Question about GCFs

[Deo Favente]

How do I find what GCF files are used by a steam game? Particularly I want to know which GCFs are used by which Half Life 2 games.

 

[tschumann]

I've seen lists of .gcf files used by games, but I can't remember where.
You could try doing a Steam back-up and see if it tells you what .gcf files it's backing up for each game.

 

[schoft]

.GCF's are the files used by the engine to get all the assets from. These are packages containing files, similiar to .zip files.

You can find them in \Steam\steamapps\. You open them with a program called "GFCscape".

If you were looking for a texture that is used in an Episode Two map for instance; You open the "episode two materials.gcf" file. From there you can extract the material file (texture) you want.

To answer your question: It says in the filename of the .gcf for what game it is. Some games use multiple .gcf's but since Half Life 2 was the first game to use them, everything will ( probaly ) be in these:

- half-life 2 content.gcf
- half-life 2 game dialog.gcf
- source materials.gcf
- source models.gcf
- source sounds.gcf