Nvidia has announced a community-made RTX remaster of Half-Life 2

It came first outletAnd now we come to the other great classics of Source Engine: Half-life 2 Get a modified version of ray tracing Thanks to the efforts of the Nvidia-supported community mod team.

Embarrassing title Half-Life 2 RTX: Das RTX-Remix-Project, the modified version is currently under development and has no specific release date. Nvidia announced this today as part of its previous Gamescom presentation. The remaster will use RTX Remix, Nvidia’s suite of tools, to add ray tracing to classic PC games. RTX Remix has already been announced The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind For example; It’s meant to give community modders and hobbyists the ability to convert ray tracing for older games, but it’s still available to a handful of people.

In this case, it’s a group of modders from several community projects that have come together under the name Orbifold Studios. The team consists of modders who have worked in virtual reality Half-life 2 project Project 17resource-rework-project Half-Life 2 Origins RemasteredComprehensive conversational style Level Up: Redux, And another VR model is simply called Half-Life 2 VRAmong others.

They add modern nvidia features like full ray tracing and DLSS, reconstruct game resources with more geometry details and PBR features (physical rendering), etc. – similar to what’s already been done. RTX Introduction Portal.

The short teaser video showing the model’s debut only shows one area of ​​the game, but it’s a highlight: Dr. Kleiner’s laboratory, which is one of the first places players visit in the game and arguably the point at which the game begins. high alert. It is an instantly recognizable place for anyone thinking of setting foot in it Half-life 2 Sometime in 2004 or so I think.

I often worry about this kind of community recycling because I’ve seen other examples – like the popular resource upgrade mod The Elder Scrolls V: SkyrimFor example, I often feel that it interferes too much with the original artist’s vision. This conversion looks very accurate from the examples we’ve seen. Footage etc is generally accurate, although some fine details are lost. For example, I think there is a little Dr. Kleiner’s character reveals that in the original game his desk was so messy and sloppy that his keyboard was resting partially on top of his notebook, but this remastered version shows the notebook from a slightly better angle. It’s small but I think it’s important. However, none of this should detract from what is promised in terms of our improved fidelity.

As mentioned, there is no release schedule for this mod and if you know mod projects like this you know that they can a period of time. However, there is an open call for project contributors if you want to help move the project forward website.

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