Quite nice, as raytracing mods go!

These days, you’re free to’t shake a stick without bouncing brown beams around the room.

See for yourself in the new video, below.

Shiny action in Half-Life: Ray Traced’s trailer.

Half-Life: Ray Traced is made by Sultim “sultim_t” Tsyrendashiev, building on work by others.

Complicated chain of development history, but simply: it’s Half-Life with raytracing.

The plan is to release this sometime in 2022on GitHub.

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I find most attempts to add raytracing to old games ugly.

I have an almost visceral dislike ofNvidia’s Quake 2 RTX tech demo showcase doodad.

This, however, I deem acceptable.

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Yeah, that looks enough like Half-Life to me.

Last year, Tsyrendashievbopped raytracing into Serious Sam: The First Encounter: