Half-Life ray tracing mod to release later this year
A new mod to add ray tracing to the original Half-Life is expected to release sometime in 2022. Half-Life: Ray Traced is being developed by a user named sultim_t, who previously released a ray tracing mod for the original Serious Sam a few months ago. Half-Life: Ray Traced is actually a continuation of another Half-Life ray tracing project that can be found here.
"Half-Life: Ray Traced integrates the real-time path tracing into the original Half-Life," writes sultim-t in the description of the YouTube video. "With the hardware accelerated ray-tracing, it is possible to calculate global illumination, reflections, refractions, soft shadows and other visual effects with interactive framerates."