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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."

 

[radicalwookie]

Im not being rude but ..this looks pretty meh

 

[banjo2]

dang, i recently started playing for the first time, now this makes me want to wait on it

 

[1B51004]

Looks really cool, but imo, it clashes with the textures, especially outside and in the sun (makes it look uncanny to me for some reason).

Still, very nice from the creator!

 

[Lucaserf]

dang, i recently started playing for the first time, now this makes me want to wait on it

Are you talking about the original? If so, finish it first (Believe me, despite the outdated graphics, it has a solid gameplay and a great plot) and then give this mod a go in the future. Also, make sure to check out Black Mesa

 

[XDel]

Word!

 

[martinbeiker]

Reminds me of the DOOM RTX, for me it's more of a demo, I would probably play with RTX disabled

 

[legoinventeor]

Not saying it is, but it reminds me of the gta remastered trillogy

 

[Gunstorm]

Great

 

[ZeroFX]

Im not being rude but ..this looks pretty meh

Yep, light can make a game very beautiful, but you need more than that. But yeah as a PoC looks good and all.

 

[gudenau]

That's super cool looking, but I don't have a RT capable card. A shame this is Windows only too.

 

[wurstpistole]

dang, i recently started playing for the first time, now this makes me want to wait on it

just play black mesa and be done with it

 

[Conn0r]

Valve (though they aren't saints) understand the fan care and attention mods bring. *cough Nintendo, Take-Two, cough Nintendo again, Take-Two again*

 

[Minox]

Are you talking about the original? If so, finish it first (Believe me, despite the outdated graphics, it has a solid gameplay and a great plot) and then give this mod a go in the future. Also, make sure to check out Black Mesa

I've played through both and Black Mesa to me was pretty underwhelming. Yes, it was pretty but in my mind it felt like they focused far too much on making it pretty rather than to make it flow as well as the original.

 

[Foxi4]

Valve (though they aren't saints) understand the fan care and attention mods bring. *cough Nintendo, Take-Two, cough Nintendo again, Take-Two again*

Valve has a long-standing tradition of poaching talent from the modding community, it’s one of their hiring strategies. Most of their best-selling IP’s started off as either mods (CS, TF) or independent projects (Portal).

 

[Kaioh]

Im not being rude but ..this looks pretty meh

This. I think it makes more sense to add ray-tracing to Black Mesa if that's not already a thing.

 

[MochaMilk]

I think a proper retexturing or texture upscaling could make the Ray Tracing look even more stunning!

 

[Jayro]

This type of thing would be much more useful for HL2, it's episodes, and Black Mesa. Feels like such a waste and very out of place for such an old N64-looking game.