Portal 2

[rough ginkgo]

GTX 650 was my first

[ripe hazel]

Radeon 9200SE
Radeon X1800 GTO
Radeon 2600XT
Geforce 6600GT
Geforce 8800GTS 320
Geforce 8800GT
Geforce GTX 260
Geforce GTX 460
Geforce GTX 780 Ti
Geforce RTX 2080 Ti
Geforce RTX 3080
Geforce RTX 4090

these were my gpus

[naive edge]

Scriptable transitions for remix variables based on the leaf/s the player is in 👍
Can be one way, or in + out, with a tweak-able delays (before starting the transition and between it's completion and the backwards transition) + different ease functions.
The only thing thats missing is the ability to do that based on played choreographies

[misty forge]

Question. Does anybody know how to solve ANY issues relating to this error?? It happens only on this mod and along with portal prelude RTX with any config and I already tried reinstalling drivers twice and running as -windowed. https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1107017578238447706/1307751358958407700/image.png?ex=6742095c&is=6740b7dc&hm=4cdc8836046f9740efb29ebe1b028ec4c46b9e5be233be8dbc7768aad17b9569&=&quality=lossless

It's entirely RTX remix related and I have no idea how to get around the error

[rough ginkgo]

this will definitely help me with fixing the timing of the light on the elevator in sp_a1_wakeup, good work

[naive edge]

You are now the second person with that issue and I have no clue what's causing that. "Glad" to hear that it also happens on prelude

Does installing this help? https://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/download/details.aspx?id=8109

[misty forge]

on the mod, I get these 2 errors and on prelude I get the same error still

[naive edge]

Sadge ... I guess you have to create an issue on the rtx-remix GitHub repo then

[misty forge]

alrighty, thank you for taking the time to at least look at my issue

[naive edge]

Migraine 😂
Transitions can now be triggered by choreographies (.vcd's) as well 🙏

[blissful fulcrum]

lmao I love that demonstration

no wonder why Chell doesn't want to answer the door

[buoyant venture]

When Chell's brain damage kicks in:

[red panther]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkUgaiQy3sg&t=47s&ab_channel=WATER

@naive edge I remade the video

I tried a total of 34 times to get the long load to not happen but for whatever reason it would still happen

As it's a minor inconvenience I don't see that as too serious of a thing to leave out but if you still want me to change it I'll remake it again and try to figure out what I was doing wrong

I'll take the thumbs up as the video is good

@thin geode you mind pinning this?

[open rampart]

Bro did not read the github 💀

[red panther]

Hey, if it works it works

Xoxor seems to think it’s fine so can’t be that bad

Worked for me 34 times so it should be alright

[naive edge]

I'd still refrain from 📍 it. Appreciate your effort tho 👍

[red panther]

Because I’m going to make it again, what’s wrong with it

It’ll be right eventually

Just might take 34 more attempts

[open rampart]

Just read the github 😭

[red panther]

Read it more than 34 times

Alright read it another 5 times still don’t know what’s wrong

[naive edge]

It's still too early, stuff will change so dw

[red panther]

I got a lot of thanks comments on the original too, so it can’t be that bad, and works for other people

[drifting temple]

Stop

[drifting temple]

Me when I have a minor case of serious brain damage.

[rich plank]

It work fine, but all sounds are missing

[naive edge]

Did you copy the sound cache file or skip the first long loading sequence?

[rich plank]

No. not copy the sound cache

i forgot

[naive edge]

if that does not work then paste that into the ingame console:
snd_rebuildaudiocache;snd_updateaudiocache;exit

[rich plank]

Ok i will try now

Sound is back. Thanks!

[rich plank]

Something seems wrong with my settings

[open rampart]

PBR mod pack's coming along well

the shiny buttons and wall plates are my favorite to do

[rich plank]

Where did you get that? moddb?

[open rampart]

I'm making it right now It'll be awhile until it's finished tho, it's something I'm just kinda doing on the side. Focusing on TRL right now, just doing this in my free time

[rich plank]

Damm it looks so nice

[open rampart]

Thanks!

[rich plank]

It feels like it is half remastered.

[open rampart]

Got the mucky water reflective, but I think I should mess with the metal scale on it, looks kinda dull

[ripe hazel]

It looks like that for me too

[naive edge]

That should be fixed on the latest GH actions build

[buoyant venture]

Now I can drink it

[fluid bison]

i don't think its okay when that wall on 0:27 is loosing its stripes

[patent tapir]

does any one know how i fix this please

[red panther]

Launch from the .bat file not the exe

[buoyant venture]

I wonder how's that going to work when we ship it

[red panther]

You can convert .bat files into .exe files with cmd

.bat files are just easier to work with to start

[buoyant venture]

Got it 👍

Good to know

[analog copper]

looks yummy

[red panther]

Looking at the .bat file, it should be fine, but if we made it into an .exe, we’d need to keep the old one in, cause I don’t think we can just copy and paste the old one into a new one

[red panther]

That fix it?

The .bat file?

[ripe hazel]

Why would you want to convert the bat to an exe

[sleek bay]

childhood truma, He once fell down a well and got scared by the bat's

https://youtu.be/-ig3nsEgqNE

[buoyant venture]

The goal is to put Portal 2 with RTX on Steam, and I'm not sure if bat files are allowed as the executable

[drifting temple]

Why tf letting u do all dat?

[buoyant venture]

Hm?

[drifting temple]

Who's letting you post portal 2 rtx on steam?

[thin geode]

vulpes is saying the project's ultimate goal is to collaborate with Valve to have it released on Steam as a mod

[drifting temple]

Ah

Okay

That makes sense

I'm interested to see where everything goes

I'll help with materials once it gets stable enough

[heady laurel]

I need to play portal 2 first.

[red panther]

That'd be the num 1 goal, the way it was sounding we were just gonna post it on workshop

[buoyant venture]

Well you can list things as community mods like Half-Life 2 RTX is doing or something like Portal Stories Mel

[red panther]

It would be cool if we got it posted like hl2 rtx or portal rtx

like a store page over workshop

that'd really be something man

[drifting temple]

Ur not a gamer if you haven't played portals. Best games ever

[heady laurel]

okay bro

[thin geode]

if you haven't played pong you're not a true gamer

[drifting temple]

Not lying

[drifting temple]

I have

[heady laurel]

What kind of material work or replacement models are needed, I could make a few game assets as my contribution

[drifting temple]

The models are pretty good. So just retexturing will be fine.

[heady laurel]

Yee I can do that.

[sleek bay]

I'd like to remodel Wheatley and glados, starting with potato glados and a 3d scan of a potato 🥔

[drifting temple]

That would be acually pretty cool

[heady laurel]

Get one of them Irish potatoes

Up for scan

[sleek bay]

I'll get a reference image and go to the store lol. "Excuse me miss, have you seen a potato that looks like this?"

[drifting temple]

Is aperture desk job a retcon for the portal series?

[open rampart]

https://imgsli.com/MzIxMjMw

Slowly but surely

[frail lily]

A couple of pointers if you don't mind, not based solely on this image: don't just "blindly" convert automatically, in the earlier pictures you had normal maps that were inverted compared to what would actually happen, for example in the metal frame of the elevator, the scratches, instead of being indented, were protruding (because the AI/algo/whatever, interprets lighter color as being raised from the surface, but it's not always the case), this was also happening with the dark panels, which had bits missing/eroded and they were showing up as elevated compared to the main texture, for the same reason, if I recall correctly even the edges were raised instead of indented.

In this particular image, the "water" is clearly a mixture of different substances, very impure, yet it reflects light in a very uniform way (particularly evident in the reflection of the spotlights), if you want to avoid completely remastering it, it's sufficient to plug the albedo texture into the roughness input, maybe tweak it a bit in PS if you see the effect is too strong this way, it probably doesn't need high contrast, and maybe it would work better inverted, it's a matter of playing around with it and see what works best but it shouldn't take long.

Lastly, this is from far away so I'm not sure it's not but, just in case, rust is very very rough and not very reflective, since metals are oxydized and broken down into powder (that's why it will stick to your finger if you touch it), light gets scattered around quite a bit and a good chunk of it doesn't make it out to the observer.

[drifting temple]

ai bad

Get good and learn to make something

My advice for the day

[empty quest]

maybe a bit of subsurface scattering? or would that reveal too much of what's underneath the asset

[buoyant venture]

I do want to get low poly models like these replaced

[buoyant venture]

I heard a lot of those side games are just done for fun and not for canon

[patent tapir]

one question how do i fix my player model cause im using a custom player model and it places me in a third person perspective arround my characters head

[heady laurel]

That is up to personal preference but you can use textures for equally same effect

[naive edge]

• You have to mark ONE part of your playermodel (legs OR torso) as player model body texture AND as player model texture
• Then mark all other parts of the playermodel that should be hidden as player model texture

The one texture marked as body acts like the center point from which textures marked as player will be made invisible

[patent tapir]

how do i do that

[naive edge]

• alt + x --> game setup tab
• open the player model body texture tab

then use your mouse to highlight the body tex -> right click and select the appropriate category

[patent tapir]

thanks

i no longer see it in first person but cant in third person

[naive edge]

third person?

[patent tapir]

the thirdperson shoulder mode

[buoyant venture]

I wonder how this will work with co-op where you can be either Atlas or P-body

[naive edge]

I can already detect what model a player is using so I would need to set and remove the textures via the api (which is not a thing yet)

[naive edge]

nothing you can do about that for now

[cunning shoal]

just finished playing through portal 2 rtx and it was amazing

[heady laurel]

Nice. I'll make a moddb update for it

How's the performance atm

[cunning shoal]

on my 3060 at 1440p terrible

[heady laurel]

Sub 30fps?

[cunning shoal]

yeah

had to use dlss ultra performance to get to 30-40 fps

[heady laurel]

Any issues other than performance?

[cunning shoal]

some minor visual bugs in some places

but not too noticable

and the lighting made some puzzles harder for me

[heady laurel]

Gotcha. If it's playable with remix from start to finish then it's good. Yeah lighting definitely needs some adjustments. That is up to the modding scene

[cunning shoal]

its definitely playable

gotta wait till its properly remastered to play it again

but xoxor did a great job

[heady laurel]

Is there an rtx.conf file? Can't locate it in the repository

If you have one please share with me

[regal solstice]

How have you fixed all the geometry already? I swear it was barely working a few weeks ago

Are you going to add custom textures now?

Maybe improve the style a bit more?

[patent tapir]

does anyone know how i can stop my game from crashing as soon as i load into a level

[red panther]

does an error come up or does it just close?

[patent tapir]

close

[red panther]

okay, and you are launch from the .bat

correct?

[cunning shoal]

@naive edge dont wanna annoy you but do you have plans on making a compatability mod for portal reloaded and portal stories mel?

[naive edge]

not for now but shouldn't be hard as it only needs minor tweaks

[fast sedge]

someone please help

this?

or this

@here

nvm

im a dumbass

gg

whenever i get to the bars being fully loaded nothing happens

and the "welcome to rtx remix" thing doesnt popup at the top of my screen

WAIT I FIGURED IT OUT

I THINK

mabye

it worked

got the popup

but its loading for agessss

[analog copper]

stop typing and just wait

[fast sedge]

wtf?

everytime wheatley hits the stupid ass fucking room into a wall my memory goes up

is he trying to kill my pc

too realistic

WHATTTT

THE FUCKKKK

fps killer

[analog copper]

what gu

gpu

[fast sedge]

3070

Also i found the problem

I had the wrong settings

[sleek bay]

what settings were wrong?

[buoyant venture]

My 8GB card: "seems normal"

[west bolt]

My Dad's 16GB card also:"seems normal"

[drifting temple]

My 24GB card: "Piece of cake"

[buoyant venture]

[thin geode]

just get an RTX A6000 with 48 GB VRAM

[drifting temple]

yeah just gimme like

5k?

idk how much they go for these days

@heady laurel we can share

[buoyant venture]

I'll take a AMD W7900

[pallid hatch]

lol @6GB users malding over performance issues as if it’s remix’s fault

[sturdy jolt]

Every time I tried watching this video it freezes my browser.

[analog copper]

i have one of these

thank you school!

[deep tartan]

any plans on csgo?

[drifting temple]

Tf u doing at school

[winged wind]

any ideas to reduce the bottleneck? il chek the settings in-game and the "Multicore rendering" its disabled no matter what i do, i cant enable it...

even if i open the console and type "mat_queue_mode -1" doesn't work

@naive edge

i have the reflex option off btw

[pallid hatch]

46 FPS at 4K on a 3080 is basically to be expected tbh

multicore rendering wont work iirc with this mod

enable framegen + DLSS and lower res 🤷‍♂️

[winged wind]

im using ultra performance mode at "1280x720" and im using LSFG instead of DLSSFG because of the latency

[winged wind]

Why is that?

i mean, why it doesn't work ?

[pallid hatch]

I don't know, xorxor just says it doesn't work correctly right now, its early days of this mod

[winged wind]

Ohh ok then that's why...

[pallid hatch]

not sure anyone has tested LSFG with this let alone remix so you probably wont get much support with that

[winged wind]

Yeah i know, il have been using LSFG for a while with remix and works rightly fine

[pallid hatch]

sure, I more mean in relation with this mod and getting performance benefits. DLSS is also tightly integrated with how the path tracer handles the motion vectors and ray reconstruction, so sometimes its necessary. but if LSFG works then great.

[winged wind]

My 3080 doesn't support FG in the first place so in order to use DLSSFG il had to download the DLSSFG.dll version 1.0.1.0 but im getting so much latency and random crashes at times with it on 😦 that's why im using LSFG

[pallid hatch]

I see. yeah. if it makes you feel any better I only have a 2080 and I can't even play the game barely :P.

im sure in the coming weeks xorxor and the community will have some performance fixes / optimizations. some people around here are also into getting it working on the steam deck like @buoyant venture.

[winged wind]

rlly? wich resolution u play ?

[pallid hatch]

I just do ultra performance standard DLSS either 2k or 1080

[winged wind]

Nice!!

[pallid hatch]

I mostly develop stuff and dont play it so doesn't really bother me. (mostly waiting for 5 series GPUs)

[winged wind]

My 3080 still gets the job done with some path traced games at 1080p or even 1440p but at 4k i need to use DLSS to ultra performance mode

[pallid hatch]

yeah, sounds about right. you're in the same boat as mostly everyone else here with less than a 4000 series card. 4k is pretty much impossible due to VRAM limitation or just lack of power. with DLSSFG you can do 4K in this game ... with maybe a 4080 / 4090 (as of now)

[winged wind]

Even my monitor native resolution is 1080p but i rather use DSR and merge it with DLSS and LSFG and im not having any issues

[winged wind]

Yeah, looking to the future we will need a minimun 4070/4080 to run Path traced games like this at 1440p/4k

[pallid hatch]

more than likely

[winged wind]

the 4000 series have the FG tech

the 2000/3000 only had DLSS

[naive edge]

Force disabled that. Don’t think remix will like work with. Skinned meshes will most likely lag behind when enabled

[winged wind]

So thats why im getting a "bottleneck" ? i mean my gpu usage goes from 70% to 90% in-game at times

Any idea if this issue will be fixed ? or it doesn't bother at all

[ripe hazel]

The bottleneck you're seeing is probably just down to cpu requirements of RTX Remix running this title, not whatever the Source engine is doing in the background, which is the only aspect multi core rendering would affect

[rough ginkgo]

iirc what xoxor4d said, portal 2 is notoriously heavy on drawcalls and that hurts performance a lot.

i get decent performance on my 2080 if i stay under 1080p, my 7950X3D definitely helps with the engine bottlenecks

[naive edge]

Not forcing lod 0 can help on certain levels. Reducing draw distance as well. I’ll create a flag to disable the forcing but that will be off by default.

I think the best way to reduce the cpu bottlenecks would be to edit the map file, remove a huge chunk of static props; add a map marker to that area; then re-add all the removed meshes by adding them as references to the marker using the toolkit.

That way, the engine draws a lot less stuff and Remix does the heavy lifting + that also allows you to change the meshes itself

[analog copper]

we have a fuck ton of workstations

[heady laurel]

workstation PCs at school do be goated

Ryzen threadrippers and 128gb ram for simulations

[regal solstice]

God damn we have 3080s i5 😢

[naive edge]

The compatibility mod is now my most starred repository on GitHub 👀
edit: ~1500 downloads of the first release

[drifting temple]

Good jorb

[buoyant venture]

I'm one of those stars, lol

[drifting temple]

[dapper ravine]

Does anyone have enhanced assets for the mod or knowledge on how I can do it myself for normal and roughness maps?

[frail lily]

That's only because you haven't worked on the Tetris compatibility mod yet

[naive edge]

@winged wind multicore rendering enabled .. it does improve performance tho 😂
(Warning: may induce seizures)

[pallid hatch]

@naive edge do you know why it happens? maybe one of the parts of the geom hash rule gets overwritten with data from another thread?

oh well it seems like the other thread be doin something else

[naive edge]

no idea really. Haven't really looked into that

[pallid hatch]

api trace via the CLI has a useful option to split calls by thread, might be useful

sometimes I wanna build an old PC just so I can re-install PIX or nsight for D3D9 😅

[naive edge]

mh? Pix is still working fine for me

[pallid hatch]

what version do you use?

literally just crashes for me everytime

[pallid hatch]

😕

I don't see 1962.0. hmm, there's so many old ones

[pallid hatch]

god bless

[winged wind]

ohmy

so glad its off by default

but it really improves perfomance?

[pallid hatch]

it actually works now for single frame captures . thx

[drifting temple]

schizophrenia gaming.

[wispy fiber]

mmmmmm the portal 2 rtx experience

[pallid hatch]

| Portugal 2 (Portugul?)

[drifting temple]

okay I was about to ask lol

[pallid hatch]

yea lol

[safe elk]

It looks rasturized

[wispy fiber]

ya idk why its just not path tracing

only thing that pops up

[pallid hatch]

well for one you are using a mod

called portugul 2

[wispy fiber]

is portugal 2 that bad it'd cause a fatal error for remix

nvm got my answer

[pallid hatch]

I don't know but its not tested, this channel is about portal 2 vanilla (at least thats the only compatibly tested mod we have right now)

[safe elk]

Its a mod where everything is Google translated 32 times over

[wispy fiber]

also ya its just a mod that replaces the sound files and some of the textures, doesn't touch the base game's code

its still base portal 2

[pallid hatch]

well sure, but given the fact the base game works and yours doesn't makes that irrelevant

[safe elk]

The textures that are replaced are shader based textures

From what I could guess

[wispy fiber]

i thought that was a cat tbh

[drifting temple]

Don't try thinking again

[safe elk]

I'll think

[drifting temple]

Keep it to yourself then

You think incorrect

[safe elk]

I was just guessing

[drifting temple]

(I have no idea if ur right or wrong, I just wanted to make fun of you.)

[safe elk]

i know

[drifting temple]

[winged wind]

thanks @naive edge for this, its looking great

[sand otter]

[open rampart]

maybe I accidentally switched a setting - but whenever I look down at the icky water I get a mirrored effect

Kind of like in gmod, but ent_remove_all func_reflective_glass doesn't work to remove the mirror effect

[naive edge]

Video doesn’t load on mobile but try the most recent GitHub actions build

Ah now it does. This is fixed in the most recent build

[open rampart]

All fixed, thanks!

[analog copper]

release it

[abstract peak]

Portals are just colored ellipses for me

anyone know a fix?

[red panther]

You got no enhancements on

Click alt+x to open the remix menu

Then switch to the enhancements tab

Then click on enable enhancements

And then at the bottom of the menu

Click save

If that don’t work just try a fresh install of everything

[abstract peak]

ok

I forgot the remix mod .zip file

lol

[red panther]

Dw

Everything working for you now

[abstract peak]

yea

breaker room is awesome

[winged wind]

this is how i remember playing Portal 2 around 2012

[abstract peak]

LOOK AT THE INCINERATOR ROOM

[red panther]

It’s beautiful isn’t it 🙂

[buoyant venture]

For me it's like looking at something without glasses

Not because it's bad but because my GPU is

Heck, I probably won't be able to enjoy our own remaster in high detail

[red panther]

Sad story there

[buoyant venture]

[drifting temple]

I'll enjoy it for you

[abstract peak]

surprise.

[abstract peak]

beautiful

glados forgot to turn on the lights lmao

[open rampart]

oopsie forgot about the tradeoff - already making 1.1 of my pbr pack

[buoyant venture]

You added lights as well?

[open rampart]

Yeah, went ahead and added lights to a few places to make it hopefully fully playable with rtx and pbr. I might've missed a few places but I think I got everything I can always make a quick hotfix if anyone finds any spots

[abstract peak]

propulsion gel looks so delicious

[buoyant venture]

Well guys, the game is remastered, let's wrap it up /j

[sand otter]

yummy

[ionic silo]

shouldn't the light source be coming from the obviously hanging light

[open rampart]

In the original game the light doesn't make much sense 💀 It's now a microphone and there's a strob light from the ceiling

[open rampart]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/skurtyys-portal-2-rtx-pbr-pack

[thin geode]

awesome 😛

[coarse scaffold]

is there a way to turn it off or do you just have to delete the files from the portal 2 folder

cus i wanna play co op but i cant launch the game from steam with this installed

[winged wind]

Awesome! thanks!

But do i need the 2 files or can i download only the "hotfix"?

[open rampart]

You got it! Only the hotfix version is fine, it's just a version 1.1 update, it has everything the original has but a quick fix for a spot where a level was completely black 🙂

[winged wind]

damn

[winged wind]

il found these bugs

[open rampart]

Thanks! Keeping notes on all these lil problem bugs for the next update

[winged wind]

in sp_a1_intro6 i found this as well

[drifting temple]

Mm

Light leaking

[abstract peak]

So how do you install it? I'm downloading it now but I don't see any installation instructions

[winged wind]

just put the files inside rtx-remix/mods folder

[drifting temple]

path is too long

How crazy is your folder structure?

[abstract peak]

it's in the default portal 2 path lmao

and I already have long paths enabled, dang

ah the problem is the full path is

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Portal 2\rtx-remix\mods\SkurtyysP2RTXPBRPack1.1\SubUSDs\appdata\local\ov\pkg\rtx-remix-2024.5.1\deps\content\rtx-remix-lookdev-lighting\Projects\Materials\Content_Team\Common\HDRI

THIS IS BY DEFAULT. Most of these folders just contain one other folder, what the heck

I'm just going to rename the pbr pack folder

ok there's invisible gel in the old test chambers

[burnt flare]

This could help
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-enable-or-disable-win32-long-paths-in-windows-11-10

[abstract peak]

Long paths are on 😭

also aperture uses lamps that are brighter than the surface of the sun

glados is boutta become french fries

[drifting temple]

mm

baked potatOS

[ripe hazel]

https://youtu.be/a3BcYtKmmlE Never realized how heavy this was considering I had FG on all the time. Guess the 5090 will already have a stress test waiting for it when it comes out

[analog copper]

i love you

[buoyant venture]

Multicore rendering should help out a lot

[analog copper]

should you enable it ingame?

[winged wind]

yeah but in gpu bound scenes like in the thumbnail i dont think its gonna help too much tbh

[winged wind]

You can't

[winged wind]

maybe 2-4 fps more

here i was having like 20-24 fps with a 3080 10GB OC (cinematic)

but it looks so damn georgeus

[buoyant venture]

At the moment, no

[naive edge]

that heavy drop is caused by all the glass refractions

[buoyant venture]

I'm an AMD user, I'm always GPU bound

[winged wind]

even for a 4090 its a big deal

[winged wind]

its somehow worth it, after that particular scene on the game i was having constant 40-60 fps

on dlss-perfomance

[analog copper]

my 3060 is running it at like 50?

[winged wind]

at 1080 with dlss?

[analog copper]

yes

performance

[winged wind]

its expected from a 3060

mine 3080 can do 1080 using dlss quality at 60-80 fps with some drops

[ripe hazel]

It's 100% GPU limited on my system

I mean it's no surprise considering Portal 2 is the most modern fully path traced title

[frail lily]

Since we're talking about glass, how did you make it? I've noticed that if I select the glass material it doesn't have all the options available, am I tripping?

[naive edge]

mh? what options

[frail lily]

In the toolkit, it doesn't give the same options as other materials

is that normal?

[analog copper]

welcome to the world of plastic beach

[naive edge]

well its using the translucent material instead of the opaque one if you mean that?

[frail lily]

I'll have to check if it's just that

[buoyant venture]

Huh

[frail lily]

Yes, in the end it was that. Am I understanding correctly that there is no way to modify roughness on translucent materials? I was trying to make the glass look dirty, but for that to work the dirt must have some roughness to break up the reflection

[pallid hatch]

I was looking for a way to do that as well ... ended up just using a type of transparent texture. would be cool if you could change more than just the refraction or apply a mask texture on-top

[frail lily]

All I could manage to do (successfully) was correct the glass color, which right now is different from the original game (classic green tinge)

don't mind the texture on the glass, it's just something I was trying

[pallid hatch]

looks pretty good actually

[frail lily]

If it doesn't affect the reflection it just looks like colored glass though

I'm leaving these here in case anyone wants to try

[pallid hatch]

I mean certain types of glass do have that kind of colored edge, I dont think they've opened up enough knobs for the translucent shader stuff . in omniverse you can do more

[old abyss]

A long while ago we experimented with the translucent shader and found some issues. I'm not sure how it goes nowadays.
Basically, it wasn't possible to have both colored glass and normal maps
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[frail lily]

No I meant there is a dirt texture on the glass, it does nothing like this, the colored edge is the only successful thing I've done, it looks right

[frail lily]

The glass is colored, it takes the color, that's not my issue, my issue is that it's not possible to modify the roughness

[ripe hazel]

I mean RTX Remixed title. Or is there another newer one

[pallid hatch]

pretty sure he's suggesting using a normal map for the rougness

[frail lily]

This is more or less the effect I was trying to obtain

[pallid hatch]

there is no slider for rougness with translucent shaders, you have to use what is available in the image E-man linked, and that is only in omniverse

[frail lily]

Got it thanks

It looks so off, everything is dirty and grimy, and the glass looks pristine, it worked in Portal, but in P2 it has to be solved somehow

[pallid hatch]

@frail lily hey, so if you checkout the source code for the shader file AperturePBR_Translucent there is a default roughness option of 1.0

  bsdf diffuse_layer = df::diffuse_reflection_bsdf(
    tint: diffuse_lookup,
    roughness: 1.0
  );

edit: you can probably add these to other bsdf layers:

    roughness: 1.0

maybe its only for the diffuse layer, might be worth playing with. idk I wish I knew more about how these were programmed

[open rampart]

Ahh you're right, must've marked a light texture as translucent - will fix in the next update, thanks!

[frail lily]

Mine looks different, actually

#usda 1.0
(
defaultPrim = "Looks"
endTimeCode = 100
metersPerUnit = 0.01
startTimeCode = 0
timeCodesPerSecond = 24
upAxis = "Y"
)

def Scope "Looks"
{
def Material "mat_AperturePBR_Translucent"
{
token outputs:mdl:displacement.connect = </Looks/mat_AperturePBR_Translucent/Shader.outputs:out>
token outputs:mdl:surface.connect = </Looks/mat_AperturePBR_Translucent/Shader.outputs:out>
token outputs:mdl:volume.connect = </Looks/mat_AperturePBR_Translucent/Shader.outputs:out>

    def Shader "Shader" (
        kind = "Material"
    )
    {
        uniform token info:implementationSource = "sourceAsset"
        uniform asset info:mdl:sourceAsset = @AperturePBR_Translucent.mdl@
        uniform token info:mdl:sourceAsset:subIdentifier = "AperturePBR_Translucent"
        token outputs:out
    }
}

}

[pallid hatch]

hmm, im talking about AperturePBR_Translucent.mdl, should be in your materials folder

[frail lily]

oops I opened the usda

Changing the value (while it might be useful for other things) would do me no good in this instance, because I would need that to be driven by a texture. I suppose one solution might be to modify the model to include a decal on top

[pallid hatch]

yeah :(. It seems like you could probably modify the file to allow one to be used, but seems like currently the toolkit UI doesn't expose texture related stuff like composer did

advanced mode would be to modify the mod.usda file to incorporate the normal map or whatever texture inputs into the material reference

you'd have to add normalmap_texture to the reference, then the shader will see it bound and run normal_lookup

[frail lily]

Normal maps do work

[pallid hatch]

oh I see, just not the other texture types? I dont have the UI infront of me, just assumed you couldn't texture translucent in toolkit

[frail lily]

but I don't use substance or stuff like that, my texture is hand painted

it's a bit hard to simulate a normal map without those tools, but as I said it's probably more convenient to edit the glass pane model to add a decal, assuming it would play nice with the translucent material

[old abyss]

Ahhh right, no. That privacy glass/frosted glass look is a nono for translucent shaders as it is, according to the devs, really difficult to simulate with raytracing in realtime. We had a discussion a while ago when I found that a bugged version of ray reconstruction did result in the very look and I got intrigued 👀
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1091407495567790083/1218633381164879985/NFS_Underground_2_2024-03-16_14-43-17.mp4?ex=6748bc47&is=67476ac7&hm=4f13ede2c466a899407380a7e13946a641673cb05b27b1274347af3cb8bd9bb5&

It might have something to do with stochastic alpha blending as well, iirc, but some more tests are needed

so decals using the opacity shader should be your best shot

[frail lily]

Yes I figured that was probably the case, hopefully it will be solved in the future

[abstract peak]

this sign is hilarious

[sleek bay]

potato

po-ta-to

[frail lily]

https://media1.tenor.com/m/IeSwqbFy6EYAAAAd/you-crazy-son-of-a-bitch.gif

[sleek bay]

there we go all low polygon 🙂 I'll plug in glados next

[ionic silo]

that's one mighty delicious potato

[heady laurel]

https://tenor.com/view/were-chosen-bag-of-potatoes-we-got-picked-excited-selected-gif-16921405

Probably that one potato Tadpole picked for photoscan

[lunar marten]

That's it

Portal 2 RTX has peaked

Nothing else tops this

[naive edge]

Hey @warped sierra, any idea why commit: https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/dxvk-remix/commit/32e26ff4ddfe2ad81e6524f8bf07ae34ba058683 causes this?
(no changes on my side - clean build)

Unchecking either Temporal Reuse or Spatial Reuse "fixes" it. Setting ReSTIR GI Spatial Bias Correction to anything but Pairwise Raytrace does as well

[frail lily]

Nvidia said: Let there be light

[rough ginkgo]

looks kinda similar to my issue with HDRI domes being marked as emissive.

[warped sierra]

Only thing I can think of is that some light was previously being 0'd out due to NaNs, but is now coming through as a large value due to that fix. It's Thanksgiving this week, so everyone is out till Monday, but I'll post about it internally

[naive edge]

Much appreciated! Let me know if I should file an issue for that. Happy holidays 🙏

[warped sierra]

Always better to have an issue - those get reviewed by the leads in a regular meeting, where my slack posts don't get any formal tracking

and Happy Thanksgiving!

[dapper ravine]

Can I port the materials to be usable in Portal 2 Community Edition? It'll just be a personal project unless you're fine with me posting it on Gamebanana or something (I'd give you credit)

[west bolt]

I'm going to my dad's house which means I'll have access to his RTX 4070 TI SUPER. My dad said I can install Portal 2 RTX. I'm excited!

@naive edge for installing your mod. Do I change the video settings then extract it in portal 2's root dir then can I make a shortcut to the .bat?

[naive edge]

you can also change the in-game settings afterwards. I suggest that you restart the game afterwards tho.
Ofc. you can make a shortcut to the bat

[open rampart]

Of course!

[fluid bison]

https://tenor.com/view/light-in-my-face-alex-boye-american-prophet-song-strong-sun-light-in-my-eyes-gif-19563908

[west bolt]

I understand. So I change the settings after installing the mod. And where do the contents of both zips go?

[naive edge]

read the instructions on the page where you downloaded these from

[west bolt]

I see thank you for making RTX in portal 2 possible!

[drifting temple]

Me when I don't read instructions

[west bolt]

When I was young I watched my dad beat both games. He's replaying the 1st game in RTX and now the 2nd one has RTX and I cannot wait to get it up and running on his computer he named "Phoenix"

It has an 11th gen Intel i7 64GB of RAM and a 4TB SSD and the GPU is in my profile.

He has it set up with AI overclocking and sometimes it crashes and then learns and restarts while changing the clock speed

[sleek bay]

make your own glados potato
https://discord.com/channels/1028444667789967381/1312157725131669594

or whatever, cc0, do as you like

[dapper ravine]

Sweet, thanks!

[vernal sinew]

Holy shii this looks cool

[keen galleon]

I had a problem after trying to install Portal 2 rtx (https://github.com/xoxor4d/p2-rtx). I had low performance and decided to uninstall everything. I uninstalled the game from stim and deleted the common/Portal 2 folder. After reinstalling the game, I got bugs with portals - they just stay visually closed, and when transitioning - I observe the effect of falling out behind textures (graphically). Does anyone know what can be done with this, maybe in the system somewhere else stored cache portal 2?

[naive edge]

https://github.com/xoxor4d/p2-rtx/issues/10

[keen galleon]

oh, thank you. I didn't find it myself.

[dapper ravine]

Thanks, I had that issue too

[west bolt]

Does manually putting the launch options in the launch options area in steam work when launching or no?

[naive edge]

should work just fine

[west bolt]

Ok. Thanks

[frail lily]

It does work but I think there is a character limit that doesn't exist in the bat

[naive edge]

true but these few args should fit in just fine ... i hope

[frail lily]

Yes yes, I was just talking in general, sorry for the potential confusion

[rough ginkgo]

finally got around to fixing the UVs on the dirty cube, the topography of the original model is messed up (from the remix capture and portal 2 itself)

[buoyant venture]

I wonder how this would look with the remade walls we have

[dapper ravine]

Is it just me or are some of either the normal maps or height maps inverted? Using Skurtyyskirts' PBR pack

[rough ginkgo]

they're AI generated so it doesn't always get the right physical properties

[open rampart]

Yeah I think the height map was set too high and gave that effect, it'll be fixed on my next update

[fluid bison]

Honestly i think it would be cool to have a map where would be all textures so it could be checked how their changed versions look for checking

[rough ginkgo]

i did one for a few materials in the 1st chapter

[open rampart]

Yesssss, that’d be the dream Gmods good for that kinda stuff

[rough ginkgo]

though i found it quicker just to do it in the maps themselves

quick saves are pretty handy

[fluid bison]

It really would do some favor as it could prevent some mistakes, just having them all at one place instead of going around chapters

Quick do - quick check

[open rampart]

A feature a think the stage manager would be really good for 👀 kinda similar to how octotex worked, we had a 3D live view of the textures, it’d be cool to scroll through them all in a viewer

[frail lily]

It's not you, I already highlighted this issue, the elevator frame has the same problem and it's due to the albedo being "counterintuitive" as the lightest parts are actually where material should be missing

[dapper ravine]

when i was working on my own PBR mod for Portal 2 Community Edition I originally tried doing every material in one map but that was way too tedious so i also opted for your method

[dapper ravine]

Will there be an update that uses the newest Remix version?

[winged wind]

this

[rough ginkgo]

[buoyant venture]

[naive edge]

It's only 2 commits behind the main runtime branch

[warped sierra]

which actually means it's ahead of 0.6.0

[naive edge]

oh, true 😂

[winged wind]

so for now stays the same, i mean, with the version that ships

[naive edge]

The initial (and only) release is outdated. Will probably create a new one this weekend

[winged wind]

i can't just merge the new ver from action builds?

[naive edge]

That should work just fine

Have to find a way to host the base remix mod as well .. kinda bad that I only ship updates with new releases

[buoyant venture]

Does this include the new volumetric code?

[naive edge]

uhh I think so? I had to revert one runtime commit tho as it was causing some weird lighting issue when a portal pair is open but not in view

[winged wind]

@open rampart any updates for this light leaking issue?

[sand otter]

THE LIGHT IS LEAKING

THE LIGHT IS LEAKING

THE LIGHT IS LEAKING

[regal solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/pirate-ship-arr-leek-in-the-boat-leek-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs-gif-12107967

[open rampart]

It’ll be a bit, got a few things on the books but it’s on there, have you noticed any areas that aren’t lit well?

[old abyss]

Wut we're looking at here? I can't distinguish objects from the image

[safe elk]

Light leaking from the walls from i can tell

[old abyss]

Yeah I mean, I can't see what is wrong in the image cz all I see is a white flash, a gravgun and a "08" chamber LED panel

portalgun*

[safe elk]

Gravgun portal zombies mode

[winged wind]

if you look closely you will see a sky leaking the entire chamber lol

[old abyss]

Aaah, so that stripe in the middle is the skybox.
Prolly something tagged as decal or is a transparent object

[winged wind]

yeah its tagged as transparent object

[naive edge]

he probably set the transmittance to high. There is no surface behind the emissive strips so you have to play with the transmittance of the glass to hide that

[open rampart]

Oh snap that's probably it, thanks!

valve nooooo EWWWWW

they texture stretched a gray texture and even using artist made textures it's just a stretched mess

[frail lily]

that's why you can replace models

[open rampart]

polyhaven has some nice cliff models......gunna test somethin real quick

[frail lily]

A quick and dirty cave/cliff isn't hard to do

[sleek bay]

still making my AI girlfirend

[open rampart]

she's so pwetty

[sleek bay]

beautiful eyes

[open rampart]

Model replacements very very stable, w xorxor

[naive edge]

static props are the only stable thing unfortunately 😜

[open rampart]

Looks like the toolkit still has that disappearing glitch if you add/remove a reference

[frail lily]

Question: would it be possible to replace the whole cave with a single model?

[naive edge]

if the cave meshes are stable, you could remove all the single meshes and attach the full-single model to one of the og meshes or to a map marker

kinda risky, if the anchor gets culled, so does the whole cave model

[frail lily]

thanks obama

[drifting temple]

https://x.com/Salamanding1/status/1864390248983347274/photo/1

Salamanding (@Salamanding1) on X

been cooking on stream

Twitter · Dec 4, 2024, 7:24 PM

[drifting temple]

Beautiful. (Also she farts deadly neurotoxin.)

[sand otter]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1251280763526054028/1305547739676938392/Horse.gif

wha..

[west bolt]

Is "Skurtyy's Portal 2 RTX PBR Pack" a good PBR pack until people make a whole pack of assets from scratch? (Since this is using AI upscaled textures)

[thin geode]

it's using one of the best options available for AI upscaling & PBR generation, so yeah

it looks pretty good overall

[west bolt]

do I need to put it in the folder into RTX-REMIX's mods folder?

along with portal2rtx?

[naive edge]

I'm sure there is a detailed readme on moddb

[uncut kiln]

just to get a reading, what sort of resolution and framerate are others able to get it at? with dlss at auto at 1080p on a 4090 it seems kind of stuck at 30 fps during chapter 6 deep underground. even if i raise and lower the resolution, dlss, and other rtx settings, it just hovers at 30

[open rampart]

bulb update chat (ignore the color, haven't referenced default portal 2 yet)

well fuck

one lightbulb? I guess valve

[open rampart]

looks like they used 3 lightbulbs, not too shabby

[naive edge]

The game is cpu bound in later chapters because of the amount of props it draws. This should improve with the next release

[uncut kiln]

makes sense

[open rampart]

fixed

[heady laurel]

that PBR texture looks nice

[open rampart]

Thanks!

Update coming out today, spent all night patching some stuff up, anyone have anything they ran into/saw/didn't see? I can add it to this update

[naive edge]

#1289195427119501424 message

[rough ginkgo]

you're most likely cpu bound due to less culling in bigger maps

[dapper ravine]

will gels be fixed? I just started Old Aperture and it's gonna be a bit difficult not seeing them on the ground

[thin geode]

for any problematic textures, try using PBRify instead to see if it works better

PBRFusion did a great job on these though, like really nice

seeing it work on a game with a higher base texture quality is great. instead of like 64x64 lol

[open rampart]

How's dis? I got rid of the height map for it - here's it vs. the original

[open rampart]

where the heck are those white ceilings

Err i think I'll remove the normal maps and add a bit of metallic and mess with the rougness

[naive edge]

First level, container ceiling

[naive edge]

Mh?

[open rampart]

many thank you's

yikes, I added a height map and forgot to adjust the displacements - it went with the default 0.05

I put in a ticket earlier this week to make the default 0.01, 0.05 seems like a weird default

My lil python script didn't seem to work, so this project I've replaced everything by hand

[open rampart]

Do you see any color gel? I can see them

[pallid hatch]

Possible they’ve been playing without enhancements the whole time?

[open rampart]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/skurtyys-portal-2-rtx-pbr-pack/downloads/skurtyys-portal-2-rtx-pbr-pack-version-12

[open rampart]

Ohhhhh I see now. Gosh dangit lol, looks like when I replaced the texture it doesn't let the gel appear on impact. With just xorxor's mod in the remix folder it works. Crud, 1.2.1 coming very soon

[open rampart]

Looks like the gel can land on every other surface, unless I'm missing any you've noticed besides the one above 🙂 @dapper ravine

[dapper ravine]

Thanks mate 👍

[naive edge]

software skinning is causing the cpu bottleneck .. anyone wanna reimplement fixed function hw skinning? 😜

[hearty shell]

why not just invert the height map

that way the grout wont be extruded

[buoyant venture]

I think it's easier for me to just buy a new CPU

[naive edge]

Don't think that this would help much because single thread performance hasn't increased much since .. years?

[thin geode]

nah single thread performance has been steadily improving

[winged wind]

if you have an amd 7800X3D oh yeah that's an improvement

Games in general loves Cache

[thin geode]

i mean pure single thread perf

disregarding 3d cache

between my 5800x and 7950x3d, single thread performance rose 17%

going from a 5600 to a 9600x is a 29% improvement

[lyric summit]

at least it's not in conjunction with a million triangle strips of like a few tris long

Cause that's like 2fps even on vanilla dxvk

[thin geode]

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/4811vs6199/AMD-Ryzen-5-5600-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-9600X
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/3869vs5234/AMD-Ryzen-7-5800X-vs-AMD-Ryzen-9-7950X3D

it'd definitely help to upgrade. it's probably not worth it just for this though lol

[buoyant venture]

My Mac Mini has better CPU performance than my desktop

[naive edge]

aaaah so many things that would drastically improve things ..

1. enabling cl_modelfastpath & cl_tlucfastpath to get hashes of dynamic props stable

• no way to get FF rendering to work because they are skinned in the shader

2. disabling mat_softwareskin to really improve performance

• same as above

[thin geode]

is there any particular area or scene that has this issue? i'd like to see how it performs on my system, and i could do testing for you if necessary

[uncut kiln]

chapter 6, all the underground maps

[ripe hazel]

We're going to have to wait a long time for single thread performance to double considering I'm getting around 30 fps on a 9800X3D in some of those areas

And you'd probably want 60

What's interesting is although I am not fully using my GPU with DLSS Balanced, Ultra Perf increases performance further, despite what looks like a CPU bottleneck

Here is the save if people wanna check their perf

[thin geode]

could be a VRAM bandwidth thing?

hmm

[ripe hazel]

That would be interesting to check

[winged wind]

omg 30 to 45 fps using a 4090

[ripe hazel]

Thank god for frame gen

[winged wind]

cries in 3000 series

[buoyant venture]

I know for a fact, my whole PC is the bottleneck

If it wasn't for FSR, the game would be entirely unplayable for me

[winged wind]

fsr without fg, right?

[buoyant venture]

Yeah, but FSR upscaling looks better than the default NIS or TAA

[thin geode]

anyone know a magical command to skip to chapter 6

or wherever the poor performance is

[buoyant venture]

I'm pretty sure you can just load maps through the console

I've only done it in Portal though, I would never skip Portal 2's story

[thin geode]

yeah you can

hm

[ripe hazel]

You could use my save

[winged wind]

you can't just select chapter 6 in the mission menu ?

[thin geode]

not without playing the game through first

[thin geode]

so i am also CPU bound

[winged wind]

right

[ripe hazel]

or use "map sp_a3_01" in the console and play until the performance goes bad

[thin geode]

39 FPS here

4090's sitting at 25% usage lol

[buoyant venture]

Shame the AMD GPU is at 0%, smh
Should be putting it to work, lol

[winged wind]

did u even use FG?

[thin geode]

putting it to ultra performance does increase FPS to 56, so it's not totally on the CPU side of things. i do think it might be a bandwidth issue

[thin geode]

i don't like using FG

[buoyant venture]

Portal 2 with RTX about to be a 5000 series exclusive at this rate

[thin geode]

nah there's something odd happening here

i hope those reflex stats help xor with this

[ripe hazel]

Performance does scale with resolution

77 fps with 852x480 ultra performance DLSS

[winged wind]

wow im seeing so many people using 4090 cards

[thin geode]

is it possible that culling isn't working right?

all of these lights are loaded right now in the very poor performing section

and i've seen similar performance stats in FNV with culling fully disabled

it's definitely not working

so uh... that's probably why

it's rendering all of this when looking in the direction of the fire all the time

[frail lily]

you want as little culling as possible with PT, because even things that are out of view and/or far away can contribute to the illumination

[thin geode]

yes, but it's rendering things that are multiple chambers away

this doesn't happen in other levels, when performance is okay

i just checked some other ones

[frail lily]

uh ok, I thought it was just zoomed out

[thin geode]

ah no, that's just how much it's rendering. it goes pretty far

[frail lily]

I'd love to have some more capable people helping xoxor4d out, I must say I'm a bit surprised there aren't many around (unless they're doing their thing in private)

let me rephrase that: there are many people doing their part in any way they can, I just thought there would be more people doing the kind of stuff xoxor4d is doing, more interest

[thin geode]

there aren't many people here with this level of shader and reverse engineering knowledge

plus it takes a lot of time to do stuff like this 😦

[frail lily]

provod has been making a path tracer for Xash3D for like 3 years 😭

(granted, he's doing it as an exercise to learn, but still)

[buoyant venture]

[blissful fulcrum]

It's worse in act 4, sp_a4_finale1 for example I got 10 fps

[dapper ravine]

cries in budget 3050

[frail lily]

laughs in 5090 Ti

[dapper ravine]

In my experience you do get diminishing returns as the resolution lowers though. May be different for otheother cards. VRAM seems to be my main bottleneck at 8gb

[winged wind]

@open rampart is this normal?

[open rampart]

Hmm it might be the game's black shader, could you plz type status in the console and see what the map name is?

[wide prawn]

Did @slender plover implemented it in dark messiah?

[winged wind]

give me a sec

map: sp_a3_jump_intro a

im using your pbrpack 1.2

[open rampart]

Thanks! I'll put in a fix

[naive edge]

Correct! That will drastically improve with the next release. Areas with lots of props are still affected tho

[slender plover]

I sent Xoxor the exact code and areas he'd need to enable the stuff as per the edits made by NVIDIA in Portal

like a while back

no doubt portal 2 has some diffs

but the general idea is the same

and he has a good handle on what is needed from the DX side

so I'm sure once he finds the functions mentioned he can probably implement his own version easily

[frail lily]

Sorry if I go a bit OT but do you think it would also translate to Black Mesa?

[naive edge]

That would require me to manually implement the fixed function rendering paths that are no longer part of the executable. So .. not gonna happen

[frail lily]

I like that movie

"The Executables"

[open rampart]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/skurtyys-portal-2-rtx-pbr-pack/downloads/skurtyys-portal-2-rtx-pbr-pack-version-13 fixed!

[analog copper]

i love you

[open rampart]

love xorxor, they made all dis possible

[winged wind]

im xoxolover

[red panther]

https://tenor.com/view/strawberry-sensory-sensory-bear-animation-dancing-gif-9321477551704385728

[open rampart]

My portal 2 capture folders like 26gbs

[winged wind]

because of the PBR

[buoyant venture]

https://tenor.com/view/jontron-dab-dabs-omg-verynice-gif-6057167

[winged wind]

i trying to finish the game with the pbr pack made by @open rampart

[open rampart]

I’ll investigate, thanks!

I’ll include you +everybody who’s reported bugs so far in the credits, makes it easier for the next person who downloads it to be smoother

[winged wind]

well after a while playing without issues, i cant play after weathley tries to kill me, the level crash instantly after that door

the map is sp_a4_finale2

[winged wind]

almost forgot, i noticed that on the first level this texture is not showing correctly

[open rampart]

You da best Durannt

[dapper ravine]

Interesting, because I was able to get through that part just fine

[pallid hatch]

Captures don’t include enhancements

[open rampart]

speedrunning portal 2 fixes

[naive edge]

try the latest github actions build

[winged wind]

yeah this crash was using latest build action from github

[analog copper]

is portal 2 the highest graphical fidelity game working with remix?

i feel like it is lowk

not including gmod cause fuck allat

[naive edge]

the fire effect was causing the slowdown btw.

[thin geode]

it wasn't just that, i tried hiding it

there's slowdown in other areas too with the culling issue

[naive edge]

How did you try to hide it? r_drawparticles 0 gained me like 30 fps
But yea it's a single huge area ..

edit: I've fixed the effect slowdown with the last commit

[thin geode]

i just ignored the texture in remix

either way, nice work 🙂

[naive edge]

Ah yea that won't help as my code was the bottleneck 😂
I was locking/unlocking each effect surface to modify the vertex uv's which is really, really bad performance wise.
I'm now modifying the uv's when the vertex is created by the game (before it gets placed into the vertex buffer)

[uncut kiln]

[uncut kiln]

ur latest commit had an unused variable causing the workflow to fail 🔥🔥🔥

[winged wind]

this two latest action builds didn't work for me, they also crash

[winged wind]

this is on the last level "the part where he kills you"

this build version from xoxor4d github seems to work rigthly fine, but like i said the latest, at least, two build action won't work, they crash right after that door opens

[naive edge]

Are you talking about dxvk-remix action builds? I meant the latest p2-rtx action builds (which also ship a custom runtime). Please try the latest p2-rtx build .. and if it still crashes, remove the mod from skurtyyskirts if you have that installed

[winged wind]

Yeah those ones, ok then il try and see if its working

[winged wind]

So after testing around some things i could say that if i want to finish the game then i would need this dxvk version (the one who ships with the main mod from xoxor4d portal 2 github) but if you want to use the latest action builds from dxvk and play around then you should probably avoid the last level "sp_a4_finale2" because it gonna crash the remix bridge no matter what

[pallid hatch]

… pretty sure this portal requires a custom runtime build. Does it not @naive edge?

[winged wind]

il been able to finish the game with the custom runtime build but if i merge the new actions build from dxvk i cannot pass trough that door, it gonna crash so i think that we need that custom runtime, yeah

[pallid hatch]

Yeah … I mean reporting that the game crashes without the thing that’s supposed to make it work isn’t exactly helpful

[winged wind]

i hope can help a little reporting this lol, maybe it's how that custom bridge remix is ​​programmed to work with p2

[pallid hatch]

I think you are misunderstanding. It’s not designed to work with the builds from the official GitHub pages from nvidia, that’s why it comes with one

It might in the future, but not now

[winged wind]

oh that's the whole reason

[pallid hatch]

Yep

[winged wind]

yeah now i understand

srry my bad

[pallid hatch]

Np all good

[winged wind]

Anyway I could almost finish the game if it weren't for that runtime bridge error, so that make it almost a "little" compatible with p2

[pallid hatch]

Yeah. I’m guessing xorxor added some custom bridge commands or something of that effect that need to be upstreamed to the official repository for it to work with the nvidia builds

[naive edge]

Well it there are no changes that are really required. Some stuff will just not look correct without these changes tho. Area connecting portals will not work, gel will not work etc.
Shouldn’t be crashing

[open rampart]

Huh that’s odd, I was able to load into and go through the door without crashing with the PBR pack on the latest build

[west bolt]

I got it to work.

[open rampart]

I’m glad! I made the installation process a little easier, don’t know why I didn’t think of that method in the first place

[west bolt]

At least I think I don't know if you need to just drag and drop. I'm not able to check cuz I'm not gonna be going to my dad's house to test.

[winged wind]

so weird, il gonna re-tested to make sure

[winged wind]

Hey guys, il made a video showing the stunning visuals of this path traced game, btw i give the credits to @naive edge and @open rampart. Hope you like it and thanks!

https://youtu.be/PgKbPZDG9tU

[open rampart]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/skurtyys-portal-2-rtx-pbr-pack/news/skurtyys-portal-2-rtx-pbr-pack-out-now w xorxor

[red panther]

https://bc222010.github.io/Portal-2-With-RTX-Slider/index.html

Made RTX on vs Off site

[west bolt]

@open rampart do I need to put your Portal 2 RTX PBR folder from the archive into the mods folder and then launch the game for it to work or will I need to enable your mod?

[open rampart]

Hey did you get it working? You'd need to download the mod and unzip, and then just drag and drop into your portal 2 folder. The mod should launch with enchantments automatically on 👍

[pallid hatch]

installing this mod has three steps. is there a specific one people are confused about?

1. Unzip rtx-remix.zip.
2. Place the rtx-remix folder into Portal 2's main directory:
  Example: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Portal 2\rtx-remix
3. Launch the game using xorxor4d's launch script: _start_portal2_rtx.bat.

[west bolt]

Yes I did get it to work!

[noble atlas]

Is it fine to set the remix graphics preset to ultra or was the mod specifically designed with the default high preset in mind?

[open rampart]

Ultra's totally fine

[earnest wind]

Oh hey! I was waiting for this game to get RTX treatment

[grim sonnet]

Hey, I'm new here and very confused about installing the xorxor mods to get Portal 2 working with RTX? I've never used RTX Remix until today, so I'm not sure how to set it up to work.

[red panther]

https://github.com/xoxor4d/p2-rtx

Everything is basically covered here

[grim sonnet]

Thank you, I tried this way but somehow messed up and not sure what went wrong. I will try it again. Edit: Got it to work, it's beautiful! Thank you!!

[naive edge]

Light shaping 🥔

[drifting temple]

funky

[fluid bison]

https://tenor.com/view/terry-crews-dance-rave-party-hard-gif-11961973

[naive edge]

trigger/kill lights using sounds 😜

[drifting temple]

God damn

That's actually epic

[kind lance]

Holy fuck

[red panther]

I have no words

[winged wind]

NICEEE!!!, i need to know what resolution is that?

[naive edge]

uh 1080p

[winged wind]

its sooo clean

with dlss quality?

[naive edge]

balanced

[winged wind]

even for a 1080p

wow

[buoyant venture]

Can't wait to assign someone to this chapter

[fluid bison]

That's crearive approach, nice one

[open rampart]

https://tenor.com/view/evolution-gif-9858540

Remix evolved into the 2nd sense

[buoyant venture]

I think it's 6th sense

[red panther]

Yo I just was thinking the same thing, the wave of a flashback is wild

[open rampart]

next pbr update I'm gunna see if I can add some lights to these 🙂‍↕️

[open rampart]

@naive edge any tips to setup an actions tab like yours? 👀 doing a little research on how to set one up lol, all the tutorials I’m finding are code only 😅

[naive edge]

What exactly do you want it to do?

[open rampart]

It’d be cool to have it be an updated place to get the latest remix runtime + the latest rtx.conf it’s for my gmodrtx

[naive edge]

Uh but there are already action builds for the runtime? Forking it to implement your own action would require you to manually pull from the main repo each timer there is a new commit

[open rampart]

Oh that’s true, and given that the bridge is broken for gmod atm I should probably leave it as it is with a version I know works 😅

[sleek bay]

oh well done xoxor4d mate thats sick

[winged wind]

im a xoxolover? of course

just thanks @naive edge for working so hard, you made awesome things!

[open rampart]

Update - no lights lol, one side works, but the moment you step through no matter what mesh the lights on, it switches off

[summer furnace]

in the readme file, it says to drop it into the folder "rtx remix". where do i get that folder from (sorry im new lol)

wait no im just dumb

[summer furnace]

ok no im still confused lol

[open rampart]

https://youtu.be/rlUsWYgFHCA?si=Z4dG8oOSxRz22NwX

[open rampart]

https://github.com/xoxor4d/p2-rtx/actions/runs/12454508971 You should just be able to unzip this and drop it into your portal2 directory Here's the instructions and the latest release

[buoyant venture]

I wish asi loaders worked on Linux, would be interesting to get this working on Steam Deck

[old abyss]

Is it the only blockers?
There should be an easy workaround it

[buoyant venture]

Yeah, it's just the asi loader, RTX Remix works on Linux like normal otherwise

I remember for Need for Speed, I had to work around the dinput8

[naive edge]

There is now a custom loader and no more asi loader

[naive edge]

Published a new, full release (1.5) that includes lots and lots of changes and improvements
https://github.com/xoxor4d/p2-rtx/releases/tag/1.5

[buoyant venture]

👀

I'll give it a try soon

[buoyant venture]

The two main issues I'm expecting the Steam Deck to be is Memory and CPU bottlenecked

[naive edge]

starting to work on the wiki 😜
https://github.com/xoxor4d/p2-rtx/wiki/Map-Settings

[buoyant venture]

[dapper ravine]

@open rampart How do I input images for PBRFusion? I selected the right folder and did the queue prompt stuff but it shows errors and says access denied

[open rampart]

lets go here https://discord.com/channels/1028444667789967381/1263287747905327236

[summer furnace]

tried so hard to get it to work but it just didnt

did everything but nothing changed (+idk what im doing lol)

[naive edge]

Follow these instructions https://github.com/xoxor4d/p2-rtx/releases/tag/1.5

The action build you downloaded is missing some necessary files as these require you to have installed the initial full release first

[summer furnace]

it got stuck here

oh

did i do something wrong

i do have the rtx-remix folder but it only has "mods" in it

its still not working lol

[naive edge]

Do you have winmm.dll or an _rtx.asi file in the bin folder?

[summer furnace]

w h a t

i didnt know i needed those

where do i find them

[ornate heath]

asi files are old

im pretty sure he is asking you if you have leftovers from the older versions

@summer furnace

check the bin folder

do those 2 files exist?

[summer furnace]

no

[ornate heath]

screenshot of the bin folder hold on

[naive edge]

Thats good! Are there log files in rtx-remix/logs? If so, delete them, restart the game ... then post them here

Also, if the game starts windowed, please take a screenshot of the titlebar (the window name)

[naive edge]

And uh .. looking at your folder, you have a lot of remix files there that dont belong there (d3d9.dll, NvRemixLauncher etc)

[summer furnace]

ohhhh

should i delete and reinstall the game to clear the folder

[naive edge]

That might be a good idea

[summer furnace]

doing it now

[naive edge]

Also try installing this then: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/download/details.aspx?id=8109

https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x86.exe

[summer furnace]

it didnt clear it :(

[naive edge]

just remove the files yourself if steam doesnt do that

[summer furnace]

ok

ok i cleared it

i think its working??

[summer furnace]

so now its stuck here or maybe its just taking a while to load?

[naive edge]

yea first start is slow as its building the sound cache. If it's not done after 5 minutes, just close and restart manually

[summer furnace]

ok

[summer furnace]

restarted it, it seemed to work, and then it got stuck on the part where wheatley says "made this test m'self" and it got stuck saying m'se m'se m'se m'se

[naive edge]

remix can be a little unstable at times .. just try again

[summer furnace]

lemme guess crashes are normal

yep its working now

[summer furnace]

i think i broke it

[naive edge]

you did not install the base remix mod

[summer furnace]

ohhh forgot lol

[naive edge]

reaaaaad

[frail lily]

😂

[lunar marten]

https://tenor.com/view/boondocks-read-rap-fans-exorcism-uncle-ruckus-gif-23038600

[vast snow]

hey, i just installed the mod and skurtyyskirts pbr pack and but i don't know if this is normal

[winged wind]

you need version 1.3

[vast snow]

that's the thing i have version 1.3

[naive edge]

You are probably missing the latest portal2rtx (base remix mod) that "comes" with the compatibility mod itself?

[vast snow]

i tried to reinstall it to see it was the issue but apparently it's not

[slim gulch]

Is AA off?

[naive edge]

It's a really odd issue. Some people have it and other's don't. Just tried tuning on AA to see if that's causing it (doesn't for me "unfortunately" 😂 )

Fixed it by manually setting the alpha blend state in the remix toolkit on every bit of foliage. I guess skurtyy did not do that on his mod

[open rampart]

Yeah I’ll have to look, coulda sworn it looked ok in the toolkit and ingame 😅

[naive edge]

Yea .. happens for some and is fine for others. Still haven't found the root cause for this

[rough ginkgo]

@naive edge what's in your custom remix build? i'm having issues with stability on the d3d9 device controlling the remix api lights in gmod. I was thinking about implementing it in a different way but wanted to get your input first

[frail lily]

I see what you did there

[naive edge]

Uhm nothing in that regard.

• increases the rayportal limit
• makes use of some unused renderstates to manipulate certain parts of the opaque shader + set texture categories and texture hash via d3d

[naive edge]

mh? 😂

[frail lily]

The "root" of the problem, with plants. Tee-hee

[naive edge]

oh lmao

[cedar edge]

loving this mod ❤️

[fast sedge]

lights look so clean

yet the rest of the place looks ASS

[fast sedge]

like dirty

not like the textures are bad

[naive edge]

Yea it's missing the normal map

[frail lily]

I think @fast sedge is pointing out that while the place is in decay the light fixtures on the ground look pristine

[fast sedge]

thank you

[frail lily]

I do agree, just for the record, but remember the mod is still in progress, so maybe they haven't got to that point yet

[fast sedge]

true

[dense holly]

@naive edge has anyone else reported crashes using the latest build? I installed it as well as the PBR pack and it's CTD quite often with camera change events like this - [21:11:12.351] info: [RTX] Portal teleportation was detected [21:11:18.244] info: [RTX] Portal teleportation was detected [21:11:25.249] info: [RTX] Portal teleportation was detected [21:11:42.408] info: Camera cut detected on frame 5170 [21:11:42.408] info: [RTX] Opacity Micromap: enabled [21:11:49.008] err: [37] common device objects were not disposed of.

Half the time i relaunch the game, there are two player models clipping over each other, and the camera anchor has been moved slightly away from where it should be

Could maybe have something to do with changing DLSS to quality mode + enabling Frame Gen? those are the only settings I changed. Reverting rtx.conf with the one from your zip let me progress again

[naive edge]

Mhh yea remix has a tendency to crash on quick scenery changes (it improved a lot tho).
Can you post a screenshot from the player model issue? Could happen if you save the in-game rtx settings at a time when the game has the playermodel enabled (eg. parts of the very last level)

[ripe mist]

I just followed what was on the release tab of your github repo @naive edge do I need to install anything else? the game does launch now but the test chambers look so dark, is that normal? are there just no lights in the base game?

I see on github that this issue might be with RTX-remix not capturing point lights. is there a fix for this?

[naive edge]

Hard to say without an Image of what you mean. But yea, levels will be pretty dark overall (except a few where I did some touch-up) because this is not a full remix mod by any means. It makes the game compatible and provides a base for people to create their own remix mods for the game

[ripe mist]

ah I understand now

so I need to make or find another remix mod besides the one you provided in the guide which doesn't really modify anything besides stuff you expressly touched up on?

because for example in GLaDOS' room there's basically no light source except when the stalemate associate booth opens

[naive edge]

Correct! I've mainly touched up the first few levels and a few random other ones in regards to lighting and light leaking issues due to culling. I've also added emissive maps to some models but that is generally not enough to light up the entire scene as the og. game was using a lot of "fake" ambient lights

[ripe mist]

and that isn't an option with rtx-remix? or would it not look good with rtx?

[naive edge]

Well you can certainly place lights without actual "light sources" aka. fake lights using rtx-remix. That still requires a modder to do that per level because remix itself won't do that.

[ripe mist]

how many levels are there?

[west bolt]

Does the latest update make the command line perms obsulete? so I need to add the portal 2 RTX launcher to my steam games list

[naive edge]

Yup the launcher sets them automatically. If you need any other launch arguments, the launcher will happily accept them

[west bolt]

Understood!

[misty forge]

I FIGURED IT OUT

Did the other person who had the D3D error have ASUS GPU Tweak 3 installed??

Because THAT'S the problem

It causes issues with a LOT of GPU utilizing Software

I turned it off and now my game runs

So any OSD software is capable of causing issues. it's just apparently GPU Tweak 3 is the most problem causing

[winged wind]

i just use MSI Afterburner with RTSS and had no issues

[viral peak]

No way there's a portal 2 rtx remix implementation

that's literally so cool

I've been waiting for something like this for so long

[analog copper]

hawk tuah

[winged wind]

its secure to update?

[bright nebula]

Mine keeps crashing after the new update and even going to a previous build doesn't work any help?

[naive edge]

uh 😐

[winged wind]

Portal released a minor update

[winged wind]

it crashed, so yeah im having issues

😦

this minor update literally broke my portal rtx so i think that i need to re-install the mod

[buoyant venture]

who the fuck was crashing players, what a menace

[winged wind]

so now i cant play portal 2 😡

[naive edge]

l4d2 got a similar update but my mod is still working fine there .. offsets most likely changed with this one so might take some time to fix

[naive edge]

@winged wind I've pushed a hotfix to make it compatible with the latest steam update:
https://github.com/xoxor4d/p2-rtx/releases/tag/1.5.1

[winged wind]

you're my hero

[winged wind]

we still need to launch the game trough p2-rtx.exe right?

i hope one day and if its possible of course, run the game trough steam

[bright nebula]

Thank You!

[buoyant venture]

I’m still waiting for steamworks to approve my tax info

[kind lance]

I imagine it should be doable. Valve supports total conversion-type mods on steam that have their own store page and require the ownership of the original game. I think p2rtx would fit

[analog copper]

get the license from valve

[buoyant venture]

Valve won’t respond to us 😔

I believe me and @red panther have both contacted them

[red panther]

Yep

[analog copper]

get nvidia to help you

valve has been

hush hush with mod creators recently

poor cs classic

[red panther]

Talked to nv_nyle a bit

He was slightly veg with who owned the assets but it ended up being safe to assume it’s valve

And well it’s our mod

[analog copper]

yeah this might be a tough battle if you really try

[red panther]

With the assistance of Nvidia making remix

[analog copper]

valve is weird as fuck man

[red panther]

Yeah

[analog copper]

actually a bipolar company

[red panther]

They didn’t respond to me at all

Oh

That was already said

[buoyant venture]

The only thing right now NVIDIA might be helping us out with is an announcement trailer
I wouldn’t really push them to help with Valve

[analog copper]

what're they helping you with

[buoyant venture]

Just to get them to promote the trailer and project

[analog copper]

swag

[buoyant venture]

We just have to plan out trailer stuff like timing

[analog copper]

is the full game performance good yet?

[red panther]

As good as pt is gonna get

[analog copper]

sick

i'd play it but i don't really enjoy portal 2

[red panther]

“Maybe” it’ll get a little better but I wouldn’t bet on it too much

[analog copper]

portal 1 peak

[rough ginkgo]

its definitely one of the better running remix games out there. But there needs to be a lot of level authoring as we're missing a bunch of map lights

[buoyant venture]

For the minimum requirements I’m hoping for RTX 3060/RX 7700XT

[rough ginkgo]

even my 2080 runs it well ngl

except for glados's chamber

[buoyant venture]

My RX 7600 can even somewhat play it

[rough ginkgo]

that kills fps lol

[buoyant venture]

Real

Volumetric lighting is definitely a must for this game

The chamber made a huge difference with it off vs on

[rough ginkgo]

yea, thankfully xorxor4d has set up controls per visleaf, so we can adjust the strength, color ,etc throughout a level

there is so much potential for polish 🔥

[buoyant venture]

I can probably edit all the presets to use Volumetrics by default

That way they all have the intended experience

And it doesn’t really hurt performance

[rough ginkgo]

we should probably lower the bloom strength by default tho

its at 5 and its way too strong