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HL2: EP2 HD Jalopy
Veno Venator 31 Mar, 2015 @ 8:22pm
Concept art of the Muscle car/Jalopy from HL2: EP2 made into a gmod addon?
This discussion is about the HL2: EP2 Muscle car created by Alex Lee on Gmod. This discussion talks about me finding the concept art on the half life wiki page based on the HL2: EP2 muscle car, talking about turning the concept art into making it an official addon of the Gmod community and If it's a good idea.

I was doing some research on the HL2 muscle car on google chrome when I stumbled upon artwork of different cars that were made into junkers like the HL2 muscle car of today. I think that the artwork that I saw was supposed to be different ideas of the muscle car that was going to be used in HL2: EP2 (besides the ACTUAL jalopy that was used in the beta, It had the model of the Volkswagen beetle and was almost like the jeep used in HL2, but had armor plating and stuff), until later on they decided to use the '69 Dodge Charger for the full game. Since that it looked really cool and that no one has ever made such a thing on gmod, I have decided to post the links down below to the source of the artwork and see if it's possible to make such a thing.
These are the links down below, They lead to the Half life wiki page and the images itself:

  • '69 Ford Mustang: Here[half-life.wikia.com]
  • '73 Dodge Charger: Here[half-life.wikia.com]
  • '70 Plymouth Cuda: Here[half-life.wikia.com]

If you cannot open the links for any reason, then this link will lead you to the official wiki on the HL2 muscle car and the artwork on where I found it: Official HL2 muscle car and etc.[half-life.wikia.com]

The reason why I had to bring up this discussion is because if the creator of the addon himself (Alex Lee, obviously) can make such a thing like this. I'm not saying he should make this addon right now, Just if he can make it "in the future" and/or if he has any sort of time for this. It's ok if he says no, I was just kind of curious to see if he could use the couple of art concepts and make it into an official Gmod addon.

This discussion will be left to the public and it's creator as well. Any type of critisism is allowed in this specific discussion, Whether it's bad or good. Hopefully, I will have the time to read all of the comments and have a deep understanding of them.

All respects, Veno
Last edited by Veno Venator; 31 Mar, 2015 @ 8:57pm
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al  [developer] 1 Apr, 2015 @ 12:27am 
Hello Veno, thank you for your effort put into this discussion.

I believe it is possible to remake working beta jalopy that was cut from EP2 with bit of advanced lua scripting and beta jalopy model, however I am not much experienced with lua scripting and therefore somebody else has to code the vehicle and I am unable to find source of beta jalopy model. (It seems Valve had never released the model... or we could use unofficial imitation/model similar to this one.)

For those concept arts, I think it can be done through simple retexuring of base texture that the muscle car has since we don't have any available model that actually matches real life car model. (Well, those cars look pretty similar to '69 dodge charger so..)

Best of luck, Alex.
Last edited by al; 1 Apr, 2015 @ 12:28am
al  [developer] 28 May, 2017 @ 6:57pm 
Great news, about time it was brought to life
Let's all quench our desires of driving supposedly a vehicle made out of junk metals cut from the game before release.
Toppet 19 Apr, 2021 @ 1:48am 
it wont load
Cheezewheel 27 Aug, 2023 @ 1:00pm 
The beetle jalopy is cool and all but I WANT MY MUSTAN-
xXTheColossusXx 6 Nov, 2024 @ 6:10am 
the beta car [the muscle jeep] the new one [the jalopy]...
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