Half-Life: Source

Half-Life: Source
Developer: Valve Publisher: Valve Platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux Released internationally: June 1, 2004 (Windows), October 1, 2013 (Mac OS X, Linux) This game has unused animations. This game has unused playable characters. This game has unused enemies. This game has unused models. This game has unused items. This game has unused abilities. This game has unused sounds. This game has regional differences.

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Half-Life: Source is a port of Half-Life to the then cutting-edge Source engine. Containing improved water effects, true 3D skyboxes, ragdolls for dead characters, and much better lighting, the game's improvements generally clash (sometimes heavily) with the original art. Add in a lot of bugs that weren't in the original game that have cropped up throughout the game's lifespan, such as the ability to safely destroy an attack helicopter with a mere pistol, and you can see that this port is generally quite inferior to the original game.

It's not a complete waste, though. The game's files contain a lot of unused textures not seen in the original game. Some are from the Half-Life SDK, while others haven't appeared elsewhere. Its general lacklusterness also inspired fans to make their own proper remake of the game in the Source engine, which lead to Black Mesa.

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Environmental Map Textures You've got your Deathmatch Classic and Team Fortress Classic in my Source engine!

Unused Skybox Textures The game contains skybox textures for every skybox for the original Half-Life, Team Fortress Classic, Deathmatch Classic, and Counter-Strike. However, all of these except for the regular daytime desert skybox from the original game are not used.

Unused Content from Half-Life

All of the unused content from the original Half-Life is still in this game.

Unused Graphics

Menu Background

The background for the Steam version of Half-Life is present. Though, in an incorrect aspect ratio due to being scaled to nearest powers of two. The Source version ditches a static background for real-time backgrounds from in-game maps.

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.357 Magnum Revolver Hands

The first person model folder for the .357 Revolver contains several unused arms labeled "python" (the gun the .357 is based off of), including several bare arms.

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Alien Controller Gibs

The folder "cntrllrgibs" contains two gibs that would presumably be for special gibs from the Alien Controller. These textures are not found in the SDK.

The textures spell "gib" as "jib", like in Duke Nukem 3D, instead of "gib", like the rest of the game does.

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Archer

The game contains textures of the Archer, a cut enemy, with its eyes blinking.

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Charger

Textures exist for a cut enemy called the Charger.

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Chumtoad

Four variant textures for the unused Chumtoad alien exist. Of note is that all of them have six eyes (three on each side) instead of one large eye, like the Chumtoad in the original game's files.

There are also blinking textures for each of the unused variants.

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  Body texture.

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  Blinking.

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Crowbar

The folder for the Crowbar's first person model contains some unused textures, including textures that appeared on the Crowbar found in the 1997 Half-Life prototype.

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  Used for Crowbar in Half life SDK Crowbar

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  Used for the 1997 prototype Crowbar and for Polyrobo.

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  Used for the 1997 prototype Crowbar.

Fly Texture

A texture for a fly that never appears anywhere else can be found in the Source's files.

Female Scientist

The game has textures for an NPC that has no trace of her existing in the final game: the Female Scientist. Curiously, the back of her outfit mentions the "X-Labs", a location mentioned in the loading text for c3a2 in the 1997 Half-Life prototype.

An uncorrected proof of the book Raising the Bar gives more details about this character. She was meant to be an evil NPC in The Communication Center (another area that can be see in the 1997 Half-Life prototype) that would initially appear to be helpful, but then summon the military on the player once they came back from completing the area's objective. While she (and the entire area) were scrapped, she was revived and modified in the form of Half-Life 2‍ '​s Judith Mossman.

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  Arm.

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G-Man

An unused face for G-Man is in his texture folder. This texture is a bit larger than the used one. Oddly, this texture can also be found applied to the unused HL1 G-Man model found in Half-Life 2.

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Gasbag

The folder for the cut Gasbag model contains two additional textures that do not appear on the Gasbag found in the final game's files.

In addition, the textures used for the Gasbag are split into two different textures files instead of being on a single sheet, like the model found in the final's files does.

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Gina

Two textures for an older Gina face can be found in the Player and SMG first person model texture folders.

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Grenade

Earlier textures for the Grenade's first person model can be found. These are much shorter than the ones used and have completely different serrations on them.

There is also an earlier texture for the fragmentation serrations in the world model folder, along with some 1x1 textures of 2 shades of grey.

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  Earlier viewmodel textures.

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  Earlier worldmodel texture.

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  Grey textures. (rescaled for easier viewing)

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Headcrab

The anus and buttcheeks from the 1997 Headcrab's textures can be found in its texture folder.

Human Assassin

The Human Assassin has three unused textures of her. Two of them are an unused head skin that show some of her actual skin, while the third one is a blonde ponytail that doesn't appear on the used design at all.

She also has all of the textures for the Crossbow's item sprite, which matches pre-release footage of her using a Crossbow instead of a suppressed Pistol.

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  Ponytail.

Icthyosaur

For some reason, the Icthyosaur's texture folder contains an 1024x1024 render of it without proper textures.

Maw

The game has textures for an unused object called "Maw". it appears to have been another alien tech device for Xen, as its folder has two textures from Xen in it.

No model of it exists.

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  Maw texture 1.

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  Maw texture 2.

Pistol

Earlier textures for the Pistol can be found, in all places, the folder for the .357 Magnum Revolver's first person textures.

These textures appear to be later than the one seen in the 1997 prototype, as they have a magazine texture, which the 1997 prototype Pistol doesn't have.

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RPG

The RPG's world model folder contains textures for an earlier RPG world model.

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  Grip.

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  Sight.

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  Tube.

Satchel

The folder for the Satchel's first person model contains several unused textures.

The first is a detailed cloth texture. The rest of the unused textures are rough sketches of the Satchel, apparently showing various designs for it (including the one used in the final game).

There is also a strange series of textures found in the Satchel's world model texture folder called "satchel map". They appear to be various black blotches.

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  The cloth texture.

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  Satchel rough draft texture.

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  Satchel map.

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Security Guard

The Security Guard has two textures of his vest with blood and a hole in it.

There are also earlier textures used for his hands when he was using his pistol, along with earlier textures for the pistol itself.

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  Bloody Security Guard body.

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  Unused firing hand.

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  Earlier textures for his pistol.

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Shotgun

The Shotgun's first person model texture folder has textures for an earlier Shotgun model.

The coloring on these textures look similar to the coloring found on the final game's "scigun.mdl", suggesting a connection.

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SMG Hands

The folder containing the textures for the SMG's first person model contains unused textures showing a bare arm, like in the 1997 prototype. However, the textures were not used in the 1997 prototype itself.

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  Left hand.

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  Right thumb.

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  Right hand.

Snark

The Snark was going to be able to blink at one point, if some unused textures in the Snark's first person model texture folder are to go by.

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Soda

Unused textures for the soda shot out by soda machines exist. They are taken from real brands of soda drinks (circa mid 90s).

Interestingly, the Sprite texture is used on a prop that appears during the tram ride in Half-Life: Blue Shift, but it's so far away the texture can only be properly seen with a model viewer.

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  Coke.

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  Diet Coke.

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  Minute Maid.

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  Moxie.

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  Surge.

Team Fortress Classic Sleeve Texture

The folders for the Crowbar, Pistol, and Shotgun have a texture called "dm_base". While unused in Half-Life: Source, they are used as the glove textures for Team Fortress Classic. The models for those weapons do appear in that game.

Tentacle3

A folder named Tentacle3 can be found in the game's files. It contains textures used by the Tentacle seen in the 1997 Half-Life prototype, including a "teeth" texture that cannot be found in the model file for the 1997 Tentacle.

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Unused Hand Textures

The v_chub, v_hands, and v_squeak folders contain textures for earlier versions of the hands seen on first person models. Most of these show bare hands, while the final game's use gloved hands. These textures can also be found in the Half-Life SDK.

Though seemingly by accident, the earlier red knuckle texture meant to match this version of the HEV suit are used in the final game, which can also be found in the SDK. Meaning the orange version is left unused in many of the texture folders for viewmodels. Whoops!

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Water Textures

The water textures form the original game are still in this game's files, but go unused because it uses water made for the Source engine instead.

Fanmade HD content

In 2013, the support for the HD content pack included with Blue Shift was added in its own folder (hl1_hd). However, Valve had used a fanmade port of the pack that included some fanmade content instead of the official content created by Gearbox. The textures for the HD pack HEV glove contain a signature named "Stone" on the bottom-left. There are also several custom models.

Official HD texture (from Half-Life)	Fanmade HD texture with signature

Official HD model (from Half-Life)	Fanmade HD model

Official HD model (from Half-Life)	Fanmade HD model

Unused Models

The game contains a model called "agrunt_gibs1.mdl", which is a piece of an Alien Grunt. This model does not appear in the original game's files.

Due to an error with entities, the model for rats "bigrat.mdl" is rendered unused by accident.

Hidden Log File

The root of hl1_pak_dir.vpk contains an unused log. It is dated to September 25th, 2004 and mentions running an "unusedcontent.exe".

    Outputting to log.txt
Valve Software - unusedcontent.exe (Sep 25 2004)
--- Compares reslists with actual game content tree to show unreferenced content and stats ---
    Looking for extraneous content...
    Comparing results of resfile (maplist.txt) with files under current directory...
  Mod Name:hl1
Checking for dirlist
  AddCheckdir[ "" ]
  AddCheckdir[ "bin" ]
  AddCheckdir[ "maps" ]
  AddCheckdir[ "materials" ]
  AddCheckdir[ "models" ]
  AddCheckdir[ "scenes" ]
  AddCheckdir[ "scripts" ]
  AddCheckdir[ "sound" ]
  AddCheckdir[ "hl2" ]
  AddIgnoredir[ "reslists" ]
  AddIgnoredir[ "logs" ]
  AddIgnoredir[ "media" ]
  AddIgnoredir[ "downloads" ]
  AddIgnoredir[ "save" ]
  AddIgnoredir[ "screenshots" ]
  AddIgnoredir[ "testscripts" ]
  AddIgnoredir[ "logos" ]
  
Building whitelist
    +	'unusedcontent.cfg'
    +	'whitelist.cfg'
    +	'gameserverconfig.cfg'
    +	'whitelist_beta.cfg'
    -	'cfg/config.cfg'
    +	'materials/effects/...'
    +	'materials/decals/...'
    +	'materials/console/...'
    +	'materials/vgui/...'
    +	'materials/sprites/...'
    +	'materials/hud/...'
    +	'materials/debug/...'
    +	'materials/shadertest/...'
    +	'materials/engine/...'
    +	'materials/dev/...'
    +	'materials/voice/...'
    +	'materials/environment maps/...'
    +	'materials/halflife/...'
...found 3000 files
...found 6000 files
    +	'sound/combined/...'
    +	'sound/UI/...'
    +	'sound/common/bugreporter_*'
    +	'*.vbsp'
    +	'*.rad'
    +	'models/*.ani'
    +	'maps/graphs/c*.ain'
    +	'maps/graphs/t*.ain'
    +	'reslists/...'
    +	'*.txt'
    +	'*.bat'
    +	'bin\*.dll'
    +	'*.cache'
    +	'maps/soundcache/*.cache'
    +	'sound/ui/...'
  Whitelist resolves to 8201 files (added 8201/removed 0)

Building aggregate file list from resfile output
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found 9402 files

Building list of all game content files
  Skipping dir cfg
...found 3000 files
...found 6000 files
...found 9000 files
...found 12000 files
  Skipping dir reslists
  Ignoring dir reslists
  Skipping dir resource
  Skipping dir SAVE
  Ignoring dir SAVE
...found 15000 files
  Skipping dir testscripts
  Ignoring dir testscripts
found 16628 files in content tree

Content tree size on disk 835.898 Mb bytes
Found 13259 referenced (4151 whitelist) files in tree, 616.51 Mb bytes
219.39 Mb bytes appear unused
Sorting unreferenced files list...

Building directory summary list...


Generating deletions.bat

File deletion (3369 files, 219.39 Mb)

---------------------------------------- Summary ----------------------------------------
     Referenced                 WhiteListed                Unreferenced                       Total    Directory
        7.56 Mb ( 24.67%)           7.56 Mb ( 24.67%)          23.07 Mb ( 75.33%)          30.63 Mb => dir: bin
      798.94 Kb ( 88.46%)         610.36 Kb ( 67.58%)         104.25 Kb ( 11.54%)         903.19 Kb => dir: 
      369.83 Mb ( 76.86%)          27.04 Mb (  5.62%)         111.33 Mb ( 23.14%)         481.16 Mb => dir: maps
      123.95 Mb ( 65.68%)          32.60 Mb ( 17.27%)          64.78 Mb ( 34.32%)         188.73 Mb => dir: materials
       13.21 Mb ( 63.70%)           0 bytes (  0.00%)           7.53 Mb ( 36.30%)          20.74 Mb => dir: models
        8.68 Mb (100.00%)           8.21 Mb ( 94.56%)           0 bytes (  0.00%)           8.68 Mb => dir: reslists
      811.77 Kb (100.00%)           0 bytes (  0.00%)           0 bytes (  0.00%)         811.77 Kb => dir: save
      321.39 Kb ( 95.27%)           0 bytes (  0.00%)          15.97 Kb (  4.73%)         337.36 Kb => dir: scripts
       91.35 Mb ( 87.91%)         216.22 Kb (  0.21%)          12.56 Mb ( 12.09%)         103.91 Mb => dir: sound
        0 bytes (  0.00%)           0 bytes (  0.00%)         960 bytes (100.00%)         960 bytes => dir: testscripts
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