Whiteboards

• Description of data found on whiteboards: Whiteboard Theories
• Throughout the game there are numerous whiteboards with various things written on them.
• Two of these whiteboards have been determined to contain cipher messages, c2a4x_labboard1 and c0a1x_labboard_am6.
• The files are valve texture files (.vtf) stored in bms_textures_dir.vpk -> materials\lab for the earthbound whiteboards, and bms_textures_dir.vpk -> materials\xen\lab for the Xen whiteboards. The bms_textures_dir.vpk file is located in <Steam library folder>\steamapps\common\Black Mesa\bms and can be opened using GCFScape. The .vtf files can be easily opened and converted to standard graphic formats using VTFedit.
• In the 2012 legacy mod version, the earthbound whiteboards are stored in C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\sourcemods\BMS\materials\lab.
• The filenames for the earthbound whiteboards are all in the format <map number>_labboard<ID>, where the ID's are sometimes a reference to the chapter names (_am# = Anomalous Materials, _uc# = Unforeseen Consequences, or sometimes a purely numerical reference.)
• The filenames for the Xen whiteboards are in the format xen_labboards_<chapter name><map number>_<NN>.

Earthbound Whiteboard Gallery

c0a1x_labboard_am1

c0a1x_labboard_am2

c0a1x_labboard_am3

c0a1x_labboard_am4

c0a1x_labboard_am5

c0a1x_labboard_am6

c1a1x_labboard_uc1

c1a1x_labboard_uc2

c1a1x_labboard_uc3

c2a4x_labboard1

c2a4x_labboard2

c2a4x_labboard3

c2a4x_labboard4

c2a4x_labboard5

c2a4x_labboard6

c2a4x_labboard7

c2a4x_labboard8

c2a4x_labboard9

c2a4x_labboard10

c2a4x_labboard11

c2a4x_labboard12

c2a4x_labboard13

c2a4x_labboard14

c2a4x_labboard15

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Xen Whiteboard Gallery

xen_labboards_xena_01

xen_labboards_xena_02

xen_labboards_xena_03

xen_labboards_xena_04

xen_labboards_xena_05

xen_labboards_xena_06

xen_labboards_xena_07

xen_labboards_xena_08

xen_labboards_gonb_01

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