Dutch game design students enhance Descent with stunning ray tracing mod.

Game design students from Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands have released a free mod that adds path tracing to the classic 1995 first-person shooter Descent. The mod, called DXX Raytracer, adds path-traced global illumination, updated textures, soft shadows, bloom, temporal anti-aliasing, motion blur, a 3D cockpit, and multiple post-processing features to the game. Adding ray tracing to retro games like Descent allows users to try path tracing while seeing older games in a new light, and Nvidia's upcoming RTX Remix suite will further modders' efforts to bring path tracing to even more classic titles.