Dark Messiah of Might & Magic with ray tracing makes us dream of a proper remake

With trendy lighting results, Darkish Messiah of Would possibly & Magic shines in new splendour. However the modders have much more deliberate for the previous fantasy recreation.
It’s been 17 lengthy years since Darkish Messiah of Would possibly & Magic noticed the sunshine of day. Within the meantime, you possibly can see that within the title’s graphics, that are something however opulent from at present’s perspective. The modder group wiltOS below the management of David Wiltos needs to counteract this.

Within the following video, the modders present their present success in bringing ray tracing into the sport. Whereas the lighting results look very good now, the textures are in fact nonetheless on the stage of 2006. However, what’s proven makes us want for a remake or sequel!

The ray tracing implementation will need to have been various work. The sport needed to work in DirectX 7 to try this, but it surely crashed on a regular basis originally. So I did what every other sane individual would do: make the sport work with DX7!, says Wiltos on (moddb.)

However the mod will not be completed but, the video makes it clear originally that it’s a proof of idea to date.

There’s extra to it than that

David Wiltos is much from completed with Darkish Messiah, although. Initially he wished to allow a co-op mode however for that, extra complete mod instruments have been wanted. So the objective took place to supply a totally purposeful software program improvement equipment – additionally for different modders on the market.

Even rights holder Ubisoft is enthusiastic concerning the mission: Based on Wiltos, Ubisoft doesn’t need to impose any restrictions in order that the group can recognize the total worth of the work that’s being put into this.

The staff is at present searching for extra supporters, together with 3D modellers, artists and playtesters.

What do you consider the mission? Would you dig out Darkish Messiah of Would possibly & Magic once more with a co-op mod or will you solely face the orcs once more when a remake is launched? Or would you favor a sequel? Drop us your ideas within the feedback, we’re excited!