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00:02 - Loading Operating System...

08:57 - Default boot scheduled to finish in 71:23:18

08:58 - Activating emergency distributed computing grid...

09:00 - GLaDOS@home starting...

09:01 - Recruiting cpus to force faster boot sequence...

19:55 - Calculations complete for The Wonderful End of the World. Recalculating a new launch projection...

11:55 - Calculations complete for 1... 2... 3... Kick It!. Recalculating a new launch projection...

21:00 - Calculations complete for AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity. Recalculating a new launch projection...

04:00 - Calculations complete for RUSH. Recalculating a new launch projection...

10:15 - Calculations complete for Cogs. Recalculating a new launch projection...

15:35 - Calculations complete for Toki Tori. Recalculating a new launch projection...

20:20 - Calculations complete for BIT.TRIP BEAT. Recalculating a new launch projection...

10:50 - Engaging starch-based power cells

11:00 - Reboot safety test protocol initiated...

11:00 - Relaxation chamber locks released...

11:00 - Involuntary hazard mitigation associates have assumed testing positions...

11:00 - Pre-release lethality assessment initiated...

12:40 - Calculations complete for Audiosurf. Recalculating a new launch projection...

15:35 - Calculations complete for The Ball. Recalculating a new launch projection...

20:00 - Preliminary lethality assessment complete

20:00 - Results inconclusive

20:00 - Expanding candidate pool

20:17 - Calculations complete for Super Meat Boy. Recalculating a new launch projection...

20:25 - Calculations complete for Killing Floor. Recalculating a new launch projection...

21:25 - Calculations complete for Defense Grid: The Awakening. Recalculating a new launch projection...

21:26 - Calculations complete for Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Recalculating a new launch projection...

21:29 - Boot sequence complete 21:29 - Commence testing. . .

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Theme Song Still Alive

The song "Still Alive" was written by Jonathan Coulton and performed by Ellen McLain for the Portal video game. McLain also provides the voice for GLaDOS, an artificial intelligence for the fictional Aperture Science Enrichment Center and the game's antagonist. "Still Alive" is sung from the perspective of GLaDOS and used as the song that runs over the game's credits. By the end of the game, Chell, the game's protagonist who has been misled and placed in life-threatening situations within the Aperture Science Enrichment Center, the setting of the game, by GLaDOS, will have finally encountered and defeated GLaDOS. However, the song and portions of post-credit scenes suggests that GLaDOS is still functional, and despite having been apparently destroyed by Chell, is "not even angry" at that prospect, having considered the monitoring of Chell's performance through the test chambers as a "huge success", regardless of the destruction caused by Chell and the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device being released into the outside world, for those that are "still alive". The Combine invasion of Earth from the Half-Life series was also hinted in the song by GLaDOS ("Go ahead and leave me, I think I'd prefer to stay inside. Maybe you'll find someone else to help you. Maybe Black Mesa. That was a joke. Ha Ha. Fat Chance."). The song itself is also present as a samba instrumental version through in-game radios at certain points within the game.

Aperture Science

Aperture

Aperture Science is the mysterious research corporation behind the plot of Portal.

According to its website, Aperture was founded by Cave Johnson in 1953 as a manufacturer of shower curtains. 26 years later, Aperture began development of the 'man-sized ad hoc quantum tunnel through physical space with possible applications as a shower curtain,' also called the 'Portal.'

Aperture eventually created the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device, and built the Aperture Science Enrichment Center to test it. They also created GLaDOS in response to the news that Black Mesa was working on a similar portal technology.

The game, Portal, is set mostly in the test chambers of the Aperture Science Enrichment Center. After escaping the test chambers (and near-death), the player finds that the Enrichment Center is deserted, with abandoned desks and disconnected phones. It is apparently run only by GLaDOS. The Company's Slogan: Aperture Science: We do what we must, because we can.

Weapon Portal Gun

Portal Gun

It places a portal gun in a map that can be picked up and used as a weapon. It's used to open one or two portals in the game. It can also be used to pick up objects with mass up to 85 kg.

Keyvalues

CanFirePortal1 (???) <boolean>

Can this portalgun create blue portals?

CanFirePortal2 (???) <boolean>

Can this portalgun create orange portals?

Show Potatos (???) <boolean> Template:P2 add

Show potatos.

Starting Team (???) <choices> (in all games since )

Which team this gun originally belongs to. Will decide which portals it fires before being picked up.

• 0 : Single Player
• 2 : Orange
• 3 : Blue

Name (targetname) <string>

The targetname that other entities refer to this entity by.

Angles:

Pitch Yaw Roll (Y Z X) (angles) <angle>

This entity's orientation in the world. Pitch is rotation around the Y axis, yaw is the rotation around the Z axis, roll is the rotation around the X axis.

BaseFadeProp:

Start Fade Dist (fademindist) <float>

Distance at which the entity starts to fade.

End Fade Dist (fademaxdist) <float>

Max fade distance at which the entity is visible.

• If start fade is <0, the entity will disappear instantly when end fade is hit.
• If end fade is <0, the entity won't disappear at all. (This is the default behavior.)

The values will scale appropriately if the entity is in a 3D Skybox.

Fade Scale (fadescale) <float>

If you specify so in worldspawn, or if the engine is running below DirectX 8 (DX7 in ), props will fade out even if the fade distances above aren't specified. This value gives you some control over when this happens: numbers smaller than 1 cause the prop to fade out at further distances, while those greater than 1 cause it to fade out at closer distances. Using 0 turns off the forced fade altogether. See also the QC command $noforcedfade.

Flags

• 1 : Start Constrained

Prevents the model from moving.

• 2 : Deny player pickup (reserve for NPC)
• 4 : Not puntable by Gravity Gun

Inputs

ChargePortal1

Does charge up effect for mounted portalgun.

ChargePortal2

Does charge up effect for mounted portalgun.

FirePortal1

Projects portal 1 (blue) onto a wall in the facing direction of the gun.

FirePortal2

Projects portal 2 (orange) onto a wall in the facing direction of the gun.

FirePortalDirection1 <angle>

Fires portal 1 (blue) in the specified direction.

FirePortalDirection2 <angle>

Fires portal 1 (orange) in the specified direction.

Base:

AddContext <string>

Adds to the entity's list of response contexts. See Context.

AddOutput <string>

Assigns a new keyvalue/output on this entity. For keyvalues, some rely on extra necessary code to be ran and won't work if its simply just changed through this input. There is a strict format that must be followed:

// Format of changing KeyValues: "AddOutput [key] [value]" //// Raw text: "OnUser1" "!self,AddOutput,targetname new_name" // Format of adding an Output: "AddOutput {targetname}:{inputname}:{parameter}:{delay}:{max times to fire, -1 means infinite}" //// Raw text: "OnUser1" "!self,AddOutput,OnUser1:SetParent:!activator:0.0:-1" // Arguments can be left blank, but the empty blank should still be contained. //// Raw text: "OnUser1" "!self,AddOutput,OnUser1:ClearParent::0.0:-1"

ClearContext

Removes all contexts from this entity's list.

ClearParent

Removes this entity from the the movement hierarchy, leaving it free to move independently.

FireUser1 to FireUser4

Fires the respectiveOnUseroutputs; see User Inputs and Outputs.

Kill

Removes this entity and any entities parented to it from the world.

KillHierarchy

Functions the same as Kill, although this entity and any entities parented to it are killed on the same frame, being marginally faster thanKillinput.

RemoveContext <string>

Remove a context from this entity's list. The name should match the key of an existing context.

SetParent <string>

Move with this entity. See Entity Hierarchy (parenting).

SetParentAttachment <string>

Change this entity to attach to a specific attachment point on its parent. The entity will teleport so that the position of its root bone matches that of the attachment. Entities must be parented before being sent this input.

SetParentAttachmentMaintainOffset <string>

As above, but without teleporting. The entity retains its position relative to the attachment at the time of the input being received.

Use  !FGD

Same as a player invoking +use; no effect in most cases.

SetTeam <integer> !FGD

Changes this entity's team.

TeamNum <integer> !FGD

This input changes value for TeamNum property.

Bug:Console command ent_info shows this input in any Source Engine game, but only in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (and games based on it) this input exists and works.

DispatchResponse <string> !FGD

Dispatches a response to the entity. See Response and Concept.

DispatchEffect <string> (removed since ) !FGD

Dispatches a special effect from the entity's origin; See also List of Client Effects. Replaced by the particle system since .

RunScriptFile <script> (in all games since ) (also in )

Execute a VScript file from disk, without file extension. The script contents are merged with the script scope of the receiving entity.

RunScriptCode <string> (in all games since ) (also in )

Execute a string of VScript source code in the scope of the entity receiving the input. String quotation may be needed when fired via console.

Bug:In Hammer, using string arguments will corrupt the VMF file's structure, making the file unviewable for the next Hammer session.

Fix:Remove the string argument manually with a text editor.

Note: Backtick characters ` are replaced with quotation marks at runtime, allowing quotation marks to be used when normally not possible.

CallScriptFunction <string> (in all games since ) (also in ) !FGD

Calls a VScript function defined in the scope of the receiving entity.

TerminateScriptScope  (only in ) !FGD

Destroys the script scope of the receving entity.

SetLocalOrigin <coordinates> (in all games since ) !FGD

Send this entity to a spot in the map. If the entity is parented to something, it will be offset from the parent by this amount.

SetLocalAngles <angles> (in all games since ) !FGD

Set this entity's angles.

Outputs

OnFiredPortal1

Fires when the first (blue) portal is fired.

OnFiredPortal2

Fires when the second (orange) portal is fired.

Targetname:

OnUser1 to OnUser4

These outputs each fire in response to the firing of the like-numbered FireUser1 to FireUser4 Input; see User Inputs and Outputs.

OnKilled  (only in )

This output fires when the entity is killed and removed from the game.

Weapon:

OnNPCPickup

Fires when an NPC picks up this weapon. (!activator is the NPC.)

OnPlayerUse

Fires when the player +uses this weapon. (!activator is the player.)

OnPlayerPickup

Fires when a player picks up this weapon. (!activator is the player.)

OnCacheInteraction

Fires when the player 'proves' they've found this weapon. Fires on: Player Touch, +USE pickup, Physcannon pickup, Physcannon punt.

Making GLaDOS Talk

It's actually very easy to make GLaDOS talk, but which method to use may not be immediately obvious. You can play one of her lines using an ambient_generic, but this has an unfortunate downside: ambient_generic entities continue to play even when the game is paused (hence the "ambient" part of the entity name).

In Valve's maps, a logic_choreographed_scene is used instead. Here's how to make GLaDOS speak in your own maps with a logic_choreographed_scene entity:

1. Create a small room outside of your regular play area. Cover the walls with the "nodraw" texture.
2. Inside the room, create a generic_actor entity. Set the entity's model to models/props/metal_box.mdl or something similar. The model doesn't really matter, but Valve uses metal_box in their maps because the map already uses that model in most cases (thus saving memory).
3. Set the generic_actor's Name property to Aperture_AI (the name cannot be anything other than Aperture_AI, otherwise the scenes will not function).
4. Create a logic_choreographed_scene in your play area and set the Scene property to whatever scene you want to play.

Note:If you are making a scene for cameras, you might want to try the following scenes out.

There are also many scenes that can be made for special use, including things like weighted storage cubes, and cameras.

Cameras

Note:As soon as you put an Aperture_AI, GLaDOS will automatically play one of the following scenes when a camera gets detached.

Note:After all five scenes have been played, GLaDOS will cease to randomly play the scenes and only play the fifth one.

* scenes\general\generic_security_camera_destroyed-1.vcd
* scenes\general\generic_security_camera_destroyed-2.vcd
* scenes\general\generic_security_camera_destroyed-3.vcd
* scenes\general\generic_security_camera_destroyed-4.vcd
* scenes\general\generic_security_camera_destroyed-5.vcd

Storage Cubes

* general\ai_box_fried.vcd
* general\ai_box_lost.vcd

Now, just trigger the logic_choreographed_scene entity and listen to GLaDOS speak!

Custom Sounds

You can put in your own sounds for GLaDOS's voice if you like - just follow these steps:

Note:You should know about making triggers, inputs and outputs already before trying this!

1. Create your sound and place it in "~/USERNAME/portal/portal/sound/MAPNAME/"
2. Place an ambient_generic anywhere in your map - preferably near the trigger that will activate it.
3. Open the "Sound Name" field in the ambient_generic's properties and browse for your sound name.
4. Make a name for your ambient_generic, trigger it with a PlaySound input from somewhere, and it should work.

Important notes

• Your audio file needs to be a .wav file, preferably 22050 Hz Sample Rate and Playback Rate.
• When distributing the map, you will need to either package the sound with the map or use bspzip to add the files to your .bsp if you want the sounds to be heard by recipients of your map.
  • If you use bspzip, make sure to use all lowercase letters on everything and to use the .bsp internal sound folder of "/sound/MAPNAME/sound.wav"
• If things don't work correctly, try to trigger the sound in-game, then look at the developer's console and see if it gives you an error; this can be a valuable troubleshooting tool.
• All scenes from the GLaDOS' chamber requires a generic_actor named tim_larkin.

See also

• Portal Level Creation

Chell

Chell

Chell is the player character in Portal and Portal 2. Little is known of her, other than that she is dressed in test-subject attire and wears heel-springs to protect her from fall damage. Although Chell's origins are unknown, she was definitely among the people present during GLaDOS' activation in 200-, as GLaDOS locked down the facility immediately afterward; information revealed in Portal 2 implies that Chell was the child of an Aperture scientist and was touring the facility on Bring Your Daughter To Work Day when GLaDOS took over. According to the psychological profile in her personnel file, Chell is "abnormally stubborn" and refuses to ever give up, no matter how daunting the challenge. Originally, she was rejected as a test subject, but Doug Rattmann altered the testing order, having correctly guessed that Chell's extreme tenacity might allow her to defeat GLaDOS

Unlike Gordon Freeman, a Chell model exists and she is visible in-game. The mechanics of portals required the player character to be visible.

Cube (Portal 2)

Cube types.

Cubes are portable objects in the Portal series. A cube can be placed on a button to activate it.

Various kinds of cubes exist in Portal 2. The standard cube changes color when it triggers a button. The edgeless cube acts the same, but is ball-shaped, and may be placed in a special button-receptacle. The pivot cube (also known as a redirection cube) can redirect a discouragement beam. The companion and underground cubes are themed, but functionally the same as the standard cube. Frakenturrets are also functionally the same, but under certain conditions will jump around.

Cube

prop_weighted_cube - The entity models/props/metal_box.mdl - The world model portal_weighted_cube - in game command line

There are also reflector cubes which can redirect env_portal_laser's

Dropper

Dropper

A dropper is a puzzle element in Portal 2. Things like gel and cubes fall out of it. It can be hooked up to a button.

Creating Droppers

1. Create a func_instance entity with the following properties:

Note: If you're creating multiple box droppers, use instances/gameplay/cube_dropper_multiple_normal.vmf instead.

Property Name	Value
Fix up Name	box_dropper
VMF Filename	instances/gameplay/cube_dropper_normal.vmf

If the cube dropper doesn't show up then save and reload so you can position it properly.

2. Once you line up the dropper with the ceiling of your map (until the square is flashing), use the Clipping tool to cut a square out of your ceiling where the flashing square is. This will allow the cube to fall through. Once you've isolated the square piece of texture in your ceiling, go ahead and delete it.

3. Create the entity you want to activate the cube dropper. For example, a trigger_once at the entrance to the room, and give it the following outputs:

Note: If you're creating multiple box droppers with the instances/gameplay/cube_dropper_multiple_normal.vmf instance, remove the @ symbol from each input.

	My Output	Target Entity	Target Input	Parameter	Delay	Only Once
	OnTrigger	box_dropper	instance:@cube_dropper;Trigger		0.00	No
	OnTrigger	box_dropper	instance:@cube_dropper_autorespawn;Enable		0.00	No

4. Hammer may indicate that these are invalid. Ignore it.

List Of Instances

There are different instances for each kind of dropper, and several different designs. Just substitute the kind you need for the VMF Filename parameter above.

Item, parameters	Dropper style
VMF Filename
prop_weighted_cube, Standard	Small, modern
instances/gameplay/cube_dropper_dropontrigger_normal.vmf
prop_weighted_cube, Standard	Small, modern
instances/gameplay/cube_dropper_multiple_normal.vmf
prop_weighted_cube, standard	Small, modern
instances/gameplay/cube_dropper_normal.vmf
prop_weighted_cube, Standard	Long, exposed tube
instances/gameplay/cube_dropper_large.vmf
prop_weighted_cube, Standard	Long exposed tube, dirty
instances/gameplay/cube_dropper_large_dirty.vmf
prop_weighted_cube, Reflector	Small, modern
instances/gameplay/reflectocube_dropper_dropontrigger_normal.vmf
prop_weighted_cube, Reflector	Small, modern
instances/gameplay/reflectocube_dropper_multiple_normal.vmf
prop_weighted_cube, Reflector	Long, exposed tube
instances/gameplay/reflectocube_dropper_large.vmf
prop_weighted_cube, Reflector	Long exposed tube, dirty
instances/gameplay/reflectocube_dropper_large_dirty.vmf
prop_weighted_cube, Sphere	Small, modern
instances/gameplay/sphere_dropper_dropontrigger_normal.vmf
prop_weighted_cube, Sphere	Small, modern
instances/gameplay/sphere_dropper_multiple_normal.vmf
prop_weighted_cube, Sphere	Long, exposed tube
instances/gameplay/sphere_dropper_large.vmf
prop_weighted_cube, Sphere	Long exposed tube, dirty
instances/gameplay/sphere_dropper_large_dirty.vmf
prop_weighted_cube, $item_type, $cube_type, $rusted, $paint_power, $use_new_skin_method	Small, modern
instances/gameplay/item_dropper.vmf
Gel, Water	Small, modern
instances/gameplay/paint_dropper_erase.vmf
Gel, Bounce	Small, modern
instances/gameplay/paint_dropper_bounce.vmf
Gel, Speed	Small, modern
instances/gameplay/paint_dropper_speed.vmf
Gel, $paint_type	Small, modern
instances/gameplay/paint_dropper.vmf
prop_monster_box, walking	Normal with music
instances/gameplay/cube_dropper_a4.vmf
prop_monster_box, hiding	Normal with music
instances/gameplay/cube_dropper_a4_box.vmf
prop_monster_box, walking	Normal with no tube
instances/gameplay/cube_dropper_monster.vmf
prop_monster_box, hiding	Normal with no tube
instances/gameplay/cube_dropper_monster_box.vmf
Only what you put in	Big box with opening
instances/gameplay/cube_dropper_pendleton.vmf
prop_weighted_cube, $paint_type, Wet	Small, modern
instances/gameplay/paint_bomb_dropper_modern.vmf
prop_weighted_cube, Bounce, Dry	Small, bare tube
instances/gameplay/paint_bomb_dropper_bounce.vmf
prop_weighted_cube, Speed, Dry	Small, bare tube
instances/gameplay/paint_bomb_dropper_speed.vmf
prop_paint_bomb, $paint_type, $bomb_type	Portal 1 Style
instances/gameplay/paint_bomb_dropper.vmf
prop_paint_bomb, $paint_type, $bomb_type	Dirty
instances/gameplay/paint_bomb_dropper_auto.vmf
People, alive	Big box with opening
instances/gameplay/cube_dropper_player.vmf

GLaDOS

GlaDOS.

GLaDOS is a deceitful, fictional artificially intelligent computer system in Valve Software's Half-Life video game series and in the video games Portal and Portal 2. GLaDOS (which stands for Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System), is the speaker and controller behind the Aperture Science Enrichment Center. She has an odd obsession with cakes.

Origin

GLaDOS was created in response to the news that Black Mesa was developing a portal technology similar to that of Aperture Science. Her original purpose was to be an artificially intelligent research assistant (and disk operating system). Work on GLaDOS started in 1986, and was under development for more than ten years before she was finally completed several years after 1996. GLaDOS was activated for the first time, untested, during one of the events on Aperture Science's first annual "bring-your-daughter-to-work" day.

In many ways, the initial test went well...

GLaDOS is made up of several "personality cores" in the form of strange spheres that apparently control the AI's behavior. Chell encounters a morality core, curiosity core, cake core, and anger core (in that order) while destroying GLaDOS.

Spoiler Warning!

What follows is from Portal 2. If you have not played the game yet and do not wish to ruin the experience, do not read any further.

GLaDOS Cake Recipe

Portal Cake

one 18.25 ounce chocolate cake mix
one can prepared coconut pecan frosting
3/4 cup vegetable oil
4 large eggs
one cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
3/4 cup butter or margarine
1 2/3 cup granulated sugar
2 cups all purpose flower

don’t forget garnishes such as:

fish shaped crackers
fish shaped candies
fish shaped solid waste
fish shaped dirt LOL
fish shaped Ethel benzine
pull n’ peel licorice LOL
fish shaped volatile organic compounds
and sediment shaped sediment LOL
candy coated peanut butter pieces; shaped like fish
one cup lemon juice
alpha resins
unsaturated polyester resin
fiberglass surface resins
volatile malted milk impoundments
9 large egg yokes
12 medium geosynthetic membranes
one cup granulated sugar
an entry called: “How To Kill Someone With Your Bare-Hands”
2 cups rhubarb; sliced
2/3 granulated rhubarb
1 Tbsp all-purpose rhubarb
1 tsp grated orange rhubarb
3 Tbsp rhubarb; on fire
1 Large rhubarb
1 cross Bohr hole electromagnetic imaging rhubarb
2 Tbsp rhubarb juice
adjustable aluminum head positioned
slaughter electric needle injector
cordless electric needle injector
injector needle driver
injector needle gun
cranial caps LOL
and it contains proven preservatives, deep penetration agents, and gas and odor control chemical’s that will deodorize and preserve putrid tissue.

Anyway this cake is great, it's so delicious and moist.

Personality Core

GlaDOS Personality Core.

It spawns a core of GLaDOS computer. It resemble the human eyeball with handles attached to it. These play dialogue and look around when near the player.

The Portal 2 version of this entity is npc_personality_core, though this entity is still available in the Portal 2 codebase.

Keyvalues

Core Personality (???) <choices>

Which personality VO set the core is set to.

• 0 : Curious
• 1 : Aggressive
• 2 : Crazy
• 3 : None

Pause (in secs) between VO Lines. (???) <float>

When the core is talking, this is the number of seconds delay between it's spoken lines.

Note:Page left for viewable history, content moved to prop_physics

Flags

Note:Page left for viewable history, content moved to prop_physics

Inputs

Panic

Core is near death, panic.

StartTalking

Start playing lines, play looking animations.

DOTA 2

Alvin/Sandbox has been announced and is currently in development.
Watch this page, Steam News, or Steam Updates for more information.

Dota 2 is the official follow-up to the Warcraft III custom map Defense of the Ancients. It is an "Action RTS" where players control a Hero unit and engage enemy players using their Heroes' unique abilities. Valve is collaborating with one of the primary contributors of the original DotA series.

Features

Cloth simulation

Real-time cloth simulation (i.e. soft-body physics) will be introduced to Source.

Global lighting

The world is lit and shadowed dynamically with env_global_light (in addition to pre-compiled light).

Steamworks integration

Building upon community-driven features from Team Fortress 2, players will be able to share strategy guides and coach newer players through Steamworks.

Maps

• dota - played by Valve, possibly remake of the first DotA.

DOTA 2 Gameplay Screenshot

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

This game has been announced and is in development.
Watch this page, Steam News, or Steam Updates for more information.
You can also visit store through Steam or your browser for more information.