Quote from josepezdj on May 22, 2012, 2:54 am

No one?

Quote from HMW on May 22, 2012, 3:42 pm

A HAL9000 type character would work great with TTS software, so you don't have to record your own voice. (Or find someone else who will do it. I don't know how your voice sounds of course.)
On the other hand, if it takes too much time, I would personally release sooner rather than spend a lot of extra time on a thing like this. Sure, it's very nice to have, but not super essential. And this is one of those things that will work against you if you half-ass it. (See: Portal Prelude.)

In the visuals and puzzle departments you don't have anything to worry about, judging from what I've seen so far

Quote from El Farmerino on May 23, 2012, 4:35 am

Re: the mod/mappack debate - I'm inclined to agree with msleeper on that one. To me a mod is something that changes the fundamental game into something else - like how Counter-Strike turned Half-Life into a team-based military sim, or more recently how DayZ turned Arma 2 into a zombie apocalypse survival game. By contrast, although you've undeniably done a shedload of work on custom elements and stuff (and even if you come up with a whole new testing element) at the end of the day the game is still Portal 2, with a portal gun and cubes and lasers and lightbridges and all the rest.

That said, this looks absolutely fantastic! Love the look, and as someone else said above it's really nice to see you've got a good consistency throughout the levels. I especially love the floors. Downright sexy floors. I also appreciate the fact that you've gone to the trouble of designing a whole backstory and everything. You just jumped right up alongside HMW's Sendificate sequels in my most-anticipated list. If I'm still around when you need beta-testing done (got a big round-the-world trip coming up, so might not be) I'd be honoured to help out. Best of luck with it all!

Quote from zivi7 on May 23, 2012, 4:47 am

If you need a male voice and you like mine, I might be able to help you out. Check this thread for an example.

Quote from josepezdj on May 23, 2012, 4:48 am

Thanks for this comment HMW! I don't know what TSS software is though, but I was thinking of recording myself some "plain prosody" lines and then tweak them in Reason 5.0 (the software I use for music composition) with some filters or making a mix of the voice + an instrument using the Reason's combinator (you get awesome results with this tool!)

Man, I know I should release ASAP and forget about all those details, but I want this to be good and as much detailed as I can... I will give it a think, plan my time and see if I can do all the things (I'm almost alone with this project so...). My deadline is July, 21th... let's see what I can and what I cannot get by then.

HMW wrote:

In the visuals and puzzle departments you don't have anything to worry about, judging from what I've seen so far

Thank you SO MUCH for your support! I repeat that coming from you, that's a real honor!

Quote from josepezdj on May 23, 2012, 5:16 am

El Farmerino wrote:

Re: the mod/mappack debate - I'm inclined to agree with msleeper on that one. To me a mod is something that changes the fundamental game into something else - like how Counter-Strike turned Half-Life into a team-based military sim, or more recently how DayZ turned Arma 2 into a zombie apocalypse survival game. By contrast, although you've undeniably done a shedload of work on custom elements and stuff (and even if you come up with a whole new testing element) at the end of the day the game is still Portal 2, with a portal gun and cubes and lasers and lightbridges and all the rest.

Thanks a lot for this explanation El. I understand. To be frank, inside of me I understood the concept the same as you have described, but I wanted to know opinions about thes concepts anyway. I DO NOT want to make a Portal2 mod, then! . dude, I love this game, I stopped playing the rest of games because of this (due to my lack of free time I had to concentrate in one game ), so... you get the picture. Anyway, I think the mod-system its better for my project and I'll continue with it though.

El Farmerino wrote:

That said, this looks absolutely fantastic! Love the look, and as someone else said above it's really nice to see you've got a good consistency throughout the levels. I especially love the floors. Downright sexy floors. I also appreciate the fact that you've gone to the trouble of designing a whole backstory and everything. You just jumped right up alongside HMW's Sendificate sequels in my most-anticipated list. If I'm still around when you need beta-testing done (got a big round-the-world trip coming up, so might not be) I'd be honoured to help out. Best of luck with it all!

Thank you so much mate!:D. That really cheered me up. It's nice to bet for personal aesthetics when most of ppl use to stick to an existing Portal2 theme, to discover that yuo guys like! I sincerely hope you'll find the puzzles good as well.
Thanks as well for your offer to beta-test this. Noted! I wish you all the luck in that huge journey of yours! Sounds great!

EDIT: @zivi7, Thanks my friend! I'll listen to that sample you made for Motanum and let you know something later today on steam, k?

Quote from HMW on May 23, 2012, 11:28 am

josepezdj wrote:

I don't know what TSS software is though [...]

I should have spelled that out. TTS = Text To Speech (software)

Quote from Ryanw2ooo on May 27, 2012, 2:35 am

For the elevator, I would suggest that you change the elevatorcarpet texture to something that matches the atmosphere like plastic/office_plasticwall001a, or just creat a new texture that looks "seamless" with the round shape.

Quote from josepezdj on May 28, 2012, 11:34 am

Thanks for your suggestion Ryan. Indeed I tried to use different textures looking more for contrast between them than the same look... But anyway I'm now reskinning some props, playing with lighting and introducing some minor changes in some parts, the elevators amongst them. I'll check out and post any new update pic!