Portal goes RTX on, because why not.
You didn't know you needed it, but Portal is going RTX on. That's just one of many juicy announcements coming from Nvidia'stoday. Why the company has decided to revive an 15-year-old game with ray tracing may not be clear at first, but what we're really seeing here is a shift of focus, to make modding a much more accessible hobby for the average gamer.
"Nine of the ten most popular competitive games owe their existence to mods," Jen-Hsun says. In order to accommodate the thousands of modders working away on improving the graphics of already established games, Nvidia has now announced RTX Remix. It's an Nvidia Omniverse tool that seems almost like magic to an ex-environment art student like myself.
Apparently, it's as simple as this:"Start the game, and capture the game into USD, which is loaded into Omniverse." In case you're wondering, USD stands forThat's exactly how Portal RTX is being delivered, and I have to say it's looking stunning. They even showed the tool working to improve the look of Morrowind, which is a feat in and of itself.
Either way, it looks like it might be time for a cheeky replay of a 2007 Valve classic, then. This time, in some impressively implemented ray tracing glory.Screw sports, Katie would rather watch Intel, AMD and Nvidia go at it. Having been obsessed with computers and graphics for three long decades, she took Game Art and Design up to Masters level at uni, and has been demystifying tech and science—rather sarcastically—for two years since.
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