Quote from The Irate Pirate on August 24, 2011, 4:02 pm

The actual maps weren't that great, and not spotlight material without the amazing project backstory and custom GLaDOS dialogue. I'll be honest here. I know it was supposed to be easy, but there comes a point... oh and the BTS sections were very lackluster.

I did love the final room though, without a doubt.

Quote from Cybermaxke on August 24, 2011, 4:18 pm

I have problems with the costum sounds!

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/55866 ... F781254BF/
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/55866 ... 9B3097684/

Quote from CosmicD on August 24, 2011, 4:22 pm

If you know what time and work goes into creating a fully ornamented "BTS section", you'd be amazed. This was a showcase project and I'm already amazed by how it looked and wonder that her vvis compile don't take 5 million years to complete.

For my map for example We had to sepparate the 3d skybox to not have an awfull compile time. You don't need twisted and extremely hard puzzles to make a nice portal experience imo. I already played it 3 times and just the potential of raising the bar to mechanize an entire portal room has been set here.

Quote from CosmicD on August 24, 2011, 4:35 pm

Cybermaxke wrote:

I have problems with the costum sounds!

http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/55866 ... F781254BF/
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/55866 ... 9B3097684/

I'm not 100% sure that this is the issue but Do you have an autoexec.cfg in your main game's cfg folder, or start your game with a special commandline ?

Quote from xdiesp on August 24, 2011, 5:38 pm

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.

Quote from Reave on August 24, 2011, 6:30 pm

Anyone get this to work on a Mac? I move the files over to the specified folders and when I launch portal 2 the game crashes after the valve into video. When I removed the files I put in, the game works fine. The file causing the issue is "linking_annex.vpk".

Quote from beatdarwin on August 24, 2011, 6:46 pm

Congrats, MissStabby and TopHATTwaffle for bringing such a nice spotlight to the Portal mapping scene! And of course congratulations and best wishes to LovelyNeurotoxin and his LovelyNonToxic fianc?e!

I spotted this back in July over in the thread with the original request for mapping help, and I strongly suspected the secret project was something wedding related. I am *so* glad to see that no one spoiled the surprise, or leaked it to the media. The reaction in the gaming press to this story has been mostly wonderful, and the good folks over at Rock, Paper, Shotgun especially had very nice things to say about it. It's even breaking through into the mainstream with articles on sites like Wired, TIME, Engadget, etc.

I do agree with msleeper, it would be great if the YouTube video (that the majority of people interested in this story will see; over 400K views already) would provide a direct link to the TWP community. It would also be really nice to see Valve highlight this on the Official Portal 2 site. News has been a bit slow over there, lately, don't you agree?

Bravo to all involved!

Quote from msleeper on August 24, 2011, 8:58 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.

Holy shit, make this happen.

Quote from Cybermaxke on August 25, 2011, 5:31 am

I have fixed it with the console