The WC Mappack

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What is the map pack?

The Worldcraft (WC) Mappack contains 1350 VMF (Valve Map Format, a file format that represents editable Hammer levels) files. These files represent levels and areas from almost every location Valve prototyped and playtested during the six-year Half-Life 2 development cycle.


By analyzing the last-modified date of these VMFs, we can observe that the Mappack contains levels that were made from December 14, 2000 to September 25, 2003. These levels not only provide a fairly accurate timeline of locations and gameplay concepts that Valve continuously prototyped and discarded, but also provide deep insight on how the Source engine itself evolved during its development.


In terms of the general state of these maps, the Mappack provides levels that range from being almost complete and fully-functional, to being in a very unfinished state. Many of the maps are also affected by engine compatibility issues - as the Source engine was evolving, many features were being modified or discarded at a very quick rate, leaving many old levels very outdated in the process.


This means that if anyone wishes to get the levels to run in an available Half-Life game, some work is required. The nature of this work mostly revolves around fixing outdated entities and brush work so that the game can correctly interpret the level itself.

Explore the WC Map pack

Use the links below to explore the map pack to its fullest.

Folders

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/aaron/
Aaron Barber's map folder. Comprises 1/3 of the Mappack's total filesize, with some 416 VMF files.
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/auto_compile/
Map folder with a collection of E3 2003, d1_trainstation, and dev VMFs, as well as 3 batch scripts for map compiling.
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/bill/
Bill van Buren's map folder. Mostly comprised of early 2001 character model testmaps.
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/c17/
Dedicated City 17 map folder. Contains three prototype maps.
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/cclee/
Chia Chin Lee's folder. The first of several empty folders.
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/charlie/
Charlie Brown's folder. Comprised of 16 maps, copied from the base directory of the Mappack.
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/citadel/
Dedicated Citadel map folder. Empty.
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/d1_town/
Dedicated Ravenholm/Phystown map folder. Comprised of 5 E3 2003 maps and 5 early 2003 d1_town levels.
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/d1_trainstation/
Dedicated d1_trainstation map folder. Contains 5 mid-2003 d1_trainstation levels.
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/d2_coastline/
Dedicated coast map folder. Comprised of 6 mid-2003 coast maps and a variety of misc coast maps.
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/d3_borealis/
Dedicated folder for d3_borealis maps. Of note are the d3_borealis_01 VMFs, which contain an older, more detailed prefab of the deep sea submarine present in Kraken Base maps. Also worth mentioning is two maps called d3_tug - the community has speculated that these relate to how Gordon was supposed to get to the Borealis (i.e. via tugboat).
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/dario/
Dario Casali's map folder. Comprised of assorted borealis and City 17 VMFs.
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/dave/
Dave Riller's map folder. Notable for containing various Airex, Under and Subt VMFs.
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/david/
David Speyrer's map folder. Contains several dev maps.
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/deep/
Dedicated Kraken Base map folder ('Deep' = known designation for the Kraken Base). Empty.
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/demo/
Dedicated folder for demo(nstration) maps. Notable for containing demo_arctic, two demo_citadel maps and two asset galleries that respectively make use of two different older versions of Kleiner's Lab.
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/dev/
Dedicated folder for dev(eloper) maps.
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/e3_hydra/
Dedicated e3_hydra map folder.
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/e3_lab/
Dedicated e3_lab map folder.
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/e3_phystown/
Dedicated e3_phystown map folder. Contains one e3_phystown VMF.
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/e3_techdemo/
Dedicated e3_techdemo map folder. Also contains e3_hl2logo and e3_end.
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/entity examples/
Map folder containing several examples of point and brush entities at play.
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/eric/
Eric Kirchmer's map folder.
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/gary/
Gary McTaggart's map folder. Notable for containing two mid-2000 batch scripts, one with references to wad to material conversions and trans.txt.
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/grimm/
John Grimm's map folder - very likely to have contained Deep/Kraken Base maps. Empty.
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/hl1_hazard/
Dedicated map folder for hazard maps from Half-Life 1, rebuilt with HL2 assets.
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/horia/
Horia Dociu's folder Contains a few prefab and zoo maps.
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/hyper/
Dedicated Hyperborea map folder ('Hyper' = known designation for the Hyperborea). Empty of map files, but contains hyper.bat, a batch script for compiling maps that references goldsrc tools, dated late 1999.
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/Jake/
Jake Nicholson's map folder. Contains one VMF - HydraScript.
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/jeff/
Jeff Ballinger's map folder. Empty.
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/john/
John Guthrie's map folder. Notable for containing a variety of empty folders, one Kraken Base VMF, various versions of the cremator and sniper demonstration maps, several City 17 levels, and a collection of vert maps.
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/justin/
Justin Fisher's map folder. Notable for containing various versions of the Palace levels and an assorted collection of prison VMFs.
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/jweier/
Josh Weier's map folder. Mostly comprised of VMFs related to the prison levels.
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/ken/
Ken Birdwell's map folder. Mostly comprised of character model test maps, as well as testroom_ripley, demonstrating the choreograph system through Alyx, with audio from Aliens.
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/lars/
Lars Liden's map folder. Notable for containing flmh, a test map for the player_manhack entity, as well as the oldest VMF in the Mappack (dated 2000/12/14), c1a3a_port, a port of Half-Life 1's c1a3a with HL2 assets and enemies.
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/laura/
Laura Dubuk's map folder.
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/marc/
Marc Laidlaw's map folder. Contains a variety of surreal VMFs, such as hazard, ickypop and bigwall.
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/miked/
Mike Dussault's map folder. Contains two VMFs for areaportal testing.
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/Physics test/
Empty. Likely to have contained very early physics system tests.
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/prefabs/
Dedicated folder for prefab maps. Contains a variety of late 2002/early 2003 prefab VMFs.
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/prototypes/
Dedicated folder for prototype maps. Contains an assorted collection of late 2002/early 2003 City 17 and prison VMFs, as well as citizen_tech01, a demonstation map for rustic rebel technology.
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/randy/
Randy Lundeen's map folder. Notable for containing a variety of prototype citadel maps, older borealis levels, various Airex/Wasteland/City 17 testrooms and two 1999 map compile batch scripts, one referencing fog.
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/Red Lighting Bug/
Dedicated map folder for demonstrating a red lighting bug (from sometime around 1999) related to compiling vrad in release mode. See the HL2 leak code's utils\vrad\vrad.h for more detail.
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/repair/
Odd map folder comprised of 3 versions of d1_under0304, one corrupted and two that seem to have had their VMF data replaced with the VMTs for the leak textures buildingset056a and 056b.
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/robin/
Robin Walker's map folder. Comprised of 6 miscellaneous testroom maps.
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/sawyer/
David Sawyer's map folder. Comprised of an assorted collection of depot, prison and wasteland related VMFs.
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/spire/
Dedicated folder for Spire ("a prototype arctic base location ... built by Wright Bagwell" - David Speyrer) maps.
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/streetwars/
Dedicated folder for Streetwar maps.
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/temp/
Empty.
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/test/
Dedicated folder for test maps. Contains a single VMF - test_fallingdamage.
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/tom/
Tom Leonard's folder. Contains two Odell AI testmaps.
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/town_gameplay/
Dedicated folder for 4 playable early 2003 Ravenholm maps.
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/train/
Empty. Exactly what 'train' refers to is unknown.
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/Travis/
Travis Brady's map folder. Empty.
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/Tri/
Tri Nguyen's map folder. Contains a single VMF called combine_room2.
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/urb/
Dedicated folder for Urb (designation for an early urban location, a City 17 predecessor and/or simply the designation for early C17 levels) maps. Empty.
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/vehicles/
Dedicated folder presumably for vehicle-related maps. Empty - may well have contained various brush vehicles prefabs/testmaps.
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/vert/
Dedicated folder for Vert/Vertigo/Skyscraper maps. Contains several early 2001 vert maps, as well as an empty 'old' folder.
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/wedge/
Steve Bond's folder, contains several zombie and physics test maps.
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/wright/
Wright Bagwell's folder. Empty. Highly likely to have contained Spire maps.

Main directory maps

The following section lists all maps included in the main directory.