Blatant Product Marketing

Blatant product marketing galore! Buy this. Use that. Consume more, think less. I absolutely love real life products in video games, so this is my take on reskinning the junk laying around in HL2.

Works on other Source games as well, obviously, but HL2 is the primary game. I tried to be a little more finicky about pixel placement than the "other" junk skin, but I'm no artist, so I'm sure I might have missed something here or there or maybe just made an outright mistake. Oh well. For the most part, everything is photoskinned, but I did some work here and there.

Products you'll see:

• - Pepsi cans (only in fixed junk piles) and Pepsi bottles.

• - Clorox bleach and 409 commercial cleaner.

• - Bush's Baked Beans

• - Heinz Beans

• - Sherwin-Williams white interior paint can and Krylon spray can.

• - Generic McDonald's clamshell and take-out boxes.

• - Generic chinese food box emblazoned with Buffet King.

• - Couple of USPS boxes.

• - Starbucks coffee.

• - Caterpillar 6" steel toed boot.

• - Tuscan milk in a carton, glass bottle, and jug. I think Vitamin D, but maybe whole.

• - Fifth of Everclear.

• - Combine edition of the newspaper Pravda featuring an advertisement from Ford. The '49 Ford is the official mode of personal transportation of the Transhuman Arm of Sector 17 Overwatch and has been awarded Car of the Year every single year since it's release in 2049. Dr. Breen has praised the '49 for introducing the world to the innovative coffee mug holder.

• - Starbucks coffee mugs. Dr. Breen's favorite brand of coffee.

• - Blue Rhino branded propane tanks of various sizes. Yes, I know they don't exactly resemble Blue Rhino propane tanks.

• - Tuscan milk crates. I have no clue if that's what a Tuscan milk crate actually looks like, but it'll have to do.

• - Blatant "We Recycle" recycling bins [which I forgot to take a pic of]. Apparently littering is legal, yet the WeRecycle! initiative still continues. One can only assume WeRecycle! is now operated entirely by transhuman personnel, thus they don't give a damn.

• - Gilmour wheelbarrow. Yeah, it kinda sucks. The UVs are awful, so the metal and the wood has to be very similar. Hence you get plastic everything.

• - Cherry keyboard with built in trackpad and all that fancy stuff.

• - ASUS CD drive and motherboards. Combine operated computers apparently do little more than unattended operations such as Folding@Home. Systems feature nothing more than a power supply, hard drive, CD drive, system board [with single slot and no outputs], daughter board, and a few cards which may be for wireless interfacing.

• - Large jar of Stauffer's Animal Crackers. Dr. Breen is particularly fond of Animal Crackers and often has them with his Starbucks coffee in the afternoon. Eli Vance really likes them, too.

• - 5 gallon (or so) bucket emblazoned with the Sherwin-Williams logo. One can only assume this bucket contains a paint of some sort. Despite the lack of any children on earth, buckets are still printed cautioning owners to not let toddlers play with the bucket.

• - Bottles of Pearl Vodka. Once produced along side Everclear as an alternative product for lesser alcohol tolerant citizens, Pearl has been discontinued and the bottles are quite rare.

• - Black & Decker branded combination pentagonal wrench and water pipe pliers. All Black & Decker tools are press forged at the Citadel using 100% recycled metal to provide you with the highest quality tools in the entire Unified Union.

• - Goodyear tires.

• - Combine grade Masterlock [which I also forgot to get a picture of]. Combine grade locks are produced using pressed waste grade sheet metal with reinforced sides, chrome loop, and rubber pad keyhole cover. While the low grade of metal tends to make these locks very easy to break, they are cheap to produce as waste grade metal is always plentiful.

• - Southwestern Bell pay phones. Since the Combine have yet to get the phones converted to coinless units, none of the phones are in operation during Gordon's time in City 17.

• - Shell gas pumps.

• - Some dude's dirty muffler.

• - New fangled wood which was mostly skinned from fake wood, actually.

• - New fangled cardboard.

• - Lazily skinned piece of metal conduit.

Due to a glitch which has likely existed since Source had a name, I've included some hexed mdl files for a few glass gibs, the Everclear bottle, the Pepsi bottle, and the Tuscan glass milk bottle. These items are the only models to use transparency. If you have replacements for them, don't install them. If you see them in a generic trash pile, they won't be transparent. Etc. You get the idea. edit It has come to my attention that some people think the junk is too clean, which it is. You can't sell products by advertising them as filthy! Since I don't really feel like insulting you with 2048^2 textures and am otherwise not talented enough to make dirty textures that still look good at this resolution, here's a storyline to make you feel better about the life of citizens in City 17. Under the Combine regime, humans are forced to live relatively modern-like lives with typical jobs and such. Modern day products still exist, but they are extremely limited due to Combine favoritism and a lack of humans to manufacture them. Solid food products are the most limited as the Combine prefer to have well hydrated but hungry slaves. Humans tend to need liquids more than solid food and are more likely to sleep on the job if they are well fed. Thus the implementation of the rationing system. Fast food items are purchased with surplus reward rations which are earned by fulfilling civic duties. Liquid products are free. Everclear is available because alcohol provides the Combine yet another control method over citizens and encourages the effects of the memory suppressing chemicals that all liquid products are tainted with. Commercial Formula 409 is the favored cleaning product of the Combine. It's used as everything from glass cleaner