Forum | Thinking With Portals

#1 · June 30, 2011, 3:42 pm

I was wondering if there is any instance or something that is the Personality Core outlets. I'm talking about the ones that

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Wheatley plugs into in the beginning chapters, and that POTaDOS goes into right before the final Wheatley battle.

EDIT: Btw I want it to trigger something, not just as something for show. It should trigger stuff like a button.

#2 · June 30, 2011, 4:22 pm

I think there is one model called something like potato_socket.mdl

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#3 · June 30, 2011, 4:25 pm

But if it's just a model, will it still work correctly? Or maybe I'm thinking of something else?

#4 · June 30, 2011, 4:31 pm

I'm sure you can use a trigger with a filter.

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#5 · June 30, 2011, 6:16 pm

Hmm... I can't seem to find the model. What type would it be? prop_dynamic? prop_dynamic_ornament? That sort of thing.

#6 · June 30, 2011, 6:48 pm

it's not literally potato_socket.mdl
just look around. I'll try to find it too

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#7 · June 30, 2011, 7:08 pm

Hey I think I found it! Filter "plug" in a prop dynamic's World Model. I Haven't actually pluged a core in yet, though.

#8 · June 30, 2011, 7:12 pm

It won't just plug in if you've only placed the prop there; I'm guessing there's a fair amount of trigger work at play. Decompile one of VALVe's maps and see how they did it.

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#9 · June 30, 2011, 7:18 pm

I've wanted to, but I'm not so good with decompiling.

#10 · June 30, 2011, 7:28 pm

how can you not be good at decompiling. it require 10 times less effort then actuall mapping.

1) Download: http://nuclearvelocity.com/barracuda/bs ... loads.html
2) Open valve BSP:
3) Click Decompile
4) Save vmf

Done. Wham bam thank you mam

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