Half-Life: Alyx has only been out for a couple of days, but already a modder by the name of Vect0r has managed to put the title’s Source 2 engine to good use &endash; by porting over the original Half-Life 2.
Well, the opening map, at least.
The mod isn’t publicly available yet (it’s a “showcase demo”), but Vect0r’s process to bring the classic shooter to VR was pretty straightforward. “I took the original map file and converted to Source 2 format and added to Half-Life: Alyx,” Vect0R writes on YouTube. “In [the] process, I converted assets of Half-Life 2 to Half-Life: Alyx as well.”
This was all done without an SDK for Source 2, so the mod isn’t perfect. Still, if you ever wanted to experience Half-Life 2 in VR, and (somehow) have gotten bored of Alyx, this seems like a neat thing to try. Once it’s available, of course.
Half-Life: Alyx is out now on Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest with PC and link cable, and Windows Mixed Reality devices.