Nvidia reveals a community-made RTX remaster of Half-Life 2

no set release date. Nvidia announced it today as part of its pre-Gamescom presentations. The remaster will use RTX Remix, Nvidia’s toolkit, for bringing ray-tracing to timeless PC video games. RTX Remix was previously revealed utilizing The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind as an example; it seeks to provide neighborhood modders and enthusiasts the capability to do ray-tracing conversions for old games, but it’s still only offered to a few people. The people, in this case, are a group of modders from multiple neighborhood jobs who have banded together under the name Orbifold Studios. The group consists of modders who dealt with VR Half-Life 2 job Project 17, property remastering task Half-Life 2 Remade Assets, overall conversation mod Raising the Bar: Redux, and another VR mod simply called Half-Life 2 VR, among others. They’re including modern-day Nvidia features like full ray-tracing and DLSS, reconstructing the game’s assets with more geometric

detail and physically based rendering(PBR) properties, and so on– comparable to what was already made with Portal Prelude RTX.

The quick teaser video debuting the mod only reveals one location of the video game, but it’s a renowned one: It’s the lab of Dr. Kleiner, one of the first areas the gamer check outs in the game and arguably the point from which the video game kicks off into high gear. It’s a space that will be quickly recognizable to anyone who remembers diving into Half-Life 2 in 2004– or any time after, I expect. I frequently have an issue about these type of neighborhood remasters since when I’ve seen other examples– like popular asset upscaling mods for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, for instance– I frequently feel they jeopardize the original artist’s vision excessive. This conversion looks pretty loyal from the examples we’ve seen, though. The materials and so on are normally right, though you do lose some subtle details. For example, I think it reveals a bit about Dr. Kleiner’s character that his desk is so chaotic and carelessly arranged that his keyboard sits partially on top of his notepad in the initial video game, but this remaster reveals the note pad a little more off to the side. It’s little, however I think it matters. None of that should be a deal-breaker for what we’re guaranteed in terms of enhanced fidelity, however.

As kept in mind, there’s no timeline for the launch of this mod, and if you understand modding projects like this, you understand they can take a while. But if you want to assist push it along, there’s an open require factors on the task’s site.

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