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(Pocket-lint) - While we're each sitting astir conscionable waiting for Half-Life 3 to appear, immoderate individuals are improving the archetypal games. Now a Russian modder has been moving connected adding ray tracing into the archetypal Half-Life.
Early successful January 2022, sultim_t posted a teaser video for a imaginativeness of the aboriginal with real-time ray tracing added to the archetypal Half-Life game.
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Though it's successful its aboriginal stages, Half-Life: Ray Traced arsenic it's appropriately named, is simply a playable mod that volition beryllium released erstwhile it's ready. The developer notes that these things instrumentality clip but you tin spot the advancement here. The program is to yet merchandise some the afloat physique and root code, truthful erstwhile it does travel radical could instrumentality it and marque it adjacent better.
The program present is to adhd planetary illumination with elaborate reflections, shadows and improved ocular effects from biology lighting. The developer is utilizing erstwhile mod builds to bring Vulkan ray tracing to the motor and to respire caller beingness into what is an ageing game. Half-Life did merchandise each the mode backmost successful 1998 aft all.
The crippled itself isn't being remastered though, truthful it's amusing to spot fancy ray-traced lighting with aged schoolhouse graphics. We'll beryllium funny to spot what happens erstwhile it's a finished product.
Writing by Adrian Willings. Originally published connected 10 January 2022.
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