RTX Remaster of Thief Gold Released with Improved Graphics, Full VR Mod Now in Development

Tech enthusiasts continue to update classic games.

Thanks to NVIDIA RTX Remix tools, tech enthusiasts can integrate modern technologies into their favorite projects and significantly improve their graphics. Recently, Night1099 decided to revisit a stealth classic — updating Thief Gold.

Thanks to his modification, Thief Gold will feature path tracing. Night1099 spoke about the approach to implementing path tracing (it didn't work correctly "out of the box"):

The d3d9.dll proxy restores the game world geometry, mirrors the engine's lighting table to light sources for path tracing in Remix, and renders the HUD as an orthographic UI (interface) — thanks to this, Remix can correctly calculate path tracing in the scene. World geometry is transmitted as whole polygons with a stable hash from the worldrep array (world cells), with textures from the engine's bitmaps.

This project inspired another modder, jrubimf, who published an example of Thief Gold VR gameplay:

Thief RTX gave me the opportunity to implement this. In general: native OpenXR, separate view and projection for each eye, 6 degrees of freedom (6DOF). I am currently fixing weapons — yes, with gesture support. Then the interface (it will most likely have to be partially redone for VR).

The "thief-gold-rtx-remix" project is publicly available on GitHub in Night1099's repository. The VR modification files have not yet been presented — jrubimf continues to work.