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Hello! Something simple today since I was busy helping adopt two new kitties. These are the 'posters' seen in the loading screen for Left4Dead! They are taken from the game files and look badass on your walls. They are recolors of the 'Grilled Cheese' two-panel posters. Amazing clarity on them.



I will make the L4D2 posters as well, though I have yet to figure out how to rip the files from that since they never did make it compatible like they said they would...

Hello, brother! You're on the wrong side of town, you know? Here is Father Grigori's outfit from Half-Life 2. He's the guy found in Ravenholm toting around a modified shotgun, who built all the traps you use to destroy zombies. It's a Maxis based recolor so there's no mesh to worry over, and it's basegame.


He really doesn't get along with the Zombie-neighbor, Bob, it seems. I'm not sure why...

Hey there. Here's an outfit for your mysterious men, the suit worn by the 'G-Man' of Half Life 2. Categorized under normal and formal, it's pale blue with a purple tie, ready for creepy adjusting. Note that this download does not come with his briefcase, you'd have to get it at ModTheSims.



Apparently he likes pink things, and his parrot...?

Hello there! Here are two recolors of the awesome Headcrab Accessory by The_French_Sim. I used the Beta version of the headcrab for one skin, and a 'cleaned texture' for the other. So no you can have ultra bloody headcrabs or squeaky clean ones.



Here you can see them in better detail. It should be obvious which one is the 'clean' version... I hope. In order to make this work you must download the mesh by The_French_Sim at Insimenator, just click here!

Hello! Here are the Female variants of the Citizen clothes worn by people in City 17 and beyond. These too are recolors of Maxis default meshes and should require no expansion packs whatsoever to make them run correctly in your game. These are only for adult, but if requested I'll see about making them for other ages, just be aware there's no more teens/kids left in the Half Life 2 world.





Enjoy!

Hello! Here are the two basic variants of the outfits worn by Citizens in Half Life 2. These are only for adults, since there are no teens/children at all left in the Half Life 2 universe, although if requested I will create them. They are based off Sims default meshes and require no expansion packs to use.




Enjoy!

HELLO and welcome again to Aperture Science. Since you're trapped, why not decorate the walls while you're here? These are recolors of Aikea's little 'shiftable' overlay mesh, though don't ask me how to shift them, since I have no freaking idea. BUT. Nonetheless, these are the various wall scribblings and dark stains found within Aperture's darker corners.



This shot is to show the actual detail, since it looks so small in-game. But it's still legible! Score! Though this doesn't include the mesh, you can find it by looking here! Just download that first, plop these in second, and you too will have graffiti all over the place.



Enjoy!

As it is one of my favorite games, and part of the Half-Life 2 Series, here is the finishing set... Walls, floors, and ground cover from Portal! Please be aware, though, that not all of the wall textures are in here. Why? Because they get a shade darker the further 'down' in the game you go, and that meant somewhere like 16 of the same walls just a hair darker than the other. If you REALLY absolutely need these darker shades, you could pull the textures from these walls yourself and make a 10% dark adjustment in any photo editing software.

Also, the 'graffiti walls' are not in here, as they are not actually wall textures but fancy overlays. I plan on releasing these separate AS transparent overlays so you can put them on ANY wall surface, not just the Portal ones!! Those are my next project on my list, so don't be too disappointed at me yet!

But this also includes the 'hazard water' textures, both the color seen from the surface... and the unlucky texture seen from the bottom, in case you happened to fall in.



Thanks so much for all the support! I'll see you all soon with some wall overlays. (Would anyone be interested in the walls from another Valve game, such as Counter-Strike Source or Left4Dead? Please tell me if you are.)

HELLO and welcome to the Aperture Science Enrichment Center! I am a big Portal fan, and so these were a natural idea when I first saw a certain head-orb mesh. Now, you can wear everyone's favorite round personalities as a hat! These are under the Glasses tab, naturally.



I have included a new version of GeneralZoi's Head Sphere Mesh. This is because the old version causes the dreaded 'flashing blue accessory' error, and the mesh in the .rar has been tweaked to prevent that from occurring. The textures were made by me, using the original texture files from Portal as a base. They're for both genders, and all ages! Hoorah!



Enjoy torturing your neighbors with a bit of GLaDOS herself!

When the Combine took over City 17, they took a common-on-earth approach to getting their 'message of peace' to the civilians: Propaganda posters! These are recolors of the game basic posters "We Call it Football" and "Surfing the Universe." (I'm not sure if these are basegame, but I -think- so. Let me know if not.) These are mostly just a test for me, trying to learn how SimPE works. But I figured since it goes with my other sets, I might as well release them!

These will be of GREAT interest to trivia buffs, as most of these are from the Beta of Half Life 2 and can no longer be found in the game files. The preview picture shows some of the most evident, including the original Counsul (Who was replaced by Breen), the Cremator NPC, and a City 17 poster. Take a look through these, since the older textures capture the much darker storyline that was scrapped almost entirely.



Thanks for looking! I hope to soon make the Aperture Science propaganda posters, and a little extra surprise from an unrelated Valve title.

Hello! Here is the last of the HL2 Texture sets. Here is a bunch of wood for your homes and other such structures. Some are painted, and others are apparently splattered with blood (Ravenholm, anyone? That place would go up like a box of matches.) and just perfect for your disaster-stricken locales.



Thanks so much!

Hello. This is the Tile textures set from Half Life 2, and we're nearing the end of my installment of HL2 walls! These are dirty, chipped, and sometimes oddly -clean- tile floors and walls. Not nearly as big as the other sets, yet a must-have for bathrooms and your version of Nova Prospekt's laundry facilities.




(Good luck getting those clean, there, girlie.)

Here's the Marble and Stone floor and wall set, again extracted from Half Life 2! These are chipped, cracked, and what have you like the others. There is something to laugh at in these: look closely for three textures with very faint pink X's over the texture. These were in the beta, rejected, but left in as placeholders.



Now you too can have what used to be classy marble in your run-down home.



Thanks for downloading! Next should be some Tile, and then the Wood category.

It's time for PLASTER! The interiors of your government assigned apartment units (shared by multiple people you have never met before) are covered in these textures. No bright colors allowed, since they stimulate the imagination far too much.



These are walls only, since nobody walks on plaster... I think.


Enjoy! Please don't peel off bits of the walls and eat them.

Here is the Half Life 2 Nature textures set! This set is a little special, as it includes ground covers, walls, and floors for you to use. This is good for making a very barren and drab landscape around your worn down homes.



This includes many, many rocky terrains and walls, mud, murky water, and even snow and ice walls. Some of these textures, especially dealing with the snow, are not as highly detailed since they are only glimpsed briefly in Ep2. If they update with the last Episode, I'll be sure to fix those up.



Enjoy! Next will be plaster walls of doom and gloom!

More melancholy walls and two brick floor textures! These brick walls are stained, chipped, painted, and plain aged.


Both brick facades for your buildings and interiors are included! There's so many bricks, what will you build with them all?!? But as I said, only two floor textures for whatever reason. (I believe Valve didn't intend for you to look at the floor too much until the Episodes came around.)




Enjoy! Next up is the Nature category!

Hello! This is another one of my sets in my ongoing Half Life 2 project! This one requires a little more explanation than the other sets, for these are textures that went unused in the Half Life 2 files. That means that OCCASIONALLY some of these aren't as high quality, but I thought it was important anyway to preserve these since someone did work hard on them.

Let me then introduce the three wall sets.



"The Borealis, originally known as the Hyperborea, is a location and chapter cut from Half-Life 2. It was to be set between two other cut locations, the Air Exchange and Kraken Base, and to be the last location of the third day, visited during the night. "
See this article for more information!
While the Borealis has re-emerged as a canon location in the future Episode 3, these textures belong to the original design. They are all named 'hull', and are metal textures.





Just a small set of some textures that once belonged to the 'e3_industrial' and other related maps (the 'Combine Factories') cut from the finished game. These are merely included for curiosity reasons, and have some mixed materials. This also has some very early Citadel textures that were modified or refined before being introduced in the finished game. Read more about the Factories here.





These are some early 'Building Template' textures, which are mostly recolored sidings of different type. This set includes a bit of brick, and a bit of painted siding. There's no special story attached to these, but it's a shame to let them go to waste. (Some may have been reused in future locations, but they are all grouped in a Building Template category.)



Enjoy! More to come in the near future.

Hello! This is my Half Life 2 Concrete Set. These textures are now applied to Sims 2 walls and floors for your generic gloomy decorating! Stained, cracked, and faded are in order for most of these. There is an astounding 166 different walls, and 68 different floors for you to use!

You can use these freely however you wish, and in lots uploaded to the Exchange.



Download today and watch morale drop! (Note: We guarantee no real drop in morale from use of these floors or walls.)

This list is from my blog, and I figured since some people are interested in this project of mine I might as well keep a copy here and discuss what I'm working on next. So here's what I got done so far:



Please note that the legality around the Beta stuff is still hazy- Valve maintains it's okay to use if done for non-profit personal use, but they're really, really not happy with the HL2 Beta Leak. So if I hear anything about it, any set of mine containing things taken from the beta will be removed and edited.

If anybody has any questions about any of my sets or my work, feel free to ask! I also happen to know a ton about the aborted Beta version, so if you like random trivia about such things, message me and I'll shoot off some cool facts. I can also pull up rendered models from the game, or textures, if you want one to experiment with.