RTX Remix and Nexus: The Jupiter Incident

[Sargoth]

Hey everyone!

I've been looking at getting RTX Remix up and running with Nexus. And I've managed to get the Remix running in-game with ray tracing. And it looks rather weird but good with ray tracing. It's a powerful tool in the right hands. And I am not the right hands, unfortunately.

So if you just want to try it out and mess with it or you think that this is a project you definitively want to do, read on! (You also need a Nvidia RTX graphics card)

There's a lot of things that needs to be done for any proper remaster. Just putting the remix in there just affects shadows and lighting. Have to redo textures for PBR format so that the textures can be affected by ray tracing. And in nexus they did textures in a very haphazard way. So there's a lot of hard work that needs to be done for this to be viable.

But I've done some work. There's a config file that you can create that the bridge injection reads. And in nexus you got to a bit of sorting UI and game elements. I've done that part already.

https://pastebin.com/5gRChZfs

Take the contents and paste it in a notepad file and name it 'rtx.conf' without qoutes. And put it in the same folder as the nexus dx9.exe. Along side these files you can get here: https://github.com/NVIDIAGameWorks/rtx-remix/releases/tag/remix-0.4.1

The second thing is to keep in mind that every time you change something in rtx menu in-game and save it to the config file. It erases a very important line in the file and you have to add it in again.

rtx.showUI = 2

doesn't matter where in the config it is. This line forces the RTX remix menu to always be on, cause nexus doesn't allow you to open the menu with its shortcut, it has to always be on.

third is that to get the ship models to load you have to go to 'Game Setup' tab and under 'Step 2: Parameter Tuning' there's an option called Sky tuning. Change 'Sky Auto-detect' to 'By Camera Position'.

That should give you guys something to play with, even if you're not interested in going further.

https://youtu.be/XbffOpEPMHY

It takes a lot out of your Nvidia card and I had my resolution set to 720p to not tax my system that much. Hence it doesn't look all that impressive.

Past that there's a standalone program called 'RTX Remix' in their app Omniverse. That has tools for up-scaling and fixing scenes that you've captured with the bridge.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3176749790

This is the main stage for remastering nexus. Along with 3D modeling software and texturing making software. And it's where my abilities comes short. You'd have to be knowledgeable in both modeling, texturing and coding. And a lot of patience and enthusiasm.

RTX Remix, at least for nexus, is not a 'one button press and everything looks amazing'. There's going to be a lot of hard work to get this up and going.

I hope you guys and gals have fun with this. And if someone is inspired to try and remaster, cool!

[Sargoth]

If you want to reach us with any question or want to try your hand at a remaster. You can join this discord: https://discord.gg/fzrUne2

[TehnoMag]

IMHO: Nexus needs complete Remake. Also RTX in space, WHAT?

[DrewUniverse]

There's some great potential for RTX Remix, even if in many cases it needs extensive tuning as you said. Thanks for sharing your progress so far! For me, I won't be trying it because I'm more interested in reverse-engineering for native support of improved code/visuals/etc, but I do wish you luck.