a decomp analysis could help

it's checking the value of eax. If it's zero then it does a JZ to that function, but try editing the eax register to see if it affects anything

[severe lantern]

go ahead. My plan is to check R_AddWorldSurfaces? in my listing

[thick ravine]

Happy yall figured it out!

[solar raven]

Thanks Mark

Another success for OpenGL support in Remix

[solar raven]

Last time I did this, registers got filled with invalid addresses

Resulting in a crash

can you check xrefs to this function?

Since this is the end final function that dictates what surfaces to draw or not, we need to see what where else the r_AddDrawSurf is called

[severe lantern]

ok, if you need to save allthat, please do, I will proceed delete my comments 🤡

[solar raven]

lol, figuring out the rendering pipeline is a headache

[severe lantern]

But like I said, not today, my brain needs a rest

[solar raven]

Yeah sure, rest easy my friend

Getting transformer model fixed was enough for now

[severe lantern]

But maybe we should talk about how you intend to publish the mod? Do you want to go thru steam (we are trying to put RTCW on STeam rn) or will you keep it on ModDB?

The issue is, I don't think we can get stable hashes without hooking the gamecode, or at least I don't know how. But the hooking will be done from my QindieGL, no additional .dll or loader or patcher. Just opengl32.dll from github

[solar raven]

Steam is the way

[severe lantern]

They might want to know if we hook the gamecode and why.. the code is open source though.. so I don't know what that implies

Did you get any antivirus warning so far for QindieGL?

[thick ravine]

Do yall know if 'infinite zFar' was common in OpenGL? I've never heard of doing that before, and I've got no clue if it'll show up in other games

[severe lantern]

CoD 1 was the first idtech3 based game that I found it in.

I don't have experience with other opengl games, but I will keep an eye out. I would not have found about this infinite type of matrix unless reading from here http://www.songho.ca/opengl/gl_projectionmatrix.html

It theoretically exists in DX9, if you consider zf very large compared to zn then zf/(zn - zf) -> zf/-zf -> -1 and zn x zf/(zn-zf) -> zn x zf / -zf -> -zn

So I check for -1 in [2][2] and that signals inf Zfar

'Theoretically' is the wrong word, I did not encounter it in the docs, but I have used it in the wrapper and DX9 happily rendered with it, even the sky after I made my first fix. Your hint was what made me think about the second fix with infinite zfar. I'll shut-up now, or I may start rambling 😂

[thick ravine]

It's definitely useful to know the details of why it isn't working. It may take us a bit to get around to it, but knowing "some old games use this specific hack and Remix doesn't handle it well" makes it a lot easier to actually support this. Which could fix other games

[solar raven]

No AntiVirus warnings on my side

[solar raven]

@rancid crescent do you have the files for optics scope?

The one made of real lens

[rancid crescent]

I uploaded them at the time so they are here somewhere

[solar raven]

#1099591203768504421 message

Here

[rancid crescent]

Oh rats you'll have to ingest it yourself.

I don't think I have the ingested files anymore either

If you attach an anchor mesh to the gun you can replace the guns btw. You can also attach this scope onto that anchor

[solar raven]

Well I just imported the m1a1 carbine into blender for HP baking, some color IDs etc but it seems the models have overlapping vertices

Im looking for ways to make the springfield have an actual physically modelled scope

Too big of an ambition cuz currently even the slightest animation will change the hashes, no technically you can only view it when the weapon has stable hashes again

[rancid crescent]

Replace the gun model with a stable mesh that doesn't deform and ignore the original weapon with remix

I can make the xmodel_export but you'll have to run convert.exe on it and send me back the converted meshes. Then with gsc we can attach it to the gun. it'll be stable in remix

[solar raven]

the converter.exe you mean?

where do i need to look for the weapon model

[rancid crescent]

Not sure, you need to use something like load.gsc and parent your new object to the old weapon

[solar raven]

this is out of my league tbh 😂

[rancid crescent]

But not Google Gemini!

I'll attach one of my anchor meshes after work and share the script and mesh with ya 🙂

[solar raven]

https://www.ima-usa.com/products/u-s-wwii-m1a1-carbine-folding-stock-paratrooper-display-gun
good reference images

[rancid crescent]

i'm not sure where to put this, I had help in cod2 😛

[solar raven]

light shafts

won't be needing these alpha cutouts

[solar raven]

Stalingrad is one heavy map btw, too heavy that my fps dropped to mid 30s

that is on 720p DLSS performance on a 4090*

might just be my ancient cpu as well

[sacred birch]

ancient cpu? you have literally one of the best cpu for gaming maybe remix isn't optimized at all for ryzen X3D chips but it's a beast of cpu

speaking of that, can't upgrade mine 11900k because prices are sooo high here 😦 can't afford a new combo mother/ram/cpu

[solar raven]

You're confusing me with someone else? I have a 10700 lol

Soonish 9800x3d though, but I fear that cpu might randomly fail on me

[sacred birch]

oh srry, yeah that 10700 its a bottleneck for a 4090

[rancid crescent]

looking good 🙂

[solar raven]

Rubble texture?

Or is it a model

[rancid crescent]

Just textures for now, getting a base on everything

[solar raven]

each passing day I feel inclined towards using the entire loaded BSP for maps into remix as replacements

effectively eliminating culling and improve performance via USD models

[severe lantern]

https://github.com/whisperglen/QindieGL/actions/runs/13864154250 I managed to remove some culling, but now remix is crashing on me 😭 no rest for the wicked

It's supposed to work with version 1.0 exe, don't try if you updated

[solar raven]

Going to test it out, but making the old QindieGL wrapper backup just in case something goes wrong

[solar raven]

this is amazing!

[severe lantern]

For the guys that test this version, can you tell me how soon does remix crash for you? For me I load pathfinder-3 and I crash in the middle of burnville, which is the next map

I’ve got a 3060 ti with 8gb vram, i wonder if vram gets full..

[solar raven]

Umm, I'm near the end of the game and remix does not crash, if it was a issue then every map should technically have this issue

[severe lantern]

Yes. It could be remix version then or vram

You’ve got a 4090 how much vram on that one?

16?

[lusty sluice]

24

[solar raven]

Try 1.0.0

[solar raven]

https://tenor.com/view/unlimited-power-star-wars-gif-10270127

[severe lantern]

I will, I think I only updated RTCW to 1.0.0

[trim mirage]

When you alt x you’ll see towards the top how much vram it’s using under rendering tab

[severe lantern]

For Happy

[solar raven]

similar to bsp culling

[rancid crescent]

Oh balls now i read the message, I used this version on united offensive and it crashes at launch. Even when i switch back. Any idea what to do to undo it?

[severe lantern]

Restore the ini from the old version too

[rancid crescent]

yay cheers mate 🙂

[severe lantern]

new build 😩 ~~https://github.com/whisperglen/QindieGL/actions/runs/14091201593~~https://github.com/whisperglen/QindieGL/actions/runs/14104194784 Edit: only static geometry is notculled, SModels (trees, chars, tables) and BModels (doors) are still culled

nocull edition

man this game..

Sadly no stable hashes yet

Sometimes there be weird things like this \/. I wonder if ignoring that texture is sufficient. Please use r_nocull 1 if you decide to test

[solar raven]

I bet the performance went to shit with r_nocull being enabled

[severe lantern]

I found out I was not optimising the drawcalls when 3 textures are assigned to a mesh (terrain) so that improved it a little bit

you guys, r_nocull is not a bad guy, he's just missunderstood

(I have no ideea why r_nocull was dropping fps before 💀 )

[severe lantern]

But yea my GPU is no longer 100% loaded, and it’s prob CPU bottleneck. I do run on an i7700 which is 4-core

But this may provide the motivation to try loading the BSP into remix? 😁

I have reached the limit of my reverse engineering skills on that front

[solar raven]

Fuck it, just load the whole map through remix asset replacement

[solar raven]

Is it updated to GitHub?

Might try today some time later

[severe lantern]

yes it's on github

I also realized, when I improved hashes, that was a bug, I was not sorting the surfaces/meshes at all, the game was creating smaller buffers for the drawcalls: more CPU load due to more drawcalls, but better hash stability.

I fixed that sorting of surfaces now, which means less Drawcalls since all geometry sharing the same texture it batched together in one big blob (that's how idtech3 improves perf) but hash stability worsened

There's no wining in this game 🥹

https://tenor.com/view/hide-the-pain-harold-gif-10576512

[solar raven]

There's a tradeoff

[solar raven]

@severe lantern do you mind if i show you the game through VC?

im seeing that some surfaces don't render unless you get really close to it

[severe lantern]

VC? ah videocall gotchu

but i'm free

let's do it

[solar raven]

alright, no mic so you'll just have to see the game only

[severe lantern]

how do we do this?

[solar raven]

Discord is updating lol

@severe lantern i can hear you

i have discord open in the background

[severe lantern]

Also tell me the name of that map so I can load it and test it over here

[solar raven]

trainyard i think

there might be more maps

so im streaming again

[severe lantern]

it hooks: ONLINE: void __cdecl hook_setupfrustrum(void)

lets disable it then and see what happens

one sec

[solar raven]

alright let me edit it

do i edit something here?

[severe lantern]

yes, put a ; in front of fp_setupfrustrum_pat

[solar raven]

you seeing this?

[severe lantern]

@solar raven please send the config.cfg when you get a chance

[solar raven]

@severe lantern we got a problem

[severe lantern]

I somehow expected this

[solar raven]

https://tenor.com/view/106-person-human-performer-clothing-gif-557635787457264019

https://tenor.com/view/harry-potter-wall-harry-potter-hit-wall-harry-potter-train-station-gif-22382683

this is what should happen

if you're a muggle*

[severe lantern]

I have an idea for another implementation: turning the camera and gathering the objects from behind (since I have 180deg frustum now it may work) 🤞

[solar raven]

would it impact performace?

[severe lantern]

I expect it will impact performance less, than what we have now. Now it's drawing all static meshes on the map (I made an attempt so fix culling for those SModels, but on chateau map, close by trees aren't culled, but some distant trees still disappear and mess up the shadows)

But, I'm giving up on having stable hashes

So please try to figure out if importing BSP in remix is feasible

[solar raven]

this will be done for the full mod

and i hope it works

[solar raven]

I just realised I'm on the last mission so that means I can share a full ready-to-use rtx.conf file with you all

[solar raven]

Here it is, the complete game has been played with remix and have it's textures tagged appropriately, here a list of things included in this rtx.conf

• I have not removed add lights to texture as it seems impossible to add lights to texture due to hash instability issues, but this should look pretty darn good with path tracing (please use the latest actions build of QindieGL for fixed culling issues)
• Slight tonemapper adjustments
• There is also no distant fallback light to simulate sun, but you can enable it if you want on your own for some missions

If you find any problems feel free to ask

[regal bridge]

is there something im missing out?

[trim mirage]

Why does your ui look different?

[regal bridge]

im using a mod

https://www.moddb.com/mods/sandstorm/downloads/attackzones-sandstorm-overhaul-10

[solar raven]

Maybe it's rendering sky differently

I haven't tested any mods

not even the modern weapons one

[regal bridge]

i have to test cod vanilla again

There might be some regression

[regal bridge]

okay there seem to be regression

to temp fix it you can
change dlss transformer to cnn and disable motion blur

[lusty sluice]

can just change to transformer preset D in the RR settings

[regal bridge]

LMAO

[regal bridge]

where can i do it?

sorry if its too obvious to ask

[regal bridge]

still does the same on flashing sky bug

[solar raven]

Are others also having the same issues?

[severe lantern]

Can you please share the QindieGL.log file?

[solar raven]

Might be related to the zfarplane number

It's set to 10000 right?

[severe lantern]

Yep, it's like the sky fixes are not active..

Maybe he did not overwrite the .ini file, but the log will clarify that

[severe lantern]

Ah, if ProjectionFix = 0, then the projection matrix remains infinite, and the transformer checkerboarding rears it's ugly head 🐲

[tropic root]

After all of the tweaks im getting this error

nvm fixed by moving steam dll

though this is new, wasnt doing this before all of the edits

[hallow lintel]

can i use my CD version

[regal bridge]

Any version works

[rancid crescent]

my trick of just sticking the whole maps data onto a stable anchor mesh is working

its not totally stable though so need to work that out

the whole map fucks off 😛

[lusty sluice]

this is what i plan to do for barnyard 😆

[rancid crescent]

Just remembered I can lock PVS and make it stable! Sorted 🙂 nice one kim

You got a command like that in barnyard?

Move camera to specific spot where everything renders with kamils scripts from cod2
R_lockpvs 1
R_drawworld 0
Done

[lusty sluice]

there are no commands at all for barnyard 🤣

it requires modifying the game directly

[rancid crescent]

why do you do this to yourself mate

[lusty sluice]

well i haven't for about a year now, so you're onto something there 😛

i don't think barnyard will ever reasonably be completed, unless nvidia somehow fixes vertex shader support entirely

[rancid crescent]

they still culled, its an issue when i go inside certain rooms.

so i've marked my anchor meshes as anti cull and turned that on. it works perfectly now 🙂

[rancid crescent]

blocking in terrain with gaea 🙂 first time ever using it, its cool

one sides super chunky so i'll fix that up tomorrow

[rancid crescent]

getting the rhine valley into rhine valley 🙂

having trouble with vertex alpha. not sure whats going on here but its not working on my old test assets either

there it is in motion, the sky moves as well as does the sun position

[rancid crescent]

so nice today 🙂

[solar raven]

Water looks a bit sharp

[rancid crescent]

sharp water is ice

how now

finally got decent tree's. total faff but its working. now time for some variation

[tidal locust]

Could you please make a github repo? I would love to join force

[rancid crescent]

I work alone dude. Plus that's united offensive

[tidal locust]

@rancid crescent surely it works for both?

If you have a repo, you will always be the first author and others can make contributions through PRs

[rancid crescent]

I'm good ta

[solar raven]

I can confirm it works alright on Single Player on the regular cod1

Just need some way to make the whole map static using game editing

Culling is so bad in this game 😢