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[UPDATE]: More details on the Puzzle Maker – apparently, you will be able to export Puzzle Maker maps to the Hammer Editor for extra detail and design. In addition, Hammer-made maps can be uploaded to the Workshop. You won’t be able to import Hammer maps to the Puzzle Maker, but hopefully, much like co-op support, this will be added to the PTI following its release.]
What would a Portal-related announcement be without a wacky, non-canon trailer short from Cave Johnson providing some manner of insane backstory to whatever is vehind the announcement? It’d be… a trailer-less announcement, that’s what! Thankfully, that’s never a possibility when you’re dealing with Aperture.
The trailer (revealed on GameTrailers TV just a few hours ago) is nearly 2 minutes long, and contains mostly Portal’s signature CG infographics, although there’s a bit of footage of the new Puzzle Creator near the end. It serves as a sort of introduction to the PTI, so don’t go in expecting a dev diary demonstrating and explaining the Puzzle Creator in-depth. Still, it’s definitely enjoyable, genuinely clever, and pretty hilarious. Take a look:
You got all that, denizens of the Multiverse? Good; just don’t spend too much time trying to figure how the Multiverse works – it’s bad for you. I’ve gotta say, the Puzzle Creator is looking pretty good, but I am hoping that Valve will let us keep the existing Portal 2 SDK: even though Hammer is a pain, it can make anything happen. Perhaps the Puzzle Creator will be able to interface with Hammer in some way – that’d be really handy. For a closer look at what you can create with it, here’s a slowed-down version of the test chamber slideshow at the end of the trailer. These are all puzzle maps created by community mapmakers participating in the private beta test, so you’ll be able to play each and everyone when the DLC is released on the 8th of May.
Even though the whole Multiverse thing isn’t probably canon, it is interesting to see that test chamber wall panels are, in fact, made from lunar materials – which confirms that fan hypothesis. By the way, did you catch the computer screen playing what seems to be Meet the Pyro at 01:14?
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Seems neat, but limited.
Good thing it can interface with Hammer.
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Most likely both.
Anyone else catch the reference to Cave’s father “teaching farming at a farming university”? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U1caNuhgnI
Any info if they are squeezing some story driven coop levels in this DLC?
There won’t be any – and co-op support won’t be in the initial PTI release.
> More details on the Puzzle Maker – apparently, you will be able to export Puzzle Maker maps to the Hammer Editor for extra detail and design. In addition, Hammer-made maps can be uploaded to the Workshop.
I’m making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS!
It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction!
Also, a typo – there’s no closing bracket in the [updated] part.
What’s up with the guy with the giant diamond at 1.15ish? Is that some kind of joke I don’t get?
That’s from that old Valentine’s Day Portal 2 video, which, if I recall correctly, involved a giant diamond.
I already put the vid on the Combine OverWiki channel, and within minutes Viacom blocked it in my country (Belgium), but only in Firefox and IE, not Chrome!
Yeah, Viacom can get really territorial about that. Don’t know what to suggest – hopefully Valve will make the trailer available freely soon.
Same in Russia >:(
Notice the computer in the bottom of the screen has some game on it. What game is that
That’s what I was referring to – it’s a sneak peek of Meet the Pyro. Just look at the flames and the color scheme – it’s definitely TF2.
And the Pyro is firing h(is/er) flamethrower in the same way as (s)he does it in that Meet the Pyro announcement pic on team-fortress2.com.
I have only one question: will the maps created with this be visleaf-optimized?
Probably not, since the best visleaf-optimization is manual, however, I believe that areaportals will somehow be placed automaticly.
and cubemaps
Also lighting, I’m sure it will be automated too.
Meet the Pyro, heck yeah \o/
When life gives you lemons…BURN THEM ALL
On the bottom left corner, there is a year, I think it is 1988
It’s actually 1998. That’s the year the Portal 2 writing crew established for the central HL-Portal continuity: GLaDOS’ takeover on Bring Your Daughter to Work Day and the end of Aperture, followed by the Black Mesa Incident a few days later and the end of the world as we know it. HL1 established that the Incident took place in 200x, but it makes no difference either way.
Thanks! And, you do a great work here!
Geez, I took a print screen in 1080p, pasted in a image editor (I use photo filtre), and it is really 1988. I think this mean that some videos made by Cave J. may be done years before the incident in Aperture. In any case, this does not mean much, but I find it curious. I’ll upload if you want.
Yeah, it is 1988 after all. Strange – may be a typo of some sort. I must admit, I find it quite curious as well.
I think it is not an error, now I do remember something, I saw that before, but I do not remember which video. I’m only caring about that because I was born that year o/
Maybe Cave J. was already dead in 1998.
He died in the mid-to-late 80s, though we don’t know exactly when.
“The more I think about that message from Cave Johnson, the more I’m convinced it has to do with Borealis”…
Did you catch the blurry screen?
Blurry screen was HL 3 screenshot!
Or porn.
Or both.
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Paul