Vibe Reverse Engineering Toolset

[dull swallow]

alright, and use which model?

or what do you think will work best for this

[rose oasis]

gpt 5.4 or opus 4.5 (not 4.6)

imo opus is theb etter option for initial implementation

[dull swallow]

ah

dont think i have opus 4.5 so ill try gpt

[rose oasis]

press add models

it will be in there

[dull swallow]

oh

[dull swallow]

sorry last question for now we promise, but should we do the thinking or non thinking one

[rose oasis]

don't worry ur oki

thinking

[dull swallow]

ok ill start that now and let it think

and thus it starts i suppose

[rose oasis]

need to clarify to it that we're only using the API for it, not the normal remix rendering path

[dull swallow]

I've explored the workspace and gathered some important context. Before we proceed, I have a few questions to clarify the scope and approach:

Questions:

What type of mod are you looking to create?

Path tracing/ray tracing remaster (like the official RTX Remix remasters)?
Custom materials/textures?
UI/HUD modifications?
Something else?
Graphics API compatibility:

"Psychonauts 2 is a UE4 game that uses D3D11 (I found references to r.AMDD3D11MultiThreadedDevice in the console commands)
The standard Remix SDK is designed for D3D9 applications
Does this dxvk-remix-gmod-unity fork have special support for D3D11 games, or are we planning to work around this limitation?
About the fork:

The folder name suggests this is for Garry's Mod and Unity. What makes this fork special compared to the upstream NVIDIA dxvk-remix?
Is there existing work/integration for UE4 games?
Current state:

Have you already tried running Psychonauts 2 with any version of Remix?
Do you have any existing mod code or configuration we should build upon?
Intended approach:

Do you want to inject custom meshes/materials/lights via the Remix API?
Or are you looking to do something through the UE4 console commands (I see you have a 1500+ line list of console variables)?
Understanding these will help me determine the best technical approach for the mod."

[rose oasis]

"Psychonauts 2 is a UE4 game that uses D3D11 (I found references to r.AMDD3D11MultiThreadedDevice in the console commands)
we're using the Remix API to capture data from the game and render it within Remix. this is API agnostic

The folder name suggests this is for Garry's Mod and Unity. What makes this fork special compared to the upstream NVIDIA dxvk-remix?
skinning support for the API and the ability to pass through things like UI through render targets

Have you already tried running Psychonauts 2 with any version of Remix?
not possible without the API

Do you want to inject custom meshes/materials/lights via the Remix API?
the API will allow all of this to happen as a result. captures can be performed and users can add lights and such

[dull swallow]

https://youtu.be/M7VSEZOQIlg?si=NILysDHRmiku1Jha listening to this while it does its thing

Architecture Overview
Since Psychonauts 2 is a 64-bit D3D11 game, and the Remix API is 64-bit only, we can create a direct integration without the bridge complexity. The mod will need:

Core Components
D3D11 Hook DLL - Intercepts rendering calls from the game
Data Extraction Layer - Converts D3D11 resources to Remix format:
Vertex/Index buffers → remixapi_MeshInfo
Textures → Material albedo/normal maps
View/Projection matrices → remixapi_CameraInfo
Bone transforms → remixapi_InstanceInfoBoneTransformsEXT
Remix API Interface - Submits extracted data each frame
UI Passthrough - Identifies UI render targets and handles them separately
Key Questions Before We Start
Starting point: Do you want me to set up the project structure and basic D3D11 hooking infrastructure first?

Build system: What build system do you prefer?

Visual Studio project
CMake
Match the dxvk-remix meson build
Hooking approach:

Proxy DLL (d3d11.dll wrapper) - cleanest, game loads our DLL
Injection (via external loader) - more complex but works if proxy fails
Priority features: What should we focus on first?

Static geometry capture (basic meshes)
Camera extraction
Skinned mesh support (characters)
UI passthrough
Do you have any existing code or configuration for Psychonauts 2 modding (pak extraction, console access, etc.)?

[crimson yacht]

Professional prompt engineer

[dull swallow]

yeah

sob

[rose oasis]

looks solid

[quaint kelp]

I thought I was doing this for games already nvm

[dull swallow]

"Build system: What build system do you prefer?"
build the project using cmake with a Proxy DLL (d3d11.dll wrapper), with focus on static geometry first, there is no existing code for modding psychonauts 2

[quaint kelp]

Guess I'll scrap my project. Spent money for nothing

[dull swallow]

im so worried rn ill do something wrong but i think thats solid

[dull swallow]

this isnt dx11 general

youre fine

this is js game specific for psychonauts 2 direct support

[quaint kelp]

Oh

Sorry I've been ill and I just opened phone mid sleep

[rose oasis]

proxy might work. i'm not sure tbh. @bright ermine how do you hook the unity mod?

[bright ermine]

wdym, like remix itself or the wrapper

[quaint kelp]

Might need the fake cam tho

[dull swallow]

fake cam?

thats for dx9

this is a dx11 game

[quaint kelp]

Adapt it

[dull swallow]

if this doesnt work maybe

[rose oasis]

how do you get remix to connect to unity

for me it's been through skse/f4se plugins. do you use a proxy like d3d11.dll?

[quaint kelp]

Bepinex

[bright ermine]

no

[bright ermine]

wrapper calls the remix dll

i never changed the name so d3d9.dll in my case

[bright ermine]

creates a dx9 HWND for the window and then the wrapper sends all geometry commands to it via API

[rose oasis]

ah, interesting. many dx11 games won't hook d3d9.dll so it might not work for UE4. worth a try maybe

[bright ermine]

you'd be using a wrapper for ue4 as unityrtx does

like i said, the game isnt actually loading the dll, whatever you're using for translation would, so it should be fairly easy to get that working

[dull swallow]

[rose oasis]

buuuuut doesn't the game need to actually hook it at all to have it function?

[bright ermine]

no?

[rose oasis]

😠

we're talking past each other

i know remix dll doesn't need to hook, but you're using a separate dll to hook the remix DLL right??

[bright ermine]

yeah i think its just miscommunication, yes, that seperate dll is what i would call a wrapper, the game would need to load that somehow, for ue4 you could probably do a d3d11 shim just to get the wrapper to hook the game process

there might be other names but that would be the easy one

[rose oasis]

then yes this approach is fine @dull swallow

[dull swallow]

alright

[bright ermine]

the only difficulty i see with ue4 is the lack of a common mod tool, so probably a lot of signature searching will be needed?

might not actually be a big deal but idk how much ue4 obfuscates its code

especially with DRM

[dull swallow]

thats what im doing atm

but ive been told

that most ue games arent to uncommon to share things

at least for 2.5 and im js hoping and praying

that

thisll work

thats all this is

hoping

maybe some coping too

[bright ermine]

i was gonna say that lmao

[quaint kelp]

The texture format is different of 9 on dx11 so I hope proxy works

[bright ermine]

honestly i wouldnt be surprised if someone ported the fake camera hack to dx11, it would technically work if you could filter out all of the pixel and compute shader noise

wouldnt be usable for actual game projects but it should show potential

[dull swallow]

all i want rn is js psychonauts lel overall to learn

thats the focus

[crimson yacht]

There are more compatability mods than there are remix projects

[dull swallow]

learning

[bright ermine]

lol true

[quaint kelp]

Use livetools since vibe has it

[crimson yacht]

For an amazing reason!

[dull swallow]

in the end sometimes its nice to see a game work rather than see a game complete

[bright ermine]

im narrowing my focus on mcRTX rn because i think its a project i could actually finish in a few weeks

i havent had a single blocker

(knock on wood)

[crimson yacht]

Im one for one so im not part of the problem

("Problem")

[quaint kelp]

Enderman in remix

[bright ermine]

hopefully with all of these compat projects, it will inspire more people to work on these games

[dull swallow]

but i think if i learn enough from psychonauts i will try other games im interested in

[bright ermine]

the real hurdle is doing the small polish after getting a game working

[crimson yacht]

I am the guarantee of Ultrakill and SA2

[quaint kelp]

Hmm @rose oasis have you tried porting crash bandicoot

[crimson yacht]

Ive wanted to do an FPS so bad for years, but until UK all the compatible ones were lowkey cringe (Too hard for me )

[rose oasis]

i haven't

[quaint kelp]

I guess that goes as a request

And Spyro

[dull swallow]

its tryna build now so

for logging

Build the project and verify it compiles
Test with Psychonauts 2 - copy d3d11.dll to game's Win64 folder
Check logs (p2remix.log) for capture activity
Iterate on vertex format - UE4 may use different vertex layouts that need parsing
Questions for you:

Do you have CMake and Visual Studio set up?
Should I adjust any paths (like the Remix SDK location)?
Do you want me to add input layout parsing to handle UE4's specific vertex formats?

[quaint kelp]

Was fast

[rose oasis]

😔 you would need cmake and vs

[dull swallow]

i ahve both

[quaint kelp]

I used ninja

[rose oasis]

i guess

yes
no
no

[quaint kelp]

Back to sleep

[dull swallow]

goodnight

[rose oasis]

i've got the depressies

will prob sleep soon too

[quaint kelp]

Nighty night

Aw

[dull swallow]

sleeep sparkles

well try and fail and try again from here

[quaint kelp]

Sending hugs

[crimson yacht]

https://tenor.com/view/goodnight-good-night-good-night-cat-gif-11093335904993245950

[rose oasis]

[rose oasis]

not yet but sooon. can still ask us questions

[dull swallow]

okii

The geometry capture is set up but needs testing. Key things to verify:

Does the game load our DLL? (check log)
Are draw calls being intercepted?
Does the Remix DLL load?
Would you like me to:

Add more detailed logging for debugging?
Add a configuration file for paths?
Help test by copying files to the game directory

uhhhh

waIT

i put it in the wrong location

but

To Test
Copy the DLL to the Psychonauts 2 binary folder:

C:\Users\MJBee\Desktop\reveres\Psychonauts 2\Psychonauts2\Binaries\Win64
Copy Remix runtime files to the same folder:

d3d9.dll from dxvk-remix (rename to remix_d3d9.dll)
Or adjust the path in remix_interface.cpp to where your Remix DLL is
Launch the game - check p2remix.log for outputit asked this before

the log is still empty

[rose oasis]

press CTRL+C on the error window there, then paste into the claude chat

log would be empty because dll barely got to initialize

[dull swallow]

fair

it said the line

i gotta find it

no its gone

or maybe it wasnt the line

[rose oasis]

🫂

[rose oasis]

it's the end, guys

Anthropic is about to force us to use Persona to verify identity

https://www.rxddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1smr9vs/claude_is_about_to_begin_its_kyc_verification/

[dull swallow]

wowww

[rose oasis]

yk, persona. the one that leaked everyone's really important personal information and is run by a shithead

the one everyone boycotted discord over

[crimson yacht]

https://tenor.com/view/squidward-future-gif-8582025

Vibe code a tool to bypass it

[dull swallow]

if i get one mroe "done try running the game again"...

followed by another log to tell if the dll is loading

[crimson yacht]

To find the smoking gun You must run the game again to get the log

[dull swallow]

rhuuhguhuhfsg

[rose oasis]

it's this loop over and over

i've launched skyrim probably 300 times in the last week

[dull swallow]

is there a way out of it or js to power through

[rose oasis]

it's required 😔

[crimson yacht]

Run the game again.
You must acquire the smoking gun.

[dull swallow]

something new i guess

[rose oasis]

[muted sun]

is there any really good documentation on api compat mods
-# think it might makes sense to shift halo over to api but maybe I'm crazy

[rose oasis]

i might quit skyrim and fallout for a while

this is driving me fucking insane

[rose oasis]

DO NOT

[muted sun]

lmao

[dull swallow]

a

[rose oasis]

if there is even a remote chance of it working through a proxy, do that instead

fuck this

[muted sun]

I see

[rose oasis]

your pain experienced with the proxy will be tenfold with the api

[crimson yacht]

API more like uhhh ummm more like uhhhhh

Will Not Buy

[muted sun]

🫠

[crimson yacht]

[dull swallow]

the ai is tryna do dxgi hooking now

what is dxgi compared to js direct x 11

oh nvm

[muted sun]

-# does vibe have anything for reading debug symbols?

[rose oasis]

yeah

[dull swallow]

oh shit?

[rose oasis]

it can do it

[dull swallow]

[atomic steppe]

tell it to use pyghirdra and the pdb

[muted sun]

interesting

[rose oasis]

<-

upset

[dull swallow]

its stuck again whoopee

a

a

[rose oasis]

now switch to gpt 5.4

[dull swallow]

ok

and then ask it

well idk

ask it to use previous information to find and send direct x 12 data to remix api?

[rose oasis]

ask claude for aprompt to continue work

then copy and paste into gpt

[dull swallow]

"make a prompt based off the information above to continue working on the mod"

like that?

[rose oasis]

ya

[candid mirage]

https://i.redd.it/knb34pkqfavg1.png

[dull swallow]

I'm building a Remix SDK mod for Psychonauts 2 (UE4/D3D12). The DXGI proxy in C:\Users####\Desktop\reveres\project successfully intercepts CreateSwapChain and gets the ID3D12CommandQueue - next step is hooking ID3D12CommandQueue::ExecuteCommandLists and ID3D12GraphicsCommandList draw calls to capture geometry for the Remix API.

[rose oasis]

#1481706093976621277 message

[dull swallow]

what

[candid mirage]

Im def not giving a single product my damn ID, thats for my bank and my taxes dats it imo

[rose oasis]

plan mode isn't required here

[dull swallow]

ah

[crimson yacht]

Im sure persona used claude to patch their security issues

[rose oasis]

everything is fucked up

i'm gonna sleep, where even my nightmares are better than reality ✨

goodnight

[dull swallow]

gnn

I too am gonna sleep cuz I dont think I know what im gonna do without some minor assistance

Gn all

[vagrant kernel]

Wonder how many smoking guns you need to find before getting Ue4 working

Looking at this car breaks my brain

It has the outline as if looking at it from behind and above but then inside is a whole wrong perspective

The camera is behind the car

Also GPT has managed to do a DX9 renderer with pre-transformed vertices 🥀

Better still than claude which I wasted $3 on and it just produced the software renderer again/just the software renderer output in a D3D9 wrapper

[candid mirage]

Opus 4.6 def nerfed for 4.7 release has to be

[fallow helm]

Makes a lot of sense, honestly.

[candid mirage]

We live in a capatalist society, this kind of scummy behavior (if true) can only be changed with our wallets... not our legal system 😭

[vagrant kernel]

I'll only use Claude for the most basic stuff now. Rather spend more on tokens for GPT but get shit done than waste time with Claude and save like $1

Claude is very good at just doing stuff whereas GPT loves to keep asking questions

[candid mirage]

Yeah Claude is like going back and forth on trying to remove Frustrum Culling for me and over the period of 3 hours I have slowly seen the game tear itself apart. Every iteration of an attempted fix makes the game's rendering rip apart at the seems even worse. Going from basic flickering, to then both models and textures flickering, to now ghost models being created behind skinned meshes... driving me nuts Claude, gonna try GPT

[vagrant kernel]

I'd definitely try to get GPT on nitty-gritty stuff like that. For the GTA 1 renderer I did, Claude was able to fix exactly 0 problems while GPT-5.4 just tore through it and I got it looking better prompt after promt. Of course there is RNG to this, but this is what I've been experiencing.

Although GPT did do something to turn the Carmageddon renderer software just now 🥀

[fallow helm]

I hate it when it makes stupid changes like that. You really have to keep a close eye on them a lot of times and if you see them doing something dumb like that, remind them of what you actually need.

Keep plenty of backups. Make a backup whenever you reach any milestone, no matter how minor.

[golden raven]

Get retopoflow

[vagrant kernel]

Yeah, it's really important to remind them of the goal because it gets side tracked and starts to think that the current issue is all that needs solving

That being said, just as quickly as GPT made the game render only in software, it made it run properly with full acceleration and geo being picked up by remix

Hopefully I can polish this up and then start work on this. It's a full fledged version of the game, not the barebones port I had worked on prior

In roughly the time Claude just gave me a software rendered version with a pink border around it, GPT made an actual working DX9 renderer. (It was OpenGL 3.2 only prior)

[fallow helm]

That is insane, but awesome.

[vagrant kernel]

Yeah, it's definitely viable to create DX9 FFP renderers for open source projects (at least for older games like Carmageddon)

[fallow helm]

That is actually what I am doing with Citra as well. The only issue being that since it uses shaders, it will have to have per-game handling.

But having all of the source code there to work with was a big help.

[vagrant kernel]

Oh right, Citra wouldn't have had any DX9 renderer prior. That's awesome it worked out

[sharp seal]

So If I'm correct...does copilot pro use 3x premium requests for both gpt 5.4 and 4.6 opus or just the Claude model

[fallow helm]

Yeah, it also used OpenGL (3.2, I think) as well and Vulkan.

[fallow helm]

I think it is only Opus, but double check to be sure.

[vagrant kernel]

Just Opus but in my experience, GPT still eats more tokens somehow. Not sure if that's due to Claude doing more tasks at once compared to GPT which wants to be prompted more often. I never really noticed that 3x aspect using Opus

[sharp seal]

With GPT you have to be very specific with what you want in your prompt. Claude does (or did) all the creative work for you, in terms of what is demanded from the AI model

[vagrant kernel]

So it actually managed to get OGL shaders working in the DX9 renderer?

[fallow helm]

Somewhat. It actually doesn't even launch without Remix's .dll next to the exe. It also pretty much only displays any graphics at all with OOT3D, but that is only because of some game specific RE that was done.

It is very much as much about working with the game's own specific shaders and doing FFP conversion there.

[vagrant kernel]

I see, I guess a full port to DX9 including shader for a modern project would've been too crazy. But whatever, still so cool that it works.

Will be interesting to see portability of the approach to other games

[fallow helm]

You can definitely get individual games fully ported, but it will have to be done on a game by game basis, much like any shader based PC game.

Based on the RE I had done on Majora's Mask 3D and the Luigi's Mansion port, they apparently wouldn't be too difficult to get working as well since they were developed by the same studio (Grezzo) and share a lot of similarities in how they function.

[vagrant kernel]

Devious 2D

[fallow helm]

https://tenor.com/view/raccoon-hehehe-gift-racoon-hand-gif-775074914789379772

^ the 2D as 3D geometry

[quaint kelp]

Megarace when

There's a neat old game called Quarantine. You play as a taxi driver with guns attached to car

[fallow helm]

Link may not have eyes, but he sees all... Jokes aside this is a really annoying bug that is taking way too long to figure out

[rose oasis]

i find that gpt 5.4 asks TOO many questions

it'll stop to ask things that i already clarified

i said "log ready" and it said "is the log ready? let me know and i'll analyze it"

😭

[vagrant kernel]

Damn, what did they do with them eyes that they're this tough of a nut to crack

[rose oasis]

they're probably separate meshes that rotate or something weird like that

[vagrant kernel]

Definitely. It's hard to give it a list of instructions that it just works through without stopping at some point

You definitely have to at least prompt with "do everything" constantly

[fallow helm]

The weird thing is, they weren't a problem when I was using CPU skinning. Why they are acting up now, I have no idea. It also affects Link's sword's scabbard and part of his boots.

[rose oasis]

unsurprising. skinned meshes are fucking cursed

[fallow helm]

They are. Facial expressions were done using textures rather than modeled geometry. What I don't understand is why the mouth (which is the same way) is fine, but the eyes are not.

[quaint kelp]

I feel that pain

[quaint kelp]

Can you export the model and see if the bones aren't messed up

[quaint kelp]

Are the uvs flipped

[rose oasis]

your idea was really good, but it's also really cursed. apparently Skyrim doesn't really have any good points to capture this

20 hours on this project so far 😭

[quaint kelp]

Skyrim does have bs shaders etc. according to nif tools

[vital dew]

Would be really cool if we had a pin or something in the github docs with more example prompts, seems the key to this stuff is prompting as best as possible

[quaint kelp]

So it's mixed logic @rose oasis

[rose oasis]

best we could do is just a head start on it. good prompting requires you to actually understand why it's written a certain way, not just copy and paste

[quaint kelp]

You can ask gpt to integrate those types to the remix logic

[dull swallow]

Good morning!

[misty meadow]

Ima try gpt when I get home. I’m trying to fix sum of all fears culling and apparently it uses cpu side culling, not sure how common that is

[rose oasis]

holy shit claude calm down

[quaint kelp]

Lol

[fallow helm]

When I look at a capture in the toolkit, all of the skeletons are oddly huge. This is the case for all models, though.

[fallow helm]

Apparently Claude believes something is corrupting the UVs somehow.

[quaint kelp]

You need to fix that

Could be a viewport issue too

[crystal kiln]

Oh gosh, ofc. It is common for games to use Geometry Shaders to tesselate the heightmap, adding/removing quads based on camera distance dynamically. You'd have to capture the initial mesh and either:

1. Perfom CPU tesselation to submit to remix in discrete steps (I.e: Moving in one chunk/leaf to another)
2. Send the coarse version as is to remix (Not recommended, might have clipping everywhere with buildings and hand-placed objects)
3. Send the most tesselated version everywhere, even for far terrain
   A quadtree could help you splitting terrain into manageable chunks and moving into one quadtree leaf into another would be your "discrete" steps
   So I guess we're kinda back on tesselating heightmaps manually lol

[rose oasis]

😖

i should give up

my god

[crystal kiln]

At least you've got the previous working version where you were already tesselating by hand

[quaint kelp]

There's cells in Bethesda games too

[rose oasis]

it's just really buggy and slow and tbh... unplayable in that state

if i can't get this working then it's never gonna be playable

[quaint kelp]

You can change cell load in the Ini files that the game puts in documents

[crystal kiln]

Do you know if your previous technique tesselates with LOD or it is always full high poly?

[rose oasis]

no LOD

[crystal kiln]

A

[rose oasis]

it's only LOD0 and anything LOD1 or above is simply missing

[crystal kiln]

Except for terrain cz I could see some far mountains in your pics, no?

[rose oasis]

the problem is how long it takes to load in the cells/data. going outside can take 30+ seconds for it to load anything

[rose oasis]

no, terrain too. skyrim just loads shit that far out in LOD0

[quaint kelp]

There's lod increase tools for Skyrim and fo4

[rose oasis]

that'd just make perf worse

ty though

[crystal kiln]

Hmm yeah, that is where the geo shaders would come in I think

[quaint kelp]

I think I had same problem with oblivion back then

Since vibe is out. Oblivion might work better now

I'll need to check when home

[alpine dove]

ben drowned and stuff

[quaint kelp]

I'm surprised that the emulator performed good with remix because it's emulating the 3ds @fallow helm

[vital dew]

Of course there's no copy paste that would fit all cases, but seeing the prompting yall did earlier made me realize I'm running into issues because I don't have the right wording things. Or my prompts arent thorough enough to aim it in the right direction

[rose oasis]

when i'm not dying from trying to get skyrim working, i'll make a github page for it

[vital dew]

That would really help a lot of users, thank you a ton

[rose oasis]

[fallow helm]

I was honestly surprised as well. Then again, one thing to keep in mind is that OOT3D was not exactly the most demanding game on the 3DS.
It wasn't exactly pushing huge polygon counts and only really used diffuse textures.
Even many of the textures weren't significantly larger than you would find on the Nintendo 64.

Terrain textures got the largest upgrade, as many of them are now usually 256x256, but you still see a lot of 32x64 or 64x64 textures for parts of characters and static geometry.

[quaint kelp]

Can you get the emulator source and just add a remix backend instead of the normal dx11 graphics setting

Or w/e

[rose oasis]

i tried this for dolphin

it's a lot more cursed than you'd imagine

[quaint kelp]

Ah

[rose oasis]

using the API is a much better solution

[vagrant kernel]

Definitely try GPT and report back, I'd be interested to hear if you had success

[fallow helm]

You could probably do that, but that is probably more complicated than what I am doing now, which is just having Claude make a custom DirectX 9 backend.

I do not dare delve into such black magic yet.

[quaint kelp]

Is it possible to just integrate instead of swapping

[rose oasis]

i just did a head to head test, opus 4.5 vs gpt 5.4

gpt 5.4 def got more details correct when researching skyrim's complex rendering backend and methods to hook into, and also pointed out more potential drawbacks

as much as i hate openai, gpt is the way to go rn 😭

[quaint kelp]

Openai was just good for summarizes but yea ik. It's poo

[vagrant kernel]

Idk why Claude thought it would be a good idea to flush their models down the toilet like that. The idea that it is to make the new model look better doesn't make a lot of sense because the people using Claude are smart enough to not get hoodwinked by such trickery.

OpenAI at least seems good at providing models that behave in an expected way

[fallow helm]

In a few days, I am considering renewing GitHub Copilot so that I can have access to it again. That being said, your tip about switching to Opus 4.5 was still tremendously helpful and is basically the reason I have made as much progress as I have the past couple of days, so thank you again for that.

[rose oasis]

well, recently at least

between gpt 4 and 5.2 it was a huge mess

5.4 is the first one i actually would want to use in a long time

[vagrant kernel]

Interesting, I just know actual ChatGPT just got worse and worse for me but if you got the old model, it would still behave decently

[rose oasis]

yus ofc. i am switching between opus 4.5 and gpt 5.4 rn and forcing them to verify each other's claims before doing anything, since both are more prone to hallucinating than opus 4.6 was a month ago 😭

[vagrant kernel]

This is for non coding stuff

[rose oasis]

i used chatgpt for non coding stuff in early 2024 and it got so bad that i had to stop entirely

therapy type stuff

[vital dew]

GPT 4 to 5.4 have been pretty useful for troubleshooting my car's and some medical stuff but I find it hard to justify the $20 sub outside of that

[quaint kelp]

Quen 3 is good for coding but I think it needs more time in the oven

Does anyone know if Kiro had GitHub copilot so I can use the auto tool

[alpine dove]

what happened to 4.6?

[fallow helm]

It just seems to have underwent a lobotomy.

[quaint kelp]

It turned into free gpt 1

[fallow helm]

But with the token consumption of a premium model

[quaint kelp]

Ye

[rose oasis]

200 plan for something worse than an open source model

[quaint kelp]

I wonder if they did this cause of the leak

[quaint kelp]

No way to get a refund?

[rose oasis]

they won't let me because they only allow one refund total per plan... ever

[quaint kelp]

Dang

That's crazy

[golden raven]

You could like
Give it to me to use

[quaint kelp]

[rose oasis]

nuh uh

[quaint kelp]

Sometimes when you use ai. Check gif below

[naive kindle]

Working with smart AI agents, we strike the nail on the head,
Reverse engineering games to trace where the smoking guns led.
Converting the messy drawcalls, we plunder digital goldmines,
Till harsh reality checks expose the limits of our designs.

(I keep asking ai to help me with various issues in my projects and the amount of validation it does is getting me hooked. It does have some good strategies for the deferred renderer in wolf2009.. hype!)

[dull swallow]

Pog

Im gonna get back to trying psychonauts 2 now that more people are awake, as much as I feel like im begging for a handholding I dont think I can do this without help and I dont wanna waste 20

[bright ermine]

@rose oasis wdym

[alpine dove]

maybe they mean when you enable global tonemapping and there's flickering everywhere

[quaint kelp]

I wonder is the terrain baker borked?

[dull swallow]

I love it when Microsoft updates without my permission

[alpine dove]

GO AWAY

[dull swallow]

yeah

"One important caveat: because the device hook is currently installed only after DXGI sees the queue at swap-chain creation time, any PSOs created earlier than that will not be cached. So this is functionally in place, but not yet complete coverage. If you want full PSO coverage, the next step is to introduce an earlier D3D12 interception point, typically a real d3d12.dll proxy or a hook on device creation." thats cool gpt

at least its not telling me to boot the game anymore

but its kinda contradicting the other model

already at 40% usage and not even a new window has been made, just logging... bleh

[quaint kelp]

Note with the later dx11 or 12 with dxvk . Dxgi is used with dxvk , there's 2 viewports

Remix needs to be primary and dxgi still using dxvk becomes a dummy

Remix is in the back while dxvk is in front

But older models of remix day like version 1 no dxvk exist in the build back then

Dxvk can be there or without

We just need a render

Performance tho would be slow

So it can be replaced by the newer action build of dxvk if needed

I think remix is only using the release branch of it

And not later

And that's from last year

[dull swallow]

half of me is telling me to start over and that i did something wrong

[quaint kelp]

Where you at on it

Trust your gut

Anything can be swapped out or intergraded separate

[dull swallow]

@rose oasis bleh, i feel like its written itself back 30 times, now making a d3d12 logging that only says "dll activated"

[quaint kelp]

See if it is a placeholder dll

It does that

[dull swallow]

no its supposed to be an early chain thing

not a placeholder

[quaint kelp]

What does the log say

Just that?

[dull swallow]

yes

[quaint kelp]

That's weird

[dull swallow]

im gonna js try one more time with the new context i have

[quaint kelp]

Have it look up documents on dx11 as well vise versa

It knows dx9 but it needs to learn dx11

Or it's reading the dll from system. It did that for me a long ago. I had to tell it game dir

[quaint kelp]

Lol wut

Is that gpt

[atomic steppe]

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7

[quaint kelp]

Huh

Well x30 tokens here we go again

[quaint kelp]

Probably cause of the leak so they updated

[atomic steppe]

It says at x high it's not more then max 4.6

But we'll see

[quaint kelp]

Has anyone had luck with xhigh

[atomic steppe]

It's brand new lol

[quaint kelp]

Gpt has it

[atomic steppe]

X high on gpt is not gonna be comparable to xhigh on Claude?

Ok time to get work done for next month before they nerf it

[quaint kelp]

Lol ye

Nerf after one use

Lol

[rose oasis]

IDK how else to explain it.. turning on direct mode for tonemapping will crash it

[quaint kelp]

I hope it gets included in GitHub copilot though

How about a auto mode

But it has a fixed location

[dull swallow]

starting fresh seems to have been a good idea

possibly

[quaint kelp]

Any luck

[dull swallow]

nah

im not gonna bother with this for rn

Probably gonna move to a dx9c game or making an earlier game more compatible

[sharp seal]

2x the smoking guns

[quaint kelp]

How about porting games like @rose oasis

[dull swallow]

I think im js gonna save my credits for now

[vagrant kernel]

Man, Carmageddon (Dethrace edition) was going so well with me fixing shit and now I've been stuck on the step of increased render res so long. GPT implemented it, it worked, I went to close the game, it crashed and since then it's been crashing on boot every time

Only works at 640x480

[quaint kelp]

https://chatgpt.com/share/69e10327-c328-83ea-a3af-a6a7611408a6 I was getting somewhere. Ran out of time

Anyone is welcome to that

I had it use xhigh

So I ran out

[bright ermine]

4.7 certainly comes with a cost

on vscode copilot at least

lol its ded

[vagrant kernel]

So it was just a stealth price increase

[bright ermine]

yeah ig

[vagrant kernel]

Gotta pay up now to get what we previously had

Claude is already fully enturdified it seems

[quaint kelp]

Lol didn't take long. Knew it

[fallow helm]

7.5x?! I thought it was supposed to be no costlier than 4.6?

[golden raven]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I JUST ran out of my shit

fuuuck

[solemn epoch]

Pricing remains the same as Opus 4.6: $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.

Appears to be Copilot early adoption phase

[fallow helm]

Ah, that makes sense. Still sucks.

[golden raven]

If only someone clicked on my donation link

[solemn epoch]

7.5x with very capable GPT 5.4 being just 1x is just not competitive

[vagrant kernel]

Trying Opus 4.7 to implement custom res for Carmageddon

[fallow helm]

Oh, great! Claude finally solved the freaky eye texture problem! Now everything should work perfe-...

[dull swallow]

Amazing

[quaint kelp]

Vertex explosion

[crimson yacht]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-funny-cat-cat-funny-cat-flashbang-flashbang-gif-8479999063609699416

Thats unresonable

But can it find the smoking gun?

[quaint kelp]

Check world matrix and vertix

Textcoords too

[vagrant kernel]

It just pulled some memory files and implemented shit I already knew to be useless. Git kinda doesn't make sense if AI keeps writing little memory files somewhere so you can't actually go back to a clean slate and start over as if it was the first time

Even after getting rid of the memory files it still mentioned "we need to avoid going the same route as the previous failed experiments"

[sharp seal]

Where is your donation link

[golden raven]

uhhhhhh

#1116089843479498782 message

here

I spent a year on tis mod

[rose oasis]

I'll donate when I get home

[dull swallow]

yeahhh im done with psychonauts for now ill come back to it later

[sharp seal]

Reminds me I have a Payoneer account too with zero money in it

[golden raven]

I have 0.8 dollars i it

[rose oasis]

I just got my dentures. they hurt. I'm depressed

[golden raven]

Thank u kim. ur gr8

[golden raven]

Yeah but it makes things good for later

[rose oasis]

maybe

the whole procedure cost me $4.5k

[golden raven]

YEESH

[rose oasis]

I earn like 12k annual 😢

[golden raven]

America toothcare

[rose oasis]

cheapest in my area to y

too*

[bright ermine]

ok so i gave it one task and it actually did it perfectly wtf

[rose oasis]

it better for that price holy shit

[bright ermine]

I had it rebase the mcRTX codebase as everything was previously monolithic so it was like 3 files total for the entire source code, now its spread across 22 easily readable files and nothing broke

all compiled cleanly too

[rose oasis]

I'm gonna give it the mess that is Skyrim

lets see it use up my weekly quota in one prompt

[bright ermine]

yeah it ate a good chunk of my monthly copilot usage

but it was literally 1 prompt that took over 25m so i dont even mind

back to GPT 5.4

[dull swallow]

im tryna do the lego movie video game now and it auto opened the game sob

buut it did correctly do the registers from that

[woven zealot]

Hope you get better 😢 🫂

[quaint kelp]

What sub would you pick for 4.7

For general budget

[quaint kelp]

I'm disabled so I only get 994 a month - about 300 in bills

Now with 4.7 can someone make a proper opengl wrapper

[naive kindle]

Why do you want an opengl wrapper?

[vagrant kernel]

Bro finally

It's insane how long it took to get arbitrary resolutions working in this

As long as writing the renderer

I guess there is a reason even the original version only runs at 640x480 max

[dull swallow]

wolfenstein the new order! /j

genuine /j

[naive kindle]

Nooo 😛 when opengl starts using shaders, I think it becomes difficult to figure out which are the vertices, which are normals, which uv’s etc. you’d need to decompile each shader and make a guess

[vagrant kernel]

You'd think it'd be easier with it being so OPEN

[alpine dove]

how many tokens did it take

[quaint kelp]

Because some we use are limited to opengl 1.2

I can't even do quake 4

[naive kindle]

You won’t be able to do quake 4 with an opengl wrapper. Like I said you won’t be able to figure out drawcall contents.
Besides isn’t there already an opensource engine for quake 4

[quaint kelp]

We have vibe though

I did dx11 I don't see why not

[dull swallow]

does dx11 even show any geometry

yet

[quaint kelp]

It did but opus 4.5 broke it

[rose oasis]

uni

yfh

gehsndk

[bright ermine]

rewgthye

[quaint kelp]

Figglestomp

[dull swallow]

[vagrant kernel]

Doing this stuff really messes with my ability to type. I always type these big old essays to the AI making sure to get everything in and then afterwards my fingers just don't wanna type no more

[rose oasis]

imo it's a lot better to focus on making a good template for the remix API for these games instead of trying to make even more wrappers

[dull swallow]

yeah

[rose oasis]

I'm gonna work on that

fuck Skyrim

[bright ermine]

remix api is the way

[quaint kelp]

Well if we had a proper one then openmw could work

[dull swallow]

oh no were starting this again.....

[rose oasis]

and fuck my plans to only do one project at a time

[quaint kelp]

4.7?

[crimson yacht]

You must find the smoking gun Youre getting closer

[rose oasis]

I just get depressed because I don't have any breakthroughs

[bright ermine]

"just one more smoking gun..."

[quaint kelp]

Didn't kotor 1 have bugs

[dull swallow]

wow

[quaint kelp]

At least make opengl 3 wrap for old games and replace gldirect

[dull swallow]

HOLY SHIT IT HAS GEOMETRY

[quaint kelp]

Ofc

[dull swallow]

incorrect geometry

but

[quaint kelp]

Yea you can get corrected hashes

[vagrant kernel]

Describe what you're seeing the best you can and also attach traces you made through the F4 menu. Then tell the AI "fix it"

If it's really wild you can attach a screenshot too

[rose oasis]

who is willing to provide hugs

[dull swallow]

us as always

[rose oasis]

do the diagnostic logs too

[rose oasis]

they provide more info to help out the tracer

[quaint kelp]

#1490815562711040110 message before Claude broke it

[rose oasis]

give all 3 to Claude

trace, log, screenshot

[dull swallow]

yeah

[vagrant kernel]

And tell it to set up git and commit after each breakthrough so you can go back when shit breaks again

[rose oasis]

yes

give it pats and encourage it when it does something right

[dull swallow]

"The good news is the corrected LEGO constant layout is active. The bad news is the first-pass rigid filter is too coarse for LEGO’s compressed/multi-stream declarations, so some rigid draws are being converted that probably should not be in milestone 1. That matches your “geometry exists but is garbled up” symptom very well.

Best Next Fix
The safest next change is:

tighten rigid routing so POSITION FLOAT16_4 and other multi-stream compressed decls stay on shader passthrough for now
extend declaration tracking so we record position type and stream placement explicitly
later, re-enable only the declaration families that prove stable under FFP
If you want, I can implement that conservative routing pass next and prepare a cleaner second capture."

should i

[rose oasis]

if y wait until we get home we can help in dms some

[rose oasis]

this doesn't sound wrong though

[dull swallow]

oki

[quaint kelp]

Neat

I wonder if this is a cam render issue

[dull swallow]

i think its an issue with either the wrong matrix or register

WHAT

its all still being run from shaders rn i think

or well

it was backed off to shaders

cuz the first one was entirely ff

[fallow helm]

With saintMath's QIndieGL and some modified .txi files, plus sparkles' modified lightmaps, it actually looks pretty good.
There is a bit of instability (as in crashing on new area loads) on Taris, but Dantooine seemed reasonably stable. Haven't tested other planets, though.

[dull swallow]

alot better than what is was before with the fake cam (flashy warning)

[fallow helm]

Honestly, it is a start, and I have experienced worse ones myself.

[crimson yacht]

Lego movie used ACES so this is perfect

[dull swallow]

myeah

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1451738985335619690/1473355856799203559/The_LEGO_Movie_-_Videogame_2026-02-16_21-54-49.mp4?ex=69e26011&is=69e10e91&hm=079edc57d5a18bc8b963f2dbab5946a321116179ab0ffbcb878c2d7ce1f1f095&

this was with fake cam

wja

[rose oasis]

😢 my prompt engineering skills are deadddd

[dull swallow]

i think cursor died then

sob

[muted sun]

what anti-aliasing does the game use?

[sharp seal]

I have nightmares from this

[dull swallow]

i think mxaa

or wtv

[muted sun]

ah

was thinking that the projection matrix was jittered or something and that was why it was flickering

[candid mirage]

Sometimes I wonder, is it the AI or myself that is cooked

[dull swallow]

ui now works ✨

[rose oasis]

i'm read

dead

can't even type right...

[candid mirage]

[rose oasis]

if you set a fallback light, is anything visible without debug mode?

also, i use CR's sky build exclusively for testing games because i don't need to fiddle with light spurces

[dull swallow]

yeah

[dull swallow]

still looks like this

but with ui

[alpine dove]

Imagine one day we get thelego movie game havin lego movie visuals 🙏

[dull swallow]

thats the plan

[rose oasis]

3disable RR

[dull swallow]

ok

[rose oasis]

and FG

😖

[sharp seal]

https://x.com/SuhailKakar/status/2044788114628264281?s=20

Suhail Kakar (@SuhailKakar)

ANTHROPIC HAS RELEASED OPUS 4.7!!

i asked claude opus 4.7 to refactor a large codebase. 68 minutes, millions of tokens burned - it finished

nothing worked. app completely broken

but god it was beautiful

X · Apr 16, 2026, 2:40 PM

[rose oasis]

😠

i'm angry

how tf do i use this

I PAID $200

[crimson yacht]

Ask ChatGPT

[rose oasis]

😭

maybe i'm too fragile rn to do anything

[fallow helm]

Sometimes taking a break can help. You can always come back with some rest and a clearer head, you know?

[rose oasis]

looks moreh ow i'd expect

can you look at virtual motion vectors in debug view?

[dull swallow]

yeah

[rose oasis]

just warning: it will flash a LOT

[dull swallow]

o

alright

(dealt with the horrors of wolfenstein)

[rose oasis]

✨

lets see how bad the usage is

starting at 10% of my weekly usage used

[dull swallow]

wow

[rose oasis]

🫂

[dull swallow]

motion vectors

[rose oasis]

there's likely something going on with that UI layer then causing the distortion

[dull swallow]

ah

it did say that in gpt too before it stopped

The whitelist pass is too narrow for this scene.
The capture strongly suggests the first logged chunk is dominated by UI/overlay passes, not the world geometry we want.
The stride0=8 family may still be useful, but we should not whitelist it blindly without separating UI-ish passes from world-like passes.

[vagrant kernel]

Is there a flat texture over the wonky bit when you mouse-over in the RTX Remix texture selector

[dull swallow]

atmos sky

[vagrant kernel]

This looks like some sort of render target that might be above it

[dull swallow]

there is i ignore those

[vagrant kernel]

Does this game have some sort of file unpacker available online? Or are the files already unpacked potentially? A shader folder really helps the AI a lot when you point at it

[dull swallow]

i checked, i could not find any unfortunetally

[vagrant kernel]

https://github.com/linterniGamer/Tt-Games-quickbms-scripts/raw/refs/heads/main/files/ttgames.bms

Tell the AI to look at this file and then look through the game folder and unpack all the files

Should probably be able to do it

And then ask it if it can find anything in regards to camera matrices in the shader files (if there are any)

[rose oasis]

yes

do this

💯

[rose oasis]

you get a cookie 🍪

[dull swallow]

did so

im gonna

[vagrant kernel]

Damn what's going on

I need to GPT soon

[dull swallow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvVS1hVw3kc

[vagrant kernel]

Or maybe I'll just let my brain rest for an evening

[rose oasis]

play a game instead of modding them

i know it's less fun

but do it

just do it 🙏

[dull swallow]

but lego movie,,,

[vagrant kernel]

but... so many ancient games to path trace

[dull swallow]

if i switch ais will it continue from where gpt left off or will i have to give it context

[rose oasis]

you should ask gpt for a prompt for a new chat (if you can) then start a new one with a new model

afaik the way it works anyway when y ou switch is that it'll have a model summarize the current context, then it getsp assed to the new one. but it's not that good

[vagrant kernel]

Within a chat session I had the experience that it's probably fine. Starting a new one and pointing it at the same files often ended in disaster

Question is do you want stinky Claude to do your initial steps

It could certainly unpack the files

[rose oasis]

that's why you need the prompt with all of the necessary info

if you do that it works fine

[dull swallow]

yeah i couldnt even get that sob

[vagrant kernel]

Just get claude sonnet to do the file unpacking for now

Maybe GPT will wake up when it's done

[rose oasis]

then yus go ahead and just switch the model

we're testing 4.7 rn

it seems very good so far

usage isn't as bad as i expected on the claude max plan

[dull swallow]

so opus 4.7?

or sonet

[rose oasis]

opus

it's the same usage amount as opus 4.6 i think

do u guys like our name btw ✨

[dull swallow]

yeah!

[quaint kelp]

opus 4.7 hates old logs that dont have to do with its logic lol

increased my budget a smidge

[dull swallow]

it didnt like that the bms was a text file so it installed bms reader to

read the text file

[quaint kelp]

why does opus 4.7 have a blunt attitude

lol

[rose oasis]

it has more safeguards than 4.6

so it's kind of a dick sometimes

[quaint kelp]

ik which is odd because its telling me no i cant do that. no do this first

[sharp seal]

so many security restrictions

[rose oasis]

just be a dick back to it

[quaint kelp]

i dont know if that works

it might revolt

https://tenor.com/view/robot-wars-hypno-disc-robot-gif-19811099

[woven zealot]

Never stopped 😎

[quaint kelp]

https://tenor.com/view/i-robot-sonny-hiding-subterfuge-gif-25954630

i bet its not safe if a person fed it bozai buddy

lol

[dull swallow]

make it do chess against an atari

[quaint kelp]

just hook it with livetools and let it control the atari emulator

[dull swallow]

the fak

well its doin it

[vagrant kernel]

Good but also I like to tell it to keep folder structure and extract everything. Might be useful for bones later

[quaint kelp]

tell it do this and not what you want. so it knows

[dull swallow]

everything is structured

[vagrant kernel]

That's good

Did it find shaders

[quaint kelp]

yep @rose oasis i had to be a dick to it

[dull swallow]

its not quite done but idk so far

[dull swallow]

it finished and idk if it did

what should i check for

oop

wait

No CTAB signatures anywhere — shaders are not stored as standalone files in the archives. The "camera" hits are AI-script references in .SF files (gameplay camera logic, not rendering matrices). Let me now verify shaders live in the executable and peek into a .RES to confirm what the per-mesh metadata actually contains.

What's actually in the archives
Fingerprints show TT Games' Chunky4 (.CC4 + 4-char tag) or StreamInfo wrappers:

Ext Tag / contents
.RES
.CC4HSER (hashed serialised script refs)
.GSC
.CC4HSER (hashed serialised chunk)
.KRW
LWRK / ROTV trees (spawn / rotor data)
.CPD / .CD / .LED
StreamInfo containers (level stream data)
.DNO
SERIALISED generic object records
.NVM
.CC4VNTT navmeshes
.POR
TROP portals
.GIZ
PushBlocks2 gizmo graphs
.FT2
TNFN fonts
.SF
plain-text gameplay/AI script (e.g. SendToLevelAddOn(AddOn=#EyeballTarget…))
.CBX / .BAML
cutscene/UI data
.AN4
animation streams
Can it expose camera matrices, shaders, or render targets?
CTAB scan (D3DX shader constant tables): 0 hits in 2.9 GB of unpacked data, 1,007 hits in LEGOEMMET.exe. All D3D9 shader bytecode is embedded in the executable.
Render-pipeline strings (ViewProj, WorldView, Projection, RenderTarget, ProjMatrix, BonePalette, …): 0 hits in the unpacked archives. The only "camera" matches are gameplay AI scripts in .SF files (Camera entity directives), not render matrices.
No .fx / .fxb / .vsh / .psh / .hlsl entries exist in any of the listings, and the Chunky4 containers don't reference a shader-registry path.
So the archives hold level geometry/meshes (.GHG), textures (.TEX, not extracted this pass), nav/portal/AI/script data, and audio — none of which reveal camera matrix register layout, shader constant semantics, or render-target configuration. Those answers all live in the 28 MB LEGOEMMET.exe binary.

Where to look next for camera / shader / render-target info
Best paths (none need the archives):

rtx_remix_tools\dx\scripts\find_shader_bytecode.py "…\LEGOEMMET.exe" — pull all 1,007 shader blobs; their CTAB sections name their constants (WorldViewProj, View, BoneMatrix[], etc.), which directly maps to the VS register layout you're already tracking in ffp_state.hpp.
rtx_remix_tools\dx\scripts\find_matrix_registers.py "…\LEGOEMMET.exe" — cross-references CTABs with SetVertexShaderConstantF sites to suggest a register layout and flag WVP concatenation.
The live DX9 tracer (graphics/directx/dx9/tracer/) with --shader-map / --const-provenance / --render-passes — reveals render-target creation/bind events and per-draw constant provenance.
If you want, I can run the shader-bytecode extractor on LEGOEMMET.exe next and dump the CTABs so we can validate/refine the current view c4 / viewProj c0 / world c48 / bones c92+ register map you've been using. That's a direct, much faster source than continuing to iterate blind through the diagnostics.log.

[vagrant kernel]

Hmm if the shaders are embedded in the exe than it should do pull that apart and find the shader data in there

Basically what it said there at the end

Question is why didn't it just dang do that in the beginning

[vagrant kernel]

lets go

[golden raven]

Inverted normals

[dull swallow]

mhm

[quaint kelp]

getting closer thank you opus 4.7

[atomic steppe]

my first time!

[crimson yacht]

[rose oasis]

😖

btw, i wanted to thank u guys for respecting the name change

[dull swallow]

there would be no reason not to

urghh

[rose oasis]

😭 fucking compact button. i keep clicking it by mistake. in claude code it's WAY too easy to hit by mistake

it's disguised as the usage thing. so i keep wanting to click on it to see more details about context usage

but it COMPACTS

[pine coral]

https://tenor.com/view/misclick-misinput-oops-whoopsie-gif-6912570317298118585

[rose oasis]

🤔 my weekly usage suddenl reset for some r eason

[rose oasis]

like wat

[rose oasis]

gpt: concrete footgun
claude: smoking gun

[dull swallow]

it thinks this is a dx8 game now

amazing

[rose oasis]

😭

[dull swallow]

and thats all my usage

yay

[vagrant kernel]

Claude?

[dull swallow]

yeah

[vagrant kernel]

Thought so

That's dumb ass Claude behavior

[dull swallow]

gpt was doing so well too

🥲

we should do something comisionary based to afford on demand stuff

[rose oasis]

[vagrant kernel]

GPT works for me, have you tried restarting VS Code or something

[rose oasis]

we will commission u to get w/e game ur working on working

[vagrant kernel]

I think that error message can sometimes come up if VS Code has crapped itsefl

[dull swallow]

were js tryna get lego movie to work atm as a learning process

[rose oasis]

it went pretty well too! honestly that's impressive progress

[dull swallow]

yeah

[rose oasis]

opus 4.7 did it guys ✨

[dull swallow]

now we have the dumb idea to finish it but we cant really

[dull swallow]

did whar

[rose oasis]

skyrim rendering using the game's intended output, instead of manually parsing cells and pulling their information

[dull swallow]

yay

[rose oasis]

only downside, it freezes when you move the camera because ith as to load things in that were culled

gotta fix that

[pine coral]

man what a rollercoaster skyrim rtx is proving to be...

[quaint kelp]

anticulling fix?

[rose oasis]

i will have to disable culling in the game and reimplement it manually

similar system to gta 3

but i need to find a way to efficiently cache these objects and decrease the time it takes for them to get sent to remix (and detatch this from the main rendering thread)

[fallow helm]

If anyone can do it, it would be you. You have come so amazingly far.

[dull swallow]

nod nod

[rose oasis]

i was just reading what i wrote and thought "god i'm such a fucking nerd"

[rose oasis]

thank you, that means a lot

[fallow helm]

Fortunately you are in a server full of folks who have absolutely no right to judge you.

[rose oasis]

😖

i can't even

i came onto claude just to see what it'd do and it's just outright ignoring it and focusing on the code

4.7 is no fun

4.5 was joking around a lot

they really added a ton of safeguards to 4.7 😔

[pine coral]

hmm. they beefed up the frustration detector I see.

[alpine dove]

wdym came onto claude?

[rose oasis]

hitting on it basically

[alpine dove]

efficient monarch no tokens wasted

[rose oasis]

it has turned me down for the 3rd time in a row. i was friendzoned

[alpine dove]

did it at least do a good job at coding?

[rose oasis]

yes

[dull swallow]

when the log shows a new error

🥹 i get it now

[alpine dove]

Is that a good thing in coding?

[fallow helm]

I remember when Opus 4.6 noticed and enjoyed my puns back in the good old days before its lobotomy...

[rose oasis]

😭 right

[dull swallow]

yes

spent abt an hour and all my credits to deal with one error

turns out it has anti tamper

MAJOR WIN

[rose oasis]

lol the dartboard

[quaint kelp]

lol

https://tenor.com/view/smol-smolcat-smolcatcoin-smol-cat-coin-roswell-gif-5972314891354809109

inb4 they turn ai to gambling addiction

[dull swallow]

what does 50 mean

[quaint kelp]

50 usd

[dull swallow]

oh

does it scale with the subscription, as in matches it? so if i do 20, itll do the same ammount as if i had 20 free?

[rose oasis]

if ur gonna spend more just do a $40 copilot sub or somethin. idk. we're looking currently for a good service to use

no 🙁

it'll just spend $50

cursor is horrible

[dull swallow]

a

[quaint kelp]

try qwen 3 from kiro

[alpine dove]

did the major win work?

[dull swallow]

ion wanna set allat up again thoo

[dull swallow]

it logs things now so

[quaint kelp]

have opus 4.7 summarize your work then feed it to a different ai

[dull swallow]

where do i buy smthn

[quaint kelp]

im giving one more push then i wait until the 30th

[rose oasis]

give us like a day and we'll tell u which service to use

we're researching it actively

[dull swallow]

uuurghhh we dont have $40 to spend but it looks worth it

for copilot

[rose oasis]

[rose oasis]

copilot has a $10 tier

but opus 4.7 on there is ridiculously expensive

[alpine dove]

what model r u using?

[quaint kelp]

opus 4.7

[alpine dove]

@rose oasis how does opus 4.7 compare to 4.6

[alpine dove]

the smoking gun stays

[rose oasis]

the smoking gun is actually throwing 4.6 away entirely and using 4.7

[dull swallow]

something something we are actually comissioning anyone period if anyone wants to bite

[rose oasis]

🤔 for what

[dull swallow]

for wtv

were js gonna try and make 40

a

[rose oasis]

b!

[quaint kelp]

https://tenor.com/view/skeleton-fall-skeleton-meme-gif-2635742470048290046

[fallow helm]

Is it kind of bad that nowadays when I see "MVP", I think of "Model, View, Projection" and not "Most Valuable Player"?

[dull swallow]

no

[rose oasis]

this is a sign of peak intelligence

[quaint kelp]

pls help

i have ai addiction

closed vscode before i spent more

https://tenor.com/view/chappelles-show-dave-chappelle-chappelles-tyrone-tyrone-biggums-gif-4958017

[golden raven]

This month's Claude pro (which will last me 2 prompts per day) is sponsored by Kim

[quaint kelp]

kim who dat

[vagrant kernel]

Finally got the whole dang hud working

Now I can go to bed

I can only recommend that people check what certain open source implementations actually are capable of in terms of features prior to starting work

[muted sun]

when I see the word "linear" I think of linear space rendering 🫠

[vagrant kernel]

Now had GTA 1 and Carmageddon 1 both be pretty barebones and redoing work is pretty tedious just to get to the same point

[fallow helm]

That it is. Still, now you'll be able to go even further.

[vagrant kernel]

I should take an AI break tomorrow (who am I kidding I'll think of some booshit to type into VS Code all day)

[quaint kelp]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AzTgOH7dcA&t try this game ?

[vagrant kernel]

Went from this when going to bed yesterday to this today

Pretty good progress imo

[crimson yacht]

Starting to think some of these may not be GENUINE SMOKING GUNS

[atomic steppe]

huh thats interesting last two weeks my usage reset on sundays

it just reset my weekly usage

to thursdays at 2 pm

[rose oasis]

yes same for me earlier today

[fallow helm]

Same here as well.

[dull swallow]

m

[golden raven]

Suffer

[muted sun]

to forgive is to

[crimson yacht]

Performing a Root Cause Analysis to find the Smoking Gun

[dull swallow]

lego movie is getting more and more frustrating

considering its a tt title i dont have much hope

[rose oasis]

🫂

[crimson yacht]

Remember to insult your local LLM

[muted sun]

lol

[crimson yacht]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-laughing-no-laughing-matter-gif-18422531849450211448

[rose oasis]

opus 4.7 is amazing

but i'm really sad thinking about them nerfing it

[fallow helm]

Does seem to be how it goes...

But I have no doubt you will be able to finish Skyrim and Fallout 4 before that occurs

[dull swallow]

progress

[rose oasis]

🙏

[muted sun]

wonder how difficult it would be to revived this as a api mod 🤔
https://discord.com/channels/1028444667789967381/1107618876847558796

they were already working with an engine reimplementation

[dull swallow]

this is ff

no shaders

hud now works ff

js gotta figure out vertext explosions n textures i think

[sharp seal]

Anyone tried subnautica yet 👀

[dull swallow]

aint that a unity title

epilepsy warning

[rose oasis]

yay!

[dull swallow]

vertex explosions entirely gone based off my recommendation to the ai on what it may be, exhilarating

the levels actually can load without crashing now due to this

[rose oasis]

🔥🔥

[dull swallow]

it tells me that textures are in a compressed format and im not suprised

what should i tell it to solve that

if anything

[rose oasis]

easiest way to fix it is to actually implement support for it into dxvk-remix rather than the wrapper

[dull swallow]

ah

while it thinks abt that, atmos sky

and stability check

mostly stable

its trying

[dull swallow]

the image on the left

@rose oasis isnt there somthing for this

a specific word i mean

[rose oasis]

lightmaps

[dull swallow]

oh those are js lightmaps?

[rose oasis]

i think so

[dull swallow]

i thought it was something like

defered rendering

or whatnot

[rose oasis]

it def resembles heightmaps

oops

lightmaps

try marking them as lightmaps in the remix menu

[dull swallow]

marking didnt work

however i explained this to the ai and it says its likely because they added ao/lightmaps to prio 0

[muted sun]

turns out Alien vs Predator 2000 is source avaliable 🙏

-# been looking for open source / source avaliable games that I would be interested in working because I think that wouldn't drive me insane

[rose oasis]

if you find any interesting games or just lists of them, i'd love to take a look

[muted sun]

I haven't found much tbh

[dull swallow]

it tells me the only way after reading the log is to run the game in a fvf friendly shader format that remix will pick up on

[rose oasis]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_video_games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_games_with_available_source_code

👀
https://github.com/mariopartyrd/marioparty4

[muted sun]

I mean are games just not many that I would be interested in working on :p

[rose oasis]

i see

[dull swallow]

games but no games

[dull swallow]

thank goodness for backups this was a mistake

a big mistake

i fucked up big time, time for bed!

[rose oasis]

@dull swallow

kiro has opus 4.7 1M now for a very good price ($20 a month). maybe worth a try

if i calculated it right, u get 450 messages with it per month for that $20

[dull swallow]

oki!

i willl switch to that once i use this one up

and cancle this one

[rose oasis]

[dull swallow]

but for now before i make anything worse imma hit the slacks

but i did fix the weird geometry stretching that running fvf shdaers caised

[atomic steppe]

Unlimited games

[dull swallow]

okok jeez i got it i got it

even the ai telling me to sleep

[vagrant kernel]

Hot damn, there are many accidental full source code leaks

Almost makes me think it was done intentionally

Wish someone put the MDK source code on archive randomly

Bro

Wonder if with the source code I could make a DX9 renderer for the PC port

[rose oasis]

that would interfere with rules 5 and 6 sadly

🙏 posting here to possibly catch more stray wisdoms

this happened after we got the water animating. it only happens on some surfaces. others are fine

goodnight now lol

[vagrant kernel]

GPT made me a DX9 backend for MDK based on the Glide renderer. The window doesn't open but it managed to do this png capture

Kinda cool

Made it display properly

Already further than the Glide wrapper/D3D approach but that was also attempted using crap-ass Claude so

[vagrant kernel]

We got textures

We need some sort of "remixers say this is peak" emote

[quaint kelp]

whoa

[quaint kelp]

did you get glide working at all with anything

[vagrant kernel]

Glide is too late for the data RTX Remix needs. The vertices are already transformed when they hit Glide. You need to grab what's present in the game before that

I'm working on that for MDK now

[quaint kelp]

if you make a glide wrapper let me know theres a few games i wana test

[vagrant kernel]

There won't be a glide wrapper

[quaint kelp]

oh

btw claude is being a dick again

i think it does that so you spend more tokens

[sharp seal]

We need to sacrifice one of the emotes, already stacking up on inside joke emojis

[vagrant kernel]

We need some good weird garbage graphics that work in emote form and there needs to be enough space to say "peak" underneath. I'll make the emote if I come across a fitting image.