
The large amount of additional game content will make this mod appealing to fans of the original Half-Life game. The team behind this mod have focussed on the first four chapters of the game, so that is where the largest changes can be seen, though improvements and additions can be found in other parts of the game as well. This mod is a cooperative project, and the developers behind it have provided an SDK to make it easier for other modders to make content for the game. Some of the maps in the game have even been recreated from scratch in an effort to reimagine the base game.

You can join the discussion on Half-Life Ray Traced's launch on the OC3D Forums.Half-Life: Extended adds new content to the game, including new weapons and enemies, new maps, increased NPC variety and diversity, raised difficulties, and the restoration of content that had previously been cut from the game.

Don't expect Half-Life to suddenly look better than its modern rake Black Mesa, but expect the games lighting and shadows to look a lot better than before. Half-Life: RAY TRACED features the same assets and textures as the game's original 1998 version, which means that while the game will feature ray traced lighting and other new graphical features, the game will still maintain much of its original appearance. Let's hope that FSR 2 support is planned for users of Non-RTX GPUs. Gamers can also add Nvidia's DLSS technology to Half-Life Ray Traced as an optional add-on, which is something that we would recommend if you own an Nvidia RTX graphics card.

The code for tis ray tracing mod for Half-Life is now available to download on GitHub, allowing owners of Half-Life on Steam to easily update their game with a fully path traced renderer. This mod follows on from the success of the developer's path tracing mods for DOOM, Serious Sam, and Quake, and it is probable that future ray tracing game mods are planned in the future.Īs you can see in the video below, Half-Life looks incredible with ray tracing enabled, with sultim-t's fully path traced version offering gamers ray traced global illumination, reflections, refractions, soft shadows and other visual effects.

Half-Life's full path traced mod has been releasedĪ software engineer called "sultim-t" has today released Half-Life Ray Traced, a fully path traced version of Valve's original Half-Life.
