Remix Toolkit for Blender

[orchid remnant]

Repo Link: https://github.com/sambow23/blender-remix
A Blender addon that let's you import and export RTX Remix compatible assets.

Requirements

• A system running Windows (or use Wine on Linux)
• Blender 4.0.2 or higher
• texconv from DirectXTex (only if using the git method)

Installation

Release

1. Download the latest release
2. Install the addon in Blender:
   • Go to Edit > Preferences > Add-ons
   • Click Install... and select the rtx_remix_importer.zip
   • Enable the Remix Toolkit for Blender addon

Git Repo

1. Clone this repository
2. Place texconv.exe in rtx_remix_importer/texconv/ (make the texconv folder)
3. Install the addon in Blender:
   • Go to Edit > Preferences > Add-ons
   • Click Install... and select the rtx_remix_importer folder
   • Enable the Remix Toolkit for Blender addon

Usage

Import Captures

• Use the RTX Remix panel in the 3D viewport sidebar (N-key)
• Select your game's capture folder under Captures > Capture Folder
• Import individual capture USD files or batch import multiple using the checkboxes on the left side of the capture name

Asset Exports and Management

Mod Management

• Under RTX Remix Project > Remix Mod File, select an existing mod.usda or create a new one

Sublayers

• Under RTX Remix Project > Sublayers, select existing sublayer or create a new one

Meshes and Lights

1. Under RTX Remix Project > Remix Anchor Target. Select an anchor asset using the dropper icon (this would be an object in the game that has a stable hash)
2. Import/create meshes and/or lights and place them anywhere in the capture
3. Select the assets you're going to export, then press Export selected under RTX Remix Project > Mesh & Light Exports

Materials

1. Select a mesh you're going to replace the material with, then open the Shader Editor
   • By default, RTX Remix materials will use the Aperture Opaque material, but this can be replaced with Principled BSDF if needed.
2. If you want to use Aperture Opaque/Translucent, select Create Aperture Opaque/Translucent under RTX Remix on the sidebar inside the Shader Editor
3. Connect material inputs/outputs as usual.
4. When you're finished, press Export selected under RTX Remix Project > Material Exports

Known Issues

• Non-anchor mesh replacements are considered experimental and will have issues
• Albedo textures with an Alpha channel may not import/export correctly
• Some or all .dds textures are purple
  • Happens with invalid .dds texture formats, use Captures > Fix Broken Textures to fix it
• The Aperture Opaque node group is not hooked up completely, there are some missing features (animation, iridescence, flags, etc)
• Skinned mesh exporting is not supported yet
• Loading changes from a project's mod.usda can result in undefined behavior. This is being worked on.

Credits

• Uncle Burrito for the Aperture Opaque node group
  ⠀

[harsh wave]

Peak

[orchid remnant]

Where is my Aperture Translucent node burrito

[harsh wave]

Soon™

[shrewd cobalt]

Holy cooking

Just needs some more polish and I would be on that shit so fast (texture exporting sounds like suffering)

[orchid remnant]

its not that bad unless you're queuing like 700 textures

doing single models takes like 5 seconds lol

also where does it need polishing? I'm always looking for feedback

[shrewd cobalt]

That's fine in the context of like frissure's addon since it's designed to do one thing at a time. But if you use it as a toolkit replacement won't you inevitably run into queue times like that

[shrewd cobalt]

If you could pull the sky texture from the capture that would be really sweet

[orchid remnant]

i guess it depends on the workflow. I havent ran into it too often unless im re-exporting an entire capture back to a game lol

[orchid remnant]

you can

one se

#1116089843479498782 message

it does pull it, i just deleted it in that example screenshot

i dont have a way to map it to a blender world background just yet, so its just a cube

but this way, you can actually replace the skybox textures themselves

[shrewd cobalt]

... With an HDRi?

[orchid remnant]

yeah but it would be easier to import a dome or sphere since you wont have to fold/wrap the texture so its split into 6 different parts

[shrewd cobalt]

In remix isn't it just box projected

[orchid remnant]

the raw capture just has it as one big cube

with seperated sides

[shrewd cobalt]

Honestly I feel like the dome setup is a pretty jank solution and in theory having it work through Remix's sky projection should allow the use of directional lights shouldn't it?

[orchid remnant]

i mean thats really a per game issue, with source at least, i can spawn in a huge sphere and it will be in front of the original skybox

thats what the HDRI addon does, havent seen any issues

doesnt need to be marked as sky either

[shrewd cobalt]

HDRi addon?

[orchid remnant]

https://github.com/sambow23/hdri_cube?tab=readme-ov-file

bigass sphere with a HDRI attached as a emissive

i believe @stone grail tried this in a wolfenstein game?

[shrewd cobalt]

You're telling me it doesn't require gmod?

[orchid remnant]

nope

[shrewd cobalt]

[stone grail]

[shrewd cobalt]

This is so poggers

[stone grail]

for me rn its just refusing to install it

it wont show up in the addon directory

[orchid remnant]

are you using blender 4.0.2?

[stone grail]

yeah

[orchid remnant]

maybe a permission issue? so it doesnt show up here?

you could try manually moving it to addons and then restarting blender and enable it

[stone grail]

that worked but

[orchid remnant]

rip none of the textures loaded 😦

afaik its a blender issue not being able to load the .dds itself when its pink like that

[stone grail]

dang

[orchid remnant]

try another capture, it doesnt happen with every texture

hopefully i can get the addon updated to 4.4 and hopefully dds support will be improved

[stone grail]

no bueno

[orchid remnant]

guh

does the material preview look correct at all?

also send the captures to me

[stone grail]

that is the material preview

[orchid remnant]

ah i meant this

[stone grail]

here is a capture

[stone grail]

lemme check

[orchid remnant]

i need the whole folder, it has the textures and instances

[stone grail]

oh ok yeah sorry

[stone grail]

all textures have this

[orchid remnant]

yea its failing to load the texture itself

try dragging a random .dds from the captures/textures folder into your shader editor

and see if the texture works then

[stone grail]

nope

still pink

[orchid remnant]

yea rip

ill see what I can do

[orchid remnant]

if you can convert the .dds to png, that would work as a workaround

[stone grail]

painful activities

[orchid remnant]

yea it sucks

[stone grail]

atp its technically just easier to use the toolkit unfortunetally

[orchid remnant]

yea lol

[stone grail]

why does the older script work tho and not this

[orchid remnant]

i was gonna ask lol, the import process shouldn't have changed that much but ill look into it

[orchid remnant]

@stone grail this is with the old version of the addon i sent you
#1116089843479498782 message

i think there is something wrong with the captures themselves

the .dds files themselves load fine for me in photoshop but blender refuses to load them

it might be worth nuking your captures folder and re-capture

[stone grail]

Alright I'll try in a second

[orchid remnant]

it also looks like blender still doesnt officially support .dds in newer versions, so I might have to introduce some sort of conversion step when importing

it would fix the texture issues entirely but I dont like the idea of constantly converting stuff

from what it looks like, this game uses a weird DDS compression format ARGB_8888, and that might be why blender is refusing to load it

where source engine (the games I have been testing with this addon) are BC7

[stone grail]

Breh

[orchid remnant]

i would think remix would use the same format for all games

which wolfenstein game are these captures from?

[stone grail]

Return to castle wolfenstein

[orchid remnant]

so i bought rtcw and made my own capture

😦 same issue

[stone grail]

[orchid remnant]

i believe saintMath made the engine changes right?

[stone grail]

Yeah

[orchid remnant]

any chance of them getting the game to present the textures in a different format?

realistically ill just add a conversion feature for .dds textures that dont import correctly

so dont actually worry about it lol

[stone grail]

Probably not

Its all ran through .tga and .shader files

[orchid remnant]

it also looks like it uses jpeg straight up lol

ok the rgba8888 makes sense now lmao

its literally jpegs being piped straight into d3d, yea its a bit cursed

[stone grail]

Ah

[orchid remnant]

@stone grail

🙂

new button

[stone grail]

yipee

lemme know when you add it to the git

[orchid remnant]

just did

[stone grail]

nice

how do i capture the skybox

[orchid remnant]

idk i think that varies on the game, skyboxes show up fine with source games at least

[stone grail]

ah

[orchid remnant]

does the skybox show for RTCW on the official toolkit?

i think i found it in the capture lol

this tiny island beside the main map

[stone grail]

yep

thats the sky

not the 2d one tho js the 3d

[orchid remnant]

i wonder how RTCW renders the 2d sky

[stone grail]

i dont know tbh

is there nishita sky support or no

[orchid remnant]

nah i havent added support for anything like that yet

[stone grail]

ah ok

[orchid remnant]

i should probaby push a release so i dont have to keep telling people to download the latest git commit lol

[stone grail]

another weird bug but its wtv

embed failed

[orchid remnant]

wtv?

[stone grail]

whwatever

[orchid remnant]

guh

[stone grail]

cycles vs eevee

like i said it doesnt matter in the end

[orchid remnant]

looks like its just a cycles bug, i got it too. reconnecting the texture fixes it for some reason?

oh i think its the lightmap texture lol

at least in my capture

[stone grail]

ooh

the genius game devs requiring fucking lightmaps for their mixed terrain textures

[orchid remnant]

updated install instructions, got one for git and also release

https://github.com/sambow23/blender-remix/blob/dev/README.md#release

release includes texconv

[orchid remnant]

what am i looking at

[stone grail]

sorry o forgor to explain i guess, is there anything i need to convert the cube to or do i need to add a texture for it to show up? i set up an anchor mesh for it and exported the mesh but no good

[orchid remnant]

you can export without textures, if its not showing up, it could be down to an issue with the hash stability of the anchor object

ill see if i can spawn something on RTCW on my end

[stone grail]

alright

[orchid remnant]

also can i have ur rtx.conf lol

[stone grail]

are your hashes unstable

[orchid remnant]

nope

just have a lot of unmarked textures

[stone grail]

ok

[orchid remnant]

yeah not even lights show up for me

i cant find it in the debug view either

[stone grail]

wdym

[orchid remnant]

like placed lights in blender

you can find where they're located using the debug light view in remix runtime

do placing lights and stuff work in the official toolkit?

[stone grail]

yeah

[orchid remnant]

i wish noclip worked in this game, my brain is telling me its a coordinate issue

[stone grail]

/noclip

/bind v noclip

[orchid remnant]

ok so its just like source but i just needed a /

😭

[stone grail]

yeah

[orchid remnant]

got it working

[stone grail]

huh weird

what did you use as the anchor mesh

[orchid remnant]

i didnt change anything, its the same issue i had in portal 2 initially

turn this on and recapture

[stone grail]

ok

[orchid remnant]

the wall right above the gun

🙀

[stone grail]

where is this setting at

[orchid remnant]

.

[muted blaze]

working on linux through wine ootb

[orchid remnant]

sweet

finally, multithreaded texconv

(my pc is dying)

[harsh wave]

Why not just install Linux native blender?

[muted blaze]

doesn't work

only works with windows blender

[harsh wave]

The addon or blender?

[muted blaze]

the addon

[harsh wave]

Ah

[muted blaze]

@orchid remnant

[orchid remnant]

are you trying to do a material replacement?

[muted blaze]

actually i didn't test trying to install it manually on the linux version

[muted blaze]

yeah

[orchid remnant]

it wont work because texconv is a exe only

you'll be able to import stuff, just not export

[orchid remnant]

ill take a look

[muted blaze]

even while blender itself is in wine?

[orchid remnant]

i was talking about using the native linux blender without wine

[muted blaze]

ahh ok i see

[orchid remnant]

@muted blaze https://github.com/sambow23/blender-remix/releases/tag/v0.2

looks like its working for me now

[muted blaze]

alright

you should probably remove texconv from the readme since it's included now right?

[orchid remnant]

no because its not included in the repo

it also mentions its only needed if you're using the git ver

the releases include it for normal users

[muted blaze]

ah it's only in the release

got it

ok exported fine i'll just test ingame then i'll go to sleep cause it's midnight

[orchid remnant]

yea im also fuckin ded

[muted blaze]

yup it didn't work bleh i need to go tomorrow i'll try again

[orchid remnant]

guh

well whenever you wake up, send your blend file and game details like map, prop, etc

@fallen spade ty for the donation 🙏

[orchid remnant]

how about RTCW in gmod? (and another gmod map i forgot to remove)

the beauty of loading multiple captures 🤤

[stone grail]

There isn't any collision tho is there

[orchid remnant]

nah you would need to mod gmod (or rtcw if going reverse) to somehow load simplifed collision data from the remix meshes

theoretically possible but i dont think its been done before

im also out of bounds in that video so i cant move when not noclipping (also why my flashlight doesnt work)

[stone grail]

Id simply just export it using blender source tools tee bee aech

[orchid remnant]

ye you could do it that way

anyway i 💤

[stone grail]

Same

[cloud hazel]

[lean quarry]

same, damn blender with these helpless logs

[cloud hazel]

wtf

😶

[lean quarry]

Ahh got it, thanks!

[fallen spade]

That’s cap when the directory is a top level

[fallen spade]

Call me when Python gets a switch case statement

[orchid remnant]

lol oops

[orchid remnant]

fixed it

[cloud hazel]

🧐

[orchid remnant]

i was using a llm to help me fix the texture export speed issues and it wrote a test file, im pretty sure I already removed it

[lean quarry]

Would it to possible to add an HDRI skydome over a scene?

[orchid remnant]

Yeah you should be able to do that as long as your game has stable hashes

[lean quarry]

so erm, if I was tooooooo add a reference to something, say like an hdri, would I select the mesh and den press the hdri and press add parent?

[orchid remnant]

You'd first select a mesh as a Remix Anchor Target that can be used as an achor.
Then you can select any other object/mesh and press export and it will automatically add that exported object as a reference to the anchor mesh in the mod.usda.

so for an HDRI, you'd need to make a sphere with an HDRI texture attached as an emissive

you can use the sphere mesh I made for the gmod HDRI mod if you want, the mod.usda is also a good reference on what the values should be for remix

[orchid remnant]

i should remove the whole "anchor" mesh nomenclature tbh

you can totally replace props, i just havent added the reference none flag yet

[stone grail]

Without stability how do ya even do allat

[orchid remnant]

gmod has stable model hashes other than skinned meshes

[stone grail]

I see

[jovial wharf]

Hi
First of all -- let me grandly thank you and your hard work for moving all the functionality from rtx-toolkit to blender, because... I didn't liked original toolkit at all =)))

And here's a question... Not sure why, but after exporting textures to mod -- it is not working... I see the textures are there, but in game while toggling "enable enhanced assets" updated meshes (with updated textures) just blinks and loads default textures.... Any ideas what am I doing wrong?

[jovial wharf]

Also to mention -- exported textures probably broken? My totalcmd can preview dds textures from capture, but cant preview exported.....

[orchid remnant]

this may be due to the format you're using before exporting?

what file type is the replacement texture

[jovial wharf]

it's TGA

used material from blenderkit

[orchid remnant]

mind sending the textures? I've only tested png and jpeg and those export fine

[jovial wharf]

just a moment...

hmmm.... not sure this is because of tga. Used one with jpegs -- same issue... Another thought -- those materials are "packed", probably this is the issue? I'll try to unpack material with jpegs and export once again

[orchid remnant]

the normal seems to export fine so far?

ill try it with the principled bsdf node too

yep this seems to work as well

I'm also able to open the exported texture in something like paint.net

[jovial wharf]

this was the initial file. Now I'll send you the one "before" and "after"

[orchid remnant]

i'm able to open your exported .dds as well

[jovial wharf]

strange....

[orchid remnant]

Maybe walk through your process? you're using those .tga/jpeg files, which are getting exported and end up looking like this in the mod directory and usda right?

[lean quarry]

you're a god CR

[lean quarry]

ar narr help, i can't scroll down the list of captures

[orchid remnant]

good lawd

ill fix

[orchid remnant]

much better

also refactored the panels because having all of the panels being in one file was a stupid idea to begin with

you can also click the little arrow at the bottom to filter your captures

Capture previews anyone?

😈

[orchid remnant]

you can now move your viewport camera to the remix one

[orchid remnant]

now supports multiple captures

[orchid remnant]

early procedural texture support

[stone grail]

Will these work with rtx remix blender????????.

[harsh wave]

Yes

Just bake the final output

Looks like some recreation of an old shader

A lot of the inputs could be removed th

The normal maps are also mixed wrong

[stone grail]

True

Its just fuckin around

[harsh wave]

It's pretty simple

Just a lot of masks and mixing

[stone grail]

Simple tasks for simple beings

[harsh wave]

Also no fucking clue why it's mixing shaders together.

Like that's just

No

Mix the colors and put them into a single shader

[stone grail]

Uncle

[harsh wave]

But for whatever reason it's mixing multiple shaders

[stone grail]

These server no function

Serve*

[harsh wave]

hm

[stone grail]

Chill on the nitpicking of it lol I said it for the bit to scare cr

[orchid remnant]

i mean burrito is right, it bakes the final output

[stone grail]

Lol

Unbakes your output

[orchid remnant]

NOOOOOO

[harsh wave]

I mean the whole shader is just r word

[stone grail]

Lmao

[orchid remnant]

preliminary aperture translucent support added

finally got around to do doing it because i needed to do some water for p2rtx

i havent gotten thin-walled to output anything visually in blender but it appears to work

hopefully next is blender 4.4 support

[harsh wave]

Oh you made the shader yourself?

Good job.

[orchid remnant]

hello blender 4.4.3

why does the skybox kinda work in shaded view lmao

eevee has RT now?

[harsh wave]

Screen space ray tracing

Aka ssr

And ssgi

And ssao

[orchid remnant]

it looks quite close to the cpu cycles result

which is nice

cycles is still unusable on my RX 9070 because amd hasnt released any rocm support natively on windows yet 😭

also it looks like they raised the light limit? normally i cant render all captured lights on gm_construct

ofc blender had to change how alpha works 😩

anything with a alpha map is basically transparent in 4.1+

[lean quarry]

Oh shit it works on the latest blender? 👀

[harsh wave]

You sure you have gpu compute enabled?

[orchid remnant]

ye but its slow as crap

its using HIP rather than rocm

[orchid remnant]

just got it working, 4.1+ deprecated a lot of stuff so im still fixing it up

looks like to replicate remix alpha i need to have this node setup?

idk it looks close enough

@harsh wave ur a blender god, what do u think

[harsh wave]

What the fuck

That's not

[orchid remnant]

well do u wanna see when we just throw the alpha straight into opacity?

objects just become transparent on 4.1+

😦

[harsh wave]

ughhhhhhhhh

[harsh wave]

I wanted to cill and just play gaaaaaaames

fine

what the fuck are you doing

the color is the color

[orchid remnant]

trying to get alpha working correctly

[harsh wave]

the alpha is the alpha

you don't multiply them

You don't add them

You don't do anything with them

[orchid remnant]

well the result you get is this
#1377738156886982777 message

all the blending options im used to are gone so uhh yea 🙂

[harsh wave]

hold obn

[orchid remnant]

its weird because some assets like vegetation look FAR better with normal color/opacity in 4.1+

so idk if the .dds is just passing weird opacity info that blender doesnt like

so i think some node work might be needed for assets that break

[harsh wave]

You put the alpha in the opacity

That's all

[orchid remnant]

so just cope with broken assets?

[harsh wave]

wdym

[orchid remnant]

i linked the issue multiple times lol
#1377738156886982777 message

this wall's alpha map makes it transparent in 4.1+

[harsh wave]

uhhhhhhhhhhh

That's weird

Can you post the packed blend file

[orchid remnant]

ye

[harsh wave]

m

[orchid remnant]

i have concluded that valve just uses weird alpha maps sometimes, the new alpha rendering in blender 4.2+ is peak overall

i tried messing with it more this morning and its not a widespread issue

[harsh wave]

I suppose. I was about to check it yesterday but got distracted.

You can try setting the alpha type to (channel packed)

See if that does anything

[orchid remnant]

guh where is that located

[harsh wave]

On the node

[orchid remnant]

oh

ye no visible difference for all of them

ok i think i have figured out the real issue, i have been connecting every single imported asset with opacity connected, even if a material doesnt have an alpha channel

which is why stuff is turning invisible 💀

i guess it wasnt noticable in blender 4.0.2

[orchid remnant]

https://github.com/sambow23/blender-remix/releases/tag/v0.3

[rocky topaz]

oh, btw, is the blender addon for rtx currently functional? been having some complications with making the game load the stuff, a tutorial would be neat

(copied frmo the gmod thread)

[orchid remnant]

bruh

yes

[rocky topaz]

then i dont know how to use it properly, i loaded the two captures i made, went to an object in the map, changed the metallic and roughness, then while having the object selected i exported the materials.

then i copypasted the mod.usda into rtxremix/mods/(name of the mod). but it didn't even try to load it.

i tried changing another mod's .usda with the one blender made, but it got stuck on "loading USD"

[orchid remnant]

its ideal to create/edit the mod.usda while its already in the rtx-remix/mods/(modname) folder

I should probably make like a simple video guide or something

[orchid remnant]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNnT9FSvQuw

viola

[rocky topaz]

🔥 fire. the microphone was super quiet so i had to max out the volume, but it's a really good tutorial

i wonder if it'd be possible to change the alpha thingy, im not sure what it's called, but sometimes some objects in gmod maps come off with weird transparency (kinda like if it mistook emission with the transparency) in the toolkit. being able to fix that up might be cool

[orchid remnant]

whoops i think i messed up the audio export in davinci

[rocky topaz]

had seen that happen in https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3460960868&searchtext=mall

(everpine mall. gmod)

on the arcade machines

[orchid remnant]

source games use the alpha layer for a lot of stuff, if it looks weird you'll have to manually unplug the alpha connection

i dont think there is any easy way for me to automate that since this is meant for remix in general

[rocky topaz]

im fine with setting it up manually, just wondering if there was that alpha button on the aperture node, but i cant recall from memory what was the name of it, and toolkit just doesn't like my pc for some reason for now

[orchid remnant]

there is an alpha/opacity input for the aperture node

[rocky topaz]

yeah, that should work, i might try it next time. oh, and is there anything i can help you with the blender thing? my gpu can use optix for cycles, in case you need to try out something, idk

[orchid remnant]

testing mostly, i think there might be a few more bugs not mentioned in the github readme

[orchid remnant]

since i've been using linux as my main os for a few days, I decided to create a blender extension of the addon that addresses a lot of issues with the python-based one.

1. proper instancing support
   multiple instances now share the same mesh, so these can be replaced properly now
2. textures get converted to .png on import (avoiding .dds texture issues completely)
3. meshes that re-use the same material use a single one (the python one would remake it for each mesh)
4. all texture conversions are handled in native code, we still use texconv.exe but it will automatically use wine if it detects a linux system

(its extremely fast as seen in the video, captures get imported instantly)

i plan to merge this with the original python-based addon soon, but I'm going to add a few more things before I do

[orchid remnant]

the big thing i want to do with the native extension is this
https://github.com/sambow23/blender-remix/issues/1

[harsh wave]

Erm. Can we see replaced assets yet?

[orchid remnant]

like loading already replaced assets from a mod.usda file?

[harsh wave]

Ye

[orchid remnant]

nope, this is what im trying to fix

[harsh wave]

Ah

How will

Wait nvm

[orchid remnant]

what works is if your entire project is made in the blender-toolkit, any replacement made in blender show up obviously

but we want the blender toolkit to be interoptable with the remix toolkit (and vise versa)

[harsh wave]

Yes

You should be able to just read the assets from the mod and its layers

Slap them on top

Done

[orchid remnant]

ye using a native extension will make this easy, doing it in the python-only addon would be a pain

the goal is to make the changes live

so we can get rid of one-time exports

so if you mess up a light, you can undo it instead of removing the replacement in the mod.usda text file lol

[harsh wave]

Right right

[muted blaze]

a

[stark gate]

Hmmm, captures from Hidden and Dangerous 2 are all... squidgy

[orchid remnant]

what tha

do they look like this in the toolkit?

[stark gate]

In the toolbox it's fine, when I import to Blender it isn't . Here's the same scene in Remix, also imports fine to USD composer

[orchid remnant]

do you mind sending over your captures folder?

[stark gate]

Sure bro

Just zip it up and google drive it with a few examples?

They're thankfully small

[orchid remnant]

yea thats good

oh its just the usd files, can u send like the whole captures folder if possible?

[stark gate]

Ah righto

That's... gonna be 6 odd gig

I've got a tonne of 4k textures in there

[orchid remnant]

the original game has 4k textures?

[stark gate]

No no no, the original game had 64x64 and a max 256x256. Some of the USDs I've already replaced with 4k textures

Maybe I'll try making a copy and reducing it with all the new ones gone

Found the file with all the HD textures, I'll try and compress the rest into one folder

[orchid remnant]

the captures folder shouldnt have those textures

it will only contain the originals from the initial capture

[stark gate]

That's what's in it

[orchid remnant]

right, but your 4K textures wouldnt be in there

or shouldnt at least

[stark gate]

They're in the Materials folder

So I can just omit that

[orchid remnant]

🫠

i would make those changes in the actual mod folder and not the captures folder

[stark gate]

Here it is with the 4k textures linked to the materials file, for some reason the sky is messed up now though

Normals will be tweaked

Compressing it now without the extras

Since I opened it with the USD composer, it appears to have replaced the orignal sky with a default HDR sphere...

Kind of hilarious

Uploading the capture now

New ZIP https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ml0LIarkRalZloqPF6lpEn996rwMsE2h/view?usp=sharing

[stark gate]

I'm an idiot, I bumped the lights option

[stark gate]

It seems the only way I can get models imported/exported is to go through USD composer and export as FBX

[harsh wave]

@orchid remnant I summon ye

[orchid remnant]

im already here

[harsh wave]

Okay so

[orchid remnant]

so

[harsh wave]

I want to redo my mod with the textures that I have ingested already

Can I add them without the addon ingesting them again?

And will they show up in the viewport?

[orchid remnant]

you'd have to manually add them in blender, so not ingest, but just locate them

also cant guarantee blender will render them correctly, its dds support sucks

its better you use the original file format in blender

[harsh wave]

hm

[harsh wave]

The new file should be mod.usda, right?

[orchid remnant]

yea

you can add and select sub layers after you make the main mod

i have a tutorial video but my mic is so quiet in it 😭
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNnT9FSvQuw&t=187s

[harsh wave]

https://tenor.com/view/inauguration-cnn2017-trump-donald-trump-cant-hear-you-きこえない-gif-7576947

m

[orchid remnant]

so what made you quit lmao

[harsh wave]

The sublayer management is poo

[orchid remnant]

can you be more specific

[harsh wave]

Getting to it

[orchid remnant]

guh

[harsh wave]

I need a hierarchy view of all the sublayers

And I want to be able to ontrol which sublayers go in which folders

I don't want everything to be bunched up in the base folder

[orchid remnant]

does the toolkit even do the latter?

i can add both of these tho for sure

[harsh wave]

Well, yeah, I can see a tree view of all the sublayers. And when creating a new layer, it asks me which folder to put it inside

That and the fact that I have textures already ingested so I'll use the toolkit to reassign everything and maybe then move to blender to texture the weapons that haven't been ingested yet.

[orchid remnant]

yeah the blender toolkit in its current state is best at handling projects created within it

[harsh wave]

mhm.

Also how do I even load a capture or connect it to a rtx remix folder

(I should watch the tutorial, I know.)

[orchid remnant]

its at the bottom of the menu, you just select the capture folder

it will display all captures with a preview icon

[harsh wave]

right

[lean quarry]

CR when u make an HDRI skydome do you make it in blender and than export it as a usda file? And then open a capture, then import the HDRI skydome, and then texture it?

I did it a few months ago but now I forgot which comes first the chicken or the egg lmfao

[orchid remnant]

i forgot how i made the sphere, but i vaguely remember it was in blender, but i used the toolkit to ingest it and attach it to a hdri editor entity ingame. The texturing was done manually via editing the mod.usda and using nvidia texture tools to convert the .exr into .dds

[lean quarry]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh nvidia texture tool ahhhhhh thank u sir

[wind harbor]

@orchid remnant yo, i just have a question about anchor what kind of object do i need to choose for an anchor role? cuz when i choose any object for an anchor, (light/model) that i exported to mod.usda appeares when anchor object appeares too. But when i just export light/model without anchor game just doesnt load it like here:

[orchid remnant]

If you're doing stuff like lighting, the anchor object would be something with stable geometry hashes in your capture. Though you dont need to export the anchor object

[wind harbor]

how to enable hash debug view in game? i forgot

is it it?

if ye all hashes are stable

[orchid remnant]

if you move around and the colors change on something, its unstable

[wind harbor]

oh f ye colors is changing

so its hard to work with this game?

or is it fixable

[orchid remnant]

if everything is unstable, you can only do texture replacements, this applies to blender and also the official toolkit
it can only be fixed via game/engine-specific mods or reimplementing the entire renderer, both require a good bit of reverse engineering knowledge

[wind harbor]

i changed textures already with ai for now

is it important to ingest textures? i skipped it sometimes

[orchid remnant]

for the nvidia toolkit?

[wind harbor]

yes

[orchid remnant]

it usually makes you ingest any texture in order to replace it

[wind harbor]

its skippable

[orchid remnant]

i probably wouldnt

[wind harbor]

ok gonna remake some textures and see if its stable

[orchid remnant]

textures should work fine, they dont depend on geo hashes

[wind harbor]

emm and what better for ai textures pbrfusion or comfyui?

[orchid remnant]

not sure, i usually make my own

[wind harbor]

so there is just no point to redone textures?

[orchid remnant]

wdym

[wind harbor]

it looks like this

[stone grail]

Oof

Try making thoes blue boxes the anchor mesh

[wind harbor]

i export them from blender

[orchid remnant]

i think they're anchored to the green things on the wall

[wind harbor]

YES

[orchid remnant]

the anchor needs to be a unique object in a level, one occurence

otherwise you get duplicates lol

[stone grail]

Oh

[wind harbor]

ye thats what i am talking about, how to create it

[orchid remnant]

it would need to be added in the game

like a unique mesh placed with a level editor

[wind harbor]

i mean the game on source (dark messiah) can i open it source editor

[stone grail]

Thats what'd I do for wolfenstein if literally all the tools wouldn't fuck up everything

[orchid remnant]

didnt someone else make a compat mod for that game?

[wind harbor]

yes i installed compat mod from that guy but as you can see its unstable

[stone grail]

#1098843924602306601 message

[orchid remnant]

all source games have this issue

[wind harbor]

oh

[orchid remnant]

is there no hammer for dark messiah?

[wind harbor]

ye maybe i need to ask dev

[wind harbor]

what is it, i newer used it before

https://www.moddb.com/tutorials/how-to-use-hammer-with-dark-messiah

is it it?

[orchid remnant]

yeah, but if you've never used hammer before, i'd google a few guides, you're also gonna have to import a unique model into the game, so ensure dark messiah has enough source SDK tools to do that

ngl its a painful process

[wind harbor]

f i dont know if i wanna do that, i just wanted to remake 1 level for myself and play it

[orchid remnant]

try walking around the level and see if you can find a prop that is only used once

that should be good enough

[wind harbor]

for experience you know

[wind harbor]

in blender it would be easier to find

[orchid remnant]

yeah, just make sure its not world geometry

[wind harbor]

i think its ok

gonna try to export something again

HELL YEAH ty for help bro

and no objects here YES

the last question how to delete it now

only way is to delete mod usda?

[wind harbor]

i will cook something big with it now

[orchid remnant]

that or just remove the entry inside of the file. I definitely wanna fix that issue lol

the text inside the red rectangle is the light

[wind harbor]

oh ok

[austere cape]

Hmm importing capture using Frisser's BlenderToRemix works very well for me, but with Remix Toolkit for Blender, when I do the same, the capture comes in sideways (z up instead of y up perhaps) and many items are placed at 0,0,0. Am I doing something wrong here

[orchid remnant]

you probably need to uncheck Z Up and check Correct baked world transforms in the runtime

i've only tested source games with this addon so if those remix settings dont fix it, ill need a archive of your captures folder so I can figure it out

btw, im on vacation, so it might be a bit until i can actually take a look

[austere cape]

I have Y up set, I didn't try the correct baked world transforms though - I'll try that!

[austere cape]

I'll grab a capture and upload it for you to take a look see at some point after your break!

[orchid remnant]

@final cloak if you want a guide for basic usage, i have made a video tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNnT9FSvQuw

[final cloak]

Hero. Appreciate it. Think I'm going to need animation support if I'm not in over my head.

[stone grail]

the ominus monkey

[cloud hazel]

what the hell is importing only 1 texture?

💀

The export of meshes also does not work for me, the asset appears in the folder, but nothing changes in the game.

[orchid remnant]

loading existing stages is something that isnt fully supported, so your entire mod project has to be created in blender

[orchid remnant]

did you set the anchor mesh?

[orchid remnant]

this will hopefully change in the future but i am busy with other things atm so it might be a while before I start working on this again

[cloud hazel]

why make an anchor to REPLACE and not add?

[orchid remnant]

the anchor is for adding. It's designed around a game having a anchor mesh to spawn meshes/lights in a world

but it also works for replacing a single asset, just not as smooth

[cloud hazel]

I was finally able to replace the materials

why doesn't your tool want to replace the materials that are already in the mods\gameReadyAssets\rtx-remix\textures folder?

I changed the name of the textures and their format, but only removing the old textures helped.

[orchid remnant]

maybe a bug? I don't remember that being an issue but I'd have to double check

[cloud hazel]

I applied the anchor, but the model still hasn't been replaced.

I made a newer capture, and the asset hash is still the same there.

[cloud hazel]

@orchid remnant#general-remix message

is there any way to ignore the gamma correction for importing legacy textures?

[orchid remnant]

it shouldnt be doing any gamma conversions

it could be how textures are exported with texconv

[cloud hazel]

Exported and Original

what is that?

Not all blocks have this line.

nvm, textures without this line are also exported with gamma correction.

[orchid remnant]

texconv is microsoft's tool to export and import textures from/to .dds. It's an alternative to the nvidia texture tools
https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXTex/wiki/texconv

[cloud hazel]

yes, texconv is clearly writing the texture incorrectly.

I've dried the texture using Nvidia's photoshop plugin and everything is working correctly.

[cloud hazel]

why doesn't the texture for the light source work?...

[orchid remnant]

remix only supports .dds for textures iirc

idek if remix has any handling for textures on lights

[stone grail]

@orchid remnant how do i do pbr in this btw? cuz theres a glowing idea here

[orchid remnant]

guh

[stone grail]

Nvm on this part

[old creek]

where slider

:(

[stone grail]

Looks like something is connected to it

[old creek]

well of course

im make mod

[stone grail]

Then if its connected I dont think there will ve a slider

[old creek]

wha- what

should-

it

hav-

slider???

why?????????

[stone grail]

I may be bad at blender but I know that if you attach an image to the slider, it'll use the image as reference over tbe slider

[orchid remnant]

correct, its also like this in the official toolkit

roughness slider is only for legacy materials, you'd use a roughness map for pbr

so its assumed that already has the correct levels

[violet cove]

Really awesome tool I've been using for a bit since I honestly hate working in the Remix Toolkit, and have much more experience in Blender. I actually left Remix for a long time because I just did not enjoy working in the toolkit, but this has peaked my interest again.

I have noticed a few things that are a bit weird, and I just wanna know if its me or the plugin, since i know it's not 100%.

I think lights only import as Sphere lights regardless of the type of light chosen in Blender. Is that something not yet implemented? I've been having to manually go into my .usda's and change the light types of every light so far.

All meshes have to be reoriented 180 degrees before importing, I'm not sure if that's specific to my game, but even with rotations aligned to the capture it just imports upside down.

it would also be nice to be able to hide references from within the plugin instead of having to go into the .usda and manually list them out, but that's more of a sidenote.

Overall I really love this tool and want to go all in on using it for this project I'm working on because it's so fast, but I'm having trouble figuring out some of these things. Any help or clarification would be appreciated 👍

[orchid remnant]

Each blender light type should export into the corresponding remix one, unless there a newer blender version broke something

For the rotated meshes, make sure you enable baking transforms in remix before capturing

Yeah I intend to make mesh replacements more fleshed out but this project has slipped from my radar for a while due to me focusing on other projects, I do plan to come back and work on this addon more

[violet cove]

Gotcha, I appreciate that. It seems on every version of Blender spotlights do not export into Disk lights. Every other light type does work though so far. Also I did run into the gamma conversions happening to .dds textures, but I can just manually save over exports for now.

I really appreciate the work that has gone into this, your garrys mod work, unity and shader stuff, I totally understand you're busy 👍 I look forward to when you get time.

[orchid remnant]

blender spotlights should turn into sphere lights with shaping enabled (closest match to what blender does imo).

I just fixed the gamma conversion issue if you want to try the git version
https://github.com/sambow23/blender-remix?tab=readme-ov-file#git-repo

for the spot lights to show, you might have to raise your settings like mine here, the values blender has doesnt exactly match remix but i plan to fix that too

[orchid remnant]

one small step for remix, one giant leap for blender

preliminary support for loading nvidia toolkit created mods

at least for materials

[orchid remnant]

sublayers now work too

ultimate test is to see if it loads hl2rtx assets lmao

ah nvm i forget it uses rtxio packages and i dont have the disk space to extract everything

ah fuck it we ball

it does not like loading the .dds files for hl2rtx but its not like blender really supports .dds anyway (or rather the BC7 format)

[orchid remnant]

finally

added a workaround by converting all replaced DDS files with PNG, it exports to your original mod folder

[orchid remnant]

das a lot of meshes, time to fix instancing

pain

[orchid remnant]

blender appears to memory leak when trying to load all of the replacement textures for that one map

yay...

@harsh wave how do i make blender not explode from trying to load uncompressed hl2rtx textures

11.5 GB for just d1_town_01

[harsh wave]

Uh... I don't think you can

[orchid remnant]

@cloud hazel what do you mean by sublayers being unreadable?

[cloud hazel]

The addon displays layers available for selection only from mod.usda

[orchid remnant]

so sublayers within a sublayer?

[cloud hazel]

yes

it is also important for me to have a choice of a folder where to save textures, and so far it is impossible to choose this

[orchid remnant]

gotcha, yeah i can look into othat

[orchid remnant]

I can add that too

[cloud hazel]

I do not know why, but any mesh that I try to replace just does not get replaced and nothing happens.

I used Frissj blendertoRemix once, even though it was created by a neural network, mesh replacement worked in it

[orchid remnant]

can you do the troubleshooting steps and send those screenshots?

[cloud hazel]

I upload a video
that shows that the hashes are stable, there is a mesh in the folder, there are replacement lines in the usda file, but nothing appears in the game and does not change.

I also can't use heightmap.
It makes me sad to see how beautifully other people can do while I can't do anything.

by the way, could you make a separate RTX Remix version with only some of your innovations used in gmod remix?

I'm interested in Legacy Emissions and restarting the mod without restarting the entire game, but my project has problems with light sources with your remix option.

[orchid remnant]

i work on this in my spare time and i have not advertised this tool as fully functional, please respect that. If you have a nvidia GPU, use the toolkit, its far more functional than this.

Anyway, im working on lightmap support as well as the rest of the missing inputs

[orchid remnant]

probably, but it might be a while, im waiting on NV to push the new remix release so my next fork release isnt missing anything. Also I have to re-factor anything that might be broken from it

[orchid remnant]

where is the video?

[cloud hazel]

My Internet connection was turned off

[cloud hazel]

toolkit remix works poorly on 20rtx

[cloud hazel]

https://youtu.be/Km2XTZNe4uE

[orchid remnant]

i would probably just send the export process itself instead of the mesh creation but i think I see the issue.
It's exporting the blender-converted instance name instead of the original mesh. Though this might just be another sublayer related issue but ill check it out

[orchid remnant]

fixed sublayer depths

[orchid remnant]

fixed modifying capture meshes

you can also now hide the anchor mesh

think this makes a little better

[muted blaze]

rtx logic in blender when

[orchid remnant]

native remix integratio is on the to-do (albeit very far)

would allow that

[orchid remnant]

you can now specify where assets go during export (relative to your mod directory)

[orchid remnant]

long fucking overdue, but you can finally delete replacements

[orchid remnant]

fixed some issues with the light radius on export

[violet cove]

~~getting this error on export, not sure why ~~(EDIT: I had accidentally named the folder 'textconv', it works)

[cloud hazel]

By the way, the color of the light source in the form of the light temperature is not working right now, but it is constantly exported.

I would also like the materials node to be finalized so that those parameters that were not active are not exported to USD.

[cloud hazel]

Yeah

maybe I should upgrade to blender 5.0

by the way, load mod.usda changes breaks all textures

[orchid remnant]

it's meant for loading changes from nvidia toolkit projects, i have not tested it on blender-created projects

though its something that probably needs to be fixed regardless, it's on my to-do

[orchid remnant]

i dont think light temperature is even supported by remix, even if it's technically supported by USD, ill remove it

[orchid remnant]

FINALLY

shout out to my old rtx 2080 so i could use the nvidia toolkit to debug this alpha stuff

[queen wolf]

How does your decal export work I am curious?

[orchid remnant]

wdym?

[queen wolf]

Nvm I presume you bake the decals from this #asset-creation message

I’m not thinking straight

[orchid remnant]

Nah, its just a plane mesh with a transparent PNG as the albedo

[cloud hazel]

old 2080...

[cloud hazel]

even after changing the Blender version in my game, the meshes are not replaced.
I also noticed that the addon now exports the names of light sources incorrectly.

Russian is enabled in my blender, and now the names of the light sources are exported with Cyrillic, and this breaks the remix.

maybe this is a problem with the new version of blender, but why export the names of light sources at all?

[orchid remnant]

1. Mesh exports are confirmed working with sublayers so there's something unique with your game. Are you taking captures with "Correct baked world transforms" enabled? Send a screenshot of your replacement in the usda.

2. I added names to light sources so they could be identifiable in the usda. I haven't tested with other localizations but I'll see if i can fix the Cyrillic issue.

[austere cape]

Hey CR! Thanks a bunch for your work on this!

I just wanted to ask about a challenge I was having - when I load a capture, it comes in on it's side.
I have tried individually and various combinations of these settings in remix runtime when taking the capture:
Z-Up
Left Handed Coord System
Correct Baked World Transforms
and Shader capture heuristics.

Simply dragging the capture .usd file into blender and importing it directly with default usd import settings imports correctly.

I will supply an example capture file shortly!

[austere cape]

Here is an example capture 🙂

addon import on bottom left, direct blender import on top right:

[orchid remnant]

weird that the remix capture settings aren't affecting anything. I'll take a look, thanks for sending the capture

[austere cape]

I grabbed the repo with presumably the latest changes, it seems that It's not loading sublayers created in remix toolkit for me:

Hmm perhaps upaxis Y defined in the layers is what is causing the import sideways despite runtime capture settings

just for completeness:

Not sure if it is relevant, nonetheless Toolkit created sublayers seem to end up all in the same folder:

[orchid remnant]

i fixed it, i had some accidental double transforms when we detect y-up, pushing soon

[orchid remnant]

that looks like the older version

[austere cape]

true, i uninstalled the addon via blender, then git clone / copy in texconv / zipped it and then installed that zip from disk

looks the same as the old version

no need to zip it i guess but still not sure why it still looks like the old version

[orchid remnant]

try cloning into a new folder, run this and send the output
git log -1

it should look like this

[orchid remnant]

yeah looks good, try importing it

[austere cape]

hey now it works, not sure what the problem was

perhaps i needed to restart blender

[orchid remnant]

pushed the y-up fixes

[austere cape]

oi oi oi! nice!

🥳

[austere cape]

Looks like the fixes fixed it 😄 Thanks CR!

Are the replacement textures and meshes added via the toolkit supposed to show up in blender? Ie. does the addon load replacements into blender from the usda layers?

[orchid remnant]

i've recently added support for that but it's very buggy. If you want to try it, click Load mod.usda Changes in Project Setup

[austere cape]

that shouldnt write anything to the usda files or anything should it?

[orchid remnant]

if your textures are purple, it means blender's DDS handler cant render them, but I added an option to convert them back to PNG so they can be viewed

nope

[austere cape]

ill give it a bash

[orchid remnant]

just applies to the blender proejct

i would make a dedicated save before trying it

[austere cape]

heheh

[orchid remnant]

oh yeah hl2rtx was pretty bad too

#1377738156886982777 message

43gb of ram used

[austere cape]

I don't think i'm going to make it captain, i just don't

have

the power

[orchid remnant]

yeah i gotta figure out how to make blender not explode loading these textures

i would prefer better DDS support but i dont like the idea of supporting a blender fork

[austere cape]

unusual that blender does not natively support DDS fully

[orchid remnant]

iirc it was BC7 with mipmaps i think that had issues, let me check rq

[austere cape]

in the toolkit it is possible to "mute" layers, such that the replacements in them are not loaded, that kind of thing isn't in this addon is it?

https://tenor.com/view/ace-ventura-cant-do-it-captain-i-dont-have-the-power-gif-15587620

[orchid remnant]

not explicitly, the Load mod.usda Changes only loads replacements for game assets in the active blender scene

[austere cape]

ahh alright thats cool, so only if the anchor is in the scene

https://tenor.com/view/kermit-kermit-the-frog-nervous-nail-biting-anxious-gif-17874247

😆

[orchid remnant]

yeah in theory

i think i got a while to go before the addon is ready to start handling toolkit projects.

[austere cape]

hey it did it!

[orchid remnant]

no freaking way

[austere cape]

it did seem to load replacements for which the anchor is not in the current blender scene, but i need to check that

[orchid remnant]

did all of the texture replacements work?

[austere cape]

i will check, it did a lot of stuff

definitely loaded a lot of things that arent anchored to the existing scene

it has certainly loaded texture replacements

[orchid remnant]

yeah blender does not like most if not all hl2rtx textures lmao

[austere cape]

perhaps toolkit ingested textures are more amicable

possible hl2rtx used a different conversion method

coming along nicely CR

looks like mesh replacements are not respecting the Y up stuff

the circled thing on the left is the replacement for the circled thing on the right

[orchid remnant]

ill take a look,

[austere cape]

aight i should probably organise the observations 😛

• mesh replacements (at least) appear in the scene even when the original anchor mesh is not in the blender scene
• orientation of mesh replacements Y up tomfoolery
• when the anchor mesh is in the scene and the anchor mesh is set to not render via the toolkit method in the usda layer "references = None", the anchor mesh is rendered in the blender scene still (blender limitation?)

[orchid remnant]

that last one is probably because im not checking for that flag during import operations, it currently only looks for prims that are meshes and materials and nothing deeper (like References = None)

[austere cape]

For infos here is how the toolkit set up the usda layer for this dome replacement in the screenshot above, when you "delete" the anchor mesh in the toolkit via the bin icon, so that only the replacement mesh should be there:

        over "mesh_9C8B2546CDC061D1" (
            references = None
        )
        {
            def Xform "ref_ff4f56cc67bd471499fe76511ef5cfcc" (
                references = @./assets/c4/c4l2_palace/meshes/PalaceDome_1.usd@
            )
            {
                custom bool IsRemixRef = 1
                double3 xformOp:rotateXYZ = (0, 0, 0)
                double3 xformOp:scale = (1, 1, 1)
                double3 xformOp:translate = (0, 0, 0)
                uniform token[] xformOpOrder = ["xformOp:translate", "xformOp:rotateXYZ", "xformOp:scale"]

                over "XForms"
                {
                    float3 xformOp:scale = (1, 1, 1)
                }
            }
        }

(it adds that references = None bit)

[orchid remnant]

yeah that should be an easy fix.

[austere cape]

ahh you beat me to it! 😄

[cloud hazel]

I can confirm that meshes are exported and replaced in NFS Most Wanted correctly with your toolkit
the situation with NFS Carbon seems to be really special
Also, in NFS MW, there are no problems with binding light to a mesh, such as car headlights(gmod remix)

[orchid remnant]

i know you dont like the nvidia toolkit, but can you verify if placing lights works there for Carbon?

and if so, send the usda for it

[cloud hazel]

by the way, could you combine the selection of mods and captures into one Project tab?

I'm currently trying most wanted and I have to constantly reassign the mod and capture folders.

[cloud hazel]

I haven't done that yet.

but I saw that Kim was making a USD converter for better compatibility with Remix.
https://github.com/Kim2091/RTXRemixTools/tree/main/RemixMeshConvert

And the main problem with the Remix is that it crashes all the time

I also hasten to note that the import mod does not replace the default parameters for the material, but leaves only those parameters that are described in the USDA

That's not how the remix works

[orchid remnant]

parameters as in what exactly?

[cloud hazel]

I mean, the remix takes the parameters in the USDA and adds them to the default ones.

Your mod import uses only the parameters specified by the USDA

[orchid remnant]

okay but you need to narrow down exactly what "parameters" you're talking about.

So if the mod is specifying an albedo, roughness, metallic map, etc, what other parameters are you taking about? default emission values?

[orchid remnant]

like this?

[cloud hazel]

I'm talking about binding the capture folder to the selected mod.usda

I would also like to select the desired mod from the drop-down list.

[orchid remnant]

I feel like that would be counter intuitive, especially if you're just using the addon to explore captures. But what im surmising is that you mean to select the rtx-remix folder that holds the captures and mods folder so it displays both at once

if you mean the latter, i can do that

[cloud hazel]

So, it's a modding tool in the first place.

Who even needs to watch the captures?

[orchid remnant]

depends on the person who is using it, im not going to restrict the tool be used only for mod authoring

[cloud hazel]

🫤

[violet cove]

I've found btw that naming lights only sticks when exporting some of the time.

For example, I'll name a light, export it to a .usda, and it shows up with the name I assign in Blender just fine. But if I delete it from the .usda , re-export it with the same name, it will just ignore it and use "light_########". But now for whatever reason it just doesn't work even with new lights for some reason. It's a very useful feature so bit unfortunate.

[violet cove]

I'm also running into this issue where if I want multiple lights anchored to the same mesh, it will only export 1 of them to the usda. If I try to do it one at a time, it will just replace the values of one with the other instead of making a new light (this seems to only happen when duplicating the light, if i make one from scratch it works properly.)

Also still running into the gamma conversion problem with textures not sure if that's just me atp.

Just wanted to mention these in case. Everything else has been great so far and I really appreciate the work going into this, it's been very motivational getting back into remix work! 🙏

[cloud hazel]

there are still color space errors, although the developer wrote that he fixed it, lol
I'm using it with the latest edits.

I don't understand why not finally take into account the color space settings that are specified in the texture settings.