How do you put your friends' faces into Counter-Strike 1.6?

1. Put the photos in one folder

Create a folder called cs_yuzler on your desktop and save each friend's photo under their name: beytullah.jpg, halil.jpg and so on. The game has 8 player models (4 terrorists, 4 CTs), so up to 8 people. The file name becomes the text on the forehead and the bot's name in the game.

Avoid letters like ş, ğ or ı in names (Sukru, not Şükrü); the game may not display some Turkish letters properly.

2. Give Claude this prompt

Open Claude Code, copy the prompt below, paste it and send it. It tells Claude to download our ready-made scripts, back everything up first and check with you at every important step. Claude will mark the eyes and mouth on each photo and show you a preview; if the faces are in the right place, say "continue". If you want to see the scripts yourself, you can download them here.

If the game is under Program Files, Windows will ask for administrator permission once. That's expected: it's needed to copy the files into the game folder.

Counter-Strike 1.6 is installed on my Windows PC. I want to put my friends' faces on the bots in the game. I don't know how to code: briefly explain each step, always back up a file before you change it, and ask me before any step that needs administrator permission.

What I have:
- A folder called cs_yuzler on my desktop with a front-facing photo of each friend; the file name is the person's name (e.g. beytullah.jpg). Up to 8 people.
- Ready-made scripts: download them from https://safaktozar.com.tr/files/cs16-yuz-modu-betikler.zip, unzip them into the cs_yuzler folder and read README.txt first. Don't write anything from scratch; use these scripts and follow the order in the README.

What I want you to do:
1. Find the folder where the game is installed (search for hl.exe). Install Python or the pillow and numpy packages if they are missing.
2. Find the pixel positions of the left eye, right eye and mouth in each photo. Draw these points on the photo and show me; continue once I approve.
3. Fill in the paths and the table in final.py with my people: each person goes to a different player model, their name is written in capitals on the forehead and heads are 1.6 times bigger. Then run final.py and validate.py and show me the preview images.
4. Back up and copy the models into the game with kur.ps1.
5. Make every bot a different person: create a profile for each friend in BotProfile.db (profile name = my friend's name, correct team and model) and apply the settings in listenserver_ek.cfg.
6. Add the filming shortcuts from userconfig_ek.cfg and list which key does what.
7. When you're done, tell me step by step how to check it in the game and how to run geri_al.ps1 to undo everything.

3. Check it in the game

Open the game and start a match with bots on de_dust2 via New Game. Don't judge by eye whether the faces changed: open the console and type snapshot; the screenshot is saved in the game's cstrike folder. Send that screenshot to Claude and say "this is how it looks in the game". If the console won't open, just ask Claude to help you enable it.

4. Tell Claude what to fix

Not everything will be perfect on the first try; just describe what you see in plain words. For example: "The faces are hard to see in the dark, make them brighter." or "Two bots have the same face, make every bot a different person." The Tips section below lists the most common cases and what we told Claude.

5. Optional: put pictures on the walls

The pictures on the walls in the video were made the same way. Put your images in a folder and tell Claude: "Put the images in this folder on walls far apart from each other on de_dust2. Keep the proportions, make sure none come out upside down or mirrored, and back up the map first." duvar_multi.py in the package does this.

6. Shortcut keys for filming

When filming, it helps to freeze the bots, add new ones or see your character from the outside. Tell Claude: "Add filming shortcuts to userconfig.cfg: one key freezes the bots, one resumes them, one adds a bot and one switches to third-person view." userconfig_ek.cfg in the package is a ready-made version.

Third-person view and walking through walls need cheat mode (sv_cheats 1); if a key does nothing, that's usually why. Only use this in offline games with bots.

7. Put everything back

When you're done, just tell Claude to "put everything back". Every changed file has a backup with the .orig extension next to it; geri_al.ps1 in the package restores the models, the map, the keys and the bot profiles in one go.