The legendary basic sport Half Life 2 will get a brand new ray tracing guise – in collaboration with Nvidia.
Whereas the complete gaming group has been ready for an official successor to Half Life 2 for nearly 20 years now, Nvidia has introduced what is probably the following smartest thing to it at Gamescom: “Half Life 2 RTX: An RTX Remix Mission”.
In a (blog entry) Nvidia declares that the Half Life group has began to create a brand new Half Life 2 model, which ought to carry ray tracing amongst different issues. With the mandatory know-how, you also needs to have the ability to take part your self.
Half Life 2 in new splendour
The modders are utilizing the most recent graphics expertise to offer the growing older basic a contemporary makeover.
Utilizing the RTX Remix modding platform, modders rebuild supplies utilizing PBR (Bodily Based mostly Rendering) to make sure that surfaces are rendered as bodily appropriate as doable.
In addition they use Valve’s Hammer Editor so as to add extra geometric knowledge. Hammer has performed a job within the modding group since Half Life 1 and was referred to as Worldcraft again then.
In typical Nvidia vogue, their hobbyhorses Ray Tracing, DLSS 3, Reflex and RTX IO are to not be missed. What’s all this, you ask? Right here’s the information at a look:
- Ray Tracing is a complicated method in pc graphics the place rays are shot from the digital camera into the scene to simulate real looking gentle interactions comparable to reflections, refractions and shadows.
- DLSS 3 is an AI expertise from Nvidia that makes use of synthetic intelligence and neural networks to offer high-quality anti-aliasing and upscaling in actual time. Optimally, this supplies a greater image and extra FPS (frames per second). AMD’s FSR and Intel’s XeSS are related applied sciences utilized by the competitors.
- NVIDIA Reflex is a expertise that gives quicker response and fewer lag in video games. It’s designed to optimise communication between your mouse, keyboard or controller and the display.
- RTX IO is a expertise from NVIDIA that goals to make sport loading quicker and extra environment friendly. It harnesses the ability of recent RTX collection graphics playing cards to load video games quicker from the arduous drive or SSD into reminiscence.
Go to the introduction video:
Who’s the “group”? Nvidia talks about 4 of the most important modding groups within the Half Life 2 group being concerned in growth. Based on the announcement, they’ve joined forces to work collectively on the mission.
Can I be a part of the mission? All the way in which! The Half Life 2 RTX staff needs to get the complete modding group concerned. Nvidia encourages everybody who has a need to be concerned within the mission to (get involved).
When will the sport be launched? No date has been introduced but. Nvidia repeatedly factors out that growth has simply begun
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