You’ve seen the Half-Life 1 Ray-Traced mod, now check out HL2RTX, a Half-Life 2 mod that adds path-tracing with RTX Remix. The latter is a free modding platform built on NVIDIA Omniverse that allows modders to create mods for classic games, including full ray tracing, path tracing, DLSS 3, and NVIDIA Reflex.
NVIDIA’s RTX Remix is capable of capturing the textures, geometry, lighting, and cameras using an innovative, custom D3D9 Runtime called the RTX Remix Runtime. RTX Remix Runtime basically intercepts draw calls, interprets them into distinct assets, and then reassembles those assets into an identical scene. Next, RTX Remix converts the assets and scene into the Universal Scene Description (USD) open 3D framework.
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When remastering assets for use with ray tracing, each texture and surface needs physically-based rendering (PBR) materials, to allow them to interact naturally with ray-traced light. For instance, glass reflects the world with clear detail, while laminate wood flooring has rough, coarse reflections. And stone, though without visible reflections, is still capable of bouncing light and having an effect on the scene. Classic games are generally built with simple color textures that lack any of these properties,” said NVIDIA.
