I interviewed the Half-Life 2: RTX team!

Check out the Half-Life 2: RTX website! - Check out the official Half-Life 2: RTX LambdaGen page! - Check out the official Half-Life 2: RTX Twitter page! - Featuring: Kralich - Half Life 2 RTX co-lead developer WormSlayer - Half Life 2 RTX co-lead developer MDDBULLDOGG - Half Life 2 RTX co-lead developer Nyle Usmani - NVIDIA Product Manager for RTX Remix Chapters: -------------- 00:00 - Intro 00:38 - Introducing our guests! 2:32 - What's the team's design philosophy on this project? 3:21 - Will there be more polygons or just texture & lighting updates? 6:43 - What are the ratios of Nvidia's work vs community's work? 15:21 - Does Valve have any involvement in it? 16:14 - Will it be possible to play mods with this? 18:06 - What's the process of remaking textures? 19:46 - How will the human characters be remastered? 20:52 - How will you deal with the player model? 21:56 - How will you deal with optimization (since Portal RTX had problems with it)? 24:26 - How hard is it to stay faithful to the game's original art direction? 26:25 - Will any HL:A models be reused for this project? 26:56 - HL2 RTX Project vs Remade Assets Project - Are they two different things? 27:44 - What's the biggest obstacle when developing RTX for games? 28:55 - What's the most interesting part of the game (in terms of remastering it)? 30:45 - Will it work for HL2 VR? 31:47 - How many polygons is the Lamarr model in the trailer? 34:20 - Where do we learn more about the project and keep up with updates? 35:00 - Outro Thanks to @glycine7695 for submitting the chapters! -------------- Join the definitive home for everything Valve related: -------------- Written & Produced by: Mitch Wensveen - -------------- Subscribe for more Valve goodness. LambdaGeneration - The Ultimate Valve Community Website: Twitter/X: Facebook: Discord: #halflife2 #rtx #remastered