Ah that's very interesting, thank you! I assumed as much, but it's great to have confirmation! I just never expected the z-depth to be so high-resolution, haha! Especially when it includes objects that aren't even used for occlusion or anything. Also, your mod managers and door skips are a god-send, you legend. ;)

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@@Harry101UK Yeah, I don't know why they're so high-res either. I looked up the z-buffer textures and they're all 1920x1440 and I can't see any signs of upscaling. I see no reason for them to be that high-res on the Gamecube, so either they found an extremely good way to upscale them or that was something they were able to attain from the original development data. Would be interesting to hear from someone working on the HD Remaster so we know the full story behind all of this. I'm still surprised it was RE0 HD which got the full re-render treatment. Both REmake and RE0 were released the same year, so I would have assumed the development data for both were archived the same way. And yay my mods are useful!

@@fluffyquack They are re-rendered. That's why the look so high resolution. In GameCube they were low resolution. But you need precisely rendered depth maps in order for rendering to work ok, so they were forced to re-render them. That means they have the original 3D models. And that means that they were just being cheap by applying filters to the actual backgrounds.

@@PacoChanV2 If they re-rendered the depth masks I don't understand why they didn't re-render the whole thing. I got the impression they were very uncertain how to handle the backgrounds as they tried various techniques: some rooms are fully recreated in 3D, some rooms are a mix of upscaling with certain elements recreated as 3D objects, some backgrounds look like they are manually touched by artists, and then most backgrounds are processed with a couple of filters. If they had the option to re-render everything, then surely they would have gone with that solution. That's easily the best solution (which is very apparent with RE0 HD as that looks fantastic). Have you looked at how the depth masks are stored in the Gamecube release? I've looked at the diffuse textures for backgrounds in that (which is literally JPEG data), but not the depth masks.

reshade works with source games i believe, so it's possible to run it in SFM

Render PC: *_screams_*

Alternatively, just use Pragma instead and path trace with Cycles.

it already has ray tracing. its been in HL2 since pre-release in 2002. hell, when im compiling maps in Hammer, there is a SPECIFIC point where it says 'building ray-tracing. . . '

Well Garry's mod already has an add-on that allows for live raytracing so it shouldn't be too difficult

Yeah, about to catch some hands! This is the bees' knees, anybody disagree's out for a bout.

@@lucasbune "...I know it isn't an animation..." He acts like we don't subscribe for _him!_ I honestly enjoy everything Harry puts out. This was very interesting to see.

The T virus?

Covid?

Of course, we have to agree! It's a masterpiece.

Resident Evil Remake was, is and always will be my absolute favorite. I remember playing it for the first time at a friends house and the burning jelousy i felt about his gamecube. Absolute, fucking, masterpiece. I have bought that game in every platform available exctep for xbox. i regret nothing.

Yes, forgotten indie gem "resident evil" needs more attention.

wish it would get a ray tracing update. and 4k textures backgrounds

How could resident evil possibly get more attention? It was a genre cornerstone and probably one of the most recognised products within the game industry, if you asked someone who's never played a game before to name a famous game title they would probably come up with Resident Evil. Bit of a silly comment is this.

imo with path tracing (what this global illumination shader is doing), it's better to have no texture than shitty textures.

That's so whacky. It always pissed me off that that door doesn't work

This comment aged like fine wine.

@@wilsonwilson3674 Why?

@@HairyHog77 Because Harry ended up taking that role. Just thought it was cool.

@@wilsonwilson3674 oh nice

He never left

Cuz no going home 2 lol

I looked everywhere for a 'free cam' mod to try and verify if these are actually 3D models, but I couldn't find any. ='(

@@Harry101UK they are actual 3d models otherwise they wouldnt show in the depth buffer, trust me ive used reshade as much as ive played games and it dont get depth access from 2d games

@@IDK-yx2lr They are not 3D models though. They are pre-rendered depth maps used mainly for occluding characters, enemies and other dynamic stuff.

@@PacoChanV2 pretty sure reshade cant recognize depth maps cus its generic nature

ok now im sure reshade cant cus i just did a comparison with ENB on skyrim where the depth map of a wall would show up on ENB but wouldn't on reshade so ye reshade dont get depth maps sadly

Thy actually planned it to b fully 3D but at the time the gamecube wasn't powerful nuff for tht not without makin the character models look blocky or wtever 😅

I mean, you really can't blame Umbrella for their failures. Do you even know how hard it is to find anyone even remotely competent when you're an evil company? You can't hire some well-known scientist with decent work culture. Only people you can get are mad scientists that are just edgy psycho college dropouts that are hellbent on revenge because they want to invent a devastating plague to murder that professor that didn't let them pass class because they were just too stupid. Want to hire a guard? Can't get anyone decent here either. Only people dishonorably discharged from military service, criminals, mercenaries that nobody wanted to hire and other lowlifes that won't take their work seriously and only work for you because you give them shelter from the police. With people like that it's impossible to run a successful evil company. The scientists will mess up because what are safety standards or even protective equipment to a mad scientist, and the guards will die because they're too scared to aim straight when an alarm goes off and are prone to friendly fire. So, as you can see, they may be incompetent and prone to failure, but you really can't blame them for that. It's just the nature of being an evil company. You try your best, invest billions but your underlings will always mess up. And even if you partially succeed after all those failures and create a superior human being like Wesker, there will be some random stupid regular human that somehow has the power to punch boulders because screw logic and they'll destroy that flicker of your hope. And when you're down Netflix comes to use their Godly powers to create an alternative timeline where Wesker is alive and has two daughters but the daughters are good instead of evil to give you a final blow. There is just no winning, no matter how hard you try. /s

I know right? They should try to get an AI to run things around there. I mean look at Aperture, they were getting no where with their results until they made Glados.

@Leon Kennedy Exactly! They have become a True Embarrassment !

@@rustythedeli-master6861 they already had that, the red queen

@Leon Kennedy leon not to be the advocate of umbrella but it was birkin's fault for the outbreak, they created the virus sure but if it wasn't for birkin using the g raccon would probably just have a case of rumors of strange creatures in the sewers

Yeah, I assume so. It's weird though, because even the hundreds of small cutscene backgrounds have this full resolution depth; even when there's no gameplay collision needed or objects to occlude. Just seems weird to have such high-res depth, when everything else in the game is lower-res, haha.

Exactly, that is most weird. These depth maps are hi-res indeed! I wonder if something like this existed in GC version; each room obviously had matte shaded polygons to receive shadows and illumination from lights. This is an awesome find!

She has been there for 28 years or so. One of the notes you find in the cabin is dated in the 70's (RE1 takes place in 1998) and mentions her first experiments when she was a 6 year old girl. ;)

@@Harry101UK What I mean was, she need real food, even eat veggie.

It isnt that hard, give it a go.