Portal 2

[naive edge]

both

[wispy fiber]

Also where did u get the asset from?

[naive edge]

I "made" it in instamat

tweaked a pre-made material

[wispy fiber]

Ah ok

[naive edge]

lovely

[rough ginkgo]

u should make the pattern your pfp

[wispy fiber]

I’ll miss the silly strawberry fella 💔

[buoyant venture]

That’s actually really smart to recreate carpet material

[sleek bay]

That's a wicked carpet dude. Looks photo real

[drifting temple]

The photo is real

Wow

Super good

[half topaz]

huh Portal 2 has carpet?

[buoyant venture]

💀

[half topaz]

I honestly never noticed

[safe elk]

Gah damn

[naive edge]

Fun fact but the “concrete” around the elevators is supposed to be carpet as well

[safe elk]

Fr?

[naive edge]

The filename suggests that

[buoyant venture]

Motel?

[naive edge]

related to the very first container on intro1

[buoyant venture]

My life has been a lie

[wispy fiber]

So it’s just a really old moldy carpet?

@buoyant venture when ur working on the p2 rtx remaster can you put a suggestion to the texture artists to make a very obviously moldy carpet looking texture for this

And not use concrete

[buoyant venture]

Will do

[polar badger]

Question when do you think the launcher will be available?

[buoyant venture]

Launcher

Wdym

[wispy fiber]

@naive edge do you have a prediction for a timeframe of when the p2 compatibility mod update might release?

[naive edge]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VXawiwin99qpNMDQKluAcffQLBkOAcUG?usp=drive_link

pre-release build for remix 1.0 (do not download p2-rtx_2.0_pre_release_symbols.zip if you don't know what that is used for)

• Added a hotfix zip

• noticed some startup issues on release builds
• fixed glass shards on intro1

[wispy fiber]

Wow ty

[wispy fiber]

where did these messages come from since said its forwarded

[buoyant venture]

[wispy fiber]

ah so private discord for the p2 rtx remaster team got it

[open rampart]

Probably will release 1.5 along with the release of the next compatibility update, maximum cookage 🧑‍🍳

[buoyant venture]

I have to still migrate everything over

[half topaz]

how many different projects do we have running in here now? I thought it was all moving over to Steam but now we have a standalone mod update and the separate texture pack still being updated?

[open rampart]

Anybody can remix portal 2, there could be people working in the shadows

[buoyant venture]

I mean the same thing happened with HL2

@open rampart did a PBR pack for HL2 iirc

[half topaz]

oh? I didn't know there was an HL2 project before the official one

[buoyant venture]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/half-life-2-rtx-pbr-assets-not-official-rtx-mod

[half topaz]

nice

[rough ginkgo]

wait this would work on gmod lol, since we went back to old hashes

[buoyant venture]

Do it

TTT maps use a lot of HL2 assets

[rough ginkgo]

didnt he also do CSS assets

might as well throw all of them into the mix

[rough ginkgo]

wish i could, left my pc off at home so i cant remote into it 😦

[buoyant venture]

Shocking, you finally turned off your PC

[rough ginkgo]

its booted into linux and i dont have ssh enabled to remote into it

so its technically off

😦

[buoyant venture]

I only remote when I need both my Mac and Windows PC at the same time

Windows app remote

[winged wind]

so that's about ready!!!

[silk whale]

Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but I have 2 questions,

I'm running the RTX Remix under arch linux using GE-Proton9-26 and:

1. I've made sure I've installed everything properly, and everything else works except for some emission textures and glass refractions, anything I can do to fix this?
2. I've downloaded the Skurtyy's Portal 2 RTX PBR Pack, to install it do I just extract it into the mods folder, or do I put it somewhere else? SImply extracting into the mods folder didn't do anything for me.

Pretty odd as some glass does work fine, and others don't, like the broken glass shards

If it's just a symptom of being a linux user, I can just deal with it lol, but it'd be nice if I could fix it :D

[buoyant venture]

Yeah it’s definitely Linux because I’ve been having the same problem when developing for Steam Deck

[silk whale]

sadge

what about installing the pbr pack?

[buoyant venture]

Haven’t tried it, we’re using internal assets

[silk whale]

I mostly mean whether or not simply extracting the pack into the rtx-remix/mods folder would install it, as that does nothing for me

if u don't know that's fine

[buoyant venture]

That’s usually how it’s done

[wispy fiber]

Beautiful, who remade this asset?

[buoyant venture]

Seems he did

Doesn’t seem to be ours

And it doesn’t look AI upscaled

So I’m ruling out the PBR pack on moddb

[naive edge]

handcrafted in instamat 😜

[sleek bay]

Hellz yea, nice one

[buoyant venture]

What is instamat

[drifting temple]

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=instamat

[buoyant venture]

[naive edge]

took forever - not perfect but better than stock 😂

[analog copper]

ooh das nice

[wispy fiber]

tbh looks like those rubber floor pads

[analog copper]

can you sniff the wall rq

[analog copper]

foam...

[wispy fiber]

freaky?

[wispy fiber]

shit its foam?

[analog copper]

yes dumbass

[wispy fiber]

wow you're so rude what did i do 💔

[analog copper]

💋

[naive edge]

Reduced the tile height strength a bit. Looks better now, right?

[analog copper]

i think it looked good before and still does

[sleek bay]

Looks awesome, done a cracking job on that

[wispy fiber]

Can u send a side by side of them?

[naive edge]

there is a very close one a few posts up

[wispy fiber]

I do think it looks better with the height strength lowered

[frosty cargo]

I'd say increase it a little bit. Right now it doesn't look like separate tiles but instead looks like indents

Just my personal opinion

[half topaz]

I think it looks good where it is, looks like grouted tile

or close to that at least

[thin geode]

it is in a weird in-between area. it looks kiiiinda correct, but i also agree with Joey that many parts of it look wrong

[half topaz]

well it being deep like the first screenshot doesn't look right, I don't think any type of flooring would have such large gaps, and I really wouldn't go deeper than it is right now

if anything I'd just change the texture in the indents so it looks more like grout or something

[thin geode]

really the tiles need to be a bit closer together, and the edges need to be better defined

i don't think it needs to be deeper though

[buoyant venture]

I wish I could do PBR, but I don't think I can extract the USD models without the toolkit

I have access to substance painter as well, lol

[sleek yacht]

https://tenor.com/view/black-sabbath-war-pigs-wait-till-their-judgement-day-comes-cat-meme-gif-4157730141533673846

[naive edge]

Great feedback y'all!

[wispy fiber]

ooo show us ingame

[naive edge]

Vines turned out pretty good as well I think (first timer 😜 )

[frosty cargo]

Looks great!

[naive edge]

Thank you!

[buoyant venture]

Xoxor went from "This is not a remaster" to "I guess I could give it a try"

https://tenor.com/view/cinema-gif-5935759059195122434

[wispy fiber]

If you somehow find a way to make the displacement look better with the texture, then I think it looks near perfect

[wispy fiber]

Will you add SSS to the vines?

[naive edge]

I dont plan to fiddle with that anytime soon no 😛

[wispy fiber]

Ah ok

[half topaz]

what's involved in enabling that feature anyway? I would think leaves need to be modeled with thickness and flagged for SSS, but what else?

it does look fantastic in Indiana Jones

[buoyant venture]

@old abyss

[old abyss]

Remix had a thin surface SSS feature for a while before RTX Skin dropped in 1.0. The older one doesn't required geometry with volume as it simulates the triangles having a "virtual" thickness, and is ideal for stuff like foliage, sheets and curtains as you only need to model a double sided mesh and enable sss with the measurement_distance parameter.
RTX Skin builds on top of that, but now it requires geometry with volume so it can bounce rays inside, and it doesn't use the measurement_distance param anymore. Instead you enable it by setting the "use diffuse profile something" option and play around with these #1353115790861402183 message

[half topaz]

I see, but is it just as simple as flagging a mesh to use the feature and setting a thickness value?

and I suppose some sort of information about the transparency level of the object

[old abyss]

Nope, no need to mess with the mesh flags, it is all in the material settings. All you need to enable thin SSS is set the measurement_distance param to something non-zero.
I recommend start with 0.75, then set your single scattering albedo color to the desired final color (say, green-yellowish for leaves) and the transmission albedo to the opposite of the single scat. albedo color. Only to start with as it produces really strong visuals, then tweak from there

[half topaz]

gotcha

[bronze wren]

my god, these screenshots look awesome

[naive edge]

more 🌿

[frosty cargo]

That's without any SSS right?

[old abyss]

Nah, 2nd pic shows tons of it. xoxor nailed it

[frosty cargo]

Oh yeah I see that now

I was gonna say it looks really really good even without SSS but I guess it just looks really good with it lmao

[open rampart]

Update, 1.5 still cookin - introducing CC0 textures via my quick n' easy API tool

[open rampart]

Went down a rabbit hole and now I’m probably gunna replace all of it with cc0 textures, and upgrade some to pbrfusion 3.0

Edison api makes it very, very, veryyy easy to get stuff replaced and pick out textures. Cuts down my workflow by like 80%

[wispy fiber]

Please skip out on that green metal moss texture

Looks so ugly I’m sorry 💔

[frosty cargo]

It also just doesn't look like a portal surface to me

[wispy fiber]

Oh didn’t realize that was supposed to be a portal surface

[frosty cargo]

Oh I thought you were talking about the white walls with the moss

[wispy fiber]

Ya it’s prob best to just leave that base portal 2 rtx compatibility texture as is

And not replace it

[wispy fiber]

No I was I’m just stupid

[open rampart]

✨no✨

[open rampart]

The ceiling texture I’m axing, and possiblyyyyyy the white/portal textures. May shift shit around, but taking all artistic liberty’s

[drifting temple]

Nah, that moss one looks reallt off

The rest are pretty good

[open rampart]

But it’s supposed to look old, like 500 years after the first game

Or however long it was lol

[analog copper]

dosent look old if it looks like shit

💔

[naive edge]

is it actually moss or rust?

but yea .. looks like it does not belong there

[open rampart]

The ground?

[buoyant venture]

The moss

[open rampart]

am I colorblind 💀

The green moss on the ground?

If the ceilings are open and shit's falling apart rain would make shit all moldy and messy

[buoyant venture]

I’m talking about the walls

Ground looks fine to me

[open rampart]

Ohhhhhh this? Yeah that one's a rough draft, and the ceiling - that's rust 😭

I was like where tf was y'all seeing moss LMAOOOOO

There's itty bits of moss creeping from the floor tiles, I was like what's wrong with dat 😭

[buoyant venture]

In case anyone wants to apply for hardware testing: https://forms.gle/yawm7KZQaGN7pLsCA

[west bolt]

@naive edge has performance improved on the first Chapter because of DLSS 4 and the new transformer RR model?

[naive edge]

what makes you think that transformer is easier on your gpu?

but yea performance is a little better but that is due to the "new" culling system

[west bolt]

I was just wondering if improvements have been made to make the beginning of the game better. (I've tested Transformer on other games and It runs finer)

[naive edge]

CNN gets me 63fps and transformer 58 on the level that I'm on rn

[buoyant venture]

Nah, it improved on all all GPUs, from our tests, even RDNA 2 saw a great boost in performance

[wispy fiber]

What caused the boost in performance?

[buoyant venture]

Xoxor being an optimization God

[wispy fiber]

I can’t wait for the next official release of p2 rtx compatibility

[naive edge]

well the 1.0 runtime and switching from always drawing everything in the current area of the player to drawing everything within a certain radius around the player

[naive edge]

The 2.0 Release of the Portal 2 Compatibility Mod with many improvements to code and the base remix mod that ships with it.

• Most noteworthy - RTX Remix 1.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAF_FkFcxiM
https://github.com/xoxor4d/p2-rtx/releases/tag/2.0

@brazen flicker any idea why I cant post the above into Showcase?

[wispy fiber]

COOKED

[naive edge]

cant post that into showcase for some reason

[wispy fiber]

COOKED FOR THE WHOLE DAY 🔥 🔥 🗣️ 🗣️

[naive edge]

posted it like 2 hours ago only to notice that it failed lmao (shows it for me tho)

[wispy fiber]

U need to send an image iirc

[naive edge]

other posts with just a YT link are fine tho

[wispy fiber]

Weird, maybe it just failed to send and that’s it

[naive edge]

nah something deletes it every time

haha lmao so posting Most noteworthy - RTX Remix 1.0 :green_fire: gets it removed

[buoyant venture]

Do I have to update, or are we good already?

Runtime wise I mean

[naive edge]

not much in there besides the new tonemapper (that is off by default)

and I disabled the emancipation grill proxy by default

I'd suggest updating the runtime + bridge + p2rtx.dll

[brazen flicker]

No idea, automod doesn't block it

[naive edge]

weird

[wispy fiber]

First time I’ve ever seen anything like this

48 fps video on YouTube lol

[buoyant venture]

Will do

[brazen flicker]

generally movies are at 24 fps, and then the hobbit came along and doubled the framerate which means some movies went with 48 fps. Is this a movie by any chance? :P

[drifting temple]

Not all tho, right?

[brazen flicker]

just some are 48, the others are all 24 if they follow the proper cinema format. I'm sure there's also 30 fps movies aplenty.

[fluid bison]

there was 60 or 120 FPS movie, Gemini Man

https://tenor.com/view/nah-thats-new-never-seen-that-interesting-new-hmm-gif-14627274

[wispy fiber]

It was 120 fps

[fluid bison]

yeah, right, i just couldn't remember exactly

[brazen flicker]

That must've either been the sharpest movie in existence or looked like pure soap opera

[fluid bison]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-R8PIADl7s

see for yourself

though its half of original framerate, but it might give an impression

[drifting temple]

This weirds me out on so many levels

[brazen flicker]

eww

[fluid bison]

my favorite moment of this is 6:15, in 60 FPS it so freaking SMOOTH, i watched same moment in 480p30fps, and it doesn't give half of same effect of my surprise

[drifting temple]

That's not supposed to look like that

[brazen flicker]

this looks extremely soap opera

[drifting temple]

It does, yeah

[brazen flicker]

there's a reason why movies aren't shot on high framerates

[drifting temple]

It has got that icarly look lmao

[fluid bison]

that was directed by Ang Lee, just to say

[fluid bison]

you say that, while icarly is 30 FPS

[brazen flicker]

because icarly was a show made for television

[fluid bison]

no shit

[brazen flicker]

which is ... you guessed it... NTSC 60 hz

movies however when shot on film are all 24 fps and the shutter angle and exposure give it that really nice motion blur. a 60 fps movie with no motion blur gets really tiring really quickly to the eyes.

[wispy fiber]

I’m guessing this is a 120 fps clip that was interpolated into a 60 fps clip cause it looks and feels so much smoother than regular 60 fps

[brazen flicker]

you would either cut the frames in half or blend two frames together, either way the shutter angle makes this look REALLY unnatural

[fluid bison]

yeah, when i watched it, it really felt like 120 FPS despite technically being 60

[brazen flicker]

https://tenor.com/view/jeff-goldblum-jurassic-park-whether-gif-23033116

[fluid bison]

i just read some reviews of the movie, high frame rate problem is really rarely mentioned, really rarely, i sawed probably 2 or 3 complaints, againts 5 or 6 times where it actually was....||praised||

the problem everyone has with this movie is Script

[brazen flicker]

funny I just went to rotten tomatoes and saw a bunch of complaints

but I'm not here to discuss if 120 fps movies are a good idea or not, there's a reason why movies are shot at 24 and we'll leave it at that.

[fluid bison]

well, i went to imdb

i personally kinda liked the way movie looked, really makes it look uniquely smooth which made my jaw almost drop at moment i mentioned (6:20)

so unusual, but kinda cool

[wispy fiber]

Look all I’ll say this would look very impressive if it was a highly optimized video game

[fluid bison]

besides that meant that VFX artist had to work 5 times harder as they had to make VFX according to 120 FPS instead of typical 24 FPS

[half topaz]

yeah it's largely a cost issue, and just that people are too used to 24 fps

there's nothing inherently better about the lower framerate, we're just used to it

though I think people are becoming more used to higher framerates due to the prevalence of motion smoothing on modern TVs

[fluid bison]

exactly, in fact 1080p and 4K at their first day of existance were taken not so lightly, we only got used to them after time

[analog copper]

thry did alot of groundbreaking shit for this movie

most theaters showed it at 30/24

[wispy fiber]

@naive edge is it normal for the screen to go black when ui animations happen

like for example the tiling animation when u click a main menu button

turns everything black before finishing

[naive edge]

no - I had that and I fixed it by tagging some random black texture as UI but I guess I did not save the config and forgot about it

I think you can even use your cursor (quickly) to grab it in the viewport

[wispy fiber]

darkness and a rising chill of uncertainty

[naive edge]

did you forgot to install the base mod?

[wispy fiber]

is this normal btw

[wispy fiber]

i just dragged and dropped the p2-rtx_2.0_release files

[naive edge]

please re-read the instructions 😄

[wispy fiber]

oh damn guess i didn't read

apologies

[naive edge]

aw I guess I messed that up with the last few changes I did

[wispy fiber]

nah don't be sorry the errors look sick

[fluid bison]

damn, dude, you should've holden it before November

[wispy fiber]

do yall notice the portal energy isn't in the gun hole but just in another part of the viewmodel

[naive edge]

trust me I tried so many things to get it into there ... I was really close sometimes but something was always really buggy about it. It works when you set the viewmodel scale to 1 in remix

but that makes your gun go into stuff

[analog copper]

its really fuckey

even in other p1/2 mods

[wispy fiber]

ahhh ok

[naive edge]

I tried offsetting it manually but that resulted in more movement of the effect in relation to the gun (the wobble when moving)

[winged wind]

can't try new update before going to sleep sad :(, tomorrow il give it another try re-installing the whole game and install the new update rightly after

[sudden lotus]

hey! im having an issue with the water like one of the previous posts. However, some of the water looks fine, but some are missing textures and i don't know what to do. i installed the the p2-rtx_2.0_release mod, but its still having this issue. anyone know what i could do to fix this?

[naive edge]

That is because I did not touch up that map. I think I've stopped at catapult intro

You'll have to fix that yourself or wait for someone else / the base mod to get updated

If you want to do it yourself, simply copy and past the last entry in comp_water.usda`, eg:

over "mat_00000000CB192824" (
            references = @./materials/AperturePBR_Translucent.usda@</Looks/mat_AperturePBR_Translucent>
        )
        {
            over "Shader"
            {
                custom float inputs:ior_constant = 1.4
                custom asset inputs:normalmap_texture = @./assets/textures_world/water/water_turbolent_01_16x4_OTH_Normal.n.rtex.dds@
                custom int inputs:sprite_sheet_cols = 16
                custom int inputs:sprite_sheet_fps = 17
                custom int inputs:sprite_sheet_rows = 4
                custom float inputs:thin_wall_thickness = 1
                custom bool inputs:thin_walled = 0
                custom color3f inputs:transmittance_color = (0.8996139, 0.8022751, 0.69120914)
                custom float inputs:transmittance_measurement_distance = 3
                custom asset inputs:transmittance_texture = @@
                custom bool inputs:use_diffuse_layer = 0
            }
        }

and change

mat_00000000CB192824

to the hash of the water surface that is not replaced yet

[sudden lotus]

oh ok, thank you for the quick response. awesome mod btw, looks great!

[winged wind]

well, for some odd reason i recently had a crash in the second level of the campaign

[winged wind]

some visuals bugs that i found playing the new release

[buoyant venture]

https://tenor.com/view/linus-tech-tips-ltt-bug-gif-19900847

[naive edge]

Yea we need to wait for the portal 1 rtx update to get that fixed

[winged wind]

when is that?

[naive edge]

why are you asking me

[winged wind]

😦 srry maybe you know a little

[buoyant venture]

Because you’re the Remix God

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-worship-worshipping-now-bowing-gif-12297363

[winged wind]

exactly

[sleek bay]

Dude that looks absolutely sick

[buoyant venture]

https://tenor.com/view/peace-out-gif-3584473422170938815

[wispy fiber]

omfg 155 fps?

[buoyant venture]

Before it was 138

So like a 20fps increase

[wispy fiber]

what made it increased?

[buoyant venture]

Our Remix God Xoxor

[naive edge]

more culling

[buoyant venture]

Except I don’t think imported the configuration for this map yet, unless it’s in the runtime

[naive edge]

the default culling mode changed from drawing all of the area to drawing everything within a certain distance around the player

[buoyant venture]

Got it 👍

[rough ginkgo]

do you still render brush/displacement faces without culling? We do this on gmod rtx and I found it to be pretty cheap. Its the entities like static props that usually tank performance

unless portal 2 uses really hi-poly displacements

[naive edge]

everything within distance X around the player is not culled. Everything outside will have normal frustum and pvs culling if not forced via map settings

[winged wind]

what kind of dlss are u using for that?

[buoyant venture]

FSR

But it’s Ultra Performance

Though maybe performance is finally playable

[half topaz]

I'm actually impressed it looks that clear with FSR ultra performance

can still tell it's heavily upscaled of course, but I was expecting worse

[buoyant venture]

So I made a mistake, that's not FSR it's the worse TAA upscaling
FSR would actually be sharper, lol

[wispy fiber]

No wonder it looks terrible lol get fsr 3 workin already

[buoyant venture]

Lmao, I'm working on it

[wispy fiber]

So with optiscale does fsr 3 get the proper motion vector info or does it not do that?

[buoyant venture]

it takes the inputs from DLSS

[wispy fiber]

Ok so full scale stuff hopefully that’s good, even better when fsr 4 gets added to optiscale

Do u plan on getting a newer amd card?

[buoyant venture]

Eventually yes, going for that RX 9070 XT

[buoyant venture]

The goal is to eventually move away from Optiscaler and add a Native implementation

[wispy fiber]

Do you have any plans on how to do that?

[buoyant venture]

I’m in contact with

Only thing they really don’t like is the RTX branding

[wispy fiber]

i mean like coding wise, u think it'll be as simple as adding fsr 3 to a regular engine

[wispy fiber]

so as a fan you can't fsr 3 by yourself?

[buoyant venture]

I mean a regular game engine usually has a plugin, sadly Remix doesn’t

[buoyant venture]

Nope

Person who got closest was Nukem

At least with fg

[wispy fiber]

i mean like legally

[rough ginkgo]

even if remix runs well on the rx 9070 i get, im gonna miss RR

i hope we can get that working

[buoyant venture]

Yes, you’re allowed to integrate FSR yourself, it’s just a pain

FSR 4 is a different story since it’s closed source right now

[buoyant venture]

Neural Supersampling and Denoising = AMD’s RR

[rough ginkgo]

implementing that into remix sounds like a major pain

[wispy fiber]

do u think the remix devs would be up to add anyone's implementation of fsr 3 into the main branch

[buoyant venture]

They’ve said in the past they are

[buoyant venture]

I made sure to mention it to them

[wispy fiber]

askin cause idk if nvidia or amd higher ups would be happy with that

im scared to have my hopes up then be crushed when its blocked 💔

[buoyant venture]

The Remix team is very friendly towards that kind of stuff

[wispy fiber]

Nah I mean like, higher up higher up people

The devs are obv normal good people, I’m just scared people all the way at the top would see it as a bad thing

Like “ugh how can we allow our competitor’s tech exist in our products!!?!”

Have any amd products or tech been used in nvidia stuff before?

[buoyant venture]

Quake 2 RTX with the FSR 1 implementation since they couldn’t use DLSS

[wispy fiber]

Hope someone codes fsr 3 to rtx remix then 🙏 🙏

[wheat geode]

Digital additions 1.1 yay
https://www.moddb.com/mods/digital-additions/downloads/digital-additions-11

[half topaz]

so how is this different from Skurty's texture pack?

[wheat geode]

Emmisive textures, PBR Fusion 3.0 textures and more lights and a few more

[half topaz]

ah I see

[blissful fulcrum]

Fantastic mod, I love all the new emissives although I do have one criticism. These cubes on top of the elevator and under the floor aren't supposed to be emissive. They have two different textures for this reason. (not emissive->metal_box_lowres and emissive->metal_box_lowres_a.vtf)

[analog copper]

they're just supposed to be dead

[blissful fulcrum]

Yes that's what I'm saying above

[analog copper]

https://tenor.com/view/oops-gif-10031223162004539162

[buoyant venture]

Why are the textures so low

[analog copper]

maybe the vram texture streaming shit

its been doing that to me recently

[sudden lotus]

could someone please show me how to fix the water that has missing textures? i have no idea how to code lol

[viral peak]

Same i need help with that

[viral peak]

nvm i fixed it

[sudden lotus]

How did you do that? Because that seems to be the only problem with the mod, other than the weird skybox in underground old aperture

Idk how to fix the skybox either

[wispy fiber]

Did any of y’all get mw19 gold on the portal gun

[vernal sinew]

The skinability of remix is terrifying.

[blissful fulcrum]

There is also this weird bug where in some chambers the test chamber sign never lights up or it does so intermittently

[red panther]

I need to get Dark Ether on there

[blissful fulcrum]

On the destroyed buttons these are backlit displays so the CFLs also need to be lit up as well

[blissful fulcrum]

You also missed a couple emissive materials like the destroyed item dropper which reminded me I made a map for xoxor4d with every single emissive material in the game excluding the ones he had already done, you can check it out in this GitHub issue

https://github.com/xoxor4d/p2-rtx-base-mod/issues/1

[wispy fiber]

i hope u figure out how cod animated camos work in remix 🙏

[red panther]

🫡

If there’s a will there’s a way

[wispy fiber]

@drifting temple didn't u say u tried getting animated cod camos working or smth?

[sudden lotus]

Would you mind showing me how to fix it please?

[viral peak]

Go to developer settings, click on the textures section of it, then right click on the water texture and tick ignore texture

And you can do this for anything that isn't playing well with rtx remix

[sudden lotus]

Thank you!

[hearty shell]

the fact that it reduces your fps ninefold is horrifying lmao

[blissful fulcrum]

Remember that the engine automatically caps itself at 300 fps

A lot of that drop is due to Source's inefficient single threaded nature and that culling was reduced to a minimum

[buoyant venture]

And then there’s this

[blissful fulcrum]

Literally 86 draw calls lol

I'm assuming this is after the update that redid part of the way culling is done now

[buoyant venture]

Ye

We still have to fix our build to fit the new changes

[blissful fulcrum]

Yeah I was rendering the entire map in that shot

[buoyant venture]

https://www.nightsightproductions.com/portal2rtx
Nothing new on it, but new website

[drifting temple]

.

[austere crescent]

Hey why are the water and portals not displaying properly?

I installed this too but it seems that in the latest version it doesn't work
https://github.com/xoxor4d/p2-rtx-base-mod

[naive edge]

My guess is that you incorrectly installed the base mod that you linked. Double check that

[bright nebula]

hey anyone know to to fix my water its broken on ver 2.0 and only that version, it has the normal map on trop and also has the water just be a still plane

[drifting temple]

I think you need to go to the emergency room for that.

[bright nebula]

in portal 2 rtx XD

[sudden lotus]

yeah, i'm having the same issue

[naive edge]

That is because it now spawns a second mesh above the water surface. That surface has to be made translucent with a normal map animation in the toolkit. I only did this up until act2.
There are two methods to fix this yourself.

Take a scene capture with remix and load that up in the toolkit. Then make that surface translucent and apply the normal animation OR just grab the material name of the surface in the toolkit and manually add it to comp_water.usda. Copy the last entry:

over "mat_00000000CB192824" (
            references = @./materials/AperturePBR_Translucent.usda@</Looks/mat_AperturePBR_Translucent>
        )
        {
            over "Shader"
            {
                custom float inputs:ior_constant = 1.4
                custom asset inputs:normalmap_texture = @./assets/textures_world/water/water_turbolent_01_16x4_OTH_Normal.n.rtex.dds@
                custom int inputs:sprite_sheet_cols = 16
                // ..... more stuff
                custom bool inputs:use_diffuse_layer = 0
            }
        }

and add that below the closing curly bracked of this ^. Then just change over "mat_00000000CB192824" to the hash you copied in the toolkit.

Other method would be to just hide the texture but then it doesnt really look like water anymore

[bright nebula]

THX

[sudden lotus]

which toolkit is he talking about?

[naive edge]

the remix toolkit - you can download it from within the new nvidia app

[open rampart]

Oopsies, if I accidentally touched the screens where the elevators are and reset them to the originals and now the tv's are off in game - would re-installing the mod fix or can I re-ingest your textures?

oh wait jk, that worked lol phewwwwww

[open rampart]

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

[winged wind]

😦 i cant get it work

should i use latest action builds?

also that blue X didnt should cast any light?

[winged wind]

😦 (im using LSFG that's why im getting like 30 fps)

[open rampart]

You may need to install xorxor’s latest release and base mod first

[winged wind]

im on the latest release

[open rampart]

Try reinstalling the base mod

[winged wind]

i did that like 3 times by now but no dice... don't know exactly what is caussing the game to look like this... i-reinstalled the whole game as well

[winged wind]

i fixed the water issue, this is not how that door should look like, right?

[open rampart]

Yeah that was a change I didn’t test to see what it looked like in game, it’ll get remodeled in 1.6

[open rampart]

Learned substance painter with the 1.5 update! Very fun and very intuitive - having previous knowledge of photoshop made getting the grasp of things much easier than I thought. Was pretty proud of the camera, the left is the previous version, the right's mine

[open rampart]

oopsies, there's a displacement issue 😅 Finding spots for hotfixes so if anyone see's anything wild plz lemme know

[naive edge]

Why is your top water surface invisible

[open rampart]

The top layer shows the default water normal map, I think somehow I must've touched the water texture or tweaked something that broke it - I'll have to go back and see if my mods doing something to it

[red panther]

Why is the water just a normal map💀

[buoyant venture]

It’s like this on Linux by default

[buoyant venture]

No more AI?

https://tenor.com/view/oogway-my-time-has-come-gif-8019684

[open rampart]

LOL AI as the base, and then as much replaced as possible with handmade textures The majority of portal 2 in 1.5 has been replaced, but 1.6 will make it a lot more revised

[slim gulch]

With the latest skurtyyskirts textures 👀

[sleek yacht]

sorry, but that looks bad

😕

[analog copper]

gotta agree

idk what it is but it's throwing me off

[buoyant venture]

Probably the AI textures and a big light source missing

That’s my personal opinion tho

[slim gulch]

Another from an earlier level.

[buoyant venture]

I love god rays, a lot of the Portal 2 concept art is designed with it

[rough ginkgo]

for me its the mismatch of art styles, nothing looks coherent at all

[analog copper]

https://tenor.com/view/hood-hood-irony-horse-galloping-horse-in-the-hood-horse-running-gif-16073172035361000102

[open rampart]

Oh it looks like the water's broken on the main mod, this is with just the base mod loaded

[naive edge]

I’ve only touched up maps up until the middle of act 2 so this is expected

[open rampart]

Ahhh gotcha, I really like how you made the rippling water, feels so real

[naive edge]

#1289195427119501424 message

[naive edge]

cursed

[bright nebula]

This is just the portal equivilant of the dehydrated mercs from tf2

[warped sierra]

That looks like an incorrectly applied skinned replacement. Are you messing around with replacing Chell's mesh?

[naive edge]

Hey mark! I was experimenting with getting fixed function skinning to work but I think I'll drop that idea .. for now at least

[warped sierra]

ah, gotcha. The error you're getting looks a lot like what happens when we use mismatched skeletons trying to replace the skinned meshes.

Source engine has a tendency to have strip bones out of the skeletons before sending them to the GPU. i.e. the original skeleton in the asset files may have separate bones for each finger (like a glove), but then the mesh they actually send to the GPU combines the middle, ring, and pinky finger to all use the same bones. That removes 6 bones from the list and throws off everything that comes after it.

Doing that means adjusting both the skeleton (removing the joints) and the mesh (remapping the per-vertex joint indices to reflect the new joint list).

I'm guessing that whatever you're doing to enable fixed function skinning is stripping the bones from one of those, but not the other.

[naive edge]

I've tried to implement some of King David's stuff he posted for m&m. Not really sure if I need all of it because the game already provides the correct data (I think).
Apart from the broken skinning, I had all sorts of dynamic meshes attached to the player (doors, buttons etc) so must have done something wrong somewhere.

Without really looking into it, I assume you were talking about this?

[warped sierra]

I'm not sure what that code is doing... but if it's taking a list of bone matrices, removing some, and shuffling the later matrices earlier, then it's probably the "strip bones from the skeleton" part.

The actual per-vertex modification of the mesh should be happening once when the mesh is loaded, I can't imagine they redo it per frame.

[naive edge]

Aaah understood I thought you were talking about some dynamic optimization 😛

[warped sierra]

nah, IIRC it's defined somewhere else in the asset files per mesh. But it's static per mesh, it doesn't change from frame to frame

[storm raptor]

Stuck on infinite loading, game isn't frozen, it's just loading until the sun burns out

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

nvm fixed it immediately lol

Alright but I'm encountering new issues

Might know how to fix it myself, I'm using additional PBR materials that might effect it

Nvm it's an issue with the compatibility mod.

[wheat geode]

hey the issue you see is because you dont have base mod bides the PBR Pack
you can see the fix here https://github.com/xoxor4d/p2-rtx/issues/169

[sudden lotus]

Hey! idk if you're planning to release any new patches for your Digital Additions mod, but if you do, do you think you could make it so all the water looks how it should? i know its a problem with the base mod, but i literally have no idea how to code or what numbers to replace lol

[sudden lotus]

it looks great btw!

[wheat geode]

yeah 1.2 is gonna come out soon and will fix the water!

[sudden lotus]

PORTAL RTX GOT THE DLSS 4 UPDATE!!!! 🥳

[naive edge]

Hey @warped sierra, just curious if a JIRA exists for this one or if I should create an issue on GH? #general-remix message

[warped sierra]

There's a JIRA for it, but creating a github issue may raise the priority of fixing it.

[naive edge]

Gotcha. Thanks for the fast response 🙏

[hardy glacier]

Has anyone trying the portal 2 rtx remix mod been unable to launch either with a never ending load screen or the message "unable to find portal2.exe"?

i installed with the compatability mod. Running "run-p2-rtx.bat" gives this error

[hardy glacier]

it launched but materials are all broken

running "run-p2-rtx" as standard rather than as admin fixed the issues

[naive edge]

very odd

[naive edge]

@mild wharf what issues are you running into?

[mild wharf]

well im unsure if I've even installed all the files properly to start with i think ive downloaded everything i need to get it working i just cant seem to get to work

[naive edge]

post a pic of your game folder where portal2.exe is in

[mild wharf]

tell me what idiotic mistake have i made 😭

my bad that is whats in the mod folder

[naive edge]

uhm where do I start

[mild wharf]

😂

[naive edge]

you did not download the actual release didnt you

https://github.com/xoxor4d/p2-rtx/releases/tag/2.0

[mild wharf]

so in short yes im silly lmao

[naive edge]

remove the rtx-remix folder and its contents and then start over

[mild wharf]

okay thanks ill give it a try and see where it gets me

[mild wharf]

@naive edge okay so i got it working it now loads with rtx remix but now like everything is not loaded properly like the menu ui and certain assets any idea how to fix that lmao

[naive edge]

screenshot

[mild wharf]

the game or ?

[naive edge]

yea

[mild wharf]

thats what the menu looks like

and thats what the game looks like

i loaded into a save where im in the last misson and there was nothing but an empty room

[naive edge]

how did you launch the game?

[mild wharf]

through steam with that command line

ah wait

[naive edge]

what command line

[mild wharf]

do i run it from this ?

[naive edge]

yup

[mild wharf]

alright sweet lmao

[mild wharf]

this was the command line i was trying to use lmao

[naive edge]

oh so you're only loading the map in portal 2?

[mild wharf]

one last thing well 2 actually 1 how the heck did surething get a custon portal gun and 2 the games running decent and looks amazing but any idea what is going on with the water textures here ?

[naive edge]

the base remix mod only modifies maps up until the middle of act2 so these are simply not yet remixed

[mild wharf]

I see I see will there eventually be a fully remixed version of the game ?

[naive edge]

maybe, maybe not

[mild wharf]

Well either way the mod has made the game feel like a first time play through all over again and that is a wild feeling so I appreciate the work you’ve put into it

[naive edge]

a coffee is always appreciated 😜

[wispy fiber]

It’s actually a portal 2 custom map

[mild wharf]

Ofc when I get paid I’ll be sure to get u a nice hot cup of Joe 😉

[rough ginkgo]

moving almost all of portal 2's geometry to remix to alleviate engine bottlenecks 🔥
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1296632990214127667/1376682744544759839/2025-05-26_17-04-08.mp4?ex=68363737&is=6834e5b7&hm=cb7c0ce1a29cea51fd5c6776993fea55375462525ab55be5ff70db7e2d353643&

game would run in the low 30s-50s no matter what hardware you had before, now im fully gpu bound

graphics look like ass but since this is for the portal 2 rtx project, it will be all replaced with enhanced geometry anyway

[naive edge]

do you have a script for that or what is your workflow?

[rough ginkgo]

i've been working on a nvidia toolkit alternative in blender and its able to export literally anything you want, including captured assets 😂

[analog copper]

dosent this like

bloat the file size

[rough ginkgo]

so im taking captures of maps with only static world geometry and props, and re-exporting them as replacements

[analog copper]

or am i dumb

[rough ginkgo]

if you dont share textures between maps, yes

[analog copper]

thats just geometry?

[naive edge]

that is the most needed optimization

[rough ginkgo]

yeah source's main bottleneck when you take away culling is entity counts

it doubles perf in that map lmao

[analog copper]

wow

epic sauce

[buoyant venture]

That and hardware skinning

[rough ginkgo]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1296632990214127667/1377381706381787186/2025-05-28_15-21-06.mp4?ex=6838c22d&is=683770ad&hm=c10aa21b962c263921d190226f828e7a743a93990b33953c73ed708370bb1dfd&

fixed a bunch of stuff and got lighting

almost ready for an art pass

[wispy fiber]

What are u trying to do here?

[rough ginkgo]

^

[wispy fiber]

what was ur method of doing that?

[analog copper]

https://tenor.com/view/deepfriedwoomy-gif-20893284

[rough ginkgo]

using the blender toolkit addon i've been working on. I'm exporting captured assets so they become replacements, essentially rendering the entire map inside remix

its all attached to an anchor mesh outside the map

[wispy fiber]

thats really really cool

[rough ginkgo]

yea its a huge perf saver in some maps

[wispy fiber]

what performance gains do you see?

[rough ginkgo]

in sp_a1_wakeup (in the vid above), its about double when you disable engine rendering

the 47fps in the beginning is what the engine was getting with traditional rendering

with enhanced assets and engine rendering off, it goes up to 150+

[analog copper]

ive always thought about that

especially with hl2 but its not as bottlenecked

what if you just anchor all static meshes to a single thing and render all moving shit seperate

performance go kaboom!

[rough ginkgo]

yea thats exactly what i did

thankfully all dynamic meshes can be disabled before capturing so it was easy to get everything else

r_drawothermodels 0

[wispy fiber]

bruh hl2 rtx really needs to try replicate all this insane optimization stuff from gmod and portal 2 rtx

this is all so cool

[analog copper]

thats been my crackhead theory for like 2 years

try and remove most shit that you can from the engine and move it over to remix

https://tenor.com/view/deepfriedwoomy-gif-20893284

[rough ginkgo]

at least they're replicating the HDRI idea i came up with

[analog copper]

wdym

the skydome?

[rough ginkgo]

yea

[analog copper]

dont like

alot of games do dat...

[rough ginkgo]

for like indirect lighting

but i think gmod is the first to use an HDRI for direct and indirect lighting

[analog copper]

https://tenor.com/view/caesar-planet-of-the-apes-no-angry-gif-13928131

[rough ginkgo]

even here, i think tadpole did an HDRI sphere before me but had to use a sun/spot light to get shadows

[naive edge]

Huh how does that work? Cant get the games skyboxes to work in black mesa so might have to resort to doing something with remix

[rough ginkgo]

i dont have the message link so i could be a little off here, but I believe they created a large spot light inside a dome where the sun would be positioned in the HDRI

[rough ginkgo]

do they not use the traditional 2d/3d skybox system used in other source games?

[naive edge]

they do but remix is not handling them correctly .. its displayed as a single black texture (unsupported format?)

it does draw each face as a separate draw call

[half topaz]

that's not Portal 2...

[rough ginkgo]

looks like its just an issue getting the texture? idk maybe they use some weird shader like some gmod maps do

[sleek bay]

Hey I invented that. And the hdri dome

[rough ginkgo]

ye i remember you posting about it a long while ago

[sleek bay]

oh turns out it was adamplayer. Man I miss Adam
#1102927658762895390 message

[wheat geode]

its a bit quiet here are some screenshots of Digital additions 1.2

[naive edge]

Good stuff 👍

[sudden lotus]

it looks awesome! is there an estimated release date yet?

[naive edge]

Would be great if this would find its way into the base compatibility mod someday 😛

[wheat geode]

Id say June 14th hopefully

[worthy pendant]

ooh, cant wait to play it

[wheat geode]

one delay 🙏
21th
i wanna release it with this
yes Portal: revolution in the portal 2 engine!
just a few more map tweaks and it pretty much ready!

[trail dew]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/333434424853135362/1125908495359815750/0emj7ngmxy9b1.gif

[worthy pendant]

So true

[brazen stirrup]

why does water look like a blue water carpet coming from 1980s game ?

[buoyant venture]

Did you install the base mod as well

[brazen stirrup]

yes

so many things except some of them works well

@buoyant venture

[buoyant venture]

Weird

There’s a known issue on Linux but that turns the water red so I doubt it’s that

[brazen stirrup]

I use windows

[naive edge]

Maps after act 2 are untouched (remix mod wise) so weird water and dark places are to be expected. It is yours and everyone else’s job to remix the game

[brazen stirrup]

that's true

however, I don't have the knowledge to use the application

also I don't think I have enough system to meet the requirements

but I must say, the game looks way awesome

especially fixed aperture chapters

I be in love with remixed funnels

[buoyant venture]

We won’t let you down

[rough ginkgo]

@naive edge I ported XeSS 2 to your custom dxvk-remix runtime, so far the changes are only live for our p2rtx project, but I can PR it to your repo as well if you're okay with it

though i also already made a PR for the main nvidia dxvk-remix repo so if you want to wait for that to get merged that also works

[naive edge]

Yea dw I'll wait until its merged

[pallid monolith]

Hey guys, can anyone help me figure out why I can't launch Portal 2? I installed all the files exactly like instructed but I get this odd error

PLEASE

[naive edge]

please send a screenshot that shows the entire portal 2 folder

[pallid monolith]

And the rest

[naive edge]

uh why is it trying to start portal2 from system32 😄
are you simply double clicking the batch file?

[pallid monolith]

No idea

I'm right clicking it and starting as admin

[naive edge]

do not start it as admin

[pallid monolith]

no fucking way

Christ

WHY DOES THAT WORK

Cheers, thanks for the help

[wheat geode]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/digital-additions/downloads/digital-additions-12
If theres any issues they may be fixed tomorrow 💤

[wild geyser]

Is the mod out on steam yet?

[wheat geode]

Mine is not on steam Just fan made!
however a Portal 2 with RTX is being Developed that will be on steam
(changed 😭)

[worthy pendant]

how much did you cover in 1.2?

[wheat geode]

not that much in base portal 2..... I think i genuinely forgot
mainly focused on Portal: Revolution Support which a tutorial should be coming out soon
and Portal Stories Mel Support with improvements to the finale and overgrown areas

[worthy pendant]

portal storeis mel? did you do like a map swap or did you plop remix into portal stories mel?

[wheat geode]

https://github.com/xoxor4d/p2-rtx/discussions/166

[worthy pendant]

neat

[naive edge]

"official" 🤭

[buoyant venture]

Yeah, there’s no real “official” version
I feel like the only official Remix mod will only be Portal with RTX because that was done by NVIDIA themselves

And Valve had some part with it

[mystic sail]

yall know to fix it?

@naive edge

i remember that when mod just released i have this issue too

but i forgot how to fix it

[naive edge]

not sure why it's so hard to follow 2 steps

[mystic sail]

👍

[mystic sail]

is this normal that my game crashes very often when loading next level through elevator?

i tried to reinstall portal 2 few times but it didnt help

and lowering settings too

in my first playthrough there was no problems like this

[mystic sail]

i found a solution

[proven vale]

cool nick

[sand otter]

ахуенный ник

[buoyant fjord]

优秀的昵称

[muted jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/china-gif-26678009

[winged wind]

any news on the new pbr pack ?

[naive edge]

new pbr pack?

[winged wind]

i mean the pbr pack 1.6 @open rampart

[winged wind]

btw thanks for your work on black mesa remix !

[open rampart]

No update for awhile, currently working on other projects atm

[wispy fiber]

@naive edge i have a question, if someone wanted to make a source mod for portal 2 with the option for RTX, how should they go about it

since source mods usually get placed in the sourcemods folder of steam and never replace any of the base game's files

would the RTX version of the mod have to be modified to be placed on top of the base game or still exist work as a source mod

[naive edge]

not familiar with these kind of mods .. do they still launch the base game that is inside the portal 2 folder? If so, no changes needed

[wispy fiber]

it works like regular sourcemods

u still gotta place em in the sourcemods folder

still gotta launch em through steam

except now it uses portal 2 as the base game to run the mod on

just re-read what u said thx for letting me know

would remix API and portal 2 rtx specific settings still work tho?

[naive edge]

why not? its still the same portal 2 install

[wispy fiber]

ik, i mean like map specific settings, are they placed in the sourcemod folder or p2 folder

[naive edge]

everything remix related goes into the p2 folder

[wispy fiber]

thx

[buoyant venture]

I haven’t been able to get the source modding folder to work with Remix

[analog copper]

dont you just put it in the 2013 branch flder?

[wispy fiber]

uh oh lmao

[wheat geode]

are you making a new source mod or want to get a current source mod to work?

[wispy fiber]

nah im just making a tsp mod and i forgot remix is in portal 2 lol

[wheat geode]

idk if you can keep it a source mod kinda..... what i do to just make source mods work with this is to
take the source mod folder and plop it into the main portal 2 folder go into the gameinfo and change the top line in gameinfo
"game (insert source mod game name here)" to "game portal 2"
and then go into the steam thing or bat and add -game (sourcemod folder name) and it should launch correctly
so like a hybrid hope this can atleast help a little!

[wispy fiber]

nah im not making a mod work with remix

im just making a regular tsp mod that requires p2 authoring tools

[wheat geode]

Ah ok sooo im a bit confused
so for an option...
well ig the steps i mentioned would work for other ppl who want RTX
but uhhh yeah the rtx version of the mod would have to be modifed to work with remix
(mi brain aint working correctly 😭)

[wispy fiber]

Sry for confusion, I’m showing how rtx remix is infecting my install of portal 2 hammer ++ lol

[buoyant venture]

tsp?

[wispy fiber]

Stanley parable

[wheat geode]

one Question what do yall prefer? warm or white or the mix

[wild geyser]

Warm White. It matches the surrounding Environment

[wispy fiber]

Coldddddd whiteeeee

[buoyant fjord]

Warm one
Mixed is not that bad, i like how lights on the last SS looks like

in my opinion, clear white is not correct in that chapter, cuz everything is old, rusted and ruined

[wispy fiber]

@naive edge ever since deleting and removing the rtx mod from portal 2, portal 2 hammer always pops up this error when opening

any ideas on this?

this wouldn't be much of an issue if it didn't constantly pop this error when compiling a map

[rough ginkgo]

delete winmm.dll iirc

or whatever .dll xoxor named the dxwrapper

[naive edge]

Yup

[empty quest]

Warm suggests older incandescent lights, technology where you are is a bit older maybe? Is this the part before or after you discover the 'old aperture' and start doing the old tests?

[wispy fiber]

Ah ok thx

[dusty ore]

does anyone know if there's a way to get HDR into the game? the game just seems to crash when i use RenoDX with reshade or specialk

[dusty ore]

anyone know why the water looks like this? was working fine then in the later chambers started looking like this

[naive edge]

I've now edited the release page and made this senctence really large + added a note about the water 😄

Only maps up until Act 2 (catapult intro) are touched up. Other maps might look weird / dark

It's up to the community to do actual remixing of the game. I've only worked on act 1 and a few act 2 maps to have it presentable

[half topaz]

so basically you need Skurty's texture pack?

[buoyant fjord]

or digital wolf's one

any of (if it contains this water's texture)

[winged wind]

@open rampart is this expected?

[buoyant venture]

Yeah, he made it green in a update

[winged wind]

but its too green and bright

so im using the latest skurtyysskirts pbr pack 1.6 but the water in this map still the same ?

[buoyant fjord]

try to use latest digital additions

instead of skyrtiz

[winged wind]

latest digital additions? and where exactly is that?

[buoyant fjord]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/digital-additions/downloads/digital-additions-12

[winged wind]

il try, thanks

[quick grove]

Got a new PC, trying to load Portal 2 with the mod installed and I get stuck here

It's been ten minutes, I don't think it's loading

[naive edge]

Did you copy the sound file as instructed? Anyhow, go to the troubleshooting section on the main page on GitHub. There is a sound section that will help you

[quick grove]

I did yeah. For whatever reason installing Digital Additions fixed it, dunno how or why

[wispy fiber]

Nah dw

Basically when the loading bar gets to orange

U just close and open the game again

And it should load fine

[quick grove]

I tried that

[wispy fiber]

Damn really?

[ornate kraken]

When P2 does this it's because the game is rebuilding the soundcache but I've had this error before too where it stays in the loading screen. You can launch the game with -console and it will go to the menu and I think there's a command you can use to make it rebuild while ingame instead.

[wispy fiber]

@naive edge I wanna ask how long will u be avaliable for commission for remix compatibility mods?

[naive edge]

Sorry but I stopped doing that

[analog copper]

this is so sad...

https://tenor.com/view/babylon-cry-babylon-manny-torres-babylon-cry-laugh-babylon-ending-babylon-manny-gif-27533236

[naive edge]

I'll only tackle games that pick my interest or games with minor issues that work in general

[wispy fiber]

Dang so no possibility of commissioning a port of the p2 rtx mod to Stanley parable 💔

[naive edge]

That one is actually on my own todo list 😛

[wispy fiber]

Oh shoot nice, asking cause I’m currently planning on doing a tsp mod and after finishing it I wanna make like an rtx remix version of it that I wanna make look at good as how I imagined ultra deluxe would look

[naive edge]

sounds good 🙌

[wispy fiber]

Ya very excited to finish it with a friend, hopefully it can be done next year

[naive edge]

Ayy fixed function ropes 🙏 Gotta port that to l4d2 and black mesa 😛

[lyric summit]

As in skinned meshes?

Or what was the issue with these?

[buoyant venture]

I didn’t notice they were missing, lol

[naive edge]

They weren't missing but still rendered via shaders. Ropes wobble a lot but you normally don't see it that much in portal as everything is rather close to 0 0 0

[naive edge]

first time that I run the game at full res 😂
Pretty good with lossless scaling's frame gen

[lyric summit]

So they were skinned then? Or just an object transform rotating the whole thing uniformly?

[naive edge]

No bones / skinning involved. They shovel 4 points into the vertex shader and do a catmull spline and align that towards the eye position so that the surface always faces you

//========== Copyright (c) Valve Corporation, All rights reserved. ==========//

#include "common_vs_fxc.h"
#include "spline_fxc.h"

const hlsl_float4x3 cModelView            : register(SHADER_SPECIFIC_CONST_0);
const float4x4 cProj                : register(SHADER_SPECIFIC_CONST_3);
const float g_MinPixelSize        : register(SHADER_SPECIFIC_CONST_7);

struct VS_INPUT
{
    // This is all of the stuff that we ever use.
    float4 vTint            : COLOR;
    float4 vParms           : POSITION;                        // T V side_id
    float4 vSplinePt0        : TEXCOORD0;                    // x y z rad
    float4 vSplinePt1        : TEXCOORD1;                    // x y z rad
    float4 vSplinePt2        : TEXCOORD2;                    // x y z rad
    float4 vSplinePt3        : TEXCOORD3;                    // x y z rad
};

// VS_OUTPUT in a common file.
#include "common_splinerope_fxc.h"

#define P0 (v.vSplinePt0)
#define P1 (v.vSplinePt1)
#define P2 (v.vSplinePt2)
#define P3 (v.vSplinePt3)

VS_OUTPUT main( const VS_INPUT v )
{
    VS_OUTPUT o;

    // posrad.xyz is worldspace position and posrad.w is worldspace diameter.
    float4 posrad =    CatmullRomSpline( P0, P1, P2, P3, v.vParms.x );

    // calculate projected position here so that we can figure out how much to bloat the diameter to avoid aliasing of the sort where you skip pixels in a segment.
    {
        // PERF FIXME!!  This could be simplified quite a bit if this ever becomes a bottleneck.  I feel dirty.
        // Get the view-space position for two points that are posrad.w units away from each other horizontally.
        float3 viewPos1 = mul4x3( float4( posrad.xyz, 1.0f ), cModelView );
        float3 viewPos2 = viewPos1 + float3( posrad.w, 0.0f, 0.0f );

        // Project both points.
        float4 projPos1 = mul( float4( viewPos1, 1.0f ), cProj );
        float4 projPos2 = mul( float4( viewPos2, 1.0f ), cProj );

        // Get the distance of the two points from each other in normalized screen space.
        float projectedDiameterInPixels = abs( ( projPos1.x / projPos1.w ) - ( projPos2.x / projPos2.w ) );

        // Compare the distance between the two points to the minimum allowed to keep from skipping pixels and causing aliasing.
        if ( projectedDiameterInPixels < g_MinPixelSize )
        {
            // Scale the radius in world space so that it is bigger than the required pixel size in screen space.
            posrad.w *= ( g_MinPixelSize / projectedDiameterInPixels );
        }
    }

    float3 v2p = float3( 0, 0, 1 );
    v2p = posrad.xyz - cEyePos;                            // screen aligned

    float3 tangent = DCatmullRomSpline3( P0, P1, P2, P3, v.vParms.x );
    float3 ofs = normalize( cross( v2p, normalize( tangent ) ) );
    posrad.xyz += ofs * ( posrad.w * ( v.vParms.z - .5 ) );
    o.projPos  = mul( float4(posrad.xyz, 1.0f), cViewProj );
    
#ifdef _PS3
    // Account for OpenGL's flipped y coordinate and expanded z range [-1,1] instead of [0,1]
    o.projPos.y = -o.projPos.y;
    o.projPos.z = 2.0f * o.projPos.z - o.projPos.w;
#endif // _PS3

    o.worldPos_projPosZ.xyz = posrad.xyz;
    o.worldPos_projPosZ.w = o.projPos.z;
    o.texCoord.xy = float2( 1.0f - v.vParms.z, v.vParms.y );
    o.argbcolor = float4( v.vTint.rgb, v.vTint.a );

    #if !defined( _X360 ) && !defined( SHADER_MODEL_VS_3_0 )
    {
        o.fog = CalcFixedFunctionFog( posrad.xyz, 0 );
    }
    #endif

    return o;
}

I feel dirty. 😂

[buoyant venture]

So Remix wasn’t able to render the shaders or was it just costing too much performance?

[naive edge]

I've hooked the meshbuilder after it finished building all the verts for the ropes (but before the buffer gets unlocked) and basically do what the shader did and override all of the verts so that FF can work with it

[naive edge]

Nah remix handled them pretty fine in p2 but only because everything is close to 0 0 0

they slightly wobbled in act4 maps tho

[buoyant venture]

Is it possible to bring back the vines swaying seen in some chambers?

[lyric summit]

Oh, the wobble is not like a wind effect, but a precision issue or something, i didn't get that at first

Cheese grate for brain moment

[naive edge]

Mhh could be possible but pretty heavy to do on the cpu since there are quite a few matrix multiplications involved so I don't think that I'll work on that. Not that its really noticeable in the first place

[lyric summit]

avx512 privileged cpus exclusive feature 🤪

[lyric summit]

Spline hair ptsd

[buoyant venture]

So are the ropes also being done on CPU?

You know, maybe this could all be fixed if Remix integrated NVIDIA Flow

[naive edge]

They are now yea

[buoyant venture]

Isn’t that gonna hurt performance more? It was already reporting being CPU bottlenecked

[naive edge]

Nah ropes are alright

[analog copper]

poor ghostbusters the video game 2009

[sleek bay]

is glados in the potato stable? nearly finished her all pbr and stuff

[naive edge]

negative 🙁

would need to be replaced via a game mod

[sleek bay]

that'll work still, cheers mate 🙂

[noble furnace]

Just gave this a try and uh

Modifying a game is such a funny thing

We a little tilted out here

[wheat geode]

umm well that def aint correct... does base portal 2 work??

[noble furnace]

It looks to, yea!

lemme test smn rq

[wheat geode]

looks like rtx remix isn't even loading

[noble furnace]

Ah, turns out I forgot to change out gameinfo.txt to say Portal 2 instead of Portal Stories: Mel!

That is a fascinating bug to come out of that, I can't lie

Just had to set a ton of the player model parts as "Player Model" in the dev settings but otherwise, it's lookin good!

As soon as I said that...

[wheat geode]

... what you can do is open the dev menu and hide the broken sprites

[noble furnace]

I figured as much

[wispy fiber]

Are u still working on this potato?

[sleek bay]

I can do yea

Needs a normal map. I gotta bake it first

https://tenor.com/view/ba-dum-tuss-jokes-gotcha-burn-ouch-gif-5645546

[wispy fiber]

Wait that without a normal map?

[sleek bay]

No I was just making a baked potato joke

Need to model the glados but and texture it still

[wheat geode]

Added Portal: Revolution Support!
and many more things!
https://www.moddb.com/mods/digital-additions/downloads/digital-additions-131

[buoyant fjord]

just left it here
https://github.com/xoxor4d/p2-rtx/discussions/201

[buoyant fjord]

😢

[cunning shoal]

i hope portal reloaded is soon to follow

[buoyant fjord]

idk it's the screenshot from latest digital additions

[naive edge]

Are you trying to play the game without rtx now?

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

[ionic silo]

i'm not sure what to do about this?? i've installed the base mod and put it in the correct folder and put the compatibility mod into Portal 2 roots folder

it only happens when i run as administrator but running it normally just crashes after showing the start screen for portal 2

[naive edge]

Do you have the game installed under c/ program files or why are you trying to launch it with admin rights?
Can you try this action build: https://github.com/xoxor4d/p2-rtx/actions/runs/16991313323 and add the -debug commandline argument into the batch file?
That should spawn an external console. Please take a screenshot and post it here

[ionic silo]

i'll make sure to try that when i can tysm!!

i was trying to launch it with admin rights to see if it would help it launch but it didnt bc either way it just crashes

[quick grove]

I feel like something is VERY wrong

Reinstalled the mod since I uninstalled it because I wanted to mess with the VR mod, got everything working and I have this now

I'm in the process of redownloading Digital Additions VERY slowly so once that's done I'll install it and see if that fixes it

Also extremely confused by the fact that the mod doesn't work anymore when I launch via Steam (yes I set the same launch arguments as the batch file)

EVERY single moddb mirror is abysmally slow holy fuck

[buoyant venture]

Huh?

[quick grove]

Everything's installed properly

[rough ginkgo]

ouch those DLSS FG frametimes

also wonder why rivatuner reports dx12, its definitely not that lol

@warped sierra maybe you have an idea why?

[buoyant venture]

It’s a known issue
It doesn’t detect the dxvk

[rough ginkgo]

naw but like why would it even report a d3d12 container

this would have to be the bridge doing this but there has gotta be a reason for it

[buoyant venture]

I mean, you can test if it’s the bridge in Gmod RTX

[half topaz]

that's normal when using MFG, it always makes the frametime graph look terrible but it's visually smooth

[brazen stirrup]

Guys, I have a problem. After deleting all the files in Portal 2 folder, I reinstalled from steam to get a clean game. However, right now the game is corrupted. After 5-10 mins of gameplay, everything gets frozen and game crashes

[buoyant venture]

My normal Portal 2 still has broken Portals, lol

No idea what RTX did to it

But I think Steam cloud is uploading it to my other devices because it persists on my other systems

Oh wait, I can test this

[naive edge]

Yeah I set certain saved/unprotected cvars that are not reset each time the game starts. Nothing I can do about that really. I think I’ve updated the troubleshooting section with cvars you need to manually enter into the console to fix this (I hope I included all the necessary ones)

[buoyant venture]

Imma just try turning off the cloud saves and do a complete clean reinstall and see if that fixes my issues

[wheat geode]

the 1.2.4 build kinda works.. lol wasn't expecting it

[naive edge]

yea but area portals, paint and some custom texture tagging wont work

[wheat geode]

thought it would just flat out crash lol

[buoyant venture]

you manually updated to 1.2.4?

[wheat geode]

ye just swaped the dxvk files

[buoyant venture]

@rough ginkgo

[buoyant venture]

For anyone who needs to fix this issue after installing and removing Portal 2 RTX from GitHub

you need to type r_portal_stencil_depth 2 into the console

@naive edge you might want to include this on your GitHub

[safe elk]

Wait why isn't Gladys stable, is it like animated? Or just because its apart of the view model

Wait

Sorry

I realized how long ago that was

Thats mb

[buoyant venture]

I’m dumb :/

[wild geyser]

my game is to dark to play, and when i turn the brightness up, it dosent do much, can anyone help?

this is the first boss fight

[naive edge]

Take a capture and add lights using remix or use mods like digital additions

[wild geyser]

so it just has to be dark?

I dont really want to install a mod

I fixed it, I had to turn my preset to ultra

[wispy fiber]

@buoyant venture I wanna ask with ur portal 2 remix mod, are people allowed to take assets from that mod to use in other remix projects with proper credit?

[wild geyser]

Is there any way to get the water in part 2 to look better?

[naive edge]

yea, get an actual remix mod 😛
or remix the water yourself

[wild geyser]

Oh

There are other remix mods?

I saw on the GitHub the water looks better/normal, so I was wondering if their is like a mod or somthing

[naive edge]

It is a compatibility mod that gives you the ability to remix the game in the first place. It's not a finished "mod" with proper pbr assets and lights. There are actual remix mods by the community that utilize the remix modding toolset to touch up the game

[buoyant venture]

Yes, the plan will be to allow other Portal 2 mods to use the assets
I would like to give the Stories Mel team our assets if they want to do a Remix version

Even Strata source should be able to use them thanks to the upgraded engine

[wispy fiber]

@buoyant venture hypothetically is a stanley parable mod allowed to use en

*em

[buoyant venture]

Does Stanley parable even use Portal 2 assets?

[wispy fiber]

Ya a lot

tsp is built on a skinned portal 2

especially in the beta era

[buoyant venture]

Then yeah, it’d be allowed

[quick grove]

Well fuck

[naive edge]

Weird looks like the mesh replacement failed to load

[quick grove]

Seems like it

Not sure how to fix it or what could be causing it

I'll try redownloading all the assets

Hmm looks like it's a known issue

[boreal hazel]

guys ive been trying to run the portal 2 rtx version for like a solid 45 mins now but it keeps crashing just after startup

it gets past all the copyright screens, freezes on one of the regular loading screens but black and white for some reason and then just full on crashes

i do not know what to do about any of it 😭 the debug command wont work and running with admin just stops the game running entirely

[boreal hazel]

also for context im using the latest release 2.1 (https://github.com/xoxor4d/p2-rtx/releases)

[naive edge]

Can you post your games install path and a picture of your game folder showing portal2.exe?

[boreal hazel]

Yeah 2 secs

[naive edge]

Is the game installed under program files?

[boreal hazel]

yeah

[boreal hazel]

i tried running as admin

[naive edge]

So you enabled run as admin for portal2.exe?

[boreal hazel]

straight up refused to open

[boreal hazel]

i did for the bat fil

file*

[naive edge]

Nah don’t do that with the bat file

Do what the picture says

[boreal hazel]

install somewhere else? cos running portal2.exe as admin has the same result

[naive edge]

Did you right click the exe and ran as admin or did you check the run as admin checkbox?

[boreal hazel]

Right clicked and pressed run as admin

Is there a checkbox??

[naive edge]

Again, read what the picture says

[boreal hazel]

this?

[naive edge]

Okay good

[boreal hazel]

I'll try it with that

[naive edge]

What happens if you just run the bat normally now

[boreal hazel]

checking nkw

now*

same results sadly

[boreal hazel]

also the -debug did nothing in the .bat file

can send a recording of what happens

not sure what else to do D: or if ive doen it wrong

[naive edge]

so your bat looks like this now?
START portal2.exe -debug -insecure -steam -novid -disable_d3d9_hacks -limitvsconst -softparticlesdefaultoff -disallowhwmorph -no_compressed_verts +mat_phong 1 %*

[boreal hazel]

yep

[naive edge]

and that does not spawn an external console window?

[boreal hazel]

no

ill send a video of what happens when I open the game

im messing around in the setting in this cos it crashes regardless

[naive edge]

well its not using the commandline args at all (the intro plays even tho there is -novid)

[boreal hazel]

that was me opening it on exe I think as when I open on bat it crashes immediately since it skips the intro

After the intro it crashes regardless of how I open it

but it doesn't debug or anything thats for sure

[naive edge]

just remembered that the 2.1 release did not have the debug launch arg yet, You have to use an action build for that.
This has it: https://github.com/xoxor4d/p2-rtx/actions/runs/16991313323/artifacts/3774126821

and please remove that dp0 stuff from your bat

just use START portal2.exe ...

[boreal hazel]

will do

what times are u active btw? cos its 6am and my loud keyboard WILL annoy my family

can sort it rn but asking anyways

[naive edge]

7am for me

[boreal hazel]

ah okay

im likely gonna afk for an hour and nap, ill do that stuff in an hour and get back to you

Is that cool?

[naive edge]

uh sure do whatever you want to to mate 😛

[boreal hazel]

alrr tyy I just didn't wanna bother you with it when its a bad time to ask about it againn

but I also need sleep 😭

[naive edge]

well just ask, not sure if I can respond immediately tho

[boreal hazel]

thats all good now ik ur timezone isnt polar opposite to mine im sure it'll be all good

[naive edge]

someone else might step in and help

[boreal hazel]

whatever worksss I just wanna show my friend portal, but i did rtx for the first game and omg portal 2 is beautiful with rtx enabled so I've been tryna get it donee

hopefully it'll work later!!

in any case imma nap now, talk in an hour or soo :D

[boreal hazel]

mb for replying late

[boreal hazel]

https://github.com/xoxor4d/p2-rtx/actions/runs/18055381577 this is the one you did at 6:04 which might have been what you meant but im not sure what to do with it

for an update i used the toggle .bat to disable the mod to see if it loaded that way, its now been stuck on this screen for the past 5 minutes

[mystic sail]

i remember that i had this bug before, its probably sound cache try to rebuild it through console

[ornate kraken]

Start the game with “-console” as a launch parameter to skip around the issue. I think you need to rebuild the sound cache to fix “snd_rebuildsoundcache” command

[mystic sail]

or delete in game folder manually

[mystic sail]

its my idea

[boreal hazel]

unfortunately i dont know how to do that :(

[mystic sail]

. he explained it

[boreal hazel]

i add - console into the .bat file?

i didnt really get what he meant D:

[mystic sail]

can you open console while loading?

-console is to enable console

[boreal hazel]

like the source engine one?

[mystic sail]

yep in-game

[boreal hazel]

i dont think so because it crashes immediately when getting into the loading screen

[boreal hazel]

see this ^

[mystic sail]

but here you said that its loading for 5 min and doesnt crash

[boreal hazel]

that was AFTER i disabled rtx

i went into the toggle.bat file and disabled it

[mystic sail]

but ye disable rtx just to be sure that you can log into the game after rebuilding sound cache

[boreal hazel]

i did, that was the last video i sent where i was stuck on the loading screen for 5 mins

[boreal hazel]

my game after disabling rtx

[mystic sail]

bro can you open console there?😭

[boreal hazel]

lemme check rq

oh okay ofc it instantly loads NOW that i open it...

it works as normal now with rtx disabled

[mystic sail]

aight then now with rt

does it loads?

[boreal hazel]

checking now

what do you want me to open it with now, through steam, the .exe or the .bat

[mystic sail]

i mean through what portal 2 rtx opens?

i dont remember

[boreal hazel]

they all open portal 2 rtx the same

the .exe and through steam doesnt skip the copyright screens

the .bat skips directly to the game (but crashes on the loading screen)

ill use the .bat

[mystic sail]

make sure you have -console in launch args

[boreal hazel]

WAIT WHAT WHY DOES IT WORK NOW???

lemme load into the game and see if rtx is on

[mystic sail]

magic

[boreal hazel]

fr cos this is some bs

i spent like 2 hours opening it for it to crash earlier for it NOW to work???

[mystic sail]

congrats then!

[boreal hazel]

im PRETTY sure that the rtx is working

im gonna be real i cant tell in the first screen

or first scene*

this has rtx on, right?

[mystic sail]

beatiful

[boreal hazel]

yay it works

okay that was so weird

guess its really true that everything fixes by turning it off and on again 😭

ill let you guys know if there are any more issues

[mystic sail]

aight

[boreal hazel]

oh and btw, how far into the game does the rtx work for? cos it says it works up until act 2 or something?

i have no idea what the "catapult intro" is

[mystic sail]

yes only until act 2

[boreal hazel]

which..is...?

[mystic sail]

but theres a mod for full game rtx one sec

[boreal hazel]

yeah ive seen it but isnt it pretty broken cos the lighting is messed up? so wheatleys monitors straight up break cos of the lighting

[mystic sail]

https://www.moddb.com/mods/digital-additions/downloads/digital-additions-131

[boreal hazel]

oh should i install that as well..?

[mystic sail]

wdym i played through all game with this mod and everything was good

[boreal hazel]

or is it separate from this

[boreal hazel]

ive only seen gameplay clips so i may be wrong...

[mystic sail]

i wood suggest if you want to play through all game

[boreal hazel]

yeah i do okay

now that i finally got it working, time to break it again 😭

[mystic sail]

just put it too rtx remix mods, i guess

[mystic sail]

i hope not

[boreal hazel]

i suppose, i havent ever used rtx remix mods besides this so

theres also no install guide for the mod u sent me, is there a read me file or smth?

[boreal hazel]

same because its been 10 hours 😭

😢

[mystic sail]

in zip ure downloading there should be a folder that need to be putted to rtx remix - mods in portal 2 root folder