Modder ‘y2keeth’ has released a brand new AI-enhanced HD Texture Pack for Valve’s classic FPS, Half-Life. This mod upscales the quality of textures for objects and 3D models/characters by four times.
As with pretty much all AI-enhanced HD Texture Packs, this one retains the art style of the vanilla game. Thus, we highly recommend it for all those Half-Life purists out there.
The original Half-Life came out in 1998. As such, you should temper your expectations as this mod will only improve the game’s textures. It will still look dated (at least for today’s standards). You may be able, though, to further improve its visuals by using Reshade Ray Tracing.
The best way to replay Half-Life right now is via Black Mesa. Black Mesa is basically a remake of this classic FPS that is currently available on Steam.
But anyway, those interested can download Half-Life Hidef from here. Below you can also find some screenshots that showcase these improved textures.
Lastly, y2keeth has also released HD Texture Packs for Doom 3 BFG, Doom 3 Original, Prey, and Quake 4.
Have fun!
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*That moment when you dont need comparison screenshots because you know this game by memory down to its very last inch*
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There are indeed a lot of hi-res textures in this mod… but there’s also a lot of unnecessary ones that inflate the file size by about 100MBs (it’s around 1.2 GBs once unpacked as a result), as well as HD models that have not been properly credited (the author claimed that the credits were inside the pack, but they’re not).
I’d rather you not have highlighted this mod before the author has had the chance to release a final version, because the only version you can download right now is somewhat flawed.
Black Mesa and HL1 are very different games and one does not replace the other. Clearly the author of this article has played neither.
Sorry for going off-topic but this b*tch Putin is getting annoying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLHkwiB5ZNk&ab_channel=Krauadri
US was willing to go nuclear back in 62 over the Cuba situation. I guess Russia going conventional, is just too much though.
I mean, I’m no fan of Putin, like most, but he has brought up this topic of security concern for a decade or longer already, and has been practically ignored.
To sit here and even pretend NATO is some innocent victim here, is laughable. Look up some history of the Donbass region, the Minsk Agreement, and NATO as a whole.
We went to nukes far longer than that. Hiroshima and Nagaski.
Everything going on right now is just a cinema for the upcoming 2nd party of the new Horror movie, the flu and needle was just part one.
I like how the comments on an article about an AI texture upscale mod for Half Life just randomly turned into political discussion and weird antisemitic conspiracy theories.
If I only you could have been in the comments section of the old OAG site. That comment section used to give the chans a run for their money.
Yeah! LOL Everyone has lost their collective marbles.
Don’t believe any thing you see/read about this war. This is the greatest propaganda war I’ve ever witnesssed and I been around a while.
We’ve been insulting and attacking Russia for decades already.
What’s happening now is perfectly normal.
NATO can pretend that Russia is the aggressor, educated people know very well what happened in the Donbass region since 2014.
The ones getting annoying are EU/USA, and their constant propaganda and filthy lies.
Make no mistake, this is going to be the most important war ever, because the winner will rule the new world order.
There won’t be any war. It would be the end of life on this planet because the losing side would just go to using nukes.
Not really. If anything, this war is closer to the Soviet-Afghan war than the WW2 invasion of Poland. Russia invaded Ukraine, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, there were boycotts of the 1980 Soviet Olympics and other sanctions against the Soviet Union and that still didn’t stop the USSR until 1989. USA are helping the Ukrainians and NATO, so did the USA help the Mujahideen during that war. The Soviet-Afghan war was the primary reason the Cold War ended because it ruined the economy of the USSR. Did the Soviet Union resort to nukes? No.
The Global Elite and Deep State have access to vast networks of underground nuclear bunkers, so I wouldn’t personally rule out these psychos torching the entire Earth while they are safely tucked away underground. Anyone who thinks they care for humanity or this planet is beyond deluded.
Hows the oil in Ukraine doing? And the shale gas?
don’t forget the cancel culture and guilt by association merchants
what we are seeing here regarding the war is quite simply sjw cancel culture of a country
Yes, I’m off topic too, I saw the gay transvestite dance video the Ukrainian president was in…. I for one don’t condemn him at all. He and several of our generals can talk about comfortable high heels.
Dudes sandpaper a game and call it AI enhanced HD texture.
FML
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Really seeing a massive difference on that 480p embedded video and 1024×768 screenshots.