I was just wondering how you do the popups that show you how to do what, ex in the beginning of the game when Wheatley tells you to speak, the space bar pops up. But I actually want to do this with the duck control.

Thank you in advance.

That would be an env_instructor_hint with the command set to "+duck".

Thanks, I'll do this.

And don't forget to activate the hints or you won't be able to see them Console command:

gameinstructor_enable 1

In what property should I write +duck? In game the popup says that there's nothing specified.

Dr.Toaster Waffles wrote:
In what property should I write +duck? In game the popup says that there's nothing specified.

The "Bound Command." Set the icons to the "bound command key" as well.

I was writing it in Bound Command, but I didn't do the key setting. Trying this now...

Edit: Nope, just No Command Specified and now it has no icon, so maybe it isn't a valid one?

I'll take a look at an official map...

Editedit: Now it's working. I wrote something incorrect in the icon properties was all.

is there a detailed list of all the icons and button commands for env_instructor_hint? because the WIKI is insufficient

The button commands can literally be any console command.

well I found what i was looking for only thanks to blind luck, but next time be far more detailed. Not everyone has encyclopedic knowledge of this stuff, and VDC is got tons of holes in it

I'm honestly not really sure how plain anyone can make it... It literally says right in the keyvalues that you can set it to any key binding that you want to.

i was asking a big fat repository of unwritten knowledge, I don't know what everything does like you people obviously do because some lazy ass in valve didn't think it was necessary to finish the wiki for us.

When a student asks the teachers something, the teacher shouldn't treat the student like he already graduated.

And btw thats a metaphor for this exact conversation

Fracture wrote:
[..] obviously do because some lazy ass in valve didn't think it was necessary to finish the wiki for us.

Nearly every, if not all, articles in that Developer Wiki are written by people who aren't at Valve as far as I know.
Probably you should contribute a bit there, too?

Fracture wrote:
I don't know what everything does like you people obviously do because some lazy ass in valve didn't think it was necessary to finish the wiki for us.

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CamBen wrote:

Dat picture

CamBen wrote:
Nearly every, if not all, articles in that Developer Wiki are written by people who aren't at Valve as far as I know.
Probably you should contribute a bit there, too?

This I did not know

CamBen wrote:
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personally I would have written something alongside the word CONSOLE COMMAND in that description. Half of what hammer is talking about is gibberish to me

You can always edit your FGD to change any of the text. For the commands, you could either check the ingame autocomplete for "+", or see portal2/cfg/config.cfg for all the "bind" commands used to store your key bindings.

that's actually how i figured out several commands, I just didn't know that my keyboard controls were even tied into the console AT ALL. I only just typed in +duck as previously mentioned in this thread to see what would happen and I noticed it worked. I took a wild guess that typing + would pop up something.

I am literally just stumbling upon information just lying around, that's how lazy I am.

Fracture wrote:
Skotty wrote:

Developer ***Wiki***

This I did not know

Doesn't that explains that it's a place where people contribute information?

Wiki is one of those words in my vocabulary without a definition