It turns out that a ``photo of a real corpse'' was used for the face of the corpse appearing in the masterpiece FPS ``Half-Life 2''
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Developed by Valve, ' Half-Life 2 ' is a first-person shooter (FPS) game released in 2004, featuring beautiful graphics and realistic physics using the 'Source Engine' game engine, which Valve spent five years developing. It became a hot topic due to its reenactment. A very realistic corpse appears in Half-Life 2, but it turned out that the face of an actual corpse was used for this corpse.
Half-Life 2 Fans Discover That Corpse Model Was Ripped From Real Medical Book
https://www.thegamer.com/half-life-2-fans-discover-that-corpse-model-was-ripped-from-real-medical-book/
Fans Discover Half-Life 2 Corpse Has Actual Dead Human's Face
https://kotaku.com/half-life-2-creepy-corpse01-mdl-face-dead-guy-explained-1849925387
Half-Life 2 is set in a world where humanity is ruled by a force called the Combine, and an elite physicist who graduated from MIT graduate school follows the instructions of a mysterious man, G-MAN, and saves the world with a crowbar in hand. This is the content. The world has been ravaged by the control and surveillance of the Combine, and bodies are often seen on the streets.
The source of the corpse was discovered on the online bulletin board site Reddit's subreddit r/eyeblech, where grotesque photos and videos are posted, along with the comment, ``Some scary photos from forensic textbooks.'' The photo that was taken was the trigger.
One of the photos posted on Reddit had the comment, ``This looks exactly like the face of a corpse in Half-Life 2,'' and after verification by a user, the right eye part of the original photo was replaced with the left eye. It turns out that there is a very high possibility that it was just copied and used as is.
After that, Richter Overtime , which compiles various information about Valve games, released the following movie explaining the details of the matter, and this fact became widely known.
The burnt corpse from GMod is a real body - YouTube
In the first place, the graphics of grotesque corpses have been used since the beta version of Half-Life 2. Half-Life 2's beta source code was leaked in 2003 , and as a result, Valve was forced to abandon some of the story and settings and make major changes to the game's stages and gimmicks. . Although it was decided to remake almost the entire story in just one year, it was not possible to completely update the graphics, and it seems that many of the graphics used in the product version are still being used from the beta version. It is said that the content of the beta version was darker and more gloomy than the final version, and the grotesque depiction of corpses is thought to be due to the content of the beta version remaining strong.
This corpse graphic is not only used in Half-Life 2, but also in Garry's Mod, a physics sandbox game using Half-Life 2 models and Source Engine. This Garry's Mod is a game released in 2006, but it is a popular game even at the time of writing the article, and at the time of writing the article, a MOD has already appeared that replaces the graphics of the corpse with another graphic.
Steam Workshop::Removed Real Corpse from Hobo Texture
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2904263126
Kotaku, a game-related news site, asked Valve about the origin of the corpse graphic and whether there are plans to fix it with a patch in the future, but as of the time of writing, they had not received a response. is.
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