Quote from iamafractal on February 22, 2008, 6:36 pm

foobar9999 wrote:

Can't solve the first puzzle. May be you need a constant fps of some number but I can only dug and/or jump in my portal game.

I find the icons ingame and here suggested very confusing. As far as I know there is no jumping into portals on the ground with the head at first.

May be I am not patient enough, but 30+ tries including dug'ed jumping in the orange portal from all 4 sides did'nt gave me any usefull results.

i'm not sure what you mean by "dug." dug is the past tense of dig. "i dug a hole." so how does that apply here?

[spoiler]i suggest you try to take a running jump, while DUCKING into the portal. that might work better.[/spoiler]

Don't be an idiot fractal, thanks. --admin

Quote from foobar9999 on February 22, 2008, 7:16 pm

I meant duck of cause :-]

I tried that too. No success.

Quote from iamafractal on February 22, 2008, 7:27 pm

foobar9999 wrote:

I meant duck of cause :-]

I tried that too. No success.

of cause? what caused you to mean that? are you a rebel without a cause?

do you mean of COURSE?

OF COURSE you do!

[spoiler]the angle that you go in affects the angle you go out. if you leap in so that you're going diagonally, along with the blue beam, you WILL succeed.[/spoiler]

Quote from Frostyfrog on February 22, 2008, 11:16 pm

Great map pack!
I looked at it, played it, completed it. Then I decided to decompile it and try to figure out how you did the anti-gravity thing. I got confused and gave up, I like your protected logo to
http://s180.photobucket.com/albums/x61/ ... ealing.jpg
Please don't get mad at me, I'm a beginner and want to try to learn since there aren't any tutorials for the things that I'm looking for.

Quote from rellikpd on February 22, 2008, 11:47 pm

Frostyfrog wrote:

:blah: Then I decided to decompile it... map_stealing.jpg Please don't get mad at me..

LOL @ That trigger thingie! *high fives Hurricaaane!*

and just fyi, that anti-grav thing is Hurricaaane's baby.... next time ask try asking the mapper

Quote from foobar9999 on February 23, 2008, 3:21 am

I could post a demo of me trying that first room for 5 minutes. I already recorded one, but instead, can someone provide a demo to me were he did the jump may be 5 times in a row with success?

[EDIT]

Ok, I did it in the first room.

I still hate the complete random success oif these type of portal jumps. Speedruns are almost impossible.

Quote from Hurricaaane on February 23, 2008, 9:27 am

foobar9999 wrote:

I could post a demo of me trying that first room for 5 minutes. I already recorded one, but instead, can someone provide a demo to me were he did the jump may be 5 times in a row with success?

I just done it in the first try (except the first jump because of the lag of the live recording, I had to adapt my actions with the lag).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7pBm1QwBi0

The cube floater now. It's been a while I created it and I don't want to check Hammer to see how I've done it so I'll explain by remembering about it.
The cube floater is made of three things: The visuals, the logic and the physics.

The physics:
There are multiple trigger_vphysics_motion
-One is set on when the floater is off. It allows the cube to grab the cubes/objects when thrown at even if the floater is off. The floater acts like a lesser cube catcher. The other two points acts like the active cube catcher:
-The one that pushes the cube up, or any physics object. This entity is set right up so that the cube spins right. The trigger_physics_motion has a lot of options so it's how it's done.
-Four others or eight, I don't remember, that are done to recenter the cube when it goes to the edges. In other words, it pushes the cube to the inside when it goes too far out.
-A physics explosion env_physexplosion. That one is special: It wakes up the cube. The trigger_vphysics_motion itself does not wake the cube when it's activated afterwards. The cube goes into a sleep state when it doesn't move for i don't know how many seconds. The explosion is a way to wake up the cube.

The visual:
-A custom prop_dynamic_override. It's an override because the sphere is meant to be a physics object. It's a custom model because the sphere is meant to be in the cake room of Portals, in a blue room, so the cubemap/pseudo-reflections are blue. When you play chamber 17 advanced, you notice that the sphere glows anormaly blue. So I fixed it with a custom model.
-A prop_dynamic_override or a prop_static, don't remember. It's the platform trail laser emitter. It's fictionnaly merged with the sphere, and it does the work!
-A point_spotlight for the blue volumetric light.
-An env_citadel_energy_core or something like that for the particle effects. It would be nice if it was a particle system because too many floaters in the same room = we don't see the particles anymore.
-All of those *3 forming a triangle on the ground, or like in Level 03: as we like (two... or something else)

The logic:
-Two logic_relays triggering each the on and the off state of the floater.
-A logic_timer with an oscillator or not that triggers each of those relays one after the other.

Okay, I think that's all 🙂

Quote from iamafractal on February 23, 2008, 1:14 pm

it would be really nice to post the source for any of those kinds of things you want to share in the tutorials section... or map source/prefabs section if there is one...

Quote from Frostyfrog on February 24, 2008, 5:43 pm

Thank you, Hurricaaane. I'll have fun trying the different things.