NVIDIA RTX Remix Runtime Available Now as Open Source Software, Creator Toolkit Coming Soon

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Six months after its announcement, the NVIDIA RTX Remix runtime is finally available to the public as an open source software released under the MIT license via GitHub.

Modders have been using the NVIDIA RTX Remix files used in Portal RTX to try enhancing old games for quite a few months, but the whole process should be a lot easier now. It'll be even better when the Creator Toolkit becomes available, too. NVIDIA says it'll happen soon, though the software will be released in early access. When the Creator Toolkit is launched, modders will be allowed to add brand new lights and assets, as well as remaster the game's existing assets with advanced AI upscaling.

Meanwhile, you can already take advantage of the following components in your NVIDIA RTX Remix projects:

The NVIDIA RTX Remix repository also outlines the software's development roadmap. Right now, the team is working on terrain blending (rendering terrain by baking blended textures together, which was common when those games were designed, and then adding the material replacement), anti-culling (to get the games to draw more geometry, which is helpful for path tracing, and possibly to cache previously seen objects), and increased game compatibility.

In the near future, you can look forward to OpenGL support added via a wrapper, improved performance for the bridging functionality, and improvements to setting up the games in the NVIDIA RTX Remix runtime. Long term, there are some ambitious goals on the roadmap:

NVIDIA RTX Remix will be expanded even further by closely working alongside the community. Stay tuned on Wccftech to get news on the latest and greatest remastering projects from enterprising modders.