Mirror's Edge - RTX Raytracing

[@ianmitchell5979]

Honestly, if you told me this wasn't RTX, I would believe you. This game's baked lighting/effects are so well executed, that it works so well.

[@actualawry]

i'm pretty sure the original ME lighting is ray-traced, I remember a dev saying they had to bake it for ages on a server farm

[@ForOne814]

@@actualawry yep, and they actually had to ray-trace it in half the intended quality because they had to redo the whole lighting right before the release and they didn't have the time to do it properly.

[@ianmitchell5979]

​@@actualawry​​ I can believe that. The atmosphere and feel is done so expertly.

[@marshallalexander8228]

@@ForOne814 That was for the last map on the game I believe

[@drkevorkian2508]

​@@actualawryIt uses radiosity which is an approximation that only accounts for diffuse lighting, light/color bleed basically. It can be done with ray tracing but it's usually done with patch rendering for easier implementation. It doesn't work on shiny surfaces though, which is why almost all of the metal in the game is painted. Luckily that added to the art style.

[@Harry_iwnt]

ppl like you make mirror egg a forever game, thank you! looks incredible, need to get digital foundry in on this one if they ever revisit games w/ new RT again

[@RyanFennec]

xDDD

[@sebasu79]

in Dutch an egg baked sunny side up is called a mirror egg 🤣

[@DanielWindows]

Mirror's Edge ❌ Mirror egg ✅

[@austin.paquette]

1:24 Overcast is not a lighting situation in enough games. This looks absolutely stunning. Good job on all the hard work. I was upset to learn this wasn't just a mod for the original because it means we'll never get to play it. If EA was smart they'd rerelease both games with RTX in this fashion.

[@Rhodochrone]

It's harder to make overcast look good. Out of context, it can just look like shadows are disabled. I agree, though, there's a lot of lighting scenarios games just don't go for. Like, I hate that games so consistently make night time unnaturally bright, even if you're in an electrically illuminated area and don't have to navigate the wild. I'm hoping with RT we start to see more authentic and varied lighting that evokes some of the shifting feelings you get in real life instead of just going for whatever is the most generically pretty. Same applies to volumetric lighting. Just shoving it everywhere annoys me. Sorry for rant. Just thinking

[@Ferosnow95]

I am amazed by the fact how closely they ported over the parkour movement to the Unity engine, apart from the amazing GI that's the second thing that amazes me.

[@itsjustweezer4054]

Yea thats fuckin ridiculous dude, such a good job they done

[@SomeRandomPiggo]

I can barely tell the difference between this and the actual game, goes to show how well the game holds up 15 years later!

[@Odjur]

2:18 no red door 0/10 For real though this demo kinda made me a believer. I always thought I would prefer the carefully placed baked lighting of the original, but some of these scenes are just undeniable. Excellent effort.

[@L4veyan]

The main menu theme of Mirror's Edge is definitely one of my favorites.

[@ZedEdge]

Gorgeous showcase with those timelapses spliced in between gameplay.

[@spectrobit5554]

Beautiful, without straying too far from the game's art direction.

[@absamurai]

It looks no different than I remember it from the past. That's how good it initially was!

[@JetSetSolid0]

tbh it looks like the original lightning it had on daytime, that means this game was so ahead of it time

[@MatthewRumble]

Still holds up even without rtx but now we got dynamic lighting and shadows!

[@Ongez]

Great job with the production, the cuts and shoots are really well made

[@pcgamingftw5694]

Wow, did not expect it to look this good, yet so true to the original! Great work! A full conversion with improved asset-quality would be a dream. There was a geforce now leak a few years back which had many games on it that have been released since then and there was "Mirror's Edge RTX" on it. However, that would require a beefy Nvidia gpu which I don't have...

[@LinksSpaceProgram]

banger after banger after banger this man doesn't miss

[@sno8499]

Man softsoundd, your work truly blows me away as a hardcore Me fan. I would absolutely love to play this.

[@Hopwire]

You could have have fooled me. This is done in UNITY??? The parkour mechanics are ported almost perfectly, this is the craziest shit I've seen.

[@dissidentjv5887]

I would like to see a rendering with UE5 with prerendered light map and RT reflection

[@Lorenz777_BS]

Coming soon Mirrors edge RTX- 2025 :)

[@Yumtak01914]

really nice work! im really glad that this doesnt go overboard on the effects and lighting like other fan projects and mods do. this stays close to the original vision

[@KosterEntertainement]

mirror's edge Remake By Community !

[@Freezorgium]

I think some adjusting of the darkness of the some of building windows would go a long way to making it look better. The windows look too dark. I think they did that in the original game to hide the obvious cubemaps, and I have two pieces of evidence for this: 1. None of the interiors of buildings you go through, whether it's Pope's or ropeburn's office, CEC news, or indeed any of the other office buildings you go in, have tinted windows 2. The windows of the ONE building in the whole game that has proper reflections (in Prologue, while you're hanging onto the helicopter) doesn't have tinted windows, and in reality, most of the office buildings' glass would look like that.

[@dinsorp8748]

This is actually whan the game felt like back then

[@Sasasala386]

This looks better than most today's game. Mirrors edge has a special place in my heart. Thank you so much

[@VoltaicoDevelopment]

This is fascinating. Very good work! Could you please post more videos of this? I'm probably not the only one that would Maybe even a video explaining how you did it and how it looks inside the Unity editor?

[@nilsjobs9067]

Incredible work!

[@Kait0s]

Not gonna lie, it looks about the same except it has decent reflections. Just goes to show how good the baked lighting was already.

[@mikailmaqsood818]

This is amazing ❤ thank you I :) gives a second life to the game for me

[@CeceliPS3]

Bruh, if there's a game that deserves RTX, it's this one. You guys should keep going. Or someone could use RTX Remix or whatever and do this. This game is just too beautiful.

[@WarpEnnn]

I just thought it would be cool if there was a game like Mirrors Edge with RTX lightning and real time clock where you will start in the morning and will see all the changes in lightning and will also run in the night till dawn to save the city, yourself or your sister.

[@TheMathues123]

I fell in love with this video

[@officialstevenma]

Hate to be the heckler, but the game already looks absolutely insane since day 1 for it's baked lighting. I honestly don't think RTX would add much to it, especially when most of the levels don't have too many reflective surfaces

[@riston7264]

pbr makes this game look so much better

[@TheRepulsionGel]

Holy crap, could this become a playable build in the future?

[@BmikroB]

A runtime demo for this would make my johnson so hard. However, it is as hard as it gets already, so basically everything harder from now on is beyond the norm anyway.

[@dissidentjv5887]

are you considering using RTX remix to remaster the game?

[@softsoundd]

Not possible at this point in time, UE3 is out of the question for Remix.

[@StanleyMarak]

The original game was already so stunning

[@actualawry]

omg and it's ported over to unity???? this gives the game so much modding potential!

[@Hopwire]

How did you port over the map by the way?

[@fabri360]

I loved this game so much!!!

[@mirrorsedger]

I thought this was created with the new NVIDIA RTX Remix. It’s beautiful nonetheless.

[@softsoundd]

Remix sadly won't be an option in Mirror's Edge for the foreseeable future. That's a big reason why I wanted to attempt this :)

[@ALEXGIBSONCMG]

we are slo close to Mirrors edge VR

[@phoondos]

Please show how you ripped the map

[@ianmitchell5979]

Which version of the main theme is this? Maybe a link?

[@skrelpish]

freaking incredible

[@marcus_manul_468_]

очень красиво выглядит)))

[@kiddu_simple]

relly hope to see in source versions !( (like portal 2 community edition, garry's mod or sdk 2013)

[@carlesriberaberenguer7469]

even more magic

[@shivu6377]

Wasn't Mirror's Edge made in Unreal Engine 3? I mean it would be interesting to see it running with Unreal Engine 5 tech

[@wolfcl0ck]

To me? This proves that new technology isn't always necessary. If you hadn't explicitly said this was real time ray tracing and didn't have the moving sun, I would have just assumed this was normal mirror's edge

[@AID1788]

Awesome work!

[@cheerioz5736]

Keep up the great work!

[@nullvoid3990]

This looks insane any chance of a release

[@modo_anonymato]

WATHA HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL!!!!!!!!, HOW DID YOU FIX THE COLLISION ERRORS? Can you make your build available for testing (without ray tracing active)?

[@АртемИжболдин-м2р]

imagine how sewer lever would look like with rtx...

[@shillenzez549]

Nice !

[@bixo2956]

i wonder if rtx remix could be used?...

[@joshuachenault5171]

Siiiick

[@theperfectionist1607]

DOPE

[@MicheleC33]

Would you release a download link?

[@clotezero9512]

How to get it?It's really cool

[@fuzzstergoat]

woooooooooooow

[@mirHL]

I was so disappointed after reading the description this was made in unity and not with dxvk-remix.. Though I supposed it's still kind of a good news eventually. After all there is just so much that you can scavenge from the old ass game engine. But why unity though? Is modern UE so complex that it negates any engine similarity?

[@softsoundd]

I’ll assume your question is intended for Eideren as I’m simply working off of their project. The tools at their disposition in UE4/5 were going to significantly increase the time it would take to port and debug things, Unity was a lot more forgiving in this regard. Regardless, the decompilation has already been achieved, meaning a decent chunk of work has been provided should someone wish to move it over to UE.

[@mirHL]

@@softsoundd Nvm, disregard my first comment. I just came to realize that (at least in the near and medium term) rtx remix could only work with fixed function pipeline games. Many older dx9 games still qualify for that, but UE3 simply doesn't cut it.

[@iikatinggangsengii2471]

ive played maybe it was rt

[@gamesergeanthd]

omg medge

[@EnjoyGames_]

hello

[@Loomeh]

hello

[@Danuxsy]

This is not RTX, how come? Because RTX is path tracing, this clearly lack many features of ray tracing and in fact he even mention that this was ported into Unity and is using their version of global illumination which is lackluster.

[@Hezzadude12]

I’m medging