Half-Life 2 RTX: An RTX Remix Project is a new community-made remaster of one of the highest-rated games of all time, Valve’s Half-Life 2. Half-Life 2 RTX is...
  • __v@infosec.pubEnglish
    312·
    1 year ago

    RTX On/Off feels really dishonest here given the assets swap as well.

    • pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.oneEnglish
      111·
      1 year ago

      that’s just part of RTX remix and somewhat the point of that tool. After all you need to get proper RTX materials in there and why not upres the assets as well while you are at it?

      • riodoro1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        62·
        1 year ago

        Then id like to see the same better assets with rtx and without. Those alone would make an incredible difference.

        • pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.oneEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          I’m not sure how easy that is with RTX Remix. IIRC the assets aren’t actually added to the game itself, but rather they get injected into the render-pipeline.

    • beefcat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      You have to use new assets for these old games if you really want to make the most out of ray tracing because PBR materials are necessary to better simulate the way light and reflections bounce off a surface.

      • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        1 year ago

        I disagree that you really need to put much effort into updating the materials to get benefits from rtx. HL1 RTX looks pretty great with only the bare minimum PBR remasters, because PBR and RTX are 2 separate things that both improve a game’s look. PBR materials help rtx just as much as PBR materials help regular rendering, and rtx helps PBR materials only a little bit more than rtx helps regular materials. All of the effects used in PBR materials apply the same to regular rendering as with RTX.

  • timconspicuous@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    I might be in the minority here, but I couldn’t help but think Half-Life 2 still looks really good for a game released in 2004. Obviously “RTX on” is nicer to look at, but all the small details like the magnifying glass that actually magnifies made me appreciate the old assets/graphics so much, what a milestone it was.

  • Rossel@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    142·
    1 year ago

    To be honest, the biggest takeaway of the trailer is how well the original HL2 aged.

    • beefcat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Portal RTX runs pretty well on last gen cards with a little tweaking, I’m guessing we can expect the same for HL2.

  • ErinCrush@lemm.eeEnglish
    82·
    1 year ago

    Remember the Quake 2 RTX version? Remember how no one played it? It’s just, not a good look, runs slow and just isn’t needed. This is all just to make more people buy Nvidia cards.

    • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      I have no idea what you’re talking about. Quake 2 RTX is my go-to recommendation if someone wants to see what raytracing is actually about. Not only are there some built in tools to fiddle with lighting but the end result makes such a huge difference that I can’t see myself playing Quake 2 again without raytracing. Out of all the RTX supported games Quake 2 was the one that blew me away the most. It makes bright areas bright and dark areas actually dark and you can see how light sources, in real time, change the look of the environment.

    • pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, that was not really a good room to show off RT features. Most of the shown effects can be convincingly faked with modern shader techniques.

  • Psythik@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Download link, please? I can’t find one anywhere.

    (Also, how in the hell do you install these things? I tried to play the RTX remix of NFS Underground 2, but gave up cause I couldn’t figure it out. There’s no installer, and it’s not as simple as just copying files over…)