Half-Life:Alyx Beta - general thread

[PrisenShift]

To ZoooGor:
Okay, I'm certainly not an admin to order you different things, but still, stop writing all sorts of nonsense. We do not have a political discussion here, but cut things that were in the Half-life: Alyx. At the moment, you expose yourself in a bad manner. No one cares about the Kardashian family, about invaders of Palestine, about conspiracy theories, about presidents of different countries, about political regimes, etc. Everyone in this forum is conditionally live in Antarctica: in a place where people from many countries live, where everyone doesn't care about conflicts , everyone is just trying to unearth secrets under a huge layer of snow. Please discuss all of the above issues elsewhere.

[Витой]

Some new stuff was added in the first post, most notably those Jeff concept art and renders and the recent Twitter post with early Citadel construction idea.

[ROLOX]

The breens propaganda looks like to use L4D assets. Like on the 0:57 second

[whynotll83]

the hla beta stream part 2 got a music copyright so the video is unavailible to watch.

[EverCafe44]

On VNN's Half-Life Alyx Datamine stream he showcased two unreleased SFM's that Valve made. One being called " Half-Life Alyx Leftover sfm session: destroyed_city3; fixed and another being Half-Life Alyx Leftover sfm session:surrender.dmx; fixed ". The destroyed city one showcased the Seven Hour War as Surrender showcased the ending of the Seven Hour war. These two videos exist on Youtube but are Unlisted and cannot be found. I tried finding them on this thread but there are no links that I could find. And yes some of it exists in Human Science while some scenes are its own. Just curious on finding those video's!

[PrisenShift]

For EverCafe44:

What do we have for now? Well, almost nothing, just few known facts, videos and a build from Summer 2019 streamed by VNN on his Twitch. And before you ask, no, he will not release this build (which is totally understandable).

Human Science SFM Breen's propaganda video

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VNN's Twitch stream playlist (thank goes to cmarti for reuploading):

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[EverCafe44]

For EverCafe44:

What do we have for now? Well, almost nothing, just few known facts, videos and a build from Summer 2019 streamed by VNN on his Twitch. And before you ask, no, he will not release this build (which is totally understandable).

Human Science SFM Breen's propaganda video

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VNN's Twitch stream playlist (thank goes to cmarti for reuploading):

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Mr Prisen i'm trying to find those unfinished videos. Besides Human Science is mainly fan made. The unfinished ones where the ones I wanted to watch! They're unlisted on youtube! Somewhere! We just have to find them.

[PrisenShift]

Besides Human Science is mainly fan made.

Dude, this video is official. Having seen these videos, Tyler McVicker asked Valve employee, who gave him the HL:A beta, for what purpose it was created, for which he sent him the fully fixed version. It also confirms that this video came out on the same day when it was shown on stream, people couldn't get it done that quickly. And besides, we did not have the resources from HL:A beta, since Tyler don't give a single file that he has to us.

The unfinished ones where the ones I wanted to watch! They're unlisted on youtube! Somewhere! We just have to find them.

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[mizaska]

[please tell me if this needs to be moved to its own thread!]
so, i was wondering about that one half life alyx bin file [readonly_tools_asset_info.bin], iirc it was the bin file that had like, every file path and name that was ever added into half life alyx into it but not the content itself, i digged trough it (theres a LOT so im only at the surface) and i did find some stuff, however keep in mind i dont have access to the files of half life alyx itself as i dont own the game (its too expensive + i dont have a vr headset) so please tell me if any files DO go used and/or are reffering to a character already ingame that has a diff name (like for example russel being reffered as laszlo)

these file paths are also hard to triverse, since its basically a bin file to a txt file with every single path mashed into a single file

i wanna talk about some interesting file paths i found

first up, jozef, although the hideout near the end is often rumored to be related to barney, i found some files labeled as this here, altough, jozef could simply be a developers name

models/props/jozef_hideout/dmx/animation
models/props/jozef_hideout/dmx/mesh
models/props/jozef_hideout/fbx
models/props/jozef_hideout/fbx/mesh
models/props/junk/dmx/mesh
models/props/junk/dmx/physics

i also managed to find one file path related to barney, but its most likely his leftover hl2 model,

models/characters/barney/dmx/mesh

these file paths here seem to be related from a zombie autopsy scene?, they do mention what i assume is jeff due to the blindzombie file

models/props/choreo_autopsy/vortigaunt_head/dmx/mesh
models/props/choreo_autopsy/zombie_body/dmx/animation
models/props/choreo_autopsy/zombie_body/dmx/mesh
models/props/choreo_blindzombie/dmx/animation
models/props/choreo_blindzombie/dmx/mesh

and next up are a lotta file paths for a character named tanaka that ill show in the attachment

these were some of the things i could find, keep in mind im only at the surface and do not have access to the files of hla, im sorry if this information is useless in any way im still new to these forums

if you guys want ill could dig further and keep you posted if i find more

[Frying1Pans]

Jozef was one of the early names for Russell and there was going to be a zombie autopsy scene near the beginning of the game. The blind zombie has nothing to do with the autopsy scene and is in fact just Jeff.

[mizaska]

Jozef was one of the early names for Russell and there was going to be a zombie autopsy scene near the beginning of the game. The blind zombie has nothing to do with the autopsy scene and is in fact just Jeff.

ahh I see I see, thanks for clearing up, I'm not the best with datamining, although I'm still curious about tanaka

[I love HLBeta]

and next up are a lotta file paths for a character named tanaka that ill show in the attachment

Are there any other references related to tanaka?
The game files have a folder "tanaka", which has only the texture of the eye and vxml file.
The folder itself is located in the "characters" folder, which is designed for storyline characters.

tanaka_eye.vmat

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_db.vxml

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[mizaska]

and next up are a lotta file paths for a character named tanaka that ill show in the attachment

Are there any other references related to tanaka?
The game files have a folder "tanaka", which has only the texture of the eye and vxml file.
The folder itself is located in the "characters" folder, which is designed for storyline characters.

tanaka_eye.vmat

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_db.vxml

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oh i have found a LOT, ive compiled em into this txt document ill send with the attachments

these are some of the things i could find in the .bin file, seems like a certain cutscene involving alyx, russel and a sick citizen was planned, i think she could be the combine brainwashed woman from the original beta story but i dunno

[qabRieL99]

Does anyone have further information on beta build of the game? I have no intention of it being released, but I'd like to see much more content from it.
Apparently, Tyler McVicker deleted the original video and I've never heard of beta build again.

[I love HLBeta]

Does anyone have further information on beta build of the game? I have no intention of it being released, but I'd like to see much more content from it.
Apparently, Tyler McVicker deleted the original video and I've never heard of beta build again.