Half-Life 1: Ray Traced — Release Trailer

Real-time path tracing for Half-Life (1998).

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Music is from the Half-Life soundtrack:
Military Precision
Adrenaline Horror
Space Ocean
Diabolical Adrenaline Guitar
Nuclear Mission Jam
Valve Theme

[indask]

I never thought i'd see a RAYsonance cascade let alone download one

[bigearsinc.]

I cant figure out why, but there is something so charming about the low res textures with the insanely well done lighting. Makes everything feel like a 90s computer render and I love it!

[Ausanan]

It’s crazy how much lighting can improve the visuals in an old game.

[darkladr]

When I arrived at Sector C and Barney leaned in to punch in the key code, seeing Gordon in his helmet's reflection was a truly breathtaking moment. I've been waiting some 25 years for ray tracing to go real-time in my games like this, and to see that filled me with childish glee. Thank you for making this, from the bottom of my heart.

[Zorklis]

I saw 2023 and was like "oh man :/" and then remembered it's already 2023

[spongedog]

Hope we can get a ray tracing mod for half life 2 at some point. This looks amazing.

[merizz.]

Loved the Freeman's Mind reference at the intro. Good to see the HL community still doesn't disappoint :)

[blouflin]

Our patience has paid off. Thank you for all this work, it's beautiful!

[hldave]

Loving that the chrome effect is being used to great reflection effect. Especially that v_tripmine visor.

[Dialgadude]

Not gonna lie, beginning of this trailer made me think I was in for a new Freeman's Mind.

[NucEn]

I was surprised this can run stable 75fps on my 6600xt considering the fact that both Quake RTX and Portal RTX ran at 5fps. Astonishing work.

[tombanditnook]

This is so cool. I had a huge smile on my face when "Anomalous Materials" popped up in big block letters. Amazing work! Ray-tracing really helps to bring older games to life.

[EenCole]

I like how you used no texture filtering just to flex your ray tracing work even more

[teemuhuhtiniemi]

Time for a yet another playthrough! This looks gorgeous!

[QuantumElectricians]

Man, that Valve music at the end took me back instantly. Many nights waiting for Half Life 2 loading up.

[grandwizardautismo]

Love the Freeman's Mind reference with the intro. Great work on this mod!

[CharlesVanNoland]

Looks awesome! Almost want to replay the whole game just to feel the rayvibez. Actually, I want to play Black Mesa w/ raytracers.

[LowLevelLemmy]

Can't wait to see what XEN will look like

[abatross_]

2 years later and I still don't have an RTX card for that so :)

Still, good job Sultim! :)

[imxteen]

now all whats remaining is the ragdolls mod and higher textures and sound and we got ourselves our half life source