Unwanted tutorial messages
167 Posts
Posted Aug 21, 2011
So I released my map but I now wanted to do an update of it. Instead of doing an ordinary compile I did a full "final" compile ready for its release. However, it now displays the tutorial messages such as "Press E to pick up". When playing the level. How do I get rid of those? Is it the compile that is causing the problem or something else?
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Posted Aug 21, 2011
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I thought the reason it showed tutorial messages was because you had some kind of hint entity inside the map.
Try duplicating (saveas) your map and recompile without the final option and see if this is the case. Because if it is, that would be interesting.
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Posted Aug 21, 2011
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Same happens with me: but it only happens the first time you load the map, load it a second time, and the messages should be gone.
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Posted Aug 21, 2011
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So will people who download it experience the same problem.
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Posted Aug 21, 2011
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No, it only happens for the makers. No one else should see the icons. However, if you ship it on the maps first load up after compile,they will see it. Close Portal 2, run it again, and the icons should be gone for you and everyone else.
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Posted Aug 21, 2011
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I see these messages every time I play a map. Annoying it is.
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Posted Aug 21, 2011
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Does this also include the debug overlay in the top right corner? I get the same problem. Very annyoing. Didn't happen when I was using alienswarm sdk.
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Posted Aug 21, 2011
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If you're using the -final configuration that's automatically set in Hammer (Full Compile -both -final (slow!)), then the game will launch in developer mode. Just remove -dev from the parameters and you shouldn't have the debug overlay.
Don't know how to get rid of the hints though 
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Posted Aug 21, 2011
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I thought it was showing the hints because its loading Portal 2 outside of Steam, and therefore not loading that you have finished the game and naturally assumes its your first time ever playing portal and give you the instructor hints.
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Posted Aug 21, 2011
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iWork925 wrote:
I thought it was showing the hints because its loading Portal 2 outside of Steam, and therefore not loading that you have finished the game and naturally assumes its your first time ever playing portal and give you the instructor hints.
Ahhh. That'd explain it - I just double-click the BSPs after extracting them.
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Posted Aug 21, 2011
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Yep, I fixed this. I have Portal 2 loaded through steam in windowed mode. Just type "map [bsp name]" and it loadeds as any map would with out developer or instructor modes on.