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Half-Life 2 is getting remade into a ray-traced beauty thanks to modders

A screenshot from Half-Life 2 RTX, showing a high-resolution version of Gordon Freeman’s suit from the game.
That precious suit has never looked better. | Image: Nvidia

A community of modders is developing a ray-traced Half-Life 2 remake using Nvidia’s early access platform, and Nvidia is debuting its first trailer for Gamescom. Half-Life 2 RTX: An RTX Remix Project will not win any awards for good naming, but the beautified update to the PC’s iconic first-person shooter from 2004 may easily win the hearts of those of us with a soft spot for a little nostalgia and high-res headcrabs.

is the combined efforts of four Half-Life 2 mod teams, now formed as Orbifold Studios, using RTX Remix to rebuild the game using PBR (physically based rendering — not the cheap beer) properties and adding new geometric details. The remake uses for fast and smooth asset loading, seen recently in P…

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Author: Antonio G. Di Benedetto. [Source Link (*), The Verge – All Posts]

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