[REL | WIP | RDR] Reality Redemption - Overhaul Project

[Ash_735]

1 hour ago, c_wb_y said:

Also, how relevant are mip maps for static 2D textures like UI elements?

Not needed for 2D stuff as the game will always call the highest one.

[c_wb_y]

30 minutes ago, Ash_735 said:

Not needed for 2D stuff as the game will always call the highest one.

 

Understood! Thanks a lot Ash, I'm sorry I asked a ton of questions. I really want to make this work for my friend and I, it's been quite an adventure so far!

I figured the best place to ask for help would be in this thread, since @LennyH has to be one of the most knowledgeable modders out here when it comes to RDR specific tools and textures. I respect that

Edited June 13, 2023 by c_wb_y

[Shvab]

1 hour ago, c_wb_y said:

RDR specific tools and textures

I published a tool on github with which I increased the quality of textures (128=>1024, etc.)

[c_wb_y]

27 minutes ago, Shvab said:

I published a tool on github with which I increased the quality of textures (128=>1024, etc.)

Can you send me a DM? It seems I can't do so being a new member, I just have a couple more questions that need solving

[Meriato]

Plot Twist: OP is from an alternate universe where Rockstar respected their fans and released a Red Dead Redemption remaster after sucessfully remaking GTA The Trilogy, and now he's here sharing the remaster with us.

[TempUser_]

1) There is one screenshot with HUD (Radar) it looks more crisp in comparison to one I remember from last playthrough. Meaning HUD quality also got some improvements?

2) And other one, RDR1 is quite heavy to run on emulator, had someone made performance comparisons with mods, and without? Because 4x AA sounds can be impactful. 

Edited June 20, 2023 by TempUser_

[tommyhmilj]

Is this still being worked on?

 

Edited June 21, 2023 by tommyhmilj

[Shvab]

no

[MiesThies]

Works like a charm and I love it! Thank you for this mod!

 

i have a question though: Could you either share your canary config or write in a readme, what Settings should be adjusted?

[gonzitoguapo]

Hi i just joined to this forum because I need help. Everytime I press continue and put the name of the iso, it says that the file does not exist. I have tried different ways to write it down, run as administrator the batch and everything but nothing works. Please help

[TurkeyMan]

I'm pretty sure this isn't being worked on anymore, but after installing the mod I've had a few issues. Only two tho. I will have to stop using this project due to these, and I hope they are eventually resolved. I don't know if this was a save file issue or not, but on some save files, John's textures were corrupted. The worst issue I found which was the breaking poin is the lag I experienced when arriving to Mexico. The game lags, but the UI works just as intended, which shows it's not real lag, and I don't know how to call it. 

[turnpike]

On 4/14/2023 at 7:04 AM, Shvab said:

Texture upscaling doesn't work in game. All calculations are correct, but the graphics segment is sorted incorrectly. I have no idea how to fix this. Replacing textures and changing files takes a lot of time, so it makes testing very difficult for me.

where could i find the tool you used for this?

[StructiveINK]

39 minutes ago, turnpike said:

where could i find the tool you used for this?

I second this question

[tommyhmilj]

On 6/18/2023 at 10:20 AM, Meriato said:

Plot Twist: OP is from an alternate universe where Rockstar respected their fans and released a Red Dead Redemption remaster after sucessfully remaking GTA The Trilogy, and now he's here sharing the remaster with us.

You were right

[Shvab]

9 hours ago, turnpike said:

where could i find the tool you used for this?

 

8 hours ago, StructiveINK said:

I second this question

tool

The tool used in this mod. For xvd, xft, xtd, and xfd. Sometimes these files do not work in the game.

[BadassBaboon]

Me watching the reception to the $50 "port" done by a multi-million dollar company:

 

 

Anyways, I might be updating this with more HD textures soon.

[cp1dell]

Love it. Can’t wait to try it out.

 

Did you ever happen to find horse related files while working on this? I always wanted to lower the speed of the horses since they are comically fast compared to RDR2. Could never find them though since the file structure is a  mess.

[turnpike]

3 hours ago, Shvab said:

 

tool

The tool used in this mod. For xvd, xft, xtd, and xfd. Sometimes these files do not work in the game.

 

1 hour ago, LennyH said:

Me watching the reception to the $50 "port" done by a multi-million dollar company:

 

 

Anyways, I might be updating this with more HD textures soon.

>Shvab, do you have instructions on how to kinda jerry rig some higher resolution character textures?

 

>Lenny, i would greatly appreciate that man. The amount of stuff already completed is simply better than the regular ISO, if you were to just make texture resolutions higher for things like characters, maybe ground and building terrain, that would already be so much more than enough. Really appreciate the work and I hope you do continue, even if you can’t complete everything on the to-do list. texture resolution bumps are very welcomed!

[Shvab]

1 hour ago, LennyH said:

Me watching the reception to the $50 "port" done by a multi-million dollar company:

 

 

Anyways, I might be updating this with more HD textures soon.

I'm hoping they forget to remove some debug files or something

6 minutes ago, turnpike said:

Shvab, do you have instructions on how to kinda jerry rig some higher resolution character textures?

 

converter -a -extractXtdInfo E:\rdr\amb_mc_businessman04_cs.xft

and 

converter -a -replaceXtdInfo C:\Users\im\Desktop\xtd1\steamer01x_hilod.xfd C:\Users\im\Desktop\xtd1\steamer01x_hilod_NEW.xfd C:\Users\im\Desktop\xtd1\steamer01x_hilod.xml

Edited August 9, 2023 by Shvab

[tommyhmilj]

I believe people might be switching over to the nintendo switch (yuzu) for emulating this game very soon, just because how much easier the switch is to emulate compared to other consoles.

 

If file structure remains somewhat the same, I know it's early and probably something OP has no interest in doing, how possible would it be to make this for the switch port?

[turnpike]

2 hours ago, tommyhmilj said:

I believe people might be switching over to the nintendo switch (yuzu) for emulating this game very soon, just because how much easier the switch is to emulate compared to other consoles.

 

If file structure remains somewhat the same, I know it's early and probably something OP has no interest in doing, how possible would it be to make this for the switch port?

i would hope this isn’t on the cards as it’s going to take time away from updating the xenia build of the mod. i see no reason for progress to be haulted to figure out how to get everything on the switch port. we don’t even know how well it will run, but the switch/ps4 ports do not have any upgrades compared to the xenia/xbox one x/series x versions of rdr1. no updated lods, textures etc. just a port on hardware that is nowhere near on par with these consoles/pcs. xenia will remain the best way to play this title

[turnpike]

8 hours ago, LennyH said:

Me watching the reception to the $50 "port" done by a multi-million dollar company:

 

 

Anyways, I might be updating this with more HD textures soon.

would you or anyone else know how to install either this trainer, or josh’s trainer on this build of the game?

https://github.com/connorms/RDR-Trainer

 

[vStar925]

Do you have a version of this project with just the loose files and not an installer? I want to try it out with my already modded game and install it manually.

[Frames Of Screen]

is it possible to disable the in game anti aliasing completely? when i tried doing it in the xenia configs it wouldnt work

[BadassBaboon]

20 hours ago, cp1dell said:

Love it. Can’t wait to try it out.

 

Did you ever happen to find horse related files while working on this? I always wanted to lower the speed of the horses since they are comically fast compared to RDR2. Could never find them though since the file structure is a  mess.

Hore movement like turning, etc is already lowered to match RDR2's, if I touch other values, in missions where you have to chase or race somebody, you won't be able to finish them.

 

19 hours ago, turnpike said:

 

>Shvab, do you have instructions on how to kinda jerry rig some higher resolution character textures?

 

>Lenny, i would greatly appreciate that man. The amount of stuff already completed is simply better than the regular ISO, if you were to just make texture resolutions higher for things like characters, maybe ground and building terrain, that would already be so much more than enough. Really appreciate the work and I hope you do continue, even if you can’t complete everything on the to-do list. texture resolution bumps are very welcomed!

Thanks! I will keep working on this with more content in the future.

 

16 hours ago, tommyhmilj said:

I believe people might be switching over to the nintendo switch (yuzu) for emulating this game very soon, just because how much easier the switch is to emulate compared to other consoles.

 

If file structure remains somewhat the same, I know it's early and probably something OP has no interest in doing, how possible would it be to make this for the switch port?

I'll get my hands on the switch version and if it's viable I'll make a switch version of the mod, I'll also see if they did anything different in the switch port, and if I find something that's actually new and worth it I'll add those to the 360 version as well.

 

13 hours ago, turnpike said:

i would hope this isn’t on the cards as it’s going to take time away from updating the xenia build of the mod. i see no reason for progress to be haulted to figure out how to get everything on the switch port. we don’t even know how well it will run, but the switch/ps4 ports do not have any upgrades compared to the xenia/xbox one x/series x versions of rdr1. no updated lods, textures etc. just a port on hardware that is nowhere near on par with these consoles/pcs. xenia will remain the best way to play this title

I guess for the switch port they might've done something with the terrible anti-aliasing shader or some other stuff, it's always worth exploring, but I definitely won't let any of that compromise the main priority which is the xenia/360 version.

 

11 hours ago, vStar925 said:

Do you have a version of this project with just the loose files and not an installer? I want to try it out with my already modded game and install it manually.

I might provide one down the line. For now, install this first, then install other mods.

 

13 hours ago, turnpike said:

would you or anyone else know how to install either this trainer, or josh’s trainer on this build of the game?

https://github.com/connorms/RDR-Trainer

 

Try asking in the RDR modding Discord here: https://discord.gg/fvwqXmU

 

9 hours ago, Frames Of Screen said:

is it possible to disable the in game anti aliasing completely? when i tried doing it in the xenia configs it wouldnt work

The only way is to disable it right in the shader file, it is possible, I remember I saw something about this in the Xenia discord. There might be an xdelta patch for it floating there.

[turnpike]

3 hours ago, LennyH said:

Hore movement like turning, etc is already lowered to match RDR2's, if I touch other values, in missions where you have to chase or race somebody, you won't be able to finish them.

 

Thanks! I will keep working on this with more content in the future.

 

I'll get my hands on the switch version and if it's viable I'll make a switch version of the mod, I'll also see if they did anything different in the switch port, and if I find something that's actually new and worth it I'll add those to the 360 version as well.

 

I guess for the switch port they might've done something with the terrible anti-aliasing shader or some other stuff, it's always worth exploring, but I definitely won't let any of that compromise the main priority which is the xenia/360 version.

 

I might provide one down the line. For now, install this first, then install other mods.

 

Try asking in the RDR modding Discord here: https://discord.gg/fvwqXmU

 

The only way is to disable it right in the shader file, it is possible, I remember I saw something about this in the Xenia discord. There might be an xdelta patch for it floating there.

It would be interesting to test the game without its AA. i remember reading somewhere that it’s force enabled for games on xenia because of stability issues or something like that, but having it disabled would finally make the depth buffer on reshade work. you can do some real fancy effects with the rpcs3 version of the game through reshade due to the depth buffer being unlocked

[Branjer]

I believe another user mentioned this earlier, but is anyone else freezing upon visiting Las Hermanas? There weren't any errors during the installation of the mod either.

[Frames Of Screen]

is there a way to use the mod with a .xex file instead of .iso?

[turnpike]

On 3/23/2023 at 11:00 AM, LennyH said:

 

 

 

ABOUT:

Red Dead Redemption is amongst one of the best Western titles ever created, next to its successor and sequel. Unfortunately, this game never got a PC release or next-gen remaster, left in the dust, and mostly forgotten about, the best we got from Rockstar was an outsourced port to the previous gen (PS4) and the Switch. However, nowadays thanks to the power of modern hardware and emulators, this wonderful game can be played from start to finish in all its glory in 4K 60FPS. However due to this game's age, various gameplay and visual elements feel outdated and not up to today's gaming standards, Reality Redemption aims to improve the visual fidelity of this game, fixing continuity errors, as well as improving its gameplay elements for a more fluid and realistic experience.

 

CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROJECT:

If you're interested to help with the development of Reality Redemption and are familiar with modding RPF6 archives and their contents, send me a message.

 

SCREENSHOTS:

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TODO LIST:

• Increase memory pools and improved general performance
• Improve reflection quality
• Improve draw distance for vegetation
• Improve draw distance for the map
• Improve particles and particle count

• Improve debris variation and count

• Improve physics for liquids like water
• Improve AI behavior
• Improve the game camera to behave more like RDR2
• Improve the Euphoria physics
• Improve random events spawn and spawn rate
• Improve materials and their interactivity
• Improve culling
• Modify the movement animations for smoother transitions
• Improve character and game world textures with high-resolution textures (so far only John himself benefits from these high-res textures)
• Improve cloud skyhats
• Improve vehicle draw distance
• Improve the shadow maps and shadow distance
• Improve sky lighting
• Improve cloud shadows
• Port various RDR2 epilogue soundtracks
• PC control scheme
• Fix the moonlight ground overbright issue
• Fix the nighttime broken fog and other time cycle shortcomings 
• Improve rain effects
• Figure out why R* didn't implement a proper PostFX system in this game
• Increase some memory allocations
• Improve weather and cloud variations and improve the overall weather system

Green = Done

Yellow = WIP
Blue = Not started yet

 

Q&A:

Q: Does this work on Undead Nightmare?
A: Probably, feel free to test.

 

Q: How do I use this?

A: You need to have a legit physical copy of the 360 version, instructions will be shipped in the mod, and it will be an easy installation.

 

Q: How does the installation work?

A: It's all done automatically, mod files are encrypted.

 

Q: Aren't you worried about the "you know who and you know what"?

A: Let's not talk about that.

 

Q: Will you port assets from RDR2?

A: No.

 

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BETA 1.0

Hey Lenny, maybe this is something you'd like to look into, if its at all possible to fix. This can happen anywhere in the map, but it specifically happens in towns that have a lot of models present. Blackwater for example. 

 

The LODs shift randomly at times, the game seems to bug out and it can't choose which LOD to render, so it ends up cycling them all at once. I know for these older Rockstar titles, the LOD rendering will happen pretty normally as you look at whatever is in view, but its very distinct in Blackwater. Seems to be more of a bug than just the way they chose LODs to render. you can be standing still, not moving the camera at all, and after about 15 seconds whatever is in front of you will start shifting LODs.

 

If possible, maybe you can increase the LOD view or something?

 

 

[BadassBaboon]

On 8/11/2023 at 1:42 AM, Branjer said:

I believe another user mentioned this earlier, but is anyone else freezing upon visiting Las Hermanas? There weren't any errors during the installation of the mod either.

Make sure you use the latest Xenia Canary, this never happened on my end.

 

On 8/11/2023 at 2:44 AM, Frames Of Screen said:

is there a way to use the mod with a .xex file instead of .iso?

No.

 

12 hours ago, turnpike said:

Hey Lenny, maybe this is something you'd like to look into, if its at all possible to fix. This can happen anywhere in the map, but it specifically happens in towns that have a lot of models present. Blackwater for example. 

 

The LODs shift randomly at times, the game seems to bug out and it can't choose which LOD to render, so it ends up cycling them all at once. I know for these older Rockstar titles, the LOD rendering will happen pretty normally as you look at whatever is in view, but its very distinct in Blackwater. Seems to be more of a bug than just the way they chose LODs to render. you can be standing still, not moving the camera at all, and after about 15 seconds whatever is in front of you will start shifting LODs.

 

If possible, maybe you can increase the LOD view or something?

 

 

I did increase lod distance for some vegetation and props, the game gets very unstable if I touch peds or anything else. Props to Rockstar for a wonderful job with this version of Rage Engine.