Seeing a lot of discussions requesting that Valve make a workshop for the game, if you've seen this guide, you can so easily tell why they do not need to, because HL2 is still moddable, you just need to know what changed about the file structure, and adding the 'custom' folder ensures that HL2 doesn't get messy with all your skins and downloaded stuff, you can easily take the files in and out without damaging HL2. You don't need to have Gmod to enjoy new skins, models and stuff to replace characters or weapons of Half-Life 2! If this guide helped you, please give a rate! Note that since HL2's episodes are connected with Half-Life 2 (as well as being part of the same folder, and do not stand alone) what you change in HL2, via 'custom' will take effect in it's episodes, it might do similar if you were just adding skins or something to HL2 EP2, but I'm not entirely sure about that. But not sourcemods made by people, mods go inside the 'sourcemods' folder outside 'common.' If the files you downloaded are already packed in a folder name, not raw like 'materials' or something, then skip making the extra folder and just place it simpley in 'custom.' Yes, you'd pretty much place everything that replaces something from Half-Life 2 in this folder, except maps, as they will work if you placed them inside the already existing map folder, but it doesn't really matter, just to keep everything clean, everything that modifies the game will go in custom. It all should look like this in your directory:Ĭommon/Half-Life 2/hl2/ custom/barneymodel/ Finally place your downloaded files inside that, launch Half-Life 2 and enjoy!.Open the folder you just created, and create a new folder again, this time, you may call it whatever you please, just don't use symbols.Once your in there, create a new folder called 'custom' no quotes, no symbols, no capital letters, just 'custom'.

Open Half-Life 2's directory: Program Files (x86)/Steam/SteamApps/common/Half-Life 2/hl2 or if you have steam on your desktop, right click and open file location, then go from there.Place the downloaded files somewhere, we'll go desktop.Alright, now, download the files you want, example, skins.

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