Quote from josepezdj on December 17, 2012, 7:10 pm

Some pictures below ;p

Quote from LoneWolf2056 on December 18, 2012, 10:36 am

Awesome aesthetics with your distinctive style, I like how incredibly polished everything looks, as expected, insanely hard, apart from a few tricky techniques, the solutions are always ingenious and make you feel clever. I still haven't solved very much of it yet but its great so far.
Just wondering is this the correct way to get the first cube?

EDIT: IMPORTANT, Most likely its a problem with my computer but it crashes and im getting an engine error. [spoiler]I put white gel on the roof to get back to the starting area and every time i go through the portal with the excursion funnel and the cube it CTD's with that error[/spoiler]

ED_Alloc: no free edicts

report_entities
"Total 2156 entities (0 empty, 2038 edicts"

Quote from josepezdj on December 18, 2012, 4:05 pm

Cheers LoneWolf!! Thanks a bunch for those comments! And regarding the way to get the first cube, it is completely intended! Good job However [spoiler]it is not really needed to be moving on left-right into the funnel to avoid the fizzler... just try to leave a certain part of the funnel out of the grate that let you later to be able to get up back and that's all [/spoiler]

The problem you mention is not on your part. The Edicts are like "slots for entities" and since this map is really big, I have to try to reduce the amount of entities active at a time. Looks like when you're heading to the easter egg big area, an overload of entities occurs. Map is updated now, let's see if that is corrected ;D

Thanks for your input!

EDIT

Thanks LoneWolf for the further confirmation (on steam) that the previous problem is fixed!

Quote from JMAinAZ on December 19, 2012, 1:48 am

Well... the map looks great (the little I've seen of it though).
I haven't played Portal 2 in a long time. Thought I'd load it up and try a community map. Maybe I chose one that is too tough for me and I need a "warm up."

I haven't got a clue what to do. I spent 45 minutes running around the room with the blue and orange tunnels below. The best I can do is release the cube into the blue tunnel for a fraction of a second until it gets zapped by the blue wall.

I've looked everywhere. I don't understand how you can access the orange tunnel unless there is a way to turn off the blue floor blocking it. I'm so confused. Can you give me a hint of some kind.

For the life of me, I don't know what I'm missing. Also, at the entrance to the map, there didn't seem to be anything to do at the moment. Unless I missed something up there. The poster above mentioned white paint. I haven't seen Blue, Orange or White paint anywhere.

Need help!
-JMAinAZ

Quote from josepezdj on December 19, 2012, 4:21 am

Hey JMAinAZ! Thanks for testing my map! Lol I'm sorry you found it randomly and it happened to be for you one of those tough maps!

OK, let me say some brief general hints:

1. At the entrance part of the map there's a 'companion cube' signage at the front wall... but there are also 3 numbers: I wanted to express by that, that you need 3 'compaion cubes' This is the easter egg big area (there are 3 easter eggs with one "special" cube into each one and those special cubes will be used later on in the easter egg big area). You're right: nothing to do there by now.

2. It's important to notice that there are 2 really different main challenges in this map: the normal run and the easter eggs mini-game. You can just solve the map dismissing the easter egg game.

This one is for you:

[spoiler]3. Ofc you need the orange funnel to get the regular cube from the dropper since otherwise, with the blue funnel, it'll go directly to the fizzler as you already checked... Use the blue funnel to get the orange one [/spoiler]

Good luck!

Quote from sicklebrick on December 19, 2012, 4:44 pm

First!?
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Doubt it's intended, but there's no funnybusiness
Loved the remix, pretty nice difficulty, let down only by my impatnience for funnels.
Sometimes I'd be unwilling to try something 'cause I'd have to re-get the orange, or reload from a save, etc... I really hate them. The design is fantastic and I spent ages just running around looking at things. So good!
I hope you make a few more with this kinda stylng. Cheers!

Quote from josepezdj on December 20, 2012, 3:01 am

WOW Sickle! Your video is pure awesomesauce, mate!

Where to start for? The only intended bit was getting the first cube! And to be frank I liked so much your cannonballish final move that I'm almost happy to have been so careless preventing unintended stuff at certain areas!

There are some really stupid flaws I could have prevented... I guess sometimes, when you spend too much time into a map you become blind to see some possible exploits. I intentionally refused to ask Sickle or Markiu to beta-test the map because they were part of the challenge for me when remixing this map. Chander did a wonderful work with beta-testing but maybe both of us were a bit used to the map ...No will of taking Sickle's merit away here It is very hard to imagine some of those moves!

About the bug with saving the gel on already painted surfaces, well, I'm not sure of how to fix that! That could be an engine bug or maybe that depends on the video settings in each machine because I didn't notice it when reloading my savegames. Let's see if I can find out something because it could be really confusing and annoying for the player. I'd like to know if the rest of players that are playing the map are experiencing the same issue, please tell me

Of course, I will update the map. Maybe today, at the latest tomorrow. About this, since the map is a bit heavy (99MB), and the workshop`doesn't manage the submitted maps too cleanly, saving all different versions of them, I'd like to suggest to unsubscribe the map, then quit the game (maybe restart steam), then subscribe again and run the game again. Maybe manually delete the map once unsubscribed too!

I'm sorry for those who have been making progress on the solution because they'll have to restart from the beginning. I hope I won't need to update it again

Quote from sicklebrick on December 20, 2012, 4:23 am

Heheh, can't wait to see MarKiu's solution - he's a lot better with the intended solutions =)

Don't worry about the paint thing btw - it's an engine bug. The paint even works perfectly when you load a quicksave. It happens if the paint was laid down before the demo was recorded, so if I did it in one segment for example, it would all be peachysauce. Anyhoo, not a biggie.

Looking forward to the next one, but I'm wondering if it would be possible to add a button to auto-place a portal on the orange funnel without wrecking the map? I got *really* impatient noclipping in all the time >.<

Quote from quatrus on December 20, 2012, 12:02 pm

After my 3rd or 4th trip down to the orange portal surface, it got tedious trying to move the white paint around. I can see why sicklebrick used a little programming trickery to re-do it. I'll be interested to see if your intended solution takes so many trips down to activate the orange funnel...