User:I-ghost/Help:GCF

This article contains information specific to the TF2 and TF2 Beta GCFs. Please see the GCFScape article on the Valve Developer Community in order to obtain a general overview on the functioning of GCFScape. The latest version of GCFScape is available here.

Common useful locations

What	Specific	Where	Notes
Item schema		team fortress 2 content.gcf/scripts/items/items_game.txt	Contains item and attribute definitions used by all the items in the game
File:Backpack scattergun.pngWeapons	Models	team fortress 2 materials.gcf/models/weapons	Either in the c_models subdirectory, or the v_/w_models subdirectories.
	Materials	team fortress 2 materials.gcf/models/materials/weapons	Either in the c_items subdirectory or the v_/w_ subdirectories.
	Sounds	team fortress 2 materials.gcf/sound/weapons	Frying pan sounds are in the subdirectory /pan. Katana sounds are in subdirectory samurai. Internal names differ from names displayed in-game.
Hats	Models	team fortress 2 materials.gcf/models/player/items	Internal names differ from names displayed in-game
	Materials	team fortress 2 materials.gcf/materials/models/player/items	Internal names differ from names displayed in-game
Class	VOs	team fortress 2 content.gcf/sound/vo	Tip: to display all VOs for a class, use the search feature set to using wildcards, and search for class_*.wav where class is classname. 'Taunts' are located in the subdirectory /taunts. Also includes Administrator VOs.
	Scenes	team fortress 2 content.gcf/scenes/player/
	Response rules	team fortress 2 content.gcf/scripts/talker/
Resources	Localisation files	team fortress 2 content.gcf/resource	Close captioning filenames are closecaption_lang.txt; language string files are tf_lang.txt, where lang is language.
	HUD files	team fortress 2 content.gcf/resource and team fortress 2 content.gcf/resource/ui	File extension is .res; generic Source engine/mod files are in /resource while TF2 specific files are in /resource/ui