Quote from Portal2Two on September 5, 2011, 11:20 am

CosmicD wrote:

I'd like to point to a glitch that players will experience when installing this AND go back to playing the stock campaign.

Your transition_list.nut doesn't contain the standard levels, therefor everyone who plays the stock maps will be greeted with a "end of playtest" message and the level won't transition to the next map.

To play stock maps without this glitch it took me to empty all .VPK files from the addons folder and then to restart Portal 2. I had a lot of *.VPK's of different authors and simply restarting Portal didn't help.

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Ski-7 wrote:

Portal2Two wrote:

1. The downloaded archive (LinkingAnnex.zip) contains two folders: addons and media.
2. From the archive's media folder, copy out these files Bliss.bik and Ring.bik, and paste them to your ...Portal 2portal2media.
3. From the archive's addons folder, copy out and paste this file linking_annex.vpk to your ...Portal 2portal2addons. If there is no addons in your portal directory, not to worry - there is no such folder there by default. Create new folder and name it addons. Don't forget to put linking_annex.vpk in there.
4. Now start Portal 2 game
5. Hit "~"
6. Type map la_bringing_together
7. Hit "Enter" and take it from there.

that's what I did, the files are in the correct folders, but it's not working :S

I'm sure it's not what you did, because your first post states this:

Ski-7 wrote:

i put the folder "addons" with the VPK file in the map(WRONG, "addons" ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE inside "maps", that's the source if your problems) folder and the BIK files in the media folder, any help?

Again, according to the instructions:

MissStaby wrote:

TO PLAY THE MAP:

Put the VPK in the addons folder
put the bik files in your media folder.
open console and type:
map la_bringing_together

*.VPK --> addons
*.bik --> media

console -> ~
type ----> map la_bringing_together

Quote from CosmicD on September 6, 2011, 4:50 am

kind of silly that you can't pack bik files in a vpk'd media folder as a campaign author. I really hope they fix this

Quote from Portal2Two on September 6, 2011, 6:02 am

CosmicD wrote:

kind of silly that you can't pack bik files in a vpk'd media folder as a campaign author. I really hope they fix this

Even if they fix it in "Linking Annex Project", other .VPK maps will give you the same glitch.

MissStaby wrote:

Well, the thing is that this transitions file is packed with the linking annex vpk. You would just have to remove that one to see the transitions working again. For an end user like you, the other solution would be also very complicated, like you would have to unpack the vpk, add the standard maps information to the bits of the linking annex transitions list file and repack the vpk. You should just move it elsewhere if you want to play the normal maps. Unless they want to reupload a newer fixed version.

Like it has been said numerous times, if the glitch persists with the stock maps, just go ahead and empty the addons folder and then restart Portal 2. Or temporarily rename addons. No big deal really.

Quote from Spam Nugget on September 6, 2011, 8:38 am

Portal2Two wrote:

Like it has been said numerous times, if the glitch persists with the stock maps, just go ahead and empty the addons folder and then restart Portal 2. Or temporarily rename addons. No big deal really.

Yes, but its still frustrating to have to go through this, I would have thought valve could have accomodated custom maps much better tha they have done. Also, it has been said a bazillion times on this forum, but perhaps it should be put it the maps readme too?

Quote from CookieNinja8 on September 6, 2011, 2:01 pm

xdiesp wrote:

Maybe, a COOP version of the map could reuse the voiceovers to tell another Blue & Orange story. You know, connected to the stuff about becoming more human.. awwww.

0.0
I will pay to play a map like that.

Quote from DannySwish on September 12, 2011, 8:42 pm

I'm really upset because this looks great but whenever I try loading Portal 2 with the .vpk in the addons folder it crashes I know it's something to do with the .vpk because I tried opening portal with it and without it, and I removed all other .vpk's in that folder. I'm on a Mac. Could that have something to do with it? Pleeeease fix it!

Quote from doud_ftc on September 14, 2011, 1:16 pm

Yes, it's because you're on a Mac. The only users writing in to complain about the .vpk file crashing Portal 2.app are Mac OS folks. I'm in the same boat. Of all the custom maps I've tried this is the only one to crash Portal 2.

Quote from ChicagoMike on September 22, 2011, 4:24 am

I just played it and it was the first map I got to work.. Absolutely loved it! It's 3am CST and people are wondering why I'm balling my eyes out to a video game! So, I told them the story from idea to software and now here we are, agreeing how awesome of an idea this was.
Much love to Valve and Ellen McLain for agreeing to make this happen!
Congratulations to Gary and Stephanie!
MissStabby and TophattWaffle, you guys RAWK!

Quote from oigroig on September 29, 2011, 10:39 am

where is the download link/button?
i can't find that