Legally speaking I think RTX REMIX is in trouble, Personally speaking I think it is awesome. What do I mean by Legally speaking, well it's messing with files in a way that is borderline considered cheat engines and these creators of these kinds of software has in the past been sued. Finally i would like to just recite proper terminology, not because you failed at it, no you did well, just because it's always good to just remind people what the differences between a Remaster, a Reboot, and a Remake are. A Remaster, is using the ORIGINAL files and Engine to rebuilt for newer platforms to be built and optimised for modern times, no new assets are actually used, however a remaster can refer to just the code, and then a graphical patch can be included in the remasters first patch, which can be on the same release obscuring this a bit. A Reboot, is a new game made from scratch that captures the core essens of the original or its predecessor reboot, to start the same story over, but is as such a new start as if the previous didn't exist. A Remake, is a One to One copy of the old game, made from either scratch or so revamped that virtually none of the original game nor game engine exist. The game is fundamentally the exact same, an example is Warcraft III: Reforged, which is actually an entirely new engine and ecosystem and most assets are reused from the original, however, it also gomes with a full set of new assets that are upgraded versions of the old. A Remake blended with a Remaster is the most expensive and prone to fail option. Now RTX Remix is essentially a Remastering tool, It doesn't change or add any assets in the files, it simply transforms the data it has. Its an engine, and by definition its a game engine too, as it can transform data. And by semantics its a Cheat Engine as it modifies data in real time, without consent from the IP. So be careful which games you use it on, as its most likely a violation of most ToS and EULAs, and proably can get you banned with justification. That said this is really awesome and I always love your Content LevelCap, been following you since your BF3 days some 13-15 years ago, and i loved to see BF1942 like this, thanks for sharing!
@@seebarry4068same thougts here. But maybe we just have grown up and young folks still have their greatest time With crap like fortnite and all the other crazy comic shooters. I find its somehow awkward when adults in their late 30s and above spend hours playing Video games 😂
The original was mindblowing because we never had anything like this before. But be honest, the weapon physics were pure crap and it didnt aged Well. But the mods were great! Battlegroup, forgotten hope, eve of destruction. God i sometimes miss the days. 😢
I'm kinda disappointed that wasn't brought up, nor a hint where a fix for that is coming, or progress about it. The scenery was nicely upgraded, but somehow the hands got butchered.
@@TheDidgerideuces Yeah, the whole time watching this I was thinking how much more Battlefield Vietnam would benefit from this. I'm curious to see how Iwo Jima from the official WW2 mod would look, and maps from the base game like Cambodian Incursion and Fall of Lang Vei.
Idk looks cool but not my thing, i feel like its early 2000s texture gives its charm, when you put those higher resolution texture with low polygons looks horrible
@@despecktPurists have used this kind of gatekeeping rhetoric about graphical mods and remasters since the dawn of gaming, it's getting really tacky. Maybe it isn't BF1942 anymore in your eyes, but to a lot of people it is. Nobody's forcing you to abandon the original, maybe just keep playing that and let other people have fun with mods lol
@Vorexia my dude really saying this when we have been living purely in remaster and remakes this years. My opinion to this video is that the hyper realistic graphics don't go well with old engine games. Look at duke nukem 3d high resolution pack as an example. I am not a gatekeeper I welcome remakes or remasters. I just gave my opinion in the context of the video
Graphics aside, BF1942 is still the best, next to BF1. The soundtracks, the maps, the atmosphere .. nothing else makes you feel as close to war as this classic.
The one problem I keep seeing with RTX remix showcases is that the original art style or general aesthetic gets obliterated by the wash of harsh dynamic lighting and raytracing - all semblance of color consistency or baked 'scene lighting' is gone. The tech itself is impressive but seems like it's more designed for a game built to use it in the first place.
it doesn't have to be, you can do anything you want. If you want it to look identical you can do so, I personally generally use it for asset replacement only.
@@mr.funkyright Indeed. How well an RTX remaster sticks to the art direction depends on how modders utilise the tool. Doom 2 RTX is a good example of that. Although they strayed from the original in some ways (most notably, enemies are rendered as 3D voxels rather than as 2D billboards) it did retain the original feel. Right now, a lot of modders get pretty flashy with RTX Remix and overdo it to a tacky extent, but that'll go away once the novelty of path tracing wears off as well as when they master the tool itself. It's like how devs 20 years ago would make a lot of items spin in place just because they wanted to show off how far we've come with 3D rendering, or how it became a trend for games like Oblivion and Fable to blinden you with bloom effects since that was so new.
the HL2 RTX remix team has from what ive seen keeped with the original artstyle and atmosphere of the game just using the tech of RTX remix to add modern features like PBR and such to things like the nova prospekt trailer that came out recently also shows you can have lighting be nearly/exactly the same as the original just with path tracing and such.
Love the remix content, would love for you to do a deep dive on a few different levels of nostalgia. Like a video deep dive on republic commando, gears of war, splinter cell, bf3, and so much more.
BF1942 doesn't just have a LOD system, i think it's called billboard textures where a model changes to 2D texture at a certain distance. This is only used for certain vegetation in this game though
I'd note that I personally use Reshade, one of several post processing applications. It looks rather good and that method will go online.. One step farther is to play on the HD Remaster which swaps out Textures with a greater LOD ( level of detail ) .. This can be use in conjunction with Reshade.. however the game will stutter online with a medium high player count. There would be a huge interest in the community for mod of RTX that would go Multiplayer. Servers w/o content check only presumptively.
it remastered that water to 2020 and that boat to 2005 lmao. 1:07 that cabin gave me ptsd flashbacks lmao. Great content, kind of happy it doesnt look amazing as I bought AMD a few months ago xD
I am very impressed, the results are awesome. But stil I think people will miss the moddern game mechanics, movement and so on. I mean we got Wake Island in BFV with the modern graphics and objects, weapons and everything. That is enough nostalgia for me. I am trying to say: a Map Builder for BFV that allows to rebuild the iconic BF42 maps is propably everything it takes.
There’s a couple mods for 1942 where the modders just replaced the LOD with the base model but something to do a different distances still but it’s all the same model so they’re still more detail at different distances. I think Battlefield 1918 is a good example of this along with, creating whole new environment, maps and types for the game. You’re better off recreating whole new textures and standard meshes for each piece of the game. That’s a lot of files.
you can also use ReShade to make any game look even better without impacting performance too much, if you have a low end pc like me. i just put graphics on low or medium and use ReShade to add those effects which are normally too performance heavy to run. you can also add things like bloom and DOF to older games which dont have those effects
You're thinking of Battlefield 1943. That was a small remake of the original game. It was good but didn't even cover 1/3 of the content from the original game.
Need to maybe replace the indoor table models with models that have lamps on them along with RT light sources. Still, impressive use of an impressive tool. I do love watching these Remix videos of yours.
The problem is that Remix wouldn't work if gamedevs used too many hacks when making the shaders/lightning/graphics in general And this happened pretty often because hacks are easy way to squeeze additional performance out of weak hardware of that time
I still play BF1942 to this day. Still rocking 1918, desert combat, and Forgotten Hope mod, because of bots(and that it runs no problemo on my laptop). BF2042 was a disaster but I do appreciate the inclusion of bots and I hope the next BF game will include them and let people use them offline.
The tank tracks and wheels use texture translate and texture rotate with vertex weights on the wheels .so the wheel texture rotates around a red vertex in the centre, the outer rym translates with blue verts, the ground textures might be bugging out from wrong dxt compression or its missing the detail overlay...cool vid bro.
I was just thinking back to how much fun this game was...but sadly how empty. I wish I had those mods that supported 128 or 256 bot matches and could add more plants and cover.
I do appreciate that you showed off all of the struggles you had along the way. Despite some of the graphical troubles encountered, it looks quite promising. I have high hopes for if it really goes open-source.
I've hardly ever heard somebody say Lods, and I doubt many people do. as far as I've heard, it has always been pronounced as EL OH Dees (almost how you might say Melody without the M and the O is more Phonetic, the way it is said in the alphabet), and it makes sense to say it that way since it is an acronym for level of detail.
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I'm hoping for games like Prince of Persia the sands of time and XIII to be added.
Legally speaking I think RTX REMIX is in trouble, Personally speaking I think it is awesome. What do I mean by Legally speaking, well it's messing with files in a way that is borderline considered cheat engines and these creators of these kinds of software has in the past been sued. Finally i would like to just recite proper terminology, not because you failed at it, no you did well, just because it's always good to just remind people what the differences between a Remaster, a Reboot, and a Remake are.
A Remaster, is using the ORIGINAL files and Engine to rebuilt for newer platforms to be built and optimised for modern times, no new assets are actually used, however a remaster can refer to just the code, and then a graphical patch can be included in the remasters first patch, which can be on the same release obscuring this a bit.
A Reboot, is a new game made from scratch that captures the core essens of the original or its predecessor reboot, to start the same story over, but is as such a new start as if the previous didn't exist.
A Remake, is a One to One copy of the old game, made from either scratch or so revamped that virtually none of the original game nor game engine exist. The game is fundamentally the exact same, an example is Warcraft III: Reforged, which is actually an entirely new engine and ecosystem and most assets are reused from the original, however, it also gomes with a full set of new assets that are upgraded versions of the old. A Remake blended with a Remaster is the most expensive and prone to fail option.
Now RTX Remix is essentially a Remastering tool, It doesn't change or add any assets in the files, it simply transforms the data it has. Its an engine, and by definition its a game engine too, as it can transform data. And by semantics its a Cheat Engine as it modifies data in real time, without consent from the IP. So be careful which games you use it on, as its most likely a violation of most ToS and EULAs, and proably can get you banned with justification.
That said this is really awesome and I always love your Content LevelCap, been following you since your BF3 days some 13-15 years ago, and i loved to see BF1942 like this, thanks for sharing!
That's not ocean water, that's Baja Blast
mmMMMmm Baja Blast 🤤
I encourage you to actually visit the ocean some day. You'll be shocked at how blue it is.
Sir, I assure you that that's Ocean Water. This is Sonic. We don't serve Baja Blast.
lmfao
@@CrizzyEyesEspecially caribean and pacific water
the nostalgia on that classic 1942 theme song is crazy.
From a time when I loved gaming. I miss real games.
@@seebarry4068same thougts here. But maybe we just have grown up and young folks still have their greatest time With crap like fortnite and all the other crazy comic shooters.
I find its somehow awkward when adults in their late 30s and above spend hours playing Video games 😂
I swear thats how those games felt like back in the day
Bf 1942 is hands down one of the best battlefield games for me.
Agreed, the most fun imho... Drivable subs, aircraft carriers, B-17s... You had almost everything
@@adam88721 And all the cool voicelines and stuff you could say over the radio.
And it had TONS of maps.
Everything about it was perfect
Don't forget the modding scene which added even more theaters, better sounds, improved ballistics/damage models and loads of new vehicles
Truly ahead of its time
The original was mindblowing because we never had anything like this before. But be honest, the weapon physics were pure crap and it didnt aged Well. But the mods were great! Battlegroup, forgotten hope, eve of destruction. God i sometimes miss the days. 😢
Those hands tho…
I'm kinda disappointed that wasn't brought up, nor a hint where a fix for that is coming, or progress about it. The scenery was nicely upgraded, but somehow the hands got butchered.
@@gredangeo someone will figure it out I think cap didn’t address it because even he didn’t know
Remaster Battlefield 3
Doesn’t need remastered.
Venice Unleashed
@@le4-677 He didn't say it like that. He just wants it even MORE better.
No no, Battlefield Bad Company 2. BF3 doesn't show it's age as much as BFBC2.
@@ZezacleB You didn't read my comment? Just very curious.
Would love to see a bf Vietnam version of this
I would've loved to have seen him remaster the 1942 "Redux" version from BF Vietnam, since it had way more foliage
@@TheDidgerideuces Yeah, the whole time watching this I was thinking how much more Battlefield Vietnam would benefit from this. I'm curious to see how Iwo Jima from the official WW2 mod would look, and maps from the base game like Cambodian Incursion and Fall of Lang Vei.
I would give anything for a remastered BF Vietnam
@@deadredeyes me too, flying those huey slicks on operation Hastings and Saigon 68 was the best
"How to remaster your favorite game without being a game developer" *Proceeds to become a game developer**
Battlefield 1942 brings back some amazing memories, such a fantastic game
Idk looks cool but not my thing, i feel like its early 2000s texture gives its charm, when you put those higher resolution texture with low polygons looks horrible
it wouldn't be too bad if they also replaced those assets as well, not just the textures
@@lukabrasi001 just make a mod in another battlefield, at that points it's not bf1942
@@despecktPurists have used this kind of gatekeeping rhetoric about graphical mods and remasters since the dawn of gaming, it's getting really tacky. Maybe it isn't BF1942 anymore in your eyes, but to a lot of people it is. Nobody's forcing you to abandon the original, maybe just keep playing that and let other people have fun with mods lol
@Vorexia my dude really saying this when we have been living purely in remaster and remakes this years. My opinion to this video is that the hyper realistic graphics don't go well with old engine games. Look at duke nukem 3d high resolution pack as an example. I am not a gatekeeper I welcome remakes or remasters. I just gave my opinion in the context of the video
@@Vorexia and BTW, I'm a modder and scripter for all battlefield games in the refactor engine
Dude… Play Battlefield 2 with RTX Remix to get hype for the 20th anniversary😁👍
Yes! This. 👏
100% We need to get a group together to start remastering BF2.
@@LevLibidinous I will devote time each week to sit and learn how to do this. I want BF2 properly remastered in a modern reliable engine. 😭
i'd even go as far as to taking my time to retexture the models or even improve the mesh a bit. might take some time, but damn, that'd be cool
Would you mind sharing the updated textures or link to the tools for us bf1942 modders to use?
Sure, I used RTX Remix for 90% of the process www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/rtx-remix/
@@LevelCapGamingthanks!
Graphics aside, BF1942 is still the best, next to BF1. The soundtracks, the maps, the atmosphere .. nothing else makes you feel as close to war as this classic.
The trailer music of BF1942 and the good ol' days of Forgotten Hope 0.7 a BF1942 mod. Nostalgia right there!
Bf2 forgotten hope is free to play and has full servers
The one problem I keep seeing with RTX remix showcases is that the original art style or general aesthetic gets obliterated by the wash of harsh dynamic lighting and raytracing - all semblance of color consistency or baked 'scene lighting' is gone. The tech itself is impressive but seems like it's more designed for a game built to use it in the first place.
it doesn't have to be, you can do anything you want. If you want it to look identical you can do so, I personally generally use it for asset replacement only.
@@mr.funkyright Indeed. How well an RTX remaster sticks to the art direction depends on how modders utilise the tool. Doom 2 RTX is a good example of that. Although they strayed from the original in some ways (most notably, enemies are rendered as 3D voxels rather than as 2D billboards) it did retain the original feel. Right now, a lot of modders get pretty flashy with RTX Remix and overdo it to a tacky extent, but that'll go away once the novelty of path tracing wears off as well as when they master the tool itself. It's like how devs 20 years ago would make a lot of items spin in place just because they wanted to show off how far we've come with 3D rendering, or how it became a trend for games like Oblivion and Fable to blinden you with bloom effects since that was so new.
the HL2 RTX remix team has from what ive seen keeped with the original artstyle and atmosphere of the game just using the tech of RTX remix to add modern features like PBR and such to things like the nova prospekt trailer that came out recently also shows you can have lighting be nearly/exactly the same as the original just with path tracing and such.
Love the remix content, would love for you to do a deep dive on a few different levels of nostalgia. Like a video deep dive on republic commando, gears of war, splinter cell, bf3, and so much more.
Big YES on you going deeper into this.
Bad Company 2 Remaster would be Gold 🙌🏼
Content like this and further technical deep dives sounds interesting and a unique pivot for your channel.
if only there was a powback-type app for bf games after bc2. a guy created powback as a way of editing the placement of objects in bc2 maps
BF1942 doesn't just have a LOD system, i think it's called billboard textures where a model changes to 2D texture at a certain distance. This is only used for certain vegetation in this game though
I think you are right but is not a problem with Remix, you can replace the billboard with an actual 3D model
Battlefield 2!?!?!?!!! That would be soooo sick
That music on the background was the best loading screen
guarantee someone out there has made walls slightly see through to wall bang
I'd note that I personally use Reshade, one of several post processing applications. It looks rather good and that method will go online.. One step farther is to play on the HD Remaster which swaps out Textures with a greater LOD ( level of detail ) .. This can be use in conjunction with Reshade.. however the game will stutter online with a medium high player count.
There would be a huge interest in the community for mod of RTX that would go Multiplayer. Servers w/o content check only presumptively.
That is my favourite map. I played it on every BF game that supported it except 3.
it remastered that water to 2020 and that boat to 2005 lmao.
1:07 that cabin gave me ptsd flashbacks lmao.
Great content, kind of happy it doesnt look amazing as I bought AMD a few months ago xD
Damn this works way better than it did about a year and a half ago when I was messing around with the portal RTX files
I am very impressed, the results are awesome. But stil I think people will miss the moddern game mechanics, movement and so on. I mean we got Wake Island in BFV with the modern graphics and objects, weapons and everything. That is enough nostalgia for me. I am trying to say: a Map Builder for BFV that allows to rebuild the iconic BF42 maps is propably everything it takes.
Battlefield nostalgia.
This game of my adolescence.
Time to remix BTF 2
Whoah. This is amazing. Going to try this later today.
I still play this everyday online and upload gameplay
There’s a couple mods for 1942 where the modders just replaced the LOD with the base model but something to do a different distances still but it’s all the same model so they’re still more detail at different distances. I think Battlefield 1918 is a good example of this along with, creating whole new environment, maps and types for the game. You’re better off recreating whole new textures and standard meshes for each piece of the game. That’s a lot of files.
you can also use ReShade to make any game look even better without impacting performance too much, if you have a low end pc like me. i just put graphics on low or medium and use ReShade to add those effects which are normally too performance heavy to run. you can also add things like bloom and DOF to older games which dont have those effects
Thank you lvlcap!!
Battlefield 1942 on the 360 was my introduction to fps games. I put so many hours into those 3 maps. All 3 of those maps were so memorable.
Battlefield 1942 is a pc exclusive, Battlefield 1943 is a 360 exclusive, but i thught there was a ps3 ver guess not.
You're thinking of Battlefield 1943. That was a small remake of the original game. It was good but didn't even cover 1/3 of the content from the original game.
@@ZeroKiteWired1122 oh right! Still awesome lil game tho
Need to maybe replace the indoor table models with models that have lamps on them along with RT light sources. Still, impressive use of an impressive tool. I do love watching these Remix videos of yours.
I'd like to see it tried on the original Dead Space, Stubbs the Zombie, Star wars EaW, and Battlefront 2, to name a few
This is just how i remember bf1942 looking when i was a kid.
Cool I would really like to see this done for Space Enginers!
That's wild
The problem is that Remix wouldn't work if gamedevs used too many hacks when making the shaders/lightning/graphics in general
And this happened pretty often because hacks are easy way to squeeze additional performance out of weak hardware of that time
I still play BF1942 to this day. Still rocking 1918, desert combat, and Forgotten Hope mod, because of bots(and that it runs no problemo on my laptop).
BF2042 was a disaster but I do appreciate the inclusion of bots and I hope the next BF game will include them and let people use them offline.
That Forgotten Hope mod was literally and figuratively a game changer. :) I loved it and it made the game so much better.
I wish BF1943 released on PC like how it was originally supposed to be.
This is so fun. I loved BF 1942 and would totally play a remastered version of it today.
BF1942 original textures are actually very VERY DECENT.
There's a lot of (negative) stuff that can be said about Nvidia, but RTX Remix is
That theme, I love it.
the nostalgia hit hard
The tank tracks and wheels use texture translate and texture rotate with vertex weights on the wheels .so the wheel texture rotates around a red vertex in the centre, the outer rym translates with blue verts, the ground textures might be bugging out from wrong dxt compression or its missing the detail overlay...cool vid bro.
It might also not utilise mipmaps, but a texture with mipmaps replaced it so it only loads the lowest resolution mipmap.
I love the Asset Swap System (A.S.S)
Wish DICE would remaster BF4 instead and just release that next. That would be a win
Yes! More Remix, its awesome!
Watching videos like this reinforces to me how little I understand about what goes into game design (in other words, almost nothing).
Can you give soilder of fortune a go?
Hmm, would love to see BF2412 with RTX, those blizzardy storms could be epic
Bf42 and it’s mod’s was peak.
And yet, the companies who originally made these games can barely release a completed product...
I feel like FHSW mod completely overhauled BF1942 in a way that could have been a completely different game, you should check it out.
That's awesome man.
They need to make this for anime so they can fill-in frames in between
I sold off my 1942 CDs years ago and now I am mad, lol.
Dawg, I NEED to play THIS.
RTX remix can do a lot of work, but in order for things to look great you kind of have to get better textures too.
I was just thinking back to how much fun this game was...but sadly how empty. I wish I had those mods that supported 128 or 256 bot matches and could add more plants and cover.
Seeing this on bf2 would be awaome
This is ridiculously impressive.
You know I am kind of waiting for Rainbow Six Vegas 1 and 2 Remastered including Rainbow Six 3.
Super cool!
king of vehicle combat, more like king of suffering
Hear me out imagine taking Call of Duty WAW, a little more like hell let loose with mods and using remix. Basically Day of Infamy 3
LC you had a chance to do this with BF2 and did with 1942 !!!!!
I wonder what this will look like with Stronghold Crusader. 😁
the original... also interesting fact, the mod modern combat made for this, most of the people that worked on it were hired to make call of duty.
I seem to recall the team that made desert combat did bf2
I would love to see a 1942 remaster......but without all the modern live service crap, but with our old modding support and just good gameplay.
Ohh, this could be used on games with "impossible" pathing, trapped savefiles, etc... I thought this workflow was for all tetro games.
Take a shot every time he says "workflow".
Makes me wonder if Napoleon/Empire Total War will take well to an RTX remix
So this is what Remix is?! Ok I have an idea that’ll keep me busy.
Nah you made it look worse somehow 😭
want to see fh2 remastered like this
Battlefield 2 remaster and i will buy it. Best Battlefield ever 😄
I remember this was the first game I got that required a 3d graphics card haha
honestly makes it look like gta definitive edition
Remaster medal of Honor allied assault!
very cool soldier
I do appreciate that you showed off all of the struggles you had along the way. Despite some of the graphical troubles encountered, it looks quite promising. I have high hopes for if it really goes open-source.
It went fully open source
@@kingx1180 Incredible. Should be more good news down the road with enough community activity.
Shilling hard on my OG favorite game. Unforgivable!
Only one game requires a remaster: Battlefield 3.
No bad company 2
I've hardly ever heard somebody say Lods, and I doubt many people do. as far as I've heard, it has always been pronounced as EL OH Dees (almost how you might say Melody without the M and the O is more Phonetic, the way it is said in the alphabet), and it makes sense to say it that way since it is an acronym for level of detail.
I think that L, O, D, would have perfectly described what you wanted to say 😉
@@Stef3m probably, but I think at that time I thought some people might pronounce those letters differently as well
The artstyle and feeling gets completely lost in those remixes
Sorry for the comment spam, I’d love to see this in BF Vietnam.
5:26 wow, the tank looks beautiful.
Do this with the BF1942 HD Rework mod!
Cease and desist. - Activision
Let’s see Paul Allen’s Battlefield
u should see what a more modern game can do, u should do BF3
You should try Battlefield 2!