And there is a video of the first results.
Last week, the efforts of the Half-Life community to interpret the new VR version, Half-Life: Alyx, on a screen that already showed a very early promise. And this week, another Half-Life fandom is approaching the issue in something like another, trying to turn a seminal, and apparently non-VR, Half-Life 2 into a VR game, using Alyx as a base its.
This is not the first attempt to translate Half-Life 2 into VR, of course – a much wider VR, which promises to deliver "updated effects, layouts, models and maps" that were renamed in 2017, after starting life four years earlier – but this is an attempt the latest one takes a different approach, including Valve's first game into the Alyx Source 2 engine.
One amazing model, known as Vect0R (which also spends time consuming unused Half-Life 2 content and produces real-time raytracing mode for the game), has developed enough – to convert map files and assets in Source 2 formats and add them to Alyx – being able to show off a little of the VR shooty-bang-bang that ran the old school town 17.
Vect0R calls the ending a "showcase demo", saying there are no plans to share it yet. Still, it's a start, especially since the project has been in the works for less than a week, having started the day after Alyx's release on March 23.
Unfortunately, some progress has been taken into account by the fact Valve is about to share the source 2 SDK, which, as Vector puts it, "the things I was able to do were limited". And though Valve previously said "it would really like to uninstall (SDK) at some point", the absence of a launch date suggests that it may be some time before the family has the necessary tools needed to adequately carry out their efforts.
As of yet, there's no telling who will win this race: Alyx is chasing the old 2D or Half-Life 2 that gets its new VR installed. Still, Half-Life aficionados can be happy that Alyx, the first to enter the series in 16 years, is a great deal, as Eurogamer & # 39; s Christian Donlan explains in his recommended review.
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