Recently, it was revealed by a YouTube channel, Richter Overtime, that a ‘charred’ character skin in Half-Life 2 (and by association, GMod) is an in-game rendering of an actual corpse.Reportedly, images of a real burned body were simply wrapped onto a character model, making for what players always thought was hauntingly realistic – but never real.In a strange turn of events, a series of gory, graphic images were shared to a subreddit (that we won’t link here), and one user made the connection between one shot and the in-game skin used for Half-Life 2, and later, GMod.There are buildings that are reminiscent of actual locations – in Modern Warfare II, for example – the hotel and the museum levels came under fire for being almost like-for-like copies of real-world locations.However, there’s taking inspiration from an inanimate object such as a building or a vehicle and copying and pasting images of an actual charred body and inserting them into a game for all to see."