New(ish) Discovery! Left 4 Dead magazine shelf texture sources!!

Bruner · on01 Nov 2021, 01:05:47

Hello again!

I bring you another one of my findings. This time it's two of the magazine covers used on the magazine shelf model in Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2! This isn't that recent however. Just like the Gumby graffiti, I discovered these things a while ago, and it's now I can share you these magazine covers.

Bruner · **Reply #1:** on01 Nov 2021, 01:21:59

The story for how I found the first one is because I actually own a few Hot Rod car magazines, and one day I stopped and looked at the model in Left 4 Dead and I immediately noticed the similarity, and that made me wonder if they used actual magazine covers for the texture, or if they simply made ones themselves inspired by those real life magazine companies. Sure enough, they used actual covers!

The story for how I found the second one is after I found the first one, I decided to try to see if I could find any more covers. So I started off just searching (200(0-8) Mini Cooper car magazine) into Google, and eventually found it under the year 2002.

Bruner · **Reply #2:** on07 Nov 2021, 23:37:43

Bam! I found another one!

Bruner · **Reply #3:** on27 Nov 2021, 21:05:40

I found another one.
This is unfortunately the highest quality photo I could find, and the only one for that matter.
If anyone can find higher quality photos of this one and the photo above, that would be fantastic.
And hey, if you find a texture source, post it here!

EDIT: I just now found this SECOND one by complete accident while trying to look for a completely different one!!
EDIT 2: If someone can provide me the extracted texture of the magazine shelf model, that would be really helpful in my search for these.

Bruner · **Reply #4:** on12 Jan 2022, 19:24:11

I found another one of the magazine texture sources!

Bruner · **Reply #5:** on12 Jan 2022, 22:09:12

I just found two more, which are the last of the Hot Rod magazines used for the shelf texture!
Again, if somebody could provide me the extracted texture of the magazine shelf in the replies here, that would be really helpful. I'm having to rely on a crusty screenshot of the model in-game.

Bruner · **Reply #6:** on14 Jan 2022, 07:23:14

I've just been provided the extracted texture of the magazine shelf, as well as a second texture which I don't think I've ever seen anywhere in Left 4 Dead. It might be unused, but it's still neat to mention! It appears the second texture uses photos from both books and magazines.
I could use some help finding these, so if anyone wants to try and upscale and reverse image search these magazines or something, that would help me out a LOT! Thanks!
Lambda Generation post: https://community.lambdageneration.com/post/ejeb6dbe#comments

EDIT: I just now found one of the books seen on that second shelf texture. Thankfully the title wasn't actually changed that much. Just the fact it was compressed heavily. It was quite easy to find this book.
EDIT 2: I know this thread is all over the place, but it's just really exciting, and any chance to share this stuff to the world, I'm gonna take it.