Is there any evidence that female citizens appeared in the leak maps?

[Bruner]

There's no models, textures, or voice lines hinting at female citizens from the 2003 leak, aside from early face maps in 2016 leaks. I assume they were removed from the build of HL2 they were working on, but the face maps were still in the Valve repository.

Are there any files or map logic that refers to female citizens though?

[Cvoxalury]

There's no models, textures, or voice lines hinting at female citizens from the 2003 leak, aside from early face maps in 2016 leaks.

The female faces are in 2003 leak. The 2016 leak revealed the uncompressed original pngs of facemaps, but the faces were always there.
Another is the early, far from finished female body texture located at materials - models - extras. Where you can find the faces too. Another folder with (same) faces is materials - models - humans - female.
The source code mentions the folder for female models.

npc_citizen17.cpp:

Code: [Select]

string_t CNPC_Citizen::GetModelName( void ) const
{
string_t iszModelName = BaseClass::GetModelName();

//
// If the model refers to an obsolete model, pretend it was blank
// so that we pick the new default model.
//
if (!strnicmp(STRING(iszModelName), "models/c17_", 11) ||
!strnicmp(STRING(iszModelName), "models/male", 11) ||
!strnicmp(STRING(iszModelName), "models/female", 13) ||
!strnicmp(STRING(iszModelName), "models/citizen", 14))
{
return NULL_STRING;
}

return iszModelName;
}

And these are the maps that reference the models.

[Bruner]

Thanks for the clarification. Also, I had no idea the early face maps were already in the 2003 leak. I thought those were newly discovered in the 2016 leaks along with Sandro (Male_06)'s face map.

[The One Epicplayer]

Female models are referenced in a lot of City 17 maps. And also one screenshot of the coast shows the models.