Half-Life: Source

Half-Life: Source

Also known as: Half-Life (Title screen)
Developer: Valve^[1]
Publisher: Valve^[1]
Platforms: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
Released internationally: November 16, 2004^[1] (Windows), October 1, 2013^[1] (Mac/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.

This game has a development article

This game has a bugs page

To do:

Discuss the leaked HL1-Ports prototype from 2003.
The source code repository has also been leaked.
Additionally, a subpage should be made about all the changes/differences that were made in this version of the game.
Various other textures for the HD pack have Stone's signature on them.

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 why some consider this port to be 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 led to Black Mesa.

As of 17 November 2023, Half-Life: Source does not appear in Steam search results after Valve updated the original game with loads of new content and bug fixes, and as such, they now consider it to be the "definitive" way of playing the original, albeit still able to be bought. (Regardless, you will not be missed, Half-Life Source.)

Sub-Pages

Development Info

Bugs

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

Unused Skybox Textures
The game contains textures for every skybox from the original Half-Life, Team Fortress Classic, Deathmatch Classic, and Counter-Strike. However, only the regular daytime desert skybox from the original game is used.

Unused Textures
A whole heap of unused and pre-release textures in one sub-page. Also, The return of the Headcrab's rear end textures (NSFW Warning).

Unused Content from Half-Life

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

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.^[2] Several textures in the HD pack are fanmade, such as the ones for the viewmodel hands, and contain signatures for A. "Stone" Denisov, and there are also several custom models for NPCs. The original mod version of this HD Pack also included various HD world textures in it, something that Valve removed with a patch when it was originally added to HL:S.

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

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

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

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

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

Unused Models

Alien Grunt Gibs

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.

Rats

Due to an error with entities, the model for rats "bigrat.mdl" is rendered unused by accident. In the original game, rats appear at the Hazard Course.

Unused Animations

As this game was just a Half-Life port to the Source Engine, the death animations for all characters go unused because Source uses ragdoll physics instead of pre-made animations for NPCs dying.

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
Parsed 111 reslist files
  Found 1522 new resources (1522 total) in reslists\background02.lst
  Found 180 new resources (789 total) in reslists\background03.lst
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  Found 7 new resources (1078 total) in reslists\devtest.lst
  Found 1126 new resources (9052 total) in reslists/all.lst
  Found 0 new resources (1524 total) in reslists/engine.lst
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
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      616.51 Mb ( 73.75%)          76.23 Mb (  9.12%)         219.39 Mb ( 26.25%)         835.90 Mb

Unused Map

devtest.bsp is an unused map meant to test how the original game's features would work in the Source engine and are left over from a prototype leaked in 2003 (HL1-ports). This map features an abridged version of the singleplayer campaign, with the Resonance Cascade happening earlier.

One thing to note is that the map attempts to transition into hl1_devtest02. This map does not exist.

Upon starting the map.
The beginning of the Resonance Cascade.
The End.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Steam
↑ Half-Life Source's HD models are fanmade: /r/halflife

[all-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Steam

[samples-2] Half-Life Source's HD models are fanmade: /r/halflife

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Windows, Mac OS X, Linux	Half-Life (Prototypes) • Opposing Force (Prototypes) • Blue Shift • Source (Deathmatch)
Dreamcast	Half-Life
PlayStation 2	Half-Life (Prototypes)

Half-Life 2
Windows, Linux	Half-Life 2 (Prototypes • Deathmatch) • Lost Coast • Episode One • Episode Two (Prototypes) • Alyx
Mac OS X	Half-Life 2 (Prototypes • Deathmatch) • Lost Coast • Episode One • Episode Two (Prototypes)
Xbox	Half-Life 2 (Prototypes)
Arcade	Half-Life 2: Survivor
Xbox 360, PlayStation 3	Half-Life 2 • Episode One • Episode Two

Related
Windows	Deathmatch Classic • Ricochet • Black Mesa (Prototype) • Hunt Down The Freeman (Prototypes) • Entropy: Zero 2
Linux	Deathmatch Classic • Ricochet • Black Mesa
Mac OS X	Deathmatch Classic • Ricochet

See also
Counter-Strike • Team Fortress • Day of Defeat • Portal

Half-Life: Source

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Unused Content from Half-Life

Fanmade HD Content

Unused Models

Alien Grunt Gibs

Rats

Unused Animations

Hidden Log File

Unused Map

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