I made a background pack for the menu using some of my favorite City 17 graffiti. It should be available soon.
These are not screenshots from the game. I used the original textures on custom backgrounds and created the bumpmaps and lighting in photoshop.
especially nice because I don't like to wait this long to load those sucky background maps before i can play hl2.....
and a lotta people with me i think :bounce:
You can disable the animated background y'know. Find the file valve.rc (it's in hl2/cfg I think), open it in notepad, and add two /'s to the final line, I think it's 'startupmenu' or something. So it should be //startupmenu