What Even is Half-Life 2: RTX?
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"Our goal with Half-Life 2 RTX is to deliver a new way to experience Valve's classic, using cutting-edge rendering tech to bring the game to life in a way never before possible. At the same time, we'll be remastering all of the game's assets, to be made available to the community for free. With Half-Life 2 RTX and the release of its assets, we hope to ignite new passion within the community to explore the potential of RTX in remastering classic mods, or making new mods with RTX in mind!"
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@@OmoriOmori1337not all of us are constantly keeping up with HL2RTX news, I didnt know a lot of this
There is Value in taking known information and bringing it all to 1 spot, that's like the entire point of Wikipedia
Half-Life fans are truly dedicated people
trading sanity for dedication
today's Valve doesn't deserve them.
Valve rewrote the gaming landscape so many times it's hard NOT to worship some of their products.
Someone's gotta pick up Valve's slack on making Half-Life content. May as well be the community.
They're so into half life that they've created multiple unfinished versions of half life 3 just like valve
I think nvidia should sponsor the project. It's crazy they aren't already.
When possible, profits over humanity.
Why pay people if they will do your work for free?
@@pauldeddens5349It is not even profitable for them at all if they pay the team or not lol, they lost more money than gained in the gaming sector last quarter
but they are, they got a spot in the Nvidia showcase and all that
@@ThisIsGlitchexposure isn't a payment method
@@ThisIsGlitch how much is that in US dollars?
Gawd why does looking at high res assets feel so good, I would just stare at filing cabinets and cardbord boxes if this was in VR
That's pretty what happened when Valve were play-testing Half-Life: Alyx! They realized players loved exploring every inch of the rooms and inspecting everything, so they focused on making the levels smaller, but MUCH more detailed.
That was until that nightmarish Smiling Father Gregory appearance.
The people doing this should get compensated.
It's a derivative work of Valve's. These kinds of mods can never be paid without Valves permission.
@@Wobbothe3rdthere isn't much legal precedent here
The difference is that HL2RTX requires owning HL2 already, so Valve is profiting off the project so the grounds of fair use are muddy here
One of the main pillars of fair use is market impact, will what your making replace the original, HL2RTX does not, you must own the original already
No because nvidia is not telling them to do it, nobody is forcing anybody to do this. It's just dedicated fans that like to change the game. Same way how skyrim has giant dedicated mods...
In case of Portal Prelude RTX, it was remade by the same team that brought Portal Prelude, including the lead, Nicolas "Nyk018" Grevet.
Really wish VALVe would have taken the initiative with this one and give a hand in directing the remaster process and get people compensated for the work. The models presented are mad impressive in their details, but I hope they all adhere to performance requirements and one unified artistic style. Maybe it is, I don't know.
Valve is partnered with AMD for the deck and AMD is known for their exclusivity deals with their partners
Valve may just be contractually banned from working with Nvidia
If that's the case, Portal RTX shouldn't exist. Or even Nvidia porting Portal 1 and 2 to Switch.@@flamingscar5263
The fact that Half-Life fans are willing to output AAA quality assets with no extrinsic incentive expected is honestly beautiful. Showcasing pure passion and dedication that is rarely seen these days. Hat's off to the developers.
Happy marriage!
The way I see it, there was already a community of people working to make higher quality assets for HL2, but now Remix is giving them a focal point for their efforts. If Nvidia didn't help set up Orbifold Studio, there would still have been a community of volunteers that grouped together to make this happen someday anyways. Its not like they are being forced to work with no pay. I'd make the guess its a passion project for them. Still though, some sort of compensation would have been really cool of Nvidia.
Personally, I am extremely excited to see what comes of this. I have been dying to see some sort of HL2 remaster or remake for years. To the point I was about to start on my own remaster project just before this got announced. My only real concern is that performance will be an issue like most other RTX games and projects.
I feel awesome about HL2 RTX, and personally I don't really care all that much if it doesn't align with Valve's original vision or art style, so long as it's beautful and runs alright. I'm excited to experience Half Life 2 in such a way
Right? It's not Valve putting this out and absolutely crushing the possibility of a remake (not that it's even something people want. Seems people are happy with black mesa). There's really no harm if it's not 100% exactly how Valve would want it.
how i can play HL2 RTX ?
@@Silverman10It's not yet out
@@Isaax when its expected to be out ?
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Something happen?
I wonder if these assets would ever work with HL2 VR
NO reason not to, the only problem with HL2 VR is that some assets are changed, like the ones you can interact with, the ladders and buttons.
IF Nvidia is using the project as free advertising and the contributors aren't getting paid then I'd not get involved. Straight up wage theft, period.
I agree but there is an argument to be made that this would have happened anyways
The thing about RTX remix is that its not well supported on non Nvidia hardware, so Nvidia would be gaining something from this project even if they didn't get the team together
They should still be paid, I agree, paying them is a rounding error in Nvidias finances, but there is the counter argument that this is work that would have always been done anyways
Then again, nvidia is also advertising hl2 remix for free.
@@mr.shplorb662"free" as in you need to own Nvidia hardware to run this properly. Nothing in life is free. Like the commenter above said, this is wage theft, period. Nvidia are a bunch of scumbags.
@@mr.shplorb662 who cares? are they supposed to be making money off this? We live in a society where time is money and these volunteers would be able to do things faster if they didn't have to worry about getting a job that will allow them to survive.
@@mr.shplorb662and? Advertising it means literally nothing.
nvidia should recompensate these people at least with stash of newest graphic cards
Jensen: "Here’s a $1 discount for a RTX 4090."
@@protocetid nice one
No because nvidia is not telling them to do it, nobody is forcing anybody to do this. It's just dedicated fans that like to change the game. Same way how skyrim has giant dedicated mods...
They already did that. They also closely help them.
there should be more games led by Valve but developed by other studios, like what they did with Turtle Rock and now to a different extent with Orbifold. the main company can still focus on pioneering technology while also putting out titles worthy of the brand name. as long as they're not acquired afterward and forced to work on Steam 'til the Sun blows up.
I'm mostly excited about seeing the models being used in other games like vrchat, gmod and bonelab modding communities are going to go crazy with these extremely high detail models, also replaying half life in rtx will feel like an entirely different game, its going to be a wonderful experience.
When this releases the GMod workshop is gonna go crazy, it happened before with Half Life Alyx asset porting and it will happen again
@@toyoprevyeah i have hl:a assets in gmod, this is probably going to allow for people to fully remake gmod considering that almost everymap is made with base hl2 assets, also if the rtx downloader adder thing can work it gmod we can have gmod rtx
@@hfghhgfhfghfgit works in gmod
@@roadblocksianyes!
there was also a mirrors edge RTX that was apparently cancelled
No, they can't be paid by nVidia. If they do, they'll need a license from Valve as well.
They can't sell the mod either, again they'd need a license from both.
This is something called "a labor of love". Some people actually want to make things in their spare time that they themselves and others can enjoy.
If this is a foreign concept for you, you have issues.
(Obviously, it's good professional experience and looks good on a CV as well)
if Valve can just increase the game memory for HL2 like they did for TF2, combining with RTX project we can have a beautiful looking HL2 experience with larger levels. It will take years for this idea to turn real but just the thought of it makes me hope to see a community project merging HL2 maps together at some point in the future.
I'm looking forward to trying it. I would prefer if it was an official Valve-made remaster with VR support, though.
Well I guess we will see how the HL2 Remastered Collection looks like. I just hope it doesn’t get canned and we get it by HL2s 20th anniversary in November.
VR is still really eh with raytracing, it's really really hard to run with it. I don't think we'll be seeing really anything with rtx in vr anytime soon.
Still wondering if the Remastered Collection is still coming soon
Maybe. Perhaps on HL2’s 20th anniversary in November.
If this is as good as I feel it is gonna be, I think Nvidia should definitely sponsor the work that the team are doing for this. It looks so high quality and well made, it could start a renaissance for the Source modding scene. I'm 100% down for that.
There's clearly a lot of very tallanted people working on this new build and it could really be a game changer for mod makers if it turns out well. My only worry is that some parts of the footage I've seen looks a bit off. For example the wooden floors in Ravensholm look a bit too clean considering it's meant to be a ruined town overtaken by a zombie outbreak. I really hope that's just down to this being an early version of the rtx and they can stay true to the classic Half Life 2 artstyle.
I know it defeats the point, but I wonder if we could disable the RTX, and just get the textures and models
You can, he literally said they'll ship the assets alongside this thing, so you can manually apply those assets to base HL2/EPs, and sourcemods too i guess
Although you most likely can just disable the RTX in the options anyway, is my guess
But why?
@@fkdhjfghdsjkghjkfhgkfjd not everyone has an RTX card and even then the 20xx series are really weak cards for RTX Remix projects, they just fail to run well.
@@fkdhjfghdsjkghjkfhgkfjd My card isn't compatible with RTX but I like the pretty models and textures
the new model/texture replacements are not in the same format Source uses. They use the USD format that the RTX Remix runtime utilizes. You'll have to wait for someone to convert them back into a readable format for source games
I am eagerly looking foward to this project.
thank you for your dedication Ty
It would be really nice if Valve and Nvidia actually paid these people
Awesome. Hope that a fully functional Hammer editor will be released with it.
This will go hard with the upcoming Fakefactory Remastered mod, which keeps a vanilla friendly style, while enhancing and adding stuff
Fully modelled
8:07 I'm pretty sure it can *only* run at the DX7 feature level, actually. That's the main limitation of this software and the type of rendering pipeline it is compatible with as far as I've heard.
I wonder if someone would lower the polycount wherever possible and have details normal-mapped but retain the lighting (but have options for amount/focus for reflections and culling)
That headcrab looks freaking amazing
Congrats on the future wedding
What I'm hoping is that, after this releases, the assets could be used for non-proprietary stuff. Like, the Portal 2: Desolation branch of Source supports modern lighting techniques and PBR assets. Someone might be able to use that to make a build that doesn't depend on runtime RTX stuff.
Also, I was looking at some BTS screenshots, and it looks like they are doing at least some level design in Hammer, *not* RTX Remix.
Seeing Father Grigori's model in its new version compared to the original has really impressed me a lot.
Everything looks Stunning In this project! 💥
Seeing most npc model assets looked most of the time off,
But this project with the Father Grigori Model Assets made me in total amazement It's So good 🔥
I was hoping something like this would happen
Does anybody know the background music around 6:00? Been meaning to ask for a while
The project looks really good. People from the community doing this kind of work should be paid a gazillion dollars or at least have a confirmed job offering after this...
that thumbnail was catalyst for my mind to imagine massive storydriven game with beautiful scenery, does anybody know games like that ???
Bioshock 1 is pretty much that
Most anticipated release this year for me.
i love the textures . they are insanely detailed and true to original. but a hl2 remaster thats locked to high end nvidia gpus is weird. hope there will be mod using high end textures but doesnt require rtx cards.
they are not getting paid for this is pretty bad. they wont be able to give their 100%. will take a really long time to finish. they probably wont dare to do all chapters.
got excited about it but i will be waiting the half life 2 update guy for remaster. but i dont know if his textures gonna be as amazing as rtx remix ones.
If Nvidia is using it for advertising, which it is, the team should be compensated.
5:03 Just want to say how much I love this Grigori model. It looks like they’ve taken inspiration from the Half Life Alyx style of humans.
It looks phenomenal, amazing attention to detail on this and it has everything style-wise that Portal RTX was lacking
Id happily pay for that dlc/ new release / remaster.
Will the models and assets be available for use in other projects?
It's amazing how much detail those remade Half-Life 2 assets have, they look pretty much movie quality.
Yeah, I feel like a compensation would go a long way in motivating the team to go forward. Feels bad to get a this for free lol.
This project is so cool even I got a pfp from it (4:25)
What I’m praying for is for this mod to be open source because the idea of old hl2 mods and maps with rtx assests gets me curious
Happy wedding buddy!!!
Congrats to Mister and Miss McVicker
Congrats for the upcoming wedding on June mate!
Whether or not there's some legal restrictions in what the team can say, I don't know. But there's a video where the Half-life 2: RTX team talks about how Nvidia has been involved in the project and how this is a sort of test case for what is possible with the tool Nvidia developed. Nvidia has someone dedicated to working with the team, but on the tool side. Feedback from the HL2:RTX team is then sent to the remix team to work on fixing bugs and making the tool better.
I really wish it was Valve that was funding the project as well as possibly opening up communication for any questions and assets from the team (textures and models in original resolution, questions about art direction). Nvidia profits from this in terms of advertising, but this whole remix project has been funded from them from the beginning and is a huge benefit to the gaming community as a whole (gpu exclusivity aside). Valve gets their game remastered for free and gets free advertising for their game and company. Valve seems to be getting away with offering nothing but permission for a very public and publicized project. They could help their publicity by funding it.
can you imagine half life two RTX VR? what a sight that would be. it's not even a new game but it would be a contender for GOTY in my book
Can a current HL2 VR Mod save be brought over to the RTX version to your knowledge? Or can the base HL2 VR Mod be upgraded to RTX via replacing files
i think the lack of compensation shows the love from the devs
It’d be a missed opportunity if we get no news for both or one of the remasters in HL2’s 20th anniversary.
I can't wait to play this
If they they want me to pay 200 $ for this Half life 2 remastered version ,I would pay for sure !!! For me this is going to be Half life 3 I have always dreamed off
Man, I was about to apply, when you said it's totally volunteer based. I guess they'll be using mostly people under 25 and living in developing countries to work on this. Go get 'em youths! I have bills and live in California! :) BTW, the assets I'm seeing look great, so truth be told, age doesn't matter. But, I'll voice my personal opinion I guess, I think anybody as talented as this, able to create these level of fidelity assets, has thousands of hours in on their craft...they deserve to be paid...like at least 25/hr. Somebody needs a better producer. This is five times worse than Fiver. One last thing--Nvidia is sitting very pretty, if I had a say over there with the suits, I'd definitely propose a deck for this team and get them some funding.
I wonder how this will compare to the Half-Life 1 Path Traced project that completed some time ago.
yeah. i am never interested in rtx remakes, but a normal remaster however, definitely interested.
There's something called *_"Passion"_* as in a passion project per this example.
You have entire teams of people who love this franchise, and everything else that makes Half-Life what it is, working together on something they love that will create new material within that world, even if it's just a retelling.
FFS look at Black Mesa, that was another passion project that started out as a HL2 mod, and over the years that mod team (now known as Crowbar Collective) created one of the most passionate and dedicated respective works to the HL franchise, also added in with Valve's blessing.
My point is passion can sometimes be a higher incentive that payout or compensation.
If anything that's what the gaming industry currently lacks due to it's overwhelming greed.
We're seeing layoffs in the masses, game studios being shut down, Sony, Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, all these corporations have lost their way, but their greed has never been thirstier in recent years. Games today are released in such poor states, poor decision making, poor direction, often ending up in costumer/player backlash.
When you have gamers, actual people that love the game so much that they want to contribute to said game, that's actual passion, and that helps keep games alive and relevant. Look at DOOM as a clear example.
Do I wish these teams were getting paid? Yeah, but if their passion outweighs any desire for compensation, I envy them, because they're working on their master craft.
This needs to be out in time for half-life 2 20 year anniversary this year
I want my updated HL2, I don't see what else to think besides *want*
Im excited for this project but with rtx, it’s already super heavy when adding it to hl2 without enhanced assets on a 4070, so it’s looking like they need to do crazy optimization on their models, or buy a 4090. It’s gonna be interesting. 😅
I feel happy to see anything HL related come up, but only slightly until it's actually playable
(I'm always hearing about something that doesn't pan out in the end)
That’s common place for source mods tbh. Although mods like Raising the Bar Redux and Black Mesa have been in development for years and is still constantly worked on and today HL2 Raising the bar redux has almost 25% of HL2 remade in its original dark gritty undertone. Black Mesa is essentially complete but just missing Blue Shift and Opposing Force. Unfortunately these teams are extremely small and rely on community support to do these projects. So that’s why after many years these projects die. But I still have hope. I just don’t expect any of these projects to finalize anytime soon and expect to wait a decade.
@@Trackman71 Yeh buddy, that's what I was saying, half assed and sleep deprived. You put it much better/ more clearly.
Look at Black Mesa, it was a fan project that took many, many years to finish.. at some point valve got involved and picked it up as an actual game sponsored by them with a license being given to Crowbar Collective.. Maybe if Nvidia isn't going to do the right thing Valve will?
I play half life 1 all the way through at least once a year still, last couple I only do black mesa😂 they did such a great job
What do you mean you don`t know how to feel about it?
Look at Black Mesa Source, released as a free mod in 2012 and it`s a masterpiece...
I think its cool, really just comes down to how well they can nail it for release. With regards to the concerns around compensation, I find it a bit odd considering the wealth of people who so often make mods for games completely free. Now I know, NVIDIA being involved makes it seem like a mooching situation, but as far as I'm concerned, if RTX Remix gets popular as a free to use and setup modding tool, I'll gladly enjoy all the free content. Doesn't stop people from monetizing future works just because NVIDIA is watching the show from afar. It's up to whoever makes it.
Tyler did you got any valve game leak or tf2 update?
Excited for RTX Remixed versions including this. I enjoyed Portal RTX. However I agree with Gabe on the sentiment creators should be compensated for making mods like this.
It's weird but the whole idea of nvidia remix is that its a mod tool so having a semi?-sponsered mod to push it by actively engaging the source community is probably the best way of going abt the project.
Would be nice if contributers were compensated in someway but if they did we'd likely not know anyway.
Will it be locked behind RTX only GPUs? Or Will newer amd 6800xt+ or newer be able play this ?
I had no clue Portal RTX was actually poorly optimized. As someone who usually plays older games, I just figured that an RTX game would be chugging on anything that wasn't the strongest gaming computers available today.
That information actually gives me hope that I might actually be able to possibly play HL2 RTX!
As for the lack of money, I think most HL2 modders know what they're getting into, though I do have to admit that Nvidia exploiting that is pretty scummy. The devs seem dedicated, and it seems like a safe bet to say that it'll probably make it to release without any major controversy.
I'm at the very least excited to see how it turns out!
They need to revert the orange vats in kleiners lab back to the original
Spin off related to ravenholm? EP4?
It's already released, It's Salvation and I am the lead of it😊
@@AmicusVA nice, I will check it out
I think Nvida should license the footage they use in their videos, press from this mod team
i feel like im slowly turning into grand admiral thrawn cuz this is art!
having an access to it is like the power of sun in the palms of my hand and my palms reflects its god rays
They could use a payment for their work, a donate page atleast. But i love this project.
when will this mod be released?
Like Black Mesa, it should be something you buy and the devs get some kickback money for their work
I don't get why anyone would essentially work for Nvidia, of all companies, for free. I think that's absolutely bizarre. It's one of the highest valued companies in the world. But its up to the people doing the work. If they want to do it pro bono for some reason, more power to them. I'll be playing it when it comes out regardless though. 🤷♂️
Counterstrike source rtx would go crazy
I think this project looks really cool, but what I don't like is that they've changed some of the textures completely. Some of them might be placeholders, but if you look at the screens at Dr Kleiners lab, you can see that they show completely different information. That's my biggest gripes so far. I might be nitpicky, but hey 🤷
I feel like Nvidia being the behemoth that it is, and the amount of marketing budget it has, paying the developers once the game has shipped for the amount of hours they spent remaking the assets at least should be mandatory, let alone rearranging said assets in the original levels and making sure it keeps the atmosphere of the original game. I wouldnt be surprized they would scoff it off saying they put a lot of resources making the rtx remix software and offering support to the modders when needed, but if nvidia is actively marketing the mod with RTX, a well known brand Identity marker of theirs, like DLSS, GTX(rip) etc. They should at least make a donation for their next project. Either way these modders are extremely talented and if they really needed money i'm sure they could easily land a job at a studio, like the one mick gordon recently helped announce :)
Half-Life 2 in Source 2, things are starting to get aligned. Now to wait for the next generation to finally see a 3.
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this is only for "rtx" graphics cards right? i would like to play it in my 1660super, at least with the old lightting, it looks amazing!
Tyler, can you maybe report on the DDOS issue that is currently happening with L4D2 official servers? It has been like this since January. It happens, then gets fixed, then happens again, fixed again, happens again, infinite loop.
all that effort and it looks okay at best
I remember you saying some time ago that you would only report on mod projects that are playable, and i thought that was a great rule for you.
RTX HL2 is something I would pay money to play today in a completed state. What we've seen is all top notch remaster work, but this seems like a project that will never finish, or that will finish years after it's relevant. I've seen this happen too many times to not see it coming by now.
In my view, this should have been a lighting-only project (just ray-traced global illumination & shadows without texture an model reworks). Remaking all the original assets at the levels of quality presented is way too much work to be sustainable for unpaid artists.
Holy god
those models are beautiful
I cannot wait to take the models from this game
Personally I'm afraid that it'll suffer from the same performance issues as Portal RTX did; those of us without a 40 series GPU have to use the "Ultra Performance" mode and be left with a muddy looking game, which is not very pleasant. If they can add more performance settings, maybe FSR 3 to use frame generation, that would be cool. All I want for it is to be both playable and enjoyable.