Half-Life 2 (Windows)/Unused Textures

This is a sub-page of Half-Life 2 (Windows).

To do: Screenshots of the popcan model with these textures. Try to find more unused model textures, whether it be for existing models or for models that aren't in the game.

Unused Textures

Dummy Texture

A dummy texture can be found in the engine folder of hl2_textures_dir.vpk.

breen_fakemonitor

An unused 3-frame placeholder animation for the City 17 screens, named breen_fakemonitor_.vtf.

Snow & Ice

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A set of snow and ice textures that don't seem to be used anywhere. They do end up appearing in Mossman's transmission in Half-Life 2: Episode One.

matsys_regressiontest/background

To do: Whose cat is this, though?

Inside an inconspicuously named folder is this picture of a cat. This is probably the most well-known unused texture from Half-Life, due to how frequently it crops up in various Garry's Mod miscellany.

This texture was apparently meant for regression testing while they were rewriting the materials system for The Orange Box, and somehow it made it all the way into the final release.

Prototype HUD Leftovers

The HUD and weapon icons from the prototype still exist inside the game's files. The final game instead stores the weapon icons in fonts. There are also graphics for Half-Life weapons scattered around, intended to be used for its Source engine port, Half-Life: Source.

Hydra

The textures for the cut Hydra lies in both the effects and sprites folder.

boxrocket_chell_head

To do: Texture/texture on model comparison with used version.

Seems to be for an early version of Portal's Chell's facemap. There are no models to this, only textures. "Boxrocket" is the codename used for the Source Filmmaker, which had been released with the TF2 update Meet the Pyro in 2012.

This is not present in the 2004 retail version, but was added when Portal was released.

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dev

To do: Are any of these textures also unused? (From the same folder, filenames are exactly the same as in the folder minus the HL2 prefix) Also if you do want to help, you can decompile every map with bspsource and open them in a text file, then use ctrl + f and type in the texture you want to find, repeat for all maps.

There are a number of development-related textures in the dev folder, along with several unused textures for things like brick buildings and signs.

Orange Box leftovers

Leftovers from the Xbox 360/PS3 versions of Half-Life 2.

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Perftest

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  babtech_bordl9.vtf

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  con1_bord04.vtf

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  dirtfloor006a.vtf

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  fifties_dr4.vtf

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  fifties_dr5d.vtf

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  fifties_dr6.vtf

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  generic031c.vtf

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  out_grvl2b.vtf

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  rock_wasteland01a.vtf

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  rockcliff02b.vtf

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  rockground03a.vtf

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  rockwall002a.vtf

Unused Achievement Icon

In the game files, under materials\vgui\achievements, there is an achievement icon for finding G-Man sightings. There is no corresponding name and description for it on hl2_english, however. Judging by the name hl2_find_allgmans, it could indicate that it would be similar to Lambda Locator.

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Unused Model textures

Perftest

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  Unused Loader texture.

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  Unused G-Man texture.

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Unused can textures

In the game files, there are 2 unused textures for the popcan. The textures are named popcan02a.vtf and popcan03a.vtf respectively. They would have appeared in the vending machines.

Unused 1984 novel texture

In the game files, there is a texture sheet for George Orwell's 1984 novel. The texture itself is in props_junk\garbage_001a.