News Nvidia RTX Remix utility to enter open beta - Half Life 2 RTX showcases its potential

[Admin]

Nvidia has announced that RTX Remix will finally enter open beta on January 22, giving the wider modding community a chance to play with the new application without any handholding from Nvidia. A new Half-Life 2 RTX trailer was also unveiled.

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[Crazyy8]

Half Life 2 RTX and the (hopefully) upcoming Entropy Zero: 3 look to be the closest we will ever get to Half Life 3. Maybe someday someone will make Entropy Zero: 3 RTX.

 

[Giroro]

95% of HL2 mods manage to completely ruin the look and feel of the game. Even when claiming to honor it. It's hard for an artist to get the right level of grunge, dirt, wear, and fade in order to nail HL2's dystopia. Or an easy example, in the RTX trailer, the updated assets completely changed how the branding on the paint can looks instead of trying to recreate a better version of the original. Why? These small things add up to a different feeling world fast.
It's also apparently very easy for modders to break HL2 textures when trying to replace them with a higher res versions.

So good luck Orbifold Studios, although I would be perfectly happy if Valve just update the game to use modern Source engine, higher res versions of the original textures, and some higher poly updatrs to the original models.
To try accomplishing similar, A week or 2 ago I tried using an AI upscaled "4x" texture pack into the HL2: Update mod, but the textures broke shiny surfaces.