Some of CS:Source's white and red de_nuke car reference photos also discovered!!

[Bruner]

After discovering one of the photos used for the box truck seen in CS:Source and Left 4 Dead, I decided to challenge myself to see if I could also find the reference photos used for the cars seen on the map de_nuke from CS:Source, and I managed to find some of the original photos as well!
It seems both the white and red car textures are just a collage of many different Toyota Corollas from multiple different years. All of these are heavily edited on the actual textures. Here's the most notable similarities!

- The first photo is used for both the taillight and rear bumper of both Corollas, and the gas cap of the red Corolla.
- The second photo is used on the white Corolla for the doors, including the door handles and trim near the windows.
- On the red Corolla, there is remnants of one of the headlights and the bottom grill from the third photo which go unseen when applied to the model.
- The fourth photo is used for the back of the red Corolla, which still has the taillights from the photo left on the texture, which also goes unseen.
- The fifth photo is probably used for the front of the white Corolla and partially the red Corolla.

I've chosen not to document the black Corolla, since it's a combination of both white and red Corolla textures.

[Bruner]

Here's where I found the pictures above: https://www.toyotamarin.com/inventory/used-2001-Toyota-Corolla-CE-1NXBR12E31Z458974

My guess as to why the license plates don't match any of the original photos above is because at one point, instead of displaying "de_nuke" Valve/Turtlerock probably wanted to display more realistic license plates, and had altered them for legal reasons and such. When they switched to the "de_nuke" text, they probably didn't think to remove the already existing plates they already created, and that's why you can see both variants on the texture sheet.

This is further backed up by the fact both texture sheets contain a lot of duplicate images, such as the headlights, taillights, indicators, and bottom grill. They're most likely remnants of earlier renditions of these textures.

[Bruner]

Here's a quick comparison of the textures and the reference photos overlapped.
Here's a gif version on Lambda Generation: https://community.lambdageneration.com/post/f9ggd9gq

[Bruner]

Hey, so uhh, I guess I should state that these are in-fact not the original photos like I was once lead to believe two years ago. Completely different photos. I guess it's better late than never I suppose. The plus side I guess is that they'd make for decent reference photos if anyone were to create a custom texture or something like that.