Impressive Half-Life 1 ray tracing mod now available to download

Half-Life: Ray Traced, a new mod adding hardware accelerated ray tracing to Valve’s seminal first-person shooter, is now available to download following its reveal last summer.

Half-Life: Ray Traced is the work of modder Sultim Tsyrendashiev – who previously created similar, extremely well-received ray tracing mods for the likes of Series Sam 1, Doom, and Quake – and is based on another previous attempt at Half-Life ray tracing.

Introducing the project last year, Tsyrendashiev explained, “Half-Life: Ray Traced integrates the real-time path tracing into the original Half-Life (1998). With the hardware accelerated ray tracing, it is possible to calculate global illumination, reflections, refractions, soft shadows and other visual effects with interactive framerates.”